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Show Plllllilllllllllllliilllilllllliilll iillll 1 HUH fsi. B 1 to I r r, 1 ss ess I s iiiiH And hnre we aland to say "Good-byl" Brief word utd yet wo acarce known wby, They bring a moisture to the eye. And to the heart aome quaked and ftaheai We apeak them very tenderly, With halt a sob and half s algh "Old Year, gwd-byl Old Year, good-byl" W. K. Burleigh. TTERB we stand again on the borderland of Welcome and Good-by. There Is so little between be-tween them and so much either side of them. When the great bell, of time strikes the midnight hour, and 1022 passes Into the land of long ago, there Is one ulraplo resolution resolu-tion that we can all make with pretty good surety that we can keep t till the next midnight chimes that we will be a better mar or woman In the next year than in the last That won't be a hard resolution to fulfil in some degree, and If everyone Is even a little better, there will be a heap more goodness, good-ness, kindness, success and love In the world when 1923 rings out that there is now. The untried year brings with it another chance for all a chance to mako good where we have failed u chance to benefit by what we have counted as failures in the year that Is passing out The old year has been a difflcuK one for many. Some have lost heart. The new year, which gives promise of so much that is better, will bring new courage and hope to them. Ii we can let the unhappy part of the past year go with It and only remember the good, It will help toward all that is best In the new. One of the best things that we can hope for the untried year is that It will be a busy one for everybody. Work Is the best promoter pro-moter of goodness and happiness, and the best cure for trouble and sorrow that there is. When the solemn, happy bells "ring out across the snow,' let them ring out with them the bad things and ring In all that Is good and true and beautiful that is within the power of each one of us. |