Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1916 — The Dying Year. [ARTICLE]

The Dying Year.

The year is dying away like the sound ot bells; the wind passes over the stubble and finds nothing to move; only the red berries of the slender tree seemas if they ~ #ould fain remind us ot something cheerful, and the measured beat of the thresher’s flail calls up the thought that in the dry and fallen year Ues-much of the nourishment of life.—Goethe.