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OUR POETS’ CORNER
Conducted by Mrs. Marlon D. McConnell.
WATCHING DOWN THE LANE.
Oh, her eyes are growing dim.
And her days have never joy,
For her heart is e'er on him—
On her missing, wand’ring boy;
In his youth he left his home,
Through the world to make his way;
Wooing fortune should he roam—
He’d return a future day.
And she's watching, weary, waiting,
And she’s watching down the lane—
All her heavy heart debating.
With the burden of its pain.
On the face she loved so well—
God above alone can tell
All the sorrow she endures through
ev’ry day!
Down the shaded, crooked lane.
With its vines and olden trees.
Oft her saddened eyes will strain.
And her heart is ne’er at ease;
Hopeless, hopeless has she grown.
Weary droops her aged head;
Swift the cruel years have flown—
Dong ago her hope was dead.
But she’s watching, gazing ever,
And she’s watching down the lane,
In a mother’s last endeavor
For the stifling of her pain!
Oh. that she his fate could know—
Maybe it would soothe her woe.
Though she never saw his face again
on earth.
But the years are unexpressed—
They reveal no tale of him,
And her tears are vain repressed,
For her heart o’erflows the brim;
On her hoy’s uncertain fate.
Through the days of sorrow’s bane.
Mourns she at the little gate.
While she's watching down the lane.
Yes, she's watching, weary, pond’ring.
And she's watching down the lane:
Will her boy so long awand’ring
E’er return to her again?
God above can only tell
Whether he she loves so well
Will return before she leaves this
earthly sphere.
—LEON HANLON.
Atlanta, Ga.
THE CHILD’S QUESTION.
“Sister, the sky is crying.
And the tears are falling so fast.
All over my playhouse and doll things.
And wetting the flowers and grass;
It has frightened the poor little chickens.
And turkeys, and ducks, all away;
I wish it would stop crying, sister.
So I could go back to my play.”
“What is it crying for. sister?”
I look in her beautiful eyes.
Wide open with childish wonder.
And innocent, sweet surprise—
“The sky isn’t crying, darling,
'Tis the clouds that make the rain.
They are drops of joy and gladness,
Not tears of sorrow and pain.”
“But how came it up there, sister?
What makes it so muddy and wet?
si want to go play with my doll things,
And it hasn’t quit falling yet.”
“God caused it to be there, darling.
In His mercy He sends it down
To water the drooping flowers,
And drive the dust from the town.”
“How does He get it there, sister?
How can He keep it up there?
There's nothing up there to hold it
But clouds and sky and air.”
Poor little puzzled girlie!
I push back her curls of gold,
I kiss her crimson, questioning lips,
Then I tell her the “Story of Old.”
That wonderful tale of creaton.
How God made this beautiful earth
And gave it to us for a dwelling place,
A gift of limitless worth;
How He made all the beautiful flowers
And trees to gTow on the land,
How He holds all of earth’s mysteries
In the palm of His powerful hand.
I explained how the clouds hold the rain
drops—
How after the .rain comes the sun—
“Can you see the blue sky again, sister.
After the rain is all done?”
“Why, yes, girlie darling.” I answered,
“The blue sky is always there.
The clouds come down in the raindrops
To freshen and sweeten the air.”
“Don’t you understand now, my precious,
Why and how God sends the rain?”
“Yes, I know, but I hope He won’t send
any more.
To we: up my doll things again.”
“Why did you think it was crying?”
I asked, as I stroked the dear head,
“I just thought the earth had been wicked
And the dear sky was sorry,” she said.
—SYLVAN GLENN.
Sylvan, Ala.
A LITTLE LESSON.
I was so discontented!—
So weary of the strife
And never-ending failures
That marked my lonely life!
I tried to be light-hearted—
To do my part and wait;
The waiting-time was bitter.
And recompense was late.
The things I craved and waited
Were still beyond my reach;
They drifted by like phantoms,
Though oft I did beseech
With empty hands outreaching,
And eager, jealous eye,
My hungry heart half fainting,
And yet they flitted by.
Life seemed so sadly empty—
So hollow, vain, untrue!
But still the rose was blooming,
And skies were bright and blue.
I put aside my grieving
And said that life was good;
Then, down a winding pathway,
I sought the leafy wood.
I knew a pretty lakelet
The mountains hid between,
And turned my restless footsteps
Toward its willows green.
There, standing in its waters,
With wide, blue, wistful eyes,
A little child was striving
To reach a longed-for prize.
A great, white water lily
Upon its leaf of green,
Had caught his baby fancy.
But stretching wide between
The dimpled hand and blossom
The waters lay still and deep;
In vain he watched the lily—
Twas just beyond his reach.
And when he saw the pleasure
That he must needs forego,
I saw his red lips quiver.
And blue eyes overflow.
“Oh. baby, naughty baby,
Why do you grieving stand
For things beyond your keeping?—
Give me your little hand—
“And I will lead you safely.”
Reluctantly he came.
His baby heart still longing
For what he could not claim.
As tenderly were guided
The small feet back to me,
I heard a low. sweet whisper:
“ ’Tis thus I do for thee. ^
“The things that lure and tempt thee,
That cause such wild unrest.
Are baubles fraught with danger—
I give thee what is best.”
And then in shame I murmured,
0 Father, take my hand!
For, like this grieving baby,
1 cannot understand.”
—LEILA MAE WILSON.
FROM LATE SERMONS.
Following Is a summary of the principal sermons recently delivered In the Unit
ed States and Canada by the leading clergymen, priests, prelates, religious teach
ers and professors of the Christian faith. In every instance the text has been care
fully read and abbreviated.
A man needs to be girded to be a
freeman. “He is a freeman whom the
troth makes free.”—Rev. Horbert F.
Stillwell, Baptist, St. Paul.
Value of Oar IVoble.t Convictions.
Bo true to your noblest convictions
with unswerving fidelity and neither
life nor death can do you harm.—Rev.
George M. Hepworth, Congregational-
ist, New York.
Presence of God*
God is in our common human life ev
erywhere, if wo have only open eyes to
seo, hearts to feel, sympathies to be
tonchod by his presence.—Rev. M. J.
Savage, Unitarian, Now York.
Clirintian Effort.
The rentral and cardinal object of all
truo Christian effort and enterprise is to
accomplish the present and otomal wel
fare of mankind.—Rev. A. H. Roger*
Congrogatioualist, Kansas City.
Condition of Humanity.
"Lost-Found”—this is the represen
tation which Christ gives of the condi
tion of humanity. Humanity, though
lost, still bolougs to God.—Dr. W. O.
Webb, Evangelist, Philadelphia.
Moral Troths.
Moral truths can be settled only in a
moral way. The mission of America is
to take her place as a Christian and
philanthropic nation. — Dr. G. D.
BoartAnan, Baptist, Philadelphia.
Strpa of Good Men.
“The steps of a good man are ordered
by the Lord. ” His footprints ore found
on no forbidden path, but he leaves in
effaceable evidence of a righteous walk
deep in the dust of the highway of holi
ness.—Rev. Edward McHugh, Method
ist, Cincinnati.
The Keeping: Power of God.
Our Lord keeps an unceasing watch
over us, aDd W> looks out that the guard
does not sleep. That is the way God
keeps us, and if wo could remember
that our lives would be moro powerful.
— Rev. George H. C. MacGregor, Pres
byterian, London.
Bclnp Spiritual.
No Christian can improve the spirit
ual condition of the church better than
by being himself spiritual. We can cre
ate faith in prayer best by showing the
effects cf prayer on our own souls.—
Rev. John Stephens, Simpson Memorial
Church, San Francisco.
Peace.
Peace is the ideal of life. It is the
loftiest concep.ion of music, art and
literature. Peace, not struggle, is the
soul's heaven and it is the vision of the
future in which is the “rest which re-
maineth of tho people of God.”—Rev.
William Rader, Congregationalist, San
Francisco.
One View of Life.
Life is the basis, motive and aim of
all that man accomplishes. The dia
mond, ruby and emerald are beautiful
to behold, but it is better that tho crys
tal secret be lost and every star annihi
lated than that the law of gravitation
should suffer falluro or fracture.—Rev.
R. R. Claiburne, Episcopal, Kalama
zoo, Mich.
The Xew Religion.
The old statements of religions mo
tives have lost their power in inspiring
reform, and I am not sure but that the
true church of the near future is to be
formed from thoso who have a passion
for the perfection of the social well be
ing of the race without regard to former
theological opinions.—Rev. B. F. Mills,
Evangelist, Boston.
Stimulating Power of Faith.
Faith is to tho soul what the ozone
of tho mountain summit is to the body.
It stimulates, it rouses enthusiasm, it
renews your youth, it keeps you young
until that last day when you fall asleep
witn a pleasant good night on your
lips, t8 be wakened by the welcoming
good morning of the angels.—Rev.
George IL Hepworth, Congregational
ist, New York.
Secular Wenlth and Heavenly Riche*.
Secular callings are valuable as a
means to an end, and men are called to
make money as they are called to preach
the gospel. But the wealth so created,
by a divine alchemy, must be transmit
ted into soul force before it becomes
heavenly riches, for nothing goes from
this world into the other except the
righteousness of character we have in
ourselves.—Rev. C. E. Wilbur, D. D.,
Methodist, Pittsburg.
The Mobility of Gratitnde,
It is a pet notion of ours that wo hate
ingratitude, but the practical lives of
most of ns ore in direct contradiction of
this theory. There is always a conflict
going on within us between two oppos
ing forces. The nobility of gratitude at-
1 tracts us and appeals to our better senti
ments, but the temptations of a life of
constant ingratitude generally get the
better of us.—Rev. Jerome B. Hanni-
j gan, Catholic, San Francisco.
j Mission of the Anglo-Saxon Race.
God has not left other races who live
j on earth today without a call to give
; whatever of value they possess to other
| races, bat he calls the Anglo-Saxons, in
a distinct and superlative sense, to use
1 their religious knowledge and civil law
1 for the good of tho weak and helpless
of mankind, becanse they possess more
of the Christian religion and more of
practical knowledge and more of civil
law today than any other race on earth.
—Rev. James W. Lee, Methodist, St
Louis.
Heroism After the War.
We have a duty to perform toward
those wo fought and defeated and to
those we have rescued. It will not do
to leave the latter, like a man half
drowned when dragged out of the wa
ter, to die on the brink of the river. We
must not leave him until he is out of
danger. Our plunging into the stream
to drag him out was heroic, but it would
bo cowardly to leave him without an
effort to revive him. Heroism is needed
here, self denial, vigilance, kindness
and unswerving firmness. By example
wo must teach the strangers.—Rev.
Nevin Woodside, Reformed Presbyte
rian, Pittsburg.
GOVERNOR JONES’"VIEW.
Believes the Philippines Should Be
Only Considered Commercially.
In reply to a query Governor Jones
of Arkansas recently gave out his views
regarding the Philippines. He said:
“I have not familiarized myself with
the commercial value of the Philip
pines, and I believe that is the only
manner in which the question should
be considered. It is a matter of business
and not of politics. Wo should demand
tho cession of coaling ports in the Phil
ippines, of which Manila should be one,
to strengthen our Asiatic trade rela
tions. So far as exercising governmental
functions over the islands, I do not con
sider it feasible or expedient further
than to control so muoh territory as
may be necessary for coaling ports,
which I believe will subserve the de
mands of onr commerce as well as or
better than the possession of the entire
insular group.
“I do not believe we are called upon
to exercise a corrective influence upon
the morals of the Filipinos and Span
iards, for it would take 1,500 years to
accomplish anything in that line, and
most of us will be dead by that time.
They are an alien, foreign race, as an
tipodal in temperament and motif as in
location, and as I see it now we have
no business to attempt to induct them
into onr forms of government and pnt
them under our protection.
“To be a citizen of the United States
is a great privilege, for to protect the
rights of the one man the gove*uih<j|}i*j
would not scrioile to bring into re&tif^-
tion whole fle«s and armies. For this
reason and because of their remoteness
I would not be in favor of holding the
islands, and I certainly wonld not per
mit their possession to stand in the way
of peace with Spain. I was in favor of
the Hawaiian annexation, for I believe
that our Asiatic commerce demanded it.
It is not undemocratic to favor terri
torial acquisition, and there is nothing
in the Monroe doctrine to decry it.
With the completion of the Nicaragnau
canal, the possession of Hawaii and the
control of ports in the Philippines, the
United States will have emphasized
its position among the maritime powers
of the world. ”—St. Louis Republic.
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SUCH IS WILHELM IXI A, RULER
OF THE NETHERLANDS.
LAYING ON VARNISH.
Extreme heat, cold or dampness will
prevent varnish from drying evenly and
properly. Light ventilation and a mod
erate temperature will go a long way to
ward making a job such as this satisfac
tory. The sun’s ruys or the extreme heat
of a living room will blister the varnish,
dampness will make it sticky and crum-
ply, and extreme cold retards its hardening
unduly. As each coat of varnish is put
on and dried it should be rubbed down to
a dead finish with curled hair. The last
coat only should be left glossy. If the un
dercoats are left bright, tho last one will
lose much of its glossy appearance.
There are three finishes. One is the high
luster, which is obtained by flo wing the
last coat of varnish on freely. The'•egg
shell” finish is a less bright gloss and is
produced by rubbing down the last coat
when hard with fine powdered pumice
stone and rubbing oil. Then wipe off tho
surface with a soft woolen rag. The “dull
finish” is obtained by rubbing down the
$trface with pumice stone and water.—
_\ ew York Voice.
A NEW WALL DECORATION.
A woman who has taken an old fash
ioned farmhouse for the summer finds
some of its wall decorations intolerable.
To relieve their hideousness through her
occupancy of the place and yet save the
expense of permanent redecoration, says
the New York Post, she has provided her
self with large rolls cf cheesecloth and has
filled the first days of her stay in her sum
mer home by covering the walls from ceil
ing to baseboard with this material laid
on in plaits.
BISMARCK AS A DRINKER.
When Bismarcx was in London in
1843, he was invited to visit the famous
brewery of Barclay & Perkins, and his
hosts, having heard of his reputation as a
beer drinker of great prowess, presented to
him an enormous tankard of old ale, in
the confident expectation that he would be
obliged to admit himself vanquished by it.
“I seized the tankard.” Bismarck told Sir
Charles Dilke, who tells the story, “and I
thought of my country and drank to
Prussia and tilted it till it was empty.
Then I thanked my entertainers—courte
ously, I hope—and succeeded in making
my way as far as London bridge. There
I sat down in one of the stone recesses,
and for hours the great bridge went round
and round me.”—Exchange.
She is Pretty and Modest, Bnt Has
a Will of Her Own and Knows
When to Exert It—Will Choose
a Hnsband When She is Ready.
The installation of Wilhelminaas queen
of the Netherlands means very little to us
on this side of the ocean. It has been a
most interesting and picturesque event, no
doubt, but our nation is very big and very
busy, and we have not much time to de
vote to the current history of the old
world so long as it does not directly affect
us. We are in the history making busi
ness ourselves.
But the assumption of royal power by a
young woman of 18, even in such a di
minutive kingdom as that of the Nether
lands, is something that is worth our
while to stop and consider. Today there
are only two reigning queens iD Europe.
WUhelmina is one of them, and the other
will probably soon pass away and leave
her as the only woman in Europe who has
absolute sway over a kingdom.
For some years we have heard of Wil-
helmina as “the girl queen of Holland.”
Now she is no longer the “girl queen."
She is a young woman and a real queen.
She is as sweet and modest and unassum
ing a young woman as you could wish to
meet, and it is very likely 6ho will make
a very good queen.
But with all her sweetness and modesty
the queen is a young lady of very decided
character and not inclined to yield to the
politicians unless she is convinced that
they are right. When they picked out a
husband for her some time ago she refused
to have anything to do with the young
man, and, assembling her council, in
formed the members that when she want
ed a husband sho would pick one out her
self, and that the intrigues of all tho
courts and the pressure of all tho countries
of Europe would not make her marry a
man she did not love.
It was not a mere spirit of meddlesome
ness which caused the Dutch politicians to
be interested in her love affairs, for tho
marriage of their queen means much to
her subjects. The Hollanders know that
her death without heir would mean tho
death of their political Independence and
their commercial prosperity. According to
the constitution, the crown would devolve
on the septuagenarian Grand Duchess of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenbach or her descend
ants. Her husband is Prussian to the
core, and as such is regarded os among the
main pillars of the German empire.
Indeed none of the petty sovereigns who
form the federation known as the German
empire possesses a more commanding and
predominant influence on the national af
fairs of Germany than does the Grand
Duke of Saxe-Weimar. It naturally fol
lows that Holland under her would be
come de facto, if not de jure, part and
parcel of the north German empire. At
any rate, It would be brought within
what is known as the sphere of Berlin in
fluence, with all that that implies in a
military, a political and a commercial
sense.
Rather than have this happen the people
of Holland are a:V ious for Wilhelm ina to
wed, and yet they are as jealous of her
suitors as though each one of her subjects
felt a personal responsibility in the mat
ter. Indeed It is no stretch of the imagi
nation to say that each one does have just
that feeling.
Wilhelmina is well versed in hir*
and especially in the history of royal
houses, and she 'ntlraeted that ssr:e pee
pie in Europe were trying to play the part
which Elizabeth played when she forced
the worthless Darnley upon Mary Stuart
and of Guizot when he made Isabella of
Spain marry Francis d’Assisi.
So tho queen will marry when she gets
ready and not before. However the polit
ical tricksters of Europe may desire to
marry the queen off to some one of their
own choosing, the Dutch people are not
at all in a hurry to have her marry. This
young lady of 18 quite suits them as she is
for the present. They expeot her to marry
some time, but not now.
Queen Wilhelmina is the only yonng
lady of her age in the kingdom who has
reached her majority. Any girl in Hol
land not heir to a throne is not of ago un
til she is 23 years old. To become of age
at 18 is one of the queen's especial privi
leges.
Wilhelmina is well informed on all sub
jects which are generally taught young
ladies, and several other subjects she has
taken up of her own volition in order that
she might be better fitted for her position.
She has made an espeeial study of inter
national law and the science of govern
ment, and even has taken special courses
in the art and science of war and naval
acd maritime science. Hiding suti hank*
ing are her favorite amusements.
Whoever the prinoe is that wins her
hand he will be a very fortunate person,
for not only is Queen Wilhelmina pleasing
to look at as well as light hearted, witty
and vivacious, but she is one of the richest
sovereigns in Europe. The civil list of
Holland, which is secured on the revenues
of the Dutch colonial possessions, is about
$150,000,000 a year, which should be am
ple to keep even a royal couple in most
comfortable style. The real estate attached
to the throne of Holland is extonsive,
there being as many as four palaces al
ready furnished and waiting to be occu
pied. It is but fair to add for the benefit
of any princes who may read this that
thero is a royal mother-in-law. But the
queen mother Emma is a very sensible
sort of woman whom any young man of
good habits could get along with very
easily. Annette CrtA wfokd. j
BLONDES DEGENERATING.
Fair-haired people are said to be becom
ing less numerous than formerly. The
ancient Hebrews were a fair-haired race;
now they are. with few exceptions, dark.
So it is in a Ieeser degree with the Irish,
among whom 150 years ago a dark-haired
person was almost unknown.
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