Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1868 — The Days Grow Shorter. [ARTICLE]

The Days Grow Shorter.

The year is on its dying couch. Its breath is shorter and cooler. Youth and manhood are past, and hoary age is mantled wijh as pure robes as was its new-year’s morn. The days are shorter, thfe nights longer, and air colder. Yet we arc nearer the sun. Its rays tall slanting, and the earth refuses to receive their radiant heat. These long nights ought to be im- , proved by the lovers ot g'ood books.