Show 1 7 bi I the kinge kings Pi Piol otare nr Th eking from front the tile council chamber came weary and bore of heart he ile called to iliff the painter and joke spoke to him liim thus part apart im sickened of the faces ignoble hypocrites cowards 4 and knaves I 1 shall shrink in their shrunken measure chief slave in a realm of slaves taint aint mo me a true mans picture gracious and wise and good dowered with the strength of heroes and tho the beauty of womanhood it shall hall ban bans in my inmost chamber that thither when I 1 retire it may fill my soul with its grandeur an and d warm it with sacred fire I 1 so tho the artist painted the picture and it hung in the palace hall ball never a thing so lovely had garnished the stately wall the king with head uncovered gazed on it with rapt delight till it suddenly wore strange meaning baffled his questioning eight sight for the form was the supplest courtiers perfect in every limb but the bearing waa was t that hat of the bench henchman who filled the flagons for him ace T was a priests who pondered J hie ilis parchment early and late I 1 the eye was the wandering minstrels who eang sang at ilia palace gate the tile lips halt half oad sad and halt half mirthful with a fitful trembling grace were the very lips of a woman lie ile had kissed in the ilia market place but the smiles aru iles which her curves trans figured As a rose with its shimmer of dew was the smile of the wife who love loved him queen ethelyn good and true then learn 0 king xing said the artist nnie this truth that tho tile picture tells ThAP iv y ery form of the human afo 6 tu e hint of the Ilig highest hest dwells that scanning each living temple for the place that the veil is thia thin we may gather by beautiful glimpses the form of the god within helen B itt there are certainly existing now in the ilia m world orld distinctions of classes which it if not checked may prove the overthrow of of many orton orson pratt 1 I true joy is a elreno and bober rno ion tion and they a are re miserably on out t that take laughing for rejoicing the seat of it is within and there Is no che cheerfulness er like the resolution of a bravo braye mind ca the most trifling actions that affect a duarts credit are to be regarded the of 0 your hammer at five in the morning or nine at night heard beard by a creditor makes him easy eix six months longer but if ho lie sees you at it a billiard table or bears hears your voice ata at a tavern when you should be at work lie sends for hie his money the next day benjamin Ft franklin anklin now did the tile echo the moonlight of sound give back tenes tones like direct dirges from the tile funeral choir and it was as if it the tile united eludes shades of 0 tho the departed sang them over in their holy boly week under tho the ground as it if the corpse veil stirred on tho the white lip and out of the last hollows liol lows bounded sounded again a hollow life tho the singing ceased alpine horns began mille mountains mount alne then the cello of the concert came over again in enchanting icing tones as it if th departed still played behind tho breast work of the grave mound end and d themselves in echoed cad tone tones all men bear dead or dying one in their breast so did the three maidens maide iu I 1 tonee tones are the garments of the past fluttering back baick with a slimmer glimmer und aud they excite the heart beart too much rauch thew bt I 1 I 1 |