Show THE WELCOME WELCOME- PROCESSION vie AVo suspect that on Tuesday night the first notice of the new year came in from ships tossing on the the 4 Atlantic antic in messages by the wireless something like t this Steamship Steamship Us Lusitania Inti latitude tude longitude longitude- tiff stiff winds a a heavy sea running but we are arc all watching The siren is just sounding and the ships ship's b bell llis is ringing the old year out the new year in A l little lUo later away off in Maine 1 the bells began to ring U then n in Boston then New York an au hour later in Chicago then U following the moon and keeping c company with the hours the ringing passed over Omaha Denver er Salt Lake and the echoes never ne' grew V still until they died away awny on the tile air above the h Waves waves es be beyond rond San Francisco t Not then indeed for the they went vent on and on until when the they reached Nome in the deep midnight there the farmers of New England were eating their morn morn- I J ing meal Is it nol not wonderful how a common thought lion can cnn seize upon millions and ami make mak itself manifest in inthe inthe inthe the same form a world around 1 In o our or r countr country the one fourth of same impulse stirs the people through the earths earth's daily revolution As a l rule to too the they all aU cheer in the same saine tongue and their offerings ar are all aU under one flu flag As one watches and thinks the world grows gLOWS small but the bc beyond ond is magnified and tal takes es on new UW glories for heaven seems nearer and the impression grows more intense that music from where music is isborn isborn isborn born is near and that if our senses could be bc a little sublimated we could hear tear the thc refrain of Happy napp r New Year and on earth good will wilt |