The age-herald., 1901-03-17

has come wisdom, truth, sweetness faith, patience, goodheartedness, and with these superlative loveliness and the transcend ent glory of womans prayer.
 To woman the power of prayer is the supreme essential and divinest charm in day of gladness and in night of grief; when her heart bursts with the melody of love, most heavenly music heard in this life, or when it breaks and bleeds in sorrow that may not be named.
 The tears of a good woman are the pearls of great price in the divine treas ure-house set up for mans redemption, and even as the tear of the Denitent Is the most precious offering at the gates of Paradise, so likewise is the tear of pure and good woman mingled with her prisons the most blessed thing in all the troubles and triumphs of humanity.
 Thus comes the bride that is to be, my beloved. She never lisped an invocation unheard and never gave a tear that did not please the angels. She never had thought that left a scar upon her divine face or wound upon her pure spirit; she never had wish that was not pure and from the world unspotted, and never purpose that was not ennobling; she never gave speech to an impulse that was. un- generous, and never needed thrust from another that was not charitable; she nev- CT wounded soul within the compass of her gentle life, and never turned will ing ear to utterances that made for the undoing and unhappiness of anyone who fared forward with her along the sweet and radiant way of life nobly beautiful
 Into the noble compass of her proud young life there never came a falsehood at her bidding; never the breath of wrong against another, and never a lie, white or black to pain and wiring with anguish the absent or the defenseless; never sheer, nor a fling, nor unrighteous suggestion that might carry a sting that was grieyous; never an assumption of guilt where guilt was improved; never the commission of that half-crime that comes of listening to sl3nder against the wrong fully-accused or the poisonous vice of si- lence within the hearing of vituperation against siness ones of society," never lending her sacred presence to the idle
 
 stock-in-society is the wronging of their mental and moral superiors, and never making herself cheap by sharing the cheap vulgarities of the vulgar herd who feed upon the regulations of honest men and women.
 In all her womanly woman's appointed ways her beautiful life she has pursued, and thus she makes for the bridal altar in the flower of perfect womanhood.
 You know her, my beloved She is simp- ly the type of woman whom all women adore and all men worship in the religion of sweetness and loveliness and goodness,
 The violet Is the symbol of love that does not pass the modest and lowly vio- let, loved of lovers and singers in all the ages of loving. Resting upon the green -.. @-..--- - two of the brightest and loveliest of all the beautiful little women of Birming- ham. At the time they so happily made the acquaintance of their illustrous friend whom the nation now mourns they were wee tots of six years. Today they are making for most lovely womanhood, and both are pupils of Mrs Talaiferro's fam ous school for girls. the Pollock-Stephens Institute of Birmingham.
 Tn the great day of the Presidents s splendid reception in Birmingham, in 1891, as thousands of people still happily re- member, some two or three thousand school children. were drawn up in line on either side of Third avenue, above Twentieth street. About midway of the livingy lane of childhood lovelness the President caused his carriage, which was drawn by six white horses. to be stopped. and little Miss Elliott and little Miss Cobbs advancing with a wonderful bas- ket of flowers, the President quickly arose and stepped down from his carriage to receive the fair and sweet committee of two, representing the children of Bir- mingham. Stopping, he took the little girls in his arms, and lifting them ur kissed them in the presence of the en- thusiastic multitude. It was very pretty incident, and the story of it the wires flashed over the world. Those two little girls have almost reached womanhood, but their recollection of that proud and happy moment when they were the sweet hearts of the President of the United States remains vivid and lastingi, A Coming Marriage.