Show THE NEW YEAR THE year 1897 has haa now passed below the horizon and the year 1898 looms up in our presence with all the majesty of a beautiful young and innocent queen arrayed in her rich court costume and the forty five sovereign states which compose this great and marvelous republic shine forth in all their brilliancy like the diamonds which adorn the crown which I 1 ch rests so lightly upon the classic head of the fascinating young queen agthe year of 1897 has departed never more to return and let us all hope that thai all of its heart burnings its sad and bitter disappointments its passions and prejudices and all the unhappy experiences which have been inflicted upon the human race will all vanish and disappear al along ong with the old year let us all ali hope that the year of 1898 will bring a new dispensation to all mankind that the millionaire and all others who have massed vast fortunes from the unrequited toil of all laborers will become so sympathetic and patriotic in the future that chev will be more than willing to assist in helping za to lighten the burdens of the more inore unfortunate members of the human race and let all of our good works and kind deeds for the coming year shine forth like the beacon lights which are placed along the seashore so that they may spur all of us on to the acco accomplishment of grander and loftier deeds and we fervently hope that prosperity will be so evenly distributed over our land during the yearn year of 1898 that the lame and the halt the deaf and the dumb the black and the white and all others will become so thoroughly ta impregnated with it that they will never regret their transition from the old year vear to the new I 1 in u co conclusion u cl u sion the broad ax am again wishes its host of warm friends and readers a happy new year |