The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-12-30

They Arrs Requested to Read and
Remember.
How time flies! Hear we are again
with our CHEEKY greeting! Happy
New Year!
What is your worst fault What
is mine? Are you going to reform
with the New Year?
To make your New Year happy
one be sure to make some one else
have happy New Year.
Regret for the past will not
strengthen the future. Forgetting
the past, press on" is the better way.
Happy New Year! What blessed
phrase! Speak it from the heart,
and then strive to make every ones
New Year, a happy year and yours
will be happy, indeed.
Happy is the man who has nothing
to swear off and therefore swears on
nothing. He will not have TO invent
reasons for slashing his pledge few
days hence.
Christmas, the religious holiday OF
. the whole world, has come and pass
ed, the bells will soon ring in the
new fear 1912, and the holidays,
with all their gaiety and gladness,-
and gloom and loneliness and sad
ness as well-will be but memory.
We can wish no better thing for all
our readers than that they begin the
new year animated by firm resolve
to turn all its experience into profit
for themselves, mentally, mo rally, So
cially and materially, and then to
faithfully carry out the resolution.
Get ready to start the new year
with kindly feelings and more noble
ambitions. Make the New Year of
1912 a day to which you can always
look back with pleasure and graft
tude. Peace, good will unto you,
dear reader and E! Happy, Happy
New Year to you ALL"
Our resolutions for the new year
|, should be definite and specific. Do
not say simply that you will be more
liberal, but say just how liberal you
will be, not say that you will be more
faithful, but say Just what duties
neglected in the past, you will en-
gage to perform in the future.
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Mortals were tempted and tried,
almost beyond endurance, and we
spoke no word of encouragement or
sympathy. The friendless and the
Door and the sick and the solitary
we have neglected and passed by.
OIL how cold and tselfsh, and I'M
comfortable Wei nearly all OF ms.
have been! And thus the New Year
comes to us freighted with memories.
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AS you turn the corner in to the
new year, look back a minute over
the road you have been travelling the
past year. 1t seemed long way
when you started out, but 1t has been
traversed at last. Have you been
true to yourself? Ii not, once more
before you step out into the pure New
Year, renew your promises to your
better natures. Don't stray, but ling
er near the pleasant outlooEs, keep
near the bits of high ground where
you breathe purer air and can see OIL
Heavens high hills of blue, make the
motive pure work for the object.
Delight and pathos are inextricably
mingled with the thought of New
Years day. It is only convention
al point of time; any other would do
as well. Every day closes an old
year and begins new one, but for
all that we cannot help feeling that
this day, which is agreed upon
throughout Christendom for the be-
ginning of new year, is somehow
unique. The pathos comes from the
review Of the past, and from the
sense that another notch has been
cut for us on the stick Of time. The
delight arises from the anticipation
OF the new and better experiences OF
the year to come.
1t Is because nearly all Of US live
on hope, because we are mentally
sustained by expectations, that New
Years is always. welcome. 1t is the
one day of the twelve e-month-Christ-
mas is chiefly for children-that ap-
peals most to men and women. Much
Of it's attractiveness depends, for the
multitude, on it's nominal newness.
We are all familiar and weary with
the old. We are ever sighing for the
new, which seems as if it would
bring a change Of mind and coadi-
ton. New Years is not whit newer
for it's name, as every one who thinks
for moment is aware but names
are potent, more potent often than
things.
A good resolution for the hard