McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-03
Happy New Year.

Detzstt Bree Peas.
''Yea! bright New Year,
DER all the earth,
With song and cheer
They will hail Thy birth;
They will, trust thy words'in a single hour,
They will love thy face, they will laud thy
For the new has charms which the old has
& not,
And the stranger face makes the friend \
The above are the concluding stanzas
of several addressed by Americas poet
priest to ssThe Old Year and the New, -
some two years since while passing the
Christmas holidays in Baltimore, and
though he always sweeps his harp with
a minstrel's hand, the melody is often
sad.
It seems to be one of NATURES de-
mands that the new should supplant
the old, especially in human affairs,
and though some of us may lament the
law, we can but obey.
Father RyanAs beautiful verses pres
ent, for our contemplation, this sorrow
full theme with gentle power, while
their metrical cadence robs it of much
of its sadness.
have often thought that the new
year should begin on December %, the
day hallowed as being Chfist's BIRTH
day, and for this cause be welcomed
with festivlty and rejoicing, and forever
maintained as q consecrated anniver-
sary, but discover no special author
ity for thus henoring the 1st of January
merely because being the first day of d
new year.
Much, however, in the dawning of a
new year may proftably claim our at
tention; but while it is fruitless to
mourn the dead past, it were wise to
heed its lessons. va 4
Experience is the child of the past,
and ripe experience should belong to
those of many years; but unless we use
these time taught lessons our experience
If we should keep dairy, recording
therein at the close of each day the
events of that day, with our thoughts
thereon, comparing those of each with
its predecessors, think that at the end
of the year we would find stored there.
in fund of wisdom with which to safe
1y launch upon another year in times
ocean, and be thus prepared more in
diligently to lay our course for the en-
suing twelve months cruise.
think it is a wise precaution on the
first day of the year to mark out for our
selves the path of life we design pursu-
ing and continuing our dairy, that thus
as years succeed each other we may
grow in wisdom and usefulness. e-s#
We should teach our children to adopt
some such plan, and to Systematically
follow it, giving them the benefit of our
experiences, and advising and counsel
ing with them each day, crediting them
with possessing minds and at least some
intelligence, striving to guide and di-
rect those minds and that Intelligence in
the safest channels, and this in a gentle,
persuasive manner, if we desire to main
tain any influence over them and to re-
tain their love.
had purposed offering pages of ex-
cellent advice, but fear that l may be
considered a trespasser or be charged
with sermonizing bids me pause, and
thus you escape what might have grown
into grave homily or labored disquisi-
ton, from which you doubtless pray to
be delivered.
With earnest wishes that a happy,
prosperous New Year may be the por-
ton of each member of this charming
family, and that our 'sHousehold" may
continue to grow in favor and increase
in value and influence, once again
write myself faithfully yours.