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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
The Roman Catholic Church Built Over the Groo of the
Nativity in Bethlehem

the second century of the Christian
era, Polycrates, bishop of Ephesus,
and Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, wrote
letters to Victor Of Rome, differing
with him on the subject of the proper
date for the feast.
The crucifixion occurred on the
sixth day Of the week, or Friday. The
following day was the Jewish Sabbath
and the Resurrection occurred OF the
first day of the week. The early
Christians of Jewish ancestry wished
to signify their separation from their
former faith, so, presently, they
ceased to observe the Jewish Sabbath
and made their holy day Sunday, the
first day of the week.
The Jewish calendar is based on the
phases of the moon, having months
Of 20 and 30 days alternately. The
days of the month in the Jewish cal
endar, therefore, change from year
to year during a period of 10 years
or the metonic cycle, at the end of
which period the phases Of the moon
reoccur on the same day. A partial
readjustment of the dates is achieved
by introducing an extra or interclary
month in the third, sixth, eighth,
eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth and
nineteenth years.
The years having this interclary
month are known as "embolismic"
years. The length of the Jewish
year varies from 1853 to 1856 days and
because of this irregularity the Jew
ish new year may occur anywhere be-
tween September and October 5.
All other dates, including the Pass
over, are movable because of this
popularity of the calendar.
In 325 A. D. the date of the Easter
feast, in dispute because of calendar
and religious differences, was finally
settled, but this did not obviate all
difficulties. Because of the imperfec.
tions of the Julian calendar days of
the month and year began to fall be-
hind. By the gear 1882 the calendar
was 10 days behind and the vernal
equinox, supposed to fall invariably
on March 81, fell upon the 18th. This
caused difficulty in fixing the correct
date Of the Easter celebration and
because of that the Gregorian re.
formed calendar was invented and
adopted.
This festival was always preceded
by fast of some duration. At first
the fast began on Good Friday and
continued for A0 houre IittIo Lotto,
1t was extended to three days and
later still it was extended to a week
known as Holy week, during which
there was general abstinence from
flesh meats. The first mention OF
the fast, corresponding closely to oul
present Lenten period, occurs in the
fifth canon of the council of Nicea in
which it is styled "the quadrigesima'
or 40 days.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

An indication of the attitude Of
President Harding and his administra-
ton to matters of turbulence among
our Latin-American neighbors was
pointedly brought out in strong notes
dispatched by Secretary of State
Hughes which had the effect of halt
ing hostilities between Costa Rica
and Panama. Although couched in
most courteous and diplomatic Ian
guage, the notes in reality were the
eagles scream, warning the countries
that the territorial boundaries of
Panama had been fixed by a previous
arbitration award made by Chief JUS
tice White, and that they are the con-
Germ of this government which can.
not regard forcible measures by either
party as justifable. The belligerents
were told to settle their differences
by orderly procedure.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
II You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the BeSi

Have you ever stopped to reason why
1t is that so many products that are ex-
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and are soon forgotten? The
reason is plain-the article did not fulfill
the promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says "Take for
example DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a
preparation I have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every case it shows excellent re-
suits, as many of my customers testify,
No other kidney remedy has so large a
sale"
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used the preparation, the success of DR..
kllmer's Swamp-Root is due to the fact,
so many people claim, that it fulflls al
most every wish in overcoming kidney.
liver and bladder ailments; corrects uri-
nary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bottle of
Swamp-Root by Parcels Post. Address
DIR. Kilner & Co., Binghamton. N. Y,
and enclose ten cents; also mention this
paper. Large and medium size bottles
for sale at all drug stores.-Adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
The Christ Thorn

Good Friday is commemorated bv
the Christ Thorn, more commonly
called the Crown of Thorns, as well
as by the reed; for on the Day of
Tragedy, "they plated a crown of
thorns and put it on His head and a
reed in His right hand" AS a plant.
the Crown of Thorns is a rather nm
calmly growth, with long irregular
boughs, seldom having graceful pro-
portions. In every detail the little
twig strictly conforms to the spiked
crown Of thorns painted so realisti-
cally by Guido on the head of the
gracious "Nazarene" The tree. which
is rather rare in America, is found.
both as a shrub and tree, all over
Palestine. Someone has described il
as "a tall, gaunt tree of sinister as.
pect, which weirdly fringes the brink
of the Jordan river, and the lake of
Tiberius." BOtanically it is known as
Zizphus Vulgaris, or Christ-born.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
The Two
Greatest
Festivals
Of the
Christian
World

Easter, like Christmas, is a season
of great rejoicing throughout the
Christian world, writes George B
Catlin in the Detroit News. The two
might be termed the alpha and the
omega of Christian festivals, since
one celebrates the nativity and the
other the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ from death and the
grave.
AS the early Christian records are
fragmentary and imperfect it is inn
possible to determine when the cele.
bration of Easter began. The early
Christians of the church in the East
were mostly converts from Judaism
and these Christians continued the
observance of the principal feasts and
fasts OF their ancestors, the ancient
,Israelites.
The death and resurrection of Christ
occurred at about the time of the
Passover, which Jesus and his dis
ciples had gone to Jerusalem to OBJ
serve. The Last Supper, held in an
upper room" Of a private home in
Jerusalem, by some authorities sup
posed to be in the home of the mother
of st. Mark, was the Feast Of the
Passover.
The only allusion In the New Tesla
,ment that would indicate very early
observance of Easter, as a feast cele.
brating the Resurrection, is in the
first collection of the letters of st
Paul to the Christians of the church
in Corinth fifth chapter and seventh
and eighth verses: purge out the
old leaven, that ye may be a new
lump, even as ye are unleavened
For our passover also has been sac
rificed, even Christ: wherefore lei
us keep the feast, not with the ole
leaven, neither with the leaven o1
malice and wickedness, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity ant
truth"
In the subsequent records the frs
allusion to Easter is in connection
with a dispute between two groups
of Christians as to the date of thu
observance when, in the last decade o
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
"Cold i'm the Head''

IS an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh.
Those subject to frequent colds in the
CATARRH MEDICINE will build up the
system, cleanse the Blood and render
them less liable to colds. Repeated at
tacks of Acute Catarrh may Lad to
Chronic Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is
taken internally and acts through the
BLOOD on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys-
tenn, thus reducing the Inflammation and
restoring normal conditions
All Druggists. Circulars free
+. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

well to the flesh. According to an
other authority the derivation is from
carnis and levamen, solace, meaning
the solace of the flesh, but the former
seems the more probable origin OF
the term. In modern Rome these fes.
tivities are limited to eight DAYS. In
several southern cities of the United
States, as New Orleans, Memphis, Mo.
bile and Galveston, short carnival
celebrations are held each year begin.
ming on Monday before Ash Wednes.
day and continuing through Shroye
Tuesday. Mardi Gras is applied ia
this carnival in America.
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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

After the usual formalities attend
ant upon the nomination and confrma-
tion of cabinet heads and few other
important officials, the new national
administration got under way with it's
announced program Of a get-togeth-
er between the executive and legisla-
tive branches of the government
This was started by a dinner at the
White House to the Republican lead
ers in the senate and house. Presi-
dent Harding announced that he con-
templates calling an extra session of
the SiXty-seventh congress not later
than April IL.
The fact that peace with Ger
many, the League of Nations and 9TH
er questions of foreign relations were
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

not touched upon at the dinner, but
that domestic reconstruction problems
formed the bulk of the discussion,
makes it a practical certainty that
the latter will receive first considera-
ton at the coming session. Tax re-
vision seems to have the right Of way
over other questions and after 1t
comes the tariff, the problem being
to lessen burdens and at the same
time provide adequate revenues. If
the excess profits tax Us repealed,
economies in governmental expendi-
lures will have to be instituted and
additional revenue from imports and
perhaps other sources will be re-
quired.
President Harding has intimated
that an emergency tariff may be pro-
posed, but that final disposition of
the tariff question will await the rec
concentrations of a new tariff COM
mission to be constituted along scien-
| tific lines. This commission is yet to
be appointed and its deliberations nee
essarily will be prolonged, so that the
ultimate tariff bill of this administra-
! ton does not loom as a very near pos
sibility.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
| has announced himself definitely for
economics and for the establishment
of national budget system. In
! letter to the banks of the country he
has declared that, while the figures as
to the public debt and the current
! operations of the treasury show that
the finances of the government are in
a sound position, the situation calls
for the utmost economy. The letter
| covers the financial condition in con-
siderable detail and winds up with
the statement: "The people generally
must become more interested in saw
ing the governments money than in
spending it. A thOrOugh-going nation
al budget system must be estab-
lished and the governments expenses
brought into relation to its income"
Ever since Brig. Gen. Charles G..
Dawes announced himself so posi-
lively before a congressional commit
tee on the subject of unbusiness-
| IKE IneInOuS IN In6 natlODal depart
ments, and other matters, there has
been persistent talk that this admin.
istratiOn would take energetic action
to reduce criticism in this respect.
Accordingly the President has gone
over tentative plans with a joint COM
mittee from house and senate now
holding sessions in Washington. The
plans which White House advices
state are approved by the President,
and will have the cooperation of the
cabinet, call for a reorganization of
the executive departments to sys.
tematize administration, eliminate
duplication and reduce expenses. II
the program goes through it will be
the first shaking up Of departments
since the days of Alexander Hamilton.
One of the proposed changes is a con.
sOlidation under one head of the War
and Navy departments.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

of actual disarmament, but is ready
to take the lead in bringing about Iimi-
tatiOn of armaments.
A naval holiday" whereby the great
powers, including the United States,
will agree to cessation or restriction of
the race for naval supremacy, will be
the first objective, although it is ex-
pected this government will insist upon
completion of the 1916 naval building
program.
Directors of the nations naval pol
icy. including Secretary DENLY, are
unanimously of the opinion that total
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

disarmament cannot be achieved. Sec.
retary DENLY frankly admits he wants
a big navy.
1t is President Harding's plan that
new international association to pro.
mote peace shall be built around the
proposed world court.
Administration leaders believe that
the United States can safely take the
leadership in such an association, be-
cause it would not be a military alIi-
ance like the present league but would
preserve both the political integrity
and actual sovereignty of this country.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

Advices are to the effect that all
Russia is in a ferment and that the
Bolshevik authorities, If they have
not a real revolution to contend with
just now, are likely to have it soon.
The past winter, which has augment
ed the sufferings of the people to a
degree beyond anything before expert
enced, the constant warfare under
soviet rule and, lastly, the attempt to
coerce labor-mObilize is the word
that has been used-and make it
part of the property of the state along
with goods, lands, etc, has strained
the communist scheme to the breaking
point. People all over the country
are reported to be deathly sick of the
plan and in mood to try revolution,
believing that any change must be an
| improvement.
Heretofore the strength of the Lenin
and Trotzky government has existed
| in its military establishment. Sol
1iers were fed and clothed even if
others starved and froze. This made
military duty attractive and rendered
a big, efficient army possible. The
significant feature Of the present rev.
olution is that it was started by SOL
diers and sailors, the very forces
which started and upheld the soviet
experiment.
The revolutionists seized the great
fortress of Kronstadt and several of
the minor defenses of Petrograd. At
this writing a struggle for the city it
self is on with the deciding fortunes
| still in doubt. Authentic news is
meager, but enough has seeped
through to indicate that the disturb
ance is not a mere flash in the pan.
The fact that the attack was started
at the seat of government, that the
city has been bombarded heavily and
that sanguinary encounters have
taken place in it's streets, also that
the Red forces from other parts of
the country, including the famed
army of General Budenny, have been
summoned to its defense, is enough
to indicate that the affair is a de-
termined movement against the whole
soviet regime.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

elaborately sung at this time the con
gregation listened.
The choir sang it through. "And !
look for the Resurrection of the dead
And the Life of the world to come
they sang.
And then a voice repeated the las
line of all-the clear lovely voice OF
a boy soprano. And yet was it JUS
an ordinary boy soprano? Wasn't il
as though her own boy were tellins
her this?
The boys voice rose higher ant
higher, "And the Life of the worlt
to come"
Her boys life had been cut off
,but-there was-the Life Of the worl(
to comei
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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

Captain Watson, it Is said by the
Nichi Nichi Shimbun, received two let
ters signed "Goto Yapada," asking for
an appointment, as the writer desired
to sell for 100000 yen [about $780,
OOO] Japan's mobilization plans against
"a certain country" Secret maps of
FormOsa and documents showing the
depths of various parts of Tokyo bay
were to be included.
Capt Watson. it is said, turned the
letters over to the naval authorities,
and an investigation resulted in the
arrest of Lieutenant Hamaguchi
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

One of the first acts of President
Harding was to throw open the
White House gates to the public. And
the public is reported to have availed
itself of the invitation to the beauti.
full grounds to the extent that some
came with soap boxes on which to
stand, while others mounted the shoul.
ders of friends, in order to peer into
the windows of the executive man.
sion. A serious question has arisen
as to how the democratic privilege
may be continued, the White House
rooms given air and sunshine and the
occupants allowed a degree of privacy
somewhat greater than that of a gold.
fish in a bowl.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
TO PROMOTE WORLD PEACE
President Harding Said to Be Plan
ming to Invite Nations to Armament
Limitation Conference.

Washington. - President Harding
will shortly invite every nation to par
ticipate in a conference to consider
armament limitation and organization
of an international court of justice.
One important point can be author
itatively announced. The United
States will not be party to any plan
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

Japan's position relative to the cues.
ton raised by the United States re-
garding the mandate for the island of
zap is secure, in the belief of Viscount
Uchida. minister of foreign affairs.
Questioned regarding the merits of
battle ships and cruisers, NJ. Kato.
minister of marine, said Japan favored
giving Importance to both types of
war craft. He declared that whether
major ships, submarines or airplanes
would be given a superior place would
depend upon the policy pursued by
other nations.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
TRAITOR IN JAPANESE NAVY
Lieutenant Said to Have offered to
Sell Nations Secrets to Ameri-
can Attache.

Tokyo. - Naval Lieutenant TSur
Hamagudhi was arrested and handed
over to a cOurt-martial in connection
with an alleged attempt to sell Jap
arese naval secrets to Capt. Edward
Howe Watson, naval attache at the
United States embassy.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

Easter!-and the umber mold
Feels a kindling thrill of gold
Gold upon the willow tips,
Gold upon the crocus lips;
Feathery gold OF catl1in-ore
And the colt's-foot by the shorel
Easter land the bluebird's wing
Shows an azure shimmering;
On the robins breast there glints
Presage of the roses tints,
While the grackle's prismy throat
Glistens with each warbled note.
Easter!-and the lyric stream
Wakens from its winter dream;
Every strain the south wind breathes
Some fond prophecy bequeathes;
Every bough, a throbbing Tyre,
Voices some aroused desire.
Easter!-and the wondrous clue
To the marvel ever new
Earth's renascence, wherein we
See revived mortality,
AS in root and branch and bole!-'
Easter-ahd the quickened soull
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
THE EASTER PARADE

We're smiling once more at the Easter
parade,
The charming young things in fresh cos
tunes arrayed!
Pert bonnets and tresses
And dazzling new dresses.
There's Millicent, Mabel and dainty Ma
rie,
In changeable silk, just as chic as can bel
In corals and pearls
This trio of girls
Remind you of Neriads fresh from the
seal
There's the daughter of Erin, the merry
Kathleen,
Bewitching in tunic of soft crepe de chine
Her corsage bouquet
Is of lilies today,
Her veil and her stockings of emerald
green!
Flora's hat is of roses and sweet mignon
ette,
While BRIDES is trimmed in a fancy
aigrette;
But Betty's new bonnet
Oh! how could she don it?
Just a rim, and a crown covered oVel
with jet!
Look! There all in velvet is suffragettt
Sue,
The color of course is a militant blue,
With a bodice position
OF orange-vermilion-
Her beads have long tassels Of exquisite
hue!
True. there is the cheap imitation bro
cade,
For along with the gold is the tinsel dis
played!
But all nature seems newer,
The skies always bluer,
When mingled once more in the EasteI
parade!
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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
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Old Chaldean Festival.

Easter is an ancient, Chaldean fes-
tival, and has to do with the resur-
rection of Christ in this sense. that
when the sun leaves winter solstice
and enters that of spring, nature is
beginning to take on new forms. The
husbandman on the plains of Chaldea
knew that his spring plowing and
seeding was soon at hand. The peo-
pie celebrated the suns resurrection
somewhat similar to our present OBJ
servaDce.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
ItaIy's Easter Flower.

The rose, queen Of all the flowers
Is dedicated in Italy to the glorious
service of Easter day, whilst in Ger
many, the peony rose is sacred to this
occasion, and also to Whitsunday
This flower was regarded by the
Turks as having a divine origin and tC
come from the moon. 1t was credited
with wonderful curative powers ant
supposed to ward off evil spirits wher
planted near a house.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
Keen up Old Ceremony.

Inc one Of the Venetian islands,
on Easter Sunday, two waxen crosses
depend from the gates of the town
of ChiersO. The priests in their robes
walk in procession, singing as they
90 and blessing the populace. This
very ancient custom harks back to the
period of Venetian supremacy, when
her people prayed that the book in
the claws OF st. Marks lion (the coat
of arms Of the queen of the Adriatic) +,
should ever remain open at the word
SPax"' (Peace).
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
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Forerunner of Glorious Easter.

The Roman Februa was the mos
remarkable of the feasts of the an
cient Romans. The love of the pres
ent-day Italian for frequent religious
observations, saints days and festi
walls may be a heritage from those
distant ancestors who wOrshiped the
innumerable deities Of their pOlytheis
tic faith.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
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Pre-Lenten Festivities.

With all the authority Of the
church, in the early Christian CEN
turies, it was impossible to lure the
masses entirely away from pre-Lenten
festivities and in some districts the
period was extended from the twelfth
day or Epiphany to Ash Wednesday.
This period presently gained title as
the carnival" period, the word being
derived from the Latin carnis, flesh,
and vale, farewell, signifying: Iare-
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24
WOMEN! USE "DIAMOND DYES
Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists,
Goats, Stockings, Draperies-
Everything.

Each package of Diamond Dyes"
contains easy directions for dyeing any
article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or
mixed goods. Beware! Poor dye
streaks, spots, fades, and ruins mate
rial by giving it a "dyed-look" Buy
Diamond Dyes" only. Druggist has
Color Card.-Adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

No man knows how foolishly he can
act until he attends a five-o' clock tea.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-24

mean the relighting of the war torch
all over Europe.
The allies were not of unanimous
opinion in forcing the reparations
program, but they were driven to
united action through the necessity of
showing a solid front. Whatever de-
velops in Germany even to a joining
with Russia, the allies are in a
strategic position to deal with it
through their military establishments
and the fact that they already are in
German territory and can strike
unitedly and quickly.