Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1881 — Lamentations. [ARTICLE]

Lamentations.

Life is a strange mass of contradictions. When you expect least enjoyment you obtain the most; where you think you have given most satisfaction, you have given least. When you are sick, you would be well; when well you try to be Sick. When you fancy yourself the wisest of men, you are the dadoist of fools. The girl you are most in love with is least in love with you. What you cannot get you would obtain ; what you have you do not value. Druggists and physicians recommend and prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for all female complaints. There is a sound reason why there are bones in our meat and stones in our land. A world where everything was easy would be a nursery lot for babies, but not at all a fit place for men. Celery is not sweet until it has felt the frost, and men don’t come to their perfection till disappointment has dropped a half-hundred weight or two on their toes. Who would know good horses if there were no heavy loads ? “ Did you cail your brother a liar ?" asked the stern parent, and the culprit remarked : “ Well, 1 said he was a sew-ing-machine agent” Guard against fever and Ml malarial diseases by using Kidney-Wort,