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GOOD NIGHT , NOT GOOD-BYE.
[ Loutso Chandler Moulton writes from Lon
don nH follows : "Suldom 1ms n more benutiftil
tribute been paid to any woman than the vol
ume entitled 'In My Lady's Praise , ' by Sir
Edwin Arnold. The title page explains that
these are 'Poems old and now written to the
honor of Fanny , Lady Arnold , and now col
lected for her memory. ' Lady Arnold died on
March 15,1880 , and the first poem in the volume
has for its title her last words , 'Good-Night ,
Not Good-Byc.1" ]
I saw my lady die ;
And lie , who of ttimes cruel is. dark Death ,
Was so deep sorrowful to stay her breath ,
Ho came , all clemency.
' , . . ; * ' Ho would not lot her know ;
& 'Vo * % * > So well he loved the bright ho must take ,
V- That for our grieving and her own fair .sake ,
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VV Ho hid his shaf t and bow.
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? V > - , ' Upon her lips ho laid
' ? That "kiss of God" which kills but does not
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: ' harm ;
' . - With tender message , breathing no alarm ,
* . * ; . Hesaid"Bounafraidl"
Sorrow grew almost glad ,
Pain half-for given , parting wcllnigh kind ,
To mark how placidly my lady's mind
* H . Consented. Ready clad
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4.\V In robes of unseen light
ri Her willing soul spread wing , and , while she
x > ' passed ,
& ' .
"DarlingI good-byl" wo moaned but she , at
last ,
v' ' * ' Murmured , "No ! but good-night I"
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' - * * ir * Goodnight , then ! Sweetheart ! Wife !
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If this world be the dark time and its morrow
& < * - of Paradise ,
Day-dawn dispelling sorrow ,
Lighting our starless life.
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Good night ! and not Good-byol
Good night ! and best "Good morrow ! " if we
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wake ;
Yet why so quickly tired ? Well wo must
make
Haste to bo done , and die !
For dying has grown dear
Now you are dead , who turned all things to
grace ;
Wo see Death made pale slumber on your
face ;
Good night ! but is dawn near ?
Flowers rich of scent and hue
Wo laid upon your sleeping place. And these
Flowers of fond verso , which once had gift to
please
Being your own take tool
SIR pDWIN AllNOLD.
Senator Conkling , in his great speech
before the republican convention at
Chicago nominating Grant for the
presidency , said : "Any republican can
carry Iowa , but we want to nominate a
man who can carry New York. "
This is applicable to the democratic
situation in 1900. No democrat can be
elected who cannot carry New York
rsk - ' and New Jersey. Under the new ap
k - / - portionment we might add Indiana and
Illinois. No democrat can carry either
of the above states who advocates the
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of sixteen to one. No candi
date in either party for the last forty
years has been elected who failed to
carry New York.
All the predictions made in the cam
paign of 1896 by advocates of the 16 to 1
fallacy as to what would happen in this
country if the gold standard was con-
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tinned as the policy of the government
have proved false in every respect.
Money is more plentiful today and can
be obtained at a lower rate of interest
than at any previous tiuiu in the history
of the country.
What use is there in the democratic
party pursuing and advocating this
fallacy any further ? It has cost us both
houses of congress. Kentucky , Mary
land and Delaware cut loose from demo
cratic moorings and drifted to the repub
lican side on this issue. The democratic
voter is not infatuated with the idea
that in order to have his party succeed
there must bo stagnation in business ,
calamity and bankruptcy broadcast in
the land. He will prefer different con
ditions and in order to hold him to party
affiliation the leaders will do well to
consult the issues that affect his busi
ness relations with the country if they
expect him to respond to the party call
in the future. This is cold democratic
truth. "Wilber Democrat , October 24 ,
1899.
On Monday , the
28d , and Tuesday ,
the 24th of October , 1899 , the rainfall , as
measured by the Standard United States
rain gauge at Arbor Lodge , was , for
Nebraska City and vicinity , two inches
and ninety-nine one hundredths of an
inch. That is pretty nearly three
inches.
Divorces are more numerous in
Switzerland than in any other country.
A marriage is eighty times as likely to
end in divorce in Switzerland as in
Great Britain.
Havana is a proud city this fall. In
stead of sending forth her usual pesti
lence of yellow fever , she has been so
healthy under American management
that she has actually been able to put
the shoe on the other foot , and quaran
tine against some American and Mexican
gulf ports.
It is computed that if matters go in
the next twenty-five years as they have
in the last , the United States will in
that time become the leading commer
cial nation of the world , with Germany
second and Great Britain third.
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