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The Caterpillar?An E J. Written for The Washington Star r ^ I mWho crawls along so slowly. He Like a worm down in the grass, C ([With lots of little stumpy legs? An We Bee them as thcv pass? J So clumsy and so humble, Ati So heavy and so slow, I Wearing a prickly, fuzzy coat, On A homely thing, 1 know. 1 He's a common caterpillar, He But one day he will be J A very different sort of thing He , ^ Ah vn 11 nArhnrw ?*k?U _ ^ > a occ, 1 (For the poor caterpillars, Nc Which wily folks despise. ] Go through a change most wonderful, Bu B * And turn to butterflies!) ( And priests and poets 1 Some day we too sha j& Changed into for ms mc B Than here on earth v That a nobler life is ir As in the butterflies And some glorious Ea We shall nioun t up t '? "And you don't just love Easter?" coul "Don't know anything 'bout Easter, afte *cept It's a meetln' an' you have to you; it perflckly still an' can't speak a mar word. Haven't ever seen a Easter maV an' don't know where they keeps the k 'em." Him "Oh, my!" Lina gazed at her small He companion as if she had suddenly disti cnanged from a very nice little play- 4,1 mate into a creature from out the unknown. "Oh, my!" Little Playmate winced at this. "Well, you may 'Oh, my!" all you < want to, I'm not to blame. If mv I papa were rich, like yours, I'd have Easter*, too. Maybe I'd have one every day!" "Oh, my!" Little Playmate began to look eross, and seemed on the point of springing up and running away? which was her usual manner of letting Llna know that she was displeased. But this time Lina leaned over and took both small brown hands in hers, while into her gentle eyes and over her dear face there came such a look of love and pity that Little Playmate, Hannah, stayed. "S'pose we talk 'bout Easter," she said, stil' holding the sun-brown hands "vou know 'bout Jesus, the Savioi r?" Lilt 5 *' aymtite nodded her bare head agerly. Yes; she knew all about Ilim. ??U/>n. Ll? 'I*1'- * * nun nc came its a lime DBDy | tt such a wee baby and so sweet and ! dear; how He grew up to be a boy ! an{j and then on, up into a man?' asked i ' ( _ . bee Hit Again the little bare head nodded. >tw "How He loved the flowers?'specially lilies, white lilies?and held cr<^ little children on Hi3 lap; an' cured ! knf more sick people 'n any doctor ever ; sjje nHE LIGHT OF THE WORLD *h | ^ Haro mor hs!a f| gip|^Bf| mei tn coiuprefor to * *^i!HBl lilt mortgages InrllLH !, rd in g? monoy without be (iovem*-sells hl.M hay. grain atflBBj at;a . onph tho productl^^Ed day '1 If the revenue B pointed of production the.^^Mj bur |S will aecur'he industry. He wet will be tr> * OQ bU investment ing |av plant and |H ^ acre? unde J ear iy (..ivermnfv.. iavma #? enilixateo W...J make faster Emblem. 1 by Marietta M. Andrews. makes a silken blanket. * )r a weather proof small house, d sleeps awhile within it I is still as any mouse, d while he rests so quietly r lis handsome wings grow" out; e day before vou know it E le is flying all about! s floats from flower to flower Vnd high up in the sky; c ! circles with his fellows, \ V radiant butterfly. a ? longer crawling." creeping, , Like common, earthly things, 1 it sporting in the sunshine, e Jn a glorious pair of wings. ell us 11 lie J >re beautiful 1 fe see; s l us, ' I ster morning i o the skies! ? ( ( Id, and?and cured a little girl T r she was truly dead. And a 1 ng man, too. Oh. and another f i?Lazarus, his name was. That 1 :es three. And how He knew that 1 wicked people, who didn't love t, were planning to kill Him; but r wanted to comfort His?His diseeples?" > What's that?" t MOSQUE OF OMA . Ik * v SByM'^PB]jP8|W|P:r^S"ljpW^B^Wglfcj^Sy That was twelve men and other p is who walked 'round with Him i ?and loved Him very much. All 1 ept Judas. He sold Jesus and let ( n be killed?crucified on a cross, i een two thieves, on two other ' Bses.' ( "Yes," said Little Playmate. "I >w all 'bout that time. My mother, i used to tell us stories once in a He. but she don't like to bothei* ut stories an' such like since ngs has gone bad. It's orful t' re things go bad on a farm, up in i mountains, 'way from everybody." 'I s'pose it is," said Lina. 'Oh, my!" said Little Playmate, i h mvl" 'Well,' said Lina, "let's go on talk'bout Easter. It's nice to talk 1 ut Easter, isn't it?" rhe two children smiled into each er's faces and cuddled closely toher. i 'You see," said Lina, "they called i us the Saviour, 'cause He came to e people from being bad and ked. And He came to save them m dying forever?just going on ying dead always, you know. So told His?His disteeplcs, you re- i mber?" -Ittle Playmate nodded. 'Told them that He was going to I killed, but that He'd come alive in, in three days?Just in three s, early in the morning! But after He'd been killed and led up in a tomb, why, they Just it to feeling bad and not to lookfor that third morning to come, of 'em becept Mary. She kind o' ed So she went early?oh, very I ly!?to the place wherfc He'd beem j <3 ^ Juried. And she found Him! T< ihe did?or, He found her. I thl t was that way. And she was ;lad! Wouldn't you be glad if? rou'd been Mary?" Little Playmate's eyes grew b 'Pretty likely I would," she said. "Well, they called that day Eaati cause Easter means to rise. A esus did rise, you see. And 'cau le kept one promise and rose, Itmself, after He'd been made qu! ead by the wicked people, th hows how He can keep His oth romise and raise us up, too, at ake us to Heaven after we die. "So, 'cause it means such love kings to everybody, peoples begi kinking a lot 'bout EaBter. An* th II the churches with flowers. A key sing bee-u-tiful songs 'bout *1 5 risen,' and such. And the mini ?rs preach 'bout how good it all jr all of us. And everybody wea ew, pretty clothes?" "Oh, my!" said Little Playmat joking down at her shabby skir nd bare little feet. "And everybody sends pretty c( red eggs 'round to folks they Ilk ome little children say, 'Christ Isen!' to their mamma and pai rhen they see them first that mor lg. Then the mamma and pa| iss them and say, 'He is risen, i eed!' Oh, it's lovely! And v ive Easter presents?cards ai ooks and candies!" "Oh, my!" said Little Playmate. Just then the man came after Lin nd when she had reached her mot r's room she sat down upon the foe tool beside her and together thi liked it all over. And together th< lanned?Lina and her dear mamm The outcome of the planning wi his: The very next day Lina we o Little Playmate's log cabin with ery large parcel, which she gave dttle Playmate's mother. "Won't you please take it. Mi Irimes?" she said, "take it for Ha iah to wear Easter Sunday? Y< ee, mamma's getting better, ai Jncle Henry, who is a minister, oming up to be here over East vith us. And we're going to ha m Easter in the boarding housecause mamma's getting well ai iverybody's so glad. "Uncle Henry's going to preai bout how Jesus rose from the dea ^nd there'll be flowers. And U adies and the rest of us all will sin 5o we'll have a real Easter. Ai namma's written a letter to yout's inside the parcel?inviting yi md Hannnh anH all tho poof f/> )ver and help make our East ;hurch that we're going to have he house." "Oh, my!" said Little Playmate. "And 'cause 'twas fifteen hundr rears ago that people began to we iomething new for Easter, mamma i vays gives me something new vear then. So she let me bring sor >f my new things over to Hanna They're real pretty; I think you ike them." "Oh, my, my!" gasped Little Pla nate. "And in the letter mamma as ou to let her divide the new thin hat Aunt Helen has sent her wi R, JERUSALEM. ' ; iPScSZ fou. For she doesn't need them a \nd she'll send Peter over with t nickboard to bring you all over lur Easter church-in-the-house. Th she wants you all to stay to dinn We're going to have the lovelii dinner!" Mrs. Grimes' eyes were full. "I a bit of brightness." she sa "Things seem different since yc mamma came up here. Life is nu ?more humanlike. 'Tisn't. so inn as if we were just beasts of burd !? n f\ nnthlnrr HV11 - -?? ?t/?miuh iiiuic. 1cii ;uui iii il iiiI that the coming of Easter makes glad once more, because somebo seems to care to have us gird." "Oh, my!" said Little Playma "I guess it does make us glad!" Christian Advocate. How Easter Is Reckoned. Thfe Christian festival of Eas corresponds to the Pascha, or Pa over. of the Jewish faith. Easter E (from which the rest of rcligic movable feasts is recorded) is variably the first Sunday succeed I the fourteenth day of the calenc moon which (fourteenth day) fa on or next after the twenty-first March. If the fourteenth day shoi be Sunday, Easter Day would be I Sunday following. Only twice during the nast dect has Easter been later than April Throughout the last eleven yer with a single exception, fallen in April In 1902 t! March 30. Professor Leschetlsky, t plAnltt, still teaches at h Vienna, though he Is near! vV !' '' " j ig. holidays, is th< ise widespread Ite J versal belief lx at th? immortality of the soul?the be er lief which, most of all, makes lif< ad valuable; the hope which helps met forward from day to duy, and cheeri ly them as they toil on the monotonous an plane of routine and materialism ey For always before their eyes gleams n* the rosy-tipped peak which tells o! {e purer heights, and which shines al Is- ways with the radiance of a sun en is tirely submerged from the mortal rs .view. At Eastertide the serious and thoughtful think of theglorious prom;e, Ise of the life to come, made certain ts through the Resurrection. Nature it alive with the glad tidings of life re>1 vived. After slumbering for months e. under frost and snow, with the apis proach of the gentle spring there is a ,a great quickening. To nature's analn ogy add the truth of revelation, and |)a. man's hope for life beyond is assured n_i It has been well said that man's fe longing for immortality is inherent, id Men are born into this life with thai fond anticipation. This heart-throbbing for life beyond impelled tht 1 giants of philosophy of ancient timet to speak and write on the subject. Ii ve inspired Socrates in his noble wo** among the Athenian youths, and gavt ~ courage to Cicero in the Romar forum. And what was regarded bj them as only a possibility was latei "made manifest by the appearance ol ^ our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hatl '" abolished death, and hath brought lif? lf*; and immortality to light through th< gospel." The Christian's Ideal of im mortality, It shoud bo noted, was thai ou of prolonged existence upon an im ne measurably elevated plane. The wonderful truth of immortal 111 ity, impressed at Easter, gives th< highest possible motive for faithfu Christian life and service. Impelled e<l by the fact of immortality, wise mei ar live as they ought to live, for lift *1- goes on forever and the future is th< to harvest of the present. They realiz* ne that the eternal years of God belong h- to truth, justice and righteonsness 'H The light of immortality shines oi and unravels all the apparently hope y- less entanglements of earth and time It is worth while to live, to fight, tc ks labor, to wait, and endure, for th< gs ,end is sure. Men can struggle, toi th and sacrifice in hope and patience, foi ? they realize that life goes on forever In new fulness, with new earnestness and power. It is well that once a year the sym bolism of Easter brings home anev the lesson that men, if they will, maj a'erleap the barriers that their owi errors and weakness have created and emerge into a fuller and highei life, crowned with the assurance o Immortality. An Easter Truncheon. Utilize the shad roe, using it in t new way. The fruit course at tbf beginning of the luncheon may b? sherries or strawberries, or the mea may begin with soup. Fruit. Cream of spinach soup. Olives, salted nuts, radishes. Shad-roe balls, horseradish sauce. Broiled squab on watercress; peai and potatoes; or chicken cutlets French peas; potato ballB, browned ? banana balls in shells, Frencl lII. dressing. j,e Frozen cheese with preserved figs to wafers. en Coffee, er. ter 83~ Knster Apple Throwing. In some imrts of the midland coun M,B i ties in Kngland it was customary t in- 1 ... ..... . j ? - it-p.tii 111 nit; 1'iiurriivuru aner even ntc , !n? service on Easter Sunday, and t throw apples into the yard. The ma 1 . or woman who had been married dur " ing the year was expected to caa ' three times as many apples as usua 1 e on to the Brass. After the appi throwing the participants repaired t 1 e the parsonage of their parish clergj man and enjoyed u repaa'. of brea ira' nnd cheese. > ; BAP SHOWING THE LOCATIONS OF THE r PROPOSED HIGHL ? New York State has set aside for pa quired the famous Washington Headquar - land, including many historic and seer proximately $13,250,000. There are rec 1 parks. The annual average for these is i in the order of their legal authorizatioi , -nore in extent, are as follows: Wash f i % LAXX OTCTAJUO Ti Lxu?lJU J ^ ; Issy f /j&W ? TKiV^a "tzzr acres; Niagara Falls, 412 acres; Senate 1,411,636 acres; Saratoga Battle Monur Brown Farm, North Elba, 243 acres; 9 Islands, 181 acres; Grant Cottage, Mod field, thirty-four acres; Lake George Ba Palisades Interstate Park, 700 acres; Island, Lake Ontario, one acre; Catskill ton, Oneida Lake, one acre; Johnson Watklns Glen, 100 acres; Letchworth I acres; Fire Island Park, 125 acres; Phil Nothing so Funny. There is nothing on earth so mysterlously funny as a newspaper ad- p 0 vertlsement. The prime, first, last ci and all the time object of advertise- h 0 ment Is to draw custom. It is not, b n wa3 not and never will be designed o for any other human purpose. So lt the merchant waits till the busy seainn rnmoo on/l Hlo ofnr/i (a #??n t custom thnt he can't get his hat off, d 0 and then he rushes to the newspapers tl and puts in his advertisement. When b J the dull season gets along and there is no trade and he wants to sell goods so bad h? can't pay his rent he takes | out the advertisement. That is, some s | of them do, but occasionally a level r headed merchant puts in a bigger one b j and scoops in all the business while i his neighbors are making mortagages to dsv the n* hill ? 1?~j/jjrri)or7^z> \zins WJCJTSS-Z0CA77OJr OF VOJOSJS-D S TJV71& JZ4JZ7C. 4 jM&cjrss jsxd i>ojr*n2>. rsTjeg. j: RS. HARRIMAN'S GIFT LARGER IAN ALL THE PARKS IN N. Y. CITY Acren. ret of <r?ct'dOBi<H ?..10,000 m of Central Park 841 * rw of Bronx Park Ml . rea of Proxpect Park ........ 51g otal area of parka la Greater Kew Vork iSZri Total orreace of *lanliattaa..14,OS8 : TWENTY STATE PARKS AND THE ANDS PARK. rk purposes since 184 9, when it ac ters at Newburg, 1,521,833 acres of lie s'fQB. They cost the State apords of visitors for only eight of the : more than 1,250,000. The parks. i and their area, where an acre or ington Headquarters, Newbure. six rj\y^ ^2 CTK tzzif j iSKJS^' 71 \'t ^ t^fef JR House, Kingston; Adirondack Park, $ nent, Schuylerville, two acres; John it. Lawrence Reservation, Thousand / ^Mj int MacGregor; Stony Point Battlettlefleld, Caldwell, thirty-five acres; Clinton House, Poughkeepsie; Spy Park, 107,339 acres; Fort Brewer- <g House, Johnstown, eighteen acres; Jark. Genesee River, Portage, 1000 Ilpae Manor Hall. Yonkera. / 9jB Doubling Hia .A?j . Her Father?"Yesterday I won the tijflH rlze In the lottery, and to-day you / I 3me and ask me for my daughter's /^/ a and." Suitor?"Yea, you kno^^*^* ' it of good luck always brin^^^t -M Worried. "Whv la old Titewad so afraid! a eath?" "His son is bo extrava^ 3 mt the old man 1b afraid be Le 0f | ury him In a thousand-dollar cofbfeai Season of Homil ity. It is necessary that one ?lL ^ . ! ({ tmetimca forget that he is a [thr** lor, and to remember that | rothcr.?Bishop Wilson. fa, New York Ctty has 183 deliaBo^a?a tores that employ 11,000 perX^ jflP i . V4* * ' * arc*3 Wr f