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THE HOGME OF WATERLOO coUNnTY‘S *X mas PURE CANDIES FRESH NUTS HOLIDAY FRUITS AND NOVELTIES The Chronicle Telegraph Mixed Nuts L. Bruegema‘n Advertising splendid results The Right Place dG00D GROCERIES An ad. in its columns will bring 18000 Rates on Application. A Plentiful Supply of People every week WATERLOO,â€" ONT Naval Oranges OUR SPECIALTY Read by Over FOR YOUR Goodies Phone 79 L A Good AND BEST PAPER Medium loved to read. A poem which she wrote, called the Magnificat, is full of the memories of books. Or she may have been sewing, for she was preâ€" sently to be married, and would be getting ready for the wedding. She was to marry a neighbor, the . village _ carpenter, named Joseph. It was a spring morning, and the flowers were.in blossom, and the birds were singing, and the sun was shining. Thus she sat, with her heart full of beautiful thoughts, when of a sudâ€" den such a gleam of splendor shone about her that it seemed as if the sun had been under a thick cloud and had just come out and begun to blaze in good earnest. . And Mary turned to see where this new brightness came from; and there beside the door, dressed all in white, stood a resplendent angel. And the angel said, "Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou _ among _ women." And Mary was afraid, and began to tremble; so that the angel said, "Fear not, Mary; _ for thou _ hast C "THE found favor with God." ' Then, while she held her breath and listened, he told his wonderful errand. God had seen the sin and sorrow that were upon the earth. He had heard little children, and even grown men and women, fathers and mothers, crying He knew how people were trying to be good and making a sad failure of it because they were ignorant or weak. And now God was about to do what He had long promised: He was to come and live among us. God had, indeed, lived among men always, as He does toâ€"day; always and everywhere we are in the presence of God. â€" But now He was to make Himself known in a new way. The King of Glory was to take our human nature upon Him, and become a man like us. He was to come, not in His royal robes of splendor, not in the garments of the sunset, not with His holy angels with Him, but as a little child, to be born as we are, to grow as we grow, and thus by living our life to teach us how to live. And when the King came in His humility Mary was to be His mother The First Christmas “."Xl;ll N‘l'a.ry.s;:d,‘:‘lie‘l‘iald the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to $hy \El)ord." And the angel departed from her. That was the first day of the ear One. Months passed after this angelic visit. The green of spring deedpened into the green of summer, and lilies grew in the fields, and the fruits ripenet and were gathered into barns, and the cold nights came on. And one night there were shepherds in a pasture close by the Town of Bethlehem, watching their flocks. We seldom see shepherds in this country. The men with sticks who drive sheep through the streets are not true shepherds. Shepherds never drive sheep; they go before and call them. and the shcefl know the shepherd‘s voice and follow him. â€" While the flocks are in the fields the shepherds stay among them or keep them from straying off and getting lost, and to protect them from wolves and bears in places where such wild animals are found. | A $% is o k. _ There are countries where the gr almost the only snow which the g;ogle : countries the sheep can feed in the field | it > Padriashallnpnp raibd i nie Pratkn t iatinlia? \disenabnat ‘There are countries where the grass is green all the K:“ round, and where almost the only snow which the le see is on the tops of the mountains. _ In such countries the sheep can feed in :fi?fielas even in the winter. In the old timeâ€"in the Year Oneâ€"people when thef' went to church on xareat holy days carried little lambs with them. That wou d seem queer nowadays. Imagine achurch where everybody had a lamb under bis arm instead of a prayerâ€" book! 1 am afraid that most small boys, and even some small girls, would find it hard to sit perfectly still in a church full of frisky little woolly lambs. But in those days they were used to it, and did not mind it. The mlt brought the lambs to gve to God. And they brought the very best lambs, use they wished to tive od the very best they had. Some of these lambs came from these Bethichem pastures; and they who took care of the church lambs would be good shepherds, gentle and kind men. ,__So it was in the winter night, and the stars were shining and all was still,â€"and in the fields the flocks were sleeping while the shepherds watched. We may guess that, as they watched, they talked together and told each other storieeâ€"especially AN OLD STORY AS IT CAN BE TOLD TO CHILDREN already how ofd. " Pe how old. Pe th_eheanh. t mighty . nat battles and ghov. e n over that was v: we have tak many years ago It is always th B It is always to be remembered out that year that one of its days s Christmas Day. You may not think that ange. _ Christmas | comes _ so gularly every year, like apples in tumn and snow in winter, that it ems to belong to the order of ature, and one may easily imagine at it has been celebrated always, id that it is as old as boys and girls. ut the truth is that there was Chronicle» Telegraph, Waterioo, Ont.. Thursday, December 12, 19 NCE upon a time there was a Year One. And, stra w. it was mz‘yb-pnm;dd the years. The w was :&3& very old: nobody knows v old. People had been living on heanh. time out fi‘:‘ mind, in ¢hty _ nations, ting t tles and building great ci::u ichow, everything seemed to in over again that year, because t was when the King came. And have taken it ever since as the st imp(:‘unt l:)l all dates. When say that this present year is neteen-hund;ed-and-twerve, we an that the Year One was just so any Christmas till the Year *THE: .DUNCE Mlhvfl.'h'mhmahq.uwnmflwhfl mamflhuwfin&md“u a lion and a bear. The lion and the had come to get the sheep, and young David MMMMMW“M&,-:.&W‘-% "The Lord is my shepherd." A&tm:l.‘mlflqdcn.:ufl: some time come, according to 4 : they would look, and what He would be like when He came. And they said, "When He comes . o t ty betched tnd Iofhed aod reey: reddendr stantitng i , &8 wa » Matmetfiutndwd&htmwfiumtam. in the black sky, till the night was like the day. All the came out in the fi.didpmmvhkhtheyuwhtheurlymilt::lhthehudm out of the central shining appeared an angel of the ..hnmi-lu'h:leyuh- of fire. ‘The shepherds fell upon their(aoa.notduin(tolnokl‘lx. d-d1 to listen or :::d btei:‘t_he. :l‘nle thtc angel ;potz.h“l‘ll-’:r notl.l" he said, "rf::w‘“ blll‘ ‘ou tidings reat joy, whic to al + mme.!y'['o-‘night H:" is bo!n. yo,nXer in Rethichem. Thetmll you find Llil. sleeping in A 8 Andith:nmy grew b;?her still, as if behind the clouds the gates of Heaven itself were swinging open, and out there came nf‘ll upon angels, a multitude of the Heavenly host, shining and singing. This is what they sang: "Glory to God in the highest, Now, all that day travelers had been {;umeyig’ in unusual numbers along the ways which led to Ecthlehem. for it was the time of a census. Czesar Augustus, Emperor of Rome, wished to know how many people were livinm that part of the country, so that he could make them all pay taxes. Every man to go to his own cityâ€"that is, to the in which his family belonged. So there was a great stir all about the land, with men going to this place and to that to have their names written in the censusâ€"books. Among the others, out of Nazareth came ]oafl the carpenter, because he was of the family of David, and with him Mary, hi espoused wife, who was to be the mother of the King. â€"Down they came like other poor folks, over hill and dale, till they arrived at Bethichem. But when then reached the town there was no place where they might stay. Every house was fu of guests, and the inn was already crowded. The onl{nlheltef was a stableâ€"a common stable, strewn with hay, with dusty cobwebs hanging from the rafters, and occupied by cows and donkeys. There, accordingly, they went. And there, while the angels sang and the sky blazed over the d:’stum of the lheefi, the King came. The King of Glory came! The mighty , the Maker of a thinq:i the Lord most high, came to dwell among us. And behold, He was a little child. And Mary wrapped Him warm in swaddling clothes, as the way is closed hand stret the north, where afiproach. open t the weak point 0 but a sacred city faith, the loyalty Jerusalem is places of the we the imagination and Christians EONG ago angelic harpers sang the song we sing toâ€"day, And the drowsy folk gf Bethlchem may have listened as thex lay! But eager shepherds left their flocks, tâ€"4 and o‘er the desert wild The kingg sages journeyed to adore the Holy Child! Has any man a quarrel? Has another used you ill? The friendly word you meant to say, Is that unspoken still? Then, rememsfigr. ‘twas the Angels Brought glad tidings of good will! Of all the gifts of Christmas, are you fain to win the best? Lo! the Christ Child still is waiting Himself to be your guesk; No lot so high or lowly but He will take His part, If you do but E:d Him welcome to a clean and tender heart. Are you sleeping, are you waking? To the Manger haste away, And you shall see a wondrous sight Amid the straw and hayâ€" ‘Tis Love Himself Incarnate As on this Christmas Day! A CHRISTMAS CAROL ched out toward the : : the wrist comes dowr o Assyria, and Babylor f Jerusalem. _ She was r, a lofty shrine, whose r, the heroism which H still one of the high rid, consecrated in _of Mohammedans alike. _ with a dry moat three or four hundred feet deep. Thus the city stands, as it were, on the knuckles of a southeast, impregnable from all sides except i from the higher tableland. This northern 1, and Damascus, and Persia, has always been no fortress unassailable in natural strength, refuge and salvation were in Jchovahâ€"in the e inspired in the people who trusted Him. There the lht‘;:hetdl, all out of breath with running, found themâ€" gl:;ey land Joseph and the ying in a % And they told what tfi‘y had seen and heard about the sinfinr angels and the King of Glory, while Mary Iinel:ed,hren;]e.tzberin; the angel who appeared wfer. So the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the wonders of that night. And thus was ke:: the first Christmas, t Christmas in the Year One, with carols by the choir of Heaven, and God‘s own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming a Christmas l!Iil't for all manâ€" kind.â€"G. Hodges, D.D. with babies, and laid Him in the manger. _ ___â€" _ THE HOLY CITY. JERUSALEM is lifted twentyâ€"five hundred feet above the level of the sea, and holds the central place in that line of ancient _ shrine â€" citiesâ€" Beersheba, Hebron, Bethâ€" Ichem, Jerusalem, Bethel, Shiloh, â€" Shechemâ€"which stretches along the mounâ€" tainous plateau of Judea, between the valley of {’ordan and the plain of hilistia. "The sides of the north" slope down ently to the gray, creneâ€" fhted walls and towers, the Jaffa Gate, the New Gate, the Damascus Gate. Within â€"those bulwarks, which are thirtyâ€"eight feet high and two miles and a half in circumstance, Jeruâ€" salem is ‘‘ builded as a city that is compact togéther," covering, with her crooked streets and huddled houses, the two or three rounded hills and almostâ€" obliterated valleys in which the northern plaâ€" teau terminates. South, and east, and west, the valley of the Brook Kidron and the valley of Hinnom surround (the city wall BUBBLES