Scrapbook: Anna McFarland Stabler, c. 1875- c.1812

PATIENT WITH THE LIVING

Sweet firend, when thou and I are gone, Beyond earth's weary labor. When small shall be our need of grace From comrade or from neighbor, Passed all the strife, the toil, the care And done with all the sighing What tender truth shall we have gained, Alas, by simply dying.

Then lips too chary of their praise Will tell our merits over, And eyes too swift our faults to see Shall no defect discover. Then hands that would not lift a stone Where stones were thick to cumber Our steep hill-path, will scatter flowers Above our pillowed slumber.

Sweet friend, perchance both thou and I, Ere love is past forgiving, Should take the earnest lesson home-- Be patient with the living. To-day's repressed rebuke may save Our blinding tears to-morrow; Then patience- e'en when keenest edge May whet a nameless sorrow.

'Tis easy to be gentle when Death's silence shames our clamor, And easy to discern the best Through memory's mystic glamour; But wise it were for thee and me, Ere love is past forgiving, To take the tender lesson home-- Be patient with the living. Margaret E. Sangster.

KIPLING TO FIGHTING BOB.

Rudyard Kipling has presented Captain Robley D. Evans with a set of his works, and a letter containing these verses:

Zogbaum draws with a pencil, And I do things with a pen. But you sit up in a conning tower, Bossing eight hundred men.

Zogbaum takes care of his business, And I take care of mine, But you take care of ten thousand tons, Sky-hooting through the brine.

Zogbaum can handle his shadows, And I can handle my style, But you can handle a ten-inch gun To carry seven mile.

To him that hath shall be given, And that's why these books are sent To the man who has lived more stories Then Zogbaum or I could invent.

[THE?] SUN, SUNDAY, MARCH 10,

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. Who first proposed secession in the United States Congress? 2. What were the original charter Colonies and how did they differ from other Colonies in government? 3. When was the agitation against slavery in the United States first begun, and by whom? 4. Which two Presidents of the United States did not receive a majority of the popular vote? 5. When was the coinage of the standard silver dollar first authorized? 6. When and were did the first representative body meet in what is now the United States? 7. In what memorable battle of the Civil War was no one hurt on the Federal side? 8. Did not Henry Clay make the remark, "I would rather be right than be President." J.B. Newark.

1. Josiah Quincy, Jan. 4, 1811. 2. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhose Island. These were selfgoverning Colonies, with charters giving them constitutional rights. The other Colonies were goverened by proprietors, and by the Crown. 3. In 1835, when John Dickson made the first important speech in Congress against slavery. 4. Neither Hayes nor President Benjamin Harrison had a majority of the popular vote. 5. Feb. 28, 1878. 6. At Jamestown, Va.. Jan. 30, 1619. 7. Port Hudson, July 9, 1863; Cumberland Gap, Sept. 9, 1863. 8. Yes.

BY JOSH WINK.

TO THE DEAD QUEEN.

There have been queens who diedQueens who had lived to blessThough without royal pride, Uncrowned and scepterless. It is enough to say You were as grand as they.

There have been queens who died- Many have wept for them. No golden throne was theirs, No jeweled diadem. It is enough to say You were as fair as they.

There have been queens who diedHonored through all their yearsDied in the midst of grief That was too great for tears. It is enough to say You were as good as they.

There have been queens who diedWho lived in royal part; Empires they held, in truthHeld in a loving heart. It is enough to say You were beloved as they.

Roses with tears of dew Tenderly wept o'er them - Tears that, like jewels, were Starred in grief's diadem. It is enough to say You will be mourned as they.

--JOSH WINK.

Facts About Baroque Pearls Contributed by Mrs. Ourdan

THE other day, when I was talking with Mrs. Ourdan over the telephone in rehard to the disputed spelling of the word "carnelion," I chanced to make a remark about baroque pearls, and in a second I was hearing all sorts of thrillingly interesting things about baroque pearls in particular and gems in general.

It seemed too bad to keep such an amount of unique detail to myself, and again the information was all so new to me that I feared in the hurly-burly of work to get it confused, whereupon at my request, Mrs. Ourdan consented to send me in a bit of detail, that I might share it with those were were digging out the mystic gems. Incidentally, I may say, too, that Mr. and Mrs. Ourdan have traveled in the Orient. Consequently their discussion of the matter has the increased value which comes from first hand information.

I think possibly, instead of transscribing Mrs. Ourdan's letter, I will print it just as she wrote it, so we may not lose any of its value. Here is what she says:

"The Baroque Pearl is, as the name implies, a 'queet pearl.' It is found in the fresh mussel, and is of fantastic shape and various colors.

"In pearl culture a pretty and unique result is obtained by the Japanese and Chinese who open the shell of the mussel and place therein a pellet made of the shell of the mother-of-pearls before replacing the mussel in the water. This pellet becomes coated with the pearly substance, thus becoming what I would call a grafted or 'imposition' pearl.

"In addition to the round pellet, little images of porcelain, bone or other material are used, producing what appears to be little pearl images, which are sold in the shells at the bazaars at low prices.

"Besides the previous pearl there is a beautiful specimen called the conch pearl, which is a beautiful opaque pink, like the lining of the conch shell. All I have ever seen were perfectly round."

I am sure everybody will read this little "treatise" on pearls with keen relish. I have often seen the small pearl images referred to by Mrs. Ourdan, but had no idea how they came to take their peculiar form. Indeed, I have an idea they were a specimen of their carving for which the Chinese and Japanese are famous.

FRANCES CARROLL.