The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
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The venerable old year--its sand is
we'll nigh run soon will it be 'folded
up like : mantle" and laid away in
memory's archives, there to exist as a
fond, bright picture of happy recol-
lections, or q gaunt, hideous skeleton
of remorse. AS we glance backward
along its feeting days, what varying
scenes are unfpld6d, and how different
have been our fortunes from those
imagination created at its inception.
How many friends have been taken
from MS; how many new associations
formed. Some whom we trusted
turned false some we distrusted proved
true as steel. We oil have suffered
disappointment, and few of us have
realized our brightest hopes; but poor
indeed is he who has profted neither
in knowledge nor in wealth. Very
many Of us improved the now dying
year by migrating to the golden
prairies Of Dakota leaving friends
and relatives and parents yet we, of
all others, have reason to hold it in
the deepest yeIlerattion, to print Its
figures in red on the calendar Of
memory. The year 1883 has made
us owners of homes and lands, and
elevated many Of US from dependence
to comparative wealth. Let us reserve
the uppermost seat in menory's
chamber for the time when first we
gazed upon this land, flowing, il not
with milk and honey, then with an
abundance Of No. / hard and twenty
five bushels to the acre.
The year 1888 il repleto With his
torical incidents atonce memorable and
appalling, bright as heaven and dark as
hades Casualty and pestiIence have
he'd high carnival with the denizens
of earth. War, flood, fire, famine,
volcano, earthquake, tornado and
epidemic, all have sacrificed lives
aggregating over a hundred and fifty
thousand. Such q showing is fright
full indeed; but while affiiction has
terrorized the east, the United States
has been singularly exempt from
horrors, and all the while the world
has made wonderful progress IN arts,
science, letters and trade. In our own
territory the country has been meta
morphosed by the plow and the busy
hand Of commerce cities cities have have been been
built, mills and institutions Of learning
erected, aud history outdone in the
march of progress. Politically, o de-
termined effort has been made toward
securing the boon Of statehood, nearly
all the counties have been organized,
and the people have determined that
z Ordway must go.' We in Dakota
will ever remember 1883 as the year of
our dawning prosperity.
AS uncertain safss=5;ss=ttlh as IS the future. we
look forward to the year 1884 with
every confidence, having every reason
to suppose that the hardships Of. the
past have been conquered forever, and
that another year will be even more
profitable than this Prospects are
brilliant for an enormous harvest, our
acreage has been trebbled I; The shack"
Of last year has given place to COM
Portable farm house, and in many in
stances the discomforts Of s'batchingit"
have been superseded by the joys Of
natrimony. The Til7 Indications are that
the coming leap year will witness an
influx Of female immigration, and
amid such encouraging circumstances
we happy Dakotains extend the hand
Of friendship and wish ourselves and
everybody elsea
HAPPY, HAPPY NEW YEAR.