Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-01

go glad New Year thon comest
As other years have come.
To,pladd.n many loving heart,
To darkcn many ZONE;
And yet, with blessings laden,
With truth and love sincere
To many weary, fain;ing one,
Thou conicst, glad New Year -
Another year has past and gone
this old earth has turned over auoth-
cr three hundred and siXty-tivc times
and made ono more annual circuit
around the great orb of light and
brought us back to the same place III
the vast universe of worlds we were
just one year ago.
Another three hundred and sixty
.."e lays, aF.o'Asr t.l W "h'
aG-,Art twelve laor! iv., '.'ae
and gone. an. are ucw= !.sIuttcr=d
among Tie things of the past anG
will soon ,c forgotten by the world
lilo close of the year Wa c"ie-
brat ed s-.s.lllL-,! tie usual Chrlsio'' fcs-
siriiieS aatt :i,EsS- Sns!s.a!s MY, $
,,,,,, az ,lsy..,.p. 80 Wt!lI snt5. S.,.sssatsD.
? sasei pleasure and ilaplineszby the
.lsvn,,ag foiks-a,.d children, have sai1l
cove and ronr. The dlninss, the
poy,.,s. tho balls. the Christmas
,,.a.. nave all been ha1i, 1he GU 81
,n,s.,,tls have all been caught s.nd
f;u,s.owder, always very psolni,
! ee,,, a. arcdient III cciebg@it''s t3.is
tt,nttnv--ihe "uc lust ciose" -: LOT
Slcsn j. r'.is yc>pert Jeth1i ''4 .1S
..occS.ags. ,uo.;i be ia AT. ti-..s-
to the boys without the tire-cracker
skv-ruckct, Ronian-candlc or toy cali
non. and to many of the older ones
i without disciiarging cannon ol
, other gun to make Il loud noise. This
i celebration is often looked upon Will
some degree of fear and uncasincss
and we always feel sense Of relic
when the last powder is burnt OF
these occasions.
:. As with the other parts of the hol
idav Just ended. this too is gone-tht
last gun is discharged, the last can
j non bclched forth i'll thunder tone
the fire, flame and smoke; tho las
tire-crackcr popped, the last sky
rocket sent up and the last piece o
fire works burnt, in eighteen huE
! drcd and seventy-two. To th'
tlloughtlcss and careless, the passing
nwav of another year is not appre
IL ciatcd as any great thing or of suifl
:: cicmt importance to make any grea
{ ado about, since it has happened ac
+ cord;ur to credited chronolog.
% about five thousand eight hundred
y and scventy-two times.
This is go but of this great mum
10 Der of years there are but few whlc
have been of any importance TO us
:. in which we have been interested o
,e known the events as they took place
}. that made one year differ from al
other.
is Did YOU never think of tho sma
j. SPACE in this time our lives have ot
to cupicd? There are but few livin
!" To- now who were active participants i
ID the events Of the world fifty year
oi ago. and how many of us now livin
u and participating in aud assisting i
bringing forth new development
= peculiar to this age of the wori
will be living fifty years hence bu
few indeed, and
lone hundred years from this client hour
Where will we all then be?''
III all probability not ono huma
being now living will be then.
..wherc, where will bc the birds that sing,
\ hundred years to come?
Til. flowers that now in beauty spring
\ hundred years 10 cCnie?
:. Th. rosy lips, the LOFTY brow,
y The heart that beats so gai!y now7
.t Oh! where will be loves beanng eye,
Joy's pleasant smile and sorrow sigh
a hundred years to come f''
.c. owe NIL within our graves shall sleep
sa A hundred years 10 come;
H., liz No living soui for us will weep
A hundred years 10 conc;
But other men our lands will till,
40 And others then our streets will hil,
While other birds will sing as gay,
.. And bright the sun shine as TO day,
A hundred years to come"
The year that has just closed h
been marked by many great and il
lip portaut events; indeed, it seems '
live in a fast and progressive az
every year seems greater than t
preceding one. Time seems to
away with greater swiftncss to
than it used 10, and year sc
round almost unperccived, and
W ondcrfui events and changes viii
are taking place and succeed ea
other with such rapidity pass by
re- most unnotieed and unrealized VII
ly going on, and when at the end of
year we look back we wonder q
her her are astonished to find the number
s i1r as events crowded into the short sp
,,1G. Of one rear.