our parts, although “at the far north, 
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Turse SNowy Days with zero weather have been 
-hard on the birds of the woods. ‘The snow, covering 
the fields and forest floors, has: robbed our feathered 
friends of their feeding grounds. In consequence many 
birds of the déep woods have been driven into the open 
places to seek food.- The snow flake, of the finch fam- 
ily, sometimes called snow bird, snow bunting, or 
snow lark has been seen. ‘These are rare visitors in 
travelers have 
mentioned their inspiriting song, but in the United 
States we hear only their cheerful twitter. Nansen 
tells of seeing an occasional snow bunting in 
that desolation of arctic ice where the Fram drifted 
so long.” Despite the bird book the snow flake has come 
into the open here in Manchester and has been seen 
feeding and in flight. The bird is smaller than the robin 
by a fourth. It is the only bird we know that is nearly 
white. ‘here is a touch of brown and gray on each 
wing. The lower tail feathers, however, are edged with - 
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black. ‘The interesting visitors from the far north have 
remained about for a few days. 
Mayor MacDonatp is being commended by the 
clergymen and other citizens of the City of Beverly for 
his attitude to improper dances and the announcement 
of new rules. It is a difficult problem to solve and 
Mayor MacDonald has made a good beginning in the 
right direction. . 
Wirt A $400,000 APPROPRIATION France has shown 
an interest in the Panama Exposition in San Francisco. 
Such expenditures should not be demanded by our 
states. It does not improve the standing of America 
in Europe to permit one of its states to make such a 
“hold up.” 
Onty A Few More Hours to get that income tax 
blank ready. 
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Lent BrcAN FEBRUARY 25. . 
Lent began on Feb. 25, with Ash 
Wednesday making a period of 40 
days of penance. The season of Lent 
is marked by a pause in the round of 
human festivity and in some sort of 
giving up of the mere pleasures of 
life, 
Unlike the New Year, Lent carries 
with it something more than a merely | 
human desire or resolve to do good 
or to make sacrifices; since it is a re- 
ligious and not merely a secular date, 
and is commemorative of those final 
days in the life of Christ, and of the 
Great Sacrifice. Under such circum- 
stances jt is not strange that men and 
women in a Christian world should 
observe Lent or that they should abate 
a little the pleasures of this world in 
contemplation of the sacrifice which 
was in very truth “that far-off, di- 
vine event toward which the whole 
creation moved.” 
In 1913 the date of Ash Wednes- 
day was twenty days earlier than this 
year, and for this reason the Easter 
date was on March 23, instead of 
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April 12 as it is this year. Easter is 
4 movable feast instead of a fixed one, 
as is Christmas; and was made per- 
manently so by the decree of the 
council of Nice, which ordained that 
the observance of Easter should be 
on the last Sunday following the date 
of the vernal equinox, which is 
March 21. ‘The latest date on which 
Easter might fall is April 25, so that 
there are in all thirty-five possible 
dates for its observance. In fact the 
Easter date comes from the Jewish 
Passover, with which it is intimately 
connected in the Biblical story and 
which occurs on the Saturday pre- 
ceding Easter—this year April II. 
In the Greek and Russian calendar, 
the actual date being fixed by the 
equinox, is the same as in the Greg- 
orian, but in the almanac of these 
churches it is given as March 30, 
which is the difference between the 
new style calendar which we use and 
the Julian or old style which in all 
countries where the Greek is the na- 
tional church still obtains. 
In the Year 1915 Easter will fall 
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on April 4, in 1916 on April 23, in 
1917 on April 8, in 1918 on March 28, 
in 1919 on April 20, and 1920 on 
April 4 again, Not since 1818 has 
it come so early. as March 22, and not 
until 1943 will it come as late as 
April 25. No person now living, or 
his son or daughter, is likely again to 
see an Easter as early as March 22, 
since there will be no such Easter 
date until after the year 2000. 
Women speak easily of platonic 
love; but, while they appear to es- 
teem it highly, there is not a single 
ribbon of their toilette that does not 
drive platonism from our hearts.— 
A. Ricard, 
The forest service is compiling a 
new volume table for calculating the 
board contents of standing western 
yellow pine trees in the southwest. 
It is based on actual. measurements 
of six thousand trees. 
The soul and the body are enemies. 
—A. de Musset. 
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