People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — The Year’s Best Gift. [ARTICLE]

The Year’s Best Gift.

The fire was bright The night was djear. We sat and praised the parting year. One guest gave thanks for added wealth, And one for quick return to health. The aged father told, with Joy, The coming of his absent boy. "A gladsome yearl" the brother cried. And smJled upon his rosy bride. “Ah, yes!" the sister said, and pressed Her Infant closer to her breast “It was a glorious year, in truth, I gained my ‘sheepskin’l” cried the youth. The patient mother gently sighed,' And breathed the name of one who died; Then softly said: "To her was given The year's best gift, for she has Heaven." —Mrs. McVean-Adams, in S. S. Timet