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Show Easter Sunday in Rome. In Rome, as might be expected, Easter Sunday is celebrated with elaborate ceremonies. The day is ushered' in by the firing of cannon from the castle of St. Angelo, and about 7 o'clock carriages with ladies and gentlemen are beginning to pour toward St. Peter's. That, magnificent basilica is richly decorated for the occasion, oc-casion, the altars are freshly ornamented, orna-mented, and the lights around the tomb and figure of St. Peter are blazing blaz-ing after their temporary extinction. According to usage, the Pope offl- elates this day at mass In St. Peter's, and he does so with every imposing accessory that can be devised. From a hall in the adjoining palace of the Vatican he is borne into the church under circumstances of the utmost j splendor. Seated in the sedia gesta-toria. gesta-toria. his vestments bin 70 With rrnA I On his head he wears the tiara, a tall, round gilded cap representing a triple crown, which is understood to signify spiritual power, temporal power and the union of both. Beside him are borne the fiabelli, or large fans, composed com-posed of ostrich feathers, In which 1 are set the eye-like parts of peacocks' . learners, to signify the eyes t( vigilance vigil-ance of the church. Over him is borne a silk canopy richly fringed. After officiating at mass at the high altar the Pope is. with the same ceremony cere-mony and to the sound of music borne back through the crowded church to the balcony over the central cen-tral doorway. There, rising from his chair of .state and environed by his principal officers, he pronounces a benediction, with indulgence Mind ab-solution ab-solution This is the most imposing of all the ceremonies in Rome at this season On the evening of Kaster ajLthT? dome and other exterior parts Z tKetfr'S are beautifully Illuminated Illuminat-ed with lamps. New York Herald. Easter, the Great Sunrise. "Seek him who maketh the seven I stars and Orion and truneth the shadow sha-dow of death into morning."Amos. J ,er.rd3 f the Poet-prophet, written writ-ten 3.000 years ago, span like an arch of light our great festival. Thev unseal ThL Stnff and ,,earts of worship. nifrg tlry f an 0lie,ltai morning preflpres the splendor of the great sunrise that comes forth from the shadows. The daybreak in the east finds its historical analogue in the dawn of eternal life out of the night tL e-h n tthe first Eastpr morning The ressurection of Jesus from the grave Is held before us like the panels of a spring dawn. Nature is God's great workshop overhung with pat! ern T?e scu'Ptor carries the fashion fash-ion of his work in the model to com- Withntne P,,iEhed te'Or marbTe. With the dawn and attendinir st for a model the infinite art 7ca r lwaiVJife np int0 the mafenfeVs glory of the morning. in earlier da v Jre had been glimpses of the tat thought of immortality, faint glfams on he far horizon of the night WhS Christ arose, the day broke over th2 whole world and upon men of every time, race and condition. Tha Z bhme awakening gave a new meaning to history, a new value to life a new vision of the future. The first vfll morning was the daybreak of uuuy, the dawning of the Hehr Af hope and faith and joy. never a?a?n ir nad ut of the kles.-Rev D m Muller, D. D. ev- L- H. American Extravagance. The American tendenA. t and worse still. wear a"? thV bu ?m,t- nil wortn T'Tnr this n & s,e WW worth of ostrich plumes o one hat rMar, e',U Mantle feathers su, h Sa?? ?nS tSxm'8ht SPrt va ohm;,rwheviran;('f'ir- e might eccLtZ - tort" toaobhra,He re:pti0 WwnTV wS' everTwaT' l t0 ornatc " |