Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1875 — From Walker Township. [ARTICLE]

From Walker Township.

Editors Union: I wish you a happy New year. The year called 1874 has gone never to return. It has floated down the liver of time to join those which have preceded it upon the ocean of eternity. What use did we make of it? Let us reflect. Did we_gi-ve__a-cnp ofcold water to one of the little ones in His name? Did we at all times render love unto God, and respect to our fellows? What changes will the new year bring, and yet how like the old! Old ocean's waters still heap in mountain billows capped with snowy foam; tempests sweep from plain to plain ; day ever succeeds the night; friends die or change to foes; active limbs become enfeebled by age; silver will soon be sprinkled through shining tresses and soon, very soon, this dust that mother earth gave to the Creator to be fashioned into Ilisimage shall be returned to its kindred. But the soul shall not be trodden under foot of man; it will soar in spite of death to its celestial home. Let us resolve so to live that the present when it shall have become the past will render the future pleasant by its recollections. We are having pleasant winter weather, with very little! snow, Rest ye sleigh-bells! Health is good, money scarce, and business dull. Heople of this region go twenty-five miles to 'mill. The wolf hunt was a failure. About 400 men enclosed a circle with an area of at least 25,000 acres; some deer and many wolves were- seen, but none killed. Try again, gentlemen. Our Lyceum is flourishing; the subject for discussion next Wednesday nighj is, Which are most pleasing to the human eye, the works of Nature or of Art? The Hershman school is the fullest one in Jasper county; it has an enrollment of 61 pupils, and an average “daily attendance of 50. It is in a iery flourishing condition. , 4 Mam’s Girl.