Out With The Old In With The New

Another volume in the history of the worM is completed, and to-duy. we s-owly and regreti'u'ly release our hands from the oUl volume oí '95, and grasp with eagerness the new one of '96, lest that both be lost in the ehange. Iïemernbering the sad records on the 365 pages of the book .ust clo ed so.ne o' us u; 'h new vo-ume with eagerness, hoping that, as ita leavea are daily turaed, tueie may 'be written a more cheerail record of our lives. Others, who Have had the sunsh:ne of kind iortune beaming on them, cl ing to the o'd, and part with it with great reluctance, fearing that the new one may break the spell, and bring to them aelo the sadnass and sorrow that has been the fate of many. And there are othere st:ll, butterflies of humanity, who fling the old away with joy andg rasp the new with song and laugliter, giving no thought to either past or future, but baskiTig in the Hght of ü'e, with no heed forthe going or :omir,g of remorseless time. But the hour Avill come to them as it does to all, whpn that wliich animates the temples made of clay wWch they oc-cupy will be passed into the shade, tlie lvight eye will grow dim. tlie joyons sxn'le wil! fade away, the cheery ïangh wfll sound fainter and fainter, and like the dear yea,r Jost dead. they too will pass into eternity and be Voon orgotten forever. Xone will kr.ow that they ever Hved. Good bye, old Year ! iod bless the bright, glad pages "which were yours ; the others let us seal forëvër, even as yoür licis are closed never to lie opened again. And standing as we do at the threshho'd oï' another cycle. we raise our bands and ask the blessings of the Great Giver of Life on that which is to come.