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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16
The Eastertfde's Lesson.

Since our existence is divided into
two sections, the one under the temp
tations and sufferings of this present
life, and the other that which is at
tained in the security and Joy of
eternity through Christ, so the circle
Of the Easter festival is divided into
two sections, the time before and after
Easter. The time before Easter points
us to the conflict of this present life,
the time after Easter to the blessed.
ness which we can obtain through
Christ. The Lords passion shows us
the present life of suffering. The res
direction and glorification of the Lord
shows the life which we shall receive.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16
Legends of
the Beautiful
Forget Not

'The sweet forgetme-not that
blooms for happy lovers" has more
beautiful legends clinging to its name
than any other flower. They begin
''In the beginning" with the creation.
According to one beautiful tale, the
Lord called the plants In the Garden
of Eden before him to give them their
names and color. AS he spoke to one
after another, a tiny flower thought 1t.
self unnoticed and, fearful of being
quite overlooked, 1t timidly pleaded:
Dear Lord, forget me not" The Gre
ator turned sternly toward the little
plant that dared to interrupt him,
then, seeing how sorely afraid 1t was
he gently smiled upon 1t, gave it for
its color the heavens own blue, and
called it Forget-me-not as a reminder
that 1t had once been so foolish as to
doubt him.
1t is the Persians who have fash
ioned a beautiful legend to tell how
1t is that those flowers are scattered
over the earth as the stars are spread
over the sky. According to them. one
morning of glory when the world was
new an angel stood weeping outside
the closed gate of Paradise. He had
fallen, In that he had loved fair
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16
Sbe Oarvel, 1Sbe Deanine
ano 19be l0ower Of the
Resurrection
1sp yglillam Gros,peII Doane
BY WiIliam Groswe!I Doane
Bishop OF Hibanp

Translated into plain English, the
great Easter thought is that we may
not be absorbed and immersed in
merely earthly, temporal, carnal
thoughts and things. Life, never more
than in our day, is crowded with busi-
ness, with pleasure even where it Is
not choked with indulgence and sue
cess.
The idlers and loungers, with no
thought but amaZement, are far too
many.
The craze for accumulation of ma
terial wealth is wearing out the
strength and dulling all the finer facul-
ties of men and women. And the
carelessness and idleness OF people
who, with opportunities of service to
society and the demands of home du-
ties, waste daylight hours and turn
night into day with games of chance,
accentuated too often with the covet-
BUSINESS of gambling, are a reproach
to the best inheritances and instincts
of Americans.
you have no leisure class in Ameri-
ca" an Englishman said once to an
American girl.
Yes" she said, I'VE have, but we
call them tramps.
Leisure there ought to be. Men and
women there must be who are free
from the strain and strenuousness of
incessant occupation, but it ought to
be leisure for intellectual cultiva-
tion, for philanthropic interest, for
the storing of energy, physical, mental
and spiritual, which shall benefit man
kind
Awake thou that sleepest and arise
from the dead!" This is the Easter
CALL the Easter cry
Hiding even one talent In the nap
kin of refined Incidence or self-indul-
gence or burying it in the dirt of
sensuality and sin, either one makes
an "unprofltable servant" and lays up
against the second coming of the Lord
an account of wasted powers and lost
opportunities which will then be be-
yond recall.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16

He had fallen, in that he loved a fair
daughter of earth. Together they en-
tered in, for the angels great love had
lifted the woman to Paradise"
daughter of earth. When his eyes
had rested on her as she sat on a
rivers bank weaving forget-me-nots in
her hair, heaven and his mission to
earth were alike forgotten. Now he
might no more enter in until his be-
loved had sown all over the earth the
forget-me-nots. He returned to her
and, hand in hand, they wandered,
planting everywhere the sweet azure
flowers. When, at last, there remained
on earth no spot barren of these bios
SONS, they turned again to the gate
and found 1t open. Together they en-.
tered in, for the angels great love had
lifted the woman to Paradise.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16
Custom Not Christian Alone.

The giving of eggs at Easter is de-
rived from the old nature worship, and
is not confined to the Christian ma
tions. The Parsees of Persia and In
dia distribute eggs at the opening of
spring, and in many other nations the
giving of eggs at the commencement
Of spring is as common as New Years
gifts with us. In Hungary the boys
sprinkle the girls with rose water and
receiYe eggs in return.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16
Names for Good Eridav

Good Friday is called by some ma
tions Black Friday, by others Still Fri
day. Denmark calls it Long Friday,
in recognition of the long fast This
fast was undoubtedly the origin of eat
ing "cross buns" In the thirty-sfxth
year of Henry VIII, an enactment was
passed prohibiting any baker printing
the sign of the cross, the Agnus Del,
or the name of God, upon any bun or
loaf of bread.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16


should it be thought thing incred-
IDLE with you that God should raise
The dead?" still has but one answer
namely, that there is no reason why
1t should he thought incredible; be-
cause raising the dead, as the Apos-
tie illustrates it in his Epistle to the
Corinthians, is the most natural and
usual thing in the world under certain
conditions. THAT which men SOW Is
.aot quickened except it die"
Life not only after, but through
and by means of death, Is the univer-
sal law and the universal event. Only
there must come first the undoing by
decay of the bondage within which the
principle of the seed is held. So long
as 1t is imprisoned In the shell 1t is
bare grain" but when its outer COW
ering is shed in the cocoon or broken
in the egg, or rotted in the grain, then
the latent life comes forth and God
gives 1t a body, and "to every seed its
own body" So after death and burial,
when the wrappings of this earthly
flesh are dissolved and done away,
"the body that shall be- the body Of
glory" shall emerge in the fullness of
time.
The miracle or marvel of the resur-
Tection of Jesus Christ, like other
miracles, lies in the fact that it dis
regarded the element of time and also
did away with the conditions of de-
cay. "He saw no corruption"
So much for the marvel of it. Now
for the meaning of it.
First of all, of course, 1t means that
all the dead shall rise and live again.
'If We believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even so they that sleep
IN Jesus will God bring with Him."
The corollary to the article in the
is the article 81 believe In the resur-
rection of the body, l look for the
resurrection of the dead or from the
dead" One does not need, one would
not dare, to draw away the hearts and
hopes of men from this great and
blessed revelation of Holy Scripture,
this strong and positive assertion of
the Christian faith. But it is wrong
to postpone the meaning of our Lords
man history. 1t has a clear and more
immediate application of what the
Apostle calls "the power of His resur-
rection," dead indeed unto sin, but
alive unto God, through Jesus Christ
our Lord" This must be recognized
and realized as the immediate practi-
cal purpose and result Of the great
fact of Easter Day
What is its message to men and
women?
1t is easy to dream a dream of hope
and delight about the future; easy to
nave a sentiment and emotion that en-
able us to face physical death with
an outlook beyond the grave and con-
sole us in the hour of bereavement.
God forbid that there should be any
shadowing of this hope. But the prac-
tical question concerns our daily life
now.
Humanity stands to-day, as it has
stood for all these centuries, facing
the fact of the wonderful life that our
Lord lived here on earth, with the
strange and inexplicable combination
of fleshly reality without the restraints
and hindrances of the flesh And that
means, in the first place, the pattern
set, and in the next place the power
given to us to live our lives on higher
ZINES.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16
Symbol of Christianitv.

We dare not forget today that Wa
venerate an empty Cross; it is
empty forever of that Burden which
once hung there, tortured, dying,
dead; and banished, too, is that
blankness Of despair, that sad dis.
may and disillusion with which IL
was yelled until the first Easter
morning. The Cross-not the Cru.
cifix-is the symbol of Christianity
Walter Lowrie.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16
"Feast of CABS"

Good Friday is often called the
Feast of Caps" from an old-time Gus.
tom which required every lady to ap-
pear in new house cap, while Easter
Sunday was known as the Feast OF
Hats" for a similar reason.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16
Marvellous Easter Eco.

A very precious Easter egg was
once presented to the late pope by
an English lady Of high rank. The
shell was made of finest ivory, and
the white matter of the ordinary egg
was represented by beautiful white
satin. The yolk was golden case
wherein was a ruby set in diamonds
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16
A LESSON
How, by Gods Way,
Which Is Not Our Way,
Easter Spoke Its Old
Message of New
Life

IT was a sad Easter for Mrs.
Farnham. Three times
since the lilies last bios
| somed had death come to
her house. Her mother, her
husband and her boy had
filled her heart. Lacking
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16

Now. while the dawn with tints of rose
Smiles through the gray Skies every
where,
Softly about her merning care
The Easter mother goes.
The little rooms we call the hours
She gladdeneth for all our sakes;
And In their cradles gently wakes
The earliest Spring flowers.
The dark hath somehow fallen away,
For where she deftly hath uprolled
The snow-white curtains, we behold
The dawn OF Easter Day.
And with cheerful song she gives
The first birds welcome to her door,
While all the Easter world once moro
Rejoices that it lives.
Frank Walcott HUT.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-16

them, 1t was empty, and it ached with
q strange perplexed grief, confused
question as to the purpose of her life,
and withered thing.
She went to church on Easter morn
ing because her beautiful house was
intolerable to her, rather than because
she expected to find comfort The
masses of white flowers, with the sug-
gestiveness of their heavy fragrance,
carried her back to the funerals of the
last year. The familiar words of the
service sounded like mockery to her.
Let us keep the FEAST" Even so
in Christ shall all be made alive"
"Set your affection on things above, not
on things on earth" One by one she
caught at the phrases, only to find
each was powerless to help her.
The hymn was no better:
The strife is DER, the battle done;
The victory of life Is won
For her strife was just beginning,
and defeat instead of victory seemed
her fate. She could not lift herself
out Of her personal woe far enough
to apply the words to anything but
herself
She left the church, avoiding speech
with any one, and, with her heart like
ice in her bosom, she took an electric
car toward her desolate home.
A half block before her house was
reached the car stopped with a sud
denness which startled the passengers.
Mrs, Farnham got off, thinking that
she would walk the few remaining
steps; but she saw the motorman with
a white face raising a small boy in
his arms from under the fender of the
car. The little fellow was unconscious,
and there was an ugly bruise on his
temple and deep cut on his neck. Be
fore Mrs. Farnham realized what she
was doing the child was carried into
her house, and she was enlisted with
the doctors in a fight for his life.
For week the issue was doubtful.
Consciousness fickered and wavered,
but would not come back. Meantime
Mrs. Farnham had learned that the
boy was nobody's child. He had sold
papers since he was hardly more than
baby. He had lived wherever he
could find shelter, and had eaten
whatever he could get. The fact of
home was something he had never ex-
perienced. The grieving woman for
got her grief in her devotion to the
waif who had been cast at her door
by the strange decree of what we call
accident.
The day came when the boys heavy
eyelids lifted and his childish curiosity
at his surroundings unloosed his
tongue. To open to him the doors of
new life was the most wonderful of
joys for his foster-mother. After his
long silence 1t was as If he had come
back from the dead. That he could
talk and laugh and eat and love
seemed like proof of the power of
life over death. Somehow Mrs. Farm
ham came to believe that it was such
q proof, and that it was sent to her
In her desolation.
Out of the boys almost fatal acct
dent there was wrought for him the
miracle of home and love, and the op-
portunity for an educated and useful
manhood, and for the grieving woman
the springtime brought new hope as
the lonely winter passed. By Gods
way, which is not our way Easter
spoke it's old message of new life
Youths Companion.
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New Books.

In the new books planned for this
spring ny the J. B. Lippincott COM
pany there is ample variety to afford
literary entertainment for all tastes
Among the important works of per-
manent value will be The Struggle for
American Independence" by sydney
George Fisher: Persia: the Awaken
ing East" by w P. Cresson, and a
new volume of the New Variorum
Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard
the Third" by Horace Howard Furness,
Jr.
Three delightful books for the
nature-lover are promised in "a Small
Country Place" by Samuel T. May
nard; Wild Flower Families" by Pro-
lessor Clarence NJ. Weed. and Our
Trees and How TO Know Them" by
Arthur l Emerson and Clarence NJ.
Weed.
Their first new novel. which is to
be published in February, will be
Marcia Schuyler" by Grace Living
ston Hill-Lutz, story of the interior
of New York State in the early part
OF the nineteenth century. There is a
frontispiece in color by Anna Whelan
Belts. and six half-tone illustrations
reproduced from paintings. Following
this novel will be issued at intervals,
The Duchess of Dreams" by Edith
Macvane; I'm the Dead of Night" by
John T. Mcintyre: The Master In
fluence," by Thomas Mexican, and last
but by no means least John Reed
Scott's new romance, The Princess
Dehra." sequel to his highly success
ful story, The Colonel of the Red HUI
EARS
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Wall Papers.

Can you inform me whether II /.
known who first used wall paper2
MRS. N.
Tho Chinese. The Dutch are sup.
posed TO have introduced 1t into Eu.
rope in tho sixteenth century. The
earliest sale known here was in 1745.
In Philadelphia, where Charles Har-
greave advertised the business. A per-
son named Fleeson manufactured wall
paper in Philadelphia about 1747.
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A New Book On Recon.truct,on.
BY A. w. Drinkard, Professor of His
tory in Y. p T.

~ w. I1liIhdTu, f'TOIeSSOr OIL HIS
tory in V. P. I.
Professor William A. Dunnine. of
Columbia University, has given the
public most important and instruc-
tive discussion of the period from 1865
TO 1867 in his work, DEMONSTRATION,
Political and Economic" Hiarper Bros,
1SoT). 1t is only within the last few
years that thinkers and writers from
the North have begun to study without
prejudice, real trials through which
the country passed during the days of
reconstruction. Professor Dunning
treats the subject broadly and liber-
ally, and shows that the North needed
and passed through, as much recon
be hoped that this volume will have
large circulation, especially among
Southerners. doubt whether
any other single volume will do
quite as much to bring our
people to see the true relations Of
the problems that the government was
then trying to solve.
Having experienced four years Of
wa, the social. political and economic
conditions were mass of confusion.
| with no presidents to guide him, Pres
ident Lincoln was disposed to treat
generously the conquered South His
|
| MS policy would have been accepted
| by Congress. but, unfortunately, his
tragic death put the responsibility
upon Andrew johnson, Democrat, and
SoutAerner, without the real support
oil either section of the country.
The author deals with the phase of
his subject fairly. concisely: and ne
SHOWS that 1t was impossible use
me word advisediy--for the radicals In
Congress and President johnson to
agree upon a policy acceptable to both
North and South, restoring the South
ern states to the Union. During this
chaotic period the two great depart
] Inents OF the national government were
(, In hopeless deadlock and the result
OF the congressional election OF 1866
would determine which policy should
be tried. Professor Burning DISCUSSES
the influence which controlled the
voters with impartiality, accuracy and
| sound judgment The stormy contro-
versy between President johnson and
| Congress, the laws parsed by Congrej'
| TO limit the powers OF the President
the indictment OF the President for
| hign crimes and miEdeameanOrs In Of
lice and the trial which followed are
stated with the same clearness an'
e%actness that characterized his at
| lantic" articles on the same subject {
| few years ago.
| The author sage, THE trial Of tn
| President began March IL. 1853, nn'
! terminated May 10Th. AS f1eld 10
| the skin and cloquence OF tho pollti
clans and lawyers who were concerned
II attracted the interest and close AT
| tention Of the country; but ~ q rsva
| Iation 10 the world Of laWlcsBness an
| infamy In Andrew Jackson II noon be
| came farcical"
| Professor Dunning does not defen
1 the President or juHtify his condue
| while dlrcharging the dutins OF ~
/ great oftiecr but sets forth fac'h ina
/ have been proved since tie light o
rnanon and dispaBaioBatc temper hay
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-16
Hummer. Breathing.

Will you explain why a runner tires
less breathing through the nose than
through the mouth? M. II. Il
1t is by no means certain that this
is true. Some disadvantage may come
from breathing through the mouth and
conscientious trainer Is likely to adj
wise nose breathing. but not for the
reason that It helps the wind"
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come to control mems minds on the

come to control mems minds on the
subject.
Grants two administrations are re-
viewed with great care and impair
TALLY. Finally. the stormy Hayes
Tilden episode opens, and the author
throws much valuable light on this
act that came so near involving the
nation in another civil war. The book
is In the authors best style, remark
ably acute STUDY of most difficult pc
riod in our State and national his
tory. 1t deserves a much wider circu-
lation in the South than 1t has yet at
tanned.
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High Building.

Please tell me the height OF the
highest building In the United States,
and what it is used for. LIB.
metropolitan Life Company building,
bounded by Madison and Fourth Ave-
nues and Twenty-third and Twenty
fourth Streets. It will be used for
Offices. and will have weight stories
above the sidewalk and two below, and
be 657 feet 5 inches high.
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Lntin 0In.crlntionn

please translate for me this inscrip.
tloh: Aegre 81 patti tortia."
Miss L. s.
1T is intolerable to him to submit
TO bonds seems about what 1t is in
tended to mean, II. as is very doubt
fui. IT means anything. There is no
Latin word "tortia," and we do not
recall seeing any form which suggests
tho words as given.
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scroco and Rnwrenoke.

What is the pronunciation and def
milton OF "seroco." and what is the
substance known as rawrenoke in Vir-
GINA history? INQUIRER
We do not know the first word.
The second was the Indian name for
shell money. 1t is preserved in the
name of the county and the city of
Roanoke.
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Geniu. ,Il.,lnder.tood.

Ranton Blowhard factor, in bar of
Mansion House. Frostville)-Have you
any extra dry, landlord?
Landlord (extending box OF cigars)-
Here's some 10-cent kind I bought in
80: guess they're dry enough to suit
ye.-Puck.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-16

In a no trump hand in "fve hun
dred.' may the Joker" be played as
the highest trump in all circumstances?
e. A. w.
Yes. II leader lead Joker he may
demand that any specified trump be
played on 1t and lost. Whenever it Is
played 1T is tho highest trump.
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County Supervisory, snInry.

Please tell me what salary the super
visors of county receive and whether
1t is paid by county or by State. E.
There is some special Legislation but
in general the pay is $50 year and
mileage. paid by the county.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-16
Compound Lard.

VIII you inform me whether there
In any hogs lard in compound lard,
and what the compound lard is made
Of! NJ
Compound lard is made of cotton
seed oil. BY the pure food law it must
contain some hogs lard. The per-
centage varies from trace to3eo per
cent, according to the grade OF the
product
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-16

There are letters of inquiry about
the valve OF coins from W. W., j. J.
W., T. A l., Mace and B. n. None
listed has any value.
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Name on DeIInquent Li,t.

I paid my taxes and my name was
placed on the list Of delinquents. Have
any remedy D. B. C.
The treasurer is obliged to pay over
the amount that you may not have to
pay again. You might recover from
him by suit the amount of any damage
suffered by you in consequence of his
mistake.
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THE BOY GEoLoG1sT. BY Professor

E. ]. Houston. Henry Altemus
Company, of Philadelphia. 81.
The first thing about any story is
the story. and Professor Houston has
real story to tell. It Is boys story.
but Its characters are real boys, and
ers as they are sure to be to the young
er ones. The boy geoogist and his
chum. who has a strong liking for
chemistry, are students in big board
adventures are woven together into a
texture that cannot fail to hold the at
tention of whomsoever begins the tale.
Besides this. however, the author is
we'll justified In the hope, expressed in
MS preface, that those who read, while
endeavoring to understand the diff
culttes of the boy geologist and his COM
panions, will unconsciously gain no
little information on this branch of
natural science"
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William Warrington.

Exactly who was the Colonel Wash
lgEton who figured considera bly,, In the
heVolutlonary actions In Caroline?
q FREDERICKSBURG
william Washington, eldest son Of
HaiiX Washington, of Stafford county,
va, cousin OF George washington
He married Miss Elliot. OF South
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-16

The examinations are intended to
test knowledge Of a subject. not OF a
book. Hence, the questions are not
taken bodily from any book. 1t Is
true that familiarity with all the texts
included in the multiple list" would
insure correct answers to all the ques-
lions. But II the candidate knows
the subject OF arithmetic as far as
1T Is taught In the schools, he will be
safe On the examination, and the same
Will be true for all the subjects.