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* Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. XiOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. The spit ball and the high ball will be rivals in the public mind this sum mer. • Build your own monument. Do not strive to compel your fellow-citizens to build it for you. A saline solution may bring the dead to life, but has no effect on those politically dead. King Edward is no longer able to set the pace, but he has a store of in teresting recollections. If, as Mark Twain contends, clothes are royalty, it is easy to see why some women are queens. __*_ When lovely woman wields the ham mer, she sometimes hits the nail on the head—the thumb nail. Andrew Carnegie now says he has no intention of dying poor. Has the needle’s eye lost its terrors? There may be 73,000 germs in a dol lar bill, but we prefer to count the bills and estimate the germs. If a man can't get enough trouble to suit him any other way, he can always try to raise a vegetable garden. It would be a decided relief to find some man cleaning up $1.80 in a stock deal instead of making $1,000,000. A California professor has found an ichthyosourus. Why didn't he get on the water wagon as it was driven by? A Baltimore scientist has discover ed that Adam had thirteen ribs. No wonder he was willing to part with one. It's a mighty poor sort of man who hasn't a cure for grip; but under some circumstances it is well to encourage poverty. As soon as the jury learned that Cassie was to write a book it hesitated no longer and fixed the sentence at ten years. At last the real yellow peril has been discovered. An English doctor has found that the grip germ comes from China. The Philadelphia I.edger says that fame awaits the man who will give us a national song. What’s the matter with Hiawatha? Cassie Chadwick says that the loan sharks made all the trouble. In the words of the transpontine melodrama, “Alone they done it!” In New York a mother and her daughter have hypnotized each other speechless. That beats all records in mutual admiration societies. Mr. Carnegie says wealth is not so much after all. However, it may be easier for a man in Carnegie’s position to take this philosophical view. A recently invented machine, it is said, will turn out 10,000.000 matches a day; but nobody will ever be able to find a match when he wants it, all the same. The human heart is said to beat 92.100 times a day. Hard to believe that there’s any such activity in the immediate vicinity of Russell Sage's ossification. A Pennsylvania city council will from now on open its meetings with prayer. It will no doubt continue to open the town treasury in the old lashioned way. If the existing portraits and statues of Mother Eve may be regarded as even approximately accurate the poor woman’s waist must have been fright fully out of fashion. Four cents was recently added to the United States conscience fund. One cent more, and the aforesaid sum would doubtless have gone to swell some brewer’s bankroll. The Duke of Manchester was lost for ten days in Mexico. A strange feature of the case was that people thought seriously of forming searching parties for the purpose of going out and find ing him. Prof. Samuel Williston says the earth 3,000,000 years hence will be given over entirely to birds. Hence the anti-Audobon milliners are seen to be only taking their revenge for extinction beforehand. One of the medical papers has a long article on the subject. “How' Colds Are Caught,” but it doesn’t fill the long felt want. It’s easy enough to catch colds. What people want to know is hew to get rid of them. It is a remarkable fact that when children are bern on railway trains it is almost invariably a case of twins. Let the scientists turn their attention from the spots on the sun, for awhile, and explain this more important mys tery to us. The New Jersey justice of the peace who tartly ruled that a woman’s tongue is a concealed weapon, within the meaning of the law. was promptly overruled by a higher court. Of course! The mean thing! He ought to be ashamed! Dr. Wiley, the government chemist, says there is no reason why the aver a man should not be useful until he is 90 years of age. It is not difficult to guess who would be elected if Wiley and Osier were running against each other for the presidency. Five hundred and twenty-five dollars a square foot has just been paid for a little piece of land 40 feet square in New York city. It does seem a high price, even remembering that the land is on a Broadway corner, and reckon ing that it is 4^)00 miles deep. Arise, my heart, and sing thy Easter song! To the great anthem of returning bird, And sweetening bud, and green, ascending blade, Add thou thy word. Long was the winter and the waiting long; Heart, there were hours, indeed, thou wert afraid,— So long the Spring delayed. ShuMn the Winter’s alabaster tomb, So white and still and sleeping Summer lay, That dead she seemed; And none might know how in her magic side. Slept the young Spring, and moved, and smifed, And dreamed. Behold, she wakes again, and open-eyed, Gazes in wonder round the leafy room, At the young flowers. Upon this Easter Day Awaken, too, my heart, open thine eyes, And from thy seeming death thou, too, arise. Arise, my heart; yea, go thou forth ana sing! Join thou thy voice to all this music sweet, Of crowding leaf, and busy, building wlhg, And falling showers; The murmur soft of little lives new-born, The armies of the grass, the million feet Of marching flowers. How sweetly blows the Resurrection horn Across the meadows, over the far hills! In the soul’s garden a new sweetness stirs. And the heart fills, And in and out the mind flow the soft airs. Arise, my heart, and sing, this Easter mom; tn the year’s resurrection do thy part,— Arise, my heart! Richard Le Galliene. < ORIGIN OF THE EASTER FESTIVAL By J. F. CARRERE The name Easter is of Saxon orig in, being derived from that of the Goddess Estera, in whose honor sac rifices and celebrations took place at the opening of spring. With the ad vent of Christianity these heathen ceremonies were discontinued, but as they had occurred at the time of the year when the resurrection of Christ was celebrated by the church the old name was applied to the new festival. With the Latin races, however, the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ having occurred at the time of the Jewish passover, they have called the festival by a name suggesting that fact, thus the French name for Eas ter is Paques and the Spanish Pas cua. As with all the other great festivals of the church, the date when Easter should be celebrated has been the cause of bitter controversy. The Eastern church insisted that it should be celebrated on the day of the month on which the event commemorated occurred, and as the crucifixion is supposed to have taken place on the fourteenth of Nison, the first Jewish month or Passover, on that date it was commemorated, and the resurrec tion two days later, on the sixteenth, regardless of whether those dates came on Friday and Sunday or not. The Western, church entirely dis carded the day of the month in ar ranging for the celebration and in sisted that the crucifixion should al ways be commemorated on a Friday and the resurrection on a Sunday. The matter finally came up for ad justment before the Council of NI caea, in 325, which decided in favor of the Western contention, but the Eastern church refused to change its custom and thus gave rise to what is known as the “quartodeciman here sy.” At the time of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar it was debated whether the feast of Easter should be given a fixed date or left movable as before, and the decision was final'y reached in favor of the latter plan, as conforming to the ancient custom of the church. Easter therefore is al ways the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the 21st of March (the equinox), unless the full moon occur on Sun day, when Easter is the following Sunday. It must be remembered, however, that it is not the actual moon is the heavens nor even the mean moon of the astronomers that regulates the time of Easter, but an altogether imaginary moon, whose periods are so contrived that the new (calendar) moon always follows the real new moon sometimes by two cr even three days. The effect of this is that the 14th of the calendar moon, which had from the times of Moses been considered full moon for ecclesi astical purposes, generally fell on the 15th or ICth of the real moon and i thus after the real full moon, which is generally on the 14th or 15th of the month. With this explanation then of what is meant by the full moon, namely, that it is the 14th of the calendar moon, the rule is that Easter day is always the first Sunday after the Pascal full moon, which hap pens upon or next after the 21st of March, and if the full moon happens on a Sunday, then Easter is the Sun day following. One object of this ar rangement was that Easter and the Jewish Passover should not coincide. Easter is always between March £2 and April 25. The last time Easter came on March 22 was in 1818 and it will not occur that early again in this century. It may prove interesting to those who are mathematically inclined tc figure out when Easter will occur in any given year in this century. If so, here is a rule they can follow: First, divide the date of the year by 19 and call the remainder a; divide the date of the year by 4 and call the remain der b, then divide the date of the year by 7 and call the remainder c. Sec ond, divide 19a plus 24 by 30 and call the remainder Third, divide 2b plus 4c plus 6d plus 5 by 7 and call the remainder e; then Easter will be the 22d plus d plus e of March; or the d plus e minus 9 of April. There are two exceptions to that rule: If Easter falls under the calculation on April 26, put it back to the 19th of that month, and when it falls on April 25, put it back to the 18th un less d equal 29 and e equal 5. With the substitution of Easter for the old festival of the Goddess Estera all the old customs of the Saxons were not abandoned, but, on the con trary, were preserved and Christian ized. Thus the custom of giving eggs, many of them beautifully col ored, to friends at Easter was kept up and the eggs were blessed by the church. From the earliest ages the egg has been considered as a symbol of the beginning of life and therefore was considered a very appropriate present at the beginning of spring when all life is budding out and be ginning anew. The custom of “pick ing eggs.” that is to say, of striking their points together, which is a *a vored amusement with boys in the Eastern States, is also probably ol very ancient origin, and was prob ably practiced by the ancestors o our juvenile Americans of to-day cen turies ago. In Washington Eastei Monday is the great children’s day o' the year. On that day thousands o' children congregate on the rolling lawn behind the White House ant1 while the Marine Band discourse? lively music they amuse themselves rolling eggs down the lawn. All the w'eek previous to Easter has been a series of commemoration ir the church, Thursday. Friday anf Saturday being especially solemn fes tivals; Thursday in commemoratior of the Lord’s supper, Friday of his crucifixion and Saturday the Eastei celebration really begins. In man) parts of Europe, especially in Russia and during the middle ages, services were held all night before Easter un til cockcrow, which is the hour at which the resurrection is supposed tc have taken place. The devout re mained for hours in prayer untf morning, when they at once salutec each other with the salutation. “Christ is risen,” to which the answer was, “Yes. he is truly risen.” That form of salutation is still the one in Russia Easter morn. In continenta' Europe, however, and in Great Britain the church began the celebration oi Easter at the mass of the previous day, or Saturday, and the bells on the churches, which had been silent since Thursday, were again rung during the service. At the Saturday service, too. in the Catholic churches a large candle if blessed, and also the new fire to re call the resurrection of Christ, the candle forming a conspicuous objec’ in the sanctuaries of the churches un til Ascension day, forty days later The Spirit of Easter / m.* /jjnran Easter is the promise of the Lord that all the best and noblest in man shall be renewed, even as growth and bloom and ripening shall not cease. The bars of winter are broken, and the iron bands of death are riven. The bird is on the wing, and the flight of the soul shall know no weariness. The lilies lift their holy white grails, brimmed with the sunshine of God’s love. For has not the Lord mani fested His love in flowers and in the upspringing of green things? They are sweet interpreters of large cer tainties. Each year the winter cuts them down, and each spring they put forth again. Every spring is a new page in the book of revelation, where in we read that life is an eternal genesis, and its end is not; for it endureth forever. • * * Belief in eternal life compels us to believe in good deeds and honest thoughts. The good man toils not for to-day, nor for to-morrow alone, but because he knows that his labpr shall survive long after his hand has fallen from the plow7. The good man pour? himself into the wrorld and makes it new. He is among the blessed whc win sight out of blindness, order out of chaos and life out of death. Since the first Easter morning the soul ol man has shone with unwasting light; for then he looked into the radiant face of the risen Christ, and knew that God’s sairerse shapes itself not to destruction, but to a yet more glorious genesis; yes, it endureth from everlasting to everlasting.—Hei en Keller in the Youth’s Companion Spraying Apple Treej. James Timmons, Huron Co.. Ohio. n«ks (he best time to spray apple trees and the best formula to use. This could be more definitely answered if he had said exactly what he wished to spray for. Seaie infests that section to a very damaging extent, and spraying for this should he done before the buds open in the spring. The lime-sulphur salt-wash is being quite generally used. One great objection to this for the ordinary user not fully provided with the necessary equipment is the trouble in preparing and Keeping the solution in proper condition until ap plied to the trees. There is now being made a prepared article sold under various names placed on the market through advertisements that does away with the trouble and uncertainty of having to prepare the mixture at home. Crude oil applied with an emulsifying spray pump in a 15 to 20 per cent solution, with an oil register ing about 43 degrees ou the Baume scale, wili give excellent results when carefully applied. For this use a line spray and apply enough of the liquid only to moisten the bark of the tree, being sure to reach the upper side of the limb. A preparation of crude oil is now- being sold that readily mixes with water and remains in suspension so that it may be applied with any ordinary sprayer. The bark-louse may be destroyed by spraying with soap and water or the kerosene emulsion about the second week in June. For the codling-moth, apple worm, curculio, canker-worm and the tent-caterpillar spraying should be gin as soon as the blossoms fall with Bordeaux mixture of the regular strength to which is added from one to three pounds of arsenate of lead to fifty gallons of water. Thereafter the foliage should be kept well covered until the fruit is nearly grown.— Farmers’ Review. Soars as Insecticides. A communication from the New York Experiment Station relative to the quality of soaps for insecticides, says: Whale oil, or fish oil, soaps are among the best of contact insecticides if they are of good quality, since they are inexpensive, easy to use, safe and effective. In practice, however, they have been found to give varying re sults, some lots of the solutions made from such soaps failing to kill many of the same kind of insects that other lots of the same apparent strength destroyed completely. The continued occurrence of such failures cast sus picion upon the soaps, and examina tions at the experiment station, by the exact methods of the chemist, proved that they vary to a surprising extent. The best sample contained four times as much actual soap as the poorest one, and one sample of a certain brand was only half as good a soap as an other sample of the same brand from a different package. So unreliable were these soaps that the best solu tion of the problem appeared to be for the users to make the soap at home, if feasible, and a very few trials showed the process of making to be very simple and inexpensive. The soap is made by thorough mix ing of easily obtained materials, with out heating. To make 40 pounds of soap, containing 60 per cent actual soap, requires six pounds of caustic soda. 22 pounds of fish oil and 1 gallons of water. The soda is first dissolved in the water and the oil then added gradually, with constant and vigorous stirring. This soap can be made at a cost of three cents a pound or less. Used at the rate of one pound to seven gallons of water, the solution will destroy plant lice, scales and other soft-bodied sucking insects without injury to foliage. Seeds of Pines and Cedars. It is not generally supposed seeds of pines and cedars do any better in fertilized earth than in earth that has received applications of manure. But these trees respond to a good supply of plant food as much as do other plants and trees. Pines and cedars are. however, slow growers, and in the forests have the protecting shade of other trees till they get a start. It is. therefore, found to be best to plant the seeds of these in beds where they can be shaded partly during the first two years, after which they may be planted out into the timber belt or forest plantation. For the Family Orchard. Choice of varieties of fruit for the family orchard is a matter of a great deal of importance. The mistake is frequently made of choosing too few varieties for this orchard. The com mercial orchard should have but few varieties, but the opposite is the case in the family orchard. It is best to select well-known varieties, of which there are enough to satisfy any epi cure. Planting Tree Seeds. When seeds of forest trees kept over winter have become dry they should be soaked before being plant ed. In the case of some seeds this soaking will need to be continued for two or thiee days. If the shells are hard pouring hot water over them will help to soften them. The soft shelled seed, like the Catalpa, will need to be planted early in the spring and should not be planted any deeper than is necessary to get them in soil that will keep them moist. Fruit on All Kinds of Soil. Fruit of some kind or other may be grown to advantage on almost every kind of soil and kind of loca tion. As to apple trees, both upland and lowland have advantages. On the lowlands the trees make a more vigor ous growth than on the uplands, while the trees on the upland come into bearing earlier and are more regular in their bearing habits. --- The hog is not as dirty an animal as some suppose. He must have cleanly conditions to be able to do his best. The Hen and the Mortgage. I want to tell the Farmers' Review how we have been getting along with our mortgage. In a word we have pitted the hen against it. The mort gage used to be a great burden on our minds. Father and mother used to lie awake nights thinking about it and wishing it could be paid off, as we were always getting behind with the interest. One day my older brother was in town and the banker that holds the mortgage said: "Why don’t you set the hens to paying the inter est and make them do it? Then you wouldn't have to worry about the mortgage. I don’t want my money. I only want the interest on it, and to know that my investment is secure. Hut the hens to work.” -My brother came home and told the rest of us about it, and we deter mined that the hens would have to pay the interest, which was 5120 per year, fi per cent on 52,000. Then we went to studying the matter of pro ductive hens and found that we didn't know what our hens w’ere doing or how little they were doing. We de termined that we would keep not less than 200 Leghorn hens and we bought an incubator to help us get the 20U. It took us about a year to get rid of the old mongrel flock and get 200 Leghorns. That was about five years asro. Since that time we have not felt the weight of the mortgage. The 2u0 Brown Leghorns turn out enough eggs every year to pay the interest and they yield a good deal of revenue besides. The male birds are shipped as broilers to New York when a few weeks old. It may seem strange to j-ome that we should use the Brown Leghorns for broilers, but the market there seems to think a good deal ol that kind of a broiler. • The feed for these hens does not cost a great deal. First and last the iarm produces a great deal of the food that would go to waste without the Leghorns, especially at threshing time. The amount of green grass consumed by them is a big factor in their sup port. We have also found that 200 hens are not many hens. As we see them walking about the farm we are almost sure sometimes that half of them have died or been stolen, but when we come to count them all are found to be there. I feel quite sure that on most of our farms the fiock of hens is too small uj half.— Phoebe Caldwell, Butler Co. O., in Farmers’ Review. Records of Egg Production. Records of egg production are gen orally incomplete. We have not yel got down to the point of keeping a strict account with each hen of ? large flock. On the farm this is more so than anywhere else. The farm work always interferes with any such pas time even if the farmer has a liking for it. But it is a mistake for oui poultry raisers to be entirely ignorant of the individual capacities of tha fowls that constitute their flocks. Adjustable Poultry Houses. Adjustable poultry houses are com ing into vogue in many places, but ii will be a long time before many of them are found on our farms. Such a house is a very good thing to have Id a village where the resident is a ten ant and does not wish to build some thing that will belong to the owner of the place. The samo is true of the renter on the farm. In some of out states there is a law that every build ing erected that is in permanent con tact with the soil belongs to the owner of the soil even though it may have been constructed by the tenant. Bu. a house such as we have indicated is not in contact with the soil in the sense in which an ordinary building is in contact with it, where a cellar is dug or where posts are set intc the earth. The poultry house that car be taken down and moved about is therefore, an advantage to the tenant farmer. A Venerable Goose. A Kansas man sends the following interesting goose story to the Kansas Farmer: “I have a goose that was hatched out in April, 1852. Eggs were placed under a hen and three goslings hatched. When grown they proved tc be two geese and a gander, 't reated as pets by the old lady who had them in charge, they were always very tame, and she was never quite ready to part with them, so they were permitted to live on until their age unfitted them for market. And besides, as the years went by, we began to venerate them, and the younger members of the fam ily politely doffed their hats when in their presence. Thirteen years age the gander died, and five years later one of the geese. The survivor is yet hale and hearty, eyesight as good as ever, and in every way appears just as nimble and sprightly as her younger associates.” Finished Lumber for Coops. The use of finished lumber for coops is to be commended. It is a mistake to use old half rotten boards for the construction of such coops, even though they may be used for but one season. The mites will find the numerous cracks great harboring places, and the rats will be able to gnaw through them if they have occa sion to do so. The painting of such coops is a discouraging job, while the painting of the smooth lumber is a pleasant pastime. When properly painted well-made coops may be kept for years. They can be made so that they can be easily taken to pieces when the time, comes to put them away for the winter. No Over-Supply of Eggs. The supplying of eggs is an indus try that we may be assured will never grow less than it is at the pres ent time. Farmers and professional men have been increasing their flocks and fowls arid yet the price of eggs has been going up from year to year. The cold storage houses used to carry some stock till late winter, but it is reported now that they are sold out every winter before the season is half gone. Let us push the production of eggs. THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE. Mrs. S. W. Marine of Colorado Spring* Began to Fear the Worst—Doan'» Kidney Pills Saved Her. Mrs. Sarah Marine, of 428 SL T’rain street, Colorado Springs, Colo.. Presi dent of the Glen Eyrie Club, writes. “1 sunereu ior throe years with severe back ache. The doc tors told me my kidneys were af fected and pre scribed m e d i eines for me, but I found that it w as only a waste of time and money to take them, and bcga» to tear that 1 would never get well. A friend advised me to try Doan's Kidney Pi ns. Within a week after I began using them I was so much better that I de cided to keep up the treatment, aud when I had used a little over two boxes I was entirely well. I have now enjoyed the best of health for more than four mon*’is, and words can but poorly express my gratitude." For sale by all dealers. Price cents. Foster Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N.Y. Private and Government Property. There is a difference between gov* ernment and public property. While all property owned by a nation of municipality is government property, still there is a part of that which i* public property, as, for instance* parks and libraries, which may be used by the general public. Forts b® long to the army and ships to the navy are government property, buf are not for the use of the general i public. Ways of Spelling Smith. A German resident in Portugal whose patronymic is Schmitz, or oui famous English Smith, has been writ ing home to Cologne complaining ol the spelling of his name adopted by various Portuguese correspondents. Here are a few of them: Smhytis Scimithz, Xemite, Chemitiz and Schemeth. City Father’s Promise. At an English town council meeting a newly-fledged magistrate, in thank ing his colleagues for the honor they han conferred on him, instead of say ing he would temper justice with mercy in the petty sessions court, as sured them that he would do his best to "tamper with justice and mercy." In the Spring. Lowndes, Mo., April 10th.—Mrs. II. C. Harty of this place, says: — “For years I was in very bad health. Every spring I would get 60 low that I was unable to do my own work. I seemed to be worse in the spring than any other time of the year. I was very weak and miserable and had much pain in my back and head. I saw Dodd’s Kidney Pills advertised 'last spring and began treatment of them and they have certainly done m* more good than anything I have ever used. “I was all right last spring and felt better than I have for over ten years. I am fifty years of age and am strong er to-day than I have been for many years and I give Dodd's Kidney Pills credit for the wonderful Improve ment.” The statement of Mrs. Harty is only one of a great many where Dodd s Kidney Pills have proven themselves to be the very best spring medicine. They are unsurpassed as a tonic and are the only medicine used In thou sands of families. It is ever so much easier to be nic« to people far below yo\j in social sta tion than to those just on the next lower step of the ladder. LYMAN COUNTY EXTENSION. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway has decided upon an exten sion of its line from Chamberlain west through Lyman County, opening up a region of cheap lands, rich in agricultural resources, and in which there is already much deeded land, also a large acreage that may be had under the homestead law. Lyman County is in the southern part of South Dakota, adjoining the Rosebud Indian Reservation on the north. The soil cf Lyman County is one of the richest in the state. It has pro duced corn of an excellent quality, having taken first prize at the Mitch ell Corn Palace during several of the past exhibits. It is well adapted to the growth of wheat, oats, barlev. speKz. and other small grains. I^nd Is selling now at the rate of from $:> to $12 an acre, and as soon as tie railway extension is made it is saf* to say that such lands will increase in value from 100 to 200 per cent All that Lyman County has lack-1 heretofore has been ability to z t rroducts across the Missouri river to markets. The extension of the chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ra lwav will solve that problem and will m-,^* U one of lie richest sections It takes sunshine in the soul tm ripen the fruits of the spirit. How’s This? offer One Hundred iMiete , «'f « *Urrh itu cannot bj *** Catarrh Cure. m rured by He., § We. the iinderalKne</ TulMo- °" fortheia.t 15 veer. “ levi h *" F J erebie tn ell KelMeirtiS2!!lr* »?»««» E2 ehl, to carry out any sb.i*.,,. nZ™* f •wEJiirv" * M’ir'f* Heir. 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