The age-herald., 1902-03-30
THE r1URr1UR OF THE WORLD.

Washington, March 29.-(Special)-So has passed the period of penance and we are come to Easter. the symbol of glad ness everlasting!
 Who so has not been truly penitent, has not kept the faith, he can know nothing, can have no taste of the real and divine sweetness of the Easter-time Riches, fashion. fads, these may please the fancy and delight the animal senses of man kind; but those alone who keep the faith can feel the genuine joy of the heart at Easter, or at anytime. Yet even pagans cannot resist the joyous influence of this blessed. this holy season.
 Most of us are always ready for joy and laughter. Some of us know that these twin sisters are just around the corner waiting for us and habitually we steal upon them unawares and have great merriment. Others wait for the sisters two to come to them and cajole them into smiling; but such as these wait forever. and die as smil as they have lived. And 1t Is such an easy task to catch laughter. around the corner, any where. everywhere.
 Listen.
 Today 'the cart before the horse" literally. made half of Washington laugh. Washington, mind you, has been very sober, dignified, reserved throughout the Lenten time, just as every other truly civilized community has been. No person of society station has been a reveller or a dancer; to have been either would have sacrificed any ones position, and very properly so. Respectable individuals the world around whatever their con victions or lack of convictions. bow to thine ancient sacrifice, Lord" So Wash lngton being civilized has kept Lent more consistently than ever before. it is said by those who know.
 Thus Washington Is ready for revelries and merriment, as for instance todays laughter over the cart before the horse" The thing was so ridiculous and so friv- ilous as to be scarce worth the telling. Yet maybe for that very reason it is worth much.
 Toward high noon there entered the most fashionable street of this town "the cart before the horse" Block after block were thronging thousands of women and men chiefly women out for their Easter shopping, and hundreds of the women were beautiful as Easter lilies. so fair they seemed. Suddenly there was the sound of an old-fashioned cow-bell. such as rings so discordantly in every fair field of Alabama. Everybody looked in the direction from which came that sound, so unfamiliar in a city; and so looking, everybody beheld "The cart before the horse' and everybody laughed dainty maiden and hodearrier alike. It was so silly-so oakland Lent was ending!
 First came an old top-buggy. moving slowly and with no apparent means of propulsion. There were no shafts, no pole. On the seat was a man shabbily dressed as the poorest rustic and by his side was girl similarly clau, though she wore a skirt and a sunbonnet. and some other things perhaps. He and she were utterly stolid and smileless as be- came them in the role they were playing. In front of them was an old buggy-wheel, or rather the hub and spokes of one, and this the man used for steering the buggy, much as a mariner uses a wheel to steer a ship. Suspended from the frame of the buggy-top was large cow-bell and this the man rang every few paoes, giving three quick strokes of the clap per- The buggy was rickety, rusty, and stained all over with "dry'' mud, such as might have come from the ordinary public road in Alabama. So odd and so comical was it all that considerable time was required for the eye to con vey to the mind that pair of shafts was attached to the rear axle of the buggy, and hitched between these shafts was a venerable yellow-mud colored horse, which slowly and patiently was pushing the buggy before him. his head being against the backs of the man and the girl and his tail at the outer ends of the shafts. The last feature of the show to