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story can be briefly sketched. Left moth
erless at r, with memories of a lovely face
and tender, brooding care which still lin
gered with her son, who associated her
vaguely with the madonnas that he saw in
store windows, the boy lived alone with
his father.
Singing was his passion. He was one
of the leading voices in famous boy
choir, and the best part of the year to him
was when the Easter music was being
learned. 1t wanted but day before that
great occasion, and all his spare time at
home was devoted to practice.
Mr. Hamilton Winsted was an ambi-
tious man. He was engaged in paying
though not extensive business. How to
enlarge it had been problem ever since
he had known what wonderful voice his
boy had Within a few months be had
found a new object to gain money for IN
the promise of second wife. 1t was
handsome girl who had made him this
PROMISE and his pride amused itself by
fancying how we'll she must be attired and
in what style she must live when she be-
came Mrs. Hamilton Winsted. She was
quite as good as she was beautiful, and he
instinctively kept from her knowledge
some of the ways in which he was striving
AS it grew later Mr.. Winsted S mind be-
came keener and more alert. The visions
of his promised bride and his son faded to
give place to some new plan of speculation
| that suddenly occurred to him. Hethought
| it all out, aided by calculations on paper.
The sum that might be gained was large,
and his face grew elated with the joy of
! greed 1t was lock that Miss l4conora
Ellsworth would not have cared to see
I there, and it was not softened by any pity
I for those who would lose if he won.
But in the ball thero was another look
ON handsome, boyish face. Rex had for
gotten that it was past his bedtime. His
/ countenance, aglow at first with an artist S
delight in his art, grew brighter with the
realization of the meaning of what he
sang. 1t was the first time he had entered
SO completely into the spirit of his Easter
music, and he rendered it so well that
his father became gradually conscious of
the words. The ropetitions of the faithful
practice fairly burned the syllables into
his soul:
The day Of resurrection
Earth, tell it all abroad
The passover of gladness,
The passover Of Godi
From death to life eternal,
From earth unto the sky,
Our Christ hath brought us over,
With hymns Of victory.
So sang the clear soprano that in a few
hours was to enehant all hearers at Christ
church, and the change of his intonation
as he rendered the last half of the stanza
was perfect The listener in that quiet
library began to grow very uneasy. Then
he heard
Our hearts be pure from evil
That We may see Alright
and the rest of those words composed SO
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No Room for Doubt.

Proof, yes overwhelming proof caa
be furnished of the excellent curative
qualities Of Dr.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
AZ caught a cold which led to cough
and pain in the chest. (pneumonia?)
bought DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and
after taking one bottle of it, the cough
began to disappear; when | finished
taking the second bottle | was cured.
Gustav Thurmaster, 40 Hickory St.,
Cleveland, o." DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup
costs but 25 cents. Take only Bulls.
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eI'M ALL RIGHT, FATHER" HE SAID FEEBLY.
the boy had been badly burned in that
brief time of agony, and it was uncertain
if he could get well.
On Easter morning his father and prom
ised mother bent over him. Neither no.
ticed the sweet tumult that the church
bells were making; neither thought of its
being just the hour that Rex would have
been leading the professional hymn at
Christ church.
son my son, my sonl'' the man groan-
ed. My life was not worth your sacri-
flcel'
Rex opened his eyes, sunk deep in ban
dages about his head. He had not before
been fully conscious, but now the old
buoyant spirit shone family through those
eyes.
"I'm all right, father, he said feebly
They were the only rational words he ut
tered for many a day. Then he glanced
up at tho lovely womans face and said,
'Mother' before lapsing into insensibil-
ity again.
The word, though spoken wanderingly,
was the seal of adoption to Leonora Ellis
worth, and the Easter day was made more
memorable to her by the story, brokenly
told by the father beside the boys bed, of
the nights struggle preceding the fire.
They were married soon, and, though it
was weary time before Rex was able to
sing in Christ church, he was tenderly
cared for by one whom he could rightly
call mother. As soon as she was married
she began to help her husband in his bet
ter, if slower, plans for cultivating their
boys voice If he should recover. He did
get well at last, and their united efforts
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Gus violet and gay daffodil, although the
cold, biting wind, the dark, forbidding
sky. the rushing throng of humanity that
swept along clad in winter garments with
collars turned up with rosy cheeks or per
ihaps purple ecountenances, was an emphatic
assurance that Winter had not yielded to
gentle Spring, who had at the proper time
as told by the calendar assembled the throne
that in all justice belonged to her, but
with dogged tenacity befitting bis stern
character had continued to wear the cor
onet and WELD the scepter.
1t was not an unusually late spring, bus
Easter was unusually early
The delicate flowers seemed to shiver as
they were touched by the breath of the
chilling wind, and to the sympathetic
heart and genuine lover of flowers it
seemed cruel and unkind act that they
should have been forced from genial
cline to suffer as they surely must have in
that atmosphere laden with the icy breath
of winter
A little girl of not more than 10 stood
on the corner of Broadway and Thirty
fourth street, poorly clad, and, as substi-
tute for a hat and jacket, plaid shawl
was drawn closely over her head and pin
ned at her throat, which fell in points
front and back to the tops of her button
less and well worn boots
On her left arm hung basket in which
were few bunches of violets. In her right
hand she held q bunch of the same, which
she held out to the passersby, hoping that
some one might be attracted by their per-
lfume and buy, that their appearance might
Ebe appropriately and becomingly adorned,
the next day being Easter Sunday.
But everybody seemed in a hurry and
took no notice of the poor little waif whose
fragile form was keenly suffering from the
penetrating cold and whose heart was
sorely aggrieyed at the destitute circum-
stances of her family.
Amid the grand surroundings of that
locality she could not lose sight Of her
mother, whose life, it seemed, was fast
drawing to its close, nor Of her two little
sisters, whose thin bodies and wan coun-
tenances told too plainly that the wolf had
not only reached the door, but had found
an entrance and had domiciied himself
within.
The grand sights fitted before her vi
sion, but the scene thatshe had that morn
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',Bothcrl Why can't get it?"
The light, ringing step ceased fortunate
Is just as Rex gave vexed little stamp.
Rex went on walking and singing. The
boyish vent to his feelings had relieved
him. His voice rang out exquisitely high
and clear 1t was like a woman 's-like
his mother's from whom he had inherited
it, and it conjured up vision of her to
her husband, shut in his library and busy
with papers. Rex stopped again
"Confound you! YOU'RE doing awfully
tonight" he said, addressing his voice as
if il were q companion.
His full name was Richard Hamilton
Winsted, but years before-11, to be ex-
plicit--his happy mother one day when
her husband laughingly said the baby
ruled the whole house. applied the name
of kingly meaning to him. 1t was never
given up afterward.
The boys life up to the time of this
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'sOul. HEARTS BE PURE FROM EVIL"
pure hearted boy be2 But it is all for him,
all for his music and for Leonora. Isn't
that good enough motives"
Then he listened again to the words
borne into the quiet library from the halL
At last he fell to his knees in a struggle
that did not end until late-a struggle be-
tween his desire for gain and his strange,
new conviction that his way of getting Is
would be sinful.
He never heard his sons knock, fol.
lowed by the boys disappointed foot
steps as he started for bed, supposing his
father was too busy to stop. 1t was
o'clock when the man followed. He had
resolved to give up forever the making OF
money by unlawful speculation. The bat
tie over, he slept the sleep of utter exhaus
tion. In the next room the fair haired
singer, his mission well performed, though
unconsciously, also slept, but not SO heav'
lily. At 3 in the morning he was awak-
ened by his own coughing. His room was
full of smoke, and he could see nothina
but the faintest glimmer of the night
light, as if through a dark mist.
"Fatherl Fatheri" he cried. The sery.
ants slept too far away to hear, and thu
smoke that had reused him had stupefied
the tired man.
Rex jumped from his bed, wound a
blanket around him, holding a corner OF
it over his face, and tried to feel his way
to the front room and the alcoye where bis
fathers bed was. A door, opening at hia
touch, let him into the hall. There it was
easier to breathe. The stairs were fred
from fire. but the boy never thought OF
descending. Father Fatherl'' he kept
81.
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Rallrpacs.
N NTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW

~ NTRAL RAlLROAD OF NEW
Z JERSEY. tFreehoid aud Atlantic Highlands
DIV. lime Table OF Jau. 3lst, 1898
Anthracite coal used exclusively, insuring
cleanliness and comfort.
Trans leave New York foot Liberty Street, for
Farmingdale, Lakewood Manchester 430, $50
1O.15 A. M, I45, 40 Lakewood only "a 40; p. n
53s p M. saturdays ouiyl Sundays 10l5 a. M
Trains leave New York, South Ferry Whitehall
Street, For FarmIDgaale, Lakewood, Manches-
ter ETC., via Red Bank S25 1G Is a M, 40,
Is 50 Lakewood ouly) 4.35 P. NJ. (5.2o P. M
saturdays oDly,) Sundays 1000 A. M.
Leave Manchester for New York, via Red Bank,
7.3O 10.3OA M; lao. 1925, 6.14 P. M. Sundays
Leave Lakewood for New York. via Red Bank, 75O
$50. 10. 80 NJ; 2 o., $50. $50 P NJ. sundays.
Z 10 Pm.
Leave rarmingdale, For New York, via Red Bank
sol, HOP a. N, 2.l4. 4-O2 GAL M Suu-
days % 2P. NJ.
rRAINs LEAvE FREEHOLD.
FOR New York Newark, Elizabeth he.. via all RAJ.
route 7i0, S15, Ills A. M, 90, 90, 05 II.
For Long Branch. Ocean Grove &c, at 5 To- Ills
A. 1900. 4.20. 6.U5 P. NJ.
FtrAtl4n5tc highlands at S.l5, Ills A. NJ, 200
4 TO- q 05 P. M.
RETURNING TRAINS.
Leave New York foot of Liberty street, at 430
s 80 lt30, A. NJ. 50. 4.30- 5.3s. M.
Leave New York South Ferry. Whitehall ST.,
s.25t II.3O. A "a, rs. ll5. ) %, p NJ
Leave Newark Broad street, at S.ss, l.35, A. NJ.
I.35, 40. 8 42P. ~
Leave Elizabeth at 4 %. SAP, 40, A. M, l.4o,
1 so 552 P. NJ.
Leave Long Branch IN. Y. II L. B. R.. r. Station
VIA. Matawau) at $40, Il 20, a. NJ, lse.
Leave Atlantic Highlands al SIS, Ills. A. NJ.
2 Go. 42D. 6I0 p. NJ
Through tickets TO all points at lowest rates
may be had on application TO the ticket agent at
HIP. BALDWIN. Gen'i. Pass. Agt.
j. H. OLHAU5EN, Gen Supt.
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You cannot down a woman with pol.
ftics. "Oh, yes, she rwittered; the big
words that all men use to discuss these
political questions are only to puzzle us
womenl Thfs financial problem is just
as easy as anything when you once
understand what the words meanT'
"You don't sayP' Yes, indeed. Now,
you know, the men talk SO much about
Initiating the circulating medium. |
asfed my husband what that was, and
would you believe it, it means blowing
up your bicycle tire?"-N. Y. Press.
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long ago by John Of Damascus Our
hearts be pure from evil, - sang the boy
again and again, as If some divine impulse
guided him.
Mine isn't" thought the man, Mine
isn't. Mine is filled with evil plans to-
night. What am intending to do? Per-
haps wreck some happy perhaps
for it is all game Of chance, though
feel pretty sure of winning perhaps
wreck my own. Then where would my
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large bill, which he handed to the little
miss.
Now all formality of the courtroom was
lost in the joy and freedom Of the homo
circle
Easter dawned bright and calm. The
chimes of Trinity resounded sweetly upon
the air, and from the belfry towers far and
near peeled forth joy and gladness that
earth was not doomed to darkness and de-
cay, but that through the risen Lord there
should be light and life.
The streets were thronged with hand
someIy attired men and women, some re-
turning from early church, some on their
way to church, others out to see and per-
haps be seen. Handsome equipages, drawn
by prancing horses, were driven hither
and thither
A certain coachman turned his horses
heads toward the east and drove rapidly
until he reached street whose shabby
tenements. numerous children in the door
ways. poorly clad dirty, bareheaded, whose
shrill voices in laughter or distress COM
mingled with the gruif voices Of the men
that stood in little groups along the pave
ment excitedly Debating some question in
common, bespoke its poverty and misery
a street whose very atmosphere was i'm.
pregnated with fumes that repelled the
sensitive and fastidious.
He scanned the doorways. Upon finding
the given number he brought his horses to
a stand in front of a dilapidated tenement.
The men and children that stood around
ceased their talk, their laughter, their
cries and looked with awe upon the fine
man and dainty miss that stepped from
the carriage.
They entered the hall, assembled tho
stairs flight after flight until they reached
the fifth floor. Knocking at a door, they
waited but moment in the dismal gloom,
hoping they should find the person sought.
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when the door was opened by none Other
than Griselle, the little flower girl.
81 brought you an Raster present, = said
the little miss as she handed a sealed en-.
velope to Griselle, who extended her hand
to receive it with an almost dazed expires.
sion upon her face upon recognizing ths
little miss who had but yesterday proved,
as it seemed to her, mascot.
'tOh, thank your she murmured in a
surprised tone.
II hope your mother is better, y con.
tinued the little miss as she and the fins
gentleman turned from the door and be.
gan descending the stairs.
Griseile stood for moment as If spell.
bound then, as if awakening to the stu.
alton, she stepped to the railing and, look
ing over, called down as they were de.
scending the second fight with a voice
full of gratitude: Thank you, ma'aml
Thank you, ma'am' which re-echoed
through the bare, bleak hall.
Again in the carriage, the coachman
drew the reins, fourished the whip, when
the horses hastened in the direction from
whence they came.
- ~.
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A short time ago an old lady went ON
board Nelson's flagship, the Victory.
The different objects of interest were
duly shown her, and on reaching the
spoi where the great naval hero was
wounded (Which Is marked by a raised
brass p1ate) the officer remarked:
Here Nelson fell"
"And no wonderr' exclaimed the old
lady. Il nearly fell there myself. -
London Answers.
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HE profusion of
lilies that were
displayed in the
windows of the
florists proclaimed
the approach Of
Easter, as well as
the flower vendors
along the thor
oughfares of the
gay metropolis,
with their stands.
trays and baskets
filled with the de-
lightfully fragrant
hvacinth. the OdOr-
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EX WINSTED
was walking up
and down the hall
in his fathers
house. The place
was used as the
ia IN lily sitting
room, and from
it opened dining
room, parlor and
library. His head
was thrown back.
the hair lightly
tossed away from
the white fore
head, now slightly
wrinkled with eff
fort.
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that throbbed with a sense of greater sat
isfaction than the heart of that little miss
at the thought of the happiness and COM
fort that she had conferred upon a family
in distress. And perhaps in all that greas
city there were no hearts more thankful
than those upon whom as the grateful
mother said, 1t seemed mamma had been
sent from heaven.
90 You will get well now, mamma, won t
youS' exclaimed her happy trio as they
with one accord rushed to her and kissed
her hands, face and neck as she sat with
fearful eyes gazing upon the bills that lay
upon her lap.
Yes, she replied; 81 know shall.
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REX'S EASTER MUSIC.
BY ANNIE ISABEL WILLIS.
X WINSTFD

1898. by American Press Asso-
ciatiOn
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rCopyright. 1855, by American Press Asso-
ciation.
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THE LITTLE
FLOWER GIRL.

AN EASTER STORY 81 FANNY NJ QUINbAN.
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Perhaps in all that great city on that
glorious Easter morn there was not heart
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tied it securely in acorner of her handker-
chief and deposited it in her pocket.
Again clinging to her mothers arm.
the two hurried on with the restless
throng.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-06-29

nessta at Camp Ramsey on the 7th day
OF May. At the present time he is en-
camped near San Francisco and expects
sson to depart with his regiment for
Manila.
The affidavit then goes on to assert
that by reason OF his enlistmens the de-
fendant is unable to be present at this
term of court, and inasmuch as he is an
important witness it would be unjust to
proceed with the trial. He therefore
asks for continuance until tile Novem-
Der term, when. the affidavit says, he
expects to be present.
The closing sentence of the affidavit is
gem. In it the attorney says that he
labored diligently with the defendant to
induce him to refrain from responding
to the presidents call, but the defend
ant told him that he would not think of
such thing. "My country first, my
private matters afterwards" was his Ia
comic response.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-06-29
Instructed
For EuStiS.
No Opposition to the Minneapolis Aspirant
IN the Brown County Repub- 49,
lican Convention,
The Resolutions Instruct for Him and
Likewise for Congressman
McOleary.
Sam Peterson Makes No Attempt to Run
the Convention and Even Declines
to Be a Delegate.

William Henry Eustis without a dis
senting vote.
That was the result of Thursdays Re-
publican county convention.
Editor Hays of Sleepy Eye had his
own way. S. D. Peterson, the former
dictator of republican confabs, didn't
even SO much as suggest.
He seemed content to just sit there
and see how others would do it.
When someone remarked that Peter
son ought to go to the state convention,
it IS fact, worthy of record, that Sam
politely declined and insisted that the
honor should 60 to his friend, Hans Mo.
He simply couldn't spare the time, he
said.
To one who had been in republican
county conventions before this was Inter
esting. 1t was so unusual, you know.
That Sam could have managed the af-
fair without any assistance from Hays,
no one doubts for moment. That he
didn't choose to do so was what made it
just little bit peculiar.
The convention opened at tbs old
court house in this city promptly at IL
o'clock, Chairman Hays of the county
committee calling it to order.
Ia minute Paul Jacobsen of Sleepy
Eye was on his feet nominating H avs for
temporary chairman. The nomination
was seconded and carried without scin-
tilla of opposition.
In another minute Jacobsen was again
on his feet, this time nominating L. B.
Krook of New Ulm for secretary. Krook
attempted to decline, but it was all in
vain. The convention elected him by
acclamation.
At this juncture Hays read tel
egram from Eustis to the effect that he
would have solid delegatian from Hen
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nepin county. This was greeted with
cheers and loud applause, indicating
thus early the temper of the convention.
Committees on credentials, resolutions
and permanent organization were then
appointed as follows:
Credentials Hagen of Sleepy Eye,
Weiser of New Ulm and Westinghouse
of Springfield. 80 80
Resolutions Of Sleepy Eye, Hen
nlngsen of New Ulm and Miller of Null
ligan. #. .,ss-r& .ss -s-ss..s
Permanent Organizatlon-Hans Mo of
Springfield, Cook of Mulligan n d
Vogel of New Ulm. i. s.<.a.. ~.
An adjournment was taken until two
o'clock when the committee on rcreden-
tials reported the following delegates
entitled to seats: +'s* 4 r l-. SO. .9a.: a.
New Ulm-Peterson, Silverson, Horn
burg, Henry Laudenschlager, Carlson,
Hagberg, Weiser, Schmidt, Lienhard,
Henningsen, Stricken, Buenger, Beuss-
mann, Ruemke, Schapekahm, Burg, ,Retz.
laf, Jos. Vogel, Alf. Vogel, Laue, Chas.
Grusendorf, Grimmer, Dirks, D. A. Grus-
endorf, Jonas Laudenschlager, Blauert,
Durbahn, Krook, Mohr, Gieseke, REIN
and Heinen.
Sleepy Eye-Smith, Jacobsen, Hays,
Slocum, Somerville, Gilman, Hess, Mo,
Hicks, Won Hagen, Frank and Jensen.
Springfield Mo, Westinghouse, o.
sen, Warnke, Frederickson and Leather
mann.
Bashaw-Frank Anderson and Chas.
L. Thor.
Burnstown-Andrew Lee, J. J. Wine
garden and Peter J. Moe.
Cottonwood William Frank, Mat
Roeck and Fir. Walther.
Eden-John G. Peterson, three votes
Frank Peterson, two votes.
Mulligan-Norman Cook, Wesley Mil
ler and John H. Cook.
Home-Geo. Raverty, Myron Pickle,
?. D. Raverty with two votes, and W. P.
Grimes.
Linden-John M. johnson, Gudman
Anderson, Iver Ives, John Rooster and
Peter Peterson.
Leavenworth-Fr. schutt, Chas. Gent,
John Kolbe, VIM. Remus and Geo. w.
Harrington.
Milford-F. G. Clasen, Louis Spell
brink, Louis Lamser and Val Orth.
North Star-James Dickson with two
votes and Geo. Chapman with two.
| Prairieville-H.J Knudson, w. F.
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INDICTED.
The Grand Jury Charges William j. Eich will
Murder In the Second Degree.

Thursday afternoon William ]. Eich,
who has been in Jail ever since he shot
Wallace NJ. Greene at Sleepy Eye, was
brought into court to listen to the read
ing Of an Indictment by the grand jury
charging him with murder in the second
degree.
The prisoner was clsan shaYen, wore
a new suit of clothes and at the same
time an air of apparent confidence.
Pinned to the lapel of his coat was a
Eustis button, placed there no doubt by
the enthusiasm of H. g. Hays.
When asked by the court if he had an
attorney he replied in the negative, as
serting at the same tlme that he had
neither money nor property with which
to employ one. The judge thereupon
appointed Geo. W. somerville to defend
him. ~ \ =
The indictment which was read by the
acting county attorney, Hagberg, alleges
that sin the village of Sleepy Eye on
the 18th of January the defendant did
wilfully, without authority of law, with
out excuse or Justification, and with a
design to effect the death of Wallace
Greene, ,.but without deliberation or pre-
meditation, kill the said Wallace Greene
by then and there shooting him with a
gun commonly called revolver '"9
The witnesses examined by the grand
jury were Jerome Carroll, David Stew
art, Ben H"skins, G. J. Hardin, Henry
Berg, Henry Peterson, Harry Palmer,
Editor Hodges, Drs. Welcome and Puck
litsch, August McMaster, VIM. Ortwein,
F. D. Greene, Edward Kline, Chas. Han
son, Oscar Mike, Bernard Steffen, Geo.
EngeIhart, Roy Palmer, George Hanso n,
Henry Gardiner and Cyrus Conrad.
The next morning Eich pleaded not
guilty and his trial will occur this wee k.