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From
A stretch of axure sky, changing to
the opal tints of evening; a smiling ex
panse of sea, with a long line of curling
breakers lashing the sandy beach—
that is what Rosa might have seen as
she stood by the calla lily hedge, with
the faint breeze stirring the magnolia
bloeaoma.
Yet it is doubtful if she saw any
thing. Her eyes held a dreamy far
away look, and the waving green
branches outlined
like
lacework
against the evening sky, the wind-
ruffled stretch of sea and the scent of
the wilderness of bloom were lost up
on her.
In her arms was a profusion of lil
ies, spray upon spray, almost more than
her slender arms could carry, for the
morrow was Easter day. Tall and stat
ely as a lily herself, Rosa stood, lost
in meditation, her face scarcely less
fair and pure than the waxen blossoms,
and as colorless, save for the scarlet
mouth with its haughty curves. A
pure, proud face waa hers, and cold as
the white mist that, like a dim
squadron, waa stealthily marching in
from the sea.
On the still, languorous air, suddenly
a clear, sweet note rang out—the
chimes of the old mission bells, . The
sacred music reached Rosa's ears.
arousing her from her reverie, Dis-
engaging one slender hand she made
tlie sign of the cross; her lips moved
silently.
There was a sound near at hand of
slow, halting footsteps. A man, young,
but of haggard countenance, was ap
proaching under the shadow of the
acacias.
But Rosa only heard the vesper
chimes.
Nearer the man drew until he stood
humbly before her, hla head bared,
his shabby hat in his trembling hand.
He raised his eyes, full of dumb wist
fulness to her face. The passionate
love and despair of a tortured soul was
in them. He stood motionless, as on
awaiting his sentence.
Sweet and high the chimes of the
bells arose and fell. Something like
a sob escaped the man’s lips; his thin,
brown fingers worked convulsively.
thy sake that I—’’ he checked himself
suddenly—, “and the salnta alone know
how hard, how unjust," he flashed out.
"hath been my lot. and a man may re
pent, Rosa.”
"I saw thee drinking in the plaza
but yesterday,” she said coldly, “Is
that thy repentance?"
“It is killing me, adorado, every
hand is against me. I am weak, un
worthy, but I can forget in no other
way.”
"Thou hast come here against my
command—see that thou dost not re
peat it,” said Rocr in icy tones. “And
now go, for I vould hasten to the chap
el to carry my flowers for the chancel."
He raised his eyes imploringly to
her face.
“Madre de Dios. I an» in purga
tory. Thou art so far above me—like
the saints. Rosa? Rosa! I am unfit
to touch thee—yet, I am going away
forever. Give me one of thy lilies—
only one, carita, because they are, like
thou art, as pure as the angels of God.”
He reached out his hand timidly, but
Rosa drew back as if his touch were
profanation.
"They are sacred lilies,” she said,
coldly. "I have none to spare, They
are for the chancel—to be placed upon
the altar. A thief may not touch
them.”
He winced and shrank away,
He
could not know that her hands were
clenched until the nails made cruel
marks in her tender palms, He only
saw the stern, accusing eyes and heard
the pitiless words that fell, like molten
fire, and scorched themselves into his
soul.
As one who had received a mortal
stab, he turned and walked despondent
ly away.
the outcast, the despised, the heart
broken?
Suddenly his eyes caught the white
gleam of waxen blossoms upon his
breast; a great awe entered his face.
"Jesu Maria,” he murmured. "The
lilies of the chancel.”
"Nay, but thine own, Diego mio,"
sobbed Rosa, brokenly. Her arms were
about him, her tears were upon his
face. ’Thine own, adorado,” she whis
pered tremulously; "all thine—the
lilies of Diego. I have robbed the al
tar for thy dear sake."
“This is the day of resurrection,”
said the Padre, solemnly.
"Madre de Christo,” the people mut
tered. “It ie a miracle.”
And it was—a miracle of love.
EASTER AT TUE WHITE HOCSE.
Time Honored Practice of Letting
the Children of Washington Roil
Lggs on President’s Grounds.
Easter Monday in Washington is an
event in the lives of the children which
is ahead of any other day in the year
exepting Christmas and Fourth of July.
Why? Because Easter Monday means
egg-rolling. For many years the little
ones of Washington have congre
gated by the hundreds and thousands
to roll eggs Easter Monday in tho beau
tiful grounds surrounding the home of
the President of the nation. There is
no sign to keep off the grass and there
are no restrictions. The children own
the place. The green grass of the
White House lawns is covered with
children, children innumerable, rolling
eggs on the grassy slopes.
It the day is pleasant it is a sight to
be remembered. The children have
been looking forward to the festival for
days and weeks and great has been
their anticipation. But genuine is the
sorrow and many the tears among the
little ones if Easter Sunday should
be cold and rainy with promise of a
bad Monday. Yet no weather has ever
been so bad as to keep everyone away
from the White House grounds on egg
rolling day. There are many hardy
little spirits who will not be daunted
by snow or cold or rain when it comes
to rolling eggs.
If the day is pleasant and the air
It was Easter day in the land of per balmy and tho turf warm and green,
petual bloom, where winter is summer what a time the children have. Such
and summer is paradise. In the early games as they invent to play with their
morning, as the gray curtain of fog eggs—games of infinite variation con
rolled back to the sea, and the sun, taining infinite amusement
The
a disk of golden flame, bathed sea and grounds look more like a juvenile fair
sky in a flood of glory, Rosa wended than anything else—an egg fair and
her way to the chapel to add the last the biddy hens around Washington
touches to the decorations for the Eas must needs have been very diligent
ter service.
for many days before. If the day is
fair, too, the glorious Marine Band,
the finest band in the country, plays
sweet music, and the children dance
and gambol to its strains. Truly
children's day in Washington.
Wonderfully Colored Eggs.
By 9 o'clock in the morning
grounds are actually taken possession
of by the youngsters, little kids with
wicker baskets and vari-oolored eggs,
wonderful eggs of green and blue and
red and purple and gold and then
eggs of lovely combination, and with
beautiful figures, such as would make
a wise hen cock her head on one side
anil wonder grently what happened
to her plain white eggs.
All sorts and conditions of children
find their way to the President's
grounds to enjoy Easter Monday. Some
of the children are beautifully dressed
in silks and laces and have French
fiurses to watch over them and carry
their eggs for them, while other little
ones are dressed in very shabby gar
ments with elbows out and toes peep
ing from their little shoes. They per
haps have only three or four plainly
colored eggs boiled in a piece of purple
or red calico. No French nurses accomp
any them, carrying eggs with gilt plc
ures, but they can roll their eggs and
themselves on the green grass and soil
their frocks and trousers to their
heart’s content, and they will enjoy the
holiday perhaps more than their more
fortunate companions. Usually the
mothers of these little men and women
come with them, tired-faced women
often, looking as though it had been a
long day since they had enjoyed such a
time. Here and there are little groups
of mothers and older sisters, talking to
gether pleasantly, but keeping watch
ful eyes to see that the little ones do
not get lost in the crowd or stray too
far away.
Wot Afraid of the Policeman.
It is a good natured crowd. The big
policemen standing around possess no
terror for the little ones on egg-rolling
day. They know that all that big po
licemen are for on Easter, is to keep
grown up people from Interfering with
the little ones who are rolling eggs.
And when the little people get lost now
and then, the big policemen are there
to take them in charge and tell them
’ not to cry until their mothers and sis-
J ters find them again. Then there are
great rivalries among the children.
Some of them are regular little gamb-
ers.
One little fellow gets hold
"IN Hf« «MS WAS A PeOfUSION Of lit».
of a very hard egg and he goes around
Down
on
the
beach
a
crowd
had
As if from a dream, Rosa started
! picking eggs with his acquaintances
and turned her sombre eyes upon him. gathered. Men were running to and or acquaintances he finds, and wins
fro.
One
hastened
toward
her
on
his
A «wift crimson flooded her face and
their eggs from them until finally he
suddenly receded, leaving it as white way to the town. He was hatless and strikes some other little fellow who
disheveled,
and,
as
he
drew
near,
she
as the lilies upon her heaving bosom.
has a harder egg than his, and then he
saw that his face was ghastly.
“Diego ”
"It is Diego Bernello,” he said, loses a lot of eggs.
The name fell involuntarily from her breathlessly. "They have just brought
And some of the little rascals gamble
on what is a “sure thing," with a
unwilling lips.
him in and are carrying him to the china egg, sized and painted to resem
"It is I, Rosa mia." faltered the man, chapel. The Padre is with him, but
ble a genuine egg. or with a ben’s egg
h'she> raised her head proudly and nothing can avail him now. He went run full of plaster of parts they will
out
this
morning
with
the
fishermen,
stepped back a pace; her beautiful and in coming in, the boat was over go around, and. of course win all the
eggs they contest for, until some sharp
mouth hardened.
.
turned. Ah! but Diego was brave. little fellow finds out the game they
He lifted his hand with a swift
Thanks to his courage, all were saved are playing. As the day advances and
tion of pain and arested the unspoken but himself. Two lives hath he res
the children get hungry, the peanut
words upon her lips.
cued from death, and I. for one, declare man and the popcorn man and the can
"Nay spare me, I beaeech thee <*r
ita- K is not to trouble tbee that I that it had blotted out his transgres- dy man at tbe gates do a thriving bus
iness. while at noon, many are the
am’ here. Only tbe desire to «eetoee
The speaker broke off abruptly and little groups under the trees, sitting
face to face and a^ * >
, t
] raUght at Rosa's arm. Her ___
face was
around on blankets and shawls and eat
before I go
aM ashen, and he thought »he would have ing lunches, for they are making a
conrage
S^bat
a bitter cry. she btoke away regular picnic of it and staying all
from him and sped toward the crowd day.
The Children of Presidents.
me, that thoa wilt J«X»ve Bie’
°nin tbe^id chapel a hard battle was
President Karrison's two grand chil
worthy though I m >.
•Thou ” «be cried in co» w “'” fought. A battle for a life by tiretee. dren witnessed, with great enjoyment,
h»*
»• c0“e U Know l 1, in.ls that would not iwogntae detot; the egg-rolling from the porch of the
:ill thy dishonor and
at last when they were despairing, a White House facing toward the
.jot—p, n not known to Ml tbe town- shudder ran over the
Washington monument and looking
that only thy nnole’s n“,n , hlent in
"The Virgin be praised. He hath past and across the Potomac to Ari I ng.
■aved thee from just P'inJ’hB,“t_2S
ton. tbe former home of Genera' Lee,
Whispered one »«’•J11“
“Diego.” »aid a voice, stifled with but where now are spread tho silent
--I once believed tbat I loved s»cn a
tents of a vast host of the Union army
who have passed across to tbs great
^"bowed hi. head 0» hi. “"He opened hl» eye, feebly and
about him In a vague bewilderment Ibevond.
hand* and groaned aloud-
__
Had some one spoken, or had be ■1 President Cleveland's two little girls,
-So*“ hemattered. "It
Ruth and Esther were real little dem
« Jrnhear 1 know that I have been
. I or rate. They task their own eggs and
adjudged guilty ot theft, yet. it waa «•
.L,
went out among the crowd of happy
children, and they rolled eggs with the
other children, as common day as their
associates, not tbe children of the
President of the United States, but the
children of an American citizen. Per
haps a little extra watch was kept over
them, but they didn’t know it and they
thought that Easter Monday was the
happiest day In their little lives.
The Roosevelt children are past the
age of egg-rolling; but they enjoy with
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
watching the gay throng of young
sters who tittup over the White House
grounds on Easter Mondays.
There was a time however, when the
children of Washington did not roll
eggs on the President’s grounds. Not
that they did not roll eggs though,Ob
no! The have always rolled eggs on
Easter Monday. But they used to roll
them in the Capitol grounds, down the
steep terrace which was on the west
front of the Capital. Then there came
a time when the Capitol grounds were
changed, and a big flight of steps built
where the terrace used to be, and some
dyspeptic in Congress objected to the
children romping on the smooth grass
of the big sward and rolling their eggs.
General Hayes was President then,
and he heard of it, and how dissapoint-
ed the children were because they had
no place to roll their eggs that year,
and the kindly man said: “Why let
them roll their eggs on the White
House grounds and enjoy themselves.”
And thus it has been ever since, from
year to year,
_ _________
BRA VEI> liEATU VALLEY.
Nevada Woman Penetrated Fastness
for Wealth—Was Accompanied by
Only Half Breed.
The w frd Funeral Mountain of
Death Valley, Nevada, are to yield rich
offerings of copper and gold ores as a
result of the successful prospecting of
Miss I ' Ilan Malcolm, who it is stated,
dis.
.d these deposits on a ridge
that towers three thousand feet in the
air. In making this find she was ac
companied only by an ludlan half
breed.
Once Lillian Malcolm, according to
her story, crossed the Chllccot in Al-
MISS LILLIAN MALCOLM
aska, alone, in her search for gold.
The railroad had noL been built that
has since minimized the difficulties of
Alaskan travel In the Chllcoot region.
Miss Malcolm declares that the tour of
the Funeral Mountains however was
more hazardous than her lonely jour
ney through the Chilcoot, years ago.
“No white person has ever visited
the spot «-here I viewed the great cop
per deposit until I made my way
there,” she said in a recent interview.
“I have never before seen such rugged
ness in mountains as the Funeral Range
presents. To climb up almost per
pendicular grades means to slide down
others before the objective point can
be reached. I have been a prospector
for ten years and have passed much of
my time in the mountains of Alaska,
Colorado and other places where there
is gold. The Funeral Range is the
worst of any. I made up my mind that
I would search for gold and copper in
the foothills of the Funeral Mountains.
I was compelled to cross the range to
get where
I wished to go, and al
though I had no fear, there were mln
utes when, in cllming, I did not dare to
look back, but only kept right on.
"There were many places where a
misstep meant sure death. All there
was to do was to go head. Once started,
there was no way to stop without con
fessing defeat Finally I found what I
was looking for. At first I could hardly
believe my eyes. I had reached a point
about twenty-five miles from tbe line
of the Clark road and sixteen miles
from the line of the ’Borax Smith*
road, when tbe ledge loomed up im
mensely.
'"Then I was happy. I have studied
minerology, geology, and other lines
leading to mining, and I have done
assessment work with my own hands
In deep shafts. In short, my exi>erience
has been such that I believe that ' I am
competent to know whether my mln-
eral discoveries are valuable.
“The ledge stands up clearly from
fifty to seventy-five feet, with both
gold and copper in it—but more copper
than gold. Millions maybe there In
easy reach—a quantity that I believe
is almost beyond ordinary computa
tion. If I am not mistaken the dis
covery Is valuable not only for Ito
richness but also because It opens up
knowledge of an entirely new copper
belt in the Death Valley.”
Plcturesqueness Is added to Miss
Malcom’s trfp by the fact that the In
dian halfbreed that she took into the
desert where so many strong men have
died is "Bill Kee,” who is “Scotty's”
friend. This Indian Is* good guide.
Tho next step that Lillian Malcolm
contemplates is that of informing the
railroad builders, now constructing
lines into the mineralized regions of
Nevada, of the topographical features
of the country to be crossed In order
to bring her copper and gold dis
coveries reasonably within transporta
tion facilities, and the place that form
erly required weeks for her to reach,
will soon be made accessible, when the
present railroading surveys are carried
out in rails. There is plenty of timber
In the Panamlnt Mountains that can
be utilized for mining purpoaoa. and
the toot of the steam whlstls may yet
be heard In the fearful fastnesses of
desolation that have so long appalled
stottt hearted man, only to be e
ouered finallv ny a worn*» fa »sank
prt ious metal*.
PU MP h. U. TUE VALIA AT
IN YOUR OWN HOME
A wo.rferfial »O'er of laterete
«• »very vowai.
Story of tho Moro of a Hundred
A couno of Modj rod procflor al
Bad Runaways.
hum. which O-riii. .1 th. foundation
and tell» you e*«rythiutf about mil
Pompeii, of the New York mounted
hnerjr. wbat Co make and bow tomato
It. Very simple aod eaady uadenrtuud
police squad, and one of the most in
by evary woman.
telligent members of the force, was
Writ*» atonca for free particulars
and luiUtiu offer It will be sent by
retired from active service the other
rsturu uuui ftee. Addrass ; Dept. 5
day. When the stroke of theaiuctloneer s NEW VORM g rtgis SCHOOL OF RILLINEKY
hammer put the big bay out of ser
JSO Broadway, New Y«rk
vice, he was saved from the ragman's
cart and night hawk cab by the de
votion of his flfteenyear friend and
comrade. Mounted Policeman Redmond
P. Keresey, of the West 152d street
police station.
Pompeii had spent nearly twenty
BY ARTHUR APPLIN.
years in the service and knew the
rules of the department better than
many a roundsman. He was the show
The CreatMt English Story of Modera
horse of the force. Catching runs-
his ____
business, , but mathema-
ways was
______
tics was his diversion. He could add,
subtract, divide and multiply, and for
lady Latty, the nine,
teen year old dauffiuer
years had been a source of delight to
of the Duke of Mirfoni.
the school children along Seventh
tfoea Into the East end
of London and Uvea anti
Avenue, where he was on duty be-
toil» with the poor. A
thrilling story of life In
tweeu 110th and 153d streets.
the greatest city In the
The children would gather around
world; it should be read
by everyone desiring to
Pompeii in the afternoons and talk to
learn of the great
him.
secret« and suffering»
and weakn e«se« of hu
Good at Mental Arithmetic.
man nature. Every
sentence of thh*
?.,orr_^HS • thrill.
When a sum In arithmetic was given
It t arrriea you out of
him Pompeii would listen attentively
the humdrum of every
day ex 1st once into a
to the figures, ponder over them for
sphere of enthusiasm
a moment, and then announce the
answer by striking the ground with his
left forefoot. If the answer was tne
half of something Pompeii indicated it
by bending his foreleg at the knee
and holding it for a moment His
friends insist that he could tell time by
looking at a watch and announce the
hour and half hour in the same way
as he did his sums.
nines of the Hnlvntlon Army.
OK HIE GRAY-An East End friend ot
Playing with the children was by
Lcrty*«.
no means the best part of Pompeii’s Bl L4* A LIAM—Tbe Terror.
t
You uLuul read this story, and. If you live in the
service. The records show that he and country,
you should hay® your children read it. so
his master have stopped more than a they may understand
what Ufu In a big city
hundred runaways in the last fifteen really
means. They
re ad this story to
years« In several instances lives were should
learn what lady Letty
saved. Policeman Keresey and Pom learned
in her effort to
reform London’» East
peii have been almost inseperable ever end.
She «eea there the
since the latter joined the force. Again motly crowds thrvnffins
streets; the ragged
and again the comrades were parted for the
and hungry looking
a short time when Keresey was trans children touch a chord
her heart. As you
ferred from one precinct to another, In
read this wonderful
but each time the policeman managed narrative of the condi
tions of life in a great
to have his favorite sent after him.
city, you appreciate
more fully the bjewdnffs
Hurt While Stopping Runaway.
of the country.
The squalor and suf
A short time before the arrival of ferings are pictured by
the
author of this won
Prince Henry in New York, Pompeii derful
story; the men
was badly hurt while stopping a run and women searching
turbulent sea, reach
away at Seventh avenue and 125th the
ing out and saving lost
also the great
street. Two days later, while acting souls;
work of the Salvation
as a guide for the Prince some dirt Army. lady Letty be
so strangely fas
got in the wound and blood poisoning comes
cinated by tlie new
set in. Keresey managed to get placed ▼lew» of life that she
aliandons
own pal
on reserve duty and gave all his time atial home, her
forsake« and
w
to nursing Pompeii back to health. The denounce« the aristocracy and takes up h» r life
among the lower elemeuts of motMffB life. .1'.°
police veterinary condemned the horse story fascinate« strangely but it also educates. Ill*
great
Mory ever written.
as unfit for duty, but Keresey managed the
the 1-ondon city govern
to evade the decision for a few days. It ha« boen
ment recoRiiiBlng tho
wouderful work of tho
Then Pompeii made a spectacular run
Salvation Army in ex-
along the avenue and stopped a bad
runaway in such style that nothing
more was said about retirement.
The fatal day was only nut off, how
do. yon will want them
to read tbie stery »bar
ever, and last month the big bay was
they may know the hor
sold at auction at the stables of the
ror«, the danger« and
die temptation» of ofty
We t 152d street station. Keresey was
life. If they ar® dtaaat
on hand with »400. all the*ready money
tailed with tbe old farm
chia 1« the story they
ho could scrape together, determined
nhoald read that they
not to be separated from his old friend.
may more fully under
stand the full meaning
of life In the city. There
H..r» While Stopping Runaway.
is one other character
In this story ind it «
Keresey himself bears some scars
character hus biff, dud
gained In the fierce rushes he has
eye« which gate out
from the throne at the
made with Pompeii. Five years ago
beauty of Lady Letty
Lis right leg was broken in two places,
with a strange envy.
The teaching» of the
and two years ago his neck was
story point to the idea!»
wrenched and his skull nearly smashed
of Christ. It is ffranu,
Instructive,
faactnatlnff
in. Roth injuries were received while
and awaken luff. Every
picture drawn by the
with Pompeii’s aid he was stopping
«killed pen of Arthur
dangerous runaways.
Applln, its author, wlU
Only one man had the heart to bld be reproduced tn our col am n«..
The
story
alone
is
worth
fL®®».
against Keresey so he ransomed his by Bendina 10c. to pay f"
01 MEil
old friend for 150. about twice what to the
years for Be. Don’t
he was worth said the. veterinary.
use it is fane Ina ting
of ad
Then Keresey started on a vacation. Other etorle«
tragedy, love
When last heard from he was spending venture,
and mystery will crowd
the paffea. We already
it on a bit of a farm he has at Rye, have
purchased and
N. Y., and with him went Pompeii, have ready for early
use the following:
happy in his last transfer.
- TM EfiftWM'Sn'» A4-
“RAGS AND RICHES’
A Rimance of Darkes London
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The average annual consumption of
popcorn in the United States is three
hundred carloads.
The flower "pink” was not named
after the color, but because its edges
were "pinked" or punctured.
The golden-crested wren is the small
est European bird. It takes about 71
of these little birds to weigh a pound.
Olass, dating from ancient times,
has exactly tho same component parts
as that of to-day, while the processes
used seem to have been very similar.
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“ Ths Itmkon DoUar,**
“TM MaMmff of if oil*“
“My First and I m *
“Hearts Lend.”
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