The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-12-28
HAPPY NEW YEAR.

The calendars ON our desks remind
us that but five more years remain of
the nineteenth century. What won
derful things have taken place within
this period, which is spanned by the
memory of some now living. Nearly
every invention that tends to our COM
front or convenience which is now in
daily use has been discovered or first
utilized since 1900. 1t is useless to
enumerate them, the chief ones will
readily occur to anyone, and the long
est list any single man could remem-
Der o1s the triumphs of this great era
of unemployment would still be very in
complete.
1t seems altogether improbable that
the twentieth lcentury will witness
such a number of great discoveries in
science as the one just closing. Much
progress will be made, undoubtedly,
but it will be largely on the lines of
improvement and perfection of exist
ing Inventions. There seems really no
new element or substance to conquer,
nor mechanical problem to solve, ex-
cept that of aerial navigation.
While the condition of mankind
has been much ameliorated the great
industrial and Scientific development
of recent YEARS has brought about
some serious results, and has given rise
TO questions which are vexing the
greatest minds of the day. The null
IMPLICATION and perfection of machi-
merry enables one farmer to produce as
much as five could in the beginning of
the century, and our workshops and
factories, by running a few months
can supply the consumption of their
products for a whole year. The re-
suit is that markets at present are
dull and many men are out of employ
ment. Statesmen are striving, many
of them honestly and conscientiously,
with financial and economic problems
with view to improving this condi-
ton of affairs, and it is quite probable
that they may succeed in affording a
measure of relief. 1t is matter which
must take time to adjust and the ad-
justment of this new state of affairs
can not be made in day nor by any
single piece of cure-all legislation
How the difficulty will be settled is
hard to forsee. Perhaps the result
will be fewer hours of labor for all,
more time for rest and healthful recre-
alton, and, through these, a lengthen-
ing of the span of human life. 1t may
be possible that we will find more time
for charity and the elevation of the
race, and that sin and suffering are to
be blotted out, Who knows 1t can
not be that the development brought
about by so much study and earnest
effort is to be curse. Must it not,
then, prove blessing?
With the assumption that this is to
Gle the case, the new year gives us a
first class opportunity to put this the
DRY into practice. We must not in
dulge in idleness or slothfulness in
business, but we can easily spare more
time for our own improvement and
for works of charity and mercy. 1t is
not to be expected that we should i'm
poverish ourselves to sustain others
who are too idle or profligate to earn
their living, but, if we take little
time we shall be able to find abundant
room for discriminating charity. 1t
is true that we have in Hartford very
few who are really in want of aims,
but charity does not necessarily mean
the giving of food or raiment. Your
richest neighbor may be starving for
the sweets of good companionship or
friendly sympathy. By doing little
helpful acts we may be able to be of
use to our fellow men in a thousand
ways and secure to them as well as to
ourselves Happy New Year. And
happy and a most prosperous New
Year we heartily wish to all readers of
The K0is.