Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — Beautiful Words. [ARTICLE]

Beautiful Words.

In the preface of her recently published work, “Woman and Temperance,” Mi s Frances* Willard gives her reason for devoting* so much space to admiration of her co-laborers in these beautiful words: “I thought before you died I’d just tell you how much 1 have always loved and honored you. This sentence has in it matter for reflection. It hints at one of the most unaccountable erroTO in our conduct of life’s relationships. We apeak our words of praise too late. We blow the trumpet of our approbation at the earnest worker’s ear but not until death’s finger has closed, it np forever. We utter at the grave side the tender words that might have "kept sensitive souls with us in a new 1 lease of life. We build monuments with money that, if bestowed upon the Irving toiler, would hav© re-enforoed the wasted energies and reawakened the declining courage. j Norway has a heavier ocean tonnage than the United Btatea*