Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1881 — The Hurry of To-Day. [ARTICLE]

The Hurry of To-Day.

What becomes of all the time that is saved in this age of hurry aud rush? What is gained by it ? Is it added on tc any human life ? Machinery for saving time is as valuable as that which saves money, any manufacturer will tell us; but how—who is the richer for it ? Where are all the saved minutes, the rescued hours of our hurried lives? To what are they devoted ? Our lives are crowded, it is true, but are they richer in experience than those of the slow-thinking pilgrim fathers, or the quiet humdrum squires of a hundred years ago ? How are we the gainers ? Do we not love as blindly, suffer as keenly, regret as worldly as our forefathers? We have always time for sorrow. We have time for folly too. Crime does not limit its operations, misery and want find leisure to be as rampant as of old. How is the time rescued a gain to any one of us ? New York Mail. Never try to raise a family without a good newspaper, provided it contains the advertisement of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup; for this valuable medicine is necessary to keep your children in good health.