The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 19, 1918, Page 3, Image 3
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11 Christmas Eve I
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j i j By OTILLIA F. PFEIFFER j
I (Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.)
fLDEN REVERE loved
everybody, all the
world over, and all ol
the time. It was natural,
therefore, that he
should expand beyond
all limit when Yuletide
came abound.
There was a hidden
sorrow in his life, but
he had not allowed it
to shadow the sunshine
of his nature. He had
caved up a tidy sum to marry winxSome
Viola Deane. Without warning
she and her father had vanished, and
?a week later it was learned by the
city papers she had wedded a man
Revere had never heard of before.
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, A ICOi'iSiaUICU uuic liuu vvuiv ?V
(him in the handwriting of the being
r ,he had loved and lost. It bore only
five words: "It had to be?forgive."
Revere had kissed Viola as his
chosen bride under the. mistletoe on
dust such a snowy ^moonlit
oc'casion (ft jj I 1
as this Christmas ? ? I ,. I [
jeve, and in the nW [
loneliness of his T /f 11
room he now sat, ?jf iMjjk
wistfully, longingHy,
one by one ' _ _
looking over the
mementoes of his ?
iold love experience.
Finally he ^?
=;\ ' * jput them away I jfpvff ft"
and went down iW jfl *
"Get your y
skates, sister," he J
W hailed briskly. * )
ft; "We mustn't miss
a glorious night like this. The ice is
|ft smooth and hard as glass. They're going
to have the. town band and we'll
fcoin the rrowd keeD happy. There
I.- -go the crimes. Muffle up good and
: warm, for it's, snappy outsidej'
i "Poor soul!" murmured Ruthi "think,<
v ing only of others, when his heart may
* be Breaking.
Tljey returned home two hours later,
flushed and enthusiastic over the rare
Alport.
"Why, brother!"
At the doorstep Ruth paused, astaref
Her brother's eyes followed her own.
v< Upon the doorstep lay a basket. From
>-Jjfc, swaddling mass of pillow and counterpane
a tiny cry issued.
"Alden, it's a baby! Oh, the cherub!
... Quick ! Get it into the house. You
1 * angel! you treasure!" and under "the
. hanging lamp Rtith went into ecstasies
while Alden whispered .awesomely:
"What are we going to do with it?"
Keep it, cherish it love it of
fv? - course!" cried Ruth. "Heaven has
sent it to bless our lonely lives. See,
there is a scrap of paper," and Ruth
snatched it up and read: "Because
Alden Revere is a zpan with a heart
<rf gild, a poor mother leaves to him
I1 the care of her child."
ut suppose Td better hustle down
town and get a couple of gallons of
~1 milk," suggested Alden.
"Oh, you men!" mildly scolded Ruth.
p|- "There's plenty of milk In the house,
Aldfen!" she abruptly cried. "My fur
collar! It's gone! I lost It'on the
1 *. v river. - Your present last Christmas,
Itoo. Oh, I remember now?I loosened
: x ft in the old boat house and it must
:fhave slipped off.. Hurry and see."
Alden fairly skimmed the ground.
As he entered the shadowy boat house
his foot touched the missing collar.
S A siiarht mcun echoed out. He J
strained his sight to make out a femg
inlne form
crouched upon a
bench.
"Who is it/' he
questioned'
quickly.
**l? am just
BHHM resting," pulsated
BHBI a feeble
"In this cold
bSHSI^^H damp place?
Why, you will
freeze! Who are
->!?' Sg' ^ you? Come with
? me, if you need
_^Jp|T shelter and help.
Why?Viola!"
' */ He ?atIiered
*r her up in his
strong arms.
- .
Breathless, reeling, exhausted, he
?. reached home to stagger into the room
where Ruth was cooing to the little
One, entranced with the rare bright5
nesa and comfort of the place.
"Poor soul!" was all that Ruth laid.
"I?I must go," faltered their latest
guest arousing, but Ruth's arms were
around her neck.
"Tell me all, dear," she said tenderly,
and amid tears and sobs Viola recited
the tragic story of her life;
forced to wed a man who held a
secret over her weak and vacillating
father, a man who squandered her
fortune, deserted her and was killed
in a drunken brawl. Meantime her
father had died, she was left alone
in the world, all alone!
"Not while two loyal hearts that
love you are here!" cried Alden
Revere, roused out of himself. "Oh
Viola, if all those weary years the old
love was in your soul as in mine?go
no further. For you and this dear little
one let this be?home!"
And the holy stars of Christmastide
shone softly down upon the humble
< home, destined to be the abiding place
of perfect love and peace.
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i cmsiis DAYS
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Island of Madagascar the Only
Country Thus Favored.
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Queen Ranavalona II on Ascending
Throne/ Became First Christian
Ruler and Adopted "Glory to
God in Highest" Motto.
There is only one spot in the whole j
world #where Christmas is celebrated j
twice each year and that is the Island
of Madagascar, off the eastern coast
of the southern end of Africa, and
which dominates that part of the Indian
ocean.
Marco Polo, the great traveler, first
made this island known to medieval
Europe in 1298. It was nearly two
j hundred years later when a Portuguese
traveler obtained the first authentic
information about the island,
in 1497. From that time on there were
attempts by the Portuguese, French and
English to settle the island, and they
met with defeat at the hands of the |
wild and Savage Hovas, who controlled
the island, and many died from Mala-i
gasy fever in the lowlands of the coasti
On Christmas eve in 1672 all the
f Frenchmen at Fort Dauphin #ere murdered
by the natives. In 1810 a Hova
chief, Radama I, a young man, allowed
the Christian missionaries to teach
their Bible doctrines in the island, and
by 1820 Protestant Christianity was
effectively introduced among the
Hovas.
First Christian Ruler.
Radama died in 1828, and one of his
wives became Queen Ranavalona L
She was bitter against the Christians
and persecuted them in many cruel
ways, and she had her warriors from |
the interior mountains of the island
massacre the native Christians, who
would not renounce the Christian God
onH or* hnpk to the WOrshiD Of idols.
The cruel queen reigned until her
death in 1861?a wicked record of 83
years. Then her son, Radama n, became
king, and although he was a
great drunkard and led a wild life
himself, he allowed the Christian missionaries
to come into the island again.
He was assassinated in the palace in
1863, and his widow, Rasoherina, was
proclaimed queen. Upon her death in
1868, a niece of Ranavalona^ ascended
the throne as Ranavalona IL When a
^irl, her gentle charities and sympa-.
thies with the Christians during their
persecutions had won respect and love,
and when she became queen it was understood
that Madagascar had the first
really Christian ruler on its throne.
Between 1830 and 1835 the entire Bible
had been printed in the Malagasy
language, also an English-Malagasy
I dictionary. So, on the day of her coronation
the idol which had been prominent
on similar occasions was banished
by Ranavalona n, and a copy of the
Malagasy Bible placed near the throne;
while on the canopy above, in golden
letters, were the words: "Glory to God
in the Highest, Peace on Earth, Good
Will to Men." With one hand on the
Bible, the queen addressed the people,
expressing the hope that they would
adopt the Christian faith, but added:
"In this matter you shall not be compelled."
Ordered Idols Destroyed.
She ordered her own household idols
[ and the chief national idol to be burn
ed and gradually her example was followed
by the general destruction of
household idols among the Hovas. She
j married the prime minister the following
year and made a public profesj
8lon of her faith, and from that time
I on the Christian religion has been
growing fast in the island.
|. The words over the canopy at her
coronation the queen knew to be spoken
by the angels in the sky when the
shepherds heard the noise of wings
at the time the Christ was born in
Bethlehem. Christmas is celebrated
all over the island now. But the Hovas
have a different way of computing time
and by their system Christmas falls
some time in November, and they celebrate
it then. The Christian date of
December 25 is also celebrated by the
natives along with the missionaries.
But it is not a Christmas of snow
and sleighbells. It is a tropical country
and Christmas day is under a torrid
sun, but the sky is brilliant* and the
magnificent flowering trees of many
,vivid colors are filled with many peculiar
birds of brilliant plumage, while
the ground beneath is bespangled with
'wild blossoms of varied hues.
Too Late.
It was Christmas eve. Staring at
| the dying embers of the fire was a
j beautiful woman. Her face was worried,
and she clasped and unclasped
her hands in nervous excitement.
"Christmas eve," she murmured,
"and no money to buy baby a Christmas
gift!"
Mechanically her eyes wandered
around the room until, with a guilty
start, they rested on something standing
on the mantelpiece. It was baby's
money-box. "If I only dared!" she
thought; "but what would John say?"
For a few moments she stood debat*
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and then reached for the box. "John
need never know," she said. With
trembling hands she broke open the
box and emptied on the table a collection
of buttons, nails, and so on,
John had been there first!
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Yes, cne wreath more,
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That all who pass this way may set
j The Christ-tide spirit is with thee,
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