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B, F. BOHWEIER,
THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and ProprWtor
YOL. XLVU.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 12. 1893
NO. 17.
COMFORTING EASTtR BELLS.
T HELEN 2VEHT301 SMITE.
Ivft is the contort that the chimes
An" throbbing dn upon the ear.
Id pu'sing brat ul wordless rhvmes
I ili-aim death. Human breath,
Jov ami palu. Nautili Is vain.
For Christ is rlseul Heaven u near I
If sorrows conie, they alo go;
If Jeivs must fly. they reappear.
Mill j.U.i.i.ine bells swing to and fro
I.Ue aud death. Hum m breath.
Joy and pain. Naught is Talu.
For Christ is ris.ii ! Ueaveu Is near!
Then ring for ny. ye Eister bells.
That l ure Divine has conquered fear!
Iimiiortal hope your rhythm tell.
Life and Ue.itii, Human breath,
and i .iln. Naught is vain.
For I'brUi Is risen ! 11. aven is near!
Bazar.
AN EASTER WEDDING.
BY MARGARET SPENCER.
VTe wero boarding. Everybody
hoarded in Washington in those day,I
think, except the President, the Cabi
net and the foreign ministers. Our
landlady win u nestle, quiet woman,
from the West, without the marked
characttristcs of the North or
South. See nans widow, and with the
very tfliciout help of her two daugh
ters, (-he made in all happy and com
fortable, nnd that for a Washington
jOMrdiu-house in the sixties, was
miirked praise.
V e were a large family. We had all
types of v. inter boarders. Senators
ana niemuers wiiu lamilies occupying
"the fr-t llui.rt;" senators and mem
bers without families, in the regubition
"larfre front chambers," and so on, to
the voting clerk in the ten foot hall
room. We had diamonds and "soci
ety;" we had plain hur-tworiiing peo
ple, and people ho came to enjoy the
winter roses and jasmines of our beau
tiful capiti.1.
Next Sunday would be E ister. Al
ready our cliil.lren had packed away
in dainty beds of cotton, dozens cf
ej.'g8 all tcarlet, and blue and p old, for
Easter Monday and the eg rolliug on
the Prondent's grounds. But we were
to bava u wediling on Ea-ter Sunday!
A weddiuij from our own family!
"Little Lmilv," we called her, the
youngest daughter of onr landlady,
had been fi r three jears engaged
to Major Davis, of a Western regi
ment, but until this winter he had been
far from the capital, and in active and
dangerous service. In .lannary his
rettimeut us ordered to Fairfax Court t
House, ouly a short nistance from
Washington, anil, in all probability
their Gciieia! thoneht, would remain
until Jue. Easier t-uuday was to be
the wediling day. Emily was t ny.fair,
and had "eyes of the sky." Her hair
was gold like our little children's an I
bhe filled our Louse with gladness aud
tunhhine.
All. worldly prudence seemed to melt
an ay in our love for her; and we has
tened the marriage simply because
well because of that incomprehensible
something, which shadowed the blue
eyes sometimes, and gave to little
Emily, an added patience and gentle
ness, as she went about her work.
She had waited long and cheerfully,
had borne burdens, and crowded small
economies and s If-deniais into years
of girlish life; had followed in her
heart her brave lover through peril
and death, marches and untold hnrd
ships, and given to us only sunshine
and service. .-he never posed as a I ero
ine, but siniply looked duty in the face
and loved t e Muster.
Saturday our house was transformed
into a beautiful bower of stars,
wreaths, crosses and crowns in all
btages of construction. Senator Wood
had tent down from the Congressional
garden, boxes of lilies and roses; the
"members had ordered palms nnd
fernB, while Tom, Joe. and tue younger
members of the household contributed
violets, and wreaths of green.
Nothing conld be too lovely for our
little maid, fcniily. The ceremony was
to be just at tue close of tne evening
service in the church near by. Our
palms and lilies had been carried over
the great white cross of azaleas and
lilies of the val ey, air. ady hung on the
gray church wa!l pint behind the pnl
pit. .Nothing remained to be done but
bang the solt green pine over the pur-
lor windows, ami arrange our flowers
for Easter morniLT in our rooms.
"A telegram lor Mjor Davis." After
a little questioning, he road it aloud
"We march South at nine on Sunday
morning. Heport for duty at Fairfax
Court Hous."
We looked at one another; the Major
put the little slip of paper in his
Docket, turned to J- milv and said in a
queer, choking way, "Come, we will
talk it over. Oi e great wave of color
swept over her face, and then went
back, till her lips looked white and
cold.
After they were gone we all talked
at oncel
"They ought to bo married, any
how," sai.l Tom and all the girls.
"They must be married on Easter mid
day. Look at all onr flowers, and'"
"Yes," added the old Senator, "bad
luok to postpone a wt ddiug."
The Major went to the telegraph
office, and little E.mily sa' pale and
cold in her room, alone. She wanted
to think. She had received a bio.
The beautiful Easter day. It was to
morrow, and the Sabbath day. All the
past week she had been sinking 6oftly
to herself the littic English carol:
"Bright Easter skies: futr Faster skiesl
Our I.o-d I risen, we too f-h til rtee.
Green Eater fiel lsl lair Easier Melds)
I'luek lillos rare an.i lopes sweet,
And threw the pain of Jehus' feet."
It had looked so full of joy, and she
had been so glad.
We sat abont in idle groups. The
:lock on the mantel struck eleven. The
members came in, after an evening ses
sion of Congress. "Just looked in to
lee if everything was ready."
Sit down, boy,' the Senator said
'The Speaker will soon call the House
to order. Ah! here comes the bride;
3on'. dare say no, Emily,
"But, father." sai.l Dolly, "it isn't
Fraily. Oh dear I I'm just going to
throw my Easter bonnet into the fire!
No wedding, and all onr waste of time
ind money I"
"Holly," drily remarked her smiling
'ather, "rather than sacrifice that bon
aet, suppose yon drop it into the mis
iionary box to-morrow."
"What sort of a service to-morrow!"
iighcd Tom. "It will take us all d; v
:o comfort Emily!"
o it won t, Tom! and a sweet,
le
r voice said, "lou are all invited to
dp preseti t at the marriage of -of "
Miouts and cheers tilled the house.
J hat's good! Hurrah for the Major!
ow that is sensible!"
The Senator forgot circumspection;
e j list lifted little Emil. off the carpet
C j anJ kksed ner three times!
and that was the result of the "talk,"
;HU, -Tnoiner,- the "Major," and
uiny. me goo a pastor had agreed,
and a "sunrise service" in the ohurob
aorois the way. onr wnrlriinw.
At daylight we were dressed in onr
oun iay Dest. Little Emily stood io
the parlor, looking fair and sweet in
uer pure wmte gown. Lilies of the
valley fattened her veil, and Easter
uueswuc their long stems, drooped
irom her hands. She joined her lover
at the door, and their carriage drove
wujr wj mo cuaren.
Somehow the story was out and
friends were already there. The or
ganist was nlavinc Th. ...
broke the stillness of the beautiful Sab
bath morning. The church bells for
eariy service In many churches had be
gun to drop their music, here and
there, over the city. Little sparrows
twittered in the trees and in the old
ivy as it clnng to the walls of the
church. We thought as we walked
along in the morning light, of the
lonely woman, who. long years before
in Jerusalem sought the sepulchre to
see where they had laid Him.
The sacred emblems of this glorioni
Eater day hang on the walls. Th
white lilies stood in a large bowl on th
table, and we whispered, "It is like thr
blind poet's verses: .
lin. n. v gjn en full of lllletl
White as Prace and very tallt
In your mitst my heart so still Is.
it could hear Hie le ist leaf fall.'"
The flowers filled the air with frag
rance, sweet as the alabaster box ol
precious ointment which was poured
on the Savior's feet. The little wed
ding party walked down the aisle, while
the organ played,
and the sun rose
and the birds sang,
np from the eastern
skv.
The Major looked, somehow, a
though the story of years, the secret ol
pain and separation, the terrors of
buttle and death must be told in thit
one grand Easter song: "The Lord i.
risen to-day 1" and into His hands we
commit our love, onr liven! He looked
into the eyes of the minister and re
sponded to the service like one in a
dream. L ttle Emily rested the bunch
of lilies across their clasped hands, and
her golden hair grew radient as the
sunrise fell across her head; she looked
upward toward the white cross of flow
ers aud the purple violets before her,
aud smiled like one of the Marys whr
had seen her riven Lord.
As they walked up the aisle, we fol
lowed, with our impromptu choir.
The sun touched all our lilies with
glory, and we went out of Qod's house,
"fill. d with peace."
An hour we spent at breakfast witl
attempts at joytulness. The horses
came tramping to the door. The or
derly, with bat in hand, awaited his
officer's movements. We said good
bye, and God go with you, and at the
last our little Emily stood in the door
way, with her good-byes. No tears.no
sigtis she sent her soldier off to battle
maybe to death, with such a smile as
makes men strong! which steadies the
arm, and puts courage in the soul! The
Major turned his faoe backward so long
as he could see the little figure in the
doorway.
A shadow fell over our Easter Sun
day. We attempted to be heroio! We
chose exhilarating topics. Alas, they
tell lifeless. The Senator said bravely,
"Emily, child, you are a preoious
woman!" After which rather foolish
speech be mumbled something, took
his hat and walked up the street. Our
boarding-house was quite still that
Sunday.
Aud this was in April. Major Davi
and his command went Southward
fihtiu' all the av. Through all the
summer's heat, Emily staid at home
watehiug reports of the battles. The
Mnjur was wounded, and for three
months lay in a hospital in Memphis,
lean. His wife went to him, and
nursed him back to health.
In December, just as we gathered in
the old place for another winter, she
returned to ns radiant with joy; the
.Major was well, and able to join bis
regiment. Another year she waited
for him, and the war was over.
He came home a Colonel, and I won
der how many of the good people who
are often so beantifnlly entertained by
the fair-faced little lady tie Colonel's
wife ever knew that to her "the great
est thing in the world" was love; how
it was crowned and glorified by self
sacrifice and pain, oue Easter Sunday
long ago! and how the bells rang, and
the sunrise came into their he.irts, and
th house of Ood blossomed with
Easter lilies, and she sent her bnsband
into the face of death, with the gladdest
of all songs on earth!
"Christ, our Lord, is risen to-day."
Union Signal.
THE EMPIRE HAT.
Ner-Stri Hut and Old-Styl. Streamer
M:tke a Pleasing Combination.
A new stylo of hat with an old
style of streamer has come Into lash
ion, and it must be conceded that the
T IS EMPIRE RAT.
velvet streamer and Empire hat har
monize. The Empire hat, shown in
our illustration, is made of yellow
Etruscan straw, with the crown and
edge of black chip. The inside of
the flaring brim Is covered with black
straw lace, which shows a suggestion
of yellow beneath. The edge of this
brim is finished w ith yellow Etruscan
straw in a lancy pattern. Shaded
roses in ombre tints nestle against
the brim and rest their petals on the
hair. Toward the front la a large
Alsatian bow of many loops, com
posed of wide ombre ribbon, which
reveals blended shades of old rose,
black, cream and dull blue.
Above the loops of ribbon Is a wavy
coronet of black ostrich tips. The
black velvet streamer starts from be
neath the petals of a rose at the left
side. It hangs gracefully and Is
caught on the dresa with another
roae. . --
Lot flayer loses by being tested.
COOKINO SCHOOL AT THE FA IK.
MISS XTTTjIETTE CORSON WIA CONDUCT
IT WHAT BHB HAS AOCOMPLISHBD.
The Empire State enjoys the dis
tinction of having originated and car
ried to the point of success three im
portant branches of the eiueation of
women, viz: training schools for nurs
es, the kitchen garden, which is
household aeienoe applied to the kin
dergarten system, and the organization
of cooking schools and diet kitchens
npon a scientific basis.
Last Jnne Mrs. Potter Palmer wrote
m the few Tork State Board of Wo
men Managers of tne World's Colum
bian Exposition in regard to the ex
hibit whioh would be made at the
World's Fair by the Committee on
L teratnre and Education, particu
larly urging the importance of making
an adequate exhibit of the progress
and interest of cooking schools and
training schools for nnrses. The fol
lowing extract from her letter shows
her interest in the subject:
"Of the two, 1 should much rather
have a cooking school than an exhibit
f trained nnrses from New York, as
that will be shown from many States
nd countries probably, but no one so
far has undertaken that most practical
and useful of all things.-the Cooking
School Exhibit."
Mrs. J. S. T. St'anaban, second vice
president of the lioard, communicated
Mrs. Palmer's re quest to Miss Corson,
and after dne consultation, the Ex
ecutive Comniit'ee of JNew York State
in full Board meeting, placed the or
ganization and management of the ex
hibit under Miss Corson's control,
conferring to her full power to act in
all matters appertaining to the exhibit.
'1 his does not merely consist of a series
of lectures on cooking; New York in
tends to show the scope and practical
nseftilnness of the work, which was
originated by Miss Corson. Therefore
the exhibit in addition to lectures on
cookery.
New York State intends to show the
ji-ope and practical nsefnlness of this
work, which was originated by Miss
Corson. Therefore the exhibit, in ad
dition to lectures in cookery, includes
the practical treatment of general food
supplies and sanitary and dietetie
specialties for invalids and children. It
is also open to the exhibition of any
article or substance used by house
keepers or suitable for their nse, and
as household utensils and fittings,
labor saving devices, publications on
honsebold ecienoes aud domestic econ
omy, household sanitation and sanitary
dietetics: in short the exhibit will ocv. r
th t entire field of Miss Corson's work in
.ii t , ' i i ,
?-'L"e!' APpe-rta'ni.n.g """f.!0 I1
bor and the care of the family in
health and sickness, as well as the
practical training of women and men
in all the branches of domestic and
sanitary knowledge. New York at first
applied for space for the exhibit in the
Liberal Arts Building, but abandoned
this application at the express desire of
Mrs. Potter Palmer to have the exhibit
placed in the Women's Building.
This exhibit whatever it is it w ill be a
matter of pride to New York and satis
faction to the entire country, because
Miss Corson's work is anything but
local. She has lectured and titnght in
more than fifty of onr larger cities, not
con lining her instructions to cooking
alone, bnt treating with practical skill
aud common-sense judgment all those
problems that confront the wife and
mother in her daily life.
In 1879 Mr. J. Ormund Wilson, the
Superintendent of the public sohools
at Washington, D. C, ai ranged for
the attendance of the pupils of the
Washington Normal Sohool at the les
sons on cooking given by Miss Corson
in that city. When the question was
first mooted of adding instruction in
cooking to the subjects pursued in the
public schools in 187 J, the Protestant
Board of School Commissioners of
Montreal, Canada, called Miss Corson
to make the practical demontratious
whioh shonld decide the feasibility and
usefulness of this addition to the work
of the pnblie schools.
In 1883 a special committee from
Oakland, CaL, arranged some demon
stration lessons in cookery in the
chemistry room of the Oakland High
School, andchese workers lroni among
the pupils who had no experience in
domestic work. Miss f'orson directed
the preparation of a numler of funda
mental dishes of cookery by the pupils,
the object being the practical test of
tue usefulness of the insruction and the
feasibility of combinding it with their
school work.
The result of these experimental les
sons was reported favorably by the
chairman of tue committee, Mr. J. II.
Jordan, by the principal of the hih
sohool, the city school superintendent
and a majority of the Board of Educa
tion. The result was a series of les
sons subsequently given successfully
by a teacher trained by Miss Corson.
In 1884, while Miss Cordon was de
livering a course of instructions at
Baltimore, Md., a committee of the
Board -f Education attended in order
to decide npon the possibility of intro
ducing cooking into the Baltimore sys
tem of public instruction. In 1886 the
Publio Education Association, a com
mittee from the Normal School and
several members of the Bord of Educa
tion, of Philadelphia, invited Miss Cor
son to make a practical cooking dem
onstration in the chemistry room of
the Normal SchooL Thertsultof sev
eral lessons which were given before
the committees and other representa
tives of Philadelphia educational in
terests, was the introduction of cook
ery as one of the departments of public
instruction.
Miss Corson is in New York, busily
engaged in preparing for her extensive
work at tha Exposition. With all she
has thus far accomplished she is not
content, bnt with untiring zeal keeps
on in the chosen work of her life time.
Railroad on Ice.
Middle-aged Marylandcrs recall th.
fact that the Philadelphia, Wilming
ton and Baltimore Railroad crossed
the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace
on the ice In February, 1852. In
those days the river was not bridged
at that point, and the old steamboat
Maryland carried the trains across on
her deck. The river froze very thick
In February, 1852, aud tracks were
laid upon the ice, upon which trains
croased for several davs.
Poor Thing!
A pet doe, It Is said, recently died
it Elkton, Ky., from licking his mis
'ress' cheek. She painted, and the
log died of poison.
1. That Alir
Paris actresses wear paper lace.
Hot milk Is a simple means of com
fort, and is most reviving to on who
i fatigued by over-exertion.
A DEL8ARTEAN PLEA.
Dear Mr. CtlHrta,
Since you've taught us that art
I replace Mother Nature's injunctions.
Ana twm u. enew
, What we really should do
With onr various phy ileal functions.
We beg yoa will add
' To the Icons we've had
stoat walking, and bretlnt(, and poeinc
Othor hints that will make
All our dolnes pwtake
Of (race more perfection disclosing.
We'd be taught. U yon please.
How to gracefully sneeze.
Bow to snore in symmetrical manner
How to get out of bed,
Bow to drop when we tread
On the cuticle of a banana;
How to smell, how to wink.
How to chew, how to drink.
How snbllmely to .hake an a.h-pifter;
How to step on a tack.
How to get in a hack
Bow to toy wttb a heated stove-lifter)
Hew to hiccough with ease.
How to irroan. how to wheeze.
Bow to spank a lunht-br.wlini! r.hulon
In abort, how to mend
The ml.takes that our friend,
Puma Nature, mixed in our creation.
-Koston Courier.
NIAGARA IN WINTER
BT HELEN EVEBTSON SMITH.
No pei son has ever succeeded in so
describing the Falls of Niagara that
one who has never seen them ean form
an adequate idea of either their beanty,
their force or their immensity. No
pictures, whether painted by the hand
of man, or that magic artist, the Sun,
convey any conception oi Niagara s "Contented ijo you really thin K so?
size and grandeur. Well, 1 want to be, I try to be, and
Perhaps one reason for this is tha. also try to extract the best out of my
the thnnder of the waters is lost to ns. surroundings. 1 liko to have some
Were Niagara silent, perhaps pictures thing pretty to look at from the win-
or words might bring it before ns Bat
a silent Niagara would be a pitifnl
traveety of itself. Like an organ with
broken pipes, its soul would have fled.
The migLty.nDendini haste, the height
and exteut of the vast body of water,
would still be impressive: but without
the roar of its thnnder.and the tremble
of the smitten earth beneath onr feet,
Niagara would have loe t more than
halt its power to charm, exalt nd sol
emnize the beholder.
If at any time it is possible for pic
tures to convey a fraction of the
grandeur of this world-wonder, it must
be in a winter like the past, when the
silent chains of frost seem to have, in a
measure, fettered its colossal might.
During the past two months man)
thousands of visitors have songht Msg
ara to venture out upon the celebrated
Ice Bridge, formed across the river be-
low the Fails by the gorging there of
the immense masses of ice brought down
by the river and over, the Falls from
Lake Erie. Upon this Ice Bridge
jough and broken, but firm fascinated
i waicuers stand lor nonrs, unconscious
of cold or bodily discomfort, gazing at
the steady down pour of millions npon
millions of tons of water, never any
more, never any less; lighted by the
sun into a thonsand brilliant tints of
bepe and joy; or shadowed by
clouds into a mass of sullen, gigantio
discontent; the restless, roaring dis-
content of Nature with the bondage ' ellow light of the sunset sky, made a
nuder which she has groaned and : picture I can never, and wish never to
travailed for uncounted ages before forget.
puny mankind came to tease and vex j "Then in the spring I came over to
her with their petty schemes and frivc Oakland to live. I had a nice little
lous nothingness. cottage, a small garden filled witn roses
Tradition tells us of one who wit j and carnations, daisies and pinks, vio
known as the "Hermit of the Falls." I leta.mignonette and other sweet things.
He came here as any ODe of ns might
come a chance visitor to tarry awhile
and then go on his way. But the spell
of the place fed npon him. He could
not leave it. All life, with its endless
charm of mystery, henceforth, for him,
lay here and here only. Building his
lonely but on one of the smsll islands
in the river, he watched the Falls noon
and night, summer and winter, for
years, until at last the water he loved
so well took compassion on him and
united him with its-elf.
It is said that dnrinar his residence
here, there was one winter of terrible,
frozen beanty, when the Hermit
seemed exalted above his usual condi
tion of awe-stricken melancholy, and
became as one inspired with a solemn
delight. Whether by daylight or moon
light, he seemed nnable to remain long
away from the gorgeous palace erected
by the frozen spray. The great sus
pension bridge had not then been
built, so he could not have seen the
view whioh is here presented to onr
readers, of the bridge entrance trans
formed by the frozen spray; but, if
anything, the sight he enjoyed of ranks
of stately evergreens, sentineling the
banks under their glittering frost
armor, must have been even more be
wilderincrly beautiful than this.
Everyone who has lived in the corn,
try and oh! what a loss it is not to
have passed there at least one's early
years! will remember the falls of wet
snow that occasionally come in
very still and comparatively moderate
spring weather; when Dot merely
the house-tops, fences and ."evergre'
trees, but every tiny twig of every tree
and bush, every wandering vine, even
every festhered stalk of last year's
golden rod, left belated in the corner
of the snake fence, or spear of bearded
grass, or dried tuft of moss npon tha
low stone wall, becomes a mould and
resting place irom the oold whiteness;
making an enchanted realm of fanciful
creation pure and wonderful! And
then that other marvel of the early sprin g
an ice storm when the gentle rain
freezes as it falls and clings to every
thing it touches; and when the rain
ceases and the snn comes forth, behold!
we are in a palace of jewels, flashing all
aronnd ns an unearthly splendor.
The frozen spray of Niagara combines
these effects. Freezing as it rises, the
spray takes all the shapes of the deli
cate frost crystals we see sometimes
on frost-decorated window-panes" and
Mien piles up in masses npon every ob- j
ject within its rea-h; as light as sea- ,
foam, yet as firm as rock; as pnre as
snow, yet flashing like the gates of the
New Jerusalem.
If N iagara is at all seasons a wonder
of the world, in a winter like the past,
it becomes a marvel,
itself.
of heaven
Nevada has many rivers, bnt only the Home Magazine. The little inci
two, the Colorado and the Owyhee, find dent of Mr. Lincoln and his "generous
their way to the lea. All the rest : Tad" adds a pathetic touch of tender
either sink in the sands and are lost, or I beauty:
flow into tome lake which has no ont- I Everybody may have heard of Easter
Jet, being itself a sink for river water. Monday in the White House grounds.
This peculiarity of the Nevada geogra- i but not every one has seen with their
phy leads many scientists to believe j very own eyes, the wonderful picture,
that there mnst be many water basins j "Alice in Wonderland" wonld be snr
in southern Nevada and Arizona, where prised. It is a sight to make one love
artesian wells wonld yield an abundant ; and bless the great Artist who paints,
snpply of good water. The Nevada with no visible hand, the ekies and
rains and snows all find a subterranean ' crass, and drives ns the children for
outlet. This mnst be to the South,
and if it can be discovered and tapped
the srnds of Arizona may yet blossom
as the rose.
THK.Bed.8eai.for the most
blue. It gets its name from the fact
that portions of it are covered by min
nte animalcnlra, whioh dye the surface
of the water red where they float,
The magie lantern was the invention
of Roger Bacon in 1260.
MY JPBJEND'S WLNDOW.
by iMOGEira a. johnsow.
1 never was more impressed with
anything than the contentment shown
by little Miss Templeton the other day,
as I sat in her eozy sitting-room.
She has always been poor, and with
a limited income, has an artistic soul
that longs for beautiful things, but
must content Itself with homely ones,
1 sat sipping my tea, and gazing out
across the very dull little street where
my friend lives. A row of cottages, all
alike, Aid painted a dreary grey, was
all that conld be seen from the far out
windows.
"Turn aronnd and look out the back
ay." said my friend, "1 like to look
out there best. When I first came here
to live, I thought I never had been
where the outlook was quite so de
pressing, with positively nothing to be
seen out of the windows in front, ex
cept that row of grey houses; and at
the back, only those gloomy cypress
trees in that old deserted homestead.
Bat after a time was able to pick ont
bits of beauty, even in those dark, old
trees. See how the light on the outer
limbs contrast with the dark shadow,
. that lurk in the centre. Notice the
clear outline of the sphere-like top,
'against the deep blue of the sky, and
'there at that broken limb sending a
shoot straight np, just the counter,
part of a young cypress. I am told
that a broken limb often does that."
dows, bnt vou eee, my dear, being
poor, 1 can t navo things as I would
like, but must be content with things
is they are.
"Some years ago, when I first came
to California, I lived in San Francisco.
I had some basement rooms level with
the street, and it did seem very; dis
mal, and I was almost hopeless for a
time, SDd so lonely! in a strange city,
tnd in those dingy rooms.
! "Dnt ont of the front window, be
tween the fl ghts of steps tbt led to
the upper flats, I could see the deep,
dark green of the row of cypress that
surrounded one of the city parks, and
sbove, -the streaming tops of some gum
trees. This wall of greenery was a
j great comfort to me.
At the close of a clear day the scene
' was really beautiful. Out to the west.
beyond the park, the steeples of a little
sld-fashioned church showed clear-cut
gainst the evening glory; the strong
( tradewind bent the tips of the cypress
all one wav. and as a erust shook the
' trees, myriads of blackbirds flew out,
hovered, circled about, and then set-
Ued back amon the swayina branches.
to swarm again at the rush of Hie next
swift breeze.
j "The tree-tops swaying, leaning,
bending in the crisp salt wind; the flock
of flitting birds, and the half dozen
tiny steeples, with as many col Jen
j ;-rosses,all silhouetted against the warm.
j all shut in by a cypress hedge. What
a factor of California gardening , the
."ypressis!
I "There were vacant lots on either
I side of my home, smelliDg of the sweet,
! dry herbage in summer and gemmed
with tiny lilac stars wheD the rains of
'. winter 'set the alfllleri to blooming,
j There was a vacant square across the
I way, and in its one oak a yellow-vested
lark sang all the year; on hot, hazv
mornings and after winter rains. And
away to the north and west 1 could see
the foothills. I enjoyed living there
very much. I stayed there for three
years, and I presume I should have
been there yet, if the man who owned
the place had not wanted to live there
Kimsolf.
"When I was obliged to leave that
place, I conld find no house within my
means that was anything like what I
wanted.and finally moved into a dreary
little cottage, with nothing to see in
front, but a big, vacant tract, bounded
by a row of blue gum trees. In the
backyard was a large weeping willow,
and I did like to see the swing and
sweep of the long, green, lithesome
brandies. I rather like gum trees an 1
their pungent odor, although some
people consider them coarse dear old
exiled giants that they arel I like to
watch their scimetar-like leaves stream
ont on the breeze like pennons. I
often find myself going off on long, im
aginary journeys into Australia jour
neys that I shonld never undertake
were it not for the gum trees,and there
are several showing over the tops of
those cypresses out back of here, you
see. How I have chattered! tase an
other cup of tea, my dear?"
After a little, I went home thinking
how true it is that each one of ns
makes or unmakes his own happiness.
Ont of a few of the dullest and gloom
iest of trees my friend drew happiness
and inspiration.
EGO
KOLLING ON
MONDAY.
EASTER
Onr country is not yet old enough
to have very many customs peculiar to
j itself, so it is possible the egg rolling
I of Easter Monday which is now prac
j ticod every year in Washington City
and in some of the older towns of
Maryland and Delaware, may have
originally come from old England
along with the first settlers. But we
have never seen a mention of the ob-
servanoe elsewhere, so we will hope
that this curious custom is all onr
i own.
As probably few persons, not living
in the places above referred to, are
' familiar with the practice, we quote
;rom a charming account ol it by
Mariraret Spencer, which appeared in
life, and color, and inspiration.
I Just south of the President's house
; the grounds are velvety knolls, with
i little valleys between the small hills.
iteSi
and chestnuts overshadow the pleasant
seats, and on the top of the highest
knoll. In their scarlet uniforms, onr
Marine Band plays twice a week. The i
holiday costumes of the people walking I
through the grounds are a perpetual J
pleasure, clothed in all the colors of
the rainbow, rich masses of shining
raiment, against the line of sky and
trees; while away to the south rises tha
great monument of white, overlooking
the historic river.
Easter Monday following Snnday at
the close of Lent, the world of Wash
ington, in good weather, tnrong to the
President's grounds. The trees, the
air, the sunshine, take on the glory of
the children's holiday. Fashionable,
"semi-fashionable," (as Elizabeth Stu
art Phelps calls some one), and the
poor actually poverty-stricken little
ones, all, in an artistic senae, are as
one. Thousands of children with bas
kets, boxes, dishes, tin buckets and
paier bags, filled with scarlet, bine,
yellow and violet-dyed eggs, spend the
the day rolling down the beautiful
green hill sides, their pretty balls like
a tide of splendor in the sun.
Fathers and mothers come to watch
them, Gayly-turbaced "mammies,"
with their pretty carriage loads of
prettier freight, under handsome robes
and richest wraps, a motly group of
white and black, pale yellow and
bronze, "Jew and Greek," form an
endless procession.
On the tip-top of the highest hill,
they run aud scramble for the "first
start." Very tenderly one or more of
the precious eggs are laid out of their
beds of wool or cot'on, their nests of
purple or fine linen, or the commoner
ones of excelsior or paper. In trne
American, democratic style, down they
go, over the velvet grass of the people's
iawn.
Swift, swifter, till with screams and
shouts from their owners, they pro
claim the race finished. iVbf through
influence nor political favor, nor be
cause of papa's great wealth, but from
ftirely natural, honorable motives!
)o wn they go, plump into the little
valley, or the smooth road, or with a
pitiful leap into the cobble-stone
gutter. But this is not the time nor
the place tor jealousies, anger, nor en
vyiugs; there are plenty more eggs in
the basket! Jane and Joe, Mary and
Sue, all brightness, strength and pur
pose, fun and good humor, climb the
small hill for another roll, undaunted.
They have a funny game, too, called
"picking eggs." I've watched them
for hours, laughing till i cried. They
"dare" one another (I mean the eggs
"dare.") Harry sends down a beauty,
all gold in the sun. Mary ventures
a pale violet; they start at the same
time from opposite directions; if the
gold ie broken by the violet, Harry has
both, and rice versa. Sometimes they
lose a dozen, or win as many.
They spend the day playing games
and resting under the trees nntd the
afternoon snn gets low in the west.
Poor little dilapidated, tired men and
women, with battered, empty baskets.
Scraps of eggshells on their very best
coats and gowns, the sweet red bps of
the tiniest a little yellow, as if the
eggs were good for lunch; lost pina
and flying collars, bnt blissful faces,
laughter, the sweetest in all the world,
and enr babies, small and great, turn
homeward.
Abraham Lincoln and "little Tad"
lived in the White House when I first
went to the egg rolling. It was a
privilege to see and know them to
gether, the great, sad-eyed man and
his idolized, merry little son. One
Easter Monday, Tad was unusually
excited. He rushed in and out the
dining-room at breakfast time, np and
down the stairs to the big kitchen,
until his mother exclaimed: "Tad,
what are you doing? Why don't yon
finish your breakfast and let your
father alone a minute?"
Bare-headed, breathless and eager,
he ran in for the last time, shouting:
"See, father! See these beau-tiful eggs
cook has dyed for mel Ob, bnt they
are beauties!" 'In a large, flat, willow
basket, on the whitest cotton, lay the
most gorgeous treasures. Mr. Lincoln
took one of the shining things in his
big, brown hand, and said, with a
smile: "My son, have you left any for
rations? Uncle Sam's chickens will
have to be spry this week, I'm afraid. "
"But, father, here's only two dozen I
one for me and one for Tommy. Yen
know the lame boy; he's spending the
day with me, and Isaao has carried ont
yonr big arm-chair for him to sit in
tinder the trees, and you know he can
roll his eggs just as well as any boy."
Tad's father hod a wonderful smile.
All the world talks about it He laid
his hand always, when talking, on the
head of his 'small boy, with a mute,
odd caress in his long fingers, and
life of love in his smile of approval.
"Oh, Lawd, dar he cum! dar is
Mass'r Linkum! May de good Lawd
cotch my bref clar away befo I done
stop tellin of his goodness to dese yeer
people," shonted nncle Dick, who,
with crowds of "bredderin" had
already gathered by the little railing
that separated the steps from the pub
lio grounds. They came to see the
pretty children roll eggs, and to catch
glimpses of ".Mass'r Liuknm," who fol
lowed Tad for a moment down the
walk "to speak to Tommy and see the
start." Tad tugged at his father's
a'seve nntil the big chair was reached,
and blue-eyed, shining-eyed, happy
Tom had received a gentle good-morn-irg,
and a cordial hand-shake, "from
father."
Tommy's father was killed in battle
one year before. He came from Illinois,
and tne poor young wife with this lit
tle lame boy, called to see Mr. Linooln;
she was given a position in the Treas
ury Department, and Tad, bright, gen
erous Tad, became his best friend and
comrade.
According to promise, Mr. Lincoln
leaned from time to time out of his up
per window, bowing to the crowds of
upturned faces, responding to Tad's
shouts and cheers, the waving of Tom
my's chrntch in the air, and the dart
ing, flashing of the gold and scarlet
balls on the mossy hills.
The two boys lunched together in
stale. Isaao laid a small table on the
south piazza, and carried Tommy np
the stone stops, and, as the snn was
shining a dear benediction over the
happy children, the sweet, warm air
was growing chill with the setting snn
across the strong, bright colors of the
sky. Tad shouted np the stairway:
"Oh, father! did you ever see such a
jolly Easter Monday? Bnch loads of
fnn, and Tommy jnst laughed every
minute! and his eggs picked all of
mine Out three 1"
How long ago and both little com
rades are "risen with Christ" in
Heaven. Both little hearts went home
one Easter month, and their fathers
welcomed them. Easter lilies, tall and
fair, have blossomed for them these
many years on earth; bnt our heavenly
lilies bloom where they have no need
of the sur, for "God is there."
Bktck Van Clove and his wife
nave bad trouble. Gryce Already!
What was the cause? Brvce She,
found the picture of another woman
la bis watch! Gryce Of course!
There's always a woman In the case.
A RESURRECTION POEM.
BT ELIZABETH BLLL.RD.
ASTIR EVE.
O world Ivtnz black In the shadow
Of the Cross where our Lord was slain.
O Syrian land, dark and sinful I
What morrow can brine tliee again
Peace and light.
Or blooming of flowers.
Or song, of birds In their bowers
To that silent garden's cloom,
Where, through the awful night,
With its slow-moving hour..
Thy promised King lies dead?
By thee HI. life-blood rhedl
Peadt In the rock-hewn tombf
The Me.slah, promised long,
Whose Kingdom was surely to be
Of joy and peace, said the song.
His blood on thy cuilty head!
His dear blood shed for rhee!
Oeadt In the rock sealed tomb.
Dead I dead I dead!
In the hopeless, rock-sealed tomb I
Miserere, miserere.
Miserere. Domlne!
II.
EASTER MOKK.
What new dawn lights to rubies the rosesf
What new song breaks the hush of the hours.
When alone, before Mary's coming.
Christ walks with the birds and the flowersT
Alone In I be blessed gardeu.
With His happv. sinless tilings,
.waiting the f.iithful one's co ning,
Walks the uroml'.ed King of Kingsl
Pardon and peace In the garden.
Now radiantly abloom ;
Life over Death victorious!
Love lighting all the gloom!
The dawning on earth of the Kingdom.
That lu Joy and peace shall be;
The Lord of Life has risen I
Where. O grave, now thy victory?
The living Lord has arisen.
And angels guard the tomb.
Risen! risen 1 risen!
The Flower of the Centuries in bloom I
Benedlclte, benediclte.
Omnia opera Domini!
III.
EA9TEB DAT.
What new joy thrills thro' griefs of the cen
turies Yet unborn, and gilds deathways untrod
With the love-light that comforted Mary
When she worshipped her lArd aud her (loi.
railing prone at His leet in the gaiuen.
As she fled Irom the empty tomb.
To seek Him. sorrowing and weeping,
Noting nauuht of the radiant bloom!
Pardon and peace in the garden.
Through the perfect atonement made
Bv our Load, for nil sinning repented:
And "Haill" -Mary!" "lie not alraid!1
hweet greeting through her to the ages.
To each faithful and heartbroken one.
Gives this King long foretold by the sages.
Who relEii now on earth h is begun.
Life over Death victorious!
Boiled forever away I the stone
That would seal us in Death's hopeless prison !
The Lord of Life ha9 arisen
Who died our sins to atone!
The Living l-otd has arisen.
And pleads evermore by the Throne.
Living! living! loving!
Be pleios for us by the 1 hron!
Gloria WW. gloria tlbl.
fllorla tibl, Domine!
Ilariier'i Bazar .
SCIENTIFIC WAIFS
Illuminated walking sticks are
among the latest applications of eleo
tncity. A small incandescent lamp u
concealed in the head of a cane, and
can be ignited by a spring.
The largest barometer yet made has
been put in working order at the St.
Jacques tower in Paris. It is 41 fee
five inches high.
The first elect rio telegraph line was
laid in Switzerland by Lesage, in 1782;
the Morse transmitter was invented in
1837.
The popular idea that water is pnri
fled by freezing has been again dis
proved by recent careful experiments,
which show that the average amount
of impurity retained by the ice is .14.3
per cent, of organic matter, and 21.2
per cent, of inorganic matter. As or
ganic matter is the more objectionable
of the two, the case is worse than was
formerly supposed.
Nickel is a modern metal. It wa.
not In nse nor known of till 1715. It
has now largely taken the place of sil
ver in plated ware, and as an alloy with
steel it is superior to any other metal,
for it is net only non-corrodible itself,
bnt it transfers the same quality to
iteel.
Experiments made by a Hungariai
physician on animals seem to show
that permanganate of potash acts as an
efficient antidote in acute phosphorus
poisoning.
The sparks which in cold weather 3j
from the fingers when a metallic ob
ject is touched are dne to the electric
ity produced by the friction between
the soles of the shoes and the carpet.
The electricity is not formed in the
body at all, and has nothing to do with
the vital processes.
A Pennsylvania Inventor has de
vised a pair of eye glasses with a mir
ror mounted so as to reflect objects,
in the rear of the wearer.
According to Dr. Hans-en, the reo
in flowers is a single pigment soluble
in water and decolorized by alcohol,
bnt capable of being restored by the
addition of acids.
Tie steam printing press was invent
ed by Richard Hoe, 1842.
The circulation of the blod was dis
covered by Harvey in 1617.
The inside of poultry, after beine
drawn, onght always to be rubbed witE
some salt.
Women anil Marriage.
To most women marriage is a havm
of rest where they will be free from
worry and care. But there are two
cares In matrimony where there Is one
In the single life. If the wifeaccepts
these gracefully, she is a stimulus to
her husband; if she complains and
worries, the husband is generally
what his wife makes him, nnd there
Is nothing that so unfits a man for
his business life as a discontented
wife at home. Wives should bear
this in mind. It costs little to le
cheerful, and the gains to be received
are far in excess of the actual outlay.
A steel-like g-ass from the volcanic
slopes of Oran, Algerii, is sld to be
so elastic that it can be used in tend
of springs in the manufacture of furni
ture.
Queen Victoria s said to be thb
jwner of the largest book in existence.
It Is a foot and a half thick ard weighs
sixty-three pounds, and contains the
aadros-'S of congratulation on the oc
casion of her jubilee.
Atlanta, Ga., Is to have a new court
house and city ball under one roof
The cost of the building will bi over
1500,000, and it will be ore of the finest
public edifices in the South.
Robinson Crusot'i island, Juan
Fernandez, is inhabited by about sixty j
persons, who attend to the herds or j
jat' le that graz? there. I
j The violin upon which. It Is claimed, I
the wedding march was played ati
George Washington's marriage. Is in
the possession of a musical society at
Bunbury, Fa.
Lake RonkoDRoms, od Long Island, j
."Jew York, also another small lake In
the Adrlondack region. Increase In I
. volume of waiter for a number of years. '
until they are nearly double their aver-1
I age alxe,and then they gradual!; shrink. I
The cause la not known. i
NEWS IN BRItr'.
More than 100,000,000 people speak
English.
rroressor Herrman has photo
graphed the sound of vowels.
The unexplored ara of Cara Is
one million square miles.
It is said that t he yew tree some
times attains an age of 2S0) years.
A bear weighing 713 pnunds wu
Killed recently neiir Hood's Canal,
Wash.
An Indian girl sti.dent at the Has
kell (Kan.) Inst-it'ite U named .Jenny
One Feather.
Tanning extiact n used to treat
railroad ties to prete.'ve them fioiu de
cay. A coyote was recently killed while
leisurely - walking dovn om of the
prii.cip.d streets of Pooille'o i, Oregon.
In the Twelfth Century a ht o'i w;-s
attached to a too: man's spear to en
able him to drag a kiiKht frcm the
saddle.
Mexicans have been u inga decoj
tlon of black spiders as a ou:e for
typhus fever.
The average w i -ht of thi circu'a
cing blood in Uih b sly 's about twenty
eight pounds.
Tanning is done in thii country In
about one quarter of fie time all iwed
in Europe.
Lord Bacon guvo the world so na
excell nt culinary recui't. One of his
papers lve nine inelho .'s of making
minoe pies.
Bacteria jrtow tnot raphlly in thtj
warm, sultry con iitl ius which usually
precede a thunderstorm.
A man may be t! e verv essen e oi
virtue aod yet far fioin happy if he
have the i lieiiniatis:n.
Every uniiiair el unman says she
wouldn't stand it, aud every married
woman does 8'ntrt it.
Whenever the preach' r takes a
square aim at sin, every hyprcilte in
tue church begins to tlode.
An upright judgj needii't be,
ashamed of his sentences eveu in the
prefe..ce of the ttriOit graiunLtrtaiH.
The fir-t ma:i to c.iu to-iiatoe? wai
th-j late Harrison W. Cooj e aud they
were sold at ."i0 cents ei can. Th s
was lu 1818.
It is said to be f os .ib'e to cut down
a growjn' tree aud make it into paper
ready for the printing pre.ss withlu
twenty-four hoi ri.
In some parts of China a formal in
traduction Is piven n these words.
"This is my friend. Ir he steals any
thing I will be responsible."
cemen during the jvi .ter declarer
that iLeu could see to read a newspaper
through the clear teu-in 'h ice In the
Hudson Biver near Pou2hkeepsie, N.
Y.
Do not think it wasted time to
submit yourself to any lnfl lence which
may bring upon you any coble feel
ing. Act always so that the immediate
motives of thy will m ly become a uni
versal rule for all intelligent beings.
There !s joy in Heaven when a slunei
repents, but nothing said on a million
aire's monument has any effect.
A Maryland woman (ntertalneu
three guesU some time aao, Grangers
to her and to oue another, named Mrs.
Sprinkle, Mrs. Shower, ;nl Mrs
Storm.
The fan is a Chinese invention, and
eras brought to Western Europe by
early Orienlal travelers as oi.e of the
most interesting products of the land
of Cathay.
The custom Is universal in Madriu,
Spain, of closing one of the two outet
doors of the house h n a p.-rsou die.
This door Is kept closed for a novei.a,
or a ieriod f nine days.
What is supposed to be the longest
oeard In existence is attached to the
chin of the French sculptor, Louis Cou
lon of Motitiucon. It measures 7 3 4
feet in length and Is Etiil growing.
A discussion Is in progress as tt.
whether Enzlish or French ss the mjre
economical lauguae to use In convers
ing over the London Paris telephone
line.
In the probate curt of Boston the
other day, in a contested will case, or
of the counsel presented a ty;e-writt' v
hypothetical question 84 pAges long;
and which consumed three hours li.
readiDg.
Among some recently observed
interesting results of application ol
cold, M. Kaoul Piutet has found that at
15'J dearees all chemical reaction is
suppressed.
A Brussels dispatch says a new
pharmaceutical bottle has recently been
Invente i whic'i iiulicatt s the hour at
which the medicine is to be taken. A
Belgium establishment has secured
the sole right to manufacture Uefe
titles.
A considerable freight buslhess i.
being carried on by a.i lech ic railroad
in Marj land oiwrating eighteen Hide?
of tiack in a farming counlry which If
not reached by steam road.". The cart
lsed have a capacity of live ton?.
The le tiling metalluiMis's In t'ds
country and in Europe have for some
time been endeavoring to enlist elec
tricity into their serv'ce.
A mo'st, warm atmo-phere, where,
the changes of te n.wraturu are slight,
Is the most favorat li for prsous .-uttering
from rheuiuat sra. The worst
place Is one In wi.ich the air is iv
driest and the climate the most change
able. The programme of the sanitary ex
hiblt to b held in connection with t ie
Chicago Exhibition b-pies Its purpose
to be to show as ad ipi tta.y as posiibl
the position in which the theory a d
piactice ot hygiene stand at the present
da.
Lizard skins come largely from
Borneo, &s well as Germanv.
it has been shown by Natha-i that
the addition of a fm ill pioportioii of
nitrogenous material to the "must" i f
fruit results iq the formation of more
alcohol than usual.
The duration of the tlectr'c spark
does not exceed the twenty-live thou
sandth part of a second, and a bullet in
flight has been photozraphed by ni ;.:is
of this spaik, a maivelous develoi in -ni
of modern science.
In the search 1'ght which is t e i
experimented whh umn tha World's
J"air grounds the candle power of 'he
arc light alone is only 150,000 candies,
the carbons being twelve it c'lts ;oug
and one and three-sixteenth i' ci e in
diameter.
The fashion of serving the Qsb before
meats began In 15C2.
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