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events generally acknowledge that in
this place Christ was buried.
Now the place is beautifully adorned
with hedges kept in exquisite order by
the monks. There are innumerable beds
of pinks and roses. and the visitors are
given a nosegay by the monk in at
tendance.
One of the most interesting features
of the place is a bunch of seven vener-
able olive trees, some of them nineteen
feet in circumference. and so old that
their trunks are kept shored UP by
stones. It is said that they are de-
Scendants of the original trees of the
time of Christ. and are unlike all other
trees of the same variety in that coun-
try.
Where Christ Was Betrayed.
I Two monuments in the garden are
full of interest. One, a small pillar,
marks the spot where Jesus was be-
trayed by Judas Iscariot, and a small
block shows the place where the three
disciples, Peter, James and John, slept
during their masters agony.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
occupies the space surrounding the
tomb of Christ. This ancient edifice
was begun by the Crusaders in 1880,
A D., and it was largely added to at
subsequent times. It forms a vast pile
of masonry now, and looking at it, it
becomes difficult to believe that it was
then 1862 years ago today that Christ
arose and stepped into the open air.
The Great Celebration.
The most imposing Easter celebra-
ton anywhere is the one which takes
place in Rome today. Travellers jour
ney thousands Of miles TO see it, and
what they see is practically the same
celebration which has been handed
down for centuries by the laws of the
Catholic church.
It is one of the few religious cere-
monials actively participated in by the
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THE WEASEL FAMILY.

The fur of the weasel family is in great
demand by the dealers because OF its
beauty and adaptability in many classes
of wearing apparel What is known as
ermine is produced by a little animal
called the stoat in England. In winter he
changes his reddish brown skin TO white
one. Savage and bloodthirsty is this little
creature, preying upon everything that
ne can overpower. His chief food con-
sists of cartridges and rabbits, but many
other small animals are disposed of in the he
same way The pine marten, q member
of the weasel tribe, has a brown skin and
yellow throat. Stone martens have blu
ish brown coat with white throat. They
are larger than the stoat and more de-
structive The other is the king OF weas-
els. He can whip anything of his weight
in the world He is hunted with hounds
In England, and can give six or seven
dogs all they can do to kill him. Like the
mink, he is very fond of fish and water
fowl.
All of the weasel family are very fierce
and strong for their size. The skunk. with
his black and white coat; the badger, with
his beautiful silver gray fur and black
dashes, and the sable are all OF the. same
species and valuable fur-bearing animals
Boston Traveller.
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AUSTRALIAN RIvALITIEs.

AS we look away from the cliff, dazed
with color and drunk with ozone, the
eye rests gratefully on a placid, undu-
lating landscape spread out in varied
tints of green. Sleek horses are rolling
on verdant slopes, that kiss the blue
waves; dark coral trees, spreading
like cedars, crown the heights here
and there; while cleaning. villas and
cottages, clustered amid luxuriant
foliage indefinably suggests a Nor
mandy village. Down in the hollow lies
the little town proper, trim, white,
about the size of a tablecloth. Yet the
miniature place has pretensions of its
own, and juStifies them by supporting
three doctors, seven dentists, half a
dozen we'll appointed hotels, and an
imposing postofice, which is an at
tempt at italian architecture tangi-
BILE consequences of, those great ex-
pectations" which Kama and its rail-
way have so far failed to realize. That
railway was to have made the fortune
of the KiameSe.
AS soon as its advent was announced
they looked with profound disdain on
the tiny harbor and diminutive stream
ers which had hitherto brought them in
contact with the outer world; they pro-
posed to cut dash, become fashiona-
DE, anu excite the envy OIL duJOlQlnS
townships by their commercial pros
perity. Hitherto the prosperity had
been of the quietly picturesque order;
fat farmers, jog-trotting down the hill
side on sleek nags, and leading other
horses, pannier-laden, deposited pats
of sweet butter and snowy eggs on the
Sydney steamer, and then, feeling that
life, with a bi-weekly packet to rejoice
over, was full of zest, gathered in
groups to interview stray arrivals,
and discuss city news-greatly to the
advantage of the obsequious publican.
But the railway was to change all this;
the railway was to make Kama its
terminus, to shower daily papers and
gay visitors on the little town, and
turn Sleepy Hollow into a scene of
bustling activity.
AS it happened, the railway did no.
thing of the kind; it shot ahead TO its
present terminus, Nowra, utterly ig-
noring the rival claims of Sleepy Hol-
low. The farmers ceased ito amble
down with their market baskets, but
the visitors came not, nor the hustle,
and the day is far distant when the
Sydney paterfamilias shall bring his
olive branches, with their spades and
pitchers, to the sore discomfort of the
dreamy idler. Meanwhile Kama makes
the most of it's weekly auction, where
horses and buggies are sold at the foot
of the lighthouse hill, and of its one
yearly dissipation, the agricultural
show held on the heights behind the
town.-The Westminster Review.
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AN HISTORIC CHURCH.
HISTORY OF THE CATHEDRAL OF
CHIHUAHUA.
1t Deserves to BE Placed ON the List
of the Wonders OF the World
Made During the Days of the
Pyramids.

The cathedral of San Francisco, In
/ the city of Chihuahua. Mexico de-
serves to be placed on the list of the
wonders of the world. Beautifully
located on the principal plaza of the
city, its slender, graceful tower rises
high above the trees and glistens cool
and white against a background of
Graceful, massive, beautiful. mag
nifcent,'' exclaims every visitor; but
if the grand cathedral itself Is extra
ordinarily attractive, its history is not
less so, for it is as strange as if made
during the days Of the pyramids.
Two hundred and nineteen years
ago, in 1875, chihuahua. 1.-The place
where things are made was only
lively frontier Catholic mission.
The cathedral was built on IDEAS
borrowed from both the Moorish and
gothic architecture. The rich facade,
in its elegance and purity, contrasts
agreeably with the severer style OF
the rest of the grand mass. 1t is the
work of an artist who was sentenced
to death for some crime, but was
promised that the sentence would not
be carried out until he had completed
ornamenting the front of the catne-
dral. For twenty-one years the artist
stood upon the platforms ana cut INTO
stone his beautiful dreams; and Tor
tWenty-one years armed sentinels
paced the walks down below, and con-
veyed him to and from his prison. Al
last, old, broken down and SICK, ne
notified the authorities that his work
was done and he was ready to Ole.
Then came pardon, banquets and
honor with hooking rapidity, but IT
was too late, and his eyes closed be
fore he reached the ship that was 10
carry him to sunny France; and TO-
day even his name has been erased
from the manuscripts and from the
cathedral that is his monument.
AS the walls arose slowly, thousands
of men, soldiers and slaves, brought
dirt in rawhide bags on their backs
and slowly and laboriousiy built up
huge inclined planes all around the
building. No scaffolds or derricks
were used in the construction of the
shell. but each stone was pushed or
pulled up the long inciines and to the
summit OF each wall and tower by hu-
man hands. toiling under a tropical
sun, and smarting under the lash or
cruel task-masters. As the towers rose
to a height of over one hundred and
fftv feet. the inclines from each were
over half a mile long, and the dirt fell
over and covered the church. and by
the time the towers reached their full
height, of over two hundred feet, the
church had disappeared in a vast
mound of earth. For seven more long
wears the patient workers toiled TO
remove the mountain they had them
selves built up sack by sack, and thus
dig out the marvel they had con-
structed.
In 1886 the roof Of the chusch was
crowded with MeXicans, watching the
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the spot, marked as the place Of the
glorious resurrection.
There are houses there more than
two thousand years old, and some of
their walls of stone were passed by
that awful procession struggling along
TO the Mount of Calvary. No art of
the word painter can picture the halo
OF deep antiquity hanging ever the
city. The solemnity of its age. the
grandeur of its associations, cut a
niche in the memory which time does
not efface.
1t is the ideal city Of all others for
the celebration of the Easter festival
Christ stood upon the hill of Calvary
] $50 years ago, and looked down upon
that town where he had labored and
had been betrayed. That was the first
Easter morning, and since then. every
year, kind ana loving hands, represent
ing countless general tons of all times
all creedS and all races, have left
some token in honor of the day at the
numerous places made sacred by his
presence.
On yesterday, the reputed tomb of
Christ in the Church of the Holy SepuI-
chre, is covered with lilies, which are
used all over the world. The Mount of
Calvary is visited by the Christian pop
ulation of the town and the members
of the various religious orders inhabit-
ing it, and flowers are st wn upon
the spot where the cross is supposed
TO have stood. The archways under
which Christ walked on the morning of
the crucifiXion, and which are
standing now and may stand for an
other two Thousand years, are visited
and pointed out to the small children
and their histories told. Teaching the
events of Easter time to the young of
Jerusalem is an easy matter Actua1i-
ties are there, and they can be seen
for the trouble of looking.
The city itself is not greatly chang
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the eyes or vigilance of the church.
Over him is borne silk canopy, richly
frinsed.
After officiating at mass at the high
altar, the pope is, with the same cere-
mony, borne back through the crowded
church, and then ascends to the bal
cony over the central doorway. Rising
from his chair of state, and surrounded
by his principal officers, he pronounces
benediction with indulgences and abb
solution.
Then printed slips of prayers blessed
by the pope are scattered among the
vast assemblage, who struggle to OBJ
tain possession of them. They are
priced highly, and by the common peo-
pie, if they are lucky enough to get
them. hand them down from genera
ton to generation.
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pope. and the fact that he takes part
draws tens Of thousands of visitors to
the Eternal City.
The queen of festivities, as Easter
is called in Rome, is ushered in by the
firing of cannon from the castle of ST
Angelo, and as early as a. m. carri-
ages containing the wealthy classes
are pouring toward ST. Peters.
The altar is most richly decorated
ana the whole vast structure IS fes,
TONED with flowers emblematica1 of
the day. The lights around the tomb
and figure of st. Peter blaze brightly
From hall in the adjoining PALACE
of the vatican the pope is borne into
the church under the most imposing
circumstances. Preparations for this
entry are made many weeks in adj
vance.
Seated in his sedia gestatoria. his
vestments ablaze with gold. he is car
ried into the ediice On his head he
wears tiara-a tall round giIded can
representing triple crown, and which
is understood to signify Spiritual
power. temporal power, and a union of
both. Beside him are borne the fiabelH
or large fans, composed of ostrich
feathers, in which are set the eye-like
parts of peacock feathers to signify
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THE CoLoNEL's JUDGMENT.
And How 1t DOubtIessIy Saved Many
Lives Mt Burnt Hickory.

1T was hot fight. and no mistake
sahi" observed the colonel when the
brush at Burnt Hickory was men.
toned.
You were there. colonel?"
Il shud say l wus. sab. l WIS in
command of my regiment. with powah
to use my own discretion. sab"
And you led them in?''
Not the resuvs. sab. not the re-
suvs"-
Your men were in the reserve?"
Let me explain, sab. You don't seem
to grasp the idea, sab. l led TO hun
dred and sixty mem
In the regiment"
Yes. sab. A careful commanded
never takes in his whole force till it
becomes Il despit case, sab. When the
enemy come up in rifle shot and made
a stand sab, 1 selected all my force
but the reSuVS. and we sailed right up
TO pistol shot distance. sab. an thar
we stood ouah Groun'. sah-not man
fiinching. not a man moVin fob % min
utes, while the bullets flew around us
like sand. sh''-
How many men did you lead in?''
How many men did you lead in,
coloneI?"
Two hundred and eight"
''But why did you not rush in your
reserves and end the fight right
there"-
Shows youah lack OF military skill,
san. We had reconnoite'd the ground,
an found we couldn't fight no more Il
two hundred and eight mem
why so, colonel?"
why, gud LaWd, sab, thar was only
two hundred and eight trees in the
patchr Plain-Dealer.
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A NoTHER,s LAMENT.

1t was in the Black sea that he fell
from the bridge, and the captain said
'Is it Jack that is overboard?'' for he
loved him like d son, and he plunged
in TO save him. And the water was
wild. and he grasped-but it was only
his cap. And sad present it was
that they sent me that Christmas-his
silver watch and chain. And since then
I have been weak and weary; for he
was the first of thirteen, and 1 loved
him the best. All, Jesus sent and Jesus
took. I know it must be so; but when
I sit on the rocks l think maybe God
took my son to some island in the
sea; and when I see the birds skim
ming on the water. I think maybe he
was not drowned, but will come up out
of the sea to his mother, who nursed
him so dear.-Blackwood's Magazine.
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4 CLEAN OF SUNSHINE.

The sun come out fer Jest one day. an
climbed a. sky. of blue,
A-shinin' like he did last May, he drank
the snow like dew!
An then 1 picked the dryest spot-whar
rivers didn't run,
An jest kept rollin' over in the glory o.
the sun!
I didn't have no idee I'd miss him half
SC bad;
When the blizzard come a-blowin' I wuz
most perticlkler glas.
But when he kept a-stayin' off, thar
wusnt any fun.
An that's why I'm rejoicin in the glory
O. the sun!
want him Jest to down me, an to down
me with his light
Don't keer a shuck fer sleepin or fer
dreamin' dreams at night!
I'm shoutin' hallelujah, fer 1 think the
billiards. done,
An I'm rollin', rollin' over in the glory
o. the sun.
IF. [. Stanton. in the Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
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NOT DRY ENOUGH TO BE RATIFIED.

The Rev. Mr.. Psalmjones was not feel
ing as we'll as usual, the church was cold
and some OF the big boys near the door
undertook to enliVen matters by cough
ing in chorus and throwing in now and
then a startling imitation of sneeze.
The preacher stood it patiently few
minutes, and then paused in his dis
IF 1 hear any more of that noise back
there, young men, I'll walk you out of
this building, one by one. or all in a
bunch, 1 amt very particular which.
I've had dealings with fellows of your
stripe dozens of times, and l know how
TO manage 'em. Now you quiet down
mighty quick or there'll be trouble
A death-like stiffness pervaded the
church. He waited a moment to let it
take effect.
81 know I'm little dry this morning,
brethren" he said, "but I'm not so dry
that anybody can rattle me. The text
says in the third place" etc.-Chicago
Daily Tribune.
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Ewritten for The HeraIdl

Easter Sunday in Jerusaleml AL
most irresistibly these words carry the
thinker be k more than eighteen hum
dred years to that little city of Pales-
tine, where the worlds greatest ttag-
edy was enacted, and where a miracle
occurred which has no counterpart in
the history of the universe.
There is an indefnable something
about the place which takes hold of
the emotions of the visitor and fills
him with awe as he looks reverently at
the objects which witnessed his last
walk to a cruel death, and again at
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progress of the battle between their
forces and the troops of Maximillian
but hastily climbed down when a can
non ball cracked the big bell in the
northeast tower. Two years ago a
mining man offered to give the church
a. new bell for this cracked one, which
he wished to send to the Columbian
exposition; but an examination proved
the interesting fact that the bells had
all been cast in the towers when the
church was built, and that now there
was no way to get them out without
tearing the towers down.
G. z. BAILY.
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THE GATE AGAINST MY THOUGHTS.
If could shut the gate against my
And keep out sorrow from this room

II 1 could shut the gate against my
And keep out sorrow from this room
within,
Or memory could cancel all the notes
OF nv misdeeds, and 1 unthink my sin
How free, how clear, how clean my soul
Discharged of such lothsolae company.
Or were there other rooms without my
That did not to my conscience join so
Where / might lodge the thoughts of sin
That 1 might not their clam'rous cry
ing hear;
What peace. what joy. what ease should
] possess,
Freed from their horrors that my soul
Cypress.
But, o my Savior, who my refuge art,
Let thy dear mercies stand 'twixt them
and me,
And be the wall to separate my heart
So that I may at length repose me
free;
That peace, and joy. and rest may be
And / remain divided from my sin.
John Daniel. from tho "Elizabethan
Lyrics
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it. And they have kept on wearing IT.
is the commonest as we'll as the most
beautiful flower in the land. Its native
modesty did not prevent its merits from m
being appreciated Ii is the old story or
fine hare and the tortoise. While the hare
has been busy blowing his. own horn and
having it blown for him, the tortoise mas
slowly, inaudibly. but none the less sure
" and certainly been winning the race.
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days Of Christ, known now as Mount
Calvary. From the famous Gate of
Joppa it can be seen, and if we knew
its ancient name it would speedily be
recognized.
1t is a hill shoped like the human
skull, and just beneath what might be
called its forehead are two cavernous
spots which at a distance resemble
eyes. Not only this, but the inside of the
hill is shaped like a human skull. En-
tering the grotto under Calvary. it IS
found to be So feet high, the top and
sides being malachite green. brown.
black. gray. white and red. 1t is called
Jeremiah's grotto. for 1t was there that
he wrote his Book of Lamentations,
The summit of the hill is Just wide
enough to contain three crosses. 1t was
the spot where malefactors had been
slain for ages and Christ was slain as
a malefactor.
DR. T. De Witt Talmage has visited
this spot oftener perhaps than any
other American divine. and when he
was asked what his emotions were on
seeing the place. he said:
Toward this hill the prophets point
ed forward. Toward this hill the apos-
Ties and martyrs pointed backward.
Toward this hill. all heaven pointed
downward. Toward this hill. with foam
ing excavations all perdition pointed
upward. Round it circles all history.
all time. all eternity. and with this
scene. painters have covered the NIGH
test canvases. sculptOrs have cut the
RICHEST marble. orchestras have rolled
their grandest oratoTios. churches have
lifted their greatest doXologles and
heaven has built its highest throne"
The Garden of Gethsemane.
The Garden of Gethsemane. wherein
is the reunited tomb of Christ, is a
small enclosure 100 feet long and $50
feet wide 1t is cared for by colony
of Franciscan monks. who spend much
time identifying it. The Bible says,
In the midst of the garden was
sepuIchre." and the students of biblical
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EASTER SUNDAY
IN JERUSALEM.
Rites Observed in the Great CITY
of Antiquities.
AS IT LOOKS TODAY.
AN IDEAL CITY FOR THE GREAT
CELEBRATION.

Archwny Under Which Christ
WalIScd-The Garden of Gefh-
semane-Church of the Holy Sep
uIchre-The Queen of Festivals at
HOne-Printed Slips of Prayers
blessed BY the Pope.
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FIzz TOO. HIGH IN PRICE.
Cost of Production Totally Out of
Proportion.

1t is reported from France that the
price of champagne viii be. if any
thing, higher this year than it has been
previously. This is regarded by the
New York Tribune as somewhat sur
prlsing. for although a great deal of
money is spent on the manufacture
ana bottlinG, of the wine. nevertheless
Its cost of production appears to be
wholly out OF proportion to the charge
at which 1t is retailed. not only in
America. but also in French restau-
rants. In Paris you must pay u
francs. or S2.4O. for not strictly first
class bottle of champagne, and the
same wine will cost at least So in Amer
lea Turning to the bill of fare given
IN a little guide book to Paris pub
nshed in 1903, the most expensive
champagne is quoted at S1.20 a bottle.
10 be sure. Chambertin. Volnay. POM
mard and Nuts were only 81 per bot
tie then. A beefsteak with potatoes
was 20 cents: and "bouilli' garnished
with vegetables only cents: but NUT
ton outlets were dear. being cited at 20
cents apiece; and a fried sole cost 40
cents. if the book is to be believed.
Be this as it may. the value of the
champagne produced in France is daily
increasing. In the department de la
Marine alone it has increased from
S1.327.OOo in 1874 to over s6.000.000 in
1891. The strangest circumstance con-
nected with champagne is that the
French themselves have little liking
for the vintage of Epernay. In fact,
the average Gaul rarely touches 'fzz''
save on the occasion of marriages,
birthdays and grand balls. at the car
nival and sometimes at race meetings.
At smart dinner parties this vintage is
never served. being deemed vulgar.
There is an immense amount of cham
payne drunk at first class Paris res
taurantS. but the consumers are for
the most part oreigners-English
Russians. Germans and especially
Americans, who for some unaccount-
able reason dote on this wine and con-
slider no feast complete without it.
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THE VIOLET WINS FIRST PLACE.

By common, if not legal, consent the
violet has become the national flower
For a long time, and most vociferously,
have the claims of the golden-rod the
aster the maize blossom and other floral
emblemS been put forth, but nothing was
settled There were so many claimants
and each had such ardent advocates, that
the situation seemed likely to remain de-
batable. But in the meantime. without
city and gradually coming to the front.
1t did not have poems ard prologues
written about it, the magazines did not
go into rhetorical sessions in it's behalf,
nor did Congress hold an executive SEES
sion concerning il. But everybody wore