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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
HARD TO CALL THESE EGGS
Record Freaks Devised for Those Who
Were Careless About the
Expenditure.

The use of artificial eggs made of
sugar, chocolate, glass, ETC., is of mod
ern origin. In all large cities of Chris
tendon the confectioners' stores rival
one another in their efforts to turn out
the daintiest and most attractive
Easter eggs. Sometimes they are of
mammoth size and great cost. A few
years ago an. English lord had manu-
factnred by a famous confectioner
gigantic egg that was intended for
his lady love, the daughter of mil
lionalre in South Africa. This Easter
gift was not less than three yards high
and one and one-half yards in diam
eter, so that person sitting on chair
could easily have space in the inside.
The monster was filed with no less
than 1000 pounds of candy. An egg
intended for the Infanta of Spain was
manufactured at Paris at a cost of
10000 francs ($4,500). This costly
Easter egg was made of white enamel,
had in the inside engraved the pas
sages of the Bible referring to Easter,
and by means of complicated me
chanical contrivance a bird was made
to fly out of 1t and sing twelve airs
from well-known operas.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
IS GREATEST OF FESTIVALS
Easter Celebrated in Some Form
Everywhere, Especially Among the
People of Latin Countries.

OF all annual festivals among Chris
tian nations, Easter seems to have
made the most serious impression, and
the customs connected with its first
celebrations to have fingered the long
est. Europe, with its many nations,
and, therefore, many people, has ever
been the scene of various ceremonies
distinctly belonging to the separate
countries, with the Latin church al
ways in the lead in the matter of pic
turesque symbols and professions.
The war will make a difference in
some districts, but wherever there are
few gathered together in his name
in the neighborhood of mighty cathe-
drals still standing, or tiny kinks in
the heart of the woods or along the
sea, there will some feature of the
story of the atonement be told in SYM
bols.
These strange customs, sometimes
combined with elaborate ceremonies,
are found oftenest in the rural dis
tricts, where the people have not free
access to the towns, and simplicity of
living does not question the difference
between truth and tradition.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
SABBATH OF LIGHT
Holy Saturday a Great Day for
the Pilgrims Gathered in
Jerusalem.

~ URING holy week the Chris
e. tian and Moslem pilgrims in
Jerusalem visit the sacred
river Jordan, On Holy
Thursday the Greek patriarch washes
the feet of II pilgrims. This service
and ceremony is performed in the open
court in front of the cathedral, on a
temporary platform decorated with
olive boughs. The patriarchs of the
Catholic and Armenian communities
perform a similar service inside the
cathedral, to. which the general public
is not admitted. On Good Friday all
DAY services are in order, and special
services with ceremonies commemo-
rating the crucifiXiOn take place from
six in the evening until midnight. On
Holy Saturday, also known as the
sabbath of Light" all lights in the
cathedral are extinguished. The Greek
and Armenian sects relight their
lamps, candles and fires from flame
which is believed by them to appear
on the holy sepulcher on that day.
This is the crowning event of Lent to
the Greek, Armenian, Syriac and Cop
tic, creeds. Millions of wax tapers and
candles are lighted at this flame, burn
ed few minutes, then carefully
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18

acting and then that these pictures
are sent about from place to place.
"Well,, we are to be seen at dog
show, but we ourselves aren't to be
there. Neither are they 20 have NOV
ing pictures in which we act"
Il don't understand ut ALL" said
Julie. II am more in ignorance than
ever before"
II know what that means nOw," said
Peggy, 'and 1 will tell you right away
about this dog show"
81 am waiting to hear" said Julie.
They're to have photographs of all
sorts of dogs and they will give prizes
to the owners of the dogs which look
the best, judging from their photo
graphs.
There will be all sorts of dogs
whose photographs will be at this
show" continued Peggy, "just as all
sorts of dogs would be at a real show.
'"There will be dogs like ourselves,
who act for the movies, there will be
Red Cross dogs, dog heroes and dog
heroines, which means dogs who have
been very, very brave.
| "There will be dogs who are trick
dogs, dogs who are hunting dogs, and
dogs who come from very fine old
| dog families. But none of these dogs
will be at this show themselves-only
photographs Of all these kinds OF
dogs"
81 hope our photographs came out
WELL" said Julie. 81 don't remember
when these were taken, as we have so
many taken"
"They turned out splendidly,
heard" said Peggy. 'And I also heard
that the show was a great success
though it was funny to hear no barks
and to see no tails wagging but sim
ply to see photographs. oh, so many
photographs.
"And one more thing I heard"
''Tell it to me-" begged Julie. ''You
are telling me such interesting things
today"
II heard that our photographs wor
prizes" said Peggy, and Julie barket
with delight.
SWELL" said Julie, "it was a funny
kind of a dog show and I have en-
joyed hearing about it, but best O
all, hearing that We won prizes.
am so glad you did not keep me III
ignorance any longer"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
FREAK WAGERs OF RECORD
Large Sums of Money Won and Lost
on All Kinds of Extraordinary
"Stunts."

One of the most difficult walking
feats on record was accomplished by
a well-known pedestrian named Lloyd,
who undertook for a bet to walk 30
miles backward in nine hours. This
he succeeded in doing with IA min
utes to spare, on the road between
Bagshot and Portsmouth, says Lon
don Answers.
A still more eccentric wager was
made by Lord OrforI, who backed a
flock of geese to race an equal num-
Der of turkeys from Norwich to Lon
don.
He won the bet, the geese keeping
to the road all the time, while the
turkeys when darkness fell, flew TO
roost in the trees, from which their
drivers had hard task to dislodge
them. The turkeys were two days
behind the geese.
An extraordinary wager was made
in 1904 by Captain Bennett, who un-
dertook to trundle hoop from White
chapel church to Ongar, in Essex, a
distance of % miles, in three and a
half hours. The stakes were 1O0
guineas, and Captain Bennett won
with an hour to spare.
Two years later a Cambridge man
| bet a considerable sum that he would
walk on stills II miles in four and q
half hours, no stoppage to be allowed
and his feet not to touch the ground
at any time.
He did his journey in three hours
| fifty-five minutes.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
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rection as literal fact, are deluding
no one but themselves. There is moth
ing new in the effort to explain away
the great event Men have been try
ing out explanations ever since the
guards who went to sleep on duty
around the tomb excused themselves
by saying the disciples stole his body
away while they slept. Explainers
have risen and fallen as the ages have
come and gone and the deeper the
explainers have gone into the matter,
the more apparent has become the
fact The simple Gospel narratives
gave enough of the physical details
of the event to make it convincing;
the fact that the disciples themselves
did not expect the resurrection and
were slow to believe it until they
were forced to believe it by his pres
eDce among them; by exhibition of his
sacred wounds and the fact that it
became the burden of their preaching
in the future all go to make up the
indisputable collateral evidence of the
literal fact. Every one of the disciples
is said to have died a martyr and his
resurrection was their Testimony to
martyrdom.''-H.L Lee Mills in Houston
Post
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
DADDY,S NENING
uFAIRY TALE e
lyfARY @AtlAn BONNER
Z O9</ he AuTHOR
DOGS PHOTOGRAPHS.

"What do you suppose just heard?"
asked a dog named Peggy
II have no idea," answered dog
named Julie, $50 it seems to me you
had better tell me and not keep me in
ignorance"
Now you have puzzled me-" said
Peggy. What do you mean when you
say you do not want to be kept in ig-
no..ance? Is it a sort of blanket you
don't want to have? And what dif-
ference would it make if l told you
my news or not? You have really
greatly puzzled me. Please explain
first, and then l will tell you the
news. That's fair, isn't it?"
quite fair" agreed Julie, wagging
her tail.
Then do go on" said Peggy.
Cant l stay still and tell you?"
asked Julia.
Peggy grinned. "Of course" she
SAID, you know 1 didn't mean for us
to hold our conversation running
along"
..ulie smiled her nice doggy smile,
ALL began:
When creature is in ignorance it
%, ans that creature doesn't know
much. To be wise means to know a
lot. To be ignorant means to know
hardly anything. So, when l said ]
did not want to be kept in ignorance
| | meant that I wanted to know as
| ;oon as possible what you had to tell
me, of which I knew nothing. II
meant nothing like being kept in a
blanket, you see!"
eyes, see,' said Peggy.
'Wel, now will you tell me what
you heard?" asked Julie.
II will tell you at once" agreed
Peggy.
Il heard about a dog show" she
began, and Julie said:
"Oh, are we going to be shown al
dog show?"
Eyes, but not in the way we would
think" said Peggy. you know, o1
course, we are dogs who have beer
seen great deal, for we both act fol
the moving pictures, and lots of peo
pie and children have seen us as WI
ran across the screen and wagged ou
tails and barked and performeC
tricks"
'But of course we haven't reall,
been running on the screen which tn
people were watching" said Julie.
"Of course not" said Peggy. 9TH
people and children know that pic
lures are taken of US when we ar
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18

Il is Easter, the .gladness of Easter is
round mel
Il b Easter, the sweetness Of Easter
has found mel
The newly lcaved bouahs of the trees
are low swinging,
Inc birds have come back to their
homes and are singing,
Ihe blossoms I missed have come
back to the meadow,
Every last cloud has gone, and gone
with Il its shadowl
And each grief that was crowdina
about me and showing
Is gone; tor my loves shall come back
to my loving.
Il is Easter; the lilies of Easter are
swayingi
And the babies, their tresses all wind
blown, are playingl
And their wee fingers fashion me gar
lands of clover
II Is Easter--I grieved but my grew
ing Is overl
For the ones whom I loved, and who
left me back yonder,
Have grown nearer with Easter,
grown nearer and fonder;
And when the breeze touches the
tree-boughs low-swinging
almost feel their loving, / almost
hear their singing.
And so all the gladness of Easter is
round me, s.r.f
It's gladness, its love and It's peace
have all found me:
To the ones whom I grieved for my
arms are now nearer
They were far and apart, now they're
nearer and dearerl
And each Easter that comes brings
me near to the going
1 viii md them and love them. ]
know they arc knowingl
1 count up the casters until l have
found them,
With my lips on their hair and my
arms tight around them.
Judd Mortimer Lewis.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18

two things which kept that early group
humbly apart and fed it with pro-
found wisdom--the desire of eternal
love and a simple, uncompromising
will to see the truth.
He feels so strong a life-power
within him now that he is impelled
to create his own lesser truth, wonder
ing then at his dissatisfaction.
Sincere in Rejoicing.
II Is not so much belief as percep-
tion that he lacks--a looking in the
wrong direction with eyes dulled by
dwelling on material objects. When
the brightest day comes for celebrating
the Risen Spirit, he goes to the
ladened churches, rejoicing in the
fiower-beauty that surges into bloom
for the feast and In the massed choral
singing of anthems. Surely he is sim
cere thus loving. thus praising, thus
entering into the service which the
priests and people hold? With less
keenness of sight, however, for the
pure. spiritual proving of the truth
than those few were blest with who
long ago, ut the earliest Easter, after
long sorrow and waiting. saw the real
resurrection, yet perceived the greater
spiritual one through 1t.
But he knows II is in the churches
that he will find the mystery of the
new flower that is to rise. 1t Is al
ways there, to be realized at each
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
Just a Difference in Letters

A young Evansville schoolteacher
startled her family by the announce
ment that she was going to marry as
soon as she could persuade some man
to propose to her. Her married sister,
who was visiting the home, gave her
this advice: "you had better stay the
way you are. You have your OWN
money and"
Il don't care bit for that" retorted
the younger girl. I'm always afraid
that I'll die without a husband. Pd
like for people to read on my tomb
stone 'relict' of some one than bt
just plain relic of an educationa
system. indianapolis News.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18


kneeling, to be sown anew in each
heart, TO give fostering care, to brood
over and bless the soil Of the heart
while waiting, to tell over and over
again at every time the questioning
heart is lifted up to it that what the
mystery of life can do for the lesser
grain IL is bound to do by an ever
truer measure of the same law for the
spiritual growth.
Teaches Great Truth.
One can turn better, after that real
ization, to the full springtide and feel
even gladder than nature, knowing
the touch of the eternal flower within.
Wandering amid the old myths. filed
with their beauty and their deathless
attachment to life, one feels always
under the shadow of ended things,
| upon the verge where all reality has
gone down in darkness. The lasting
and perfect poetry of these myths lin
gers like gorgeous unsunken sunsets.
AS the latest conner among them many
may class the great Christian story of
the resurrection. 1t is indeed great
myth, superlative myth in the real
meaning of the word as a narrative
founded on a remote event. But the
singular, lone truth it sympolizes like
a direct shaft of light separates it
from the darkness of the old myths
forever.
They taught the underworld, where
the shades moved in half life or pale
regret conscious of lost joy, without
hope. A mournful idea of Immortality
that satisfied no heart and from which
the great thinkers of that age reached
out in vain for light.
That light appears in the great sim
pie law. Except the grain fall in the
earth and die it cannot bring forth
fruit"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
THE SEPULCHRE
By Annie johnson Flint

The third day he shaH rise again. 4. So they. >.
made the sspuLchrs sure, sealing the stone.
..He ia not here; for he is risen, he said. -
-MotheD 20: I9; 27: 60; 2S: 8.
The Man had died on the cross,
And they laid him in the tomb;
The Living Stone in the stone,
The Rock in the rock-hewn room;
They left him alone with Death,
And sealed the stone at the door,
They made the sepulchre sure,
And set their watch before.
Lest his friends should steal him
away,
And say that he rose," they said.
But Life escaped from Death,
And the Goldman rose from the
dead.
The skeptical minds of men
Still think the sepulchre sure,
But Christ had said, "I will arise"
And the counsels of God endure.
Still his disciples go
To carry the wondrous word:
The Lord is risen indeedl
We know, we have seen and heard
And the 'N.rnb men think so sure,
With the seal of their scorn on the
door,
The place where the Lord once lay,-
Is empty forevermore.
Sunday School Times.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18

packed and treasured as sacred relics
which are carried and distributed over
the whole civilized world.
At midnight the service of the resur-
rection is performed, after which many
of the pilgrims start on their home
ward journey.
Mere tourists are of course welcome,
because they contribute somewhat to
the trade of the season, but they stay
one or several days at the longest, and
do not enter into ,nor understand the
real religious or social life of the peO-
pie of the land, and consequently are
regarded as outsiders.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18

~ AIM SUNDAY is the name
~ usually given to the sixth and
last Sunday In Lent and the
beginning of holy week, after
the custom of blessing branches of
the palm tree or of other trees substi-
tuted In those countries in which the
palm cannot be procured, and of carry
ing the blessed branches in process
sion, in commemoratiOn of Christ's
triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Palms and branches of the palm
were used in this historic entry be-
cause the palm was then regarded as
an emblem of victory and the carrying
and waving of its branches was en-
blematic of success and in honor of
royalty.
The date of the first observance of
Palm Sunday is uncertain. In the
Greek church it was apparently OBJ
served as early as the fourth century.
In the middle ages the palm, worn
as a decoration, denoted that the per
son so adorned had made the pill
grimage to the Holy Land.
In some countries people made use
of figures of Christ seated on an ass
carved out of wood, which were car.
ried in religious professions and ever
countries 1t was the custom to streW
/ flowers and green boughs in church
yards.
] The palms used in the procession Of
the day are taken home by the faith
| full and used as sacramental. They
are preserved in prominent places in
the houses, barns or even in the fields
| and thrown into the fire during storms
From the blessed palms are procured
the ashes for use on Ash Wednesday.
Where palms cannot be secured
branches Of olive, box elder, spruce OF
other trees are used. In Rome olive
branches are distributed to the peo
pie, while the clergy carry palms fire.
quently dried and twisted into variou:
shapes. In parts of Bavaria large
swamp willows, with their catkins
and ornamented with flowers and rib
bons, were used!
Because every great feast at this
time was in some way a remembrance
Of the resurrection Of Christ and wai
in consequence called Pascha, thu
Spanish term pascua florida had 1T
origin. Thus it was that in 1912 thu
state of Florida, which was settled b.
the Spaniards, Indirectly received it
name.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
IS GREAT ESTABLISHED FACT
Skeptics Have at All Times Failed to
Disprove the Resurrection of
Easter Morning.

The lesson of Easter involves the
question of the divinity of Christ.
There are two great miracles upon
which Christianity rests. The miracu-
lous birth and the resurrection go to-
gether. If we believe one We can be-
lieve the other. The former is not
subject to historical proof. The lat
ter has been proved and is one of the
best-established facts in history.
Those who imagine themselves to
be too modern" to accept the resur-
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18

pasclal candle, whose light tyrifies the
retm to life of the Son of Light. This
tradition has its roots far back in
the spring festivals Of the ancient
pagans in honor of the return of light
and warmth to the earth with the
spring sun. In the paschal candle are
imbedded five grains Of incense, COM
memorating the wounds of Christ.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
Possible orioin of Eaqnoo.

In the time of Charles II of England,
Samuel Pepys, a great gossip and a
delightful chronicler of the gay court
events and personages, tells that in his
day gayly-dressed young women pa
raded the streets for several days after
Easter Sunday singing Easter songs
and bearing large bowls, decorated
with ribbons and garlands and contain
ing delicious drinks made of mulled
wine and eggs, which they sold to such
as would buy. Here is probably the
origin of eggnog.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18

at Washington there is gathered every
Easter Monday, on the White House
grounds, great group of merry little
ones ready for the egg contest. And
a pretty sight it is to see the eagerness
with which each egg is followed in it's
dizzy course to the bottom.
May the White Hare put your name
on his visiting list, and may his busi-
ness in our land increase and prosper! !!
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
Easter SaIutations.

The customs, traditions and super
stitions connected with Easter are al
most innumerable. Their origin are
in many cases impossible to determine,
because they evidently took place at
a time when the season was still pa
gan In it's character. Others, again,
are directly connected with the Chris
tan observance Of the festival. The
early Christians in many countries used
to greet one another on Easter morn
ing with the salutation:
"Christ is risen."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
MADE DAY or CEREMONIES
Holy Saturday, Preceding Easter Morn
Observed In Europe With
Traditional Honors.

Holy Saturday being the day before
Easter, is spent throughout Europe In
preparation for the morrow's festival.
AT Rome new fire is struck from flint.
once all the fires of the city were re-
kindled from this. Now. the ceremo-
nies of the church consist Of the bless
ing of fire and water. and Of the
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
Economy,

It's heartbreaking the way some
girls are careless in these hard times.
Aunt Martha went into the kitchen
the other evening and found her young
servant sitting by the fire, which was
gayly consuming much coal.
Goodness me!'' gasped the old lady.
''You should always burn cinders in
the evening, Esmerelda."
Next day auntie saw Esmerelda
heaping coal onto a huge bonfire in
the back garden. She couldn't speak
for rage, but the girl understood her
gesture.
"Please. num-" she explained, I'm
making cinders to burn this evening !"
London Answers.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18

Strange as it may seem, Admiral
PENIS wife, Peggy" Penn, the moth
er of William Penn, proprietor of
Pennsylvania and founder of PhiIa-
delphia, is recorded to have been a
jolly leader in these gay court frolics.
In the time of Edward I among the
items of her household expenses is this
item; "450 eggs for Easter, stained
and covered with gold leaf"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
Not Guilty.

The Silkeston Herald says that when
a negro left train at Charleston re
Gently carrying heavy suitcase kerry
carefully and acting suspiciously, the
authorities thought they had caught a
bootlegger redhanded. They nabbed
him and compelled him to open the
case, and out stepped lean and an
cient hound, which the colored brother
had smuggled on the train.-Kansas
City Times.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
Easter Eoa Contests.

The egg contests which obtain In
England and on the Continent are max
ing their way over the pond. And the
game in which two eggs are hit togeth-
er. the one which is cracked going to
the owner Of the surviving egg. until
a dozen or more have passed hands,
makes sport for the youngsters. And
trIrpdiing the eggs down a slope or
hill. those reaching the bottom un-
cracked being victorious, is an impor-
tatlon which has long been the JOY
Oh The children Of our capital. Fol-
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-18
"CoId In the Head"

is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Per-
sons who are subject to frequent colds
in the head" will find that the use of
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will
build up the System, cleanse the Blood
and render them less liable to colds
Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may
lead to Chronic Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE Is TAX
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
All Druggists 15c. Testimonials free.
$1,000 for any case of catarrh that
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will not
F. J. Cheney C Co.. Toledo. Ohio