The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-09-29
THE OLD SONG THAT MOTHER
USED TO SING

THE OLD SONG THAT MOTHER
USED TO SING,
When the thrushes cease their singing
and the wild bees leave the clover;
When the glory of the sunset fades
and leaves the heavens pale;
When above the hill and mountains
misty shades of twilight hover.
And the discords of the daytime far
away in distance fail.
When the rath wheat gently rushes
and the timid aspens shlver
And the west winds, signing softly,
scents from the sleeping flowers
bring;
When the peewits cry together plain
lively by brook and river
Then it is that I hear the old song
that my mother used to sing.
Round my neck I feel the pressure of
her fingers, warm and slender,
And in sleeping dreams and waking 1
have felt it many times,
Just as when of old I listened to that
ditty, quaint and tender,
Till the boughs that waved above us
caught the cadence of the rhymes
And my heart throbs loud and quickly,
as I hear it rising clearer;
Youth is mine, it's hope and visions,
dreams and plans are mine again;
Earth is fairer, life is sweeter-aye,
and heaven itself seems nearer
To me as 1 list in fancy to that ne'er
forgotten strain.
-McCalrs Magazine.
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Some enterprising chronicler has
been taking notes on the respective
heights of the kings and queens of
| Christendom, and furnishes the follow
ing data:
King Edward is quite six inches
shorter than Queen Alexandra.
The Car is overtopped a full head
| by the Czarina
Kaiser Wilhelm is above medium
height, but the German Empress is
very tall, and that, they say, is the
reason that the proud Hohenzollern
will never be photographed beside his
wife, unless she sits while he stands.
The King of Italy, short and squat,
hardly reaches to the shoulder of the
| tall, athletic Queen Helena.
The King of Portugal, though he
| would make up amply in girth, fails
of the height of his Queen.
| The Prince of Wales is some four
| inches shorter than the Princess.
The young King of Spain is topped
by some inches by the English Prin-
cess Ena, and the homely but good
Queen of Denmark literally towers
over her lord.
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A Bishop addressing a Sunday school
class said.
| "Only think, children In Africa
there are 100000 900 square miles of ter
ritory without single Sunday school
where little boys and girls can spend
their Sundays. Now what should we
all try and>save up our money to do?'
60 to Africa" responded the class
| in unison.
A certain clergyman is so set against
marrying Divorces that he Is very
careful in his examination of candi-
dates for matrimonial honors. The
other day he asked a young man who
sought to engage him tt perform the
marriage ceremony:
us your intended wife a spinster|
ooh, no. sir! She's a .dressmaker."
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In a Georgia town there lives an
old negro couple Uncle Nose, the
husband, is famed for several countries
around for his banjo playing Not
long ago, however a lady, wishing to
give some Northern visitors a sample
of what a genuine old negro can do
with a banjo, called at the cabin and
stated her wishes to Aunt Sal.
"Deed, chile, dat ole niger amt
playin' dat banjo no mo-" Aunt Sal
said, pointing to where the instru-
ment hung, covered with cobwebs, up
on the wall "He des puts in all his
time fshin' now"
"Why, what caused him to give it up
has he been converted?" the visitor
asked.
"Deed, dat wuhess niger neber will
git conberted, honey. No, he des' got
skeered.
Scared? OF what?"
DAT minstrel show done done 1t,
Miss Mary" Aunt Sal explained. DE
boss o. dat show he hearn nah ole
man playin', an he offered him a
steady job dom hit. Yassum, an hit
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