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versation The door soon closed on the
young journalist. whose heart fairly beat the
measure of u war dance as he walked up
town, wondering whether any other fellow
had as many disappointments as he, and
whether there were ever any girls who turned
out Just as fellow expected And this was
such an annoying matterl There we're so
many ways by which Laura Everdale and all
her kith and kin could have proved him hon
orable and not unworthy their acquaintance"
For days something like melancholy op-
pressed him Again he drew heavily on
''Topics for Poems," and occasionally on
ssTopics for Stories;" but all his work devel
oped morbidly
Christmas days not long afterward ar
rived, and the shops were beautiful to look in
upon. Daily as he passed to and fro along
Broadway, looking into the gayly decorated
windows, he thought of the beautiful girl
who had so strangely insisted on his banish-
ment
ITO forget thing find means almost al
ways remembering it," said Morgan Starr
one morning, land just this once I'll saunter
into Bartholomew's and see if Miss Everdale
is there" Up and down the place he walked,
but no glimpse of Laura rewarded him.
Then he paused and looked at umbrellas.
"She might come in," he said to himself.
And then he thought possibly be might write
something about historical umbrellas; Paul
Pry's, Sairey Camps, the one Dick Swiveller
wanted, but which the Marchioness had, SO to
speak, put up, not over her head in the usual
way, but around the corner at the pawn
brokers' Then he leaned upon the counter
and thought of Menelaus spreading his green
ish guard aloft as he tore himself, in a drench
of tears. away from beautiful Helen.
s'What an idiot amp said he, as his elbow
crashed through a square of glass in the
show case upon which he had leaned. while
everything in heaven above and earth be-
meath faded out in his reverie concerning
Laura.
The crash returned him to the vulgar pres
ent, and brought Mr. Bartholomew to the
spot A bit of broken glass had grazed Nor
gan's wrist, and while the proprietor bound
it with handkerchief, be put on an air of
indifference that was all the more conspicu-
GUS because it was SO artificial. He could
not resist saying to Mr.. Bartholomew that
this little incident reminded him of another
that occurred in that very store, and which,
but for this mishap, he probably would not
have remembered Did Mr.. Bartholomew
recollect the accident by which young
girls thumb was impaled upon an umbrella
wirea
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''Wel, yes, do remember it," said Mr..
Bartholomew ''Now that you speak Of it, !
do recall it. | forget the young woman's
name, but well remember her. She has
gone out Of trade, as we say-left here some
time ago, greatly to my regret"
Morgan turned away abruptly. He had
nothing more to say to Mr.. Bartholomew, for
while it was easy to express something he did
not feel, 1t was quite another thing to feign
indifference where ne was SO greatly inter
ested And now it was almost impossible for
him to leave the store without making fur
ther inquiries respecting Laura. Many a
time as be had passed the door, the feeling
that she was within and that be was serving
her by not entering, gave him not only self
approval, but a manly sentiment Of loyalty.
II he could not see her, he could honor her
at a distance, and wait But now, to find
her gone, utterly disarmed him. and held him
up before himself as one contemplates an
other man. He almost regretted having
agreed so willingly to Laura's determination
to end their innocent acquaintance. Heeven
wondered If she was a coquettc, and had re-
ceded, expecting him to follow.
Morgan left the store. but as he passed out
be met the gray haired porter and recognized
him as the man who had attended Laura
home at the time Of the accident The porter
also remembered the young journalist, and
pausing for moment, Morgan's anxiety over
came his dignity. Making reference to Miss
Everdale's injury and commencing Thomas
for his attention at the time, he said, in dis
simulation'slef hand manner, "Of course you
know nothing of Miss Everdale enow, ThonasV'
ssOf course I dor said the old Englishman.
0She is singing in a fine old church on some
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ticket to hear Camp and Heeny sing in the
opera house."
"Sing in the New York Opera house, and
never even hear of themf You must be mis-
taken, Thomasl"
Mot l." maintained the man; that Camp
and Heeny sings murderers' parts In the
choicest style, sir, and have heard himl"
Suddenly the mist vanished. Laura, with
an Italianized cognomen, probably was sing
ing in concerts with Campanini, and also In
some New York church, but wheres Nor
gan's first impulse was to employ Thomas to
find her, but knowing that with her fine
pride and dignity such course would offend
her, he at once abandoned the idea Days
passed before the unconscious something
which drove him on in the pursuit Of happi-
ness developed any plan for finding the one
woman who held his life within her hands.
Every church on every avenue now had the
Young journalist for an occasional attendant,
and as Easter drew near and choir rehearsals
were in order, all of his evenings were devot-
I'd to dropping in wherever there appeared
d be the slightest hope of finding Laura. AT
last it was within day of Easter, and Nor
gan Starts courage had almost touched the
point of negation Business called him to the
western side of the city late in the afternoon
of Easter Even, and as he sauntered back
across the town, he turned into dingy, un-
familiar neighborhood, and in the peculiar
atmosphere of a foggy twilight heard melo-
dious church bell not far Off.
"What an exquisite tonel" he exclaimed
sI wonder If people In those crumbling old
houses appreciate it-theres no such melody
in any bell up townl"
A few more steps brought him to the front
of old ST. Clements Furrowed by the marks
of time and browbeaten, as it were, by an
elevated railway structure, the venerable
ediice seemed pushing itself forward to the
recognition of passers by. Something OF its
persistent dignity and patience in holding its
way through SO many changes crept into
Morgany heart Like the pyramids, it held
an atmosphere of uncomprehended strength.
and the anxious lover felt its power.
'sIf it were worth while" said he, II would
gokin, but surely she would not be here.
must wait and bide my time In faith.
..For should wait, some time the light of day
Will come and sit beside me at my door"
He raised his hat in reverent feeling, and
was about to turn away when soft prelude
from the organ detained him, and In another
moment clear soprano voice began Luther's
well known Easter hymn Of 1894 Morgan
knew 1t well His heart bounded as its strains
brought back the associations of bis boyhood,
and it required but a moment more for him
to enter the old church, walk part way down
the aisle and look up at Laura Everdale-for
there in old st. Clements 1.-THE light Of day"
had come to him in the twilight shades of
Easter Even. Trembling with emotion, he
seated himself beneath the organ gallery and
listened to the voice of the woman who had
grown into his heart and life through silent,
patient waiting and acted but unspoken love.
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A SONG OF EASTER.

Sing, children, singi
And the lily censers swing;
Sing that life and Joy are waking and that Death
no more is king.
Sing the happy, happy tumult of the slowly
Frightening spring;
Sing, little children. singi
Sing, children, singl
Winter wild has taken wing.
Fill the air with the sweet tidings till the frosty
Along the caves the icicles no longer glittering
cling;
And the crocus in the garden lifts its bright face
to the sun,
And in the meadows softly the brooks begin to
run;
And the golden catkins swing
In the warm airs Of the spring;
Sing, little children, singl
Sing, children, singi
The lilies white you bring
In the joyous Easter morning for hope are bios
soming;
And as the earth her shroud of snow from off her
breast doth fling,
So may we cast our letters of in Gods eternal
spring.
So may we find release at last from sorrow and
from pain,
So may we find our childhood's calm, delicious
dawn again.
Sweet are your eyes, little ones, that look with
smiling grace,
without shade Of doubt or fear into the Futures
facel
Sing. sing in happy chorus. with joyful voices
tell
That death is life, and God is good and all things
shall be well;
That bitter days shall cease
In warmth and light and peace
That winter yields to spring
Sing, little children, singi
Celia Thaxter In St. Nicholas
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These are by no means the only sources
from which the name is said to be de-
rived. 1t is found in early English and
also in French, and it appears in medi@-
val Latin under the form of sinanellus
or giminellus 1t is considered to be
derived from the Latin simila, fine flour,
and Is usually interpreted as meaning
the finest kind of white bread made in
the middle ages It is evidently used. how
ever, by the medieval writer's to mean a
cake, which they called In the Latin of that
time artocopus. which Is isconstantly explained
by simnel In the Latin English vocabularies.
At any rate this cake is certainly Of very
ancient origi=i, and 1t Is very curious
custom which has been handed down for 80
many generations
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whirl, or had voluntarily taken a''situation"
in the place where Morgan Starr has found
herr Necessity for work came by the death
Of her father aud the succeeding care of two
motherless little sisters They were merest
infants when the exigency first arose, and
under the advice Of friends who focked
around her at the outset, she had successfully
opened kindergarten school, filed a position
as visiting governess and written love stories
and poems-all fitted excellently well, it
would be supposed, to supply an income to
lady brought up in an aristocratic quarter of
New York and accustomed to what is SO in
definitely called "the best society" Each and
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Easter E1uhlernA.

Now the egg Is glorified
And escapes
From q scrambled fate or fried.
1t appears In other shapes:
It is colored every hue,
Made of every substance toe
And tho gaudy butterfly
(Poor dear thingD.
As the Easter time draws nigh
1t unfurls its colored wing,
And with weak, unsteady leg,
Gee. it tries to draw an eggl
And the little yellow chick,
In his shell,
With head that will not stick
In the place it ought 70 dwell,
He has joined the motley crew.
He's an Easter emblem tool
Eggs and butterflies and chicks,
Even hens,
Lambs, and owls on little sticks,
Things 'twould take dozen pens
To describe-on every side,
See, they swell the Easter-tidei
And the cards-new every year.
Who can tell
The devices, strange and queer.
That as Easter emblems sell?-
Satin, scented. family tiaged,
Padded. puffed, and silken fringed-
TIL one fears. with all these things.
We lose sight
CT the thought that Easter brings,
OF its realness, sweet and bright.
For no emblem made by art
Can compare with glad heart.
bessie Chandler in Harper's Bazaar.
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a month appeared to pass while Morgan
Starr remained there in the darkness, but
finally he heard the singers coming down, and
stepped into the vestibule. As Laura de-
scended the narrow stairway into the full
light, it was as if some one had presented him
to his queen. He made movement of such
spontaneous devotion, SO full of all that was
i'll him to express, that she at once advanced
and placed her hand in his He transferred
it to his arm, and together they passed out
from old ST. Clements What they said and
what they did belongs to the new life Of
Easter day, but when the young lover heard
his promised wife sing Tersteegen's glorious
old anthem on that bright morning, he felt it
entirely possible for men to be "while yet on
earth, in heaven" FANNY NJ HOWELL.
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above in harmonious outlines, and, to finish,
a perfect contradiction in the strongest, most
resolute mouth that nature ever set in the
mold with features otherwise significant OF
gentle acquiescence There was q perplexed
expression on the face of the handsome girl,
who, taking a bit Of unengaged time for
reading, had just finished paragraph on the
duties of every day life as helps to ideal ex-
istence. She did not comprehend its philoso-
ply. "AhI' thought she, ''it means that if
Spinosa ground glasses for spectacles and
Montesquieu worked in dusty garden beds to
find greater mastery of thought, there is no
reason why | may not develop right here
among umbrellas"
smile of doubt passed over the fair coun-
tenance witch had not the slightest trace of
a handsome woman's consciousness She was
of that uncommon type which is beauty at
its best-beauty which does not know it is be-
ing looked at Her hair, brown and full of
yellow glintings, was gathered high upon her
head in knot of unruly little curls, and as
she turned the soft decline from the crown to
the back of the neck revealed that portion of
a woman's head which Is SO rarely handsome.
"What can l show your' asked Laura
Everdale of the gentleman before her.
Umbrellas, If you please" he said; "a
.Sangster, il you have it,
This was what he said, but not at all the
thing he looked or thought, for with ever
ready romance, Shakespeare's Beatrice, and
the tinge of her pleasantly in "Much Ado
About Nothing" which he had seen the night
before, flashed across his mind.
Now there is not much poetry about an
umbrella. Given its component parts, and
there seems to be no more of it. What inge-
nuity could enhance the importance of the
article until it would take its place In Nor
gan Starts note book among
rs for Ps
rs for IS
rs for IS
which headil, ~s comprised the kinds Of work
he engage las struggling, pushing can
didate fof journalistic pcweri rs for Ps,
which meant Topics for Poems. would scarce
ly suggest IAN Ode to Silken Sphere" rs
for SIS, which meant Topics for Stories, would
probably be barren Of a novelette, based on
either finding, borrowing or purloining an
umbrella, and surely Topics for Paragraphs
would be forever blank II something original
had to be said of an article SO commonplace.
STILL romances have resulted from smaller
things, and the young representative Of The
Daily Argosy had his note book with him at
Bartholomew that morning.
1t was rainy week in the latter part of
September, and torpor seemed to have fallen
upon every kind of trade except that Of wet
weather accessories. Laura Everda1e, how
ever, had never known brisker week in the
many that she had passed behind the counter
at Bartholomew, and as she stood there on
this particular morning, the brightest picture
OF all the eye could rest on, who would have
believed that she had ever lived In fashions
--
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Kneeling beside her 'raid kneeling throng
In the dim twilight Of the temple, where
The Easter buds, scent laden, filed the air
With sweet aroma, and the solemn song,
Low chanted, foated through the holy place.
watched the curtain Of her melting eyes
Veil their soft radiance and o'er that fair face
Stole reyerent stiffness, as with gentle sighs
Sins from her sinless lips were soon confessed.
(Ah, fairest saint, were all sins but as thineD
Then lifting her white forehead from its pil
lowed rest
Turning hea~sad sweet visage. pure with thought
divine,
She murmured. bending toward me as sat,
"Charlcs, Mrs. Smith yet wears her winter hat!"
Unidentified.
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THE CAPITALS EASTER.
THE cHlLDREN's EGG ROLLING ON
THE WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS.
Why the Young Ones OF Washington Pre-
fer Easter Monday to Christmas-C Curious
Features Of Picturesque Assemblaee oA
Children-The Capitol Grounds

OTIS by She
\ thousand troop
ing in.cns'direc-
\ Itio,n Hlxe the
m a G ia spelled
4 children follow
ing the swe es
music of the ,Rals
Piper of Hamsiiml
MnltitudinaEg bots.
pouring from asE.
the houses an d
streets. and tod
ding. with. uncen
tain, step bat igan
measurable conf
dence towards tller
finest play ground
In Americal Tets
insallithe stages OF
wealth and pover-
ty, and in frocks.
as various as tina
colors of birds ins
tr OPT c al cliu,sss9
Dainty litsAs- totHs.
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THEIR EASTER EVE.

HAT a face it was
Athat looked from
behind the counter
at John Bartholo-
news on Union
squarel Great
brown eyes, soften
ed by long lashes
and faint shadings
of the face around
them, a patrician
nose. with the brow
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-27
SWEET SPRINGS SIPPINGS

SWEET SPRINGS ,Aur %, 1889
II. +. Houston Was in Nj .Isliall Mon.
day.
II. +. Houston is visiting rs'a'ives in
and abot HerndOD
Rev. T. r. Cobb is assisting in 4 Mest.
ing at Pilot Grove.
A. Leonard and family ~er, at The
springs over Sunday.
R. T. Ham and wife, of Slater, are
visiting relatives in this city.
Mis- Lura w ri, of Kansas City, is
visiting Mrs +. ). Caples here.
Mrs. Ellen Jcnes and daughter Of
I'll Pa-", fsxis, ate visiting relatives in
this city.
Mr.. Susie Wins,ow. cf nasr Marshall,
is visiting her cousin, Mrs. W. +. Glen
dennen, of this citv.
Mrs. Lucy I.saG formerly oi Clinton,
is now making her home with her son,
Philip Land, of this city.
Miss Salli Graz, Who has been visit
ing the family ri II ". Weekly, returned
home in Wini>or Tnsshay.
Mis- Nav Adams, nf Wdrrensburg.
alter Ir"'Tacted SI>iI with her aunt, >.
X. FAIRS, HIS returned home.
-p. \. Curtis and Mis- Mamie Curtis,
of CliuIun. visited over Sun iay the family
Of Philip Land At this place.
B. y. Chapman returned this week
fron an extended visit with relatives and
friends at his old home in Virginia.
Judge j. j. Railey of st. Louis has
purchased the Canway property on Locust
street, and he will occupy it as his perma-
nent home about the first OF October.
Mrs. James Frenbaugh and Miss Hat
tie Carney will leave for their home in
Kirksyille to-day. Mrs. A. ID. Osenbaugh
and baby will accompany them TO remain
q week.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-27
MEN AND WOMEN

President Harrison is about as
uneasy as the German Kaiser.
The Shah of Persia has started
for home. All Europe cries "Shsh
there stay there"
Gen. Joseph B. Carr has fully
recovered his health since the recent
operation he underwent for cancer.
Gen. q. Guitar, of Columbus,
Mo. is at Deer Park. He is visit
ing "Steve" EIkins. There's music
in the air.
Lord Tennyson and Robert
BrowDIDg are about 20 lombard the
public with new volumes Of poems
Is Brown-Sequard responsible for
this ?
Gov. Taylor, of Tennessee, the
fiddler, wants to be United States
Senator. Would the grave and digni-
fie0 Senators "welcome old rosin de
bow? p
Major Mckinley's campaign for
the SpeakershIp has received severe
setback through the open advocacy
of ex Speaker Warren j. Keifer, of
Ohio.
Queen Victoria has sent to
Prince Bismarck a life-sized portrait
of herself. This is pleasing. Bis
msrck was afraid she would send him
an India shawl.
An Indian named Gabriel, living
in California, is said to be one hun
dred and fifty years old. 1t is evident
that he has never had anything to dc
with California law courts.
President Harrison has leased
his house in Indianapolis for three
years. He will Deed it again at the
end of that period If the leading pol
itician of his party are correct in their
surmises.
There is living in Chicago a man
who claims to be a brother Of Pran-
zini, the recently executed murderer,
of Paris. This is another reason for
keeping the Worlds Fair away from
Chicago.
Speaking of Gen. Boulanger,
Edmund Yates says: 'Sinee his
condemnation be has received d sack
full of sympathetic kilograms from all
parts of the world. The chiefs of his
party continue to fit between Paris
and London with phenomenal rapid
lty. and political piIgrimsges to Port
land place are more frequent than
ever. Gen. Boulanger's sole anxiety
is to secure the inviolability of the
ballot, and he maintains that
bis election can only be invalidated
BY the Chamber itself. He believes
that he will succeed, in spite of the
strength aud influence of his adver-
tisersaries."
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-27

Centralis, Mo-, August "a
Thursday night burglars chloroform-
ed Mr.. Pritchett, a guest of the City
Hotel, and robbed him of s475. Last
night burglars raided the homes of
DR.. j. Fl. Head and Mr.. A. Role.
myre, editor of the Guard. At the
litter place the intruders ransacked
the lower part of the house, ate q
hearty meal in the dining room and
started to investigate upstairs. A
few minutes later Edgar Rodemyre
woke suddenly to see burglar in his
room in the act of lighting q match.
He reached for his pistol and yelled,
and as the burglar ietreated fired two
shots. Editor Rodemyre followed the
visitor to the yard and opened fire,
but the burglars got away. Their
plumber was left behind.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-27
The New York World has a striJ

The New York World has a strike
of its pressmen to deal with. Of the
eaerits of the revolt but little is known
Aere in the west. beyond it is that old
chestnut gotten up by the union organ,
station, debating who the World shall
employ. No paper ON the American
cont nent has been so kind to Its EN-.
ployes as the World. Besides this.
shey have given them excursions and
Benefits without end all of which now,
q strike is on, the merciIess union dy-
aamite gang forget. The New York
Star, an opposition paper has
<espoused the cause of the
strikers and in the mouth piece of the
Asndful of fellows who are menacing
che World. This reminds us of the
days when gang of cut throats in
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-27
A BIG SHORTAGE.
EX-COllect0r Trice, Of st. Joseph
Short S36, 600 i'm His
Accounts.

st. Joseph, Mo-, Aug. ia committee
of experts, consisting of ex-senator WALKER
Young, ex-County Clerk Riley and James
T. Beach, who have for two months hsen
engaged in examining the books and set.
Elements of ex Collector Tandv III. Triee,
filed their report this evening with the
county court, The repor: shows the eI-
collector short in his accounts something
over $4,000.
1t is due, however, to Mr.. Price to ray
that he claims credits to the amount OF
$4,000 which the committee refused 10
allow. Mr.. Trice has been for a number
OF years quite prominent in county poll
tics and was three times elected collector
on the Democratic ticket, his successor BE-.
ing elected last November.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-27
Hibbard's : rengthening and
Rheumatic Plasters.

ARE REVELATION To THE WORLD, AND
ARE THE ONLY GENUINE aHEU-
MATIC PtAsTERs.
Nina-tenths OF all troubles which require
The aid of Plasiers are rheumatic in their
nature. A change of weather, ar sudden
draft causes cold, which develops into
muscular and that into infsmmatory
rheumatism. And yet, there has never
been such thing as distinctly rheumat-
ic snd Strengthening plaster, and hundreds
have died suddenly where rheumatism has
attacked the heart, whose lives might have
been saved had this plaster been applied in
sea.On. They are constructed on purely
scientific principals and are purely rege-
table.
Prepared by Rheumatic Syrup Co.,
Jackson, Mich. W. E. Bard, Druggist.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-27

Sedalia were endeavoring to break
down the BAzoo because it would not
employ Uuion help exclusively, and
this sentiment was endorsed by the
old Sedalia Democrat, controlled at
that time by set of men some of
whom have had to fee the country to
keep outside of the penitentiary. The
spirit of the New York Star was like
that Of the old Democrat, anything to
ruin a formidable competitor. The
Democrat died. The Star had better
take warning. The BAzoo trusts that
the World will come out of trouble
successfully and that its Oppressors
may come to grief early and often.