INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 
 The jewels of thought thrown together in this lit¬ 
 tle casket are the product of many minds and are gath¬ 
 ered from all .lands. No attempt has been made to 
 arrange them on the silvery thread of fabled story, 
 their iridescent hues producing a more pleasingly ka¬ 
 leidoscopic effect from theif careless conglomeration. 
 Turn over the partitioning leaflets and you will dis¬ 
 cover the delicate tint^ ^df the Opal, the rich green of 
 the Emerald, the heavenly blue of the Sapphire, the 
 empassioned red of the Ruby, the ro3"al purple of the 
 Amethyst, the sparkle of the Diamond and the purity 
 of the Pearl. These gems have been worn as talismans 
 over the hearts of hundred s of the citizens of Dixon 
 who have given them up at the call of Mrs. L. W. 
 Mitchell, President of Dixon Woman's Relief Corps, and 
 they reflect in no small degree the character of the var¬ 
 ious wearers. Doubly interesting are they for their 
 local association and for their intrinsic beau tv. 
 
SAMUEL C. EELLS, 
 
 Make yourself an honest man and then 
 you may be sure that there is one rascal less 
 in the world. 
 
 —Carlyle 
 
 MRS. L. C. AYRES, 
 
 To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms 
 set; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to 
 pray—these are the things that make men 
 happy. 
 
 —Ruskin 
 
 MRS. W. C. DYSART, 
 
 ‘^May our faults be written on the sea¬ 
 shore, and every good action prove a wave 
 to wash them out.” 
 
 George Loveland, 
 
 ‘‘A man don’t get nothin’ but trouble and 
 satisfaction in this world, no how.” 
 
 MRS. EMMA HIGLEY, 
 
 ‘‘For God so loved the world, that he 
 gave his only begotton Son, that whosoever 
 believeth in him should not perish, but have 
 everlasting life. 
 
 —John 3:16 
 
 MRS. George a. morris. 
 
 If you live long enough, haply there will 
 be a great many things happen to you and 
 yours, that you cannot understand; try to 
 give up understanding them, and then you 
 will have peace. 
 
 —Rose Terry Cook 
 
MRS. L. M. SHERMAN, 
 
 Clouds are the curtains which God, with 
 motherly care, hangs over the bed of his 
 
 children to give his beloved sleep. 
 
 Duncan Mac(,regor 
 
 MRS. ROBERT FULTON, 
 
 You may break, you may shatter the vase, 
 if you will, 
 
 But the scent of the roses will cling to it 
 -still. 
 
 —Moore 
 
 Advice is like snow: the softer it falls, 
 the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it 
 sinks into the mind. 
 
 — Coleridge 
 
 SUMNER D. EASTWOOD, 
 
 He who is most slow in making a promise 
 
 is the most faithful in its performance. 
 
 Rousseau 
 
 HATTIE REED, 
 
 I wish that friends were always true, 
 
 And motives always pure; 
 
 I wish the good were not so few, 
 
 1 wish the bad were fewer. 
 
 J. O. Sax 
 
 Mrs. Michael Gaffney, 
 
 Leaves have their time to fall. 
 
 And flowers to wither at the North-wind’s 
 breath. 
 
 And stars to set;—but all. 
 
 Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death! 
 
 —Felicia Uemans 
 
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 CHAS. G. SMITH, 
 
 Grown wiser for the lesson given, 
 
 I fear no longer, for I know 
 That, where the snow is deepest driven, 
 
 best fruits ijyow. 
 
 —/. (r, Wlutiitr 
 
 life runs on, the road grows strange 
 With faces new, and near the end, 
 
 The milestones into headstones change, 
 ’Neath everyone a friend. 
 
 —Lowell 
 
 DR. A. L. MILLER, 
 
 ‘Tn times of trouble, not before, 
 
 God and the doctor we adore; 
 
 The trouble o’er, and all things righted, 
 God is forgot, and the doctor slighted. ” 
 
 MRS. HARRIET HIGLEY, 
 
 Our lives are like the flowers: The bet¬ 
 ter we cultivate them the more happiness 
 they afford to ourselves and our friends. 
 
 DAVID SENNEFF, 
 
 You can fool all the people part of the 
 time and some of the people all the time; but 
 
 you cannot fool all the people all the time. 
 
 —Abraham Tjineoln 
 
 HENRY W. LEYDIG, 
 
 Be an honest, faithful boy and God will 
 
 see that you always have plenty of work. 
 
 — Mi/ Mother’s advice when 1 left home, 
 
 S. S. DODGE, 
 
 Sir:—1 would rather be right than presi¬ 
 dent. 
 
 —Henry Clay 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 iiNiVtRSITY OF IlIjNOiS 
 
J. D. CRABTREE, 
 
 This nation, under God, shall have a new 
 birth of freedom, and that government of 
 the people, by the people, for the people, 
 
 shall not perish from the earth. 
 
 — Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech 
 
 ELIZABETH J. SHAW, 
 
 The coward-slave, we pass him by. 
 
 We dare be poor for a’ that. 
 
 For a’ that and a’ that. 
 
 Our toils obscure, and a’ that. 
 
 The rank is but a guinea stamp, 
 
 The man’s the ofowd for a’ that. 
 
 —Robert Burns 
 
 W. C. Dysart, 
 
 ‘‘May we never make a sw’ord of our 
 tongue to wound a good man’s reputation.” 
 
 MRS. J. L. HESS, 
 
 Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-con¬ 
 trol; these three alone lead life to sovereign 
 power. Yet not for power (power of herself 
 would come uncalled for), but to live by 
 law,—acting the law*we live by without fear; 
 and because right is right, to follow right— 
 
 were wisdom in the scorn of consequence. 
 
 — Tennyson 
 
 C. M. HUGUET, 
 
 The river knows the way to the sea. 
 
 Without a pilot it runs and falls. 
 
 Blessing all lands with its charity. 
 
 —Emerson 
 
MRS. C. F. FURLEY, 
 
 True worth is in being, not seeming, 
 
 In doing each day that goes by 
 
 Some little good, and not dreaming 
 
 Of great things to do by and by. 
 
 —Alice Carey 
 
 CLINTON SENNEFF, 
 
 If a man empties his purse into his head, 
 no man can take it away from him. An in¬ 
 vestment in knowledge always pays the best 
 interest. 
 
 —Benjamin Franklin 
 
 MRS. W. VV. DOWNING, 
 
 Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; 
 Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; 
 Thy fate is the common fate of all. 
 
 Into each life some rain must fall. 
 
 Some days must be dark and dreary. 
 
 — Longfello'W 
 
 H. S. DEY, 
 
 A word spoken is hard to bring back; but 
 
 when not spoken can be said at any time. 
 
 —Josh Billings 
 
 MRS. H. T. NOBLE, 
 
 ‘‘Whatever is, is right.” 
 
 A. M. JUDD, 
 
 A man who lives right, and is right, has 
 more power in his silence than another has 
 by his words. 
 
 — P. Brooks 
 
 Mrs. mabelle senneff. 
 
 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. 
 
 But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 
 
 —Shakespeare 
 
REV. J. G. FINKBE/NER, 
 
 THE SPIKIT OF THANKSGIVING. 
 
 For this glad day, and other days 
 ^ In which we may thy goodness praise; 
 
 For sunshine and the warmth it brino;s; 
 For fruit and flowers, and all the things 
 Which thou dost send us from on high, 
 And, without end, to each supply; 
 
 For raiment, food, for life and love, 
 
 For all rich blessings from above— 
 Father, we thank thee! 
 
 For sorrow. Lord, for suff’ring, loss, 
 
 For strength to bear each little cross, 
 Because, through sorrow, we may be 
 Perfected and made pure in thee; 
 
 For thy dear hand to lead us on. 
 
 For promises to rest upon. 
 
 For hopes of years that never cease. 
 
 For heaven, and thine eternal peace— 
 
 Father, we thank thee! 
 
 —Alice Garland Steele 
 
 REV. JOHN D. LEEK, 
 
 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born 
 across the sea. 
 
 With a glory in His bosom that transfig¬ 
 ures you and me, 
 
 As he died to make men holy, let us die 
 to make men free, 
 
 While God is marching on. 
 
 —Julia Ward Howe 
 
 C. F. FURLEY, 
 
 ‘‘A contented mind is a continual feast.” 
 
Florence mason, 
 
 ^‘Time’s gradual touch has moulded into 
 beauty many a tower, which, when it 
 frowned with all its battlements, was only 
 terrible.” 
 
 Mrs. I. D. REYNOLDS, 
 
 ^‘Religion is not fears, frowns, or doleful 
 lamentations; it is Eden found. Paradise em¬ 
 bowered in beauteous thoughts, pure feel¬ 
 ings, and souls more consciously within 
 God’s infinite sweet embrace.” 
 
 ‘‘It is a beautiful thing to model a statue 
 and give it life; to mould an intelligence and 
 instill truth therein is still more beautiful.” 
 
 Mrs. m. S. SHAW, 
 
 All who joy would win must share it— 
 happiness was born a twin. 
 
 —Byron 
 
 MRS. A. G. Burnham, 
 
 He who is true in all he does. 
 
 To what the Gods design. 
 
 Shall some day find his work receive 
 The touch of the Divine. 
 
 —Marietta F. Cloud 
 
 Guard thou thy thoughts! 
 
 For deeds we do and every word we speak 
 Are outcome of some picture of the mind; 
 Then frame thy image-thought in the 
 bright gold 
 
 Of some good deed—some loving hope or 
 prayer. 
 
 Henrietta Edith Cray 
 
Grace higley, 
 
 little word in kindness spoken, 
 
 A motion, or a tear. 
 
 Has often heal’d the heart that’s broken. 
 And made a friend sincere!” 
 
 MRS. JESSIE WALLACE, 
 
 Honor is an old time thing; bat it smells 
 
 sweet to those in whose hand it is strong. 
 
 — Quid a 
 
 MRS. A. M. JUDD, 
 
 Of all sad words of tongue or pen. 
 
 The saddest are these: “It might have 
 been. ’ ’ 
 
 — J. G. Whittier 
 
 MRS. CHAS. G. SMITH, 
 
 Those who bring; sunshine to the life of 
 
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 others cannot keep it from themselves. 
 
 —James Matthew Barrie 
 
 J. H. ZENDT, 
 
 Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant! 
 
 Let the dead Past bury its dead! 
 
 Act,—act in the living Present! 
 
 Heart within, and God o’erhead! 
 
 —Longfellow 
 
 Yet 1 doubt not thro’ the ages. 
 
 One increasing purpose runs. 
 
 And the thoughts of men are widened 
 By the process of the suns. 
 
 — Tennyson 
 
 M. J. McGowan, 
 
 To the victors belong the spoils. 
 
 —Marcy 
 
NINA THOMPSON, 
 
 the moral life conscience predomin¬ 
 ates’ ’ 
 
 JAS. H. THOMPSON, 
 
 ‘‘A man that can render a reason, is a 
 man worthy of an answer; but he that argu- 
 eth for victory, deserveth not the tenderness 
 of Trouble.” 
 
 S. H. BETHEA, 
 
 Hold her nozzle agin the bank ’till the 
 last galoot’s ashore. 
 
 —John Hay 
 
 E. S. WOODBRIDGE, 
 
 In this the act of living lies, 
 
 To want no more that may suffice; 
 
 And make that little do. 
 
 —Cotton 
 
 A little learning is a dangerous thin^, 
 Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring, 
 There shallow draughts intoxicate the 
 brain. 
 
 But drinking largely, sobers us again. 
 
 —Pope 
 
 JANE ROBINS, 
 
 ^‘Late to bed and early to rise, 
 
 Prepares a man for his home in the skies.” 
 
 E. C. CROPSEY, 
 
 There may be heaven—there must be hell; 
 
 Meantime, there is our life here. VVe-ell. 
 
 —Rudyard Kipling 
 
A. H. TILLSON, 
 
 Blest, too, is he who can divine 
 Where real right doth lie, 
 
 And dares to take the side that seems 
 Wrong to man’s blindfold eye. 
 
 —Frederic William Faber 
 
 LULA CHIVERTON, 
 
 All up the rugged steps of life. 
 
 And in the sun’s fierce glare. 
 
 It covers him with angel’s wings, 
 
 The sainted mother’s prayer. 
 
 —John Sherman 
 
 LESTER WALLACE, 
 
 Things that you do, do with your might, 
 For things done by halves are never done 
 
 — Longfelloic 
 
 L. B. NEIGHBOUR, 
 
 Amid the maddening maze of things. 
 
 And tossed by storm and flood. 
 
 To one fixed trust my spirit clings: 
 
 I know that God is good. 
 
 •—J. G. Whittiei^ 
 
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 H. L. COFFEY, 
 
 When fear admits no hope of safety, then 
 Necessity makes dastards valient men. 
 
 JOHN T. REED, 
 
 ‘‘So when for us life’s evenins: hour, 
 
 Soft passing shall descend, 
 
 May glory born of earth and heaven. 
 
 The earth and heaven blend.'’ 
 
Eleanor reed, 
 
 If thou art worn and hard beset 
 With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, 
 If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will 
 keep 
 
 Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from 
 sleep. 
 
 Go the woods and hills!—No tears 
 Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. 
 
 —Longfellow 
 
 a. F. SHETLER, 
 
 “Scorning the advice of age and experi¬ 
 ence, often leads to trouble.” 
 
 Mrs. E. R. KENT, 
 
 “Men grumble because God puts thorns 
 upon roses; better be glad he put roses upon 
 thorns. ’ ’ 
 
 Sin has a great many tools, but a lie is a 
 handle which fits them all. ’ ’ 
 
 F. A. Ballou, 
 
 In the lexicon of youth, which Fate 
 reserves for a brmht manhood, there is no 
 such word as fail. 
 
 —Shakespeare 
 
 Margaret Anderson, 
 
 A cunning man is never a firm man, but 
 an honest man is; a double-minded man is 
 always unstable, a man of faith is firm as a 
 rock; honesty is faith applied to worldly 
 things, and faith is honesty quickened by 
 the Spirit to the use of heavenly things. 
 
 —Edward Irring 
 
AGNES MCCARROLL, 
 
 To be able to capture and bring, 
 
 And bind in the bonds of control, 
 
 Some of the thoughts that warble and sino- 
 Down in the depths of my soul.” 
 
 MRS. Martha martin, 
 
 ^‘God tempers the wind to the shorn 
 lamb.” 
 
 MRS. WARREN SMITH, 
 
 Truth is the most powerful thing in the 
 world, since fiction can only please us by its 
 resemblance to it. 
 
 —Shaftesbury 
 
 LOUIS H. MARTIN, 
 
 Count that day lost whose low descending 
 
 sun 
 
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 Views from thy hand no w^orthy action 
 done. 
 
 —Jacob Bobart 
 
 MRS. W. H. EDWARDS, 
 
 Lives of great men all remind us 
 We can make our lives sublime, 
 
 And, departing, leave behind us 
 
 Footprints on the sands of time. 
 
 —Longfellow 
 
 MRS. A. w. Goodrich, 
 
 Love, we are in God’s hand. 
 
 How strange now looks the life He makes us 
 lead. 
 
 So free we seem, so fettered fast we are! 
 I feel He laid the fetter: let it lie! 
 
 —Robert Broioning 
 
DR. A. F. MOORE, 
 
 ‘^Luck is energy well directed. 
 
 CHAS. G. Albright, 
 
 That man’s a fool who tries by force or 
 skill 
 
 To stem the current of a woman’s will; 
 For if she will, she will, you may depend 
 onT, 
 
 And if she won’t, she won’t, and there’s an 
 end on’t 
 
 — Tuke 
 
 JENNIE I. DOOLITTLE, 
 
 The noblest service comes from nameless 
 hands, and the best servant does his work 
 unseen. 
 
 —Holmes 
 
 Grace Hampton, 
 
 So teach us to number our days that we 
 
 may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 
 
 —Psalm 90 
 
 FRANK E. Bellamy, 
 
 Build thee more stately mansions, O my 
 soul, 
 
 As the swift seasons roll; 
 
 Leave thy low-vaulted past; 
 
 Let each new temple, nobler than the last. 
 Shut thee from heaven with a dome more 
 vast. 
 
 Till thou at length art free. 
 
 Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s un¬ 
 resting sea! 
 
 —Holmes 
 
WM, MULLIGAN, 
 
 O, woman, in our hours of care, 
 Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. 
 
 And variable as the shade 
 
 By the light quivering aspen made; 
 
 When pain and anguish wring the brow, 
 A ministering angel thou. 
 
 —ScotVs Marmion 
 
 Mrs. Emma Kinsley, 
 
 ^‘Consistency thou art a jewel.” 
 
 Frank Forsythe jr., 
 
 Life is too short to waste 
 In critic peep or cynic bark, 
 
 Quarrel or reprimand; 
 
 ’Twill soon be dark; 
 
 Up! mind thine own aim, and 
 God Speed the mark. 
 
 —B. W. Emerson 
 
 Mrs. LYDIA E. PARKS, 
 
 “The secret of happiness, is in always 
 having something to do and in doing that 
 something with zeal and cheerfulness of 
 heart.” 
 
 MRS. H. W. SCOTT, 
 
 Beholding the moon rise 
 Over the pallid sea and the silvery mist of 
 the meadows: 
 
 Silently one bj^ one, in the infinite meadows 
 of heaven. 
 
 Blossom’d the lovely stars—the forget-me- 
 nots of the angels. 
 
 —Longfellow 
 
Eustace shaw, 
 
 Know then thyself, presume not God to 
 scan, 
 
 The proper study for mankind .is man. 
 
 —Pope 
 
 MRS. STELLA COWLES, 
 
 Then a voice within his breast 
 Whispered, audible and clear 
 As if to the outward ear: 
 
 Do thy duty, that is best; 
 
 Leave unto the Lord the rest. 
 
 —Longfellow 
 
 George peach, 
 
 Vessels large may venture more 
 
 But little boats should keep near shore. 
 
 —Benjamin Franklin 
 
 ROBERT SMITH, 
 
 O wad some power the giftie gie us. 
 
 To see oursel’s as others see us? 
 
 It wad frae monie a blunder free us, 
 
 And foolish notion. 
 
 —Burns 
 
 MR. J. S. CLARK, 
 
 Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; 
 
 The eternal years of God are hers; 
 
 But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, 
 
 And dies among his worshippers. 
 
 — William Cullen Bryant 
 
 C. H. Stackpole, 
 
 “Pay as you go; if you can’t pay, don’t 
 
IRMA PEACH, 
 
 Life is not so short but that there is al¬ 
 ways time for courtesy. 
 
 —Emerson 
 
 ALICE MOELLER, 
 
 No stream from its source 
 
 Flows seaward, how lonely its course, 
 
 But what some land is gladdened. 
 
 No star ever rose 
 
 And set, without influence somewhere. 
 Who knows 
 
 What earth needs from earth’s lowest 
 creature? 
 
 No life 
 
 Can be pure in its purpose and strong in 
 its strife. 
 
 And all life not be purer and stronger 
 thereby. 
 
 — Oicen Meredith 
 
 LAURA G. MURPHY,' 
 
 Man is his own star, and the soul that can 
 Render an honest and perfect man; 
 Commands all light, all influence, all fate. 
 Nothing to him falls early, or too late, 
 Our acts our angels are, for good or ill 
 
 Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 
 
 —John Fletchei' 
 
 ANNA TODD, 
 
 Duty and to-day are ours; results and fu¬ 
 turity belong to God. 
 
 Horace Oreeley 
 
F. A. TRUMAN, 
 
 Acts—That best portion of a good man’s 
 life, 
 
 His little, nameless, imremembered acts 
 Of kindness and of love. 
 
 — Wordsworth 
 
 MISS JANE A. JOHNSON, 
 
 “God’s in His Heaven; 
 
 All’s right with the world.” 
 
 I know not where it’s islands lift 
 Their fronded palms in air, 
 
 I only know I cannot drift 
 Beyond his love and care. 
 
 — Whittier 
 
 D. N. L. 
 
 There is a tide, in the affairs of men, if 
 taken at the flood leads on to fortune and to 
 fame. 
 
 —Shakspeare 
 
 “There is no bar to progress in any direc¬ 
 tion to the ambitious man, except lack of 
 brains and tact.” 
 
 “It is something to have great opportuni¬ 
 ties; it is far more to be equal to them.” 
 
 ‘ ‘Lincoln had the unconscious naturalness 
 of nature’s self, he saw the real—that which 
 is. Beyond accident, policy, compromise, 
 and war, he saw the end. He was patient 
 as destiny, whose undecipherable hieroglyph¬ 
 ics were so deeply graven on his sad and 
 tragic face. ’ ’ 
 
J. S. Dornblaser, 
 
 There is nothing can equal the tender 
 hours 
 
 When life is first in bloom, 
 
 When the heart like a bee, in the wild of 
 flowers. 
 
 Finds everywhere perfume; 
 
 When the present is all and it questions 
 not 
 
 If those flowers shall pass away. 
 
 But pleased with its own delightful lot. 
 Dreams never of decay. 
 
 —Bolin 
 
 You say you are a better soldier; 
 
 Let it appear so; make your vaunting true. 
 And it shall please me well. 
 
 —Shakespeare 
 
 MRS. R. M. H. DEV, 
 
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 The true gentleman is one whose nature 
 has been fashioned after the hio:hest models. 
 His qualities depend not upon fashion or 
 manners, but upon moral worth—not on per¬ 
 sonal possessions, but on personal qualities. 
 
 — T. L. Haines 
 
 K. G. SMITH, 
 
 Once to every man and nation 
 Comes the moment to decide. 
 
 In the strife of truth and falsehood, 
 
 For the good or evil side; 
 
 Then it is the brave man chooses 
 While the coward stands aside. 
 
 Doubting in his abject spirit 
 Till his Lord is crucified. 
 
 —Lowell 
 
L. W. MITCHELL, 
 
 Because you prosper in worldly affairs; 
 Don’t be haughty and put on airs— 
 With insolent pride of station; 
 
 Don’t be proud, and turn up your nose 
 At plainer people, in poorer clothes; 
 
 But learn for your minds repose. 
 
 That wealth’s a bubble that comes and 
 goes— 
 
 And all proud flesh wherever it grows 
 Is subject to irritation. 
 
 —John O. Saxe 
 
 C. J. Rosbrook, 
 
 ‘‘I expect to pass through this world but 
 once. If therefore there be any kindness I 
 can show, or any good that I can do any fel¬ 
 low human being, let me do it now; let me 
 not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass 
 this way again.” 
 
 ‘ T have lived to thank God that all my 
 prayers have not been answered.” 
 
 have o-reat honor for a successful busi¬ 
 er < 
 
 ness man.” 
 
 A flask of red wine and a volume of song 
 together, 
 
 Half a loaf, just enough the ravage of 
 want to tether. 
 
 Such is mv wish, then thou in the waste 
 with me, 
 
 Sweeter wore this than a monarch’s crown 
 and fethers. 
 
 The Enhaiyat 
 
MRS. M. AYRES, 
 
 Never rail at the world, it’s just as we 
 make it, 
 
 We see not the flowers, if we sow not the 
 seed. 
 
 And, as for ill luck, why, that’s just as 
 we take it; 
 
 The heart that’s in earnest, no bars can 
 impede. 
 
 Why question the justice that governs 
 men’s breasts 
 
 And say that the search for true friend¬ 
 ship is vain? 
 
 But remember that this world, if it is not 
 the best. 
 
 Is the next to the best we shall ever at¬ 
 tain. 
 
 —Charles Swain 
 
 L. P. Taber, 
 
 Even humble broom and osiers have their 
 use. 
 
 —Dryden 
 
 JOHN F. FOX, 
 
 Laws are like cobwebs, where the small 
 flies are caught, and the great break 
 through. 
 
 —Bacon 
 
 Edward vaile. 
 
 To thine own self be true 
 
 And it must follow as night the day 
 
 Thou canst not then be false to any man. 
 
 —Shakespeare 
 
 Pay the price, then take what you want. 
 
 —Rmmerson 
 
CHAS. A. STEINMANN, 
 
 Underneath are the everlasting arms. 
 
 —Deut. SS:27 
 
 All things work together for good to them 
 that love God. 
 
 — Rom. 8:28 
 
 We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, 
 not breaths; 
 
 In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
 
 We should count time by heart-throbs. 
 He most lives 
 
 Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts 
 the best. 
 
 —P. J. Bailey 
 
 Mrs. CHARLES WALGREN, 
 
 When’er a noble deed is wrought, 
 When’er is spoken a noble thought. 
 
 Our hearts in glad surprise. 
 
 To higher levels rise. 
 
 — H. W. Longfellow 
 
 Truth is one 
 
 And in all lands beneath the sun. 
 
 Whoso has eyes to see may see 
 The tokens of its unity. 
 
 —P G. Whittier 
 
 R. L. JOHNSON, 
 
 Observe the maiden, innocently sweet; 
 She’s fair white paper, an unsullied sheet; 
 On which the happy man whom fate or¬ 
 dains. 
 
 May write his name, and take her for his 
 pains. 
 
 —Franklin 
 
C. \/. KERCH,-MRS. 
 
 However, I’m not denyin’ the women are 
 foolish; God Almighty made ’em to match 
 the men. 
 
 — George Eliot 
 
 MRS. R. L. JOHNSON, 
 
 Slow pass our days 
 In childhood, and the hours are long 
 Betwixt the morn and eve; with swifter 
 lapse 
 
 They glide in manhood and in age they fly; 
 Till days and seasons flit before the mind 
 
 As flit the show-flakes in a winter storm. 
 
 — William CuVen Bryant 
 
 That w'hich we are, we are— 
 
 One equal temper of heroic hearts, 
 
 Made weak by time and fate, but strong 
 in will 
 
 To strive, to seek, to find, and not to 
 yield. 
 
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 — Tennyson 
 
 The retail politician’s anxious thought 
 Deems this side alwaj^s right, and that 
 stark nought; 
 
 He foams with censure; with applause he 
 raves; 
 
 A dupe to rumors, and a tool of knaves; 
 He’ll want no type his weakness to pro¬ 
 claim, 
 
 Vv'^hile such a thinof as foolscap has a 
 
 C? 1 
 
 name. 
 
 — Franklin 
 
R. S. FARRAND, 
 
 He was the embodiment of the self de¬ 
 nial, the courage, the hope, and the nobility 
 of a nation. He spoke not to inflame, not 
 to upbraid, but to convince. He raised his 
 hands, not to strike, but in benediction. 
 
 He longed to pardon. He loved to vsee 
 the pearls of joy on the cheeks of a wife 
 whose husband he had rescued from death. 
 Lincoln was the m-andest figure of the 
 fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest mem¬ 
 ory of our world. 
 
 —Bohert G. Ingersoll 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth longdon, 
 
 Good name in man and woman. 
 
 Is the immediate jewel of their soul. 
 
 — Sliakeni^eare 
 
 MRS. Frances l. Arnold, 
 
 One part of knowledge consists in being 
 ignorant of such things as are not worthy to 
 be known. 
 
 NELLIE ROBINSON, 
 
 To thine own self be true. 
 
 And it must follow, as the night the day. 
 
 Thou canst not then be false to any man. 
 
 —SJiakspeare 
 
 MRS. DELILIAH CUDDINGTON, 
 
 Yes, lovely hour! thou art the time 
 When feelings flow and wishes climb. 
 When timid souls be^in to dare, 
 
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 And God receives and answers prayer. 
 
 — OJiarles Iladdon Spurgeon 
 
J. H. DOWNS, 
 
 Stand by the Right. 
 
 And my thanks offering are to Him who 
 Through hidden dangers, toils and Death, 
 Has gently cleared my way. 
 
 And from the pleasing snares of vice 
 More to be feared than they. 
 
 MRS. AUGUSTA G. MITCHELL, 
 
 We say farewell, the saddest word of all. 
 And though the parting be to us a pain— 
 What’er through coming years to us befall, 
 May God be with us till we meet again. 
 
 Mrs. LEONARD Andrus, 
 
 What’s worth doing at all, is worth doing 
 well. 
 
 MRS. MYRTLE DOLLMEYER, 
 
 Let US do our work as well. 
 
 Both the unseen and the seen; 
 
 Make the house where God shall dwell 
 Beautiful, entire and clean. 
 
 . —Longfellow 
 
 MRS. E. O. WALGREN, 
 
 Speak out in acts; the time for words has 
 passed, and deeds alone remain. 
 
 — J. O. Whittier 
 
 ’Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up— 
 Whose golden rounds are our calamities. 
 Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer 
 God 
 
 The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes un¬ 
 sealed. 
 
 —J. R. Lowell 
 
MRS. E. S. CRIPPEN, 
 
 Every one can master a sorrow but he that 
 hath it. 
 
 —Shakespeare 
 
 The tears of an heir are laughter under a 
 rnask. 
 
 —Bacon 
 
 MISS LENA JOHNSON, 
 
 Speak not at all, in any wise, till you 
 have somewhat to speak; care not for the 
 reward of your speaking but simply and 
 with undivided mind for the truth of your 
 speaking. 
 
 * —Carlyle 
 
 Enjoy the Spring of Youth and Love, 
 
 To some good angel leave the rest; 
 
 For time will teach thee soon the truth. 
 
 There are no birds in last year’s nest. 
 
 —Longfellow 
 
 MRS. ETTA DEMAREST, 
 
 Do what conscience says is right; 
 
 Do what reason says is best. 
 
 Do with all your mind and might; 
 
 Do your duty and be blest. 
 
 —Anon 
 
 MISS H. SOPHIA JOHNSON, 
 
 Truth forever on the scaffold. 
 
 Wrong forever on the throne. 
 
 Yet that scaffold sways the future. 
 
 And behind the dim unknown 
 Stands the God within the shadow. 
 Keeping watch above His own. 
 
 —Lowell 
 
ARTHUR S. CRIPPEN, 
 
 Without good nature, man is but a better 
 kind of vermin. 
 
 —Bacon 
 
 Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
 
 And simple faith than Norman blood. 
 
 '■ — Tennyson 
 
 O. J. downing, 
 
 All things whatsoever you would that men 
 
 should do to you—do ye even so to them. 
 
 —Bible 
 
 Know thy opportunity. 
 
 — Greek Maxim 
 
 MRS. CARRIE L. SWIGART, 
 
 Though the mills of God grinds slowly, 
 Yet they grind exceeding small, . 
 
 Though with patience He stands waiting, 
 
 With exactness grinds He all. 
 
 —Friedrich Von Loyan 
 
 JOHN H. MOORE, 
 
 If faith, and hope, and kindness, pass’d as 
 coin, ’twixt heart and heart; 
 
 How, thro’ the eye’s tear-blindness, should 
 the sudden soul upstart! 
 
 The dreary, dim, and desolate, should 
 wear a sunny bloom, 
 
 And Love should spring from buried Hate, 
 like flowers o’er Winter’s tomb. 
 
 This world is full of beauty, as other 
 worlds above; 
 
 And if we did our dutv, it might be full 
 of love. 
 
 Gerald Afassey 
 
M/SS DESS/E HUGHES, 
 
 Least, largest, there’s one law for all the 
 minds. 
 
 Here or above; be true at any price. 
 
 —Burns 
 
 MRS. NANCY A. PRESCOTT, 
 
 “Be friendly with all 
 
 But intimate wdth few.” 
 
 “Do your little duties in a large way, and 
 God will trust you with greater ones.” 
 
 “In keeping Sunday Holy, do not keep it 
 wholly for your own pleasure.” 
 
 “Thinking over our ovv^n faults makes us 
 talk less about those of others. ’ ’ 
 
 “If you feel like shaking a friend who is in 
 trouble, let it be his hand that you shake.” 
 
 D. A. SHEFFIELD, 
 
 The law of the harvest is to reap more 
 than you sov/. Sow an act, and you reap a 
 habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; 
 sow a character, and you reap a destiny. 
 
 — George D. Boardman 
 
 Oh, I love this old republic, bounded by 
 the seas, walled by the wide air, domed by 
 heaven’s blue, and lighted by the eternal 
 stars. 
 
 — R. G. Ingersoll 
 
 WILLIAM S. REAM, 
 
 He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who 
 finds peace in his home. 
 
 — Goethe 
 
M. marilla lewis, 
 
 There is no day but has its share of light 
 And somewhere in the dark there shines a 
 star at night. 
 
 There is no cloud, however black and grim, 
 That does not touch the sunlight with its 
 outmost rim. 
 
 There is no sorrow borne without its gain. 
 No perfect joy that was not ushered in 
 with' pain. 
 
 There is no woe that can outlast the years. 
 No smile so sweet in life as that which fol¬ 
 lows tears. 
 
 —Marion ManriUe 
 
 MRS. C. hi. STACKPOLE, 
 
 There is no cloud so dark, but it has a sil¬ 
 ver linin 
 
 Mrs. marie l. Green, 
 
 In happy hours, when the imagination 
 Wakes like a wind at midnight, and the 
 soul 
 
 Trembles in all its leaves, it is a joy 
 To be uplifted on its wings, and listen 
 To the prophetic voices in the air 
 That call us onward. Then the work we do 
 Is a delight, and the obedient hand 
 Never grows weary. But how different is it 
 In the disconsolate, discouraged hours. 
 
 When all the wisdom of the world appears 
 As trivial as the gossip of a nurse 
 In a sick-room, and all our work seems use¬ 
 less. 
 
 —Michael Angelo 
 
CHAS. E. MILLER, 
 
 So live, that when the summons come to 
 join 
 
 The innumerable caravan, which moves 
 
 To that mysterious realm, where each shall 
 take 
 
 His chamber in the silent halls of death. 
 
 Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at 
 night, 
 
 Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained 
 and soothed 
 
 By an unfaltering trust, approach thy 
 grave. 
 
 Like one who wraps the drapery of his 
 couch 
 
 About him and lies down to pleasant 
 dreams. 
 
 — Wm. Cullen Bryant 
 
 F. F. WALTERS, 
 
 To keep a secret is wisdom, but to expect 
 another to keep it is folly. 
 
 —Holmes 
 
 MINNIE ROBINSON, 
 
 And in each of these rebellious tears 
 
 Kept bravely back. He makes a rainbow 
 shine. 
 
 —Celia Thaxter 
 
 C. H. KEELER, 
 
 People who get into a rage in reformatory 
 work accomplish nothing but the depletion 
 of their own nervous system. There is such 
 a thing as having a gun so hot at the touch- 
 hole that it explodes, killing the one that 
 sets it off. 
 
 Dr. Talmage 
 
MRS. ELIZABETH W. STACKPOLE, 
 
 A NOTE OF LIFE. 
 
 Take it as you find it— 
 
 Black or beaming sky, 
 
 Smile and never mind it— 
 
 Little time to sigh. 
 
 •Fast the clouds are creeping 
 
 Over heavens of blue, 
 
 Little time for weeping— 
 
 Skies’ll weep for you! 
 
 Keep the pathway steady— 
 
 Heaven is not so high, 
 
 When God calls, say ‘‘Ready!” 
 
 Smile and kiss goodby. 
 
 —Atlccntic Constitution 
 
 “Deal justly with all; speak evil of none.” 
 
 HARRIET E. Garrison, 
 
 One self-approving hour whole years out¬ 
 weighs 
 
 Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; 
 
 And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels; 
 Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. 
 
 —Alexander Piype 
 
 Truth crushed to earth shall rise aofain; 
 
 The eternal years of God are hers; 
 
 But Error, wounded, writhes in pain. 
 
 And dies among his worshipers. 
 
 — Willia m Cu lie n Brya n t 
 
 Be sure you are right; then go ahead. 
 
 —Davy Crockett 
 
A. C. DOLLMEYER, 
 
 Honor and shame from no condition rise; 
 Act well your part, there all the honor 
 lies. 
 
 —Pope 
 
 PERRY COWLES, 
 
 Whene’er a noble deed is wrought, 
 Whene’er is spoken a noble thought; 
 
 Our hearts, in glad surprise. 
 
 To higher levels rise. 
 
 —Longfellow 
 
 ELEANOR J. TRUMAN, 
 
 For truth must live with truth, self-sacri¬ 
 fice 
 
 Seek out its great allies; 
 
 Good must find good by gravitation sure. 
 And love with love endure. 
 
 —.7. O, Whittier 
 
 MRS. ALICE A. JOHNSON, 
 
 Full many a gem of purest ray serene, 
 
 _ t 
 
 The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; 
 Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 
 And waste its sweetness on the desert 
 air. 
 
 — Gray 
 
 MRS. J. S. CLARK, 
 
 Heaven is not gained in a single bound; 
 But we build the ladder by which we rise 
 From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies. 
 And we mount to its summit round by 
 round. 
 
 —Holland 
 
chas. vv. dey, 
 
 Comrades known in marches many, 
 Comrades tried in dangers many, 
 Comrades bound in memories many. 
 Brothers ever let us be. 
 
 Wounds or sickness may divide us, 
 Marching orders may divide us, 
 
 But whatever fate betide us, 
 
 Brothers of the heart are we. 
 
 —Miles O'Reilly 
 
 Eleanor m. Truman, 
 
 For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds. 
 And though a late, a sure reward suc¬ 
 ceeds. 
 
 — Congreve 
 
 IRA W. LEWIS, 
 
 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall 
 return, and come with singing unto 
 Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their 
 head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and 
 sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 
 
 —Isaiah 
 
 For thus saith the High and Lofty One 
 that inhabiteth Eternity, whose name is 
 Holy; I dwell in the High and Holy Place, 
 with him also that is of a contrite and hum¬ 
 ble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, 
 
 and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 
 
 — Isaiah 
 
 R. M. AYRES, 
 
 The American flag: If any man attempt 
 
 to tear it down, shoot him on the spot. 
 
 — John A. Dix 
 
MRS. B. F. SHAW, 
 
 Build thee more stately mansions, O my 
 soul, 
 
 As the swift seasons roll; 
 
 Leave thy low-vaulted past; 
 
 Let each new temple, noblier than the last, 
 Shut thee from heaven with a dome more 
 vast. 
 
 Till thou at length art free, 
 
 Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s un¬ 
 resting sea! 
 
 —Holmes 
 
 MRS. CLAYTON HlGLEY, 
 
 ‘‘What is worth doin^ at all is worth 
 doing well.” 
 
 Mrs. Olive a. murphy, 
 
 Thou must be true thyself, 
 
 If thou the truth w^ould teach; 
 
 Thy soul must overflow 
 
 If thou another’s soul would reach, 
 
 It needs the overflowing heart 
 To give the lips full speech. 
 
 Think truly, and thy thought 
 Shall the world’s famine feed; 
 
 Speak truly, and thy word 
 Shall be a fruitful seed; 
 
 Live truly, and thy life 
 
 Shall be a great and glorious creed. 
 
 — J. G, Whittier 
 
 F. N. FARGO, 
 
 “The fruits of a successful life grow on 
 the tree of economy. ’ ’ 
 
REV. HECTOR C. LELAND, 
 
 ‘‘Make a little fence of trust, 
 
 All about to-day, 
 
 Fill it full of loving deeds, 
 
 And within it stay. 
 
 Look not through the sheltering bars, 
 Anxious for the morrow; 
 
 God will help whatever comes. 
 
 Be it joy or sorrow.” 
 
 MRS. C. H. SARWINE, 
 
 “Cast all your care upon God; that anchor 
 holds.” 
 
 “Characters never change, opinions alter— 
 characters are only developed.” 
 
 MRS. PEACH, 
 
 Honor and shame from no condition rise, 
 Act well your part, there all the honor 
 lies. 
 
 —Pape 
 
 MRS. ROBERT SMITH. 
 
 Our greatest glory consists not in never 
 
 falling, but in rising every time we fall. 
 
 — GoldsmitJi 
 
 “Be what thou art 
 Become what thou canst. ” 
 
 JAMES H. TODD, 
 
 Godliness is profitable unto all things, 
 
 having promise of the life that now is, and 
 
 of that which is to come. This a faithful 
 
 saying and worthy of all acceptation. 
 
 — St. Pavl 
 
MRS. GEO. MASON, 
 
 ‘‘A good thought is a great boon, for 
 which God is to be first thanked; then he 
 who is the first to utter it, and then in a les¬ 
 ser, but still in a considerable degree, the 
 man who is the first to quote it to us.” 
 
 MAHLON R. FORSYTHE, 
 
 For right is right, since God is God; 
 
 And right the day must win; 
 
 To doubt would be disloyalty. 
 
 To falter would be sin! 
 
 —Frederic Faber 
 
 GEO. F. PRESCOT, 
 
 ‘^So many things we think we know, we 
 ought to know we think.” 
 
 MRS. H. LOU. STAGER, 
 
 And it’s the man who does the best. 
 
 That gits more khjks than all the rest. 
 
 —James Whitcomb TiiUy 
 
 W. F. WEAVER, 
 
 “Keep pushing, ’tis wiser than sitting 
 aside. 
 
 Sighing and watching and waiting the 
 tide; 
 
 In life’s earnest battle they only prevail, 
 
 Who ever press onward and never say 
 fail.” 
 
 JOHN Grant, 
 
 “Ven a man get a gute yag on hassel hae 
 always tank hae es batter as his creditors”. 
 
THEODORE MOELLER, 
 
 It is good and comely for one to eat and 
 to drink and to enjoy the good of all his la¬ 
 bor that he taketh under the sun, all the 
 days of his life, which God giveth him; for 
 it is his portion. 
 
 --Bible 
 
 Mrs. Gracia armington, 
 
 ‘‘What is to bo, will be.’' 
 
 Mrs. j. h. TODD, 
 
 Remember aye these words of lofty cheer. 
 The Helper yonder helps the helper here. 
 
 —Anon 
 
 Time is the greatest of tyrants; as we go 
 on towards age, he taxes our health, our 
 limbs, our faculties, our strength and feat¬ 
 ures. 
 
 —Foster 
 
 JAMES W. STEPHENS, 
 
 Young man, the true road to success is, 
 first, 
 
 “Mind your own business. 
 
 Meet all obligations. 
 
 Keep your engagen^ents. 
 
 Speak the truth.” 
 
 JAMES B. POMEROY, 
 
 “None but the brave dare step aside. 
 From custom’s iron rule; 
 
 The commonest mind must follow it. 
 
 Or be declared a fool.” 
 
Ernest h. Moore, 
 
 There is no music like a little river’s. It 
 plays the same tune (and that’s the favorite) 
 over and over again, and yet does not weary 
 of it like men fiddlers. It takes the mind 
 out of doors; and though we should be grate¬ 
 ful for good houses, there is, after all, no 
 house like God’s out-of-doors. And lastly, 
 sir, it quiets a man down like saying his 
 prayers. 
 
 —Robert Lo^ds Stevenson 
 
 D. S. HORTON, 
 
 ‘‘Do unto others as though you were the 
 others.” 
 
 M. L. APPLEFORD, 
 
 To shape the whole future is not our prob¬ 
 lem: but only to shape faithfully a small 
 part of it. 
 
 — Carlyle 
 
 Harriet a. smith. 
 
 No man doth safely speak, but he that is 
 glad to hold his peace. 
 
 — Thomas a'Kempis 
 
 JOHN MCCOLLUM, 
 
 Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless 
 thousands mourn. 
 
 —Burns 
 
 Then gently scan your brother man, 
 
 Still gentler, sister woman. 
 
 Though they may gang a kennin’ wrang 
 To step aside is human. 
 
 —Burns 
 
ALFRED DOOLITTLE, 
 
 •Tis all very well to be pleasant 
 When life moves on like a sons:; 
 
 o ' 
 
 But the man worth while is the one who 
 will smile, 
 
 When enerything goes dead wrong. 
 
 —Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
 
 B. KOLPKE, 
 
 ‘^To err is human—to forofive divine” 
 
 c5 
 
 ANNA E. WOODBRIDGE, 
 
 Confide ye aye in Providence, 
 
 For Providence is kind, 
 
 And bear ye all life’s changes 
 Wi’ a calm and tranquil mind, 
 
 Tho’ pressed and hemmed on ev’ry side, 
 Ha’e faith and ye’ll win through. 
 
 For ilka blade o’grass. 
 
 Keeps its ain drap o’ dew. 
 
 —James Balentine 
 
 ANNA L. GEISENHEIMER, 
 
 Life is real! Life is earnest! 
 
 And the grave is not its goal; 
 
 ^‘Dust thou art to dust returnest, ” 
 
 Was not spoken of the soul. 
 
 Longfellmo 
 
 MARGUERITE REED, 
 
 A FRIEND IN NEED. 
 
 ‘‘Blest are the hearts that beat alwav 
 
 V 
 
 With sympathetic throb. 
 
 Hearts that to heal another’s woe 
 Their own would gladly rob.’' 
 
B. F. SHAW, 
 
 The Devil knew not what he did when he 
 made man politic. 
 
 --r. of A. 
 
 T. S. POTTER, 
 
 W hereunto is money good? 
 
 Who has it not wants hardihood, 
 
 Who has it has much trouble and care, 
 
 Who once has had it has despair. 
 
 —Longfellow 
 
 Joy and temperance and repose. 
 
 Slam the door on the doctor’s nose. 
 
 —Longfellow 
 
 MRS. DELIA L. WATSON, 
 
 ‘‘As these busts in the block of marble, so 
 does our individual fate exist in the lime¬ 
 stone of time. We fancy we carve it out, 
 but its ultimate shape is prior to all our 
 actions.” 
 
 J. L. HARTWELL, 
 
 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of 
 little minds adorned by little statesmen and 
 philosophers and divines. 
 
 Vfith consistency a great soul has simply 
 nothing to do. He may as well concern 
 himself with' his shadow on the wall. Out 
 upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with 
 pack thread, do. Else if you would be a 
 man, speak what you think today in words 
 as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak 
 what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, 
 though it contradicts everything you said 
 today. 
 
 Emerson 
 
A. DEPUY, 
 
 ^‘Deity—Old Glory and our American 
 homes.” 
 
 Chas. w. Groves, 
 
 1 know not where his islands lift 
 Their fronded palms in air; 
 
 I only know 1 cannot drift 
 Beyond his love and care. 
 
 — Whittier 
 
 MRS. T. M. Horton, 
 
 “Not what I want myself, dear Lord, 
 
 But what I need, O give to me; 
 
 1 thank Thee I can trust Thy word, 
 
 That as my need, my gift shall be.” 
 
 “Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; 
 keep the door of my lips.” 
 
 D. J. CARROLL, 
 
 “Let each man learn to know himself. 
 And for that knowledge let him labor. 
 And thus correct within himself 
 
 What he condemns so in his neighbor.” 
 
 MRS. Catharine j. Thompson, 
 
 “Sufficient unto the day is the evil 
 thereof.” 
 
 MRS. EMMA E. MCMAHAN, 
 
 “Cultivate all things in moderation, but 
 one thing in perfection.” 
 
 MRS. SUSAN B. THOMPSON, 
 
 “As you ascend the road of prosperity, 
 may you never meet a friend coming down.” 
 
MRS. SADIE BOWERS, 
 
 Thy heaven on which ’tis pleasant to look, 
 
 Shall be my pure and shining book. 
 
 — Thomas Moore 
 
 D. B. WOOD, 
 
 The men who tread the Mobe are but a 
 handful to the tribes that slumber in its 
 bosom. 
 
 — Wm. Cullen Bryant 
 
 ELIZABETH B. CAMP. 
 
 The domestic man, who loves no music so 
 well as his kitchen clock and the airs the 
 log sing to him on the hearth, has solaces 
 which others never dream of. 
 
 —Emerson 
 
 JOSEPH STAPLES, 
 
 Always look and act pleasant, and you 
 will make people happy and be happy your¬ 
 self. 
 
 MRS. EDMUND CAMP, 
 
 When the garland of youth fades on our 
 brow, let us try at least to have the virtues 
 of maturity; may we grow better, gentler, 
 graver, like the fruit of the vine, while its 
 leaf withers and falls. 
 
 —AmieVs Journal 
 
 Mrs. j. f. palmer. 
 
 Rest for the weary hands is good. 
 
 And love for heart’s that pine. 
 
 But let the manly habitude 
 Of upright souls be mine. 
 
 — J. O. Whittier 
 
MRS. J. C. REMINGTON, 
 
 ‘‘For every bad there might be a worse, 
 and when a man breaks his leg, let him be 
 thankful ’twas not his neck.” 
 
 Mrs. j. d. Derr, 
 
 A virtuous deed should never be delayed; 
 the impulse comes from Heaven. 
 
 —Alex Doioe 
 
 Build to-day, then, strong and sure, 
 
 With a firm and ample base; 
 
 And ascending and secure 
 
 Shall to-morrow find its place. 
 
 —Longfelloio 
 
 H. M. JACK, 
 
 “After the darkest hour comes the brio-ht- 
 
 O 
 
 est light.” 
 
 0 
 
 Mrs. e. h. hughes. 
 
 With public sentiment nothing can fail; 
 without public sentiment nothing can suc¬ 
 ceed. Consequently, he who moulds public 
 sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts 
 
 statutes or pronounces decisions. 
 
 —Abraham Lincoln 
 
 KATE REMINGTON, 
 
 “Boys flyino: kites can haul in their white 
 winged birds; 
 
 But you can’t do that way when }’'ou’re 
 flying words; 
 
 A thought unexpressed, may sometimes 
 fall back dead, 
 
 liut God himself cannot call it back when 
 once ’tis said.’' 
 
MRS. FLORA RIPLEY, 
 
 But the good deed, 
 
 Through the ages, 
 
 Living on historic pages, 
 
 Brighter grows. 
 
 And gleams immortal. 
 
 Unconsumed by moth or rust. 
 
 —Longfellow 
 
 F. E. HARRISON, 
 
 Should you see afar off, that worth win- 
 ning. 
 
 Set out on the journey with trust. 
 
 And ne’er heed if your path at beginning 
 Should be among brambles or dust,— 
 Though it is but by footsteps ye do it. 
 And hardships may linger and stay: 
 Walk with faith and be sure you’ll get 
 through it. 
 
 For ‘‘Where there’s a will there’s a 
 way. ’ ’ 
 
 — Eliza Cook 
 
 MRS. E. H. E. HARRISON, 
 
 “Speak gently of the erring, 
 
 Oh! do not thou forget. 
 
 However darkly stained by sin, 
 
 He is thy brother yet; 
 
 Heir of the self same heritage. 
 
 Child of the self same God. 
 
 He hath but stumbled in the path, 
 
 Thou hast in weakness trod.’’ 
 
 “Though the world smile on you blandly 
 Let your friends be choice and few; 
 Choose your course, pursue it grandly 
 And achieve what you persue.” 
 
ESTELLA OSBORN, 
 
 As slow our bark her foamy track 
 Against the wind is cleavino*; 
 
 Her trembling pennant still points back 
 To that dear isle ’twas leaving; 
 
 So loathe v/e part from those we lov^e 
 From all the links that binds us; 
 
 So turn our hearts where e’er we roam 
 
 To those we left behind us. 
 
 — Thomas Moore 
 
 ANNA E. CARPENTER, 
 
 Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she 
 requires the hand of Time. 
 
 — Voltaire 
 
 The man who seeks one thins: in life, and 
 but one, 
 
 May hope to attain it before life be done. 
 
 — Owen Merideth 
 
 Erma Chapman, 
 
 ^‘Quench your thirst with pure water, 
 pure thoughts and a pure heart.” 
 
 ^Tll habits gather by unseen degrees.” 
 
 BLANCHE CHAPMAN, 
 
 The quality of mercy is not strained; 
 
 It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven 
 Upon the place beneath. 
 
 It is twice blessed: 
 
 It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 
 
 —Shakespeare 
 
 And this our life exempt from public 
 haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in run¬ 
 ning brooks and good in everything. 
 
 —Shakspeare 
 
MICHAEL MALONEY, 
 
 people’s voice” maybe ‘‘the proof and 
 echo of all human fame” but the voi(*.e of 
 the undying church is the echo of “everlast¬ 
 ing glory,” and when those who surround 
 his grave today shall have passed away, all 
 future generations of Irishmen to the end of 
 time will be reminded of his name and of his 
 glory. 
 
 The remarks of the Rev. T. N. Burke up¬ 
 on the removal of Daniel O’Connell’s body to 
 its final resting place in Glasenvin, beneath 
 the Round Tower, in the presence of 50,000 
 people. 
 
 Gertrude Hatch kniseley. 
 
 Be not like dumb driven cattle. 
 
 Be a hero in the strife. 
 
 —Longfelloio 
 
 MRS. H. W. MORRIS, 
 
 Learn to make the most of life. 
 
 Lose no happy day. 
 
 Time will never bring thee back 
 Chances swept away. 
 
 —Longfelloio 
 
 Mrs. Guy l. furley, 
 
 “Every action in company ought to be 
 some sign of respect to those who are pres¬ 
 ent. ’ ’ 
 
 HULDA HATCH. 
 
 I try to make my enmities transient and 
 my friendships eternal. 
 
 — Cicero 
 
A. C. WARNER, 
 
 Everything comes to the man who waits. 
 
 — Victor Hugo 
 
 Harriet E. Dodge, 
 
 l"iit yourself in his ])hie(‘. 
 
 — ( Itt’itdc 
 
 MRS. j. D. Leek, 
 
 God moves in a mysterious way 
 His wonders to perform; 
 
 He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
 
 And rides upon the storm. 
 
 — William Coicper 
 
 MRS. J. G. FlNKBEINER, 
 
 ‘‘If only we strive to be pure and true, 
 To each of us all there will come an hour 
 When the tree of life shall burst into 
 flower, 
 
 And rain at our feet a glorious dower 
 Of something grander than ever we 
 knew.” 
 
 J. F. PALMER, 
 
 He either fears his fate too much, 
 
 Or his deserts are small. 
 
 Who fears to put it to the touch, ^ 
 
 To win or lose it all. 
 
 —Scott 
 
 L. D. PITCHER, 
 
 Be sure you are right, then go ahead. 
 
 —Dary Crocket 
 
 Sometimes, it is of course impossible to 
 tell until afterwards whether you were right 
 or not, but in most cases, one can make 
 it so. 
 
MRS. S. H. ZENDT, 
 
 Look not mournfully into the Past. It 
 comes not back again. Wisely improve the 
 Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the 
 shadow}^ Future without fear, and with a 
 manly heart. 
 
 —Longfelloio 
 
 A. R. BICKENBACH, 
 
 I live for those who love me; 
 
 For those who know me true, 
 
 For the heaven that smiles above me. 
 
 And waits my coming too; 
 
 For the cause that needs assistance; 
 
 For the wrongs that need resistance; 
 
 For the future in the distance; 
 
 For the good that I can do. 
 
 —Anon 
 
 MATTIE LONG, 
 
 Farewell! a word that must be, and hath 
 been— 
 
 A sound which makes us linger;—yet— 
 farewell. 
 
 —Lord Byron 
 
 ADDIE C. BOVEY, 
 
 ^‘When a person is suddenly thrust into 
 any strange, new position of trial, he finds 
 the place fits him as though he had been 
 measured for it. ^ ’ 
 
 MRS. S. E. WILBUR, 
 
 The sun athwart the cloud, thought it no 
 sin to use my land to put his rainbow in. 
 
 —Emerson 
 
F. L. MURRAY, 
 
 There is a limit to the work that can be 
 got out of a human body or a human brain 
 and he is a wise man who wastes no energy 
 
 on pursuits for which he is not fitted. 
 
 — Gladstone 
 
 C. V. KERCH, 
 
 I do not call one greater and one smaller; 
 that which fills its period and place is equal 
 to any. 
 
 — Walt Whitman 
 
 J. M. TINSLEY, 
 
 Immodest words admit of no defense, 
 
 For want of decency is want of sense. 
 
 —Roscommon 
 
 LOUIE M. DIXON, 
 
 It is not a question of how much we are 
 to do, but of how it is to be done; it is not 
 a question of doing more, but of doing bet¬ 
 ter. 
 
 — Joh?i Ruskin 
 
 B. MINNA DECKER, 
 
 Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt. 
 
 And every grin, so merry, draws one out. 
 
 — Wolcot 
 
 A. F. ROBINSON, 
 
 ‘^Never too late to mend.” 
 
 MRS. CHAS. EASTMAN, 
 
 Thrift of time will repay you in after life 
 with a usury beyond your most sanguine 
 dreams. 
 
 — W. E. Gladstone 
 
MRS. LOUIE M. DIXON, 
 
 My business is not to re-make myself, but 
 
 make the absolute best of what God made. 
 
 —Ftohert Browning 
 
 E. F. REED, 
 
 Let the laws of your own land, 
 
 Good or ill, between you stand. 
 
 Hand to hand, and foot to foot. 
 
 Arbiters of the dispute. 
 
 — Shelley's Liheriy 
 
 S. Ellen benjamin, 
 
 I think the first virtue is to restrain the 
 tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods 
 who knows how to be silent even when he is 
 in»the right. 
 
 — Cato 
 
 HENRY HIGLEY, 
 
 He that believeth on Him is not con¬ 
 demned; but he that believeth not is con- 
 demmed already, because he hath not be¬ 
 lieved in the name of the only begotten Son 
 of God. 
 
 —John 3:18 
 
 MRS. S. D. EASTWOOD, 
 
 We may attain all the excellence of which 
 humanity is capable while doing the simplest 
 daily duties. 
 
 George Elliot 
 
 Guy l. Furley, 
 
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 ‘‘Undertake not what you cannot perform; 
 but be careful to keep your promise.” 
 

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