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r I "' yAi 1 J It:r.^ forth votir tri?iE nfr bo!U, JTiM earth shall learn tin* storv; s>weot N tb?? new* y nr musio It lis, lie lives,the Kim; of Glory! Tbo L*un?>. who was for sinner? slain, ^ Oomos fcrtu from death in uii^lu to reign. i r He lives the rae? of man to bless, ? To bioisli e-are ami sa Iness, Ail Kritifi to l?-ai. nil wro'itr* re lro?--. To illl the earth wbh idness. The Lamb, w 10 wis for sinners slain, oth no s fur man's redemption rei^n! C030DD30300303000000000000j I THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED CIRL ? J G O A Child's Easter Story. O | O O 00v0330003300300000003300c J, OMEover here, said Olivia, ami I will . tell yon an Easter tale. There w a s onee a woman who Sv\ ' had au only dangh\y jf-fc ter that was very t ^V/l small ami pale ami I (/--J altogether s o m e) jkS'vL what different from ?1'/' H ot her children.! & ' * -' tl\ When she took the tiUj, *!*"- ^ little one ont for a Tvalk the people stood an ' looked at Ac child aud whispered a .long themselves. Whea the little girl u?ked her mother why the people looked at her so strangely the mother always replied, "it is because you have on such a beautiful new dress." Thereupou | the little oue was contented. As soon, i however, as they returned home the mother would clasp her little daughter in her aiyus, kias her again aud again and say: ' Ton sweet little augel, what would become of you if I were ; to die? No one, not even your father, uows what a dear little angel you %,e!" Some titr.a afterward the mother be- j came suddenly sick aud she died on the ninth day. Thereupon the father } of the little girl threw himself iu despair ou the deathbed aud asked to be buried with bis wife. His friends, however, spoke to him and comforted Ilia, and so bo leit bis wne s uouy, and a year later be took unto himself another wife,who was lovelier, younger auil richer tliau his first wife, but by no meaus as good. 1 And from the clay that her mother died th3 little girl spent her whole time from morning till evening seated at the window sill iu the sitting room, since thero was no one who would take hei out for a walk. She had become uvea paler thau before and she /tad not grown at all during the latter / * ye^r.s. . When her new mother came to the house she said to herself: "Now I will o it walking again in the city and <>n the beautiful promenades where the sun shines so brightly, where lliere are so many lovely shrubs and tlowers and where there is such a crowd of handsomely dressed people." For she lived in a narrow little alley, in which the sua seldom shoue, and when she sat on the window sill she jaw only a little bit of the blue sky i bit net larger than a pocket handkerchief. Her new mother went out uearly every day in the forenoon and afternoon, and each time *be wore a very beautiful dress, much more ( beautiful than any dress the first mother had ever owned. But she never took the little girl with her. Finally the child took heart, and ene day she earnestly begged her new mother to tako her ont with her. The mother, however, refused bluntly, saying: "You are not smart enough. What would the people think if they were to see me with you? You are a little humpback. Humpbacked children never go walking, but always stay at home." Thereupon the little girl became very quiet, and as 6oon as her uew mother had left the houee she got on a chair I kUm flg Jfo LOOKED IN THE JJIEBOE AND SAW SHE WAS HCMTBACKEP. aud looked iu ft mirror and saw that indeed she was humpbacked,badly humpbacked. Then she sat again ou the window sill and looked out into ? ? %p o 3^ . I I -I-. ! dS^-G>-Cl V- N ' ' Si 1 Behold. from winter's thrall sot free. The lilies fair are sprincing; T ieir radiant bloom, in hoiv cleo Tne waking earth is hriiiKin^, A tribute to the Lamb or.ee td'niu. Now rai.-ed in endless tniitht to rel^n. Come forth ve souls. In clad n? w life, This blessed Easter morning; W'itli Moo in of low ami Iv-auty rife. His Brace bo your n lorniiiB: Tito Lamb, who once tor you was slain. Doth bid you rido with hitu and relBu. ! tho street ami thought of her good old mother, who, in spite of her huiupl>aek, had taken her out walking every day. The she thought again of her hump. VISIT OF THF. AX6EL MOTHER. | 1 "What is inside of it, I wonder!" : ] she said to herself. "There must be ! 1 something inside of such a hump as 11 this is." ' s Many a strange fancy entered her , y little head and mauv an hour she ] wiled away in wondering why her back, instead of being straight like the backs of other children, was distorted out of all shape by such an tig- f ly hump. The stories of fairies w hich i .7. <mrCb, Cupid tp As h;/little bcpj*7 And tT? It lip^'itil care, A knot ck ribbon here, feu know) A b^hkrps there! Jyppr'his curls a doaihct Hh elfish care lie shades hubby hand-~ilpr/iio.-fc tc beads and^yayprfbedi ly i To cburchjhp/pastes wl I I And bows devoutly c ?/iLi- msw.,n/J WOO lovetl lilt! nuunuiuc a<iii ..v.. ers bettor tliau she, ami yet auxoug i i them all was there one who saw so | little of the sunshiue and the flowers [ i ! as she did? From her seat by the ; j window sho saw the little ones play- j i ' iug ia the narrow street, and as their j frequent peals of merry laughter came to her ear, her question, "Why am I ! not like other children?" became ever more urgent. So tho summer passed, and when | winter came the little girl was still j pale and she had become so weak that ! she could no longer sit on her window J sill, but was obliged to remain lyiug ; in bed, and, just wben the snowdrops i were begiuuiug to peep above grouud, ! ' t he good old mot tier cuuie 10 uci vuc : uight and told her how glorious and ! I beautiful it was iu heaveu. The following morning the child j | was dead. "Don't weep, father" said her new j mother; "it is best for the poor child." | V WtlCTC SOYCiy luu.s* In Bitter hat and gox 1 J) e7es orc c I I/ ^07C ^:s I J / f^yr And. ere he fl ' [j Full many a i (F?^P* ; : her dear mother had told her came i I back to her memory, and in childish < j fashion she sometimes prayed that i I some good fairy would come aud take away the burden that threatened to j blight her wholo life. i Ob, if she were only like other j I children! Was there one of theni i ' 1 1 5 L* on/1 tllU flrtW. Ami the girl's father answered ne word, hilt simply nodded his head. The little girl was buried, but ou Easter morn au angel with large white wings like a swan He w down frou: heaven, seated himself beside the grave ami knocked t km eon, as though gm ^ j m tut: transformation. it were a door. And soou tho little ;irl came forth from the grave and the mgel told her that ho had eorao to :ako her to her mother in heaven. Fhen the little girl asked in a trerubing voice whether, even humpbacked diildren could enter heaven. She jould not conceive such a thing possible. Yet'the angel answered, "You dear, jood child, you are no longer hurnp acked," aud with those words he lassed his white hand over her back md the ugly old hump fell oft' like u rreai hollow shell, and this left her a ransformed being. And what was in it? Two beautifnl white angel wings! The child spread hem out, as though she Lad always cuowu how to fly, and she flew with lie angel through the dazzling sunight up'iuto the blue sky. On the oftiest seat in heaven sat her good >ld mother awaiting her with oatitretehed arias, and the child flew itiaigh, into her lap. New York Ieraid. Oricln of Ki??tor linliblt*. ()ne of the quaiut and interesting eatnres of our modern Easter caruiva s the appearance in shop windows, > Easter ' ? , A \ -r stroke- ' , iakcs. wytg J hen sweet belts peal) ^ J 'own v J.'/^~- (c f matron kneel w>-' jJ vn. jJ3 r n Ais prayer bcrekrgrave, t / thoughts are^cnti ^ its the tricksy jkhayc /(? i heart is rentljy <r.-j /?* mm ft/ / id sly twtxt pra ycfand,-ban/is ' -' ' / N<K / ply his arqhpryy' is those Easter? rpfiidS^nd'Dan wee to *wrtns'4tyc/nie. gJ4kty!tEW?mEllELL 'm0r) side by side with the emblematic colored ejrar, of a pert tall-eared rabbit, inrl tlioso who ranuot understand why bunny should have a place iu our Easter decoratious shrug their shoulders and think it a trick to please the children. But the legend of the Easter rabbit is one of the oldest in mythology, and is mentioned in the early folklore of South Germany. Originally, it appeirs, the rabbit was a bird, which the ancient Teutonic goddess Ostara goddess of the east or of spring transformed into a rjuadruped. For this reason the rab bit or bare is gratetul, anci in remembrance of its former conditiou as a bird and as a swift messenger of spriug, and of the goddess whom it served, is able to lay colored Easter eggs on lier festival in the spring time, the colors illustrating the theory that when it was a bird the rabbit laid colored eggs, and an egg has always been a symbol of the resurrection, and, therefore, used as au illustration at Easter. The natives of the Philippines manufacture a very gauzy, transparent fabric for ladies' dresses from fibres of the pineapple loaf. It is called pina cloth. . - . ; i - - |A BIO DAM BREAKS.] Austin, Texas, Swept by a Raging' Flood. I SIMILAR TO JOHNSTOWN HORROR. | liLctric Light and Power Plant With Operatives (jo Down Full Damage Hard to Estimate, Austin. Tex., Special. This city is in ! pitch darkness with a raging river one j mile wide and swollen far beyond its ; l">tlir;?i hanl/o rnarinn nnH onr?ltii? I through all the lower por;ions of the town, having spread destruction and death in its wake. In addition to the vast loss to property interests, it is calculated that between 110 and 40 lives have been sacrificed, and the reports coining in from the tributary country j do not tend to improve matters. The I {toed is not unlike the disastrous Pohn- I ptown flood, some years ago, in that a |aging river, already swollen far beyond its capacity, bore too 'heavily upon an immense dam spanning the river here, breaking it and letting loose a reservoir cf water 30 miles long, half ! a mile wide and sixty feet deep, to all j in carrying destruction down the valleys of the Colorado river. The great j dam in the Colorado river gave way 1 from the enormous pressure of water j and debris and with a rear and era.-h j swept the valleys below the city, wreck i in? tne immense ngnt ana power plant, j J and drowning eight workmen. Follow-, ' in.g is a iist of the known dead, including those killed in the power house: j Frank I'incet. Frank Kinney, Walter ' Flower. Walter Johnson, Alfred John- j son. Frank Fitzgerald. Walter Blo-i som, Joseph Newman. D;rk Morris j (colored): John Proes, Chas. Burchard. ; [ Six negroes. Last Wednesday night it began to rain very hard at this place, the storm 1 extending north of hero along the wat- | er sheds of the Colorado river. The ; precipitation continued until the down- j fall aggregating six inches. All this j vast quantity of water along the water theds of the Colorado river rapidly j swelled the current until the river, j which had been rising steadily was a raging torrent, having risen 40 feet within ten hours. After daylight it became evident that the situation was serious. The river began to rise so rapidly that it was evident that the immense dam and all the power houses and contents, costing $1,300,000, were in imminent danger. To add to the terror of the situa tion, small frame house?, v trees and j debris of every description in varying , quantities began descending the river ! and piling up against the upper face of the dam. This weight was augmented every moment until by 10 o'clock there was a mass of.debris lodged against the! dam which threatened the safety of! the structure. In addition, millions of gallons of water, muddled from its! long journey, was whirling and plung- j ing to the sixty foot fall, and it was evident that, no wall could withstand 1 the immense pressure. The crisis came ! .shortly after 11 o'clock, when sudden- i ly with a report like the roar of the! ocean, the (lain hut served to add to \ j the horror of rolled out of the centre! i sfif.Mnti nf Hir dam down the face of (hp fit) foot dcp.h into the rjver below, j This left a yawning gap in the very j middle of the dam through which the j debris and water fiercely poured while! the flood, already raging, was threatening everything in its path. This sudden breaking of the dam. hut served <0 add to the horror of the catastrophe. The released water poured into the power house, catching eight employes at work there, drowning all of them i instantly. The breaking of the dam j caused wild excitement in the city, i The telegraph' companies at once j wired to places below here to look out I for the great wave and runers were, dispatched on horses to notify those I living in the valleys below the city. ! The telegraphic messages served as a i timely warning to many, but the rush- i ing waters outstripped the horsemen i and many houses were picked up and j swept away before the occupants could j get together their valuables. Within a short time all the valleys to the south and west of Austin were filled to overflowing with water and the southern part of the city tributary to the river was inundated. Large crowds collected on the river banks and several persons were swept into the river when the dam broke, but all were saved by boatmen. A crowd of white people numbering ?hMnf sn llvinz iust below the dam. in tents, were seen at their habitations just before the dam broke and have not been crounted for since. It is generally believed that all of them were swept away. Bishop Jackson Resigns. New York. Special. The Protestant Episcopal house of bishops has been called to meet in special session in this city on April 19. It is usual for tho bishops to meet half yearly, but at the present time there are several important matters which bring them together. The resignation of the bishop coadjutor of Alabama, will be received, and it is said, accepted. Charges were circulated in his diocese against the character of Bishop Jackson to such an extent that the bishop felt his usefulness impaired and a resignation the best soltrtior ' V . * ' \ ' ' i ' Premative Hardships- < Lillian What awful, awful hardshis our forefathers must have experienced. Blanche Yes, just think, they didn'l have olives. Indianapolis Journal. Taught by Experience. Jones A friend in need is a great thing. Bones Indeed it is. Jones Yes, Indeed; I met one thLs morning, and he cost rue $5. Detroit Free Press. Last year 4,700.000 cubic yards of material was dredged out of the DuluthSuperior harbor. The mzcs ot Prunes. Prunes arc sold in three sizes. The Inreesf size is called the thirtv to for (ies. 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