The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-01-05

hour IA tfuo u evcfy individual point N
time, W. IRE always standing between two
distinct oterntles, the one stretching I'm.
incasufably behind and The other opening
infinitely before M. n we pause ut any
station In The succession Of events what
records are chronclod upon tho page OF the
Past and what dimly-secn figures dance
upon the curtain Of the Future' The one
almost invariably occasions regret and the
other, too often excites alarm. IL we par
Gel these uncomfortable inhnlties into COM
prchenslblc periods and look merely
AZ an era. Or century, or decade,
or year, tho astonishment we expert
encc at the transactions and histories or
drama or comedies placed upon the worlds
stage is not decreased, and each individual
piece or parcel differs from the other as the
myriad human lives and faces or the num-
bcrless leaves do. And now OH this New
Years morning the brief record made upon
our little planet since we welcomed the
dawn of 1881, is one OF original features
though the retrospect be brief. And If 1.-THE
fierce spirit with the glass and scythc" be
but kind to us on the next recurring jan
,uarys advent we will all have seen
something and learned something
we had not thought Of or dreamed
of before. We do not fancy sen.
timentalism greatly, but after the much
that has been said in like tenor, it is now
and will be always true that there are many
things in each year that leaves us to give us
cause for sadness and regret. The trials we
have endured, the poverty we have fought
perhaps, the disappointmcnts we have
met, the friends we have lost, the dead sea
| apples even that have turned to ashes in
4 the grasping after they had looked SO ms
cious, and the crime and catastrophe we
I have been compelled to witness almost Gre
ate to the sensitive mind feeling of pro-
] found despair, althoughwe know it is but
the life of one little year. Yet the cloud
turns again to us its silver lining, when
| Hope challenges our attention to the year
i that is lust coming in. 1t is impossible for
/ the mind to refrain from believing that the
debit side of our accounts III the experience
behind us will be more than cancelled by the
kindness Of the future and the vista seems
filled with flowers and toll seems to promise
wealth and honors. 1t. was benelicent in
4 Nature to link us to SO cheering and re-
} assuring handmaden' as Hope. that the
rough points of reflection might be chiselled
into smoothness, and the man kept work
( ing out his task. The New Year is reflex
!. oflife simply, in that it always presents az
!. conplished facts impossible to recall,
whether good or bad and a
possible i'm provemcnt and greater
growth in time to- come. We
have said that the years all differ from
each other, and in some respects 1881 has
been more marked than any preceding
Since the invention of printing the types
have never been weighted with such q
varied mass Of records Of curious events
It would be too tedious, and it would be
Indeed superflnous, to particularize the in
,, c:dents transpiring within the past twelve
: months. They are still fresh in the memory
ofthe reading public, and some will remain
1ineffaceable None of the nations have
, escaped trouble, and the world collect
: ivcly, has not failed in its annua
allotment of SORROW Great men have
fallen off, rulers have dropped under the
hands Of assassins, over $780, 900 OF prop
crty have been destroyed by fire, floods ans
: drouth have prevailed to an extraordinary
: extent and crime has run riot. Isms asi'
cbisms where least expected have arisci
and few years when all is known vii
be found filled with so many horrors, s.
, much disaster and 80 many private an'
: public calamities. And yet in all TIN
: chapter of darkness and evil one fact re
: mains upon which the hope of the season
: now coming may be safely based, ana tina
is that we know what has happened $
: INFINITELY and so well. The ANIMALS in
crease regularly in volume because civiliza
/, ton keeps opening up new fields for til
!. gathering and transmission of news. w
; thus often fear that we are going backward Il
= morals and charity, when it is simply elet
tricity and the press presenting panoram
g of sections and people previously unknown
/ In short, intelligence has increased on
y knowledge of events, rather than that Id
,ci events have themselves grown worse !
ar character or more frequent in occurrence
= or course, as population increases ther
d will be some growth in events, but the en-
r couraging feature continues that crimes en-
~ vice and accidents are recorded while III
A rood end virtuous, and even annals {
c. mankind do not elicit passing notic'
a This is an indsputable evidence that tn
former are still the exceptions to III
rule. As long as this is true we need ncye
&c feel otherwise than encouraged. And no
IS affer all that has been disastrous, and 81
is parently retrogressive, and bloody. an
n uncharitable, we must yet recognise til
ID fact that the world has gone unususll
Il further on In 1881 than in previous year
d To-day there are better faciiitis
l. for the transportation OF ia
al commodities Of commerce, wider dissent
10 nation Of ideas, q broader intelligence,
H. greater number Of charities, a strong'
- unity of feeling in the carth's nationalitic
q and prander facilities for Multiplying thei
ID elements and blessings upon which man
u perfection depends, than ever e.
isted before in the history I
humanity. The study and impfovemsn
% Of the physical sciences and arts by whic
u mans lie may be made longer and happis
le and easier. have within the past year bee
y unpreccdented, and are just beginning
y give .orth their rich stores Of valuable All
* vital facts. SO 4 Il possible for Us thi
CT morning 70 congratulate AL men upon Ill
., aospicious opening Of 1852, when the ~orl
q is at peace, and the people upon y possesss