St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 April 1896 — Page 2

FLOWERS FOR EASTER EXTENT TO WHICH THEY ARE USED IN CHURCH. Kinda of Floral Beauties that Are Most Employed-Potted Plants the Correct Easter Presents—Suggestions that May Be Helpful in Various Ways. Variety in Decoration.

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effort to show her gratitude^or balmy air and warm sunshine. She sends forth her earliest and most beautiful floral treasures, and they have the freshness and vigor of youth and the fragrance that goes with the first blossoms. The dainty and fragrant violet is then at its best, and tihe same is true of other flowers that might be named. The observance of Easter by the churches calls for the employment of a large number of flowers in the decorations of altars and chancel rails. In Washington it is rare that any formal design of decoration is carried out, but masses of flowers and palms are banked in profusion wherever they can be placed most effectively. The Easter lilies ‘those familiarly known as the St. Joseph’s lilies, as well as those of the calls variety—are most frequently employed, but besides these there are used hydrangeas, both of the pink and white variety, daffodils, rhododendrons, the yellow genesta, lilacs, both purple and white, the spires japonuca, azaleas and tulips. These, with palms and ferns in pots, can be combined to make beautiful aud artistic effects, and many churches spend a good deal of money for their Easter decorations. It is not usual in this city for the church authorities to give an order to a florist and then throw upon him the responsibility for the character of the work. It is customary for the ladies of a church or a committee of them to undertake the Easter adornment, and they make their purchases of the flowers required from many different places. Easter decorations are growing each year. The custom is so beautiful that congregations that formerly paid no special attention to the observance of Easter now look forward to that festival with pleasurable anticipation of the joyous appearance that their houses of worship will present decked in fragrant flowers and graceful palms on rhe day that commemorates the last act in the consummation of the scheme of salvation. Roses are largely employed in these Easter decorations, although roses are flowers that are obtainable the year round. Those that reach their best development at this time are the Magna Chatto, tihe Bruner and the Baroness RothsChild. Then, too, there are the lilies of the valley, the Scotch heather and other flowers that might be named. All these ‘ are employed in church decoration, either In pots or in vases, and go to make up beautiful harmonies of color. The custom of making Easter presents has found a now avenue for the employment of flowers. The old habit of sending cards Is out of date, and instead the gift Is now something of beauty or utility. If the former, nothing is more welcome to a lady Chan a box of cut flowers or a blooming plant. The giving of flowers at Easter time is now very general, and its observance in this city is constantly Increasing. Flowers are so beautiful, so graceful, so fragrant, ao suggestive of al! that is tender and refined that they indicate the culture aud good taste of the giver as well as furnish satisfaction and pleasure to the recipient. Many a hard feeling has been softened by a gift of flowers, and many an estrangement has been healed through the medium of roses or other floral presents. Formerly it was in good form to send flowers either loosely cut in a box or arranged in a bouquet or basket. This is still allowable, only if they are worked Into a bouquet or basket or any other set design they are ornamented with bows and streamers of handsome ribbon, the colors to be either in harmony or contrast with the colors of the flowers, as the taste of the giver may suggest. The most elaborate of floral gifts is probably found in a large deep basket with great long handle,* which can be painted and gilded, so as to heighten the richness of the whole thing. This basket is either filled with earth or moss, and a border of ferns or Scotch heather is made; then can be placed a rose bush, an azalea, a lily, tulips, a big rhododendron or a hydrangea, or, in fact, any number of flowers that the basket will hold, all with roots, and a good prospect of continuing life. ?Then the handle of the basket can be ornamented with ribbon in any way that may be desired. It is good form now’ to send a lady a potted plant ofaany kind at Easter, and those who are able to indulge themselves extensively in this manner leave orders for flowers to bo sent to their friends, se- ' lectins roses for some, or a pot of lilies 1 of tihe valley for another, and palms, azeleas or any flower already named for others. A novel idea that will be employed this year is to place bows of ribbon between tha blossoms of flowers, the color to contrast with the color of the bloom. These bows are attached to long wires tfhat are wound around the branches and •talk of the plants, so that they are held firmly in place and make a very pretty effect. Perhaps there may be some who think that the flowers themselves growing tn their strength and beauty are sufficient without the ornamentation of ribbon, but, as this is the latest fad, it must go with those who desire to be considered in the swim, However, although this may be the fashion, it need not deter a man whose tastes lie in that direction from sending his beat girl a growing flower without any other decoration than his own card. — Washington Star. The Easter Wedding Gown. The material used is white satin, heavy and lustrous, and the skirt, which flares well, 'has a medium train, full and fanHke in effect, but no-t as long as those worn last season, writes Isabel A. Mallon in the Ladies’ Home Journal. The bodice Is a draped one coming to a short rolnt in the front and at the ack and arching over the hips. 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J THE PROUD ROOSTER AND THE MODEST GOSLINq^ ' A Story of Funs and Feathera.

L-LJj " j [I J OWjL/ I. Oh, the fields were green and the skies were blue. For the spring had come again; And over the fence a rooster flew, A rooster proud and vain. Ills eoat and feathers were fine and new, And shone In the sun with changing hue, “Cocky, doodle, doo!” ,5^ Jw 8 / I Ly WO 11. And a little gosling with coat of yellow Stood there In the warm sunshine. And the rooster laughed at the little fellow—‘‘Comparing your coat with mine, You look like a punkin ripe and mellow, Why, the sight of you It makes me bellow “Cocky, doodle, doo!” 111. “Call those feather*?” said the rooster. “Yahl” And the gosling hong his head; The rooster laughed like a proud Pooh Pah, As be flapped bls wings and said: “Was that suit marked down? Ro! ho! ha! ha! Young feller, you'd better run horns to your ma, “Cocky, doodle, doo!”

ASTER is the time 7of flowers. The festival which is in some respects the greatest in the calendar of the Christian NChurch, typifying, as Sqt does, the risen Christ, comes in the early spring, when nature, freed from the pressure of the snows and frosts of winter, is making an

by small pearl bends. The skirt trim- j ming consists of wide folds of tulle drap- ; cd in curves as high up* as the knees, > each curve being caught by a bunch of orange blossoms. The very full sleeves shape In to the arms, and come well over the wrists in sharp'points defined by small ■ beads like those onj the edge of the bodice. Tulle is draped across the corsage and caught by very small bunches of the bridal flower, while a knot of tulle and a ’ bunch of the blossoms hold up the fullness of each sleeve near the shoulder. The hair, which is arranged high on the head, ; is dressed with orange blossom*. How shall pen of poet picture What the tranced eye may sect 'Twere, I fear, a cruel stricture, The most ardent slmllel Surely never song or sonnet Was by any rhymer writ That could sing her Easter bonnet— All the matchless mode of It! To the little blrd-llke poses Os her head It adds a grace. And It doth enhance the rosea In the garden of her face. While the ribbon loop that lingers Lovingly amid her hair Makes one wildly wish one’s fingers Were the ribbon nestling there. There’s a sinner somewhat hardened. Who has trod In saintly wise. In the hope of being pardoned, Since that bonnet met his eyes; And thoug oft he thinks upon it, Ail his doubts will be at rest When he feels that bonnle bonnet Soft against his shoulder pressed. ORIGIN OF EASTER. Disputes Which Arose in the Early History of the Church. The observance of EaSter is connected with the history-of Christianity itself. And While there has never been any difference of opinion among Christians as to the general observation of the festival, in the early church the Asiatics kept the feast on t'he day of the Jewish Passover, while the western Christians observed it on the first Sunday after the Passover. Hence arose a great dispute in the second century, and Victor, the Bishop of Rome, excommunicated those churches which did not keep it on 'the Sunday. The controversy was brought before the Coun-

IV. Out from the house came a nrety maid. And the rooster he turned pale; Good cause had he to be afraid. For she pulled the plumes from his tall. On crest and wl«g she made a raid. She took every one so proud displayed With hts “Cocky, doodle, dool” tic- • । l lll | V. For feathers are style this spring, you know. And goslings they have none; And the maid had enough for her Eagter boa. When the plucking all was done. And then she let that rooster go. Who hurried away nor stopped to crow “Cocky, doodle, doo!” /I v J I VI L Yes. n very sad roster he. - tP* ‘ Bedraggled and plucked nn I i>w»| w And ho l»»»'1n’t an Other Word to say To the gosling musing there; “Better,” he thought, “by far to stay Modestly clothed on a bright spring day, Than to lose your feathersso bright and gayCocky, doodle, dool”

cil of Nice, in the year A. P. 325, and it was decreed that Easter Pay ah >uld b* kept on the Sunday following the Jewish Feast of the Passover, which Passover is kept on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month Nisan. At the same time, to prevent all uncertainty, it was made a rule of the church that the full moon next to the vernal or spring equinox, should ba taken for the full muon in the month Nisan, and the 21st of March be accounted the Vernal equinox. Consequently, Easter Pay is always the Sunday* following the full moon whidh falls on, or la next after, the 21st day of March. The day is still known as Pascha in the eastern church, as well as in the varioue churches in Europe, the English title of Easter being probably derived from tho old Saxon word “Oster,” spring. Some scholars have suggested that it had ita origin in the word Eastre, the name given to the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn. For the church took the pagan philosophy and made it the buckler of faith against the heathen. She took the pagan. Sunday and made it the Christian Sunday. And she took the pagan Eastre and made It the Christian Easter,—Buffalo Enquirer. CUSTOMS OF EASTER. Ite Eggs and Lecends, with Their Origin and Significance. Ae Easter represents a new birth Into the best ’life of all, it is easily seen how the pagan idea that the egg was the beginning of all kinds of life should become purified in the minds of the typical offering of good wishes and emblematic of pleasant between believers in the glad Easter The ogg in some form or other has aecn the unquestioned type of new life f'W lll the vary dawn of tho Christian era. ’ In Russia as early as 1589, eggs colored retl, typifying the blood of Christ shed as an atonement for our sins, were the most treasured of exchanges at Easter. Every believer went abroad at this season with his pockets well supplied with Easter eggs, as the society man of to-day attends to his well-filled card case. When two Russians met for the first time during the Easter holidays, if they had not met on the day itself, the belated Easter compliments were passed, first ny solemnly shaking hands iu silence; then the elder (or the younger, if he out-ranked the elder) would say: “The Lord is risen,” and big companion would reply: “It is true;” then they kissed each other and ceremoniously drew from their respective pockets the Easiter emblem, and exchanged eggs. The Chinese claim that the world was formed of the two parts of an enormous egg- From the yolk of the egg stepped forth the human being whom they call Poon-too-Wong; he then waved his hand and the upper half of his late castle, the egg shell, went upward and becamn the doncave heavens of blue, the lower half fell reversed, making the convex earth and the white albumen became the seas. ’ Nothing la so strong as gentlenessnothing so gentle os real strength.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. interesting and instructive LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating Character —Wholesome Food for Thought— Studying; the Scriptural Lesson Intclligcntly and Profitably. ‘Lesson for April 5. Golden Text.—Strive to enter in at the strait gate.—Luke 13: 24. Warning against sin is the subject of this lesson, which is found in Luke 13: 22-30. There is the sound of the shutting of a ‘loot- in this lesson that is most dismal indeed. Dr. Bliss calls attention to the remark of Godet in the fall of the house built upon the sand. (Luke It: 49.) “A single lost soul is great ruin in the eyes ot (rod.” Jesus, in closing his discourse, leaves his hearers under the imiwession of "This solemn thought. Each of them, while listening, might think that he hoard the crash of the falling edifice, and say within himself, “this disaster will be mine, if 1 prove hypocritical or inconsistent.” In tl»e scripture before us a similar impression is left on tire mind. Do we speak as often as we should of these dreadful hazards? I'he peril of eternal loss is reb" veaied in the Word. God help us to hold up its serious admonition to-day. Christ was the first great itinerant. “He went (Greek: was going) through the cities and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem.” "As ye go, preach, he had said and here he exemplifies it "teaching am) journeying.” He taught as he journeyed, and journeyed as he taught. Indeed only as lie kept on journeying could lie rightly teach the coming of the kingdom. That steadfast setting of his face toward Jerusalem was itself strong teaching and preaching. “Are there few that be saved;” literally, that are being saved? It is wi ll to put it so in our lack of apprehension; the finished work js ever beyond us. hid with Christ in Dod. but we are complete in him. And it is well that the question bo directed to the Lord Jesus; he only can answer it, though many others essay so to do. And his answer puts us always on our good behavior. “Strive,” he says, "to enter in." Sot work righteousness but righteous workfulness. “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which workoih in you both to will and do of his good pleasure." (Phil. 2: 12. 13. "The strait gate." What is it but humble self surrender and the personal acceptance of Jesus as substitute and Saviour? There are many trying the other road, the broad way of doing “the best you can " The parliament of religions gave forth a very chorus of voices in this behalf. Indeed there are not a few Christian meeting hmiso that -ei in to abut in this way. We heard a pulpit the other day eloquently urging the lenten cungregatiun to uncover the divinity within; that wa* comersion. just to mind the better instinct. II >w about those who “seek to enterlain and shall not l»e able?" Does Christ not. in the first part, urge seeking? Yes. but seeking by the right, the strait Kay. W •• shall get perhaps a better conception of the meaning of this passage, if we understand implicitly as added Io the verse, because they do not take the strait gate. : In mu own sillily R-1,1,- We have, for <v>n'vnieueo of inlerpreiatioii, interlined, after the w ords " Alas, how much ot vain seeking there has been. It is not seeking that saves; it is tlie strait gate, or rather the faith and obedience that enters there. There is a shut door in the Bible. In suue men's preaching there is no shut d.ior. I’erhaps they refer us to the gates of heaven tha: "shall not be shut at all by day” (Rev 21: 23>. But. mind you. it is after the gale of the pit has been closed forever t Rev. 29: 1 I. 15). et tin* controversy that is here described seetus to picture the great assize wliich ushers in this sail separation. It is poetical, gloomily so. in conception. The words need not be taken as literally spoken. The heart makes its ow n deliverances ami divulgences. We shall see ourselves as we are. our neglects and refusals and denials, and. according to the heart's utter and ultimate division as io Chrtst, in this day of probation prior to the day of judgment, we shall go to our own. In short our day of decisive judgment is now , I < bid's .lay of decisive and conclusive judgment is then and there. Thank God for the cheering word last sjuken in the lesson. There are to be no disappointments in heaven. But surprises, glad surprises, many. Surprises of redemption from the East! Surprises of redemption from the West! from the North! from the South! Marvels, to win the abundant entrances. Last ones of earth, first and foremost on high—first of earth ending the procession of triumph. Hut all who take the strait gate of conscious weakness and of self abandon independence on God's mercy for all of these an open door—"and there shall be no night there." Do we ponder as we should of the judgment? The judgment to come and a present day .iiKl^ment? Man's decision as to eternity is re echoed in the great assize on high. We sing it. do we mean it? "There's a great day coming, a great day coming, A great day come, by and by; When the saints and the sinners will be parted right and left, Are you ready for that day to come?" Next Lesson —“Parable of the Great Supper."—l.tike 14: 13-24. Even in the Hour of Trial. Why should we be care-stricken? What business have we to be sad in the sunshine? We have nothing to do with the past, nothing to do with the future, we have to do with the pres<mt only, and that oven in the hour of trial we are by God's grace strong enough to bear. Canon Farrar. The Symphony of Life. What a splendid symphony is life to one who knows bow to inierjiret it. with its four movements and its one theme! For that one thmne is love and God, and love and God are one. I’irst, the dance-music of childhood; then the love-music of youth; then the labor and martial music of manhood, mingled with the sweet home-music of womanhood, with strains of pathetic minor enriching both, and, last of all, the peace-song of old a;>.

Home Seekers’ Excursions nil? U d<?r o ever yo n e ail opportunty to see the W estern country and enable the home seekers to secure a home of .g° n im enCe WOrk lor tho of IS.)b, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St I aul Railway has arranged to run a series of four home seekers’ excursions to various pmnts in the West, Northwest and Southwest^ on the following dates: March 1 I A 7? ‘ a . n u 21 a,HI Mi,v 5 - at ‘he low rate of two dollars more than one fare for the round trip. Tickets will be good for return on any Tuesday or Friday within twenty-one days from date of sale. For rates, time of trains ami further details apply to any coupon ticket agent in the East or South, or address F. A. Miller, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111. A Spring Trip South. On April 7 and 21 and May 5, tickets will be sold from principal cities, towns and villages of the North to all points on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and a portion of Kentucky, at one single fare for the round trip. Tickets will be good to return within twenty-one days, on payment of $2 to agent at destination, and will allow stop-over at any point on the south-bound trip. Ask your ticket agent about it, and if he cannot sell you excursion tickets write to C. P. Atmore, General I’nssenuer Agent. Louisville, Kv o r J. K. Ridgely. N. W. P. A., Chicago,‘ill. Getting Something to Eat. “Kimi sir,'' said the wayfarer, “if you will add 2.i cents to the dime I already possess. I will go and get a meal, the first I have hail in three days.” “If you have a dime why don’t you go and get something with that?” "Ah. sir. I require that to fee the waiter with."—Harper's Bazar. State of Ohio, ( itv of Toledo, i I.CCAS COI N I V. । MFr^xk .1. ( HEM v makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the linn of F. .1. < u fm- y & t 0., doing buslne -• in the ( itv of Toledo. Countv and Slate afore-gi<|. and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HINPREP I MILLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Ct up. o FRANK CHENEY. Sworn to lieforo me and subserlbeil In mv preseii' e. this cth day of I.iecember, A. D. issj. <sfm.A. W. GLEASON. ' * Sotanj Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for te-timonlals. free. ~, 1< <HENEY& CO.. Toledo, O. tVsold by Druggists, 7.h‘. He Loves French Dishes. The Emperor of Austria dislikes German cooking ami cares only for French cuisine. \\ hen his relatives of the house of Tuscany visit him, to please their tastes, he has Italian dishes served. On certain occasions the Empress, who is a Bavarian, orders German dishes. Never Before In the history of a great enterprise has Buch an opportunity occurred as is now presented in the offer of the American Newspaper Syndicate which enables anyone for a limited time to obtain the American Encyclopedic Dictionary for $1 cash anti $1.25 monthly for 12 months. See advertisement in this paper. If tin idler only occupied the space geometrically ascribed to a point he should not find in the universe a spot n hereon to set his foot. cutaneous tissues ot tue scalp and th" obliteration of the hair follicles, which cause baldness, use Hail's Hair Reucwer. The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations. I know that my life was saved by Piso’s Cure for Consumption. John A. Miller, Au Sable, Mich., April 21, 1595. Few men care to tell the exact truth concerning their successes.

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