Show SHOOTING STARS tho good fortune which thoy el ought to a girl it was christmas eve the stars t very brightly for the hc avcin teeing u many lights on earth in cottage and hovel did bol wish to be and lighted twice as many stirs as u ual A poor liello girl of cloven winters wm trudging homeward through alie streets of hamburg her frock was thin and ahn wind was icy but the cb WM cheerful for daiil Sc natoria hod given her a bright eight shilling piece for sweeping paths and performing various other little services in preparation fur the feidt at the rich mana mangion man xion and as the leluc diio was returning home thinking of her poor and 0 alio cold and cheerless room which her eha nid denly noticed a star and then another and hu remembered hat elio had that it ono makes a wish at such a moment it Is corvaia to corno rue and when another slnar fell lic cried 11 ai eliu could luck and bacs ang luck and blowing for my poor just at thi moment lic was looking at alm bitar she ran against and rho for ard sliu baw her a big fat man who held hia handi bai and cried on nc what be cavior for alo public street tho conic out from a liuo dinner at the hotel ho was a bachelor and always a liver but today to day lie bad given himself liberty than inukai for it was lime why dont you look out you dumb girl alliy did you run my tomacher toma chr ri uly mul lightly that it pained her tho poor child wept with fright and in broken sentence tried to explain how ho had been watching tho shooting stare and wishing blessings for glicr and bad alius neglected to notice her way nonsense said all superstition and shooting atam tacy give nothing jut then ft great liot tho sky with a loud report and K light which was with brilliancy from alio aco river near which the child and alio man were cried tho frightened gentleman alio had traveled and understood many ono would that that fort bodes some he looked curiously into tho pale sweet face 0 tho girl and tho moon wai jual peeping over he lop of the neighboring balaco helped bilm in teo more clearly his dicarl bo cancu moveta for alie features of tho child jf his own af merry christma Ch ritma and A lung forgotten pam d krin overy human heart there i a hope levu lovu and pity thrive in muia hearts the it large in nu aller mul in many it ha become unfruitful ground lulu wa tho caw with he respectable gentleman of our little tory hal ho looked into ahr cyca of bu child liu began to fed ooma return lug touches of emotion and after a little tho pot in his heart bicanic more arcin than it bad bran for many can it waa po peculiar that it stirred him but not what i your name one be with mild voice and where do jou livo obrn the child kulil him that ohe wa called nal aliat her mother ai annl lived a neighboring alley where the sun never thuna even in bouic Cou ic said the 1 I will tako you homo ciul i all that yuu hivo toll mu I 1 thiv then hall ho byc ahn ann iw true alo coipel ahn they went iho gloo markart and butil they the narrow luct where the our hoila live on until they rawln 1 l on allty full of acro L ho mid iho liello one and apron forward and lw dlo a low bloor opened into a pj siR which tho gentleman roubil not without tooting too tInK win which ho icv rr lid is in there mid tw a tiro in the locc continued the child 1 I cn w the creel and M itam the pour woman who ird nihed and for the rich to inako the bouw bright and clean tor w now th holy krc she ml upon alow awl the little stove wu lh ahre which frac binl the lof was too or w tho fint fire which it hul felt for a 1 tam tho rickely bablo lay a tiny pis a few and lautt and a billow wax capr for a ur to thal woman looked tn alonlo alon lh U the room and a he rwei to KWH him hc put her band nd lenly to br fw and iegan to wap bitterly aud tl alo nud n dark ia hl face ills ienco wa now fully awake tho liello tender pol in hia 1 heart bann to bear blossoms and alo tenn of the poor woman acted upon their growth like a shower they had recognized each other n and sister meeting now tor alic amt time after a of ninny yeara lie and ix conio rich mau but alic and lost first glicr inheritance alio fall of her husband and then lott the alic proud brother lind all bid why did she marry the thought he and forgot her entirely susan mid he haa it como to this but now we fiill forget what has happened th n is the holy chrict nm evv anil you must 0 o with mo and jivu with roe henceforth and ho hii little civco leave cares and poverty behind yon wo go now into the old bouso in groninger we played let nil unhappy ahinga bo I 1 hey went away with him the sitter on hi ann and thu holmlin hol ilin hi liand and to alio latler it ie happiest bight of glicr little life 01 blessed christinat and SM tho flam continued to fall liko a silver ram alio llio little pill whimpered cacci time many banks many for olio was indeed indebted to them fur her good fortune and it biad become a glorious clirel kioa eve translated brwn the german for the detroit post |