Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1888 — Page 4

rSTDIAlSTAPOIilS JOXTKTAIj, SATURDAY, 3IAUOH 31, 1838

THE DAILY JOURNAL. SATURDAY". SIARCH 31, 1SS3.

WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenths. P. S. Hiath. Correspondent. SEW VOTilC OFFICE 104 Temple Coart, C orner Eeekman and Kann streets. TEItAIS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. Dee year, without Fnnday. ..... Ore year, with Sunday Fix months, without Sunday.... Six months, with Sunday Three months, withont Sunday.. Thre month, with Sunday...... One month, withont Sunday...... Doe month, with Sunday WEEKLY. Per year.. .$12.00 . 14.o . COO . 7.00 . 3.00 . 3.50 . l.OO . 1.20 $1.00 F educed Rates to CI ubs. TOE INOIANAPOI.I4 JOL'KXAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & CO., 154 "Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUTS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. 0. Riggs House and Ehbit House. Telephone Calls. Business OSce .238 Editorial Rooms 224 "Honest Dick Tate" has been impeached and removed from office as Treasurer of the State of Kentucky. THE squeals from the direction of the postoffice show that somebody was hard hit. Mr. Foulke is apt to strike from the shoulder. OUR Washington correspondent says there is good reason to believe that Rafus Peckham, of the New York Court of Appeals, will be appointed Chief justice. THE House of Representatives yesterday passed bills granting pensions of $2,000 to the widows of Generals Logan and Frank Blair. Of course, Colonel Matson opposed them. They always have an eye to business in Chicago. Any person who subscribes $50 to the local fund to take care of the Republican national convention receives an admission ticket with coupons attached for each day. . THE little tin-bucket company has four gangs of men at work on the streets, and the Indianapolis company three. The Trust has made a contract ior laying its irun line irom Noblesville to the city. This is business. Push on the boom. Democratic organs insist strenuously upon the appointment of a young man to the chiefjusticeship, but it will hardly do to take one too young. In this age of progress and intelligence he might tarn Republican, and what would the Democracy do then, poor thing? On the heels of Mr. Foulke's exposure of the civil-service farce in Indiana, Mr. Cleveland finds it convenient to again pose before the country as a great civil-service reformer, and has addressed a letter to the civil-service board expressing his beautiful sentiments. The Journal most emphatically agrees with Senator Ingalls, who writes to a friend that "unless the Republican party has the courage and intelligence to wage the ensuing campaign upon the platform of equal and exact justice to all under the law, they will fail, as they deserve to fail." "Whether it suits mugwumps and milksops or not, only upon a platform of that kind can the Republican party hope to succeed. The New York Board of Aldermen, with true demagogic instinct, passed a resolution taking away from the Mayor the absolute power of controlling the flags on the City Hall, and vesting it in the board. When his Honor heard of it, he mildly remarked that it would save him a good deal of trouble, and he hoped the aldermen would have a good time. Under the new order the number of national flags displayed on the City Hall will probably depend on the number of foreignLorn voters in New York. The rise and fall of Henry George illustrates the fickleness of popular fame. As the author of "Poverty and Progress," and of a chimericalscheme for abolishing private ownership in lands, he was the real founder of the Anti-poverty Society. For quite a while he was so recognized, and the mention of his name was cbeered at all meetings. Now it is hissed. Ho has been completely supplanted by Dr. McGlynn, who has shown himself a more artful demagogue than his teacher. The "you're another" Btyle of argument which has been adopted by the Sentinel is not as effective as might be wished. The weakness of it, so far as the postal department is concerned, lies in the fact that however strong may have been the partisanship under Republican administrations the service wai very close to perfection. Under the present arrangement it is offensive partisanship first and efficiency afterward, and if the partisan can't learn his business it makes no difference to the reform administration. The Fort Wayne Gaz-te says: "General Harrison's speech last r 'toing was a masterly exposition of the fallacies of free-trade theorists', and offered conclusive proof that the Republican policy of protection is what has brought the country to its present advanced stage of progress." It Also remarks of the General that "he is a man who would be an honor to the State of Indiana in any position in which he might be placed. He is an able and powerful speaker, a Republican from away back, and proud of it." The Third Assistant Postmaster-general, Mr. H. R. Harris, seems to have constituted himself a sort of literary censor. In refusing the application of a New York story paper to be entered as second-class matter, Mr. Harris takes occasion to eay that "there's too much printed matter, to many magazines, already." This feeling seems to be general among posteffice official under this administration. Mr. Judd, the postmaster of Chicago, whose habit is to open newspapers which he suspects of

containing marked articles referring in an uncomplimentary way to himself, and to throw them out of the mails, is of the same opinion. Postmasters and festal-clerks who find that the distribution of the newspaper mail interferes with their duties as party "workers," also cherish similar notions. In fact, the Democracy would get along much more smoothly if literature in general, and the opposition press in particular, could be suppressed altogether. Fortunately, however, for the people who want to know what is going on, the Harrises and the Juddsare not likely to have their way entirely, and papers will continue to be published and tell the news and the facts without fear or favor.

BOMB FIGUEES TO STUDY. Ernest Kitz was trustee of Center township for four years. He expended during that time, of moneys received from taxation, including a balance of about $19,000 left over from Trustee Harvey $196,119.03 He left outstanding warrants to the amount of.. ... 64.000.00 Making a total of $256,119.08 An average expenditure each year of.... $64,029.77 Captain Charles J. Many has been trustee for two years. Daring the first .year of his term Many expended a total cf $42,469.42 During the second year he expended 43,263.80 A total of $85,732.22 A yearly average of $42,866. 11 and on the first day of March, 1888, he had on hand a balance of $12,404.09, besides paying $6,000 of the Kitz debt and $3,600 of interest on the same. This is the way the account stands: Yearly expense under Kitz $64,029.77 Yearly expense under Many ....... 42, 866. 1 1 Difference in favor of Many. $21,163.66 Captain Many is a candidate for re-election. The voters of Center township will be called upon, on Monday next, to pass their verdict upon the prudent and economical management revealed in the above figures, which have been taken from the township books. What will the verdict be? Is it worth while for the tax-payers of the township to wake up to the interests involved in next Monday's election? "AN UPEIGHT CITIZEU." The Democratic nominee for the office is Mr. S. N. Gold, for many years a commission merchant in this city. He is well-known as an upright citizen and a good business man. The News. Mr. Samuel N. Gold, the Democratic nominee for township trustee, was a member of the Coy-Bernhamer canvassing board. When a certain precinct, possibly the second of the Twenty-fifth ward, was reached, it was discovered that the votes for Judge Irvin had been copied into the "Circuit Court" line, whereupon, it is stated on good authority, Mr. Gold moved that the rotes be thrown out, thus proposing to disfranchise the entire Republican vote of that precinct and thereby aid' the conspiracy to steal that office for the benefit of the Liquor League. Before the motion was put, it was found that the same clerical error had been committed with the vote for Albert Ayres, and as the Democrats had a majority of the votes in the precinct, Mr." Gold's motion was not entertained or voted upon. During the time convict "472" was ruling with high-handed criminality to carry out the crime of forgery already perpetrated on the tally sheets, Mr. Samuel N. Gold was particularly demonstrative in abetting and encouraging the now convicted chairman, crying out, "Give it to them! Make them take their own medicine!" and the like. If this sort of conduct, on the part of a man acting as an election officer under oath, is indicative of "an upright citizeo," God save the city and the body politic from upright citizens! Will the voters of Center township be cajoled into casting their votes for such a tool of the infamous tally-sheet forgery gang on the specious plea that he is "a good business man" and "an upright citizen?" 4 INDIANA IN 1838. The Boston Herald, discussing the political outlook, says: "Indiana is a growing State, and this makes an element of doubt in her vote; but though the Republicans had a popular majority there two years ago, it was a very small one. and easily accounted for by Democratic folly. Of the four contested Northern States, we should be inclined to hold that Republican chances were better in both Connecticut and New Jersey than they are in Indiana." That may do for a long-range opinion? but it will not bear ecru tiny. First, while it is true the Republican majority (plurality) of two years ago, in Indiana, was not very large numerically, it was large considering the circumstances. The Republican plurality was 3,329 in a total vote of 474,3.31. Mr. Cleveland's majority in New York was only 1,047, in a total vote of 1,171,000, yet the Herald expects him to carry New York again on the strength of that meager majority. Under the circumstances, a Republican majority of one in Indiana would have been a great victory. The Herald says the Republican victory in 18S6 Is ''easily accounted for by Democratic folly." In so far as that is true it portends Republican victory in 18S3. Democratic folly in this State is not only a continuing influence, but a cumulative-one. The party has carried over the stock of two years ago and added largely to it. The Herald could hardly be expected to know the true inwardness of Indiana politics, but it should not fall into the error of supposing that the crop of Democratic folly in this State ever fails. The crop now harvested or in sight is unusually large. Finally, we fail to see why Republican chances should be better in either Connecticut or Sew Jersey than in this State. The Democrats carried both of those States in 1884. They carried them again in 1SS6, but at the legislative election in 1387 New Jersey was carried by the Republicans. The Republicans have a better foothold and prospect in Indiana than they have in either of the other States named. They ought to carry all three, but they certainly will carry this State if the national Republican convention is wise enough to recognize the fact that Indiana is the battle ground. Birmingham honored Mr. Joseph Chamberlain right royally in presenting him with the

freedom of the city. His reception was exceedingly cordial,' party lines being quite -ignored. In his speech at the banquet Mr. Chamberlain spoke in the warmest terms of bis reception and treatment in the United States. Regarding the impressions received by him while here, he said he never could dia cover that Americans cared a straw for the judgment or criticism of foreign nations; but, with sentiments which did them honor and which must be pleasurable to the English, they looked to the mother country with an earnest desire and craving for justice and friendly. appreciation. He ventured to tell his American friends that there was a feeling of pride, not unmixed with envy, among all classes in Great Britain at the great expansion, extraordinary prosperity and ever increasing intelligence and cultivation of the American people. To be an American was in itself a passport to the good will of every Englishman.

NEW YORE ELECTION FBATJDSSome of the inside history of the last city election in New York is coming to light. The main interest of tile election centered in the contest for district prosecutor, in which the opposing candidates were Mr. De Lancy Nichols and Mr. Fellows, the former the Reform-Democratic candidate, and the latter regular Democratic. President Cleveland wrote a letter indorsing Mr. Fellows. He was elected and it was claimed as a Democratic victory. Evidently it was. The report of the grand jury, made after a partial investigation of the facts, says: "There was carried into effect a scheme of bribery and corruption so alarming as to call for the most vigorous action upon the part of those charged with the duty of defending the community against crimes of so dangerous a character. Evidence discloses the fact that in many election districts the entire control of the polls was in the hands of well-known professional criminals, who manned the polls, terrorizing and intimidating respectable voters and openly buying up the votes of tramps and criminals. Evidence has been given that money was openly paid for votes in the presence of officers of the law detailed to protect the purity of the ballot, without interference at their hands." This is New York city politics, or at least Democratic politics. The country has been too long overshadowed by the claims of "the Empire State" to a front place in politics. New York is great in many things, but honest politics is not one of them. There is hardly a Southern State where fair elections are a greater rarity than in New York city. Democracy runs as wild there as it does in any part of the South. It is about as useless for the Republicans to try to secure a fair election and an honest count in New York city as it is in Yazoo county, Mississippi. Mr. Blaine was unquestionably counted out in 1884. The Democracy are too well organized. When professional criminals man the polls and control the approaches ' to the ballot-boxes, what can be expected? It is about time for Republicans to realize that they have precious little chance in a State where the criminal classes are as strong as they are in New York. The graduates of Sing-Sing and Auburn are too numerous. The hope of the Republican party does not lie there. A CLERK in the money-order division of the Chicago postoffice has been discharged for insubordination. His offense was protesting against being discriminated against and oversloughed in promotions. Since his discharge he is at liberty to speak, and he says there are a number of persons in the office "who cannot understand English, either plain or fancy." Asked what he meant by this he replied: "Simply that the office is filled up with foreigners who have 'pulls,' but who cannot speak, read or write English." This is Democratic reform as taught and practiced in Chicago. A Washington special to a Democratic paper says: "Although Postmaster-general Dickinson has been in office but a few months, he ha3 so thoroughly applied himself to details connected with his department that he has been enabled to institute several very valuable reforms, which in the aggregate will save the government hundreds of thousands annually." As the same wonderful discoveries and reforms were credited to Postmastergeneral Vilas, from the time he entered till he left the office, it is a little remarkable that his successor should find so much room for improvement. THE Princeton Leader, referring to the Insane Asylum outrages under the present management, says: "Almost every man in the State has a relative, a neighbor, a friend, or the relative, neighbor or friend "of his friend, confiued in that institution, and many of them will not sit by and see these unfortunates abused. This matter alone will go far towards keeping Democracy out of power in Indiana, and if all the voters of the State could be brought to an understanding of affairs that has existed at the asylum for the past three years the Republican majority- in the State would reach 50, COO this fall" The Auburn Dispatch expresses a very general feeling when it says: "Although Senator Ingalls may have been more severe than courteous in his now famous speech in the Senate, when he so bitterly excoriated the President and other prominent, Democri' S it must be confessed that much of his address is pleasant to the taste of men who were loyal when the Nation was most in need of loyal men." The Columbus Republican, commenting on Hon. W. D. Foulke's recent statement before the Senate committee, says: "The testimony makes mighty interesting reading, and every one should read it, especially those who believe in the frank, bluff honesty of Grover Cleveland, who made a hobby of civil-service reform, and even yet poses before the public as its champion." To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journafe State if a trustee 13 eligible to hold the office again after having served eighteen months by appointment and one term by electioo; the terms served and the one expiring? being in succession. Reaper. Xenia, March 27. lie is. The constitution expressly exempts pro tempore appointments from running, against a limited eligibility to office. A Washington Jenkins reports Senator Ingalls as having the smallest foot in the Senate. As Mr. Ingalls has shown himself capable of lifting" more Democrats than any other Sena tor, his foot seems to make up in jspwer what it lacks in size. . Mas. Laura C Hollowai told the International Council that editors male editorswere just as nice as nice could tie, or words to

that effect. Mrs. Hofloway is evidently a woman of great discrimination, and the Journal has reason to believe is one of the loveliest of her sex. '; The women of the International Council are certainly irrepressible if they ean look at their portraits in the illustrated papers and feel that their convention has not been a fail nee.

POLITICAL NOTES. . R. M. Pickles wants to be Lieutenant-governor of Kansas. His campaign is in soak. The Chattanoora Justice, a colored organ, says that the Southern delegates will go to Chicago with the determination to help nominate the man whom the North can elect. Philadelphia Press: The . Cleveland and Gorman ticket is a brand new and unique combination. It is so adjusted that on end of it would rather in the mugwumps while the other would reach for the spoilsmen. Then we should se the spectacle cf Carl Schurz and Eugene Higgina walking hand in hand. One of the reasons of the growing belief that the. Republicans may have a fighting ehance in North Carolina this year is that the Democratic party has increased the expenses of the State government from $ 765,000 to more than $1,000.000. . The farmers' movement against over-taxation is acquiring an ominous strength -in the old North State. t COMMENT AND 0PIM0N. There is a considerable lack of surplus in the Kentucky State Treasury. A free (and easy) trader eloped with it Atlanta Constitution. - To talk of a Democrat being ''better than his party" is rbsurd. If there is such a man, he is no longer a Democrat, but has become a Republican. Chicago Journal. By way of showing what a flimsy foundation Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent is built on, the death of Chief-justice Waits knocked telephone stock down fifteen points. Perhaps we will vet see monopoly smashed up. Baltimore Press. The Republicans are hopeful of carrying Louisiana this year, but if they fail nobody need be disappointed. Oar party can never count with anything like certainty upon a State whose people annually spend $18.09 per capita for whisky and only 44 cents per capita for schools. Philadelphia Press. The name most frequently mentioned in Washington for the vacant chief-justiceship is that of Mr. Phelps, our present miuUter to Eneland. Mr. Phelps has n wide reputation for learning in constitutional law, but, in view of bis recent performances as a writer on that subjeer, we are compelled to believe that his reputation in that respect is very inadequately founded, and that he is not at all a fit man to be Chief-justice of the United States. New York Commercial Advertiser. Louisiana should give a Republican majoritv. Only the fact that the South remains "solid" for the Democratic party, and is kept so by the most infamous and atrocious means, remains to divide the Northern people from those at the South. But so long as the South decides elections by such methods as are punished by State's prison sentences in the North, there cannot be. and there ought not to be, a kindly feeling at the North toward the South.- Fair elections only are necessary to produce entire reconcile ment and peace. Chicago Journal. One great defect in the system of general suffrage, as practiced in the United States, is the tendency of an enormous number of people to judee matters by the force of their sentiments, rather than by the dictates of their reason. This is in many ways a feminine characteristic, and ' the danger which might be expected from unrestricted female suffrage would be that the defect referred to, .already uncomforably pronounced, would be greatly intensified, and ocr national policy be shaped at the bidding of impressions and emotions rather than as the result of cool and dispassionate consideration of facts. Boston Herald. Their Different Ways. I. She sought her "rights." Robbed by some cruel chance of life's delights, With a dissatisfied and restless eoul, With a half logic- which she counted whole. Earnest, no doubt, and honest, not unsexed, But hungering, and querulous, and vexed. With, starving instincts in a fruitless frame. And with an itching for the sort of fame Which comes from the mere printing of a name, She clamored for her "rights," showed solemn craft, And men, Brute men. They only laugheoUII.' She did not seek her "rights." She dreamed not of some path to mannish heights, But followed nature's way and deemed it good. And bloomed from flower to fruit of womanhood; She loved the "tyrant;" bore her noble part In life with him, and thought with ail her heart She had her rights. She beld-that something men and women meant To be unlike, bnt each a supplement . Unto the other; 'twas her Keot'e whim He vs-as not more to her than she to him; And little children gathered at her knee, And men, - Brute men. Would die for such as she. ''hicago Mail. Sex in Sin. Chicago Mail. One of the speakers at the woman's international council in Washington prayed that the time might come when there would be "no sex in crime," referring to the fact that when a man and woman have sinned together, the punishment of the latter is the greater and more lasting. It is possibly true that there should be no sex in crime, but it would not be a bad idea for the woman' council o discuss the question of who baa made this difference, who it is that makes the punishment of women greater than that of men. The men hve not done it. Under the laws made by men women are not the ! oppresse 1. The woman is never punished for the seduction of the man, though the fault is in many cases equal. Men have done all they could to protect women. Women themselves are to blame, and they alone, for the distinction made. - It is women who bunt down an erring sister and who promptly forgive an erring man. Laws can net remedy the eviL Women, by a different creed in private life, many do so. No subject tan be mora profitably discussed by the woman's international council than that of "sex in crime." Allen G. Thurnian and the Forgery Gang. Terre Haute Ex prep. It ia a compensating thought, however, that Judee Thurmau's fame is based on too solid a foundation to be shattered by these assaults. In that reaction which is sure to come this abuse of him will be remembered by his party in hnmiliation and shame, and the men who practice law as at Indianapolis and- Colarabus will be looked on as far more contemptible than the police-court shysters, because under the cloak of their profession they sought, not to give accused men the benefit of all the provision's of the law. but to pervert the issues and by raising party or other prejudices in the minds of the jurymn secure a result such as would not follow an unprejudiced consideration of the facts and the law. -, Dr. Leonard on Ills Travels. Macy Monitor. '? A. B. Leonard, of Ohio, will be at the North Indiana Conference, held at Wabash this week. He i3 always present at. all conferences held in the West. His business and the only business he basin being present, is to "button-hole" the ministers of the conference, and proselyte them to bis favorite dogma prohibition. He would rejoice more in proselyting one Methodist Republican from the ranks of the partv, then he would over the conversion of all the sinners in the bounds of the North Indiana Conference. The conversion of sinners is . not what he is after. He is after Republicans "scalps," and uses his ministerial clothing to get them. General Harrison at Ft. Wayne. Fort Wayne Gazette, Wednesday. Very great interest is already being manifested in the sr eech of General Harrison, to be delivered before the Morton club to-morrow nirht. and laree delegations will be present from neichbormg towns. That his speech should arouse so much feeling so long before the campaign shows that the Republicans of this part of the State are alive to the duties which will devolve uoon them in the coming campaign, and are prepared for an active and aggressive work. A Virtue of Necessity. Portland (Ore News rJ Delegate Voorhees, of Washington Territory, announces in a letter from Waabioeton that he is not a candidate-for re-election. O, most wise young man! A son of Daniel the tall Sycamore of the Wabash come to judgment. Voorhes had not a ghost of a show for ranomination. :-' " " ' Sns tnr DuTlioh' Fort Wayne Speech, Indianapolis ews. General Harrison delivered an address at Fort War ne last night. Of late he has been making a good many speeches, and he has made cone to many. The more he makes the more the people will like him. He has tact, wit and force, and the faculty of thinking acutely on his legs.

THE QUEEN OF FESTIVALS

History of the Origin and Observance of the World's Greatest Day The Folk Lore Connected with Easter Preparations for Comuvmoratinsr "God's Sunday" in Oar City Churches. Very few people, even among devout Christians, can give any accurate acconnt of the origin of the Easter festival, or can tell why is occurs on a different day each year, and how that day is determined. Its name, like those of the days of the week, is a survival of the old Teutonic mythology. To the Germans it was known as Ostern, and to the Anglo-Saxons as Eastre or Eostre, a name derived from Eostre . or Ostora, the Anglo Saxon goddess of spring, to whom the fourth month, answering to our April, thence called Eostur tnonatb, was dedicated. The name of this goddess comes from tbe Saxon oster, to rise. To the French, Easter is known as Paques, to the Italians as Pasqua, and to the Spanish as P&scua, all of which are derived from the Latin Pascha and the Greek Parxa, which are Chaldee or Arm am scan forms of the Hebrew word Pesach, signifying the Passover," by which was meant the passing over of the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt by the destroying angel when he emote the Egyptians, commemorated by the great annual feast so often spoken of in the Scriptures as the Feast of the Passover. Easter, which from its earliest day has been styled the "Queen of Festivals," was the perpetuation of this feast by the first Christians, who, from their close connection with the Jewish church, naturally continued to observe Jewish festivals. Thus the Passover, ennobled by the thought of Christ, tbe true paschal sacrificial lamb the first fruits from the dsad became the Christian Easter. But there quickly sprang up between Christians of Jewish and eentile descent a long-continued and bitter controversy as to the proper time for the observance of this festival. The former insisted that Lent should terminate at tbe same time as the Paschal fast of the Jews, to which it was ana'agous, on the 14th day of the moon, and that Easter should immediately follt.w, without regard to the day of the week. Uentile Christians, on the contrary, maintained that the first d y of the week should be observed as that of our Lord's resurrection, and that the preceding Friday should be kept as the occasion of His crucifixion, without regard to the day of tbe month. By reason of their observance of the 14th day ot the moon, the former class were derisively styled quarto decimani, or fourteenday men, by the latter, who also stigmatized them as heretics. it was the church at Rome that gradually harmonized these differences. The Council of Nicala, called by the Emperor Constantino A. D. 325, partly to settle this controversy, finally agreed that "Easter shall hereafter be kept on one and the same day throughout the world, and none shall hereafter follow the blindness of the Jews." It was also the church at Rome which establiahed the rule that the day for the celebration of our Lord's resurrection should be tbe first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon, which happens on or next after March 21, the vernal equinox, thus allowing it to occur as early as March 22. or as late as April 23. This old Roman rule is still observed throughout the Christian world, tnough, as the cbnrches of Russia and Greece, and, indeed, the Oriental churches generally, still observe the old Julian calendar instead of the more modern Gregorian one, their Easter occurs sometimes before and sometimes after that of tbe Western church, though very rarely, as in 1865, it falls upon the same day. Easter customs, sports and superstitions afford a wide field of interest While many of them have existed almost from the first celebration of this festival, and are found among Christians of all nationalities, there are others which are peculiar to peoples and places. In the middle districts of Ireland there is a superstition that tbe sun dances in the heavens on Easter morning. About ? or 9 o'clock of the previous evening, called "Holy Saturday." the wives of prosperous farmers place many a fat hen and choice piece of juicy bacon in the family pot, and woo betide the luckless wight who ventures to taste before cock crows. At midnight, among universal expressions of joy, there are beard loud cries of "Out with the Lent." Then, after a short period of merriment, the household retires to rest, rising again by 4 o'clock in the morning "to see the sun dance." Nor is this superstition confired to the lower or middle classes, for I have bb u assured by persons of wealth and culture that they have repeatedly seen the sun dance on Easier mornine. The use of flowers to decorate churches at Easter has been in voeue from time immemorial, and tbey were originally intended as direct emblems of the resurrection, having risen in the spring from tbe earth, in which, durine the severe winter, they seem to have been buried. There is an old superstition that unless soma new article of dress is worn on Easter misfortune will be sure to follow throughout the year, as stated by the following couplet in "Poor Robin's Almanac:" At Easter let your clothes be new, Or else be sure you will it rue. - An old English name for Easter was "God's Sunday." In Twickenham, England, it was long customary to divide two large cakes among the young people in the parish church, but in 1645 it was directed by act of Parliament that thenceforward there should be bought, in lieu of the cakes, loaves of bread for the pariah poor, and for many years it was customary to throw loaves from the church tower, to be scrambled for by the poor children on the Thursday following Easter. Among the peasantry of Spain It ia the custom to choose an Easter Kiag, and a good story is told of Charles V, that during one of his journeys he encountered one of these royal personages with a tin crown on his head and a spit in his hand tor a scepter. Wholly ignorant of the real King's rank, tbe peasant ordered him rather roughly to take off his bat to the King of the Easter. "Your Majesty," said the Prince, uncovering with a profound obeisance, "if you find royalty as troublesome as I do, you will soon be glad to abdicate " Abstinence from moat on Easter Sunday will avert fevers during the ensuing year. In certain parts of Eneland the first dish brought to table on that day is a red herring, fashioned by the cook after the likeness of a roan riding on horseback. A piece of baeon is then eaten to 6how abhorrence of Judaism. The usual Easter morning salutation among the primitive Christians wa "Christ is risen," to which the respor se was, "He is ii en indeed," or else "And hath appeared unto Sira-n." In Warvr iekshire, Lancashire and some other counties of England there is an old custom called "lifting" or "heaving." The men lift or heave tbe woman on Easter Monday and the women do likewise to the met on the following day. This lifting or heaving i3 performed by two men or two women claspine each other's wrists in such a way as to form, with the backs of their hands, a seat upon which the person to be heaved sits down. lie or she is then raised and lowered several tims, and often carried a . considerable distance. This was intended to be symbolical of the Saviors rising from the grave. Apropos of this custom a, capital anecdote is told of the late Dean Stanley. While stopping at tbe inn of a Lancashire town one Easter Tuesday, three or four buxom women entered his apartment and announced tL.U they had come to lift him. "To lift m," exclaimed the good man "what do you mean?" "Why, your Grace, we've come to lift you because it is Easter Tuesday." Tbe men lifted all us women yesterday, and to-day us lifts the men." w It was some time before the great churchman could be made to fully understand the nature of the custom, and then be gladly bought the rieht to "lift him" from his fair visitors by paying them half a crown apiece. A century or more ago the Enelifch clergy and laity used to play ball in tbe churches for tansy cakes at Easter-tide. This custom has long been abandoned, bnt tansy cakes and puddings are still favorite Easter delicacies in many part of Eneland, tansy having been selected from the bittr herbs eaten by the Jews at this season. Parish clerks in the counties of Dorset and Devon leave, as an Easter offerinc, at the bouse of every parishoner immediately after the church service on good Friday, a large and a small white cake, having a mioeled sweet and bitter taste. Tnis is evidently a survival of the "Ditter herba" of the passion sapper At Coles Hi'.l. in Warwickshire, if the young men of the town can catch a bare and bring it to theclergvman of the parih before 10 o'elock on Easier Monday, the good man is bound to give them a calf a bead and a hundred eggs for their breakfast, together with a groat in money. Americans vho hav visited Greenwich Hill, near London, at Easter, are familiar with the sight of yourg men and women rolling down the bill together, locked in each other's arms. In Birmingham, the children used to "clip the churches" at Easter. This ceremony was performed by the children assembling at a certain hour and claiping hands with their backs to the

sacred edifice, which was than soon completely encompassed by dullish hands. The oldest, most familiar and mast universal of all Easter customs are those associated with eges. Hundreds of years before Christ, ece held an important place in the theology and phil.-sophy of the Egyptians, Persians. Gauls, Greeks and Romans, among all of whom an egg was the emblem of the universe, while tbe art of coloring it was profoundly studied. The sieht of street boys striking their rival eggs together to see which is the stronger and shall win the other was as common in the streets of Rome and Athens 2.000 years ago, if we are to believe antiquarians, as it is in any of our American cities to-day. These eges, now ealled Easter eggs, were originally known as Pascha ages, corrupted to Paste eggs, because connected with the Paschal or Passover Feast. One reason for associating an egg with the day on whieb our Savior arose from the dead may be that the little chick, entombed, so to speak, in the egg and rising from from it into life was regarded as typical of an ascension from tbe erava. An old North-of-Eogland custom is the exchanging of Easter eggs as present, to which usace the sending of cards and other Easter offerings, of late years so much in vogue in this countrv. may be traced. It is also customary, in England northern counties, to elaborately "engrave" Easter eges by scrapine off tbe dye with, a penknife, thus leaving the design in white apon a colored ground. The full name of the decorator and the date of bis or her birth are often recorded in this manner, and these eggs, preserved as mantle ornaments for generations, present as reliable evidence of dates as tbe records of a family Bible. Geoffrey Williston Christine.

SPECIAL EASTER SERVICES. The Masto Which Wilt Be Rendered In Many of the Churches To-Morrow. The musical features of the Easter services at the various churches this year are attractive, not only in the high class compositions that will be rendered, but in the strengthening of the choirs. The 'decorations of the altars and audience rooms in many of the churches will be more elaborate than 'heretofore. In addition to the beautiful floral emblems suggested by the day, Fletcher Place Church will present a fine programme of Easier songs, the choir being under the direction of Pof. Leedy. The interest of the Sunday-school exercises will be enhanced by readings and recitations. , The musical service at Roberts Park Church will be: Hymn, "I Know that My Redeemer Lives;" Easter anthem, "He is Risen," (Sudds); Easter cantata for soprano, alto, quartet and chorus, "Fill the Font with Roses." (Warren); Gloria (Mozart); hvmn, "In tbe Crose of Christ I Glory;" "Praise-Ye the Father." (March Romaine. bv Gounod); alto solo, "Resurrection," (Holden). s At Christ Episcopal Church the morning music will be, Processional, Hymn 98; Easter Anthem, Chant; Glorias, Maunder; Te Deum. Tours' is F. ; Jubilate, Gilmore; Anthem, "If e believe that Jesus Died," Bunaett; Kyries, Tours' in F-; Offertory. "This is the dy," te; Sanctus, Tours' ia F. ; Gloria in Excelais, 1 hant; Recessional, Hymn 104. Grace Episcopal Church, (the Bishop' ch. ih), corner of North Pennsylvania and St. Joe streets, there will be low celebration of holy communion at 7:30 a. m., a full chora service with high celebration of holy communion at 10:30 a M. , and a children's carol service at 3:30 p. M. There " will also be a full choral service with a sermon at 7:30 p. H. Special Easter music will be sung bv tbe vested choir, assisted by chorno choir, under the direction of the rector, the Rev. Geo. E..Swan, at both morning and evening services. At St. Joseph's Catholic Church the pro gramme for high mass at 10 o'clock will bet "Vidi Agnam," Novell; mass in E flat, C M. Voa Weber; "Veni Creator," La Hache; grand "Ave Maria," Loretz; "Benedietue," J. Haydn. For the afternoon services at 3 o'clock: boleros vespers. Le Jeal; "Magnificat," Le Jeal; "Regin C"eli," Beethoven; -"O SalutariB," Mozart "Tantum Ergo," Bellini; 'Te Deum," Cray. Tbe members of tbe choir are: Soprano, Mrs. Andrew Smith, Mrs. Fremont Frey, Miss Lena Wenger. Miss Stella Nut, Miss Aenes Moran; tenor. Mr. Fremont Frey, Mr. A. Heckler; alto, Mrs. L. W. Louis, Mies Anna Curley; basso, Mr. Louis Dochez, Mr. Wm. Griffin. The programme at the Meridian-street M. E. Cbnrch will be in the morning: Hymn, "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name," Coronation; anthem, "The Lord is Great," (Righini); cornet solo, "Cajns Ammara," (Rossini); hymn, "Hail Tbou Galileean King," (Boon); anthem, "Break Forth into Joy," (Root). The morning programme of the Seventh Presbyterian Church will be as follows: Aa them, "Christ is Risen;" invocation; hymn. "Christ the Lord is Risen Again." (Mozart); responsive reading. "The Benedictns" and "The Magnificat;" prayer; hymn, "Hark! Ten ThousHarps and Voices;" lesson, "The Resurection; voluntary, "Creator Alma," (Hevden); "Easter Tidings," a quartette; sermon, "Vbo shall roll away the stone from the door of the Sepulchre?" anthem, "This is the Father's Will;" hymn, "Christ is God." (Morechio); benediction. There will be no preaching in the evening, as the Sabbath-school is to have an Easier service at that time. The morning musical service at the Tabernacle Clinch, in wnich the Sunday school will unite, will include the "Wagner Festival Jubilate," (Danke); "Praise to Thee, Tbou Great Creator," (Ludds); "Morning Breaks Upon the Tomb," (Barret); "Christ Our Passover1." (Sohilline), and "Lad Kindly Lieht," (Cornell). The Second Presbyterian Church choir will sing in tbe morning "Te Deum" (Sndds): "Awake Thou That Steepest" (Allen); "Cnrist Our Passover," (Schilling); "Jerusalem" (Parker Rees). In the afternoon will be rendered: "Now Is Christ Risen" (Allen), and "I Will Lift Up My Eyes" (George Hearschel). The morning service will he followed by reception of members and the communion, and in the afternood, at 2 o'clock, the Sunday-school will met in the audience-room, where infant baptism will be administered. At Plymouth Church, in the morning, there will le a confirmation and memorial service. Communion will take place after the morning service. Subject of the sermon, "And Tbeif Works are Following on After Them " In tbe evening the monthly song service will be given, and the subject of the sermon will be, "The Joy of the Chrintian Life." At the First Baptist Church there will be in the mornine. baptism, followed by a sermon from Dr. Jeffery on "Risen with Christ." After this communion services will occur. Tbe music at the Central Christian Church Will be "The Resurrection;" "The Te Deum.' (li'eyd); an Easter anthem, "Chriet, tbe Lord,'1 (Wilson), and "O for the Wings of a Dove," (Mendelsohn). Mr. Gentz's morning sermon if to be on "Tbe Resurrection." Special services have also been arranged for the Mayflower Congregational, the First and Memorial Presbyterian churches, at each of which excellent music is promised. At the Central-avenue M. E. Church the morning sermon will be preached by the Rev. J. B. Came, of Knightstown. and in the evening the Sunday school will hold its Easter services. Rev. E. D. Daniels bas been cal'ed home on account of sickness in bis family, ard on Sunday the expected Easter service will not be held in the new church chape, 333 N. Alabama street, but Sunday-school will meet as usual. Easter Eggs. London Queen. It is a well-known fact that eggs have figured in roytholoey. and have or have had a symoolU cal meaning in certain Pagan systems. But it is quite true that there is no traceable connection between them and the eges which are the subject cf this rote; mere resemblance not being enough to prove indentity of oriain. As for Easter eggs, the date for their introduction ia unknown, but the ege as a eymbol of hope wa recoenizd by St. Aucnstine, and probably at a still earlier date. For our present purpose it will suffice to note its association with sacred reasons. 1. To this day Jews at tbe Passover introduce an eeg as a symbol of their bondage in Egypt and wonderful deliverance. 2. In the church there was a festival of eges on the Saturday before the Sbrove-Tnesday, but the meaning of 'his is doubtful, tLongh perhaps it can be explained. 3. The Pachal or Easter egg was blessed by the priest, and at. the termination of the lenten feast was, and perhaps in some places still is. desired 4 the first food eatea after the conclusion of Leot. Tbe second and third instances seem to indicate that eegs were regarded as proper for tha transition from ordinary food before Lent to its resumption after Lnt It may, bowevr, be stated that the Paschal eeg wae certs-ioly regarded as a resurrection symbol, especially in anticipation of tbe resurrection of the Savior. This last point seems evident from the form of Dleesine in the Romn Catholio Church, where the words "on account of tbe resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ" are to be seen. The statement of a learned German writer agrees with this, for be save: "The egg as a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus, who broke forth from tbe grave as a chicken from the shell, bnsbeeo from very ancient date an Easter gift with Christians, who wish each other prog, parity at the resurrection of the Savior. The prao ice of dyeing Easter eggs ia of uncertain origin; but it is very widely extended, and has been thought to be derived from the Jews, whose Passover occurs at the same time as our Easter." ILnl L! JjOatisrort I'haros. . The Republican party is living la mortal fear that Gov. lsaae p. Gray will be the Democratic nominee for Vice president.