The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-12-30
New Years Thoughts.

With all its good and all it's bad,
with much that is to be commended
and much that il to be condemned,
with its pathway of glory and its
dark charnel house of suffering,
misery and sorrow the old year is
being borne OIL the swift wings of
time to the dead and irreclaimable
past, and new year, bright, joyous
and full Of sunshine, will soon dawn
upon us. Whatever goes to make
up the record Of the old year is past
all change, and as the record has
been made up, so must it stand and
60 sounding down the ages of all
the years to come. Human regret
and the deep toned agony swelling
mp from the innermost depths of
sorrows bleeding heart could not
recall any loved one that is lost or
atone for any cruel deed recorded in
the book of the past. Millions upon
millions of tear drops might be
shed, but they are as Intellectual as
the waves of the Mediterranean on
the immovable rock of Gibraltar
But the year soon to begin is ours
ours to enjoy and to improve. HUI
man foresight cannot determine
what it will bring forth. 1t may
bring happiness, it may bring sor.
row; it may bring prosperity, it may
bring adversely; it may be year of
innocence and purity, or it may be
darkened by terrible record of
crime and wickedness; it may be a
a year when the bright bird Of
Heaven acknowledgement bid her
olive spring aud scatter blessings
from her dovelike wing" or the fierce
demon of war may devastate fair
fields aud strew them with blood
and dead mems bones. But, what
ever betides, we should never forget
that human destiny is to a great ex-
tent shaped by human hands, and
much of the joy or the sorrow Of
the future depends on our own eff.
forts. We have pleasant earth to
live upon. We have a benificent
Providence to overruled all things
for our good, if we will act molly
our part. With regret for the errors
and disappointments Of the past, let
us turn over new leaf" and with
noble efforts and good resolutions
grandly enter the mighty tourna-
mest Of life, determined to bear off
the brilliant trophy that awaits us
at the bright goal of success. Years
fly swiftly by, and bear on their
freighted wings the many deeds that
are done. Old men aged and full of
years, step from the stage of life,
and new generations spring up in
their stead, and
$50 the multitude goes, like the flowers or the
weed.
That wither away to let others succeed;
So the multitude comes, even those We behold,
To repeat every tale that has often been told
New Years Days are like mile
stones located along the pathway Of
life. They are halting places where
we may stop for awhile, to rest from
the fatigues of the journey, aud
where we may reckon mp the dis
lance already travelled, aud per-
chance endeayor to compute the
number of miles and years that lie
between us and the end of our jour-
ney.
When we stand at the Threshold
of q new year and look forward to
the next stopping place, it seems hid
den in the haze and fog of distance
as though it were long way off,
We think there is time for a vast
deal Of work in those three hundred
and sixty.iive days that stretch
ahead of us, and we are apt to an
ticipate the many things that can be
done, and the amount of good we