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Catalog mailed free on request Getting ready for t he C oeter Monday agghunt In Grant park, Atlanta. Tbo park gatee have been cloead for the morning and man ara driving about tha grounda ecatteHng thouoando of oondy egge In oil tflrootlono. At O Certain flxad time tha gotoo ara Opined ami tha children poor In to iioroli for tha treaauro. HE ortUn of Barter to loft in antiquity ; The first trace of It li u a pagan rtt% celebrated In honor of Eastre, the Saxon goddess of spring. Then It became with the Jewish pasaover, and, about ?8 A. D, wae instituted an n Cbriatlan festival. I There are mnnjr quaint customa in celebration of ^srter In oountrlee where auperaUtlon still hoi da sway over the minda of the people. In Spain, Portugal and meet of South America, Judas, the betrayer*, plays a prominent <part In the proceedings of Barter, and Holy Saturday to a day which la devoted almoat entirely to maltreating hla efflgr. Execution of Judaa. I On Good Friday the shopkeepers are j j buiy all day aelllng Judaaea, of every aire and ahape, by the doaene. to iaem women and chlldrenj and oh the fol lowing morning the whole community > to transposed Into a place of execu tion. Ropes are stretched across the streets from house to bouae, and on them ?are strung Judaaea tilled with itraw and gunpowder, black and very ugly as they sway In the aunllght. A few minutes before, 12 o'clock, there to a bush over all the place, and then as thOj church bells ttoll out the noon hour a sudden frenzy aelses the people and every Judas Is cut down and hurled Into flames amid wild ?bouts of rejoicing, and pandemonium reigns supreme. In Cuba and other Spanish-Ameri can countries there la a curious cus tom which almost outrivals those ot other places. At an appointed hour on Easter morning the cathedral doors are thrown open for the resur rected Saviour to pass out. This Is a waxen figure of Christ (with open wounds exposed) seated upon a draped platform, beneath which may be seen the legs of the score of monks who carry It. Following is a long lino of priests bearing crosses and many candles. This odd procession passes down ;he sunlit street until at a given point it la met by a second figure, borne on the shoulders of four priests. This represents, a woman dressed in the most, gorgeous finery. It is Mary Mag dalene coming to meet her Lord after his resurrection. Like the Biblical 8tcrry. There is a sudden halt of both fig ures, and then Mary turns and has tens away, the eight legs beneath galloping furiously In order that it may be seen how fast the repentant one Is hurrying to spread the news of the risen Christ. As she goes she to met by a third figure, decked jp yel low satin and crowned with gold, and this Is the Virgin Mary. The two pause. and then turn to meet the ad vancing Saviour. When they do reach him they bow repeatedly and then the procession solemnly returns to the church, passing through rows ot sol diers who, as they enter Its door s, jlro a salute, and the muBlc ends with a groat flourish. * "* * . In this modern and progressive world this quaint custom seems most primitive, but the glamor of It all brings such jcry to these people that a sojourner with them at this season cannot but be Impressed with their simple faith. _ji.1 The ceremony of holy firo within the Church of the Holy Scpulcher, Palestine, is a very remarkable prac tice and one against which the popo vigorously protests, but the Greek church, declares It la an annually re curring miracle. On Holy Saturday with the church crowded almost to suffocation, nil lights are extinguished, and one of tho Greek patriarchs opens the service by Circling three times around the sepulcher, followed by the bishops (all of them clad In rtch robes) all praying fervently that the Are may be sent down from heaven. | The Blessed Flame. The Patriarch then enters ths sep ulcher alone and for a moment all Is dark, when suddenly through tho holes in the wail light appears and the priests, standing lri front of them, hand in candles. Thcser they receive again lighted and they are sent by chosen messengers to Bethlehem, Nax areth and all over Palestine. *s tney p ess through the congregation to the church door titer* to a mad Wl t? ward them, each member of the van sssemblsge striving to light hie ua? die with the bleeeed flame. There le legend of a crusader from Florence, who, finding himself ool Easter at Jerusalem, Joined the throng who lighted their tapers at the e? cred flame within the Holy Bepulcbeff church. Anxious to bHng thla baqh to hie native town unextinguished, to protect It from the wind he rode the whole of the land Journey on * don key, with hie face to lta talL The devil tried* Iwt unsuccessfully, to bio# It out, and on .hie arrival home the taper wan stilt alight Thereupon he presented It to the city of Florence, only claiming aa his prtr* 0ege to be the first to take a light from It on Holy Saturday. Another of Palestine's practices la !h* pilgrimage on Monday of Holy week to the River Jordan. At the Pll? grime' ford are congregated thousands and tens of thousands of Christiana, who, la the gray light of dawn, pour down upon the river on foot and horseback, straining every nerve to get to the waters quickly, where, upon arriving, they splss|i,ln* dipping them selves three times In honor of the Trihlty. After fitting bottles and flasks with the consecrated water they hasten away* The Italian Caster. The Italians hold Easter as the most Important festival of the eccles iastical year, even attaching more Im portance to It than to Christmas. Throughout the whole peninsula there are family reunions, fetes and cere monies; all of the latter originating In remotest antiquity, and each connect ed more or less with the worship of fire as the great purifying element , Florence has always been distin guished for a most unique ceremony, known as ."flcappio del Carro" (the "explosion of the car"), which la un * H V" - " ,U ?' . ' . . / ' ' * , ^ f Setting Ready to Give Judas Iscarlot Hie Due. douljtedly of c?most ancient origin. Early In the 'thirteenth, century it so chanced that a young man ' of the great Piazzl family was the first per son to light his to/oh from the fire which was drawn from the sacred flint from the tomb of Christ, and so greatly pleased were his whole clan that they resolved on the next holy Saturday to celebrate the circum stance with pomp and a display of | fireworks such as to tills day is a sign of Italian rejoicing. Erer since, the family has spared no expense In marking the occasion. Tear after year these demonstrations grew more showy, the family spend ing more and more, until at last it oc curred to them to build a car, to b* crammed full of1 fireworks, and this they proposed to plaoe in front of the cathedral, 11 ght 1 nf ythe $ whole g mass from the sacred fire and causing It all to explode at the mordant when the city bells (silent since Holy Thurs day) burst forth Into merry peals at the stroke of midday, when was cele v ?. v, , ' . V.1 M 'Mi l I "f mI* ? ' : A "SFr J. .,-U, * C^. ?I rocl Ion At tntlMf Biachlaa (H made every y*ar, but after a certajfl time tbey determined to hsve * 4u* able one. end accordingly bttiK a huge triumphal cmr. carved and gilded, bat It 414 not serve lo?g. for It, wtUi ?w eral more, wee burned. The PyreteeHnlp Cm*. But In Ittt (M en inscription om the inside testifies) the car now la uea wee made. 1 It ha? bee? partially 4a stroyed ??4 reetore 4 a number of limes, until the inel4e la a patchwork of many kind* of wood, aacfe piece being lnacfibed with the name of the carpenter who ftxe4 It It fa a maulvt aquare structure, torn atorlaa high, aaade of great boama and boarda clamped together an4 supported on low, solid whale. ; j? When the time ftpr the celebration arrives this strange structure la pack ed with Artworks and adorned with flowers und four hope white ox? 4 raw it through the streets to. the front of the cathedral. Hera there la fixed to it a wire connected with the high altar at the farther end of **** cathedral. At the eud of this wire Is a mechanical device, made of wood, with a wheal aa4 a show fuee Inal4e of It, known aa the ^Columbia" or flora. Tb, archbishop applies a light from the sacred Are to the 4ove, which goea hissing down the wire, over the heads of the congregation, to the oar and Ignltee the fireworks, yben loud ex plosions occur which can be heard all over the city and the surrounding country. The peaaanta attach great Import ance to this ceremony and are ex tremely superstitious about the suc EasUr Procession In 8evllle, 8paln, Pasting Through th? , Parta Ma carcna. ' ' . (V. - cessful passage of the done, for tbey tske it as a sign that the coming har vest will be good. Should it stick in any way on its passage to the car or not ignite the fireworks there Is loud cursing, and they look,?or nothing but ill luck from this omen. People come from all over .Italy to see the cere mony* and so keen la the interest in it that many more centuries will see it performed. Washing Beggar** Feet, In England, on Maundy Thursday, there used to prevail a custom for the sovereign to wash the feet of as many poor people as corresponded with the years of his or her life. King lames II. was the last monarch to regularly perform this service, though Queen Elisabeth in her thirty-ninth rear washed the feet of thirty-nine of her subjects. ? Her majesty was attended by an equal number of ladies and gentle men. The feet of these poor of the kingdom were first washed by yeo men of the laundry with warm water and sweet hertfS; the queen then bathed them and made the sign of the cross on the Instep and kissed It. Thia ceremony took place at Green wich palace. THE RESURRECTION. . Tho flrnt day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dartc, unto tho sepulchre, and eeeth the stone -taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth*, and cbmeth to Simon Peter* and to the other disciple whom Jesua loved, and salth unto them. They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and jfe know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore *ent forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together; and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And he stoop ing down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him* and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie; and the napkin, that was about his head, nofclylng with the linen clpthes, but wrapped together In a place by^^eolf^.;^i^.weniivXio ilsol that Other disciple which came first to the sepulchre, and he and believed. For as yet knew not the 8cripture, ~ their own Cover the left eye and see if the lines in all b sections of the above circle appear equally dark and distinct If not, you have Astig matism ? a visual defect which should be conrected at oncp. Try the right eye in ex~ actly the same manner. 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