Year: 1868

Father Time IN his never Wearylng
flight, has brought us the commencement
of another year. Sixty-seyen is among
the things that were-will never be again.
How fast the years go by! One fine day
we wish our patrons happy New Year
and ere the echo has ceased to revcrber
ate, we are called on to repeat the re
mark. Yet the task is pleasing one.
The expression of desire that our read
ers may find the coming year more pleas
ant and prosperous than was the last, is
delight, though not unmingled with
pain when We remember that to some
the days will bring melancholy and mis-
fortune. Yet as hone of us know which
will draw the unlucky card it is we'll for
aU to


"-be happy while We may


This occasion is one which every per-
son should improve by laying down rules
for his future guidance, by forming good
resolutions and nerving himself with all
the will which he possesses to carry them
out. The youth should remember that
each succeeding year is Fastening him
to manhood Let him now set his mark
high and strive to attain something
worthy of his immortal mind. Let him
remember that the eagle which scars to-
ward the sun, although he never reaches
that shining orb, attains greater height
than the buzzard that never takes his
gaze off from the carrion on which he, the
foul bird, gluts himself And he who
boasts of rnanhood's $ prime, let him take
heed Of the passing hour He knows.or
should know, the value Of time. He re-
cognizes the importance of ,corkiag while
the daylight lasts. Time and tide await
no mans motions, and only he who takes
the tide at its flood is led on to fortune
Does some unsophistocated person ask at
what hour the tide attains its height ?
We answer the PRESENT! Now, if you,
are willing to labor and patiently await re-
turns, the tide which leads on to fortune
is at its flood, launch Your boat, keep
your sails we'll trimmed, your eye con-
stantly on the compass and your hand on
the helm, trusting to favoring gales to
watt you whittier you would go. But re-
member If you get careless, leave the
helm to mind itself or allow your craft to
get half seas over while in needless in
lolence you trust to luck. you will dis
cover when all too late the quicksands of
dcspondcncy and the rocks uf self de-
struction. To the aged let Us say you are
approaching the confines of that shore
where New Year will dawn upon you
such as mortal never saw Like the year
just past, the experience of your life is
all that remains to you of value: but you
possess pearls of the richest description;
scatter them about you warn the young,
seta good example before the middle aged.
and dying, leaYe behind you the record of
life well spent.


But this may be considered prosy talk
for a political newspaper. perhaps it Is,
but New Years only comes occasionally,
and we shall try to stick to our text as n
general rule However, to return to our
starting point, We hope the commence
ment of this twelve month will be but
the beginning ofone uninterrupted season
of prosperity and success to every reader
of the MANITowoC TRlBI-NE-or any
man who may become one-and we close
with heartfelt gratitude to those among
whom we reside for their uniform respect
and kindness to us during the year which
has just closed.