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wfo H ftN m By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HRISTIANITY has two greht aiip* versaries each year--Christmas and Easter. Yesterday all of Christian faith celebrated the birth of Jesus. Tomorrow they celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. "Death Is swallowed up to victory** on Easter Day. 'If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his rjEKJSS and follow Me* So said Jesus to His followers bo- (ore tie went to His death on Calvary. Later they saw film flinching beneath the weight of the cross as He went forth from Pilate's judgment hall along the Way of Sorrows to Golgotha. Still later they saw Him dying on that cross. And finally they •aw Him risen from the dead on Easter Day. To Jesus' disciples the cross symbolized the power of imperial Rome over those who offended against her. Rome stood for material achievement, for oppression. Jesus stood for spiritual things* for love, for human freedom and brotherhood. To the Christian of today Easter is a celebration of the belief that Rome was wrong and that Jesus was right. And he knows that he must carry the cross, as well as cling to the cross. Man Instinctively yearns for life beyond the Crave. "Till death do us part," reads the marriage service. There are some who would have It so that not even death can part them. Wrote RobMrt Browning: ' O, thou soul of my soul. I shall clasp tbM a*al% And with God b« th^rest! Many feel that if there is to be no fotnre ifli ' for them then is this earthly life a hideous iniquity, a prodigious failure. Wrote Tennyson: Thou wilt not lwvt ni In the duat; ? *V Thou madest man, he knows not whyj^* f-» • " f| ' He thinks he was not made to die; And Thou hast made hliq. Thou art Just. „ ^ , It seems inconceivable that man should toil ward with sweat and travail until a Lincoln could say, "With malice toward none, with charity for all" and then should come annihilation. Wrote Darwin: ' . it is an intolerable thought that man and all othdr •entlent beings are doomed to complete annihilation, after such a long-continued and slow process. So the Christian ef today sees in Easter the SB>- • ewer to the ages-old -question: *9f aaaan die, shall • be live again?" - •* v 1 'v> * This is an old, old eatttuBtirtPmaithag lived loHtf upon it--so long that he celebrated Easter ages before Jesus died upon the cross and rose from the dead. The Easter that man celebrated before Christianity cane was an instinctive expression of his joy that winter was over and spring was on the way. To him the sun, if not God himself, was light and warmth and springing life. So at or near the vernal equinox early man celebrated tM change in the seasons that regeWfd his lender (ease on life and comfort. Man instinctively turns to a god, if not to the? God. In the beginnings of the race man saw god1 In light and darkness; heard ,god in the thunder and the wind; felt him in theinanifoid manifestations of nature. Perlurps tapst of ^11 early man saw god in the sun that drew nearer in the spring and gave light -and heat and food. $o it is no Worshiping God in His holy temple, with mfagtu between the worshipers and His blue heaven. And if the refulgent sun seems In 6ome sort god to you, fear not that It is disloyalty to the true God. It is but the instinct of prehistoric ages working in you. And He will not be offended. And if you be in New York city and the lure works on you, make you way to Central park very early Easter morning. For there on the Mail shall you find a great concourse of fellow-worshipers to whom the lure was equally strong. Who will lead the worship I do not know, except that it will be . ! some worthy leader. Last Easter morn he was the Bt. Rev. Herbert Shlpman, suffragan bishop of th+ Protestant Episcopal (ttoopse, former anay afawy- Kow, does the lov4r ef Mother Nature, • Up In the mountains, high in the RocktMk • >3 Seeing a moving blue In the aspens, , Hearing a twitter sweetly familiar, •Say to his comrade: "Lo, the first bluebird! Spring is upon us--springtime, with Easter. , Winter is ended. Jesus is risen. Let us go worship where shows the snow cMSB High on Ibe mountain. Holy Cross Mountain." This Easter a few hardy spirits, able-bodied and M in love with the out-of-doors, will worship on the ' slope of the Mount of the Holy Cross In the Col- (orado Rockies. Around them will be stream and Uake and forest and natural scenery unsurpassed. And above them, boldly drawn in everlasting snow against the naked granite of the great peak, will be * '<the Holy Cross in glistening white. Next Easter morn there will be many more worshipers and thereafter the number will yearly increase. For under the Holy Cross on the slope of the mountain has been established a devotional center In the form of a camp. Thousands have come under the spell of the mountain's giant cross and thousands have asked for this devotional camp. So It is being established and developed, for the benefit of all. Both Protestants and Roman Catholics are interested. All are invited to come and worship at a shrine with, as John Masefleld says, fast-'.; A beauty perfect, ripe, complete. That art's own hand could only smutch ' And Nature's sett not better much. Dr. Johnson wrote that the mountains iWe so' much hopeless sterility "dismissed by nature from her care." But Dr. Johnson was wrong. All the world loves the mountains--or would, If it knew wonder that modern man rejoices as of old at thpjji i. mountains. And they are indeed lovely in the coming of spring. He would sing, If he could, with spring. Wherever there is water there are aspens Tffl-- Carman: *and their tender green is charmingly offset by the Well T know _ 'darker green of the evergreens. Light and dis- The sun wfll shine awla and spring <*m« back ** ip jtanee paint the scene with the gorgeousness of a Her ancient, gloritrtts/kolden-flowered War^ « • |/*'; ]painter's palette. Distance turns the greens Into And gladness^visit tbm green earth on^e imp*. ililae, mauve, blue and indigo. Gorges, deep and For many a city man does Berton Braley speAk dark' take °? PurPle ^ades. The shadows cast by when he sings of the tunaa. of *be .first strafe - moving clouds make fascinating changes in the piano of the spring: | #n Ita: icolor schema The sunset Skies are startling in v <gjthelr crimsons and golds. And dawn In the moun I They build me a vision of meadows Elyslan, i ; Of brooklets that babble and breeses that crooa. ^vV/'djever. The naked granite of the high peaks blushes > » » > < • « « « • • > * • « « * . < * , » d „. peak is snow-crowned the beauty Is enhanced. As ft jthe shadows lengthen or shorten on the forested ........ Slopes there is an ever-changing play of color. Yes; Dr. Johnson was wrong. As John C. Van ' "Dyke says In "The Mountain," "Mountains are the .* v.Ws where we get once more back to nature's I; ^heart after a lifetime spent in the dreary Londons •v'-c.V j'bf the world." The Mount of the Holy Cross (13,978) is world- Russell Mott, a poet of tohg ^oke for sture lovers when fee wrote: Qodde helpe alle good adventurers . . . Who love stranjre roads aae walla, ^ Whose prysonne ys a city street, ]~J WhoM «onnXtosrhpvaa a.c«lte; i»T i;*t, % Bead them a safe deliveraunce. That each may lyte his fyr*. WKh only the starres for gaolers tane the lande m of hys deeyre. . .. famous because of Its cross of snow that forms the So it is that ofct-ot-doors on Easter tnortt offeif' a lure for many that no church can equal. Easter morn at sunrise, should you be In Lei Angelesand one of those lured by the out-of-doors, hasten to Eagle Rock park. You will find many others going your way and you will come to a vast crowd on Eagle Rock, surmounted by a cross and wning touch of Its majestic beauty. The upright of the cross measures. about 1,200 feet and the beam about 200 feet. Its snow Is everlasting and may be seen for many a mile. The mountain Itself can be seen on a clear day from Longs peak, a hundred miles to the north. Holy Cross gives its name to the Holy Cross National forest, which is under charge of the for- •it service of the Department of Igrt^HftuW. Hie Mount of the Holy Cross has hitherto been little visited because of its comparative inaccessibility In 1916, however, the forest service constructed a new trail up the side of the mountain, so that It Is now possible to ride on horseback to within a mile of the summit. The starting point of this trip is Red Cliff, and the intervening distance to the peak, 12 miles, can be covered In from five to six hours under favorable weather conditions. Near the foot of the peak, where the trail leaves Cross erqek, a shelter cabin has been constructed for the convenience of visitors essaying the climb. The trip from the cabin to the summit may be made OB foot in from two to three hours. The vast panorama of snow-clad mountain peaks, evergreen forests, and rolling valleys which greets the eye after this arduous ascent Is one of impressive grandeur. In ascending Holy Cross to the foot of the cross tbe visitor passes through five different and distinct tree zones. Tlmherllne is at 11,500 feet. And all the way up are flowers; in season the alpine meadows above timberllne are most gorgeous of all with their myriad blossoms in miniature In Rocky Mountain National park, a hundred miles to the north, have been collected and identified 289 species of flowers, 21 species of trees and flow erless shrubs and 50 species of ferns, grasses " and rushes. At Easter time on the eastern slope of the Colorado Continental Divide the flower of flowers Is the pasque flower. Pascha Is the Greek form of the Hebrew pesach, from pasach--to pass over. As Easter, is the Christian equivalent of the Jewish Passover the flower Is well named. It Is one of the buttercup family and a cousin to the anemones-- wind flowers. It grows in clusters that often number eight or ten blossoms. The flower stands eight or ten inches from the ground. Often the star-shaped blossoms are almost 2% Inches across. They range In color from almost purple to almost white, with a fascinating variety of Shades, all of which may occur In the same cluster. In the mountains a fall of light snow copr'asjjonds to the spring rain of the plains. In my Vomitwpface book I find this, under date of Easter Sunday: "A foot or sa of light snow fell last niff*>t At 10:30 this morning I took a broom, a basket and g long knife and started out to gather my Etjtter flowers. •Easter flowers I Certainly. I know an open spaco near my log cabin where were growing thousands ef pasque flowers and many buttercups and here and there a violet. I had wandered among them before the snow came, enjoying their beauty .10 the full. "I plodded off through the snow to the 'Kit Carson Corner*--close to the camp of that famous frontiersman on a beaver-trapping expedition in the Fifties. There I began sweeping off the snow In zigzag fashion. Soon I found pasque flowers In such numbers that 1 grew hard to please and filled my basket with the largest and most perfect. They were none the worse for tUe snow. But the buttercups and violets were forlorn. The next day the snow was all gone and the field was brilliant with paaq>»eTfl©wers, unharmed by their adven- Representative Igoe of Chicago Faroes immediate Vote in - R e s o l u t i o n . SENATE HALTS GO-OP. BILL Dalfay Leads Fight on Advancing Proposed Act to Third Reading--Bill to Spend $30,000,000 on Roads Oees to dovetail •jSitegfleld.--The bouse aflopw!**# resolution calling for the appointment of a committee of seven to investigate the Herrin mine massacre and to place the hlame for the killing of 22 persons. The battle for the investigation began when Representative Michael L. ,Igoe of Chicago moved suspension of the rules in order to allow a vote on the resolution, which he had introduced. The resolution mentions Adjutant General lllaek and Col. Sam Hunter. who represented the adjutant general at Herrin at the time of the massacre. Co-Op. Bill Hits 8nag. Senator John Dalley, Republican,- <if Peoria and other senators blocked the ico-operative marketing act from being 'advanced to third reading. This meas- Jure would allow farmers to pool and (Sell )helr products without being held for price manipulation and restraint of trade. Senator Simon E. Lants,,Republlcan, of Woodford, who introduced the antiboard of trade bills In the last legislative session, is the author of the cooperative marketing bill,' which was reported by the agriculture committee and was quietly belng\ advanced to third reading, in which stage It would be impossible to amend it, when Senator Dailey objected. ' Road Bill to Governor. The house parsed senate bill No. 3, Introduced by Senator Richard R. Meents of Ashkuin, which makes $.10,- 000,000 available for the construction of hard roads In the two years after July 1. Hie treasure now goes to Governor Small. Brundage ti Upheld. Charges by Representative Roe (Dem., Fayette) that Attorney General Rrundage's payroll discloses a scandal were contradicted by the house of representatives by a vote of 31 to 40. The attorney general's 11,037,200 appropriation bill was advanced to third, reading and Its passage by the house Is assured. The vote followed three hours of debate. Those who led in denying the charges were Representatives Little (Champaign). Republican floor leader; Smejkal (Rep., Chicago), chairman of the appropriations committee: Weiss l(Rep., Lake), Pierce (Rep., Boone), Tlce (Rep., Menard), and Ronalds (Kep., Saline). Democrats Uphold Brundage. In the final vote 23 Democrats lined up with 58 Republicans against adop-r tlon of the Roe amendment to reducej the attorney general's appropriation. Seventeen Republicans, most of them dominated by the state admlnlstratirn, allied themselves with the 31 Democrats whom Mr. Roe succeeded In gathering for a "ollowing. By a vote of 70 to 41 the house adopted an amendment by Minority Leader Devlne prohibiting a regular employee of the attorney general's office from receiving any extra compensation for extra work. Nominally the battle was waged over a $70,000 appropriation for the dissolution of defunct -corporations, but Representative Roe had made the entire Brundage payroll an issue. Briefly the Republican onslaught developed the following facts: That defunct corporations cannot be dissolved by an act of the legislature. Such an attempt has beet, held unconstitutional. That the work of dissolving defunct corporations »annot be shifted ta the 102 state's attorneys in Illinois because 100 of the coui-'Jes have refused to make appropriations to carry on the work. That Mf. Brundage turned over his payroll to the appropriations committee and made no effort to conceal or disguise any expenditures. ' "Third Degree" Bill killed.-' There are t<*> many tears for criminals and not caough for the public. Senator Glenn (Rep., Jackson) declared 5n the senate during debate on the Jewell bill .n "ilrd degree police methods. The bill provides severe penalties where pr' ;onerg are abused or led into confession by police trickery. "There is too much sentiment for those accused of crime," Senator Glenn said In opposing the bill. "It Is time we are paying some attention to the Injgjifrfcllng cltlsens." Former Convict Trails CtB-Mate Who Duped flit Mother When He CAUGHT HIM ON TRAIN Brooklyn Youth, Released' Prem Prison, 8tarted Out to Locate J " 1 False Friend Who Took $600 I From Mother. % New York.--Simon Heebt, . twentytwo years old, of Brooklyn, N. Y„ finished a flve-year term at Sing Sing prison, Osslnlng, N. Y, recently, and left prison with but one object in view--to find "Big Ben" Rosenheim. Ben and Simon had been on the same tier at Sing Sing during the few mcntha before Ben was released. What use he made of his first week of liberty, Simon learned In a letter from his widowed mother. Ben had learned the address from the boy an^l as soon as he got out he had gone straight to Brooklyn. "Big Ben" always could" pot up" a front, and Simon's mother Is credulous-- doubly so when the welfare of Simon is concerned. She never doubted that the opulent stranger who had heard of her boy's sad case In some miraculous manner could obtain Simon's 'release, Just as heJ said he could, for a retaining fee of a paltry $06C^K .< "^roto ton About { The paltry $eno happened to be within a few dollars of the sum Simon's mother had in the savings bank. She made up the rest by borrowing from her neighbors and gave It to "Big Ben." Then she wrote Simon all about it and assured him hi would soon be at liberty. "Big Ben" hadn't even bothered to use another name, and Simon knew too well the use to which the older con> Tict had placed the information he had wormed out of him. When he was ren 1 w M '.&!* - • ° Jumped on His Former CeH-Mata, leased he took the first train tot Brooklyn, and almost the first man on the train he saw was "Big Ben." He Jumped on his fbrmer cell-mate and the train crew then held both until they reached New York, where "Big Ben," arrested, admitted, the charge made against him. WHEN LITTLE JOHNNY 'BROKE OUT Wonderful Boy Proved He Had Some Human Qualities, but Incident Cmbarrassed Mamma. Xl was Mrs. Jones, and the Woman braced up expectantly; for Mrs. Jones had the motherly habit of reciting the virtues of her children to whomever she met So numerous were these virtues that she rarely completed the list been devoted to Mary and her countless suitors. This time it was Johnny. "My Johnny," she began, "my Johnny Is the Joy of my life. He's such a dear. He'll be a great man when he grows up. Remember the spelling bee they had? Well, my Johnny won a prise. No. not the first prise. Willie Brown got that But Willie .you know, has what my Johnny calls *a the teaclMg. that's j S*s *frs. Jeass wtth ymr ^ked a Remember the school parade? Who d'you think was up there leading them all? My Johnny--of course--and straight and proud as an Indinn he was. He's well nlgli read all the books in the library. Fact is. He's taken to buying his own books now. And he's a perfect gentleman, too. Respectful, polite and everything." Mrs. Jones was at the height of her enthusiasm now, and the Woman knew what that meant. Fortunately the telephone rang, and she turned to answer It. troubled voice over the phone. "Yes? Will you please tell her to hurry home. Little Johnny Just came in with a bleeding nose and his left eye closed tight. You will? Thank you/' • -- Cloquent Persuasion^ • "Have we some sllver-tongii&l Orators?" Inquired Senator Sorghum. "A few," replied the faithful an* sistant. "Well, don't waste 'em on public speechmaklng. Put *em to work gm> ting rampslgn fund*", * f > % ", All Areund the tttfil, >, Springfield.--A I- appropriation of $300,000 as the state's share of the cost of education of the crippled children of the state Is provided in a bill Introduced In the hr-use of the Fiftythird general assenM.v hy Mrs. L<>ttle Holman O'Neill. The bill ha* been referred to die Committee on appropriations. McHenry.--Bishop P. J. Mn1d"Ofl of Rook ford dedicate*! the newly erected St. Mary's Catholic church here Sunday, March If. Decatur.--Millfkln nnlversity has received a request from the Pomona college at Pomona, Cal.. for a debate on the question: "Resolved, That the cnbln^t parliamentary fnnc of foverwner. t as used In Fnsland Should be adopted fiu the United States." Pomona desires t«» debate the sfflnr.athre. Danville.--Henry W, Trnderwood of Melvin, Ford county, operating a facm and peach orchard, has filed a petition in bankruptcy here, alleging debts of $1,513 and assets of but $208 * personal I DEATH CAUSED BY MISTAKE Drug Firm Pays Widow $7,800 far' Misreading of "A" for •I" Ih Filling Prescription. Dorchester, Mass.--A mistake fes two letters in filling a prescription was the difference between life and death, and it cost the Cole Drug company $7,500 for making the error. The verdict was awarded by a Jury. Five thousand dollars was for the death and $2,500 for the conscious suffering, the Jurymen explained. The widow of Paul Yalentelli won the verdict. The fateful letters were "1" and "a." The prescription called for barium sulphate, and barium sulphite was given. The first aids in X-raying whew taken Internally, but the patient took the second and died In half an hour after intense agony. Mrs. Qross Praises Tanlao for . Overcoming Stomach Trouble of Long Standing--Says tt Are Priceless. only and "Before I took Tanlac I weighed ninety-four pounds scarcely had strength to sweep the floor or make the beds; but now I weigh one hundred and thirty-two and am as healthy and happy as can be." This remarkable statement was made, recently, by Mrs. Mabel Gross, 1187 Aldrich St., N., Minneapolis, Minn. "For nearly two years I had been la a seriously weakened condition and suffered nearly all the time from headache and backache. My serves were beyond my control and I was terribly dizzy. 1 couldn't half sleep and my stomach was so out of order that e*en the sight of food nauseated me. "The benefits I have received from Tanlac are priceless. I am now a perfectly well woman and my friends often speak of how healthy I look. I certainly have a great deal to praise Tanlac for. Health is worth every thing, and that is what Twhic has meant to me." - Tanlac is for sale by all good drug"- gists. Over 85 million bottles sold.-- Advertisement. •fjis The Humorist. W you," said the clevev. fMBgt man, "note that bit of news in the paper about an Albert Ross having a baby born with claws instead of feet?", "No." replied his audience; "how, remarkable t" "Hardly remarkable," said the clever young man, making ready for a hasty retreat. "It might be called remarkable had the baby alhatrosft had feet Instead of claws." . ^ uu cmiaren, ana see uiat u Important to Mothers' * Examine carefully Vvery bottle Of 0ASTOUIA. that fummis old remedy for infants and children, and that it Bears the Signature of In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria, Grocery Mortality' High. . The average grocery store in the titaited States changes hands every seven years. Of the men who enter the grocery business, 5 per cent are successful, 15 per cent stagger along the ragged edge, and 80 per cent go out of business In seven years.--Mc* Clure's Magazine. "'^:J Hall's Catarrh Medietas* * Those who ara in a ."run down"* eondttlon will notice that Catarrh bother* i thMn much more than when thejr are in sood health. This fact proves that while Catarrh la a local dlaeaae, tt la greatly Influenced by constitutional conditions. HALL'S CATARRH MKDIC1NK coo- * •lata ot an Ointment which Quickly Relieves by local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which assist* In improving the General Health. 8old by druggists tor over 4ft . ». J. Cheney * Co.. Toledo. . .* ten and Function Adopted. From an English boy's examination »,• paper: "When the duke of Monmouth fled from the battle he changed clothes with a pheasant and was afterward discovered laying In a ditch."--Boston ^ Evening Transcript. T v. fj (f from CORNS Aw mm*--«»4 the pais el that en . eodtl Tlutt'* wtwt Dr. Scfcoii't Xinn peda They r*aK>wth« <«•»--Mt» : ' tion-prMMK. tt»l b«*l th« iirtutioa. TImm jro« avoid iafectioa from cwttia^ roar coral or atuif oroari acida. Iwc afttitcptic: waterproof Siua for am, cat. • lima, buiuoa*. Get a box today atfSV ; dnflpit'a at ikot daahr'a. DlScholTa "Lino-pads ' Mwif i* A- rf n. Stkt* • Mifi Co.. milktrl of Or Stkoirt Fmt Omjtn SuprorU.m. Put one on--the pain is gommt wi m, V :#S*' 4 'tS"' ** d w •' NO DYE Must Pay Alimony to Two Wtvm Chicago.--Frederick Magaw was ordered to pay alimony to both of his wives when he was arrested upon complaint of wife No. 2, who declared he owed her mother a big board bill. Magaw, who formerly earned $1,000 a week, moaned when he was ordered to pay $100 a month to his first wife and $75 a month to his second. He complained that business had fallen off considerably. Telephone Operator Outwits Tornado. Dudley, Tex.--G. W. Williams, telephone operator at the exchange here, outwitted a tornado recently. Williams saw the "twister" approaching and telephoned to farmers in its path. The farmers hurried to cyclone cellars and no loss of life was reported. Considerable property damage was done, however. Farmer Killed While Blasting Stumpsi Stephensport, Ky.--Blasting stumps on bis land, near here, John Flood, a wealthy farmer, was killed wnen a charge of dynamite explcWed and blew off his head. The dynamite exploded when Flood went to rekindle a fire which he thought had gone out. -rk Baby Strangles on Broken Tooth. Tankers, N. Y.--Two-year-old William A. Kllis, strangled to death when a broken tooth lodged In his throat. A door, removed from Its hinges, fell en him and knocked out the tooth. Ta iMian nf e» faded kalLW tial eater. Jaat «ee a taagar ena---Oil % bottl* of q Baa Ha£r Color Scatoror--(kit aa water-- DO YOU SUFFER FROM OttoeTItaar i raUawa irritation. Bally tad irtarnatty. A anaiki' fal ntiaf far i awTta* famaatn^caU^ fcraartilg^ euuahinc. Par*. hara«la«a. &&1X * BUCXX1. NewYotk i - Stop Your Cough! w»*K F0LEYS H0NEY#XHt fstmbU. 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