Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1909, Page 10

Christmas Hymnology A Literature to Which Christians tributed and in Which People ® N CHRI 1906 died Ju the author Mater 1t known that this singer of a Christmas written in the same strain as hix beautiful ymn for Passiontide. It this Sta bat Mater juxta foeny Dum pzceba Dr. J MAR day in the year Benedett!, “Stabat generally was the po del of the s ot author carol runs speciosa gaudiosa parvulus M. Neale renders d Full of beauty stovd the Mot By the manger, best her « Where her little one she lays i s a this pathetic incldent In connection that Its author breathed |« night of the Nativitx hanting the old Christ- Glorla In Exc in the by. His last tra fldanza.” M the cemetery of the Minorite and on his tomb Ix propter Christm nova with arol his last on the holy as the choir was mas carol sis church close words Jesu n were was burled in at Callozone, | Stultus arte delusit inscribe mundur et caelum rapult It is strange that vas actually engaged in of & “Church Hymnal" at the time that he was appointed bishop of Calcutta, neither ! his Easter hymn nor his Christmas carol finds a place in the “Church Hymnal " And yet the following v sin- gularly suited to @ mone like the present while Keginald Heber the mpilation making age It gayly clothed In dangerous w Remind us of T And lowly cottage and pro | alth we dw | manger bed | call | with poverty In envious want to pine Oh, may the Spirit whisper How poor & lot was Thine 1t prest wevere The most anclent Christmas hymn American Church Hymnal!" 1s t Aurelius Clemens Prudeptius born In Spain was o guished jurist in his day. it by Dr. Neale Of the Father's will Ere the worlds began to be His hymn found under thos tor the Epiphany is also a Chr beginning: Barth has many a noble city Hethlehem thou dost all excel The English version of tne hymns is by | an American hymnologist, Kdmund Cas- well, to whose pén we are Indebted for the carol, “Come hither taithful,” which cannot be traced further back than close of the sixteenth century, &l- though it has an anclent ring about it which would place it much earller. Father Oakley, who left the Church of England at time of the Tractarian movement, has given us a carol running very mueh n the same strain \ all ye faithtul, joyful and triumphant,” which on account of its spirited refrain is one of the most popular Christmas hymns John Byrom, & poet and essayist of some tinction, who lived in Manchester, Eng- land, from 1691 to 1763, and whose aged daughter, the present writer, had the honor of meeting in her home in Deansgate of | that city about 1868, is the author of what | is probably the best of the <‘l|r1s!mun‘ songe | Christians, awake, salute the happy morn | Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born. Mr. Byrom's “Private Journal and Cor- | respondence” are of pecullar interest, for| he was not only a scholar, but a man of | wit and“observation. | Two well-known Christmas carols in the ‘Church Hymnal" are from the pen of a Unitarian minister, Dr. Edmund Hamilion Sears, man of a devout and spiritual wind and a graceful and vigorous writer. The first s the popular hymn beginning It came upon the midnight clear ‘That glorious song of old. And the other begins: Calm on the listening Comes heaven's wel The beautiful carol school and home which Dr wrote as he hem and will lve finer I arols: Oh, little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee | Above thy deep and dres The silent stars go by; Yet'in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting light. Another Amerlean clergyman kiven up a good Christmas carol Augustus Muhlenberg, the founder Chureh of the Holy' Communion York; St. Luke's hospital and the tlement at St. Johnsland on Long Island 1ts spirited refraln makes it very popular Shout the glad tidings, exultingly Jerusalem triumphs, Messiah s K There are two more carols by American suthors, Mrs. Alexander's “Once in David's Royal City,” and John Cawood's “Hark, the Sound of Holy Voices." Pifty years ugo the great bymn was that by Charles Wesley, In tact, Christmas day was celebrated without it. Its stralns are still familiur Hark the herald angels sing Glory to the new born King. But this well known hymr that from the pen of who was poet laureate of 1 the by who was | distin- | is rendered | | begotien assiguied nas carol, | the the | | of night pme strain popular in both Phillips Brooks fields of Bethle- on the little city, | There is nothing of Christmas stood in the looked down in history the whole circle tless sleep who hLas | Dr of the N Christmas no is Nahum England antedateg ata, when | by | ana Thy Christmas In Nocamodia Christmas set- | DECEMBER 1 v Our Sorrow e Post | mail bag, aleoholic of All Denominations Have Con- of All Faiths Are Interested. he wrote it in the year 1700, The poor post died & debtor's prison In South wark In 1715, when women not a few" were singing hymns in the churches close by Charlotte Eillot who has given also “devout the bedridden poetess, | us “Just as 1 Am," has| bequeathed to the church a Christ- “Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne ly Crown Christmas hymn un “Gllorla in Excelsis.”” which | of t which the singing in church at when Diocletian emperor. the church be | losed and the whole congregation, youny and old, burned to death It is strange that while and the Epiphany brated by the singing of hymns mas carol K The earliest foubtedly the was probably *hristians was or e hymn were to the ordered we that were e Know no anclent carols have come down to us There 1s an old carol dating from the tifteenth century which has the “Gloria in Excelsis” for a refrain. It begins A Babe was born all of a mald To bring salvation unto us. No more are we to sing afraid Veni creator Spiritus. One of the best carols of the Elizabethan period Is that by Robert Southwell, priest who was sent to convert but who was by her Protestant | majesty Blizabeth and imprisoned in the Tower for three years, and then after suf fering the tortures of the rack cuted February 22, 150. It begins Behold, a simple tender Babe In freezing winter night; In homely manger trembling lies Alas, a pitecus sight During the protectorate of Ollver Crom well the observance of Christmas was for bidden und yet there Is a Christmas caro from the Puritan pen of George Withers who was enriched and promoted by well and thrown Into prison by Charles. begirs As on the night before this happy morn A bleased angel unto shepherd told Wordsworth of Lin us the hymn beginning | ‘8ing, oh wing, this blessed morn!" Miss Elliott, the author of “Just As T Am." | wrote “Thou didst leave Thy throne and | Thy kingly crown.” James Montgomery, who was considered one of England's most eminent poets by no less an authority than Lord Byron, is the auther of the carol | beginning “Angels from the realms of | glory.”" Montgomery was born of Moravian parents and dedicated to the ministey he took up newspaper work instead became eminent in general ilterature well seized was exe. Blshop Christopher coln has given but ana an as in poetry hardt ter a Al Faul G for the 6" whom we hymn are indebted Jesus Lives," has also given spirited Christmas ¢ beginning my heart night re foices In the midst of the w tween King Charles and his parliament in the year 1620 John Milton found both | leleure and repose to write his hymn, “On the morning of the nativity,” in whicl there are evidently references to the dis- turbed conditior of things at that e g like strife be time, No war or battle sound Was heard the world around | the compilation of these Christmas | odes the true catholicity of “the theology | of hymns" s evident, for among their | wiiters are two English bishops, one bishop | of the Americar church, Romén'Chtholic monks and priests, Unitarian ministers, | Moravians and Lutheransi in fact the Wwhole circle of Christlan helievers has been | searched in order to express in the service | of song the joys and the peace of Christmas | tide. | n A Knotty Problem. The State Rallroud commission of Massa- | chusetts has & knotts problem i over | Just what are the rights of a drunken man on a public conveyahce, ‘The question nas been put up o the board by & ransit com. pany that has had more than its share of troubles and_sults over ejected {anks The Boston Post has f word of sympai) for the overburdened wayfarer trying reach home and bed. “We all know h.r him, Any Woman Can Have Beautiful Hair {From French Beauty Monthly.) o woman should use water upon her hair oftener than once in two months,” says M. Fournier, the noted French sci- ntist Dry powder only should be used. Moisture causes the hair to lose Its color and In tirke become thin ‘Any woman desiring abundant, lus- trous hair should use a dry shampoo every two or three days. Mix four ounces of powdered orrls root with four ounces of therox. Sprinkle about a tablespoon- ful ¢ this mixture upon the head; then brush the powder thoroughly through the | hair This will keep it light and flufty, and beautifully lustrous You will soon new hair starting to grow. This treat- nt is the oniy thing that 1.am sure | will produce a growth of ha While pla orris root Is used as a dry shampoo by many still, no such | results can be obtained as by using the formula 1 have given."—Adv w women, ‘ Rare Opportunity to Get Valuable Gifts at a Saving of 40c on the Dollar We have pleces of jewelry sin week as holiday and accumulate A large and valuable stock of rare panic which we will sell this wedding presents. The rtock embraces DIAM ND RINGS 840 $40 Diamond Rin Al diumond broocl eurrings. studs. rings, also a large line of fobs, silverware, s0ld at a saving of 40 Jewelry Co. N Diamdnd Ring for for cut glasa and tollet articlas and all 810 | 850 Diamond Ring for $30 $35 | 8100 Diamond Ring for $65 ey, dlamond 1ink buttons, diamond pins, of which there {s an immense stock bracelets, combs, gold sct rings, gold will be the doll Come early and make your welections to be laid aside for you. BRODKEY JE 1401 DOUGLAS ST OMAHA, NED. WELRY CO,, olnt at or must he be reasoned with and induced to tarry by the wayside? lose his rights as passeng mon earrier because but stiil h Can he be his refreshment ? which he i i York Tribune. WHERE STIFF BREEZES BLOW Thin, He India party n discussing the recent storm in maica experience 1x like?' “A | wky hurricane will swoop down on thing in its path flat and pass on follows the tail of the breeze blowing in the same at a much lower that Indinn Hurricane Gets Busy Do many days of the a torrential downpour “I was in Kingston, Jamaica hurrica Happen Jnma i ever cane?" been sald you want t lea a to continue for many hours, sometimes for and Is alway s of 1903 THE MODERN SANTA CLAUS. out and’no cars ware running. Cabs ever, were doing & roaring business, and eventually 1 got home for three charge The mounted office on the den buflding. thunder the to the wind. Considering the which that hurricane was traveling damage was not great, even my office building withstood it; but the of the thing followed than or since. To way that it came down in bucketfuls would be mild. It was as if the clerk of the weather had taken the plug eut of some huge vat suspended above our heads and allowed the water to plump straight down | ! on us ers the afternoon top floor of As suddenly room went dark 1 had a pretty good ldea of what was | about to happen, and going to the window 160ked out across the roofs. A black cloud hud whirled np out of the southwest, ob- th but the mountains back still golden with light arter of an hour the The first structure that watch tower about that had been used in the old days to locate ships approaching the harbor. It had weathered all previous hurricanes, but this time it went down like a house of cards, Spars of lumber from that tower carried as far as twenty blocks before they to the ground I was In my Fekety clap velocity at the crasy tall | rain e is human,” thrown off ' like says a A cabman to drive me his as a of They've paby's grub And They AY To guard the y And Santa Cla Patent Asbe pasteurized terfiized his ratt Ar fzed his dramatized his prattl ve padd triske skers! Does he i) wird & com =k Is Uilled with And where is the ntoxieated > times customary with ve wop damage to property Kingstor ip to hundreds of thousands of but the r destruction N the country districts out many a negro village fllmey houses floating down the The rallroads were tied up for r a week. Every tree In tl of the hurricane was uprooted. Oh, & West Indian hurricaze can do a lot of admage when it gets busy Loss of lite, did you say? Of course there was. Nearly 200 people were killed throughout the island that occasion, but grow accustomed to that in the West Indles. We expect a hurricane every i a while know that it will take its toll of human life when it comes 1t had telling the story you would probably have mentloned that first r ity of all, but sudden death is R T TE v and D T below the Trople of Cancer ston, howaver, are caloulated (o stand a | the streets had drained Into the harbor A B | callous, T suppose pretty severe blow are bullt only | Even then traffic had not begun to reor a few stories high and the roofs present | ganize iteelf. a broad and comparatively flat )(urfurv“ “The trolley car tracks had been wash I huve ever seen before n HOrSRrY. oW A walls dollars, wrought wi, was en he calls Floods Wi seuring su and sent city wel A tear for childhood's vanished joys, Unknown t bat e are the germ-infected toys The pup's gone—he had rat The antiseptic teething r Aseptic bells to Siugle They rule, and now they The whiskers of Ki Went in When n In less than a q moderr s wind reached us went 200 feet high anana let was A wooden “In three nacadam the streets had been washed into the harbor. The street outside my window was a rush- ing river as much as four feet deep In places. 1 saw a cart try to cross it, but with the water above the axle of the wheel and the horse's legs being washed away from under it, it was an impossible | task, and the driver turned b Big casks and packing cases were dancing on the surface llke corks, “As you can fmagine to supper that evening hours the on : yes « fireproof through a West a member of a Ta- th 8- K No more the tiny tots witt At such a sight amazing Will clap their little hand 014 Santa’s whiskers blazit g turn in the third alar itself, caught alw n Santa. free from | Asbestos Galwayvs' ey Desperate Shooting o know what K on were D out of came ity a blow ov clear hore moder ars no ry once d we Then &pire of u church went sidences urricane, a steady | roofs of a torn off an fine snapped sod re were » & you boen Rest lrection This s likely bu 1 did not get home 1t was 8 o'clock some palm trees in the | public gardens off half | way from the ground. Buildings in King. about F that common get in » s accompanied by f rain F Discovery ov .00, For They with Dr. King's New pne H0c Beaton Drug Co at the (ime 3 o'clock in Chamberlain’s Liniment has an enviable 1 and _* reputation as & cure for rheumatism pains in the chest require quick treatmen 0 b T ——————— The Store for Unusual Gitts The ordinary store, after all, is laden with ‘‘humdrum,’’ every day sort of gifts, but if you would meet with refreshing ideas in lines you hadn’t thought of, then see Omaha’s first and only ‘‘specialty’’ house—that’s THIS establishment. Many of the lines shown here are useful ones—for that reason making sensible gift Others, such as phonographs are intensely entertaining. At any rate, surprise yourself on the scope of our assortments. ristmas Offer Worth While |piane Sal Piano Sale On a Complete Genuine SON PHONOGRAPH and Oufifit, as listed here: L “*Kdison’” Phonograph. .$15.00 | 1 nickel plated Edison crane. 6 Records, your own choice, $2.10 | Genuine Edison product. 1 improved Edison reproducer. Equipped to play ‘both two and four 1 bottle phonograph oil. minute records, Edison’s latest ac 1 improved Edison oil can. complishment. $t7.10 buys this un- equalled home entertainer. On the easiest kind of payments if you wish. On Pianos You’ll Save i $100 While we sell a vast number of pianos during the vear, the line is still a side issue with us and we do not find it necessary to derive as MUCH profit from their salés as do exclusive piano houses. l, Takes Choice of 50 Fine Sewing Machines. From until Christmas offer a sewing machine sale entirely un- usual to Omaha. Fifty high graded ma- chines that have been consigned to our country agents during the year, been called in for an annual checking up, and now that the checking has been ac- complished they will be immediately dis- posed of—at a to clean up old stocks. titty s are only of known worth, all BRAND new, and only a little shopworn. Any machine In the lot is of the grade that agents usually sell at from $44.00 to $50.00, and every machine comes com- now we will have this reason we are enabled tu offer you a new WURLITZER PIANO slightly marred in shipment, but still of u strict $400 grade. at, GI DG only... Then, too, we've a first ¢class, finely put up, NT PIANO, that has worn some little in our sales room vhile being used as a sample. This strument, while of undoubted g5 Q) $360 grade, will go at litle time its originul $30 true’ sacrifice price Among standard the makes machir been YOU'VE WANTED FOR MANY A YE NOW HERE IS YOUR OF PORTUNITY. ONE PARLOR ORGAN, used a only, 1 \ almost cost 'pr 00, will plete with all attachments and is rigidly guaranteed by us, Man’s Bicycle at $25 for Christmas MEN'S “20TH CENTURY" bicycles size, with coaster brake and choice of bare and saddle, new, in positive § rades, will make an excellent Xmas gift, at $2 CHILDREN'S WHEELS, new, and best stock ever put Into a wheel, here at, from $18.00 to Typewriters Cut for Christmas 3, that fac- ae §3 835 835 45 OLIVER Typewriters tory agents sell at $9 here, slightly used, at 0. full SMITH PREMIERS go at only REMINGTONS go at only L, C. SMITHS go al only.. UNDERWOODS go at onl 848 In addition to these, we offer equally good bargains*in 50 other typewriters all in fine condition and only slightly used. Two National Cash Registers Cheap Two “National” Cash Registers, which we have taken in on trade deals, for our famed merican” Registers, are here and in the way, and must have on hand 3 very fine automatic nianos that have been used a little, be sold. They are in good condition and if we $ ] O They cost twice what we ask for them, and if you $15 O dispose of them quick we will take HALF the would till your house nightly, buy one of them, Cor, 15th and Harney Sts,, GEO. E. MICKEL, 334 Broadway, Omaha, Nebraska Council Bluffs, lowa 2 AW SN L Wi Wi L ™ UVER,, Vst of are Selling Agents for the National y Known “THOR” MOTORCYCLES Don't always le forget been: for and now headquarters Three Automatic Pianos Go Cheap Moving picture theater managers should open their ears wide to this. We @ moment this hag is—Nebraska's Rubbers Shipped in Thirty Minutes Don't let your stock run down when you need rubbers most. Look over your steck and telegraph, telephone or mail us your order for LYCOMING, KEYSTONE and EMPIRE RUBBERS Special merchandise package cars leave St. Louis every night and reach Omaha second morning. We ship orders before the sun goes down. HAMILTON-BROWN SHOE CO, St. Louis, U. S. A.