Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — The Past. [ARTICLE]

The Past.

Nothing makes a man so contented, as an experience gathered from a wellwatehed past. As the beauty of the jfinest landscape is sometimes marred, on actual inspection, by a nauseous weed at your feet, or painful headache, or many little things which detract from a loveliness only fully felt in the recollection when these trifles are forgotten, so our chief happiness is too often in recollections of the past, or anticipation of the future. Now, it is knowing what the past really was, which we now recall with so much pleasure, and over which there seems to be “a light which never was on sea or land,” that wd are able to estimate the amount of happiness* and value of the present And I think he who does this will seldom be discontented; for the miseries of life are few, and its blessings are new to us every morning and evening.— Norman MacLeod. It required the nineteenth wife to Ann-Elize the Mormons.