Judge — December 30, 1905 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Just a friendly ** smile” To distract, beguile, At the hour of our parting ways, Here's a glass of cheer For the good Old Year, And a toast for the dear, dead days— For the ills it gave May we find a grave While the New Year's heralds chime. LURANA. W. SHELDON. May the good it brought And the lessons taught Be ours till the end of time. A FOND FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR. T IS more in sorrow than in anger that I take my pen in hand to write these few words of fond farewell to the old year. Taken all in all, it has been a notable year, and compares favorably with any other year which, in the hurry of going to press, lam able to recall. Another year is now added to the majestic sweep of the past. How the ages are piling up! How far it looks to that beautiful spring day when things were just beginning! We stand, as it were, upon the tow- ering Flatiron Building of the present, and the distant Sphinx of the first yesterday looms out of the mists less and less loomy every month. What an awful thought it is that we are another whole year farther away from Adam than we were a year ago to-day! Our noble ancestor is drifting from us. One more stadium of remorseless time has come between us. A few more years and Adam will be but amemory. We shall look where we saw him last, but we shall not see him. He will be totally and entirely gone. This leads us to inquire, What is time? We should carefully consider this important question before it is too late. According to the best scientists, time is the quality of evanescence which appertains to that which succeeds that which immediately preceded it. It is also the totality or aggregate of the expired interregnums which separate the things which go before from those which come after them. A * simpler definition for every-day uses is this: Time is that necessary but provoking intermission which elapses between two pay-days, or between the moment at which you ask a girl to be your'n and the point at which she replies that she is already another'n. ‘Time con- sists of two parts—that which is past and that which is not yet come, When you measure up what time we have actually in hand it is really what is called in the restaurants a half-portion, There is very little time on tap at any one time. If we only had a little more time how much more time we might all have to do our work. The year now tapered to a finish has been a good year for crops. Everybody has done well, and nearly everybody else. New industries have sprung up, and where the people needed work they have heen worked, and everybody seems to be happy over the general outcome, Where there has been a general income it has been individualized as far as possible and made subservient to the interests of an ever-advanc- ing civilization. A few men and a woman or two have been hanged during the year, but the population is still intact, and very few of our best people are in jails. We have had the privilege of looking into much graft and crookedness, and we face the new year with a good working knowledge of these and many other useful subjects. The empires stand about the same as twelve months agone, with here and there a new throne, and one or two old thrones getting a little tottery and the varnish peeling off. On the whole, Iam satisfied if the rest And: now, old year, you are down and out. You were real while you lasted, but to-day you are only a memory. To-morrow you will be a recollection. The next day you will be a reminiscence. Then by slow degrees you will become history, then legend and myth, and then the gray mists will swallow you up, and you will be where Egypt and Babylon and Methuselah and Adam are. Old year, be good and by-by. We may meet again, but I doubt it. 2. DoRE, are, A RELIEF. Stewdeus—| hear that you had a rough voyage coming over.” Miss Hifli—« Oh, frightfully so! It was such a relief to set foot once more on vice versa!” comicbooks.com