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la the east went before them whis
pered the boy gazing upward at its
pure white light in the hush of the
Boly Night
But mankind said the old man
sadly has not followed In all the
Christmas eves since it looked on the
ghepherds in that field of Bethlehem
it has looked on men doing evil some
where to their fellows Its light has
oeen dimmed by the lights from camp
fires of armies and from flames of
burning cities I am old and it is
weary waiting for the fulfillment of
the promise
The star is beautiful and splendid
said the boy with shining eyes
Undimmed I shine said the Star
And He in whose sight a thousand
years are but a day sees mankind look
toward me every year with new in
telligence and love Ages have passed
and other ages still must be before
the Word shall be fulfilled But every
Christmas eve I shine upon a world
that has moved forward step by step
Greater grew the radiance of the
Star until the world sank away and
still and pure it shone over Jerusalem
Whose calm and faithful eyes are
these that look toward it from a cell
Stephen lies there soon to be taken
to the city wall and stoned to death
Atrnin it shines unon the Holv Citv
surrounded now by a Roman army
under Titus Before another Christ
mas eve Jerusalem shall be no more
The temple of the Most High shall
be razed and Titus leave nothing on
Mount Moriah save a little heap of
ruins
And again there is a Christmas eve
3ix hundred years have passed The
hristian world has fallen far away
from the Sermon on the Mount
Hatred and intolerance have
OTted the cause of Christ into a cause
or shedding of blood from Bethlehem
jo the far isles of Great Britain
Christmas eve 800 A D and Rome
t celebrating the Holy Night with
onderful splendor Princes and war
lore and priests throng its streets
reatest prince of them all before
rhom even the mighty Charlemagne
ows is the Bishop of Rome Leo III
his is a Christmas eve destined to
o more than any other Christmas eve
h many centuries that have been or
t are to come to change the his-
ry of the world For to night Char-
magne and his magnificent court
ve agreed with the bishop that on
ristmas day Charlemagne is to be
wned Augustus Emperor of the
est and Protector of Rome The
ply Roman Empire has begun
Shining for the first time on
as in the New World in 1492 the
tar sees Columbus and his crew turn
Iward it from their small craft as
cy roll in the great blue serges of
e tropical ocean off the coast of
yti It may be that there is too
uch Christmas eve cheer aboard the
tnta Maria For before the Star has
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STAR IN THE
Wondrous Story of the Centuries
That It Told to the Boy
Who Gazed at It
set she is a hopeless wreck on the
rocks of the beautiful island
The Star is to see many cruel things
in the New World after that Its
serene beam shines on Montezuma in
1519 a prisoner in the bloody hands
of Cortez It shines on Cortez again
with his men in the next Christmas
eve lying before Tezcuco which he
is to enter and plunder before the end
of the week
On the Christmas eve of 1529 and
for ten Christmas eves thereafter the
Star looks on an American Odyssey
It is the Odyssey of Alvar Nunez and
his three companions sole survivors
of the expedition of Pamfilo de Nar
vaez wandering along the northern
coast of Mexico through Texas to
the Rocky Mountains and thence to
Mexico trying to find a way to take
them back to Spain They spend one
Christmas eve in being worshiped as
demigods by a tribe of Indians They
spend many others in working as
slaves
Twelve years later the Star shines
on Hernando de Soto lying in camp
in the Chickasaw country It is the
second Christmas eve away from his
wife the beautiful Dona Isabella and
he is never to see her again The
Star looks down upon him in 1541
near the Mississippi with his great
expedition scattered and all but de
stroysd but the dauntless heart of
him brave and unf earing Chrismas
eve 1542 finds no such person as Her
nando de Soto Captain General of Cu
ba Adelantado of Florida on earth
In 1567 the Star sees a gathering in
Antwerp It is a terrible gathering
that conceives a thought of inhuman
wickedness and ferocity Yet out of
this Christmas meeting shall a great
freedom be born For it Is that of the
Spanish rulers in the Netherlands
and at it is adopted the decree of the
Inquisition that condemns all the in
habitants of the Netherlands with but
few exceptions to death And the
War of Liberation follows It is the
first to break the cruel and deadening
power of Spain
In the New World the Star looks
on the colonists of Jamestown stealing
out on Christmas eve in 1G07 to get
corn from the Indians by strategy
Two years later Christmas eve sees
them suffering grievously for food
again
Anno Domini 1C20 and the Pilgrim
Fathers rest from their labor of build
ing the settlement which they have
begun that morning
Christmas eve 1C75 and 167C sees
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war in the New Vorld In the first
year the New Englanders instead of
gathering around sociable fireplaces
are abroad driving before them the
remnants of the Wampanoag Indians
whom they have defeated in a great
battle near Narragansett bay and in
1G7G the French are taking Cayenne
in Giana after a stubborn siege
In 168G the Star shines on grim and
moody faces in the town of New York
Sir Edmond Andross the first royal
governor and vice regent of New Eng
land has just arrived and is making
a roaring Christmas eve of it
Two years afterward the Star
gleams on his royal master James II
spending his Christmas eve in the
French court a fugitive driven from
his throne in England
Sitting with a few companions by
a camp fire in the primeval wilderness
of Pennsylvania a young surveyor
looks up at it in 1753 He is George
Washington nine days journey on hi3
way home from Lake Erie where he
has been to carry a message to the
commander of the French that will
end finally in the French and Indian
war Indians are prowling on his path
that night but he looks as serenely
at the Star of Bethlehem as if ha
were gazing at it from his home in
Virginia
Fourteen years later two other
young surveyors pass a similar Christ
mas eve in the wilderness They are
not to become so famous personally
as that other surveyor but their
names are destined to be linked for
ever with a great cause They are
Mason and Dixon sitting under the
Star at the end of their trail They
have reached a warpath and the In
dians have forced them to stop thirty
six miles from their objective point
But they have practically run their
line and they finish it on Dec 2G
Christmas eve 1773 and there are
bands and flying banners in Boston
Young and old mechanics and royster
ers and citizens of substance are
marching together Singing God
Save the King they head straight for
the wharves where two teaships are
lying Some of the chests go over
board still to the accompaniment of
the loyal tune The others are left
on the ships but the vessels are forced
to return home without unloading
Lieut John Paul Jones in his new
uniform and clothed in his three-day-old
dignity as member of vhe Corps
of Naval Officers appointed by Con
gress swaggers around proudly on
Christmas eve in Philadelphia in 1775
Anno Domini 177G sees 24000 men
crossing the ice covered Delaware
And in 1777 the Star shines on Val
ley Fon2 where men sit around piti
able fires in rags penniless hungry
freezing but unfaltering
Christmas eve 178H George Wash
ington has surrendered his commis
sion the day before For the first
time in seven years he looks up to
the Star without heavy care
Alone save for her babe upon her breast
Lay Mary while the morning star
Late lingering led the sagos to the West
Presaging fates that loomed afar
A mothers love is neer in accents told
When nestling close lier first born lies
FAse words were gems that strung on
gold
Straight from her soul to God would
rise
Ko cold to Mary or her son came nigh
Altho a jagged cleft appeared
Torn thro the wall that faced the eastern
sky
For wind and snow the babe revered
The Virgin drew the slumlring child so
near
Her breathing stirred him as a sigh
Her heart His ri sidle and it pulsing clear
A psalm hushed to a lullaby
And all her thoughts dwelt in the coming
years
When Christ His mission should begin
And trembling fiom her lips her feais
Leapt forth to One who cleanses sin
iwirt as the mother prayed the pale
browned Dawn
Crept soft and kissed Nights purple
cheek
So woke from frosted sleep tU eclipsed
morn
But dull with shadows gray and bleak
That cast full on the cloud encumbered
sky
An outline like a mauve touched floss
And Mary gazed and with an anguished
cry
Ceheld in woe ah God a cross
A cross gloomed on the Orients hih ex
panse
That Dawn upon whoso bosom lay
The irmine stole of rojal eminence
Erst Hung in joining night and day
To conquer dark with light the signal
read
But lost to Mary was the pledge
Her eyes grew blind and burned with
tears unshed
She felt the piercing thoin crowns
edge
As if upon her tender brow it prest
Her lips paled as a death Uower wreath
Knd in each hand theio pearled a fated
crest
That hid the crimson mark beneath
rut now Dawn held her breath her reign
at flight
And rose fhe sun to keep lii
Tr blazomy of lire and aiiiirnl Ight
Ensheathed in srow lae d amethj jt
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And all the canopy grew radiant
A flaming easel where unfurled
The cross in glory gainst the firmament
A rainbow promise to the world
And Marys fears took wing as now apice
She saw the cross resplendent grow
Behold The Christ child wakes and
smiles into His mothers face
And in His eyes the Virgin sees the
suns reflected glow
Emily Ruth Calvin
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A Christmas Message
A touching story of two friends is
lold by William Beatty Kingston in his
Journalists Jottings They were two
officers in the English army who quar
reled about some trifle and although
they had been the closest of comrades
became in consequence entirely es
tranged The fact of their separation
was extremely bitter to both of them
and one Christmas day one of them
received from the other a card hear
ing a dove with an olive branch The
recipient kept the message by him for
a twelvemonth and on the following
Christmas sent it back to his fellow
officer who in turn laid it aside for a
year and then dispatched it on the
next anniversary Through three suc
cessive decades at each Christmastide
the mute messenger was regularly
sent in token of continued friendship
until a year came when it was forgot
ten because the present possessor was
too harassed by financial losses to re
member it In the course of the
Christmas week however his wife
came upon the card and sent it off to
aer husbands friend with a newspaper
cutting referrelng to her husbands
bankruptcy The returning post
brought her a letter enclosing a thou
sand pounds and explaining that the
sender had just come into a fortune
and that in return ror this- trifling
sum intended for his friend j rescue
he should keep the Christina card as
Us most precious possession
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Christmas in
Various Lands
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Christmas conies but once a year
and it is observed as an occasion of
general rejoicing in every civilized
countrj
In Germany the chief celebration is
held on Christmas eve This is the
time the Christmas tree is lighted and
the presents distributed Many of the
superstitions of the North German
peasantry at this season of the year
are of a curious character
Old wives tell young maidens that if
they are desirous of ascertaining the
trades of their husbands they must
on Christmas night listen near the
large kettle walled in the stove If
the water in it makes a roaring noise
he will in all probability be a black
smith And there are various other
tones of the boiling water by means
of which other trades may he deter
mined Again to find out what sort
cf weather it will he during the iiext
j far one must on Christmas eve take
on onion cut it through into twelve
equal parts put salt on each one and
then place them in a row The months
corresponding to the cups in which
the salt is the following morning if
found wet will be rainy
In France Christmas day itself Is
very little observed From the mid
dle of December the streets of Paris
are lined with booths where every sort
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these are intended for the New
Years occasion when the French ex
ciiang gilts and good wishes On
Christmas eve there is midnight mass
at the Madeleine to which immense
numbers flock The high altar is pro
fusely adorned with flowers and the
building decorated all over The peo
ple enjoy the music which is very
fine but the day possesses no deep
significance for thern In some of the
country districts especially in Nor
mandy and Brittany more attention
is paid to the celebration of Christ
mas The i arish churches hold espe
cial services in honor of the birth of
Christ
In Italy the churches are illumina
ted with thousands of wax tapers To
bring the scene vividly before the
mind of the reader the folowing de
scription by a traveler and an eye
witness of one of the churches near
Naples may not he out of place
The hgh altar was blazing with
light On the right lay the presepe
manger and on the left stood erect
a wax figure of the Madonna while
around that impersonation clustered
the young country girls A magnifi
cent flaxen wig covered the head of
uur jauy arm ner cmna blue eyes
stared straight ahead of her into va
cancy She was clothed in a splendid
white satin dress wore a jeweled
necklace around her throat and had
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costly rings on her fingers The pre
sepe was on this occasion the great
object of attention to all the worship
ers It had been expanded from the
stall like manger surrounded by fig
uresthe Virgin St Joseph and the
Shepherds common to all Italian
churches at Christmas to a miniature
Bethlehem into which was crowded
nearly every known animal Trees
and flowers bloomed all about and
even the star was not forgotten This
painted in gorgeous colors was at
tached at the end of a pole that pro
truded from what might have been the
market place of the city The manger
itself was empty as the placing of
tho figure of the bambino holy child
within it is a solemn ceremony re
served for the early hours of Christ
mas morning
The dress of the country people
also awakens in the mind touching re
flections it is I am assured exactly
the same as that of the Shepherds at
the time of our Saviors birth and
dates back upward of two thousands
years It is a sort of smockfrock or
tunic drawn tight around the waist
by a leathern thong and a cloak over
that No shoes people in general go
barefoot
Country Named for Christmas
South Africa was discovered by the
Portuguese who were searching for
an ocean road to India Bartholomew
Diaz was the commander of the two
Utile ship3 that formed the expedition
in 1S4G Eleven years later De Gama
took another Portuguese fleet south
He discovered Natal on Christmas
day and thus named it in consequence
Christmas Greeting
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The Christmas chimes that
Peal forth in merry glee
Rng out a song so joyous still
A half sad meiou
with memories
The vear so fraught
Does slowly ebb away
Into a deep and dark abyss
Nor comes another day
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That miinv bursts of melody t I
Must suiely with it go
Etornltv will have its own
And soon this year shall claim
And i lasp the son ows and the joys
Lnto itself again
Another vear doth beckon all
WheiHh bright hopes now dwell
Ob make them servants to your will
Thej anish ah too well
Ii Kohlsaaf Seheunemann
Margaret Wilson sat by the win
dow in the front room of the diminu
tive flat It was Christmas eve and
she was lonesome O well she would
make the best of it She would keep
up a sort of forced cheerfulness and
forget she was alone She angirly
brushed a tear from her cheek
As she did so the bell in the hall
whirred noisily She went to the
speaking tube and called a dispirited
Kello
Heo came the cheerful response
That you Margaret Merry Christ
mas Kindly unlock the door and
Ill ascend
She opened the hall door and waited
on the landing Presently from the
semidarkness of the place Jack Carl
ton appeared puffing prodigiously
Margarets face brighttned percept
ibly at the sight of him
I didnt expect you he said
What he exclaimed I desert
you on Christmas eve Never
She led the way to the front room
and lighted the red shaded lamp Carl
ton threw off his overcoat and lounged
comfortably in a morris chair
May I he said drawing a cigar
from his pocket
She nodded
To tell the truth shp said I al
most had the blue devils when you
came You must entertain me
All right he assented affablv
Wham I do Sing
No she said Tak xnd make
me forget its Christmas time
Nonsense said he Christmas is
a necessary evil and we must face it
the best way we can O I brought vou
some holly wreaths
In a moment ho was hanging them
in the windows
Say he said over his shoulder I
had a present to day
Indeed she said From whom
Someone who loves me
Strange person she commented
Exactly he said It was from
myself
She laughed
Havent been feeling Al lately so
x uiuppeu m on Dec Higglns this
morning he went on What do you
imagine the idiotic old pill slinger told
me
That you are as careless of vour
health as cf your language
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pre
sume
Never my lady he replied Told
me my breathing
apparatus was out
ot gear again
nothing serious but a
ittle care needed
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ley and told me to go south
She was silently
watching him
Therefore Little Willy hieth him to
he agents of the steamship line and
buyeth himself a ticket for the boat
ot Monday next The
same he pre-
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xm mj sorry- she said
For me he said Look
dont know what Easter Key here fa ifk
That is where Im
going
where I ws
two winters ago you know You Jo
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Old Jeff takes
you
over to Easter in
a crazy old launch Youre no enS
seasick going over but after
therc 0 its all white shelly heath
with big blue rollers
coming in and
palms standing out
against the skv
and green green
everywhere
YoU
laze around and fish
off the reef
down there you dont care whether
o
not you get a bite and shoot
at the edge of the ga
swamp And be
fore you know it your tubes are welt
and you wonder whether it 4
better to go back
or to laze here the
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Ive halt a mind to develnn i
chial trouble myself she
auhed
Say do he said
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Dont be silly she said
Look here he said v vni
confession you have the bdeTifa
loneliness Now rm
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