Show THE OLD YEAR the old year of 1906 is fading awa away the death damp is upon its brow it is passing into the realm of endless centuries agone gone it ill soon join its legions man lial in array in the a ages past none will regret it its departure departs re only in the un fruition of their hopes their desires and their efforts the old ear has been generous to many unkind and stinting to others riches and blessings it has poured from its cornucopia into the laps of favored ones poverty and penury into the laps of others other there is no use repining all tile the power of the genii of our fancies cannot recall a single 1 d I i nor change one part of the record that it is made to mankind in getter general it it II lne ab been a air e tr of good results le ie ence inventions and disco discover cr li liine hie ine made good progress it iris ins been a great great and prosperous ious beir probably without p ti ailed I 1 in n this I 1 le it iris his astren strengthened theirld till the tendency toward no moie 0 wai be between teen nations it has suffered the progress of civilia miliza tion and enlightenment so while individuals aty hane hae their regrets it has not botn altogether a bad 3 ear car in this worlds bistor hi history stor it is true it has left th mark of some terrible catastrophes earthquakes volcanoes fires and accidents hae appalled us at their isi tation and filled a mighty to tomb 11 with human souls and waited bit bil lions lons of the wealth balth eal th of man but these are only incidents mci deits in the great biami of hutor history and areto are to beeb be expected we shall hive have them in the future no prescience of we common mortals can fore forc fend them earth to eai eaith th dust to dust ashes to ashes 1906 1906 to the tomb tf its predecessors |