St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-01-01
The New Year.

return, OF our patiOnS SCaIIclCu o'SA
different parts of the country. 10
each of our subscribers--dear to us
by SO many worthy communings-
whether far or near--we wish hap
py new year Ia year filled with the
truest and choicest blessings. If we
had the power, there should not be
dull eye, a heavy heart, an ill-clad
body, or consumptive purse in the
land for twelvcmonth to come +; but
as our power is bounded, we can only
indulge in the fervent hope that dur
ing the coming year the aggregate
sources of human misery may be d.
| minished, and the aggregate sources
of human happiness widened, deepen
cd and extended.
A happy new year! What heart
knitting, home-drawing ties are asso-
ciated with the very words How
the mind will travel back, in spite of
accumulated years, or accumulated
! misfortunes, to the happy days of our
youth, or the peaceful scenes of our
childhood! Again we are playing by
! the well-worn steps of the old home
| stead again we are carelessly loiter-
ing by the running brook, now launch
ing our tiny boat, and now wading
knee deep in it's clear, cool waters, to
save it from impending shipwreck
again we are strolling through the
grand old woods, gathering berries
and wildhowers; and again we are
joining the wild, glad throng just
emancipated from the school room.
There are many who look forward to
a coming year with faint hearts and
gloomy forebodings. We are not one
of those. The world is full of lights
and shadows single CLEAN of sun
shine makes us forget days and weeks
of storm and darkness. Every year
has it's changcs-changes in the deep
wells of our feelings and affections
changes in the domestic or social Cir
cle-and occurring with the same GER
tainty as the changes we observe in
the atkral world. We are undergo
ing the same transmutations in form,
feelings and circumstances as have
been experienced in every age and
condition of mankind-from the days
when Jewish maidens tarricd by the
wells of Samaria to fill their water
jars, to the present progressive, won
der-working times. We are mourn
ing for the loss of some dear friend
or relativc--some chosen compan
ion of our heart. They too have
mourned, as we now mourn, INDUCED
in the same tears of unavailing regret
that now wet our cheeks. @'
Thus it has ever been, and thus it
ever will be, till the last trump shall
put an end to the phantom called life.
AS star after star appears, glistens,
gltters, and then fades away before
the morning light, so we are all doom
ed, after brief space of time, to be
lost in that light which beams from
eternity.
A happy new year! What though
the world has frowned upon you; what
though fortune has been coy and
: friends tickle; what though i'll success
: has attended all your efforts in things
: agricultural, mechanical, mercantile
q amatory or warlike !? Is that any rea
s. son that misfortune is to dog YOU
n footsteps hereafter? Be up and doing
s with clear head, stout heart and vii
, ling hands Increase your exertions
! redouble your energies; and the noun
i tains which now rise in your path Wi
e appear as molc-hills. Happiness i
!, this world is in a great measure i
i our own keeping the mere wish tina
i. the coming year may be happy on
a will not make it SO. We have GU
S own part to play to secure result S
. desirable. Certain duties must b
q performed; certain Offices discharged
d and the fountains of our hearts keE
e open, free and pure.
q Our thoughts have inscnsibly led II
:, : into different channel from tina
o which we at first contemplated. w
l. merely intended to wish our reader
!, "a happy new year," coupling wit
+ that wish the warm salutations usua
h ly INDUCED in at this season Of goo
IS humor and good cheer. All that W
IS can now do is to add the hope that tt
"a kind and friendly relations which :
=. present exist between the readers
s. the lntelligencer and ourselves ma
re become frmer and closer with ea(
succeeding year.
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