Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1877 — Flowers. [ARTICLE]

Flowers.

A gentle heart is like ripe fruit which bends so low that it is at the mercy of every one who chooses to pluck it, while the harder fruit keeps out of reach. The grafts that circumstances make in our characters we are apt to regard as its native fruits. The shroud is to man like the covering used by gardeners to protect their plants from sun and rain—it shuts him out from the storms of adversity and the fierce glow of passion. Th* sweet accords of melancholy music seem formed of departed hopes, and melt into each other, and into nothing, like the days of the life of man. One of the many penalties we pay for longevity is the loss of those who have been dear to us in our pilgrimage. The more haste a man makes to unravel a skein of thread the more he entangles it. —From the German of Jean Paul.

Senator Edmunds, ot Vermont, discusses “ Presidential Elections ” in the American Law Review for October, with reference to such legislation as Bhall avoid such contingencies as those of last winter.