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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3 , 1908. 
Compliments of the Season. 
When a new year comes one is apt to look over the past 
twelvemonth and see what one has done to be sorry for. It is 
odd that one seldom thinks of the good things one has done. It 
is not modesty but that grief and evil make a deeper impress 
than happiness or good. The memory of a jag will ache longer 
than the joy of months of sobriety and the pangs arising from 
a step off the path of morality last longer than the serene 
pleasures of a year of continence. 
It is -fTgrettable but recollections of the swift, deceiving 
and unholy delights of sin often recur in a glamorous form when 
^one has long eaten the ashes of repentance and forgotten the pe-^ 
?ltv paid. It is a fact and a sad one for the cause of mora 
