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VOLUME XXIV
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1916
NUMBER 2
nr
arm, xyn
uponj
dress
HE snow glistened In tjie spafkling sun
falling. &metp
branches wof4he TsmCitreesndt
branches
leafless . bushes.
i ' j
vunu ana .rnacK
me
the .pine-trees and;
fSbmey
the sn
fellstra
grow, Vdeeper
rielllitSe
m to
M
OI son
the nterjof the WOTdswashigh! throne
'hichsat aKing , -
aflffrerd
oftglearri
, frl
ieweis.-
crown
llig:
. .1
1
JVrbund the.
Princes jand
. 1
the Queensland
nunaredso
pa
aro
ise-frbrn. (h
I t ' - - --.-inl
thfdneandj
they greatest fes- j.
tivaMnirjjyearV'
i rsirr r
I of lojarid dheed.
I - .... v.
ano-wc are-gtven
vr -sr .-rrr i ir. ui
1 2Pl8flaL f ?r
But the pages had emptied tjefore the throne
packs with marty mffeyent iojtsf presents. Afrd the
King was present them ItrPrinfcM and Rrjff-
cteseMncanorea,nomol an
iuurc an.morC'OjevKpvai family appeared.For
thsrv wefeviallarfivin' fbrthft ftniSctitrol
l"- V- . f . , I I a
iDouapps ana i
gave grcsertjtfs. Theing-
n, the music wki minded Whlautrhter
me -tcponine tv. Thev
King
nine
fraiyeciT&resents d
an(
th
14 i
' -Kite satf thfe
:RoyaIHamiIy. 'Jf.&M.
x Jicrc
the?chn3?
before. JheA 1
tiorn.to.lx
him and
irful .kin
the lhrone
1
'and
Id.; AU Wburj e
ceptrp of
paused
her:
ed
(stmas to all
wer
and others thin
ame is Christmas. It is the day
'and happincss7"WeiveT5rsent3
e thirlk of others
I, your King, wall now begin the celebration
The Queen was smilingIeyeswere full
of gladness and t
merry and gay
. ine day ormvjftcrafte7VweTe
"The most
ushed
es and Princesses were
saying.
cjommrdav in tnesvea
pagrusnedapout tmsnjwv
OTacame thejsound of mum
kinom all corners ) UfXfh
7 . I rXJ
everyone miuscccesiti
' ' V -V X V -7 J
wftvaifle ria
f It "-V 1 'S
sAns
The
and from
grew loud
everywhere
seemed as iN
King and
one quitefknew
No one q
somehow everyon
was the song of jo
And all knew that
and that,
The music
come from
e world it
ging, ano tne
n the song. No
me of the song.
e might be, but
inging it for the song
he tune was happiness.
Hall knew its tune and
hemPd to rti
i i 1 1 u vi . i ir .i m if - v
AnHVks tHohi
I I I I (I XX ml & tl 3 ' I "ii
thevlsaM IriSwhlsfeeifaoVaeht
jLiDQK.i un ineinrone lsxarv
i ( y Jr iii . si
r . s . s i. tii f v a i i ""w
jn. .'thfe.chiia
J H
the
ls!s
were
Jingling of bells was heai4-th
Christmas'' bells . onlHeleinoeers and-iiptl
pmncjd to ta
thJCing-tohis home far awj
3grjlh'e).King wasnonelherhaSanta CI
angedj
lAnETHll'of
Instead of one gu
st
rone.
iai
dai
tte'n,
je. toOiaDDinessJ
0 : .
ettj on a mighty
pineJfreev fights appeared
and ejjow flakes on
the brajM'S changed and
.drooped down heavtty
laden with presents,
And the tree spoke too:
...
TI am the Christmas
tree. For years and
years ..I- have gohe''t
into .homes' each ":
Christmas Day. .
trees but we all '
have the one
namethe Christ r i V
seen big horn
was a Queen
Christmas o
Instead
alTchlldren.
many trees.
and the wi
decorations
lor ouce a y
dream -this ChH
hundreds of -horn
see the different mothers
children scattered o
to many homes but
nd little hnm&irKi
motheif the child:
ft calls his'
na Princes
rie
laces
es could bo
all there
if
whom on
Family,
ey were
here were
ng snow
green
iriies.
ita Glaus .'dreams this
fable. JHe , sees not tho
sited. He does not
does not see the
rth. He has been
Kmgi bids us I iro ,to n
Crrisltn ak festival! Our b:
ftsS ahd 'candles of
inas tree and our
many a
branches
all as one. And
I 3t is a -true dream,
For every Christmas QuKen is a mother with
love in her heart, afwf tjiere are the fathers who
triertthrone of Santa Claus on Christmas Day
A'JMerrv Christmas" inseHhMf in utt
f A . AV k LV1 IJ
Iy..the' children of Santa's dream can see.'
t all the. children of th wnrM tV
AAaithRoyatamjly-tJie Princes and the Prin- .
Not unusual
' C T . ' ' wiiuaiiY. Alley . mo
who give joV just because
jV they-are iprjildren are given
, measure ijccausQ ineyj too can give.
orld, in hunJ
m the visit oi
is happiness.' 1
,s Christmas
,cer arid good
gifts that
wiJK
throughout the wpjlotHat)day there was singing.
Some did not know how-to sing the words, some
Idid not know how-to make the sounds with their
voices, but for these there was the music in their
'hearts the love in their hearts for all the people
(under the sun.
f r r r 7 t w .i.YiJtei'CjVf.i:
hold iifts! arid Icandles of differ-.
ent colors to give the bright -ii
light of good cheer. Axji?
' And from all aroiind the Wv
Lriiiiui L.11 an. iJiir.iiTtib' i i ii : k m "
Ings that
filled "with
candles, nuts an
are openingjtock- M
igesandA
While they wereZdancinbjand
laughingsthey opcnedTmany
mysteriousJittlTpackages, the King spoke again:
"Good-bye to ail" he sjdrI wjll'be bapirlbr
the festival next year. Come my fine animals!
Come my gorgeous chariot I"
,tW;h Jf.-i )
x . v r ri ii i m u i jiii i
An
?anta Cia
!Tmillng e
Yesali overthA
I dreds of hoin
'Santa Klaus' 4
lA)t'. bf Bay there
jives are the
CS and the merrv
, f '"voices oflHi)dren as they
!l?hout tSffiUt over
-ine-,nnsrmas testlval.
He is the. King not
of a country, nor of a
land but of a Day,
ii,.jrb Christmas Day,
. . ii0" hi subjects are the
"WV Children of the World
r' Fd? him there is this fable.
He candream of the joy that is in th; hearts of
allien phrisnias morning, while he is sitting oc
his throne and his chariot drawn by Reindeers
is waiting to take him back home!