Garfield County Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1902 Page: 3 of 8
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Term Easter is of
German Origin.
Our term Easter Is of German ori-
gin, but the name by which the festi-
val is designated from the beginning
is the Paschal, a name derived from
the Hebrew: it commemorates the de-
liverance of the Jews from Egyptian
bondage when the destroying angel
spared the first-born of the Hebrew be-
cause their doors were marked by the
blood of the Paschal lamb.
The Easter festival is the greatest
in the Christian calendar; it is the
climax of the events in the life of
cur divine Lord—his birth, his labors,
his miracles, his betrayal, the bitter-
ness of his agony at Gethsemane, and
his cruel death on Calvary all culmi-
nated iu the victory we commemorate
on this glorious day.
The church has always held that
the miraculous deliverance of the He-
brew people from Egyptian bondage
was the type and figure of the far
greater deliverance which would fol-
low when Christ, our Pasch, as St.
Paul says, would be sacrificed and by
his blood would save us from eternal
death.
The Christian Pascli was instituted
on that night when our Savior, Jesus
Christ, surrounded by his disciples at
the Last Supper which he held with
them, gave them under the form of
bread and wine his body and his blood
to drink. There is nothing in all the
gospels set forth in language more
unequivocal than this fact. The church
has always taught, as he himself de-
clared, that our divine Lord is truly
and really present, under the forms
of bread and wine, consecrated by the
words uttered by himself, and spoken
by those authorized by him to use
them.
It is true that he suffered and died
that all men might be saved, yet we
know, from his own words and the
teachings of his apostles, that many
may not be saved because they will
not make the necessary effort and sac-
rifice—"Many are called but few cho-
sen." Faith alone in the redeeming
sacrifice will not bring salvation; the
mere fact that we believe in the divin-
ity of Christ, in the teaching of ChriBt,
in the redemption purchased for us
by the death of Christ will not bring
us salvation unless we ourselves do
our part to make ourselves worthy
thereof. It is not enough to have
faith; we must also labor. "I have
fought the good flght, I have kept the
faith," St. Paul says; he did not con-
sider it enough to have the faith only
—it must be accompanied by good
work.
The church, therefore, celebrates this
day with more of joy and gladness and
ceremony than any other in commem-
oration of the institution of that Chris-
tian Pasch which means so much to
humanity! for millions of her chil-
dren, under her guidance and direc-
tion, through praver and repentance,
and other penitential works are made
worthy to participate in this divine
banquet. They are restored to the
friendship of God and have earned for
themselves eternal life, for our Savior
has said: "If any man eat of this
bread he will live forever, and the
bread that I will give is my flesh for
the life of the world." (John vi.)
And she celebrates this day with
unusual joy and gladness for the fur-
ther reason: That it is the,anniver-
sary of that day on which the Founder
by his own inherent power raised him-
self from the dead, thus giving the
strongest possible proof of his divin-
ity, and leaving to us, who believe in
him and love him, a reason for the
faith that is in us.
The llook of God.
Highest of all is the book of God.
This book is the story of earth's
noblest spirits, in hours when they
were filled with a passionate hunger
for righteousness, and how they made
a record for these great spiritual ex-
periences in their poems, psalms and
letters. No other book has such treas-
ures off wisdom and culture. It
teaches us the path that leads to pros-
perity and peace. It is the great
book, the book of hope and life, be-
cause it is the book of God.—Rev. N.
D. Hillis, Congregatioualist, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Heathen N tions
Celebrate the Day
In the Christian churches of all na-
tions Easter is celebrated as the day
on which the Great Teacher, the Jesus
Christ, rose from the der.d and thereby
consummated his divine plan of re-
deeming the human race. Since Eas-
ter is so indissolubly associated with
the life of the Founder of the Christian
religion, one would naturally assume
that it is a purely Occidental festival,
having its origin In the west and be-
ing confined in observance to Cau-
casian countries. Yet, strangely
enough, in several of the countries of
the Orient, in India, in Japan, iu Chi-
na, we find religious festivals bearing
a wonderful resemblance—festivals
that were observed by pious people
thousands of years before the begin-
ning of the Christian era laid the
foundations of western civilization and
power.
The festival of India analogous to
the Christian Easter is called the
"Feast of Buddha"; in Japan it is
named the "Feast of the Higon," while
in China they term the great spring-
time celebration "The Ancestral Wor-
ship." All these holidays have deep
religious significance, for all have
their origin in the spirit of thankful-
ness and rejoicing; that wherever man
lives he has ever greeted the death of
winter and the dawn of spring. In
this sense Easter, the Iligon, the An-
cestral Worship, are all more than
mere church (lays—they are man's
spontaneous outpouring of gratitude
The < liorlster.
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem.
Your sweetest notes employ,
The Pafchal victory to hymn
In strains of holy joy.
Easter Festival
of Great Ade.
! The festivrl of Easier is much older
than the Resurrection of Jesus. Chris-
| lianity not only converted the inagnifi-
] t ont pagan temples, which it could not
| pull down, into churches, but It also
! adopted and ndapted as many of tho
| rites and ceremonies of heathen an-
[ tlquit.v as were too deeply rooted in
■ the habits and affections of the people
I to be eradicated. From the Greeks and
the Romans the early Christians bor-
] rowed their emblems of resurrection
and immortality—the Peacock and the
j Phoenix. The Easter egg. too, as a
I religious symbol Is as old as the pyra-
mids of Egypt and the primer of Ori-
| cntal philosophy, which taught that
the world was hatched from an egg
I about the time of the vernal equinox.
We read also that the Romans in early
spring ran races in an oval—an egg-
shaped arena, when the winnef was
j presented with eggs accompanied with
wishes that his noble family may in-
crease and multiply. Christianity col-
ored the egg red to remind the peoplo
of the blood shed for their redemp-
tion.
That ceremonial Christianity is in a
large measure paganism transformed
or rejuvenated is admitted by the best
scholars in the church as well as out
of it -by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman
and Baronius, as well as by Max-Mul-
ler and Renan. "The church has bor-
rowed many customs from tho religion
of the Romans and other pagans,"
says an ecclesiastical authority, "but
it has meliorated them." Another
writes that "the pagan festivals laden
with superstition were changed into
the praiseworthy festivals of the mar-
tyrs." Still another defends the prac-
tice by saying: "It was permitted the
church to transfer to pious uses those
ceremonies which the pagans had
wickedly applied in a superstitious
worship."
Ostera or Eostre, derived from
"Ost," meaning East, was a Saxon
Goddess who presided over the lumi-
nous powers which revived the earth
and resuscitated life out of the shadow
of darkness and the mold of the grave.
She was the divinity whose face shone
like the glory of the sunrise and the
brightness of the dawn; her ambro-
sial breath made hill and dale fra-
grant, and her smile shed beauty over
every breaking bud and blossom. The
people congregated in the fields to
cheer her arrival in the skies, because
she came to destroy the genii of win-
ter-darkness, sterility, storm, and
death, and to shako from her golden
urn blessings upon man and beast
alike. "The Sun is risen!" they shout-
ed, as they greeted one another and
kissed and danced on the new grass.
Our Teutonic ancestors devoted eight y
days of April, which they called the
to nature, alike beneficent mother of
both Occident and Orient.
A deep religious sentiment governs
the Christian observance of Easter,
and in that particular the Chinese an-
cestral worship is similar to it. The
fifth commandment of the Christian
decalogue is their first, "Thou shalt
honor thy father and mother,' and no
sin in the eyes of the pious Chinese
is so heinous as that of disobedience
or disrespect to parents.
This filial piety is the fundamental
virtue of their social life, and the re-
spect which a son shows his father
does not end with life, but is still
shown to his memory long after his
death. Nor is the deference merely an
individual custom. Time has hallowed
it into a great national festival.
It is called T'sing Ming, and occurs
in the spring of the year. The Chi-
nese do not make much ado about the
death of a child or a young person,
but when a father or a mother dies,
especially if they have grown old,
great ceremony attends the burial,
from which proceeds one of their great
common proverbs, "As much trouble
as a funeral."
There is nothing in the lore of east-
ern religions to conflict with the hope
of a life hereafter. Almost every faith
of the Orient has for its foundation
the theory of a risen Redeemer. And
yet who can make answer to these
momentous questions?
Ostermonat, to the worship of this
beautiful goddess of life and love
perennial, whose arrows, tipped with
flame, had shot fresh hopes into their
hearts. When Christianity converted
the pagan Saxons, instead of attempt-
ing to abolish this joyous festival, it
christened it into an institution of
the church, preserving all its poetry
I and music—the flowers and the eggs,
| and only substituting Jesus, the "Sun
j of Righteousness,' for Ostera, the God-
j dess of the East.
j Easter, then, is a day in which Chris-
tian and heathen memories mingle,
and we regard that as its most pleas-
ing feature, because it lirts it from
being merely a sectarian symbol into
a festival of humanity. It demon-
strates that all festivals have a com-
I mon ancient source—the needs of the
[ human heart, and that all religious,
i instead of being miraculously given
to any chosen people, spring out of
J the eternal soil of humanity.
j Let us rejoice to-day not that the
"Sun" has risen or that one man has
been raised from the dead, but that all
I mankind has been steadily rising du-
[ ring these many ages—rising from the
j deep, dark grave of ignorance and
I slavery to freedom and power., Let us
| change the Easter salutation, and in-
] stead' of greeting one another with
"Christ is risen" and "He is risen, in-
j deed," let us say, "Humanity is risen,"
and let the refrain be, "Ilaii, riseu
i Humanity."
o o- cT.
m
1110 lat_
est E'nnor
y novelty is a hen
C that lays candy
eggs. The little
fowl is standing
over li nest of
green moss, and"
when a-- sprlne
/— drops into the nest as
- aturally as if she was in-
!' ■ a alive. This-is tlie'iiitfs?
Ingenious and inteiwtitig
c ontrivance yet produced fhv
, ho Easter season. Tho
'chicken is a little box whose
head lifts off. in it are placed
eggs about Uie size of (.hose
of a pigeon, made of ?ay
THE EASTER EGC.
The Easter egg has always been one
of the most popular features of the
Eastertide. It owes its origin, as
many of the popular Easter observ-
ances do, to pagan tradition. It was
held as symbolic of renewed life, and
in the Christian church is an old em-
blem of the resurrection. In Germany,
instead of the Easter egg, is presented
an emblematic print, in which threo
hens ure holding a basket, wherein
are three oggs; whereas in Vienna
th<i,Easter egg Is composed ot silver,
.mother of pearl, or oronze,- and filled
with fi.'nTfck'knacka of soiuV> kind:"
OF NOVEL DESIGN.
Perhaps the most curious Easter egs
ever made was one jrdered by a South
African millionaire for his bride. It
was made in London, and was nine
feet long and eighteen feet in ciscum-
l'erence at the widest part. Tlje shell
of this wonderftil erg war- nmdo ot'
chocolate, most'. Elaborately adorn'd.
It was intended,a3 a wedding present.
I and held tho whole of an expensive
i trousseau for the girl he was to mar-
ry. It alsd" had iu it an enoimous
j quantity of superfine confectionery.
| it is said that the most costly Master
I egg ever made 'iu the country was
v.tforwerjj-.bj Lngljnd Ui^-Easter .ggg.J AUdered by a railway magnate for his
was solemnly blessed' by the priest, T little son. It was n miniature car-
HUd,.,byinfi elaborately rJiise, most exquisitely appoiuied, in
en kept as an amulet. Eapter egg^oriUio shape of an egg. The exterior waa
pace or pask eggs as they umS 'to' 111 V the ffnest' tfliite 'enamel, and the
called, have from time Immemorial - jbuuttea. f white. .(ltliltM-raliti. This
teen prepared much as they are tof ay,
',woet material the Utiyei;. ..lifiijig ,.ljsJl«d.- hard iu water colored
,-ihe has the great advantage over with red, blue, of violet dyes, with
a real hen that she will lay as Inscriptions, devices, or landscapes
many eggs and in as quick succes- traced upon them. Some of the de-
slon as SVs desired. signs are very beautiful.
(iiuuty#. littl<v vehicle -was jUa
twoVtiny-poniei in-gold harn
■awn by
harness. A
boy would be hard indeed to pleace
if such a beautiful present d\d not fill
his heart Alth gladness. But the boys
of the present day are luxurious.
TO BE HAND PAINTED.
Anybody who can usp a brush at al
can make lovely and at tho same time
i novel eggs by tuning a little trouble.
The prettiest ide^, aijd one which can
be carried out easily, is to take a goose
I egg and paint a little spray of Violets
] ou it. These blossoms are symbolic
j of the spripg, and so especially ap-
' propriate. Next make a little bunch
of paper violets, ending as described
I before, in a bon-bon. These, of course,
are totfill the opening which has been
made to blow out the egg. Fill the
rest of the egg with candied violet
1 iiVi'S. THiif*makes as beautiful a lit
i .-egg 9 .the (leart could wish, afid
especialW-deur to .the recipient as rep-
resenllnj the work and thought o'f the
:^iver. IV jimutty. variation of this no-
tion can be ma(|o by drawing roses
instead of "violefsi; using a paper rose
lor the stopper-and fillin'K the-eprg with
candied rose leaves. Endless desigj>|
are shown in the confectionery shojli
of the cities, but they can be painted
at home Just as well, and will be more
valued.
To Leave The Service Because of
Proposed Staff Changes.
SECRETARY ROOT IS CALM.
Washington, March 22.—General
Nelson A. Miles told the senate com-
mittee on military affairs that if the
bill introduced by Senator Hawley at
the instance of the war department for
the organization of a general staff of
the army should become a law lie
would decline to longer hold his com-
mission. The reason he gave for the
itatcment is that the bill is utterly
.uhversive of the interests of the mili-
tary establishment and he said lie
would not be a party to such a pro-
ding to the extent even of contin-
uing to hold his place.
The portion of the hill to which he
directed his especial criticism is that
contained iu section 7, reading as fol-
lows:
"That from and after the passage of
this act the senior general officer of
the army shall be assigned to command
such portion of the army as the presi-
dent may director lie detailed to duty
in the general stall' corps. All duties
prescribed by law for the commanding
general of the army shall be performed
by the chief of general staff or other
general officer designated by the secre-
tary of war; provided that so long as
the present lieutenant general of the
army, said office, except as herein pro-
vided shall cease ami determine.
The news of General Miles* state-
ments before the military committee of
the senate caused great excitement at
the war department when it became
known there late in the day. There
was a very general inquiry as to
whether, by passing the criticisms upon
various officials as reported in the
press, General Miles had not exposed
himself to disciplinary treatment.
Secretary Root exhibited little feel-
ing when his attention was called to
the proceedings before the committee.
He remarked quietly that he was very
sorry Lieutenant General Miles op-
posed this bill. He pointed out that
under section 7 of which General Miles
complained, the lieutenant general
would have greatly enlarged powers
in army management, instead of being
restricted in his functions, as lie sup-
posed. As to the question whether
(ieneral Miles had said anything which
would require action at the hands of
the department or the president, tho
secretary firmly declined to express an
opinion, for the present, at least, he
preferring to await an official copy of
the committee hearing before reaching
any decision.
lUiftiouri-Arkaiiiaa Drouth.
Kansas City, Mo., March 25.—In an
effort to relieve the condition of set-
tlers in the drouth stricken section of
northern Arkansas steps were taken at
the livestock exchange to raise con-
tributions to purchase provisions for
the suffering people. A general appeal
is to be made to the people of Kansas
City. Their present condition can
hardly be described. Many families
have subsisted for days on acorns alone.
The drouth condition extends north-
ward across the Missouri line from
Arkansas.
Texa* Seed Goe* to Europe.
Sherman, Tex., March 24.—Mr. W.
I'. Harrison, president of the Texas
(Jrain Dealers' Association, sold to a
firm in New York for export to (ier-
many, 2,500 bushels of Texas red rust
proof seed oats. Mr. Harrison said:
in my twenty-five years experience in
the grain business this is the first sale
1 have ever made where the oats were
consigned to Europe for seed purposes.''
Government For Danish Inland*.
Washington, March 25.—Although
the details of the program for the ac-
quisition of the Danish West Indian
islands have not been perfected, the
the discussion of the subject by the
cabinet has indicated a purpose on the
part of the president to erect a pro)
visional government in the islands at
the outset. Meanwhile a scheme for a
permanent government will be sub-
mitted to congress, --probably approxi-
mating the Porto Rican government,
and if this is favorably acted upon, a
permanent government will be in-
stalled beforft the end of the lis-al
year.
S«ly.erland Hayn Ni.v.
l.crnc, Switzerland, .March —The
bnudesratli rejected the proposals of
the federal&ssrt{ibly inviting the gov-
ernment fosjpin with other states in
approachiivg Great Jtritain on the sub-
ject of the concentration camps in
South Africa, on the ground thattireat
Itritaiti lisid already taken measures to
r lieve t^e sntiering and that the re*
-nit - should be awaited.
.'\>v
Adulterated I'.mmIh.
W.iAi^ifton, March Dr. \Y. H.
.• (fiVinUt <>f the agricultural de-
'• •rtTnvfit, oontini're-f his statement he-
re tKe n >u e committee on commerce
u# to sduJtefnUv •Mods anU'thc need of
uu cffeciiv?.puntei^od law. Dr. Wiley
^Showed Samples,, including specimens
"of alleged coffee' made of wheat ami
njulassok, molded-in the shape of coffee
berries. He maintained that the pub-
lic, as consumers, and the farmers as
the chief producers, were the main
sufferers by deceptive goods.
New Building: fnr Tuskegee.
A friend of the work in New York
has lately given the money for an
executive building at the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute, Tus-
kegee, Ala.
Prehistoric Cave* In Franc*.
Two remarkable prehistoric caves
have recently been discovered in
France. Their walls are covered with
well-executed drawings of mammoth,
reindeer and other animals now ex-
tinct in that region.
What lie Mantcir,
A man elected to a local school
board In Ixindon has sent this letter
to the press defining his policy: "The
scientific men are gone. I hope we
shall have no more dabbleings wltn
laborltorys and that sort of thing. A
good sound eleymentary education for
our children Is what we want; good
reading, wrltelng and good arithma-
tic."
Fishing for Curat.
The bay of Naples, between the city
of that name and the famous island of
Capri, has a iied which furnishes about
$750,000 worth of coral every year. The
fishermen use old nets, untwisted rope
ends and other things of that sort,
which are dragged across the bottom
of the sea. The coral branches be-
come entangled In them, break off and
ve pulled up.
Faints Pictures by Ciasllght.
Solomon J. Solomon, A. R. A., haa
painted some ot his most successful
pictures by gaslight. Indeed, he af-
firms that he can obtain better results
111 this way than If he painted by day-
light. According to Mr. Solomon,
every artist should accustom himself
(o artificial light, especially if he lives
in Kngland, where sometimes for days
together the sun falls to make Its ap-
pearance.
1
Antiquity of Golf*
The latest golfer's yarn Is the state-
ment that Joseph of old was the origi-
nal golf player. In the first place, ws
are told that he wore a coat of many
colors, which certainly must have been
a goll suit; and the statement that he
was put Into a hole by his brethren is
declared at St. Andrew's to be merely
a figurativo expression, and signifies
that they beat him at his own game.—
New York Tribune.
WeddinK Anniversaries.
First year, cotton wedding; second
year, paper wedding; third year, leath-
er wedding; fifth year, wooden wed-
ding; seventh year, woolen wedding;
tenth year, tin wedding; twelfth year,
silk and fine linen wedding; fifteenth
year, crystal wedding; twentieth year,
china wedding; twenty-fifth year, sil-
ver wedding; thirtieth year, pearl
wedding; fortieth year, ruby wedding;
fiftieth year, golden wedding; seventy-
fifth year, diamond wedding.
Itoofhlacks a Noraltj In I.ondon.
From the fact that the following
Item was printed in un English maga-
zine in 1828, boot-blacking Bhops ap-
pear to have been unknown there at
tho time.
In Paris there are scores ot little
shops where the gentlemen may sit
on a raised bench and read the news-
papers, whilst a garcon cleans their
boots—for two sous. These shops are
neatly fitted up, and are generally
situated near the theaters or the pub-
lic promenades.
She Smelt It, Too,
Old ladies from the east who gr>
visiting in Montana do not understand
the complicated methods of getting
ore transformed from mountains to
silver spoons, or something like that,
for here is what one of them said:
"And that is silver ore, is it?" said
the old lady, as she examined a
curious looking bit of mineral. "Yes,"
said her husband. "And how do they
get the silver out?" "They smelt it."
"Well, that's queer." she said, apply-
ing her nose to the ore. "I smelt it,
too, but I didn't get any silver."
AM, TP TO PATE HOUSEKEEPERS
use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because
It Is better and 4 oz. mom of It for aaane
money.
A man's ingenuity doesn't pet him
out of half the trouble it gets him
into.
I)«N T SPOIf. YOUR CLOTHES.
TTso Red Cross Hall Itlue and keep them
white us suow. All grocers. 5c. a package.
T*y me just once and 1 am sure to
come again. Defiance Starch.
All Good Housekeepers
ufo ATLAS OATS, b rause It has the
best flavor and Is absolutely pure.
Our closest friends are sometimes the .
ones we can't borrow froiu.
What is the u eof employing some one
to do vonr dviJing U>r von. It' you use
PL" FN AM I ADMASS DYES .v«>u. ^an
do it just as \teli as. a professional,
bold by druggists, 10c. per package.
* t
A duck of a man is apt to make a :
goose of a husband. * ..
To Ouro , 'in One <lay.
T ike Laxative Hromo (^uinluo Tablets. All
druggistfrefuild money it itftustootira. '~dc.'
All stained irla's^. w^n<fows loft' aftko
to the nSan who 4st?o1or«Mind. 1
rtso'a.Curo for Conisumptl^ is an Infallible
rae-d ciri^-for couirhs and cold-. -N. \V. bAAiuix,
Occuu UrovcyN. J., I'Vi.
- - *
>'any investigating coiumitteef are
made up of expert wliitewashers,^
,.tV\Ui"ra llar«ly 1-atU
To tafte advantage of a cheap article
°f household valife. But wise women
wantjo Know If the low-priced article
has merits. De'fiauce starch costs £ar
lens than any ofher starch and gives
far better satisfaction in the laundry.
Makes linen look like new. Order at
your grocers. Made by Magnetic Starch
Co., Omaha, Neb.
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