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dim aisles of vast ca
thedrals It lies like
a star on the coat lapel of the man of
fashion and rests contentedly pinned to
the waist of the Easter costume of the
belle of the season
As whito is the color of the resurrection
any hind of a spotless blossom can be ap
propriately used for Easter decoration
3wt the lily is the symbol sanctioned for
Easter service by the annual repetition
of- centuries From the time of that far
away morning when the angel rolled back
the stone from the sepulcher and told the
fcorrowing Mary to seek elsewhere for her
risen Savior the lily in art in religion in
fashion has typified the spirit of the
The lily was the popular blossom of Pal
estine Over and over again its beauty
is extolled in the Bible and the story
of its loveliness is continued from page to
4iage and the scent of its fragrance steals
-faintly through the ages that separate the
nineteenth century from the centuries
that were chronicled before modern time
-began Consider the lilies of the field
said the wisest man that ever lived They
toil not neither do they spin and yet I
rsny to you that Solomon in all his glory
Avas not arrayed like one of these The
beauty of the Easter blossom is as no
ticeable to day as in the days of the
reign of the sage king of Jerusalem and
ail the glory of the yearly Easter raiment
which fashion and beauty together render
so enticing fades into insignificance be
fore the lovely purity of the perfect star--shaped
flowers
What is properly the Easter lily with
5ts long waxen petals and fragrant lieart
Is often called by other names but the de
lightful odor that Juliet attached to the
rose called by whatsoever title is indeli
bly associated with the glory of the spring
festival It promises Easter when March
snow and wind are unpleasantly dragging
out winters life and presages warmth
and sunshine with the advent of April
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the Easter flower deathlike rather than
suggestive of a new birth but its purity
of whiteness makes it appropriately sea
sonable The modest valley lily with its
string of tiny colorless bells shares also
the Easter privilege of paying floral trib
ute to the joy of the resurrection
After the lily the symbolic emblem of
Easter is the egg Formerly they were
known as Pasch eggs and stained with
dye woods and herbs were presented as
gifts to friends and acquaintances Some
times they were eaten and sometimes kept
as amulets and frequently games were
played by striking shell against shell
In some moorland portions of Scotland it
was formerly the custom for bands of
men and girls to go out early on the morn
ing of Easter and search for the eggs of
wild fowl to be used at breakfast and the
finder considered himself blessed for the
coming year by the god of fortune
The original use of the egg at Easter
siniply typified the revivification of na
ture at that season of the year The Jews
used eggs at the festival of the Passover
and the Persians in their celebrations of
the solar new year which occurred in
March mutually presented each other
with colored eggs Christianity retained
the ancient symbol but changed its sig
nificance into new birth and the risen life
of the resurrection
Many of tlic popular Easter observances
date backward to the times of the pagan
ascendancy The goddess Ostara or Eas
ter was the personification of the east
or morning and also of spring or the bud
ding year The Anglo Saxon name of
April was Estormonath and Germany
still recognizes it as Ostermonath The
worship of the spring divinity was deeply
imbedded in the superstitions of northern
Germany and was carried to England by
the Saxons Even to the beginning of
the present century Ostermonath was cel
ebrated in Prussia by ceremonial rites and
bonfires Like the May jubilees in Eng
land it was mainly a festival of joy joy
at the rising of the long hidden sun and
at the awakening of nature after her
drowsy winters rest But the church
turned natural rejoicing into spiritual joy
and substituted the sun of righteousness
for the material sun and the resurrection
of Christ for the birth of nature while
the bonfire is typified in the huge Paschal
candle of Easter Saturday
Origin of Coloring Easter Eggs
In all oriental mythology the egg is the
symbol of life the mysterious appearance
of a living creature from the apparently
inert matter contained within the shell
being so unexplainable on any principle
of science tlint the Hindoos regard the
hatching of every egg as a direct interpo
sition of divine power In the early days
of Christianity a great many Pagan sup
erstitions were engrafted on the new sys
tem The Saturnalia of Rome became
the Christmas midwinter Festival The
spring holidays of the gods of the wood
THE EASTER ADVANCE GUARD
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and the field were transformed into East
er The sending of eggs as presents in
the spring was a common practice long
before the time of Christ among both the
Persians the Hindoos the Egyptians and
the Jews the egg being regarded as em
blematic of the resurrection of nature
from a state of apparent death Many
if not most of the early Christians were
Jews and retained the practice coloring
the eggs red in allusion to the crucifixion
THE DATE OF EASTER
Why It Is Sometimes Early and a
Other Times Late
The date of Easter is determined by the
ecclesiastical calendar of the Catholic
Church It is a very complicated and
laborious affair invented by Lilius a Nea
politan astronomer and sage under Pope
Gregory XIII at the close of the six
teenth century It would be preposterous
to tax the brains of modern readers with
the abstrusce calculations by which the
date of Easter is determined but a few
general rules might be given for their en
lighteument
The regulations of the council of Nice
are four First Easter must be celebrat
ed on a Sunday second this Sunday must
follow the fourteenth of the paschal moon
third the paschal moon is that moon
whose fourteenth daj falls on or next fol
lows the day of the vernal equinox
fourth the equinox is fixed invariably in
the calendar on the 21st day of March
This calendar moon it should be re
membered is not the moon of the heavens
nor yet the moon of the astronomers but
it is an imaginary moon created for ec
clesiastical convenience From these con
ditions it follows that Easter Sunday
cannot happen earlier than the 22d of
March or later than the 25th of April
How to Mskc Easter Pudding
To make Easter pudding says the
Womans Home Companion put a pint
of milk into a small saucepan and set
over the fire moisten four tablespoonfuls
of cornstarch with a little cold milk and
add to the milk in the saucepan stir until
thick add half a teacupful of sugar and a
tablespoonful of vanilla Have ready a
dozen eggshells that have been carefully
emptied through a small hole in the top
hll them with the mixture stand up in a
pan of meal and set aside to harden Turn
a large soup plate upside down in the
bottom of a round two quart tin pan pour
gelatin jelly over the soup plate and set
aside to harden Whip a pint of cream
turn the jelly out on a large round dish
remove the soup plate Cut strips of can
died orange or lemon peel and put around
the space for straws and fill the center
with the whipped cream Peel the shells
off the cornstarch eggs arrange them in
the center of the nest send to the table
and serve in glass saucers
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THE HILLS OF GOD
Wc journeyed through the lowland shadows-
Through the dull dull mist and rain
Oh chilling the fogs of the marshes
And the winds from the lonely plain
And our hearts grow sick with longing
For the beautiful paths untrod
For wo know that away aboveus
Stretch the glad green Hills of God
Our feet are chained to the valley
We plow and we sow and reap
There are strifes and toils for the noon
day
And a grave where at night we sleep
But a something speaks within us
Look away from the spade and the
clod
O soul look up for thy birthright
And away to the Hills of God
In the winds that sweep their summits
Is healing for all thy ills
Up up till thou feel the current
There is help there is help in the hills
Lot darkness and sore disaster
But sunder thee from the sod
And know thou shalt thrive in the sunlight
That crowneth the Hills of God
TJtica Globe
A CHARGE OP
PURPOSE
When Silas Ryan the proprietor and
ftutl manager of Ryans ranch set his
employes at work fencing in a large
body of the best Government land in
Southern Kansas he stirred up a good
sized hornets nest and brought the
insects buzzing angrily about his head
He had no shadow of right to the land
and naturally the settlers and home
seekers resented his cool appropria
tion of it to his own use There were
men who wanted it for homes and
who were entitled to it under the laws
and these men looked upon Ryans
conduct as a base infringement on
their rights and were not sparing in
their denunciation of him and his or
der
Near Ryans ranch there was a little
town known as Prairie City It was
an insignificant place with less than
200 population but it gave promise of
great things in the future Its inhab
itants and the settlers on the prairie
about it believed that in time Prairie
City wrould become one of the leading
towns of Kansas Unfortunately how
ever the hopes of those people were
never to be realized A railroad was
soon after built through that part of
the country and it missed Prairie City
by just two miles The result was a
new town on the railroad and the
death of the old one Prairie City
went the way of hundreds of other
Kansas towns Its population took up
their possessions including their hous
es and moved across the prairie to the
railroad
In Prairie Citys halcyon days howr
aver it boasted of a newspaper the
Prairie City Eagle It was not much
of a paper being small and poorly
printed but it was quite as good as its
patronage justified Its subscription
list was extremely limited and its ad
vertising business was dwarfed to one
column of display matter and a few
lines of pay locals
The Eagle as a matter of course
stood by the town people and the set
tlers and when Ryan set his men to
fencing in the public lands for grazing
purposes it came out with a strong ed
itorial denouncing him in the severest
terms It pronounced his action dis
honest as he was stealing the peoples
rights It went further and said that
It was the lowest and most contempt
ible species of dishonesty since by it
he was stealing the homes from poor
struggling men and their wives and
children thereby robbing them of a
chance to earn an honest living
It is the duty of the homeseekers
It went on to protect themselves
against the encroachments of this
greedy cormorant who for the sake of
adding to his ill gotten wealth would
starve even the innocent unconscious
helpless babe in its mothers arms It
is the duty of the settlers to band
themselves together to take the law in
their own hands and cut the wire that
shuts them out of their own Tear
down the fence drive off or kill the
JE READ THE AKTICXK TO HIS EMPLOYES
usurpers cattle and give him to under
stand that if the Government wont
protect jou you can and will protect
rourselves
A copy of the paper containing this
editorial fell into Ryans hands He
read it and boiled over with wrath and
indignation He was forced to admit
that there was much truth in the ar
ticle but it was none the more pal
atable to him for that He swore ven
geance against the Eagle and its ed
itor and vowred that not another issue
of the paper should be published
At dinner time he read the article to
his employes as they sat at the table
They were six In number recently em
igrated from a ranch down in Texas
and had a reputation for being the
hardest and most reckless dare devils
that ever rode the range When Ryan
had finished reading he said
What do you think of that
I think its blamed big crowing from
a mighty little rooster one of the cow
boys replied
If the settlers want to take that ed
itors advice and try it on about cut
ting the wires another said just let
ilea Theyll find before tbey get
through with it that theyve got into
the hottest and most unhealthy job
they ever tackled
Then you boys will stand by me
Ryan questioned
Of course we will one of them an
swered Were paid to work for you
and weve not got any love for settlers
Well see that your fence is not cut and
that your cattle are not bothered
Thats all right Ryan said but
there is something else I want you to
do
What is it
I want this paper squelched
Well squelch it
I want you to ride oyer to Prairie
City to night and clean the thing out
root and branch Burn the office
smash up the old press and chase the
editor out of the country
Well do it
Just after supper that night the cow
boys loaded their pistols carefully and
buckled them about their waists Then
they brought out their horses saddled
and mounted them and rode away in
the direction of Prairie City at a mad
gallop Tust before they reached the
town they came to a halt One of them
said
Now boys we dont want to take
any reckless chances In this business
so wC had better be a little cautious I
guess that sxlitor is a spindle shanked
old rooster from the East
whod drop dead at the sight of a pis
tol but still he may be a varmint of a
different color For all we know he
may turn loose and go to pumping lead
into us at the rate of about sixty bul
lets a minute It will be safest to kind
of slip up on him and take him un
awares
The others agreed to this proposition
and accordingly they rode quietly into
town dismounted and tied their horses
and noiselessly approached the Eagle
office A light was shining through a
window of the little one story box
building and by one common iiripulse
the cowboys stole cautiously forward
to this window with a view to peeping
into the room to see how the land lay
On one side of the room they saw a
rickety old typestand containing a half
dozen cases of type On the other side
stood an old press while in the center
thsre was a zinc covered goods box
which answered in the place of an im
posing stone Up at the end of the
room was a small table at which was
seated a woman
The womans elbows rested on the
table and her face lay between her
hands She was sitting directly in front
of the window apparently looking
straight at it so the cowboys had a
good square view of her features
Thfty saw that she was young and
pretty not much more than a child
and very sad There was a deeply
troubled expression on her face and
once they saw her brush tears from her
eyes
The editors wife or daughter I
reckon one of the cowboys whisper
ed
Guess so one of the others replied
and like as not the old whelps been
abusing her
Im going in and talk to her the
first speaker announced You chaps
wait outside till I come back
A good idea another agreed We
want to see a little more into this busi
ness before we do anything rash
The cowboy walked around to the
door and entered the office He passed
across the floor and stopped just before
the little table at which the woman was
sitting He took off his hat made an
awkward bow and said
Good evening lady I hope I find
you well
A shade of fear passed over the
womans face and a startled look came
to her eyes when she saw the mans
huge pistols and noted his cowboy at
tire Still she answered calmly and
bravely enough
I am quite well thank you Is there
anything I can do for you
Why I dont know I reckon may
be Id like to see the editor of this pa
per
I am the editor
Well but I want to see the man
your father or husband or whoever he
is
There is no man here I am all
alone
You dont mean that you are run
ning this paper all by yourself
Yes sir except for the help of a boy
who manages the press for me
The cowboy whistled then stood
staring at the woman in amazement
At last he ejaculated
Well if that dont stump me A
woman running a paper all alone with
no men folks to help her Gee but it
must be lots of hard work
It is but I dont mind that Id be
willing to work night and day if I
could just manage some way to keep
the paper going
Youre not figuring on stopping it
are you
Yes Ill have to stop it I cant get
enough money to buy any more paper
My mother is sick and I have to buy
medicine and things for her Poor
mother I dont know how I shall pro
vide for her now
The girls voice trembled and her
eyes filled with tears The cowboy
looked on a moment then paced rapid- j
ly two or three times across the room
Finally he said
You wait here for me Ill be back
in a few minutes
He hurried out to his companions
who were waiting at the door He
drew them away to a safe distance
from the office and then told them all
he had discovered They heard him to
the end
So that woman one of them said
wrote that piece about Ryan
She did
Then if we kick up a fuss with any
body its got to be with her
it has
In that case I guess we wont kick
up any fuss P -
Not if I can help it Its all right
enough ftf pile onto a man and squelch
bim but its a different thing when It
comes to a poor lone woman strug
gling bravely to support her sick
mother
The paper is going to quit any
how some one remarked so its all
right to let it alone It cant do any
more damage
The man who had come from the
room was silent and thoughtful for a
moment then he said
I reckon the papers not going to
quit either Ive got money enough to
tide It over a few weeks and
Ive got enough to tide it over a few
more weeks another said and he was
promptly followed by the others with
like propositions The upshot of the
matter was that a minute later a roll
of money was put into the girls hands
and before she had recovered from her
astonishment the cowboys were on
their wa3r back to the ranch
Wonder what Ryan will think one
of them remarked as they rode along
Dont matter what he thinks an
other replied We didnt hire to hira
to make Avar on women
Thanks to the aid given by the cow
boys the Eagle lived and when Prairie
City moved to the new town the Eagle
went with it and there it grew and
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prospered and in time became a prom
inent paper But the editor never
knew the true object of the nights vis
it that was paid her by the cowboys
of Ryans ranch Whether she would
have thought any the less of them if
she had known is a matter of doubt
Naturally Ryan was displeased with
the action of his employes the more es
pecially since the Eagle kept up its
fight on him But there was nothing
he could do save submit since he had
contracted with his employes for a
year and he could not discharge them
for refusing to do an unlawful act
He was entirely helpless and when the
settlers cut his fence and took up
claims on his ranch he had to quietly
give way to them and seek grazing
lands elsewhere Utica Globe
A young whale weighing about 2000
pounds was captured the other day off
Biddeford Pool Me
Some sheep were frightened by dogs
at Grenoble France and 242 blindly
followed their leader over a preci
pice 150 feet high
A remarkable eel has been discover
ed in the Fiji Islands It has a pecu
liar formation in its throat which
causes it to whistje when in an ex
cited state The eel is fifteen feet long
and several inches in girth
In the markets of Brazil one often
sees live snakes a species of boa
from ten to fifteen feet long They are
employed in many houses to hunt rats
at night being otherwise perfectly
harmless They become attached to a
house like a cat or a dog
Mrs Flitch of Denver Colo drives
an ostrich behind which she rides in
a light wagon She is the only woman
in the world who owns a zoological
garden and manages it herself Th
animal isnt guided by the reins but
by a long whip with which the driver
hits it on the feathers
Certainly a Title of Distinction
Not long ago an Indian general who
had retimnetl home on the expiry of h s
term of service was invited to dine
and sleep at Windsor He took ad
vantage of his proximity to Eton to
walk over to the famous public school
He there called on the house master of
a young Indian prince the son of 3
Rajah who had thought it well to send
his son over to England to be educated
xne general informed the house master
that he hadbefore leaving India prom
ised the Rajah to deliver a message to
his sons master It was that the Rajah
desired that his son should receive no
exceptional treatment in the school od
account of his exalted birth and that
his fellow students should not be en
couraged to show liim any special de
ference The house master hastened to
reassure the Rajahs messenger
Pray tell the Rajah that there is no
reason to be alarmed that his son will
receive too great deference You may
assure his highness that in this school
his son answers to the name of Nigger
and among his dntrmates he is common
ly called Coal Scuttle
He Ioved and Von
TomThat friend you introduced at
the club last night seems to be a mel
ancholy sort of fellow Whats the
matter with him
Jack Disappointed in love I believe
Tom Too bad got the mitten I sup
pose
Jack Oh no he got the girl
The long headed clergyman preaches
the shortest sermon
Talk Is cheap but- somehow gossips
always gains currency
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