The southern sentinel., 1903-09-18
WHAT LOVE HAS DONE
Bill Arp Tells Touching Story Of
Maternal Affection.
The Mary Munford Memorial Library
of Cartersvflie-BrinEs to Mind
Beautiful Verses on Death
and Love.

The saddest and the sweetest things
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 young lady. Just such another
would he have written had he lived
until our loved one died.
''TSou art gone from our gaze like 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.
The hope to meet again"
Longfellow says:
"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 fireside. however defended.
But las one vacant chair"
Montgomery says:
"Friend after friend departs.
Who has not lost friend?
There Is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an enc"
And Longfellow says by way Of con-
ISOLATION:
There is no death. What seems % IL
transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but suburb Of the life elyaian,
Whose portal We call death"
All this is very solemn and very sad.
but it has its counterpart when they
wrote oil love. Scott says:
I'm 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 .ove-
Solomon says: Love is as strong
as DEATH" and God from necessity is
love-" aad Love thy neighbor as thy
SELL"
And Wordswoi th says: "a mothers
love is the hottest thing alive"
A mothers love, l was watching
the eagerness with which our neigh
Dor, Mrs. Munford, was 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 beautiful
jream-a dream to US. but not to the
mother, who never will forget. When
the Cherokee club prepared to make
a memoria; to Mary. she pleaded for
the privilege of placing it where Mary
was won't to sit and have sweet COM
panionship with those she loved. Her
beautiful home was nothing, and
money was nothing. She said the liz
brary is in debt $500 or $500. please
let me pay 1t OF. for Mary felt like It
was her debt Let me have the floor
vanished and have chairs bought in
stead of benches. and 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. But thisis not
all Of q 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 little
while and see what love has done-a
mothers love- I wish that committee
appointed on Mr.. Stovall's 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 il nearly out. May it be your
last ard best work for Miss Winnie.
whom we all loved.-Bill Arp. in At
lanta Constitution.