Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — GRAING OF GOLD. [ARTICLE]

GRAING OF GOLD.

Distinction is an eminence wMcb is kttatoed bat toe frequently at the -oxpenseof a firestda Noftdng serves mere effectively to Ugfoten the calaUfttw of Kfe than steady employment Oftentimes it is not until werno longer have the means of serving onr friends that we can know who they are. Time Is the belt-singer of the Universe. He strikes the hours even now, presently ho tall peal the chimes It Is more from csrelesaness about the truth than from intentional lying that there Is bo much falsehood In the world. To negidet at any time preparation tor death is to sleep on our post at a Msgs; but to omit it Id . old age. ta to sleep at an attack. Nature is a book off sweeband glowtug porky, and on every illuminated m* excellence and goodness of God ate dirtnely portrayed. It Is A base temper In mankind, that they win net take the smallest slight qt the hands of thoss taio have done them, the greatest ktadtaees. There Is this dlfferedce betweentwppteese and wisdom; be that thinksbtmsetf the happiest man, realty is so; but he who thinks hhnseif the wisest man, Is generally the greatest fool. There is nothing like courage in mistoctuna Next to faith tn overruling Providence, a man's faith in htmself fc hhi ealvarion. It takes a man strong as the pillared Iron, Or elastic as the springing steel. Luxury is the conqueror of conquerors, the consumption of states, the dry rot of the constitution, the avebger of the defeated and oppressed. Poverty, conquest, luxury, decay—such ts the round-robin history of the world.