The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-04-07

which the dramatist j. 1. G. Clarke has
clothed the lines of The Prince Of In
dia" possesses telling eloquence in
speech. In the second scene Of the
first act, following his taking of the
sword and treasure of King Solomon
to devote them to establishing the uni
versal religion of the ever living Lord
on the earth, the Prince of India APP
pears before Uel, the father of Lael,
and thus on a darkened stage with the
only light full upon his face, he recltes
the curse under which he labors and
the atonement he would make to find
peace:
Prince of India.
live because l cannot die, l had
No pity, none! I had no pity, none.
And nothing l can do avails; death
turns
His face away and will not pity me.
"a distant rumble of thunder)
They placed a crown of thorns upon
his brow
They laid the heavy cross on him, and
Him on his way the mad crowd fol-
lowing.
Up the steep.hil he dragged the cross,
and fell!
Then as he rose in pain to stagger on,
The Nazarene did turn his eyes to me.
And oh, the loving soul-depths in those
eyes,
Craving one glance Of pity, but my
heart
Was hard as stone. I struck him
cloud crash of thunder).
Oh, pity, angel of the suffering soul,
Avert his glance of wounded love from
me,
The glance of love that still appeals to
millions
And more millions through the world.
Uel.
! I've heard such story and are you the
man?
Prince of India.
! Ay, I am he the Wanderer, long striv-
ing
To atone, striving to touch Gods pity
And escape my sentence and have leave
/ to de.
What dreadful sentence was It? From
what Judge?
Prince of India.
From eyes that pitied while lips spake
judgment,
The Nazarene's. His judgment was
/ Il go; tarry thou until l come again. -
Mercy! Mercy!
I would atone. Yea, to atone, I'd bring
/ All men to one great altar of the Lord.
/ Love, love that purifies, love that re-
deems,
I call on you! Love that makes pain
glory
Love that is the light upon the great
archangels;
Love that is the song Of the seraphim:
Love that is the life of man: love that
is
The breath of the divine
one Of the things no more easily set
tied than the bringing up of other peo-
pies children is the spending Of other
peoples money.
The absurdity of the first situation
is so fully disseminated that it is a
( brave person who will offer a sugges-
/ ton on the subject unless with an apo
logger when he has been suddenly
aroused into Indignation at some mis-
demeanOr which opens the noodgates
/ There ought to be the same social i'm
munity from the person who attempts
to regulate other peoples expenditures.
/ II does not require extraordinary de-
velopment to realize that each mans
necessities are not only as complex as
/ his circumstances, but as his indivi-
duality
/ one person is of the temperament to
spend as he goes, taking and giving
small pleasures by the way, while an
other is stngy with little things in or
der to confer greater favors later on.
/ one dresses methodically and evenly
well without Injuries, another
whose soul revels in beautiful things
/ will spend a whole seasons income in
what appeals to her simply because it
/ is beautiful 1t is the old story of the
woman who needed a pair of shoes, but
/ had to have" a diamond ring.
/ whole parish criticized the min
ister's wife who walked into a china
shop with the money which her hus-
band had given her to buy new coat,
spent the whole sum i'm beautiful plates
| and cups, and returned on the evening
train, smilingly happy in her old coat
Of worn to- the skin" seal.
What the unitarian forgets is that
the china did the minister's wife more
good than a thousand neat and fash
ionable coats. After ALL it is the Sc
renity and heart of courage" that we
get for work and usefulness in which
lies the true strength of money. and
this comes to all in different ways. ac-
cording to the individual
4 4 4 =
/ Harriet NJ. King rules principality.
/ Her Santa Gertrude ranch in Texas
/ contains one and one-half million acres.
/ One may ride for ninety miles in a
straight line without getting outside its
barbed wire fence 1t is as large as the
state of Delaware and nearly twice as
large as Rhode Island, and far greater
in extent and wealth than many OF
! fhOse Gormnn Municipalities from which