The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-01-07
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may be happy at this time, but am
No, vorking ms hard at the wishing Job
as | pscd to only wish that ! haa
the assurance that the coming around
the corner oi 1911 was received with
happiness by all Of them, so that there
would be no missing OF the message.
To those who are glad and happy, the
utual greetings of this time are passed
~ empty formalitics. To those who are
rot glad and happy they come with bit.
ing irony. My greetings may add joy
20 some aud they may open the wounds
o others and add weight TO already bur.
dened hearts. To those who are happy.
Inc whole world looks bright and gay
when The calendar changes, In the re.
nuiuing glow of the Christmastide To
those with sad and heavy hearts the
rinping out OF the old and ringing IN Of
the new j. by chimes that toll the kncll
.ot buried hopes aud disappointments
.uid the opening up Of another vista IN
which il will be again demonstrated
that life j. just one darned thing after
another. So the New Year has a dou.
h'c meaning, and the memories Of the
old year leave behind many different
shades NJ coioring. Would that could
make the new year look brigh, 10 an,
n'd make its every dream come true
q could have my way there would
not be a heartache In the land now that
bee extra is necessary.
To those a. whom the New Year and
its pleasant customs seem no more than
a hollow mockery, ! can still send q
message of cheer aud hope. our joys.
like our sorrows, may pass away before
there j. another change In the evolution
~ time. The poverty. the sickness. the
disappointment of today are but the
darkness tnat proceed the dawn. per.
haps Time mcnds the broken heart and
levels the inequalities of life. The
wound that sinks deep will heal, and
only the vain will complain because it
leaves scar. There IL no reason why
he discouraged and the disappointed
who sii silent amid the songs, the music
aud the optimism of the New Year
should lose faith IN life. 70 lose that
courage mprks the coward. aud of all
towards the spiritual is the most con.
temptible. The real man and the real
woman who have been run over bv
the road roller, will manage to get up
some way, brush the dust from their
clothes aud dodge the next one of tho
/ long procession that moves through life.
That others are gay and happy i Of h.
self sufficient 10 kindlc ambition in the
weakest soul. There 10 nothing truer
than the good old saving that every
cloud bns a silver liniag. There are un.
developed talents In every human mind.
there are opportunities open to every
human being, there are possibilities
Of success for every man aud woman.
Our failures may be- due 20 incompetence
Il we do the very best we can 20 bee com.
Pci"ut, acting within our lights. Pow
rrty }, no disgrace II is badge Of
honor II It continues even through your
most earnest efforts. Here are some
mountains that man has never climbed.
" you keep digging you will get a
summit after while, pcrhap. not a.
high as you used 20 dream about, but
nevertheless higher than many thought
You would ever reach. Despair has no
place iu the brain of the really courag
rous man aud woman, aud those who
meet the trials and temptations of the
everyday and keep always little 20 the
good are CaptaiEl Courageous. Even
those who 90 q little r. the red. hov"
thr consolation tnat II Is better 60 have
fought and lost than 10 not have fought
at all. To these ! would carry q bright.
cr message ~ cheer than 60 those who
have been conspicuously successful be-
cause they need IL more.
II there i~ anything worth while in
this rambling bunch of moralixing, take
Il home, beloved.