Illustrated by Ryder Verje by Earle HooKpr Eaton
Copyright 1D08 by C JV Lurie
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Idbcn after church the rabbits stroll along the avenue
Cbc swells of Bunnvvillc are there and every one in town
Is out in Sastcr suit and hat and stunning Gaster govn
Hnd what cjecitcmcnt stirs the throng hove all the rabbits stare
Cdbcn jviolly Cottontail sweeps by with Mr Belgian Rare
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days of Lent
THROUGH intent
Dan Cupid fashioned arrows
And every day
His aim they say
He practiced on the sparrows
Now days of Lent
Myrtilla spent
In projects for adorning
A costly hat
Of splendor that
Shed wear on Easter morning
Thus Cupid and Myrtilla planned
And toiled
I through Lent-
I en weather
Till Easter day
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I way
J From church
1 they came to-
1 gether
And Cupid
laughed
And aimed a
shaft
With skill and
sviftness
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laden
But lo the dart
Found not the heart
But the headgear of the maiden
Ho ho she cried
With saucy pride
You did it very neatly
My hat was bare
Your arrow there
Becomes it most completely
But filled with shame
At wretched aim
And practice unavailing
The pretty boy
Bereft of joy
Before her stood bewailing
Then to his side
She stepped and cried
Cheer up you
silly Cupid
That Love is
blind
Ive heard I
find
That Love is on
ly stupid
Your skillful
eye
Did aim awry
Tis true but
what of that
sir
If you were
smart
Youd know my
heart
Is in my Easter hat sir
And Cupid smiled
With joy beguiled
And through the April weather
And meadows fair
That precious pair
Went oer the hills together
San Francisco Call
Palms as Lightmng Conductors
There was a belief in Spain as late
as 1S2S and perhaps even still held by
many that palms blessed by the priests
carried in procession on Palm Sunday
were a sure preventive of the ill effects
of lightning when fastened to a con
spicuous part of the house balcony
Whence
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f estmty
Oh why mamma for Eastertide
Do people buy the candy rabbit
I do not know my child she sighed
Unless it bo from force of habit
Oh whence mamma the painted egs
We see in windows by the dozens
Ah do not ask me child I beg
But go and ask your country cousins
Oh why mamma are hot cross buns
So popular at Easter season
They may be better than the ones
I bake I reckon thats the reason
Oh why mamma But she forsook
Her child and hied her to a college
To read a cyclopedic book
And freshen up on Easter knowledge
HY is our Easter a time of
gifts and new raiment and
how and why is it associ
ated with the egg and the
rabbit What has any of these things
to do with a Christmas religious fes
tival
Easter is not a Christian festival
merely It is pagan as well The
early church in its wisdom saw more
spiritual profit a greater harvest of
souls in Christianizing as far as possi
ble the great national festivals of every
people among whom it planted the
RAN FKOM OXE SIDE OF THE STBEET TO
THE OTHER
cross than in taking a hostile attitude
toward them Thus the Roman Satur
nalia and the Druidic midwinter orgies
and those in honor of Thor were strip
ped of their grossness and molded into
our Christmas And so it was with
Easter
The missionaries who reached Rome
from Judea to preach the new dis
pensation fixed the time of the resur
rection as being on the Sunday within
the week of the Fassover which be
gan on the fifteenth day of the first
month of the Jewish year This was a
season varying a little year by year
according to the Roman calendar but
always occurring about the end of
March or early in April when the
south Italian country was decked with
the flowers of spring in welcome to
the coming guest sweet summer
None of the great national festivals
was held at that season but when the
new religion had taken the evil out of
the Saturnalia and even surpliced that
feast in its own service it worked to
continue two other great festivals of
pagan Rome and have them held on
the date of Easter
These festivals were the Luperealia
held on Feb l and the Arval broth
erhood celebrated about the end of
May The Luperealia was in honor of
Lupcrcus the god of purification and
fecundity Goats and dogs were sac
rificed to him hi his temple on the day
set aside for his worship in the blood
of the sacrifice a sword was dipped by
a priest and with its point the fore
heads of the noble Roman youths were
touched Another priest washed away
the blood with milk The youths
stimulated by great drafts of wine and
clad only in the torn skin of a goat
just sacrificed and holding in their
hands thongs of the same followed
by a great processiou of the priesthood
and crowds in holiday attire ran from
one side of the street to the other
striking with the goatskin whips at
the women who presented themsehes
for the blows
The feast of the Arval brotherhood
was celebrated in honor of the tie
foster brothers of Romulus gods who
continued the fertility of the fields to
which Lupcrcus gave the initiative It
was held in the grove of Dea Dia
about five miles from the city and
gave opportunity for annual athletic
games There was an egg shaped track
in the grove and on this races weo
run with eggs for prizes Eggs wre
wagered too and in all the 1
such an abundance of egg J 1 to
the grove that more than ILiei the
holiday merrymakers gorged them
selves with them after the running
and the wagering were done
Whence the Romans got the idea of
associating the egg wilh fertility is
not certain The Egyptian however
had for centuries before regarded the
egg as a symbol of the renovation of
man after the delude Indeed almost
all peoples had religious ceremonies in
which it figured as emblematic of re
production It was therefore especial
ly fitting for the great festivals with
which all the peoples welcomed spring
From the Jewish missionaries to the
Christians in Rome had been handed
down the tradition that the Hebrew
put an egg on the table at the Pass
over to typify the departure from
Egypt Perhaps this link between the
Passover and the games in the grove
of Dea Dia had to do Avith suggesting
the merging of the Arval and Lupercal
and holding both at the Easter time a
season midway between However
that le the thing was done when the
Christians became powerful enough to
do it
Among the Cermans the Gauls and
the people of the present British is
lands the absorption of their ancient
spring festivals by this new one of
Easier was easy It came to them
from Rome with their new religion
and chanced to be about the time they
held their own pagan spring feasts in
honor of the gods they supposed to
be awakening nature
Among the Germans the hare as well
as the egg had a part in the spring
feasts as an emblem of fecundity So
close was the association that even
now the children there believe that the
hare lays their Easter egs and as the
rabbit is a cousin to the hare it is not
strange that the children of English
speaking people have the same curious
belief about that frisky animal and hold
it sacred to Easter
WALTON WILLIAMS
The Scala Santa
I found the Scala Santa holy stair
case most interesting for certainly it
is the strangest sight in the world
writes a woman who spent last Easter
in Rome An enormous crowd of both
sexes all ages and all ranks was
ascending the staircase on their knees
kissing each step I saw elegantly
dressed ladies princesses her majesty
the queen following immediately be
hind skin clad countrymen with their
sandaled feet almost in contact with
the faces of the ladies following All
Good Friday the procession is kept up
La Scala Santa is said to be the stair
case down which our Lord was dragged
when Pilate had sentenced him to be
crucified It was brought from Jeru
salem by St Helena as in an adjoin
ing church the true cross is shown also
brought by St Helena from Jerusa
lem
A Lasting Easter Gift
An Easter present that will give real
lasting pleasure is a window box filled
with growing plants Cut flowers are
ephemeral and often the potted plant
bought and sent as an Easter gift lasts
but a little while
These window boxes are a new de
parture for this purpose They are of
rustic bark oblong square or round
as you choose They should contain
flowers of an enduring nature A baby
rambler rose sweet alyssum ferns
pansies mignonettes and the bright yel
low genesta are all good Sometimes
the florist puts a bit of Scotch heather
in the box
Such a box set in a sunny window
would give pleasure all through the
spring and later could be put outside
Boston Traveler
A 4000 Easter Egg
In extravagant Paris an egg was
manufactured some years ago for a
certain Spanish infanta which cost 20
000 francs or 4000 It was white en
amel on the outside and had the whole
gospel of Easter engraved on the in
side A mysterious mechanism within
it sent forth a little bird who sang
twelve popular airs from the opera
Sewing on Good Friday
The good women of Shropshire Eng
land devote every spare minute on
Good Friday to sewing believing that
sewing done on that day will never
come undone
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The Shop of
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OLD COUNCIL OUT NEW IN
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addition and running south to the
southeast corner of block commencing
at southeast corner of addition
and running west to the southwest cor
ner of block 27 2nd addition Petition
referred to finance committee
Following bills were allowed and war
rants ordered issued on respective funds
CWKelley services city engineers JO 00
J R Pence fumigating supplies 1 71
McUook liilee Light Jo March 128 70
McUook Water Works Uo f20 tii
McCook Water Works Co claim
310KJ33 allowed at f50 00
W A Gold cemetery 8 00
W U Uullard coal 5370
F J Mason 0130 allowed at 533 00
Maurice ORourk police 2 CO
McCook Republican 32 5
Sarah E Kay booth rent 53 00
York Blank Book Co supplies 4 fi
F M Kimmell printing 537 00
Dr J A Toren services 2 00
McCook Loan Trust Co rent 75 00
Neb Tel Co phones 4 530
Burnett Lumber Co coal 11 70
J E Ludwick furniture 3S 50
J R McCarl expense 5S 10
Frank Colfer clerk 3 00
Norman Campbell clerk 3 00
M F Stoner clerk 3 00
J W Spencer clerk 3 00
F J Rolfe judge 3 00
J S Lellew judge 3 00
M J Clark judge 3 00
W A Middleton judge 3 00
S D McClain judge 3 00
II M Finity judge 3 00
Frank Real salary 12 50
L W McConnell salary 12 50
C Li Gray salary 12 50
C L Fahnestock salarv IS 75
J R McCarl salary 25 00
IT W Conover salary expense 37 S5
Henry Gale saiarv 27 00
Ed Fitzgerald salary 7S S3
J R Pence salary 13 10
John Ekstedt salary 70 20
The following 62 fire claims were al
lowed Ellsworth Ward E O Vahue
I N Biggs J N Gaarde V C Mo
Carty M F Stoner M R Osborn
Albert Blatt J V Spencer C W
Wimer Charles Leach Darvo Burnett
G S Scott R C Cathcart W II
Shrigley L V Jennings Hurley Dye
Fred S Wasson Frank Ptitman Harry
A Cole C V McMilien A B Camp
bell Ellsworth Ward E O Vahue A
B Campbell
Fire claims Andrew Sherman 8125
White Line Transfer Co 8100 M R
gMI 1 lH VtIUfflilWralMll JlliIUJ
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Osborn 8125 Osborn Went SI 00
E F Odliurn S3 00
Tho mayor on Tuesday morning tiled
the following paper
McCook Nebraska April 14 190S S
oclock a in The oflieo of chief of
police of the city of McCook which
ollico includes that of street euiiunission
er of tho city of McCook being vacant
I hereby appoint Walter Godfrey as
chief of police and street commissioner
of the city of McCook with full pow
er and authority to act as such un
til his successor is duly appointed and
confirmed J II StkiIIKNs
Mayor of tho City of McCook
Chautauqua Ideals Highest
What will it mean to tho general up
lift of our town to have such men as aro
brought by a good chautauqua address
ing our children and leaving their im
press upon every ono These strong
characters who by hard toil have risen
to places of prominonce always hnvo a
message for our young men and women
Let us open our town to those noted
men and women celebrated lecturers
and entertainers Lot us say to our
neighboring towns wo aro in for tho
highest and best for our people Why
may we not secure for our town the pres
tige which always follows a good chau
tauqua We aro interested in this town
and it is our purpose to advocate every
thing possible for us to get that which
has as many good features as a modern
l chautauqua This is an ago of com
mercialism but let us inject into it all
wo can that tends to elevate and en
noble Let us strivo to do all tho busi
ness we possibly can but at the same
time have a regard for tho moral and
educational tone of our town Who
will join us for better things for lc
Cook
McCook Band May Accompany
There is a prospect that the McCook
band may accompany the trade excur
sion of the Omaha Commercial club on
its trip west of here commencing May
I T1 ovnnrctnn itll rtm rmf rrm
Omaha during tho night of Sunday the
21th arriving here at six oclock A f ter
breakfast they will continue on their
way west remaining in MoCook two
hours
A Handy Receipt Book
Bound duplicate receipt books three
receipts to tho page for sale nr Thf
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A tag from a 10 cent piece will count FULL valuo
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CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Ciikistian Bible school at 10 a in
V I S C E at 7 p 111 All are wel
come to these services
Episcopal Preaching services at St
Albans church at 11a in and 730 p
in Sunday school at 10 a in All
aro welcome to these services
E R Eaklk Roctor
Catholic Ordor of services Mass
8 am Mass and sermon 1000 a m
Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday
school 230 p 111 Every Sunday
Wm J KmwiN O M I
Baptist Sunday school at 10 a in
Preaching service at 1100 a in Even
ing service at 800 B Y P U at 7 p 111
A most cordial invitation is extended to
all to worship with us
E Bl kton Pa3tor
Chkistiax Sciknck Services Sun
day at 11 am and Wednesday at 8
p m Subject Doctrine of Atone
ment Mootings held in tho Diamond
block Room open Wcdnesdayb and
Saturdays from 2 to 1 p in Science
literature on sale
Concjieeuatioxal Sunday school at
10 a m Easter service with sermon by
pastor at 11 a in and Easter Concert b
the Sunday school at S p in Junior
E at 3 p in Senior C E at 7 p in
Prayer meeting every Wednesday at S
Tho public is cordially invited to thehe
services G B Hawkes Pastor
Methomst Sunday school at 10 a in
Easter sunrise prayer meeting at 7 a in
Worship with special Knights Templar
service at 11 Junior League at 4 Ep
worth League atG Easter Cantatta
Morriah Victorious by church choir
at S Prayer meeting Wednesday night
at 9 pm You aro welcomed and math
glad at this church Sunday school
every Sunday in South McCook at
M B Cakman Pastor
Look Look Look
add see what we have this week
A li ineh No 2 Star plow or lister lay
fitted ana sharpened on any plow or
lister fur 275
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