Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-01-12
THE NEW YEAR.
The Old Passes Out.
Looking Backward What is the
Reckoning1 Whatever Most
of Good or III, 1900 is at
Hand.

out a-beginning and time will
be ever and forever. On and Oh
and on it goes in harmonious
perfcctncss, knowing no age and
making no record of days.
"Natura non saitat '-natu e
never made a break or q pause.
1t shows no cnasms anywhere in
its majestic course.
Man, thought, for his conven~
fence or pleasure, or profit.
esta blishes times and seasons.
Thus he says the first day OF
January shall be termed the be
ginning of a New Year. The
Romans, with an acute poetic
sense that pervaded all their
w * elected to have the dawn
of the year show in March-tle
first spring month, when nature
kisses new life into everything
and robes the earth in garments
of many colors.
Man must have his parlses and
starting points. 1t is not so
much question of sentiment as
of necessity that dates and sea-
,lS be fixed. The success Of
business life depends upon it,
and a nation without a chrono~
logy is people without a hiss
tory. Each year must hold its
own events, nor may one trench
upon the other.
Leaving this line of suggest
ION, one is led to the thought
that these year posts of mans
time Off opportunity for reflect
ion upon what has been and
what may be. Each New Year
day tells not only OF the new
birth but also of the year that is
Here are presented
in brave contrast life and death
AS the old passes out, the new
comes in. So with man and all
other animate things. The king
is dead; live the king"
So one lesson after another
may be learned, if one be but a
pupil What the ..1nemor'
les of the just dead year? What
the sins, the errors, the follies7
W hat the good one did, and
what progress in the knowledge
that is lasting? All! the year is
gone, gone to one and all of us;
but the impression remains.
These years one by one are char
acter builders, each adding to
the other until tue mortal
changes to the immortal
Looking backward, what is
the reckoning2 Whatever most
of good, or of i'll, the New Year
is at hand. Let the accounting
be just, that one may be ADLER to
meet justly and righteously the
things that are before. One
should recall the errors of the
past, not that he may mourn over
them, but that he may gain
strength for future struggles.
One need not give the whole
Of New Years day to the form
ing of good resolutions. Alas
there be many who do VOW over~
much at such times. The hall
way of the New Year, like that
Of hell, is paved with good in
tentions. One may resolve and
resolve again, and swear Justify
in confirmation of such purpose;
yet all unavailingly, because OF
he fra1lty of his being. He acts
the better part who reflects, and
is not rash in promises.
Not the same to all is the his.
tory of the past year; and not
two shall End the New Year the
same in experience. But each
wear is for all, and has in abund
ance riches of good for every
one. The year just ssclosed was
lavish in gifts; the new offers
plenty as great. It is but to look
for it fearlessly and the searcher
will be rewarded.
The old was and is not. The
new is here with its portents.
A warm heart for the year just
dead, and a glad hand for the
one that is newly born.-Will-
lam Roseer Cobbe in Roanoke
News.
Mr.. Elisha Berry, of this place,
says he never had anything do
him so much good and give such
quick relief from rheumatism as
Cham ber1ai1,'S Pain Rain He