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V,)L. 86. NO. 17
TARBORO, N. C. THURSDAY. APRIL 23, '908.
ESTABLISHED 1822
Advice to the Aged.
»ec brings infirmities, such as slug*
,MNh bowels, weak kidneys and Madr
jer and TORPID LIVER.
M’s Pills
have a specific effect on these «rnu,
stimulating the bowels, causing them
to perform their natural functions as
in vouth and
IMPARTING VIGOR
to the kidneys, bladder and LIVER.
They are adapted to old and yonag.
Borrows—I say, old uta.ii, I wish
vo would help me out today.
' lkisymau—Haven’t time to do
it myself, hut I’M call the porter.
Joint, open the door and help the
Ionian out.—St. Louis Dis
patch.
UNLOAD £ n
,v\K load WHITE < ORN
e ut u >ad white spring
OATS
R. B. PETE P S
i.KOOERV COM FAN V.
Phone 227.
TAX NOTICE
You arc notified that taxis must
l»o paid at oncv. A 1 property, real
and persona , will be ad-.v« tided
May 1st.
If > our poll tax is not paid this
month \oh will not be allowed to
vote in the coming elections.
I>. F. Dawson, Sheriff.
April d. 11)08.
i PANOLA DAIRY
^ Pure Milk and (Jrejm
| Patrons will pjione their
• orders to phone No. 243k. j
$35.
With $6 worthl of Music
Free For Only
Until we Sell Just Fonrteen
of Them. Also all our show
cases below cost.
NEXT TO THE
TARBOEO
Si: PPLY CO.
The Finest Mules.
We Irelieve that we have
just received the...
FINEST MULES
that we have ever ie* eiv- ~
i <>fTsaleon this market,
t ome and see lor yourself
Wc are also showing some very
desirable riding and driving
horses.
iiawson k Wilson
Sale and Feed Stables Next Jail.
Tarboro, N. O.
WHAT
TO EAT
1$ A VITAL QUESTION IN "*
EVERY HOME EACH DAY
We Can Always Supply Your
Needs With The
Purest and Freshest
and Most Varied
Assortment of Finest Groceries.
Quirk Delivery and Satisfcc
tion Guaranteed,"^
ULES-ROPFir & CO.
The Pure Food Store.
Phone Double Three.
1 • PASII CORNED HEHRINGS
• n any quantity, from 1,000 t«»
1 ho.000 at lowest prices. Better
Sre mr.
d w.
CLIF RUFFIN.
MEMORIAL MEETING 3.30 P. M.
The Memorial Day exercises, of
the Daughters of the Confederacy
will be held Sunday afternoon,
May 10th at 3.30 o’clock and not
at 10 a. m. as announced in the
bulletin issued by the Confederate
Veterans.
MAKES ASSIGNMENT.
J. L. Dicken, a merchant of
Whitakers, "has made an assign
ment. Jas. JR. Qaskill has been
appointed referee.
JUDGE JETE* C. PRITCHARD HERE MAY 2
Judge Je»er C. Pritchard will
deliver an address on prohibition,
in the to iff u hall, Saturday, May
2nd, at 3 o’clock. A sptc aJ
musical programme will be
arranged for the occasion. Indies
are expected to attend.
HE GOT WHAT HE NEEDED.
“Nine years ago it looked as if
my time had come, “says Mr. C.
Farthing, of Mill Creek, Ind. Ter.
“I was so ruh down that life hung
on a very slender thread. It was
then my druggist recommend* d
Electric Bitters. I bought a bottle
and I got what I needed, strength.
1 had one toot in the grave, but
r^ccuie rutters-pus it duck ou tue
turf again, and I’ve been well ever
since.” Sold under guarantee by
ait a rue gists. 50e.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
Editor Southerner:
Ordinance 7, sec. 8, of the Town
of Tarboro reads as follows:
“No p rson thall injure or
damage the grass around the Con
federate Monument, or commit
any nuisance thereon, under a
penalty of one dollar for each and
every offence.’/
Tne grass around the mound of
the monumeut has been greatly
damaged by some of the public
walking thereon and sitting on the
base of the monuments .
This is to ask that they desist
from further trespass and to call
the attention of the town officials
to more vigilance in this violation
of the town tJrdinanee, and to ask
that they watch for the violators
ofjthe law.
Very respectfully,
Mbs. Jno B. Pender, v
Chairman Monument Committee.
PROHIBITION.
If prohibition is sensible and
just and appeals to the reason of
intelligent people, why is it nec
essary to have every election on
that subject ccnducted with spec
tacular and sensational methods
and appeals to the emotions by
the no license advocate! The
American mate citizen is supposed
to vote according to the teachings
of i his thought. The no license
people, however, seem to make a
point of preventing thought and
drowning it out. They go in o
campaigns with clamor and ex
citement and enlist worn
en and children to patade
and to bring pressure to bear on
the sensibilities, the fears and the
affections of the public. It is
hard for us to believe that any
permanent good results can come
from this style of political per
formance.—News Leader.
TO CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
The loo *1 lodge of Odd Fellows
will celebrate the 89th anniver
versary of Odd Fellowship, Mod
day, Api i 2.1I1. The lodge will
determine at the meeting Monday
night in what manner the anni
versary will be observed.
WILL NOT EFFECT LOCAL MILLS.
The Southern Yarn Spinners’
Association, at a meeting held in
Charlotte Friday, decided to close
down all plants for a period of
sixty days. This proposition is
optional with the members of the
Association and will not effect the
local mills.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Eliza, twelve year old daughter
of Register of Deeds H. S. Bunn,
narrowly escaped serious injury,
Friday afternoon, by falling from
a horse. Several young girls were
enjoying a horse^back ride, when
the accident occurred, as a result
of whiph Eliza was severely cut on
the head and bruised von the
[ m by the hoof of the animal.
A physician was summoned and
dressed the wound.
BISHOP CHESHIRE IN TARBORO.
On Thursday night, April 23rd,
at 8 o’clock, the Kr. Rev. Joseph
Blount Cheshire, Bishop of the
Dio ese of North Carolina, will
make his annual visitation to
Calvary Parish and administer the
Apostolic rite ot c mfiiraatiou.
This will be Bishop Cheshire’s
la t visit to Tar boro before going
aoroad.
PLAY BALL.
The high scho 1 team held a good
practice Friday afternoon, in prep
aration for the game with Wilson,
Monday afternoon. The line up
of the team will be the same as
in the game with Washington last
Saturday.
OASTOEZA.
Bean ^ Kind You tiave Always BcugiJ
THE NEW HEADGEAR.
The big spring hat,
Gee whiz!
How wide and flat
It is.
Two feet, I swear,
Its spread
Beyond the wear—
Er’s head.
The big spring hat,
Of straw,
Looks like a mat,
But, pshaw!
We’d better smile,
Not curse;
Be glad the style
Ain’t worse.
—Washington Herald.
CARD OF THANKS.
The members of the local fire
department extend to R. B. Hyatt
a vote of thanks for the use of his
boat, ‘‘Rachel,” in conveying the
guests to the dinner at Panola
Springs, Wednesday.
TWO NEW LIBRARIES.
Prof. Kittrell today ordered the
books for two new rural school
libraries for school No. 1, in No.
9 township.- Miss Nora Walston,
teacher, and for school No 1, in
No. 10 township, Miss Mary
Louise Walston, teacher.
SUPPORT THE TEAM^
Every person, who is interested
in the welfare of the boys of the
high school, should support their
efforts iu athletics by attending
the baseball gameMonday betw'een
Wilson and the" local team. Prof.
Kittrell, tleorge Howard and
Henry T. Brjan are taking an
active interest in the development
of the team, to promote Athletics
amrmg the students of the public
schools
Iu the previous contests with
Rocky Mount and "Washington,
the high school team has been
victorious.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The completion and opening of
the tunnels under the Hudson
river, so long looked forward to as
a dream of the future, now a reali
ty, is not appreciated by Kew
Yorkers nor grasped by people at
a d.stance. The magnitude, the
meaning, the gigantic undertaking,
over and over resulting in failure,
is today an actual existing fact.
The Korth branch of the Hudson,
the East branch, one on each side
of Kew York City, separating Kew
Jersey on the one side, Long Is
land on the other, with the millions
of being, heretofore ferries and one
bridge the only means of getting in
or out of Kew York. Kow trains
flyiug under the rivers, carrying
the populace to aud lro, they do
not stop to consider w hat has been
done. Before had no ice < f bom
bardment or a serious epidemic,
the resident* of New York City
proper ( Manhattan Island) muld
not have made their way out of
the City in less than a month’s
steady exodus, today a couple of
days w ould suffice. The wo ker
frequently passing .through tire
tunnels always when midway,
stops to consider, over head is tht
flowftig waters of the Hudson oier
head a mile and a quarter wide 75
feet deep, then mud 50 feet, down
in the rock 50 feet, and uuder it
all a gieat double track rai road
in tubVs, train carrying COO to
1,000 passengers dashing iu both
directions at a 30 mile f-peed, 2
minute headway, it surely is
enough b laruish food for thought.
To McAdoo. the man Iron)
Tennessee, indue the credit for
this world wonder. All others
undertaking, gave up in failure.
The stout hearted Southerner
laughed on every side, laughed
back, and kept “pegging’’ away
while he had the pleasant satis
faction of having the President at
Washington press the button that
started the car wheels in motion
and, surrounded by the Governors
of New' Jersey and New York, the
Mayor of the (ity, and hundreds
of its leading diguataries and fore
most men, he received congratula
tions lor his great feat, such as no
map had heietofore been the re
cipient of, nor was it all done
without the expenditure of millions
in money, scores of lives, heart
aches, pangs and sleepless nights.
The people can now say to°Mc
Adoo “well done,”
It is worth a visit to New York
to see this great achievement.
d£ath was on ms heels.
Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers,
Va., had a dose cad in tue Spring
of 1900. He says: “Ail attack
of pneumonia left me so weak and
with such a fearful dough that my
friends declared consumption had
me, and death was on my heels.
Then I was persuaded to try Dr.
King’s New Discovery. It helped
me immediately, and after taking
two and a half bottles, I was a well
man agaiD. I found out that New
Discovery is the best remedy for
coughs and lung disease in all the
world.” Sold under guarantee by
all druggists. 50c and $1. Trial
bottle free.
“Love me and the world is
mine,” he said.
“What’s theuseotsaying that?”
she replied.~“[’ve been loving jou
for weeks and you haven’t even
succeeded iu getting a good job.”
—Chicago Record Herald.
EASTER SUNDAY.
Easter Sunday will not occur on
the same date as this year, April
19th, until the year 1981. During
this period it falls on April 17th,
18th and 20th. In 1909 it occurs
eight days earlier than this year.
GOV. GLENN TO BE ENTERTAINED.
Arrangements are being made
for the entertainment of Gov.
Glenn, when he comes to Tarb"ro.
May 10th, to address the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy at the
Memorial Day exercises to be held
in the town hall.
A GOOD SHOW..
The op ning performance lait
night of the Adams tented vaude
villeiten cent show, on the corner
lot, of rhe Knights of Pvthias. on- i
posite the post office, was largely
attended and greatly enjoyed. The
tent is admirably arranged, with
reserved sectious for both white
and colored, and comfortable seats
for all, whether reserved or other
wise. The stage setting and elec
trical equipment is up to date,
and the company itself is com
posed of artists in their respective
roles, and every feature of the
performance is clean aud enjoyable.
The Argus tikes pleasure in
giving its endorsement to this
attraction, that w ill hold forth in
this city every night during the
week, with a change of programme
for every perfoj mance>— Goldsboro
Argus.
—PROHIBITION SPEAKERS.
Ex GovernorC. B. Aycock will
speak in Rocky Mount, Sunday,
April 20th, at 11 a. m , ou prohi
bition. He will deliver an ad
dress in the town hall, Tarboro,
Sunday night at 8 o’clock.
John A. Oates will speak ou
prohibition at Keech’s Chapel,
West Tarboro, Saturday, May 2nd,
at 8p. m., iu Baptist church;
Speed, Sunday, May 3rd, at 11 a.
m., and town hall, Tarboro, Sun
day night at 8 o’clock.
There will be a special musical
programme at both of the ad
dresses delivered at the tow n hall.
A TWENTY YEAR SENTENCE.
“I have just completed a twenty
year health sentence, imposed by
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, which
cured me of bleeding piles just
twenty years ago,” writes O. S.
Woolever, of LeRaysville, N. Yr.
Buckien’s Arnica Salve heals the
worst sores, boils, burns, wounds
and cuts in the shortest time. 25c
by all druggists.
MR. WAGNER GRANTED NEW TRIAL
Tue Supreme Court has handed
down an opinion in the case of D.
D. Wagner vs Atlantic Coast Line,,
in which a verdict for f?12,000 was
rendered by the jury at the Octo- j
ber term of court. Wagner sued
the railroad for 920,000 for injuries
leceivedtwo years ago, when he
stepped fjom a passenger coach,
while the train was at a standstill
on the bridge, which spans Tar
river at this place, and fell thirty
feet to the river bank. The
Supreme court grants a new trial
aud the opinion is as follows:
Plaintiff was sitting on the plat
form of defendant’s train aud
stepped from it and was injured
when the train stopped on a
trestle near Tarboro, under the
imprtssion that he bad arrived at
Lower Tarboro., He testified that
the train had stopped a few min
utes before and the porter had
called out, “Next stop, Lower
Tarboro.” There was testimony
tending to showr that wheD the
train stopped, the conductor^told
the passengers inside the car to
keei> their seats, that they were
not at Lower Tarboro. There was
a verdict and judgment for plain
tiff. -
Held:
1, One who voluntarily rides
on the platform of a train instead
of inside the car is negligent and
in case of injury, the burden is
upon him to show that the injury
occurred by reason of defendant's
negligence.
2. Ou the facts stated it was
error in the court to charge the
jury solely upon the question of
whether or not the porter called
out Lower/Tarboro as the next
stop, and not upon the further
question whether the omission to
announce that the train had
reached Low er Tarboro was or was
not the proximate cause of the
injury, the defendaut being en
titled to nave tnejury pass on tnej
question whether or not the plain
tiff had placed hiruself in such a
position as not to have been able
to hear the announcement had it
been made. _
3. PlaintifPs voluntary position
on the platform being negligence as
matter of law, it was error to
leave the question of plaintiff’s
negligence to the jury, but the
couit should have charged, as a
matter of law. that plaintiff was
guilty of negligence, leaving to
the jury the determination of the
question of proximate cause.
John Burt made a dash for
liberty, moruiug of the 16tb, at
the county convict camp, near
Raleigh. He was seriously cut and
fatally wounded by the guard.
Burt was serving a four years’
sentence for larceny.
JUST SHORTENED IT.
When first he courted Catherine
He always called her ‘‘Kitty,”
And thought there ne'er beiuje
hid been
A maid or name so pretty.
Bat she has older grown I ween—
As evidence of that
When now he speaks of Catherine
He often calls her “Cat.”
—Washington Herald.
SCORE 4 TO 2.
The high school team was two
runs to the good in the baseball
game with the Wilkinson school
teagj^ Wednesday aitermon, when
r.ifntnterfered with tlie contin
uance of the game. The high
school boys are rapidly improving
their weak points, and a goodg ime
may be expected Monday, when
they will battle for honors with
the Wilson aggregation.
PLENTY OF TROUBLE
is caused by stagnation of the liver
and bowels. To get rid of it and
headache and biliousness and the
poison that brings jaundice, take
Dr. King’s New Life Pills, the
reliable purifiers that do the work
without grinding o*> griping. 25c
at all druggists.
DIFFICULT TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION.
One of the most difficult prob
lems, which confronted the build
ers of the Hudson tunnels was the
construction of the approaches
| leading from "the riv«-r tuunels to
the Church Street terminal station,
says Walter Muller, in Cement
Age. These approaches are en
largeinents of the tunnels permit
ting the multiplication cf two
tracks on both Fulton and Oort
lauot streets, each confined to a
separate shield driven tunnel, into
five tracks within the terminal
building limits. In order to carry
out this work, almost the entire
width of each street had to be
excavated to an approximate depth
of 45 feet below the curb for a
distance of one block. At the same
time all underground improve
ments, such as sewers, water and
gas pipes and electrical conduits
Lad to remain undisturbed, and
facilities for uninterrupted surface
tratfic had to be furnished as well.
The streets mentioned are two of
the most badly congested avenues
of traffic in lower New York. Con
gestion on Fniton street is par
ti cularlyjsevere due to the double
line of street car tracks running
along its entire length. The method
of construction employed was open
excavation ;to a depth of about 15
feet below the surface of the street.
This necessitated the construction
of a plank roadway and sidewalks
spanning the excavation, and the
suspension of all pipes and wires
from overhead g rders. Reinforced
concrete caissons of an average size
of 20x35 were then sunk adjacent
to each other «nd separated by a
temporary UnTtihead. After the
caissons had been sunk to grade,
the joints between them were made
watertight aud the bulkhead
removed. The work as carried out
by this method has proved very
successful. The entire excavation
was 630 feet long and required the
removal of approximately 4^,000
cubic yards of material, and the
| placing of about 12,000 yards of
: concrete, containing 700 tons, or
| about three miles of twisted steel
: rod reinforcing. On this work and
the adjacent tunnels alone, as
many as 700 men have been em
ployed at one time.
HOTEL FARRAR CHANGES HANDS.
Paul M. Hood, an experienced
hotel manager of Goldsboro, will
succeed S. F. Everett, as proprieter
of Hotel Farrar, May 1st. Mr.
Hood has been manager of a hotel
in Darlington, S. C., for some time.
Mr. Everett has not made any
definite arrangements for the
future. From here he will go to
his farm at Everett, to reside for
the present
Mr. Everett has been proprietor
of Hotel Farrar since June 1,1907,
when he succeeded the late H. D.
Teel. During his residence in
Tar boro, Mr. Everett has made
many friends, who will regret his
departure.
Mr. Hood comes highly re com
mended as a hotel manager. He
has had a wide experience in this
State and South Carolina.
JOHN KITCHEN TO THE ROADS.
'John Kitchen, colored, who was
recently sentenced to work the
streets for thirty days in default
of a fine of $5 for disorder ly con
duct, was sent to the roads for
thirty days this morning, by
Mayor Pender. Kitcheu tailed
to abide by his sentence on the
streets. ».
—“Health Coffee” is really fche
closest Coffee Imitation ever yet
produced. This clever G ffee Sub
stitute was recently produced by
Dr. Shoop of Racine, Wis. Not a
grain of real Coffee in it either
Dr. Shoop’s Health Coffee is made
from pure toasted grains, with
malt, nuts, etc Really it would
fool an expert—who might drink
it for Coffee. No 20 or 30 minuted
tedious boiiing. “Made in a min
ute” says the doctor. Sold by D.
Lichtenstein Co.
VALUABLE REFERENCE BOOK.
The Southerner has just received
a copy of the annual report of the
Smithsonian Institute. It treats of
the recent progress in electricity,
wireless telegraph, astronomical
esearch, reclamation of arid
lands and science in general. It is
a valuable reference book.
UNABLE TO LOCATE RELATIVES.
Dr. 8. P. Bass, who telegraphed
the chief of police of Providence;
R.-J., to locate relatives of L. S.
Cook, the stranger, who died at
Speed Saturday night, has been
unable to receive a reply. Cook
stated to several persons of Speed
that he had no relatives, and so
fai, l)r. Bass has been unable to
locate anyone, who is related to
the dead ma n
WILL GIVE BANQUET ANNUALLY.
The local lire department will
give ajbauquet and dinner annual
ly. This was decided at the din
ner at Panol-t Springs, Wednesday,
upon the motion of Chief George
Pennington.
At the rgular monthly meeting
in May. officers for the ensuing
year will be elected.
A SERVANT CATECHISM.
Q—Who are you?
A—A Domestic Servant.
Q—What is a Domestic Servant?
A—A young person who is
sometimes called a “Treasure,”
sometimes a “Minx” and some
times “The Eterual Problem.” '**
Q -^When are you called a
“Treasure!”
A—A** h*ng >s I can keep on my
mistress’ blind side.
Q—When are you called a
“Minx!”
A —When I have just been
found out wearing my mistress’
newesffhat.
Q—When aie you called “The
Eternal Problem!”
A—Wheu I h .ve given a months
warning and my mistress is run
ning from Registry Office to Regis
try Office in a feverish hunt after
my successor. "
Q—What things do you learnJn
Domestic Service!
A—Two thing chiefly—m> duty
toward my mistress, aud my duty
towar 1 Myself.
Q—What is your duty toward
your mistress? _
A—My duty toward my mistress
is to do'~as~little work for her as I
decently can, and when she finds
fault with me, to tell her I would
rather leave.
Q—What is your duty toward
YourireIflT\
A—My duty toward Myself is to
take high wages, to insist on hav
ing the bast of food, at least two
evenings out every week, and
unlimited latitude in the matter
of followers.
Q—What are followers!
A—Anything in trousers that
appear* at the area door.
Q—For what purpose do they
come to the area door!
A—For gossip, flirtation and
refreshments.
Q—Who provides the refresh
ments?
A—I provide them. My mistress
pays for them,
Q—What is a cat?
A—The most useful of all do
mestic animals.
Q—Explain the chief use of the
cat.
A—To commit depredations in
the larder.
Q—When are such depredations
usually committed!
A—On the evenings when I
entertain my followers.
Q—For what purpose do glass,
crockery and other fragile articles
exist!
A—To come to pieces in my
hands.
Q—Do you ever break your
mistrers’ old china!
A—Never.
Q—How is that?
A—Because it was always brok
en before I came.
Q—What is a character!
A—Characters are of two kinds,
my mistress’ character and My
character.
Q—What is your mistress’ char
acter?
A—My mistress has little or no
character, after I have done dis
cussing it.
Q —What is Your character!
A—A written testimonial to my
incomparable excellences, with
which it is the duty of every lady
who is a lady, to furnish me when
1 quit her seruce.—London Truth.
TOWN COMMISSIONERS.
No < audidates have .appeared
upon ti c political horizon fof the
offico oi town commissioners from
the tiist, second and fourth wards.
The retiring members, B. H.
Parker, Brooks Peters and W. M.
Arnheim will not be candidates
for re-election, but in all probabil
ity will be chosen contrary to their
wishes.
President Gompers of the Amer
ican Federation of Libor told the
committee on the .Judiciary of the
lower House of Congress that “we
may be driven into organizing in
secret,” and threatened to hold
the republican party responsible,
for its opposition to legislation for
the relief of labor. Where would
the republican party be without
its share of the labor vote!
Where the finest biscuit,
cake, hot-breads, crufts
or puddings are required
‘Rpyal is indispensable.1
'Roxqir
Baiting Powder
Absolutely Pure
Not only for rich or fine food
or for special times or service.
Royal is equally valuable in the
preparation of plain, substantial,
every-day foods, for all occa
sions. It makes the food more
taSty, nutritious and wholesome.
EASTER.
4 The human instiDct has always
Craved for the commemoration ot'
marked epochs. This shows t
self in our personal and social lif
by the observance of anniversaries
of great joy or sorrow, in our
national life by holidays attended
with unusual festivities, lest we,
or coming generations, forget his
torical events of great importance.
And so in our ecclesiastical life,
Easter day, as commemorating the j
central fact of our religion, has
always been regarded as the [chief
festival of the Christian year, aucl
has been from the earliest times
observed with a stately and elabo
rate ceremonial.
Easter is not, as some have
thought, a continuation of the
aucient heathen festival^ ven a
new significance by Christians. It
is true that the word, Easter, llike
the names of the days of the week,
is a survival from ancient Teuton
ic mythology. It is derived from
Eostre, or Ostara, the name of the
Anglo Saxon goddess of Spring, to
whom the fourth month, answer
to our April, called Eostur Mon
ath, was dedicated, and according
ly at this time a festival in her
honor was held.
Put oui custom of observing
Easter, comes fiom quite another
source. The first Christians were
descended from, or intimately
connected with the Jewish Chmch.
For hundreds of years before the
Christian era, the Jews had been
celebrating the Passover, in com
memoration of that event, which
of all others chronicled in the Old
Testament, more significantly
foreshadowed the Crucifixion. This
same Passover, ennobled by the
thought of Christ, the true Paschal
Lamb, the first fruits from the
dead, continued to be celebrated,
and became the Christian Easter.
'J here is no trace of the ce'ebra
ti<$u of Easter as a Christian festi
val in the New Testament, or in
[ the writings of the apostolic
lathers “The Apcstles,” writes
Socrates, “had no thought of
appointing festival days, but of
promoting a life of blamelessness
anl purity.”
A difference as to the time of
the observance of Easter, speedily
sprang up between the Christians
of Jewish and Gentile descent and
led to a long continued and bitter
controversy. The Jews, whose
leading thought was Christ, the
true Paschal Lamb, wished to cel
ebrate the day of the month on
which the paschal fast ended,
irrespective of the day of the week.
While the Gentiles, unfettered by
traditions, seeing more clearly tbe
greater significance of the Kesur
rection, wished to celebrate the
first day of the week, as following
Friday, the day of the Crucifixion.
This controversy was not settled
until the end o* the seventh cen
tury.
There are many interesting ana
carious customs connected with
the celebration of Easter in differ
ent countries, that of sending
Pash eggs, or Easter eggs, prob
ably being the most common. The
Moravian ceremonies are particu
larly beautiful in their solemnity.
And what of the Lenten season,
which precedes Easter? Since
Christ, during His mortality,
found it necessary for the perfect
life to step aside from the engross
ing care3 of the world, and retire
foraperiod to a life of solitude
and sell-denial of which we are
incapable, it can be productive of
nought but good for us to to low
His example in our feeble way,
and for a period pay tribute to
His wonderful love for us.
Now we come again to the glad
some Easter tim?, and it is indeed
a joyous time. The days of self
deoial, of trial and suffering and
of death are passed, and the
Resurrection mjrn has dawned
SIGNS.
The days are getting cheery1
! The skies are blue, my dearie,
And the road of earth so dreary
Now is tightening with song.
Trees that arch above are leaving,
Naked days and sere retrieving,
And the hearts that erst were
grieving
Now are rollicking along.
Now the violins are singing
Forms in rhythm now are swing
ing,
And the winds perfumes are bring
mg
In a joyous wave and strong.
And before the year’s much older,
Growing bolder and yet bolder
Dimples will peep from a shoulder
Peek-a-boos will be along.
—Houston Post.
THE INFLUENCE OF COUNTRY LIFE ON
ART.
With convenient and constantly
increasing railway facilities, and
the advent of the telephone and
the automobile, has come the de
mand for country and suburban
houses. Thousands of people, who
under the primitive conditions of
years g ne by, would have shunned
the country as a lonely and deso
late place, are now glad to own
broad acres or a plot of ground
beyond the confines of the metro
polis, says Cement Age. And with
the establishment of these country
places has come the desire for
artistic environment, which has
found expression in the embellish
ment ot lawns and gardens as well
as in the construction of pictur
esque buildings. Thus great impe
tus has been given to the profes
sion or science of landscape gar
dening, which has become quite as
important in its way as the work
of the architect, the latter fre
quently undertaking the entire
enterprise, from the building of
the house to the laying out ot
grounds. This, in turn, has given
opportunity for the manufactures
ol many things designed to be
useful and ornamental, and in all
sections of the country enterprises
of this characer have been estab
lished. The business includes the
manufacture of columns, benches,
urns, fountains and numberless
objects employed as decorative
features of the lawn, garden, per
gola or terrace. In this field, as in
the construction of buildings, the
tendency is toward substantial and
durable work and genuine artistic
merit, and in recognition of its
admirable qualities in this respect,
concrete is rapidly supplanting all
other materials, even terra cotta
and marble that have been used
in the arts for centuries but never
seemed destined to be supplanted,
by the more plastic medium.
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with its promise of eternity. All
nature is in harmony with us aud
aids us in every way possible to.
make this, the most beautiful of all
the seasons.
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