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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

contrary to religious tenets to eat
eggs during Lent, but when Easter
marked the end of that period they
were the first fieshly nourishment aft
er the fast TO sanctify the body.
The custom of dyeing Easter eggs
goes back for many centuries. Peas
ants in the European countries dyed
them red, as a symbol of Christ's
blood, but the lords and ladies COW
cred theirs with gold leaf. Later
more elaborate decorations were used.
Sometimes they were marbled in
variety of colors; sometimes they
bore cupids and love knots, fam
zodiac. Sometimes they were halved
and the shells hinged together with
ribbon and lined with gilt paper
and religious pictures. Among the
.Venetians it was the custom to give
a friend a gift egg bearing the givers
portrait, and many other variations on
egg decoration were common In
France, Spain and Belgium.
Half a century ago Easter eggs
were made of porcelain, ivory, moth
er-of-pearl, bronze, silver, or gold in
the form of little cases to hold vari-
Gus trinkets. But the modern child,
favoring something useful as well as
ornamental, prefers an Easter egg
which he can first admire and then
eat. So we have the elaborate con-
fections In the form of chocolate rab-
bits sitting on a nest of spun sugar
in which are a plentiful supply of
candy eggs.
Even the Easter fashion parade,
when milady appears at church on
this Sunday morning in new frOck
resurrected life in the springtime
when all nature is putting on new raj
ment. 1t is also carrying out the old
British tradition that it is good luck
to wear something new on Easter
day."
The Easter lily, as symbol of Eas-
ter, is a combination Of the religious
significance and the manifestations of
nature. In its snOw-white purity 1t is
emblematic of the flawless life of the
Christ. And when the lily bud opens
in the springtime and the white bios
som comes forth in all its glory, it is
the one perfect symbol of resurrected
life.
So these are the symbols of Easter,
each representing a different tradition,
perhaps. but all emblematic of essen
TALLY the same thing, an awakening
after a sleep, life after death-Resur-
rection!
There is no death. who says there is
mistakes
Transition for decay.
Eternal life springs everywhere the
same
Deaths story to dismay.
Promise of everlasting life is writ
Plainly on Natures scroll,
AS with the trees. the Towering shrubs
and bulbs,
So is it with the soul.
A period of sleep, of darkness black
AS Calvary's blacklist night,
And then the Resurrection's sun shines
forth
With Gods perpetual light.
All, you blind followers of faith or
fate,
Read for yourselves the roll,
How gnarled brown root. apparent
dead, revives,
Thus is it with the SOUL
Matilda Ann Allen.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
Incubating and
Brooding Chicks

ing incubation. 1t has usually been
the custom to cool the eggs daily
until close to Matching time. The pre-
vious bulletin on incubation advised
this. Recently" says the bulletin,
"this practice has been discarded gen.
orally and seems to be necessary only
when the temperature of the incuba-
tor has been a little high"
Another new feature is the greater
attention paid to the use of electricity
in heating incubators and brooders.
Particular attention is paid to sani-
tation In both processes, and it is
emphasized that it is well to place
brOoder coops on different land each
year. After a season of use the coops
should be removed and the ground
cropped and cultivated for year be-
fore it is used again for rearing young
chickens.
Other sections give detailed advice
as TO the details of incubation, the
proper location of incubatOrs and
brOoders, the treatment preferred
when hens are used for Matching and
brOoding, the day-old chick industry,
and the care of chicks after the
broOding season.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
Farmers Bulletin Outlines
Best Procedure in Rails
ing Chickens.
prepared by the United States Department
of ARriculture.l

4
prepared by the United States Department
| OF Agriculture.)
More than 100,0O0,000 pullets are
needed yearly to take the place of
the mature hens retired from the
nocks and marketed because they have
passed their prime as egg producers.
1t is estimated that there are more
than 300,OO0,000 hens in the United
,, States on farms and in poultry plants,
sor an allowance of nearly three hens
working for each man, woman and
child in the country.
70 prepare for more efficient hatch
, Ing and brooding of next years crop
of chicks the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture has issued
Farmers Bulletin No. 153S-F, "Incu-
baton and Broodlng of Chickens"
which brings up to date the best pro-
cedure and supersedes earlier bulle'
| tins Nos. 1363-F and 1867. 1t may
be obtained by applying to the United
! States Department of Agriculture,
; Washington, D. c.
Hatch Chicks Early.
In particular, farmers and poultry
specialists are urged to hatch chicks
early in order to bring pullets to the
laying age in time to supply the au-
/, tumn market when egg prices are
highest, that is, between late August
and January l, after which the gen.
eral run of pullets and hens are lay
inc and nrinnS RI VII is
ally the low poinI of the year in
April. The use of the incubator and
brOoder is recommended as the most
economical and labor-saving way of
reproducing the flock, and also the
most certain means of insuring an
! early hatch. Another advantage of
early Matching is that it allows the
cockerels more time to build good
! bodies and cover them with meat
! This is true whether they are sold on
the generally high-priced July market
as broilers, or are held for marketing
as roasters for the Thanksgiving and
Christmas season markets. Zone of
the great troubles with the marketing
of poultry in the United States" the
bulletin says, "is the excessive num-
Der of immature, scrawny chickens
sent to market. Early Matching will
do great deal to counterfeit this
condition, because the cockerels will
have a longer season in which to
build proper frame, and then will
have some time to put on a finish"
Careful Egg Selection.
For Matching, careful selection of
eggs is important from the standpoint
of profit and for improvement of
stock. The male breeders should be
placed in the pens a month before
eggs are to be saved. Eggs should be
gathered frequently to prevent chill
ing. All eggs for Matching should be
uniform in shape and size, sound in
shell and of good siZe-no eggs weigh
ing less than two ounces should be
used. Eggs deteriorate rather rapidly
If held longer than five days, and none
should be saved for incubation more
than ten days.
A new practice advised in this bull
letin deals with cooling the eggs dur
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
Sport a la S. p. A.

"'Tis beautiful morning." the
sportsman cried, who carried a kodak
instead of gun. "The world looks
so happy, SO golden the sun, I'll slip
off to. the woods where the wild
things hide"
The deer that he "shot" never
dreamed of his aim, and the bird that
he caught went on with its song /:
peace followed his footsteps, not
slaughter and wrong, yet rich were
his trophies and varied his game
Boston Transcript
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
cay EA3 az ROSSRLF.9~

Easter goes back TO certain beliefs of
the ancients also. Eggs had been as
ISOLATED with the worship of Ash
toreth, of the Astarte of the Phoe-
nicians, Isis of the Egyptians. Diana
of the Greeks and Romans and EOstre,
whom the Teutons worshiped in the
spring. Incidentally, the name Eas-
ter is said by some to be derived from
the name of this TeutOnic goddess,
although others assert that it was
named for an old pagan spring fes-
tival in honor of the suns new birth
in the east. The Egyptians regarded
the egg as an emblem of the recre-
Grafton. Then, too, the egg with its
life germ destined to produce liv-
ing creature when warmed by the
mother hen is easily associated with
the idea of the earth poisoning forth
under the warm rays of the sun in
the spring, both closely akin to the
general idea of resurrection. Since
the Resurrection of Christ occurred
in the spring, it is easy to see how
the symbols of the egg and all re-
vived life in the springtime came to
be associated with this event in the
history of Christianity. The egg as u
symbol was taken over by the Hebrews
as an emblem of their delivery from
bondage and next the early Christians
took it over as their symbol of the
Resurrection.
The more intimate association of
the rabbit and the egg is probably due
to a pretty little legend which comes
from Germany. 1t is as follows:
1t was a lovely day in early spring
time and Mrs. Rabbit was hurrying
along the woodland path, taking some
wild flowers to a sick woodchuck
friend Suddenly she came upon lot
of loose feathers in the path. She
looked about her and then discovered
a nest full of eggs.
"Oh, dear me-" exclaimed Mrs. Bunny
"a fox must have stolen the mother
chicken. And there are her eggs, get
ting chilled. I'll just sit on them to
keep them warm" So saying, she put
down her baskets and sat upon the
nest.
Imagine Mrs. Rabbits surprise, when
she got up from the nest, the next
morning and found that family of
chicks had Matched from the eggs.
'Since their mother is gone 1 presume
I shall have to take care of the poor
little things" said the tender-hearted
Mrs. Rabbit This she did. Ever since
then the rabbit has been associated
with Easter and Easter eggs.
In some parts of northern Germany
the children hang eggs on trees SIM
liar to Christmas trees and candy IA
vors, gifts and all sorts of Easter nov
elites are placed on the tree around
which the children gather, and sing
happy songs on Easter morning.
Peasants in other European countries
were accustomed to hang festoOns of
eggs over the chimney piece and 10
hand them down as heirlooms, for
they were regarded as treasures to be
kept and not as baubles to be de-
stroyed or thrown away. In England,
under the old ecclesiastical laws, rent
was payable in Easter eggs; games
were played with them Ga fact which
was probably the forerunners of Eas-
ter "egg-rollings," such as that OBJ
served each year on the White House
lawn i'm Washington, especially by
the children in north England. Still
another association of the egg with
Easter lay in the fact that it was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

ceeding one-half ounce weight at 3
cents, with cents additional for each
additional one-half ounce or fraction
thereof. to be prepaid by a postage
stamp affixed. This was the first law
which established a uniform rate of
postage regardless of distance trans
mitted. The act of March 3, 1883, re-
duced the postage rate on firss-class
mail matter to cents a one-half
ounce on and after October 1, 1883.
The act of March 8, 1885. provided for
2 cents for each ounce or fraction
thereof
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
HE DlSL!KES FUNERAL S.

Every time | go to funeral | come
home wishing for reform in the
ceremonies held for the departed. At
the last one l was obliged to attend
those present were narrowed beyond
description by the weeping of the
widow, the inquiries of the children
for their father and the funeral ora
ton, which took the form of a
tremulous eulogy of the deceased. The
wreath upon the door, the elaborate
casket with it's silver fittings and the
long and solemn procession were all,
to me, barbaric, and repellent in the
extreme.
AS soon as I could escape l made
a trip to the library to satisfy my
curiosity as to the origin of our flu
neral customs, and found, as l had
suspected, that they were hangovers
of pagan superstition, handed down
from generation to generation and
carefully kept alive for commercial
rather than religious reasons.
/ never heard of but one funeral
which l thought was truly civilized in
that 1t contained the minimum amount
of distress over an irrevocable stu
alton. In this case the body of the
deceased was taken to the crematory
by two of his friends. Several eve
nings after that small group met
at his house and talked about him,
discussing among themselves his per-
sonality, his philosophy and what he
had accomplished in life. Each of his
friends told what he meant to them
and others who had had interesting
contacts with him came in to relate
what they knew of him.-Indianapolis
News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
Measuring Capacity of
SilO by Simple Means

A simple means of measuring silo
capacity has been worked out at the
Missouri College of Agriculture. They
found this rule by measuring and
weighing the silage in 80 silos over a
five-year period. One cubic foot of
silage at the surface, after settling
weighs 80 pounds. Ten feet below
the surface the weight is 3S pounds
Twenty feet down it weighs Al pounds
and at 80 feet 43 pounds. This rule
applies from the level of the silage
after settling rather than from the
top Of the silO.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
MYSTERY MILLIONAlRE'S
ROMANCE

The mystery millionaire of Europe,
Sir Basil Zaharov, political dictator,
international fnancier and philan-
throp1st, is now an aging and broken
man, bowed under the weight of a
great grief. AS you can imagine. such
a one would have no ordinary love
romance. Here, as in everything else.
he must reach out after the inaccess-
ible, the improbable More than 20.
years ago (by which time he had be-
come an important international fin
ancier), he met in Madrid the beauti-
full duchess of Machena. married
against her will, on account Of her
fortune, to a decadent cousin Of the
king. The rigid discipline of the
Spanish court could not keep him
from this royal duchess. There sprang
up between them romantic attach
ment, which was respected by all.
The duke of Machena died in 1923,
and in due course the duchess and Sir
Basil were married in Paris in 1924.
The king of Spain, fully cognizant Of
the situation, and wishing to honor
them both, created Lady Zaharov,
Duquesa de ViIlafranca de los CabaI-
leros in her own right The death
of the duchess last year was a heart
blow to Sir Basil and left traces of
grief which will never disappear
John A. Harrison, in Personality.
MA A LA MODE
There's mothers ashes in the lar
on the manteIpiece."
$50 your mother is with the an
gelsl"
mo, sir; she's just too lazy to look
for an ash-tray. Northwestern P.Ir-
pie Parrot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
Cultivated Sponges

Sponges are now cultivated like
grain. 1t is strange to think of beds
of sponges cultivated under the sea,
but this is no stranger, after all, than
beds of oysters.
The method is to cut up very fine,
healthy, living sponges-a sponge is
quite as lively as an oyster-into
seeds. These seeds, about half an inch
in diameter, are wired to blocks of
cement and dropped into the subma-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

means the beauty of the
white lily. And to still others it
means rabbits, Easter eggs and joys
of childhood. But back of all these
superficial symbols is the one essen
tial fact toward which all of them
point-Easter day is the anniversary
of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ,
and the spirit of Easter is the reas-
surance that there is life after death,
that the soul of man is immortal.
Easter customs, like the customs
which have come to be associated with
Christmas, st. Valentines day and 9TH
er holidays and special dates for OBJ
servance, are mixture of the Chris
tian and the pagan. To the Christian,
conscious of the true meaning and re-
ligiOus significance of Easter, it is a
matter for regret that many persons
are seemingly more familiar with the
pagan symbols, which have become
associated with Easter incidentally.
than they are with the true symbols
of that day. They regard the empha-
sis upon these symbols as RESPONSE
BILE for the statement often made thar
Easter, Christmas and other Chris
tian holidays are merely adopted
pagan festivals and point out that
this is fallacy similar to an asser-
ton that the American Fourth. of July
is festival in honor of Chinese dra-
gon gods, adopted by the superstitious
Yankees and associated in their SUI
perstition with the idea Of their in
dependence. OF course, every one
knows that the use of firecrackers,
which were invented by the Chinese
as an offering to dragon gods, and
the punk, with which the firecrackers
are lighted, which are burned as in
cense in Mongolian temples, came to
be associated only by chance with
Fourth of July celebrations and have
nothing to do with the essential spirit
of independence day. Similarly the
symbol of the white rabbit which lays
Easter eggs came to be associated
with Easter day by chance and has
nothing to do with its essential spirit.
Regardless, however, of the phi
losophical and theological aspects of
this question, the association of some
of these familiar Easter symbols,
pagan though they may have been in
origin, with Christian festival have
a certain inherent interest. The as
ISOLATION of the rabbit or hare with
Easter has its foundations in the an
cient belief in European and Asiatic
countries that the hare is the symbol
for the moon. The moon is the open
eyed watcher of the night" and the
hare is a nocturnal animal. The young
of the hare are born with their eyes
open and are said never to close them.
Since the date Of Easter is governed
by the moon,- it is easily seen how the
rabbit, which is the symbol for the
moon, came to be an Easter symbol
Also.
The association of the egg with
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

the same manner, and the practice Of
painting on walls coated with plaster
was certainly in vogue In Assyria.
1t is believed that the Greeks under
stood true fresco work, apparently on
the strength of phrase occurring in
Plutarch, ito paint on wet ground"
vitruvius also speaks of wet ground
and says that colors placed upon a
surface so prepared are permanent,
which certainly is characteristic of
true fresco work.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
Sweet Clover Furnishes
Early Pasture for Stock

Sweet clover furnishes pasture two
weeks earlier than common grass and
all classes of live stock soon learn
to like it. 1t is especially well suited
as pasture crop for cattle and sheep.
Horses do well on it and hogs may be
pastured advantageously providing a
small grain ration is given and there
is sufficient amount of stock grazing
such as sheep and cattle to keep it
down. Sweet clover not only starts
early in the spring but continues
through the hot dry months when
other pastures are likely to be short.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
BIG-HTTCH DEMONSTRATIONS OF
INTEREST TO THE N. w. FARMERS

simplicity in driving. Experience is
demonstrating that the big teams
which have been used principally, in
the past, for operating large harvest
ing equipment in the Northwest can
be adapted to conditions in the corn
belt and other regions having extern
sive fields. Big teams are especially
adapted for blowing. disking, harrow
ing, and harvesting.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
Sweet Glover Seed

If you want to save seed crop of
sweet clover this season, where it was
seeded last year, it will most likely
be beneficial to pasture it this spring
until about the first of June. Even
If you pasture 1t quite heavily you
will be likely to get as much or more
seed, and you will save great deal
of hard work In harvesting the seed
crop. II the season is favorable for
seed formation you get more seed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

Most Of the presidential candidates
have now clarified their attitude on
the wet-dry issue by the bold, IN
equiVocal and thunderous statement
that it is the solemn duty of a presi-
dent to uphold the constitution
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
Earliest Decorations

1t is probable that the earliest wall
paintings were those of the Egyp-
tians. Those people employed a dis
temper containing dissolved gum. and
their principal pigments were white
chalk, a vegetable yellow, ochres,
Ethiopian cinnabar, blue powdered
glass stained with copper and char
coal black.
The walls of Assyrian and Baby
lonian dwellings were treated In much
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

The short skirt, says the secretary
Of the AYRSHIRE Breeders associa-
ton, enables the research worker to
tell whether or not a girl is under
nourished. Isn't it wonderful to be
able to look at things scientifically?
Columbus Dispatch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
PAGE Mr.. VoLSTEAD

There was young lady Of Ryde
OF eating green apples she died
Within the lamented
They quickly fermented
And made cider inside her inside.
The Bookman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
Favor Water Fowl REFUGE

Brainerd-A petition asking estab-
lishment of 67O-acre water fowl re-
fuge in the center of Platte lake was
faVorably received at a hearing here
presided over by J. N. Totten for the
state game and fish commission.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
Letter Postage

1 The act of March 3, 1863, fixed the
standard maximum weight for the
single rate of letter postage at one
half ounce avoirdupois, and the rate
of postage on domestic letters not ex-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

A horned toad has lived thfrty-one
years entombed in cornerstone.
Vice presidential possibilities might
study the tOads technique.-San
Diego Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

rine sponge bh. They mature in two
years.
The best sponges-those large,
blond, fine fellows, called bath
spOnges-come from Florida. 1t takes
them ten years to grow to bath size.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

A Pennsylvania man has invented
a motor that dispenses with gas. Now
let him develop a legislature that
does the same.-Virginia-P
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

Can't the Interborough Rapid
Transit Co. and its employees COM
promise on a sort of a companionate
union ?-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

Peas should be planted as soon as
the ground can be worked. '
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30

Worry is rust upon the blade.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-30
sy ELMO SCOTT WATSON

A S I E r means many
things to many people.
To some it means new
frocks and new mil
linery. To some it means
the end of Lent, a pc
riod of self-imposed alb
stinence from worldly
pleasures. To others it
means the beauty of the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-10
Sees
HOOVER WIN
Can Lose Most of East
And Still Win, Say
Woman Leaders

EVANSTON, Ill, July 1O.-R-A
statement issued from national
headquarters Of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union today said
that Herbert Hoover could lose most
Of the east and still be elected pres
ident next November.
The republican nominee might be
defeated in New York, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut and New
jersey, and still win a majority Of
the nations electoral votes, the
statement said.
1.-TWO or three wet ne~ighborhoods
in a state do not give the state to
Tammany," the ". C. T. U. officers
asserted, citing figures to show that
81 wet votes in congress came
from scattered districts in Is states.
The temperance union also de-
clared that Of the middle
west are organizing almost entirely
on an anti-Tammany basis"
THE tremendous strength Of or
gained women has turned to Hoover
almost exclusively because Of his
pronounced views favoring prohibit
ton, his personal attitude against
liquor, and the probability Of an eff
cient enforcement Of the law under
a Hoover administration" the state
ment said.