The Tupelo journal., 1903-08-14
WHAT LOVE HAS DONE
Bill Arp Tells a Touching Story Of
Maternal Affection.
The Mary Munfora Memorial Library
of CartersvilIc-Brings 10 Mind
Beautiful Verses ON Death
and Love-.

The saddest and the sweetest things
ever written were concerning death
and love. Montgomery, Scott, Long
fellow, Lindley and Bourdillon, and
many others. found their tenderest
sentiments on these subject. Lindley
wrote his sweetest gems on the death
OF a young lady. Just such another
would he have written had he lived
until our loved n died.
Thou art gone from our gaze like a beau
tiful dream,
Thy grace and thy beauty no more will be
seen;
Tho lost to sight, to memory dear,
Thou ever wilt remain;
The only hope our hearts can cheer,
Inc hope to meet again
Longfellow says:
1.-THE air is full of farewells to the dying
And MORNINGS for the dead.
There is no flock, however watched and
tended,
But one dead lamb is there;
There is no ireside, however defended,
But has one vacant chair"
Montgomery says:
Friend after friend departs,
VINO has not lost a friend?
There is no union here Of hearts
That finds not here an end"
And Longfellow says by way Of con-
ISOLATION:
transition;
This life Of mortal breath
Is but a suburb Of the life ~elysian,
Whose portal we call DEATH
All this is very solemn and very sad,
but it has its counterpart when they
wrote OF love. Scott says:
'In peace love tunes the shepherds reed,
In war he mounts the warriors steed,
In courts is seen in gay attire,
In hamlets dances on the green.
Love rules the camp. the court. the grove.
And men below and saints above,
For love is Heaven, and Heaven Is love-"
Solomon says: Love is as strong
as DEATH" and God from necessity is
love-" and Love thy neigbbor as thy
SELL"
And Wordsworth says: "a mothers
love is the hottest thing alive"
A mothers love! | was watching
the eagerness with which our neigh
Dor, Mrs. Munford, vas cherishins The
memory of her lost daughter, thu
sweet girl who had charge of the Ii
brary books committee, and whose
memory now seems like a beautiful
dream-a dream to us, but not to the
mother, who never will forget. When
the Cherokee club prepared to make
a memorial to Mary, she pleaded for
the privilege of placing it where Mary
was wont to sit and have sweet COM
partnership with those she loved. Her
beautiful home was nothing, and
money was nothing. She said the Ii
brary is in debt $500 or $500. please
let me pay it off, for Mary felt like it
was her debt. Let me have the floor
vanished and have chairs bought in
stead of benches, and l want some
nicer tables for Mary's sake. Please let
me have a memorial for Mary here and
give it her name-The Mary Munford
Memorial library?" And so it was
done. Who could refuse a mothers
tears for the memory of her loving
daughter, and so it was done and the
sign over the door will be the Mary
Munford Memorial library. Butthisisnot
all of a mothers love. She is going to
buy the books that Mary would have
bought and make a donation each and
every year.
Now, good people, all who tarry or
pass through Gainesville stop a little
while and see what love has dOne-a
mothers love. I wish that committee
appointed on MI. Stovalrs bill would
come and see this model library and
go back and plead for that $4,000
wherewith to build the Winnie Davis
Memorial hall. The patriotic women
want it, and so do the veterans whose
time is nearly out. May it be your
last and best work for Miss Winnie,
whom we all loved. Bill Arp, in At
lanta Constitution.