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The old Roman rule for caleulating Baster continucs to be | observed throughout the Christian world, by whom our Lord's resurrcction is unlversally celebrated on the 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 carly as March 22, or as late as April 25. THE NAME OF EASTER, like those of the days of the week, is a sur- vival of the old Teutonic mythology. To the Germans It was known as Ostern, and to the Anglo Saxons as Hastre or Eostra, a name derived from KEostre or Ostara, the Anglo Saxon Goddess of Spring, to whom the fourth month, answering to our April, thence called Eostur monath, was dedicated. The name of this goddess comes from the Saxon Oster, to rise. 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 founad among Christians of all nationalities, thero are others which are peculiar to peoples and places. The oldest and most universal of all Easter customs are those assoclated with eggs. Hundreds of years before Christ eggs held an important place in the theology and philosophy of the Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans, among all ot whom' an egg was the emblem of the uni- verse, and the art of coloring it was pro. foundly studied. The sight of street boys striking their rival eggs together to sea which is the stronger and can win the other, was as common in the streets of Rome and Athent ,000 years ago, if we are to believe antiquarians, as it is in any of our Ameri- can cities at the present day. These eggs, now called Easter eg were originally known as Pasche eggs, corrupted to Pasto because connected with the Paschal gover feast. One reason for associa. ting an egg with the day on which our Savior a from the dead may be that the little ehick, entombed, so to speak, in the egg and rising from it into life, was regarded as typical of an ascension from the grave. In the north of Bngland it is customa {o exchange presents of Easter eggs among the children of families who a oi intimate terms, a custom which also prevailed largely among the ancients and to which the send- ing of Easter cards and other offerings, which has become so popular of late years in own count way be traced. The extent to which the latter practice has in- sed of late is almost incredible, and these offerings grow more elaborate and ex- pensive every year. SOCIAL PLEASURES. also customary In England’s northern counties to elaborately ‘“engrave’ Easter vEgs by scraping off the dye with & pen Knife, thus leaying the design in white upon a colored ground. The full name of the decorator, with the date of his or her birth, Is often recorded In this manner and the oggs, being carefully preserved for genera- tions ornaments to cupboards and mautles, would doubtless present as relible evidence of dates as the records of a family bible. The custom of drinking eggnogg at Easter {s one that has been pecullar to certain Amerlcan cities from their earliest history The most careful and patient inquiry on my part has failed to discover the origin of this Usage. There Is no mention of it in any atlquarian writings and it has no anclent Distory, nor any soclal or religious signifl- canco. It is not practiced in any other country and would therefore seem to be a purely. American observance, and it is only fn & few places In our own land that egg- nogs is directly assoclated with Easter. A" century or more ago both the English and. lalty used to piay ball in the churches for tansy cakes at Eastertide. The ball playing part of this custom was long siico. abandoned, but tansy cakes and buddings ave still favorite Easter delicacies fh many parts of England, tansy having been selected from the bitter herbs eaten by (he Jews at this season. Parish clerks i the counties of Dorset and Devon leave 4% an Baster offering at the house of every parishoner immediately after the church i service on Good Friday a large and & "“““l Dewitt's Witch Hazel salve cures plles. white cake, having a mingled sweet and bltter taste. This is evidently a survival of the bitter herbs of the Passion Supper. At Coles Hill, in Warwickshire, it the young men of the town can catch a hare and bring it to the clergyman of the parish before 10 o'clock on BEaster Monday the good man is bound to give them a call’s head and 100 eggs for their breakfast, to- gether with a “groat” In money. Americans who have visited Grenwich Hill, near London, at Easter are familiar with the sight of young men and women rolling down the hill together, while locked in each other's arms. This was originally one of the customs of May day, but has come to be added to those of Easter. At 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 thence forward there should be bought, in lleu of the cakes, loaves of bread for the parish poor and from that time it has been customary, as it still continues to be, to throw thesc loaves from the church tower, to be scrambled for by the poor children on the Thuraday following Easter. ANCIENT FOLK-LORE. An old English name for Easter is “God's Sunday.” A quaint old folk-song of the mid- dle ages, almost incomprehensible by of its obselete mediaeval spelling, gives following account of the origin of that name Wen Cryste soe nekid and forlorne, Had on ye crosse hys Iymbes forne, Wen, (hree dayes after “Thys Cryste tysen {rom e sayde, ‘mye chyldr Yo calle thys alwi In the middle districts of Ireland there is a superstition that the sun dances in the heavens on Easter morning. About 8§ or 9 o'clock of the previous evening, called “Holy Saturday,” the wives of prosperous farmers place many a fine fat hen and choice piece of juicy bacon in the family pot, and woe betide the luckless wight who ventures to taste be- fore cockerow. among. univer- sal expr jons of joy, there are heard loud cries of “Out with the Lent Then after a short period of merriment the household tires to rest, rising again by 4 o'clock in the morning “to see the sun dance.” Nor is this superstition confined to the lower and middle classes, for 1 have been assured by persons of wealth and culture in Ireland that they have repeatedly seen the sun dance in the heavens on Easter morning The use of flowers to decorate churches on Baster morning, like many other Chris. tian usages of our day, Is derived from the Druids, those heathen priests of the early Britons. Those worthies were accustomed to amake liberal use of flowers and vines in all their ceremonies, and also employed them freely to decorate thelr heathen temples But the use of flowers at Easter has a specially appropriate significance, as they may very aptly be garded as direct emblems ot the urrection, they having risen in the spring from the earth, in which during the winter they seem to have been buried. There s a very old superstition that ab. stinence from meat Easter Sunday will pre- vent one from contracting a fever during the ensuing year. God's, Sunday Fover ahall not make 3 is an old folk rhyme in many parts of Eng- and In the middle ages troth plighted on Easter was regarded as peculiarly sacred, and it was customary for lovers to then exchange poeti- cal addresses somewhat after the manner of valentines. The following, rendered into modern spelling, is by Athelstane Wade, a folk poet of the time of Richard L., and is regarded as one of the best specimens of its kind "Tis God's Sunday, precious o hat binds your heart in love Let us, then, all folly shun, Be true, my wweet, a8 [ to thee Troth plighied on Christ's rising day In wace 1 ana true; Let come In Mife GEO Cumberland and the Tennessee. He said at faverable stages of water the gunboats could €0 up the former as high as Nashville, and the latter, at all stages, as high as the Mus- cle Shoals in Alabama. The moment he sald the Tenncssee was navigable for gun- boats the thought flashed upon me that the strongholds of the enemy might be turned at once by diverting the cxpedition in course of preparation to open the Mississippi up the Tennessee, and having had frequent conver- sations with Judge Evans on the military situation I left the room to communicate this thought—as he had just then called at the hotel—and asked him if it would not ha that effect. He concurred that it would, and that it was the right move If it was a fact that the Tennessce afforded the navi- gation, and he accompanied me to interro- gate Mr. Scott, to be satisfied as to the feasi- bility of the Tennes The interview was prolonged some time. 1 told Mr. Scott it was my purpose to try and in- duce the government to divert the Missi sippi expedition up the Tennessee, and asked him to give me a_memorandum of the most important facts elicited in the conversation, as 1 wished them for this object. The same day 1 wrote to Assistant Secretary of War Thomas A. Scott, to whom I had promised to communicate the result of my observations while in the west, and also to Attorne cral Bates, to both of whom I urged t portance of a change of campaign.'” In her latest account of the occurr written by Miss Carroll when In her year by request of one of the leading mag 7ines, she adds the clinching fact of Lin coln’s acceptance of her plans. “That night I wrote to Governor who ‘had the Mississippi gunboat 5 He presented the letter at once to the act- ing secretary of war, Mr. Scott. They both opposed it at first as impracticable. I re- turned immediately to Washington, pr pared a_paper on that basis and took it to Mr. Scott, who was really acting scere- tary of war. General Cameron’s time being largely consumed in cabinet meetings After reading my plan and hearing my ver bal .arguments, Mr. Scott's countenance brightened, and he exclaimed ‘Miss Car- roll, I believe you have solved the ques tion." “Ile hurried at and, with much president Mr. Lincoln read it with when he had finished it Mr. Scott told 1 that he had never witneseed such delight as he evinced. General McClellan was then in command He opposed th plan, but Mr. Lincoln quietly gave the orders him selt for a chaige of base as soun as pos sible. Up to that time no plan for the close of th ruggle, except down the Mis sissippl, had ever occurred to the mind of any living man or woman, as far as known but from that moment Mr. Lincoln thought of nothing He went himself at once to St Louls to aid in putting the plan in motion, “Just Aftér the | AN UNHONORED ~ HEROINE Tnstructive Review of the Early Controver- sies Regarding the Enster Day. The Story of a Feminine Military Genius in the Civil War, ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND DATE DEVOTION OF A MARYLAND WOMAN Customs, Sports and Superstitions Among to Dotermine Conntries—Some d Modern Ob- servances. Congress Asked Who First Suggested the Tennessce River Cam- paign—The Claim of A Ella Carr a Reprosentative Pickler of South Dakota has introduced in the house a resolution directing the committee on military affairs “'to ascer- tain in the interest and the inviolability of history,” who first suggested the importance of utilizing for strategic movements the Ten- nessee and Cumberland rivers, which re- sulted in the fall of Forts Henry and Donel- son. The chief purpose of the resolution is to determine the truth of the claim, made in the interest of Anna Ella Carroll, that she had planned the Tennessee river campaign. The death of Miss Carroll on the 18th of Febru- ary last lent a fresh impetus to her claim for proper credit for distinguished services in the union cause, Miss Carroll was one of the few devoutly loyal women of Maryland during the war. Her devotion to the cause practically ostra- cised her in Maryland social circles, but this only served to intensify her zeal, In the descriptive catalogue of the grossional library there is a list of docu ments in relation to the services of An Ella Carrcll, the first of which, dated March 31, 1870, is a petition for compensation for ser es, and similar memorials thereafter till May, 1881, One report on the claimn is made by Senator Cockrell, in 1879, and one by Representative E. Bragg in 1881, All the letters, reports and documents con rning Miss Carroll's lite serv have been reproduced from the cc gressional records im the complilation of recent manual entitied A Military Genius according to the New York Herald. In this the author, S, BE. Blackwell, sets them forth with commendablesaeal, in the hope that even though too late to gratify or benefit the bitterly disappointed claimant, the authen- tieity of her credenttals and the high stand ing of her vouchersi may influence later his torlans to accord to a woman's intuitive genius the credit fer a strategic movement which had not ocowrred to the naval and military leaders while as yet the war had waged many weary<months and hundreds of thousands of men had forsaken home for the fray. [Copuri_ hited 194, All Rights Reserved.| Easter from its earllest day has been styled “The Queen of Festivals.”” The primis tive Christians, from their close connection with the Jewish church, naturally continued 1o observe Jowish festivals, of which the principal one was the “Feast of the Pass. over,” which celebrated the passing over of the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt by the destroying angel when he smote the Egyptians. Easter is the pers petuation of this Jewish feast of the Passover, Which, ennobled by the thought of Christ, the true Paschal sacrificial lamb—the first fruits from the dead—became the Christian Easter. Even at the present day Easter is known to the French as Paques, to the Itals fans as Pasqua, and to the Spanish as Pascua, all of which are derived from the Latin Pascha, and the Greek Parxa, which are Chaldee or Armanaen forms of the Hebrew word Pesach, signifying the over For many years a long and bitter contros versy raged between Christians of Jewish and Gentile descent as to the time at which Easter should be observed. Christians ot Jewish origin insisted that Lent should ters minate at the same time as the Paschal fast of the Jews, to which it was analagous, on the fourteenth day of the moon, and that immediately follow, without regard to the day of the w Gentile Christians, on the contrary, maintained that the first day of the week should be obs served as that of our Lord's resurrection, and the preceding Friday should be kept as the occasion of his crucifixion, without re- gard to the day of the month. By reason of their observance of the fourteenth day of the moon, (he former class were derisively styled “Quartodecimant,” or fourte men, by the latter, who also stigmutiz them us leretics, These differences were gradually harmonized by the church at Rome, even at the council of Nicaca, A, D., 425, the Syrians and Antiochenes still declared themselves in favor of the Jewish usage. 1L was partly to settle this controversy that the Emperor Constantine had called his counc \d its members finally agreed that “Baster shall hereafter be kept on one and the same day throughout the world, and none shall hereafter follow the blinds ness of the Jews.” Thus the quartodecim- ani or fourteen-day usage was done away with, but, though KEaster was now univers sally kept on a Sunday, no cycle by which the date of the festival Nas to be caleulated had Seen agreed upon, and, hence, thera were wide discrepancies between the times at which Easter was celobrated in various places. The church Rome established e rule that K should be the first Sun lay after the fourteenth day of the calendar noon, which happens on or next after March 2, A canon of the fourth council of Or eans, A. 1. 541, ordained that Easter should s kept at the same time by all according o that rule, which was finally established in angland by Archbishop Theodore in A. D. 69, More than 900 years later another dis wrepancy in the observance of Easter arc setween the Roman and English church hrough the refusal of the latter, in 158 o adopt the Gregorian calendar, but this tifference was reconciled in 1752, when the ‘new style' was pted throughout the United Kingdom. The churches of Russia wd Greece, however, and, indeed. the At the close Bate seh con- or Pa White it house, to the once to the excitement, gave ¢ avidity, and Easter should a our clse. It is all of Fort Henry 1 called at the War departiment and saw Mr. Tucker. then assistant secretary of war. He told me that Mr. Scott stated to him on leaving for the west: ‘This Is Miss Carroll's plan and If successful the glory is hers.'" When the country was jubilant over the successes that followed this change of plan Roscoe Conkling offered the resolution In the house of representatives to ascertain what nameless hero deserved the laurels for this masterly conception HER GENIUS UNCREDITED had to content himself with the as surance that the War de rtment knew, but that for reasons of state further informa tion would not be forthcoming there and then Auna Ella Carroll was pre whole discussion while the achievement attributed to military leader and other, and says “I ‘was present HER PLANV/WAS INSPIRED. There was no plam devised by Lincoln or his generals that dil not entail the almost impossible forcing of & passage down the fort crowned Misstestppi till it entered the mind of this Napoleen among women that there was another way to storm the confed- eracy at its very heart's core, and the promptuess and secrecy with which she sub. mitted her plans to the chief executive was no less an inspiration than its conception In a con sslonal document of 1878 Miss Carroll thus recounts her connection with the plan of the Tennessce campaign “In the autumn of 1861 my attention was ar- rested by the confidence expressed by south ern sympathizers in the southwest that the Mississippl could not be opened before the recognition of southern independence. 1 de termined to inform myself what the pilots thought of the gunboat expedition then pre paring to descend the river. On Inquiry I was directed to Mrs. Scott, then In the hotel whose husband was a learned pilot, and learned from her that he was then with the expedition that had moved againt Belmont and the important facts she ave e In creased my wish to see Mr. Scott On his arrival in St. Louis I sent for him. He said that it was his opinion, and that of all the pilots in these waters, that the Mississippi could not be opened by the gunboats “I loquired as to the navigabllity of the He it during the W an to me; « through it all, and could any moment have satisfied congress and the world as to the authorship of the plan but for prudential reasons I refrained from uttering a word. It was decided to refer the question to the military committee of the house, and there the matter slept Miss Carroll died possessed of many eulo gistic letters from men of the highest po tion and undoubted integrity. She had the testimony of Thomas A. S to Jacob M Howard, chairman of the military commit tee, to consider the claim presented by Miss Carroll in 1870; & letter from Benjamin F. th 'l at Wi - Henry Marteau, the young French violin- fat, will glve three recitals at Carnegie hall, New York, next month, with a quartet of which he will be first violinlst Anton Heg: ner, \‘eellist; Novarczek, viola, and the best local artist obtainable in New York as sec ond violinist. Marteau will appear in Chl cago in May cling (o you. STON CHRISTINE, L i 1 Wade appended to the report of General Bragg of the military committee, of March 3, 1881, in which he plainly states that Lin- coln_and Stanton fully recognized the plan as hers, and they all agreed that ‘‘she should be recognized for her most noble service and properly rewarded for the me.” Wade says that Stanton declared on hia deathbed that if he lived he would see that justice was done her, BROUGHT BEFORE CONGRESS. Miss Carroll's first memorial was brought before congress March 31, 1870, It was re- ferred to the military committee, and so tossed about from one circumlocution office to another, never, of course, getting and never destined to get that official rec- ognition which would virtually credit a woman with the victories of Vicksburg and Fort Donelson. Anna Ella Carroll was the daughter of the late Thomas King Carroll, governor of M nd. She was born August ton Hall, the ancestral great-grandfather, Sir Somerset county, Ms Whether her claim ognized or not, and not chronicle it, it 29, 1815, at Kings- home built by her Thomas King, in ryland. be ever officially rec- even If historiuns do remains the most pic turesque idea of the war that a feminine military genius planned for the battalions that she could not personally lead into action, A [ —— INDUNTRIAL NOT The The ber. West Vir John Bull's, Mississippi ton annually. French world 83,000,000 cotton female barber spindles, is increasing in num infa’s coal area Iy greater than grows 1,000,000 bales of cot photographers to the bottom of the sea, Peach stones find ready sale to be used in manufacturing perfumes, flayoring extract and prussic acid aarly all of the electrical inventions, ¢ ping the lightning rod and the tele in use since the Centennial expo are photograph I sitlon Edison grease th e come now at work on a plan to les of ships, so that they wiil slip through the water readi He ws the friction of sali and its con stituents are much more is generally believed The longest curve fs that rallway from the Andes, a curve is n more water than without a Pacific of new railway Argentine to the foot of it Is without r embankment feel reach of the Buenos Ayres tor 211 miles apd has no cutting than two or three According to the the world’s silk trade by the association of the of Switzerland, the production for that period was the largest on record exceeding t of the previous year by $16,480 pounds, and amounting to 37,613,915 pounds An electric funeral innovation. About nine San Franclsco four nd a crematory, and it the city that an electric raflroad com introduced the new hears The estimate of the time required to con struct a bridge across t glish channel, connecting the Southeastern rallway of Eug with the Northern rallway of France is seven years. The line of ihe proposed bridge is twenty-one miles, and the esti mated cost of bullding $134,000,000. Elabo rate plans have been made by the great en gineering firm of Schnelder & Hessent, in I'rance, and the project Is being promoted by the Channel Bridge and Rallway company of Bngland Aluminiu of be istical review of oINS prepared silk manufacturers of raw silk s a California iles distant from rge cemeteries was (o bring them alloy of and 90 per the reason into its constituent by any ordinary process. It ha strength of about 90,000 pounds inch, and a rod 8 inches | square will teh about 15 it pulls apart The alloy forged, rolled, either hot into worked In a ) does not tarni hat the alloy A \um and 90 per cent of ster strength than any other made from the two metals, about cent of that it bronze, 10 luminium pecullar for arated \ an per cent copper can not metaly a per 1 an ten squa inch before [ or lathe cas drawn highly It is d n It and 1 vl hi L can be CONNUBIALITIES. Ada—1 understand Blanche is to into an old family. Ida—The was to be had for the money Old Mr. Barstow—Have you any brothers? Young Mr. Wonson— No, sir; but I have about thiriy-five self-constituted sisters. She—I thought, when I married you, that you bad sufiicient income to support mo properly. He I did. 1 had no idea how awfully expensive you would be. No man should ever s cal a kiss without making sure beforehand that the girl knows what he is going to do sufficiently so that she may be all ready to do her share. Mrs. Munns, a general Baptist preacher, has been licensed to marry people. She lives at Dawson, Ky., and s the only woman in that state who can ofticiate at a’ wedding in a clerical capacity. Now that Miss Brewster's father, Willlam Brewster of New York, has consented to his daughter's marriage with Count Henrl de Frankenstein, the date of the wedding has been set for Wednesday in Easter week. W. W. Bridges of Shawnee, Catawba, county, N. C. has been married thirty- seven years, has had thirteen children, and of this number eight have been married in the last five years and six months. He has never had a death among his children. George Kiput of Shelby county, Indiana a church deacon and 72 years old, has en- tered upon his sixth matrimonial venture. Bach time he contracted with his brides, all of whom are living, that if he became dis- satisfied they were to separate on his terms. It is in New York that the marriage of Miss Juliet Morgan, daughter of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, to Mr. Willlam P. Hamilton, will take place April 12 in St. George's church, and that Dishop Whipple of Minnesota, asslsted by Rev. Dr. Rainsford, will officiate, James Wallington Drown, the matrimonia} phenom, with a record of twenty-six wives in the state of Michigan alone, appears ta have spread himself over adjoining states. The police of Detroit have heard from two additional, and the returns are not all in. Meanwhile the versatile masher I8 serving a six-year term pen The enga Mis daughter of Di whose country Rabodunges in Leroy White announced Henry White, England. Having good Simonson, pr lin, Kan., and her be to marry a Kunsas Miss Martin Morris applied for an injun marry oldest that announced in the of Soph ardy Heylard aris, the Chateau of to Mr. Julian las been recently u relative of Mr. cretary of legation to men the resider Bal Wi late s wore fear that John business mnan of Ober rothed lover, 18 al country schoolma'am, of Cleveland, O., has fon. Her attorney ad- vised hor to bring an action for breach of promise, but ghe told him she wasn't after John's money; she wanied John himself The Inter ement has been made In New Miss Iirben, daugh tor ( iry Erben of ho United States n beeome engaged to Bancroft Gherard] of Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard. Commodore Erben Ia At pr ting rear admiral in command of the quadron. 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