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dow and testify inquired who was
there and what was wanted.

dow and testify inquired who was
there and what was wanted.
1T is DR.. Barton and patrolman,"
was the reply. There is something
wrong at the church, and we want
you to bring the keys and come with
us at once" The startled sexton
sprang into his clothing, seized the
keys and hurried out of the door.
The patrolman stood waiting; DR.,
Barton, in his Impotence, was already
half a block away.
whats to pay?" painted the little
sexton, as his short legs tried to keep
pace with his companions long ones.
The patrolman explained that he
had heard somebody singing in the
church. Remembering the escaped
lunatic he had telephoned DR.. Barton,
of the asylum. The doctor had joined
him, and both had heard the singing,
although it was evidently woman's
voice.
The three men entered the church
by a basement door. The bolt shot
back grudgingly, with grating sound.
Louise heard it, and duly wondered if
help were at hand. She paused and
listened. Did she hear footsteps in
the lower hall? Suddenly the mad
man by her side half sprang to his
feet and bent threateningly toward
her. Terrified, yet with renewed cour-
age, she opened her lips. The rescuers
on the steps halted in amaze at the
burst of triumphant melody, while the
maniac, tranquilized, sat back to his
place.
The doctor turned to his aids. go
through to the other stairs" he whis-
pered, land up into the vestibule. I'll
wait here till 1 see you at the door.
It's lady that's singing, but my man
is in there beside her."
The men obeyed, feeling their way
through the cellar dusk to the other
end of the church.
"God will hearken, God will save"
sang Louise, all the pathos of prayer
in her voice. AS the words left her
lips the curtain at the transept stair
way was thrust aside, revealing the
figure of the asylum superintendent.
Mechanically she sang on, while DR..
Barton. his eyes fixed upon his escaped
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-04-04

II hope you are not afraid OF .
mouse?" She passed down the aisle
and seated herself cozily in the snug
inner corner of the family pew.
The church was not wholly dark,
for the glare from an electric light
on a high mast at the corner fell
through the clearstory windows,
Illuminating part of the chancel quite
brightly, and casting broken lights
and shadows across the nave. Louise
leaned back in her pew-corner and
idly noted the effect of the aster
decorations as they were revealed in
the strange half-light. As her eye
fell on the left group of palms one
or two of the stiff, shining leaves
seemed to move. The girls heart
came to her throat. Assuring herself
that her fright was due solely to I'M
agination, she looked again. All was
quiet for a moment. Then-yes, sure
ly that was a movement, and surely
her ear caught rustic. Louise
strained her frightened eyes to see
more clearly. Was there or was there
not u HBuTt SldHulhS DdSh VI 'H"'
palm group? The electric light on
it's high mast sputtered and almost
went out. For a moment the whole
church was in shadow. When the
light flashed up again the figure back
of the palms was a certainty. Slow
ly, while Louise felt her blood con-
geal, a mans form moved from be-
hind the clustered leaves and slowly
moved across the chancel. Louise sat
motionless and dumb, her eyes fixed
on the advancing figure. OF what use
to scream? Of what use to flee? She
was a prisoner, powerless to escape,
powerless to defend herself! The
man advanced to the chancel steps
and came into the tull radiance of
broad beam of light. His shadowy
features became suddenly distinct
Louise saw a frightfully SCARED face
In an agony of horror she recognized
the maniac whom she had seen at
the asylum, and or whose escape An
toinette had told her.
Scarcely breathing, numb with ter
ror, she saw the dread figure slowly
descend the steps of the chancel and
come down the aisle. Now he was
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-04-04
A New Easter.

Every call to self-denial is call to a
new Easter. The lower is to be sacri-
feed for the sake of obtaining the
higher. AS in the grain of wheat is
hidden secret of value and growth
which can be realized only through
the dying of the grain in the earth.
so in every fragment of human happi-
ness and comfort there is covered up
a secret of blessing and of good which
can be brought out only through the
losing of it, the giving 1t ups. S.
Times,
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-04-04

patient, advanced with measured tread
along the aisle. At sight of him, the
poor, mad creature sprang up. Then
he moved slowly backward, covering
lower and lower as the doctor APP
preached, till, crouching abjectly at
Louise's feet, he burst into flood of
tears.
They led him away, still weeping
and humble as a little child, while the
girl sat motionless, with whirling
brain and dazed eyes. Incuriously she
had recognized the patrolman and
sexton as they came within her field
of vision; as in dream she had heard
the word of command from DR.. Bar
ton and seen the lunatic rise; numbly
she watched until he was led from
her sight. Then, freed from the fear
full tension of the night, weary, ex-
hausted, her head fell backward, and
she lapsed into Inconsistencies.
When, after weeks of illness. Louise
had fought her way back to health and
strength again, it was found that the
strain of those frightful hours had
hopelessly injured the delicate vocal
chords, and her beautiful voice was
silenced forever. A fearful sacrifice,
yet one that had not been in vain, for
in those few hours of singing mir
acle had been wrought, and the dis
ordered mechanism of a brain had
found balance. The maniac, after leav-
ing the church, wept himself into
quiet sleep, from which he awoke
maniac no longer, but a sane man,
his mental poise permanently restored
by the magic of a voice.-Woman's
Home Companion.
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The Last Straw.

"Judson thought he might pull
through without making an assign
ment, but just as he was about ar
ranging satisfactorily with his cred
itors-"
"What happened?"
"The bill for his wife's Easter haa
came in."-Philadelphia Bulletin
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More Nonsense,

81 think these jokes about Easter
bonnets are downright stupid" said
Mr.. Meekton.
"Indeed!"
"Yes. The idea of a woman's asking
her husband for money to get bon
net with! Just as if she didn't have
it all the time and wasn't thinking her
self pretty generous if she gave him
25 cents to buy lunch with!"-Wash-
ington Star.
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ATTEMPT ON THE CARS LIFE
OfHcer of the Imperial Household
Attempted TO XIII the Car and
then Committed Suicide.

London, April IA dispatch to the
Morning Leader from Kieff says it is
reported that an officer of the house
hold attempted to assassinate the
car. He fired at his majesty, but
missed. He then shot and killed him
self
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-04-04
A STRIKE HAS BEEN AvERTED.
caEO Granted by the Commits
sion Merchants.

Chicago, April IA threatened
strike of egg testers, which promisS G
to seriously affect the Chic2SG
market, has been averteaa
sion merchants agrea =
mand of the EggsA y
day.
Iond
Ian, n
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4 Most Peculiar status.

The reports reaching here show
that the agreement has not yet been
signed. Its status is most peculiar.
The time within which it was to be
signed expired last Tuesday, but on
that day Yang Nu. the Chinese minis
ter at st. Petersburg, fell in the lega-
ton and hurt has head, so that he
was unable to transact business. This
misfortune has caused much amuse-
mcnt here, and some irritation in GER
tain quarters, as it has been recog-
nizcd as most timely means Of
avoiding direct issue on the subject.
II is not clear to what extent the
Russian intimation has gone, but in
any event, it gives an urgency 10 Chi
mas course which has not been pre-
scented thus far.
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Times.

Wife-Women always have the best
of it when it comes to Easter head
gear.
Husband-Of course they do. The
men have to pay the freight.-Chica-
go Daily News.
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The Chinese, Themselves, Said to be
Divided as to the Course 90 be
Pursued, Ii Hung Chang Being In
Favor of Acauesccnce. While 9th
ers are Opposed.
Little short of an UItImntum.

This is little short of an ultimatum
that China must sign or take the
consequences of n termination of her
friendly relations with Russia.
TO what extent the United States
will take congnizance of Russia's dis
position to enforce the signing of the
agreement has not yet been made ap.
parent. 1t appears to be the policy
of the Chinese authorities to consid-
er this as subject that concerns
the powers quite as much as it does
China. The matter has become fur
ther complicated by reports reaching
Washington that the Chinese author
tiles themselves are divided on the
course to be pursued, some of the
most influential, including Ii Hung
Chang, urging that acquiesence be
given TO the Russian proposals, while
others insist on rejecting the agree
ment. The attitude of Ii Hung
Chang is accounted for by his we'll
known friendlness for Russian in
tcrests. In this case. however, there
appears to be arrayed against him
the strong influence of the southern
Niceroys, Chan Chi Tung and Liza Kun
vi, who oppose the signing of the
treaty.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-04-04

L WAS Ea ster eve,
and half a dozen
girls of the Altar
Child wprp dec
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25
GETTING TOGETKER.

Apropus of the proposed excursion
to Clear Lake next month, the Sioux
City Journal in a recent editorial
painted picture that is worthy a
place on the wall. Among other
things it says:
"This lot of people of the same
town, gathered to eat and smoke and
talk, can it be that in all the world
there are none to match them, one to.
the thousand? What sometimes
passes as an extravaganza of speech
is no more than a quotation from the
primer of children. To the people of
the same town, right there, in their
better minds, the birds sing sweetest,
the grass is greenest, the shadowy
face in the moon most benignant, the
stars most faithful in their Vigils, the
majesty OF the wood unequaled, the
symmetry of the hills and winding
rivers unmatched in other landscape
anywhere, and the men-the men
alone since this is business-well fit
to put to blush the historian of any
other people of ancient or modern
time. That is the way to know men
and to see the way to loving them.
There is more than one side to every
thing, and business men are not ex-
ceptions to the rule. They have an
inside as well as an outside, and on
the inside they have their summer
gardens, great or small, and the de-
posit vaults for the Jewels of their
lives. AT times they will show the
way into the summer of their hearts
and give forth blossom from it and
give touch to another OF treasure
safe from office dust. This lot of men
of the same town each in way turn
ing the mirror outward from the wall,
make love feast, whereat hope
spreads out tencircling wings, and the
sun of promise rises in increasing
glory in the crimson light of many
tomorrows. This getting together Of
lot of people of the same town,
each determined upon leaving trouble
elsewhere, contributes to the strength
and courage of men, serves to clear
the atmosphere, aud revives them all
in the saving faith of the brotherhood
of man."
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25

his mud gun trained of late, while
those who will do their utmost to de-
fame his good name and his honor
able life will be found among the ring
leaders and bosses of the coteire with
whom he has of late been associated.
Lafe Young should have known better
than to have become a member and
aide-de- camp Of the coteire of would
be bosses and political ringsters, and
we believe his better judgment did SO
dictate to him, and we believe that
to. day he feels pangs of regret that
he joined in the attempt to create
Addison Addicks politics in Iowa.
Young made bad bargain when he
allied himself and his Capital with
the independents" but they have
him tied now and as a.reward of merit
will try to blacken his honorable life
before the people of Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25
ROOM FOR ALL.

Cedar Rapids Republican: Now and
then doubt creeps into the papers
as to the ability of Cedar Rapids to
entertain the crowds which will be
here on the 7th of August. Some
place the crowds at 5000 people, and
that will not be much below the actual
numbers, il Des Moines brings her
people here by the train load.
Cedar Rapids does not pretend to
be able to entertain such a crowd in
the hotels of the city. No city in Iowa
has hotel room for such a concourse
of people. Norris it necessary to sleep
all the people in hotels. Many per-
sons in writing to the local commit
tees have stipulated with emphasis
that they prefer a private house, es-
pecially on account of the hot wealth
er.
The committee on arrangements
desire to make it known to all who
may be thinking Of coming to the con-
vention that ample accommodations
viii be provided.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25
cONGERs CANDIDACY.

Mrs. Edwin II. Conger authorizes
The Register to say that the Inter
view" with Minister Couger, which
appeared in the Des. .Moines Capital
of Thursday evening and the Des
Moines Leader of Friday morning, is
fake, pure and simple.
The interview" purported to have
been given by the minister as he was
leaving for China from San Francisco.
In 1t he was made to say that he had
been misled as to the political situa-
ton in Iowa, and regretted that he
had authorized the use of his name.
The dispatch was made of whole cloth,
the interview was never given, and
Minister Conger never said the things
placed in his mouth.
The friends of Major Conger know
that he did not make any such state
ments, for he steadfastly adhered to
his original cablegram from Pekin in
which he said:'I am not a candidate,
but will accept the nomination if it is
rendered to me-" That was his un-
varying answer every time the mat
ter was mentioned to him while he
was in the United States ,and he made
that answer still stronger in the fol-
lowing interview in the Des Moines
Capital of May 20, 1901, after the rep
resentative of the Capital had made
every possible effort to induce him to
change his position after he returned
from his May visit in the eastern
states:
II have nothing more to say about
the matter than have already said.
| arrived at the decision made only
after a careful consideration of the
matter from every standpoint. There
is no reason for me to cay more at
this time, NOR AT ANY TIME IN
THE FUTURE. My position has
already been outlined clearly and
distinctly. 1T WILL NOT BE
CHANGED. )"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25
FRUSTRATED BY HEAT.
Two Cases at Leighton--One Way Re-
suit Fatally.

Leighton July 23-Miss Jane Smith.
oldest daughter of j. Fl. Smith, was
overcome with the heat yesterday
about O'Clock and soon become un-
conscious. DR.. Payne was called and
some Of the neighbors sent for and
they worked with her vigorously.
She is alive this morning but still un-
conscious, and is liable to drop of at
any time. Her brothers and sisters
have all been summoned and all are
with her except Mrs. Frank Porter,
of Lenox, Adams county, who is ex-
pected to-day,
Aunt Mary Miller is also in quite
dangerous condition caused by the
heat and old age She is in her ssth
year and win not likely last much
longer.
Mondays heat was intense and the
worst ever known in this place. The
mercury in the several thermometers
about the place ranged from 107 to
112, This begins the fifth week OF the
hot weather and on twenty-three days
the mercury has stood above 100 in
the shade.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25
Mr.. SPRING, PHTLANTHR0PIST

Charles A. Spring died at his home
in Chicago the other day, and. the
papers mentioned the fact that the
man who had been at the head of the
Mccormick Harvesting Company for
thirty years, had passed to his re-
ward. Aside from this but little was
said of the man, and yet his funeral
was one Of the most largely attended
in the history of Chicago. He had
made lots of money in his day, but
he had founded no universities or
libraries, had built no charitable in
stitutions with his name over the
door, and yet he had fulfilled Andrew
Carnegie's great desire by dying a
comparatively poor man Poor in An
drew Carnegie's Interpretation of the
word, but rich in love and respect
of his fellow man. Mr.. Spring was an
ideal philanthropist, in that he never
did an act of charity for policy's sake,
and yet never day passed by him in
which he was not engaged in some
good work to help the weak about
him.
Twenty years ago when he got his
affairs in shape so that he began to
make money fast, he and his wife
signed an agreement that they would
not lay by to exceed certain sum
less than he had on hand at the time
and that the rest of their money
should go to the poor and needy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spring kept their plan
secret, and none but their most in
innate friends knew of it. How much
Mr.. Spring gave away to charity is
not known, but his wealth was de-
rived from many sources, and as he
lived in a modest style his bene-
factions must have reached into the
millions. Many deserving and strug-
Cling families were helped by Mr..
Spring, whose delight it was to ferret
out individual cases of need, and in
many instances those who were help
ed never new the name of their bene-
factor.
Every charitable or benevolent act
of whatever kind or degree, done in
silence or npublic, deserves and gets
its reward. No benefactor is ever
forgotten, but the philanthropist,
whose good works spring from the
heart, aad find in that heart an In
exhaustable spring that lasts through
the years is the one who comes near
est filling the shoes of the Man from
Galilee.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25

The rights of a striking work
man we're clearly and concisely
stated the other day by New York
magistrate who was hearing a case
of assault. ''You may work for whom
you please" he said, las long as you
please, and leave whenever you
please. If you can do better or get
more money, you have a perfect
right to do so. But every other man
has the same right to sell his labor
for what he sees fit, to work as many
hours as he pleases, and to accept
whatever compensation has been
agreed upon between him and lis
employer. The law does not permit
you to interfere with him." If every
striker would keep this simple state
ment in mind, labor troubles would
at least be free from violence.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25
LOOK UNDER THE BED

How much misery and suffering,
anguish and modification might be
spared in this life if only healthy
presence of mind we're possessed by
more people. How many people
reach out over miles of desert for
cup of water that may be at their
very feet. How many strive for
years for the qualification of some
desire, only to find out that in their
mad rush they have trampled the
life out of that long sought for wish
in their own door yard. 1t had been
there all the time, but they did not
have the presence of mind,to recog-
nize it.
Down at Washington, Iowa. the
other day the town was aroSsed by
fire alarm There was no fire, but a
boy had been lost. His parents were
wild with grief and a sympathetic
public turned out to hunt for the
lost child. For five hours the search
was prosecuted through every high
way and by.way in town, and for
miles into the country. Finally it
dawned on the mother to make a
search of the house. There in his
own room, sound asleep under his
bed, was found the lost boy. This
leads up to the text OF our sermon:
"Look under the bed before you ring
the fjre-bell." "
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25

In the last two presidential cam
paigns it has been Bryan's pet hobby
to speak of Mckinley as "the EN-
peror' or "the Dictator" While
this, like all of Bryan's predictions,
has vanished in thin air, the fellow
himself, has shown his mate desire to
rule and his determination to capture
the nomination again, by the promul-
cation of the following edict through
the columns of the Commoner:
"Do not allow a man to be placed
on any democratic committee-pre-
cinct, county, state or national
unless he is a believer in the Kan
sas City platform"
The Mahaska fellows have bowed
the knee and accepted the yoke, but
not so the Ohio crowd.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25

skin it and grab wash bowl full of
water from the northwest corner of
the well, and big sponge and go
ont in the deeper shadows of the
trees in the back yard, and sozzle
your anatomy with more water, or
turn the hose on yourself and use
the south wind as towel, and put
on Mother Hubbard If you are wise,
and so strike an area of comfort at
last. Pile into the hammock and
swing like good fellow, haul your
bed in front of the south window,
make disjecta membra of arms and
legs and if you can't WOO Morpheus
in that way your case is helpless.
Blessings on the man who fret in
vented sleep" especially in torrid
weather.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25

Persons coming here will not be
allowed to shift for themselves, i'm
quiring for sleeping accommodations
The committee will shift for them.
All the rooms available will be listed
by the special rooming committee.
Persons coming to the convention
simply have to report at the head
quarters of that committee, which will
be In the old Northwestern depot, at
First avenue and Fourth street, with
in two blocks of all the depots, and
there they will be assigned rooms.
When they want to go to their rooms
they will be escorted by messenger
boy and if the distance is more than
few blocks they will be provided
with conveyance. All these SER
vices will be absolutely free. Gener-
ally uniform price has been agreed
upon of 81 a night for bed and If
two sleep in 1t, it will cost them only
so cents each.
No one need be worried about
quarters or prices. Last year the
writer hunted for four hours for a cot
to sleep on in Des Moines, with it's
ample hotel rooms, In Cedar Rapids
it will be arranged that no one, il he
will report at headquarters, win be
compelled to hunt his own sleeping
place,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25

The so called "Independent''
paper don't seem to be able to scare
up a welcome any where. When it
leans one way the opposition pats it
on the back, but when it inclines the
other it loses friends on both sides.
Here is an opinion of one from the
Newton Democrat:
"There seems desire on the part
of the Des Moines Leader, now that
it has nearly finished running the
republican politics of the state, to
switch over and take a hand in the
democratic policies. 1t is loudly ad-
vertising that the glad hand is being
given the Ohio democracy because of
its action last week and quotes
largely from papers that, like itself,
were renegades and assistant repub-
licans in 1895. We are not aware
that the democratic party needs any
assistance along this line and doubt
IL the efforts of the Leader will be as
fully appreciated as the Leader seems
to imagine"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-25

There are men in Cherokee
county worth S25, 900 or more" says
the Cherokee Democrat, speaking of
tax dodgers, who don't pay as much
taxes as some who are worth $500 or
$500. Most of them are good church
members. He'll will be so full of
such people that a poor cuss who
stole little coal to keep has family
from freezing to death won't get a
chance to ride in the DEVILS automo-
biIe.D