Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — The Story of a Rose. [ARTICLE]

The Story of a Rose.

Only a rose! It lay between the faded pages of an old book. A man beholding it, looked down the distance and the dark, dreaming of the past years. A woman paused and, bending over It, pressed with quivering lips its crumbling petals. Only a rose! Then, as the evening shadows gloamed over K a voice cried, startling the silence: “Mamnw! Who’s been In the parlor a-foolin’ with this book ? They’ve gone and lost the place where I was readln’ at!”—Chicago Tlmes-Herald.