The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-01-01
THE OLD-THE NEW.

Time never drags save as when one is IN
pxison, or, say, while waiting for railroad
train, or upon the eve Of ones marriage.
All the pictures of old Father Time show
him having wings, and very long ones, too.
He flies faster and faster as age wears on,
so fast, in fact, that towards the decline
znd down it one may not be able to count
the mile posts. The year 1897 has gone
and to older ones it seems but as yesterday
since first it was here.
Yet during it's little hour how many the
friends that went to their long home, how
many the hopes untitled how many the
vows that were broken, how many the dis
appointments, aye, and how many the
pleasures, aud gladnesses, how much hap
piness we communicated, and how much
we bestowed upon other. Sitting down for
retrospection, it was very busy year after
all Had we begun on the first day with
i diary of large dimensions, how easily we
might filled its pages, aud still have left
many, many things unrecorded.
memories, which will remain forever, pre-
cious or Reproductive, as they troop up in
passing review before one. Gone its spring
OF unfolding flower and stalk and grass; its
summer of developing beauties of field and
wood its autumn of harvest full fruitage
and mauy-tinted leaves; and gone its win
Ter of hoar-frost, iridescent ice and snow of
immaculate whiteness. Gone is it in its
glory and pride, its shame and weak ness,
and we hail the new with its certain record
Of good and evil, false and true, tempest
and calm, sunshine and shower, night and
day.
Hail the year 1891 Yet many will it
cast down and many raise up; many destroy
md many make alive. Hope will it fulfill
in some and send utter despair to others
As in the years that have passed, so in 1898
will there be simoons, tornadoes zephyrs
and Gains; hail, rain, snow and diffusive
heart-warming sunshine. There shall be
wars, sorrows, pains, joys, gladnesses
aroughts, floods, plenty and famine. War
shall rage here and there, while peace will
be serene in most places. Birds shall sing
sweetest songs at matin and eventde,
while beasts shall utter their terrifying
48ries.
What will the year bring to you, and
you, and you? In the midst of such I'M
eertanties, who so wise as to be able to
declare his own fate or that of another /?
One having good memory may dilate Of
1897; but no man can predicate of 1898.
But he may wish himself we'll, and in the
same breath he should wish we'll to all
ethers.
Aye, and it is a time when one may very
properly make introspecton with a view to
information. AS garden, there is need
for roofing out here, planting there; weed
ing in this place and watering in that place.
Find out the sins that are besetting, the
virtues that are deficient Be honest and
let the work be thorough. All that is
good, cherish as the apple of the eye; what
IS bad cast off as an old garment. Such an
undertaking faithfully done and conscen-
tiously adherng to resolutions adopted
will have much to do with regulation of
she effects of the year before you.
Alas! how many good resolutions are
made at the beginning of every new year
emily to be broken after few days, or
weeks, at the most; and so one year is as
another with us. Whatever we do, the
days so quickly and the end of it will be
here only too soon.