Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-01-06
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Friday, January 6, 1913.
THE NEW YEAR.


customed to wish our friends ga happy New Year,
has come aud gone and the business of the year has
commenced. Upon issuing our first paper dated
1sl3-though some days EATER the iair'-we take
occasion to wish our subscribers "A happy New
Year" We imagine, we write, that we can
hear many of the old subscribers Of the Phoenix re-
spending, "thank you, Mr.. Editor, we wish you the
same" We hope that our wishes in some other
matters may meet with ready response; aud if
there are any who really wish well, among those
who have not paid any substantial compliment
for a long time, we hope speedily to receive some
thing of the kind. Our thanks in the mean time
are rendered TO those who have been mindful Of our
necessities and done their share to supply us with
the "needful," that might go on way rejoc-
ing. But we did not take up our pen to write upon
matters merely pecuniary but all men are apt to
speak and write about what they have had occasion
to think Of most, land know not that Editors
an exception TO the rulc) we almost Involuntary
got upon the subect but let pass for the present
The commencement Of new year, is always a
time OF peculiar interest. Old and young feel that
IT is an important time, but how different their
views in relation to the event The aged have
learned by experience that every year brings its
share Of trouble that they can not be exempt from
the evils incident TO human life that dsappont-
ment and will have their place in the future
as well as the past. They realize, too that every
year leaves them one less to spend upon the earth
every year seems shorter they advance, and as
they tread upon the threshold OF new year, their
minds are filed with melancholy images. How
changed since the days of youth-then all was joy,
and their minds we're filled with bright visions of
the future So it is now, with those of few years.
They fondly imagine that the future has iroub-
les like the past that the stormy weather, if per-
chance they have seen any, has passed, and
clear sky will in future smile upon them. How Of
ten do these delusive dreams lead young people in
to the very difficulties they much wish TO avoid
they are never more in danger than when they flat.
ter themselves there is none, and consequently rush
heedlessly into temptation.
The minor gladly welcomes the new year, as it
brings him so much nearer the goal on which his
mind is fixed, viz the time when he will go into the
world TO act for himself and parental restraint no
more curb his rowing spirit. Little does he appre-
ciate the benefit he derives from being held in
check now, and the obligation he is under to pa
rents, or guardians for preparing him. in minority
for future usefulness. But ere the ushcring of ma
ny years he will all this and in his turn watch
over the thoughtless steps Of some impatient boy.
Every revolving year carries numbers from the /
stage of life and brings others TO I'LL their places
The blooming Miss who has received the greet |
ing of"A happy New Year" for the last eighteen
years. no doubt enters upon a new year with many
anticPations, hoping probably, that she may receive
the degree of Mrs. before the close of the year.
We certainly join in this very laudable desire and
all such, that if fortune favors them in
this particular, that shall take the greatest pleas
ure in making known to the public, through our
columns, the happy event. 1t is TO be hoped that I
those whose antiepations are not realized during
the year upon which we have entered, will console
themselves with the reflection, that. "a Miss is as
good as'--some mems names "There's as coed
fish in the sea-'the chaff goes first. and host
OF such phosophic expressions, can be rcsorted to
for consolation.
But the Bachelors these fellows who always
talk but never act--they must have some New
Years advice. We know the ladies' will tender us
their thanks for reminding them Of their duty and
perhaps contribute to make us a member Of some
society at least, an honorary member of some sew
ing society. SO then, Mcssieurs Bachelors. we
cannot spare you. The commencement of new
year is favorable time to form new resolutions and
carry them into execution Do not plead 'shard
times, or any thing else in excavation of your
fault, in remaining single, but go ahead, and You
will add to your own, and others happincss-and1
we shall be promoted as just mentioned, without,
doubt.
We must all expect, for the coming year. to have
about the usual amount of misfortune and vexation
therefore it becomes every one to endeavor TO bear
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doubt will be our lot for a time; and The on.
" course TO be pursued is to endeavor to elect ru-
ers who will enact wise and wholesome laws and
withal, let us be prudent and economical in our
expenses; ifprofts small, curtail our desires
and let no time be wasted in ideness Notwith.
standing the Propheses Of Miller, "seed time and
harvest will undoubtedly come this year, as here
toiore, rewarding the husbandman for his tolls and
furnishing sufiicency for man and beast Let
every one pursue his accustomed avocatons, lust
as though he never heard that this year was to be
the end of time.
Our own course will be as heretofore As faith.
full ehronicers OF passing events, we shall notice
The various movements of public men, and political
parties and IT is presumed from present indications
that this year will not be barren of interest Those
measures which we consider calculated TO advance
the greatest good of the greatest number, we shall
steadily advocate, and fearlessly expose whatever
we consider wrong in theory or practice. And fl.
naly, by endeavoring to make our paper good
family paper we shall hope to receive and merit the
patronage OF the public hoping that the readers of
Inc rh@n'x, at the end of the year, will have no
cause TO regret its Perusa, but find they have der
we'd pleasure and profit from its columns.
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SINGULAR RETALIATIoS-It is well known that
slaves from the State of Kentucky often escape in.
to OHIO, and receive protection from the inhabitants