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The age-herald., 1900-04-15

It was love for Mahlon that led Ruth thus to speak to Naomi; it was love for man, the lover of the one and the loved Of the other, that drew the two faithful wo- men together. and gave the outlines of a story from the Judean hills of superla- tive human beauty. Through uncounted ages it has inspired fidelity and charity and love of love- and to this day youths of a thousand hills whisper it's tender import to maids of thousand valleys, and its pathos and its beauty make sweeter the songs Of love that ring around the earth. It shall be voiceful on this glad Easter Day in the worlds festival of the flowers which re- news life and makes stronger faith and hope the resurrection and the life, the con secration and the prayer. It trims loves proud pinions in the dusky dawn. giids at noontide and glorifies in the glow of the sunset hour. It has been murmured in dreams, whispered in fear and acclaimed in the holy light that beats at the foot of the altar. Thy God my God! Mahlon and Ruth; Ruth and Mahlon! They enrich the earth with joy and laughter, and fulfill the Masters promise.
 The gentle grandam, beautifully wearing the crown of her years, her heart filled with charity and love, and her faithful soul nobly devoted to the good, moved by the pathos and pride of cherished memories and the pride and pathos of the hours that now count themselves from her-the gentle grandam has her own sweet version of the old, old song as tender as ever yet was sung in a heart that loved It came of picture of the long ago. Into an old man. chamber of state she viewed the portraits the while her maiden companion gossiped with the fair hostess. Suddenly she was unprecedented startled-by a noble young face that seemed to greet her from gilded frames. She fell in love with the face, and said so in her maidenly impuI- siveness. She might have him for a sweet. heart, and he would be sent to see her. de- clared the hostess, who was his sister. This caused confusion and blushing and acceptance of the proposition. "He came to see me that evening, and before the year was done we were married.' the gen tie grandam said gently and with infinite sweetness, as she sat in the hearth's bright glow at the falling of yesternight The simple but wondrous story of love stirred to unwonted tenderness hearts that were younger, and about the head, with it's crown of years, there was the radiant halo of righteous life of love. Well might youth sigh for age so beautiful! The joy of the grandam's life is her blessed posses
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From the New York Press
 A man isn't really fat until he keeps on laughing after he has quit smiling on top. The only place that is fit for some men to live in is the place they're not at at the time.
 Probably women wouldn't be on time for their own funerals if there wasn't a man undertaken running it.
 Shifts don't mean much, but when a woman really blows her nose it's sign she has made up her mind to quit crying.
 When you see man with little feathers sticking all over him it doesn't prove that his wife is an angel. It only shows she has bought lot of cheap sofa pillows
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
FLOODS IN TEXAS
The Trains Are Running Through
 Muddy Waters

Houston, April 14.-The Brazos liver is nearing the overflow stage at Richmond but as levees have been constructed about the Dig plantations. there is small dan ger of much damage
 The body of a stranger, well-dressed man of about 90 years, was fished out of the Colorado near Bastrop today
 The Houston and Texas Central and Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe are now running trains through the water along the Brazos and Navasota rivers
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sion; to youth the years promise, but may
 not give in fitness.
 Resurrection means nothing if we do not
 keep in the higher pathways to which 1t
 lifts us. The new birth is valueless un-
 less the new life is to be lived. Truth is
 of no avail fit is to be subjected to floods
 of coarse passions and low desires which
 we make no brave effort to resist. Resur-
 rection is the noblest exemplification of
 love in this life and in the eternal after
 whiles. By its magic the sinful are lifted
 from sinfulness, the degraded from degra-
 dation; and the new life drives old death away The power of love for humanity
 is divinely transcendent; the power of love one for another is divinely recreative. It raises up and leads the fallen to the con-
 fessional; and it brightens and glorifes, , and leads loved and lover to the joy haunted place of the tryst. The maid
 walks the day a child, and in the shadows
 of the night falls asleep a woman. Angels
 kiss her, and she dreams the tender melo- dies given to the human heart in Eden and sung by all the generations of man. The maiden kneels at the bridal altar a
 woman, and rises a wife. Children carpet her way with flowers, and music fills her soul with the brighter light of the brighter
 life.
 The night of the vigils is spent the day of gladness is come. In the fields blossom the flowers, and their bloom in the gloom of the woods dispels the shadows that came
 with winters tawny dusk. They emblazon the place of prayer and rejoicing thankful
 ness, and their flush challenges the blush to mantle the maiden's cheek. These mes-
 sengers of love, sent by the beneficent Fa- ther to cheer and gladden. our existence, begin once more the fuifllnaent of their
 mission: love for the Master, love for hu-
 manity, love for light and sweetness, love for lovers! Flowers, flowers, flowers
 everywhere are flowers! Love, love, love
 everywhere is love. Joy, joy, joy-every-
 where is joy. In this day is the resurrec- ton and the life, the promise and the faith. There is song in the heart. the song of gladnsss; there is peace in the soul, the
 peace of the new life. Resplcndent is Eas- ter; resplendent is the world born again. Peace abides and good will to men. There is beauty and qualification for bounding hearts that cried Lord, Lord, and were , prepared to do the Masters bidding. En- treat me not 10 leave tDce, IS tne cdll or
 love to love. Thy God my God, is the promise.
 Go you and scatter the flowers of the soul, my beloved scatter them everywhere. Give and receive Above all things, give: and it is writ of old that you shall receive in abundance. Keep the spirit tidy and
 unspotted; keep the commandments and the law; keep the tryst with faith; keep love to the loved; keep VOW to VOW; keep in the white way of cleanliness! Uncover and shout glad tidings of goodwill and joyfulness! And Ruth said. Entrcat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest. will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God THE MURMURER.
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THE DEwEYs' BUSY TIME

W. E. Curtis in Chicago Record
 The Dcweys are having Q beautiful time. Their house is full of reporters from morning to night; the letter carriers are not able to carry all the mail that comes foT the admiral, and so it Is sent up from
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
HER MAVERICK

From the Denver Post.
 That Texas girl who scared her fellow s cheek with a red hot poker had been taught by the customs of the range that it was her privilege to brand and claim a maverick wherever she found it,
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
GilletI NoniInatcd

Watkins, N. Y, April 4.-At the repub- lican congressional convention for the Twenty-ninth district today Charles w. Gillett was re-nominated.
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THE MURMUR
 OF THE WORLD

And Ruth said, 'Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy peo- pie shall be my people, and thy God my Godr"
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
A PKEMAIuRE ROBIN

From the Buffalo Commercial.
 That robin that came to Buffalo last week left for Hot Springs early this n1orn- ing.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

Aguinaldo according to concurrent ac- Hcng Kong, Yokohoma and Singapore.
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King Leopold who owned the Congo Free State has donated it to his country, and Little Belgium is Big Belgium now.
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The Carnegie combine threatens to over shadow the Standard Oil It proposes to apply the Cramps to its rivals.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

The Ohio woman Is becoming as promi- nent in politics as the Ohio man. Mrs. Dewey leads them all.
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for China where the Society of Boxers would welcome them as active members.
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Admiral Dewey will find no prize money in presidential race.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

Mckinley thinks 1t base ingratitude in man whom he claims to have made, to run for president.
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Poor Gatacre is witness to the fact that South Africa Is the graveyard of mili- tary regulations,
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

The g. c. p. may conclude to draft Teddy into the vice-presidency. As an old soldier he will be expected to obey the sum- mons.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

The Rev Mir Sheldon is now confronted with the question: Can minister run a newspaper and be saved?
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

Aguinaldo is a better dsappearist than the magicians can present.
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Dr. Harper has gone abroad to gather vitality and snap for his next raid on American pockets.
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Lord Roberts right wing will be found on close inspection to be sound and imper- vious. While the Boers are wasting their resources, Lord Roberts is gathering ma enemy.
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Melba's business as prima donna is ex- pected to pick up, now that she has se- cured divorce.
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Ann Arbor students are dtstroying foot ball players by cutting their hair in a hazing way.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

The prune crop may fall into the hands of a trust, where it is welcome to stay.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

Free election carriages are like angels visits, but they are not a bit angelic in other respects.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

The people in northern cities are gum shoeing through the month of showers.
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Dewey has nearly as many delegates as the other candidates.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

there came a season of a beauty singular and sad, like a smile left upon the face of the dead summer Over all things near ana far the forest where the river met the sky,
 the nearest woods, the great river and the streams that empty into it. there hung blue haze soft and dreamike. The forest became a painted forest, with an ever thinning canopy an ever-thickening carpet of crimson and gold; everywhere there was low rustling under foot and a slow rain of color. IL was neither cold nor hot, but very quiet and the birds went by like shadows"
 The scene of ITO Have and To Hold" Is
 laid chiefly in the settlement at James
 town. and the story opens during the ad
 ministration of Governor Yardy, and
 closes after Sir Francis Wyatt took control
 of the colony. The opening incident Is per
 haps the most dramatic in the history Of
 the colony, the coming of Sir Edwin San
 dys's maids, who crossed the seas to be-
 come wives of gentleman or yeoman at the
 price of one hundred and fifty pounds of
 tobacco. Among them is a lady of rank.
 sometime ward of the king, fleeing from ! detested lover She is welded by a brave
 and gallant gentleman, and together they
 meet peril by land and sea, learning to love
 each other day by day, and to be thankful
 that fate had made them husband and
 wife. There is not a more delightful story
 in American fiction.
 Miss Johnston has long life of activity
 before her, and every vividly-drawn story. glowing with ideal chivalry from her pen will be welcomed by thousands of readers By reason of her long residence in this | state, Alabama feels pride in her notable | achievements-a pride not unlike Georgia S | in Joel Chandler Harris. The two stand to- | day as the foremost representatives of southern literature, and Alabama is very l proud indeed of her adopted daughter.
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Disappointed ambition is having a, inning today.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

Miss Goggins' first reason covers hel case.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this day. Sunday. April 15, 1900:
 Visit thy friends
 Thou wilt have a troublesome and un- settled year. and thy money will waste like dew; keep thy expenses down, and do not speculate; those in employ will lose it. Young females may have attention from the opposite sex but il will not result in marriage.
 "A child born on this day will be gener- ally unfortunate, and will have much diff ticulty in finding and keeping employ ment."
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l Wltn the question. Can d minister run a 1 newspaper and be saved? Poor Gatacre is a witness to the fact that South Africa Is the graveyard of mili-
 tary regulations,
 Dr. Harper has gone abroad to gather vitality and snap for his next raid on American pockets.
 Mckinley thinks it base ingratitude in a whom he claims to have made, to run for president.
 Melba's business as prima donna is ex- pected to pick up. now that she has se- cured divorce.
 Free election carriages are like angels
 visits. but they are not a bit angelic in
 other respects. Ann Arbor students are destroying foot
 ball players by cutting their hair in a hazing way. The people in northern cities are gum | shoeing through the month of showers. The prune crop may fall into the hands | of trust, where it is welcome to stay. --  | Aguinaldo is a better disappearist than | the magicans can present | Admiral Dewey will find no prize money | in presidential race. Dewey has nearly as many delegates as | the other candidates. Disappointed ambition is having an inning today. Miss Goggins' first reason covers her case.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26
EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO.
Seven Persons known to Have Been
Killed and Much Property
Badly Damaged.

Colima, Mexico, Jan. 22.-An earth
quake shock began here at a quarter
before midnight Friday and assumed
serious proportions at Tenimata,
many houses being badly injured and
some of light construction wrecked.
There was great CONSERVATION, and
people rushed into the streets, some
barely escaping with their lives. Seven
people were killed outright, and 60
were wounded and are being cared for
by local surgeons. 1t was reported
that the volcano had burst into erup-
ton, but it now appears that the phe-
ncmenon was confined to subterranean
manifestations. Local scientific men
believe that the earthquake travelled
from under the Pacific ocean, and that
when news reaches here from the
coast there will be interesting details.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

It is best to 60 slow when betting on
fast horses.
Action and reaction are not equal in
the stock market.
A man may mean we'll, but you are
never quite certain of it.
Some people pass their good resolu-
tons on the first reading.
The lay of the hen is more valuable
than the song of the lark.
Happy is the bride the sun shines on
If she isn't afraid of freckles.
Many a man would have better wife
If he wasn't such poor husband.
The man who takes the cake thinks It
Is no more than his just dessert
Some one will be sure to take your ad.
vice If you have it engraved on the
handle of q ten-dollar umbrella.
You can learn more about a man in
ten minutes after it is too late than you
could in ten years before.
There is nothing ike poverty to give
one practical knowledge of the
scarcity Of the milk of human kindness.
Chicago Daily News.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26
THE EAST.

The noted temperance lecturer, VIII
liam G. Mcconnell, of Cleveland, O.,
died in Philadelphia.
While insane, Martin Bergen, the
catcher of the Boston baseball team
killed his wife and two children and
committed suicide at his home in North
Broolfield, Mass.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 10th aggre-
gated $1,71s,116,8o4, against $780,
30O,836 the previous week. The in
crease compared with the correspond.
ing week of 1899 was 1877.
In the United States there were 242
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 10Th, against 274 the week
previous and 249 in the corresponding
period of 1899.
In their weekly review of trade r. G.
Dun & Co. say that business through
out the country is 40 per cent. better
than year ago.
The death of Mrs. Annie Ellsworth
Smith, who sent the first telegraph
message in this country, occurred in
New York, aged 70 years.
Antonio Colletti and his brother Gas.
par and David Salvatore were killed in
family quarrel in New York city.
Count Castellane and his wife, who
was Miss Anna Gould, arrived in New
York from Paris.
The well-known soap manufacturer
James Pyle, died at his home in New
York city, aged u years.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26
MISFORTUNE IN PHILIPPINES
Two Americans Killed, Nine Missing
and Pack Train Captured by
the Filipinos.

Washington, Jan. %. 49, The first I'M
toward happening in the highly sue
cessful campaign now going on in Lu
zon is announced in the following ca
blegram:
Manila, Jan. 20.-Pack train 20 ponies
transporting ratiOns between Santo Tomas
and San Pablo. Laguna province, escort
ed by so men under Lieut.. Ralston, Thir-
tieth infantry, ambushed yesterday; two
men killed, five wounded, nine missing;
pack train lost; lieutenant and "a men re-
turned to Santo Tomas with killed and
wounded; affair being investigated. Doret,
Forty-fifth infantry, insurgents in Batan-
gas mountains prepared in ambush to
meet him; he killed eight, wounded three,
captured H. one Spaniard, six rifles; his
casualties, two men slightly wounded.
Otis"
Manila, Jan. 22.-The escort of 50 men
of company C, Thirtieth infantry, Lieut..
Ralston commanding, which was am
pushed near Lipa, as already cabled,
consisted of so convalescents from the
hospital, who were going to rejoin the
regiment. The insurgents hid in the
bushes along the road and opened fire
upon the pack train from three sides.
The Americans, in addition to their
casualties, were compelled to abandon
the train, which consisted of % horses
The latter, with their packs, all fell into
the hands of the insurgents, who pur-
sued the retreating escort for three
miles along the road, until the Ameri-
cans were reinforced.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26
HIS MISTAKE.
An American Girl Gives an EnS1ish.
man . Little Light ON
Ladies.

A Louisville girl, who was recently in
Germany, met a young English officer who
was in the same city, and, in fact, in the
same house with her for two months, study
ing German for his promotion. Like most
Europeans he had the usual absurd ideas
about the girls of this country, who, in the
minds of the untraveled foreigner, are rather
hoyden creatures who smoke and have other
masculine traits.
After dinner one day, in the early &C.
quaintance of the couple, the officer offered
the Louisville girl cigarette, and, upon her
refusing it, he said:
"Why, t thought all the girls in the
United States smoked"
$50 We do,'' replied the girl, '.but never
cigarettes; only pipes. If you will get that
pipe off the mantelpiece in the next room I
shall be charmed to smoke with you"
Not suspecting the joke she was playing
on him, the officer brought the pipe and
filled it, and it was not until he saw the wry
faces his friend made in attempting to carry
out the joke that he appreciated the situa-
ton: He was continually telling the Ameri-
can in tone of surprise that she was just
like the girls at home in England, and her
rejoinder was:
""Lieutenant, don't you think lady is a
lady the world over?"-Louisville Courier.
Journal
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26
TUNNEL CAVES IN.
Eleven Workmen Are Ent0mbed at
Los Angeles, Cal.-Rescuers
at Work,

Los Angeles, CAL, Jan. 22.-The west
end of the Third street tunnel, which
is under construction between Hill and
Hope streets, distance of three
blocks, caved in Sunday morning and
entombed II laborers and bricklavers.
and fatally injured w. 7. Lambie, an
inspector in the employment of the
street department. The men were en-
gagged excavating IT'S feet from the
mouth of the tunnel when the en-
trance, which has been timbered up
for distance of % feet, was suddenly
choked up by tons of earth and brok-
en- timbers. Inspector Lambie was
pinned down, and it was eight hours
before he was extricated, and then in
a dying condition. 1t is not thought
any Of the entombed men were killed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26
WILLING TO TRY IT.
No Lineage Necessary as Long AZ He
Had q Sumciency Of the
Coin,

IT suppose" she said, "that you had an
ancestor in the celebrated little party that
came over with William the Conaueror?"
Perhaps" he replied, ''but I have never
looked the matter up"
"Of course you are lineal descendant of
some one who came over in the Mayhower?"
II don't know. It is possible that am,
but I have never hunted up the records"
"Well," she went on, 'you are descended
from an officer of the revolutionary war,
aren't you?"
Finding himself cornered he broke down
and confessed.
''My fathers name was Szfchzerskendow-
ski, which. he changed to Dows with the
sanction of the court"
She sat for moment, almost crushed.
Then hope seemed to return to her and she
asked:
"How much did you say you expected your
father to leave you?"
II figure that my share of the estate will
be about $1,000, 00O," he said.
'All right she answered briskly, "we
IAN worry along without the lineage and
still be happy, DEAR Chicago Times-Her