--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - The Casquet collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 1 number: 3 published: 1898-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'The Casquet, "The New Year," *Improvement Era* 1, no. 3 (January 1898): 171.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera13unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera13unse start_page: 171 end_page: 171 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera13unse publication_year: 1898 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1898, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The New Year EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY. 171 other questions have either been subsidiary or remotely associated with the eastern question, and in its discussion and attempted settlement, prejudices and jealousies have arisen which now affect the European powers in other parts of the world. THE NEW YEAR. Hark! the cock crows, and yon bright star Tells us the day himself's not far; And see when, breaking from the night, He gilds the western hills with light. With him old Janus* doth appear, Peeping into the future year. With such a look as seems to say. The prospect is not good that way. But stay! but stay! me thinks my sight, Better informed by clearer light, Discerns sereneness in that brow. That all contracted seem'd but now. His reversed face may show distaste. And frown upon the ills o'er past. But that which this way looks is clear, And smiles upon the new born year. The Casqiiet. * Janus: A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Supposed to be the god of the sun and the year, to whom the month of January was sacred.