Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — The Judgment of Years. [ARTICLE]

The Judgment of Years.

A significant bit of wisdom, to her pondered over by the very youngs whose griefs and disappointments seernc so tragic, was that uttered by Mrau Dolly Madison when she was <mner~ eighty years old and near her death. Her life had been fortunate and beuntiful not only because circumstances: had proved kind to her, but from the* brightness and buoyancy of her temvperameut. She hurbo.-ed no bitterness over pasC experiences, but life had taught her theunimportance of most trials which loom so gigantic in approaching. Not long before her death one of hernieces went to her for sympathy in*, some slight trouble. “My dear,” she said, “do not troubleabout it. There is nothing in. this world really worth caring for. Yes,”' she repeated, looking intently out •£ awindow, “I who have lived so long repeat to you that there is nothing ins this world below really worth earing, for!”