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A SPRING opening everywhere!
l\ In the shop windows,an open-
/ —\ ing of delicate fabrics sprigged
with flowers that might make
nature envious; of airy, fairy hats,
trimmed in stolen bits of rainbow; of
irresistible sugar eggs, chocolate rab
bits and vellow-down chickabiddies.
In the fields, an opening of leaf and
blossom and a meadow lark's song.
In the churches, an opening of a tomb
and an angel of life in place of the
dead. The opening of human hearts
in love toward God, man, and the lit
tle sparrow; the opening of hands
•outstretched to the unfortunate and
the sinning. It is Eastertide.
While tlie resurrection from the
•dead is the pivotal belief upon which
the whole Christian faith turns, the
word Easter is of pagan origin, Eastre
being the Saxon name of an old Teu
tonic goddess who was the personi
fication of morning and spring. Like
wise, in many of our Easter observ
ances Christianity has laid its im
press upon old pagan myths and cus
toms—the joy in the new spring life
that, leaped so high a flame in the
bonfires upon the hillsides now stead
ily gleaming in altar taper, and spring
flowers once faily gathered for out
door festival song and dance now
reverently crowding the churches.
Our own earliest, recollections of
Easter are flashing memories of thwso
Jirst. Easter eggs—red, yellow und
glorious royal purple—that rolled out
•of fairyland into everyday life to
mystify our wondering eyes with their
strange beauty. And hv a happy coin
cidence, the egg is the oldest of the
symbols connected with Easter. In
fact, if it were an aspirant for mem
bership in some glass-case society of
antique superstitions it could trace
its geneaology back to ancient Persia
and Egypt. The Persians, looking
upon their new year—which conies
-on the 12th of March—as the renewal
of all things, celebrated the festival
by exchanging colored eggs. The
Egyptians considered an egg a gaered
■emblem of the renovation of mankind
after the Deluge. From them, the
Jews adopted it for a sign and sym
bol, it now becoming the triumphant
type of their departure from Egypt
and intimately associated with the
feast of the Passover, eggs always
being on the table with the paschal
lamb. The Christians, loving the dear
■old family traditions, naturally gave
the egg a place of honor in the cele
bration of the paschal lamb, the
Easter egg being a most fit emblem
of the Resurrection, "the rising up
out the grave, in the same manner as
the chick, entombed, as it were, in
the egg, is indue time brought to
life."
The pretty custom of hunting for
Easter eggs originated in Germany,
where the eggs were lilddsn in tho
tall grass by mothers and pet aunties,
and eagerly searched for by all the
excited youngsters of the family. In
the Bristol museum, Ihere is a Ger
man print representing three hens up
holding a basket with three eggs
bearing the emblems Faith, Hope and
Charity, with this legend in German:
"All good things are three.
Therefore 1 present you three Kaster
eggs.
Faith and Hope, together with Char
ity.
Never lose from the heart.
Faith to the church; Hope in God
And love Him to thy death."
In Russia, Faster eggs are ex
changed even by the dear dignified
grown-ups. Faster morning, a man
goes to his friend's house and greets
him with: "Jesus Christ is risen."
The friend answers: "Yes, lie is
risen indeed." Then they kiss each
other on both cheeks, exchange eggs,
and drink brandy.
Of course, everyone knows that the
Easter sun, the world over, dances in
the heavens If sleepy-heads will only
get up early enough to see it. In some
places in Ireland, there is a great
clapping of hands at midnight, Easter
even, happy laughter; and the cry:
"Out with Lent!" Then all is mer
riment for a little while, until the
members of the tired household go
to bed —only to rise at four o'clock
that they may see the sun dance. In
Scotland, the sun whirls like a wind
mill and then gives three leaps.
One of the prettiest traditions is
that of the Easter hare. The hare has
long been the symbol o£ the moon.
It is a nocturnal animal, feeding at.
night. The female carries her young
for a month, representing the lunar
The Triumph of
Life Over Death
By Rev. Henry Clinton Hay.
(Of tlio Sweden borgian Church.)
resurrection means that
£% his earthly body. That the
man lives on after the death of
earthly body dies is a matter of
universal observation and experience;
but that the man himself ceases on
that account to love and think, plan
and execute, in the world of love and
wisdom and spiritual expression, is
an inference without the slightest
warraut from observation of experi
ence.
The most that can be said is that
ho no longer appears to the senses of
earthly bodies when his own earthly
body is lost as a means of earthly ex
pression. Hut that there is an in
dwelling love-and-thought world, con
stantly animating, shaping and em
ploying matter and giving to it its
values, is manifest in every human
experience. That man comes forth
from this inner world, not only in the
beginning of his existence, but in
every act of his Intellect, will and
body, we know.
It is therefore reasonable to con
clude that he continues to exist in it
when the body returns to the dust
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1907.
cycle. Then the baby hares, unlike
rabbits, are lx>rn with their eyes open,
ami the moon is "open-eyed watchei
of the night." The open-eyed hare—
the lunar animal and the lunar fes
tival, you see, for the time of Eastei
depends upon the moon—became as
sociated with the opening of the new
year at Easter, and hence, in the
popular mind, with the paschal egg
token to signify the opening of the
year.
In Germany, the Easter bars rivals
St. Nicholas in popularity for every
little Karl and Gretchen knows, if a
cliWd is good and obedient, a white
hare will steal—down a moonbeam nc
doubt —into the sleeping house, on
Easter even, and lay its beautifully
colored eggs in all sorts of odd places.
When the myth reached America
the hare was transformed into the
better-known rabbit; the change due,
perhaps, as a writer naively suggests,
to the fact that confectioners are not
'experts in natural history."
There are some superstitions con
nected with Easter that it would b*
wise for the reader to treasure in hia
mind, so important are they in their
bearing upin his health and happi
ness.
If the wind is in the east on Easter
morning, draw water and wash in it,
to avoid the ill effects of an east wind
throughout the year. The efficacy of
the Easter water cure is so well
known in Germany that the Mecklen
berg maid servants spread out linen
clothes in the yard, the evening be
fore, and Easter morning wash them
selves with dew, rain or snow fallen
in the..linen, while in Sachsenburg
the peasants ride their horses into
the water to ward off sickness from
the poor beasts.
whence it has been taken. But a
body of another kind —the organism
of the man himself, in his own spirit
ual substance —must then be laid
bare as the instrument of self-con
sciousness, and of expression and
usefulness to others.
Eife, as we know it, is a constant
resurrection. "The tomb of the past
is the womb of the future." All na
ture is constantly dying, the tissues
of the earthly body are constantly
dying, life is a continual triumph over
this universal death, and progress Is
made possible only by this process of
resurrection. The Immortality and
progress of the human soul and of
human society consist thus in the
Creator's triumph over death.
Easter is a memorial of all this
triumph of life over death, not. only
in nature, but also in humanity. The
germ of life in every human breast 13
thus raised up when the body returns
to the dust. All that has been elabor
ated within that material husk —all
the love of right or wrong, of truth
or falsity, of wisdom or folly, of use
fulness or destructiveness —unfolds
and bears its fruits, determining the
man's character as an angel or devil
forever.
OUR SAILORS
Are Landed in Two lion
duran Towns.
AS A PRECAUTION.
Men from Ihe Warship Marietta Will
Safeguard American Interests —
hondurans Lose a Battle.
Washington, D. C. —Blue jackets
j and marines have been landed
I from the United States gunboat Mari
! Etta at Trujillo and Ceiba and prob
-1 ably at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, in or
j der to protect American interests in
; those ports. Advices to this effect were
received Thursday at the navy depart-
I inent. from Commander Fuliam, of
the Marietta. As yet no word has
; been received as to whether forces
have been landed at Central Ameri
can ports on the Pacific coast side,
but undoubtedly this step will be
taken if American interests are con
: sidered in danger.
The navy department feels that the
: action taken by Commander Fullani
; brings the situation completely in
; hand so far as the safeguarding of
trade interests is concerned. In ad
j dition to the protection given to
j Americans it is felt that the action of
this government will relieve foreign
i governments of the necessity of tak
! ing any steps toward making a naval
| demonstration. The landing of blue
jackets and marines and the policing
I of both shores of the Central Ameri
j can republics with United States gun
boats before trading vessels had been
j molested or foreign interests jeopar
j dized is regarded here as a diplomatic
: move that will prevent any interna
i tioual complications growing out of
the policy of the United States not to
| permit European demonstrations in
Central American or South American
j waters.
Both coasts of the warring Central
| American republics are covered by
; American gunboats. In addition to
J the Marietta on the Honduras Carib
■ beun coast, which is the point regard-
I ed as most in danger, the Paducah is
: further south on the Nicaraguan
j coast. 011 the Pacific coast side are
i the Princeton, which is patrolling the
j Nicaraguan coast, and the Chicago,
which is patrolling the Salvadoran
and Honduran coasts.
Joint intervention by Mexico and
the United States in the war which
threatens to involve all Central Amer
ican is regarded as probable by di
plomatists.
Managua, Nicaragua.—A dispatch
received here Wednesday from the
front says:
"The Honduran and Salvadoran
army, numbering over 5,0(10 men, at
tacked the Nicaraguan positions at
Potillos de Namasique and after three
days and two nights of fighting the
Hondurans and Salvadorans were
completely defeated, leaving hundreds
of dead and wounded on the battle
field. The Nlcaraguans also captured
many prisoners, among them being
several hipli officers, besides 2,000
rifles and great quantities of all kinds
of war munitions. The Nicaraguans
lost many men wounded and had a
few killed." .
MY TYPOGRAPHICAL GIRL.
'.. ike *** her eyes are gleaming,
How taper is iier K "!
S'o . to my dreaming
Of her could I withstand!
'Ter milliner is quite ing,
Without a parallel
Her figure Is quite "smashing,"
She is my nonpareil.
'n Ijove's tergiversation
She plays a eoquette's purl;
In sweet ?
She ever keeps m.v heart.
Twonld almost drive me frantic,
Quite parenthetically,
June day if this Roman tic
Maid set her Cap for me.
-Tom Masson, in Life.
Improving Some.
"I'd like to know," demanded the
irate passenger, "why you don't give
betttr service on this line? Here I
lm 40 minutes late this morning!"
"We are giving better service," re
torted the station master. "Last
month this train was always 50 min
ltes late."
THE SAME OLD RAIMENT.
Ella —A leopard can't change his
spots.
Arthur —Not even when the styles
change?— Chicago Daily News.
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