18 May 1900
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1900
Page
1
The text notes a Evansville firm distributing 60 percent of wages as profit sharing. It cites Dr. S Ogawa criticizing American gloom. It mentions prominent citizens lingering in grim courtships. It also explains England's cabinet as an informal executive power lacking legal recognition or official records.
After eight divorce cases in a Des Moines Indiana district court the judge ruled that when divorce is granted on grounds of habitual drunkenness the court will issue notice to every saloonkeeper and druggist in the city advising them not to sell liquor to the designated habitual drunkard.
German students resume medieval wandering with modern guided tours. Last year they toured Italy and this spring 1500 will visit Constantinople and Asia Minor. They will meet Roumanian students in Bucharest for a large fruhschoppen.
A Harpers Weekly figure notes about 19 million dollars in a single year supports 1500 missionaries and home staff as churches run thousands of schools hospitals and dispensaries in India Africa Japan China and beyond. Gideons Band grows from 300 to 1000 Christian traveling salesmen aimed at promoting sobriety and integrity in business.
The house committee on naval affairs reports a bill to build two first class battleships at 3 600 000 each three armored cruisers at about 4 250 000 each and three protected cruisers at about 2 800 000 each. Dry docks would be built at Brooklyn and Norfolk yards to accommodate the largest battleships.
The article discusses a shift from heavy mounted combat to mounted infantry using faster maneuvers and smaller soldiers. It notes modern rifles reduce hand to hand fighting, favors infantry style mounted operations, and says small men may become most desirable cavalry troops due to endurance on small horses and long marches. A Colorado Springs dispatch mentions lightweight "branches" trains for British use.
The article argues that peace efforts cannot rely on fixed schemes but represent a natural, orderly evolution. It cites evolving international relations and the Hague measures as a constructive step, reflecting renewed faith in gradual progress rather than rigid plans. J. H. Vickery credits Appletons’ Popular Science Monthly.
The Army and Navy Journal recalls Commander James W. Carlin who commanded the Vandalia at Apia during the 1889 storm and later spared a mouse from drowning, saying his gentleness reflected in him after harsh naval duty.
Archbishop Trench delegates Canon Cureton to preach on a saint’s day at Westminster Abbey. Boys of Westminster School attend service and gain a holiday. Cureton’s son asks if the sermon is long, anxious that peers will thrash him if it lasts over half an hour.
In a continued chapter two lovers Adina and Namarah embrace in prayer and farewell. They vow eternal loyalty yet face separation as Namarah requests two months to mourn before departing with her maid to the mountains and awaiting release of spirit.
In a moonlit garden Namarah and Adina confess their love as a dove brings a message. He warns of duty and death while she seeks strength, kneeling at the threshold of danger and promised eternity. The scene blends sacred duty with personal longing.
Namarah and Adina pledge prayers for deliverance and face a lovers' vow as a dove messenger flutters above. The scene unfolds in a moonlit garden where their bond strengthens, doves signal constancy, and they cling to each other amid quiet night and looming separation.
At dawn Na marah and her attendant maids depart Mizpeh in sackcloth and ashes as townsfolk mourn the vow Jephthah vowed. Na marah remains calm though her companions weep, whispering to herself that deliverance will come. They climb toward the mountains, sending a messenger dove skyward as a symbolic act.
An American farmer, drawn to Plato after a doctor lends him a volume, reads the work in a week and finds the philosopher expressing ideas akin to his own. He returns the book and declares it fast reading.
In Cleveland a street incident reveals the moral argument against sensational athletics in youth culture. Two dirty boys deface billboards by turning actresses into bearded ladies and giving Dewey a black eye, but spare Jeffries the boxing champion’s image, showing cautious reverence for a famed athlete.
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