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sale any Clothing- but what we
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clothing to show our customers.
not allow our salesmen to
mislead customers as to fit or
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rich and poor.
. We give the guar
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re return
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HAXTACLtrS WILL COJIETO-NIfcilTT.
'Tls merry Christmas eve arain, the streets
are brisrlit and gay.
And tiny forms are watching the holiday
display ;
The busy stores are radiant, and decked with
evergreen.
And happy, smiling faces blend with the joy
ful scen.
See the tiny footprints mingle, impressed up
on the snow,
The trait of little darlincjs ever passing to
and fro ;
They talk of dear old Santa Claus, of dolls
and snsjar plums,
And wonder why it Is they never see him
when he comes. j
Ilear their merrv shout and laughter, ex- I
pressing fond delight, j
As they whisper to each other "Santa Claus j
will come to-nicht."
E'en now he bounds o'er mountains high,
within his mvstic sleigh.
And little hearts will bless him on the dawn
of Christmas day.
Still onward thro' the drifting snow the pant
ing reindeer? flv,
"Now, wake up, 'Stupid,' faster, 'Cupid ;
time is nassing hv ; "
Then little "Vixen," "Dash" and "Dart" all
beine in the lead,
Rush madly o'er the dreary course witn fast
increasing speed,
"Run on ! cheer up ! my fieetingTpets ; an
other bound and leap.
And we'll reach the silent city, where loved
ones calmly sleep ;
Then mount upon the housetops with one.
united bound.
Swiftly, surely, without the lea?t betraying
sound."
Thus' Santa Clans the warning gave, and
told them what, to do ;
"Vixen." "Cupid," "Dash," and "Dunder"
"Rlitzen." "Tom" and "Billiboo ;"
Not forgetting little "Stupid," even he would
do his best
To take the upward flying leap as bravely as"
the rest,
"Slowlv. we are in the city ; when I give
the signal low.
Do not falter ; are you ready? steady now I
awav we go:
Softly sounds the silver bugle, and the little j
pet ohev. i
Leaping hieh toward the housetops, follow
ed by the sleigh :
Little 'Stupid' and the others safely on the
icy roof.
Soon began a noisy pat'ring of each tiny,
hardened hoof :
Silence. 'Stupid, stop it, 'Vixen,' this Is not
the time for plav ; f
Don't foreet mv parting warning please be
good while I'm awav."
Then the jollv, funny fellow, quickly down j
the chimney eoes, I
Muffled in fur-covered garments, all, except
his eyps and noe ;
Now, he ses tho little stockings, hanging
bv the fireside, !
And while watching all around him candy- ;
bags are noon untied. j
"I will fill each hal-y stocking whilst thedar- !
ling wet-tlv rst, !
For I heard them tell each other everything
they liked the best :" j
Gazing fondly at their bedside ere he mounts '
the chimney wall.
Whisper gently "as they slumber, "Merry :
Christmas to you all. " !
Leaping to each snowy housetop, soon his j
pleasant ta is o'er ;
Chris'mas day is brightly dawning, he is
homeward bound once more.
Little eves are slyly peeping round the room
in childish dread : j
Baby forms are slowly crecp'ng o'er the :
floor with noiseless tread j
"Turn, on. Alicp, here's your dolly, wid its
pretty little hood, f
And I'se dot my horse and wagon, brudder
Tommy, ain't he dood ?"
Hark ? How faintly sound the echoes of the j
slfigh bells far awav, i
Santa Clau had left the city ere the dawn of :
Christmas dav ! ,
A CIIRISTnAS SOG.
A enrol of joy. a carol of joy.
For the glorious Chrir-trnas time ;
While the heavens rejoice and the earth Is
glad,
Let the merry hells sweetly chime
Let us seek the crib where our Savior lies.
See, the Jshephf rds are kricpling there ;
Let us offer, with Mary and Joseph,
Our worship of love and prayer.
A carol of praise, a carol of praise,
With tho angels let as sing ;
Let us welcome with notes of rnpturons
ov
i ur Savior, our God and Kin?.
Oil ! would we could offer him worthy gifts,
fill ! wonid that our hearts could low.
With some equal return, the Holy Child,
Who for us left his throne above !
A carol of jov, a carol of jov,
Let the whole earth gladly 9hout ;
She has waited long for thi promised day,
Let the glorious song flow out,
A carol of praise, a caiol.
Let us sing of the Christmas time.
While tbe heavens rejoice and the earth Is
glad,
And the merry hells sweetly chime.
Must Not tie Fokgottkn-. The children
must not he forgotten n Christmas eve.
fany parents are thoughtless about the lit
tle ones, and lo.k upon presents and festivi
ties as childish things that are he.ttor neglect
ed than attended to. What if these atten
tions are childish ? How many of us cannot
look hack to early days and still remember
tha disappointment awaiting us, when, at
eaily dawn on Christmas morning, we crept
out of bed and down stairs to find the stock
ings empty and that Santa Claus had not
been at our home. Ah ! the tears that fell
and the choking sensation that welled up In
our throats then, can never be forgotten.
And when we went out and met our play
mates and found that Santa Claus had not
forgotten them, it seemed as If all the world
were unkind, and that there was little to
live for worth tbe living.
Do not forget the children. Let It not be
said that Santa Claus has neglected one of
them. Let there not be a single heart made
unhappy through neglect on thi9 Christmas
morning. The expense of making thern
happy is small and the reward that will fol
low their lusty shouts when they see their
well filled "stockings will ever lepay the
mount and the trouble. Our first thought
on Christmas morning should be for the
happiness of the little ones.
''Christina, come? but once & year.
And when it comes fhould bring good cheer."
A Cjkistma9 Composition. Ryder's boy
has written the following composition on the
subject of Christmas :
"Christmas comes every year and it is the
best day in the year exefptin" Fourth of
July which is a better dav to fire off gun
and pistols Hookey tired off an old gun one
fourth of July and it kicked niuj agin a hi
drent and nri awful bunch glowed on his
head and lie, didn't know much for two
hours ChrKtmas is the best time to get pres
ents my s.Mter Lucy hiirig up her atockin'
and I put a mud turtle in it and she was
Tearful mad you bet if my aunt Kachc! sno'd
bung tip her sti.ckin' it would bold a dump
cart full of things William liradshaw eat so
much Candv and puddin' on Christmas that
tiis folks bad to put him in a grave after he
died F should l;k to see old Otidlev the tru
ant officer in a grave and so would all the
boys I should like to have It Christmas and
fourth of july all the time."
Two Rlossoms. Tlie Christmas and the
New far are two raie blossoms, full-blown
and redolent with fragrance, clinging to the
dead btaik of the dying year. Let us gather
their b-afiets while we mav, lest they tall to
the wintry eart'i and perish. Let us ecatter
the holiday blossoms far and wide, bearing
little and great jov to human hearts, whis
peiing hope and comfort to all.
CHRISTMAS !
THE STAR 1THE EAST!
"THE LIGHT THAT SHOOTS WHEI CHRIST
WAS BORN" WHAT TtF.THI.EHEM 13
TO-DAT SCENES OF THE 9A
YIOUR'8 BIRTHPLACE.
The distance fromJcrnsalem toBethlehem
Is but half a dozen miles. We proposed to
Co to and from it in a morning. Our vehicle
and female French driver were retained for
the purpose. Although the road was rough
and etony, and the streets narrow, we risk
ed the carriage, and ignored the donkey on
the pledge of the guide. The seqnel show
ed that there was some risk, as many of the
streets were Impassible for a carriage.
We leave the Jaffa gate and under the up
per aqueduct and over the upper part of Oi
hon, and then drive nearly due south. The
bed of the Kidron, In the deep valley on our
left, pmsueg its empty way to the Dead Sea,
while on our right and to the west, alone the
horizon, in broken and gray masses lie the
mountains of Jndah, shutting out the Medi
terranean. One lonely person we meet amid
the unaccustomed path between the stone
walls before we reach the direct way to Beth
lehem. He wears a ptove-pipe hat. Its
strapeness and awkwardness in this land of
robe, fez, and turban creates asmile. When
we reach tho main road and leave the "hiM
of evil counsel" on our left, we find the way
filled with laden camels. Under the lash of
the (ruide these gave the way, and with con
siderable malice both they and their driver
fumble and tumble about awkwardly amid
tho rubble of the road. The olives are thick,
perforated, and old, In the fields, within the
stone walls.
"Where," we ask of the guide, "do they
get so much ston for the walls ?" They are
ten feet wide, and three high, and. like the
Dutchman's wall cf the anecdote "when
thy fall down they are higher than when
they stand no !"
'Whv doyouask?" fsays the guide, "don't
yon see the fields are full of stones?"
"But no ope coutd miss any stones out of
those fields." -rre remarked.
"Oh ! a few are left over," responded the
gu'de.
TIow the hardy olive can find sustenance
on such "stony ground" is a miracle.
We are happy in a breezy day, which mit
igates the fierceness of the sun. What a
crowd of peop'e now are upon the road, go
ing to Bethlehem and Hebron and to Beer
sheba, even to Kebebeth I Nine out of ten
of these are upon donkeys and camels ; and
more than three-fourths have their eves sore
or shaded ; and thee are Arabs ; whose suit
is sometimes gay in color, but generall.v of
stripes, brown and white, which reminds us
of the dress of our 'penitentiaries, tdepend
Ing In the face of the wearer. They carry
the long Damascus gun and a plentiful
pouch, for the deert and danger. Cactuses
with their big sta'ks and leaves, furnish
some of the hedges, and "turn" the animals
from the fields. We meet some, who are
blue-eyed and good-eyed, in European dress.
These are the German colony, which here
thrive? upon the old stony soil and makes Its
crops of grane and grain In their season, or
several crops in one season. Some herds of
Mack and white cattle of Dutch breed are
fieen picking up a quiet rumination from the
brown herbage and the green leaves left on
the trees.
Tho land is not unlike the dress of the
Arabs brown and white. It isburutwith
the sun of the now departing summer, and
white with the lime of mauy summers.
"Ah ! this is fine land I" we say ironically
to the guide.
"Good land ! I guess it Is," responds the
guide, who is from the state of Maine ',or it
wouldn't hold up so many stones and rocks,
Good deal of heft about it."
But we notice that where water runs the
vineyards of the Germans appear, and the
walls have a trim look. Thrift, Teuton I
thy name is thrift ! Old olive roots, twisted
and as difficult to unravel as the philological
roots of our college days, appear on the backs
of multitudinous donkeys going up to the
city, while going from it, from the terraces,
OA the heads of blue-robed, tattooed Arab
females, are baskets of manure ga)hred in
Jerusalem. The plain of Raphlara is spread
apumd us, two miles wide by three long.
Here David defeated the Philistines, and
many other associations cluster. Among
them the cave of Adnllam has been verified,
which another Samuel has described, and the
well of Bethlehem, "which is by the gate,"
for tho water of which David was atliirst,
comes in for an explanation from our Bibli
cal guide. These, however interesting, must
not draw us aside. We have passed the tra
ditional tree where Judas hanged himself,
and the rural abode of Caiaphas, the High
rrlest ; but these nebula" of tradition deti act
not from the main object Bethlehem. The
well of the magi, howevr, is ore of tha in
cidents of the main or-jfaet.and a prettystory
Is told of it, although it is not recorded in
the history of Matthew ; for did not the wise
men, after leaving the presence of nerod,
heie stoop to draw water? Was it not here
that the reflection of the star which led them
was seen in the well? Then we pass the
Greek convent of Elijah, where other stories
are told, not now worth the repetition. But
from this point the cities of Bethlehem and
Jerusalem are visible "twined in mutual
being." birth and death. From this eminent
point, too, can be seen the sugar-loaf moun
tain called the Tomb of Herod, ltjis high
and round. It is tie scene of a massacre of
Franciscians ; but it sinks into nothingness
as Herod did, compared with those he perse
cuted, along with that dim vision, shining
hard and bluish like seel twenty-five or
more miles away through avenues of black
and sunburned mountains. That is the
Dead Sa. This is our first glimpse of this
famous laboratory and sport of nature. Be
low and around is something more attractive
to both eyes and memory. It is the field of
Boaz and the scene of that sweet sfory of
love.
"Ruth and Luke I" cried out the guide.
"Ruth and Boaz, rather," I responded,
itli a pleasant thought, too, of Naomi, the
motlier-in-iaw, as wo gaze with curious eyes
over tho rolling bleak a:ul now dry fields
where the ever new, ever old, tale of femalo
devotion is located. Then Bethlehem ap
pears more clearly. Its prominent object is
the Church of the Nativity within its semi
circle. On the right is the old Knight Tem
plar's castle, now the house of the Austrian
consul. The landscape begins to show much
grape and olive. The square, solid houses
of Bethlehem, and terraced bills, gardened,
and groved, amid ledges of limestone, make
as pretty a picture in its frame of rock as an
artist could desite to delineate.
Our guide calls a halt at the foot of the
hill. We are at a singular square totub. It
is not unlike those domed temples which we
have seen for the burial of holy men in Al
giers and Syria. It is the tomb of Rachel.
Surroanding It are found the slovenly tombs
of Mohemmedans, with their rough tomb
stones lying loosely lu dirt and dust It was
built by the Hebrews. Here they come on
Thursdays to wail and burn incense. There
is no doubt that not only here was Benjamin
born, but Rachel died. All agree to this;
and it is pleasant to have brothers both He
brew and Moslem, both of whom claim a fee
simple In all that concerns Jacob agree up
on something, neie Jacob set a pillar to
memorize the last resting place of her whom
he won after such a romantic, though dili
tory, courtship. Seven years was nothing
"for the love "he bore her." "And as for
me:" how sad the simple story "I buiied
her there, in the way of Eprah the same is
Bethlehem !"
Who is the strange man we see sitting
wearily at the arched door of the tomb?
What brings this pilgrim here he of the
grizzly beard and long, unkempt hair? He
is no Arab no nebrew. He wears no bour
nous of stripes and no dark gaberdine ; only
a plain black garment, dusty, like his bare
feet, with travel. We asked him, through
our Yankee Arab guide, not altogether in
curious at this sad, strange and lonely ward
er at the birthplace of Benoni "son of my
sorrow" Is he, too, like us, a pilgrim to the
tomb and shrine of our elder day ? Yes, he
Is a pilgrim, like us and from Russia. He
Is a Greek priest from the Yoga, and lives
spiritually upon Jordan's stormy banks,
waiting for the rain to fructify his fields. He
owns lands hereabout also, and has ;ome
hither to make his new leases. Thus was
our illusion of the pilgrim at Rachel's tomb
dissipated ; for even here the caue of the
pilgrimage was eavsi lucri. Near by, on the
west, In the village of Beit Jala, live the
Greek and Armenia patriarchs, so that this
is a pions precinct, and land is none the less
valuable because It is not cultivated by the
Arabs, or overrun by Bedouins; Christians
till it. At this point you may go to Solo
mon 's pools. They are one of tho wondrs
of this vicinity and worthy of minute de
scription for their beauty, size, history, and
permaney. From them yet waters flow Into
the mosque which Is built over the temple.
Here Is the sealed fountain referred to in
Solomon's songs. It is said that these pools
were repaired by Tontius Tilate, but that
would not make their waters more agree
able. Maiden-hair ferns abound about thm
and swimmers of an arehceologlcal turn can
take a plunge and come up beaded with an
tiquities. We had no occasion to study in
that fashion, and were content to see the
Arab women fill their gnat skins from one of
the openine? In the aqeduct.
The hill tops show little villages after we
leave the nebron road, but none look as
blithe and prosporous as Bethlehem, as she
sits cresonnt-shape d upon the mountain
side, now or whence come its vine, fig and
olive luxuriance I cannot see, except that the
water comes mysteriously from the pools of
Solomon, for is it not said in Eceletsiastus :
"I made me pools of water to water there
with the wood that bringeth foith the trees?"
Or perhaps this white soil hath dews. Cer
tain It is that In aim around Bethlehem
something else was grown In early days
than the sheep that David tended here
abouts, or the lion and the bear which he
fought. Here were once the fruitful barley
fields which Ruth gleaned after the reapers
when the great love arose in the breast of
Boaz, out of which grew the stock of Jesse
and David a line ever made benign by hav
ing as its p!easant;places the vicinity of Beth
lehem, and its ancestress Ruth, and its des
cendant Jesus, the son of Mary and Joseph !
Here is the source of the Kings of Judali and
the world's Savior I
We halt at the gate of the town. We are,
owing to impediments, compelled to aban
don our carriage. We are surrounded by a
bevy of Betlehem girls. One is excepdin- ' v
pretty and does not degrade the neigh'
hood of Ruth by unseemly screeching for
alms. She plies a pair of pincers, and turns
in and twists upon the wires olive beads for
rosaries, 'with a property of easiness," which
Shakespeare commends in the "hand of lit
tle employment,"Mj wife buys one and con
tracts for another rosary, to be ujads before
wo return.
These dozen girls, of whom "Eothen"
makes an extravagant picture of coy and
debonair loveliness, are vivacious and some
what pretty, and would be more so if not
dirty and sore-eyed. Thy wear little close
cottage caps, with two or three rows of coins
lapping closely on ;each other, and in the
sum making quite a dowry. They jingle
merrily when shaken. I would not depre
ciate these Chiistian maidens, for these are
not of the Moslem religion, whatever their
blood. But I cannot fail to portray one
beautiful woman a young mother, who, be
it reverently, recalled, if not the Madonna,
the picture of her by Raph.tel, "La Terla"
In which the magi are offering gold, frankin
cense, anrl myrrh. She sat apart upon a
stone under the shade of tin archway, nurs
ing a babe. Her hair had that rich auburn
and ethereal fineness with which Murrillo
favors his Madonnas, which are likenesses,
by the way, of his Andalusian wife. I won
der if, peradventure, this beautiful Bethle
hem mother might not have in her veins
some of that precious blood of the house and
lineage of David that escaped the murderous
decree of HeroJ.
Bethlehem has 4,000 people and 500 houses
Many of the houses are substantial. The
streets are so narrow that our guide has to
ride ahead and employ people to move im
pediments out of the way. It is said the
people are handsome. That reputation may
come from the ruddy cheeks of Duvid, or
the graces of Ruth, or the pictures of the
Madonna. One thing must be said of the
town, and that is that if it has any beauty or
good in it, it is Christian, for it is par excel
lence the Christian town of J odea, In 1834,
after an insurrection by the Arabs, Ibrahim
Pasha, then rulei, riddled the Moslems unto
death after his peculiar methods, quite wor
thy of a descendant of Herod.
Before purchasing our olive wood beads,
mother of pearl, and other souvenirs, where
nianj such are deftly made bj exquisite art,
we make our visit to the most attractive
place of Bethlehem. The place of the Nativ
ity has often been described, and the church
above it. Every object and person here ana
hereabouts has been the special object of
gifted pens and impassioned eloquence
Make a catalogue simply of the names ; and
each name will be set to music like a psalm.
The atmointiiig of David by Samuel ; the
family of Jesse and their exploits Joab,
AbWiai, and Asahel ; "the city of David,"
as Buthlehem is called.or Rehoboatn's strong
hold, the habitation of Chimhaui ; the story
of Joseph coming from Galilee out of Naza-
reth ; in fine, the Incarnation of the Word
herein ail its mystery, each and all are a
poem which resounds from the simple cave
in Bethlehem, with a sweeter and louder
chorus than that of the Hellenic rr.g of the
blind old man of that Scio whose shaken
rocks we left but a fortnight since.
Let us enter this place of the Nativity.
It has been honored, as well as fixed, since
I the second century. Over it, in the third
j century, the mother of Constantino erected
I that church which is the oldest in the world.
i Some of its column? are from the temple.
j Here in one corner of the church we perceive ; IU' spreading strer.m of iicht for the iiradia
j a lonely hermit. Ha is insane. He has been j ti"ii the d trk problems of our life !
j twenty-five years in this place, drawn, like ' I came from the church I did not hear
! many others, by the wildness of his vagaries i the angels above chanting the millennial
I about the unknown world. He is a C'nal- i dawn ; but, ne ertheless, I did not ce.i-s- to
(lean, and it is said, was a sheik of his tribe.
Amid the forty odd pillars of the porch of
the temple, here brought to decorate the
j birthplece of Jesus, this sfrance man p- ' ervvise than th-.it for this advent the great
I pears. Had he lived in the time of the Sa- ra upon our star "g'.oiy should be given to
J viour, and had his faith been then as now. ;"1 in the highest," and that out of it shall
' perhaps the demon of insanity might have come "on earth peace, good will to men I"
! been exorcised. But the crypt we seek. I'oz in Xew York San.
I There are two chapels here, lenriin" to the - -
! place of Christ's birth ; one is Greek and the
j other Armenian. On the north side there is
I a Catholic convent and church. From this
j there are steps to the holy snot. We choose
i to go by the Latin way. There are many
j reasons why I prefer the Latin way in the
Orient. No traveler can fail to note the
leanied, modest and elevated tono of tho
j Latins, compared with the Greeks and
; Copts. I do not mention this because I am
j partial, but from reasons which are the re
I suit of observation.
I The priest at this spot makes the "drudge
I ry divine" as well as intelligent. We are
! welcomed to the convent by him. Like
! most of the Catholic priests in tho E:t, he
j speaks French. Our guide seems to be a
j favorite with him, He invites us to a class
of native wine or tea, and tinder his direc.
; tionand with lighted taper w take our de
I vious way below, Many tombs line this
j dark path, and among them is the tomb of
j St. Jerome. It is to his patience, goolnes
and scholarship the world owes the Yulgatc,
j or Latin edition of the Bible. It was here
that this early and great father gave his for-
ty years of seclusion for the glory of God
1 and the benefit of mankind. Approach the
chnpel or the Nativity. Yon nil know it by
; the Ltitin inscription and the silver star in
the centre. We are led into the vault by the
I priest. He shows us the manger. lie ex
; plains to us that in "those days" stables
were not usually found in the caves so com
nion in the hilly p laces of Palestine. This
.cave is many feet below the flour of the
church. It is .1.1 by 11 feet, and decorated
: with marb'e. Precious lamps burn before
: figures of saints, chief among them St. Je
rome. Sixteen silver lamps burn over the
spot where the stnr indicates the !:.ce of
birth. Another recess shows the spot where
the wooden manger, row in Rome, was
found. Other spot.s are shown, as the chap
el of St. Jerome, and the chapel of Joseph,
where the aiu'ol appeared to tell him to fly
to Egypt. If these are apocryphal trndi
lions they do not detract from the f.ict es
tablished by scholars and antiquarians, and
confirmed, as well by what St. Jerome wrots
as by his selection of this spot for his duties
and fasts, ne believed it to l e the place, as
his lite and death bore witness. Never did
art consummate sosplemli 1 a representation
of self-abnegation as that wherein Domeni
chino portrayed the last scene in the life of
; this Dalmatian saint and hero, who verified
1 as well in his life as by his death his faith in
: t he goodness and glory of the gospel who-e
tidings were chanted first in the starry an!t
, of Bethlehem !
Doubt as we may as to th? Milk Grotto,
the Shepherd's Grotto, the Magi' Well, IU
1 vid's Well, and the burial of the L''o0'i inno
cents murdered by Herod here ; doubt as to
the shepherd's fold, tbe altar of the "'wise
men;" doubt doubt that Christ was born
immaculate and miraculously ; but one thing
is indubitable that Christ was here horn,
and that from this Nativity arose a light
"which before was never on sea or land,"
and fo; the faith in whose benirieent and
heavenly guidance thousands have perished
as martyrsand millions haver isked their eter
1 nal salvation! What place can be more holy,
' unless it be that consecrated by His diMth ?
' There are said to be only two places in
, this Holy Land superior in sacred associ.i
, tions to this place : Jerusalem mid Niizaieth.
i To my mind, Bethlehem has no superior,
unless it be Jerusalem. "Why?" will occur
! to the learned Bible student and to the veri
est child who has read the Gospels. Bethle
; hem is not one of the mountains which com-
pass Jerusalem, but It has its lofty thought.
It is a beautiful pearl in the diadeia round
' about the royal city. It is not the scene of
; sacrifice and sepulchre ; but it is the scene of
I the nativity and of the magi, and of the au-
gelic song which ushered in the purest and
' greatest life ever clad in flesh. Among the
( hundreds of books of travel and desciiption
; of this country, the Bible is the best guide
: book after a 11, and in many ways. In no one
, way is it more so than in its references to
j this spot, over which the star shone, and the
angels chanted of peace. No amount of de
generacy, superstition, exaggeration, tradi
tion, or pollution, no surrounding, however
! disenchanting, detracts one beam from the
( radiance of that star, or gives one dissjnant
; note in the seraphic hymning which here
filled the heavens with a new-boru joy ! The
! genius of painter and sculptor has illustrated
; the story of the manger and their tifts and
j worship, the choir of angels, the awe struck
: shepherds, the flight into Eg pt, the beauti-
ful face of the Madonna, with its golden
aureole, and the majestic, masterful and
! melancholy features of Him who became
; here the genius of love unto mankind.
1 What place, therefore, in all this calcined
j couutry, row so many centuries made deso
late, is so alluring for its fiuitful thenus,
whether for.studi.j or library, lor the orutor
, or artist, f r tli dis "ipla or crusa lat
Although Bethlehem was called "liltle
I among the thousands of Judah,"and at a
time when JucUh fed her thousands ot
I thousands from the well-tilled ten aces and
valleys, she is great among men, and wii! be
I great so long as her story remains. How
l often has the story been told to loving hear
j er ! From the little Catholic church at the j
j North Cape, but a year old, which we visited
; under the midnight sun and amid the sein- !
j mer snows, to the spiendid church of St. So-
j phia, which dates 1,500 years ago; across
j wastes of time and oceans of space, over
dark continents and isles "gilded by eternal
suminei," this story of the manger is a theme ,
as sacred to kings as to peasants ; as dear to ;
the leper of Rauileh as to t tie emperors of
' the earth. i
I The loois in quo of such a story, even tho'
j it was almost iost in tradition, must le a
j part, the mire en mure of that wondrous
i drama. Even skeptics caniint ignore the
; fact that the event has, as the apo-tle p!.:.ised
,' it. "turned the wund up-i !e down." Weil
niiiiht Gamaliel say that his woik, proceed
ing out of this little vil;.i., if it were of men.
would come to naught : but if it were '
God, could not be overthrown. The evident;
Is that to-day its results appear in civiliza
tions? What a moral and ivligimis wirk
has been accomplished by its cneiizv '. I'.e-
! ginning at this small fountain, what a fruit
' beiievt that in "this ei!j of David had been
1,,rn a Saviour, which is Chii-t the Lord."
Nor will I unto mv lat moment believe oth-
THE IT. AM OF CHRISTMAS.
Festival days, n holy days, on w hich le
ligious services wt re held, have Ieen com
mon among pagan, Jewish, Mohemnu daii
and Christian nation. The festival days ob
served at present in all Chi istian count i ies
are of two kinds, movable and fixed ; i:i oth
er words, tli .se which are always kept on a
certain day of the year. Among the former
is E.ister, which regulates all the movable
holy days. T'.is festival, which derives its
name from the Saxon go 1 less Lost re, to
whom homage was paid in ti e month .f
April, was first kept by some of the early
church. s on the same day as the Jewi-h
Passover, by others on the first Sunday after
the first full moon in the year. 1'i.iforu.ity
, was established in A. D. ."gr, by the Council
of Nice, which ordained that Easter should
be kept in all Christian chur be on the same
dav, which should always be Sunday.
When, as a fetiv.il, Christmas was first
kept in commemorati n ot tbe biithof our
Saviour is not know n. There is, however, a
' melancholy proof that it wasobseived in the
time of the Emperor DiooViau, who reigns
ed from A. D. to ."ot, for hSt .ry records
that the tyrant, when at Nicomcdia, fi:idiiif
a number of Christians in the churches to
celebrate the Nativity, ordered the doors to
be suddenly closed, and the churches un.l
thosp withir. them to be burned. But th, :o
. does in t seem to have been any ii'iiforte'ty
in the period of obsei vlng the day until Pops
Julius I., in the foiinl: century, or.,Vivd it to
be ki'j.t on the g.v.h of De-ember. It is. how
ever, almost certain that the uuiu of Cln i-t
did n.t occur in Decern be : as that is the
rainy season ;., J lea, when shepherds do
not watch their ll'-;.s by night in the j, as
tute. Perhaps the r.-.-isou why this festival
was fixed near the winter solstice was tb.it
almost all the n:.cient nations reganu 1 that
period as an important one in the yenr. This
probably arose lroni its 1 eing ttiC time ;tt
which the days bevin to lengthen and w hen
nature seems to renew her eneigies lor the
production of tho warmth and fruits of the
season
Christmas ( 'hi i-t Mas is obs- rved w ith
peculiar solemnity 1 y ce:t ain h nominations
of Christian:;, while others reject its religious
aspect but keep it as a social holiday. The
custom of decking houses and churches at
Christmas with evergreens is derived from
the Druids priests or ministers of the an
cient Gauls, P.iit -us and Get mans who l e-li'-ved
tiiat the sj Ivan deities goi!de-es of.
the woods would coine and dwell among
the trees which r tali.ed their leaves when
the other por' ii.rs of the feiest., weie de
prived of their foliage. The planting of a
tree covered -with presei ts for the ' il'.tle
ones," the names of the peis ii for wImui tl.e
gift is intended being given, but the name of
the donor concealed, has been customary in
many patts of Germany and in the n rthern
districts of Europe fn in time imnienioi i.u.
The Puiitan Pai liamei.t of England i.boilsh
ed Chi istmas, nnd it was for a long tiLce re
garded w ith but il'.tle favor by tl, eir ilesetnd
ants in New England.
Christmas carols nnd music, on t!.t day
can be traced to an early ptiiol in Saxon
annals. 1'iider the Tudors, in England,
singing mciry carol on Chri-tnir.s was com
mon. But t hi y gradually be anie ribald and
profane and the cu-tom w to a great extent
abandoned. Theobli-t to. a ction ol CLii-t-mns
enrols in English near? the date of 15'1.
Santa Clan vSt. N i: Lolas), w hose supposed
descent in the chimney on Christmas night
and wie.se libeiality has been lor nges the
wonder and deiig! t of many juvenile pos
sessors of toy, gii gt r-t read and mint-sticks,
was first ii.ttoduoed umler the nam" of Kiis
Kringle 1o the inhabitants of the Western
Continent by the Dutch residents of ;,w
Yoik State. Christmas has !een made k le
gal holiday in tbe gi eater part, if not in all
of the States, aril is generally observed ith
t r by religions services, social gathering or a
suspension of business.
The custom of spending the Inst days ot
the year cither in devo ional exercises or ia a
withdrawal from every day pursuits appears
to be of very high antiquity. The Romans
devoted the latter part of Fehrjary.thet. the
lat iireitl) of tbe ear, ro the Februatii or
cxpi-itory sacrifices which have given its
name to the mo'ith, and tbe Greeks employ,
ed a portion of June, the ?t-i of th' lr var,
for a similar purp.-e. In r.lcost all Chris
tian countries the interval between tbe na
tivity and the first day i f th year Ins Iven
set apart lor social V'lviym-V.t, tie inter
change of n'-ts of Kindness, an I the leiaxi
tioii lr'm the pursuits and employ nients
which have requited att.-nt! .i during the
year. Is it any w -aader, then, that young
and old, th" "grave and the gay," hail Christ
mas, the first of those holidays, with pleas
ure and gladness?
1 Goon Ot.n Santa Claps. Th popu'ai
idea of Santa Cins fin is itsoiigiti in 1 1 iln
'German villages San;a Clans, known as
Kneeht Rupert, w:: in.t t here an a'isi rac : "t,
but a man, to hIuih before Ch: is I cits h !l ; lie
parents ;n the village si-; t the presents th. y
intended for their children. On "hi istm.ts
morning this man. wearing high buskins, a
white robe, a masK and an enormoua fl ixen
wig. went solemnly from b !-- t I. ;-.-.
W hen be an iv.l. h- caiicd for the ehi bi.-en,
who came tlmellv before hini. He wmilj
question them :is P their bchsvii ., a 'id in
the end bestow bis gifts. Christmas w:s a
sid day for the children in the boos- w ijlch
Kneeht Rupail passed without entering.
Most f t he beat hen nations regarded tie
winter solstice a tin- "beginning of tii is
newed life and activity of tno powers ,,; y.
ture." They were as fond as w e ot tee su
pernatural, and in their ig - 'ian-' m -
lieved that from tho g"'li f lb mbci 1 lti
ith of January tbcv coi:'" "trace on i : i
the personal wo' eon ns of tl'eir gi;:t kl
ties." I HaU Chronic D s-ntei y f r one ,. ..
Pi: i;p ar a cured me. ! a.me Brenm s, I iU-
burg. Fa.