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THE ADVOCATE AND NEWS. 16 FOR Yj' , THE WOMEN K ' OF THE FAMILY I '1 The Motto In a Wedding Ring. A lover gave the wedding ring Into the goldninith'8 hand. "Grave me," be said, "a tender thought Within this golden band." The goldsmith gruved With careful art, "Till death us part." The wedding bells rang gladly out. The husband raid: "Oh, wife, ToRether we will share the grief, The happiness, of life. 1 give to thee My band, my heart, Till death us part." Bo up the hill and down tho hill, Through fifty changing years, They shared each other's happiness, They dried each other'B tears. Alas, alas, That death's cold dart Such love can parti But one Bad day she stood alone Beside his narrow bed. She drew the ring from off her band And to the goldsmith said, "O man who graved With careful art, Till death us part, "Now grave four other words for me, 'Till death us Join. ' " He took The precious golden band once more. With solemn, wistful look, And wrought with care, For love, not coin, "Till death us Join." they too were praying and trusting. Then we went back to the church and I tried to say something to comfort the poor crea tures. They Bald that two men had al ready drowned. The boat had gone down and pieces of It had been driven ashore. The widow and children were there too. Well, the first I knew, I began to pray. I prayed with all my soul that they might be saved, the poor people who were yet alive; and then, really against my will, I prayed very earnestly that God would spare the lives of the two who were al ready dead! Oh, how mortified I was! After I stopped and thought of it, I said cares for them. But Just as soon u they see we care for them and make them be lieve God carea for them It wlna them. They are easily won. I remomber once when I first began my work. I was In a little town, and I had no place to sleep but In a little room between a pla sty and where twelve men slept in another room, and the mattress was oh, dreadful! But I did not even feel it And they all knew that I had just come from the beautiful castle of my fathers, where there was Buch luxury. And when they saw that I was bo glad of lt, that I might tell them of Jesus, and that I did not feel it, It won them, and they would do anything for me." The Countess conducts four branches of mission work. 1. Work with tho yacht "Duen," In cluding training ships for young sailors and boys, meetings and tea meetings held on board and providing a movable home for herself and her helpers. 2. An International Seamen's Mission. 3. A Seamen's Home at Rugen for the Baltic fishermen. 4. Public gospel meetings. She contemplates establishing a seamen's home In Chicago for ministering to that most neglected class of men. The Duchess of Marlborough. I take delight In reprinting the follow Ing finely expressed sentiments from the young Duchess of Marlborough. I am sure that all of you who have read of her progressive interest In the modern Idea of higher and varied education for The Countess 5chlmmelmann and Her Noble Work. Regarding the Belf-sacrlflce of the no ble woman whose picture we give here the Chicago Advance says, referring par ticularly to her work In Chicago: This remarakable Danish noblewoman has begun In Chicago that unique work among sailors and other neglected men which has had such notable spread and success In othr lands. Her yacht "Duen," which she purchased from H R. H. Prince Waldemar of Denmark, Is moored at North avenue, and on it she conducts a free kitchen, serving lunch eon and coffee to all the needy men who enter, seeking thus to win them to Christ The entrance of this titled woman upon this work is one of the romances of missions. She is of high rank and for years was lady of honor to the Empress Augusta, wife of old Emperor William of Germany. Though having access to all the courts of Europe and everything that wealth or social standing could bring, she has chosen this life of lowly service, bringing all her gifts of person and rank and fortune to the feet of her Master. Of her entrance upon the work the Countess herself says: . "It Is considered a great disgrace In our country for a woman to speak in public, and especially before men. But when I knew that the great Jesus looked down upon me and loved me me, a lit tle crawling speck of dust in his uni verse I had to tell it to others in some way. So I gave away tracts to the fish ermen and workmen many, many tracts. But the tracts did not say my whole heart, so I began to write little notes, so that the poor people would be sure to understand that God loved them. Then my notes grew longer and longer and I did not have time to write enough, so I began to explain a little to the peo ple, and the first I knew I was talking to great meetings. "But even then I never prayed. It seemed to me that was especially a shame to a woman to pray before men. Shall I tell you the first time? I was with my v poor fisher-people in a village and there was a great a very great storm. There were about thirty boats with two or three men In each out in the fishing grounds, but they could not get In and It seemed that all were lost The women and chil dren were on shore, screaming and cry ing. I stood and clasped my hands and lifted them up to show we were praying for them. We could see them plainly. And they clasped their hands to show 1 CRUISING TO SAVE LOST SOULS. A unique expedition is the cruise of the Countss Sebimme linann, a Danish nolle woman, who sold her jewels and left home as a Christian missionary. After crnistog the most important ports of Europe she, with her three adopted sons, set sail for America in her splendid yacht Duen. Pictures are from the New York Herald. to God: 'At least, God, If I must pray before these men, why was I not per mitted to pray for something at least pos sible? Why must I pray for the abso lutely Impossible?' "Well, I cannot tell you all the little things of the story; but in a very won derful way all the men In the thirty boats were saved, every one. Then the night came on, and the storm was bo great the waters came up over the land and into the village. The next morn ing when the light was just beginning, the poor widow that I told about could not sleep. So she opened her door and looked out, and there right before her door, stranded on the green, was a big black thing. And it wa3 the boat of her husband, and lying In it, almost dead, were her husband and son. And they both lived. It was a mistake that their boat had gone down; the pieces were of some other.boat And God brought their boat up over the land to their very door. "So I prayed some more, even before men. "I remember very well when I spoke on.ee. I didn't want to. It was close to the castle of my fathers. My mother was a German. My eldest brother has the estate now. But God led me there. My son hired the opera-house for six days. 'When I rose to speak the first time in that house there was a great crowd of people very rough people what you call it? anarchists and socialists. I hear you have anarchists in Chicago: but it Is a child's play compared with our anarchists and socialists. They are desperate men, and many, many of them. They are made so because nobody women, and similar movements, cannot help loving the duchess, who does what ever she thinks is right regai-dless of criticism. A London cable to the New York World says: The young Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, made her first appearance as a public speaker this week when dls tributing prizes at the Oxford Girls' High School. She was very nervous, but ac quitted herself gracefully and well. 'Her voice was sweet though thin, and her enunciation was clear, so she was dls tlnctly heard. She said: "Ladies and Gentlemen I should like to thank you for the kind reception you have given me and for the considerate words your chairman has said in my behalf. I can assure you that It affords me great pleasure to be here to-day and to be enabled In so doing to show my appreciation of and my sympa thy with higher education for girls, the excellence of which has been, so aptly demonstrated this afternoon by the num ber of successful candidates I have had the pleasure of presenting with prizes. I am glad to congratulate them upon their success and to encourage them as well as their less successful fellow- students on their progress and their ca reer of knowledge and usefulness. (Ap plause.) "I think we women are happy In knowing that we have now made the men acknowledge that higher education must be a help to us In any vocation we choose to pursue. But If, upon the other hand, we prefer to make a man's work and his alms our own In uniting our efforts with his, I think a man will pre- A Term or a Year At the New England Conservatory, includ ing room, board, etc., all at our expense ; any other conservatory or college if preferred. Send for illustrated booklet showing just how hundreds of girls have earned, through us, a complete mu sical education. THE LAMES' HOME JOURNAL The Curtis Publishing Company Philadelphia, P. fer an Intelligent, educated woman for his companion and helper td- one who, through no fault of her own, is unable to be to him the help she would have wished to be. "I, therefore, take much pleasure In giving away the prizes, and In congratu lating the successful candidates." Two pages, dressed In cream satin, pre sented to the duchess a bouquet before the ceremony. She was much compli mented upon her speech. HOW'S THIS! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F, J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. WALDINO, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholcsalo Druggists, Toledo, 0. 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