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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-02
WIN 0 N FRANCHISE.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Nov. 2.-The
ordinance providing for extending the
Metropolitan Street Railways fran
chise to 1851 was passed by the lower
house of the City Council last night
and signed by the Mayor. 1t will be
voted on by the people on December 16
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-02
NEwARKERs ON BLIND COMMISSION.

Governor Fort has appointed Ulysses
b. Brewster and A1gernon A. Osborne,
of this city, and Miss Ellen Mecum, of
Salem. as members of the Blind Com
mission, which was created by the Leg
stature In 1909 for the purpose of in
vestigating the condition of the blind
in tro State.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-02

USE TIA WANT ADS.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-02
ASKS RECEIVER FOR BANK.

GUTHRIE. Okla, Nov. 2.-Suit ask
ing the appointment of a receiver for
the Columbia Bank and Trust Com
pany, Of Oklahoma City. which failed
last month, has beer fled in the Fed
eral Court by George A. Anderson. OF
Roseville. Ill.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-02
LOST

A black cocker spaniel; gray hair
in ears; wears leather and chtin col
lar. Please notify Star office, tcle-
phone 1880. with name and address.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

build up a dinosaur from a decayed
tooth in another million years and who
mix up history with historical novels
a little time is required to disentangle
the truth from the tradition.
Now, be sure not to fall into the un.
scientific error Of confusing the sacred
hare with his humble American cous.
in, "Br'er Rabbit" The rabbit is all
we'll enough in his way, and without
him we shouldn't have Uncle Remus,
perhaps, and a lot of people, would
have to take out accident insurance
instead Of prowling around graveyards
in the dark Of the moon.
But the rabbit is not the hare, and
he has nothing to do with Easter.
There are no hares in the east and
south, and on the plains they insult
the American hare by calling him a
jack or jackass rabbit.
This distinction between the hare
and the understood rabbit is really i'm
portant, and chiefly because the hare
burrows in the ground, while the hare
makes forms of grass for his habita-
ton.
1t is Germany from which we have
borrowed the tradition of the Easter
hare, who is quite as important a fig.
ure in his way in the fatherland as is
st. Nicholas himself at Christmas.
Where did the Germans get the hare
myth? To determine that you would
have to make a pretty long excursion
into the past. And perhaps in the end
it would be "up to" the sphinx to an
swer you.
For it is a fact. even if it is a fable,
too, that the moon and the hare and
Easter, likewise the Easter egg, are all
dependent the one upon the other and
have been since the time when Eastre,
the Saxon goddess of the east, gave her
name to our Christian festival. Now,
you may think, with your limited
knowledge Of Egyptology, that the
Egyptians had no language other than
the queer signs you may see today
Transcribed from obelisks, but you are
mistaken. Those hieroglyphics were
perhaps merely stenographic notes die
tated by Osiris to Isis and afterward
transcribed in the cuneiform tablets.
With the lapse of ages some of them
have grown so "cOld" that the best
handwriting experts Of today cannot
decipher them. But in the everyday
language Of the Nile region the equiva-
lent of hare Is "un,' which in English
is "open." 'to open," "the opener;;"
also the hare has been from remote
times a symbol for the noon.
The hare is a nocturnal animal, and
the young Of the hare, unlike rabbits,
are born with their eyes open and are
tabled never to close them. AS a mat
ter Of fact rather than Of fable, the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Easter Facts.

The observance Of Easter was not
instituted until some 300 years after
the death of Christ. The name was
goddess of spring, Ostern, or Eastre,
whose festival was celebrated about
the time Of the Christian Easter. No
celebration was arranged by the Jew
ish Christians at all, but on the 18th
day of the month, Immediately follow
ing the vernal equinox, which was the
day ON which the old Jewish feast of
the Passover was celebrated. the Jew
ish Christians celebrated the death of
Christ, to them the paschal lamb,
Christ having died, according to their
chronology, on the date Of the cele-
bration Of the Jewish Passover. The
celebration Of the Jewish Christians
was therefore for the death and not
the resurrection Of Christ. The gen.
tile Christians, however. were not
bound by any Of the Jewish traditions.
Sunday being the Lords day to them,
they therefore celebrated the resur-
rection of Christ on the Sunday follow
ing the 14th day Of the moon Of March.
the day on which Christ died. The
Jewish Christians thus celebrated the
18th day of the month, irrespective of
the day Of the week, and the gentle
Christians celebrated a Sunday, FIRE.
spective Of the day of the month. If
this confusion had not been resolved
by the proper ecclesiastical authori-
ties we might have been celebrating
the day at the present time according
to our individual religious predilec-
lions.
The early church was torn with bit
ter d~issensions regarding this conflict
Of custom as to the celebration of
Easter. Various attempts were made
to fix a stable day which would be OBJ
served by the church as a whole, but
they all failed. Finally, at the council
Of Nice, A. D. 1925, the question was
settled once for all, and the date now
observed throughout the Christian
world was established. Easter day
was then fixed as the first Sunday aft
er that full noon which happens on
or next after March p. If the full
moon happens on a Sunday the follow
ing Sunday Is Easter.
In France the year began with
Easter Sunday until the year 1864, the
date Of S~hakespeare's birth, when
Charles TX. fixed Jan. l MS the first
day Of the year.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

parents hunt for these eggs amid great
excitement. In SwaDia ard Hesse chill.
dren are actually sem to the hare's
nest in search Of eggs. Mannhardt
goes still further, saying that the hare
is reputed to be a fire and soul bringer
and that children are supposed to be
procured from the nests. It would
seem, however, that the stork has
largely usurped this function, which
some persons will consider fortunate in
view Of the immense number of eggs
laid by the hare.
The hare myth has penetrated also
to England. and it Is written: I'm
Warwickshire, at Coleshill, If the
young men Of the parish can catch a
hare and bring it to the parson before
10 o'clock in the morning of Easter
Monday (the moon day., he is bound to
give them a Calls head, 100 eggs and
a groat, the calf's head being probably
a survival of the worship Of Baal or
the sun as the golden calf"
The hare myth is of comparative re-
cent adoption in this country. Not un-
til the early sixties did the Presbyte-
rians take note of the day. And New
England was the last section Of our
country to bend-or u%nbend-in the d.
yection Of the Easter celebration.
So whether your Easter egg be laid
by hen or hare is determined wholly
upon what creed you profess. If you
are a doughty Scotchman or his de-
scendant, a blue Presbyterian, your
Easter egg was doubtless laid by a
barnyard hen in the round of her daily
household duties and bought at the
corner grocery, for there is no record
Of the timorous hare ever having en-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Grave and Gay
X
The Easter Cherub.

n had been to Easter service,
This sweet, grave maiden Of four.
The lilies were set in perfumed aisles
From the altar down to the door.
Fragrance and light We're about her.
Anthems ecstatic We're sung,
While the air was full Of the Ginning
From bells in the tower hung.
The light from a violet window
Fell over a picture there.
1t lit the tall cross beside it
With a glory radiant, fair,
A picture of the Lord Jesus
Coming away from the tomb.
With cherub faces above him
And angels forms in the gloom.
The children bore away lilies,
Each in a tightly shut hand,
Bore them to homes rich or humble,
A sweet, happy Easter band.
And baby vas shown a new sister,
Come on the glad Easter morn,
A child of lilies and chimes and hopa,
A child on the Easter day born.
A fond smile came to her features,
A glad light shone in her eyes.
"I's glad for dat baby angel.
'Tain't a very big s'prise.
! prayed when l saw those chillern
FLYNN errOun' so sweet
Dat One'd tum to my house,
An l tole 'em de number an street.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

hare's eyes are SO situated on the sides
Of its head that it a see all around.
You never heard a hare make that old
sneering excuse for carelessness, "You
might think I had eyes in the back of
my head" To all intents and purposes
the hare has.
Well. then, to make it quite clear,
''un' is hare, or "open," and the moon
is 1.-THE open eyed watcher Of the skies
ut night" But that isn't all. The
Egyptians. being a people of few, be-
cause difficult, words, made "un" do
duty for period" too. Thus the hare,
being never comatose, became the
type Of periodicity, human ana lunar,
and as an opener became associated
with the opening Of the new year al
Easter" Finally it came to be con
nected in the popular mind with the
eggs broken to signify the opening OF
the year. And there you are.' ex
claims triumphantly the enthusiastic
scientist to whom we are indebted fcl
this information.
In Germany, if little Hans and Crete
are good, the white hare steals sof!l,
into the house on Easter eve. whel
everybody is sleeping. and leaves II
the hooks and corners, many bright,
colored eggs for the "Eindcrkins." !.
! the mornili- the children and tllei
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Easter Verse
\
The Easter Window.

Twas Eastertide, and Easter gowns
Approached the window space,
Where each was told in accents mild
To occupy her place.
With maiden joy the Organdie
Essayed to take her stand
Just where she thought the morning
sun
Could slyly kiss her hand.
And then the Grenadine walked up
With lace and frills galore
And crowded to the foremost place
Upon that showroom floor,
Unmindful of the modest Cloth,
With military braid.
Or dainty Lawn or dotted Swiss
Or natty Tailor-made.
But all her grace began to place
When, with a naughty stride,
The BrOcade Silk moved In apace
And babe them all aside.
1--WE held the leading place. she said,
I'm yonder gay Pahree.
My Louis Fourteenth neck must show
My birth of high degree.
"At every ball l enter first,
AT drawing rooms and teas
Keep off my train, you Linen Miss!
What country pumpkins these!'
With that the Purple Velvet frowned.
The Breakfast Gown turned green,
While one by one the passersby
Looked In upon the scene.
Margaret S. Tennent in Philadelphia
Times.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
The Easter
Hare.
He Should Not Be Confused
With the Common
Rabbit.

T TAO the learned men
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Easter Customs.

In Russia it is considered no crime
to be found intoxicated during Easter
week, even the policemen being often
under the mellowing influence Of
vodka.
Egg racing is a favorite amusement
Of Russian, German and French chill
dren. The eggs ars rolled down Il hill,
the prize going to the child whose egg
rolls the greatest number of races
without damage to its shell. IN Ger,
many tracks are made of twigs. down
which each egg may roll without inter
ference from any other one. and The
boz whose eg" arrives unbrc':2.! !. -
foot of tho hill collects toll from rts
o. Drnnt U.lC"c "yg is Ci0(f9d.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Easter Briuiants.

I know the sting of death-its victory
Since one more dear than mine own life
is dead.
And l can nevermore be comforted,
Till God give back what death has
wrenched from me.
Yet We may slay my hope. Who was 1t
said:
''There is no resurrection for such dead.
What thou hast lost has persisted utterly?"
False seer! My dead shall live again. l
Those ~eyes-once, oh. so k%ind!-shall smile
again,
And the dear hands that wrought but
good to me
Hold mine in warm, close clasp. can
forego
Life's solace and be patient with It's pain
Until the daybreak and the sh7 4 : ler
katherine ~ $50.
Rejoice. happy Judah! Thy sorrow is
done.
Thy King is assembled and victory won.
His kingdom Is love: he Is waiting to
And life is victorious DER death and the
grave.
Look up and rejoice, all We children Of
men.
Beyond the night shade shines the morn
ing again.
With saints, priests and prophets our
voices we raise
In the blessing of hope and the beauty OF
praise.
No ear may heal his coming,
But in this world Of sin,
Where meek souls will receive him still
The dear Christ enters in.
Phillips Brooks.
And with the morn those angel face:
smile,
Which l have loved long since n los,
awhile. John Henry Newman.
Therefore dread I not to go
Ger the silent river.
Death, thy fastening oar l know.
Bear me, thou life giver.
Through the waters to the shore
Where mine own nave gone before.
Lucy Larcom.
The While my pulses family beat
My faith doth so abound
! feel grow firm beneath my feet
The green immortal ground.
Las Words OF Alice Cary.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

tered the nursery Of that reverend and
austere gentleman, John Knox. But if
you come from the vaterland, where
the Easter hare is quite as important
a parsonage as Der Kriss Kringle,
then you know that your Easter egg
was brought from far, far off, ONE
where in the tall grass, and laid be-
meath your pillow or, perchance, on the
mantelpiece by none other than the
fleet white hare.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Bessie's Bonnet.

Bessie hath a dimpled chin,
Mouth with smile upon it.
Eyes of blue to glory in.
But-she hath a bonnet.
That's the only thing I see
When she dares to don It.
Climax Of all witchery
Lies in Bessie's bonnet.
Yet. though l have sung the spell
Oft in many a sonnet,
To this day l cannot tell
One thing that Is on 1t.
Were 1t off her dainty head
Who would care to con it?
She's the charm. when all Is said,
OF her dainty bonnet.
@uo9o.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
The Hats.
The ladies with the hats

The Hats.
See the aides with the hats
Stunning hats
Looming up in battlements and slantins
down In flats!
How they f1utter, hutter, fiutter,
At the corner Of the street!
And the ones who wear 'em utter
Words as soft as melted butter
To the friends they chance to meet
As they fash. fash. fash,
In a sort Of shiny hash
Till you'd hin a flock Of blu and green
and pink and purple bats
Were the hats. hats, hats,
Hats. hats. hats
The fearful and the cheerful string Of
hats!
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
.Melinda's Easter Hat.

Melinda Waters went to town,
And in a milliner's shop
She saw a turban with a plume
OF. whiskbroom shape on top.
She bought a frame untrimmed, and
home
She HE'D, and down she sat.
With Jeremiah's shaving brush
She decked hat Easter hat.
Melinda Waters set the style.
She went to church, and, 10,
Now every man for miles around
Must let his whiskers grow,
For all her friends beheld her hat
And marked the plume upon it,
And each one took a shaving brush
To trim her Easter bonnet
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

luc AcdIucU "cu
who can tell
without s t o p
ping to count
just how many
s a u s a g e s 1t
takes to reach
the moon it's as
plain as the
La sun
why the hare
comes at Eas-
ter with q wheel
barrow full of
eggs. But for
o and me.
who couldn't
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-19

1.-The meeting of the Alabama Good
Roads association has borne good fruit
already" said good road enthusiast.
'In a few days the steps will be taken
to organize a county club, to take up the
propaganda leading to a million-dollar
bond issue by Jefferson county.
II desire to call attention to important
facts as to the use of improved roads.
An automobile travelling under 20 miles
per hour does but little harm to standard
roads; faster than that the suction OF
the tires catches up the binder and throws
it into dust. In England the question is
being discussed of specially constructed
roads for automobiles to protect the ordi-
nary highways.
I'm the discussion before the Good
Roads association there was no mention
of a very important question: the taxing
out Of use OF the narrow road-cutting
vehicle tires and the bringing into use
of broad tires on heavily loaded wagons
and trucks This is a very important
question, as broad tires help to keep
roads in condition and the ordinary tires
cut into the roadway, injuring It,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-19
PLAIN FACTS.

From the DeKalb Record.
Maine has had prohibition for more than
80 years, and has had prohibition in the
constitution for great many years. Has
the agitation ceased? No. the agitation Is
greater than ever. The democratic party
in Maine stands pledged to resubmission
of the question to the people. The re-
publican party has so far been able to
prevent it. The democrats are gaining
ground and will eventually win and Maine
will go democratic and the question will
be resubmitted to the people of Maine
and they will take prohibition out Of the
constitution Has putting prohibition in
the constitution stopped drunkenness, or
the selling of whisky in Maine? Not at
ALL 1t has stopped to a great extent
the sale Of beer and wine and has brought
about the sale of the yilest nostrums on
earth, called whisky. Now these are
facts that can be ascertained by any
fair-minded man who wants to know.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-19
What Negroes Pay In State Taxes

Superintendent Of Public Instruction
Eggleston Of Virginia has analysed the
statement widely published that less
money Is being expended on negro
schools in the south than the negroes
themselves pay in. For example, the
Los Angeles Times recently stated
that in Virginia $4S9,28 was expended
last year on the schools for negroes,
while the negroes paid taxes amount
ing to $507,305. The Times went
on to say that Gin North Carolina the
expense of the schools for negroes
was $402,65S, and the negroes paid
$429,1 1877 school taxes. In Georgia the
negroes paid school taxes amounting
to $647, 1852, and there was expended on
the schools s506,176. like ratio is
said to exist in the other states"
These statements were brought to
the attention of Superintendent of In
struction Eggleston of Virginia, and
he proceeded to investigate the matter
so far as his state is concerned By
giving the negroes every possible cred
it he found that they did pay taxes
last year in Virginia amounting to
s345,276, while that state spends an
pno1I1y 11yar eEn0 nm -, ,,o.~,,- IN -.
Virginia spends about one-fourth of
her revenue for public education. at
will readily be seen, therefore," adds
Superintendent Eggleston, that ne
groes contribute less than $4,000 of
the 100000 spent on the education of
their children. Nor is this such a
lad record, all things considered. 1t
shows the achievement of that small
portion of negro population that is
thrifty"
No doubt other states in the south
would show similar proportions. The
negroes are not at present paying pub
lie expenses incurred on their account,
but as taxpayers they are on the up-
grade, and in the long run the taxes
paid by negroes will approximate, per-
haps equal, expenditures made in their
behalf. This state OF things will not,
however, be reached this side of 1850.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-19
Pellagra and Indian Corn

A writer In Van Norden's Magazine
refutes great many misstatements
regarding pellagra, or Lombardy lep-
rosy. The disease is not new. 1t is
a cerebro-spinal trouble that has been
known and identified in Italy at least
800 years. It was brought to this
country in 1888, and it has spread
slowly throughout the country, but
chiefly in the south.
1t appears first in the form of a
rash-a dry scaly eruption upon the
parts of the body exposed to the sun.
The neck, for example. The eruption
at length dries up. and then the stom-
aeh and intestines are affected. Then
the spine and the brain become in
volved, and the victim of the disease
not infrequently dies violently insane.
The course of the disease is generally
slow, sometimes covering 20 years be-
fore death brings relief to the suf-
ferer.
Beyond all doubt the cases in the
south can be traced to Italian immi-
grants. The disease is no more con-
tagious than leprosy, but still it is
bacterial disease and 1t can be &C
quired by persons who are frequently
in contact with one who has it.
The United States public health and
Z marine hospital service is Investigate
ing the disease and until It's report
upon it is published it is we'll not to
trust the stories that the use Of corn
as food produces the disease. The
people of this country and Of Mexico
have long eaten Indian corn and no
one In either country ever developed
case of pellagra until Italian immi-
grants appeared on the scene. The
chances are that the use OF corn as
human food has nothing to do with the
production or development of the dis
ease. The marine hospital service will
no doubt furnish us with trustworthy
Information on this point.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-19

created reaching from the Great Lakes
to the gulf. from the Atlantic to the
Pacific.
The new master of railroads has
been uniformly successful. He comes
into this district through his associa-
ton with Mr.. Yoakum, who controls
the Frisco system, which is a part of
the still greater Rock Island aggrega-
ton. He went from the little town
of Chatham, n. Y, to the big city
of his state when he was only 16 years
old, becoming there a messenger boy
in the employ of the Erie railroad at
81 week He has risen steadily ever
since. He has been buying and sell
ing railroads in the 10 years that have
interviewed. He has built up every road
he has handled and in this way he
has acquired prestige not unlike that
of the late Mr.. Hartman. His per-
sonal fortune does not equal Mr. Har-
riman's, nor is his credit among cap
italists quite so great as Hartman en-
joyed, but he stands today the most
promising man in the railroad world.
He will no doubt weld together his
railroads, absorbing additional roads
where he needs them, and five years
hence the country will probably see a
Hawley system that will outrank even
the top ambition of the financier who
rests at Arden after most remark
able career. We now have the Hill
lines, the Hartman or Lovett lines,
the Morgan lines, the Gould lines, the
Hawley lines and the Pennsylvania
system, and these six dominate the
transportation interests of the coun-
try
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-19

One of the papers supporting the
proposition to put prohibition in the
constitution of Alabama said recently
that many men did not like the word
ing of the amendment and on Saturday
last Senator Henry Reese of Dallas,
an amendment leader, said, Had l
framed the constitutional amendment
bill myself, I would have changed the
second section so as to have eliminated
the home" That second section can
not be explained away. It alone viii
cost the amenders thousands OF
votes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-19

would be frank and open they would
admit that what they expect to gain
in this campaign is not additional pro-
hibition in a general sense, but it is
the right now denied them by our bill
of rights to search homes for liquors
without limit or restriction or. condi-
ton.
The sanctity of the home is not only
an issue, but in the minds of many
the chief issue. 1t should be brought
home to every voter. 1t should be
discussed from every stump and pre-
sented in every number of paper
that desires to put the situation before
its readers.