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THE MORNING ASTORIANr SUNDAY, APRIL 3,1904. PAGE TIIREK. HAVE YOU SEEN OUR WINDOWS? levari of the beaotlfnl tod tboM who appreciate itIt, say tbej are fin. THEY TELL THE STORY About where to purt baia all kinds of Footwear. OUK BIIOES areaiKoodaathe LOOK. Peterson $ Brown For the BEST DECORATOR N" Bent Stock of Wall Decorations ami the Most Prompt Service do to B. F. ALLEN 8 SON THE LEADERS Confectionery lor Easter, Put np in tbe mot attractive form suitable for olleritiifs, and or tbe most fleet camlius, boll tHiii,clc.,b now ready for tho cbooshiK at tbe EASTERN CANDY STORE 606-608 Commercial St, Next Griffin' B.b Store. Their wide-spread reputation for furniNbinir tbe most beulthfnl, pure and delicious eiifiTtimery is a full tfiiHraute o the high quality of IhHr goods. SO AP Red Cross Savon Use Red Cross Savon, you will not make a mis take. Sold by FOARD STOKES COMPANY, Astoria SUNDAY MORNING THOUGHTS FOR USE DURING THE WEEK EASTER. Behold, I tell you a mystery. Undoubtedly the reMirrection of the body and the immortality of the soul are "mysteries." And, because they are, thotigtlens people reject them. Now, if this is a good reason, let us reject everything. For, at last, every thing is an insoluble mystery. When we want to expres our idea of the absolute simplcity of an idea, we -say ; "It is as plain an two sticks." But nothing can be more mysterious than those very sticks. Once they were livinjr trees, and you can no more under stand what that life was than you can understand infinity and eternity. Mystery hovers over all things here below. All are shrouded in a veil. "Every grain of sand is a mystery, so is every daisy in sum mer, and so is every snowflake in winter. Both up wards and downwards and all around us. science and speculation pass into mystery at last." The presence of mystery is no ground for unbelief, it is rattier a reason for faith. The commonest facts and laws of nature, the daily provinces of life, are as full of in comprehensibleness as the deepest doctrines of re ligion. A religion without mystery would be as re pugnant as a seed without life or a lwxly without a soul. "There is no religion without mystery. God himself is the great secret of nature. To me the beat ing of my heart, the expansion and contraction of my lungs, the ceasless flow of thought in my brain, are as staggering as the resurrection of my body after death. It is these very mysteries that are the fuel of faith.-C. P. Gom, in S. S. Times. THE EAST Ell OF THE HUMAN HEART. In many a heart on Easter Day There is a tomb Close shut by stone and seal of grief, Enwrapped in gloom. Dear Christ in Heaven this Easter Day, From Thy far throne . Send angels down to break the seal, Roll back the stone. The Independent. Easter dav more than anv other day in the round of the year is full of comfort. It brings a message of hope and cheer for the disappointed and the sor rowing. In that country whither our Lord has gone, life's wronirs will be riirhted, life's miseries forgot ten in the abundant and eternal joy of his presence. To the aching heart that longs for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still" vaster day bears a sweet assurance of reunion. The empty tomb is the empty pledge of a day yet to dawn : "And with the morn those angel faces smile, Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile!" The event celebrated on Easter day is associated not only with the dearest hopes, but with the best in terests of humanity. There is no mightier motive in operation among men than the consciousness of immortality. Discredit that and you wreck the dyna mo that whirls the wheels of life in its best phases.! .But the corner-stone of the doctrine of immortality is the stone that was rolled away from the sepulchre s door when Jesus rose from the dead. It is because he lives that I shall not see death. Pacific Christian Advocate. CONTINUAL EASTERS. The life of a true Christian seems to be continu ally full of Eastern; to be one perpetual renewal of things from the lower to the higher, from their tern- porial to their spiritual shape and power. This is the true meaning of the self-sacrifice and aeli-denial with which the Christian's life is filled. You are called on to give up a luxury, and you do it. The little piece of comfortable living is quietly buried away underground. But that is not the last of it. The small indulgence which would have made your one else, will see it in time. Don't flinch. Keep a undergoes some strange alterations in us burial, and comes out a spiritual quality which blesses and en riches your soul forever and ever. You surrender some ambition which had exercised a proud power over you, in whose train and shadow you had hoped to live with something of its glory cast on you. You send that down into its grave, and that, too, will not rest there. You surrender a dear friend at the call of death, and out of his grave the real power of friendship rises stronger and more eternal into your life. So the partial and imperfect and temporary are always being taken away from us and buried, that the perfect and eternal may rise out of their tombs to bless us. Phillip Brooks. Keep a stiff upper lip. Your fortune depends on it more than upon mere ability or money. In fact, you can win without either money or ability, if you keep a stiff upper lip. It is easier to think this than to do it. There may hp hollow cheeks at home, debts fast accumulating When called to defend a position, your whole future may seem to hang on one man's favor. Keep a stiff upper lip. The beginning of your explanation may offend, another part may not be clear, and finally the whole scheme be pooh-poohed. If you are right he, or some one else, will se it in time. Don't flinch. Keep a stiff upper lip. In business, as in politics, men act dual parts. De spite appearances, your scheme may have been fa ored. Can you represent another mant That is the question. Is it saef to back you with money! Can you keep a stiff upper lip ! Here is where most men fall down. They labor in the slavery of fear. Trust yourself. If you have a good idea, develop it. Await the occasion. Then spring it. Expect the best things. If they don't come at first, remember they will. Just keep a stiff upper lip. Get into the habit of doing things. Form a league with system. Live one moment at a time. Keep a stiff upper lip. System. language he did not understand, and ten more In administering blow he did not feel. "Third, when you found he m de. termined not to proceed you could have removed hla pack and carried It up without lone of breath, but yon waited to push both Ass and pack. 'Fourth, having now arrived at the top of the hill, and having done me the honor to ask my opinion of the af fair I will Bay-" "You'll Bay that I'm another, of course." 'Nay, friend, I would not put It that wsy. Bather would I observe mat having taken the wrong road and come three mllee out of my way I would now hobble down hill again and bring about a family separation." Moral: "Gosh, but that wan a cloee call for us!" exclaimed the Peasant to bis Am a he gave him a shove to start him homeward. , Frofli and the Ducks. Frogs and Ducks had occupied the same pond for a year or two and got along wlttmt the slightest Ill-feeling, but when the water began to get low an old Drake called a public meeting of the Ducks and said to them: - "Being that we are the largest and need the most water to swim In,- the flops should take themselves oft to some other place. s All In favor of giving the Frogs a hint will please say aye; contrary, no. The Ayes have It, and I will take It upon myself to do some talking at an early date." Frogs had meanwhile got wind of whxt was up and also called a public meeting. After considerable talk It was resolved that the ducks ought to go. When notice was served upon each faction by the other there was a hot old time, and It finally was decided to leave It to the farmer to say who should go and who should stay. "it stands to reason that he must prefer us," replied the Frogs. Both sides of the case were stated to Uncle Josh at length, and after scratching his head for a while he said: . "I had never thought of it before, but now that you call my attention to it, lemme say that you are both nui anees and ought to. be abolished, and IU ,ise the pond" to grow cat-tails and Kalamazoo celery." -Moral: : There might be a Jar for a day or two, but tbe world could man age to run on If several of us great men died at once. 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In aU probability, have completed its exam ination of the document by Tuesday at the latest It will then be returned to the defense, who will file it with the United States district court If mo tions are denied sentence will be pro nounced on Senator Burton. He will then be permitted to give a new bond, pending his appeal to the United States district court of appeals. UNCLE ELI'S FABLES It Did't Corns Off. At the rear end of the smoking car a man was holding his hand to his Jaw and evidently suffering with tooth ache. He stood it about an hour, and then rose up and demanded of the other twenty passengers in the car: "Is there anybody here who says that Christopher Columbus discovered America T" No one answered and he sat down again. Ten minutes later one of the crowd made bold to ask him why he put such inquiry, and he answered: "I've had the toothache for two full flays, and I wanted a chance to call some one a liar and get up a fight Lion and the Mouse. Once upon a time the King of Beasts who was taking a little walk in. hopes to pick up anything fat that might have escaped from the Dime Museum suddenly found himself in a hole. Many a politician has done that and got out with only the loss of his coat- tails, but m this case there was a big fishnet to tangle things up and make climbing out Impossible. After btUng and clawing and rolling over for half an hour the Lion gave It up and pictured to himself his skin ly ing on the library floor of a western beef packer. He had composed his nerves and was ready for the worst whtn a Mouse who waa on his way to town meeting, stopped to see what the row was. Hope rose In the Lion's heart at once and he said: "You are but a little thing but you have sharp teeth. Would you do me the favor to gnaw through this net in about fifty different places T" "With all my teeth," replied the Mouse, and he fell to It at once. Cord after cord was bitten through, and at length the captive got a brace with his hind legs and snapped the remaining cords and was free. He was profuse In his thanks and promis es, and it so happened that a week later he looked in at the open kitchen door of a Peasant's cabin and saw the mouse In a trap. "It Is my turn now to appeal to you," said the mouse. "Tou see the situa tion I am in, and I am sure that one bite of your strong teeth " "Oh, certainly greatest of pleasure," replied the Lion, and opening his jaws he swallowed trap, Mouse and all, and sauntered away to observe: Moral: One good turn deserves an other, but there always is a chance of overdoing It. Wayfarer, Peasant and Ass. One day a wayfarer who had reach ed the foot o a long hill sat down to rest himself beore going further and while he was taking his ease a Peas ant appeared driving a loaded Ass be fore him. The beast plodded along wiling enough until he found the ground rising sharply under his feet, and then he stood still an refused to hudre another foot. The Peasant call ed him names and made threats, and at length gave him a vigorous beating with a club, but all without avail. As last resort the Peasant got behind the Ass and after an hour's hard work sncceeded In pushing him and his bur den up the hill. The Wayfarer had accompanied him at a slow pace, and without comment and as the brow of the hill was reached the exhausted and irritated Peasant turned on him with: "Tou have seen it all and kept still, but now I suppose you have something smart to get off?" "Nothing extraordinary gdod," re plied the Wawfarer. as he stopped to pick a pebble out of his shoe. "First ly, had you taken the other road and skirted the hill your Ass and his bur den would have been two miles ahead ere this. "Second, when your Asa balked you Inst twentv minutes In swearing; in a Reformed Wolf and Goat One day the wolf, who hadn't tasted goat meat, for three months, and was licking his chops over the thought of it approached the shed wherein Wil liam was stabled and called to him that a little conversation was in order. The Goat put his head through an open window and hoped that he saw his old friend as well as he could be expected after a hot summer. The Wolf said his health was all he could ask for, and that he had nothing t worry about except that his mother- in-law exhigblted a slight tendency to go Into a decline. Conversation flow ed easily for a few minutes, and then the Wolf observed: "What I came to say to you today was that I have reormed. Yes, after thinking thinks over I have made a great change in my appetite." "Gone back on fried oysters V smiled the Goat. "Take me seriously, please. "I no longer care for goat meat on my menu. This being so" "I need not fear your "That's It exactly. You can come right down here and play with the In my back yard and feel perfectly safe. "My dear friend," said the goat af ter laying In a fresh cud, "I will not take It upon me to deny that you have reformed, as you assert and that you would, no longer eat me. If you could. but as long as you have your teeth left I will feel safest not to give them a chance to snut logemer mi nr meat." "Is It right to doubt my Intentions r pathetically inquired the Wolf. "It Is not, and I do not doubt- them. What I doubt la whether your lntn- tlons are stronger than your teeth. Ta-ta. Look out for the old man with the gun." Moral: Gamblers do reform, but they never convince themselves or anybody else of the fact. Fleishman Wants Right. Constantinople, April 2. United States Minister Leishmann has dad a special Interview with Foreign Minis ter Tewflk Pasha on the subject of the official recognition of the American schools, hospitals and charitable Insti tutions in Turkey. Mr. Leishmann pressed the foreign minister for a speedy answer to the matter, demand ing that the American establishments be given the same status as is granted to similar Institutions of other powers.