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Show V . I - THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH does she receive a dividend, too?" Yes." All of Yes," stiffly. Why, all of it? Forgive me, Mr. Day, but I must know. Is she needy?" I am not sure, but I suppose so. Wright' gave me to understand that he jhad nothing of his own, and that By CLARISSA MACKIE bis mother cared for the little girl. I assumed that he had nothing to ), 192ft, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) leave her. He w'as a good friend of Helen Wright dropped the check and mine and the dividends will go on as looked dreamily Into the fire. I long as I am alive, or as long as she wonder who Paul Day can be it must needs them, he ended grimly. At the risk of offending him beyond be It Is seven years since father died and left me alone, and once every year pardon, she asked one more question, I receive this check, signed by Paul And when you cannot scrape another Day and no clew to follow save the bit of gold from the mine, I suppose crap of attached paper, which always you will keep on working for the Giant bears the same message, Dividend on company, and continue to send the mine !" She child her dividends? Investment In To this he made no reply, but stood smiled as she retrieved the envelope from the wastepaper basket and staring off across the ravine to where the sun was sinking in a flame of studied the postmark. glory. Big Biver, Cal., she deciphered, It is getting late, he said after and went for an atlas, which she awhile, but she had disappeared, and studied closely. I will go and find it, she told herself that night as she pre- peering down the trail that wound through the ravihe, he saw her pared for bed. Paul Day, big, bronzed and hand- mounted on a white pony making for at Big River. some, emerged from the shaft of his the settlement A week later he received a telegram mine and discovered a young woman to confer seated on the end of an empty ore calling him to New York of the Giant car., She wore linen riding clothes, with the and twirled a stiff black sailor hat on Mines. So he locked the doors that CM3$$3$$SS'SSS3i$SSS$$$9SgS33i$SSr itr The Mysterious Dividends f ' Day-Wng- one hand. A tourist, and Day groaned inwardly, but his eyes were satisfied with the vision of. her, sitting there, cool and lovely with the afternoon sun shining on her fair head. He removed his hat and paused an ' Instant. It may sound Inhospitable, he said with a pleasant smile, but I am wondering if you are expecting to meet any one here? she asked curiously. Why? Because the mine is not being worked, and there is no one here except myself. People have been here from time to time, looking for some led to the shaft of the abandoned mine, shut up his little cabin nearby, and caught the first train for the East. An office boy led him to a private room where the door bore the name H. E. Wright. The name was a common one, and when he entered he did not connect it with the man who had been his partner. A girl rose to meet him the girl who had sat and talked to him that day at the mine, and whose face still His heart leaped at haunted him. sight of her. of the I am the Giant Mines, she told him when they were seated. My father was your old- friend and I am the little girl you have been sending dividends to all these years I am Helen Wright, Mr. Day. He shook hands with her dazedly. I have never needed the dividends you . sent, my friend ; but I have hoarded the money and you must take it back. I am rich, and I am so happy to meet fathers friend; and to have you for my friend, her eyes were full of tears as their hands clasped. Of course; they loved each other. The old mine revealed a hidden store. Paul Day became president of the Giant Mines, Inc., and they both collect dividends of happiness from their Ideal love for each other. ts By JOHN DICKINSON nt 8HERMAN HRISTIANITY has two great anniversaries 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 In victory" on Easter Day. If any man would come after Me, let him deny hlmsell and take up his cross and follow Me: So said Jesus to His followers beto His death on Calvary. Later they . went He fore saw Him flinching beneath the weight of the cross as He went forth from Pilates judgment hall along the Way of Sorrows to Golgotha. Still later they saw Him dying bn that cross. And finally theyf saw 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, worshiping God In His holy temple, with naught between the worshipers and His blue heaven. And for love, for human freedom and brotherhood. COURSE OF MATTER GRAFT If. the refulgent sun seems In some sort god to To the Christian of today Easter is a celebrayou, fear not that it Is disloyalty to the true God. tion of the belief that Rome was wrong and that Seemingly Merely a Part of Ordinary Jesus was right. And he knows that he must car-r- y It Is but the Instinct of prehistoric ages working Business Routine, With the Mer--' In you: And He will not be offended. the cross, as well as cling to the cross. chants of China. , Man Instinctively yearns for life beyond the , And If you be In New York city and the lure works on you, make you way to Central park very Till death do us part, reads the marriage grave. Two Englishmen once were discussservice. There are some who would have it so early Easter morning. For there on the Mall shall to ing the honesty of various nations and that not even death can part them. , Wrote Robert you find a great concourse of whom the lure was equally strong. Who will lead they agreed that fewer bills were pro- Browning: tested in Spain than in any other the worship I do not know, except that It will be O, thou soul of my soul. I shall clasp thee again. country. some worthy leader. Last Easter mom he was the And with God be the rest! Have you had any dealings with Rt. Rev. Herbert Shipman, suffragan bishop of the the Chinese? one Englishman asked. Protestant Episcopal diocese, former army chap-lailife Is no future be to there if Many feel that In Rather," the other exclaimed. for them then Is this earthly life a hideous iniquity, negotiating a large contract the chief a prodigious failure. Wrote Tennyson: Chinese of the Now, does the lover of Mother Nature, objected representative Up In the mountains, high in the Rockies, V, to the quality of the goods. I suggestThou wilt not leave us In the dust; Seeing a moving blue In the aspens. Thou madest man, he knows not why, ed that another power in the East Hearing a twitter sweetly familiar, He thinks he was not made to die; would be glad to get the goods. This Lo, the first bluebird I Say to his comrade: And Thou hast made him. Thou art Just. I Then him. on Spring is upon us springtime, with Easter. no made Impression Winter is ended. Jesus is risen. V saw what was the matter. It seems inconceivable that man should toll upLet us go worship where shows the snow cross How much do you want to report ward with sweat and travail until a Lincoln could Mountain. Cross on the mountain. Holy High that the material Is all right? I asked say, With malice toward none, with charity for and Easter This g few hardy spirits, him. all and then should come annihilation. ; Wrote will worship on the In love with the Two hundred and fifty thousand Darwin : slope of the Mount of the Holy Cross In the Colfrancs, said the yellow man. a.1 other man Rockies. Around them will be stream and and Is Intolerable an orado that he It him the thought money When I brought beings are doomed to complete annihilation lake and forest and' natural scenery unsurpassed. counted It calmly and finding that two sentient and slow process. after such a And above them, boldly drawn In everlasting snow notes were torn he asked me to reanthat the I In took sees them, saying So the Christian of today Easter against the naked granite of the great peak, will be place them. the Holy Cross In glistening white. ; I would change them. But he held on swer to the ages-ol- d Question : If a man die, shall Next Easter mom there will be many more worto the notes, telling me that he would he live again? shipers and thereafter the number will yearly InThis is an old, old earth and man has lived long keep them until I returned. After I crease. For under the Holy Cross on the slope of took new notes he had brought the upon it so 'long that he celebrated Easter ages the mountain has been established g devotional them gravely and signed the contract before Jesus died upon the cross and rose from center In the form of a camp. Thousands have Kansas before celebrated man City Easter The that dead. with great dignity. the come under the spell of the mountains giant cross Star. Christianity came was an Instinctive expression and thousands have asked for this devotional camp, of his joy that winter was over and spring was on go it la being established and developed, for the Desert of Alamogordo. the way.' To him the sun, If not God himself, was benefit of all. Both Protestants and Roman CathOne of the natural wonders of New light and warmth and springing life. So. at or olics are interested. All are Invited to come and Mexico is the Alamogordo, or Tularosa, near the vernal equinox early man celebrated the News. to Detroit the his slender in seasons that renewed the worship at a shrine with, as John Masefield says, desert, according change It is a sandy plain, measuring from lease on life and comfort. A beauty perfect, rips; complete, Man Instinctively turns to a god. If not to the 100 to 125 miles from north to south ' That arts own hand could only smutch and from 35 to 50 miles from east to God. In the beginnings of the race man saw god And Natures self not better much. west, and it represents, in the opinion In light and darkness; heard god In the thunder Dr. Johnson wrote that the mountains were so of many authorities, the upper surface and the wind ; felt him In the manifold manifestamuch hopeless sterility dismissed by nature from of a gigantic block of the earths crust tions of nature. , Perhaps most of all early man her care. But Dr. Johnson was'wrong. All the that sank after the deposition Of the saw god In the sun that drew nearer In the spring world loves the mountains or would, If It knew Is surrounded no by and gave light and heat and food. So It is cretaceous strata. It the mountains. And they are Indeed lovely In the an elevated border and on the east, wonder that modern man rejoices as of old at the Wherever there Is water there are aspens to a sheer rise cliffs He spring. would of the with If be could, sing. spring. especially, coming tender green Is charmingly offset by the Ortheir and curious : The feet. Bliss Carman height of 1,000 of the evergreens. Light and disdarker green . gan mountains are on Its southern Well I know tance paint the scene with the gorgeousness of a ; The sun will shine again and spring come back border. Her ancient, glorious, way. painters palette. Distance turns the greens Into Within the plain, where floods of And gladness visit the green earth once more. lilac, mauve, blue and Indigo. Gorges, deep and lava once swelled up, are vast deposits dark, take on purple shades. The shadows cast by of gypsum, which forms as white as For many a city man does Berton Braley speak vast wind Into drives which the moving clouds make fascinating changes In the snow, when he sings of the tunes of the first street ; color scheme. The sunset skies are startling In drifts. The vegetation Is peculiar and piano of the spring: their crimsons and golds. And dawn In the mounhighly interesting to botanists. tains Is a thing of beauty and therefore a Joy for. vision a me build of meadows Elysian, They - Of brooklets croon. babble breezes high peaks blushes and ever. The naked granite of that that Wisdom. Folly and And wistful and tender young spring in her splendot red under the first rays of the sun and If a ruby Blaise Pascal, one of the great thinkComes dancing to me on the wings of a tune. the beauty Is enhanced. As peak Is ers of France, asks, Whence comes It or shorten on the forested shadows the lengthen so much for all a of we Russell Mott, have poet patience to pass that long ago, spoke g play of color. slopes there Is an with those who are maimed In body, nature lovers when he wrote: Dr. Johnson was wron&. As John CL Van Yes; and so little with those who are deGodde helps alle good adventurers Dvke says In The Mountain," Mountains are the Who love strange roads sae wells. fective in mind? - It Is because the Whose prysonne ys a city street. spots where we get once mors back to natures cripple acknowledges that we have the a cells; Whose counting-hous- e heart after a lifetime spent In tbo dreary Londons use of our legs ; whereas the fool ob; of the world. are we the maintains that Send them a safe dellveraunce. stinately The Mount of the Holy Cross (13,978) Is world-famoThat each may lyte his fyre. persons who halt In understanding. because of Its cross of snow that forms the With only the starres for gaolers Without this difference in the case, ' Inns the lands of hys desyre. touch of Its majestic beauty. The upcrowning resentmove our would neither object cross measures about 1,200 feet and morn offers the on of is So Easter It that right ment, but both our compassion. a lure for many that no church can equal. i the beam about 200 feet. Its snow is everlasting and may be seen for many a mile. The mountain Easter morn at sunrise, should you be In Los Matter of Form. Itself can be seen on a dear day from Longs peak, one the those and of lured man to by to a Angeles Click He is great cling a hundred miles to the north. hasten to Eagle Rock park. t You will find many old forms.1 Holy Cross gives Its name to the Holy Cross clack When I saw him dancing Jn others going your way and you will come to a vast for- ndar charge of National ai.d cror a on surmounted forest, which crowd Rock, by was Eagle he clinging the cabaret last night to a very young one. . , , . . fellow-worshipe- . t,w ..cr Mounted on a White Pony. who used to work for me, His eyes but they have all gone. turned away and he gazed off Into of the men the remote distance ; he might have been searching for something unattainable, for his eyes were sad just then. . This Is the old mine, Isnt It? the girl asked, stepping down from the car before he could reply, and coming closer. Yes," there was surprise In his tone. Do you own it? she wanted to Please tell me all about It. know. My name Is Day my partner, Wright, died a few years ago. You see, he and I worked It together for awhile and it looked like a good thing ; then his health failed and he went home to the East. I understood that he had a motherless little girl, who lived with a grandmother he was a fine fellow, who loved the open coune man. I missed him. try, a Some one sent me word of his death. ; Didnt his heirs claim a share In the mine? she asked. She liked his cleep laugh that followed her question. The lead was a false one, the gold pinched out shortly after his departure and we had never drawn up any legal papers. , Yet, you remain here and work It? I have been able to He shrugged. scrape out a little ore, enough to make a living for myself, while I am working for Giant Mines. I am a mining engineer. Thank you for telling me so much, she said. May I ask one question-i- t may sound impertinent, but Ask any question, he replied. mine Does the' Wright-Da- y t, he corrected. mine pay Does the dividends?" Now he blushed like a schoolboy, Why why do you ask that question? I wanted to know! she laughed frankly, and there was a very soft light In her brown eyes. It pays dividends sometimes, he admitted. Annual dividends? Yes, a little sharply. ' Does the little girl of your partner . Day-Wrig- fair-squar- Day-Wrigh- Day-VYrig- ht , , able-bodie- d C&oZS T&ZJTFr&r&jBaBT cuza&ADO est service .of the Department of Agriculture. The 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 creek, 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 on foot in froip two to three hours. The vast panorama of snow-clamountain peaks, evergreen for- d V , , ' . ' golden-flower- . te snow-crowne- d . , . . ests, 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 the visitor passes through five different and distinct tree zones. Timberline Is at 11,500 feet. And all the way up are flowers; In season the alpine meadows above tlmberllne 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 flowerless 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 Jew-- ' Ish Passover the flower Is well named. It is one of the buttercup family and a cousin to the anen ones wind flowers. It grows in dusters that often number eight or ten blossoms. The flower stands eight or ten Inches from the ground. Often d blossoms are almost 2 Inches the 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 duster. in the mountains a fall of light snow corresponds to the spring rain of the plains. In my commonplace book I find this under datsi of Easter Sun-- v day: A foot or so of light snow fell last night At 10:30 this morning I took a broom, a basket and a long knife and started out to gather my Easter ' ; flowers Easter flowers! Certainly. I know an open space near my log cabin where were growing thousands of pasque flowers and many buttercups and here and there a violet I had wandered among them before the snow came, enjoying thdr beauty to the fulL I plodded off through the snow to the Kit Car-soCorner dose to the camp of that famous frontiersman on a beaver-trappin- g expedition In the Fifties There I began sweeping off the snow In slgzag fashion. Soon I found pasque flowers In such numbers that I grew hard to please and filled my basket with the largest and most perfect They were none the worse for the snow. But the buttercups and violets were forlorn. The next day the snow was all gone and the field was brilliant with pasque flowers, unharmed by their advem ture." ' star-shape- ' n - |