The Cedarville Herald, Volume 32, Numbers 27-52

I jg~ *# ..}*' \ o \ t '■ \ ' . y up. .1 - ■\ . . i a V « nm hrUfM, warn ssowbw i In «M seStOt * Ad*r. « t D m W i l t vtater, ehart- ly attsr « » « * * » to* * «* , in Judea, « u satir, t t a » trsoped free* tl»i **®*»i * crowd of merry children, laughing <***r MtytSMM. ju » tf their hearts » * » * with the seas « f dw tn g snnbeaw*. - Rousing and skipping along the road they went. blithe sad gay. un­ til they case* to s grset tree toy the roadside, where they stojppod, and clustering about a child in their raWst, proceeded to do a strange thing. They cart theif mantles and tu­ rtles from them to the ground and prostrated .themselves before the. one in their midst,* then left him, and, .running into « held, gathered flowers. H* that sat alone, a pen* sirs look upon Ms youthful face, had the appearance of an angel. , Soon the little playmates, their arms laden with blossom*, returned, and weaving a wreath, of glory flow'- era, crowned his head. into his hands they placed a seep ter of burning gladiolus. And about, him. they joyously scattered the fresh, odorous Vooms, and while be smiled upon them they pro­ claimed the little playmate, Jesus, the son of the village carpenter, their king,, ■While they delighted in their wor­ ship of their little playmate* along the: .road in the distance cotdd he seen twoinen coming, with heads sorrowfully bent, parrying between them the dead body of a boy. '•What has happened?” the chil­ dren, cried, “Albs!’’ responded oneof the men, the ch^ld was playing in the forests yonder and methinfcs, like many boy*, robbed the nest* of some little birds, • .. ' ............ , "Presently, climbing a ' tree, he did put his hand Into the nest, and Io! there was hidden a poisonous serpent, that sank its fangs Into his flesh. He suffered terrible agony and, sliding from the tree, lay until he died. There we found him.” "Come” the boys said, "and tell our king.” 1 .Before the crowned, one they paused and told the story. Rising, he said: "follow me." , Silently they wended their way back to the woods. "Lead ns to the tree,” said the child king. And there he paused. "Oh, treacherous serpent, i com­ mand thee to come down,” he called. And 16! above the nest appeared a venomous head, and soon the long, glistening body of a deadly snake name writhing down the trunk. "&«, sack from- that child’# hand, an the poison thou didst place therein from thy fangs.” To the amazement of the beholders, who sank -on theip knees, the serpent obeyed. Then, drawing away. It writhed in the agony of Its own poison and shivclefl to death. "Arise” said the child, laying his. soft hand on the face of the one who seemed dead. A moment passed. Those nearby looked on breath­ lessly, Then the- face of the dead boy broke Into a smile, as though he were having pleasant dreams, and he opened his eyes. It I* related in the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy that afterward the boy, Simon Zelotes, became one o f the disciples o f Jesus, Of the days and doings of the boy Jesus in Nazareth the four gospels tell us comparatively little. It was natural, therefore, that about this unknown.existence ' of the Adorable Child the Christians of the early church deeply pondered and that the rich imaginations of me­ dieval times should have woven a vesture of tradition­ ary lore. ■ . . The holy family returned from Egypt when Jesus was .old enough to walk. In many of the old pictures we see the Divine Child leading a mule or clinging clone to hi* mother. Of that early life in the land of the Pyr­ amids, too, early tradition has woven a pleasing fabric of legends. - , Among the oldest of these is the ancient belief that whenever the blewed Mary placed the clothing of the holy habe upoa trees to dry th* barren limb* burst into bloom. ....... Another Is that when the child wandered Into the for­ est, where lions add panther# and all manner of wild beasts lived, they came forth to do him homage. Still another, that, during the flight from Bethlehem, when Herod pursued them, mountains opened to receive Joseph and Mary and the holy habe into a secure ref­ uge; that on hot days, as they reposed under trees, the boughs bent over to shield them from the sun, and,,that as they passed along flower# sprang up la their path­ way from the arid sand, and that the barren desert bloomed .where they passed It. It is told that when they journeyed through a forest all the trees bowed low in worship of tlie Holy One that passed by, and that only one tree--the aspen -held aloof, proud and scornful. It in also related that the babe gared upon the tree and that, overcome with ter­ ror, it began to tremble; and has trembled ever tinea, riplr the aSi-f-n stand ffrtt *nfl free. S«*nrn;«* to join the. voic-tap-t woj-sh'o pure; Wot . ho oast ««,'■ tank upon 11, a tr t <\ Htruck to the heart, she trembled evermore. It Is also told that when' the holy family came in sight of th*» sphinx the great beset told the eternal «e> met, and as they passed the tempies the old gods fell from their ..thrones. 17 .Ami, f .Wirt*? nish to fh» ’ VJwr<< ,"‘f iftflv th* tlOUIO fit nSi its tniKhtv god, i * io T>b. v porphyry, praJiglfij-'.-fearrif,' t’i-ii from ins seat, • flfvio writers of old «ay. that the holy ef 'ld never went ?■( v h joh They love to write at Iris Wintering alone into *he foresta ami talking to the bites aiul in- s « t « A*td they teij how dumb boasts were endowed with speeeh when he was with them. Many oM leaenrfs concern tbs early schooling of the hoy thtist. It is related that when a child he was taken to Jfs'rheas.who began to try to teach him the alphabet. *My t« acker,"' the marvelous boy is said to have uttered 'fh-’ii would*' taarh me, bat I *he.?l tench thee.” An* th*m, while t V old man listened, thunderstruck, be tty-ratad an alphabet which the other had never ! n i / m f f M learned. He told Zaccheua he had lived from alt time and,. knew all things, Zac- cheus, amazed, declared he could teach the child nothing. Some of the legends, as unworthy ha the .minds that created them, teU that the child struck his teacher dead.. Others tell of Ms inflicting playmate# with death and blindness. In the world of legendary lore. Where one finds stories ingenuously simphs and charming, it Is to he expected,, also, that there are crude and cruel tra­ ditions, ' . According to some stories, the children of Nazareth must have found Jesvia a wonderfuT playmate. Thera Was hardly any wish of theirs which' he did not fulfill, One day, it is told, some of the little ones wished for fruit. "Oh, how I would like an apple!” said one. "And I some figs!” rejoined another, “How I would love some citron "and grapes!” quoth a third- - Jesus looked upon thorn' and they all seemed so hun­ gry and so anxious that ha made a sign in the air and spoke a mystic word. And lof, A green sprout curled from the ground. Pale green leaves burst forth. The plant rose tip and up and up, "Oh!” gasped all the children with great wonder, as before their gaze the plant rose, higher ai 3 higher, spreading -out. llmba—growlng larger and stronger, and blooming with flowers.' Then the tree, as they looked, bore fruit- -apples and citrons, and grapes and figs and whatever their hearts wished. Hero is another story o f those childhood days: » A house was being built near the small and modest heme of the holy family. One day a great uproar arose and Joseph, stepping from his carpenter shop, saw that a man had wallen from the roof and had been killed. "Alas! Mary,” he said, entering the shop, where Jesus was playing, "a man has fallen and broken his limbs; methinks he Is dead,” Springing from the floor, the child, with an expression of great solicitude on his face, rushed into the street, Tlio little crowd parted before him. Ho peered into the white face of the dead man. Then Ms voice rang clear and sweet: “I say ufito thee, arise and do thy work.” The dead man’s eyes opened, the Mood disappeared from Ms face and his injuries healed. And he arose and went hack to kid tusk. AS another time Jesus was tplaylnp with come chil­ dren on a roof- otio of these simple, childish games like that of <!tag” to day. The children wore very happy until erne, falling at full Jehgfli, went tumbling over t lie para­ pet. A cry arose, reeling over too atone wall, ttofaee of Jesus turned white—bin little playmate was dead. Imagine his distress when the parentn of the child ap­ peared ami accused Jcaas o f having pached the .little playmate over the wall! Imagine the anguish of Joseph and Mary at the grave noeusation! Then Jesua, turning to the dead child, e-fti?ed: '■‘Zeno! Kaio! Arise! Arise, Zeno, and tell them, if I east thee down.” And 'li vm arose, laughing, elnnplttg and klealoft the hand of Jeans, murmuring tenderly, gratefully; “No, no! Thou didst not east mo down,” Until hia manhood, when he began hla mission, it.is believed ho plied the trade o f carpenter. Many, indeed, are tlio stories of his life itx the carpenter shop of Naz­ areth, '. <K>n*ZtX7& Many are the tales they tell of the wonderful things he made when he was hut & little boy, precocious ho Must have been, and early ho became Indispensable to his fester father, Joseph. ^ Joseph, we learn, from these legends, was none too good a carpenter—that is, judged by the modern stand- side o f carpentering. Often ho would cut pieces of wood that were too long or too short, for his means of meas­ urement were faulty. What, then, did Jesus do but take the wood and stretch it or shorten it to tho desired length, . .. ■People told . . . . „ „ fitrango tann o f thoso hid aayB—nftw, at h»o toil, Tiutf bit)-,* a. plan t. it ctrotchcd io riehtfui lcnratn, fir i-lmrci-nra at uin Will* -the dead wood quick To l!vci asain atfl ■ servo-Idm« la these days, it Is related, Joseph was awarded a commission to maho a throne for a king at Jerusalem. It was to ho ftr* c’nbotato affair, as ail throned are, with great anas and twisted legs and grotesyuo Carvings—one of those things only kingo like to sit in, Jesus cprnt much time watching Joseph hewing and carving tho Wood. Joseph worked patiently from morn­ ing until night and the work required two whole years. And then, imagine the psior carpenter’d disappointment when it was taken to Jerusalem and ho discovered that it was too smsli for its place. * ASus! he had made a grave error. Yes, they had given him the right dimensions, but, as it often happened, and carpenter# do eiiil, ho mado tlic mistake. Two en­ tire years of labor wasted! Tho poor man v?ao discon­ solate "But why weepest thou?” asked Jesus; who wag with him. ‘ “This Is. readily amended. <Be at peace.” Then be directed Joseph to hold one end o f the throne, while ,he tookhold of the other, Rothpulled, and behold! the throne assumed the proper size, Qne Sabbath -morning, with a half-dozen playmates, the ' cMld Jesus, one old legend rune, went to play by the banks of the River Jor? dan,. There bed been a heavy rain the night before, and the tall ttees were still dripping and the sand was wet. Sitting'on the sand, the little ones began to fashion, children wise,,animate' of • various kinds, , Jesusi fashioning dogs and cats and all manner of wild things, raised his hand and spoke—and. lo, the animals of sand lived and moved, . - The children shouted. Their laughter o f delight rang through the fresh morning 1 air, Some of the animals ran*away, others were changed'Into sand again. _ Then digging his small hands in* to tne sand, the child said: ... ’T il make 12 sparrows,” h.v And he sat them in a row ho* . fore him, - ! ; • ' ■By this time several''Pharisees, who had seen happily on the Sabbath, returned ■: with '-Joseph;, whom they said should censure Jesus, : ‘Thou are breaking the Sabbath my .child,*?: said the old map. ’;v The child pondered, looked at tha birds of bis creation, then rising, 'he V,'' . ; • Clapped His bauds (Mid lot;, .. They chirruped, Spread their Wing* and flow away. 1 in these old legehde there, is a great deal of the fanciful, the leg­ end of the boy and the animals of sand shows tho quaint conceits of the early Christians, who delighted 'in miracles and whose imagination was excited by* this unknown period .of the Saviour’s life. One can well imagine blm as a child wandering away from Nazar­ eth, ail alone/ and sitting by the Jordan or forest streams and com* naming of the great things that came to him. He could not have been like oth­ er children, for he was wise beyond his years, 'One can see him, aa fair as the lilies and roses them selves, caressing the flowers as ht passed by in the meadows of Ju dea, and of his sitting crowned In an aureole of sunbeams, listening to tho divine rapture of the birds pinging their morning hymns. He must oiTon have been alone for with the petty quarrels of the other children of the town, with the little rivalries of his relatives, he could have had little sympathy. Doubtless as a child, his poet's soul soared into the skies, and his seer’s Vision saw the future In the cumu­ lus clouds. All great souls live alone, and are lonely iff the midst of uen, About a beautiful life humanity* lovci to build legends, and tho simple life which leads to spit itual creatneca smafct to jaoii *hOtnado unusual “with u nuK of xuifuclou Many'stories are told o£ tho child Jesus having raised people from the dead in the little known days of hh childhood. It la related, too, that when his parents took him to Jerusalem—on the aflmo journey when ho had the famous discussion with tho learned doctors in tlio temple—ho paused at tho sight of Jerusalem, and a spir­ it of prophecy revealed to Mm its doom. Prophetic Beethoven. Has anyone remarked on tho Startling resemblance to tli« sharp tool of a motor horn of these four-times repoatml double notes in Beethoven's “ Second Symphony,” which demonstrated how a* great imaginative genius may bo far ahead of.hia contemporaries? Tho classic example idf Shakespeare and the telegraph. When these familiar notes aro hoard in tho symphony tho audience faay bo scon to look anxiously over tho shoulder and prepare to cut and run.*-London Chronicle. t All Going Out. -Three times in a month! WhAt do yo*a Judge (sternly)' make of this, sir? 'Rastuo (apologetically)—’Deed I dean make nuffift', You fellows up here seem to be do only ones dat get any *eani- ary profit out of hauling mo up.—Duck. MUCH TREASURE IN TURKEY flsr'JMMWf* Armor and Helmets of Friesisss Worth to irons Church, Constsntinspls, Dr K, F. Msrtfh, formerly drapm- jBjm tit tb** '•mhsney at. tVifl' stssHsoptr. hss rerj hem* an inter, ssttn* «<•«,«#! of the vshisbi# co H pc * ttoitt of sneioat armor that n*||f *o be fousd In Turkey, acnoritfng nt As mm tf* it OosfHte Ho »srs #• i ‘TViv a lung time It has been known |that in ttm Iicne ehtireh in f.'onstatt* |tintiple, tho only phrred f'diOce that i nsa hot furtvt-:tad Into n liiosytie, 1there is Rioted1 ftWfly it largo coliee- ftjen e f arms, mostly consisting of aaiiit-mlr, minor tsul heltm fs, tilling Ifrom the. ftrirfeenth and fifteenth cur j f'ttl****, ».u well as a large tollthtton of iHuthfc which am extremely j vBt'tutri'- When | was rent by ths ■iBrvedieb jgovciflraeflt id gather infer* inatton ceacewing the eo^oum of Charles 2 fli. in Turkey I received por- misslou, After a great deal of trou­ ble, to make a search among the treasure^ of the Irene ekuMi. Tito jiHctl: inta'i'cstlnr; olijccts I eatne aoro;-:<5 jdurhi'l this search I photographed, S finul, ttj the 5 iicanti!«k\ unfoi-t'jnatoly, I only it ehiime of Inw litigating ft few ■of the kmketg «ntl naekn which con- ’ taiaed EuropMin &UMH, Among these j fhuro were mrnsy objects that ate flot ito be found In *n f Ktiropcar collec­ tion, The Saracenic antiquities, which aro hung on the waits of the thatch, aro a museum in thenmelves, and of their kind larger than ail tho educa­ tions uf Europe together. ,ll was also informed that in the «uttori‘;iU(.>Hn chambers of tho Ylldis kit. th'-to nro several thousand Fpleildid helmets.' Hut this room v/aa; sealed up during the old regime be- eftuso it was fcsteil that otic eouhl *get Into the old psiaro by means of a |tomcl leading from the town, I am j unaware wb»th“r thik chamber has. how been .opened, but it ia certainly not emply, and it io peosiMfo that thc-co objccta will perish through daie n and oilier canoco.” Thu abovo-montioned cx-dragoman states that, accouing to an officer’s dtatcsnfcut, tht.ro aro many hundreds e£ chests iu iho Turkish collections that have newer been opened. Tho Idea has hceit oaggoated of forming a nmsernu, Ghould this project bo eawied out, Di*. Martin Is or tho opito ion that wo shall bo obliged to ro- wrlt# tho history of tho sft of dothtc * .* weapons, in emteequendo of tho now and valuable material existing in tho Turkish tolloctions. Flashlights on Pistols, In Colorado ah inventor got a pat­ ent on a flashlight put oft emails? arms, even pocket pistols, so that wherever the searchlight strikes there the bullet bits, making the tak­ ing of aim unnecessary. This pistol method was devised by the inventor for policemen to use oa burglar* and other night felons. HIS OFFER HOT APFRECtATEB KMsriy Osatlsmafi May H*v* Masat Wsll, But ths Dams*! Was fuspicisus. Th# plump waiter girl at ths lunch counter, having nothing to -do at ths moment, was trying to reach with h*r fingernails a piste on her b**fc w«U up betwwi ths shoulders, hut with her short and chubby arms she waa unequal to the task. In vain ah# squirmed, and struggled, mad twisted her face, tihe failed to achieve the desired connection. The elderly man on the outside erf the counter, who had been fighting a piece of overdone steak, leaned for­ ward and spoke to her in a low tone, but with intense earnestness, “My dear young woman,” he said, “pardon the freedom of a man who has grandchildren almost as old ns you are, hut I t you will come a little closer 1 shall take pleasure in scratch­ ing that spot for you, a# I see that you can't quite-*-" “Mind "your own business!" she snapped. How seldom— 0 , how seldom-— Is n sOod deed o r a generous impulse ap­ preciated Iu this ungrateful “World! FOR OLD PEOPLE., After reaching the age o f forty the hum-n system gradually declines. The accumulated poisons In the blood cause rheumatic pains In the Joints, muscles and hack. These warnings should he promptly relieved and- seri­ ous illness avoided by using the fol­ lowing prescription which shows won­ derful results even after the first few doses and it will eventually restore physical etrenglu. "One ounce compound syrup ot flarsaparilla;. one Dunce Toris conn' pound; half pint of high grade whis­ key, This to be mixed and used in tablespoonful doses before each meal and at bedtime. The bottle to be well shaken each time.” Any druggist hae these Ingredients or can get them from his Wholesale house, *in a London Omnibus. - A London ’bus driver was bailed by a clerical-looking old gentleman, and on the first opportunity he remarked to the conductor: “D q you know who you’ve Tgot inside, Bill? It’s Cardinal Mattnin’t” "Go On, that ain’t Car­ dinal Mannln’.” said the conductor, “I know ’ They argued further, and 'finally bet a shilling over it. When collecting fares the conductor deter­ mined to set matters right by direct inquiry. “jExcuse me, sir, biffc are you Cardinal Mannin’T The Venerable ’ passenger looked toim coldly and. bold­ ly in the eye, and answered; “What the devil has that got to dpwith you?” The conductor was satisfied, but even at the sacrifice Of a bob he had to get even' with the passenger,' Putting his head out of the door he called up to the driver; “Yqu are right, Bill; it was ’is ’oliness,” • - Fino Tonic Mixture. .«........... A superior tonic, appetizer and stim­ ulant for the exhausted overworked systemistone-balf pipt good whiskey to Which should be added one ounce com­ pound fluid balmwort and one ounce compound syrup sarsaparilla. As an appetizer take a tablespoonful before meals, i As a; tonic take after meals and at bedtime. Any druggist can mix It quickly, A Decoy. Tha minister who had exchanged with Rev. 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