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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-13
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ly clad and dressed in black. Each one
carries a prayer book and her beads. The
candles ON the altar twinkle bright, yet
far away. The incense swingers swing
their burden monotonously. The breath
OF the lilac comes in at the window, and
the day is begun. There are services in
the chapel many times that day.
On Good Friday morning the very
small children are just little frighten-
ed when they see the chapel. The golden
draperles are gone from the altar, the
flowers have vanished, and all the
twlnkling lights are gone 1t is gloomy
and grewsome in the chapel when the
altar lights are gone.
In front of the altar row of nuns
kneel with their arms out like a cross.
Some of the larger girls are allowed to
kneel there, too, and many of them are
sobblng. One of them stays so long that
she Is borne out fainting. To the young
er children the gentle sisters tell the
old, old story of the dreadful day when
Christ was crucified 1t is so quiet and
SO dark in the chapel and the face of the
pictured Christ is SO sad that the little
ones are frightened.
When the evening prayers are said
the girlish voices pour in the gloomy
grandeur of the "Stabat Mater" "
Long after the lights in the dormitory
are out the nuns kneel before the altar
with outstretched arms, and the little
children dream that night of tears.
The next day there are prayers and
vespers again. The children hope. Their
sins begin to seem less hopeless. In the
evening there is confession.
Then comes the glad Easter morning.
The girls put on snowy wells. The
chapel is blossom with flowers. There
is burst of ecstatic music.
"Kyrie Eleison-Christi Eleison."
The nuns faces are alight with glo.
rlous radiance. The lilac tree swings
her purple and white branches like
censer.
Christ is risen.
He ia risen iDda
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-13
ORIGIN OF EASTER.


Countries.
Tho Egyptian Osiris was probably the
prototype Of the Latin goddess Aurora
the dawn-who was known to the Ger
mans and Saxons as Ostara, or Eastre.
The latter goddess was often worshiped
with fire, probably as an omblem of the
dawn-Osterfeuer. When Germany be-
came Christianized tho new church did
it's best to trample out all the old pagan
customs. But they could not do it. The
Eastrc festivals in particular had taken
deep hold on the hearts of tho people,
and the heads of the new church wisely
decided to make the best of them. So they
turned them into Christian observances in
stead Of heather rites. The people held
fast to their eggs. Let them go they would
not. They kept on coloriug and giving
them as presents quite as much as though
they still worshiped the goddess Eastre.
One must go back to the Persians for
their first observance of the egg day. Be-
fore their conversion to Mohammedanism
the Persians reckoned the beginning of
their new year from the day in which the
sun enters Aries, which is in March. Ac-
cording to one of the ancient cosmoganios,
all things were produced from an egg,
hence called the mundane egg. This cos
mogany was received in Persia, and ON this
account there obtained among the people
of that country a custom of presenting
each other with an egg, the symbol of
new beginning of time on every New
Years day-that is, on the day when the
sun enters Aries.
Among the Jews the season of tho an
cient New Year became that of the pass
over, and among the Christians the season
of the passover has become that of Easter.
In olden times the fires were always
quenched in all the churches on Easter eve
and kindled anew from the flint, and the
new fire being hallowed by the priest ev-
cry one could take home brand, to be
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-13
EASTER ETCHlNGS.
A Few Loose Leaves From a Notebook Of
Life.

A Few Loose Leaves From Notebook OF
Life.
What a bonnet it wasl The very band
box that it came in seemed to appreciate
the value and magnifcence it contained
such a substantial, we'll vanished,
responsible bandbox. Up the steps the
messenger carried it and rang the bell.
Her husband felt chill come such as
that we experience when, according to
the old gossip, somebody walks over our
future grave.
1t was Easter, and if one can't have
a new bonnet after the Lenten depriva-
tion and abstinence, when is one entitled
to one anyway?
Mrs. Frontpew tried it on in the par
lor and said her husband was duck.
Never was there q husband so good
and kind and with such taste.
The doorbell rang again. Another
messenger boy came up.
'This is Mrs. Frontpaw's bonnet"
said the messenger. 1.-The other one was
left by mistake. 1t should have gone to
Mrs. Slyly, next door,"
With blanohed face she gave back
the bonnet and looked at her own. Bird
for bird, feather for feather, flower for
flower--it was the same as the other.
That is why Mrs. Frontpew was not
in church on Easter and why Front
pew has been taking supper down town
and looks like man upon whom great
woe is fallen.
How could he tell? The milliner mere
ly showed him a pretty headdress, and
he ordered one made up like it.
But that's like man.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-13
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
FROsTBURG, Md, SATURDAY, APRIL l3, 1895.

II am going to say something to you
today that have said to you every Eas-
ter day for 80 long years. p"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-13

story window Of her room and fall on
the pavement in a sprawling heap
white, black and red-and she did not
even moan when she was picked up.
They also saw Paddy McKeever, him
that drives the bakers cart, meet Sally
just outside the gate in the shadow the
night before they ran away and were
married. They liked this, and they also
liked the hand organ man who some.
times played in the street outside the
court while the children danced to its
strains. These things reminded them of
the country road, and they were better
for seeing and hearing them. 1t is a
great mistake to think that wild flowers
forget their country homes when they
are planted in town pots. If you do not
believe this, just take your spring flow
ers back to the brook meadows and see
how quickly they will revive at one
Whit of the fresh, soft air.
In stormy weather she took them in
side the room, and when the weather
grew cold they stood on shelf facing
the window beside the stove, where it
was always warm.
That is the way the violets lived from
early in May or late in June until the
winter had gone and Easter had almost
come.
=
Up town there is great church. It
is rich and beautiful. The sunlight that
streams through the stained windows is
purple, blue and golden, and sometimes
the figure of saint wondrously COL
ored is cast across the chancel floor.
The little girl who picked the violets
used to go to this great church, and she
was welcomed here because it is a great
church.
Good Friday, with it's seven services,
had passed, and the Lenten trappings of
gloom were being taken away to make
place for the Easter flowers There were
lilies, roses, orchids, violets, palms and
Towering shrubs. There were great
wreaths of green's hung from the pulpit,
and tho baptismal fount was all white
and pink. Rare and common, hothouse
and wild flowers were massed together.
They were all love offerings, and this is
the reason that simple bunch Of blue
wild violets found place in one corner
of the altar almost hidden by splendid
display of roses. Only one person saw
them, except the young women of the
Altar guild, who, laboring for love, ar
range the flowers for Easter and other
feast days.
She sat in one of the front pews, and
she was dressed in plain black, very
plain and common black, such as other
washerwomen wear when their children
die. She saw the violets, and her one
wish was that the little girl who had
brought them to town from the old stone
bridge and had cared for them all year
for this very Easter altar were only
alive to see them too.
1t was a great congregation befitting
a great church and still greater feast
day. From the doors to the chancel rail
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courtyard. Long before midsummer
came they had seen more of life than
they and all the other violets along the
Rye road could ever have dreamed of,
giving violets imaginations equal even
to their fragrance.
They saw Blind Flaherty, the beggar
man, beat his lame boy over by the sink
until the police came in. and after them
an ambulance. One awful afternoon
they saw the wife of Micky Donovan,
the prizefghter, jump from the fifth
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-13

Till every fragrant chalice
Seemed filled to the brim with vino,
Distilling there into vapor
And rising in clouds divine.
Farther and farther the incense
Its delicate perfume spread,
Like loving thoughts sent earthward
By souls of our happy dead.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-13
A Famous EGG Dance.

There IS pretty account OF the mar
.iage of Marguerite of Austria with
3hilibert, the handsome duke of Savoy.
1t is called Marriage aux oeufs.' She
lad come to the castle of Brae, in the
charming district of Bresse, lying on tho
western slopes of the Alps. Here the
rich princess kept open house, and Phili-
bert, who was hunting in the neighbor-
hood, came to pay his court to her.
1t was Easter Monday, and high and
low danced together on the green.
A hundred eggs were scattered in a
level space, covered with sand, and
lad and lass, holding each other by the
hand, came forward to execute dance
of the country. According to the an
cient custom, if they succeeded in finish
ing the braule without breaking single
egg they became affianced
Then Philibert, radiant with youth
and happiness, appeared upon the scene.
He bent his knees before the noble chat
elaine and besought her hospitality
He proposed to her to try the egg for
beauty charmed the onlookers, and they
succeeded, without single crash, in
threading the perilous maze.
"Savoy and Austria!' shouted the
crowd. And she said, "Let us adopt the
custom Of Bresse. :"
They were married and enjoyed few
years of exquisite happiness. Then the
beloved husband died. Marguerite sur.
vived him long, but never forgot him.
CURIOUS RUSSIAN OBSERVANcES.
Easter Is the Muscovite Cleaning Day.
Making the Holy Chrism Oil.
Easter is the greatest national religious
festival of Russia. Holy week ushers
in constant season of prayer and SOM
berness. The clubs are closed and street
musicians forbidden to ply their trade.
Easter is the time for giving presents,
just as Christmas is with us, and every
one puts on a new suit of clothes on
Easter morning. The shopkeepers' fever
only RACES during the latter half of the
week, for on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday Of Holy week all commerce
is suspended.
Another great feature of Russian
Eastertide is tho housecleaning. The
floors of the principal apartments are
turned into what a stranger might sup
pose was skating rink, but is actually
the effect produced by two or three men
skimming over tho boards with brushes
fastened to the soles of their feet and
sometimes accompanying the motion
with song. At Easter time in Russia
cleanliness, instead of being the next
thing to, actually is, godliness, and in
observance of this maxim there ensues
one great universal Muscovite wash.
The public baths are crowded, and he
who neglects to bathe 'early and often"
is regarded as a pariah.
A celebration which takes place about
once in three years is the making of the
holy ohrism, ceremony performed in
variably either at Moscow or Kiev. The
ohrism oil is used for baptismal pur-
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-05
OUR BUILDING IS COMPLETE.
Ii Will Be Turned Over to the Directors Short ly-As to Some of the
 Exhibits.

The Alabama building at the Atlanta exposition has been completed, and will be turned over to the board or directors in a day or two. The cost of it's con- struction was $4500, and the board in cured $375 expenses in trips to Atlanta and other things while arranging for the building, thus making the cost of the building less than s50OO.
 It will be ready to receive the exhibits about the 10th instant and they are ex- peeted to begin arriving at the building Within the next few days.
 Additional space for exhibits was pro- Vlded by attaching pavilion to the building and it is now believed there will be ample space for all exhibits.
 A Novel Exhibit.
 The Corona Coal and Coke company will have a miniature coal mine with the miners at work on exhibition under meath the pavilion. It will be quite novelty and will prove interesting to the visitors to the Alabama building.
 The Thomas Company.
 The Pioneer Mining and Manufactur ing company of Thomas is arranging an attractive display, the arch at the top of which bears the motto: Jefferson coun- ty, the keystone of the arch that will control the world in the manufacture of iron" The coats of arms of Alabama and Pennsylvania will also be displayed.
 Other Exhibits.
 The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company's exhibit is being collected. and will be ready within a few days. Other displays will also be ready by the middle of the month.
 The exposition opens on the 18th.
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 Now that we are engaged, I really think you might give me kiss"
 hutA fon 1an. thought strikes her) mamma told me that if l went out in the canoe l. must sit perfectly quiet and not move until you told me I could Life.
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ALABAMA AND GEORGIA
Making Great Headway in Fruit CuIture-Two
 New Enterprises

MT. D. L. Griffis of Tallapoosa, Ga, is fin the city. When seen by an Age-Her- aid reporter MT. Griffis was talking of the fruit industry in his state and just over the line in Alabama. Though yet in it's incipiency, MT. Griffis asserted that the states of Georgia and Alabama would soon rival California not only in peaches, pears, apples and plums, but also in grapes and wine.
 The Georgia Fruit Growers and Winery association at TallapooSa, he said. is a wonderful example of what pluck and endurance will do. This com pany has thousands of acres of land, much of which is in a state of fruit cul- tiyation They will have great exhibit at thesexposition in Atlanta.
 At Frnithurst. Ala, the Alabama Fruit Growers and Winery association is To- cated, sand they, too, have immense fields of growing fruit and are preparing other lands constantly. This company will also have a fine exhibit al the expo sition.
 The quality of wine turned out by the two companies. he stated would already compare. favorably with that of Cal ifornia..a
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