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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27
New York Grain. Provisions and PRODUCE,

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-F1our-ReceiptS
tive and a shade steadier; rye flour
steady; buckwheat flour steady; cornmeaI
firm; rye steady; barley steady. Wheat
Receipts, $3.50; exports, S08,935; spot
firm; No, red, &c, elevator 7414 +. o. b.
afloat; No. l northern Duluth, SIC f. 0. b.
aloat; No. hard Manitoba, S07sc f. o. b.
afloat After period of early weakness
easier English cables, bearish Argentine
news, clearing weather and liberal North
west receipts, wheat suddenly turned
strong at noon and remained so up to the
close, the vigorous covering that attended
this upturn was helped by decided
strength in corn and big seashore clear
ances, the market closing firm at sc net
September, 74T @75c closed f5c; Dec oaT1,
ceipts, $6,45O; exports, 2,5i6; spot firm;
afioat; No ? yellow, zoe; No, white,
zoe. Although easier at first, rejecting
prospective better weather and bearish
Argentine crop reports, corn rallied vio-
on a forecast Of further rains estimated
light receipts at Chicago and covering.
The close was firm at A91so net ad-
6694c, closed $3.50; October, 64iA 664%
closed 64&c; December. 51@52c, closed at
81 oatsZ5Recejpts, a1S6,5oO; exports, 81
a ara w Sbfaay o nc No Sa White sSs e sta Nd
8. white, 33c; track white, S2@Sfc: op-
tons opened easier, but partly recovered
later with other markets. Hay dull Hops
firm. Hides firm. Leather firm Wool
dull. Coal nominal. Beef firm. Cutuoeats
steady. Lard dull. Pork dull. Tallow firm.
Coffee-Spot Bio easy, No. invoice, SIC;
mild quiet; Cordova. S@11ho Molasses
firm. Sugar--Raw firm, fair refining. &C.;
centrifugal, 96test, 53ac. Molasses SUI,
gar, 2&c; refined firm.
Butter--Receipts, 5.212 packages; mar
ket steady; state dairy 16h @213hc; ex-
choice, 17@22c
Cheese Receipts, 1898; market firm;
new state full cream small colored fancy
and white, l1hc; large colored and white,
Eggs-Receipts. 51Ss; market steady:
state and Pennsylvania. average best. 2S
Q24c; western candled. 21@23c; refriger-
ated 1S1@ @21c.
Liverpool Provisions.
LIVERPOOL, Sept 26-Hams, short
cut firm; 56s Cd; bacon Cumberland cut
strong. SIS: sssort ribs strong, &c; long
clear niddles light, strong, Gas; long
clear indies t-Ssy strong. s3s.
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The Time VIII Soon Arrive.

"There is as much nourishment in one
banana" declares the amateur scientist.
.as there is in one pound of beef. This
being so, l do not see why the the, people 90
asserts the magnate. 'They will, as soon
as someone corners the bananas and fig
ures out some way to make loo. per cent
profit on each one. baltimore American.
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New York Money.

NEW YORK, Sept 26-Money on call
firm at 8@18 per cent; closed offered at
II per cent: prime mercantile paper, 9
per cent; sterling exchange steady, with
@4.S5.625 for demand and at $4.S2.25@
4.S2.375 for sixty day bills; posted rates.
81. 1904 1914 and "a. 84@4 Bay; CONNER
Mexican dollars, 401ac; government bonds
easy; state bonds inactive; railway bonds
firm.
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dull steady. Wheat-No. 2 spring, 100
75c; No 8, 66@73c; No. 2 red, S4@s7c
Corn-No. 2, S0Ac; No. 2 yellow, 60Ac.
Oats-No. 2, 27Bc; No. 8 white, 284
SAC. Rye-No. 2, 50c. Barley-Fair to
choice mailing, $4,000. Flaxseed-No. /,
81 %; No. l Northwestern, SIPS Pork
Mess per Dbl, SIG. 60@16. IS. Lard-Per
100 lbs, 81 321a OIL 35 Short Ribs-Sides
Qoose), SO S0@10.S5. Shoulders-Dry
sailed (boxed), IS 25@9. so. Sides-Short
clear (boxed), 81. 121a OIL. 371a. Whisky
Basis Of high wines, $1.32 Receipts
277, 900 bu; oats, 1884, 200 bu; rye, 20 200
bu; barley, 1900 bu. Shipments-F1our,
23,200 bbls; wheat, $4,000 bu; corn, $780,
zoo bu; oats, 104, 800 bu; barley, 1900 blu.
On the produce exchange today the butter
market was f1rmer: creameries, 16@22Ac;
dairies, 10000. Cheese steady, 1O1a q
11Ac. Eggs-Steady; loss off, cases re
turmoil, 20@2014c.
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CHICAGO Produce.

CHICAGO, Sept. 6.-Butter-Firm,
creameries, 16@22Ac; dairies, 10000.
Eggs Steady: loss off, cases returned, 20
@201sc. Cheese-Steady; twins, 10Ac:
daisies, 1112c; young Americas, 11@11Nc.
Iced Poultry-Steady; turkeys, 1870;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27

Among the Shippers on the market
We're: c. Wieseman, Elmwood; c. S.
Howard, Edgerton; Bender & Tubbs,
Wheaton; j. j. Leaman, White Earth; n
Galtman, Mora; J. Dougherty, Wayzeta.:
Rohrer Bros, Cochrane; Berge & Law
renee, Maynard; E. WaXmouth, Bridge
man; r. Gleason, j. Zimbos, Cumberland:
T. Emerson, Elmore; P. O'Brien. Nor
wood: c. H. Richards Stewart; F. e.
Kruger, Brownton; A. D. Sackett, Owa-
tOnna.
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45O; western steers $s.75@s. Hogs-Re-
ceipts today, 10000; tomorrow. 5000; left
over, $500; duh, 1o@15c lower; mixed and
butchers, $7.25 OF 70; good to choice
heavy, $7.40@770; rough heavy, $1,000
7.S5; light, $7.25@7.6O; bulk of sales, $3.50
07.50. Sheep-Receipts, $4,000; sheep and
lambs steady; good to choice wethers,
So. 60@4 Is; fair to choice mixed, $4,000
3 S5; western sheep, $3.50@5.50; native
lambs, $405 35.
Official Yesterday: Receipts 49,
721: hogs, 1924; sheep. 1854.
Shipments-Cattle, 4,60S; hogs, 2,267;
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GRAINS ARE HIGHER
LOWER CABLES AND LIBERAL RE-
cEIPTs CAUSE ONLY MoMEN.
TARY WEAKNESS
SEPTEMBER WHEAT is
VERY ERRATIC AGAIN

All Grains Except Oats Are Higher at
the Close - Prominent Commission
Houses Turn Active Buyers of Wheat
and Corn-Latter Is Dull at First, but
Passes Up With Wheat.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27
London Closing Stocks.
*EX-rights.

%EX-r1ghtS.
Consols for money, SO 5-16; for &C
count, SO SIG. Bar silver uncertain, at
2S%d per ounce. Money, 1924 per
cent. The rate Of discount in the open
market for short bills is 81 per cent; for
three months bills, 81 per cent.
New York Minina Stocks.
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State Grain Inspection.
OILIo - OF LOU %
Mac rOyi wheat nar

MacdrOn1 wheat, car,
Other Grains-No. corn, 8 cars; No. 4
corn. car; no grade corn. l, car; No. 2
oats, 7 cars; No 3 oats, 40 cars; No. 4
northern oats. IL cars; no grade oats. z
cars; No. 2 rye. 3 cars; No. 8 barley, "a
cars; No. barley. 38 cars; No. barley,
"a cars; no grade barly, cars; No. /
fax, 16 cars; rejected fax "a cars.
Cars Inspected Out-Wheat, No.
northern. "a cars. No. 2 northern, 16 cars;
No. 8, cars; rejected, cars; no grade,
% cars; No. oats, % cars; No. north
ern oats, 2 cars; No. 2 rye, 4 cars; No. 5
barley. 4 cars; No. barley, 4 cars; No. 5
barley, cars; no grade barley, cars |;
No. 1 fax, 1S cars; rejected flax, car.
Minneapolis Curb.
Curb on December wheat ... .66K az
Puts on December wheat. &c lie, 661s
Calls on December wheat .......6 6& IL
Clearances for the week. 5,077,000 bu
wheat and flour.
Milwaukee Curb.
Curb Curb OF on De- Decemb b wheat at COZ ss%soH
Calls on December wheat ............ 695s
Curb on December corn ............. 1875
Puts on December corn .46 1-16
Calls on Dec. corn ......46. 465s, 46s "a
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27
STRENGTHEN STOCKS
PRINCIPAL MOVEMENT is IN ST.
PAUL AND LOUISVILLE G.
NASHVILLE
READING BOUGHT ON SUPERSTITION
THAT STRIKE WILL SOON END

In the Final Hour Professional Operators,
Whose Buying Had Advanced Prices,
Take Their Profits, and a Slump Fol-
Iows-Day Closes With Net Gains,
Nevertheless.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27

Cattle-Receipts light. Butcher cattle
steady at yesterdays prices, medium cow
stuff selling 10c under last week. Nothing
good on sale. Yards are being fairly well
cleared of stock and feeding cattle, but
the process is a slow one and the com
mon stuff is selling very low Bulls,
yeals and mich COWS steady. Representa-
tive sales:
Butcher Steers
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27
PRODUCE AND FRUIT.

Commission Row, Sept. 26-Trading in
the open market at today's meeting of
the Produce Exchange established the
following prices:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27
HIDES, PELTs AND sUNDRIEs.

Quotations furnished by D. Bergman &
Co, 1S6-1SS East Third street, st. Paul,
MINI:
Hides No. 1. No. g.
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S. ShotWeII 6 Co
GRAIN STOCKS.
National Cerman-Anerican Bank BuiIfirs.
New York Bonds.

o. S. ref. 2s,r. 1oSAIfL. & N. uni. 4s1o1A
90 coup. ..ll0 Mex Cent. As. SO
DO IS, reg. .108 do LIST. inc. 80
do coup -. 108 M. & st. L. as 1O4
90 new 4s,r.137 M, K. & T.4s. 991z
40 coup Icy do IDS 800. S312
do old As, r.110%1N Y c. lists. 1919
do coup .1111a do gen. 31as. .107
do 5s, reg. 1851 IN. j. C. g5s. .136
90 coup =. l05 Il Nor. Pac. As. .104%
Atch. g. s...104 do IS - 745&
do. adj. As. 90 N & w. c. As 1929
y. IL o. As. .1041 Reading 6. As. SO
do 33s -. 94ASL. & I'M. c5s. 117A
10 COW. As. lilo ST.. & S.F.4s.. 1909
Can. S. Eds. .1071SS. L. S.W. lists. SO
c. of G. 5s.. ITO do IDS 800. 881h
do list inc. 81 SA & APPS S815
z. q 0. 415s. .106ss South. Pac As. 93h
c. & A. 31as.. S1H Southern Ry. 5s119
C.,B. e Q.n.4s. 95MIT. & P lists .1201s
C,M.& SPg. 113 T.S.L.& Was. 82%
CO NV. c.7s135 Union Pac As. Jos
c., R. 1. & P. As. 1881 do COW. As. ITO
CCC& SLge. As. 102 Wabash 1stS-.. .11SA
Chi. Terminals SS15 do Eds 1893
c. & S. As -. SO do deb B.. S412
D. & r. G. As. FOL 1siWest Shore Is. 1917
Erie p. /. As. 9915tW. & LIE. As. 931a
do gen. As :. 86 wis. Cent As. 931a
F.W. & DC. 1st114 icons. Tob. As. 6S5s
Hook. V. 47as..109 4
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27
Hay, eRAIM AND FEED.

st. Paul Board of Trade, Sept. 26.-Re-
ceipts-Hay, 8 cars.
Hay-Saies: II cars No. 1 upland, Feb
ruary, $780,
High grade hay very scarce; not enough
coming in to begin to meet demands.
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430 $500 l -.

Sheep Receipts light. Prices steady on
killing stuff. Stockers and feeders a lit
tie lower. Representative sales:
Ii-a.. -c..a.l i L.
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lew York Mining Stocks.

Statement of the Treasury.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept 26.-To-
days statement of the treasury balances
in the general fund, exclusive of the $780,
900, 600 gold reserve in the division of re-
dernDtja ion shows.
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Chicago Live Stock.

CHICAGO, Sept. 6.-CattIe-Receipts
$500, including 500 westerns; steady; good
dunn, s4@7.25; stockers and feeders, $3.50
@D5; cows, $1.50@4. so; heifers, 50. 2505. rs;
Gamers, $1.50@2.5O; bulls, $2.2594 Is;
calves, S3Q725; Texas fed steers, SAG
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27
Midway Horse Market.

Minnesota Transfer, st. Paul, Mimi
Barrett & Zimmerman report inquiry
for good logging horses was the main
feature of the market today. The large
supply of all classes of horses which
has accumulated during the past two
weeks dullness met with a satisfaction
to the buyers and selections were readily
made Nalnns.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27

Total sales for the day, 70S, 400 shares.
xEx-Rights. fOffered.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27

Mich Cows and Springers-
CIV =; OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 40. 90
cow and l calf .................. q 90
l springer ............... Ok an
Hogs-Prices 5000 lower. Receipts
light, Average quality quite a little bet
ter than Yesterday. Top price paid by
butchers. Price range, 81. 1907 so; bulk.
$.35Q7 As; rough sorts, Sc. 5000. So. Rep
resentative sales:
HOES
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Daily Wheat Movemen

The following are the receipts and
shipments at the principal primary wheat
M ri
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LIVERPOOL Sept 26.-Hams, short
cut firm. 56s Cd; bacon, Cumberland cut
strong, 67s; sSsort ribs strong SIC; long
clear middles light, strong, Gas; long
clear indies & 5&Ty strong, 63s.
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SALES lHighIL Low Close
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-15
NEWS AND COMMENT.

The English trades unions have in
dorsed the local option bill before Par
lament and put teetotalers in most
of their official positions.
In Cardiff, Wales, before the saloons
were closed on Sunday, with popula-
ton of $4,000, there were 81 convic-
tions for Sunday drunkenness in 1881.
Last year, with poplation Of 10000,
there were but nine cases.
Of 766 saloons paying the Dow tax
in Lucas county, o. sos are controlled
by seven breweries of Toledo These
seven breweries paid into the treas
ury $5S.016.40. One brewery-the To-
ledo Brewing and Mailing company
paid taxes for 159 saloons.
A heart and brain to feel and Judge,
Two feet which none may fetter;
These powers I'll use without a grudge,
To make the world grow better.
The j. c. Aver company, of Lowell,
Mass, posts this notice: believing
that the smoking o. cigarettes is in
furious to both mind and body, there
by uniting young men for their best
work; therefore after this date, we
will not employ any young man under
81 years of age who smokes cigar
ettes."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-15
ALCOHOL AND BRAIN ACTION.
Delicate Apparatus Which Detects
the Fact That the Former Re-
tards Work of the Latter.

DR.. I. d. CrOthers, professor of the
diseases of the brain and nervous
system of the New York School of
Clinical Medicine, says in regard to
the effects of alcohol ON mental OPP
erations:
1.-The rapidity of thought and time
reactions is another test showing the
mental activities. BY the aid of a
battery and clocSwork marking
parts of a second, the time can be
measured from the moment the eve
perceives an object to its registra-
ton on a dial by the pressure of a
button. This in hundredths or tenths
passage of thought. This in almost
endless varieties can be used to show
the quickness of sense and thought
impression, and to state them in fig
ures. Thus, the time in health for
the registrati ton of sense impress
sions is three-tenths of second.
After the use of two ounces of spir-
it's eight-tenths of second or more
is required.
IF the time TO express thought
thrown upon canvas and registered
by pressing button be seven-tenths
of second, after using spirits it will
be increased to double the time.
Contrary to the common impression,
the rapidity of thought and the time
to express it is slowed up always
after the use of alcohol. This can be
measured with accuracy and preci-
sion -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-15
THE EVILS OF TOBACCO.
tOxicants and Increases Liza
biIity to Disease.

One of the chief counts against to-
bacco is its being the main source
of the drink habit. Statistics show
that drink is the root of nine-tenths
of crime, also that tobacco begins
nine-tenths of the use of intoxicating
liquor. Medical investigation in
France, Germany and America proves
that tobacco-using boys make stunt
ed, childless men. A large share of
nervous diseases of women are inher-
itances from tobacco-using sires. The
London Lancet says: mo smoker
can be a well man.
Some years ago published a card
in the Union Signal showing by testi-
monies of eminent physicians and
navigators that tobacco does not, as
is popularity supposed, prevent conta-
gious diseases, but that it's non
use is actually condition of i'm
munity from them, especially in
tropic regions. Tobacco cancer and
tobacco heart disease have robbed
both Europe and America of some of
its brightest statesmen and fnan-
ciers, great captains of industry,
whose death in either of numerous
well-known cases threw thousands of
poor people out of employment. Much
of the epilepsy and insanity of our
day is directly traceable to tobacco.
The extent to which cigarette smok-
ing among women obtains is almost
past belief.
The one fact that tobacco is the
main fountain of the drink habit, and
that that habit is diverting over two
thousand million dollars a year from
the legitimate trade of our farmers.
merchants and mechanics. should
lead all our business and commercial
interests to combine in relentless
crusade against the giant twin rob-
bers, rum and tobacco. These facts
and PHILOSOPHERS and such as these
should be got in local papers by
readers of the Union Signal. School
teachers should encourage their pu-
pills to write compositions and "com-
mencement day papers on this sub
ject. Push the anti-tobacco pledges
among young and old.
Best perhaps of all is to talk on
these lines with one boy at time,
especially if he is known to use to-
bacco. The writer has often, when
meeting boy smoking a cigarette,
told him he had killed many a rattle
snake in the wild west, but that ciga-
rettes had killed many more than
rattlesnakes. Therefore he would
better throw his cigarette on the
ground and stamp on it, as if it were
rattlesnake. Especially and ear
nestly telling him to ask God to help
him keep his enemy under his feet
1t is also well to keep it before young
men and young women that the av-
erage tobacco bill of tobacco user
would carry an endowment life in
surance policy, or a savings bank ac-
count that in Is or 90 years would
give one means to buy home or to
start in business, giving him from
two to ten times as much as he could
get as a capitalless wage Garner
George May Powell, in Union Signal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-15


If you had called one year ago, and then
again to-day,
No need of any word to tell, for your own
eyes could see
Just what the Temperance Pledge has
done for Jim and me.
The Pail that holds the milk sir, we used
to fill with beer,
But we haven't spent cent for drink for
now nearly a year.
We pay our debts, we're well and strong,
and kind as men can be,
That's what God and the Temperance
Pledge has done for Jim and me.
We used to sneak along the street, feeling
so mean and low
We always felt ashamed to meet the
friends we used to know.
We look the world now in the face, and
step off bold and free;
That's what God and the Temperance
Pledge has done for Jim and me-
National Advocate.
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a
Free.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-15
THE WOOING OF
A HYPNOTIST "
BY ELLIOTT FLOWER.
copyrighted by Daily Story Pub. Coz

IT CAME to her as an inspiration.
He had taken a seat at distance
of about six feet from her, as was his
invariable custom when he called, and
his innate bashfulness and difiidence
had made his conversation just about
as uninteresting as usual. He knew
why he was there and she knew why he
was there; he knew why he called
with such regularity, and she also
knew it; but he failed to put the rea-
son in words, and of course it would
have ben unmaidenly for her to do it..
He was awkward and ill-at-ease, but
nevertheless from a social and world
1y point of view he was distinctly EEL
igible." If their positions had been
reversed, it would have been all over
in five minutes, but, as it was, all her
efforts to give him the encouragement
and confidence necessary had been
without result.
Then, as before stated, brilliant
idea flashed upon her.
Are you at all interested in the
subject of hypnotism?" she asked.
No. he replied, gratitied that she
had come to his rescue with a sub
ject for conversation just as the 81
lence was becoming really embarrass-
ing. 81 never have given it any
thought"
But you should" she said.
"Do you really think SOP" he asked.
"Oh, l know it, she answered. 81
am sure you have the latent power in
you to make a wonderful hypnotist."
But you'll should think you would
be successful in that" he suggested,
secretly fattered and pleased by the
intimation that he had the will pow
er to control the action of others.
ION the contrary" she replied, 81
am an excellent subject, but that is
all. l have experimental little with
some of the girls, and have proved a
miserable failure. except as a subject.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-15

Any one of them seems to be able to
influence me, and they have made me
do some of the most absurd things
you ever heard of. You ought to try
1t some time and find out what power
there may be in you; it's lots of fun"
But l don't know how to try it,
he returned regretfully.
"Oh, l can show you that" she said.
'Tou take something bright--a piece
of silver or anything like that-and
hold it directly in front of the sub
ject's eyes. Then you tell him to con-
centrate his gaze and thought on that
bright object, while you concentrate
your thoughts on subjugating his will
to yours. I'm sure man of your force
of character and intensity of purpose
would soon be in complete control of
the subject. You might try it with me
and see if you understand. Of course,
1t will only be make-believe trial, be-
cause-because we're all alone, YOU
know, and it will do no harm to see
If you know how to go about it,
Of course he was quite ready to
make the experiment. The fact that
he had to hold silver dime before her
eyes gave him an excuse for getting
reasonably close to her, and he had de-
voted several months to the task of
finding an excuse to draw his chair
right up ohers. AS matter of fact,he
was much nearer to being hypnotized
at that moment than was she, but he
didn't know that. He produced the
necessary dime, and with 2 mixture of
eagerness and hesitation put himself
where he could hold it before her
eyes. The thrill of pleasure he expe-
rienced in finding what had hereto
thus easily overcome prevented him
from concentrating his thoughts to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-15
MY GATE is SHUT.

My gate is shut, my door is fast,
My door, that used to stand so wide
No sudden restless shadows cast.
On the bright sunny space, outside
No faces sweet, no footsteps free,
Cross the still threshold-stone TO me!
My gate is shut. My garden beds
Lie trim and level in the sun
There, where l watched the fitting heads
And where the young feet used to run,
The slow winds stir, the swift birds pass
With silent wings above the grass.
The door is fast. l move the blind;
What is it that l dumbly seek?
What can my sad eyes hope to find?
Nor dancing curl nor laughing cheek,
Nor eyes appraised, nor merry cry
OF gladstone greeting, or good-by.
My little children! Mine not long
Yet always mine, heart locked in heart
Mine, though they move where angels
throng.
And so l wait, and watch. apart:
Yea, with sweet faith, and patience-but
My door is fast, my gate is shut
Madeline Bridges. in Youths Companion.