r
ASTG.Rj
HANCB it cannot be that
the festival of the resur
rection falls together
with the springing of the
year and the rebirth of
the earth. The strange
fittingness of times and events only
strikes us now and then when we
atop to reflect; 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.
JWhat! 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
:we 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
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
lavorlte 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 reafllrming of the unity
of all life; It, too, is a realization
that It Is the same universal life
showing a new face. Man himself,
myrlad-mtnded; confused by feeling
one thing at one time and a wholly
new one at another, yet holds ever
In some dark chamber of his though:
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 sonr; of a new
poet:
"What does it take to make a rose,
Mother mine?"
"The God that did! to mnke it, knows,
It takes the world's eternal wars.
It takes the moon and nil the stars,
It takes the might of Heaven ami Hell,
And the everlastim? 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 Bhort,
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 is a foretaste of desultory
wanderings through a warm-breathing
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
lias ever looked upon the keen-eyed
pitiless sorrow of the wandering
Demeter of Cnidus, In 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 Zeus, tak
ing pity upon the earth, sent Iris
with a message to Hades ordering the
redellverance of Persephone to her
mother, that the grief of death might
not be devastating and overpowering.
So it has always been in the mind
of man, this strange anguish and de
spair at the glowing human life
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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 sot apart for
the games of Ceres. Demeter corre
sponds to Beltus In Bactrlan and to
Armaltl In Zoroastrlan mythology.
Armaitl, 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! How sonorous and living
are the words of the medieval ritual:
Die nobis, Maria, quid vidisti in via?
And the detailed verification of the
antlphonal chant:
Sepulchnim C'hristi 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.
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THE RISEN
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 is no death,
1 come and winter is a breath;
Against his falling walls I set
The snowdrop and the violet."
Glad prophets of the life to be,
A kindred spark abides in me,
That, like the wind, no thether knows,
And yet is comrade to the rose.
Thus mother earth, thv gracious breast
(Jives all thy tired children rest,
Where, sheltered from the storms, they
bide
The coming of the Eastertide.
From "sword and Cross, and Other
Poems," by Charles Kugcne Banks.
A TROBLEM.
Which laid it?
From Life.
AN EASTER GREETING.
'Peace. Mv peace, be unto you!
Hear, ve valleys: uat. ve mountains!
Uod s nreaiu on tne streams ana
fountains,
As He maketh all things new.
In the tree tops, rustling, pendent.
Hear His garments move transcendent,
Bush and shrub are trembling, too.
"Peace, My peace, be unto you! "
Hast thou heard, dull world, the greet
ing? Dost thou rise, the Master meeting,
Working wonders rare and true?
At His footprints falling lowly,
Let us kiss His .raiment holy,
Of fresh green impetrled with dew.
From the German of Anges Franz.
The percentage of foreigners in
Holland Is one and one-half.
THE CHRIST
OF THE ANDES
(Colotsal Status an Boundarf
tin Btn Chili mil
Argentina.)
See, where it stands in its beauty,
Where the earliest sunbeams shine;
Tall anil stately and splendid;
The Christ of the Boundary Line!
Forbidden the evil impulse
That leadcth to pain and crime;
United the faith of nations,
A compact outlasting Time!
Telling the coming of Man,
Who is born in the Image Divine;
Like a grand, full, chord of music.
The Christ of the Boundary Line!
.1 It-., ftlktt' fl.td tmflMtlt.ll L-t'ltllA
From the mountain paths below,
As we see its Face supernal
In the sunbeams' latest glow;
'Twixt erstwhile warmg nations
Of a present peace the sign:
A psalm and a prayer in inarlilp;
The Christ of the Boundary Lino!
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CHRIST.
(Hofmann.)
EASTER'S REDEMPTION.
Let me arise freed from the bonds
Of foolish, fettering creeds,
.Tuned to the holy truth that 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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A FOX HUNTER'S TALE.
Professor John F. Draughon, of
Nashville, Tenn., who doubtless owns
one of the best packs of fox hounds
In this country, while talking with
several fox hunter friends recently,
told some practical jokes on himself
What makes the stories moro inter
esting Is that Professor Draughon is
a man of considerable means, being
president of thirty business colleges,
the biggest chain of business colleges
In the world.
One of'tho stories related by Pro
lessor Draughon Is as follows:
"One of my greatest pleasures
perhaps my greatest Is to take some
of my friends in my automobile with
the trailer attached the former car
rying five passengers, the latter carry
ing fifteen or twenty dog3 and go to
the country for recreation.
"Some time ago I had an engage
ment with a party of gentlemen
Captain T. M. Stegcr, his son Will,
J. J. Anderson and Judge McMor
rough to go on a chase. They were
very enthusiastic In the matter, ex
pecting to emerge from tho chase full,
fledged, experienced hunters. Wish
ing to get as early a start as possible,
and being naturally of a hospitable
disposition, I invited them to dine
with me. They declined my invita
tion, pleading impossibility to leave
their business as one excuse, and a
fear that I would not give them
enough to eat as another; and as I
would have to go through town to
reach the hunting ground selected,
they proposed to Jolu me In town. I
agreed to this, as also to the hour and
meeting placo they suggested. The
place of meeting was on Broad street,
near the depot, at 6 p. m. I rushed
home, made the necessary prepara
tion, and drove hurriedly back to
town, stopping at the appointed place,
but as I arrived a little before the
time agreed upon, the colored boy
who looks after my dogs asked per
mission to 'bum around town' for
awhile, which was granted.
"I remained in the car, whlling
away the time by watching the nu
merous passers-by. In a few min
utes a traveling man, on his way to
the train, stopped and looked at the
outfit and me. He began to admire
the trailer attached to the auto, It be
ing, as ho said, the first vehicle of the
kind he had ever seen or heard of.
He then began to notice the dogs,
asking, 'Whose dogs are they?'
'They are Professor Dratighon's dogs,'
I replied. 'How long,' said he, 'have
you been working with dogs?' 'I
have been working with dogs off end
on all my life,' said I. He next made
this inquiry: 'Are you fond of hunt
ing?' I replied: 'I am very fond of
hunting.' He then became more com
municative, furnishing me with the
following particulars about himself:
'While I am a traveling man, I am
also a member of a hunting club in
the North. Our club owns a kennel,
and we have some very fine hounds.
I notice, however, a remarkable dif
ference between these hounds and
ours. I see that Professor Dratighon's
houndn are marked black, white and
tan, English style. They are the
most beautiful dogs I have ever seen.
I have no doubt but that the South
has better fox hunds than we have,
because Southern people know better
how to train fox hounds than we tlo.
And, by the way, do you know where
we could get a man to train our fox
hounds some one who Is fond of
hunting and has the Southern experi
ence in tho work?' I replied: 'No, I
do not know where you could get
such a man; it is vary diUlcult to get
a good man, one who understands hi3
business and who is reliable.'
"About that time the traveler spied
(i brush lying in the car. Of course,
the brush Immediately got all his at
tention. 'You have a brush here, I
see,' said he; 'and it is from a red
fox, too.' 'Yes,' I replied, 'we always
carry one clong for good luck.' 'I
would certainly like to have that
brush,' he said. I preserved a digni
fied silence in responso to his implied
request for the brush; in fact, I was
rather opposed to parting with it. Ho
continued to admire it, however, say
ing: 'It is the most beautiful brush I
ever saw, and there i3 nothing I
would like better or appreciate moro
than a brush from a Southern fox.' I
could stand his importunlngs no long
er, so I said: 'Take the brush home
with you. It is a fine dnc, but Pro
fessor Draughon has more at home.'
His gratitude we.s overwhelming.
'With all my heart I thank you,' he
said. 'I shall preserve this brush as
long as I live.' Then, taking a quar
ter from his pocket, he handed it to
me, with these words: 'Here, my
man, take this and buy you some ci
gars to take with you to the chase.'
It is needless to say that I was visibly
touched with such liberality. He then
took from his pocket a card, and,
writing in the left hand corner the
name of the kennel club of which he
was a member, he handed the card to
me. 'Now, here is my name, with my
address,' said he, 'and I want you to
remember it. If you ever get out of
a job just write to me or to the club
whose name is on the card. This is a
recommendation, from me, and will be
accepted as such by any member of
the club. My train Is now about due
to leave, and I must go. Good-bye.'
He was gone before I could thank
him, but on the chase that night I
smoked to his memory."
ON SIGNAL WATCH.
i
It is customary for a man-of-war to
Are a national salute (twenty-one
suns) whenever she enters' a foreign
port. The port acknowledges the sa
lute, gun for gun. This time in en
tering Yeddo Bay we were requested
to waive tho salute, probably because
we come so often it is like one of the
family coming home to dinner.
The Emperor's birthday was so
very Blmllar to 365 other festivals an
nually celebrated in Toklo that it is
tfot worth chronicling. I saw their
royal highnesses, tho Emperor and
the Empress but so have millions of
others, and the pageant impressed me
less than a little affair of my own
that subsequently occurred.
I was on signal watch on the after
bridge; an ordnance officer four feet
away stood looking shoreward
through his binoculars as the admir
al's barge rowed straight for the ship.
At the proper moment he command
ed: "Bugler, call the guard." Then
all the red tapo required to get an
admiral aboard1 was unwound. This
accomplished, Lieutenant Dorn came
at mo fairly foaming at tho mouth,
"What are youdolng on that bridge?"
he roared.
"I am on signal watch, sir."
"Then why did you not report the
admiral's launch coming?"
"Because you saw it, sir."
"Because I saw it! What right
have you to say I saw it?"
"I saw you looking at It through
your glasses, sir."
"You don't know that I was look
ing at the admiral's barge; you have
no right even to think what I am
looking at. Your duty was to have
reported to me what you saw coming
toward the ship. Falling to do, you
shall answer on Saturday morning. I
put you down for carelessness, diso
bedience, neglect of duty and inso
lence." I swallowed my heart and my rage,
as I have done many a time and oft
since I have worn this uniform, and,
In fancy, saw myself go down into the
brig for thirty days. The brig means
handcuffs or ankle irons, a diet of
two hardtacks and a tumbler of water
three times a day, with full rations
every fifth day. I have seen men
come out of the brig looking like the
end of a forty days' fast in a monas
tery. I have seen men in for three
days wearing double irons. They
looked like pirates. Their crime was
smoking out of hours.
To return to my own case. On Friday
night Lieutenant Dorn sent for me
and gave me akindlytalk, winding up
with the promise that he would make
a sailor out of me. I was on the
shore list for the next morning, but
for reasons of my own tarried on the
ship. This same officer, noticing me,
asked why I was there. I answered:
"Broke, sir."
He told me to go to his room and
where to find ?10, which I was to
take, get ashore as quickly as possi
ble, and not to forget to return it on
the next payday. From "Three
YeRrs Behind tho Guns," in St. Nich
olas. CAUGHT IN PRAIRIE BLIZZARD.
"Last Sunday was the twentieth
anniversary of the great blizzard of
1S88 in Nebraska and Northwestern
Iowa," said G. D. Rlggs the other day.
I was living In O'Neill, Neb., at the
time and had just left the office to go
home to dinner when the blizzard
struck.
"I started to cross the street to a
drug store, but when I reached the
other side I found myself halt way
down the block from my destination.
"The fine wind driven snow flakes
filled the air so that I couldn't see my
hand before me. I finally worked my
way back to the drug store, where
a number of other men had taken
refuge from the storm.
"School had just been dismissed for
the noon recess, and we knew that
nearly 300 children were out in the
storm. Securing long ropes the
crowd started out to rescue them.
We found them huddled in doorways
and by the sides of buildings. The
children caught hold of the ropes and
were led to shelter by their rescuers,
whose sense of direction gradually re
turned to them. Every one of the
300 school children in the town was
got home In safety.
"But seven school teachers were
frozen to death in the country during
the blizzard, and thousands of cattle
died. The thermometer fell from
about the freezing point at noon to
twenty degrees below zero that night.
It was the worst blizzard I ever saw,
and I never want to experience an
other like it." Des Moines Register
and Leader.
STORY OF A KEY AND DISASTER.
You may be interested to hear of a
thing which happened to me in Brit
tany last summer. I had to sign some
railway transfers before the nearest
British Consul, who was at Brest. I
locked up the papers and railway
stocks In a Breton cupboard as high
as the ceiling and very solid. I kept
the key in my pocket. When my cou
sin and I were ready to start I took
out the key and it would not open its
own cupboard. The servants came in
turn and tried in vain. We had to
miss our train to Quimper, which
was our first stage to Brest. Now
our vlllago blacksmith was very
rough and ready, so the next morn
ing I said I would try the key myself
once more, before he perhaps ruined
my lock.
The key fitted perfectly and we
went. But, Imagine, we found at the
station great placards posted up tell
ing of the awful wreck of the Brest
train the day before, and it was the
train in which we should have been
but for the obstinacy of the key. We
Eaw the carriages all fallen into the
river, and the dead and dying were
in the hospital at Quimper. We feel
this to be a preservation wrought
from the next world that Is so near,
Mrs. Hodgson Pratt, in Light.
TRUSTEE'S SALE
Of a Valuable Manufacturing
Plant.
By virtue of autlnrltv veited In no hy a
murlitiiKO, or trim deed, from the Am irlcnn
Production Company, now l'itt-l)urg In'lu-i-trlal
Iron WorKs, to tha unilertlnndd m
Trustee, dated December 1. lltlH, re.;orii4
In the oltice for tho recording of deedi to lot
ferson county, on Inn. ft, lV)i, In Mortgage
Book H, pnKoiJkt, and In pursuance of a writ
ten notice or request, accompanied hy a h ind,
of the hilriors of a-nvijortty fa value of tho
bonds outstanding, as In said mortgage pro
vided, I will offer for sale uoon the premises
hy auction or outcry, on Thursday, the 7th
day of May, A. I)., V.M, at 111 0) o'clock a. m.,
the following real estate, to wit:
All that certain piece, parcel or trat of
land lying and lining situate In the township
of Wtnslow, county of JefTcrsn and stuto of
Pennsylvania, bounded and described as fol
lows: Beginning at a post on the north sldts
nf the Trout Kun branch of the Bulf ilo, Ro
chester and Pittsburg Railroad, tweUo foet
from the center of the track opposite tho
point nf the switch running Into the Amorl
ciin Production Company's building, thance
by a ninety degree (d0j curve to the right,
twelve feot from tho center of said rallrjad,
elsht hundred and seventy-six (iTfl) foet to a
post; thence nortli twenty-Hve decrees east
two Hundred and tifty-slx feot (N. 25 degree
E. 2"i5 ft.) rnoreor less to ao Iron post, forty
eight (181 feet east of a small beech; thncn
north olghty-stx dogroes est six hun lred
and sixty-three foot (N. 86 degrees E. WIJ ft.)
to an Iron post close to a small white oak;
thence south four degrees and thirty minutos
cast two hundred and Ufty-nlne feotO. 4 de-
rees31 minutes E. 25!) ft.) to the place of i
cglnnlng, and containing Ave and three
tenths acres (5.J A.), more or less; being part
of a larger tract of land conveyed to the
Keynoldsvllle Land and Improvement Com
pany by the Central Land and Mining Com
pany, and conveyed by ths Keynoldsvllle
Land and IniDrovoment Cnmptny to the
American Production Compaay by deed
dated June 13th, Iflus.
The above described land lies adjacont to
Reynohlsvllle borough, a flourishing place,
surrounded by a densely populated district
traversed by a net-work of steam and eloc
trlc railways, and has orccted thereon one
building 7.1 feet in width by 216 feet In length,
with a one Northern Engineering ten ton eloc
trie crane, traveling the entire lonuli there
of, and one Cupola; also one building 63 by
300 feet, with a boiler house attached; also
one two story office building with vault, and
a one story brick or hollow tile building used
for pattern shop.
Each of the above described buildings aro
of tiro proof construction throughout, with
cement floors, metallic window frames and
sn'-h, and cement and metal roofs. The
buildings are located along the Trout Run
branch of the R. & K. C. K. It , with a prlvato
switch running hetween them.
The buildings have the following machin
ery, tools and Implements Insullcd tliarein.
viz: Threesteam boilers and stock, one 174x21
Buckeye englno and 2U0 K. W. genorator.'two
air compressors, one steam pump, one Ma
honing F. and M. punch and equipment, one
Cleveland E. & F. punch and equipment, one
McSherry's 124 inch squaring shears, one
Bliss No. 75 vertical punch and equipment,
oneSlhley & Ware vertical drill pre-- and
equipment, one Snyder li inch back geared
drill press, one Hamilton IS Inch back goared
drill press, one Morgan bolt cutter and dies,
one 18 In. x 16 In. lathe, one McSherry's S in.
hy 61 in. bending roll, one D inch tool grinder
two large motors, one small motor, oneJBrown
& .ohrman radial drill and equipment, ons
12 in. tool grinder, one Helles & Jones angle
shears, one M in. vertical punch, one Re vie
shear and punch, one Allen 31 In. Gapan riv
eter and dies, one Northern Engineering ten
ton electric crane, one Wlcpes Bros. 10 In.
bending rolls, five steel jfh cranes, one wood
jib crane, two air receivers, one supply tank
one MrSherry hand power shears, Z one
McSherry's foot power punch, one Robin
son foot power folder, one Peck and fitonn
foot, power shears, one McSlicry's !W In. hand
power tireak, threo blacksmith s lorgos, tools
and equipment., one J. V. Openberg flanging
clamp, three hand forge, one Tato & Jones
oil forge, rnrnpleto equipment of drills, com
plete equipment of taps, completeequlpment
of small boiler maker's tools, seven pneu
matic riveters and dies, three pneumatic
moto-s, five pneumatic chippersand caulkers
and tools, fnurpno imatlc jacks, and consti
tute a plant as a while, ready to be put In
operation as a plate works or as a foundry
and plate works. The land, buildings, ma
chinery, tools and Implements, described and
mentioned in and covered bv said mortgage,
will be sold to the highest bidder, free aud
discharged from taxes and liens of record.
TERMS OF SALE.
Thirty-three and one-third per centum In
cash when the property Is knocked down, and
the balance in two f quul annual payments
with Interest, to be secured by a b'jnd and
mortgage, which shall he a first lien on said
property. The purchaser shall have the right
to pav the whole of the purchaso ptico in
cash If he so desires. If the holder or holders
of said tionds. or any of them purchase said
property, they shall have t lie right to applv
the par value, or their proportionate share of
the proceeds of such sale, with accrued In
terest, of the bonds held bv them, on said
purchase money. O. M. McDonald,
Trustee.
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NOT WORTH ARGUIXG.
"That old skinflint. I earned ?5,
for him once."
"You mean you earned $5 doing
some work for him?"
"Put it any way you like. I mean
I earned the $5, but I never got it."
Philadelphia Press.
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A "hurry" microbe I3 said to nl.
been discovered. If there Is any
of arranging a contest, suggests the
Washington Star, the odda will be
considerably in .favor cf that oli-'.rto
chamnion, the "la:y" microbe.
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