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Dream of an Easter Morn
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I dreamed that you and I, band in
hand, passed together from the little
way that we call life and that the per-
tain of great light and great silence
closed behind us.
We stood, two quivering, new born
spirits, still warm with the enveloping
veils of humanity, in eternity. We,
who had owned such a small part of
the world, who had lived such a small
part of even the little thing called
l.ife, were there in the eternity of
spirit, ours at last, the knowledge of
Immortality.
Around us was luminous distance, of
which seemed a part; it was like the
soul of a radiance that one sometimes
catches in inflnitestimal gleam in the
heart of something crystal. Waves of
beauty and truth palpitated toward
•is, each covering us with fresh and
ever fresh ecstasy, and we grew with
each, more a perfect substance of the
whole. '
And it seemed that when we heard
the whisper of the curtain behind us,
and another stood revealed where we
had been. Sh~ still held about her
the gnrb of he little way we call
Jjife, and her face was pinched with
requirements that had been. Her
self on earth was transparent to us;
nothing of all that had been was hid-
den.
Passion for attainment was the
translucent mentality.
This woman liad only wanted that
which she had not, and only wanted it
because she had it not.
tier mortality had been an ever un-
folding desire.
She had been pursuing herself, and
herself had been pursuing the Truth.
She had not felt love, and she had not
felt hate; she had only felt herself.
She had lived in the mijst of life and
never livtxl at all; her days had been
filled with a thousand busy acts, and
she had never done anything at all.
Her name had been stamped on a
thousand achievements, and she had
never known the name of anything in
the world.
We heard her moan with the pain
ot a great and marvelous change, and
then the garb of earth drifted and
ebbed away from her.
The spirit with blind eyes and out-
stretched hand stepped into the in-
finite.
Again the whisper of the curtain—a
man was there
The shell , f his humanity was fixed
and cold and carven with denials.
Hi.' stiff, white hands grasped curi-
ous weeds of earth, self-importance, |
intolerance, intrinsic values. He had 1
lied on both sides of life, outside and |
inside, the one denying the other to
the end.
Where he had given he had denied,
and where he had denied he had not |
given.
His charity had been of this mate-
rial, his love had been the same curi-
ous flaw. He had built hospitals and
asylums and schools, and cared for
mother, sisters, wife and children. Yet
he had never felt the sight of a crip-
ple or answered the yearning of un-
selfish oblation in the eyes of love.
His life was a fine procession of
giving which his soul watched with
thin pressed lips.
He had denied himself, and the self
had denied the man. and both had de-
nied the Infinite Spirit.
He sighed very gently and the shell
of the little way melted from him.
We saw hi- eyes staring wide into
the distance cf Peace and they were
tilled with tears.
Again the whisper of the curtain—a
creature was there of horrible and
awful design.
Evil. evil, evil was eveVy fiber of
the nature that had lived itself.
She had done nothing beautifully
that she could do harmfully.
She had absorbed the good to make
it bad, and her influence had been
strong.
Never during her whole existence
had the voice of the spirit spoken; it
seemed that there was none save a
thing of earthly allurement to speak,
and yet we saw that the spirit had
been there always looking on with the
gaze of a child who does not under-
stand the wickedness of the world.
And we saw all that was terrible,
loathsome and pitiful fall away as
shriveled petals, and the soul, sim-
ple. capable of infinite growth, pass
slowly into the first wave of happi-
ness and beauty it had ever known.
And the curtain moved an a young
girl was there. Her beautiful hair
was wet with tears and ill her hands
she carried twenty roses. The enfold-
ing veil of the little way was lovely
beyond words. It shone with unsel-
fish love and purity of purpose; she
had been so brave ami so sweet and
so loyal to all that was true. What-
ever she had done was simply the
expression of her own truth. And
there haii been such need of her, back
there where she had radiated hope,
xet Here she was, and There was the
need of her; a wistful human lov
shone about her.
She smiled, and as she stepped
forth we saw the twenty roses drift
back to grow again in the hearts of
those she had left.
How many more thousand came we
did not know. We saw men and
women enter with the dead leaves of
vanity, insincerity, indifference, cruel
ty, brutality still shrouding them, and
we saw these dead leaves fall away,
disclosing only the little perfections
that had been beneath all, and these
illumined slowly in the light.
ri hen, without a sound, it seemed
the curtain lifted, showing a narrow
doorway hewn in stone that led from
the little way, and through this we
saw the old life—experiences, hates
affections.
We could watch the men and worn
en of all the world busily threading
back and forth and garbed in those
dead, shriveled, fearful scales beneath
which the immortality of goodness
was awaiting.
Every second one of them turned
! wearily toward us.
Children came smiling, and
j change was perceptible as they
passed.
Then out of the strange, compact
throng we saw one move like a very
star. We knew in our infinite under-
standing that the cloak of life had
been but a shining veil to her soul; a
veil that had grown thinner with the
suffering of each day.
Her love had grown great with
giving.
Her hope had grown infinite with
hoping.
In selfless patience she had lived
above her own sorrows to bear the
agonies of others. So nothing had
been too small or too mighty for her
comprehension.
Because nothing had been given
her. she was everything.
Along a path of tears she came to
shine on through the eternal wonder.
And where she had been on the
little way of world we saw a lily
bloom, and another, and another, and
wherever one had lived who gave his
life for love.
And Beyond, in the radiant silence,
we seemed to see a million lilies of
pure light, and the little path that
led from the little way we call life
into the Infinite was white and beau-
tiful and lined with these wonderful
flowers.
A Voice breathed through all time
and space, I am the resurrection and
the life—My kingdom shall have no
end."
We turned toward the measureless
Source of glory, passing In lilies of
light, you and I, forever and forever
and forever.
It was Easter morning.
Tornado Did Not Strike The Business
Part Ot The City.
NORTH AND SOUTH SUBURBS.
A Steel .\uti Iron riant at llniiimoml,
Indiana. Illiiwn Down fit lifting a
!.<•«* «f 8200.000; i:a t St. I.oul#
llulltllng'* M^lilnini; Struck#
The Fufurs of Seventy Million Acres
of Land at Stake.
NN ashington, Mar. '25. -Tito supreme
court of the l.'nitcd States granted the
petition of the t'uited Mutes Attorney
(Soncral to intervene in the ease of the
state of Kansas
orado, in vol viiiy
ersus the state of (,V>1-
thc use of the water
Chicago, Mar. lift. One of tlie most
severe storms this city has known in
many years passed over Chicago in the
night. The suburbs « f the city to the
south suffered most ami many houses
•ti wrecked. The storm did not
strike the business portion of the city.
The storm in the vicinity of Indiana
llarbor was the most severe ever known
there. Three people are known to be
dead, several others are fatally hurt
and at midnight there were several
others reported missing, and they may
be buried in the ruins of their homes.
A two-story brick building, known
as the Marker building, was blown
:>wn and a number of people who had
sought shelter there were burietl in the
ruins.
To the north of the city the storm!
was also severe, much damage having j
beeu done in the suburbs of Kvanston.
ugers Park and Thornton.
An exceedingly heavy fall of rain ;
accompanied the storm. In the sub- !
urban town of Thornton the frame
dwelling of K Gardner was b
a stone quarrx and reduce*
:indling wood. Gardner was
hurt and his wife sustained
injuries. Several other peopl
n "jit red.
iwii intc
od intc
> fatal I \
of the Arkansas river. This means
that the government will take charge
of the waters of the Ark unsas. Kansas
look* upon this move m a victon it
will distribute the water equally.
The future of 10,000,000 acres of one
arid lands that have been reclaimed b
irrigation and of fully GO,000,000 acre
of land in the arid region which th>
government proposes to reclaim, i
bound up in the decision of this ea e
according to the petition of interven
tioii of the government, which Attor
ney General Knox tiled.
1'he loyal tight between Kansas and
Colorado is a remarkable one. It in a
j dispute over the ownership of th
| waters of the Arkansas river, which
j rises in C olorado and flows for 'JSl)
miles in that state, then enter* Kansas
j and llows for 310 miles in that state.
I 1 lie. claim of neither state is admit-
I ted by the government. Hoth contcn-
1 lions are alike dangerous for tin*
i government and for that reason the
I nited States has intervened. I'nless
, the supreme court holds that the gov-
ernment s right to the appropriation of
the waters of interstate streams is
superior to the right of the states, it
seems inevitable, the reclamation actor
irrigation law will become a dead let-
ter.
BURTON ON TRIAL,
Wet Charged With Using Influence For
AKvfhJnC Unlawful in Itself.
Mar. 84.—TI
St on
ind a li
manv Imi
burned
buildin
II
The
maim
tri-
hi
wind
ii, en used much
uUtning struck
them the plant
acturer, which
other larger
•ill reach many
a tor
1 week.
Loin-
Hurt*
eted t<
f Sen-
upv a
DAWES COMMISSION
The President Leaves Vacanf Places
ot Resigning Members.
JUST AS CONAPARTE PROPOSED.
Till® Action May llava Aetanteri Tlio
Kenatti Committee in leaving Tlie
Danes Cominlnaloii In Tlia Indian
Appropriation* It.II
Washington, Mar. _\T Senator Long
railed on the president and tendered
the resignation of ex-Governor Stanley
as a member of the Dawes commission
to take effect April !. The president
and Mr. I,on chatted at some length
cotntni .-ion ami
iter said that lm
leoossor to Stan-
other members
ijrned, ho would
llail
igginsvillo,
buildings were
[>t Deep.
Mar.
partly wi
Fifty
deed, one
man was mortally wounded and sev-
ral others hurt, the town was in
darkness and the streets strewn with
debris as the result of a tornado and
hail storm which struck this place.
The hail on the streets was a foot
deep within five minutes after the
storm came and some of the hailstones
were phenomenally large. Dozens of
trees in the town were blown down
and several horses were killed in the
streets.
Col. 1). I\ Dyer, United States Dis-
trict Attorney, made the opening
statement for the government. After
reading the indictment ho said that
the charges against Senator Burton
were based on Section 1783 of the It
vised Statutes of the United States.
"According to the statute," said Col
I'.^ r. "it is unlawful for any senator
or representative to accept pecuniary
fees for any service rendered to any
person or concern in any matter
which the government is directly or
indirectly interested.
The government will endeavor
show by witnesses that the defendant
accepted certain sums of money from
tin* Kialto drain and Securities (
pany for his inlluence in certain mat
tors pending before the Postoflic
Department in which the government
was directly or indirectly interested
"It is not the contention of the gov
eminent that Senator Burton used his
On^T. For Ammunition. influence for any .natter that in itself
New York. Mar. 2:;. The Herald's ! I", 1 h'-' Ifovcrninent does not
Berlin correspondent cables that verv I the character of th,
arge orders for ammunition have been I "'""^'"n with which it is
lodged by several governments with * . Senator Burton received
all Herman powder factories The I "" '"S i,,Mucncc
most important countries mentioned IT '!■"'"V"1 Klnlto C,n>in iiml
are China, Turkey and Spain. ! St'uunt"'* Company/^
r7o,,„b i Ak"'/:
Chicago, Mar. - After a day of , ' -Y , S«-After <"
rioting in which several men were in- ! I T , control. San Miguel coun-
jnred and others arrested, striking I f?"'? ""dtT
employes of the American Can com I ^ ^"''^muLon declares the
pany made an attack on the can com- 1 "'T " SUte °f
pany and caraied the non-union work- " irc^ll,"n; . certain
crs from the plant. : imls with,n an(1 without the
! county are preparing to join forces for
Di.piitea settled , I lie purpose of resisting the law and
'a ris. Mar. JI It is asserted posi- j destroying property, and that crimes
tively in authorative circles that dis- have been committed an.l threats ar,
putes between Creat Britain and j being made by alleged disorderly per
1' ram:c have been amicably concluded, sons.
New Kugliiud KnrtInjustices.
Burlington, Vt., Mar. a.1.—A slight
earthquake shock was felt in this city.
Tall buildings were shaken quite per-
ceptibly.
Worcester, Mass. — An earthquake
shock was felt hero. People were
aroused by a distinct jar of their homes
anil a rumbling sound.
Hartford, Conn. — An earthquake
shock was felt here. Houses viabratcd
and telephone receivers swung on their
hooks.
In Ansonia and Rockville the shock
was plainly felt. Windows were rattled
and furniture moved.
Mr. Keeiler'n Hill,
Washington. Mar. Representa-
tive Herder of Kansas moved to recon-
sider the vote by which a bill intro-
duced by himself had been taken from
the committee on irrigation of arid
lands and referred to the committee on
public lands. Representative Laccy,
chairman of the committee, had oh- i
tained unanimous consent to have the !
change of reference made. It is prob- !
able that the attempt of Mr. Iteedcr to
regain control of the bill will cause an
interesting debate. The bill, besides
amending the irrigation act, repeals ;
the timber and stone act, the desert '
land act and the commutation pro- i
vision of the homestead act and trans- I
fers the forest reservations from the j
department of the interior to the de- I
partment of agriculture. Mr. Lacey |
said that the bill practically changed |
the land laws of the United States.
Squeezing Water from stock*.
New York. Mar. 24.—The new plan
of the Northern Securities company is
to declare a dividend of !•!! per cent;
thus reducing stock to a normal basis.
Itetiurftt to 1'iml Krtlffer.
Paris, Mar. 24.—Paul Kruger, former
president of the Transvaal, has inher-
ited a small fortune, left to him by
Charles Chaboossean, a school teacher
of Ste. ISazeille, who was an ardent
admirer of the lioers.
A KHfixni City Fire.
Kansas City. Mar. 2(1.—Fire in .Jones
Brothers mammoth retail store caused
a loss estimated at 8130,000, fully in-
sured. Of the loss S',10,000 is on stock
and 840,0011 on building. The fire was
caused by lightning.
I
InjiiiH-Umi Oamngeii.
.loliet, 111., Mar. 22.—The Hates Ma-
chine Company, of this city, which
secured a writ of injunction rurainst
the Machinists union and its members,
has brought suit for 8200,000 damages
against the same defendants. The
writ granted by Judge Hilschcr is a
sweeping one and prohibits interfer-
ence of any kind on the part of the
defendants. Under its protection the
Hates company will reopen its plant.
A I'nl llf>tlc McMKngP.
Washington. Mar. 20. -A pathetic
message cams from United States Con-
sul Fee at Bombay, India, and ad
dressed to Assistant Secretary Loomis,
as follows: "Daughter dead—plague.
\V ife attacked.*' Mr. Fee is a native of
Ohio, and was appointed in ltj'.i'J.
Pour lug: Info Korea.
Ss. Petersburg. Mar. 22.—Russian
troops continue to pour into North
Korea. They arc in excellent condi-
tion. It is said typhus fever is raging
among the Japanese forces
concern in j* the l)a\w
its work, and the fo
would not appoint a
ley. He added that i
of tin* coniuih ion r.
not appoint their s
means the dissolution of the Dawes
commission without the intervention
of congress. The president believes
that the work remaining to be dune
an be performed without the aid of a
big commission and he will earn, out
the recommendation of the Bonaparte
report as well as he can. Breckenridge
"nil Bixby are expected to resign,
leaving Needles probably alone to com-
plete the work- that yet requires to be
one. it Usaid that the knowledge
cluated the si nate. Indian committee
in leaving the provision or the Dawes
unmlssion in the Indian appropria-
tion hill as it came from the house.
Parsons, Kas. Colonel T. B. Needles,
ho is in the city, denies that he has
-i'rned from 1 lie Dawes commission,
but refused to i! iseu- , the future of the
I'tumission or the Bonaparte rumor.
I-fM tnre«l The ImlimlH.
Washington, Mar. ■<;. — President.
•tured a party of
i re Offal la Sioux
addicted t-o horse
to the pursuits of
• lent endeavored
visitor:; idras of
Itoo.scvclt soundi
Indians who are 1
racing- than they
:i;rrieulture. The
to impress upon
industry and th
1 f. They i:,form<<1
the president that they owned 40,000
ponies and the same number of cattle.
I he president told them they ought to
dispose of at least, half of their ponies
and increase their holdings of cattle to
100,000. Mr frankly told them that if
they would stop horse racing and
gambling and devote their energies to
cattle raising and agriculture they
soon might become valuable citizens.
1 he policy ot' the government, he said,
was to take care of the older Indians,
but that the younger members of all
the tribes soon would have to look out
for themselves. Idleness and laziness
would not be tolerated.
An l-:nriii«|nnlt Seimiition.
Uoston, Mar. As a popular sen-
sation the earthquake was a success.
Telephone operators in cities and
towns from Kastport, on the east to
New Ilavcn, on the west, and Newport,
on the south, to Concord, N. II.. on the
north, reported that the bells jingled,
chairs rocked and buildings swayed.
In Maine the shock was the most
severe, breaking bric-a-brac and lamp
chimneys in hundreds of places. At
Manchester, N. II., twenty-seven spruce
beams 3x0 inches and ten feet long,
were split and the floor collapsed.
PA<i«M-mvfllil IlMiiisherl.
Vienna, Mar. Ml.—It is announced
here that M. 1'aderewski, who was
touring Uussia, was expelled from the
country at twenty-four hours' notice
rroKi-eMg of tliu IVnr.
Washington. Mar. 20.—The only di-
rect information touching the progress
of the war that has reached the state
department within the last three days
came in the following cablegram from
United States Minister Allen at Seoul:
"Japanese forces stopped a specie
caravan en route to the mines on this
side of Anju. Miners on this side arc
not allowed to proceed to the mines.
Newspaper correspondents have been
sent to Seoul from the north. The
censorship is very strict. Japanese
forces are arriving at Pin;; Vang after
a fortnight of marching.
No Dcliiy* Anticipated.
Washington, Mar. 24.—Special As-
sistant Attorney (ieneral Charles W.
Russell and James William A. Day, as-
sistant to the attorney general, sailed
on the Cedric yesterday for Paris,
where they will represent this govern-
ment in the transfer of the Panama
canal property to the Untted States.
No delays or embarrassment of any
character are anticipated in the trans-
fer of the property.
I' lrnt Clans Mall.
Washington, Mar. 22.- The postofllee
department is calling the attention of
postmasters to the statute restricting
first class mail packages to four pounds
or less in each package.
Prottmt of Cotton Men.
Washington, Mar. '-JO.—The protests
"f southern cotton manufacturers
against interference of congress in
regulating labor contracts was the
feature in the hearing of the eight-
hour bill before the senate eouimittee
on education and lal>or.
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