Ellsworth American., 1886-01-14
tar tbr ElI-waFth American
The New Year.

AHother year ha~ passed into history aud
taken IL place IT. ,he .ung tr II the dead
past another Year frei-hied y aith carrs, With
toi-. sprrows aud jo,s. With teeming mani
ir,lations OF iic broken here and there bt
The DARK and silent shadows of death
With some Il has been i YEAR ot signal
prosperity year OF intense aud prolonged
eyoymeni--o OF high hopes fully realized ;
with others It has been a yrar Of pInchIug
poverty win the wolf Of hunger constantly
AZ the door, tauta.4x.ng ts victims with
phhntoms OF despair. and they have looked
forward 10 it. close with something Of hope
tnat the new Year would usher in brighter
STAKE Of things. With some II has been a
year of beginnings. year speu; in laying
the foundations Of the structure Of their life
work, and With wha! high pride, and anx-
ious longing, have they gazed into the
tature,in >auguine Imagination, and witness
ed the contamination Of their hopes The
Young NAH Who is seeking riches has seen
the gltteFins tie OF wealth. toll before h-
rlated vision, has seen houses and land anu
ship, and factories and baGks come into BIZ
possession a. II BY magic, and le ha, lived
the ecs'atic life 81 an aerial mouied kins "a
season Of brief but Intense pleasure. The
young man who is nursing aspirations for
honor, hears with quiek mental ear The shout
Of applause from the distant multitude and
sees with the eye Of faith hi. name and deeds
in sli,tering letters on the printed Page, Or
carved on monument Of stone. Win others
it has been the closing page Of liie's history.
the contamination of great plan, and nigh
hopes They have placed the cap-stone On
amid the Jeers Of ,houshtess throne, it
may be amid the applause OF admirns
thousands.
Over the record of some lives the public
seem to pass il silent contempt, over others
flash The light Of generous criticism, over
others pass the scare hing gaze OF cynical
analysis. The man who has lived among
men and in the hearts Of his fellow men
who has lived for the multitude animated by
high aims and noble purposes, will have his
faults tenderly hidden in the protecting
heart Of generous people. One writer has
said the good that a man does lives after
him. but the evil that be does dies with
him. The faults that attach to great,
noble character seem to disappear in the
contemplation of that character, as the morn
ing msts that soon dissolve before the
rising god Of day or like the dust that
gathers on works Of art, easily brushed off,
without injuring their beauty Of finish or
symmetry Of form. While the past year
with its misspent hours, its los, opportuni-
ties, its heart -burnings marches before US
in solemn procession, may it teach US more
thoroughly to value time. so that we may
esteem the moments as they pass as more
precious than nuggets of gold IN our pos
session. Gold may be boarded until mil
lions shall swell our Golfers, but time is so
precious that the Almighty deals out from
the eternal wears but a single moment at
time, and yet of all human possessions moth
ing is so little priced, or parted with so in
differently.
From the passing hours let US absorb the
nectar of happiness and hoard it in the cells
of memory, as the bee sucks honey from the
flowers, and stores it for future use, so that
our lives may be constantly growing richer
and larger. Let US at the beginning ofths
new year resolve upon the strictest economy
with regard TO time; introduce more system
into our daily labors, so that there shall be
the utmost harmony and the least friction,
that we NAV be enabled to accomplish the
most in the shortest space of time. May
our leisure moments be spent in self i'm
provement or for the good Of others and so
fiji up all the crevices Of time with useful
deeds. Spend no time in bed that is not
necessary to recuperate weary body and
hard worked mind have some aim constant
" in view, some definite work ever to be
accomplished and allow no time to be vast
ed drifting on the current of events. H.