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friends in Arbutus and cannot think
of anywhere | could have such peace
full two weeks
What an Easter SUNDAY tb~room in
thgsh 1ntdlheIy? little hosiery for the
throng who had gathered from far
and near. Every house in the village
had its guests, men and women to
whom the memories of childhood were
sweet, and they brought their boys
and girls, eager to see father and
mothers old home. Easter was late
that year, and spring was forward.
The naples along the street had flung
out blood red taSsels, and the lilac
cry dooryard was gay with hyacinths
and tulips and datfodils. Even in the
dark woods, which clothed the noun
tain side, there were outbursts of
golden green willow and snowy shad
blossom. The sweetness of spring and
the peace bequeathed by Christ to
earth filled the church as radiantly as
the sunshine itself. There seemed to
be a new joy in the very peal Of the
bells. and one felt the glory of the res
direction in the music that echoed and
reechoed within the walls. A famous
organist who was once a barefoot boy
in the village had found substitute to
fill his place in New York church. He
was putting his heart and the, inner
most thought of it into the music that
breathed the soul of the Easter time.
The chancel held sheaves of snowy Ill
/ les, but even rarer than this fra
GRANGE came a spicy, delicious sweet
ness from long wreaths that swept
from pillar to pillar. They were woven
from the green of the cedar and rosy
mayfowers, from which somebody had
called the village Arbutus.
The Easter service was a beautiful
and solemn one. A gray-haired rector,
who preached the first sermon in the
new church, aided the young pastor.
After the doXology had been sung
there was a short after service, in
formal and memorable. The old rec
tors voice came brokenly, most of all
when he led to the place of honor in
! the choir an old, snowy-haired woman
with the eager flush of youth in her
face. Mrs. Truitt,'' he said to the
congregation, 'whom a few of my
people will remember. Hers was the
sweetest voice that led the choir at
our first service. Again she win sing
for us the hymn we listened to that
Easter morning fifty years ago"
| There was solemn hush in the
little church and ali eyes
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turned to the old lady, dressed
in delicate gray. who held a hymn
book in her trembling hands. The
notes of the great organ swelled in
splendid prelude, then they changed
to a simple thread of music, the har-
mOny of an old hymn tune. a quaver-
ing voice took up the melody; it sound
ed old-fashioned and the words came
haltingly, but the famous organist
waited humbly on the trembling voice.
1t gained strength line by line, and
presently there returned something
of the sweetness and strength of
youth. The congregation held its
breath: there was almost a note of
triumph as she sang:
ITO this temple, where we call Thee,
Come, o Lord of Hosts. to-day;
With Thy wOnted loving. kindness,
Hear Thy servants. as they pray;
And Thy fullest benediction
Shed within its walls Away
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an agony of tears. Tie old lady rose
and drew her to a low chair beside her
own, and the girl hid her face in the
tender arm that encircled her. She
did not interrupt the tears; she
smoothed the li s9 PHI ss66f6i S grew fainter.
The girl raised her head and kissed
the lovely, wrinkled hand that lay on
her shoulder.
Il never really loved anybody in my
life, except my grandmother" said
Honor, in a choked voice. when /
was a little thing-four years old
l was left alone in the world. Mother
and father were lost at sea. | remem-
Der being told how the great ship went
down and that they would never come
back. | don't believe | understood
what it meant. Grandmother came
for me from California to Connecticut
and took me home with her. There
was never anybody quite like my
grandmother. We had nobody in the
world but each other. One morning
| went to call her and she did not an
swer; she lay with her eyes closed;
she was smiling and her snowy curlS
struggling over the white pillow. The
birds were singing and the sweetness
of the roses was coming in at the open
window and down on the beach | could
see the fluttering sail of the little boat
we were going out in that morning
she and land l could not believe it
that she had left me quite alone"
The lady gathered the sobbing girl
into her arms as if she had been lit
tie child, and the room was still. The
merry laughter of the girls in the Ii
barry came family down the hall.
Honor lifted her head and dried her
eyes.
THAT happened three years ago"
she said 81 was just 10. My guardian
came to see me. He told me | had
plenty of money and he was kind
enough. He let me choose where 1
would 90. | did not care. | wanted to
go away from Santa Barbara. | have
been in two or three schools. | did
not like any of them. This has seemed
more like home than anywhere have
been-and yet I'm not bit like the
other girls; they know it and know
| it,"
81 am very glad you have told me all
this" said the principal, gently; sit
is hard trying to be mother to girls
into whose hearts cannot look"
II did not know l had heart. the
sort of heart grandmother used tc
live in, till to-day. When l stood there
alone i'll the long white ward, without
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blossom to give to anybody and
watching the girls move about among
the narrow beds, | saw myself in one
minute as am, selfish and hard and re-
bellious. l would have given every
penny l had in the world to give nv
grandmother happy half-hour, and
yet would not spend a dollar on these
poor sick people. | stood with a great
choking lump in my throat, when Miss
Mary came to tell me there was some
body who had no lilies. 1t made me
happy all at once. When | saw the old
lady at the end of the long white ward
i don't know when had done such a
thing bent down and kissed her.
She had sweet, patient old face, and
white hair, like grandmother. We had
long, long talk while she sat holding
my hand. She has no relatives, and
for week she was all alone. She did
not tell me this. the doctor did. s:ha
was alone and they found her nearly
dying with pneumonia. The doctor
says he had hard pull bringing her
through. She told me of one thing
she wants more than anything else in
this world. She was born and brought
up in Arbutus. On Easter Sunday they
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
little church there. Her father
built it. When she was girl she sang
the dedicatOry hymn and helped to
decorate the church with flowers. She
was married there. She told me all
about her wedding day. She wore a
wreath of lily of the valley and a
white muslin frock. | asked to see
the doctor before | came home. He
thinks on Saturday she will be well
enough to travel. He said she would
soon grow strong with change of air
ana rest, and-if she was happy"
The girl turned away and touched
the golden datfodils caressingly.
We'll. Honor, dear, what can we do
for her?" asked the principal.
The girls face famed with scarlet.
That is what | wanted to ask YOU. I
would rather go to Arbutus than New
York. l have plenty of money to take
good care of Mrs. Truitt, and | would
like to have you be my guest. heard
Miss Mary say she was looking for a
place in the country where you could
go for a vacation. They say Arbutus
is lovely"
The principal drew the girl to her
and kissed her. 81 will be very happy
to go with you, Honor. 1 have old
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SIGNIFICANCE OF EASTER.
Is That of Life Breaking Out Over
Its Old Narrow Bounds and
Limitations.

The significance of this Easter-time
is that of an expanded life-life
breaking out over its old narrow
bounds and limitations, life throbbing
out into new and more glorious
realms. Death and the grave seem to
abruptly limit life, just as the dark
ness of night shuts down and cuts
off the sunlight. Easter takes in the
morrow. The great Easter forecast
for humanity is life leaping out into
eternity as in the rock-hewn tomb
Christ disenthralled Himself of the
vestments of the grave. Who can
measure all that is meant IN that
grand formula of expression:
when | awake in Thy likeness l
shall be satisfied?" The Eastertide
is an earnest of the opening out of
our earthly life in itself. Many limi-
tations pen us up far within the
range of our conscious capacity for
life even while we are here. Selfish
ness and sorrow and narrow horizons
shut us in in the restricted bounds
of this life. but the Easter opens the
door and the way out into larger
life and a more glorious liberty-"thc
liberty wherewith Christ hath made
Us free. christian Work.
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WHAT FIGURES SHOW.
Those Countries Where Most Spirits
Are Used Are the Greatest
Beer COnsumers

A very interesting and highly sug-
gestive study of the drink problem
is presented in late number of the
FOrtnightly Review, London, by J. Holt
Schooling, professional statistician
of 20 years experience in tabulating
the reports made by governments. So
large a proportion of the revenue Of
states is now raised by tax upon
wines and liquors that it is not easy
to misrepresent the facts. We have
not estimates or impressions, but
official data prepared by appointees of
the governments whose duty it is to
see that each product is duly taxed.
And from these reports, Mr.. SCHOOL,
ing clearly shows that the more the
use of malt or fermented liquors is
encouraged the more rapid. becomes
the consumption of rum, whisky, gin
and brandy. This destroys the theory
upon which the German beer-bouts
have been recently introduced into the
schools of Boston and Cambridge In
the year 1900 the beer consumption Of
Germany was 27.5 gallons per capita;
in America, 1873. OF course we ought
TO find that the beer "drove out" dis
titled liquors. On the contrary. we
discover that the German demanded
10 gallons of spirits per capita to the
IL consumed in America. In France,
"one of those reproducing coun-
tries where" travellers assure us.
there is no drunkenness" there we're
consumed 25.4 gallons of wine per cap
ita, and more spirits than in Germany.
nearly twice as much as in the United
States. These facts are just as patent
as those of population, or import and
export; but nevertheless the profess
sors and tutors who have a weakness
for mugs and bottles will 90 on as
surfing the innocent pul1ic that the
only way to keep a boy from whisky
is to fill him up with beer. Mr.. School
ing IN the article referred to attributes
the present commercial supremacy of
America to ''the relative sobriety of
her workmen." Yet if our brewery
syndIcates and their learned apolo-
gists can have their way for a few
years both that sobriety and its re-
sultant industrial triumph will disap-
Pear.-Chicago Interior.
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REAPING WHAT HE SOWED.
Sad story of n ScOtchman Who
Wrecked His Life Through
His Appetites.

L want to tell the boys and girls the
true story of Mac, as he is Familiarity
called, whom l know so we'll In my
fancy he stands before me as | write,
and L can read his history in every
line of his face and in the unnatural
color that tinges his nose and cheeks.
Fortunately l know of his early ca
reer and the steps which led him to
his present condition.
Mac lives in W, a little town in
Illinois, not far from the great city
of Chicago. He has not always lived
here, but only few years. He was
born in the city of Edinburgh, Scot
land, where his father preached for
many years and was one of the most
noted ministers of Great Britain. Mr..
Moody was one of his very dear friends
AID helpers.
You are probably wondering now
how Mae should happen to be living in
such little out of the way place to-
day, when his father was such a noted
man. But, if you will listen, will tell
you all about how it happened, and per-
haps you will not be so surprised.
When yet small lad, not so old as
some of our little readers, he, very
much against his parents wishes, left
home and went out in a big steamer
upon the ocean. He had thought he
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THE EASTER DINNER-TABLE.
A Few Suggestions as to Decoration
of the Festive Board with
Spring Flowers

The decoration of an Easter dinner
table should be a JOY to every woman
who can command some spring flowers.
For, of course, if available, only spring
flowers, with their promise of new life
and golden days. would be ones choice:
lacking which, however, no flowers
need be scorned. One can make ia BILE
beautiful with green alone particulars
ly such delicate greene l"r~n the COM
mon fern or smilaX artistically ar
ranged. Perhaps the loveliest floral
setting for the Easter feast would be
one of white tulips and maidenhair
ferns. These could be arranged in a
single piece in the center of the table,
or the centerpiece could be of ferns
alone in variety, and the tulips placed
at each cover in tiny crystal vases
only large enough for a single bloom
and its leaves. Tulip-leaves are very
effective and should never be removed
in any disposition made of the flower.
Next to the pure white of Easter. in
tulips or other flower 0eaving the lily
with its sacred symbolism to its right
full office in the church), this choice
would fall upon something yellow. the
most gladstone of colors, and natures
spring favorite. Of these ionquils are
probably the most effective.-Ella Nor
ris Kretschmar, in Woman's Home
Companion.
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1t is four years since that Easter
Sabbath. l saw Honor Wesley yester-
day. She was the last girl among a
line of fair young graduates in snowy
gowns and white mortar boards with
blue tassels. Honor's face had gained
something more than girlish beauty.
There was a certain womanly stead
fastness of purpose in the brown eyes
and a rare sweetness and tenderness
about the delicate mouth. The tears
dropped silently into the pink roses
that filled her lap when the principal
rose to make her farewell speech to
her girls. "Oftentirnes," she said. II
hear it said. and oftener | feel it, that
one just learns to live in this world
that is, learns how to adjust oneself
to it. when the summons comes to
leave it. SO that really every stage Of
life is commencement. All the inter-
vening periods are only preparations
for the commencement. We have not
attempted here to teach you bare facts.
We have tried to give you broad cul-
ture that shall make you love and cul-
tivate in yourselves, in the world about
yOd and in humanity, all that is fair
and good and gracious. We have tried
to make you gentlewomen, earnest
women, unselfsh and considerate of
all about you. In giving you away
from our household | do it with my
blessing and my Godspeed, but with
heartache."
The gentle principal spoke few
words of farewell individually to each
girl When she came to the last name
she cholled for moment. There were
tears in her voice as she said: "And
Honor Wesley, in giving her to the
world, | am giving up DEAR dear
daughter. | am most proud to num-
Der her among my alumnae, for she
goes to take up a great work. She
leaves next week. with her adopted
grandmother, whom we all love and
honor, to make her home in New
York. She has chosen as her calling,
to share her life and wealth, her sweet
womanliness, gentleness and spirit
uality, with the sick. the helpless, the
hopeless, the forsallen of great city
God speed you, my Honor. Good
Housekeeping.
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hospital who will teach Honor Wesley
more than we can"
I'm terribly disappointed in the
girl" said the sweet-faced old lady,
VINO sat by the window, sewing. I've
just had a letter from Honor's guard
ian about her New York trip. He sent
her a check last week for 500 for the
two weeks holiday, yet she could not
afford a pot of lilies. This thought of
the sick whom others don't remember
meant Mary Linden going home in the
day coach instead of the parlor car,
and Lucy Craig giving up a pair of
kid gloves to afford the lilies. That is
the sort of thing l love to see my girls
do. 1t could scarcely have meant a
bit of self-denial to Honor"
Il have great hopes for Honor" said
Miss Mary, cheerily.
Every girl at the round table glanced
curiously at Honor when she took her
seat. Her face was flushed rosily. 1t
may have been the effect of her walk
in the bracing spring air, but to Miss
y
thing in the heart of the girl. The old
Gstlessness was gone. a new purpose
and enthusiasm shone in the dark
eyes. Honor was one of the quiet girls
of the school; tonight she seemed
more silent than usual.
The constant stream of chatter dealt
with the visit to the hospital and the
people there, and tears came into girl
ish eyes as they told pitiful stories of
the sick. Then the chatter leaped to
the Easter vacation. a group of the
girls were going with Miss Mary as
chaperOn to Old Point Comfort, others
to spend their two weeks holiday in
New York. The girls with homes not
too far distant were wild with delight
at the thought of seeing fathers and
mothers and brothers and sisters.
Honor was the only girl who did not
Join in the general anticipation Her
neighbor, roguish Mollie Cable, rallied
her on being tongue-tied.
In the Lady Lindsay school there is
half-hour every evening after tea
when lhe principal is TO be found IN
her room for chat inside a closed
door. Honor was the first to claim her
tonight, and the old lady led her to
the large chair by the window. The
girl did not sit down, she stood over
vase of daffodils, touching them with
tender fingers. She turned when the
principal spoke to her and burst into
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ITEMS.

The National Temperance society
has received a check for $1,000 from
Andrew Carnegie.
About 40 bartenders attended serv-
ices in a Cleveland church on a re-
cent Sunday by invitation.
In the Canadian parliament a reso-
luton is to be introduced asking for
the passage of prohibitory liquor
law.
In 1900 the cost of elementary edu-
cation in England was eS,973,S17.
The amount spent in strong drink
was 100, S91,71S.
In the London county council asy-
lums there has been a high percent
age of insanity from alcohol, more
than double the number of women
than men being admitted from that
cause.
The Salvation Army has opened a
home for male inebriates at Had
leigh, England, the house being
capable of accommodating 60 in
mates, and with grounds sufficiently
large to keep them constantly en-
ployed at outdoor work.-Journal of
Inebriety.
The Chinese have an interesting
law concerning immoral literature.
Any one in China who writes an inn
moral book is punished with 100
blows of the heavy bamboo, or with
transportation for life. Any one who
sells such a publication il to be
transported fer three years, with a
preliminary 100 blows. Readers and
purchasers, whether they read the
book or not, are punished with 100
blows. Magistrates are held respon-
sible to see the law is enforced. and
if a writer, seller, reader or pur-
chaser of im,noral prints is found
breaking the law without punish
ment, the magistrate of the district
receives so blows.
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would be so happy if he could only live
on the water, and In order to crafty
his own wishes he disobeyed father
and mother. But ocean life was not
what he had dreamed it to be, and be
soon became discontinued and ua-
happy.
Well, Mac lived on the ocean one
whole year and while there he acquired
the habit of smoking. Like many fool
ish boys he thought it smart to smoke,
and when he went back to his fathers
house he kept it a secret, so that for
several years his parents knew moth
ing of it.
There is an old saying that Satan
always finds work for idle hands to
do" So it proved with Mac, for his IA
Their being very wealthy, and belong
ing to the aristocracy of Scotland,
kept many servants. In .~ev41t0 ms
Mac was o thing for himself or for
any member of the family. In fact,
he was not allowed to do so, and nat
urally enough he became very lazy and
stupid. His muscles never developed
and, worst of all, he spent most of his
time with wicked companions. He
learned to drink liquor, and before it
became known to his parents he was a
hopeless drunkard.
When still a young man, he managed
through his fathers influence, to get
a position in the Edinburgh bank, but
after getting drunk repeatedly and be-
ing absent from duty, he was obliged
to forfeit it.
Time after time his friends tried to
rescue him from this awful drink habit,
but just as often did their efforts fail.
When all hope of his ever doing any
better in Edinburgh had been de-
SPARED of, kind friend of his fam
lily persuaded him to come to Chi
cago, thinking perhaps that a new life
might prove a help to him. But the
habits formed in youth held him fast
and again he fell.
When all but lost he was influenced
by the same kind friend, who had per-
suaded him to come to Chicago to go
out to the little town of W, know
ing it to be temperance town, and
that there would be no temptation for
him to drink. 1t was here l learned to
know him.
Even in these quiet surroundings
Mac is such hopeless physical wreck
through his early habits and vices that
he cannot sleep at night, but passes
sleepless vigils, many of them full of
remorse. Not until the sun appears
is he able to lie down and secure any
rest.
Located in a Christian family he was
at last rescued from the drink curse.
But even now he is an object of pity.
His past life has been a failure and
he has no hopes for the future. He is
always unhappy and discontinued, and
his hours awake are spent in bernoan-
ing his wretched past. Even in slum-
Der frightful nightmares come to
haunt him as he lives over in dream
land some of his evil deeds. When
awake he is too stupid to do work
which other men do readily, but he
goes about deploring his weak condi-
ton, now and again giving vent to his
feelings in the words: SO, what life"
Poor Mac! He well eXemplifies
whatsoever a man soweth that shall
he also reap.'-Harriet r. Guild, in
Rams Horn.
90
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ANCIENT TEMPERANCE LAWS.
ihey Are Known to Date Back More
Than Four Thousand Years
in Land of China,

Legal action against intemperate
urlnklng is by no means new idea,
and the Chinese, though generally re-
garded as the most temperate race on
earth, were first in this, it seems, as
IN so many other movements that have
been considered as modern. Long be-
fore the birth of Solomon WARNINGS
against intemperance were common
IN the literature and laws of China. In
the year 22S3 B. C., man was banished
by the emperor because he had in
vented an alcoholic drink from rice.
In 22O5 B. c. Emperor Yu refused to
drink wine, for, he said: 'In after
ages there will be those who through
wine will lose their Kingdoms" Tn
Wang, the next emperor, punished
drunkenness by death. In 2O6 B. C.
the penalty for that offense was fine
instead of death. After many changes
in the laws regulating the sale of drink
and the punishment of drunkards, in
1879 b. c. all liquor makers were ho-
iShed from Chino ---- P"Aht ol tlISHzz
--..t.rr me Jews. After them the Hin
docs. The ancient laws of Ceylon,
Burmah, and other Buddhist countries
forbade the manufacture, sale. or use
of liquor. In A. D. 626. the fourth year
after the Hegira, Mohammed, to pro-
mote the discipline and efficiency Of
the army, forbade the use of wine to
the soldiers. This rule prevails in full
force and effect in the Turkish army
to the present day, with the result
that the Ottoman soldiers capacity
for endurance and quick recovery
from wounds is famous throughout
Europe.-Chicago Israelite.