Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — A Beautiful Figure. [ARTICLE]

A Beautiful Figure.

Life is beautifully compared to a fountain fed by a thousand streams, that perish if one be dried. It is a silver cord, twisted by a thousand different strings, that part asunder if one be bx-oken. Frail and thoughtless mortals are surrounded by innumerable dangers, which make it much more strange that they escape so long, than that they almost all perish suddenly at last. We are encompassed with accidents every day to crush the moldering tenements we inhabit. The seeds of disease are planted in our constitutions by nature. The earth and atmosphere when we draw the breath of life are impregnated with death; health is made to operate its own destruetion; the food that noxirishes contains the element of decay; the soul that animates it by vivifying the first, tends to wear out by its own action; death lurks in the ambush along the paths. Notwithstanding this is the truth so palpably confirmed by the daily example before your eyes,"how little do we lay it to heart! We see our friends and neighbors among us, but how se dom does it occur to our thoughts that our knell shall give the next fruitless waiting to the world. —Yonkers Statesman . Every human soul has germs of same flowers within, and they would open if they could only find Bunchine and free air to expand in.