bc 0ianel)be (Dtcanind an& (beJ?ower of tbe Ieeurrcction 38? TKQilliam Crowd! oane Vie boo of Blbanv to the brat Inheritances and instinct of Americana. "You have no leisure class In America," an Englishman sold once to an American girl. 'Yes," she said, "we hare, but w call them tramps." Leisure there ought to bo. Men and women there must be who are froe from the strain and strenuons ness of Incessant occupation, but it ought to be a leisure tor Intellectual cultivation, for philanthropic Interest, for the storing of energ, physical, mental and spiritual, witch shall berefU mankind. "Awake '.hoo thai steapest and arts a from the dead!'' This Is the Erster caK, the Easter err. Hiring even one talent In the nap kin of refined Indolence or self In dulgence or burying tt In the dirt of sensuality and sin, either one make an "unprofitable servant" and lay bp against the second coming of the Lord an account of wasted powers :8tIhe G-SHsras eVT I 1 COUNTRY EDITOR. On the Whole His Lot ll s Hsppy One. Jhl Charles Mnrrnu Harder. acLadauaaaaaacxacLixaaa Euloglos and laudatory paragraphs. Alternating with sneers, ridicule and deprecations, long have been the lot of the country editor. Pictured In the comic papers as an egotistic clown, exalted by the politicians as a mighty "molder of public opinion," occasionally chastised by angry pa trons and sometimes remombered by delighted subscribers, he has put his errors where they could be read of all men and has modestly sought a fair credit for his merits. At times he has rebelled not at '.reatment from his constituency, but and lost opportunities which will j 8t It"nlilng remarks of the city then be beyond recall. e HEN the modorn mind stag vJkf Bers before the story of the resurrection of Jesus i f Christ from the dead It i-rft" fails to realize what Its only actual difficulty is. St. Paul s question, "Why should it be thought a thing Incredible with you that Ood should raise the dead?" still has but one answer namejy, that there is no reason why it should be thought Incredible; because raising the dead, as the Apostle Illustrates It in his Epistle to the Corlnthlahs, Is the most natural and useful thing In the world under certain conditions. "That which men sow Is not quick ened except .it die." Life not only after, but through and by means of death, is the uni versal law and the universal event. Only there must come first the un doing by decay of the bondage with in which the living principle of the seed is held. So long as it Is I mi pr la- First of all, of course, It means that all the dead shall rise and live again. "If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so they also that sleep In Jesus will Qod bring with Him." The corollary to the article In the Creed, "the third day He rose again," Is the article "I be lieve in the resurrection of the body, I look for the resurrection of the dead or from the dead." One does not need, one would not dare, to draw away the hearts and hopes of men from this great and blessed revela tion of Holy Scripture, this strong and positive assertion of the Chris tian faith. But It Is wrong to post pone the meaning of our Lord's res urrection to this final point of hu man history. It has a clear and more Immediate application of what thi Apostle calls "the power of His res urrection," "dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto Ood, through JesuB Christ our Lord." This must be It Is Interesting to note that peopta In general are inclining more and more to tbe celebration of church festivals which were formerly observed by but one or two divisions of the Christian body. It is not so long ago that the celebration of Easter was looked upon somewhat askance by many denomina tions, nnd yet to-day these denomina tion give Easter and Easter services a prominent place In their church cal endar. The movement is certainly in the right direction; laying aside all prejudices of denomination or creed, It Is well that the whole Christian body enn find common ground on certain days. It Is well that they should cele brate not only spiritually, but out- j '''Yhnft wifh joy the liceirtj o mtn ' wardly, this great day In the Christian year. Even those who profess to be among the faithless may meet, too, on tbe same ground at this springtime festival, and observe and be thankful for the reawakening of the year the symbol of new life which one finds In all nature. Whatever ills belief or non- Christ's Entry Into Jerusalem. wf jSbBf 'iJwKtlrfffi' ' 1 itt aw Bj&9 lb k ' jjrsJL it rig THBsHaBrwJr xPav s99bbsbbbVw K i aflntif iittT' ?B Tz "ilsilsMeiSBBsEra' tJHBBWI By E. I n ' .1.1; oned in the shell it is "bare grain," but when Its outer covering is dead in the cocoon, or broken in the egg, or rotted in the grain, then the latent life comes forth and Ood gives it a body, and "to every seed its own body." So after death and burial, when the wrappings of this earthly flesh are dissolved and done away, "the body that shall be," "the body of glory," shall emerge In tbe fullness of lime. The miracle or marvel of the res urrection of Jesus Christ, like other miracles, lies In the fact that It dis regarded the element of time and also did away with the coudltlon of de cay. "He saw no corruption." So mucb for tbe marvel of it. Now for the meaning of It. recognized and realized as the Imme diate practical purpose and result of the great fact of Easter Day. What Is its message to men and women? It Is easy to dream a dream of hope and delight about the far fu ture; easy to have a sentiment and emotion that enable us to face physi cal death with an outlook beyond the grave and console us In the hour of bereavement. Ood forbid that there should be any shadowing of this hope. But the practical question concerns our daily life now. Humanity stands to-day, as It has stood for all thoso ceuturles, facing the fact of the wonderful life that our Lord lived here on earth, with the strange and Inexplicable combina tion of fleshy reality without the re straints and hindrances of the flesh. And that meana, in the first place, the pattern set, aud In the next place the power given to us to live our lives on higher llneu. Translated Into plain EugllHh, the great Easter thought Is that we may not be absorbed and immersed in merely earthly, temporal, carnal thoughts and things. Llfo, never more than In our day, Is crowded with business, with pleasure, even where It is not choked with indulg ence and success. The Idlers and loungers, with no 'thought but amusement, are far too many. The craze for accumulation of ma terial wealth , Is wearing out the strength and dulling all the finer faculties of men and women. And tbe carelessness and Idleness of peo ple who, with opportunities of service to society and the demands of home duties, waste daylight hours and turn night Into day with games of chance, accentuated too often with the covet ousness of gambling, are a reproach belief, no one should be unmoved or unresponsive to the new season, to the promise of life which be sees every year renewed and reiterated In nature, as well as finds In the tenets of bis faith. The Euster-tlmo should be a season of joy, of fresh hope, of new eu deavor, of practical faith In humaulty and In God. Woman's Homo Companion. FwbOmKB ft? . mSBUma The Resurrection Morning. The Kaster Chick's Km.-. "Peep! Peep!" said tha chick as tie turned about, - . A little fat Soil of bright yellow "If I hml been late but a week and a day, I'd tm an unfortunate fellow. An Enetei vug is an excellent fcutur, II you're not the egg, ture. eail the silly crea- lournalist who sits at a mahogany lesk and dictates able articles for the eighteen-page dally, Instead of writ ing local Items at a pine table In the jfflce of a four-page weekly. Thus lid one voice his protest: "When you consider that the country weekly Is iwned by Its editor and that the man who writes the funny things about country papers In the city journals is jwned by the corporation for which he writes, it doesn't seem so sad. When you see an Item In the city papers poking fun at the country ed itor for printing news about John lones' new barn you laugh and laugh for you know that on one of the pages of that same city dally Is a two column, story In regard to the trim mings on the gowns of the Duchess of Wheelbarrow. And It is all the more amusing because you know that the duchess does not even know of tbe existence of the aforesaid city paper, while John Jones and many of bis neighbors take and pay for the paper which mentioned his new barn Don't waste your pity on the country newspaper worker. Ho will get along." After all, no one man In the com munlty has so large an opportunity to assist the town In advancement as the editor. It Is not because he la smarter than others, not because he Is wealthy but because he Is the spokesman to the outside world. He is eager to print all the news In his own paper. Does he do It? Hard ly. "This would be a very newsy paper, explained a frank country ed itor to his subscribers, "were It not for the fact that each of the four men who work on It has many friends. By the time all the items that might In jure some of their friends are omitted very little Is left." "I wish you would print a piece about our schoolteacher," said a far mer's wife to me one afternoon. "Say that she Is the best teacher In the county." "But I can't do that 200 other teachers would be angry. You write the piece, sign It and I'll print It." "What are you running a newspa per for If you can't please your sub scribers?" she demanded and can celled her subscription. So the country editor leaves out certain good things and certain bad thlngB for the very simple reason that the persons most Interested are close at hand and can find the Indi vidual responsible for the statements. He becomes wise In bis generation and avoids chastisements and llbal suits. He finds that there is no last ing regard In a sneer, no satisfaction in gratifying the Impulse to say things that bring tears to women's eyes, nothing to gloat over In opening a wound In a man's heart. If he does not learn this as he grows older' In the service he is a poor couutry edi tor. "The power of the country press In Washington surprises me," said a Middle West Congressman last win ter. "During my two terms I have been Impressed with It constantly. I doubt If there Is a single calm utter ance In any paper In the United States that does not carry some weight In Washington among the members of Congress. You might think that what some little country editor says does not amount to anything, but it meanB a great deal more than most people realize. When the country ed itor who is looking after nothing but the county printing gives expression to some rational idea about a national question, the man off here In Con gress knows that It comes from the grass-roots. The lobby, the big rail road lawyers and that class of people realize the power of the press, but they hate It. I have heard them talk about It and shake their heada, and say, 'Too much power there!' The press Is more powerful than money." This was not said In flattery, but because he had seen on Congress men's desks the heaps of country weeklies, and he knew how closely they were read. The smallest edito rial paragraph tells the politician of the condition In that paper's commu nity, for he knows that it is put there because the editor has gathered tbe idea from Borne one whom he trusts as a leader, and the politician knows approximately who that leader is. So the country editor often exerts a pow er of which he knows little. But politics Is only a part of the country editor's life. The social ar falrs of the community are nearest to him. The proud father who brings in a cigar with a notice of the seventh baby'B arrival (why cigars and babies Bhould be associated in men's minds I never understood), the fruit farmer who presents some flue Ben Davis ap ples In the expectation that he will get a notice, are but typos. The edi tor may have some doubts concerning the need of a seventh child in the family of the proud father, and he may not be particularly fond of Ben Davis tipples, but he gives geuerouB notices because he knows that the gifts wero prompted by kind hearts aud that the giverB are bis frleuds When joy conies to the household It Is but the working: of the heart's best Impulses to daaire that all should share it. The news that the princess of the family has, after many years of waiting, wedded a prosperous mer chant of the neighboring county brlugs tbe family Into prominence lu the home paper. Seldom in these busy times does the editor get a piece of wedding cake, but nevertheless he fulls not to say that the bride is ' one of our loveliest young ladies and the groom Is worthy of the prise he has won." The city paper does not do that. Here and there a country editor tries to put on city airs and give the bare facts of "social func tions" without a personal touch to the lines. But unfrequently does he succeed in reaching the hearts of his readers, and somehow he flnds that his contemporary across the street, badly printed, sprinkled with typographical errors and halting In Its grammar, but profuse In Its laudations, Is getting an unusual number of new subscribers. Even you, though you may pretend to be unmindful, are not displeased when on the day after your party you read that the guests "went home feeling that a good time had been had." And when sorrow comes! Into the home of a city friend of mine death entered, taking the wife and mother. The family had been prominent In social circles, and columns were printed In the city papers, columns of cold, biographical facts born, married, died. But the news went back to the small country town where In their early married life the husband and wife had spent many happy years, nnd In the little country weekly was quite another sort of story, it told how much her friends loved her. how saddened they were by her passing away, how sweet and womanly had been her character. The husband did not send the city papers to distant acquaintances: he sent copy after copy of the little country weekly, the only place where, despite his prominence In the world, appeared a sympathetic relation of the loss that had come to hi in. Atlantic Monthly. Because air Is elastic and water is not, a German aeronaut declares that the form of propeller best adapted to the navigation of the latter element would not yield equally happy re sults In the former. The connection between sun spot and meteorological disturbances os) the earth Is a well-established fact, but astronomers only know that It Is electrical and they can not tell In any case what the particular result will be. An earthquako Is, as a rule, a very harmless thing. Professor Milne, who Is one of the greatest authorities In the world on the subject, says that 30,000 shocks a year are now record ed. According to Dr. Charles Davi son, the British Isles have one earth quake recorded- every month. According to the results of recent experiments the flame of acetylene Is perhaps the hottest known except that of the electric arc. The follow ing figures have been given by Mr. Maffi: Bunsen burner, 1871 degrees; acetylene flame, 2548 degrees; alco hol flame, 1705 degrees; Denayrouze burner half alcohol, half petroleum 2053 degrees; hydrogen flame, In air, 1900 degrees; gas-jet flame, with oxygen, 2200 degrees; oxy-hydrogen flame, 2 4 20 degrees. These are all Centigrade degrees. WHY DO MEN MAHRY? BEAUTIFYING THE HOMES. School Children Taught to Mako Flower Gardens. A few years ago the Twentieth Century Club started school gardens and tried to get the children, as well as their parents, interested In beauti fying their homes and schools, with the aim of training the young Ameri cans to have an eye for the beautiful, and to aid tho city In bettering Its conditions wherever they could. Most of the principal schools have their gardens now where the scholars work diligently, each room vying with tho other in having tho prettiest bed. Seeds are also sold by the club at a very nominal prlco to the pupils to take home and grow In their own yards. Many of tho children have beautiful beds laid out In artistic de signs; others have their flowfcrs planted almost any way, but each child Is striving to win a button, which will show they belong to the association. Every child bringing In a collection of flowers grown by these seeds to be shown at the exhibit this week will bo presented with a button showing the possessor to be a member of tbe Home Gardening Association. Tho ladles of the clu'j, who call oc casionally to Inspect these home gar dens of the little folkB, say they find most of the young gardeners to be boys, and thoBe between the ageB of seven and twelve years. One bright little fellow has a large back yard laid out in perfectly Bhaped beds, of different designs, the flowers all planted with the best taste so that the colors and shapes blend grace fully. In the centre Is a bower over which vines are growing, and climb ing flowers reach almost to the top. In this place he has his tools and gar den implements, and all his sparo time Is spent there. The mothers say It is a fine thing for the children, keeping them off the streets, and giv ing them a pleasant and helpful oc cupation. Three years ago, when the work began, just a few packages of seeds wero sold, while this year's statistics show 53,770 packages of seeds de livered to children lu this city. Sixty-seven schools have been sup plied, and many out-of-town schools have received seeds. The flowers which seem to bo favorites, according to the numbers used, are gladiolus, 8154 packages; asters, 7138 packages with China pinks and nasturtiums following closely. Detroit News-Tribune. Gambling Raid in Blnondo. An illustration of tho value of mil itary training In civil pursuits is fur nished in a raid on a Blnondo gamb ling house a few evenings ago. Two American plain-clothes men, for monthB baffled In their efforts to raid the game, hit upon a plan of scaling a blank wall, forming the side of the house In whose upper floor the game, they were satisfied, was progressing. Securing a short ladder, one Ameri can mounted to Its topmost rung, Jhe other scrambling to hla shoulders, while tbe third detective, a Filipino, was raised to the pinnacle of the hu man tower, and bolstered into tho window, surprising the gamblers, and causing them to flee Into the hands of the waiting police at the several ex Its. Manila American. Separated From His Mind. RufuB Choate once tried to get a Boston wltuess to give his Idea of absent-mindedness. "Well," said the witness, who was a typical New Eng land Yankee, "I should say that a man who thought he'd left his watch to hum, and took it outen his pocket to Bee it he'd time to go hum and get It, was a leetlu absent-minded." House Beautiful. I'm--i.. n Income Taxes. Since the Prussian Income tax was applied, thirteen years ago, the num ber of persons affected has Increased from 2,440,000 to 4,680,000, and the aggregate taxable Incomes have In creased from 91, 445, 300, 000 to 92, 608,444,000. These taxes aim to reach all Incomes abova 9200. Svingfleld Republican. By way of experiment, an Amer ican, who Is mentioned as "a sport and an acrobat," made a wager In Vienna with an athlete that the lat ter could not endure the falling of a pint of water on his hand, drop by drop, in one spot, from a height of only three feet. The athlete had an enormous hand, lined with skin al most as thick and tough as cowhide. But when about 300 drops had fallen there was a change of opinion, and at the 420th drop he gave up, de claring that he could no longer en dure the torture. Tid-Blts. According to scientists, ptomaines are poisonous products formed in fish, meat, milk and other articles ot food by a process of decomposition that leaves little other trace of Its action. Bacteria probably promote their formation; but on that point there remains some doubt. The taint develops In consequence ot a failure to cook food properly and, If to be kept for some time, sealing air-tight. Ptomaine poisoning Is quicker In Its results, excruttatlng sickness and often death following close after eat ing foods Improperly cooked or canned. CALL FOR THE HOGS. Cry Used in Chicago Stock Yards the Same That Was Used by Greeks. According to the Chicago Tribune the stock yards men who are driving hogs to the killing pens use the cry of "sol, sol!" to urge on the unwilling porkers. This very word, the paper says, was once employed in the same way and for the same purpose by the swineherds of classic Greece. From tho age and place of Perlclea to present day Packlngtown, tho dis tance both In time and space, would seem to be Buch that nothing but a miracle or a melodramatic coinci dence could account for anything found common to those extremes. And yet the connection is a clear one in this case, and one that need not arouse much surprise. in fact, the same cry Is found in England and on the steppes of Rus sia. There are a score of reasons why It should be heard In Chicago, but the one nearest at hand Is that Lithuan ians, Slavonians and Poles are plenti ful among the workers in the stock yards. In all those languages the words used to designate the hog are closely related to the Latin and Greek "8us" on oue side and to the English and Scandinavian "swino" on tho other. And if sound, rather than spelling he considered, It is well to remember that the Dutch word for sow is "zeug," while tbe same word In old Irish Is "sulg." What the word "sol" really means to a scholar happening1 to overhear It out In Packlngton la that, no matter how far apart Anglo Saxon and Slav, Teuton and Latin, may feel themselves to be, they are all close relatives members of one great race, the Aryan, and heirs to Ian guages that are so many branches of one mother tongue, tho Indo-Euro-"an. Why did I Wed my Josephine? Inquire my utartled friends. To her no smile, no Gibson waist, The least enchantment lend. She his a squint of giant sir.e (Has had, I hear, from birth); But what are captivating eyes Compared with sterling worth? Bhe ian't. very clever. (I Have often told her sc.); Her conversation' mainly "Yes," Varied sometimes by No." Of knowledge on all subjects she la hampered by a dearth; But what are maaaive brains to me Compared with sterling worth? In form ahe'a rather ehort and stout; Her eye are small and green; But I shut my own, and set my teeth, And married Josephine. And oh, I value more, far more Than anything on earth. The pages of the pass-book which Reveal her sterling worth. London Glob. Politician "We must stand pat." Wlfe- ' Yes. but the question Is, wilt Bridget stand us?" Harper's Baxar. She ''Do you think my voice will ever be suitable for opera?" He "Stage or boxes?" YonkerB States man. She (to fellow-listener at musl cale) "What do you think of hla execution?" He "I'm In favor of It." Punch. "Where are you going, my pretty maid?' "I'm going a-jilting, sir," she naid. Life. Sidney "Miss Elsie Is a lovely girl." Rodney "Yes; say, she's a regular pink and white peril." Cin cinnati Commercial Tribune. Waitress (handing stodgy-looking steak) "And what will you have to follow, sir?" American Customer "Indigestion, I guess!" Punch. She "I saw you In the street car the other evening, Mr. 8axby." He "Did you? Why, I didn't see you." She "I suppose not. I was standing up." Somervllle Journal. Mrs. Gramercy "I thought the manufacturer guaranteed your auto free of repairs for one year?" Mrs. Park "But that doesn't cover tha repairs to what we run Into." Puck. Broadstreet "How's your com pany getting on, old man prosper ing?"' Nassau "Prospering! My, boy, the term Is Inadequate. Why, we're about to be Indicted In thirty States!" Judge. A widow, in half-mourning, y Doth by that sign confess That she is half a miud to Nsy, it's up to you to guess. Puck. She "You'll be glad to learn, dear, that I've gotten out of visiting our relatives." He "Grand! Splen did! It hung over me like a cloud. How did you manage it?" She "Oh, I asked them here!" Life. Husband "You say this Is veni son? What Induced you to buy It?" Wife "Well, the butcher said It waa cheap and " Husband "If ho had told you It wasn't deer he would have been nearer the truth." Phila delphia Ledger. Bum "Gimme a nickel, missus?" Missus "I should think a big, strong man like you would bo ashamed to ask for money." Bum "I am, mis sus, but I ain't got der nerve to take It without askln'." Philadelphia Record. "You know," said Oaddle, "the members of his church don't believe in a hades at all." "How silly!" ex claimed Know. "What comfort can he possibly get out of that sort of belief? Where does he expect hla neighbors to spend their eternity?" Philadelphia Press. "I wiaht," said Hungry Hank, wist fully, "that I wuz one o' dese here FUllpecner fellers dat likes dog fer dinner." "Wot fer?" inquired Fa tigued Philip. "Jes' think o' bavin' a good dinner Blckod onter yer every day comln' right over de fence at TMfV Cleveland Leader. Bootleggers' Scheme. Tho bootlegger usually gets hit share of the blame In Indian Terri tory, but now he Is accused of being In part responsible for congestion of trains on varlouB lines. The bootleg ger may appear to be Ignorant, but a a rule ho Is full of schemes and pla&s. Since the airbrake has been u;plled to freight cars, he, while riding he rods, takes advantage ot the opportu nity afforded and stops the train where he pleases. Tho man with a quantity of whisky does not care to take chances on los ing bis liquor by riding clear into the town where he expecta to reap a good profit from tho sale of the stuff. Con sequently ho uses the airbrake for the purpose for which It waa originally intended. When the train comes to a standstill, he, or they us the case may be alight quickly and make for cover. This practice Is usually re sorted to at night time and the boot legger has a sure thing on a good get away. In cases where the train Is stopped on a grade it Is sometime half an hour before heavy trains can be moved. Muskogee Correspondence Kansas City Journal. His Definitions. "Faith," aald Brother Williams, ' i de faculty what kin turn de song er a sawmill into de hallalula er do angels.-" "An' what la hope?" "Hope ts de .'acuity what keeps you lookln' tor somotbln' you never gita." Atlanta Constitution. No Child of Charity. Tha home newspaper ts in no sense a child of charity. It earns twice; over every dollar it receives and is second to no enterprise in contribut ing to the upbuilding ot a community. Its patrons reap fgr mure benefit from tt pages than us publisher. Nyack (N. Y.) 8tr Queen Helena's Courage. A little hunting Incident of which Queen Helena of Italy was the hero ine haa leaked out some days after the event. She accompnied the King to Castel Porzlano to shoot. Tho weather waa Intensely cold, so a big bonfire was built, around which tho royal party gathered. Suddenly the Marquis Calabrlnl, a royal equerry, as a joke jumped over tbe flaming pile. His garments took Are, and all present lost their heads except the Queen, who threw herself on the Marquis, tore the burning parta of his clothes away, unheeding the danger, and choked the flames with her skirts. By special order of the Queen this was kept secret, but one person, struck by her courage and coolness, could not forbear expressing his ad miration, and thus the "Incident got out. Rome Correspondence London Telegraph. Florists' Frost Bells. An electric bell tinkled sharply be side the florist's desk. "Frost!" he aald, and ran hatleaa to the greenhouses. "The fires had sunk," the florist ex plained on his return. "Tho watch mau had fallen asleep. But for my frost bell I'd have lost hundreds of dollars. , ' Frost bells are now pretty gener ally used by florUt3 and fruit grow ers," he went on. "An electrical con trivance Is connected with a ther mometer and when the mercury falla to a certain point you regulate thla danger point to suit yourself a bell rings a warning in your house or office. "Many a crop of winter fruit and flowers have been saved in the last year or two by the clever little frost bell." Philadelphia Bulletin. A Claaa Too Numerous. There are too many men who ex pect an editor to slave In defense ot their pet notions and hobbles, advo cate tjielr views against the strong est opposition and then coolly with hold the business support by which, aloue a small uewspaper eaa live. 1 a i Hartford Uasette.