— LL around the seascn of J the Coming of Love as a little Child there have sprung legends and De- liefs, like blossoms a gracious clime, which testify with subtlety to the depth of the apneal of the birth of Christ Here divinely spiritual symbolism and there sweet human tenderness and pathos appear, and, blended. they evidence the world’s belief that this was both Son of Maa and Son of God. An Irish legend tells that, on Christ. mas eve, the Christ-Child wanders out in the darkness and cold, and the peasants still put lighted candles in their windows to guide the sacred lit. tle feet, that they may not stumiie on their way to their homes. And in Hungary the people go vet {urther in their tenderness for the Child, they spread feasts and leave their doors open that He may enter at His will while throughout Christendom there is a belief that no evil can touch any child who is born on Christmas eve. The legend which tells how the very | hay which lined the manger in which the Holy Babe was laid put forth liv- ing red blossoms at midwinter at the touch of the Babe's body could only have arisen from belief in the renewal of life through the Lord of Life. oly Thorn. T is not so many centuries ago since there was that holy thorn at Glastonbury which ' blossomed every Christmas, and. so ' ran the legend, had done ever since St. Joseph of Arimathea, having come ' as apostle to Britain, and, landing at | Glastonbury, had stuck his staff of dry hawthorn into the soil, commanding it | to put forth leaves and blossoms. This the staff straightway did, and thereby was the king converted to the Chris- tian faith, the faith which preached the city of sin, was buried deep. clean out of sight, beneath the waves. But | ever at Christmas up from beneath the ' covering waters comes the sweet call fug of church bells buried in Been. It is a legend which appears to teli in parable that nothing which ever be longed to the Christ, and was dedi cated to Dis service, is ever who'ly lon from him and alienated from service; that ever and again something of their inherent beauty and compelling sweet- ness rises from the depths through all seoming ruin. #0 = she Manger. Rg 7 RADITION declares that V within the stone manger ' there was another one of wood, and that the stone cradle in | the Chapel of the Nativity is, indeed. ! the outer manger. Splendid is that humble stone trough now with white | marble, softly rich with: costly dra- | peries, and radiant with a silver star, | which is surrounded by 16 lamps, ever | ait. But yet more glorious is the | wooden manger at Rome, held to be the veritable manger in which the Christ-child lay. It was removed to Rome in the seventh century, during | the Mohammedan invasion of the Holy | Land, and there it is preserved in a | strong brazen chest, from which it is | brought forth on Christmas days. when it is placed on the Grand Altar. | It is mounted upon a stand of silver, | which is inlaid with gold and gems, ; and the shrine in which it rests is of purest rock crystal. In the days in . which this was accomplished men, . ; whatsoever may have been their | shortcomings in other directions, gave magnificently to the Church Visible. stmas Bells. RADITION says that the hour of the Babe's birth | was the hour of midnight, ' and legend adds that from then until | | dawn cocks crow. In Ireland it is | ! held that whoso looks into a mirror on | this eve will see the devil or Judas | Iscariot looking over his shoulder, | surely thought sufficient to drive the # (larence ee Zr a i , In England and America the accused i need not testify unless he chooses. In ! Italy he is the first and most impor- . scope In defending himself. i Criminal Court Methods There Utterly | Different From OQurs. | Criminal court trials in Italy ara con- | ducted under a very simple system, | though utterly different from the sys- | tem which governs procedure in Amer- ienn or English courts, says an ex-| nae. + trial takes place before three judges and a jury, to which are added | a certain number of extra jurors, who | . are sworn and are present in court to | hear the testimony and are held ready | to take the place in the jury box of , any juror who may in the course of | the trial be incapacitated from further | service. The depositions of all the | witnesses have been taken in writing | and signed before the trial begins. | Each of th2 judges has a copy of these | before him. The prosecutor and the | counsel for the accused furnish to the! court a list of the witnesses they de- sire called, and these are all summon- ed by the court. which has power to | punish nonattendance. The first thing that bappens when the trial begins is the questioning of the accused by the presiding justice. In Italy. as in most of continental Eu- rope, a man accused of a crime is con- sidered by the law to be the very best witness to Lis own guilt or innocence. tant witness. The accused is allowed the widest He bas a right to tell his own story in his life from death. The holy thorn of Glaston! ury flour- ished during the centuries until the civil wars. During those it was up- mas eve, Judas Iscariot rooted: but several persons had bad ; from that hell—“his own place”—and | hardiest soul to a thought of the inno- cent Babe. Another legend tells that, on Christ- | is released trees growing from cuttings from the is allowed to return to earth that he | original tree, and those continued to ' may cool himself in icy waters. bloom at the Christ-season, just as | ‘their parent, which had grown from | St. Joseph's staff, had bloomed. And | and such legends appear on their about the middle of the 18th century | faces, they bear study and repay fit, it was recorded in the Gentleman's | for we then see that they are full of | Wild and improbable although such | Magazine how the famous holy thorn subtle spiritual expression, as it were; | KLINE WOODRING—, -at- , S fonte, Pa. Tala e Room 18 Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y. B. SPANGLER—Attorney-at-Law. Practice in all the Courts. Consultation in English or German. Office in Crider's Exchabge Bellefonte, Pa. S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office, Garman House block, Belle- fonte, Pa. 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