HANCE it cannot be that
the festival of the resur-
rection falls together
with the springing of the
vear and the rebirth of
the earth. The strange
fittingness of times and events only
strikes us now and then when we
but this side of life,
the beautiful, undulating order of
the universe, is what gives man his
sense of security; it is the root of all
the gayety and the buoyancy with
which we tread the appointed paths.
What! shall the orbit of the star be
mapped out, and the hip-joint of the
locust’s leg be set so that he can
make music through the hot and
sultry nights, and the blows that fall
upon the yearning soul of man be
meaningless and haphazard? Only
when we are too tired to think do
wer feel the necessity of the existent
order of the. universe.
It is not to detract ‘from the value
of a symbol, therefore, to realize that
it is in its essence of the intrinsic
nature of the human heart, the re-
sult of that inevitable preoccupation
of man,” and that in. all ages; all
climes, he has reacted in. some way
or- other against the, numbing con-
clusion of a possible ending. In the
lowest tribes and the farthest days
some care was taken to provide the
dead with solace on the long jour-
stop to reflect;
ney, dark and mysterious, upon which
they were supposed to go. Who can
look unmoved to-day upon this relic
of a past age, in a negro cemetery,
and see the toys laid about a little
child’s grave, the photographs and
favorite possessions about those of
the older human child, without being
touched by this groping of the mind
into the darkness beyond which it
cannot yet see clear. In its own
way this is a reaffirming of the unity
of all life; it, too, is a realization
that it is the same universal life
showing a new face. Man himself,
myriad-minded, confused by feeling
one thing at one time and a wholly
new one at another, yet holds ever
in some dark chamber of his thought
the conviction that all things are one,
and that multiformity is but a way
of looking, by turns, at the par-
celled kingdom of the universe. It
is as in the child’s song of a new
poet:
“What does it take to make a rose,
Mother mine?’
“The God that died to make it, knows,
It takes the world’s eternal wars,
It takes the moon and all the stars,
It takes the might of Heaven and Hell,
And the everlasting Love as well,
Little child.”
No atom of dust, no star-burst nor
trailing comet, must fail to the mak-
ing of the whole perfection which is
the thinking body of divinity. All
the snows and the storms, the short,
cold winter days, go to the making
of the sweet and wasteful hours of
the long twilights. It is just this
faint taste and premonition in the
air of what is to come which makes
spring the season of deepest glad-
ness; it 4s a foretaste of desultory
wanderings through a warm-breath-
ing earth when the unexpected visi-
tations of the best thoughts fall,
such thoughts as can only deign to
come in blessed idleness and renewal
of all life, could recklessly hazard
a doubt of lasting blight? How often,
in looking upon Greek vases, we see
the flowerlike wilted figure of Perse-
phone falling lax in the arms of the
fiery charioteer Aidoneus. And who
can forget—who, at any rate, that
has ever Jooked upon the keen-eyed
of the
in
pitiless
Demeter
SOrrow
of Cnidus,
wandering
the British
THE ANNUNCIATION.
Museum, can forget the grief of the
desolate mother and the resultant
sterility of the earth, the sad news
handed on by Hecate, who heard the |
ravished maiden’s cry, and by Helios,
who saw the theft. Then *eus, tak-
ing pity upon the earth, sent Iris
with a message to Hades ordering the
redeliverance of Persephone to her
mother, that the grief of > ath might
not be devastating and c
So it has always any in ‘the mind
of mare this Strange » anguish and de-
spair at the glowing human life |
which seemed to suffer sudden eclipse
in death, and its reaction, till, from
the annual reassuring himself that
even as the seed falls into the earth
and darkness, not only to come forth
in due-season in more glorified as-
pect, so the soul of man suffers mo-
mentary and partial eclipse to be
born more gloriously; but alas! not
within the scope of our vision.
The festivals of Demeter were held
in the spring and autumn. The 7th
of April was the day set apart for
the games of Ceres. Demeter corre-
sponds to Beltus in Bactrian and to
Armaiti in Zoroastrian mythology.
Armaiti, too, wanders in sorrow from
place to place. She caused all
growth and pervaded the whole ma-
terial world, even being said to dwell
in the hearts of men, and fructify
there into fair activities and noble
pursuits.
How intimate and’ familiar, how
strangely modern and near, seems |:
the last great fact of: resurrection, as
we turn to it from the more ancient
aspects!
Dic ‘nobis, Maia, qd vidisti in’, via?
And the detailed verification of the |’
.antiphonal chant:
Sepulchrum Christi viventis et gloriam vide
resurgentis.
To know One risen from the dead,
to feel the life once reaching only
a handful of folk on a strip of land
by the Mediterranean, now filling the
world and leading men everywhere,
is to know that as surely as the
spring follows winter, so surely does
life follow death, and how little it
matters what the forms of that life
be, since at least we know that noth-
ing is lost.—Harper’s Weekly.
How sqnorous and living.
are the . words of the .mgdieyal ritual: .
THE CHRIST
OF THE ANDES
(Colossal Statue on Boundary
Line Between Chiiz and
Argentina.)
liest sun Ne ams Ries
ind splendid;
The C pris of i Boundary Line!
Forbid lden the evil impulse
hat leadeth to pain and crime;
United the faith pt nations,
A compact outl asting, Time!
Telling the coming of Man,
Ww he is ‘born in the Image Divine;
Like a grand, full, chord of music,
Toe Christ of the Boundary Line!
Be Cs es
As we view this beautiful statue
From the mountain paths below,
As we see its Face supernal
In the sunbeams’ latest glow;
"Twixt erstwhile waring nations
Of a present peace the sign:
A psalm and a prayer in marble;
The Christ of the Boundary Line!
THE RISEN CHRIST.
(Hofmann.)
EASTER PROMISES.
“There is no death!” the flowers say,
“In faith we hide our souls away,
While tempests. desolate the earth,
And patient wait the promised birth.’
The south wind chants, “There i is no death,
come and winter is a breat
Against his falling walls I set
The snowdrop and the violet.”
Glad prophets of the lif to be,
Al ALL spark abides in me,
That, like the wind, no thether knows,
And vet is comrade to the rose.
Thus mother earth, thy gracious breast
(Gives all thy tired children rest,
Where, sheltered from the storms, they
bide
The comi ng of the Eastertide.
—From “Sword and Cross, and Other
Poems,” by Charles lKugene Banks.
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Genre i
‘Which laid it?
—From Life.
AN EASTER GREETING.
“Peace, My peace, be unto you!”
Hear, ye valleys! list, ye ‘mountains!
God’s ~ breath on the streams
fountains,
As He maketh all things new.
In the tree ops, rustling, pendent,
Hear His garments move transcendent,
Bush and a are Ponti | too.
and
“Peace, My peace, be unto you!
Hast thou heard, dull world,
ing!
Dost thou rise, the Master meeting,
Wein wonders rare and true?
His footprints falling lowly,
de greet-
fo us kiss His raiment holy,
Of fresh green impearled with dew.
—JFrom the German of Anges Franz.
The percentage of foreigners in
Holland is one and one-half,
EASTER’S REDEMPTION.
Let me arise freed from the Donde
Of foolish, fettering cree
Tuned to the holy truth ot ‘meets
The spirit’s needs;
Roused from the torpor of .a clod,
Remade into Thy image, God.
—Susie M. Best, in The Independent.
Belgium has over 200 boot and
shoe factories giving employment to
more than 200,000 hands.
EASTER LILY
VASE
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PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWSe
REASON FOR NEW TRIAL.
Judge to Pass on Mass of Matter in
Capitol Cases.
Harrisburg.—At least 100 pages of
typewritten matter will be presented
to Judge Kunkel when the reasons
are filed for new rials for John H.
Sanderson, ex-Auditor General Will-
iam P. Snyder ex-State Treasurer
William L. Mathues and ex-Superinten-
dent James M. Shumaker, convicted of
conspiracy in the capitol furnishing
contracts. These reasons are now
being gone over finally by Attorneys
Lyma D. Gilbert, Charles H. Bergner
' and William I. Schaffer, representing
the three indicted officials. The rea-
sons on behalf of Sanderson were re-
ceived this morning from P. F. Roth-
ermel, counsel for the contractor.
The reasons will include specifica-
tions of error in many matters, par-
ticularly admission of evigpnce as to
prices of articles not mentioned in the
indictment; exceptions to the charge
of the court and exceptions to the rul-
ings. of the court upon law points.
" ATTEMPT TH KILL BOSS
Foreigners Use Knife and Gun on
! Prostrate Mihe | Official.
Washington. —Rdward Miller, head
fire'‘boss at the :®Ardeh’ mine ‘of the
Meadow. Lands Coal. Company is. dy-
ing from wounds received early this
morning when two foreigners whom
he had “discharged attacked him while
he was on his way to the mine. One
stabbed Miller, who reached for his
revolver. Before he could use it the
other foreigner knocked him down.
While Miller lay unconscious one of
the foreigners discharged a shotgun
at the prostrate man’s head. One
side of the face was torn away and
the skull shattered. Miller was found
later by railroad men and revived suf-
ficiently to give a description of his
assailants. Constable J. J. Miller
of Canonsburg, arrested one of the
accused men, but it is feared the
other has escaped.
CHECK SYSTEM; NO LICENSE
New Construction on Law Is Made by
New Castle Alderman.
New Castle.—Under a check .sys-
tem liquor can be sold in this state
without license, according to a deci-
sion Alderman Oliver Green rendered
here in the case of Mike Preader,
charged by Mike Hartman with sell-
ing liquor without a license and to
minors. Preader, who keeps a board-
ing house, admitted having sold beer.
He explained that a boarder pays
him $1 and orders him to secure beer.
The dollar buys 16 pints, and 16
checks are given, which call for one
bottle each upon demand. Praeder
contended he kept the beer for his
boarders only and made no profit.
Green dismissed the case.
GLASS PLANTS BURNED
Claricn Is Visited by $50,000 Blaze.
Two Large Factories Are Destroyed.
Clarion.—Clarion was visited by a
$50.000 fire in which the two large
factories of the Pear] Glass Company
were destroyed.
The Pearl Glass Company is a new
industry, fretory No. 1 being two
years old, while No. 2 plant was built
last summer.
Tt is thought the tank in the new
factory can be repaired so as to re-
sume operations in three weeks. The
plant employed 300 skilled men and
boys. The cause of the fire is a mys-
tery.
Farnsworth a Candidate.
Harrisburg.— William C. Farns-
worth former corporation clerk of the
state department under Secretaries
Reeder and Martin, announced him-
self as a candidate for the state sen-
ate on the Democratic, Prohibition
and Local Option tickets. He has
opposition only on the Democratic
ticket, and both he and his opponent
will have to resort to use of stickers.
Dog's Pitifuj Plight.
Washington.—For six days without
either food or drink. a collie dog be-
longing to William Ritchey of Blaine
township, -ran wild with a coffee pot
forced over its head and held fast
by a wire drawn about his neck. When
finally found the dog was almost
dead. Ritchey has offered a reward
and is making an’ investigation.
Aged Woman Burns to Death.
Punxsutawney. — Mrs. Catherine
Spencer, an aged resident of Carrol-
ton Mills, was so hadly: burned that
she died six hours later. While she
was kindling fire with oil, her cloth-
ing ignited and was burned off. Neigh-
bors helped save the house from de-
struction.
Divorce on the
Washington.— “The divorce busi-
ness is on the increase and to an
alarming extent in Washington coun-
ty,’ said Judge J. F. Taylor in court.
“It is a question with which students
of social problems must concern
themselves.”
Increase.
For Tubercular Sufferers.
Harrisburg.—The state department
of health has opened two new tuber-
culosis dispensaries, making 60 in all.
One is at Everett, Bedford county, in
charge of Dr. W. Dela M. Hill
Grangers Will Meet in Altoona.
Altoona.— The executive committee
of the state grange at a meeting held
here decided to hold the annual meet-
ing in Altoona next December.
Washington.—At the recommenda-
tion of the coroner’s jury investigat-
ing the death of Oliver Lee on March |
29 at Westland, Lee Richardson is |
{ held to await the action of the grand
jury on a charge of murder. The
tragedy was the culmination’ of a
fight in a poker game.
Beaver Falls.—St. Mary’s
Catholic church of which Rev
J. M. Wertz is rector,
. Father
is planning to
e building on the church
a general hospital to be
the Sisters of Mercy.
in charg
Pennsylvania
Roman
RIFLE PRACTICE MAY 1
State Guardsmen Must Use the U. 8.
Army Magazine Piece.
Harrisburg.—In an official order is-
sued by the Adjutant General's De-
partment the rifle practice season is
fixed at from May 1 to October 31,
and announcement is made that it
must be with the United States Army
magazine rifle.
The new rifles wil] be issued to
the organizations of the guard during
the month of April with ammuni-
tion. The qualifications will be the
same as in former years.
Compromise in Bank Case.
Washington.—Civil suits against
the directors and former directors of
the defunct Farmers and Drovers
bank of Waynesburg will be obviated
by a compromise with the treasury
department. The directors agree to
pay into the treasury $213,000 less
credits .of about $150,000. Every di-
rector and former director but one
has signed the agreement with ‘the |
government, and every effort is being
made. to- secure his signature.
Oldest Engineer Dies.
Shamokin.—Gardinér Cobb, 80. years.
old, recently retired by the Philadel-
phia & Réading Railway Conipany at
age limit, and said to have: been the
oldest passenger locomotive. engineer
in the country, died at his home here.
During the Civil war he was in charge
of a number of ammunition and sup-
ply trains, and ran the Ilocomutive
which drew the funeral trains of the
martyred President Lincoln from Bal-
timore to Harrisburg.
Schooley Pleads Guilty.
Scranton.—George B. Schooley of
Philadelphia, chief claimant for the
fortune of James L. Crawford, his
cousin, a millionaire coal operator of
this city, who died three years ago
in Florida, pleaded guilty in court
here to ‘the forgery of the so-called
Schooley will, under which he was to
inherit practically all of the Crawford
fortune, cutting off the widow with
only a few thousand dollars.
~ Discontinues Proceedings.
Harrisburg.—Judge McCarrell has
made an order discontinuing the pro-
ceedings to close up the Pennsylvania
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Philadelphia. The action was brought
because of the issuance of 100,000
shares of stock to which the state in-
surance department objected. Since
the filing of the suit the shares have
been revoked.
Scalded to Death in Barrel.
Canonsburg. — Mary, 2-year-old
daughter of John Slusak, a miner,
was scalded to death. The child
was playing about ‘the Pittsburg-Buf-
falo Company’s engine house and fell
into & barrel which received the hot
exhaust water. She died soon after
being rescued.
To Mobilize State Troops.
Harrisburg.—Arrangements are be-
ing made here for the mobilization of
the entire National Guard of the State
at Philadelphia during Founder's
week. The militiamen will begin to
move on Sunday, October 4. They will
be transported and maintained at the
expense of the city of Philadelphia.
Union Men Enjoined.
New Kensington.—Judge L. W. Doty
of the Westmoreland county ' court
granted an injunction to the Alumi-
num Company of America against 22
strikers, members of various unions.
The Aluminum Company claimed: the
strikers interfered with non-union
workmen. An answer to the injunc-
tion was filed today by the union
men.
Calls for Entire Output.
Kittanning.—A contract which calls
for. the entire output of the Provi-
dence Coal and Coke Company mines
at Kelley’s station for the next year
has been closed, and as soon as the
company finishes reconstruction its
sidings shipping will commence. The
miners will be put on full time after
being idle for months.
A Mean Trick.
Beaver Falls..—While George Mar-
quis was calling on a young woman
on College hill at night, some one cut
the hitching strap of his horse stand-
ing outside, and the animal dashed
over an embankment onto the Fort
Wayne railroad tracks, where it was
killed by a passing freight train.
Set Fire to Herself.
York.—Mrs. Joseph Cobaugh, aged
33. residing near Berlin Junction,
Adams county, saturated her clothing
with kerosene and set fire to herself.
An alarm was raised and neighbors
extinguished the fire. The woman
was so badly burned that she died.
Negro Hanged.
Philadelphia.— Warrick Brooks, a
negro, was hanged here for the mur-
der of William T. Jones, also a negro,
whom he shot during a caarrel.
Brooks is the seventh murderer to be
hanged here within the last eight
weeks
Washington..—One man owes his
life to local option. ‘While Hon.
Frank Craven of California and Lew
Cornell were driving to a local option
meeting a drunken man staggered
across the road ahead and plunged |
over a bank into Pike run. Craven
and Cornell rescued the man, who was |
| completely under water and helpless.
Washington —Without = missing
single day of school in seven os
and being tardy but three times, Min-
nie Stewart, the 16-year-old daughter
of S. P. Stewart of Cross Creek town-
| ship, holds the record for Washington
county. A challenge has
sued to county schools
to beat it:
been is
in Western |
The annual
western
reunion of
Association G. A. R,,
held at Erie on June 3, during the
seccmd annual encampment of
ent of Pennsylvania G. A.
the North-
will be |
BORAX, NATURE'S DISINFECT-
ANT, CLEANSER AND PURIFIER,
Everybody realizes the necessity of
some method of purification of sinks,
drains and utensils in which may lurk
the germ of a dreaded disease.
Health is a question of cleanliness
and prevention.
Most people are familiar with the
use of disinfectants in their ordinary;
sense—all of which are unpleasantly;
associated with disagreeable odors,
on which are depended to kill the
contagion (which disinfectants must
of necessity be of a more or less dan-
gerous character)
for this purpose and for no other, and
in consequence kept from children
and careless handling.
There is, however, within the reac
| of all our readers a simple, safe and
{ economical article that will not only,
answer for every disinfecting purpose
— but can also be used for a multi»
tude of domestic cleansing and purie
tying. purposes—Borax. 2
Borax is a pure, white harmless
‘powder coming direct from Nature's
laboratory; in fact Borax has oftén
| been called “Nature's Cleanser and
Disinfectant.”
* pailful of‘hot water poured down the
grease-choked pipes of a sink,, or
. flushed through a‘disease-laden drain,
cleanses and purifies it, leaving it
clean and sweet.
sick room can be made hygienically,
clean and snowy-white, if washed in
a hot solution of Borax water.
Kitchen and eating utensils, used
during illnesg will be kept from all
possibility of contagion if Borax is
used when washing them. Pure as
snow and harmless as salt, and be-
cause it can be used for almost every
domestic and medical purpose, Borax
must be considered the one great
household necessity.
Candy Foully Slandered.
Cheering words for lovers of
sweets were spoken by Dr. Charles
A. Brackett in a recent lecture at the
Harvard medical school. He said
that the evil effect of candy eating
on the teeth was much exaggerated,
a reasonable amount of sugar being
needed in the system for the produc-
tiontion of heat, especially in cold
weather and for hard working people.
Dr. Brackett commended the scheme
of a Philadelphia dentist who takes
a contract to preserve the teeth of
his patients, charging them a nominal
sum to keep their teeth clean by a
monthly scouring with pumice. So
effective ig that simple treatment that
the dentist agrees to treat without
charge any decay that appears.
Austrian icicle Factory.
In Austria “ice sticks’ are man-
ufactured at a profit. A series of
poles are arranged so that the water
will fall slowly over each one in the
series. Of course, the water in the
winter time freezes, forming large
iciclds. When the icicles have at-
tained the proper size the employes
of the “ice plant” come around with
carts, break them off the great sticks
of ice and haul them away to a place
where they are put in storage. Of
course it is much easier to handle a
large quantity of ice in this way than
it is to-cut it from some stream and
then pack it away. There may, how-
ever, be a difference in quality be
tween stick ice and lake or river ice.
—The Pathfinder.
Plea for Porto Rico.
Becoming citizens of the TUnited
States, the inhabitants of Porto Rico
should be earnest co-operators with
us in the development of the great
American influence in the West In-
dies. {The 200,000 citizens of Hawaii
are citizens of the United States. Why
should not the million Porto Ricians
be the same? The Porto Ricians,
when under Spanish dominion, elect-
ed representatives to both houses of
the Spanish cortes. They have, in
other words, possessed the _ prime
political privileges of an advanced
civilization. It cannot be said that
they are unprepared for American
citizenship.—New York Globe.
LOST $300
Buying Medicine when Right Food
was Needed.
Mone# spent for ‘‘tonics” and
“bracers” to relieve indigestion,
while the poor old stomach is loaded
with pastry and pork, is worse than
losing a pocketbook containing the
money. :
If the money only is lost it’s bad
enough, but with lost health from
wrong eating, it is hard to make the
money back.
A Michigan young lady lost money
on drugs but is thankful she found
a way to get back her health be. prop-
er food. She writes:
“I had been a victim of nervous
dyspepsia for six years and spent
three hundred dollars for treatment
in the attempt to get well. None of
it did me any good.
“Finally I tried Grape-Nuts food,
and the results were such that, if it
cost a dollar a package, I would not
| be without it. My trouble had been
| caused by eating rich food such as
| pastry and pork.
“The most wonderful thing that
| ever happened to me, I am sure, was
Je change in my condition after I
began to eat Grape-Nuts. I began
| to improve at ‘once and the firs: week
| gained four pounds.
“I feel that I cannot express my-
{self in terms that are worthy of the
| benefit Grape-Nuts has brought to
| me, and you are perfectly free to
publish this letter if it will send
| some poor sufferer relief, such as has
| come to me.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
| Creek, Mich. Read, “The Road to
| Wellville,” in pkgs. ‘““There’s a Rea-
| son.”
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