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Show tine rock, the railroad crews are si their posts to direct the grinding wheels to their destination, the pilot on the ocean steamer keeps a iirm grasp oh the helm to guide the vessel ! to a port of sifety ; and thousands are awake and toiling to faithfully discharge dis-charge the cares imposed upon them by a busy world. The night scenes of life present a panorama of moving pictures, bewildering be-wildering indeed to our senses. In 1 of toil, the glittering hall of fastivity, the cries of want and hangar, the joyous bridle chamber, and the moans of griof beside the solemn couch of death, is man ever brought face to face, eveu in the hush of the gloomv midnight's hour. ; O, Silent Night 1 With all thy gentle aud kindly spirit, the harsh struggles of man ever go forward in remorsless glee, in spite of thy soothing sooth-ing power of repose and rest. CENTERFIELD. Sunday , avening last a committee was decided upon to take charge of providing a dance for those who have hauled wood this winter to give among the poor. The committee commit-tee met Tuesday and arranged for the party to take place next Thursday, Thurs-day, March 9. The affair is in the hands of Brighara Jensen, Herbert Beck, Randa Christiansen, Mary A, Jensen and Lois Mace, thus insuring a good time for the boys who have so liberally donated to a worthy oause. AIodzo Jensen, the littie fellow who recently had his leg run over by a freight train at Axtell necessitating the great city at the midnight hour, the revelerin the gilded saloon throws with reckless abandon a .hundred dollars dol-lars into the maw of dissipation, while on the outer wail on the chilly street, stands the lone widow with starving child, asking a penny to satisfy the gnawings of hunger. In the brilliantly lighted, baoquet hall the men of fame and weaith, with soft raiment, witty speech, and the flowing bowl, seek reoreation and pleasure iu a Bucchanaliau feast. As the clock strikes the hour of the coming day, in the humble cottage of the laborer out of a job, the wretched father with care worn heart and sleepless sleep-less eyes, treads the floor in a vain effort ef-fort to solve the problem of food and amputation from a little below the knee, has been taken to th9 hospital at Salt Lake as indications 'are such that there may be need of amputat-iog amputat-iog above the knee. It will tike a couple of weeks to decide. Missea LuVird Smith, Lois Mace, and Randa Christiansen with Jobn Tuft, Leo Beck and Sidney Fjeld-sted Fjeld-sted met at Axtell Sunday afternoon, guests of Miss Helena Sorenson. Tuesday a young lady came to make her home at the residence of David Egan. All doing well. Truman Sorensou is nursing a lame foot, due to being run over by a wegon while working on the farm. Commencing March 7 the Center-field Center-field opera house is to change management, man-agement, Mr, Ockerman the proprietor proprie-tor proposing to take charge himself. Georgs E, Edwards of Ophir, Tooele county, a stockman, spent several days in Centerfield. Mace and Son have opened an up-to-date butcher shop in connection with their store. Antone Jensen sold a carload of beef cattle, shipping same Wednea day to parties in Tooele county, A character ball will be given in Centerfield on Mjrch 7, which promises to ba a big affair, clothing for a dependent family. Within the confines of a happy home, stand the bride and groom, with clasped hands, pledging i eech the fidelity of truth and love, while around them gather a throng of smiling smil-ing friends bestowing, gifts and good wiehesfor their future life. In another quiet home, with curtained cur-tained windows and lights turned low, the anxious face3 of man and women are bending over the bedside of the dear dying one, watching the ebbing out of a precious, life, an the shortened breath, the pa lid eheek, and upturned eye proclaim the flight of a spirit to the shoreless ocean of eternity. Thus from the atrenuous avenues |
