Show USE OF One Across the world his message rings And hearing It men cease a while To mudly strive for worldly things Or cling to longings that are vile And having wrought for good or Pay lo ing tribute to him still Wherevt-- slender steeples rise Wherever mellow chimes are heard The love he taught still sanctifies The nobler passions still are stirred Ry every friendly look and thought We spread the message that he brought Tackled the Wrong Man in Tennesseean The leaders In the WASHINGTON— against the rules of the house of representatives must have been desperately in need of recruits when they tackled Representative Walter Brownlow of Tennessee and tried to make him a convert to their way of thinking The committee explained its mission Mr Brownlow listening courteously the while Finally when the explanations had all been made and the three members of the committee were completely out of arguments and breath Mr Brownlow spoke for the first time “You say” quoth he "that this Is a movement to reform and liberalize the rules of the house of representatives?” “It Is” the committee agreed with unanimity and eagerness “Well then” said Mr Brownlow “you can’t expect me to take much interest in this fight for I have never read them I don’t know what they are Old Snub Costs Diplomat His Post the center thereof Mrs SNUB inflicted years ago upon an A American couple who were spending their honeymoon abroad has been paid for at last Slight as the affair seemed at the moment it has developed enough importance to lose Henry White ambassador at Paris his post in spite of his long experience in various important capitals of Europe and his other claims to notice It was back in 1886 that William Howard Taft and his bride a pair of comparatively unimportant but blissful Newlyweds were doing their honeymoon in Europe In the course of their rainbow rambles they came to Vienna where Diplomat White was then of legation There was some afternoon function of the unimportant sort coming off within a day or so which was given some degree of interest by the fact that royalty would be Newlywed was Just dying to see royalty Mr Newlywed promised that his bride should see all the royalty that was to be visible on the afternoon in question He asked Secretary White to see about securing admission cards The request might have been fulfilled by the sllightest hint from the legation secretary to the proper official But Mr White was not in that mood On the morning of the day for the function Secretary White sent the following little note to Mr Newlywed: “I am sorry to inform you that I was unable to accomplish what you asked The affair is very exclusive The number of Invitations is limited and they have been ordered sent only to persons of importance and distinction I inclose 'however tickets to the museum and trust that Mrs Taft and yourself will spend a pleasant afternoon” One of the first clouds had appeared in the Taft honeymoon and the new wife’s disappointment was deep The letter still remains in the Taft memory and archives and it Is the document in the case of Ambassador Henry White To Build on Noted Tennis Court Ground THE White House tennis court is President Taft who does not care has anything about tennis anyhow told the men who are to add to the executive building that he will not structure stand for a but that if more room is needed in the building it can be spread out to the south To the south is the famous spot where Mr Roosevelt battled with his tennis cabinet The architect who designed the office building Mr McKim of New York made it as inconspicuous as possible that it might not Interfere with the White House proper Congress however added $10000 to the cost of the office building that its foundations and walls might be made strong enough to bear the weight of another story or several of them if necessary in the Now the congress has approfuture priated $40000 to add to the capacity of the executive offices Mr Taft remembering the points almade by architects in ' the past though not of an esthetic nature himself has sacrificed the tennis court on the and ordered an extension ground floor Enormous Increase in Legislation last decade the increase has been as- X congress has incredibly during the last decade Thousands of measures are introduced at every session but the number enacted into laws ordinarily is comparatively insignificant The development of the country’s resources and the increased demands of the people are indicated however by the immense increase lq the number of laws passed “This increase” said Col W M Palmer In charge of the enrolled bills of the senate “has been particularly notable during the last ten years Prior to that time there was little variation in the number of measures enacted into In the Uw by successive congresses LEGISLATION by men forget by For lilm the anthems rise The cross is sacred for him yet And still ijs shadow marks the way If except that they’re blamed good rules and no mistake If you know any mem ber of congress who’s got" more for his district since he’s been in congress than I have why Just you trot hlrh around I’d like to look him over” Whereupon the insurgent committee returned to headquarters and reported to their big chief that Mr Brownlow Mr Brownlow’s t was “hopeless" about having done more for his district probably than any other man in the house is no joke and he wasn’t bragging when he said it His capacity for making congress take care of his constituents Is a proverb in Tennessee He isn’t a man who gets up on the floor of the house every day or so and tears oft about eight yards of purple and gold oratory Neither does he introduce a bill a minute and wander round the capitol waving them in the air and demanding that he be recognized at once for all of them No he doesn’t do these things but as a committee worker he is in a class by himself Why it has come to be a saying around the capitol that every time Walter Brownlow discovers a neglected graveyard In hie district he immediately imbues it with historic interest and proceeds to give it to a grateful federal government “absolutely free gentlemen absolutely free” tonishing “During the first and second sessions of the congress 1473 bills were passed by the house and senate and ‘messaged’ to the president In the third session of the same congress 644 measures were enacted into laws In the congress 1962 measures were passed in the 278l in the in the 6940 and in the congress the Sixtieth which ended on March 4 the number of bills enacted into law reached the great total of 9711” Col Palmer who prepared and carried to the White House all of these bills not one of which was ever lost or mislaid was appointed to the committee on enrolled bills of the senate 13 years ago from New Jersey by the late Senator Sewell Col Palmer predicts that the number of measures passed by the present congress will exceed those of any preceding congress u n The Christian Festival of Easter F ALL the holidays In the year Christmas and Easter stand more prominently on the page of history than any others Throughout all the mutations and vicissitudes that have entered into the world’s history during the past two thousand years the two festivals that commemorate respectively the birth and the resurrection of the Man of Nazareth still shine with a luster that remains unfaded after the lapse of two centuries The Christian festival of Easter is anof great not only a celebration tiquity but many of its popular observances are clearly of pagan origin In northern Germany the ancient Teutons were accustomed to celebrate the feast of the Goddess Ostara who was the personification of morning or the east and also of the opening year or This custom continued to be spring observed down to the beginning of the The pagan rites inpresent century stituted by the Germans were brought into England by the Saxons and under the name of Easter the Teuton divinity was honored by the with joy and feasting about the same season of the year that the Christian Easter festival arrives It was about the year 68 A D that the formal Institution of the celebration of the day by Christians took place To the followers of the Risen Lord the heathen season of rejoicing at the rising of the natural sun and the awakening of nature at the death of winter was easily suggestive of joy at the rising of the Son of Righteousness — the resurrection of Christ from the tomb It also followed as a natural result that the devout adherents "of the Christ in their reverence for the day upon which was performed the greatest and most sublime of miracles should continue to set it apart each week as a day for divine worship to the utter exclusion of the Sabbath of the Decalogue ' The rites and ceremonies that characterize the celebration of the Easter festival although modified somewhat in this age still retain many of the features that marked it in earlier In the early church the cereyears monies lasted eight days Courts of justice were closed and alms were disto the poor pensed in the churches ' and needy Popular sports farcical exhibitions and dancing were Indulged in These latter frivolities however were abolished by the reformers of the Our sixteenth century ancestors held daily services In the churches from Palm Sunday to the beginning of the Easter festival People saluted each other with the Easter kiss and the words “Ex Surrexit” (He has risen) to which greeting the reply “Vere Surrexit” (He is risen indeed) The chief solemnity of the occasion was the celebration of the Lord’s supper In Russia Easter Sunday is a holiAt midday that exceeds all others night of Saturday a metropolitan or r and priest preceded by a boy bearing holy water vessels and candles and followed by a solemn procession issues from the church and going round the wall sprinkles it with He then pronounces a holy water benediction upon thousands of large round gilded loaves pyramids of with palms stuck in them and This eggs in great quantities signals the close of Lent and ushers in Easter Sunday Joyful voices of the faithful are heard crying out: “Christos vor Chris” (Christ is risen) and the response: "He is risen The kiss upon either cheek indeed” is then given by all this salute being given and received by emperor and serf alike SODA IN THE KITCHEN of the Least Expensive and Indispensable Articles Acid fruits such as cranberries regooseberries plums and rhubarb quire almost an unlimited amount of sugar much of which can be saved by stirring iu before sweetening a little soda (as a general rule a l to a quart of fruit) A little Boda put into the water In which vegetables or tough meats are boiled will make them tender besides and sweet hastening the cooking liam should he out pai boiled in soda water taken washed and scraped well then finished by boiling In clear water This method makes it sweeter and more tender than the ordinary way In warm weather meat may be freshened by washing in Cold soda water If before cooking will slightly tainted this treatment eure it If in warm weather the bread dough raised too much and soured a little soda worked well into it will sweeten it again A teasponful of soda stirred into beans after they are parboiled will make them far more wholesome After the Boda is Btirred in well the beans must be drained and washed in a colander Soda added to the dish water is far superior to soap it imparts that polish to the dishes so pleasing to dainty housekeepers Soda will keep tinware bright and will clean table and shelf oilcloth better than anything else A teaspoonful of soda is a valuable addition to the bath especially in warm weather Prickly heat or insect bites should be washed with soda water to relieve the itching A teaspoonful of soda stirred in a tumblerful of cold water and taken internally will often relieve a sour stomach when nothing else will SIMPLE REMEDY FOR NORTHWEST NOTES N’cet DIRT Preparation That Cleanses Delicate Fabrics Without Injury The Paris Art institute offered $10for a preparation which would clean delicate fabrics and not fade or The folinjure the finest of colors lowing simple remedy for dirt won the prize: Grate raw potatoes to a fine pulp add one pint of water to a pound of potatoes: pass this liquid through a coarse sieve into a vessel and allow it to remain till the fine white starch settles to the bottom: then pour off the clear liquor which is to he used For white silks use thin for cleaning liquor with a little borax dissolved in it I use my patent ironing board to on sponge the dresses and waists using a clean sheet folded thick over the board and spreading one on the floor to protect the skirts Dip a sponge In the liquor and apply It until Rinse in tepid the dirt is removed water and press on the wrong side have cleaned opera and party dresses I beautifully with this preparation have cleaned cashmeres too with it I have done better work at home with this method than I have had done at the French cleaner’s — Exchange 000 Vegetable Salad f f package of gelatin cup of cold water juice of two lemons cup of vinegar cup of sugar one teaspoon of salt one cup of celery cut in small pieces one cup of shredded cabbage oner cup of blanched almonds cut twice three sweet red peppers cut fine Soak gelminutes and atin in cold water add vinegar lemon juice boiling water sugar and salt Steam and when beginning to set add remain'ng IngreTurn into a mold and chill dients Serve on a lettuce leaf with mayon-aisdressing or cut in dice and serve in cases made of red and green pepFine served wdth cold slice'd pers veal or chicken To Finish Lingerie A pretty way to finish underwear: Bind the neck and armholes with bias strips of sheer lawn or dotted swiss through which run pretty ribbons wide or narrow and finish with narrow will find that it wears lace edging better than beading To Clean Coat Collars The collars of dark cloth coats which often show white inside after a little wear may be cleaned with a into which spoonful of ammonia enough salt has been put to make a BOft mixture A ing are belarge number of Greek Washshipped Into the state of ington to ’take the places of Japanese in railway construction It is said the sheriff has a strong clew to the guilty men engaged in the raid on the sheep camp on Spring creek in Wyoming in which three men were murdered Fred Gustav son and Peter Peterson were killed by a dynamite explosion The men were near Nimrod Mont construction at work in a railway camp when the accident occurred The Wyoming Stock Growers’ assoall ciation representing practically that cattle growers of the state have a resolution protesting adopted against the removal of the duties on hides The last Nevada legislature passed appropriation hills benefiting the Nevada state university to an amount of but this amount has been $293000 cut down by the governor vetoing bills that carried $85000 Alfred W Burrell president of the Burrell Bridge and Construction company of Oakland Cal died at St Patrick’s hospital in Missoula Mont April 9 Mr Burrell had gone to Missoula to look after a bridge contract to tendered Taft has President Former Senator Fulton of Oregon the to sucpost of minister to China ceed W W Rockhill Senator Fulton requested ten days In which to consider whether or not he would accept At the publicity conference held In Helena Mont last week a permato be nent body was organized known as the Montana Development The slogan of the league League will be “advertise and boost for Montana” Charles P Nevht (Dem) was elected mayor of Butte last week by a The Republican plurality of 1503 candidate - Mayor Joseph Corby showed surprising weakness Henry (Ind Dem) and Pierce (Socialist) displayed little strength By means of a toilor’s trademark knife and a watch chain the body of the man found tightly lodged in a pile of logs in a slough near Frenchtown Mont was identified as that of Eric C Peterson well known in Missoula as the "Graveyard Kid’At the meeting of the Wyoming Livestock association held in Cheyenne the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: W C Irvine Ross president Robert D Carey Careyhurst Miss Alice M Smith Cheyenne secJ D Freeborn retary Cheyenne treasurer George Graham Rice and Merril A Teague editors of the Nevada Mining News of Reno Nevada have been ordered cited for contempt of court by Judge Langan for publishing an article on March 25 accusing Bank Examiner F :E Wilde of malfeasance in office and attacking Judge Langon for not ousting him The news comes from Trinidad Colo that the government tests on the coal from the property of the Wooten Land and Fuel company owned by J P Morgan and eastern associates had been satisfactory and that the mining of 150000 tons of coal for the United States navy would begin at once1 A joint indictment charging embezzlement of $15555 was returned at Ashland Ore against State Senator Frank M Patterson Pleas Judge Robert M Campbell Pleas Judge H L McCray and George Ullman former cashier of the Farmers’ bank The charge grows out of the settlement of an estate Advance sheets of the new criminal code adopted at the recent session of the Washington legislature show that it contains a strict law which provides that “evof a public house or pubery employe lic service corporation who solicits or receives any gratuity from any guest and every person giving any gratuity shall be guilty of a misdemeanor” Charles F Murphy Democrat was elected mayor of Great Falls Mont by a majority of 128 over J M Burlingame Republican In a total vote of about 2400 The Democrats also elected the city treasurer police magistrate and two out of four Tea for the Sword Fern It Is announced that Henry L DoPerhaps botanists can explain why this plant is so fond of indulging In a herty president of the Denver Gas Electric company Is about to To be and cup of tea every few days sure It asks for neither cream nor close a deal whereby the Doherty Operating oompany of New York will stimulant itself the pebut is sugar acquire all the holdings of the Spoculiarly grateful to it kane Falls Gas company of Spokane Wash English Hoe Cakes Carrying a stick of dynamite In one Scald a quart of Indian meal using hand and a lighted torch In the other Just enough water to make a stiff batter Stir in two teaspoonfuls of salt proved a fatal combination for Lind and two tablespoonfuls of butter Turn Bernardo a laborer at a rock quarry the Los Angeles Stone company at into a buttered baking pan and bake of Los Angeles and resulted in an exfor half an hour plosion which literally blew him to pieces Sardines (Hot) The Moana Springs hotel at Reno Pour the oil from box of sardines was held up shortly before into a frying pan when warm lay In Nevada 5 by three men and sardines and brown a little Serve on midnight April robbed of more than $1000 The hot dry toast Add a squeeze of lemon lined the occupants of the Juice and a sprinkle of cayenne pep- robbers room against the wall and rifled the per roulette wheel drawer and then |