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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
CHAPTER V.

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home TO dinner at ali. The
water had got into the base
ment at the store, he tele-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01

HE newspapers were full of
the L.adley case. with its Gu
rious solution and many sur
nriSes. 1t was considered
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and sometimes on the bulbs as they are
dug from the ground. If they are al
lowed to remain on the plant they in
crease in size, finally spreading until
with a gray mold This in turn eats
through the leaves, and at last destroys
the entire plant.
The worst feature of the operations of
these parasites is that they are carried
by the slightest breeze from one plant to
another. If. also. they are permitted to
remain on the plant for any length of
time they will drop to the soil, where
termination occurs, bringing out a new
force to attack the next crop. The rails
ers have. however, been equal to all the
strategy of the parasites, and each year,
usually in the autumn. they remove the
surface soil. and cover the underlying
layer with kainit.
*
An Easter lily in Bermuda can be
plucked at most any time. of the year.
but speaking of what might be called
the harvest of the crop refers to three
different dates. Counting the flowers
used for domestic purposes there are
really three crops, one gathered about
the middle of January, one about the
middle of February and the. last during
holy week.
bulbs alone When these have reached
the size sufficient to insure termination
they are gathered from, the ground anu
placed on shelves in long sheds, where
they are cleaned and partially dried py
the action of the air alone. After they
have reached a certain state they are
each wrapped in tissue paper and packed
in wooden cases in single compartments.
no one bulb being allowed to come in
contact with its neighbor. Each case is
then made dampproof. There are usual
" one gross of bulbs to each case a,
The second crop. gathered ABOUT the
middle of February. is composed of the
Young plants These, with their half
sprouted bulbs still, attached, are care
fully dug from the ground and placed IN
rows on long tables under the sheds
Each plant is inspected carefully 10
see that life.> and plenty OF IT, sun re
mains in the bulb. If any are found
of doubtful hardihood they are replanted
and used for the domestic crop NO
one lot is allowed to remain thus ex-
posed for a period longer than three
hours after being taken IRON ON, re sne
securely wrapped in moist earth and
soft paper and prepared for, shipment
by being packed in wooden cases noiu-
ing two dozen each. To show tnat the
centase of loss during these shipments
1t is the markets of New York and
other large cities that have created the
demand for these lilies and made their
cultivation profitable. At the American
end of the shipment there are busy
scenes upon the arrival of each con-
signment The lilies are handled much
like the banana. and to hustle" them on
to their destination is the main object.
at New York to the north, west and
south, where they also take their part
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Only Winners Wanted.

7 INCOLN BEACHEY, the aviator, had
l. just looped the loop at Santa Bar
bara-
But | don't know what will become Of
aviation he said, IF the inventors
fight much harder. We poor flyers must
watch the inventors fight-we must
choose the winner-or wen be left badly
It's like the showsirl in the Broadway
lobster palace.
Waiter she said, this lobster of mine
has only one claw. How about it?'
We'll, ye see madam said the waiter.
our Holsters is so fresh that they fight
one another in the kitchen.
please take this fellow away, then.
said the showsirl, and bring me a win
ner.'"
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and even coral tombs are built for his
last resting place.
1t was once said that all a man had
to do in Bermuda to build himselfa house
was to saw hole in his back yard cut
out blocks of soft, creamy stone and
set up his dwelling. This is literally
true 1t is a common thing, even at
the present time, to see black workmen
with saws and chisels cutting into the
side of hill and taking out huge blocks.
The stone is matriX of seashells and
naturally soft, so that it is an easy OPP
GRAFTON to saw it into blocks of the de-
sired size. But although soft when first
taken from its beds it hardens when eX-
posed to the elements and the house,
when once set up, becomes as solid as
concrete.
Thin slabs are cut for the roof and the
whole building is whtewashed. They
look like little Grecian temples among
the hills, and by their contrast with the
foliage they have won for Bermuda an
added name of the Land of White and
Green. Many of the houses are over 2OO
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yOMAA TELLS OF THE PICTURESQUE EASTER FESTIVALS OF SPAIN

and Iscariot the betrayer is flung into
flames. from every dooryard and public
place.
I'm Spanish-American countries. Al
least some of them. wax figures OF the
Virgin Christ and Mary Magdalene ar
paraded through the streets much as the
wooden sculpture is in Seville, only upon
a less ceremonious scale
Il remember hearing that in the Iyroi
10 the north of Spain, Easter is kept
very beautifully The mountains have es-
capped civilization up there, and the mu-
Sically- minded peasants traverse every
hill and vale singing Easter hymns TO u'e
accompaniment of their guitars. Wnen
night comes all of them bear lighted
torches of pine as they go along, and II
is the hospitable habit of the eottagers
to call them in for a glass of wine and
cakes.
Il forgot to mention that the funeral
march played in Seville on Good Friday
is 100 years old. and no one knows from
where or from whom it came. There was
little story told me of the procession OF
silence down in Seville. which you might
take along as bit of a picture You
see, this procession starts at dawn, and
most of the repentants. who form it
principally are disguised. A bit of
girl, in communion robes. is blindfolde ed
and carries golden chalice in one hand.
while she gropes her way with the other
Once. according to the story. the child
stumbled and fell. and started back. bur
one of the Nazarenes caught her gently
by the hand and led her back to her
place. The child symbolized the faith
which is blind.
Before the sun rises the crowd is
gathered there before the entrance OF
the church, whittier the procession is go
ing The only undisguised penitent in
whose ancestry held a Don Juan that
vowed his posterity should publicly re-
pent on Good Friday Of every year.
What observance on Easter SundaS
proper. as we know it? Merely high
pontificai mass and then-well, there are
bull fights, in the afternoon.
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the crowd again. and the soldiers had
to use the fiat of their swords to create
even this passage.
LAS if he came from nowhere, sud
denly there appeared in this little lane the
form of very large man. hooded and
muff1ed and bearing a mighty cross OF
inlaid ivory and tortoise shell which re-
flected the light of. thousand burning
tapers The seemingly never ending line
of cofradias extended behind even unto
many blocks of the dark of the street OF
the serpents which was well named if it
applies to the lack of corners and angles
''The Lady of Sorrows has gone for
ward in the night like A constellation OF
stars, so sparkling are the jewels of her
crown and the golden girdie, for which
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the candies make background. And the
secret of the sure and easy motion OF
the platform on which the image rests
is that it is borne upon the backs Of
sturdy men OF Galicia. who. as the hewers
of wood and the drawers of water. are
concealed by curtains. with only their
feet and ankles revealed to the onlookers.
Opposite, now, to the town dignftaries.
one of the muff1ed Nazarenes raps three
times with a great silver hammer upon
the platform. The Galicians stop. Some
of the crowd kneels before the image,
which is mantled in blue velvet and even
carries a point-lace handkerchief. Three
raps more, and the procession files on
down the starless street that leads to
the cathedral.
I'm some parts of Spain Judas Iscariot
plays a great part in the proceedings
Holy Saturday is the day especially de-
voted to him, and efhgies of him are sold
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and out with the snow-0hte flowers.
Around the couch of the mother and child
they lay huge banks of lilies, and last.
but not least. the most perfect plant that
bulb from this plant is preserved and
later is planted in the yard. where It is
carefully nursed to full growth to bear
flowers for the youngster.
There is also a symbolism of renewed
friendship in the Bermuda lily. IL ri
valry or hard feelings have strained the
relations of two former friends they use
the Easter season to bury the Ratchet. Tte
offender usually brings a garland OF the
most perfect flowers he can find. with
their roots still attached. and places them
at the door of the offended on Easter eve
1t is token that he has regret, u token
that he desires to renew their friend
ship. 1t is usually accepted, and when
accepted the lilies are planted in the
yard. When the offender sees this he
calls. returns the greeting of the offend
ed and the proverbial good feeling Of the
islanders once more reigns-
Lovers also come in for their share OF
attachment to the lily for its part in their
game Of hearts. They tell story of hoN
a lover in the early days once won the
heart of his lady by kindness TO lily
Passing through a field of wild lilies ore
day. he accidentally stepped on one and
broke it's STEM The comparative fraii-
ness of the plant and its mute suferins
was somewhat suggestive of the pain al
his own heart because he had feared
that his love had not been returned So
he dug the plant up. placed spliut on
the broken stem and replanted it in his
yard. where he nursed it back to health
When it budded it turned out to De ar
unusually beautiful flower.
Once more he dug. the plant up and
replanted it in the yard Of his lad
love She saw not only that act. but
had been aware of the whole story, and
because she regarded that act as an in
dcation of his true nature. she gave
him her heart and hand. Now il is the
custom for a lover to propose by first
planting a lily of exceptional beauty in
the yard OF the lady upon whom he
has set his heart. II the lily is cared
for by the lady he returns and makes
the offer of marriage
Easter Monday about ends the seasons
celebration in Bermuda and II ends IN
carnival of beauty and fun There are
dinners. lawn parties and dances Tor the
whites that also have for their main
decoration the Easter lily. For the blacks
it is a combination of fancy dressing.
caricature of NEUROLOGICAL characters and
a representation of the American In
dams.
Out in the streets they reproduce as
best their inlaginations can help the
dances of the American Indian. the
deryishes whirling on their heads instead
of their feet and perform some reails
good feats by clowns on bamboo Suits
There also the cakewalk reigns. made up
by brown maidens dressed in white mus
lin. with pink and blue ribbons, and
youths clad in spotless white duck.
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the men white aprons. The queer came
in first. and the chief lady-in-waiting
fastened an apron upon her sovereign.
while handsome. dark-eyed boy of
noble birth carried the silver basin which
held the water the queen herself would
use to bathe the feet of the lowly-
These came from the ranks of her
very poorest aged subjects in Madrid.
There were, and always are, twelve men
and twelve women. Black dresses ana
black mantillas had been sent the women,
and the men had been given black capcs,
by order of the queen.
As ] glanced over the richly dressed.
grave faced assemblase of Spanish
royalty, noted the little groups which
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An EASTER CELEBRATION IN SPAIN.

upon us that was broken only by the
splashing of the water in the silver
basin. Silently the queen knelt before
each trembling old body. Without a
word the first lady -in-waiting followed
the queen and gave her the towel WIN
which to dry the lowly flesh she had
washed in commemoration of Christs
humility two thousand years before
When the king was living he had
washed the feet of the men, but now
they stood apart. during the service
and the papaI snrunciato. as the rect
of thu. twelfth woman was washed. gave
to each of the twenty-four Il purse tiled
with gold This was the signal Tor a
breakfast in the palace. for the dlpio-
mats and attending royalty.
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in Seville might be called the crystalliZa-
ton of an idea which everybody has
as to sunny Spain" 1t has been called
Seville 1 mean-'the northerner's concep-
ton of Spain 1t is sunny. it is high
colored. it has streets so narrow and
crooked that sometimes the stars at
night are shut out from those who dwell
in the sinuous street of the serpent, and
romance never leaves. And Palm Sun
day the day of the bringing home of the
blessed palm, which in this city is a
great family function. seems to act as
the call for summer.
- The eauinoctial storms are lust over.
and the jasmine honeysuckle and orange
blossoms running riot For days the
traffic of Seville has been jostled by cara
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in the Easter celebrations. Altogether
there are about 100000 such plants
thus shipped each year.
Because the Easter celebration in
Bermuda is one Of the annual events
of the islands. and because the lily is
an important factor in that event, there
are almost as many used there as are
exported to American markets. This is
called the third or domestic crop. Every
town on the islands and every house
from the largest to the smallest, has It's
Easter lily decoration, and they are
decorations that in every case can be
included in the class called profuse.
A few days prior to Easter Sunday the
cutting of the domestic crop begins.
Flowers selected for church use are
taken up as potted plants. but those to
be used for indoor and outdoor decora-
tions are cut from the stalks. Glancing
at the fields where they are grown at
this season of the year, one sees huge
piles of lilies at intervals along the
ground. and toward evening one sees also
the carts transporting them to town, ap-
pearing as if they were hauling snow
from some large city.
In the towns is where the decorators
get III their work. First the churches
are transformed into white fairyland
that would give our largest and wealth.
lest churches a run to keep pace with,
that makes the visitor hold his breath in
enchanted amazement with its simple
grandeur Affairs. chancels and from
the peak of the gables lining the walls
to the floors it is one mass Of the white
Easter lily mingled with its green leaves.
Even the organ and the choir are hidden
in a shower of snowy whiteness that
makes it difficult to locate the white
vestments of the singers.
Throughout the towns the houses have
received the same treatment. Inside
and out there are Easter lilies and it is
often that the residents vie with each
other in creating designs of various kinds
to make their homes do justice to the
celebration.
On Easter Sunday. afternoon comes the
Easter parade 1t is not the clothes that
forms the attraction in Bermuda towns,
it is the Easter lily. Every one carries
or wears lily, even the automobiles and
carriages are covered with them, and it
is here that the blacks go the whites one
stronger. The maidens adorn their dusky
heads with wreaths of lilies. while the
youths encircle their necks with lily
chains All this makes the air of Bermuda
towns deliciously heavy with the fra
GRANGE of the lily on Easter Sunday.
Like most flowers at the places of their
nativity, the Easter lily has its local
customs in Bermuda. They hail child
born during the Easter season with the
Easter lily. 1t is a. token that the child
has entered upon a long. good and useful
life When the child is born the natives
collect masses of the lilies. and the house
of birth itself is decorated inside
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represented the flags of perhaps score
of nations, and let my eyes linger upon
the light of an early sun flooding the
gorgeous curtained windows, | was I'M
consciously preparing for the impressive
ness Of a ceremony l shall never for
get AS the twenty-four totterng, al
most fearful. old souls were ushered into
the presence of the queen the men were
separated from the women, and the
queen arose to humble herself by wash
ing the feet of the paupers a hush fell
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A CLUSTER OF FRAGRANT BLOOMS.

They say that the King of England
was formerly accustomed to have
brought before him many poor men
as he was years old. Queen Elizabeth,
a the age of thirty-nine. washed the
feet of thirty-nne of her subjects on
Holy Thursday. and after washing each
foot marked it with the sign of the cross
and also kissed it.
We were in Madrid, of course, but it
is down in southern Spain where holy
week is most picturesque. Palm Sunday
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ASTER in Spain is
as picturesque as
the land of the
Moors itself, ac-
cording to a Wash
ington woman who
lived there from
1895 until 1897.
Mrs. Taylor, wife
of EIannis Taylor,
who was minister
TO Spain during
the Cleveland and
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part of the Mckinley administrations.
very fond of the peninsula and its
rople, and enjoys talking of the Gus
'I,ns of country in which she spent
iore than three years as the first Amer
'ean lady of the land
When ignorance OF much of the cere-
N'ony attendant upon the Roman faith,
even in America, was announced Mrs
TAYLOR prefaced her observations of
Easter time in Spain as a diplomats wife
with bit of the history of the customs
practiced. She said:
Easter, as the festival of the Lords
resurrection, corresponds, you know, with
the passover of the Jews. and in the early
Christian churches the paschal feast was
the common name. As one of the three
great festivals of the Christian year it is
pre-eminently first. and though truly
orthodox in its observances is. neverthe
less. d pagan custom adapted from wor-
shippers of the sun god. and interviewer
with the first faint CLEANS OF the mys-
,eries of the cross by the Saxons, who
called il Eostre.
Not a few of the superstit.ons of those
early centuries have drifted down to us
no less mysteriously than they became
an intangible part of the sternest rites
of the Aryans. Whether it were the Dru-
ids then. in the morning of Great Britain.
or before the Angles invaded the isle, is
not known, but IL is certain that old Eng
and believed that on Eostre day the sun
shared in the general rejoicings and
danced in the heavens. The savage thus
met us half way, and, while accepting the
faith of those who came in ships to con-
quer and convert contributed an air OF
his own to the creed of the cross.
'.The Roman. the Celt unconsciously
drew this into his Jealous reaching out
for the church. so that. all over Europe,
wherever some early emperor of the Ro-
man empire sent priests to baptize the
heathen Goth, Frank or vandal. there
were laid the same foundations of be-
lief. yet touched, too, with the high
inaginations of primitive peoples. who
symbolic all things spiritual
My first spring in Spain was a revela-
ton as to some OF the rites of my own
religion The whole week before Easter.
In Spain, is given over TO the most won
derful ceremonies. We have holy week,
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than 2,o0o.oo plants are raised each
year.
The home Of the Easter lily can boast
not only of being England's oldest
colony. but it can also trace it's his
tory back over 800 years or more At
the same time it can say that at the
beginning of that history the Easter
lily was also there. 1t was one of the
first inland sights which greeted Ber-
mudeZ when he landed there in 1522.
and it helped to cheer the discouraged
men of the shipwrecked crew of Ad
miral Sir George Somers when they
were cast up on the islands in 1909.
Even today that same flower is linked
with the name of Admiral Somers and
his men. There is tablet on a coral
rock on the Island of St. George which
marks the tomb of the admiral and
reads.
1910. the heart of the heroic Admiral Sir George
Somers. KIT. who nobiy sacrificed his life to
state Of Virginia. to preserve his fame to future
ages near the scene of his memorable shipwreck
OF I6o9.-
Close by there is monument erected
to the admiral and his men. and at the
opening of each Easter season both
monument and coral rock on which the
tablet stands are profusely decorated
with Easter lilies
There is a reason that reveals the
secret of Bermudas peaceful commune
ties a condition that is so suggestive
of the Easter lily. And perhaps that
is why, also. the cultivation and
growth of the Easter lilv has been
made one of the chief occupations of
the islands. For seventytwo years
of company rule after the time the
first colony was .'Srub-staked and
sent there in 1912 until the govern
ment assumed control. the Bermudians
were as poor as church mice. They
barely managed to scratch living out
of the soil But when England's hands
took the reins of government the ma
tives adopted seafaring career and
carried much of the American trade to
and from coast ports.
The American revolution was a set
back to them from which they recoy-
cred only to confront the disastrous
effects produced by the American
privateers in the war of 1912. Finally
the abolishment of slavery in 1894
which was one of the chief reasons
why they could operate their vessels
so cheap1y, brought them to a point
where they could not meet the com
petition of American ships. and they
settled once more upon their farms.
Perhaps the fact that the islanders
were, at the first, given the right to
govern themselves by local assembly
is why they have been always noted as
a law-abiding and peaceful set of people
and have developed into well governed.
prosperous and contented colony This
means both whites and blacks. Crimes
and misdemeanors are few at the present
day. and it is very rare thing for a
person to be charged with a capital
offense.
In the early days of the colony men
were often executed for minor offenses
and the whip and branding irons were
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culver was renowned even in the SIX.
teenth century But the sacred image of
the Lady of Sorrows appearing in this
procession at dusk is the best example OF
such skill. Even the garments are sue
cessfuliy essayed, and when through the
sea of people in the streets the sacred
symbol rises out of the darkness it Is
not strange that the vivid imaginations
of the Spaniards can easily believe
there is riding by the materialized Virgin
Mary.
"A squadron of cavalry had appeared
after the delegates of the cofradias, who
formally asked the Mayor of Seville for
the permission to pass the municipal
building, where he sat waiting for them,
robed in gala attire. There was only an
alleyway for the procession. so great was
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in America. of course, but the spectacu-
lar is left out of it
Il think the most impressive hour OF
the week was on Thursday morning, the
anniversary of the day Christ first broke
bread and blessed the wine for His dis
ciples. The diplomats were invited to the
celebration of the washing of feet, in the
palace. The present kings mother was
queen regent then, and there was Grim
son dais ON one side of the room of
ceremonies. for her and her ladies-in-