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Vol.. x.wx. Ai-Kii, l'.K):;. Ni-mbkhII
Republican Standing Committee.
Ai!am-r. I". Kin. .1. T. Slmwvcr.
H. avi r - II. II. l an-t. - II. .Miliar,
I caver Vot - W. I'. Uros, Imviil Hcnn1iiK r.
tintrc T. K Mohn. .1. W. S.iniic'l.
t'lininniiii -1. K. lli'i'kMrcl, 1. II. Ipdeir ve.
r laiiklin lli'nrv I'Vlty, .lolin (J. ltcmiiiiKur.
.Im-limn .1. Yciirick, Win. Sebold.
MiilillfliiirK ;. W. Heaver, llnnkn W. Yoder.
Middleereek Kratik Waller. II. K. Snyder.
Monroe- II. ('. liendruk. II. F.Fi-lier.
1 'villi-J. II, lioyer, W. X, now.
IVirv-f. A. Iliickenliurit, J. W. ArlioiiBt.
IVrry Wet-Atninon Snriutrle. W. A. n'liitely,
r-elliiaKMive I'. I. KoWer, f W. Covert.
StiriiiK ;'. S. Lel'lov. J. II. K.winif.
I ninn It. K. Knlti. lfenry Wit mer.
W B"liiii(tiin Mii liacl Moyer .1. K. Eienlioiier.
Republican Ticket.
I 'rutin unitary (Sco. M. Shindcl.
Kcistcr and Kccorder J. Ii. Arhngast.
Associate Judge .1. Frank Keller.
District Attorney M. I. 1'ottiT.
Jurv Commissioner Irwin (irnyliill.
To l ind the Date of Easter.
(Tlie flirlH'iim llt'ralil.)
Kastt r is a nmvalile feast : in ditlerent years
it is cclchratcd on ditlerent days. II' the average
person were asKed why the 1-th of April was
chosen as Kaster Day this year, lie would pro
bably have no more satisfactory answer than that
it was so fixed in the alumnae. A person of in
quiring mind, however, is very apt to ask by
what process the almanac people decided that
April 12 was the right time. The churchman
would refer him to the Prayer-book, where he
would find rules and tables for the determina
tion of Easter for every year of the Christian
era. Confronted by what seems to him a mix
ed conglomeration of Golden Numbers, Epacts
and Dominical Letters, more than likely he
would be glad to turn away to some less com
plicated and more interesting puzzle.
Iiet us see, then, if we can construct for our-
" . ... i. . t. rn ii
fcaster Day for any particular year. The rule
- I ..... ll Pltaiuiinn nntinna IJ tills
III lorce UlllOlIg Ull 'jniisvmu iiaiKuo is i.no .
"Easter day is always the first Sunday follow
ing the full moon which happens upon or next
after the 21st oi March ; and it full moon hap
pens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday
after." But what makes the determination so
difficult, is that the "moon" referred to in the
rule is the calendar moon, which, although on
the average much the same as the true moon in
the heavens, yet at any particular time may dif
fer from it by one or even two days. The rea
son for adopting this average moon in place of
the true moon, was that otherwise full moon
would occur at different times in different parts
of the world, and hence Easter would not be
universally observed on the same day.
Seeing then, instead of the true moon it is
some fictitious moon that governs the appoint
ment of Easter Day, we must learn something
about the occurrence of its chief phases before we
can attempt to invent an Easter table. Some
centuries ago, the ecclesiastical authorities hit
upon a very clever arrangement, whereby the
lunations of their calendar moon were made to
agree very nearly with those of the true moon.
This was accomplished by making use of a cer
tain well-known law which had been discover
ed by Meton, an Athenian, who flourished in
the fifth century before Christ. He had made
known to the world that the moon completes 235
revolutions (or lunations, as they are generally
called), in exactly 19 years. Here, then, was
the groundwork for the ecclesiastical calendar.
Every period of 19 yearj was made to consist
of 235 moons or months ; some years had 12,
others had 13 months. The beginning! of every
month in this calendar was called new moon ;
and the fourteenth day was full moon. The
first Metonic Cycle of 19 years was supposed to
commence with the 1st of January, 1 B. C; for
on that day there was actually new moon. It
must he particularly observed that, iu corres
ponding years of different cycles, the dates of
new moon (and of full moon), will be the same.
So, in order to discover on what days of the
month in any year full moon will happen, it is
only necessary to find what number that year
is in the Metonic Cycle. This nnniltcr is known
as the (toldeii Number so called, it is said, lie
c.iuse in the old calendars it was printed in gold.
Since 1 B. C. is the first year of the first cycle,
1 A. D. is the second year, and its golden mini
ber is 2 ; 5 A. D. is the sixth year, and its gol
den number is I. The general rule may be en
unciated thus : To the number of the year in
the Christian era add 1, and divide by 1!', the
remainder will be the required golden number
fbr the year. Consider, for instance, the pre
sent year 1901, divide by 19, leaves as remain
der 1, which the reader may find given in the
alumnae as the golden numlier.
If we tabulate the dates of full moon for all
the years of one Metonic Cycle, we can see at a
glance the date of fu'l moon for any year, after
finding its golden number. To illustrate the
method of using the Easter Table, we will deter
mine the date of Easter for the year 19 17. The
golden number (found by dividing 1918 by 19),
is 1(1. In the second column of the golden num
bers 10 is placed opposite to April 5, which is,
therefore, the date of full moon. Now from a
perpetual calendar, we lind that April 5, 1917
is a Saturday. Hence in the year 1917 Easter
will be celebrated on Sunday the Oth of April.
Thk Eastkk Taiii.k
I Golden , I Golden
Days of Numbers. Days of I Numbers
Full ; - - - - , Full I -
Moon Before After! Moon BeJ? After
I 1900 1899 1900 1899
MarclT21 14 April 5 i 10
March 22 I 3 14 1 April 6 j 18
March 23 i 3 ; April 7 7 18
March 24 II !: April 8 7
March 25 11, April 9 j 15
March 26 19 . April 10 4 15
March 27 1 8 19 ;. April 11 4
March 28 8 ' April 12 ! 12
March 29 16 . ' April 13 i 1 12
March 30 5 16 ; April 14 ! 1
March 315 April 15 I 9
April 1 13 April 16 9
Apill 2 2 13 April 17 17 17
April 32 April 18 6 6
April 4 10
MilcMl, Old. F. L. Sawyer.
ago by prstematie exercise and much outdoor
life. Jin mental vigor would seem to have
been acquired by u somewhat analogous method.
The Pivsi lent does not flinch from the task iu
hand. He has schooled himself to di the day's
work as it co;ne3. He has acquired to a mar
velous degree the power of concentration and
the habit of decisiveness. He arranges his day
well, is very abstemious iu eating and drinking,
does not allow Lim-nf to lie cheated cut of a
fair amount of exercise, do s not rely in the least
upon stimulants or tobacco, and, perhaps above
all, never tries to surpass himself or to expend
his reserve strength in the achievement of some
thing cxceptionial. With mutters of colossal
inpoi tance to attend to, he simply does his lx -t
as he goes along, deals with every problem that
aiises in a simple, direct, amf natural way, and
and thus finds the day sufficient unto itself,
lie borrows no trouble, sleeps soundly, and
meets the morrow refreshed and with full
courage.
WHY AMERICA KULES THE WOULD
If the United States has taken the world's
leadership in the production of nam ml wealth
thus early in its career, what may not be expect
ed of it ten years from now, when the euornoiis
sum of capital and personal energy investe I in
development work throughout the West and
South during these last two marvelous years
will have begun to yield its lavish returns?
What a long list of rich mines and huge indus
trial enterprises will appear in the reeoids of a
decade hence, that now are only in their initial
stages. How many new cities will have sprung
full-grown into being in a place where now only
the pick of the pioneer disturbs the prineipa
silence. Boston capitalists open up talc moun
tains of fabulous wealth in Newfoundland; Mr.
Ilagerty lays the foundations of a second Butte
in his Okanogan district of Wasningion; northern
and eastern nrllions pour into South and old
Mexico, transforming the industrial life of great
region, moving large populations, harnessing
natural forces and bringing into the world's
markets vast stores of natural wealth long-hidden
or neglected. It is a wonderful era, and these
types of its activity fitly interpret the conquering
constructive spirit of the people aud the age.
If Russia is to be the chief world power iu 2003,
as predicted, it will have to step lively.
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Every Day Witnesses
val of some of the
TL ! t
ining inr pripj
Among the new Wools
Are Displaying a Be
Assort mentol
Voiles, EtaiJ
Crepe, Heir
Crepe,
, Poplins, Loi
.Thenewly elected Burgess of Emporium
suggested to Council that the newspapers shruld
receive pay for publishing council proceeding as
the "necessary to the well-being of a town as
police and street lights."
The Missouri legislature by vote of 107 to 2
passed an auti-cigarette bill making it unlawful
for any jierson to give away, sell or offer for sale
ciirarettcs, cigarette paper or wrappers, or to
have them in their pos-ics.-ioii for fre? distribu
tion. It is hoped that Pennsylvania will follow
suit and enact such a wholesome law, for the
safety of its boys an.l young men
11 ANNA'S PANAMA CANAL VICTORY.
Mutterings of public complaint he heedid
not, and whenlsiw him, during those trying
hot days of last spring, going about early and
late, regardless of of his health or comfort, to
reverse not only the actio'i of the senate but the
already recorded vote of the house, there was a
touch of the heroic in it. Almost single-handed
he started, grounded ;.n.l fixed iu the justice and
correctness of business propositions. His great
speech, characteristic of the man and the lime,
plain, lucid, ibusiness-like logical, actually
changed more votes and reversed a more porten
tious tide of public sentiment than any other
speech ever delivered in the senate. The elo'
quence of Webster cud Clay could never have
met the l'anamu proposition. It was a situa
tiau that only long experience and well-seasoned
business men could face.
How Mr. Roosevelt Lives and Works.
The young men of the country will be entitl
ed some time to know even more than they have
as yet been told atKiut the way in w hich Pres.
Roosevelt accomplished so much and yet keep
in prime order. His physical constitution was,
of course, built up, as everybody knows, years
The President's Popularity Aboard.
It is not strange that this frank, straightfor
ward American citizen, so liijjh-minded in his
motives andsi democratic in his sympathies,
should have won a great place in the confidence
and affection of American peopie. He has also
taken a marvelous hold upon the imagination
and the interests of the people of Europe. A
discerning resilient of Amsterdam informed this
Country, the other day, that with the exception of
their own (jiieen, Wiliielniiiia, there was no
personage now living in the whom the people
of Holland took nearly so much interest as in
President Koosevelt. The people of France read
eagerly all his utterances. His practical philo
sophy of life falls in most usefully with the
wholesome point of view that the best political
and social elements iu our great sister republic
are earnestly teaching to the new generation of
F renchmen. As for (Jermany, it is not merely
the Emperor and Prince Henry, and the
leabers of the army and navy, who have express
ed their liking for President Roosevelt and their
appreciation of his versatility ; for the German
people as a whole have a remarkably warm feel
ing toward him, which is shown in their news
pa pers and in many private as well as public
ways. All parties and organs in England, of
late, with hardly any exceptions of friendliness
toward the people of the United States ; and if
one may judge by the overwhelming tone of the
English press, President's Roosevelt's jwpularity
is greater in that country than that enjoyed by
any contemporary head of a foreign country in
recent times. He seems, in short, to embody,
to Europeans, the best and most honorable Am
erican traits of mind and character, to typify
those qualities that belong to a gentleman iu a
democratic republic like ours, and to represent
the Lest intellectual aims and aspirations of this
Western world.
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thereby dcstrojiu,' 1 ho foundation
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ins its work. Tne proprietors have
so much faitli in its curative povere,
that they ofiVr one Hundred Dollars
for any case Unit it tails to cure.
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A Special Lot of Raid
On our Racks at ill
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VERD1LLA.
Miss Amelia Stahl spent part of
last week with friends at Hcrndon.
J. M. Walborn moved with his
family toSunbuty last week.
R. L. Shafer moved from Pallas
to his own home near here last
week.
The members of the Witmer's
Sunday schoo. re-elected their old
oflicers for the coming year.
The following were elected last
Sunday by the Keiser's school :
Supt., J. I. Aucker ; Ass't. Supt.
11. W. Aucker j . 'Swj?y -awl -Treasurer,
Emil Lougacre.
I. F. llorkey has built a new hen
house.
Our carpcuters are kept busy
every day.
Our public schools close this
week.
I). W. Stahl made a business trip
to Sunbury last Saturday.
Since our school is about to close
for this season, and our pupils are
proud of their bell they received
this last Winter, they want publish
ed the names of the friends and pu
pils who tvere so kind in helping
them for a bell. The following is
the' list": ' Robert Riegel, Robert
Shotzbcrger, Chester Hoot, A. S.
Sechrist, Mary Stahl, Annie Longa
crc, Esther Stahl, Amelia Stahl,
Edward Stahl, Mrs. Edward Stahl,
Nettie C. Herrold, Daniel W. Stahl
John W. Stahl, Samuel Stahl, Ben
jamin Stahl, Sophia Aucker, Mar
garet Aucker, Alleu S. Sechrist,
Mollie lliegel, Allie Riegel, II. II.
Sechrist, Joseph Urubaker, Mrs. J.
Aucker, Mrs. Louisa Carvell, Ear
nest Aucker, J. R. Riegel, Mary
Aucker, Fannie F. Brown, Irvinj
Aucker, Emanuel Longacre, M. B.
Brubaker, Charles A. Kantz, Thur
low Shafler, George K. Scholl,
Howard Scholl, Reuben Aucker,
Call on A. E. Holes In his new nuttv
ing and hair eutting parlor for your
head cleaned with a refreshing sham
poo and a clean towel to each patron
on the north side of Market square op
posite Central Hotel. Satisfaction guar
anteed, tf.
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Orphans' Court Sale of Real
Estate. .
By virtue of n order of Raid Court the un
(IrrHiKiivil AiliiiinUtratrll ot llenjiimin l lricli,
lute of Molina Orove, Snyder county, Peimeyl
lliiniii, ilec'd., will aril upon tlie premiaea on
Saturday, May lltli. 19(11, tlie following valuable
rial eatnte, low it:
Trai t No. 1. Sltuntc partly in tlie Borouuli Of
Helina drove and purely In 1'cnna Townnhtp
and hounded on tlie North by land of Hainuel
KeBs'er.oii tlie Knat by land of Inn. K. DavlH,
1. ('. HcrK'rener, John StaulTer and.. C.
Smith, on the South by an alley and the public
road leading to Ha'eru. and on the Weat by
land of J. O. l lrleh and other, eoiitaininir 62
A Tea, more or les, whereon are ereeted a
frnme dwelling house, bank barn and minor
out buiidlnK"-
Tract No. H Situate In PennsTownahip, anid
coin. tv and State, and hounded on the North by
hind of Samuel J, l lricli, on the Kaat by laud
of J. U, I'lrieli, on the Mouth by land of Hi rani
l lricli. and on I be M eat by a public road, and
containing; Ten crea, more or leaa, wbereon
are erected no buildinira, it being 'arming land.
Theae two trncta will lie sold together as a
whole and not by the acre. They will be sold
subject to two mortgagca the amounts of which
mortgagee will be made known oil the day
of tile aale.
H lie will open at 1 o'clock 1. M., when the
conditions of the aale will be made known.
KATIE L. VLUICII, Administratrix, 4c.
Chah. p. TJi.rk ii, Attorney for Estate.
A. It. Keck, Auctioneer.
MlDDLEBURQH MARKET.
Butter 20
Eggs 12
Onions CO
Lard 12
Tallo.v
Chickens.... 8
Side 10
Skcilder 12
Ham 15
Wheat 72
Rye CO
Corn 48
Oats 32
Potatoes 50
Bran perlOO. 1.20
Middlings "120
Chop 1.25
Flourperbbl 4.00
Tailor II
Suits
The New Suits
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Blouse S
Coat Su
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$12.50, $15.00,
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Food doesn't digest well?
Appetite poor? Bowels
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