The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-25

and decorated picture of the name of the Pack Log Magazine" l turn over its pages and find a Sunshine Department edited and controlled by the Backlog Branch of the 1. s. s.; the items of news and comment furnished by Mrs. west over Alden, and Mrs. l.. N. Won Hagen, the branch President of tho Backlog Branch of the 1. S. 8. -,-
 ''Of the making of books there is. no end wrote the wise proverb collector of the Hebrews-three thousand years ago The prophecy is being fulfilled at an ap- palling rate in this country. Yes. appall- ing for some of the most popular and en- tertalning literature of this period Is in- aidiously pernicious in ts tone-all the more dangerous for being written in' the best language and with a 'subtlety that defles criticism.
 However, taking it all in all. the de- luge of literary work that is flooding the world of readers is far from being ''all bad" The spirit of the Sunshine movement is making It's impress on the larger quantity of what is generally called light reading. Both the fiction and the poetry of the passing decade lead higher. nobler, sweeter and broader thoughts of the hopes and possibilities of the human race.
 Never was the world so full of organ iEed effort for good shown by the num- Der and variety of the clubs, societies, leagues, unions and circles among all classes of society, and both men and wo- men. as now. Can a finer or more beauti- full plea be found for cooperation and organized work than that contained in the following quotation from The Edito- rial Comment" in the January number of The Sunshine Bulletin:
 Every happy idea helps to make the happy world. Even the dewdrop with countless others is a mighty force."
 Just a Dewdrop.
 I-who am I? Just a dewdrop,
 Glittering. glistering on the roseleaf:
 Yet help to makA Niagara,
 Help to make the EIightiest torrents.
 Just a dewdrop. quickly passing
 Thing of beauty in the sunshine;
 Yet through me the desert blossoms,
 Giving life where death was present.
 Just a dewdrop, hardly noticed,
 Never counted as a world force;
 Yet move the giant engine
 Which without me were impotent.
 Just dewdrop not diamond,
 Doomed to dry and die so shortly;
 Yet help create the ocean,
 On which man is but a feather.
 Just dewdrop, gone by noontide,
 Perished. vanished like phantom;
 Yet my soul Is everlasting,
 So I go to weightier duties
 Type of souls to him who ponders
 On the models of creation.
 Though alone can do nothing
 Merged with others I'm reslstless.
 So may you, the human atom
 Learn the logic of existence.
 Cynthia Westover Alden.
 And now Mrs. Harry T. Inge of Mo bile. is appointed State President of tho I. s. s. to fill the vacancy created hy the regretted resignation of Mrs. Chan pell Cory. Let us hope that the Sun sinners scattered all over Alabama will read, ponder and act upon the wise and practical suggestion made by Mrs. AL den's poem.
 By|the-way. one of the most active and successful SunShiners In tfis State is an Alabama girl. She is an invalid living in Dogwood. She writes that on her birthday she received eighty-seven letters and many more substantial tokens of re- membrance from SunShiners everywhere. Although great GufneTer, this sun shine frightened her burden for many weary days This generous offering of sunshine was a result of an appeal in The Christian Herald and Is a good illustra- tion of genuine sunshine work. Her address is Mss C. A. Barger, Dogwood, Ala.
 This with many other items of Sun shine news can be found in The Bulletin. Miss Barger eohcits correspondence. received today from a St. Louis Sum s1hine President the following royal medieval:
 Recipe for a Happy Life. Three ounces are necessary, first of Then of repOse and peace; of conscience
 A pound eTEtiro is needtul: