Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. [ARTICLE]

BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT.

A Letter to a Young Lady on the Eve of Marhiage. One sometimes finds a gem among the castaways of forgotten years.— The following congratulatory letter to a young lady on the eve of marriage is venerable, but good: “I am holding some pasteboard in my hands—three stately pluckins*s from the bu?h of ceremony. I am gazing upon a card aud upon a name aYiame with which vour geutle life began, a name with which your throbbing heart was lost. There is nothing strange about that card. The maiden sign still looks up from it calm and customary, as it looks on many a friendly yisit as it lies in ma. uyafoftua baske.. “I am gazing, too. upon a card where the nearer parent tel Is the world etie will be “at home one day,’ and that is nothing new. But there is another card whose miDgliDg there put a tongue or fire in that speechless pasteboard. It tells us tuat these catds are bur the heralds of a coming crisis when a hand that has pr ss* eu friends’ hands, and plucked flowers ahull close down ou one to whom she will be a fri. nd and flower forever after. I send you a few flowers to adorn the dying momeuts of your single life. They are the gentlest type of a delicate durable frienathi?. They spring up by one’s side when others t ave deserted it, aDd will by found watching over our graveß when those wuo should have been tbere have forgotten us. “it seems meet that a past so cairn and pure as yours should exDire with a kinured sweetness about it; that flowers and sweet music, kind friends and earnest words should cor s tha hour wbeu a sentiment ie passing into a sacrament. ’’The three great stages oi our being are birth, tbe bridal aud burial To the first we bring only weakness; for the last we have nothing but dust But 1 ere at the a tar, where life jUus life, the pair come throbbing up to the holy mm, whispering tbe deep promises that arms eac*“ with the other heart to belt) on in the life struggle of care and duty. “Th beauiitul will be there, borrowing* nr w beauty from the scene—the gay and the frivolous will look soh ng. x for on I ;**, and youth will come to g z • on all that its sacred tho’ts pants for—an 1 age will tottei up to he a ih«. Id wordsrepaatedoveijagain t mt to their own li ws have given tie charm. Some wii Jwteo over it us if It were a tomb; some will laugh as if i vere a joko, out two must stand by it. for it is fate, not fun. tais everlasi** ing keying of their lives, “And now, can you, who have queened it over so man v bended forms come down at last to the frugal die: of a single heart? Hitherto you have been a cloc c, giving your time to all the world. Now you are a watch buried in one particular bosom marking only hours and ticking only to the beat of his heart, where time and feeling shall be in unison until these lower ties are lost in that higher wedlock where all hearts are united around the great central heart of all.”

Chloride of lime U an i ofaliible preventive of rata, as they flee from the odor as from a pestilence. Thaie are some men who have eo much g*nius that they can’t do anything but sit around all day aud think about It. M. Pasteur has so/d for $50,030 to a commercial company the secret of his prophylactic against splenic fever it< cattle. McGarrigan (takin g his first sleepn ing-car trip —upper berth) • • Hoy !ho w! they’re, yez black divil, there beez a feliey under me bid! We don’t wish to deter anybody from being polite, but we can’t help observing taat many a man bae been a heavy loser through a civil action ■. • Women In Philadelphia are paid 90 cents a dozen for mating shirts. They are jus: wild tor fear any tinkering of the tariff will bring them down to the pauper wages of Europe. Giiddle cakes are to oome conspic • uousiy to tho front this wintsr, and Ls going to be quite the proper thing -so a lady prominent in New York socie y avers—for tbe fashionable young woman to boast of her achievements in this line. Griddle cake par ties are predicted. A twelve-year-old Illinois girl and a shot-gun held a t ampin rh« kitch- • n trot 1 the girl’s mother could walk a u ile un/1 get the help of some men. The tramp had bundled np a lot of stuff to take off. The c s ild explain *d: “I kind o’ warned to sho-t him, but ho was so quiet and civil thut I didn't get a chanoe to. ”