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-v- v. - . ? Il BetWehemr'a^Iurriber amidst^ fThose fair Judaean pastures, wi The prayer erf Priest and Prophi post hear, in dreams ecstatic tn . -Dost see in wondrous vision, th j The star-led Magi, speeding, thei Joost see the Mother bending \* IP'er^that incarnate Saviour- th "* .:' ? JcTheartrdost' hear the " story f |So weary with the vigil that hu ?Dost know that thou dost she Th? Son of God incarnate, artd And as the star illumined Trie ' Thy life may guide all wandere p Bethlehem, awaken i. o Keai ! T>us_is_the^Advent Glorious. th jf B00K?5 CKRI? ADED was the book keeper, for it had been a wearisome day in the office. An almost constant hum, hum of voices, and footsteps going In and out, and accustomed as he was to it, noise grated on the bookkeeper's nerves, tor it was near the close of the month's business, when the trial balance would be on, and the balance of the year expected. He was tired, brain tired, nerve tired and soul tired, and the long rows of .figures seemed instinct with life, littie dancing imps trying to dodge and hide from his memory, lur ing him on to errors which would afterwards cause endless search and trouble to discover. The manager had gone home, and the other employes, having finished their work, were at liberty to go also. "Going home, Mr. Smith?" asked .the clerk, a fresh cheeked young" man, whose voice fell pleasantly on the 1 bookkeeper's ear. He had been r young, care free and sanguine him self once, and he had a tender feeling for young men. "Not just now, Charlie. About an tour's work here yet" He looked after the jaunty, elastic figure, with a slight sigh for his own lost youth. Ke was old; he felt it in every nerve. Joint and brain cell, and he wondered how many years of rest lt would take to obliterate the Impress of life's toil. There must be figures imprinted on his brain, he thought, and figures danced before his eyes at night when he would sleep, in never epding pro cession. "lt's going to be cold to-night. Mr. Smith," said the janitor, when at last the safe was locked and the book keeper struggled into his overcoat far too thin for the weather, old a d worn in the battle of life, like him self. "Yes. Light the fires a little early. Johnson, please, for I shall be on hand before the others." "All right, sir." The janitor looked after him with a pitying smile. "Poor old duffer. I expect he knows he's got to put in his best licks if he holds his job. It's a hard world,' that's what It is." It was a small cottage home where the weary footsteps at last halted, ?nd there was a female figure on the .little porch In front. "Is that you, papa?" "Yes, Mattie. How is my dear to night?" "How is my dear? Your dear is -all right," she answered, with brisk pleasantry, as she locked her arm in his, and swung the door wide open. *I know you are tired. I can feel your muscles quiver." "Yes, Mattie. How warm and sav ory you smell in here," he said. Inhal ing the pleasant odor and warmth gratefully. It was such a cheerful little sitting room, with pictures tastefully hung, .?raped windows, and restful easy chairs invitingly placed. Just beyond, the little tea table with its snowy cloth and glimmer of modest silver and glassware, beck oned temptingly, but Mattie shook ber finger in warning. "You are not oven to look toward the dining room until I call you, papa," she said, laughingly. "I should have had sup per all on If you were not such an unpunctual party. Sit down now and get warm while I am gone." . He sank into the red covered rocker with the.slippers standing suggestive ly before' i:, with a smile. It is so good to be at home, and Mattie was such a cheery little homekeeper that bis mantle of care slipped off for the .moment, and his weary ,eyes droned dreamily in the warm firelight. "I do believe you have been nap ping, papa, " Mattie said, as she came In ten minutes later. She did not tel! bim that she had dropped a tear, and a kiss as light and soft as a downy snowflake 01 his tired eyes to awaken him. as she stood beside him, her heart swelling with a great pity and love. "Come, dear, waffles and tea will rest you, 1 know, and Aunt Dean has sent in a platter of fried chicken and some of her fine, white clover honey." "Quite a feast, my child," said the father, smilingly, as he took his seat before the plate of steaming waffles. "Aren't you afraid 1 shall develop gout If we live so high?" lt waa their little joke, and each laughed merrily as Mattie poured the tea. ; "HQW is it to-day, papa?" she asked, wistfully, aa the meal pro triyT^tarlit" hills; - hose ancient lore^fulfils"; st, the hope of Heavenand'Earthy :e anthem of Love's birth ? e aureole-crowned King. r precious gifts to bring? ith yearning heart and eyes e,.Lord of earth^and stoiesjj a 9 9 ^orart thou' too.^asre?p^ man hearts must Keep?] iter. like Bethlehem of old. gifts of grace untold ?. way, that holy nighty_^ TS, ,with Love's eternal flight rt, ?trise and sing! e,B?rthday^of thy^King { Elizabeth juggles} ?OLD )TAA5 greseed. She dreaded, too, to bring in any of the day's worry or griev ance, but she had been so anxious. "Not much better, daughter. Mr. Rollins was coolly civil, that was all, and the manager fretted over a mis take which was more bis fault than mine. It is of no use to disguise the truth, dear. I can feel lt in the air that there will soon be a younger bookkeeper at the desk, and the old man will have to take what he can get. I can see they put their heads together and speak low, ard are careful to close doors when I am about They mean to let me down easy, I suppose, and not hurt my feel ings; as if anything would hurt worse than to know one has outlived his usefulness." And all the pain and trouble of the weeks past seemed con centrated in the trembling bitterness of his tone. "There, love, 1 have1 made you cry-forgive me, dear. It ! will *be all right. Mattie. The Lord 1 CHRIST AND 1 BY OTTJLLIE will never leave nor forsake me-we have His promise," .and bis fingers threaded her brown hair gently, and with a smile of trust, though the tears were starting, as she clung around his neck, patting his withered cheek and telling him how she loved him, and how too dear and good he was to be the slave of heartless men who only cared for business and money, and could not appreciate the honest, conscientious service he had given them. It was her foolish, woman's way of looking on the one side when her i love throbbed so firecely that her heart seemed bursting and breaking with its weight. The tears seemed to clarity the mental air, as au electric storm takes out the malaria of the material atmosphere, and both could smile again as they went bael: ?.0 the sitting room. After all, what did it matter? Only a few short years, and then rest-the rest which remains, and whose deep mysteries none come back to tell. What would it matter there whether lu finished his life work with one or the other, so that lt was finished honestly and faithfully. He went to bed early and stretched his tired limbs with deep thankful ness for home and the homo love which so took the sting out of life's contest. Mattie was so like her moth er, dear girl. God had been very good to give him the devotion of two such loving, faithful souls-and thinking so of ber, he fell asleep. It was the day before Christmas, and struggle against lt as he would, the bookkeeper's heart was still heavy. The first of the year would doubtless see the new incumbent, whoever it might be, Installed in his place, and ho watched every sus picious arrival with a feverish anx iety. ? There was more than, ever the air of mystery In the office to-day, and the manager whispered to the clerk, and the clerk directed off-hand in quiry, which might mean everything or nothing to the cashier, and so it went until his heart was like lead, and his hands trembled so with ner vous chill that he could scarcely make his.figures. "The manager would like to see you, slr, in his private office," said Tom, the office boy, In his ear, and he arose, trembling. "Well. Mr. Smith." said the man ager, in ?ls easy, prosperous tones; he had bis thousands invested, be sides his position, and had no need to worry over the price of coal or breadstuffs. "You have worked for us about ten years now, I believe." The bookkeeper lifted up a haggard face, in which there was not a trace of color. It nad come, then, and he must carry the news to Mattie on Christmas Eve. "Yes, sir, ten years come January,"' he managed to stam mer out. If he had looked behind him he would have seen the door filled with smiling faces, but he was too miserable to care who saw his misery. "And all these years you have served us faithfully." "I have tried to, sir." .We are not much given to senti ment, Mr. Smith, but it occurs to us that it Is-only just, sir, that we cele brate this holiday occasion with a little token of our appreciation. Tom, you beggar, come along here with that package." The office boy came grinning, with a great bundle which he laid in the manager's arms. "We have noticed, sir, that you are growing old, as well as the rest of us, and that your step ls not as elastic as when you first entered our employ," pursued the manager as he cut the string and un rolled a handsome fur lined coat, the very odor of which suggested lux urious warmth, "and that you hover over the fire a little more, conse quently, than when your young blood kept you warm, and as we wish to keep you with us for another ten years, if you desire it, we thought our most appropriate gift would be some thing like our regard and esteem for you, something warm and lasting hang It, Smith, I cold the boys I couldn't make a speech-stand up here and try on this coat, for the tailor is waiting to exchange it If lt doesn't fit" The dazed bookkeeper stepped for ward like one in a dream, and held out his arms mechanically, and the manager patted and smoothed the luxurious garment across the thin shoulders, which had lost their up right, sturdy carriage by long stoop lng over the books. "Such a time, sir, as we have had getting your measure." remarked the cashier, with a genial smile. "You were sure to look around if we had a word to say to each other." "If the rest are through with the floor, perhaps I can get in a word," M, CHILDREN. ROEDERSTE1N. From "The Christ Face in Art." added Mr. Rollins. "I am authorized, sir, to give you an assistant after January, and with that help your hours will be shorter, and the work less confining." "I don't mind the work, Indeed I don't," cried the bookkeeper, laugh ing like a boy, though the great tears were rolling down his cheeks un heeded. "I've never been afraid of work, sir, but I have felt that I no longer gave you satisfaction. I cannot tell you all this means to me," holding out his trembling hands toMr.Rollins and the manager. "I think it is the happiest day of my life, sirs." "What we meant it should be, a merry Christmas, and may there be many happy returns of the day to you, sir," replied the manager cor dially. Mattie was listening with the anx ious heart which she always carried or late when her father stayed later than usual, for the first sound of his familiar step. The kettle was singing a merry invitation to tea in the kitchen, and a pair of fine, new slip pers stood waiting before the fire for a pair of weary feet. Mattie's Christ mas gift to her father. She threw the door open wide as he came quickly up the snowy steps, and she hardly knew him when he stepped In, so wrapped in warmth and loaded with bundles that he looked like a veritable Santa Claus, his face radiant with joy. "Is It merry Christmas, papa?" she asked, looking up in his face with surprise and hope. "A merry Christmas, dear," he answered, lifting her expectant face fer a kis3. "It was all a mistake, my darling, and I will tell you all about it as wc take tea."-Mrs. F. M. IIow ard, in The Bookkeeper. HAIL, CO -Carte Uncle San-"Why, I Thought It Was A Home and Baise i Tne Soffregisl Movement in jiiBilow a Women's fievoi the Destinies oi New York City.-In a remarkable editorial The World writes as follows about a quiet revolution that is be ing wrought by the women of the United States: A REVOLUTION. Here are these three1 matters of fact: The spread of the suffragist movement despite the laughter of a world of men: tho general invasion of industrial fields by women; wives outnumbering husbands two to one as plaintiffs in the 945,000 divorce cases of the last twenty years in the United States. It is customary to treat separately the three issues thus presented. They are all manifestations of one general movement-a Revolution of Women, due chiefly to the new industrial re gime under which a woman can do 1 WOMEN LED REVOI . New York City.-The Rev. Charles E. Jefferson', pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, recently returned from Turkey, where he was at the time the Sultan's declaration of the new con stitution was announced,, spoke, be fore the Baptist Ministers' Confer ence, in the Madison Avenue Baptist Church Hall, on the "New Regime" in Turkey. He described the Sultan going to church with his thirty wives and said the Sultan painted his cheeks and dyed his hair. No monarch In the world, he said, had such a gang of scoundrels and thieves around him as had the Sultan of Turkey before the next constitution went into effect. Since th;:t time the 25,000 spies had BISHOP DO AME ON 3 He Deprecates Prevalence of Divorc: Philadelphia.-There was read be fore the Federal Council of Churches of Christ a report on '.Family Life." prepared for a committee by the Rt. Kev. William Creswell Doane, Bishop o? the Episcopal diocese of Albany, in which were exploited the evils pre vailing against the hearthstone. "Family life," wrote the Bishop. "Is threatened, first, by the lowered sense of the sanctity of marriage; secondly, by the prevalence of di vorce; thirdly, by the alarming in crease in the restriction of the bear ing of children. In this last matter it is the duty of the Christian Church to speak out. There has been a decline in the birth rate in every Western country, most marked in the English speaking countries; greater in the United States than in any other coun try. It is largely due to the loss of the sense of responsibility to God for the fruits of marriage. It is a symp tom of the spirit which shirks re sponsibility and resents self-denial nnd which results in the weakening of NOW THE "TUBE V\ Paris. France. - Tho revolution gradually brought, about in woman's dress as a result of the Directoire craze is producing some curious con sequences. The dress designers and makers, after having gradually brought about what they describe a-s a straight line in front, have now di rected their attention to the back por tion of the fashionable attire, and the decree has .gone forth that the straight line, bo h front and back, ls to ove vail this wi ?r. The result is create an entirely Plan Uprising A; '.t British in Tndia. Vancouver, B. -The Wond says British officers \ -king among the Sikhs and* Hindis t the Pacific Coast unearthed the details of a pronosed uprising against British rule in India. The slory Is to the effect that scat tered outrages are now taking place in India for the purpose of scattaring the British troops. The main rising will take place in April nsxt at Ai" ri tear. Stocks ol arms nf modern type are hidden in various districts. Newsy Rleanlnci". Rear-Admiral Sperry's homeward bound fleet entered Malacca Strait. Swarthmore College has changed its charter so as to become non-secta rian. An association of banks guarantee ing deposits ls to be formed in Okla homa. The New York City Board of Al dermen passed the anti-ticket specu lating ordinance. The City Chamberlain's trial bal ance sheet showed $159.700.SO in un claimed salaries held by New York City. _ LU?ViBlA! nn by Triggs, in thc New York Prcs3. di Arranged That You W:rc to Stay at i Large Family !" the United States May Fore lotiOD Which Will Affect Hie Whole Race. a man's work and earn what was a man's wage hardly a generation ago. Woman is no longer afraid of free dom. She can make her own way. Spinsterhood has ceased to be Inevi tably a burden. Marriage when it becomes a disaster or a despotism need no longer be borne as the pen alty of dependency. In her new spirit of independence woman may turn naturally enough to politics, though the suffragist movement in the United States is thus far least important among feminist agitations. Other revolutions have changed maps, dynasties and governments. A Woman's Revolution may greatly affect the destinies of the whol? race. An issue is presenting itself which no prudent statesmanship can safely un overestimate or ignore. IUTION IN TURKEY. been dismiss?d, the police had been deprived of their grafting methods and -that every one.was happy under the new order, so much so, that even the cab drivers accepted a small fare without protest, but with smiles. Forty Turkish women, the preach er said, had been most instrumental in carrying om the revolution in Tur key, carrying dispatches to all points of the empire in behalf of the pa triots. These women had been joined by thousands of others since the con stitution had gone into effect, and were establishing women's clubs, and that the era of new womanhood in Turkey had apparently dawned. Women, he said, were doing away with the custom of wearing veils. FAMILY LIFE EVILS. : and the Increase or Race Suicide. character of the American people. "Concerning this evil * * * the committee desire to recommend thai wherever possible legislation should be promoted to secure the prohibition cf certain appliances and drugr. and corrupting advertisements; tho prose cution of all who publicly and profes sionally assist preventive methods, a proper and efficient standard and sta tus of those who practice midwifery and the national recognition of the dignity of motherhood and the provi sion of adequate care, protection and assisi anee for women before and af ter childbirth. "Differ as we may in the various Protestant churches upon the ground on which divorces may be allowed there is a consensus of opinion in ali the churches that divorce is a menace to society and a threatening ruin to thc home. The committee unhesita tingly declare that in their judgment there is at most but one cause for which marriage ought to be brokew by a court of law." /OMAN" IN PARIS. new-shaped human being, airead; nicknamed "Ia femme tube," or "the tube woman," because the few wom en seen about so far in the very latest style of Directoire dress resemble walking stovepipes. The new figure requires the wear ing a corset of extraordinary length, resembling certain ancient iron in struments of torture. They are made of rubber or elastic tissue and whale bone, and reach nearly to the knees. Many of those new corsets are on show at the large shops. Says Railroads Control Most Federal Judges Lawrence,Kan.-At a State confer ence here over State legislation, J. L Bristow, former Assistant Postmast er-General, who will succeed Chestei L. Long in the United States Senate, declared that the railroads control most of the Federal Judges, and thai better care should bc exercised in th? selection of Judges. 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