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MAP Over Now Ones Chooso From to Jewelry Store The ERA gives homo every week than any two paper in North York combined and is acknowledged to be the Leading County Paper I J I w I I We Want To do your Give us YORK INTELLIGENCEB AND liberty to know to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all other liberty No paper seat North York paid in advance to United States Watch All our work Warranted is I Graduate Optician No 12 Copy eta Each Newmarket Ont Friday April 9 per annum I if paid in advance t For the Era Easter Lilies SAP BUCKETS and Steel Spiles per 100 SAP BUCKETS Homo Made Heavy Tin SAP BUCKETS Home Made Iron SAP GATHERING PAILS Galv Iron SAP DIPPERS Heavy Gallon Size SAP PANS for Boiling Heavy Steel all Sizes SYRUP STORAGE TANKS Our Stock of Paints Oils and Brushes of All Kinds PLUMBING FURNACE WORK AND TINSMITHING PHONE NEWMARKET I II HP in FECIAL AVI NO ATTENTION DEPOSIT Oh the lovely Easter With their perfume On their stalks erect and regal And their bloom to remind us Of oar Saviours empty tonh He is risen our Redeemer Glory His holy name Mans salvation was His purpose For his sake from heaven He came humble All in earth and transcending Glory majesty and fame Though each lily bulb was buried For a while beneath the sod In due time its life expanded Bursting through the earthy clod Naught in all the realms of nature Could restrain the Son of God Jesus too admired the As upon the mount He stood Said Why take ye thought of rai ment Speaking- to the multitude Points unto them as a lesson Not to oer earthly good Talked unto the crowd while sitting On the grass beneath the trees To consider well the lies Waving in the gentle breeze Solomon in all his glory Was not clothed as one of these From the air and earth absorbing As they grow perfume conserves And emits a sweet To delight olfactory nerves Stirring in the soul conceptions That all nature subserves Could each lily breathe a message To the hungry souls of men to inhale its fragrance And admire its waxy sheen While interpreting the emblem Jesus would draw near them then C FIELD MANAGER B I add morx but changing his mind turned abruptly on his heel I Lily watched his departure abstract- In school days ho bad been her playmate and confidant That he I had pushed on to success both in business and social relations was to her a matter of sincere pride openly expressed If in secret she suffered at the knowledge the widening gulf between them she denied it stoutly I even to her own heart following his career with loving interest from her vantage place That he never had quite forgotten the old bond he proved by dropping in frequently on his way from the of fice accepting with equal friendliness her greeting and choice of nieres With a womans intuition and pow er of putting this and that together she knew from the first of his court ship of the beautiful Amy Strath Had not Lily often with tremulous fingers arranged Dents bouquets for the debutantes Until lately was it not she who had made the real selection of his offer ings violets for her birthday white and gold chrysanthemums at Christ mas and always for Easter She bad heard of misunderstanding With complex feelings but for Dents sake hoped believing herself qualified to his suffering in the separa tion that at Raster his floral re membrance might heal the rupture Toward this end she ha1 selected a specially beautiful lily but if he did not intend to send a peace offering to what end her care On the other hand should Dent slight the spoiled beauty at such a season it would but Cement the trouble Men were so blind to their own interests for watching him the girl fancied him grown worn of late and her heart ached for him On eve how ever a daring scheme entered her brain to try if perchance she might help to set matters right Without giving herself time to weaken in her resolution she tied white streamers about the cherished lilies catching the long loops with a dainty knot of blue forgetmenots Handing it to the driver she follow ed him to the door repeating her in structions that it was for Miss Strath We may learn a lesson also From the of the field Though they toil not are provided Never lack the needed yield Those who trust God right pursuing I He will all their footsteps shield P L GRANT Richmond Hill April o I fc with it inquired the man Easter Lilies and Others den blinding tears Lily retreated in to the store Would the other girl fail to Easter implied donor and the ihei in the gift lilies at Easter and florists win- forgetmenots for happiness address Miss Strath of course need not bother with the ad dress Im poing to send a hoy for it Then scribbling few lines with evident uncertainty of selection be departed with an abrupt good night Lily made her way home tired and sad She was haunted with the fear that her intrusion into Dents affairs might complicate them still further until she remembered that she alone knew from whom the gift was sup posed to come Dent sending one of his own would never suspect her should ever learn of the other Entering the dining room early the next mornings her eye at once lighted on a lily tall and fragrant While admiring it her first thought na turally was of her grandfather but there was something fa miliar in the arrangement of the rib bon in the manner the tiny enve lope was attached Her fingers trembled as she freed the can to read Please be kind and exchange lilies with me Dent The amazed light of happiness was still upon when the writer came He her hands crushing them in sudden hop- Lily is it possible Wait The girl spoke breath lessly freeing one hand to hold him at a distance You must be very sure It will mean so much There is Amy Strath You care for her deference to his sharp de nial you eared What if she should repent her quarrel and send for you The quarrel was mine dear She demanded the breaking of our friend ship Even that for your happiness be gan the girl but Dent cut short the offer of sacrifice Here he cried kissing her hero is my happiness What it I had learned the truth too late Give me the flower I want my Easter It is yours already she admitted Then after an appreciable interlude How could I ever have planned to marry you anyone else To whom demanded the aston ished Dent to this he obtained satisfactory answer Song for Easier HE tiny buds- begin to wake Down in their dark cold bed As swift the kisses of the sun on each nestling head We must say To greet the Springs birth day arise they say the Springs birthday For the Era Easter We To must greet The sleeping brooklets softly stir Beneath the brightening light And smile into the skys sweet face Out of their long lone night Let us awake and run To meet the shining Sun The bonny birds in distant clime The secret message hear We catch the answer floating back In carols glad and clear Homeward fly and sing Sing for the beauteous Spring And shall our hearts alone be stiZl When sky and stream bright bird And Gods sweet ours Nay let glad thanks be heard We wake we live we sing To greet our risen King 000ff Easter Tide DELLS in the steeple King out to all people That Christ risen that Jesus is here Touch heavens blue ceiling With your happy pealing bells in the steeple ring out full and clear love the grand old Easter time Because of what it teaches- Its lessons truly are sublime Beyond language reaches It teaches that the Saviour died Was buried and was raised That wc might all be justified His name be ever praised J I It teaches that Christ broke away From death its chains defying That we might die without dismay And live again undying Christ left the grave by power divine According to his saying That we might rise again and shine In glory BY ETHEL HARRINGTON grasses growing on this new your never 0 0- Easter in Russia gave full assurance Old n a s place just around the cor ner from a very crowded was a ver itable oasis of PEA COAL THE BEST PER TON Corner Church and Sts ORDER PHONE OR CARTERS JOS WESLEY AND FRED HOOVER in noise and dirt of the city Here the mingling perfume of rich exotics the exquisite feast of color the of the green background against which blossoms were massed formed never failing selfappointed peacemaker could not however repress a guilty start when Dent unexpectedly appeared asking for some lilies She would have sent hoy to show him but the man objected I can wait I need your advice Perforce she attended him to the hothouse in the rear Tuer while herself with drawing out plants for his consideration she sur prised look of tenderness in his eyes I I always think of you as here among the flowers he said hastily Lily found him unusually difficult to please and grew more and more over her act and what he would f My stock is a little larger a little finer grade and a little better assorted than I have ever had before Artistic uptodate cut and fit is my aim My prices are less than you will pay in many places Your careful inspection is requested light to the owners granddaughter Perhaps in that riot of beauty the say should he discover it loved most the purity of the told you to choose earlier girl F MAIN ST MERCHANT TAILOR ad a fool he wants it cool cool he wants it hot Always wanting what Is not When hes single he wants to wed When hes married he wishes he was dead OLD NEWSPAPERS For Sale at this Office coughs and REPEAT- IT Cure will always cure my flower after which she had been call ed As she bent over an Easter lily tying up the blossoms whose weight and fragrance seemed almost too heavy for its support she ap peared well named Her figure was as slender the pale gold head and paler cheek equally frail while about her radiated that dainty femininity that is to womanhood what perfume is to the flower Completing her task she set the plait far hack be yond numbers of a species Hen- paused to remonstrate Set it further out Lil Its the beauty of the lot I know it grandfather but is Im keeping it for one of our ulars Nodding satisfied the old man bust- Id away to some Lily though constantly busy kept watch on each newcomer When at length a tall young man entered the quick drooping of her long lashes showed him to be the one expected My buttonhole ready he asked Suddenly across the counter For re ply she handed him a carnation which he at once fastenid in his coat Pretty busy I guess he con tinued lingering a moment after slie had made the change Yes Dent any order for East er Were selling so fast it will he surest to let me know now J Her eyes questioned with an eagerness did not permit In her tone No An answering embarrass ment clouded for a the young she reminded but it was more to herself as if she needed to keep this fact in mind for her own exonera tion True but well to tell you the truth I wasnt sure she would ac cept one from me You are now Lily stared at j the plant under discussion at the palms to her left at anything rather than tier companion She flinched from his affirmative yet reminded herself she wanted only the assurance that all was well wit- him Im hoping for the best Lily one I midnight as the he ushered in the throngs he- churches and exactly at mid- gin to move toward the churches and exactly at mid night the door of the Holy of the is thrown open and the priests proclaim in loud Voice Christohs voskress voskress ins mortvui Christ is risen Christ is risen from the dead Instantly at these words the dark churches are illuminated like magic with dazzling light and all the tapers that were extinguished on Thursday night are again lighted bells are set to ringing priests in gorgeous robes pass through the crowds swinging incense burners and blessing the various groups Out side the public buildings and the streets are brilliantly illuminated and fiery rockets are sent into the midnight sky One can but wonder how the modest and lowly Christ- would consider all this display and rejoicing if he were to come back to earth Is this exaggerated form of mourning over his death and the wild and elaborate rejoicing over his re surrection in keeping with his humble teaching It is at this moment of loud pro claiming and bellringing that the people in their joy kiss each other In the churches everybody turns to his neighbor and repeating Christ is risen from the dead kisses him on the cheek This old and wellknown custom in Russia is carried out from A general will soft April showers Call out young flowers Touch each little sleeper and bid her obey Set blowing And fresh To thrill the old world Easier Day so stately With petafs so Christ loved you and talked of beauty old Bend low in your places In tenderest graces While swinging before Him your cen sors of gold violets under Your tribute render Tie round your- wet laces your soft hoods blue And carry your sweetness Your dainty completeness To some tired hand that is longing for you velvet bloomed willows Go comfort sick pillows With visions of meadowlands peace ful and brown The breath spring lingers Within your cold lingers And the brooks song is caught in your fingers of down world bowed and broken With anguish unspoken Take heart and be glad fur Lord is not dead On some bright tomorrow Your black cloud of sorrow Will break in a sweet rain of joy your head Observance of Easter on HE back to a You understand women being yourself Suppose- emperor down were in her place Lilys thus greet the officers below him and voice was very low so on down to the soldiers Heads Yes In her place the girl to an shops hand this Easter whom Im going to send this flower to the humblest employees Suppose wc had drifted apart more warmly expressed this that I suddenly found out Id greeting among the Russians acting like conceited fool and only significance wanted to be forgiven Would you out Merry Christmas The Holy i in Hon- accept the flower with all it stood for Lily moved uneasily beneath his anxious gaze Surely it could not be jealousy she felt Then she laughed Men were unaccountably clumsy choosing their confidants Season in Russia by Eleanor Hod- gens in the for Well rise again and see friends And meet them in that morning When the dark night of sorrow ends With joy eternal dawning Well rise to see the city fair Jerusalem the golden With joy unbounded enter there And have no good Well see the Saviour on His throne Well sit down by His side And then begin to know and own The bliss of Eastertide blessed Easter full of light That does the sun It lifts our minds and hearts aright To life and joy divine JAMES THOMPSON Penfield For the Era The East and the West BY A BANKER Pcrhaps the line of demarcation the immovable East and the ad vancing West can be observed with greater clearness at that city of con trasts Cairo than at any other place in the world For within five min utes walk of each other on the one side is the squalid unclean native quarter reeking in garbage and crowded with a motley throng of Arabs negroes from the Sou dan and orientals of all shades brown and Mack on the other side a splendid city of handsome buildings thronged with a fashionable crowd many driving in fine motor cars or private carnages many walking along the crowded streets many travelling in electric trams motor omnibuses or public pairhorse victorias Visiting first the native quarter the visitor is struck by the fiery gesticu lations and wild aspect of the able Arab If one buys a halt- piastre worth of some unsavory com pound of another a very war of words lasting perhaps a quarter of an hour may ensue resulting possibly in a reduction of the price by a mil- about the value of a farthing- Or if an overloaded camel or ass passes along the narrow street block ing it up sometimes almost complete lyfor the streets arc only a few feet wide volleys of objurgations couched doubtless in anything but polite and refined phraseology greet the camel or ass driver Their vocal chords must be formed of guttapercha to withstand the strain of all this pro fuse and strenuous verbosity from morning until night And what a contrast to between the shops of the European awl those of the Arab quarter The former like the best of those in London or Paris the latter dingy dismal cabins dis playing for sale oilylooking garbage which few Europeans could touch without a shudder or chopped up of fal or sheeps tails which in this part of world grow to an size or perhaps the primitive requirements of an Arabs house con sisting of not much more than or two a few wooden stools and an iron cooking tripod But happily since the British t ante of Easter dates about the year at which time there was much contention among the Eastern and Western churches as to what the festival should be observed It was finally ordained at the Council of Nice in the year that it must be observed throughout the Christian j world on the same day This deci sion settled that Easter should be kopt upon the Sunday first after the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month but no general conclusion was arrived at as to the cycle by which the festival was to be regulated and some churches adopted one rule and jii some another This diversity ot tcctoratc over the cation I To prevent eyeglasses in cold rub the glasses a She caut resist you if you put tl case so so delightfully clear Youll take this one Ye The mans voice lost its eagerness as he followed silently back into store There the girl became all business measuring off yards of ribbon him en- ln thoroughly on both tle vaseline or cold cream with tissue paper or the glasses usage was put an end to and the of the natives is rapidly improving Roman rule making Easter the first I the fertile country is rapidly after the fourteenth day of more and more cultivated and the the calendar moon was established in natives protected from the rapacity in After nine cch- of the usurious taxgatherer are ac- turies discrepancy in the keeping of quiring wealth and living in greater Easter was caused by the authorities comfort of tho English church declining to I Unhappily however the blight I adopt the reformation of the Grego rian Calendar in The difference sides with a settled in 1722 by the adoption they will acknowledge as Islam still presses heavily upon them May the time speedily arrive when acknowledge as their Medi- then rub j to clear the rule which makes Easter Dayator and Redeemer Him who as a always the first Sunday after the full young was taken tatoKgypJ moon which on or next after for a time to escape the ferocity OX moon appears on the twentyfirst day of March the full moon happens upon a Sunday who If Herod but who was the Son of God I who in ortfer to nullify the mankinds fall made atonement on- The purity flavor and strength of Salada Tea make it incomparably Easter Is the Sunday after the beet value on the It Is Core will of all who will come infinitely more delicious and decidedly i Cross of Calvary for the trans- j clouded tor a of ribbon haSding en- infinitely more delicious and cold Him for eternal We fellows face Ho seemed about to JI6 tor his carri and enquiring the more than other tew- ro ARCHIVES TORONTO