Show the old year AND is fast approaching its final end rhedeith rattle has already become audible and the wat cheis pro claim that recovery is that it must die and be consigned taur V wc regret to pait with nn companion but all earthly things mus ass an ay after their race has beai run after the old ear has discharged the duties assigned it there is no move need for it and we bury it under the sod it his acm a faithful companion a dav ted friend and obedient servant as it has left none of 13 duties unperformed neither has it been tardy a moment during its but its race has been iun tho battle his bien fought and we quietly h it to in hile we know that eighteen hundred and eight two has been faithful faith lul in all its nutices niT ices can wo the same for our ducs not the mind wander back over the twelve months now didiw in to a cloe and sec that have been made the slips along the path th slow sluggish man ner in which we hive crippled biti the things of this life the old yew has set na an example worth oui at it precepts will not lead us ciway anio living and a fear of perfo nning a duty that would be of benefit to us and mandina the new year will besin with the ame pro gramme it will have tha sime te to i eitore and like its it will wait for no man ue were all cognizant of this fact a year ago but we heeded it not 1 be golden opportunities have by and wp are no wiser nor richer for it our foi ake the old year have set us examples of and thrift but we aie unlike the now year human dituro is too fickle to be by the elpe of those who have been taught by thorough thoi ough trials the lesions of this life the new 3 ear takes up the implements dropped b the old and marches steadily alon aside for nothing it enters upon its arst duties with as much knowledge of what it must perform as chouch it had passed through a training school for that purpose it is no respecter of person know no one but attends strictly to that portion offices for which it was created from the old and the young year we can aleain profitable lessons and to successfully combat with the things of this world we must faithfully perform our duties and artfully are fully guard the passing moments that none may pas unimproved not only is it necessary that theao bilings should be done for our own personal welfare wel faie but there are theao coming after ui who may fashion after our method and who like us are likely to assume that same 1 disposition and foolishly allf w opportunities to pass that would make them belter men and women our race will soon be run aad v hen we lie upon our d ing couch if we have been and there ft ill be plenty to oui dehait ure from this life and loving hands will place tho sod direfully cire fully over our slaves and keep it grean by tha moist me aiom grateful te ir letus dpn with the now belr stall in upon the lithway of life with a determination in implore tho moment and when the cloe ot 1883 draws neur we look jacc upon a fruitful S end be better lor the good it has imparted to w |