The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-08-06
BILL ARP.


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 en-
timents on these subjects. 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 one died.
HThou art gone from our gaze like .
4 beautiful 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:
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 freside, however defended.
But has one vacant chair"
Montgomery says:
Friend after friend departs.
Who 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:
There is no death. What seems SO n
transition;
This life Of mortal breath
Is but a suburb Of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call death"
All this very solemn and very sad,
but 1t has its counterpart when rney
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"
Solemn says. Love is as strong n
death" and God from necessity To
love" and Love thy neighbor as thy
SELF"
And Wordsworth says, "a mothers
love Is the hottest thing alive"
A mothers love! was watching the
eagerness with which our ~neighbor,
Mrs. Munford, wa cherishing the
memory Of her lost daughter, the sweet
| girl who had charge Of the library
books committee and whose memory
now seems like a beautiful dream
dream to us, but not to the mother
who never will forget. When tho
Cherokee Club prepared to make
memorial for Mary she pleaded for b
privilege Of placing it where Mary wa1
wont to sit and have sweet companion
ship with those she loved. Her beauh-
full home was nothing and money was
nothing. She said the library Is IN
debt five or six hundred dollars. Please
let me pay it of, for Mary felt like IL
was her debt. Let me have the floor
vanished and have chairs bought IN
stead of benches, and I want some
nicer tables for Mary's sake. Please
let me have a memorial for Mary here
and give 1t her name-The Mary Mum
ford Memorial Library" And so It
was done. Who could refuse a moth
er's tears for the memory OF her low
Ing daughter, and so it was done ana
the sign over the door will be the
Mary Munford Memorial library. But
this 10. not all Of a mothers love. She
is going to buy the books that Mary
would have bought and make a dona-
ton 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 committees
appointed on Mr.. Stoyalls 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 1t be your lasf
and best work for Miss Winnie, whom
we all loved.-Bill Arp in Atlanta Com
sttution.