Show nnnn a uatcr to CCOKDING to an old tradition when t the Roman soldiers came to the Garden off Getlndeluane of-f t Christ hid under the J i a olive trees until tho 1 C treacherous plover I a 1 ° cried out IJuvlck Buvlck Ho Is I hiding r But It n Judas among the birds betrayed i j trayed the Master of men in this hour of needs other faithful feathered folk minIster min-Ister d to him at the darker moment of Calvary Then It was that the voice of the pitying turtle dovo grow so plaintive that never has It re allied Its lost happy notes Not only did the swallow perch on the cross and twitter tender words of consolation hut also In Its small sweet way alleviated al-leviated the sufferers pain by pulling out a fiplno from the crown of thorns And the stork lying oer the cross loitered on the wing to call down Stryk Stryk Strengthen Strengthen III ceitaln old English gardens there Is a little spottedleafed plant with deep blue lowers and red buds called Marys Tears for In tho beginning this grew on l CalvaryIts flower the blue of the Mother Marys eyes the buds icd as her eyelids swollen from weeping and tho leaves tearstained with her grief And In the old English garden too Is found the rosemary that puts forfci new blossoms every Friday as though to embalm the body of the dead Christ Wonderful Passion Flower In the passion flower the reverent Imagination has discovered not across a-cross alone but also the pillar of scourging the nails tin drown of thorns and even spots to mark the five wounds of the crucified body The Spaniard will tell yon that thu aspen trembles because that was the wood of the cross However this maybe may-be thrio Is a delightful old legend concerning Ilia treo out of which the cross was made Aged Adam weary of toll and sin and eager for death sent to the angel guarding the free of Life to beg n boon The messenger brought hack the welcome promise that Adam should I die In three days and tho added gift of three small seeds which wero mysteriously mys-teriously to ho placed under the dead mans tongue before burial From these seeds tho quaint narrative narra-tive continues spuing three saplings that later united three In ono symbol sym-bol of the Trinity With this miraculous mirac-ulous tree Moses and David each wrought many wonders But King Solomon his wholo heart set upon the building of the temple had the tree cut down Intending It for a magnificent magnifi-cent beam Strive as the workmen would however nowhere would the beam fit and cast aside it was later used as a bridge across a nearby stream When the queen of Slicbu made her notable visit she refused to tread upon this bridge Instead she knelt and worshiped and having confided con-fided to Solomon a vision she had concerning It the king at once ordered or-dered the sacred wood incased In gold and silver and reverently hung overlie over-lie door of the temple Subsequent ly 1 Abljoh son of Hehohoam covetIng covet-ing lie precious setting had It taken down and after appropriating the 11 metal had the wood burled deep In the earthso deep tIn tod that a well I t was dug over U the famous Pool of Bethosda the tree of mercy ut tho bottom giving healing qualities to the waters Finally as the time appointed appoint-ed approached the tree rose and flouted flout-ed on tho surface und tho Jews took It and made It Into limo cross upon which the Christ was crucified Wood of the Cross As some claim the aspen was the wood of the cross others select tho weeping willow for the tree upon which Judas hanged himself There Is an old legend as sinister as tho fatalistic Oedipus myth that claims that before the birth of Judas his mother dreamed that her child 1 would murder his father and betray I his God for money To prevent this I tragedy tho babe was put In a chest and cast upon tho sea but was rescued and adopted by a king According to tradition Pontius PIlate Pi-late as well as Judas committed suicide sui-cide for upon his return to Rome to Indignant was tho emperor over the governors actions while In Jerusalem Jerusa-lem that ho cast him Into prison a humiliation too great for BO weak a spirit to bear Weird Is the legend told concerning tho restless tormented ghost of him who could wash his hands but not his conscience of offense The body of the suicide was first cast Into thc Tiber hut so turbulent wore the storms that Immediately fol lowed that it was taken out of the liver carried to Gaul nnd thrown Into tho Uhone Tempests wore the instant In-stant result Again the body was removed re-moved this time to Lake Geneva The some disasters In Its train Once more tin attempt was made to overcome over-come the evil Surely In a faraway mountain lake locked In the center ol tho Alps even the spirit of a Pilate could do no harm Vain hope There arose storms of wind and rain so great In fury that flocks and herds were drowned trees torn up by tho roots and happyhearted homes washed away to death and destruction Quieting Troubled Spirit Then at the call of tho emergency came tho man of tho hour to answer It Alone he went to the lake and with the solo weapons of n scholars knowledge and magic battled with the spirit until It signified an agreement to lenuiln at peace if only It might have ono day of freedom during the year The storms ceased but long afterward after-ward whoever went to Pilates lake on a Good Friday saw an awful specter clothed In a red toga upon n rock above the water tin grim ghostly figure of him who saw no 111 yet permitted It Er1r iiii 4 t I f 1 a t |