Arizona republican., 1892-01-10
SUNDAY THOUGHTS.

Christmas, with it's good cheer and kind wishes, and the Few Year, with it's good resolutions, nave both come and gone, and, standing on the verge of twelve month past and twelve months to come, looking at the errors we have committed on the one hand and the possibility of reclamation on the other, 1t is human nature to resolule, and that earnestly, though they last but day. There's an old saying to the effect that "Friendship is but hollow myth, and love but disappointment" Of course some cynic wrote this, and it may not be all true, but a. the same time we are correct in thinking that good intentions are but to be broken, and to tell the truth, the sun of the first day does not set upon many unbroken ones.
 Christmas has not been hat it used to be when we were young. Then 1t was whole week given up to merry making and pleasure. The absent mem- bers of the family came in from all parts of the country, and 1t was time for the hand-shaking of friends, and the reunion of kinsmen. This, though, is the telegraph age, and people do not have the time to give up to Christmas. One single day, and often only part of that, can be taken from the great rush of business. Some do not take that much, but give every hour and minute to the acquisition of gain. For my part it takes every day in the year, and then cannot do justice to the affairs of life, but at the same time, 1 would like to see an old-fashioned, jolly Christmas, and it would make me feel younger to participate in it's festivities.
 Between the charity ball, various ain ners and the plays, the society people have had very little sleep for the last month. Of course everybody enjoyed it, but they look back upon it now, and they cannot see the least bit of good coming from it., and not solitary sparkle of the pleasure remains. They can all gay with Burns
 Pleasures are like poppies spread,
 You grasp the flower, the bloom has fled.
 Or, like the snowfall on the river,
 White a moment, then gone forever.
 The old system of philosophy which taught men to live today, and let the morrow provide for itself may not leave any very bitter remorse in the minds of it's adherents, but when they have lived out their lives in the pursuance of the phantom pleasure, they can look back in memory on many void, that hurts alone by reason of it's emptiness.
 The balls were very good and the dinners about the same. One thing about these charity dinners is that we do not go to them expecting to get much to eat, and we are not often dis appointed. The poor heathen gets the benefit of it, if there is any left after the paying of expenses. suppose people who are angels will say that my prospects are very poor for their society Tn the boundless hereafter, but 1 trouble myself so little about where l am going when life is over, that 1 am pretty positive the question will never run me insane. One oi the best people l ever knew, said that it was good religion to let all other peoples buei ness alone and attend to your own, and l am pretty much like that person. If, when we have finished the task to which we have fallen, we can look back and see no place in which we have wroDged man intentionally, our call ing and election is pretty sure, and we need not worry our last moments with an anxiety about the contents of the "great beyond"
 The plays were pretty good too, con