Boone County Recorder . Tla good to earn our dally bread, and move1 the orowded street! Ah 1 better than our gold and land, and better than expectant dream,Hie byre of heart, the help of hand, that jewel-like In aerriee balld oar homes in truth and worth, to hear the voloe of children dear,Make* heavenly mnaio In the earth, and bring* the world Its golden yean I Ti* bat short space alaoe man has trod the aisles of time with reverent nought the shrine of God, our God, that we with holy gladness greet;And character Is what the world demands to snake it* glory more. ?en and brave
Boone County Recorder . Tla good to earn our dally bread, and move1 the orowded street! Ah 1 better than our gold and land, and better than expectant dream,Hie byre of heart, the help of hand, that jewel-like In aerriee balld oar homes in truth and worth, to hear the voloe of children dear,Make* heavenly mnaio In the earth, and bring* the world Its golden yean I Ti* bat short space alaoe man has trod the aisles of time with reverent nought the shrine of God, our God, that we with holy gladness greet;And character Is what the world demands to snake it* glory more. ?en and brave, whose flag unfurled shall lead to some far fairer shore! hat taejteboald move from height to height,. surtTsge by *g That mi. _,> age should better be,And step by step should gain the right, the good old world oould always see; , Aad common as it seems to some, tis hal-lowed ground whsreon we stand,•Tor saints and aages found it home, and Bade It Gods great Holy Land!—William Brunton, in Good N a narrowvalley of thetipper courseof the middleOne-11 undred-and • Two inthe stateIowa, liredyears ago(and nowlives) threeold m aid swhose nameswere respec-tirely Tabitha, Dorcas and Abigail,. What their ages were wad a matter ofconjecture to everybody but them-selves. Indeed, they looked older thanthey really were; which arosepartly from the fact that they worecaps as was the fashion in those caps, however, were always aspotless—white,—and—the kerchiefswhich they wore, pinned behind andbefore, were immaculate purity dwelling was a log cabin andthough very unprepossessing without,within it was as tidy And cleanly asany house could -possibly be. If insummer you had occupied one of theirponderous feather beds, you wouldhuve slept -the sleep of peace; winchcannot truthfully be said of many farmore costly and pretentious homes ontha Hundred-and-Two. The farm that these three old maidsowned occupied the valley from hill tohill. Though to
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