The New Year

230 IMPROVEMENT ERA only says more, and before he is aware of it, he has cultivated a habit, besides the evil example he sets before his children. One of the cardinals of the Catholic church remarked some time ago, ''You let us teach a child the Faith until he is ten years of age, and come what may, he will never depart from it." I have watched early teaching and early impressions upon children, while their minds were like a sheet of clean paper, easily impressionable. Don't forget the importance of this, parents, and teachers, because it is our duty to impress these important facts upon their minds now, that as an article of daily use, alcoholic liquors produce the most deplorable consequences as to their evil ;

effects on health and the moral degredation caused by their use. 1 cannot find words of condemnation strong enough. LOGAN, UTAH

The New Year

I sat by my window, and waited, last night, With many a silent tear, To bid good-bye to the old, old pain, And welcome, "A Happy New Year."

And I wondered if, in the coming year, The pain would live again; Or if the dead past buried its dead With the dying Year's refrain.

Hark! 'tis the merry chiming bells, ringing "a bright New Year," And happy voices shout aloud its echoes far and near. And so will I, "A Bright New Year," and let the dead be past; Another year brings in the morn, with joys that yet .may last.

Let sorrow pass, and high thought climb to better aims in life, And from the ashes of the past rise nobler from the strife. Then welcome, "Bright New Year;" to all, your season's gifts be love; And teach us all the way to reach a happy home above. Henry Nicol Adam son