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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER VOL. XLIX. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1914. NO. 28 Farmers’ Supply Store We have now entered fully into the new year, and, as usual, are well prepared to take care of the trade of the friends and customers who have taken care of us. Those who did not sow oats in the fall should do so now, using an early variety of seed, because all feedstuffs will be high. We have for sale the famous 90-DAY BURT OATS —a variety that we can recommend highly. GEORGIA CANE SYRUP in 5-gallon and 10-gallon kegs, half-barrels and barrels. The PEACOCK BRAND is the best syrup made, and we can sell it at jobbers’ prices. A full line of PLOW TOOLS, STOCKS, TRACES, HAMES, BACKBANDS and BRI DLES. Can dress up your mule with a com plete outfit for the plow. HUTCHESON ROPE for plow-lines. Will say, in a general way, that we carry in our store everything needed on a well-regu lated farm. We buy for cash, in car-load lots, and you will find our prices as low pro portionately as cash discounts in buying can make them. Come to see us. You are always welcome. It speaks to theiheart through the pocket-book. That’s why the Ford j is a friend to thousands the world ^ over. What any other car will do I the Ford will do—and more—at a j fraction of the cost. Buy to-day. Five hundred dollars is the new price of the Ford runabout; the touring car is five fifty; the town car seven fifty—f. o. b. Detroit, complete with equipment. Get catalogue and particulars from NEWNAN AUTO CO., Newnan, Ga. THE FIRST EASTER DAY. Never bo ewoet a hu»h In all Judean niirhta— Never bo fair a nun Ro«e o’er Judean helehta— Never so hovorinsr close Did ail of heaven lean. As when approached the tomb Tho weeping Matrdaleno. What marvel jrreeta her eyes! Too tear-bed I-nmed are they! Behold no portal barred — The stone is rolled away! Vacant the sheltering depth Where He was laid to rest; Vacant the narrow space Whereon His body pressed. Only the cerements white Where he, the Son. had loin; Only at head and foot The guardian angels twain — The guarding angels twain. Of gentle mien and grave. To speak of word fulfilled Of Him who diet! to save. How spread the mighty truth! How nil the earth divined ! What glorious promise kept The Saviour of mankind! And so the world is glad. And men, rejoicing, pray. As did His servants when Came the first Easter day. —[Stanley Waterloo. ieet As The Bird R. (Jackson St. on the wing, one of our motorcycles will take a long or short distance in record time. Without a Lit of work on your part either. Owning one will make you independ ent of railroad, time or space. Better see them and try one out just for sport. L. Askew Newnan, Ga. Worshiped in City of Dead. How little did the first Christians who reverentially prepared a place for their fellow worshipers suspect that these same tombs should soon be their churches and their hiding places! The first catacombs of Rome wore excavated by wealthy Christians for their own families, and later, when extended, the bodies of their poorer brothers and sis ters in the faith were admitted. The extent of the labyrinths which under mine the surburbs of Rome rivals their complexity. In four centuries B50 miles of corridors were cut from the rock, some of the passages being 7G feet below the surface. The passages themselveB are only wide enough for a procession to march in single file., On either hand are the sealed niches containing the bodies of the first Christians, and occasionally an arched doorway leads into one of the larger crypts, which were used as chapels in times of persecutions, in which Easter was certainly celebrated, when the insane wrath of the emperor drove the Christians to cover. These chambers which were used for worship were small and the numbers who assembled in them were limited. There was a raised seat for the bishop, a lower seat for the presbyters, and a bench about the wall to accommodate the worshipers. Frescoes and inscrip tions indicate that the EaBter feast was celebrated with the eucharist in these vaults. The doors and stairways were some times blocked, with Roman soldiers on guard. Then the air-holes were used, and the worshipers were lowered into the charnel recesses by ropes. It was here that the embryo modern civilization was nurtured and kept alive through a period of great trial and stress. Had Nero’s soldiers known the catacombs as the Christians knew them, the world might still be laboring along under some silly pagan creed. The life of Christianity at one time depended upon the dark and seclusion of a tomb. In the faint, red light of torches which illumined the sepulchral cham bers the venerable and caurageous leaders of the little flocks administered Ihe Easter sacrament to fearful yet resolute Romans, in whose veins was all the Spartanism of Rome, made holier by an ardor and faith which the presence of men who had seen and spoken with the Master inspired. St. Peter may have stood in one of these very cubicula and told of the truth and beauty of His life and works, while the distant clank and rattle of bronze and Bteel bore witness to the soldiery on the search for more prov ender for Nero’s lions. The beautiful pageantry of our Eas ter, with its flowers, song, incenBe, music and accompaniment of sunshine and the warmth of spring, contrasts strangely with the setting of the Eas ter in the catacombs. There all was sad and somber, damp and morbid. The wallB, covered with their funeral inscriptions, were cold and moiBt, the torches flickering fitfully in the heavy atmosphere of the sepulcher. The Christians, hunted, persecuted, many of them without homes, were a forlorn and jaded spectacle. Only the undying, invincible spirit of their cause upheld them. The preacher had to dwell upon the joys of the future and the Master’s promise to dispel the heavy gloom. There was no rich organ music; no dis play of color; no sound of mirth and gladness from without. The spring song of birds did not reach them—only the deep roar of infuriated animals and the tramp of the legionaries penetrated to mingle with their voices in the ser vice. So was Christianity kept alive and our modern civilization born. Easter of To-day and of the Past. With the coming of Easter interest is always aroused in the ancient be liefs, ceremonies and observances that are brought together in the celebration of the modern festival. These include such things as eggs, cakes, flowers, presents, and the Easter hare, to say nothing of other items obsolete in our times. Individual notings of one or another of the ceremonies or observan ces have there been, hut it is by no means easy to lay hand on any assem bling of them. Authorities agree that the remote ancestor of Easter was a ceremony of pagan worship. Distant as are the origins of the old religious forms, and intertwined as are the threads connect ing them with the present, it is not now easy to disentangle them, bo that it may he said that Easter observances among the people include remnants of the ancient worship of the sun, the moon, and fire and water. The key note of the festival has been from the very beginning resurrection, the re awakening of the vernal world. The name is that of a goddess of spring, and certain of the emblemR have had a co relation that is remarkable, and through thirty centuries they have come down to us together, preserving the early significance of resurrection, although the faith that originated the idea had ages ago been forgotten. Tho idea of Easter sprang truly from a tomb; that tomb was, however, the tomb of win ter. The strong angel that rolled away the stone from the door of the sepulcher was the April sun. Although Lent has the claim of Chris tian orign, there are antiquarians who assert that it is of far more ancient origin. It arose, as nearly as has yet been determined, in the fasting that was customary among the Babylonians, whose worship formed the starting point of Easter. The fast was one of sympathy with the goddess of repro duction, who mourned her consort, and the period was marked by fasting and an abstinence from mirth and social festivals. Fasting has been a wide spread custom, Humboldt noting fasts in Mexico, where, curiously enough, the invading Spaniards found the natives practicing baptism, with an invocation to Cioacooatl that “the Bin which was given before the beginning of the world might not visit the child, but that cleansed by these waters it might live and be born anew.” Easter was at first a continuation of the Jewish Passover and came on the fourteenth of the month Nisan, When the revulsion of feeling in the church against the Jtewa occurred it was changed and deliberately fixed so that it could by no possibility fall on the same day aa the Passover. This matter was Bettled in A. D. 325. EaBter was set for the first Sunday following the full moon that comes after March 21. This relation to the vernal equinox brought it to the time of the pagan festival of the goddess of spring, dating back to the Astarte worship of Baby lonia. The name, Easter, is compara tively modern, but the principle of the story and the emblems and observances are of this ancient date. W. M. Golden, Bremen, Ga., says: "Foley’s Kidney Pills are the best rem edy I ever used for kidney and bladder troubles, also for rheumatism. I can never say too much for them, and any person having kidney trouble, backache or rheumatism, should be very glad to find such a wonderful remedy.” For Bale by all dealers. Easter is Older Than Christianity Easter is much older than Christiani ty. The very name by which we know the day is identical with that of the an cient Saxon goddess of spring, Easter or Eostre. Tho Anglo-Saxon name for April is Easter month. Taking advan tage of the coincidence of the Christian festival in point of time with that of the yearly feast in honor of the Saxon goddess, the early missionaries gave a Christian meaning to the observance of the day, but it has ever retained its an cient name. Easter was at one time called the Christian passover, because the Jewish passover occurs about the same date, and the early converts from Judaism celebrated Easter anil the passover as one festival. “The primitive Christians,” we are told, “when they met on this day salu ted each other with the words, 'Christ is arisen,' to which answer was made, ‘Christ is arisen, indeed, and hath ap peared unto Simon.’ ” This custom is still observed in the Greek church. "In deed,” to quote a foreign writer, "all the ceremonies attending the observ ance of Easter were at first exceedingly simple, but in the early part of the fourth century a decided change was brought about. “Constantine, naturally vain and fond of parade, Bignalized his love of display by celebrating this festival with extra ordinary pomp. Vigils or night watchcB were instituted on EaBter eve, at which people remained in the churches until midnight. The tapers, which it was customary to burn at thiB time, did not satisfy his majesty, but huge pillars of Wax were used instead, and not only in the churches, but all over the city, were they placed so that their brilliancy at night Bhoukl rival the light of day. "Easter Sunday was observed with most elaborate ceremonies, the pope of ficiating at maBS, with every imposing accessory that could be devised.” Not kneeling in token of humility, but standing erect with arms outstretched and faces looking toward heaven to ex press triumphant peace, the early Chris tians prayed during the fifty days be tween EaBter and Pentecost, and no songs but those of joy and gratitude were heard. Between Easter and Pen tecost the time was considered the moat auspicious in the whole year for love- making and marriages, and those two holy days were the best on which to baptize children. Of all the Easter customs, that of coloring and making presents of eggs seems the only distinctive one thut has found a place in our lime and country. Cough Medicine For Children. Too much care cannot be used in selecting a cough medicine for children. It Bhould be pleasant to take, contain no harmful substance and he most effectual. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy meets these requirements und is a favorite with tho mothers of young children everywhere. For sule by all dealers. Canadian authorities say that since 1905 the emigration of farmers from the United States has taken nearly $300,000,000 in money and property out of this country into the Dominion. (Found a Cure For Rheumatism. “I suffered with rheumatism for two years and could not get my right hand to my mouth for that length of time,” writes Lee L. Chapman, Mapleton, Iowa. “I suffered terrible pain, so I could not sleep or lie still at night. Five years ago I began using Chamherlain’s Lini ment and in two months I was well and have not suffered witli rheumatism since.” For sale by all dealers. Truth That Easter Tells. Dr. Washington Gladden. If you look into the face of humanity on Easter day and listen to its accents and watch its movements wherever tho message of Easter has been spoken you know that it is joyful news, good tid ings. The pealing bellB, the jubilant songs, the churches and the homes bright with flowers of spring, the fes tive garments, the whole costume and utterance of Christendom show that the word has been spoken as a word of cheer, a word of hope, a summons to rejoicing. Is not this in itself a great achievement? To fill the heart of the world with a great hope and an unsel fish joy —is not that a great good? That Jesus the Christ has done all thiB for the world no man can deny. There is reason in this rejoicing. It is the truth that Easter tells that makeH the whole earth glad. What is this truth? It ia the truth that there is life beyond the grave. To the perfect man there is no death, and in every man there is a spiritual principle over which death ha« no power. This has been the unquenchable hope of mankind in all the ages, and the resurrection of Chriat gives to this hope a great confirmation. Fools may sometimes give wise counsel. w To Cure a Cold in Quo Day T,kcLAXATIVE BROMOQuinine. Itstop. the Cough and Headache and works oft the Cold Druggist* retuna money U it tulle to cure. K. W. C HOVE’S signature cm each km. ho Miracle of the Easter Blooms. Every flower that blooms is an Eas ter miracle. There has been the death of a parent plant, to produce the seed or bulb. The sepulcher has had to hide the seemingly dead thing, which yet contained a hidden germ of life. A watering by the tears of the great Na ture Mother, the beams of a far away source of heat, were necessary. Out of the very “valley of tho shadow of death” that bravery of green and bril liancy has come. We may not “smell the mold above the rose,” but it has come forth from the blackness of the dirt into fragrant beauty. The Easter time hales us back to the days when tho perfect Man, tho Flower of our race, was cut down “by the wicked men, and crucified and slain.” It would ho an incomplete history, judging by the analogy of nature, if it left Him there. The life history of your lily neither begins nor ends with tho fading of the bloom. It was because this was the first real exemplification of tho raising to “the life of the world to come,” that it was heralded by the Angel of the Resurrec tion. The first flower of humanity to pass into its perfected stage of gloriouB fruition was the Man who camo back from the dead in the mystery of “a Spiritual Body” on tho first Sunday that over was. Every garden is a sacramental place now, Bince the Easter flowers first waved, near 1900 yearB ago. It is a sign of the inward grace which moves amid the dust of the ages, preserving germ liveB of all who have gone down into tho soil, resting until the Angel of the great Resurrection seta to his lips the golden trumpet, and sounds the clarion call of the great springtime, when the Garden of Paradise Bhall give back ita souls, and the black earth and deep seas shall give up their dead, and lives shall bloom again in new beauty and the unfading majesty for which they were created at the first. Reliable — Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound. J. H. Scott, Blun, Ga., writes: ‘T have used and sold Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for all cases of coughB and colds and I’ve found it infallible. I recommend it because it is the best remedy for coughs and colds I’ve ever handled. It is a good and honest med icine.” For Bale by all dealers. To those to whom death has brought keen Borrow comes the Easter message: “I am the resurrection and the life.” It needs to them no proof, no scientific demonstration. Through the insight which is vouchsafed men in their hours of crisis, they have the vision of this mortal putting on immortality. A man was talking the other day of tho death of his 16 year-old son, who had been for years his close companion. “I feel,” he said, "that he is closer to me now than ho was at home a fortnight ago.” There wbb no need of argument there. The seers of all ages have known that the qualities which they have loved in human personalities are undying, and that the personalities embodying those qualities ure living the life everlasting. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure Absolutely has no substitute Many mixtures are offered as substitutes for Royal. No other baking powder is tho same in composition or effectiveness, or so wholesome and economical, nor will make such fine food. 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