The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-17
NYE ON THE NEW YEAR.
Hanging Our Past Out on the Line--A
Pathetic 8ox-Ofce Incident Which
Occurred in Paris.
copyright, 1892. by Edgar ~. Nye.l

and fears for the future, joy and regret
for the past. A great philosopher says
that after fo ty we should be very
grateful if we are not absolutely and
constantly unhappy. This ought to
buoy up those who are only unhappy
every four years or every alternate
four years.
like to sit down on the first day Of
every year for a few moments and
think over the good I have done. 1t
does not take long. can mostly at
tend to it before breakfast. Then l
can attend to my regrets for duties
unpertOrmed during the rest of the day.
But | am a poor regretter and SION tire
of this.
The glad new year should be more
wisely used. We should only regret
just enough to chastise ourselves, and
then with a firm and rigid upper lip
proceed to do better. Some people do
not allow their sorrows to heal but
keep them open, torn and bleeding,
just as week and ~cowardly soldiers
sometimes create and maintain CHASTITY
sores IN order to avoid a coming battle.
We must cheerfully go forth to meet
our duty with each returning year
and the home is the best place to In
vestigate q mans efforts. There are a
good many Jolly dogs" in this world;
but, as Gretchen says, Did you ever
see the wife of a jolly dog2 She sleeps
i'll a kennel. Did you ever see the
children of jolly dog2 They are the
ours Of the street."
So the jolly dog may be as bad as
the malignant regretter. Let us there
fore not Overdo the jolly dog business
with strangers and exhaust ourselves,
80 that at hOme we may be more
civil.
Pardon me for moralizing on the glad
new year, but there ought to be one
day in each year when we can put our
past out on the line and look it over
and pound it with a broom to knock
out the harvest of eelfshne6s and I'M
kindness.
Enough Of the glad New Year!
PATHETIC BOX OFFICE SCENE.
Last evening there was "a pathetic
score at the box eff re in Paris where
we spoke for the benefit Of a thrifty
church society under the auspices of
the ladies committee. AS usual in
such cases, the seats were sold the DAY
before. Paris generally is regarded as
thu wickedesJ and most immoral city
III the world, but Paris, Illinois, should
not oe confused with Paris, France.
We came at noon and registered at
the Hotel Bristol, on the Place Ven
dOme-pronounced Plass Vondome-
and in the evening we began, after
prayer meeting, it being Wednesday
evening. At 9 O'clock a tired man,
with tall, heavy boots and the sad air
of q who had been thirty years try
ing to prove that agriculture was one
of the most delightful occupations
known to humanity, asked the man at
the box Office window for a good seat
eff you had ben here yesterday
said the tlcket-seller, you could have
bought a seat, but not to day"
"Str3" said the man.
Seats all sold yesterday" was the
| gentle reply,
Il didn't hear what you said, "
answered the old gentleman, unrolling
his a and placing q hand with a red
mitten on it behind the ear.
mo seats, 1 say! = was the hurried
answer in a loud tone.
Not even in the orchisterY"
Nor
"Whassay2'
Nor
"Well, that's me all over. Come
fourteen miles over q road that's frOze
tighter than a new bile. and can't hear
nothin over eight foot to save my life,
and got to buy standing o LOuisi
ana and the girls has got the laff on
me this time"
SOCIETY AT HURLEY.
Much has been printed throughout
the United States regarding the con
dition of society at Hurley, Wis. Prob
ably some of it is true. 1t is said that
the people there are mostly miners
who have been imported from abroad
under contract. Some of them were
caught in Poland alive, and oilers
were shared in Russia. They talk their
own language, drink alcohol when op
pressed mentally and chew tobacco in
the English language.
Several times the world has been
startled by the news that a large
stockade had been established in a
forest a few miles from Hurley, and