Show FAREWELL OLD YEAR the old ye year ir will soon have into history we part with it with an old fi lend to some it ha brought much joy to others sort bonow ow yet icare we are reluctant to ciket like i palsied man it totters as nears the end of life s journey forward forn vird towards toni ards that tha tast v abt N wherein doth loth lie the forms of dead de ad dynasties dyni sties ind she ted swept by the remorseless hand band of time to that great at it the en of which rise the imaginary tombstone upon which is in inscribed bribed these words THE PAST is a sublime solemnity in the slowly moving vet yet never varying tide of leiis man has marked its course into hours days weeks months years nears and centuries yet it on on on and till on ut terly unmindful of the puny punk birks birks I 1 r used to measure the tide that nev er tires dynasties Dynast nes luve have lose iose flourished and decaneo dec de aed caNed cities have sprung from fertile plains and then sank beneath the debert detert s drifting binds continents contine its have reared their lofty lof ty brows broni s ibon e the ocean s ciaci ti acl lebs waste only to return to the coral caverns horn whence they rose rices have risen rien to the noon of splendor and become lost in the depths of anigla but time patient floding tireless time sweeps on with the same regularity as when it firby issued forth from the hollos of goh gou s hand band to the chant of the morning stars that proclaimed cre stion s dawn and nd bet et time is but the image oi of eternity the shadow of a sea that t tj pe ot a dura tion toi loi which all the ages past and ind afons to come would not make or constitute the alist faint flush of the first streak of dawn of its second morning frei anity I 1 thou pleasing sing dreadful thought I 1 intelligence has achieved ichi eved it has i lead ead the stars of heaven and can foretell to a second when the great fiery sun will be hidden in p pai ti bial or total eclipse it can lead the history of the cie aaion on the rocks of ot matui e and un fold told the secrets hidden by god in the bowels of ot the earth but when it attempts to grasp the significance of eternity it stands abashed and dumbfounded at its inability to corn com an infinite plan plin the christmas edition of oi the deseret news is i a magnificent pro u e tion one hundred and four t teen e e n pages in a handsome ait ai t cover showing the state capitol is the size of the auml ei and ind each page is filled with naith good leading matter and fin illustrations rations on the fiant page of the section devoted to idaho ap pears a fine half tone print of the B bg g ii layett ette elal al e which i was as the home of the e elitov of thib paper and his big filmily foi fol sr si cleais bethie coming to st george the paper is a credit to the state of utah and the west nie t and those who inho have bave ba ve bad a hand in getting out the greit num her ber may well fali proud at the re suit sult of their efforts 11 e rush g i ou each and ev e aei v ei one a most pio prosperous berous and happy new ear some thinners thin lers ers tie too prone to hink think that they do all the thinking |