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Show V7T . . ii i 1 y ELMO SCOTT WATSON k .vrfjH 'V . 8 WH reed the sixth K )X L fC-y- C' - rCf. chapter of the Ootpal i 1UVV 4 A- -f J'fc7T'?'J j tpU according to St Mat- - A' ' W V- - 'WV ''J AjJLaVV thew, we find these two fflf2fmifefi Terses: X2Tv "And wh, take y. fA.O V JJJJt ft I t, thought for raiment? W V 1?V f vbvftr Consider the Ulles of ! HL'.1'M ' ; , Y r2f&MkA' the field, how they ' . vYi 4' A V -- lt, powj they toll uot, O . I f i ; F 4aaVJ neither do they spin: k V ' lll'f v "And yet I say unto V. v ,' r li ? - , you, that eren Solomon In all his glory j,"- - t . --f( J vaa not arrayed like one of these." Xt "4 5 - - V And It Is these flowers which, more A ' " V rV'UV; - A J. .' than anything tlae, hare become the i h " IXV symbols of Eaater which we celebrate iCt-- V,U la. . ... Tr this year on April 20, As such a sym-bol ftfTZLt VS. f the lily has a double signlflcance. 'VV Vv VSA X It Is one of the earliest spring flow-ers. . -- r J. It typifies the rebirth of nature " jv , f .V,'c::;r aftar tha long winter Bleep. la ita a "" "" j"-"- " dry, brown bulb life lies dormant dur fJl7Z7TmH,?''t, A.tTTttT' f'1311 4 tog the winter and then when spring I ftViaA.f f ef jflVV3 JlfsfalW esi 6t.l ii i comes, this life begins to stir. First 5&S3f? It pushes out the tender green leaves, and then the buds appear. Finally the white blossom comes forth In all Its glory as the perfect emblem of resur-rected life. An EaattT Flower "Te aaaite ene petal, aayriada ef MaaM (earh hi Itaclf planetary arataai a elaetreae) mm climb aad wheal to their anrt rt'tedeiittai. " nl(-"U-hp what Fewer, Deeaar than aaoea er aua) Muat each ef Ike aayrlad atoaaa at tUa Bower Ta na ewa sola ef tha eelared pattern raa Each ataaa, frees earuVe fleaaa, A elaaa eVivea Ta aaaka, at Ha Bright geai, eaw grala ef hloaaa. Or Back with nee ana petal's edge hi HaavaaT What hUad reete Hfted a Tale eectaaaantal alga, Treaiauitlag tfcafc- - dark (aod, la tUa wild aua Of glary, aa what Heavenly bread aad wiaar What Muate waa eeaeaaM, What Lagea ha thia kaua. That the Cabana! Beauty hare revealed ShevU thae he etragghag ta Ka feat heaaeT Wheaee was the radiant etaraa. The atil eaag. That built ef feraaleee earth due heavaalp gian-t-ag with art, aha werhre head wreag. tMadnag everywhere Tha apartt'e Whetr priaaav Aad whleearlag freaa the grave, "Net herel Net herel Ha la art dead. The Light yea aeak la rlaaart Alfred Neree hi the Waahlagtaa Star. fined and fragrant Illy that comes out of the Orient Onions came from the Near East and In ancient days furnished a sta-ple food for the rural inhabitants of Greece and Italy. Not only was gar-lic a food, but It waa reputed to have medicinal value and to be helpful to the atomacb in Ita functions. These two bulb vegetables, the of the plant food world, ride about the earth in tratnloada and ship-loads. The material service they ren-der Is greater than that of all the oth-er lilies put together. One would have to look far in all the relationships of nature to find a contrast more strik-ing than that of the Easter lily and the garlic of the Mediterranean. Even though the lily la the one per-fect symbol of Easter, there are two others which through the centuries have become so closely asaoclated with thia red-lette- r day In our calen-dars that we think of them almost ss quickly, In thinking of Easter, aa we do of the Illy. They are the rabbit and the egg. The association of the rabbit or hare with Easter baa Ita foundations In the ancient belief in European and Asiatic countriea that the hare la the symbol for the moon. In fact the Chinese represent the moon aa a rabbit pound-ing rice In a mortar, while Hindu and Japanese artists paint the hare across the fare of the moon. Aa the time of the Easter festival Is governed by the phases of the moon this may be an ex-planation of their connection. Ita other significance Is a religious one, Ita snow-whit- e purity being emble-matic of tbe flawless life of Christ whose resurrection from the tomb we commemorate on Easter day. In fact, no other flower has a place tn the re-ligious life and literature of the Chris-tian world to compare to the lily. Yet Its glory la not so new as Christianity, ancient though the beginnings of that religion may seem to us. The Greeks and the Romans prised It above all flowers and In their ear-lier civilisations it had already come to symbolise purity and virtue. It was became of the place lilies bad won In the popular esteem thst they found place bt the early paintings of tha Virgin. The angel Gabriel was de-pleted carrying them In annunciation pictures and It is because of this that the most beautiful of these flowara, Lillum condldam, moat nsed at Eaater, la called tha madonna lily. Although this trumpet-lik- e blossom Is the best known of all the members f the Illy family, there are others which are very Interesting even though they do net bave such signlflcance for w as the madonna Illy. In the high BImalayaa In Asia grows a great lily ten feet tall. Agents of the United States government found a magnificent specimen of illy la China a generation ago a lily of the madonna type, but hardier and brought It to America and they hare been offering It to dtl-en- s to plant from coast to coast Most of tha lilies that are native to America are radiant with color. There Is the turk'a cap, for Instance, that flaunts the deep "yellow of Its many blooms through the waate stretches of parte of New England. Great atal- - breaks Into bloom such an assem-blage of pure white, bell-lik- richly-perfume- d, and In every way perfect lilies as nature produces nowhere else In a single cluster. It Is given to the desert to grow the greatest of all the plants despite the fact that the chief habitat of tha breed The mythical naturaf history of the Hindus tells us that hares live on the shores of the iske of the moon. In Swabla the children are not al-lowed to make ahadow pictures of rab-bits on the wall, because It la consid-ered a sin against the moon. The colored folk of the southern states have a atrong belief In the pow-er of the "left hind foot of a grave-yard rabbit" killed In the dark of the moon. wart stalls, sometimes nine feet tall, has the turk'a cap. It may bave half a dosen orange blooms at Ita top, but tbose who have tamed this plant and ' given It care bave Induced It to pro vide as many as 40 blossoms. A quite different American flower la the little trout lily which likes to grow along the streams or tn the deep woods. With the nourishment It has saved np In Its bulb It starts growing In tha early spring and Is likely to have bloomed before the leaves of the trees have grown to the atage of mak-ing ahade to Interfere with It A ra-diant yellow, the trout lily stands out vividly against its background of green. Tbe blue flag running to purple la another American lily that baa found Itself a home In many gardens. The mottled tiger Uly has been a favorite for many generations. In California the "leopard Uly lights the heather v.. dun," and the late shorn meadow is .often red with their bloom. The red lilies of New England, bow-eve- r, outshine them all and bave In-spired many a poet of that region. Lucy Larcom spoke of them as "red lilies blazing out of the thicket" Paul Hamilton Hayne thought that the red lily "stands from all her sister flow-ers apart" . Probably the most remarkable Illy In the world la the yucca, or Spanish bayonet of the arid plains of the Southwest There the Uly becomes a plant that is quite treelike and Uvea for years. The Uly ieavea become harsh, dagger-tippe- d Implements to serve tbe purpose of repelling attack. These may alt close to the ground or, . again, they may stand as high aa a man on horseback. From the cluster of leaf armor there springs now and again a tall stalk that may reach like a flagpole Into the desert sunshine. At tbe top ef thia suff there forma and finally seems to be the marsh. Lilies all grow from bulbs. This g capacity of the lily fam-ily la one of Its dominant traits. It and the six petals to all Uly blooms are marks of tbe tribe. .Tulips, daf-fodils, hyacinths, crocuses, all are ac-tually, because they spring from bulbs, members of the Uly family. But beautiful aa are these members of the lUy family, there are others which are utilitarian rather than pure-ly ornamental and which, although Uke the "lUles of tbe field which toll not" do furnish mankind with edible crops. Surprising though it may be, botanists will tell you that some ef our common vegetables are In reality "UUea." There la asparagus, for Instance, that Is bought In the market tied up la bundles of many stalks, each exactly like the other. There la nothing about tbla asparagus In this form that would indicate that it la a Uly. Asparagus tips are but young plants just coming through the ground. If they were allowed to grow they would throw out tall, lily like stalks and crown them with d flow-ers thst any observer would be able to Identify aa Ulles. Tbe presence of this commonplace asparagus In an Idling family is rather a let down to ita pretensions. This, however, la not the worst If the truth must be told, the onion Is a Illy. The onion la a Uly that has been bred through centuries for the devel-opment of Its bulb and the suppres-sion of Its top. Bo tt has come about that the bulb may be three Inches across and the top so Insignificant that wben It haa dried up, it hardly appears at all. Yet when this top is growing and flowering it la like those delicate plants of the window slUs which sometimes are called tube roses, but which actually are a delicate, re-- in County Warwick, England, If the young men of tbe town can catch a hare and bring It to the parson of the parish before ten o'clock on Eas-ter morning he must give them a calf s head, one hundred eggs for their breakfast and a groat In money. Nowadays the Easter bunny has be-come so confused with the Euster egg custom that the hares are supposed to lay the many colored eggs the children flnd on Eaater morning. The association of the egg wltb Easter goea back to certain beliefs of the ancients also. Egga had been as-sociated With the worship of Ash-toret-of tbe Astarte of the Phoe-nicians, lata of the Egyptians, Diana of the Greeks and Romans and Eostre, whom the Teutons worshiped in the spring. Incidentally, the name Easter Is said by some to be derived from the name of this Teutonic goddess, al-though others assert thst It was named for an old pagan spring festi-val in honor of the sun's new birth In the east The Egyptians regarded the egg as an emblem of the recreation of things and of man'a regeneration. Then, too, the egg with Ita Ufe germ destined to produce a Uvlng creature when warmed by the mother hen ts easily associated witb the Idea of the earth blossoming under the warm sun. Since the Resurrection of Christ oc-curred in the spring, it is easy to see how the symbols of the egg and all revived life tn the springtime came to be associated with this event tn the history of Christianity. The egg as a symbol was taken over by tbe He-brews as an emblem of their delivery from bondage and next the early Christians took tt over as their sym-bol of the resurrection, Black ..Sheep's. Gold. BY BEATRICE CRJMSHAW Illustrations by Irwin Myers Copyright by Hughes Vuili A Co. WHO Berries THK STORY Oa a plcuura trip ta itr wittra, Philip Aoiory. Kngllib World war v(ro, now tradtr on th taland of Papua, Naw Oulnaa, plunsca evarboard to aavo tht Ufa of a ntualcal romedr actrtaa, knows as ln-gllnn" Amory bacomaa Intaraalad la Pla Laurlcr, mam bar of a waalthy New Sontb Walaa family. Ht talla her of hla knowld of a wondarful sold Beld on tha "Oln-Ulin- tclla him Pla la enjras-t- to 8lr Richard Fan-- , ahaw. Hla holiday ended. Am. r arrlvea hark at Daru. Ha mts an Engllahman. Bplcrr. there on development bualneaa for a ayndlcale of which Fan-aha- w la bead. Fanthaw'a name recalls to Amory a Incident In which he the aacape of Panahaw from a leper colony. He tella hla friend Baaaelt about It and decldea to Inform Laurler. He (oaa to Thnraday laland to aend tha meaaace. Amory heara fan-aha-dictate maaaaaa which Indlcatea that the aecret of the sold Bald la known. Amory meeta with an accident that laya him op for threo weeks. Recov-ered, he aalla alone for Port aforeaby. A atom eompela him to put In at Thursday lelaid where ha flnda Fanahaw. Amory raaamea hla voyage to Port Moreeby. Fanahaw followa In a motor boat and attempte to run him down. Amory shoots aod kllla Fanahaw. CHAPTER VII 13 From where 1 was ramped, the whole world seemed to fall away In on j huge wave, upon whose crest the boys and I precariously bung. Four daya r. bad tolled to reach tbla place, four daya cf hardest work, cutting our road foot by foot through forest that waa knitted and tangled together. We were pitted with leech bites, scarred by mosquitoes. I hadn't bad enough dinner, and wasn't likely to, for months; comfort was a dream, and danger daily food. And I was bappy. In the way of one who has long thirsted, for a draught of the borne airs about hla native town, and, after long travel, bandaged onto her feet tier bat waa a tangle of torn straw. Anger bad possession of me, and yet though I knew that she had prac-tically wrecked my expedition I could not choose but pity the bright thing, brittle as a butterfly, who had wag-ered her light aelf against the ter-rific powers of the unknown ; who, be-fore the threshold was well crossed, lay beaten. Nothing but the slow pace enforced on me y the cutting of a track bad kept her with me ao far. She must have known this; guessed that her only chance of life was to come forward and show her-self, fling herself on my mercy, before it waa too Jute. She bad obtained a canoe (aa I afterward learned) from the village at Romilly month, and per-suaded a email crew to accompany her. Living and aleeping on board, she waa able to keep oer boys with her until she landed at the place where I had debarked a few hours earlier. There they deserted, aa car rlers will, and she bad bad no food aave what she could carry herself, no shelter save the frost, during the four days of my Journey towarda Dread-nought range. Luckily for her, It waa impossible to lose the way, even when she fell behind, since the track we were cutting made our course plain aa a macadamized road. I think she went In constant terror; terror of na-tives, terror of wild heasta, even ter-ror of me; for she must have guessed, all too soon, that ber plan of follow-ing me light through was madness, and that she would be forced into showing herself. But I do not think she knew, even suspected, that her coming stamped the expedition into dtiKt She thought she bad merely to placate me, use ber woman's tricks. In order to flnd refnge in my party. She didn't doubt ber ability Jinny had not bad much reason to doubt ber chance of success, in this or any other test where the weapons of ber sex were pitted against man's determination. But It waa not man's determination that barred ber now. It waa the Im-mense, Impersonal might of the un-tamed wilderness, of Papua. Against cause of course t waa afraid that you'd be angry PhIL you're Dot an-gry with little Jin, are you? Phil, 1 Just bad to com . i don't mind any-thing, now I've found yon, and I know I'm goln' wltb you." "Jinny, my dear," ( said and I did not think my black-haire- d Dion her-self would grudge the kiss that went with the words "Jinny, tell me" for I wanted to put off the bad moment aa long aa possible "tell me, bave you had any breakfast V "No, nor dinner last night," she said. "I hadn't anything left" "Then you must breakfast at once." I called a carrier, spoke to bim and aet bim to make tea and bring meat and biscuits. She had eaten ber meat and bis-cuits; she bad thirstily finished her pannikin of tea. Life was creeping back Into her tired face, and with it something that I knew my next few worda must kill hope. "I thought you'd be angry," ahe said, setting the pannikin down upon the ground. I said nothing. I took ber scarred, burned band, and began smoothing It gently In mine. Angry? She little knew. The very rage of b I had been In my heart, when first I looked down the clearing, saw ber sitting there, knew what It meant to me, and knew In the same moment, that ahe could never. If ahe lived to be a hundred, understand what ahe bad done. How could one be angry? "Leave go of my hand," ahe said suddenly. "There's something you aren't telling me, Phil What Is it?" "Jinny." I said, "there are a great many things you haven't told me, and 1 propose to know them before very long; but there's plenty of time for all that Plenty of time," I repeated, "for anything either of us wants to tell the other. On the way." "Tea," she aald. "The way to the place they call Tatatata." "The way to the month of the river, 1 mean," said L "You're goln' back again 7" cried Jinny. "We're fcOlngback," "Because of me?" "Because I flnd it necessary to go." MTU. M t A ... MnM.nn long difficulty, tea won back to It at last I wish I could Cnd words to tell the completeness m that convic-tion; the certainty baaed on no pro ducible facts that I was in my proper place and doing what 1 ought to do-h- ere, four duys Inland from the s of the Romilly river, away from all the world, white men and all their works; here, on the spine of the Dreadnought ranges verging at last at last 1 on the unknown. From today, I knew, the worst of the work began. I scanned the world below, and decided that I bad done well. Grace, the dead miner, hadnt left the Romilly till be came right to the bead of the navigable part L acting on what waa more a guess than a conviction, had branched off from the river halfway up. Nobody knew just what lay a day or two beyond my present camp, but from what I could see and Infer, I thought I might suc-ceed In cutting off weeks of work, by going on just as I wag going. I might go a longer way round than Grace bad gone, but 1 waa likely to get there sooner. So I sat, and smoked, and felt myself at peace. And tbe aun went down upon my day. I should bave slept well thst night I did not I ley wakeful, on my grid of sticks, saw, through the open tri-angle of the tent-fly- , the Croaa awing round to the movement of tbe earth about tbe sun. "Sleep." I told myself. "You must sleep. Tomo row'a a hard day." But there aiemed to be springs In my eye-lids, holding them np; the muscles of my limbs were stilt and unrelaxed. I could not .deep. Toward morn! tig. whet I ahould have been waking, I dropped into con-- , fused, tired sloep. Tbe first spears of sunrise woke me like a stab; It la not this, tbe Dnest men of the Nineteenth century, the pick of the Twentieth, had fought struggled, and most often lost paying the lose with their lives. Who waa the little dancer, to break tance tn such an army? 4he did not know. She stood up, and came to me, wltb the red of sun-rise on her red-gol- d hair, smoothing her torn shirt and ailing down her tattered breeches, calling to work the smile that had gained drop of new sweetness from every man who fell victim to It until now it was a very honey flower wherein the wandering, kissing bee might drown. She knew her work, this Jinny. She made me, In a minute, forget her rags, ber stains, ber battered weary look, and see her but aa I had known her months, weeks ago, on tbe liner and in Thursday Island. Tet, at the aame time, I was angry, and sorry for per and for myself. "Jinny, Jinny," I said to her. and again "Jinny, Jinny I" It seemed aa if I could flnd no other words. But Jinny was only too eager to talk. "My oath, "hll. aha declared, catch lng me by the loose folds ol my shirt aa if she feared, that somehow, I might va-- Uh "My oath I I thought It was all In with me, I did, straight Last night 1 ctuldn't see a sign of your fire anywhere, same aa I'd aeen it other nights, and I fair gave myself up for dead. And to this morning, I started off just as soon as I could see me feet and I aald to Diesel f, 'Jinny, my girl, tf you don't flnd bim quick, the robins or whatever-It-I- s will come and cover you with lenves today.' So I hurried and hurried, and when I come on you just like that It took me queerly, and I had to alt down, be-- rather than-l- f I'd' known. Phil don't do It old boy. Let's go on and chance It I'm not afraid. of anything. I'll go till I drop dead. Let me. Phil." She waa almost crying; she beld my sleeve tightly, and shook me. In ber eagerness. "Jinny,'' I said, "we're up against bard facts. You'd drop dead, aa you call It before noon today. You " "I done well up to this, anyhow. I kept wltb you. Phil!" "You kept wltb me because the work hadn't begun. If you had been an hour five minutes later in find-ing me. Jinny, the meat-ant- s would have been picking your bonea tomor-row, maybe before you were dead. If yon came on wltb nr now, we might be able to help you along" "Yes?" Her eyes glowed wltb bope. "For a day or ao carrying yon in a litter where we could, and allngtng you up precipices with bush rope like a tied pig . . . That Jinny, would cut our day's work down by a third, maybe a half. We should get a little way and turn back. I prefer to turn back now. Don't cry, Gin-Slin- you never cry, you know. What's that war-cr- y of yonrs 'Drink hearty, you'll soon be dead?" Let's bear It again." I clapped ber on the hack, assuming a gaiety I waa very far from feeling. One of tbe swift changes typical of ber sad, merry kind, slezed hold on ber without warning. She flashed Into sudden fury. "For twopence," she said. "I'd kill him swine 1" "Who's the swine?" 1 asked. But she looked at me sldewlse, and made no reply. I saw sbe waa shaking wltb rags. (TO BB CONTINUED) at sunrise, but before, that the ex-plorer should leave bis y bed. Witb a curse at my own lazi-ness, I pulled an boots, and waa dressed. Already the carrier bad their Are going; they sat round It blanket-robe- watching tbe pot of rice cook over the flames. I looked at them, almoat throngb them; felt as one feels In such places, that they, the brown men of the country, made scarce a break tn tbe glorious, the intoxicating sense of solitude that a white man knows, on the verge of untrodden lands. Over that nearest ridge, a couple of days' march on, there waa no man knew what ; but when I topped the mountain. 1 should kno-v- . And 1 suld, tn my rashness "This Is good ; I ask no more of life." In the same moment t turned, looked carelessly down the long cut-ting In tbe forest that we bad made tbe day before, and saw a figure seated on a log. Tbe current cf my blood seemed to stop, as the flow of tbe Romilly river stops, for an Instant when the Gulf bore wmea sweeping In, and holds It back. Then, aa the bore flies up the river, driving all before It anger, and sick dismay Invaded uy soul. There was something else, too gratified van-ity, and a kind of anger love, perhaps, but they were drowned beneath the uprushlng tide. I tock ten steps to the place when Jinny Treacher waa sitting, and I said to l.er, "G d. Jinny, what made you do this?" She looked up at me. I could see now, Li the growing dawnllght how ber beauty was wrecked; how ber eyes had sunk back Into ber bead, and ber copper balr lost it- - shine; how she bad worn herself to a skeleton, and let her clothes fall Into rags. There were sores on ber arms and neck leech bite sores. 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Durlrg that year tbe citizens of Oberammergau vowed that they would enact the piece every ten years aa a thanksgiving offering for having been delivered of tbe plague. The original text and arrangements were probably made by the monks of EttaL The music was composed by Rochus Dedler, schoolmaster of the parish In 1814. Tbe production is giv-en In the open air and stands are con-structed to accommodate 6,000 spec-tators. Seven hundred actors are em-ployed tn the play, all native villagers Tbe proceeds go for the public good after the expenses bave been defrayed and a small remuneration made to each actor. Tbe play Is a stupendous manifesta-tion of religious worship and tbe moral Good Manners I take It that the essence of good manners ts the gift of putting people at their ease, not the chosen few peo-ple whom one likes, but all people. Yes, ease Is the word that describes good manners. The great lady ts at her ease with the gardener, the bouse-ninl-the ragamuffin, tbe outcast, and sbe makes them all feel comfortable In her presence. And bad manners Is the faculty of making every one un-comfortable, whether by being abrupt-ly rude, or overwhelmingly gushing, too cordial or too lacking in cordial-ity, too contemptuous or too flattering. Too much of anything la bad manners. It destroys ease and makes people fidget A manner that makes other people nervous Is a bad manner, whether It be frankly unpleasant or too pleasant by far. Mary Borden In Harper's Magazine, Street of Monumente "Victoria ttmbankiLent London," writea "LorkerOu" in tbe London Dally Chronicle, "may well bold the world's record for monuments In any tbioughfare of in same length, for variety, too. It takea a lot of sur-passing. Monarchy Is represented at each extremity by qneena: Victoria at Ulackfrlars and Boadlcea at West minster. In between are statesmen, scholars, poets, soldiers, Journalists, musicians and composite memorials Everbody, of course, 'koos all abort It' Yet I doubt if one person In ten could put on paper six of the names or deeds represented. Great Lakes' Shore Lines Lake Superior haa a shore line In the United States of 1,192 miles; In Canada. 910 miles; Lake Michigan, within the Dnited States, shore line, t.304 miles; Lake Huron, within the United States, 6S1 miles; tn Can-ad- 1.445 miles; Lake Erie, United States, 404 miles: Canada, 327 miles: Lake Ontario, United States, 803 miles; Canada. 453 miles. |
