St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-12
WHAT LOVE HAS DONE
Bill Arp Tells 4 Touching Story 81
Maternal Affection.
The Mary Munford Memorial Library
Of Observation-Disclosures to Mind I
Beautiful Verses ON Death
and Love. 4

over WIllIe0 were concerning Q08lO
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.
Thou art gone from our g&xe like beau
tiful dream,
Thy grace and thy beauty 10 more viii be-
seen; "A
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 farewels 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, Il
But has 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 end"
And Longfellow says by way Of CON-
ISOLATION:
''There is no death. What seems 20 b !
transition;
This life Of mortal breath
II but 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 oil love. Scott says: /
'.In peace love tunes the shepherds reed, i
In war he mounts the warriors steed,
In courts Is seen in gay attire, 1
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 j
as DEATH" and God from necessity ia 4
love- and Love thy neighbor 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, was cherishing the
memory of her lost daughter. thu,
sweet girl who had charge of the IL
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
> memorial to Mary, she pleaded for
the privilege Of placing It where Mary
was wont to sit and have sweet COM
with those she loved. Her
beautiful home was nothing. and
money was nothing. She said the IL
brary is in debt $500 or 5000. Please?
let me pay it OF, for Mary felt ike Il;
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 memorial for Mary here and
give it her name-The Mary Munford
Memorial Hbrary?" And 30 It, was
done. Who could refuse mothers:
Tears for the memory OF her loving
daughter, and 80 it was done and the
,ign over the door will be the Mary
Munford Memorial library. Butthisisnot.
Ill Of mothers love. She is going to-
ouy the books that Mary would iiave
bought and make a donation each and
very year.
Now, good people, all who tarry or;
bass through Cartersville stop little
while and see what love has done-as
Mothers love. wish that COMMITTEES
appointed on Mr.. Stovall's bill would
.ome and see this model library and
70 back and plead for that Sc 900,
vherewith to build the Winnie Davis,
Memorial hall. The patriotic women
want it, and so do the veterans whose
line Is nearly out. May 1t be your.
asst and best work for Miss Winnie.
whom we all loved. Bib Arp, in At.
anita Constitution.
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