Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1880 — IN MEMORIUM. [ARTICLE]

IN MEMORIUM.

There is a (separation for the best of friends. It is one of the saddest things of a life-iime to see one of our bosom friends snatched by death from our midst never to return again, Our dear friend and schoolmate, Nettie Evebson, was a bright, intelligent girl, always the first in her classes, kind and generous to every one. None knew her but to love and respect her. It is indeed sad to think of o iryoung friend just in the bloom of youth, striving to obtain an education that she might be of some use to her fellow beings. taken from us without the slightest warning. However, it is the will es God, which no human being has the power lo break. Let us content ourselves with the hope that some time in the future we will meet our darling in the land where “We meet to part no more.” “Dear Nettie, perhaps from that home above, You look with beautiful eyes, Upon your school-mates with yearning love To win us to the skies. On memory’s wall, an image bright (Seetnr ever near me now; A sweet dead face, a heavenly light Encircling her brow. No more pain nor tender care, While closed in death’s embrace, But a loving look of peace, serenely fair, Rests on her sleeping face.” School-Mates.

A man stopping his paper wrote to the editor: “I think folks oitent to spend their money for’payper; dadda diddent, and everybody sed he was the intelligentest man in the country, and he had the smartest family of boys that everduggd taters.”