The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1927, Page 12

_D;l,il ¥y ‘A l;xska Empi roj JOHN W. TROY - EDITOR AND MANAGER | Published evening exeept EMPIRE F i COMPANY Main Strec Alaska Entere i I Office in Ju cond } Class ma SUBSCRIPTION RATE | Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Tread- well Thane for $1.2§ p, month, dvar in ad- va ne m | will will| gularity in_the delivery phone for Editorial and r papers, s Offices, 874 :nhnv' MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. 1 P exclugively en to t all news dis ‘H.\t‘ T e credited this. paper and als t local news published herein, | ALASKA CIRCULATION ( TEED TO BE| LARGER THAN TIl A Y OTHER PUBLICATIC THE NATIVITY From the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 11, 1-29. 1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from| Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. | 2. (And this taxing was first made ‘ when Cyrenius was Governor of Syria.) | 3. And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. | 4. And Joseph also went up from| Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth,| into Judea, unto the city of David,| which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of| David,) | 5. To be taxed with Mary his| espoused wife, being great with child.| 6. And so it was, that, while they| were there, the days were accomplish- ed that she should be delivered. { 7. And she brought forth her first-| born son, and wrapped him in swad- dling clothes, and laid him in a man- ger; because there was no room for them in the inn. ,‘ 8. And there were in.the same coun-| try shepherds abiding in the field, keep- | ing watch over their flock by night. 9. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid. 10. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good .tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 4 11. For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. 13. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 14. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. 15. And it came to pass, as the angels were gon@ away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to an- g other, Let us now'go even unto Bethle- : hem; and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. ' 16. And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. 17. And when they had seen it, they .made known abroad the saying which | iy | ' CHRISTMAS HYMN \ Sing, Christmas bells! Say to the earth this is the morn Where-on our Savior-King is born; Sing to all men-—the bond, the free, The rich, the poor; the high, the low, The little child that sports in 'glee, The aged folk that tottering go,— Proclaim the morn That Christ is born, That saveth them and saveth me! Sing, angel host! Sing of the star that God has placed Above the manger in the dast; Sing of the glories of the night, The virgin's sweet humility, The Babe with kingly robes. bedight,— Sing to all men where'er they he This Christmas morn; B For Christ is born, That saveth them and saveth nie! Sing, sons of earth! O ransomed seed of Adam, sing! God. liveth, and we have a King! The curse is gone, the bonds are free, By Bethlehem’s star that = brightly gleamed, By all the heavenly signs that be, We know that Israel is redegmed; That on this morn The Christ is born That saveth you and saveth me! Sing, O my heart! Sing thou in rapture this dear morn Whereon the blessel Prince is born! And as thy songs shall be of love, So let thy deeds be charity,— By the dear Lord that reigns above, ' was told them concerning this child. ::: :‘h"’“ :"I‘“ dles upan the tre¢, : 18. And all they that heard it won- Y4 BRI MO B Where on is born dered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. 19. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. 20. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. " MERRY CHRISTMAS! Christmas Day! There were those in the & past who regarded it as a pagan festival, others a time for gloom and fasting. But The Christ that saveth all and me! —REugene Field. From THE BELLS By Edgar Allan Poe . Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! i How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heayens séem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, ‘In a sort of Runie rhyme, the. tintinabulation that so musleall wells g SRE ) 3 From the Nells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— _ whatever its origin, or the ancient beliefs is | _connected with it, Christmas Day ‘and has been for very many years, the “est of all Christian festivals. ~_And what is there left to say about it? that interest and timeliness are dull] . either sacred or profane, ag to its titution and growth throughout Christen- lom? Away with them ‘as vexations of the| bells, 3 for less joyous seasons.' For Christ- B s the féstivak of spiritual joy, and CHRIS-IMAS R n. of the deepest sentiments (After the de Day will and love. And in keep- painting ' by occasion, we know of nothing I plucked this banch ot Toses: dea From out my garden wild, & expressive of that which we 7 uo—qld.‘_ur«eunx “Merry 1 plucked them in the winter y New Year.” May cuch For you, my forest child, £ ‘experience them in the Your wet and wintry hours bt g i They're Christmas Roses ' P Y now t- To ey family From the jingling and the tinkling of the | THE STORY (Adapted from Dicken's “A Christmas OF TINY TIM | arol”) THE HYMN OF CHRIST'S " NATIVITY ‘ a little English boy. Wjth in Camden Town to see the happy family|: 1 | and fair hair, his cheeks|of good faithful Bob Cratchit. He heard c g & 6 & It was the winter wild, hould have been as hard and as rosy as|the toast to himself, and saw the sudden October apples. But they weren't. They 1 soft and pale us only a little, erip- pled boy's ¢an be, for Tiny Tim had never Iked a step without nis crutch But you not think of ‘him being unhappy. le was the bravest, mqst contented boy in mden Fown, which shabby Loudon. is ‘a suburb fof | Tiny Tim’s of goodness. His big brother Peter, and his ihig sister Martha, and the two little Crat- Ichits sald too. And his father, Bob 1Cratchit, was so sure’ of it that he was lafraid Tiny Tim would slip away to Heaven some day, to live with the other angels. The Cratchits were poor,. for Bob was paid only 15 shillings a week by Old IScrooge, in whose cold, dark counting-house e was employed as a clerk. But poverty {could not keep, such a .cheerful affectionate {family from having a Merry Christmas. Tiny |Tim’s pale face was shining with joy when | that was far too smail for such a large hun- Ispoon and cried “Hurrah.” And when fath- ler Bob lifted a .cracked sup of water and | wished them all, “A Merry Christmas, God bless us,” Tiny Tim responded to the toast with his favoritesprayer: “God Dbless us, every one!" When their few friends had been toastéd, jand the young and old, and the sick and Ipoor of London, father Bob lifted the cup again, and wished a Merry Christmas for 101d Scrooge. Mother Cratchit cried out: | 1t should be Christmas Day, 'Im sure, if one is to drink to the health and happiness of such an odious, stingy, hard unteeling old man as Mr. Scrooge Remembering that it was a day of peace presently, but their hearts were not i it. tle family, snd even the ‘mention of his |name cast a dark and joyless gloom on. the | merriest of Christmases, s | 010 Scrooke did not deserve anybody's good will. He was so mean that. he had | zrudgell the Christmas holiday to his clerk, “You pick my pocket of a day's wages every 25th of Dgcember,” Old Scrooge had snarled, nd went to his donely old house to have a {mean miserly gfi\‘m:hfu Eve all by himsell. When,_ he h‘ld'aliut ‘gut the peace and good will that antoyed shim he erouched over a Wflho evening. lfl] asleep. * Anyhow, he gow Scrooge had kept it; ristmas Prese! and the imas Yet to Come. They meanness and the misery rs, amd how he was 4 old age, a mother said he was an angely iis mother began to cut up the little goose, . and he beat the table with his| and good will, they all drank the %uasy Old Scrooge was the wicked ogre of that lit-, ithree spirits—the Spirit of{1ong as there were | i {gloom which the mention of his name brought. ! | Poor Old Scrooge! Poor, mean, stingy, srooge! | ki | !He suddenly knew how bad and pitiable an| old man be was, and he envied his poverty- |erossgrained, lonely, wretched Old { stricken clerk Bob Cratchit. He envied {him, his cheerful loving family and his | cheerful loving heart and. most of all he| lenvied his frail little crippled boy who with | |the Dbravest sunniest smile cried out in al |sweet ‘reedy little voice like a bird's: 1 | ""God bless us, everyone!™ ! { The Spirit of Christmas Yet to Como| showed Old Serooge a_ vacant stool in the | corner and a little cratch without an own- | er; and he knew that unless there was help | here that money could command-—good xlm--“ Itors, better and more food, and graater com-| fort in the crowded cottage—poor cheerful Tiny Tim must die, The Spirit vanished just as Old Scrooge! woke up in his cold and cheerless old home. A sparkling Christmas morning had dawned. The whole day of Christmas Present was before him, but he so unusued to Morry’ |Christmas that he didn’t know what to do {with this oné. He laughed and cried bntll: lut ‘gnee. . 5 ¥ } I'm as light as a feather. I'm as merry a8 a school boy. I'm as happy as an—as fdear little Tiny Tim. Merry Christmas. He flung a window wide and shouted: ‘‘Mer- |ry Christmas! A Happy New Year to all {the world! Hello there! Hello! Whoop!” | Old Scrooge wasn't in the least crazy, for he began at once to do kifid and semsible things like anybody else. He bouuh;;lhe big prize turkey in the market, and to make fsure it would get there in time he sent it 1to Bob Cratchit’s cottage in a cab. Then ihe put on his gayest waistcoat and a beam- ing ‘smile, and went to his nephew’s to din- ner like a Christian gentleman. | Bob Oratchit was 18 minutes late at the ‘office the next morning! He started to explain to his scowling employer (who was itrying hard to look as mean as ever and {finding it hard work), that e had eaten too ito’Camden Town in a cab like adord, when |a friendly dig in the ribs, ‘raised his salary, jand told him' to put in - scuttje- | full of eoal on the offi ' That very day, aftei {he began to be a cond father to Tiny Tim. {The darlinig child it ly COULDN'T die as and other Ebenezer Scroo And the next ' crippl 4 LB {To wanton food, | en-born Child the While the hea Al meanly in rude lies; ature, in awe to Him, Had dofi*d Yer gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize: It was no season then for her with the sun, her lusty para- wrapt manger mour, X But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began: The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild oecan, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave, XIII. Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; v And, with your ninefold harmony, Make up full consort to the angelic sym- phony. XXVIL But see, the Virgin blest Hath laid her Babe to rest: A Time is, our tedious song should here have ending: Heaven's youngest-teemed star Hath fix'd her polish’d car, Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending; And all about the courtly stable Bright-harness'd angels it in order service- | able. —John Milton. From A CHRISTMAS CARMEN By John Greenleaf Whittier Sound over all waters, reach out from ali . all lands, . The chorus of voices, the clasping of hands; much of a prize tufkey that had come out|gine hymns that were sung by the stars_of the morn, |Ola Scrooge gave him, his bewildered clerk gy, songs of the angels when Jesus was|" . born! b With glad jubilations Bring hope to the nations! The dark night is ending and dawn has Rise,- hope of the ages, arise like the sum, ANl speech flow to music, all hearts beat THE VISIT OF ST. NICHOLAS upen the "Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirrin not even a mou The stockings were hung by tho chimney with care In hopes that St. Nichol oon _would 1 therd X The ¢hild were nestled all s in their beds, While visions of sugar plums danc-d in their heads, And Mamma in her kerchief and 1 in my cap "lad just settled our brains for a long win | ter's nap Vhen out on the lawn there rose wuch a | clatter, 1 cprang from the bed to see what was the | matter; to the window I flaw lik | Tore iters a4 thre the roon the breast of the new-fallen W, ustre cf midday to ob, helow, | hat to my wondering eyes should | ippe | | tut a minj re s'cigh, and eight tiny re! deer ith a litt e ald d: o lively and quick, | “kuaew in a moment it must be St Nick. {More rapid than cagles' his coursers they came, % And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: | ‘Now, 1 sr! Now, Dancer. Now, Pranc- | er and Vixen! | ‘n CoMet! Cn, Cupid! On, Donder and | Blitzen! | Fo the top of the porch, to the top of the wall! | Now, dash away, dush away, dash away, all! \s dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly, [ | ¥hen they moet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; S0 up to the house-lop the coursers they | flew, | With the sieigh full of toys, and §t. Nich- olas too, Aud then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof Fhe praneing and pawing of cach tiny hoof« As 1 drew in my head, and was: turning around, Down the chimney St bound. cholas came with a He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, his clothes were all ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. . His eyes, how they twinkled! how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a And tarnished with his dimples, His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, » And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his tecth, And the smoke it encircled his head like i a’ wreath; He had a broad face and a round little belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly, He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed, when I saw him, of myself; A wink of his eye, and twist of his head, Soon gave ‘me to know I had nothing to dread; He spoke not a-word, but went straight to his work, 2 And filled all the stockings; with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose; He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, s And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight; ‘““Happy Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!” b —Clement C. Moore. O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM O little town of Bethlehem! How still we see thee lia! 4 Above thy deep and dreamless slecp 3 The silent stars go by! Yet in thy dark streets shineth 'l'l)a everlasting Light; _ The hopes and fears of all the years ‘ Are met in thee tonight. in spite then turned For Christ is horn ot Mary, And gathered all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep Their watch of wond'ring love. h + O morning stars together Proclaim the holy’ birth And praises sing to God the King, And peace to men on earth. How silently, how silently The wondrous gift is giv'n! ' So God imparts to human hearts 2 The blessings of His heav'n. No ear may hear His coming, 3 But in this wotld of sin, g Where meek souls will receive Him still, The dear Lord enters in. ‘ v .0 holy Child .of Bethiehem! _ Cast. out our sin and enter in, b us today. 4 . Be born in