Show AA OTilER UAIL tonight to night year adds irs record 0 o aliv of time it is well therefore that we pause for a little it tho threshold of tho now to alie events aud achievements of thu ald ID those mccuren ces winch inal n up the commonplace lifo of tho grunt body of humanity 1889 hii been very much the same as tho cura have preceded it them have been deaths births marriages and tho usual conrao of joys and some aire richer while oth rs hateful with poverty thus has it evar been thus will it bo as long ah tho unequal conditions of life remain na they are one year embraced practically tho baino combination ot good aud evil success and failure and happiness and sadness as may bo foaud in a century the only in that of duration and magnitude As a nation we look back upon the year now ended with measurable satisfaction is our relations with other nations are amicable in the main while general prosperity has been experienced perien ced in most of our commercial and industrial relations to our magnificent commonwealth the past year has been one of notable advancement towns and cities have sprung ap many a waste been converted into orchard or field and numerous industries established of ali is part of the territory 11 this wonderful transformation especially trao while we hear marvelous reports of hero a boom and there a boom it is being more satisfactorily every day that a stability of values and solid improvements mark the tendency of our growth coming more closely home to our own fair city we note a larger measure of prosperity than has yet been crowded into any single year before we have grown in population beauty and wisdom on every hand progress is and only by the most comprehensive view of tho possibilities which are yet to be attained can wo measure the future outcome with a population of seven thousand and rapidly increasing there arise con demands upon the skill enterprise and patience of our city officials and citizens improvement will be required that are really in advance of the ago and aizo sizo of oni city but so exalted are the ideas of progressive people who have hero made them homes that only tho best will satisfy them it is well that alir s figu and while all enterprise may not bo raised to its level the most earnest endeavors to this end need always to bo put forth THE 1889 BO far as THE ENQUIRER is concerned has been a sea son of unusual prosperity never in the course of its existence has it seen such evidences of success not only has this been in a financial manner but particularly so in a sense of appreciation every effort it has made for tho public advancement has been received by the community with approbation it was with some docot that tho publication of THE DAILY was undertaken but the brief period that it been before the people give us hopes the like of which we never oven dreamed of when such substantial endorsement is given to oar efforts it tells plainer than words that our course is approved and that our highest aiu the welfare of the people is boin accomplished wo trust our career through abo is about to dawn upon us even more eventful find more successful than it has been through tho year among whose mangled shadow we now sit THE CLOSING year is drawing ite thin brief line of shade below tho western horizon abilo above the opposite plane rises the huge and ii most formless reflection of its sor the mood is upon us common to our kind and the season to wel coir s tho coming bleed the parting guest the latter part of this duty and service is soon performed like many another before it the year thai is about to leavo ua came in wi th ac act t cla mation and goad from us without regret oven il not in conr expectations of it have not all been nr happily have all our fears W all are something its debtor in n balancing of accorn t history in its own time and manner may perhaps make much of it but vou r the east and there too arehur hearts and thoughts S the coming year bang us nothing fundamentally now it will neither invalidate faculties nor offer endowment to sudden and novel creations at the worst it will turn its dark side of familiar work ill performed or neglected at the best it will but shine upon such work wel and diligently done it will or it should be a season of progress and improve ment but progress and improvement work slowly from the top to the bottom of things in the general affairs of humanity and men cannot by dynamite blast out now channels in life or industry nor build society or trade anew with picks and shove lg icet us hold fast to what we have while trying to enlarge our store |