Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
COMPLIMENTS OF the SEASON.

COMPLIMENTS or the SEASON.
AS is our custom, we will issue no
paper during the Christmas holi-
days, and as this issue is the last
opportunity we will have of speak
ing to the dear friends and readers
of the CHRoNICLEduring the event
full year of 1882, we feel we should
not let the occasion pass without
saying a word or two, even though
it only be to extend the compli-
ments of the season, and wish one
and all "a Merry Christmas and A
Happy New Year" Indeed, a
thousand thoughts come crowding
into our mind and, in truth, we
know not what to say.
Christmas, the natal day of Christ,
and the birth of Christendom, what
world of meaning the word con-
tains The accepted time of all
good cheer, and the embodiment of
happiness and all good things. A
glorious season indeed ii is. We
look around us at its approach and
view with lighter hearts and quick
ened pulse, the activity that pre-
walls i'm business circles, the busy
transfer of the gathered crops, the
renewal of public aud private enter
tainments and the charms of the
social world gathered about the
cheerful firesides-all this is assO-
ciated with the gladstone season
and makes it joyOusand welcome
Every year it rolls around, always
fresh and new, always looked for
ward to with bright anticipatiOns
and happy hopes. With its coming
the trials and fluctuations of life are
banished and whether in the stir
ring pursuit of business or the
leisurely enjoyment of literature or
amusement, the mind and body
seem in better trim. Even the
chronic pessimist forgets his ever
present trouble and joins in the
merry throng. The CHRONICLE in
extending its greetings hopes that
the season will bring full joy and
unalIOyed happiness to all hearts,
for much indeed have we to be glad
and thankful for. The year of 1882
will long be remembered as one of
widespread prosperity, marked as
it is with almost unexampled har-
vests throughout healthy and Won
drously favored land. Let us then
forget our little sorrows and disap-
pointments, if we have them, and
thinking only of the glad present
and happier future, let no shadow
come over the festivities and
Thanksgiving of the closing year.
Let us ali be happy in celebrating
the birth of Him, who was the in
carnatIOn of all that is good and
pure and holy, remembering while
we are shouting good tidings of
great joy and rendering due thanks
for the blessings and enjOyments of
life, not to forget "the poor whom
We have always with you," for in
truth, we do not believe He likes
ITO hear you devoutly pray
On Bonded knee about an hour,
For grace to spend Alright the day
When you know your neighbOr has no
flour.
He'd rather see you go TO mill
And buy your luckleSs brother bread,
And see his children eat their fill
And laugh beneath Their humble she'd"
Do then something to smooth the
rugged pathway of some less fortu-
nate brothers life, Stay the fatted
turkey, feast and enjoy your bOun-
teous repast, but do not forget to
cheer some less favored home. Let |
kind charity scatter abroad her
beneficent smiles and then you
will indeed enjoy ga Merry Christ
mas and A Happy New Year"
We will not stop to remote the |
mOmentous events and stirring in |
cidents of the out going year. 1t
has been a most memorable one and |
the CHRONICLE has played its hum
BILE part in recording its history. |
How far we have succeeded, we |
cannot say. We only know we
have often fallen far short of our
hopes and desires in giving our
readers first-class weekly cOmpen-
dunn of the news and events of the |
times, but what we haYe done has
been done with earnestness and
sincere desire to please. Our high
est aim has always been to contrib
ute all we could to the pleasure and |
instruction of our patrons and |
friends, and il we have in any |
manner done this, and won their |
friendship and esteem,
we are duly thankful and apprecia-
tive.
The CHRONICLE will enter upon |
1888 with renewed determination to |
be better paper than it has ever
been before, paying more attention
to the local and general news of
interest to its patrons and the pub
lie, which after all is the true prov
ince ola county paper. We ask
the continued patronage of our old
friends and the kind support of
others who desire a good county
that has served you for
over sixty-five years. So, again
to all the hearty compli-
ments of the season, we say:
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring happy bells, across the snow,
The year is going, Let il go,
Ring ont the false, ring in the true"
WE notice from late copy of
'The Buteman," journal publish
ed at ROthesay, Scotland, that our
and beneficent fellow
townsman, Mr.. Bryce Stewart, in
connection with his brothers,