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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-23

ly, with a message from the world.
The world misses you, Mr.. Northrup, and
the little part of it 1 represent asks that
you return. if only for an hour each
Sabbath. Won't you, sir, do US the hon
or to worship with us once a week? The
villagers-an of them-would welcome
you"
The old man only shook his head sadly.
the parson thought.
The religion" the good man went on,
"would comfort you now that your end
is near. The tomb is for US all, but its
cruel outlines are softened when we
know there is a world beyond and that
we have earned our residence there"
Old man Northrup pointed to the door
step, just beside the bed of flowers. The
parson sat down. Then the old man
knelt at the parsons feet, turned to the
flower bed and tenderly lifted the droop-
ing carnation blossom that was nearest
to his visitor.
9Th tomb is for us all, well you say,
p%arson." he said slowly, "and religion Is
the solace of a tired soul. My soul, sir,
has been weary for many years, but it
has had its solace.
What is religion, p~arson? Is it not
to worship the things we ove 1 love
my flowers, and L worship them, for they
are more than flowers to me. Like you,
/ believe in another life. and, like you, I
have tried to deserve one. This flower,
parson, is it only a flower to you?"
1T was no doubt a pretty flower be-
fore it withered," said the Minister; "but
l hardly understand
"None of them do" said the old man
with q sigh: and that is why / left the
world. They laugh when 1 tell them that
these flowers are the spirits of the
friends who have gore before. They say
that l am crazy because my dead
friends return to me as flowers, and yet
they ask me to believe that they exist in
some other sphere.
See this great panSy, with its bright,
smiling face? See it nod to me in rec
ognieion? That, parSon, is my little girl,
the only one l ever had, who died more
than 80 years ago. Each year through
all the long half century she has return
ed to me in panSy form to tell me that
she is waiting somewhere, some distant
where, for me to come. She is faithful
to me, and yet you ask me to give her
up. Parson, I have my solace."
The old man bowed his head, and when
the parson spoke he did not answer.
Then the parSon. fearing to disturb him
in his reverie. went his way.
As the bright day wore on a passerby
Glanced to look over the stone wall. The
birds were chirping in the trees. a gentle
breeze swayed the foliage and the slant
ing rays of the lowering sun cast a mel
low sheen over the scene before him.
There was the bed of flowers. and across
1t Il PROSTATE figure.
Old man Nortarup was dead, and the
pansy. dropping q little with the dying
day, was nodding and bowling at his cold
but smiling face Exchange.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-23
THEY MET BY CHANCE.
But Remained Together
Intentionally.

She didn't ask him in, and after paus-
ing a moment he said a regretful
"Good night and went OIL down the
road. She stood at the gate watching
his retreating figure. The walk home
had not been lively, for how could
Olive that cheerily as usual, with her
cheeks burning and her heart beating
Indignantly at h recollection of the
scrap of gossip? Ii was standing in
the vestibule waiting for him at his re-
quest when the words reached her
ears.
so schoolmarm's after the minister
now?'
LA, yes, and she's got the inside
track. Goes home from meeting with
him regular, and they dc say he's
down there ev'ry week"
That was all. but it meant that she
was being watched and talked about,
and so stood there thinking. The
moonlight seemed to mock her Every
object in the landscape was visible in
its brilliant rays, yet there was nothing
in it of warmth or vitality. 1t struck
her that her sense of duty Illuminated
her path in life with similar cold pale
rays. She shivered in the fresh spring
SCtIiItt tIE LII tuIned " 90 III Dul lit
chill and sting of her new resolve went
with her and drove sleep way.
She had been so innocently happy.
Why could not prying yes and
gossiping tongues have turned else
where for employment?
OF course he came home with her.
Any gentleman would. He went her
way and knew that Mr.. M Mrs. Hop
~ an ~, ont NIGHTS kr fa. +l,,
weekly visits, they were nothing but
psychology lessons \ progressive
schoolma'am, of course, must know it,
and he had offered to assist. And she
must give it all up when she needed it
so? She set. her lips firmly. She must
keep her position and couldn't afford
to be talked about. 1t made no differ
ence if neither had ever had a thought
beyond the lessons, and no matter how
hard it was to give them up.
IT'S always well to stop before one
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-23

There, now, you've shut the door.
What brought you here, anyway? 1
said I would never speak to you
again."
The minister stared at her in amaze
ment.
Il was passing" he explained some
what stiffiy. land tool refuge or the
stoop from the rain. Finding the door
ajar, l. came in. l did not dream that
any one was here. L can go at once, of
course"
But he turned only to stand helpless
before the broken knob. At once he
understood the situation. An eXclama-
ton of Impotence escaped him, and
he crossed the room hastily and threw
open a window and heavy outside
shutters, while Olive sat Imply down
and watched him. The lamp fiickered
out, but every few seconds he was ViSi-
bic i'll the lightning flashes, standing
up brave and strong and unaffrighted.
The girls strength was fast leaving
her, and when a lurid flash danced up
on the floor and played m~ischieyouslyi
about among the benches she gave a
cry of terror.
The minister hastily closed the win
dow and groped toward her. "1s any
thing the matter?" he inquired anX-
iouSly.
Nothing, only I'm afraid-so afraid
of the Storm" she moaned.
His heart Went out in pity for her in
her weakness, and, sitting down, he
put his arm prOtectingly about her, as
one would sOOthe a frightened child.
and said tenderly, Poor little one.
And Olive, as crash after crash ter
roriZed her, chung to him and hid her
head on his shoulder and sObbed and
shivered. And so they sat until the
storm had spent itself and the moon
shone again. Then she sat up, abashed'
and prim.
Il don't know how were to get OUT
she said hopelessIy.
How about the windows?" he in
quired.
"All too high
"And the cellar?"
"Opens only out of doors. There's
nothing to do but wait till some one
passes and call out. We tried every
way today" And then she told him
her previous experience.
He rose and paced uneasily about
the room. looking out upon the road.
Olive closed her yes and thought over
the events of the last three hours. She
was perfectly conscious that she ought
to be ashamed of her d during
the storm, yet somehow she was not,
and try as she would she could not
be otherwise thar glad that he was
with her. Her reVerie was broken in
upon by the minister.
He seated himself again at her side,
saying f%OrlornIy: w are likely to be
kept here for some time, perhaps till
morning. | am more sorry than | can
tell you"
Yes" she replied. Il know It
can't be helped"
II wish you would tell me-" he went
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-23

gets fond of anything" h reasoned,
land I'll give it all up and never speak
to him again"
She Il no idea how she la depend
ed on the lessons until there were nc
more to which to look forward. We
talk it over at the psychology lesson
had grown to be her habit of meeting
schoolroom puzzles, n now that there
was to be no such way of solving them
there We're more puzzles to meet. The
following day was a hard one. Her
own sad and distraught manner was
not without its effect upon the chill
dren. \ full half hour of the noon re-
cess the chOol spent as prisoners, be
cause it was found that some one had
broken off the kno OF the door, and it
could only De opened from the outside.
And they were compelled to wait until
some one passing released them.
-Four o'clock brought welcome relief.
Its the embarrassment of writing to
the minister that ailS me-" she told
herself. eff 1 get that off my mind,
I'll be all right and forget about it."
And diligently Ii set to work, but
each attempt was more unsatisfactory
than the last. The old folks had re-
tired, and the clock struck $50 just as
she signed and sealed the letter, and
then suddenly she remembered that
the school report must be made to the
commissioner on the morrow, and the
roll books were at school.
"I1l have to get them tonight" she
said to herself, late as it is. Serves
me right for being so careless"
Going to the kitchen shed, she took
down the lantern only to find it empty.
Supplying herself with matches, she
peered cautiously out upon the moonlit
road and then ran swiftly the short
distance to the schOOlhouse, not eeing
the gathering clouds behind her. By
the light of the moon she unlocked the
outer door, and, in order not to repeat
the experience of the morning, she took
up a block of wood and carefully DIac-
ed it in front of the inner door to keep
it from shutting.
The dinSy lamp above her desk gave
scanty light, and the task heightened
itself out until a muttering of thunder
and dash of rain upon the roof startled
her. Olive was not timid, as her trip
to an empty SchoOlhOuSe in the dark
would prove, but to be alone in a thun-
derstOrm was the one thing that I'M
nerved her Hastily rising. she looked
up at the lamp. 1t was nearly empty.
1t would be safe to leave it to burn out
of itself, and she could more easily find
her way to the door, but as she reach
ed it she anne into violent collision
with the minister. He lad come in
hurriedly, tripped upon the block in
p,u -SlI-i, - l.,% = -
Ind the door slammed shut behind
him.
Olive stepped back II OF trcm-
bling. She was astonished, glad and
sorry at his appearance, but more than
was she disnayed at the predica-
ment in which he had placed her, and
under the impulse of these conflicting
she burst forth angriIy:
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-23

. AS TUE PAM@V NODDED !

The villa gers never knew just to
make of old man Northrup, and, as for
old man Northrup. he didn't understand
the villagers. nor did he try. The towns
folk said the aged resident was a man
without a purpose and with a KNOWN
wink would call him queer"
Long before. when folks then grown up
Were babies. NortErup came to town I'M
announced and unrecommended. Soon
the rumOr spread that he was rich and
that he had selected the town for his
country home because it was in the
midst of the nature that he loved.
Back from the town on a sloping hill
side the stranger bought a little plot and
the dreams of the goSSipS that he was to
build a mansion were d~issipated when
he erected there a little frame cottage
of two rooms. Then, when he bought
meager furniture of the simplest sort,
the ones who had called him rich began
to doubt. until the village banker, who
measured the worth of men by their
worldly goods, announced one day, Mr..
Northrup is Il gentleman"
This was convincing, and thereafter
the new resident was locke upon as a
miSer whose vagaries had led him from
the cities and who was content to live
his life out alone in the little cottage on
the hillside.
Years passed, and Mr. Northrup, gen.
tleman.' became known to the younger
generation only as old man Northrup.
The children Stunned his house. though
he never discouraged them. He seemed
content in his solitude and appeared to
find companions in the growing things
about him. He would raise Il little gar
den TO the back of his house in the SPRING
time and would divide his time between
this and the bed of tiowerS-carefully
cared for fowerS-which grew Just under
his window.
Now and then some one from the viii
lage would call on the old man as a mat
ter of duty, but their visits would be cut
short.
"A pleasant day" the visitor would
venture.
Yes" old man Northrup would an
swer. Its fine weather for my flowers"
The village Darson. a truly good man,
one day concluded that old man Northrup
needed in his closing days the solace of
the religion he preached and that if the
old man would not come to his church
he would go to him. This was the crys-
Utilization of the reflections of Il score of
years, and when the parson finally had
made up his mind to devote himself to
the spiritual welfare of the recluse he
went in haste to the old mans cottage.
The parson stopped by the gate and
rested his elbows on the crumbling stone
wall that surrounded the little house. 1t
was n bright day in May and all nature
seemed aglow. 1t was just the day for
old man Northrup and his flowers, and,
as the parson had expected, the recluse
was there. with Il sprinkling pot, water
ing now one plant, now another. with a
care that seemed reverential. The par
son spoke, and the bent figure of the old
man Strengthened. Something like q
frown appeared on his forehead as he
recognized his visitor, but he cheerily
bade him enter.
Il have come,' said the parson solemn
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-23
Achieving His Ambition.

And by the way" asked the old
schOolnate. what has become Of
MoSely, who used to talk so much
about devoting his life to uplifting
mankind? Did he go into the minis
try
No" answered II other school
mate. "he is in the elevator business
minneapolis Journal.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-23
That Throbbing Headache

Would quickly leave you, # you used
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of sufferers have proved their match
less merit for Six snd Nervous Head
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Easy to take. Try them. Only %
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by all druggist.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-23
BY THE SEA.

high on the cliff, where the golden moon
Hangs like Gods sentinel in the sky,
There is z cot, and the breakers Groom
To a child about TO die
This is the song the breakers sing,
For the winds to bear to the cot above:
tLife at best is a passing thing,
But heaven is endless love-"
The waves are still, and the winds are still;
A childless mother weeps Ger her dead;
The silent moon, from the darkened hill,
With the soul of the child has fed
Graham Taber in Ainslee's Magazine.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-23

A clean aud commodious place to dis
play wall paper st Ehren berg's and an
experienced salesman always ready to
show them at 322 Ell Paso street.
The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-17
The Needles Eye

Bill Arp writes in the Atlanta Con-
stitution: A lady writes to me and
asks what is really meant by the
needles eye" in the parable OF the
rich man. l remember reading some
where that 1t was the smallest gate
that gave entrance to the walled city oil
Jerusalem and that loaded camel had
to be stripped of its burden and bend
its knees to squeeze through. And so
rich man had to give up his riches and
come to his knees before he could en-
ter heaven. But | do not find that In
anv commentary. 1t was just one OF
the thouand proverbs that adorned the
moral teachings of the Jews and the
eastern nations. The writings OF JOB
and Solomon and Confucius and Ma
homet abound in them. In the Koran
is found this proverb: THE impious
man will find the gates of heaven smut
and he can no more enter than camel
can pass through needles eye There
is another in the Koran which says;
You will never see palm tree oil goid
nor an elephant pass through aneedle 8
eve" These proverbs simply meant
that II was impossible. Strange to say,
the world has long since quit making
proverbs. All proverbs have come
down to us, even such as "A rolling
Stone gathers no moss" Poor Rich
ard left us few, such as "A penny
saved is two pence gained
The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-17
ROBERTS IN KRooNsTAD.
Made n Remarkable Quick March-specu-
intions on the Result.

London. May 12.-The war office has
received the following dispatch from
General Roberts:
..Kroonstnd. May II. 2 p. MI en-
tered Kroonstad at so p. m. to-day
without opposition. When the union
Jack was hOisted there were cheers
from the few British residents
London. May little war Is prac-
tlcally over" says the Chronicles
Kroonstad correspondent, and. in less
definite terms. this is the view to be
gathered from all the correspondents.
They picture the Beers as utterly de
mornlzed and disheartened by LORD
Roberts unexpectedly rapid advance,
and by his faclle turning of the care
fully perpared positions of the Beers.
There was practically no fighting and
there are no further details TO give re-
snectIng the occupation OF Kroonstad.
The correspondent of the Telegraph
says:
'.The union Jack was hoisted in the
market place by Mrs. Lockhead, the
American wife OF a. Scotchman. Mosi
az the horses Of the Beers are In q
wretched condition. but President kru
ger declares that he will continue the
war"
II appenrs that the Beers at Kroon-
stod had been reinforced by 1900 men
from Natal last Friday, and that alto
gether 10000. with twenty guns, trek.
l,ed from Kroonstad on the approach OF
Lord Roberts.
The Beers made an Intellectual stand
at Boschrand. and had elaborate en-
trenchments in front OF kroonstad,
which offered great facilities for rear
gnord action. Their only anxiety,
however. appears to have been TO get
away safely with all their guns and
convoys. which again they have sue
cessfnlly accomplished.
Lord Roberts. after march which Is
regarded worthy OF being ranked Wild
hfs famous march 10 Kandahar. mas
Tins covered another stage Of his cam
noIon. n stnge which. although success
mi and without the mistakes and mis-
fortunes that characterized the earlier
stages leaves the Boer forces quite In
toct not having lost n gun and having
,ost worry few men. Experience has
taugbt fhe critics to he chary OF nc
conting reports of Boer decentralization
The Times says: .,, ,,
.,rbe signs point TO military break.
down on the part OF the Beers. but, nf
Tor experience Of the past, we caDn0i
occant the reports of decentralization
nrithout reserve. The game OF wal
mnst he strictly played out to the end.
TIndIey. the new Free State capital
q. fortv-fiye miles southeast OF kroon
.,,d half wny TO Bethlehem. and was
.rah,hIv selected ms convenient rem
Ia1yo,,s for the commanders now re
string before General Brabant and Gen
aral Rundle in the Thaba Nchu district
The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-17
CONDEMNS The sosRs.
Btssop H.rts~ii strongly trissces Tn
Treatment Of the uIncks


Btsaop Hartsell strongly tristces rhrir
treatment Of the Blacks.
Bishop Hartzeli. at the recent Meth
odist conference at Chicago, said.
mo one can understand the full sig
nificance of the war In South Africa
unless they study the laws and spirit
Of the Brltou and Boer concerning the
native or black populations In their
midst and In surrounding sections In
the treatment OF the black races there
has been n clear antaEonism between
the Briton and the Boer from he very
beginning. The first trek In 1888 was
because England abolished slavery.
There were other issues. but every scri-
Gus contest had Its relation TO the ma
lives.
THE Boer believes that the natives
are the children OF Ham and are In
tended by providence for slavery. II
slavery cannot bc In that form, then
the relation must by law be fixed so
that equality OF privilege Is not permit
ted between the Bocr and the native,
no matter what may he the intelligence
or character OF the latter. The consti.
tuition provides that there shall he no
equality between white and coloredl
persons In church or state: no black
man can walk on the sidewalk In town
or city; this includes not only native
teachers and preachers trained by for
eign missionary societies, but Misc
black or mulntto people who come
from Cape Colony or elsewhere.
mo black man can own land in the
Transvaal. No black man can become
trader OF any kind. no matter what
his intelligence or how good his char
acter. Up to two years ago there could
be no legal marriage OF any black per
son. No black man has a standing IL
court In the Trnnsvanl; he cannot SUI
the government or white man. Tn,
Transvaal does nothing toward the ed
ucatlon OF the black people. although
by licenses, etc. they pay three pei
cent OF the public school money.
The Trnnsvani Dutch churches. after
fifty years OF opportunity. have done
practically nothing in missionary worl
among the natives. failed to learn OF
one black convert. much less native
teacher or preacher or congregation IL
either branch OF the Trnnsvnai Dutci
Reformed church. President Kruger'i
branch, which rs the Dopper church
and claims TO be the true reformed
body. not only does nothing. but, be
ginning with Kruger himself, repre-
scnts the most extreme nnti-black sen
timent"
The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-17
Tn, Mother Love.

II is given to few people to under
stand the workings of the child mind
and 1t Is only by the exercise OF pa
tience and the utmost sincerity that
one can get to know the ideas and de-
sires that are formed In the ever busy
little brains. A pretty story was once
told by Sir Edwin Arnold OF three
children OF his acquaintance. whom he
asked at their bed time, when about
to say their prayers, II they would
pray for what they wanted most. After
the two eldest had made their requests.
the youngest. a little girl. knelt down
and, putting her hands together. said:
Dear God. love me when am naugh-
ty. like mamma"
The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-17
Nc More T,ms to Lo.s.

Mrs. Scaddsleigh-Now Laura. you
go right into the library and study
your French. Here we expect to start
for Paris the middle of next week and
you haven't looked at single lesson.
Laura-But, mamma. +. Mrs. scad-
dsleigh-There. there! Go right along
now and learn French. | don't be-
lieve in this habit of putting every
thing on till the very last minute
Chicago Times-Heraid.
The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-17
v,,,o,a and pnion Reunited.

Manchester. May 13.-John Il; Red
mond. sessional chairman or the unitee
irish Nationalist party, and John Dll
ION. former chairman OF the then uoIn
inent wing Of Irish phrliainentariahs
appeared here today ON the saine p,nl
form Mt the Irish demonstrh.,oh ~ ~ ~
Trade hall. Mr.. Redmond saiu ,,H ,n'
nstrous chapter in Irish history. Fol
10 arst time in n decade he had the
uIaa .ne sure be remarked. OF standing up
pn tbe same platform with Mr.. Dillon
whose I presence proved the genuinenes'
OF the reunion.
The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-17
Her Cure.

He-.T understand you have been
attending an ambulance class Can
YOU tell me what is the best thing TO
do for broken hearth" She-'oh'
YES. Bind up the fractured portions
with gold ring, bathe them wiln
orange-blossom water and apply pien-
Nv of raw rise. Guaranteed to be wen
In a month.
People OF good senge are those ~nose
opinions agree with ours.
The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-17
Ar,.on. and New Morloo Excursion.

May 18th Santa Fe Route will sell tick
cts TO principal points In New Mexico and
Arizona and return at rate OF cent per
mile, good for thirty days. with stop-overs
on return trip. Low rates one way also
a rare opportunity for tourists miners
and prospectors to visit the Grand Canon
and rich unexplored mineral lands recent
~ opened by new railroad., FOR full
Agent Santa Fe Route. Dcnvsr. Colo.
The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-17

No girl can afford, either for her own
surest happiness or for the comfort of
mind OF him whom she mnrries, to wed
young man during the formative per-
iod OF his life. which Is between twenty
and twenty-five. And she who with
holds from n young man her consent To
marriage until he has reached the first
year of the beginning OF wisdom Is n
mighty sensible little body. md acts In
manner she will never have cause to
regret ms long ns God gives her and her
husband lIfe.-Edwnrd Box, In the May
Ladies' Home journal.
The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-17
MAY Magazines.

In the Review OF Reviews for May,
thec Is editorial comment on Admiral
Dewcy's candidacy; on the government
OF Puerto Rico under the law recently
passed by Congress; on the proposed
government of Alaska. and on the de-
velopmcnts OF the month In financial
and Industrial circles. Other topics
treated In "'rhe Progress OF tho
worid'' are the rush to Cape Nome,
fox ox-breeding In Alnska. the April cleo
tlons, tue epidemic OF strikes. the open
ing Of the Paris fair, the military oper-
nilons in South Africa, and the Delagoa
bay award.