p with our burden of pain,
to atone,
For all of life's ills,
to the Sorrowful Stone.

Above is the vault of the pitiless stars;
The trees stretch their arms all blackened
with scars;
The gales of lost Paradise are faintly
blown
To where we sit down on the Sorrowful
Stone."

"From a Poem 'Vagaries'" warns of * * *
--the product of the age and clime,
We do too much! grow old before our
time,

Yet--would we stray to Morning Hills
again?
Unlearn sad prophecies, and dream as
then!

Ah, no! with sense of peace the shadows
creep,
There droppeth on tired eyes the spell of
sleep--

We left the dawn long leagues behind, and
stand,
Waiting and wistful in the Evening Land!

The patient Nurse of Destiny, at best,
Leads us like children to the needed rest!

A ghostly wind puts out our little light,
And we have bid the busy world "Good Night!"

Mrs. Stockton was married twice. Her first husband was the father of her
two sons, one of whom, Dr. Henry M. Downs, in his practice, came often
to St. Margaret's. The second marriage, as the wife of the late Judge
John S. Stockton, was a very happy one. Last year, a brother the only
surviving member of her family, died, leaving Mrs. Stockton the last of
a family of five children. The two sons have also passed into the Great
Beyond.

In her younger days, she contributed many poems and some prose to
newspapers and magazines over the name of Cora M. Downs.

Ex-Gov. St. John appointed her one of the regents of the University of
Kansas.

Her beautiful poem: "In Memoriam" to Sarah Walter Chandler Coates was
her last.

"'We seem like children,' she was wont to
say,
'Talking of what we cannot understand,'
And in the dark or daylight, all the way,
Holding so trustfully a Father's hand.
And this was her religion, not to dwell
On tenets, creeds, or doctrines, but to
live
On a pure faith, and striving to do well
The simple duties that each hour should
give."

MARGARET HILL McCARTER.

The most successful Kansas woman writer financially and the most
prolific is Margaret Hill McCarter of Topeka. From the advent of her
little book in 1901, "A Bunch o