St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 April 1897 — Page 2

AT EASTER TIME. Brown fields, bare trees, sere weeds and grass, Chill winds and lowering skies; ^ut o’er the hills of purple gray, ’Neath forest boughs in moss-lined way, A gentler presence seems to stray. And atraying, wistful, sighs: j O Md earth, wakp, your sleep Is long. We weary for the wild bird’s song "And summer's wealth of bloom. With cold hands laid on pulseless breasts 'And lips whose calmness chills, ; We hide our loved ones from our sight And mourn our noonday turned to night; They heedless lie nor know the blight That all our gladness kills. T'*l D on damp coi<l earth to fall, No echo of our anguish call Disturbs their marble sleep. Yet grasses spring ’neath April's feet And sweet, pale flowers will bioom; To naked branches of the trees Soft touches of the sun-kissed breeze Will bring new life, till even these. Dropping their purple gloom, Shall don the gold-green robes of spring And all the free, glad air will ring > With rhythmic song of birds. Bach year from off her wondrous brook, Nature throws back the clasp; let tear-dimmed eyes are slow to read. The lesson she would .have us heed, Os life In bud and blossom freed From winter 3 chilling grasp. Why doubt the resurrection power When life Is springing every hour Brom out the arms of death? No atom dropped’from out her hands, By wild winds heedless blown, But^aought anew, anew will live, j careful to revive 4 . . him receive? F S/SSKBtgSKMK town t kt birth, ' Bn rv -a t h. —Anna E. Cui ver IEABTERAT Gl GGINS’ CAMP.

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and gentle courtesies of well-bred people. Brightness and beauty moved to the •trains of military music and the jingle of accouterments. Easter was near at hand and great preparations were being made for the post-Lenten hop. At the other end of the trail, the further •nd, up in the mountains, an outcast was dying. Alone? - She might better have been, her sister at the fort would have ■aid. She was simply Meg. Foor Meg turned her face to the wall and wept in secret, remembering that Easter was at hand. The cabin at Guggins’ had two rooms. There was the common quarters of the men and near at hand a poor makeshift of a chamber for the sick girl. Though the boys worked hard all day at the claim, Mike found a chance to run over now and then just to see.that Meg was all right. Dummy Mike idolized Meg. To make it more cheerful and homelike, when evening came the boys gathered in Ol “I GUESS I’M jest a fool,” site said. the “boodore,” as Diggs called her room. They dried their wet boots at her fire and filled the air with unutterable fumes of tobacco and told her every night, with cheerful mendacity, that she was “pickin' up.” Dummy could not pay her compliments, as his companions did, to keep her spirits up, but he shifted her pillows when she was feverish and saved the choicest of their coarse fare as tidbits for her and remembered little things that the others forgot—things that a woman recollects. “Easter will be here in two days, boys.” The “boys” turned around in amazement. Was Meg’s mind wandering? Easter. Why, they hardly knew when Sunday came and never observed it, except, perhaps, by lying abed a little longer in the morning and giving the frying pan an extra load of responsibility. “I wish I could hear some music just once more and see some flowers.” Very common clay was Meg; yet she loved music, loved flowers, and pined for them in that rude camp. “What’s up, Meg?” asked Jimmy. “What put Easter into your head?” She held up an almanac, sole literary treasure of the cabin. It had been packed over with supplies ffoftrTtre~STnTton. “I see it’s the day after to-morrow, and I thought —I thought I’d like to hear some music and see some flowers once more before —before ” She turned her face to the wall and the “boys” pulled viciously at their pipes. Jimmy presently got up, not looking at the others nor at Meg, who was shaking a little Under the old blue blanket that covered her, said “O, d n it!" and stumped out of the room, with

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kid.” Then after a moment she added, “I don’t suppose I will ever see one again. That’s what kinder broke me up.” When the boys turned in Mike made Mog comfortable for the night, but in the morning it was Diggs who built the fire and brought her breakfast. He explained that DuAmy had gone down the gulch prospecting for bear. The bears were safe enough, however, from the “silent partner,” for when morning dawned he had reached Willow Creek, where he exchanged his wornout burro for a claybifnk horse of Roylston’s and I pushed on, after a snatch of breakfast, for the fort. Roylston called out after him to keep his eye open for Indians. It was laughingly said, and Dummy waved his hand in reply. * Four hours later Mike appeared at the post. The post-trader knew him well. But he grinned and looked at Mike as though he had heard a great joke when the latter stammered his commission. “ ’Fraid them ain’t in my line, Dummy.” “What’s the matter with gettin’ them at the fort. I’d do it myself If I had ytnir pull.” Mike pulled out a bag of “dust” and held it before the other. Simpson said “All right,” and went out. In half an hour he had returned with a package that he transferred to Mike for the dust. Ten minutes later Mike had turned Claybank up the trail toward Willow Creek. The sun was well down the west when Claybank jogged into Roylston’s. Mike shouted, but. hearing no answer, dismounted and turned toward the hut. - i । liuesthat mike had disked ms life [ to get.' There was blood on the ground and a man’s hat lay near a place where moecasined feet had trampled the ground. Dashing to the door, he found Roylston in his ’ own room, dead, and mutilated. In a moment he saw the whole truth. The savages had refrained from firing the ( cabin because it was in view from the fort. Smoke would draw a troop down

on them. He know, too, that he must nave been noticed and that the trail to the camp was well guarded. Had they attacked the camp? His heart stood still as he asked the question. How could he warn them and signal the fort for aid? Mike could think faster than he could talk. In five minutes he had a fire blazing under the hut—-a fire that sent up a black cloud of smoke. He knew that he had not done this thing unseen, and must not linger. He threw himself on Claybank and lashed the tired and frightened beast up the trail for twenty rods. He then suddenly dismounted at the crest behind the willows, and, giving the horse a parting thwack, plunged on foot into the undergrowth. Sounds carry far in that air. Diggs said that he heard shots in the distance, but night closed in and no one came. At 10 o’clock, however, Jimmy, who was watching, heard some one approach, breathing heavily. He, cocked his rifle, but the sound brought a quick response: ‘‘Don’t shoot; it’s me—Mike!” They unbarred the door with all the speed they could and Mike staggered across the door sill. Quickly he wap drawn inside the cabin and the door rebajfed.

“Indians?” W He nodded, too weak to makel nn e ff or t to speak at first, then rallying a p jjj s strength, he said: “Don’t tell ^Weg," and fainted. After caring for himfand p U [. ting him in his bunk, Diggs picked up a package which lay where he fallen and an oath that was not prof aue burst from his lips. The wrapper was sprinkled w blood, but inside, purejmd white and fragrant, lay a bunch of Easter lilies— lilies that Miko had risked his life to get : or the girl who was only an outcast.—| ^ ew York Journal. Easter Eggs. But few people have aUi?LsA,hnt the originals of the many coK-rf “eggs" which are now being distribute as Easter gifts have probably descended to us from the greatest of the “Chinese ^’ing Festivals,” and can boast of an antiquity of more than 700 years before tHe Christian era. So there appears to be ns> new thing under the sun; and although the magic eggs of to-day are merely receptacles for a nondescript medley of bon-bons and bijouterie, they are a survival, or rather revival, of one of the quaintest of Old World customs. This practical method of disposing of Easter eggs suggests that much of the i ceremony connected with them is due to the celebration of the Easter Feast, which succeeds the Lenten Fast. That “an egg at Easter” is a very old proverb in this country is sufficiently shown by the fact that the Pope sent Henry VIII. an Easter egg in asilver case; while an extant schedule of the personal expenses of Edward I. contains, against Easter Sunday, the suggestive item: “Four Jiundred and a half eggs, Is 6d.” The price is as noteworthy as the number. But the most remarkable feature of the usage is its international character. Thus, : in Russia, it is customary to exchange j visits and eggs on Easter Pay and “to ■ drink a deal of brandy." Again, in Italy, ' dishes of eggs are sent to Wie priests to ' be blessed, after which they are carried home arm! placed in the center of the table. It is the correct thing fofTjl the guests to oat one of them. The custi/m also exists in Spain and Germany, and generally among the Jews, Greeks, P^sians in some form or another. —Chambers’ Journal. The Largest Egg in tt ic World. I low would any of your genders, asks a writer for young folks ia St. Nicholas Magazine, like an egg as big as a watermelon served for breakfAt on Easter morning? You might ben just such uu egg if you had lived * rMndngjpwar hundreds of years ago~w7T? CO*- x-pyvr-nis lived. , Why, you could have an egg breakfast to seventy persons, and, s r the rate of two of our domestic hens’ eggs to each person, would have had pie: ity. Just think of taking the contents of It I) of our hens’ eggs and putting them into me eggshell! The bird that laid this enormous egg is known as the Aepyornis mlaximus, aud it was the largest bird ever known to exist. It was a first cousin to t|he ostrich, although a much larger bird, lowering above the tallest giraffe. From the circumstance's under which the first egg was found, it was hoped the bird might still be living, but only the incomplete skeleton of it and fragments' of other eggs were ever discovered. There is but one complete egg of this giant bird , to be seen in the civilized world at present, and it is cracked in several places. It is in the possession of the French Government, and is kept in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Glorious Easter Morn. Easter Day means peace toward heaven nnd peace toward earth. 'Great wealth of flowers! Bring more flowers. Wreath them around the brazen throat of the cannon, plant them in the desert until it shall blossom like the rose; braid them into the mane of the war charger as he comes back. No more red dahlias of human blood. Give us white lilies of peace. Strew all the earth with Easter garlands, for the resurrection we celebrate to-day implies all kinds of resurrection, a score of resurrections. Resurrection from death and sin to the fife of the gospel.

Resurrection of apostolic faith. Resurrection of commercial integrity. Resurrection of national honor. Resurrection of international good-will. Resurrection of art. Resurrection of literature. Resurrection of everything that is good nnd kind nnd generous nnd just and holy and beautiful. Nothing to stay down, to stay buried, but sin and darkness and pain and disease nnd revenge nnd death. Let those tarry in the grave forever. “Glory to God in the highest, nnd on earth pence, goodwill to men."—Talmage. When Easter Bills Come In. I love that penitential look Qn my dear wife's face; ti wives <.<>■. onrh r lovely mien Os sacrificial grace. But when this Lenten time Is o'er. And she In gauds doth shine, That martyr look will leave her sac» And spread Itself on mine. PRETTY EASTER GIFTS. Two Dainty an! Useful Articles Aj propriate for the Season. This pretty little basket for keeping boiled eggs hot while breakfast waits for laggards is either round or oval, made of some pretty fancy straw. If it has a hanI die, so much the better, if not, one could I be manufactured of a piece of whalebone i and wound around either with ribbon or i narrow strips of felt. If the handle can- | not be conveniently manufactured, sub- | stitute a rosette of ribbon, which will orj’ nament the felt co^er. This may be of : two colors, white and yellow, with some j little device painted or embroidered, or I may be of one piece. The edges should । be pinked in a small scallop or fimshed I with buttonhole stitches half an inch long ! and quarter of an inch apart. Asiatic । rope silk or the heavy linen threads used j for embroidery are most effective for this I purpose. I Gifts of flowers are so specially appro- ; priate to the Easter season that the acI companying design of a little vase to hold J them, made of an eggshell, and thus adding the Easter symbol' to the fragrant remembrance, may be welcome to many readers. The top of the eggshell is irregularly broken, three white beans are gummed upon the other end to serve for feet. The whole is then coated with gilt paint and decorated with a tiny landscape painted in oil colors. Those who have not skill to do this or who consider it scarcely worth while to put so much I— Safe tel I BASKET AND VASE. labor on so fragile an article will find the effect very pretty, if the gold paint is used simply to gild the bean feet, to border the broken top of the shell, and here and there to place a dash on the white surface, thus giving the Easter colors. Or the word “Easter" could be written with the gold paint diagonally across the shell. Filled with a bunch of violets, this would be a dainty present for Easter morning,

Saved by an Unspoken Sermon, How a sermon did good, though it was not preached, Is told by the Baltimore Herald. The sermon was written by the Rev. D. B. Greigg, and the subject of it—'the “Unemployed Masses”— was announced in the usual course in the Saturday papers. One of the .papers sent a reporter to Mr. Greigg's house aud secured a copy—or, perhaps, an alistract—of the sermon, and put it in type for the Monday issue. At that time evangelistic services were being conducted throughout the city, and the committee in charge of them sent, several speakers to adilress Mr. Greigg’s Sunday evening congregaton. He at once gave way to the evangelists, and the sermon he had prepared was not preached, but was laid aside for another occasion. The next morning, however, the daily papers contained a long report of the sermon, which was as yet undelivered. On that particular Monday morning i there was in Baltimore a homeless and | penniless young Scotchman. Every hour i his prospects had seemed to grow darker, and finally desperation crushed out what little hope had been left in his heart. He determined on suiede. With his last few pennies he purchased poison enough to end all, and was leaving the drug store when his eyes fell on a newspaper. Probably the tq 3nq W -puojq u pnq <4 unq I jg'?. Then it occurred to him that a minister who preached such a sermon might be interested in his case. The better man in him rose and he made up his mind to search out the preacher, if only as a lasit resort. Securing Mr. Greigg's address, ho went to the house and was received with a heartiness that changed des- j Deration into hope. The preacher him- | self was a Scotchman and listened with i interest to the discouraged man's story. What was more, he promised help. He communieaited with the Scotch societies of the city and many hands were extended to the young stranger in distress. He was given temporary aid ami finally a position which he is now worthily filling. And this was the result of a sermon never preached. Gulls as Weather Prophets. It is a widespread belief, both in Scotland and Ulster, that the line, “Sea gull, sea gull, sit on the sand, it's never good weather while you're on the land," alludes to the well-known fact that when the bird flies out early and far to seaward, or remains on the sand, fair weather may be looked for, while if it takes a contrary course, storms most frequently follow. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet, ami instantly takes the sting OUt <’! cuiiw *iu<l Tt*»4 flip greatest comfort discovery of tie* ago. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25 cents, in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, I.e Roy. N. Y. “Er man kin git hisse’f inter a heap o’ trouble an' ’sponsibility,” said Uncle Eben, “Hy convincin’ people dat he’s smahter dan whut he re'ly is.”— Washington Star. No-to-Bae for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To Bac regulate or remove your desire f r tobacc haves money,make; health and m nliood. Cura guar.in;eed, 50c and sl, all druggists. He whose ruling passion is the love of praise, is a slave to every one that has a tongue for flattery and calumny. ! I never used so quick a cure as Piso's i Cure for Consumption.—J. B. Palmer, | Box 1171. Seattle. Wash.. Nov. 25, 1895. Some of our happiest moments are spent in air castles.—Puck. Jcst try a 10c box of Cas-arets, candy cathartic, finest liver and bowel regulator made.

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