Capitol Hill News. (Capitol Hill, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, April 13, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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CAPITOL HILL NEWS.
S. M. JACKSON, Editor, Publisher and Proprietor.
MRS. E. E. HUGAN, - Associate Local Editor.
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NEW STATE BRIEFS
The socialists of Dewey county will
meet at Taloga April 11th for the pur-
pose of perfect!: g a thorough organiza-
tion.
Elk City has voted waterworks con-
struction bonds to the amount of
$25,000. The proposition carried by
a vote of 125 to 35.
Pythians are considering the advis-
ability of erecting a $200,000 Pythian
temple and Oklahoma City is bidding
for its location.
EASTER LEGENDS AND CUSTOMS
ORIGIN OF THE NAME.
A LIVING DEATH.
The senate Indian committee has
decided to recommend $185,000 for
schools in the Indian Territory, an in-
erease of $85,000 over the amount
made available by the house.
The cornerstone of the new Greer
county court house was laid last Sat-
urday at Mangum. The ceremonies
of the grand lodge of Masons of Okla-
were conducted under the direction
•homa.
The board of missions of the South
Methodist church held a missionary
rally at Holdenville last week. The
meeting lasted three days and was
largely attended by members of the
conference, which includes both terri-
tories.
A Mrs. Winstead, living near
Okeene, was fined $25 and costs in the
federal court last week for viola-
tion of the postal laws. She sent to
neighbors whose conduct she did not
like postal cards containing matter of
a scurrilus nature, which led to her
arrest.
Do you Icjiow that our English word 1
Easter is a survival of the Saxon 1
name Eastre or Ostara, who was
their goddess of spring, or of nature's
resurrection after the long death of
winter? So dearly was Eastre loved
by the old Teutons that when Chris-
•ianity was first preached to them
toey refused to give us their “White
Lady.” or to reduce her to the rank
of "demon.” So, instead, they gave
her name to the great Christian fes-
tival.
Eastre was known and loved in dif-
ferent parts of Germany under differ-
ent names; but in all the places she
presided over and cared for all things
new and beautiful—the flowers and
the birds, harbingers of spring; the
hares, typical of the productiveness
of the earth. And in the hollow
mountain in which §he»was believed
to live she cared for the souls of che
unborn babes; here, too, she watched
over the agriculture of the land, car-
ing for every plant, which her infant
troop watered, each carrying for that
purpose a tiny can.
Easter sometimes passed over the
land, moving through the air without
wings, followed and surrounded by
tiny-winged infants, by birds and but-
terflies and storks. In her hand she
carried a wand laden at one end with
flowers, while with the other she scat-
tered them over the earth.
Of couise, this Ms an old tale, but
it is well for us to know the history
of the name of the great feast, espe-
cially as all its customs have come
to us and are followed to-day. In
the old time they celebrated the day
by exchanging presents, as we do;
especially by an exchange of colored
eggs, typical of the life breaking from
the tomb—as when the little chick
with tallow, or any greasy substance,
and the dye will not color those
parts; so that the design will stand
out in white.
Sometimes Easter eggs are buried
in a deep dish filled with sand; the
kind sold in bird stores is nice for
the purpose. This “ostrich nest” is
then passed around, and each keeps
the egg that he draws out of it.
Another pretty custom is to hide
the eggs, all over the house, each
with a name attached to it, and have
the members of the party hunt for
those belonging to them.
Great sport is witnessed every Eas
ter in the White House grounds at
Washington. Hundreds of boys and
girls play games with their eggs, roll-
ing them down hill. Two roll their
eggs together, and the one whose
egg is unbroken takes the other. This
sport is indulged in at Easter by the
boys and girls of many lands.
The queer looking eggs in the pic-
ture show some other ways of decor
ating them.
KLONDYKER THINKS OF EASTER
The Frozen North Forgotten in Hii
Dreams of Youth.
A gold-seeker in the Klondyke
writes: “By the time you receive this
Easter may not be far away, and the
thought of it reminds me of the first
one I passed here. Easter eggs cost
about ten cents apiece, and I could
only afford one for breakfast. When
I broke it I thought I heard a bird
chirp, and looking up saw the barren
rocks and ice-topped mountains nc
more, but fruit trees in bloom, thou
sands of miles away. How was that
for keen sight? And from among the
trees wood smoke rose—out of
Indian Inspector Wright has - been
informed that the bonds issued in
South McAlester for waterworks and
school purposes have been approved
by the secretary of the interior.
At Bartlesville the citizens have
donated $1,300 for the support of the
base ball club of that place. One
hundred carpenters have agreed to
donate one day’s work on the grand-
stand at the ball park.
The Baptist church at Texola was
burned to the ground recently. Indi-
cations are that the building was set
on fire.
Architects have been employed by
the Masons of Pawliuska to prepare
Plans and specifications for their new
temple.
The receipts at the Ghickasha post-
ofllce for the quarter ending March
31st showed an increase of ninety-five
per cent over the same quarter last
year. The total receipts were close
to $20,000.
In the district court at Guthrie last
week Judge Burford ordered that the
license of Dr, Gulley be revoked and
that he be not alowed to practice
medicine in Oklahoma. It was
charged that the doctor received his
diploma from a “mill’ school and the
judge upheld this contention. The
case will be appealed by the defendant
to the supreme court'
The government rcJamation ser-
vice is asking for bids to furnish teams
and such implements as are necessary
for the digging of ditches on the ex-
perimental irrigation farm near
Snyder. The farm comprises two bun.
dred acres and upon it a small plant
will be established under the personal
supervision of the United States re-
clamation service.
breaks its shell and comes out into
life.
In some parts of Germany the chil-
dren went to bed early, even as we
do at Christmas time, sc that the
\\ hito Hare might come and leave
for each one who had been kind and
obedient and good and truthful a
beautiful colored egg. The hare al-
ways came when all was still and ev-
ery one was sleeping, and in the
morning such a hunt as there was for
the presents, in ail sorts of out-of-the-
way places.
Of course the mothers prepared the
eSgs, wrapping each in a piece of col-
ored print stuff, or calico, as we call
it, some pink, some red, or blue or
green, and when the eggs were boiled
in these cloths all the color was left
on the shell. You can do that now,
wrapping the eggs up tightly and
separately in a piece of bright color-
ed calico, smoothing it and sewing it
in place. But be sure that the dye is
not a fast color, or it will not come
off onto the shell. The commonest
prints should be used, those that will
fade and the designs will be repro-
duced on the egg.
Eggs may be really gilded by going
over them with gum or varnish by-
means of a brush and then laying on
gold leaf. These in some countries
were reserved for the nobility only;
but almost as pretty an effect may
be produced by using “gold paint,”
which may be bought at any drug-
store.
Boiling eggs in ordinary dye water
is a common way of treating them for
Easter, birt a great improvement on
that is to draw a design on the shell .
kitchen chimney. Then out on the
porch of the old farm house came the
best woman in the world—at that
time—a little faded externally, but
with a heart of gold. She called:
Pe-et-e-er, come to breakf-a-a-st.
Where is that good-for-nothing? Oh
there he is! Peter, come to breakfast!
Have you done your chores?’ ‘Yen’
Now ‘Nope’ would have been nearer
the truth, for I had been hunting Eas-
ter eggs, and the calf was calling
piteously for milk. The old cow, with
a full and willing bag, was bellowing
o beat the band, and Old Bob was
icking his stall to pieces, while the
chickens were looking reproachfully
at me because I hadn’t fed them.
“My boyish hands were full in those
days—and work is good for boys. To
the kitchen. I fling my gap due north
and sit down facing the crippled sis-
ter, who has the sweetest face that
angels ever smiled to meet. They
have met, both those faces, long ago
Such Johnny cakes! So crisp and
generous, as Into their hot recesses
I plastered the golden butter! I smell
that coffee now, and I quaff the rich
milk old Bossy gave. Time has turned
backward, and made me a boy again
and the old fellow finds too much salt
in his egg—some of it has dropped
from Ins eyes.”
WJSttm
I lost flesh,
Vividly Described By a Citizen of
Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Andrew Johnson, 411 West Twelfth
St., Sioux Falls, S. D., says: ‘‘Doan’s
Kidney Pills saved
my life. My doctor,
from a careful an-
alysis of the urine
and a diagnosis of
my case, had told
me I could not live
six weeks. I was
struck down in the
street with kidney
trouble, and for a
whole year could
not leave the house,
my eyes failed me, I
bloated at times, my back hurt and 1
suffered a living death. There seemed
no hope until I began using Doan’s
Kidney Pills. Then I began to im-
prove. The pain left gradually, the
swellings subsided, I gained appetite
and weight, and to make a long story
short, I got well!”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-MIlburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
A man s idea of an angel is a woman
who doesn't talk about her neighbors.
Never Fails.
There is one remedy, and only one
I have ever found, tc cure without
fcil such troubles in my family as
Eczema, Ringworm and all others of
an Itching character. That remedy is
Hunt’s Cure. We always use it and it
never fails.
W. M. Christian,
_ Rutherford. Tenn.
Whiten the Teeth. .
One of the most effective methods
of whitening the teeth is to take an
orange wood stick and dip it into fine
wood ashes, rub the teeth both on
the inner and outer surfaces, when
tartar and all stains will disappear as
if by magic. ^ This treatment should
not be repeated more than once a
month.
A favorite way of saying mean
things about a husband is to sigh and
look resigned when his name is men-
tioned, and say nothng.
The love that is all on one side is
sure to grow cold.
Apple the King of Fruit.
As iron is rated among the metals,
so the apple ranks among fruits. As
the word “Book” is appropriated as
the name for the chief book of all, so
apple sometimes stands for fruit in
general.
RHEUMATISM CURED
The Disease Yielded Readily to Dr,
Williams’ Pink Pills After Other
Treatment Failed.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills cure rheuma-
tism because they supply the necessary
elements to the vitiated blood and en-
able nature to cast out tlie impurities
and effect a cure. Mrs. A. Baker, of No.
119 Fitch street, Syracuse, N. Y., wili
furnish living evidence of the truth of
this statement. “ There has been rhea-
mutism iu my family ever since I can re-
member, ’ she says. “ My grandmother
was a peat sufferer from muscular
rheumatism and my mother also had the
disease ip a mild form. About a year
ago I had a hard cold and rheumatism
caught me iu my left knee. There were
sharp pains, confined to the neighbor-
hood of the knee and they seemed to go
right into the bone. The pain I suffered
was mteiise and I nlso had dizzy spells.
“The doctors called my 'trouble
nriatic and sciatic rheumatism. When
I didn’t get better under their treat-
ment my brother-in-law suggested that I
try Dr. W Uliams’Pink Pills. I bought
throe boxes, and, by the time I had
taken them, the pain and dizziness had
entirely left me. I wanted to make
sure of a cure so I bought three more
boxes, but I didn’t take quite all of them
as I found that I was entirely cured
“ Before I took the pills the min was
so severe that I had to cry at times and
Wheel was cured I was so thankful and
grateful and I am glad to recoinineud
them to every one who suffers with
rheumatism.”
Dr. Williams* Pink PiUs have cured
severe cases of anaemia, sciatica, nervous-
ness, part ml paralysis, locomotor ataxia
and St. \ ltus dance that have not re-
sponded to other modes of treatment.
All druggists sell Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills or they will lie sent by mail, post-
paid, on receipt of price, 50 cents pet
box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. YVil-
Lr.ms Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
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Jackson, S. M. Capitol Hill News. (Capitol Hill, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, April 13, 1906, newspaper, April 13, 1906; Capitol Hill, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc936898/m1/2/: accessed April 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.