Show r I I I I A I 1 I I I I I 4 A he T AR IN T 1 4 I I r j 1 A Dr R Reading NN it f I FOR CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS 47 I I i By HEZEKIAH EZEKIAH rc I 1 it DY I P e ei i II i 0 1 me e 1 tilt tb nr I fil filI rte I Ii I LEst Of md Dd ot 01 tIM Iii 10 d 1 it Ua be b cured In I tA ll cp of be On thu thuI I t gould tie cl in uti t l mien s Is II to be turn JuRI up I the Idi of tb curtain may tt I this lie hi MIl n Atad M and ol 01 ta al W m ul DI ww be ut Df J J I 1 I Tio fhe ship at t ICey Welt to coal The Th 1111 II 1 II I 1 ot oC the isa HII and olti ohl Port ort Taylor Talor the emerald fringe e of at U AI Uthe the shIp In over oer waters wAte u clear as AI I the sky We had some to walt wait I lilted I the date palm tress tm the great CreAt f tret trel ate lite anti and then Iud cud mailed that It would lie be mas when I reached New ew York In n my rIde 1 had come decd h tec black with bunard on onI I tire Florida great heaps heal ot of Hn with waxy berries on which scarlet carlet birds ted fed I Inked asked the negro driver to and j gather for tor me inc come o of th these ot of zIgzag I would ulle tic them at t 1 a J j j party part cr festival In New NewYork ew York YorkI 4 I I We solIe away nt last Jut over the opal I j ot of the garden of 01 th the cea The J I I groat ocean and cooled And Mu I m my with my beautiful I till ful ot of I A woman was U lick akk In the steerage I I I went sint to Me cee her one dl She was wa try Ing to 10 nUrN nue a baby A tiny lilt bit ot of lite ill f too poor and thIn to cr cry aloud It made f m Hi heart hoart ache to look at It The worn nna eyes H hail had been turned toward the all as I had toyed with It on I dICk deck am antI I har it sprig ot of the green greeni i Who are you said eald Ito I to the wate I mother i wife she In a Iron atron I tone ton Oh It I Ic good that h hi I to me Ine but I 1 am so 80 helpless And who Is II m my frIend 1 I And AmI stir lure he runs tIme the f dont ye t know wow What lie he do good woman 7 anti sure lie he Is III the stoker I I rn the ship much nil us the old alii tinie lIlIIe bellows boy used to play playtime time tho organ Dut Hargan was u n useful member ot of the ships crew und I J the woman for tor her bit or of pride In hs hIli huts has a 0 good heart Ito ht has hast t I now and he comes comel to see me ail us often oltEn as S he ecu can Ills heart Is II set on the i 1 Its good been to mf me a poor Hick woman lie Hu never lave me meone meone one hard word Oh lady lacy lady she Ahe continued It IL Is i gooi of oC ye 0 to rome come down here to ce t I rM me It Is n a favor tavor I would uk oak of oC yv I sure lIure It If I should die have an eye et to my I baby for tor sake name Mme Is All AlIce eli I WAil vas brought up a 8 Three days one Ofle night at 1 midnIght the bell ranK rang and the ship hip slowed UI and lit still It t an h I hour ot of a low moon And tropic trolle stars ItAr FLights up back baek of oC serum drop lab fab f leau A few stood b by the side ot of the chip something white vent over oer the tho rail the there wag wa a plath and a tall tail man sent up R a U as out of unknown I ot of this the heart lie wu was naran t th th stoker er It was AI his hIli Poor wIfe who lIal found II a grave In the sea ea lau I tableau I I watched the scene cene from my room wIndow and an lon came eane cameI to me u as though It were waited inc lIle I tram from the spirit of the sea a graved rnell wont an who had I been up a lena 0 that I must InuIt have haVi an eye tot tor time lobe I I tiny ball Alice Alloe In Im the morning I found a nu for fOl J I littlE hIttl All Alice who ho wu was still almost too I to or cry I hUt some ot of my I on her crib and there th I first met I I I I Hargan ii H wu was black with soot loot for tor attai the theila sea ila burin burial I lie he had 1 lone gone luuk bak to life hili post i ot of Iron And flame to shovel coal ml Ills j l forehead was as there wa all a t warm light In his 0 eye lie He had i Into his I lou a sPrig ot of the that t I had given th the poor Woman I I 4 Oh lad lady said lie he the world Is II all i dead to mt me no now and I 1 ere for tor I I unless the wee ee one could II IPe But Dut that cannot be Jo ions 11 Ily heart will be with the as AI long U as Ih nod then the light of at It will ro go out to forever rIver That mistletoe carries with It a ay aray ray y of at hope Jt It you could cave Ave the be ba I 11 by it would cave me It Would now Lady Lally I am a t criminal that wu wag before Alice wu was born bornI I The Tb baby haby lIved JIved I Harran stoked 0 oi In hule hie lOot sooty f i time coal ooL The chip reached quarantIne t came eam on board oord and wu H lIe back one wont to me as h he wu was away like a beast 2 I For sake lake ra care for tor the baby t ner mother was WAi a 8 etho 1 I ne lie still lUll wore ore In Ida blouse tile the sprig I I Dt at I t I 1 saw that time tIle bab w wu taken la laI I I 1 bY a society wh whose wy wU to eare for wall waif and anel I uk 11 td ed Oft one of oC the women ot of the society to 1 j tile tb father simply saying I t H was u good 1 to his hll wife and nd there r Is still lUll 10 love In his hll heart hearL Love Iove IU saves I t It may save 1 him We W cannot tell f r t j II Pau Pause Back lights up Tableau llama time tile tall Iron II wo wore the stripes U short hair and h he tw Iron liars bin with hl ilir lal mans alk U In Iii the It book lItia tableau A light step t jell II u upon On the floor door I DC cc tb the COrridor ot of the reformatory It II III i was that ot of a woman put past 0 a volun tary assistant In the work ot of th tb Also Alsot I Chari Uti I I It t Tb woma wOmans name wu was I I oj 3 A billet Abide j I Ii II IH thu tho framed In Ih Kr Mr tr I Nay May I have a word with you sir Hure It I Ii 1 a right tender heart you must have to be willing to talk with me here I am put outside of I Ithe the R a caged animal Look at these stripes It wu was m my IrIt olle and It wu wa born In me and I wits Ita not Jot educated out of oC my tg ii norance Sin and Ignorance was u m my mylot lot But herthe baby thought of oC her brings the tear teara So YOU see Je I ama am not t lost 1081 the babI came here to talk with you about her That Is II rood good In you I can bear that I these lIa bars should hould shut hut mt me out from the world but not from her ber little UWe heart hart I I love her I can love Whit II to be become come com ot of baby Alice t The committee on children n have given Iten her to me They advised me not to communIcate with you about It hilt mit I wished to be conscience free It I Is In my to conceal nothing from Cram an any one oneA oneA A man behInd l the bars hiM has heart rl rights ht lady ladr just the seine uno You cn can cannot not Imprison A mothers love for tor her herIOn herIon IOn nor A i fathers for tor a wee ee girl baby Jaby I am glad that you rOil are to have hare her maAm What will you ou do with b bb ha haby b by Alice AliceI r I will care for tor her anti and cherish tier her RS ns tn my I stood h by lieu hea mother when hen she he was dying saul he wrinkling hIs hll face all 1 mb 10 b hu the wild vine a Ut sour IOU r but gripes may mar be ted upon It I 1 will ask Alk the chaplain to talk tak wIth you about U the neW nature anti nd the word I pIty you I see you Ou ItO do Why Your Tour ute life wu was turned away from the sun lun Christmas afternoon you will bring brine the baby Christmas afternoon 11 n Good Goodby by Pause In reading w III It was wal Christmas afternoon Jar nn stood I listening at the lie lie He wore Vore the withered mistletoe It was green In memory still There was Wal 1 a tin tiny wall wail The lame sante woman womans step were on tIme the I I will fill It 1st you JOu put your lips hall baby All cheek am and kiss kiR It All e I promised but you ou mutt must put back your our hands hand Such thin thIngs are the bars ball of hell lie he cried Let me inc goback Into Inlo time the dark darkness n ness Then I will come bACk smIling antI she shall see lee me Silence lie hall had moved back out or of sight lie Ite came again his hll hands handl hIm him end Nurse Ainslee held hehl U up I baby haby Alice close 1018 against the bars bar tOl ci hIm to 1 1 Back Imek lights up Tableau lie He kissed klINd her again and again nab Alice lIce and looked up to Nu Nurse In won wonder er She saw JaW tears In her foster mothers yea eyes Then chic looked back to the man who had kissed l lher her In a frIghtened WAY and saw the eo 1111 Once more Tile morn I On wh ch Ii Was born W r Tile The Pr Prince nce of Peace the earth Although no rhythmic chants of mirth Descend from seraphim on high Whose glories fill the eastern skye Below well It hurls to It but some black from rom the coals coall and sIte she tried to that lo lose her times time I t fear ar we mA may lift IUt til baby Alice to me It went to my Slight In reading heart but a sprig ot of mistletoe Is II Mil ill Christmas came cam and sun un I that I Is left of oC the mother now AbOVe light rifted rifled snow Inow bells brIght sunny have I to 10 ears lare for the hap faces passing and hurryIng feet souls I less on one saul Mid the lad lady Th The commit with somethIng to some one tee liars given her to roe me tor or the pres prel shIning faces as 18 though tIme the world hind har haren en cut She shall have love Ion u AI well as AI ascare b been n transformed tare care went to the house houle with a one hapless onet one Those U heating beating heart There was WAil a bit of at white arc rt feeling words anti and you 01 may well ribbon on the door Was that n a Christ say laY that thaI lall lady be Some had mae mas might snow ne lie clutched the bars barl Jo fallen tallen upon UllOn It In tIme the changing weather Will you OU let me see III Imet hel when I ye It fluttered turned am and ho he read readout out omit Yes 7 ss I must do tb that I must not do The door opened nI as he went up the anything that would hI give me pain were steps Mrs Maclee stood behind it I In your our cue case Oh Mr When hn will you ou let It me I see bab baby Al 1 r hat Is It lady let Ice flow shah I tell it Yesterday Mr s J D I of Joy I I I From man manIn manboy boy p S I dP the Lord n W i 4 In Iii all who upright are 1900 fJ Y MARGHERITA ARLINA r HAMM stories tone again a little slower II a little heavier heuler thought had bad center centered ed on thle hour tar for nearly a year ear lie to think or of It by day only to of oC It At t night I rime fhe step quickened A child cried faintly Irs Abuse med to thrift before the Iron lla bars lU as with somethIng whit brought down from heaven Sh She stop step stepped ped 1 Let me inc have It rose rOM a 0 voIce In the shadow Let It me inc Cr cry with It You pre clo cloua Precious bit of my own life my myown myown own heart lIt let m Inc teal your our pulse beat against mine lie It stretched retched out hl his hand through I the Ita bars It had grown white I cant let It you ou take lake Iter hr said Id the woman Not ot let it me tate take hr her Oh Go God ll lie ran hi his hand through his 1118 hair cold black bars Her pure clear cionI Pink face tace wrinkled anti and she began to cry There was wal a ring of oC a bell In some HOme signal I ot of this thia Ine world LUell sounds Hack lI lights hta down downEnd End It was WAi all over now for lor tIme the n t faded and Christmas PaUle In reading 1 Iv was waa out ot of Jail AliCE was al aI molt a 2 ears eara old Haran went out to see tier her In Mrs IMI lovely horns lie He met her In It a solitary room to which the kindergarten school of children mid sent toyS and flowers I have brought a man to see e you AlI ne who 10 loves children lay I kiss him himYN him YN Yea and next year Mr you OU may make him 1 a The hips ot of tIle lii two met TIme little mUe lips lip had soul lie He suddenly felt Ii a quickening power and relied h er eyes Cod In heaven help me much I I will I be a man went out Into the lie snow Inow under I Ithe the stars The power I ot of growing wan making a new soul lOul for lor him himlie I lie went Into a church down downIn In the back ack pew the lie I n as with light I Time The Pastoral Symphony may here her herbe be and pianissimo on piano or reed or pipe organ argall with vIolin practicable lie listens It WAS Handels Pastoral ny fly from Time The Ilah amm On 01 each Christmas lCt l she Ibe I Is a lit little tJ child But I will be here on the first Christ mb mac afternoon I will bring her here Oh lad lady my may hurt heart is 18 light lIht again My ly head cools I tell feel am It If 11 the Iron bars were moving up And It Is tic I j will have to 10 make anake baby Mice Ance like other uther I Imen men But Ih she shall make OU one and I when lb abs fO goes to the kindergarten Ih Rime will send you a present every U year I Children make meke theIr Presents fled arat in III the anti cite shah hall hallbe be told that there I is one whom slim I should remember PUt nut she Is II not to know who I am f She may alter after a tim Ume It If you ou should I ha have a new nature Be 1 a II man Hargan be a man for the sake lake ot of little Alice II She I has my blood lady rise In III hIs aol such as lie he never knew knes before belore It If such thoughts And emotions sere po possible l le to lila Ills soul what there not be for tor him In the far light It ahead h lie He listens and Ito ho SOS sees life lite Time The mu music sic died He rose rOle anI anti turned to the thi cold air I will be a mon man Clod help Iliad End music Pause In tending leading y V Another year ear Alice Is now 11 al almost mot most 4 had lived a right life lICe rhe better angel in hIs hili soul had grown One tiny he a note front Mrs I It read Alice is III now on engaged In cutting out and making n a star stor for tor you ou Alice lIce Is not I Hargan the angels came to see Me one ot of I our little on ones and when the they went away she tolled followed them and Alice her herU herself self U lies 1 ver 1 low of the same lame dl disease and tIme the doctor url says she Ibe may go 10 soon lOOn SIte She passed Into the great double ward vard she called It lie He followed her lighta up Tableau On l a little white cot partly covered with roses lay baby by Alice anti and In her lIand Imand It a paper star II lie stood there lie never neer knew kiln lila whole self NIC till never Si IV W 0 hi his SOUl ti then She lay Illy there white and unconscious The star that she holds In her lir hand saId the lady lally w was cut out as II a present for tor you She would woul not let me I take It way away Ills his eyes Back lights down tableau Fore God an any man can reform It If V 11 lie hu IU reeson Clod 81 In a I will live lIe true tu to the even thought I should nver see lee hr bier again n l braIn burim Is II there II there thore not lii n a new life lite Ailed Alice TIme childs eyes fea opened Alice you shall live I have grasped t I the power You Yuu shall live lie He sat t down IJ by her taking her tin tiny hand There seemed to flow out of oC him himme I Isome some me Influence 11 lIe sat there In silence pouring out ns as It I wore a 0 life lite I stream Into the chIld I Irhe Time rhe doctor caine late In the antI said I I Something has haa The crisis I Is past Hargan kIssed the chIld chilli and said lifting hI lila face I am am a Considerable pause paUN In reading VT 1 Some seven In or more years passed palled when I was asked to make toward time education ot of Alice liar gail which I cheerfully lIlli I soon dt aft after er went to New ew Orleans I was readIng one day when a rhythm rule clutter arose In the cymbals and fiddles The Tue noise CAllie banging on onI I leaned over the balcon balcony to listen as there over ever such n a woo wo mell boys bos negroes and ami cripples Chinese and evIdent tu fugitives 11 It Ie nil all singing the favorite Sal lIon inched The cheap the I words were evident rhapsody but there I wu was a spirit In It nil n a divine wIng something not cheap but of 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