The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
THE MESSAGE OF 81 TO 90.

MS respective position, remains
a while and passes away. The
world was here before he came.
Men have lived before hin, and
the bodies of whom have long been
lost in the gloom of the grave.
While yet ennobling monuments
of fame which the very few, out of
the many billions that have lived,
have erected for themselves yet
stand houored and reveired in the
memory of ages. Heroes have
left their deeds, sculptors their
works, philosophers their teach
ings, writer's their words, all
of these are in existence when
man appears amid the scene. In
his childhood's happy hours he
looks upon the grand achieve
ments with careless wonder and
amazements. In his manhood he
begins to realizes them, to see life
in its real apparel, to understand
the real value of time, and with
something twixt hope and dis
conragement lie seeks to do some
thing for himself. In old age,
with a heart hardened by the
knocks of time, and a mind drilled
in the school of experience, he
looks back TO see what has been
done. On his death bed he calls
to his side his son, gives to him
his charge or mission in life, i'm
parts his dying blessing, sinks
back, closes his eyes, and the light
of this world is shut out forever.
So It's with 81 now fast declin-
ing.
The old year dying, looks back at
its brief existence, sees the pangs
of sorrow that rend the ties of hu-
man affections, hearts pining be-
meath the veil of departed happi-
ness. Sees the wickedness, crimes
evils, meanness, wrongs, blasted
hopes, ruined souls, wrecked ambi-
tons, and deeds of terror more
terrible than the Imagination can
picture in piutonian regions. Sees
the failures,d disasters, ruins, wrecks
wars, famins, and distinctions of
all kinds. AT the sight of all these
deeds of CHASTITY hideousness nine
one would hide beneath the death
shroud as if loathe that ninety-two
should see the blush of shame and
despair mantled on his pallid brow.
But with all this there is much
for which 81 may justly feel proud.
During its brief stay it has wit
messed changes of all kinds. 1t has
seen Improvements and great dis
coverles. 1t has seen mighty dis
turbances in the political fields.
Nations bidding defiance to ma
tony, crown heads deposed, and
empires demolished. The world
Is year older but on the plains of
civilization and enlightenment is
the world the proper distance in
advance of a year ago? In other
words, has the world deem bettered
by the existence of ninety-one?
The human genius has been busy
devising means for the better con-
dition of man. There is need of
reform, there is need ofimprove-
ment. Many things have sprung
into existence but time is yet re-
quired for their completion. That
time is with ninely-two. Look to
it, and as the old passes away the
new begins where the old leaves
off; mark well the point and when
your days are out see if YOU have
made the proper advancement,
and see wherein the world has
been bettered by your existence.
Count that day lost whose low de
scending sun,
Views from thy hand no worthy action
DONE
The old year might plead,
Back ward, turn backward o time in
your flight,
Make me child again just for tonight
But Father Time, in his stern
and never swerving way, says Mo-
The old year with sigh of relief
breathes 'it is ended" and departs
to join his companions in the past.
The new year comes in with
smiles, and a heart filed with
great expectations, vivid with
serene bushes, as if fresh bloom /
ing in fragrant fields of fancied |
lappiness. But the demands of
line are more real. Improve
nents must be made, develop
nents be begun, inventions con
rived. So let ninety-two live that
III the demands may be met, and
hat mankind may be bettered
" its existence, and may you,
lind reader, so live that you and
'thers may be benefited by having
ived through nine-two.
The Hays county times says,
very NewsnoDa, in Vnvae oDo,b+