Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1870 — An Allegory. [ARTICLE]

An Allegory.

♦ Tlfe told ntau Ares toiling through tie burden and heat rW the day, in cultivating his fields with his own'hand#, and deposit- 1 ing the promising seeds'ta the fruitful lap of yielding earth. Suddenly there stood 1 before him, under Ihe shade of a huge linden tree, a vision. The old man was struck with amazement. I r “I am Bolompn,’ spoke the phantom, in A friendly voice. “What are doing here, old man f” ' ’ ' , “ IT, you are Solomon,”, replied the venerable laborer, “how can you ask this? Iscmy youth you rent me to an ant; I saw its.occupation, and learned irpm that insect to be industrious aud to gather.’ What 1 then learned ! have followed out. to this hour.” “Y* b baYfi jQflfy. learned j half your les- i «jd,” resumed the spirit. “Go agfon to the ant, aiid learn to rest in the w taxer of 'your life, , an 1 to enjoy what you have gathered up.”— From the German.