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TV. .83 Hue Louis le a rand tuaun jicrkau LoKMt I1CBA0 Plait Bcauu... suBScnirnoNixrtMs nr carrier Dlttr OitT, alxcenta. Jty mail, pontpald eutalde ot Philadelphia, except where foreUn postage la required, DiiLt Owt, one month, twenlr-nve cental UAir.T OiLT, one year, three dollara. All rnell ub acrlptlona payable In adranre am., 3000 irAUtuT KFYSTUNE, MAIN 3000 W Address ell communication to Evening Ledger, Independent Square, rhltadtlphla mtuid it Tna rmuDiLVHiA rotTorrics i stcond I clans MAiLumn. a .! i 1 lllLADElrillA, TntfflSDAl, DKCLMDEn 21, 1914. Rcmcmhcr that in many cases stockings can not go In ahoerunlett shoes go into the stockings first. A Century of Successful Arbitration JUST ti century ago, In a city of Belgium, representatives of the United States and Great Britain signed the attlclcs of agree ment that terminated the "Wnr of 1812. Thoy wrought better than they Know- For not only dd they bring a needless war to a for mal close, they really established the prin ciple of International arbitration. "When futuro ages look baclc and evaluate the events of the past, the Treaty of Ghent will stand out as tho first definitive pronounce ment of the law of comity by which wars may bo avoided and the blessings of pcaco brought to all the nations. For one hundred years America and Eng land have been at peace. There have been causes aplenty that might have led to strife, but it was agreed In the Treaty of Ghent that the outstanding differences might be adjudicated by arbitration. And long after tho points In dispute In 1812 had been thus amicably adjusted, all further misunder standings were settled by tho same method. Tho habit has bocome established, and the thoughtful people of both nations can hardly Imagine any circumstance that could possibly Precipitate war among the English-speaking peoples. "Wo do well, therefore, to honor the anni versary of the Treaty of Ghent. It marked n new era in International relationships, and lifter the madness of this present war has passed away, the mothod that has brought pcaco to America and England for three gen erations should be adopted by all the world. Give the Kids the Right of Way YOU older folk, staid and stodgy, have had your fling long, long ago; you made the rafters ring with shout and meirlment; you half-wrecked the nerves of sombre seniors with drum and trumpet; you throw tho house Into disarray as jou romped ftom room to room. Think back a few years, open tho doors of memory, throw up the windows that look backward to tho old home in the far away, "Well, there are children today with all the healthy exuberance that you once had. Christmas is theirs by divine right. "When they are noisy, boisterous, uproarious, you may know that they aro happy. Let thorn have their fill of it. The sobering burdens Will fall upon their shoulders soon enough, In all conscience. What their Christmas Is to them tomorrow will make the Christmas for thousands of children In years to come. The Old "World across tho seas Is noisy with the boom of cannon and the groana of dying men. Let our New World bo noisy with tho laughter and shouts of happy childhood. If our frayed nerves are hurt it will be only for an, hour or so, and will be soon forgotten. We can stand It. For the time comes all too soon when the old folks sit alone In solemn silence and says "What Is Christmas without the kiddles around?" So let them have their fling, and thank God that they are still here. Free Advertising CONGRESSMAN J. HAMPTON MOORE need not worn' himself oyer the lucubra tions of the ebullient gentlemen from the State of Washington, "Mr, Bryan, ,It seems to be a plain caaervf Mr, Moore endeavoring to advertise a colleague and give him pub licity. But Mr. Moore should not let his generosity get the better of him. Publicity does no good unless the subject can measure up to It. Besides, It Is the business of neither Mr. Moore rior Mr. Bryan to super lse the morals and behavior pt Washington; a police department is maintained to do that. Alumino thermic-Hydrocyanic Warfare GRAPE, canister, shrapnel, lyddite, cor dite have al&ln their thousands; atumlno-thermlQ-hydrocyanlo projectiles, as Invented -Ui a young hopeful, are guaranteed to 'Bnmiltg )"-'' millions. This new missile la so da-ij'-tructlve) that It will cause a conflagration -Wherever it strikes, and Its fumes will as phyxiate any one In the immediate vicinity. If reports are true, about 100 of those shells thrown Into a city like Philadelphia would turn every building in five minutes and suf focate every inhabitant In Are seconds. Caa. ualty Hats are sufficiently staggering with the equipment aa It la; anything more de structive la unimaginable.. Not, even racial "Tjajred at Us worst can think of such lnstru "rifflMits of slaughter without shrinking. Our i:j3jjyentors' dreams am o mueh. more ter- CWt.la t)i.i thalM aAmil-l...... t'p)c 14114 llt ibiv(.y,igti(4tIll0, Colonel Goethala Wauts a Dredge COLONKL CJOBTHALH also, wants to ask for an additional dredge when he gea to Washington. He fears that he will have to aaf a dredge working on the eanal steadily tme a year or more, until the hills at Culebra httve entirely settled Poubtless Cote,! MtUIs will find the Administration ready anal willing to appoint a commission or board to donaider the subject But ha roust prev st ease. Ha casnot expert his judgment to fet aendustve t a matt at mk wul 4wr jgHttnncm TMr V aaeae flfoatetva "itms aifttka" wfa VW&A H 'WiWW? "! MsfttM, mmiw n mww Mritir a MUar a within a , JtfW., t eowww. tlw say w t Job war IttMaKiL VMS aavarnasBt wuat b crf ul How ma emmm wwkt wmvr rf ipi tiqjjjf t waste u also 9m4 aanmrt tf i.i,riH. Ti. sq rWU4(Vf) a MMaf ( t.i? cili. aAM&Hinm m jwsr procedure, that It la likely to Insist that the dredge Colonel Qocthats wants he made available without the Intervention of boards or commlsslohs"; If Interference with Colonel Qoethals had only jtartcd soon enough the opening of the canal could have been delayed ten ytarsr. The Full Measure of Generosity I T IS a Christinas season fruited with sig nificance. The great tragedy In which tho world seethes emphasises, as they have not formerly been emphasized In our day and generation, tho lessons Inseparable from our Joyous celebration, Tho opportunity for unpiecedentcd charity has not only knocked, but nctually thundered, at our doors. There have been Macedonian cries from many sources. Belgium In the abyss of despair has tasted our generosity. Tho children of a dozen races have us to thank that the bleak day does not dawn shorn of remembrances. At home, deluged with unparalleled demands, our charitable organizations and Individual citizens have loosed their putse-strlngs nnd poured their substanco gladly into tho common relief. Never, perhaps, has there been a season In which so many adults, caught in the press of cltcumstancc, have been dependent on tho good will of others Luxury and moderate means have served together. There has been no class in charity and no sect. All have given as they could, and doubtless not In ears have more been blessed by giving. Tho opportunity to servo has lifted them up, and overy sacrifice in aid of the destitute and needy has paid for Itself In abundant satisfaction to the giver. Tho shadows somehow havo been cast aside and merriment has been evident in the gtent shopping crowds. It is a Christmas that has demanded much In the way of self-deprivation and Bocret economics, but the city will be tho better for it In tho end. The Imago of the Christ Child Is In the faco of every child, for "of such Is the Kingdom of Heaven." It is tho glory of the young to be generous, without solflshness, and of men now and then to be inspired by tho same spirit. Hang up tho stockings and let them bo filled until they bulge to the bi caking point. They are tho measure of the humanity in us. An Army for Social Service POVERTY and neglect aro touched with a deeper shade of tragedy at Christmahtlde Not to share tho gladness with which tho air Is filled, to have no voice in the Joyous Tuletldo music, to bo forgotten when others aro overwhelmed with tokens of affectionate remembrance, must be the hardest of all things to bear. Fortunately thero will be few upon whom tho sadness will settle this year. Even where personal Interest falls, some or ganized or Institutional dispenser of good cheer will step In and relieve the gloom Every one must hae been Impressed with the large-hearted social mission of the Salva tion Army. In the first Instanco it was purely a spiritual agency, but Intimate experience among the poor of the great cities of tho world has taught the followers of General Booth that men havo bodies as well as souls, that their social needs are not less than their religious needs. So for yeais the Salvation Army corps have provided shelters for the destitute, summer vacations for the dwellers of noisome tenements. Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for the hungry and neg lected. It is a worthy and noblo work, and In harmony with the spirit and example of the Master whose cause thoy represent. Peculiar Frank Case THERE has been plenty of misrepresenta tion In reference to the Frank case, due to the propaganda waged by" generous citi zens who are convinced that a miscarriage of Justice is about to be carried out. It Is not often that a white man In the South is convicted of murder on the evidence of a black man, certainly not unless there Is strong corroboratory testimony or verifica tion by circumstance. Nor is" thero any rea son to believe that Atlanta is half so blood thirsty as has been Intimated. It is true, however, that popular excite ment Influenced the court and Jury, and It may be doubted it a change of venue was not a prerequisite to even-handed Justice. The case has assumed an Importance that counsels delay. Execution of the sentence could accomplish no good comparable to the harm aure to result If there should be event ual discovery of error after execution. If the verdict Is so buttressed In legality that no court will upset It, It behooves the Governor of Georgia to Join hands with mercy and commute the sentence. That is what he will do if at last he alone stands between Frank and death. Christmas In the trenches Is better than Christmas out of them, on the battle. front. Colonel Goethala has arrived In tho United States. Perhaps he will be able to persuade Washington to let him take u ship or two back with him, Anybody who does not believe In Santa Claus -will find no trouble In contributing gifts to those who do, and that ought to give him some satisfaction. - ... . It Is said that the Public Servloe Commis sion Is not worried. In this it resembles the railroads when they appeared for the hear ing on commutation rates. The Plan to suspend the British News Bu reau for a day has been abandoned, although It la well known that the. oensors have been working overtime. Representative Vara refrained from voting on the national prohibition Issue. It Is a good thin for Mr. Vara that, his supporters at home? are mors aetlve In exerotslng their privileges. 7" It would seem to bo aa obvious iaot,4hat Ore base Is Just as Important as the water that gea through It But Ootmolla has aU ways bea opposed to the Blaakeaburg Ad mjHiWratiea's determination to prevent Isaks. j . 1 1 (s am MnarMW that tie vme of L MftMag tW'5mr I'.Hfl Ww tfraB pat at last, yv? wF aawtiMaa jw pMpte of nw saeatuf at oM wao have aet bread wUd tfc AeM of taatr giving Ta attampt of poltUtaatja t dig ttMttrl tato Us Chicago oraaati of tfe Fdy err 8ak caoaot I ejisctMMad adsqul ap tTartstttias , wbW u a tigs - tV?4 B MISCOLORED RUSSIA IS A DEMOCRACY Nation is Belter Typified by Peasant Tillers of ttrond Farhi, Lands Than Black Pictures of Siberian Wastes and Military Rule. By VANCE THOMPSON I AST night 1 met tho biggest of physicians. Jin fact ho was colossal. I didn't know they mnde men like that, He was tall nrtd wide nnd vast and pro found more like an edifice than a man. And he talked to me and the voice fitted tho man about RusbIo. Ho had never been in Russia. Ho could neither read nor speak tho language; but ho had nn Immenso fuhd of Information about Russia and Russians only, unfortu nately, It was nil wrong. What stalked through his huge imagina tion was a memory of some tawdry actress of his first youth; she was dressed In pink satin nnd chains and staggered through a paper snow storm and Cossack whips to ward Mr. Kcnnnn's or was It Mr. Uartley Campbell's Siberia; this was what ho saw, and ho called her Russia. I havo no Intention of writing an article on Russia. That wero absurd, when tho subject howls nloud for folios. But thero aro one or two misconceptions I should like to knock on the head mildly. Democratic Tradition and Kcalily FlrBt of all, Russia Is not 6. military nation. Its aoverment Is not militarist. Its clilli 7atlon is not based upon a military concep tion of the state. It is built upon nil exactly difllcrent basis democracj I think it Is tho oldest democracy in Europo, certainly It pos sesses the oldest tradition of democracy. Russia Is not that girl In pink satin nnd chains, staggering through a paper snow storm; Russia is the peasant. Bear in mind that tho Russian peasants own a largo part of tho arable land nearly three-fifths of it. To a great extent the land is held In com mon; that is, each llttlo community of farmers each mlr is Independent. The poasants worl: the land together or, more often, divide it themselves, according to laws of tholr own. I remember talking with nu old peasant once. It wbb at that famouB first Duma. He was a calm old man, Khevllenko of Poltava. He took my hand in both his big paws and held it firmly during our entire conversation a friendly, reasonable old man. And when T asked him what ho wanted he said: "I want tho land for my people I'e been sent here to get it, and I shan't go back until I do." I found out his trouble. It was simple. Every man, woman, child and babe in his commune had ten acres of land; but near by lay a well-watered meadow, which at tho tlmo the land owners wero dispossessed had been left In possession of tho owner. Khevllenko s ullage wanted it; and I am tolerably sure they got It. For that car over a quarter of the laud remaining In the hands of the "nobles" was turned ocr to the peasants. Today a peasant can own his land Individually or leave It in the self governing community, as he pleases. The village commune has home rule. A group of these communes forms a canton, as in Switzerland. It also is self-governing. It has an assembly made up of one man, chosen by tho peasants, out ot every ten families In the cantonal court the peasant first comes into touch with the law of tho land and in that court sit five peasant Judges selected by tho peasants themselves. Above that Is the district assembly, which is another elective body. Bluntly stated this Is democracy of no bad sort. No Aristocracy in Itueiia "But the aristocracy," said the big doctor, whom ou met in tho beginning of this article, "that ruthless Russian aristocracy!" I smiled, and blandly, patiently, as ono In structs a child In the rule of three, I said; "In Russia there is no aristocracy." "No aristocracy!" "No aristocracy," I repeated, "except, of course, Just such an aristocracy as we havo in dear old Virginia and Massachusetts and New Rochelle an aristocracy which is made up of certain old and illustrious families who trace their blue blood back through the gen erations. To be a Dolgorukl or Troubetskoy adds Just the same lustre It gives a Yankee to be an Adams or an Endlcott; but it lends neither place nor power. It's a mere thing of family pride." And that Is true; in Russia there is royal blood with Its privileges; but there Is no aristocracy. There is, of course, a nobility. But that Is an admirable thing and essen tially democratic,, because It Is open to every Russian, The son of the peasant or the son of the merchant or dny man's son can be a noble If he will. Ho has but to go through the schools, pass the civil service examination and then at a given point In his career he Is automatically ennobled. The rank goes with the grade he has won In the civil serv ice. So there Is a perpetual flow of plain folk up Into the class of tho nobility; and a return current, of course, gradually carries the descendants of the unfit back Into the people. It Is a Ufe-gtving circulation; and It la democratic. It Is democracy In essence reward and distinction for services to the State, How the War Will nurt Uunia The other day at Yale I met Mr- Petrunke vltch, the son of a rare heroic old man I knew In Russia Petrunkevltch, one of the vice presidents of the Duma, an old, gray Insurgent who had spent half hla life in exile. The wheel of th years turned and I found myself sitting at table wjth Ms son in New Haven, and young Petrunkevitch shook his head dolefully over the war. It was not that he feared the Issue .ha looked forward gladly to the overthrow of Prussian military feudalism and freedom for tlje Ger man people. And he did not fear that Rus sia would be "militarized;" by victory. "Wo are nof a. military nation" he said; "that Is not the danger." Wby the delefulnessl I asked "The War is setting back, I fear, our splen did system of education Just well under way." He gave iqe the faots. The edition bill w passsjd by tfee Duma about five yaarsfaijg, ftgaWtd or t)u building a4 equfrme4t f free. bf Uo Htmin vryw.ere) .vr th ewsplre-r-a BBj.ftPttiB.Miie for every $9 ellsregmwttt, ota. IMtJattnr aWUteaiJa.. Alrsiuiy if fas tfjprtad aaif & tha land. la flva years tf w4U b ceilt, T wtu be free cwptUsory ejdttCaUtex tor vry child War war way ibis great work, but sooaar or ar it wit; I Bt.hd. How a&asisyga a tatagr U t' you ny saaMaa if yon tMnk f this mait I t.-oigitru ,7$s.trcjp, pe leraaMjr "A WORLD OJ? HAPPINESS. ABLAZE WITH JOY; .j0i'-ijr;.&iir,wiWAKKsrmv!!(Aixm2'rMErin saweaw.' ... 1..T".--ihj, ,., --, M4imMmmmTs. MrKmMJtMliivXimMlMKJBXxtE2B&Ztx i "rf,,.OiWl L.T'" S' 4 'WsMSSSBflbGKtJ -SSS3 T&SJSP f )tf.iiSMiv.in-'imMiv,i.nayssi-ei- -r-zHWEur ..ir v ., r.eswetfHcwiNi over 30 degrees of latitude, with Its SO na tions, races, tribes. Progress? I wish jou know Russia and the mighty work that Is being dono there. You would begin to understand why Tolstoy said that Russia was tho future. I know that tho Government is not Per fect. You may think of it as a huge Iron frame stretching over these 30 dogrces ot latitude and 80 races. Tho peasants hardly know that It exists. Not till they rlso from their self-governing communities and as semblies up to tho Zemstvo do they como in touch with It. It weighs upon them Just about as heavily as Washington weighs on the hog warden In a Connecticut village. And that Is why the "intellectuals" tho overcducated young men, who have lifted themselves abovo tho people and yet found no welcome among tho peers havo gone In vain to tho peasants, preaching revolution. The peasants havo their own democracy. The Government To Be Now nnd then this hugo Iron framework of Government sags at one corner and pinches ono race somewhere on the 30th degree of latitude. It does not always fit. Perhaps no Government does; but of one thing you may be sure, when It sags too much it will break apart. Every nation, as it mounts tho long, steop road of evolution, has to fit itself every now and then with a now garment of govern ment. And Russia, based on democracy with age-old habits of democracy will es tabllsh a government in accord with Its new needs and Ideals. For Russia has ideals. Youmay not believe either In compulsory education or In compulsory sobriety, but Rus sia believes In both. The new law which has banished strong di'nk from Russia from Its 80 nations is an epoch-making event. It is the second step in a long-planneu" reform that I have watched for years. The first thing tho Government did was to lntioduce the so called Swedish system of handling the liquor question. It closed all the taverns nnd grog gerles sinks of corruption and took chargo of tho traffic itself. Where the village grog gery had been it set up a shop of Its own, where vodka could be bought In the original packageand that way only. It could not be drunk on the premises. There was, how ever, a room where the villagers could gather and drink tea. Hot water was provided free, and there were warmth and light and cheer. All this made for sobriety, but the chief bene, fit was the fact that the peasants could not drink on "tick" pawn their ponies and plows and clothes and mortgage their fu ture crops to the dirty traffickers in vodka. That was a great reform. Then when tho hour Btruck the Duma passed that new law which Just tho other day prohibited the sale of alcoholic liquors over the mighty land of Russia. You may not like that sort of thing; you may not like democracy; but you cannot know Russia unless you know that these are the foundations on which she Is building her future. National Cornerstones Compulsory education, compulsory sobriety and democracy these three. There's one other cornerstone of the new Russian edifice. I don't know that it has any place In a newspaper article, though It Is the sort of thing that is supposed to be quite innocuous even for children. It Is this; Russia Is a jellgious country It Is more than religious; it Is a God-haunted country. He who would sketch the future of Russia must reckon with that enormous fact And so you may sea the Russians as a grave, wise folk, notably given to song and prayer, friendly, with rare humanity and a sense of world brotherhood quite Inconceivable In a Europe ot clashing trade competitions and craving military ambitions a kindly, mystic land. You, can't judge Russia by the cheap and tawdry melodramas of other days; nor by the ranting of the "Intellectuals," who are mostly declassed proletarians, eduoated above their brain pqwer, and wandering without plaoe or work, In a world they do not understand. 8qms Of them are dreamers and martyrs without hungry personal ambitions; andthy, like the peasaqt, aro making the future of their amazing land And that future ypu and I and the big t doctop-sfcall live to see. WHAT MAKES A CHRISTMAS PRESENT "My mother gats a China set Aad ruddy hia an easy efcijv "44 so l'ni wmI thU CMMMa Day, fbm otjhsr folks are quiet. TkuMjffc not uc but ma wo r To tali what ta autunt by U. it tat wa. tataaa mt it am t cxat, Mawstr ale nJ aUMaat, M' wat yen tfeuMMlM yu MikaaM aM tti Maa CSsia MMMrt" g&ffl ....-v-- A CHRISTMAS DAY IN ROME How an American Sought nnd Found the Spirit of Christmas in the City of tho Caesars By JOSEPH II. ODELL IT I MIGHT spend Christmas flay In Beth lehem, visit the Church of tho Nativity, wander out over tho fields and sit a while with a shepherd keeping watch over his flock, and then, making a wide circuit, como back Into the llttlo town by tho road presumably trav eled by tho Magi, I might, or I thought I might, enter into tho leal spirit of tho great Christian festival But it was not to be. I was detained In Rome, with no possibility of leaving Thero would bo no family circle in which the old Yulctldo customs aro per petuated. Thero was not even a friend upon whom I might call. But Rome, tho capital of tho Vicar of Christ, tho place in which Jesus of Nazareth was first enthroned why should not Romo glvo me a true Christmas, free of the pagan trappings that It has picked up from various lands? I began tho day early, bent only upon find ing the Christmas spirit and qulto confident that I should find it. But where? Of course, obviously not in tho Forum, for that was as sociated In my mind with Cicero, with sena tors, consuls, tribunes and tho Caesars. Not In thn nearby Temple of Augustus, the Basil ica of Julia, the Temple of Saturn, tho frag ment of tho Temple of Castor and Pollux or under tho shadows of the Arch of Titus. As, I hastened past With questioning mind my feet Involuntarily carried me toward the Colosseum, and it was not until tho splendid luln came Into view that I realized that prob ably not another building In the whole wide world could carry mo farther uway from tho spirit and message I sought than that vast gray pile And yet Instinctively I was avoiding the churches. It seemed to mo that Christmas, the, birthday of ono born in a stable, could never bo truly reproduced by vested choirs and gor geous altars, and elaborate rituals, and for mal processions. Peter was as near to Jesus as any one, and Romo was full of Peter, but the fisherman had become ofilclallzed and, ex cept for the Incident of tho via Appla, tho "Domlne, quo vadls," I did not know where to find the Peter of real flesh and blood. As that vvas nearest to what I sought "l went thither and found the little church of "Quo Vadls." But It wns mute. And It was not until I had gone farther still, even as far as the Catacombs, that I thought how St. Paul first saw Rome as he marched a pris oner along the Applan way. So I turned about and moved toward the city, trying to imagine the thoughts of tho Apostle as ho marched toward the home of the Caesars with the message ot his Master burning In his heart. Unaltered After 30 Centuries The landscape could not have changed en tirely, The road on which I walked had not altered Us course In SO centuries, and frpm Us elevated points one could sea fragments of the noble aqueducts and the ruins of an cient tombs and temples and villas. It told one ot Hannibal, who traversed It with his Carthaginian conquerors; of the messengers who brought the story of the fatal battle of Phllippl, of triumphant Titus returning from Jerusalem, of Aurellan and his cohorts with Queen Zenoblo. as a captive It was thronged with great figures and vocal with the noise of world,makng events, but It was silent about Christ, and It was the spirit of His birth I sought. I was back In the city and near to the Pantheon, Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime. Shrine of all saints and teropl$ of all gods. But Its classic front was forbidding and I had not the heart to enter. Neither could I force myself into St. Peter's that day. An American, with his mind full of the thoughts of home and trying to find some touch pf the aweet simplicity that had always been asso ciated with Christmas, would hardly seek it in the spacious splendor and overpowering magnitude of the pontlfleal cathedral. It was a palace, and I was seeking a stable or something m hnmbja. Of course. I did not find what I sought twastly. But a little later a sweat bat sad, faoed woman, passed me, trying t hasten the steps of two, children. Without Intention I follewtsd, and they entered Jjt. John It eran. I hwKatad at first, but, thinking f tb quiet aloigtws and t& eurnasslngly beau tiful baptistery, I ssamod to fet that ley might give n at laast a suitable place In whtan to nurse my disappointment and thlak of hogoe. TbeTrur Spirit Sue UHjlde of t gwiws ohureh I found what I bad sU5t ad, dwpalrsd g JUnltas tha spirit at Cewtta. I saw a asauUful stroon p?aaav4. I y I saw tt, Vcau taa crowd wa toe gt far a lau sonar to ftt within WW the sraaeWs wards, aad Up aartaoa was in tonpi of vblea ! knew Jy arat Ha was a monk and not a say oMar Uav yuan, hi two, was batfcs Ui Uw mtt ugat that atraaiMd thrwufh fm ms&ml, & rteh vvisroi wtu ENOUGH FOR ALL!" & dow; his voice, ns It reached the edge otjbi standing congregntion, was mellow and giS tlo and Joyous. I know It vvas a beautiful sermon, fuiTjt tender emotion and chiding love, laden wltff thn anlrlt nf Plirlalmno lior.ni.BA If o..V? gcntlo and gracious response In that tvpjcalj Roman nudlencc. Onco a smile rippled over nil tho faces, as f.ough a door had une pectedly been flung open and they ftere "bld-1 den to enter a long-closed palace. And once, w hen tho preacher's finger pointed toward the glowing window, all oyes followed it, as if they expected one of the celestial figures to flutter down Into their midst. Occasionally neighbor would turn to neighbor and nod, as If a cherished but unuttered hopo had been confirmed. Ono woman, with n gorgeous silk scarf about her head, held a child upon her shouldor, and whon a surly looking man by her side icliovcd her of the burden, she looked surprised and grateful, patted him affec tionately upon tho arm, and turned again eagerly to tho preacher. By my side two rough-looking men stood together and Insen sibly drew nearer and thon to my surprise and apparently unconsciously, one slipped his hand Into tho other's and kept it thero until tho end of tho sermon. A rather flerco looking mustached soldier lifted a little boy onto his shoulder for a momont, that the youngster might havo a glimpse of the preacher. As the sermon continued, the hard lines and tho settled shadows seemed to van ish from every face, and peaco and good will fell like a benediction mpon the listening throng. Truo, I did not understand a vvod,,! but I felt that I had round tho spirit and tne meaning of Christmas, and as I left tho great church I gavo all my small change to a lame beggar, who Importuned mo nt the portal. PJum DufT at the Trout Trom the Now York Tlroea. Tho genuine plum puddings, with the al monds andthc holly and the rest of It. are I going to the front this week by battalions, A., Christmas Puddliur Fund was started om?7 tlmo ago by one nt the nevvspapors in LonuonJ nnd in no time at an 4bo puuuings oui oi wis r.nn rmt.-oil fnr were subscribed. In audition. to these, hundreds of prlvato puddings are. mnitlne their wu toward the firing line witn those greetings 6f love and gaety and cour-3 age that are supposed to aid In keeping a sUXI upper lip. O UTILE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM 0 little town of Bethlehem, How still wo see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep tho silent stars go oy; Yet In thy dark streets shlneth The everlasting Light: The hopes and fears of all the years Aro met In thee tonight. For Christ Is born of Mary; And gathered all above. While mortals sleep, the angels keep Their watch of wondering love. Q morning stars, together Proclaim Thy holy birth; And praises sing to God, the King, And peace to men on earth. How silently, how silently. The wondrous gift is given! So God Imparts to human hearts The blessings of His heaven. No ear may hear His coming, But in this world ot sin. Where meek souls will receive Him still. tiio aear unriat enters In. O holy Child of Bethlehem, Descend to us, we pray; Cast out our Bin, and enter Jn Be born in us today. We hear the Christmas angels The great glad tidings tell, O come to us, abide with us, Our Lord Emmanuel. Phillips Brooks (18691, A CHRISTMAS CARMEN Sound over all waters, reach out from all Ian The chorus of voices, the clasping of handji tsing nymns mat wero sung by the stars s the morn. Elng songs of the angels when Jesus was bofj vvun giau jubilations Blng hope to the nations' The dark night Is endlnir and dawn has bex Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sua ah epecQii now jo music, an nearts peat as Sine the bridal of national with rimrali of lof omg oui me war-vuttura and sing Jn the OOJ -nu ine nearts or tne peoples keep time.fl auvuru. And tho voice of the world Is the voice of i Lord! Clasp lands ot the nations In strong gratutatlona. The dark night is endlnir and dawn has Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun. All f cash flaw to rouslo, all hearts beat as Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of pea aasi, wsst, norm ana south let the long i rel ewase: Sing the urns of great Joy that the J UHSH. Bleg of gkwy to God aad of good-will to I The heavens band o'er ual The dark night U andlng and dawn has bU ,, wnw me age, ansa like tne sw AH ftjMaah flow to musie, Bu. hearts bsat as i '-Jean Oreenleaf Whltt! JBSUS AND JOAN Wnaa Juus graeisd Joan ta the aftar-twil " w9 itucib)i kio4 tne Hurnw. anaa Miuy iue spoke tegstbsr. They two as' branded nith Ufa But tftto uul at oil of cross '! Mtd flaming. Or th cla trout tbsui of Ood But be waa lander w tba uul ot tn wao isareaa au mdm 4b ta tr ! Pit Ut 0 Taa faggot tn Rean too Utlllto,,, a L. .j-w.M
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