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Show ALAN LOVEY. They say that tho diamond fields of KImberly, Africa, woro found by accident, acci-dent, that ono shining stono wns tho forerunner of tho greatest diamond fields In tlio world. So It happens with men. Occasionally a bright gleam In man Is found and the world takes notice. Such a man wns Alan ovey. Ho was n gleaming treasure In tho general sordldness of tho world; n young man who wns truo ns n friend who wns a loving father nnd husband and a noblo son'. Had ho not been a shining mark, death would not yet hnvo Intervened. Mr. Lovey died at Reno, Nov., Inst Monday morning at 1 o'clock of pneumonia. Tho dispatches say that ho was singing sing-ing up to tho very tlmo tho end enmo. It wns an cpltomo of his life. Ho was a bright young man, yet his genius did not cloud his lovo for his follow man nnd especially for his co-laborers co-laborers In tho journalistic field. His wns n nature that, under tho lnlluenco of congenial friendship, expanded and grow. His cartoons la tlio Herald Her-ald of this city beenmo known nil over this country, and ho wns rapidly forging to th a front In his profession. Ills bumoiposscssed tho keoncss "a- t 'thnfeomos only from a broad mind nnd an oxpanslvo heart, nnd while lio could convoy his point, yet ho novcr offended. In tho death of Alnn Lovey. cartoonist, gentleman nnd loynl friend, tho world loses, his friends loso nnd tho loving wlfo nnd llttlo baby and bin dear old mothor. Ills constnnt thought, will foci more nnd moro ns tlmo passes on tho Threat, aching void ho has loft behind. Tint In going ho hns left a horltngo that no many do ho loaves friends by tho thousands, n wlfo nnd child who will nover forget him, and a gray-haired mothor who may ench day thank God for tlio trcasuro Ho lind glvon her, will hnvo her grief assunged by tho knowledge that thousands thou-sands of voiceless prayers go up with liors to tho homo In tho sky from which will como comfort . nnd nt last poaco, such ns ho found. |