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77TlCn trtmbllng fear and trcanv
lrg tear
Grt dawned th Caatcr day,
6low to tbi tomb, through th abud
dcring gloom,
Ch women mad thtr way.
"Che atona to heavy and huge," they
cHcd,
"Hnd the cave to darn and deep,
Hnd the cross towers still on th
dreadful Mil,
Hnd what can we do but weep?"
CnO littt roalJ hto voice obeyed
By sweet Gcncearclh's ware,
Hnd Laxarus beard hto thrllltna word
Hnd cam from the rocky grave,
Hnd the youth of Hn to rise wa
fain,
Hnd hto mother waded no more.
But now the Giver of Life to dead,
Hnd Joy and hope are o'er.
Hundred of people arw empioyoa.
Tns bwtt plui-tlo plauu art to ba
found In the dmite awauipa and bayoua.
Only the young U-uvoa tUut ore u yet
curled up ana uot npn-tid are ael.w-ted
tul pliirkmL A there are not many on
one plaut It necnltut!'i cowMTalU
work to gather a liir-e yuautity. These
colled up leaves are nearly hlte. They
are packed In crate aud shipiwd to
New York, I'blladelphU and western
dealers, where the buibII uprtga to be
tlven out to the conKfi'tjatloua are -lected."
WaHhlnifton I'oet
Sacred
ONCE
Me,
awi
Jerusalem's
Cm it?
Ceremony
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EASTER EGO ROLLING.
NCE every year Jeruaalenj, the
eoca of the ChrUtlan world.
alnu to some semblance of
1U former Klory. Tbla la st
Caatertlde, when the roads leading to
the Holy City are thonged with pilgrims
who corns from the uttermost parts of
the earth. The goal of all these pll
" grima la the holy sepulcher. The pres-
' an , r i a I , rf m mult rfufiita
A Csrieaa Caatunt toiln
NIUI apllL
Egg rolling ou Easter Monday la a WDiCD la open to Chriatlaus of all sect.
rUHtoin apparently .eiullur to Wash-' tut attached to its sides are a inultl
ington. The origin of the pructlt-e hus tuds of churchea, chapels and shrines
not been satinfaotorlly traced, but the , belonging to the different creed, in
hUtement I lua.le that In the year J which ars to be seen no leas than thlr-
i783 a amall ron.pany of tieru.au sail-: tJ-veu -noiy piace. 01 more or iea
uouoiiui BULueuilcilj. to iuu ceuiirr
TACEH AD AMOEIj WW OH I
T O, from
hto ehroud of crimson
cloud
Che burning sun upeprfngsl
ho. In the dawn, on dewy lawn,
faces and angel wfngal
"Why seed ye the living among the
dead?
Oh, not In the tomb to he I
Be has burst the prison of death,"
they said i
T II wett blm on Galilee I"
77TG6p no more, though ye weep
so sore,
for the loved In the farther land i
Chough the dust be spread on the
cherished head,
Che soul to In cbus' band.
Hnd the mourner knows that hto Iord
arose
Co set hto prisoners free,
Hnd the death on earth to a heavenly
birth,
Hnd time to eternity.
IN JAPAN AND RUSSIA.
Hew Warrlnar Natloaa Celekrata
taa Festival of I'.aea.
Every nation hus its Knater. In far
sway Japnu till celebration of the re
birth of the year la called the feaat of
the cherry liloxmmia and la attended
with much merrymaking and Jollifica
tion. The bloHNonilug cherry tree are
hung with Innumerable paper lanterns.
The boata ou the rivers at night ar
similarly decorated, and there are pro
cenatona of alngiiig girl, actor, trades
people aud monk.
In KuhhIh KaHter 1 a festival cele
brated much like our C'hrlHtmas, with
gift and rejoicing. Doll aud egg
are bought for the little one by every
householder, and the week Immediate
ly preceding 1 devoted to what has
been called Uie "great annual Musco
vite WBah." Every houaewlfe make
an elaborate cleaning of her dwelling,
and the public hatha are crowded with
people who deem cleanllueH at this
particular Reason a religion duty.
Valuable presents are Interchanged.
Formerly every one had right to
kiss everybody cUe, though tbla curi
ous cuatom now prevail only In rural
dlotrlct. Among the rich gorgeous
artificial eiiit. sometimes worth thou
sand of dollar apiece, are given and
ed up the Potomac and eiitalillshed be
low the (resUit lieorgetowu a settle
ment which they uuuntl Hamburg, and
it I pottHible that the custom of rolling
Easter egg owe to these pioneer It
introduction into the United States.
Among the settler, perhaps, was a
descendant of the l'rluce of liurgun
dy, who, according to tradition, cen
turies ago dipped egg In dyes, hid
them In her palace ground aud then
Invited poor children to search for
them.
One who has never wltncHHed the
sport of egg rolling cannot realize bow
much enjoyment there 1 to be bad
from It. Long ago the capltol ground
were used for It. There were long,
grassy terraces, aud the school children
gathered upon them, set the gaudy ob
ject to rolling, then gathered them
selves into a ball and followed them,
to the detriment not only of their
clothes, but of the grass. Home hard
hearted person or person stopped this,
aud after awhile one who will ever
bold a sacred place in the heart of
the children suggested and obtained
the "White House lot" for the annual
sport. 1
The children sit or stand In squads,
and the gnyly colored egg are started
on their downward course, turning over
and over and gaining momentum with
each revolution until they have reached
the bottom In safety or, having struck
another in its dowuward flight, I bro-
keu or dashed to piece.
The children rush away to recover
the spoils, aud wheu the egg la restored
to It rightful owuer the feast begin.
It is an orderly crowd, and this la to
be wondered at when It is taken into
consideration that not less than 15,000
children spend the day together.
The crowning Joy Is when the Ma
rine band, dressed in scarlet coats,
which seem to vlo with the gnyly col
ored tulips nodding In their beds cIom
by, strikes up a popular air and con
tlnues to play until the time to go
borne.
When the strains of "Hall to the
Chief!" are beard It la the signal for
wild and enthusiastic cheering, for all
know that the chief magistrate of the
nation has come out on the portico to
watch the children. He is usually ac
companied by his wife and a number
of bis official family. The children are
made happy by nods, smiles and friend
ly recognition with a wave of the
band.
At last "The Star Spangled Banner
Is struck up, and the children know
that their bappy day Is at an end, for
that is the last number played, and It
la the signal to disperse. Pittsburg
Dispatch.
of the rotunda stands the supposed
luUib of our Lord, the boiy sepulcher.
It is a little square ejiapel twenty five
feet In length and height aud is cov
ered with votive lamps, vase aud
Images. Inside Is the actual tomb
stone, a marble slab about five feet
long, the chamber containing It being
so small that only four or Ave persons
are able to kneel before the tomb at
one time.
Every sect celebrates Euster In a dif
ferent fashion, aud many curious cere-
OBKKX PEIXST WITH THB HOLT FIBH.
THE SPIRIT OF EASTER.
A Paalm aad a Irrnoa bjr llelea K.l-
lcr, taa nil ad tllrl.
Oh, give thank unto the Lord, for he
la good, and his mercy eudureth forev
er. Sing unto him a new song, for be
causeth the desert to put forth blos
soms, and the valleys he covercth with
greenness. Out of the night he brlng-
eth day and out of death life everlast
ing. On tills day a new light Is upon
the mountains, for life and the resur
rection are proclaimed forever.
Easter Is the promise of the Lord
that all the best and noblest in man
shall be renewed, even as growth and
bloom and ripening shall not ceuae. The
bars of winter are broken, and the Iron
bands of death are riven. The bird la
on the w ing, and the flight of the soul
ahall know no weariness. The lilies lift
their holy white gralla, brimmed with
sunshine of (lod's love, for ha not the
Lord manifested hla love In flowers and
In the upsprlnglng of green things 1
They are sweet interpreters of large
certainties. Each yar the winter cuts
them down, and each spring they put
forth again. Every spring la a new
page In the book of revelntlon, wherein
ws read that life is an eternal genesis
and its end is not, for it endurctb for
ever.
Belief In eternal life compels us to
believe la good deeds and honest
thoughts. The good man tolls not for
today nor for tomorrow alone, but be
cause be know that his labor ahall sur
vive long after hi hand ha fallen from
received. Such egg often contain cost
ly 1en el. and In thla ahai tha .r the Iilow. The ffood man txiurs hlmaolf
each year Uwtows upon his wife a ! 'nt0 tne world and makes It new. He
precious token of his imperial regard.
-New York World.
GROWN IN AMERICA.
Are Me
Palm For Palm day
Lomr I ai ported.
"The fact I not generally known,"
remarked a Washington florist, "that
practically all the palms used on Tain)
la among the blessed w ho win sight out I
of blindness, order out of chaos and
life out of death. Since the first Easter
morning the soul of mnn has shone
with unwaatlng light, for then ho look
ed Into the radiant face of the risen
Christ and knew that Ood's universe
shapes Itself not to destruction, but to
a yet more glorious genesis yea. It eu
dureth from everlasting to everlasting.
1 t T . . I T " I ( . . l .
Sunday In the churches of this city ars u " s ipmpamon,
grown In the I'liltcd States. The com
mon Impression seems to be that the
plnnta come from foreign climes. Tbla,
however. Is a mistake. Tears ago they
dlil. but Immense nurseries have been
established In Philadelphia and about
New York, where they are grown from
aeeda secured from Arabia And other
tropical countries."
"How about the little sprigs of palms
that are distributed to congregations f
"Oh. they ars native to this country,"
was the reply. "They are stripping
from the palmetto trees found so plen
tifully in the gulf states. The process
of gathering them Is somewhat Inter
esting, too," the florist continued after
seeing an Immense plant properly
placed on the wagon. "The work of
gathering the niTlg for Tslm Sunday
throughout the United States baa
grown to large proportions, and many.
The Reratada Lllr,
Tbla la the aeasou of the Bermuda
Illy, the large and very beautiful vari
ety of that flower which la used ex
tenaively for church decoration on Eas
ter Sunday. Bermuda supplies all the
large cities of the United States wlfh
this flower, and the trade has grown
to large proportions and become rec-
monlee are observed In the vicinity of
tha holy sepulcher at that season. One
of the most interesting Is that known
as the "adoration of the column of the
scourging," which Is held In one of
the Roman Catholic chapels. Here
broken pillar of red granite, believed
by the credulous pilgrims to be the
very pillar to which our Lord was
bound when be was scourged. Is ex
posed on the aJtar for the edification
of the faithful. - Among the eastern
Christians, especially the Russians, this
relic Is held In great veneratlou, aud as
It Is uncovered ones a year, on Holy
Thursday, the crowd to view It Is lm
mouse, the people struggling and fight
ing for a foremost place, while the
Turkish soldiers, whose duty It Is to
keep order In the sanctuary, use their
long whlpa on men and women alike.
The ceremony of foot washing Is per
formed by two sects by the Roman
Catholics and the Greeks.
The ceremony connected with the
"boiy fire" takes place beneath the
central dome la and around the holy
epulcber. From Qood Friday to
Easter ere this part of the edifice Is
closed. The people, however, who are
Inside and some go there two or three
days In advance are not expelled,
According to ancient tradition, the sa
cred fire descends from heaven Into
the holy sepulcher once every yesr, on
the afternoon of Easter eve, and this
Are Is supposed to cleanse the faithful
front their sins. Every one, therefore,
who wishes to take part In this mys
terious rite provides himself with
bundle of candles, which he will light
from the sacred Ore Itself. The peo
ple, who belong exclusively to the Or
thodox Greek church, crowd the whole
Interior of the rotunda and the great
gallery overlooking the tomb, and as
Easter eve wears on they work them
selves Into a state of Intense excite
ment, calling upon the sacred Are to
descend. At 3 o'clock In the afternoon
a Greek priest, borne on the shoulders
of several half naked porters, makes
bis way into the crowd and, approach
ing one of the two boles In the wall of
the tomb, thrusts a torch Into the In
terior, where the Greek patriarch of
Jerusalem and hla chief clergy are at
prayer. A moment later he with
draws It alight with the sacred Are
and Is carried by the porters through
the throng to the Greek chapel.
The crowd In a state of frenty rushes
toward the priest to try to light a
candle at the sacred torch, and the
ait edifice resounds with the cry,
"Tile Are has corner To protect the
priest the Turkbth soldiers are obliged
to drive back the people with the butts
of their guns, " while the police keep
them la order with the laah. The only
persona who remain calm are the gov
ernor of Jerusalem and bis principal
officers, who, seated on a rained dais.
survey the scene with true Turkish
Imperturbability. London Graphic.
A Thoughtful Man.
M. M. Austin of Winchester. ltd-
ognitea as one of the moat lucrative In "new nai lo On in the hour of np d.
-auiru resmeni or me island can en-1 ins w ife had such an unutual cum t f
"" AU v ixTiuuoa is a layer I at., much ami llvo.i. m u,-,..
of mold on a rork fmlnrfatlnn anf la I lM,Jr"'l ISr 8
generally poor for agricultural cur- P"1 Df)l nwP ner- ,Ie 'nought . f
poses, aside from ths growing of veg- "ml '""d 1r- King's New Life Pill
stable and the lilies. The trade with Mil she got relief at once and vi
ths Unit! States In Bermuda onions I finally cured. Oulr 25e at all dm
. ... , I alorpfll
m rscaas years us uiy nas become
even of mors Importance to man of
ths Islanders.
Feed, barley and lran for sals at Cate's
market
Will Tear mils Down.
Portland Telegram.
Hydraulic operations on a bcmIu
that will nstonUh citizen ot Port
land, who have never dreamed that
aCiduCv Couid uevine mean c reduc
ing lue rugged blutft and filling
gulches that hklrt this city, are pro.
Jm-ttd by the Interests represt ntetl by
Lnfe Pence, who has appropriated
wt tin of a doi 'n stream on the
wa'ershtd around Portland to be
used first in changing topography of
certain sections aud later a a source
it supply fi.r irrigation, domestic
Mtpply and power. As told exclu.
Ively In The Telegram three month
ago, water cfHndy and Bull Hun
was appropriated at that time, but
pursuant to I he action of the legM.-
ture In giving exclu. We. rl;hl to the
municipality to the water of Hull
Run whenever needed, other supply
in that direction has been appropri.
ited lo he added to such portion of
he fl w of I he 8indy a may be
needed for that side of III e Willam
ette. While Portland people have been
unaware ol the operations under
way, active engineer have led corps
of instrument men, rhainmen and
laborer over Ihe elevated sect inns i
back of Willamette Heigh', and Me
lindit Height property ha been
bought by Ihe Pence iieople, and at
the present time nearly four milts of
benches on which will I car tied en
UHltf have been com p let d over right
f way secured, and 42 men are doml
cl'ed In one Uiarding house who are
In prosecution of the work under
way.
Mr. Pence was out of Ihe ci'y
Thursday, having accompsnicd Chief
Hngineer Hhearer early thi morning
n a trip over the survey for a csnal
line. Fr ni other sources was
leaned coniderahle details of the
progress of the plans by which it I
x peeled to devisn a method of re
moving high point of rugged bluff
aud cliffi an fill in yawning gulches
a d unsightly gashes in the earth,
there' y reducing large nreaa to even
g'sde that will make w veral uare
miles ot suburban territory useful
and rietdrahle I hat in the present con
dition I Impossible of uiaptlon to
ny use.
Among other subjects the enter
prise is expected lo serve Is to sluice
away Ihe hill above the reservoir In
the city park to prevent lor all time
difficulty In maintaining Ihe reser
voir, and which it is estimated cn
he done, at a cost of not to exceed
live cent per yard, whereas the mu
nicipality has paid 16 cents yard
for having earth
point. Character
rounding Portland Is such as to be
handled eaaily and rapidly by sluic
ing methods.
Appropriations of water have been
made from Ihe East Dairy, Kmery'
Mills and McKay Creeks, in Wash,
inglon county, from the Handy, Hull
Uun and Johnson In Clackamas
county, and from the streams that
come down Halch, Marquatu and
other gulches adjacent to Portland in
Multnomah county. Portions of
these filling were made three
months ago for the suburban water
system then proposed only for the
suburban districts having high eleva
tions around the outskirts of Port
land. The filling of streams on the
west side of the Willamette were
made more recently, and the number
of stream, nrxt of which have small
flow, I Indicative that the waters of
all must in some way be conveiged
to give sufficient head for successful
hydraulic an I sluicing operation.
A. W. Rhearer, an old lime placer
mining engineer, well known In
removed at that Southern Oregon, where he was en-
of the bill Bur-f gaged in similar work fur many
years, is chief engineer. Surveys
have been made by Walter Inch,
under direction of C. M. Thomas.
Four hou-to on Willamette Heights
have leceutly beeu rented f ji use of
the force.
Tbctte were some of the fact In
volve in execution of the plans that
were found to exist where a splendid
view Is bad of Portland, and from a
foreman on the work it was ascer
talued that three crews of engineers
are now engaged In completing sur
veys and tettiug stakes for construct
ion of other canals.
Team work la about to begin, and
lumber I being distributed along the
line w here 2H00 feet of flu tne will be
built to carry 100 second teet, or 600
miners' inches of water. Another
force of men I employed In digging
poll and as rapidly a thn lis csn
he set and wires strung, the various
building at which the enterprise
center will be connected.
While tlii large amount of labor
ha leen concentrated on the went
id of the Willamette, the project
for furnishing water to Mouut Tabor,
Montavllla, Ruseelville, Woodstock,
St. waits aud St. John's, baa not been
abandoned and will be carried out as
first related In The Telegram. Final
survey stakes are being set Ibis week
for the canal which may be ui veiled
in some plscea from the course, de
pendent upon securing right of way,
but the general plan is In nowise in
terfered with.
Appropriations of water have made
In all cases by Lafe Pence, personally,
those from Sandy and Hull Hun be
ing filed for the suburban Home
Supply A Canal Company, while
those on the West Side have been for
the West Portland Canal d Pipe Line.
From the plat filed in the office of
the Recorder of Washington county,
at Hiilsboro, It Is ascertained that the
main diverting canal from fcast
Dairy and Mill Creeks Is to be ten
feel wide and four feet deep, and the
system will Include six reservoirs
and have Its head at a point north of
Ulencoe Water of these streams is
said to he of purity unsurpassed, and
ihH reservoir locations would insure
perpetnal supply and strong bead for
such sluicing and hydraulic opera
tions as are necessary to bring to de
sirable grade the region back of the
city park and In Ihe vicinity of
Mountain View Hill, back of Wil
lamette Heights.
Nelson Hardware Co.
The Leading Hardware and Imple
merit House In this County.
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Mitchell Wagons, Run-Abouts, Buggies, Hacks
and Road Wagons both in Steel
and Rubber Tires.
Standard Ranges Jersey Lily and Steel Cook Stoves
Coibino Rudders' Hardware.
Fishing
Spaulding's Rase Rail and Sporting Goods
Tackle, Rifles, Guns and Ammunitions of all kinds
All Kinds of Heavy Hardware, Iron and Coal
Pipe Fitting - - Pluming Goods
PRIflCE HEPdMHe Clydesdale Perclpon.
Managed by F. C. Pauli, the well-known Groom.
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WILL MARK THE SEASON OF 1005 IN THIS COUNTY.
LENOX Martin Smith Ranch, Thursday noon until Fri
day noon.
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CORNELIUS Iiunninp'B ham, Monday morning to 1:00
o clock p. m.
(J REEN VI LLE Floyd Drown' Monday evening and all
day Tuesday.
JLENCOEMays l?ro., Wedncfday evening until Thurs
day 10 a. m.
Terms, $5; season, $8; insurance, $12..j0. All precaution will he taken, but will not bo responsible for accidents.
o insure wnen patron nas iwo or iuoro vu uum,
RETIIANV At IJlacksmith shop Thursday evening unti
Friday noon.
HILLSR0R0 Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday at
owner's home.
C. 1'AULI, (JrooM.
H, D. SMELTZER, Owner.