The herald., 1897-01-31
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EDITED BY RNocn KNIGHT
LOVES ROSARY

prayer,
Told on my lips like kisses Of goodnight
To friends who go Mttle from my sight.
And some through distant years shine
90 this dear burden that daily bear
Nightly God taketh. and doth loose me
Ana soft I sink in slumbers pure and
with thoughts of human love and heavenly
But when mark how into shadow slips
My manhoods prime, and weep fast pass
And heavens riches making poor my lips,
And think how in the dust loves labor
ends
Then. where the cluster of my hearthstone
bid me not live" sigh. "till all be
gone"
A REAL SIGN OF PROGRESS.
At last we are getting great libraries
in this country, and shall not always
have to send our scholars abroad in or
der to Gull the great facts of the worlds
literature. The Bookman has this to say
on the subject:
1T is interesting to note the change
Of sentiment expressed at present by
American scholars concerning the ia
cilities and resources of the great Euro
pean libraries and the opinions held
some twenty or even ten years ago. AT
that time the university professor or
scholar, returning from Europe, was full
of praises of the great advantages Of
fered him abroad. especially in the COM
pleteness and wealth of the great IL
braries of London, Paris and Berlin, as
contrasted with American libraries. At
present the returning worker admits
that he was often unable to find in those
libraries important works Of recent Is
sue in many fields of modern research,
especially in the natural sciences and in
economic and sociological topics; and
that he is able to procure from number
of American Libraries in some, at least,
of these subjects more ample and vast
ly more accessible resources"
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Mrs. Phelps-W Ward in her Chapters
From a Life relates the following Incl
dent which appears to have been almost,
If not quite, tragedy in her old An
dove" home:
"One terrible tragedy indeed befel our
little 'set'-for we had our sets in Andov-
er as we'll as they of Newport or New
York
"A high-bred girl of exceptional
beauty was furtively kissed one evening
by daring boy (not native of An
dover. hasten to explain), and the furor
which followed this unprecedented enor-
nifty 1t would be impossible to describe
to member of more complicated circles
of society. Fancy the reception given
such a commonplace at any of our fash
ionable summer resorts today
ION Ancover hill the event was a
moral cataclysm. Andover girls were
country girls, but not of rustic (any
more than of metropolitan social train
ing. Which of them would have suffered
an academy boy, walking home with her
from lecture or prayer meeting, any
little privilege which he might not have
taken in her fathers house and with her
mothers knowledge? 1 never knew one
The case of which I speak was historic,
and, as far as l ever knew, unique, ani
was that of a victim, not an offender.
THE little beauty to whom this atroc-
ity happened cried all night and all the
next day; she was reported not to have
stopped crying for twenty-six hours.
Her pretty face grew wan and haggard
She was too i'll to go to her lessons.
"The teachers-tO whom she had
promptly related the circumstances
condoled with her; the entire school
vowed to avenge her; we were score OF
as disturbed and indignant girls as ever
wept over woman's wrongs or scorned
a mans depravity.
yet, for aught know to the contrary
this abandoned young man may have
SiOWh aP " pc IL lIluOuS iIltIlUtT Vi So
ciesy, possibly even an exemplary hus-
bard and father. I have never been able
to trace his history; probably the moral
repulsion was too great"
THE DISCONTINUED WOMAN.
A woman who was discontented with
her husband loudly petitioned Jove to
send her another. The god listened ia
vorably to her petition and sent her a
demigod. In less than a week the wom-
an was bewailing her lot again, saying
she never cared for mixed up goods any
how, and that while the god half of her
present husband might be all right, the
manhalf snored and chewed tobacco
Jove, wearied by her ill-humored per
slstency, took back the demigod and sent
her man out of the Yellow book for hus-
band instead. Up to the present writing
the lady in question hasn't discovered i
where she is at. Immoral: Mysteries
and art are only relations by marriage
Fables for the Times.
THE CHURCH AND MODERN SOCI-
ETY.. BY Archbishop Ireland d. H.
Mcbride & Co., Chicago.
This large volume contains fourteen
addresses by Archbishop Ireland on
widely different occasions; but all of
Them are upon the general subject which
gives title to the book Many of the
most pressing problems of the times
are dealt with in the broadest spirit and
in most admirable manner The most
striking address on the whole is that
upon American Citizenship, and next
to it is Intemperance and Law. Not
few readers, however, would select State
Schools and Parish Schools as most
worthy of study This is, indeed a most
significant statement of the school ques-
tion and should be seriously considered.
In fact. the whole volume abounds in ut
terances OF the most notable kind, and it
ought to have wide reading.
MR.. BAILEY MARTIN. By Percy
White, author of Corruption, etc
American Publishers Corporation.
Very many of our readers who were
amused by this very lively story a year
ago will be glad of the announcement
that 1t Is now Obtainable in handsome
paper covers and for the price of SO
cents. 1t is one Of the most pleasing and
popular novels of the time, though Mr..
Whites Corruption did not add to his
fame.
Besides this we have from the same
publishers Mr.. Henry Seton Merriman' s
Christian. Vellacott, Nor Wife Nor Maid
by The Duchess, and Tales of Soldiers
and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce. the
latter volume, by the way, now coming
to be considered a work of genius al
though rejected by the leading publish
ers of the country, as Mr.. Bierce takes
pains to declare in his preface.
All these volumes are excellent read
ing