Show 1 S 7 3 tim tins is the last jast day of or 1873 tomorrow will bo be 1874 the year succeeding will close three quarters of tho the nineteenth century and a hundred and twenty five y years oars cars a after f that we who shall be then tilen living will be writing under date of 2000 how strange stran e those figures look at this time it seems as if the world must have grown old when they are used As to the tile passing year it has been one of peace in utah notwithstanding wit bstanding the crusading efforts and threats of certain unprincipled parties in a contrary direction the two chief requisites to a prosperous commonwealth peace and plenty are here iii iu utah notwithstanding 0 the tile panic and the crisis and tile the money moncy stringency and the tho th ehard hard times there is no backof food aily ally anywhere where in the territory and at a reasonable price and such is tile tiie sober orderly and law abiding disposition of the people generally t hat that peace reigns in spite of the studied masterly inactivity of those courts which appear to b be principal 1 pal pai parties to the annual crusades cruc crue against 1 the territory and the people thereof there is a sound of revelry at night at this season of tile the year and by most persons the close of tile the old year and the beginning of the liew new are consecrated chiefly to festivities tivi ties and merry making still many are in the habit with the departing year of glancing over the past and forming good resolutions for the future though some of them unfortunately are of the pi piecrust le order some borne may resolve never again to get drunk U fane foul or vulgar langua language g roi rol c fc fired with passion steal be licen bious unchaste immodest some may resolve never again to get into luto debt but to live strictly within their income and thus feel more like free men some ought to resolve never again to swindle or defraud their neighbors in any manner or under any predence pretence pre tence the husband may resolve never again to treat harshly slightingly discourse te bously or coolly the wife of ochia his bosom and tiie tile wife may resolve to respect t her husband more and never again to treat him to a course of curtain lectures or scolding or nagging 9 but to attend carefully to her ma ina tenial duties and leave the head of the house to attend with equal carefulness to his paternal pa tornal duties parents may resolve to look more strictly and thoroughly after the best interests the real welfare of their children and children may resolve to be more dutiful and respectful ful to their parents employers may resolve to be more considerate and generous to their employees plo and employees may resolve to be more diligent industrious and faithful to their employers pl judges by all means should make a resolution to be fair and impartial and to adjudicate cate upon all cases before chemin the true spirl spirit tand and intent of bf constitutional law and especially of evenhanded justice all persons and public officials emphatically should resolve to be honest keeping kee their hands from picking and stealing and nd their tongues from evil speak ing lying and slandering 0 if they thoy resolve to be honest it ii will be a great thing the hardest thing some of them ever attempted but the glory of a good resolution consists in the effectual carrying tf of it out and in the results thereof it is far better to carry out a good resolution than to make it if pe peo 0 cje choose individually they can make 1874 a far better and happier cearto year to themselves and everybody associating with them than the passing year has been times Time timeshare sare are very greatly as people make inake them whether good bad lad or indifferent suggesting then that we and all our readers patrons and friends each does the best he can to make things bett erand the incoming year the best any of us have yet seen w may appropriately wish one and 01 tile the happl happi happiest est cst now year in their tyes ives yes so far |