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3 Millinery \A -AND- ART NEEDLE WORK MISS ELLEN FOX THE HOME CIRCLE COLUMN, '"It :' Pleasant Evening Reveries—A Column Dedicated to Q ,|^ Tired Mothers as They Join the Homo Circle at Evening J| ■wirw' wir ■w’M 'WWW' SAMUEL EVANS, SON 6 GO. 60TT0N-BR0KERS MID IWREHOUSEMEN Every Accommodation and Convenience for Our Customers and the Trade. HIGHEST PRICES* PAID FOR COTTON Your Patronage Solicited. Hlohust 6asn Price For all Kinds of COW PEAS Edwards Bottling forts HTiLED WILD CM." Milledgeville, Georgia* MILLEDOEVILUE BRICK WORKS- I J. W McMILLAN, Propriktor, Milledgeville, Ga. One Million Brick Now in Stock. * * Can fill all orders at once with the best brick that can be g made. Capacity and output greatly increased, so that large 3 orders can be filled immediately. Correspondence solicited. i»atsr^ijrjtordWti*Gn*i»i3tikv»^3r;*i »!*<*«« Easter Thoughts. Kneeling beside her mid a kneeling throng In the dim twilight of the temple, where The Easter buds, scent laden, filled the air With sWttet aroma, and the solemn song, Low chanted, floated through the holy place, I watched the curtain of her melting eyes Veil their soft rediance, and o’er that fair face Stole reverent stillness, as with gentle sighs Sins from her sinless lips were soon confessed. (Ah, fairest saint, were all sins but as thine!) Then lifting her white forhead from its pillowed rest Turning her sad sweet visage, pure with thought divine. She murmured, bending toward me as I sat, “Charles, Mrs. Smith yet wears her winter hat!” Beautiful Easter tide. Had not that Roman seal been broken, and the Dow ers of darkness thwarted there would have been no fight at Easter tide. But the son of righteousness has risen with healing in His wings and now His glory is the light of Easter day. o o o A German Easter custom is to light fires on the hillside of the Hartz, ob taining the holy water from the strea ms at midnight, when the good spirit moves the waters, and the oresentation of cake3, shaped in the form of the rising sun, are made special features of the occasion. o o o It has often been asked why an egg is the symbol of Easter. The use of eggs for Easter can be traced to the The Famous Sunny,South BUGGY % UUCP* , I ,( r v--^wr -- . P ;; “J , • Are you considering a ouggy? Don’t buy before seeing my Famous Sun ny South Buggy, fitted wiih my new Patent Sorings. These springs make the buggy ride easv, and easy riding means long wear. Made to wear and testimo nials from past purchasers prove our statement, that it is the best buggy made. Another Attraction Is our Patent Top and Curtains, patented by Mr. E. Becker, which makes the buggy rain and wind proof. This is a special buggy, madelfor Southern trade and cannot be purchased elsewhere. Inquiries answered promotly. E.BECKER MILLEDQEV1LLE, GA. theology and philosophy of Egyptians, Persians. Gauls, Greeks and Romans, among all of whom an egg was a symbol of the universe, the work of the Supre me Divinity. The Persians gave pre sents of eggs at the feast of the vernal equinox—in honor of the renewal of all things. The Jews adopted it to meet the circumstances of their departure from Egypt, and it was used in the feast of the passover as a part of the furnishing of the table with the paschal lamb. The early Druids also used the egg in their ceremonies. ooo In Switzerland a peculiar game is played at Easter. Large baskete filled with bran are placed in a circle some where on a free field or public place. Then as many rows of 100 eggs as there are competitors are laid, each egg a foot or so apart from the next, the rows radiating from the baskets to an equal distance. The task is to put the 100 eggs, one by one, into the basket with out breaking any and who does it in the shortest.space of time is the winner. ooo The Easter festival of our forefath ers covered a period of 16 days, The week beginning with Easter Sunday was most entirely given over to sport and games and general merrymaking. An odd feature of the old time culebrut- ion was that of heaving or lifting, the “heaved” sitting in a chair decorated with white ribbons. Easter Monday and Easter Thursday were known at heaving days, the women sitting in a chair on Monday and the men on Tues- 1 day. Those heaving or lifting the chair were expected to lift it three times and then kiss the occupant, who, in turn, j kissed them. To the regret of the lads and lassies in the distiicts where the noveljjceremony was once performed, the custom has long since died out. ■ ooo Easter was not kept as a festival un til the fifth oi sixth century, but prev ious to that the question of establishing it as a feast day come before the coun cil on Nice, when it was decided author itatively that Easter was henceforth to be the Sunday following the 14th day of the calendar moon which happened upon or next after the 21st of march so that jf this J-1 th day be.a Sunday Easter.was not to be on that date but on the next following Sunday. Easter day, there fore. mav bo on any day within five weeks inclusive of March 22 and April 25. It cannot happen earlier nor latei than these two dati 8 In 1883, Easter occurred on March 26. and again in 1894. which will be twice in the present century. In 1951 it will occur again on March z5. ooo There are many superstitions connect ed with Easter Sunday which are significant of the season, and are al most as imperative as laws. One of these is the necessity of having some thing new to wear on this day in order to insure hanpiness for the coming year. Hence the Easter bonnet. An other one is that on that day the sun dapees. This is an old legend, and the lines from Sir John Juckling are well known: 'But oh, she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fair a sight.” It is also claimed in heathen countries, where the superstition orignated, that the lambs frisk and dance in the light of the rising sun on Ostro, the name of the heathen divinity who was also re presented as danci ng and who gave to our Easter its name. Per Building Material a Lime, Cement, Plaster, Dogrs, Sash. Blinds, Screen Doors, Screen Sash, Mantels, Grates, Tile, Paints, Varnish, Glass, Building Material of all kind. Our services are prompt, Our material is the best. Write for prices and catalogue. iir vtif R. J. Horne & 60. LONG DISTANCE PHONE 473 - - 007 Broad St AUGUSTA GA CAN YOU SEE AS YOU ARE SEEN? W. J- Brake OPTIOIAN ‘‘See Yourself as Others See You” In order to do this perhaps your tyes need help. The nerfect eye is the exception rather than the rule. Having taken u regular course in Optics and being supplied with a complete and first- cIssh outfit, included in which is to be found nothing but the best to be had. 1 am in a position to offer my services to the public, gunrnnteeing to give perfect satisfaction or refund all money received. Milledgeville nas always been and doubtless always will be my home. Give me a trial and you’ll find that 1 can Have you money; .will not “fake” you, then Arab-like “pack my tent and silently steal away.” Office Over Goodman & flfootten’s OFFICE HOURS: 9 a. m. to 12— 2 p. m. to 5 after March 1st, 1909 Southern Agriculturist Nashville, tenn. 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