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XIOIITNIXG OF THE SEA."
Rev. Ir. Talznago Qoea DoWa to the
Deep for a Subject.
In the Strange Splendor of the Pbo(hor
ceace on the Sea's Surface He
Flsda Fresh Store of God's
Handiwork.
The following- discourse with "The
Lightning of the Sea" for its subject,
was delivered by Rev. T. DeW itt Tal-
mage in the Brooklyn tabernacle, being
based on the text.
He maketii a path to shins after Him. Job
xli.. 32. -
If for the next thousand years min
isters of religion should preach from
this Bible there will yet be texts unex
pounded, and unexplained, and unap
preciated. What little has been said
concerning this chapter in Job from
which my text is taken bears on the
controversy as to what was really the
leviathan described a's disturbing the
sea. What creature it was I know not.
Some say it was a whale. Some say it
was a crocodile. My own opinion is it
was a sea monster now extinct. No
creature now floating in Mediterra
nean or Atlantic waters corresponds to
Job's description.
What most interests me is that as it
moved on through the deep it left the
waters flashing and resplendent. In
the words of the t -xt: "lie iuaketh a
path to shine after him." What was
that illuminated path? It was phos
phorescence. You find it In the wake
of a ship in the night, especially after
rough weither. Phosphorescence Is
the lightning of the sea. That this
figure of speech is correct in distribut
ing its appearance I am certified by an
incident. After crossing the Atlantic
the first time and writing from Basle,
Switzerland, to an American magazine
an account of my voyage, in which
nothing more fascinated me than the
phosphorescence in the ship's wake, I
called it the lightning of the sea. Re
turning to my hotel I found a book of
John Ruskin, and the first sentence
my eyes fell upon was a description of
phosphorescence, in which he called it
"The lightning of the sea." Down to
the post office I hastened to get the
manuscript, and with great labor and
some expense got possession of the
magazine article and put quotation
marks around that one sentence,
although it was as original with me as
with John Ruskin. I suppose that
nine-tenths of you living so near the
sea const have watched this marine ap
pearance called phosphoresence, and I
hope that the other one-tenth may
some day be so happy as to witness it.
It is the waves of the sea diamonded; it
is the inflorescence of the billows; the
waves of jtlie sea crimsoned, as was the
the deep after the sea fight at Lepanto;
the waves of the sea on fire. There
are times when from horizon to hori
zon the entire ocean seems in confla
gration with this strange .splendor, as it
changes every moment to tamer or
more dazzling color on all sidesof you.
You sit looking over the tatfrail of the
yacht or oceaif steamer watching and
waiting to see what new thing the God
of beauty will do with the Atlantic. It
is the ocean of transfiguration; it is the
marine world casting its garments of
glory in the pathway of the Almighty
as lie walks the deep; it Is an inverted
firmanent with all its stars ffone down
with it. No picture can present it. for
photographer's camera can not be suc
cessfully trained to catch it, and be
fore it the hand of the painter drops
its pencil overawed and powerless.
This phosphorescence is the appear
ance of myriads of the animal kingdom
rising, falling, playing, flashing, liv
ing, dying. These luminous animal
cules for nearly one hundred and fifty
years have been the study of natural
ists and the fascination and soleruiza
tion of. all who have brain enough to
think. Now God, who puts in His Bi
ble nothing trivial or useless, calls the
attention of Job, the greatest scientist
of his day. to this phosphorescence,
and as the leviathan of the deep sweeps
past, points out the faet that "He
maketh a path to shine after him."
Is that true of us now, and will it be
true of us when we are gone? Will
there be subsequent light or darkness?
Will there be a trail of gloom or good
cheer? Can anyone between now and
the next one hundred years say of us
truthfully as the text says of the levi
athan of the deep: "He maketh a path
to shine after him?" For we are mov
ing on. While we live in the same
house, and transact business at the
same store, and write on the same ta
ble, and chisel in the same studio, and
thresh in the same barn, and worship
in the same church, we are in motion,
and ar in many respects moving on,
and we are not where we were ten
years ago, nor where we will "be
ten years hence. Moving on! Look
at the family recoi-d, or the
almanac, or into the mirror,
and see if any one of you is where you
were. AH in motion. Other feet may
trip, and stumble, and halt, but the
feet of not one moment for the last
sixty centuries has "tripped, or stum
bled, or halted. Moving on! Society
moving on! The world moving on!
Heaven moving on! The universe
moving on! Time moving on! Eterni
t3T moving on! Therefore it is absurd
to think that we ourselves can stop,
as we must move with all the rest
Are we like the creature of the text,
making our path to shine after us?
It may be a peculiar question, but
my text suggests it. What influ
ence will we leave in this world
af ter we have gone through?
"None," answers hundreds of voiecs,
"we are not one of the immortals.
Fifty years a f ter we are out of the
world it will be as though we never
inhabited iu" Yon are wrong in say
ine that. I pass down through this
audience and up through these- galler
ies, and I a.m I n.kiny fo r ene who .will
h.tvt' i !nf -i
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L.s world one
But I have
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teinity.
the least In-his-
historv
- no he di
ik. time of
sve an atiirmative or a
ur-otive to so,ne tempatu
an
other, heariii :.f. y..-i-; induced to A-s-cide
in the tame way. Clear on tl.e
other side of the next million year
may be the first you hear of the iong
reaching influence of that yes or no,
but hear of it you will. Will that
father make a path to shine after him?
Will that mother make a path to
shine after her? You will be wakling
along these streets, or along that
country road two hundred years
'from now in the character
of your descendants. They will
be affected by your courage . or your
cowardice, your purity or your deprav
ity, your holiness or your fcin. You
will make the path to shine after you
or blacken after yon. Why should
they point out to us on some mountain
two rivulets, one of which passes down
into the rivera which pour out into the
Pacific ocean and the other rivulet
flowing down into the "rivera which
pass out into the Alan tic ocean?
Eyery man4j every woman, stands at a
point where words uttered, or deeds
done, or prayers offered, decide op--posite
destinies and opposite eterni
ties. We see a man planting a tree,
" and treaning the sod firmly . en either
6ide of it, and watering it in dry
weather, and taking a great care
in its culture, and he never
plucks any fruit from its bough;
but " his children will. We
are all planting trees that will yield
fruit hundreds of years after we are
dead; orchards of golden fruit, or
groves of deadly upas. I am so fasci
nated with the phosphorescence m the
track of a ship that I have sometimes
watched for a long whils, and have
seen nothiug on the face of the deep
but blackness. The . mouth of watery
chasms that looked like gaping jaws of
hell. Not a spark as big as a firefly;
not a w hite scroll of surf; not a taper
to illuminate the mighty sepulchers of
dead ships; darkness three thousand
feet deep, and more thousands of feet
long and wide. That is the kind of
wake that a bad man leaves behind
him as he plows through the ocean of
this life toward the vaster ocean of
the great future.
Now, suppose a man seated in a cor
ner grocery, or business office among
clerks, gives himself to jolly skeptic
ism. He laughs at the Bible, makes
sport of the miracles, speaks" of perdi
tion in jokes, and laughs at revivals
as a frolic, and at the passage of a
funeral procession, which always
solemnizes sensible people, says:
"Boys, let's take a drink." There is" in
that group a young man who is mak
ing a great struggle against tempta
tion, and prays night and morning,
and reads his Bible, and is asking God
for help day by day. But that guffaw
against Christianity makes him lose
his grip of sacred things and he gives
up Sabbath, and church, and morals,
and gos from bad to worse, till he falls
under dissipations, dies in a lazar
house and is buried iu the potter's
field. Another young man who heard
that jolly skepticifem made up his mind
that "it makes no difference what we
do or say, for we will all come out at
last at the right place," began, as a
consequence, to purloin. Some money
that came into his hands for others he
applied to his own uses, thinking pe r
haps he would make it straight so;n z
other time, and all wjould be well ev u
if he did not make it straight. He
ends in the penitentiary. That scoffer
who uttered jokes against Christianity
never realized what bad work he v'as
doing, and he passed on through life,
and out of it, and into the future that
I am not now going to depict. I do not
propose with a searchlight to ehow
the breakers of the awful coast on
which that ship is wrecked, for my
business now is to watch the sea after
the keel has plowed it. No phosphor
escence in the wake of .that ship, but
behind it two souls struggling in the
wave; two young men destroyed by
reckless skepticism; an unillumined
ocean beneath, , and on all sides of
them. Blackness and darkness. You
know what a gloriously good man
Rev. John Newland was, the most of
his life, .but before his conversion he
was a very wicked sailor, and on board
the ship Harwich, instilled infidelity
and vice in the mind of a young
man, principles which destroyed
him. Afterward the two met and
Newton tried to undo his bad work,
but in vain. Tha young man be
came worse and worse, and died a
profligate, horrifying with his pro
fanities those who stood by him in his
last moments. Better look out what
bad influence you start, for you may
not be able to stop it. It does not re
quire very, great force to ruin others.
Why was if that many years ago a
great flood nearly destroyed New Or
leans? A crawfish had burrowed into
the banks of the river until the ground
was saturated, and the banks weak
ened, until the flood burst.
But I find here a man who starts out
in life with the determination that he
will never see suffering but he will try
to alleviate it; and never seo discour
agement but he will try to cheer it;
and never meet with anybody but he
will try to do him good. Getting his
Strength from God, he starts from
home with high purpose of doing all
the good he can possibly do in one day.
Whether standing behind the counter,
or talking in the business oliice with a
pen behind his ear, or . making a
bargain with a . fellow-trader, or
out in the field discussing with
his next neighbor -the wisest
rotation of crops, or in the shoe
maker's shop pounding sole leather,
there is something in his face, and in
his phraseology, and in his manner
that demonstrates the grace of God in
his heart He can talk on religion
without awkwardly dragging it in by
the ears. He loves God, and loves the
souls of all whom he meets, and is in
terested in their .present and eternal
destiny. For fifty or sixty years
he lives that kind of life arid then
gets tlirou. wiia it ;ir.i
ile:iv-'i a r;iiwr.-.-.: s ;
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to ,t.-' ct th path of foam in t Ae v.L e
of tAst sA'.p, and I tli jcu it is- all
a-yieam with spleudors of-kindacss
doiie. and rolling with illumined tears
that were wiped away, and adash with
congratulations, and elear out to the
horizon In all directions is the spark
ling, flashing, billowing phosphores
cence of a Christian life. "He maketh
a path to shine after him."
Have you any arithmetic capable of
estimating the influence of our good
and gracious friend whoa few days ago
went up to rest George W. Chiids, of
Philadelphia? From a newspaper hat
was printed for thirty 'years without
one word of defamation or scurrility
or scandal, and putting chief emphasis
on virtue and charity and clean in
telligence, he reaped a fortune for
himself and then distributed a vast
amount of it among the poor and
struggling,.putting his invalid and aged
reporters on pensions, until his name
stands everywhere for large-hearted-ness
and sympathy and help and high
est style of Christian gentleman. In
an era which had in tha chairs of- its
journalism a Horace Greeley, and a
Henry J. Raymond, and aelames Gor
don Bennett, and Erastus Brooks, and
a George William Curtis, and an
Irenaeus Prime, none of them will be
longer remembered than George W.
Chiids. Staying away from the unveil
ing of the monument he reared at
large expense in our Greenwood in
memory of Prof. Proctor, the astron
omer, lest I should say something in
praise of the man who had paid for the
monument. By all acknowledged a
representative of the highest American
journalism. If you would calculate his
influence for good you must count how
many sheets of his newspapers have
been published in the last quarter of a
century, and how many people have
read them, and the effect not only
upon those readers, but upon all whom
they Ishall influence for all time,
while j-ou add to all that the work
of the churches he helped build, and
of the institutions of mercy he helped
found. Better give up before you start
the measuring of the phosphorescence
in the wake of that ship of the celes
tial line. Who can tell the post-mortem
influence of a Savonarola, a Win
klereid, a Guttenberg, a Marlborough,
a Decatur, a Toussaint, a Bolivai-, a
Clarkson, a Robert Raikes, a Harlen
Page, who had one hundred and twenty-five
Sabbath' scholars, eighty-four
of whom became Christians and six of
them ministers of the Gospel.
Make one person happy every day,
and do that for twenty years and you
will have made seven thousand three
hundred happy. You know a man who
has lost all his property by an unfor
tuuate investment, or by putting his
name on the back of a friend's note?
After you have taken a brief nap.
which every mrvn and woman is en
titled to on a Sunday afternoon, ga
and cheer up that man. You can, if
God helps you, say something that
will do him good after both of you
have been dead a thousand years.
Shine! You know of a family with n
bad boy who has run away from home.
Go before night and tell that father
md mother the parable of the prodigal
son, and that some of the illustrious
and useful men now in church and state
had a silly passage in their lives una
ran away from home. Shiue.f
You know of a family that ha?
lost a child, and the silence of
the nursery glooms the whole
house from cellar to garret. Go before
night and tell them how much that
child has happily escaped, since the
most prosperous life on earth is a
struggle. Shine! You know of some
invalid who is dying for lack of an ap
petite. She can not get well because
she can not eat. Broil a chicken and
take it to her before night, and cheat
her poor appetite into keen relish.
Shine! You know of some one who likes
you, and you like him, and he ought
to be a Christian. Go tell him what
religion has "done for you, and ask
him if you can pray for him. Shine!
Oh, for a disposition so charged with
sweetness and light that we can not
v help but shine! Remember if you can
not be a leviathan lashing the ocean
into fury, you can be one of the'phos
phori, doing your part toward making
a path of phosphorescence.
Then I will tell you what impression
you will leave when you pass through
this life and after you are gone. I will
tell you to your face, and not leave it
to the minister who officiates at your
obsequies. . The failure in all eulogium
of the departed is that they can
not hear it. All hear it except
the one most interested. This,
in substance," is what I or some
one else will s-.y of you on such an
occasion: "We gather for offices of re
spect to this "departed one. It is im
possible to Jell how many tears he
wiped away; how many burdens he
lifted; or how many souls he was un
der God instrumental in saving. His
influence will never cease. We are all
better for having known him. That
pillow of flowers on the casket was
presented by his Sabbath-schoOl
class, all of whom he brought
to Christ. That cross of flowers at the
head was presented by the orphan asy
lum which he befriended. Those three
single flowers: one was sent by a poor
woman . for whom he bought a ten of
coal, and one was by a waif of the
street whom he rescued through
the midnight mission, and the oth
er was from a prison cell
which he had often visited to en
courage repentance in a young man
who had done wrong. Those three
loose flowers mean quite as much as
the costly garlands now breathing
their aroma through this saddened
home, crowded with sympathizers.
Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord; they rest from their labor,
and their works do follow them.'
Or if it should be the more so'ur.u
burial at sea, let it be after the sun has
crone down, artd 'the capta'n has read
the npropiat i liturgy. :ri h ? - "f "
lel. has tolled, and v-u V"
fivi-i the stt-rn of t-v. -rfp'.r.ient
ph . - -;
say, in th? won.. . . -
mali'.h a path to -Uina ;uv,r UiiiV '
mil in .ninii. ..ill I. ii -ii I... v-.ieJ"isjwotv3.-. .. . i
(Concluded from Last Week.)
tne cior,e or the war -an army that
marched home in defeat and not in vic
tory in pathos and not in splendor
but in glory .that equaled yours and to
hearts that were as loving as ever wel
comed heroes home.
"Let me piolare to you the footsore
confederate soldier, as, buttoning up in.
his faded gray jacket the parole which
was to bear testimony to his ' children
of his fidelity and faith, he turned hia
face southward from Appomattox in
1863. Think of him, as, ragged, half
starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by
want and wounds, having fought to
exhaustion, he surrenders his gun
wrings the hands of his eomrades in
Bileiace, and, lifting his tear-stained and
pallid face for the last time to the
graves that dot old Virginia's hills,
pulls his gray cap over his brow and
begins the slow and painful journey.
. "What does he find? Let me ask
you, who went to your homes eager to
find, in a 'welcome you had justly
earned, full payment for four years'
sacrifice what does he find when, hav
ing followed the battle-stained cross
against overwhelming oddsr dreading
death not half so much as surrender,
he reaches the home he left so prosper
ous and beautiful? He finds his house
in ruins, his farm devastated, his slaves
free, his stock killed, his barns empty,
his trade destroyed, his monpy worth
less, his social system feudal in it3
magnificence swept away, las people
without law or legal status, his -comrades
slain, and the burdens of others
heavy on his shoulders. Without
THE LATE HEXtlY
GKADT.
money, credit, employment, material
or training, and, besides all this, con
fronted with the gravest problem that
over met human intelligence the
establishing of a status for the
TUSK
body of his liberated slaves.
"What does he do, this hero in gray,
with the heart of gold? Does he sit
down in sullenness and despair? Not
for a day. Surely God, who had
stripped him of his prosperityj in
spired him in his adversity. As ruin
was never before so overwhelming,
never was restoration swifter. The
the furrow; horses that had charged
federal guns marched before the plow,
and fields that ran red with human
blod in . April were green with the
harvest in June; women reared in lux
ury cut up their dresses and made
breeches for their husbands; with a,
patience and a heroism that fit women
always as a garment they gave their
hands to work. There was little bit
terness in all this. Cheerfulness and
frankness prevailed. 'Bill Arp struck
the keynote when he said: Well, I
killed as many cf them as they did of
me, and I'm going home to work.' "
BISHOP MARVIN'S STORY.
A War Incident Which Dispelled Ills
Fear a&d Worry. '
Bishop Marvin, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, relates that, as he
was traveling during the war, in the
wilds of Arkansas, a feeling of depres
sion took possession of him. The
union sjldiers had driven him from
home, but as lie drew near to n dilapi-
dated old lo? ca"
singing:
"Nearer usj
Dismounting,
where be found
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the midst of extreme poverty, smgtn?
it as he had never heard it sumr be
fore. UIs fears and worry and ac
pression vanished, and he continued
his way happy and trustful, because of
the faith which he had witnessed, and
the hymn which he bad heard.
LOST IN THE MAIL.
Tbe Carious Sfnseuua of the Dead-Letter
Oftlce at Washington.
The museum contains many curious !
and interesting things. In one case ia
a mail-pouch with an ugly slash mads j
by a sharp knife and stained with j
blood. The carrier returning , from !
Lochiel, Ariz., July 23, 18S5, was
killed by Apache Indians, whf? de- :
stroyed the mails, leaving this bag on
the ground. In another place may W
seen five letters that claim an aristoc
racy of antiquity, being severaUy
stamped 1821,' 1832, 1835, and 1830.
Among the books is a New Testament
in Chinese, a life of Ignatius Loyola in
Italian, printed m Venice in 1711, and
a French volume which dates back to
M87. Near by is the Lord's Prayer ia
fifty-four languages, and a certificate
of character to an apprentice from his
master. The certificate is in German,
and was brought to this country a
hundred years ago.
.There are two miniatures, apparent
ly of father and son, painted on ivory,
which were found in a blank letter
from Boston, December 9, 1833, and
many efforts have been haade by the
department to find the owners, but so
far they have proved unavailing. Two
other miniatures that have attracted
much attention are framed in old
fashioned gold settings which bear up
on the reverse sides the inscriptions
Lucy Randolph, Obiit April i3. 1783, 2&
64 years; and Mary Carter, Obiit Jan
uary 31, 1870. M 34 years.
A crucifix of gold and carnelian on
a cushion of velvet in a glass case was
found at the close of the war ia the
Atlanta post office, and to this day it
remains unclaimed. - Near it is a
sapphire ring set with diamonds, and
in close proximity,. as if keeping guard
over these valuables, is a loaded re
volver A The latter was sent addressed
to a lady in Indiana; but as she never
called for it, it drifted here.
Then, with singular incongruity, but
tastefully displayed, upon shelves cov
ered with crimson cloth are to be
found a piece of wood from the floor of
the room in which Jesss James, the
j notorious outlaw, was killed; stu
j birds; palmetto-wood; jiugget gold; i
ffed
sea-
shells; boxes of wed3ing-cake; false
teeth; Easter eggs; bottles of salad-oil,
cognac, and perfumesj packages of
arsenic and strychnine; an array of
bowie knives; an old English hat-box
that looks as if it had circumnavigated
the globe; a coffee-pot; a washboardi
samples of barbed-wire fence; a baby
cotton-bale; and dolls enough for the'
children of an entire village. There
fantastic garment stamped all
with carcU, kings, queens, dia-
over
monds, ' spades, hearts, and clnbs
mingled in brilliant confusion. A coat
like this is much prized by the Sand-,
wich Islanders, who send to America
to have it manufactured, the possession
of one being regarded as a badge of
distinction. The bright hues of this
. one are toned down by the companion'
- ship of an exquisite feather fan ia
; black and white with pearl sticks,
j . Several years since, when the steam
f ship "Oregon" was lost, a portion of
her mail wai recoverea, ana amonr
the newspapers wer4 found many
dozens of pairs of kid gloves which
were being smuggled into this coun
try. A few of thene now hang be
hind th? glass doors in the museum as
a warning to the duhonest
The collection of coins would .mske
the 'eves of a. collector glisten. The
r
triarch of
the tr'A;
en oi l so
VJ?t It tr,-;
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THE HANDS
Bony ringers and Kails May
Be Made t
Appear OraoefaU
I wonder how it -came about, that
oroe one discovered that our hands
and fingers needed cultivating. Was
It that in the olden days aristocratio
dames of whom minstrels sang and for
whose approval knights broks the
lanoe had no need to oonalder the
beauty of t&ejr hands that tbejr ff
perpetually at their looms, liK nm
lady of Shalott, and wova yrth whita
Rid taper fingers which knew faO uor"
toilv TF8 l that ratolntion and an
arcny ave helped to equally tha 8 play
handed sT3 ot th 8011 d ths propri-
hetors of olv 0" an o aestroyacl
their coisaslinea f, -
It lies within owner's power to
improve the apoearaC of ths hand If
a little care and plnd? brought to
bear. , One should knew stoat if tha
hand is broaxl a sever cuff oX tightly""
fitting wristband will maks it .Ppo
doubly so. So also does the fahtoT ot
wearing a little finger ring. ..Sings on'
any but the third finger aggraraU tha .
breadth and give a rotund effect in
spite of the exertions of the manicure.
In ths choice of rings and their dispo
sition and the hand much art may ba
brought to bear. On a fat hand pearls
look well; on a bony one they look
atrocious at least the hands do. 1
may be a difficult raattwr to persuade
the fair ones that a hand with premi
nent joints is best left"3 absolutely un
adorned that precious stones bat add
to its hard and horny look.
Red hands should shun contact with
pearls, turquoisos or even diamond&X
Fine old signet rings, black pearls,
sapphires, onyx, cameo or pigeon bleod
rubies a-e the most suitable ornameatR
if decorations be longed in'. Ill formed
finger nails should never be highly
polished. It is a sa I mistako to do so.
Almond shaped tip. 2ut-ous as gem,
are fascinating to Ti'dg-ee, but an un
natural gloss is apt to mkd square,
umhape-ly mils terribly prominent
Even when shapely Angara termiueta
in pretty oval nails thair beauty I ut
terly destroyed if the nails are allowed "
to grow in points beyond the fingar
tips, There is no charm in murderous
looking, Chiaese-like talons of bone.
When the wrist r. bene." presents a
prominent ungainly knob raSe of
lace are a delightful resource, and kc
is the Flemish cu'
An overfat wrist
is quite as unlovely and should be
just
as carefully concealed.
Bundle of Mechlin, or knotty Irish
point lace, should be perpetually at
hand for those wlfrose anatomy U given
to '.'knobbyness." Arms that are ovar
muscular or obese should also bo
sparingly exhibited. Indeed, thy "ap
pear slimmer when veiled by a puif .
sleeve which prevents the full outlines
from demonstrating themselves too
vividly., The lean and. scraggy srm
also requires a full covering, a d:i-
ence In the construction of t
pu3C only being uee'lid. An
erous arm demands a lotic
n? sv-v
'"IVCr-a"' V
clinin o'lfi:, while th:i bon or?
a series
through
f f.riup gatherings
which tAe nlfen.lit.:
is scarce ty revea.iea. 1. i.
evea.led. Ii.
ROYAL GETLEU'EiiS.
- "f tl Vrut-
..of Ws .
' A lady in waiting to th' pri.-f
iltlm
incident which took place soon
aitjr
the deatk of her sou, the duCrc of
Clar-
encel " -
The princef-s with her usual gsntJ
reticence tried to hi-la ner grief for her
first-born. It was shown only in her
failing health, and increased tender
consideration for all around her.
One day while walking with oie of
her ladies in the quiet lanes near Sand
ringham, she met an old woman weep
ing .bitterly aad toti-eriay under a load
of packages. On inquiry it appeared
that eke vas a carrier, and made her
living by shopping, and doing errands
ia the market town for the country
paople.. ' A
"But the weight is t&o heavy at your
age," saia tne priueess.
"Yea You're right.
ma'am. I'll
have to give it up, and If
I give it up
I'll starve. Jack carried
them for me
my boy, ma'am." . . .
"And where is he now?'
"Jack! He's dead! Oh. he's dssdr
the old woman cried wildlj, , . .
The princess, without a word, hnr- "
ried on, drawing her veil over her face,
to hide her tears
A few days later a neat little cart
with a stout donkey were bronght to
the old carrier's doer. She now travels
with them to and fr making a com
fortable living, and never has been
told the rank of the friend who has
tried to make her life easier for th
sake of her dead boy.
Tbe quiet, even life of this princes
is filled with many kindly, thoughtful
acts. "She is probably tbe rn-st (s-'ii-nine
woman in Er.gl.d." . wtd!
known Englishman Ai.A! Uttly.
She has, with all o'he- gaol vsn:jc.
her own little wbmanka i wMiuh.- toa,
which, only endear hfjr moro u the
peopieT Sho always .t;adily refo. t
follow fashion to extremes. "T;v
princess,? other wom-m say with affec
tionate amusement, 'is years behir.d
the mode!"
Another peculiarity is her dislike of
mannish articles cf drass when worn
by women. Her own costume is al
ways soft and flowln-j. She never has
worn the coats, vests or jaunty men',
hats which women elf ect, and evn has
rejected the comfortable ulst as a.
coachman's garment."
... King Christian of DenaArk, before a
strt;ne series of events brought him
to the throne, lived obscurely on a nar
row income. It may have been this
early experience in her father's family
which has given to the princess her
sincere, earnest character, and herd'i
regard for pomps and ceremonies. !?h
live her own quiet, gentle Hi, ke
irg as ir as possible i.i the shidr'-vj ?f .
that " ttrca light which beats urin..
th? hl:rh ,x)s:tion the olis
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