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to have been the first to lay up supplies
Of colored eggs and present them to
friends and relatives at the very season
in which we celebrate our Easter holi-
days.
In the fourth century it was prohib-
tied by the Church to eat eggs during
the forty days preceding Easter, but as
the hereto hens could not be prevented
by this prohibition from laying eggs
there was always a great abundance of
eggs after the feast. They were given
10 the children, and, to make them
more attractive, were colored and 9TH
erwise adorned. This was probably
tho first step in the evolution Of the
Easter egg
Formerly at the approach Of Easter
all the henhouses in France were ran
sacked for the largest eggs, which were
England, under the reign of Edward l,
$50 eggs were annually covered with
gold foil at the royal court, and it
throws an interesting light upon the
economic conditions of that time if we
learn that the price of the 45O eggs was
Is. Id, about 27 cents in our money.
The use Of artificial eggs made of
sugar, chocolate, glass, etc, is Of mod
ern origin. In all large cities Of CHS
tondom the confectioners stores rival
one another in their efforts to turn out
the daintiest and most attractive Easte r
eggs. Sometimes they are of NAM
moth size and great cost. A few years
ago an English lord had manufactured
by n famous confectioner a gigantic
egg that was intended for his lady love,
the daughter of millionaire in South
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realize their aspirations b. force e.
arms. Once they were in the nos..i6n
OF "beati possiaentes' they would have
been masters OF the situation. But
they underwent series Of misfortuaes.
First came the collapse Of imperial
Russia, and with it went Ire Russian
guarantee regarding Dalmatia; then
came the entry Of the United States
into the war with completely free
hands, an ally on whom such scraps
Of Paper" had no binding value wha.-
ever. Then came the military reverse
on the Carsoi and the dream of making
their aspirations fat aceomDli" by
force OF arms was forever shattered.
This allowed the voices OF Italian
statesmen who had escaped the inperi-
alistic contagion to make themselves
heard. Saner views began to prevail.
The result was the appointment by
the Italian Senate and the Chamber
of Deputies Of committee to study
the lta4o-Jugos pxo1lem and md q
sosuJ-on las made such good prog
AS~S Sii-S - Nao &Dlc 70 SGAQ so4,..Of
Andrea Tore, president Of the eNecu-
tive committee. TO London 10 co...ar
W.th Dr.. Ante Trumbjtcn, the prosi-
cent, and tnc otler members of ene
JugosAay committee. An seraenaeat
has been reached wAieh Is practically y
homologatlOn OF ne Declara on OF
Corfu, signed N July las b. tae
JugoslaV committee and the Serbian
government, document which IS the
Magma Charta OF the future s.ate
italy at the same time renounces her
claims to Dalmatian terri. tory. merely
exactlng safeguards for the protection
OF the small Italian minority in that
province. This assures Jugo slavia o.
access to the sea. All causes Of dis
trust between the Austrian Jucoslavs
and the Allies HOW beng reno c.,
great results may be expected 20 fol-
low.
The Allies win row give the revolu-
tlonary movement III the Serho-. ca
tan provinces not only moral but also
maIeriat support, bat lhls n va-
ment undoubtedly VIII not stop
here. The movement VIII undoubt-
edly spread 20 Bohemia and
Moravia and Poland, not 10 speak OF
the two and a half million humanlnns
under the yoke Of the Hungarian Mac
yars. With this end in view, the lead
ers OF the Jugoslavs, the Czecno-a4o-
vaks, the Po.es and RUman.ans wlil
meet in Rome in a few days time to
take counsel with the representatives
and to organize vigorous campaiqn
against Austria and Germany on Aus
trian territory.
Italy, further, has over 10000 Juyo-
siav prisoners taken OF the C4rso
front who ask nothing better chan "a
join the Serbian army IN Salanlca Ia
fight with It against the'r torn,er Aus-
TRAN masters. AZ tne Geth.an arrnv
has already received he reltf-ece r,e,lt4
o5 the Jugoslav division arhtirs- In
Russia before the Sd hacla' in rh +.
country, The force undar the command
of Prince Alexander IS once more be-
cor,lnI powerful army, able 10 play
leading part in the hberation of
Serhl u territory from the German
austrian austrian and Bulgarian arrniss of oc-
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Africa. This Easter gift was not less
than three yards high and one and one
half yards In diameter. so that a per-
son sitting on chair could easily
have space in the inside. The monster
vas filed with no less than 1000
pounds OF candy. An egg intended for
the lntanta OF Spain was manufactured
at Paris at cost of 10000 francs
$4,000. This costly Easter egg was
side engraved the passages Of the
Bible relerrn~ TO Easter, and by means
OF complicated mechanical contriv-
ance bird was made TO fly out Of il
and sing twelve airs from well-known
operas.
The record in the size and cost Of
Faster egg was. however. broken bv
one given some time ago to a famous
Partisan actress by one Of her ad-
mirers. On Easter morning an i'm
mense van rolled into the courtyard
OF the house inhabited by the actress,
and on the van rested gigantic egg
made OF wood and decked with vel
vet. At the first moment the aston
ished lady did not know what to do
with this amiable. gift, but soon she
noticed in the egg a door, and, upon
opening it her eye fell upon a car
rlage with two fine horses and a
ecoachman sitting motionless on the
box.
To-day not only the size of the Eas-
ter egg, but also the value of it's con-
tents play an important part, at least
in America. Thus, it is not rare that
an insignificant looking chocolate egg
contains as precious surprise the
costliest jewels, such a earrings, brace
let's, etc. Not long ago the pretty
fashion came in vogue Of making Eas-
ter eggs OF flowers, so arranged as to
reproduce exactly the oval form OF the
egg. For this purpose vioets and roses
are commonly used, but in recent
times orchids are being preferred, es-
pecially in England Thus, few years
ago London florist got an order for
an Easter egg of orchids, costing no
less than $1,000
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pend.5aro Of the long distance eX-
peditioa Whea there IS an ample
force ready on the ground? l mean
the 700, 600 liberated and armed
Teuton var prisoners in Siberia
They are right there-at least a
certain number of then-on the
steppes. They have a decided ad-
vantage over the new force Ger
many might be able to ship out of
Europe into Siberia and Turkestan
III that these war prisoners have al
ready been thoroughly acclimated-
4 precious consideration-and they
have proved their fitness for the
work. in Central Asia by the simple
fact that. they have survived the
prison food and lie conditions in
Siberia They even have the added
advantage of having made some
thing of an acquaintance with the
Moslem tribesmen of the steppcs.
These Teuton war prisoners are
far from the northern frontier of
India, to be sure But in the work
OF setting Moslem Aeia on fire
these men need not make straight
for the northern boundary Of India.
Remember, the work is not the in
vasion Of India The immediate
forcing Of the northern frontier of
India is not the goal. Between the
Siberian camps, where they find
themselves today, and the northern
frontier of India there Is vast
stretch Of country through the
Chinese province OF Sinlsiang,
through the Irish valley in the gov
ernments Of Semipalatinsk and
semirechensz, and in Russian
Turkestan. where the Mahometans
make thelr homes or let Their ill-fed
foeks and their restless dreams Of
loot and empire roam wild and wide
over The inhospitab!e stretch Of
sand. And right there is as choice
. corner as any in the world for
those arch Nihilists among the ma
lions, popularity known as the Cen
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w Iahon Policy 7ouvord S1s Peace in Balkans

access to the sea, but it meant that
hundreds Of Thousands Of Jugoslavs
would simply exchange the Austrian
yoke FOR The Italian one. The Italian
imperialists claimed not only the whole
coast Of Istria, but also the Dalmatian
coast line and Islands and the hinter-
land right Up to the mountain range
which runs down the centre OF the
province TO Justify this claim they
invoked the principle Of nationalities,
and declared they must annex this ter
ritory , safeguard the interests OF the
handful OF Italians llo,090) who in
habit tho coast towns. They did not
see that to annex a country inhabited
by over 100000 Serbs to safeguard the
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ed tho claim Of Italy to the coastline
and islands OF Dalmata. The result
was. if not to kill, at least to damp,
all enthusiasm for the Allied cause
among the Jugoslavs Of Austria.
This feeling the Vienna government
exploited with its usual skill in the arr
Of "devide ct impera.' Southern Slav
regiments which it did not dare send
against Serbia or Russia, as the men
would have deserted zen masse," were
cent against the Italians, and fought
dercely against General Cadorna 5 army.
TIE general commanding the Austrian
army on the Italian front, General
Boricvitch, is Jugoslav. In fighting
thus the Jugoslavs did not defend the
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Austrian Empire; they were defending
their native soil against the race which
merely proposed to cxpel the Austrians
from Jugoslav territory in order to
take possession of it in their turn.
In this view the Jugoslavs we're mis-
taken. The Italian "irridentissimi"
and the chauviniet imperialsts are not
the Italian people.
The recent disaster to Italian arms
had, however, SOLDERING effect It's
first result was to discredt the "irri-
dentissi.ai' and other extremists. AS
long as the army Of General Cadorna
was progressing victoriously the im-
periaists held the fed. as there was
prospect that Italy would be able to
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interests o. $4,000 Italians was to stul-
Gfy the principle of nationalities
Others were moro frank, and declared
THAI military and strategic reasons
made it necessary for italy To take this
step.
Unfortunately. these "irredoutis-
SINH were powerful enough to have
the admission Of this claim made a
"conditio sine qua noa' of Italv en-
tcring the war, and The italian govern
meat insisted that Russia, as the pro
tec-ing great power Of The slav peoples,
should admi. It in advance As tha
Allies desired. at all costs. 10 bring
italy in on taeir side, they passed
Under the Caudine Forks and accept
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TIE largest of the so-called "native
states'-that is to say, an Indian
state which is administered by ma
tive princc-is Il Mahometan state,
the Nazim of Hyderabad. To be
sure, out Of the population of some
100000, Mahometans are in a
decided minority. The fact stands,
however, that the dominant class is
the Mahometan.
The political Importance Of the
Mahometans in India, by-the-bye, is
brought out pointedly in another
fact: In Agra province only Z
Ter cent Of the Hindu population
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i've IN the toW0s; 20 per cert Of the
Mahometans in the same province
live in the towns, Moreover, the
consciousness that the Mahometan
entered India as a conqueror is
live fact, more especially among the
Mahometan descendants of to-day.
And that tells. Another fact that
is Of farreaching Importance is that
there is restless conviction in the
souls Of the Mahometan population
of India to-day that their religion
needs some special protection'
Still another fact: To-day most Of
the Mahometans in India-and else
where for that matter-are under
the British or some other Christian
power. That is q sleeping source Of
danger-and one Of the greatest
assets for the Teutonic scheme OF
Asiatic condagration. There are,
q OIL, something over GS, 100000
Mahometans in India, and they are
increasing at a much greater rate
tim tie Hindus. I-l TIE period
Of 1892 to 1901 tie rate of Ma
homctan increase n India vas 50
per cent, while that Of The Hindu
Was PA per cent. In French
Asia there are over 100000 Of
Mahometans, and in Java and other
islands of the Dutch Eas. Indies
there are more than 35,000,000 Ma
hometans. That is to say, something
over 100000 Muzsulmans scat
tered over the greater par of the
Asian continent and its islands are
the proportions of this bomb Of the
German inceadiary aspiration. No
account is taken of the Mahomctane
IN Western Asia-sirco they are no
involved in this bomb--the Arabs
and Pers.ans, nor of the Turks
Afghans, or natives Of Baldchistan.
since they have always been con
stant source Of worry to the British.
That is many millions more than the
total population of the United
States.
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practically all Mahometans; they
are over 100000 in number. And
IN the eastern portion of the rich
province of Punjab as high an au-
thority as Sir John Strachey places
their number at 100000. The
same authority says that more than
70 per cent of the population of
Kashmir is Mahometan. AS early
as 1901 there were %, 100000 Ma
hemetans in Bengal. Bengal's total
regulation at the time was placed at
"a, 100000. In Eastern Bengal and
Assam the bulk of farmers are Ma
hometans. The most important and
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trail Powers, to set up their chemical
laboratory for the conversion OF
Moslem Asia into bomb.
And what a bomb-let as look at
the magnitude of it.
In Russian Turkestan, IN the
steppes provinces Of Akumoliarl,
senipalatinsl., Turgai and Uraish
and IN the Transcription province.
there are something like 10000, 900
Mahometans. They roam over / l,366,-
eco square miles. In China they
are scattered over The provinces of
Sinkiang, kansu, Shensi and Yum
nan, as well as a large section Of
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rHE CUSTOM of presenting Easter

|NH Ht II lOM OF presenting Easter
eggs, like so many other grace
ful customs, originated probably
in China The following story ac-
counts FOR the use of colored eggs by
the Chinese:
Wen Kl-og, one Of the wisost rulers
of the Tsin dynasty, to clude the mrr-
dero/ snares Of Li-Ki, his fathers ia
voritc wife, was compelled to flee from
his capital, Phu. In his flight he was
accompanied by bis faithful friend.
Kiai Tse-Tu. When, after an absence
Of nineteen Years, the Emperor. in C25
3. G., again returned 20 power, Kiai OBJ
stlnately refused all the rewards of-
fered him, and, to escape tine urgent
solicitations Of his grateful sovereign,
Ind himself with his mother in the
Man Shang Shang ("Cotton Noun
tains"). The prince, after long, vain
search, gave him up for lost, ard, in
memory Of his unswerving devotion.
changed the name Of the mountains
into that they now actually bear, viz,
Kiao- Shan ("Unswerving Mountainsv).
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Mongolia, and the number is esti-
mated var.ously between l5,c00,0 600
and 20,Go9000. And the area .hat
the adahometaA Influences cever is
something moro than 100000
square miles. But, II course, b.
far the largest camp e. Asiatic Ma
honee2as is n British la3ia. fhe
district along tie Western frontier
cf' India, il t,.e valley Of taa indus.
Through Western penja5 ard SIND
to tie sea, over 500 miles from NORTH
to south, is largely the horne Of Ma
honletans. The population Of he
northwestern frontier province is
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a q
W next en- the kaiser's pro-
gramme.
Not the conquest and occupation
of It, but the turning it into mon
strous bonb-just for the gentle
humane work Of exploding the whole
Of Asia with it. The Teutonlc
powers are getting along very nice
" indeed in this stupendous work
their progress and success are sim
ply astounding If only the Entente
powers would wake up moment
ana take q square look at it.
Va prisoners in Siberia, liber
ated and armed, Of course, and
forming themselves into two arnly
corps Of 40.000 men each, have at
tackled and occupied the city of Ir
kutsk-the capital Of the govern
ment e the same name. That re
port vas published in New York as
a cable dispatch from Toxic under
date OF March % And the occupa-
ton OF Irkutsk means that the con
tel Of tie trans-si5arian Railway
vest of lake Baikal has fallen into
he hands of the Central Powers.
R;szs.a. ea~ced, bound and delivered
70 ne Teueoa powers by the Bolshe-
riki, seems to have nothing whatever
% say in the matter. The control
e IS not absolutely
essential for the work Of turning
Moslem Asia into an international
bomb made in Germany blow
I'd the Asian continent. But it
helps-and helps lot-under the
present state Of things. and the pres
ese distribution Of Gernan war pris
onc~s in Siberia.
Two Routes 10
Their Detectives
Through her control Ct the Black
Sea, Of the Caucasian railway
and Of the Caspian Sea. and also OF
the trans-Caspian railway system
all Of which are practically in the
mailed is. cf Germany. or VIII be
very soon-thc Central Powers car
carry On this little laboratory work
of converting the Nosiern world inU7
powder chest.
They can get at Mahometan ASIA
through another way also. The raii-
way system Of European Russia wisl
soon be in the hands of German en-
gineers and administrators, if, in
deed, they are not in control Of =
good deal Of it already. There is .
railway which connects Orenburg
vitn Tashkent. Orenburg is in the
southeastern corner Of European
Russia, On the Ural River, at the
southern edge Of the Ural Noun
tains. Tashkent is the principal Cit
in Russian Turkestan. The line was
built in 1905; it connected the cen
trail Asiatic railway system Of Rus
sla with the European Russian rail
way system direct In the summer
ct 1915 the work of extending the
Bokhara Railway south TO the bank
Of the historic Oxus River, and along
the river eastward to Termez, which
u the present terminus Of the line,
vas completed.
And Termez is about 400 miles
from Peshawar.
And Peghawar is on the Indian
side If the Khyber Pass, made
famous by Alexander, and made still
more famous by serving as the
gateway 70 India" ever since. 1t
is the northern terminus Of the rail
way system Of India.
With the railway System of Euro
pean Russia and Russian Central
Asia in itg hands, Germany can get
at the very heart Of Moslern Asia b.
rail. She can ship her forces out oi
Berlin over the al-rail route clean te
fhe bank # the Oxus Riger~~witnir
l19 -Ailes Of the northern terminus
Of the British railway system ir
India,
And this IL precisely what Ger
many In not likely 10 do, for the all
sufficient reason it IL not necessary
. Why 30 TO all that trouble and ex
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Now, in connection with this story,
there is a legend that refers to the
hard boiled cegs used BY the Chinese
1T their sprine festival. The men sent
out in search Of the fugitive set fire to
the forest, so as to drive him out from
his hiding place. Whereupon Kiai took
hold Of burning tree and thus per-
ished in the flames In memory Of this
event, which, according to tradition,
occurred in the third month, the custom
arose in Northwestern China of never
kindlng a fire during the whole of this
month. This custom soon became gen
eral, and was known under the name of
King Yen, "smoke prohibition" or
Hen-shi, cold meat in view OF the
fact that only cold food was possible.
Since then it became customary TO eat
hard boiled colored eggs during the
whole of this month.
Every year, at the time of the vernal
equinox, when the sun is in the sign
of the Ram (the Rat Of the Chinese
zodiac, heralds everywhere proclaim
the Emperor's command to extinguish
all the fires and not to rekindle them
before the expiration Of the third day
As during these three days no cooking
can be done, and onsoquentiy nothing
bat hard boiled eggs and other cold
food is being consumed, the Using Ming
festival is popularity also spoken OF as
the feast Of cold meat" How much
earlier hard boiled eggs were in use
in China is matter that cannot be
established with certainty. Their in
PRODUCTION, however, is traced to a very
early period, being ascribed to prince
Of the King-Tsu province, who is said
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BY Gordon Gordon-S54.ith

BY Gordon Gordon-sSlrith
II IS Many Ions day since any piece
OF news reached the united States
i Of the Importance OF the cables
from Rome announcing that Italy has
come to an understanding with the
Jugoslavs. There is no doubt that the
policy Of the Italian government visa
IS the Southern Slavs of the Austrian
Empire has been the chief obstacle to
the efficient prosecution Of the war by
the Allies
Tee Jugoslavs are the serbian-s peak
ing subjects Of the Emperor Carl who
inhab.t the provinces Of Croatia, Slo-
veaia, ]stria, Dalmatia, BOSNIA. Herze-
govina and part of the Bana. of TEN
esvar For centuries they have groaned
under the yoke of the Austrians and
Magyars. For half a century past their
one ambition has been to unite with
their ainsmen of Serbia and Montene-
gro and form homogeneous state Of
tantaen to fourteen million Jugo. or
Southern, Slavs.
When Serbia drew the sword she did
not do so merely TO defend her ter
ritorg FROM the Hapsburgs; she drew
it as the champion and the liberator
Of the entire Serbian race. # in this
she had been intellectually backed
up by thu Allies there is not the slight
est doubt that there would have been q
revolutionary and insurrectonary
movement among the Austrian Southern
SIavs, or Jugoslavs, Il movement which
would have spread 10 Bohemia and Aus
trian Poland The twenty-seven mill
ION Slavs of the Austrian Empire
would have been in revolt against the
twenty odd million Of their German
Austrian ard Magyar taskmasters.
lrnpcrialists Stultify
tia ~ s Position
That this did not take place is
largely the result Of the mistaken pol
icy Of Italy. OF late years there has
sprung up in the peninsula large
and powerful Italian imperiahst party.
The chief plank Of their programme
was italia irrcdenta," the liberation of
"unredeemed Italy" still under the
Austrian yoke. Such aspirations could
count on the support Of all the Allies
II conGned to purely Italian territories.
Eat the iscperialsts vent further. Not
only did they desire TO drive Austria
from the Adriatic. bat tbey @anted
~ otFer power or state 10 have any
outlet on that gen They desired %
transform It INTO IN italian lake.
It was this ambition which first
brought italy into collision with the
aspirations Of the Jugoslavs. The claims
Of the imperialists to hold both sides
Of ,hc hdriatic not only meant that the
juHosiay state would be barred from
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NJ AHOMETAN Asia is tho
y 4 next en- the haiser's pro-
gramme.
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DOMINION.

A large crowd was out TO church
Sunday morning.
Mrs. sperman Parsley and children,
OF Webb. are the guests OF Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Maynard.
Airs. Jennie Vinson. Mr. Ed Vinson
and little daughter attended church
Sunday.
Mr.. Workman and wife spent Sunday
/ afternoon with z. T. Frazier
Mr.. and Mrs. K. G. Chapman have
moved into their new home.
Mary Moore went TO Louisa Thurs
day.
Mrs Writtenbury is still very sick.
Mrs. Heltslay and Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
MAYNARD attended church at the rails
Sunday.
Mrs. Dan Fox came over ard spent
the day with relatives recently.
Little MISS Daisy Fox accompanied
Mrs. Dan Fox home for a visit,
Mrs. Aiayme Frazier Rice and Miss
Esther Alley were the guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Frazier last week.
Luther Chapman OF this place spent
last week with home folks here. He
Is now candidate for France. having
recently resigned his position with the
n. & W.. Co. where he has been a
competent railroader for several years,
and lately volunteered his services for
his country. He VIII probably still be
railroader over there and We feel
confident lie will make good in this
great and noble undertaking. SO you
see. dear reader. Donithon Is doing her
bit in this respect any way.
Mrs. Shelton Fitzpatrick spent few
pleasant hours with her sister, Mrs.
Ben Maynard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart Graham OF
Webb. spent Saturday night with hime
folks here
Paris Carr, of Catlettsburg was call
ing here recently.
Mrs. joni Fitzpatrick and daughter.
Miss Neva. attended church here Sun
day.
Mrs. Mary E. Chapman and grand
little Miss Glenna Compton. |
we're calling on relatives here last week. |
Mrs Robert vinson attended church |
here.
There was good attendance in Sun
day school on Go to Sunday School |
Day. We hope the attendance will not |
decrease in the future.
Church at the BAPTIST church SUM-
day.
Smiley.