Fort Madison High School - Madisonian Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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E oUT or THE DARKNESS SS S the fiery red ball of the sun sank lower and lower toward the western hornzon a young Arab boy mounted on a wnry black horse rode at a rapld pace across the desert Sehm was returning from a VlSlt wxth hls uncle at a dlstant place to hls fathers tents wh1ch were at an oasxs two days journey on 1 sw1ft camel from Jerusa em Commg to a rlse of ground he stopped by 1 pnle of huge rocks and gazed about h1m All around spread the desert not the realm of drlftlng sands over whxch he had come but that reglon where the herbage began to dwarf and where gramte boulders and brown and gray stones mterspersed w1th tufts of camels grass and acacla trees were strewn over the earth Farther ahead arbutus brambles and twlsted l1ve oak trees appeared to have come up to a certam lme and then lookmg across at the scorchmg waterless waste crouched as 1f ln fear rf Suddenly Sehm notnced the restless smfflng of hns horse Ben Bar and knew that water must be near although thxs seemed almost 1m possxble But upon lookmg toward the rocks he saw a txny stream lssue from a mmmature cave and then lose ltself 1n the sand He dns mounted and as he walked nearer notlced on the border of the pool a curlous shrub surrounded by other coarse vegetatlon of the desert Whlle h1s horse whlch had followed hlm drank gratefullv of the cool water Sehm carefully exammed thxs unusual plant Its leaves of a dull blacklsh green on top and of a hghter green below seemed each to be made of several leaflets arranged on a common stalk Dlg gmg away a bxt of the earth around nt he found that the roots were straxght and black He had never before seen anythmg l1ke thxs and wondered xf such a black ugly plant were capable of produclng a flower Sehm was stnll an hour s rlde from home so he mounted Ben Bar and rode on The sun soon dropped out of sxght the stars came out and It became cool and pleasant After ndmg a dxstance of a league he was startled by the appear ance ln the heavens of a large brxght star whnch cast about lt a dazzlmg Y 4 1 b . . , . , . . . , . r . - BN 3 1 4 Ya ri 1 559 Qt? . . . m 4 ' , L 44 7 'I 2, , . ,fx fp if '1, - C I -:lj h . . . BI f 1.4 v H! ' xl '. ' ff . . , 1 , . Y 1 v , . 1 l , . ' l V . . , . . , I Y ' Y Y v ' ' Y . . , . ' Y . 1 ' -

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Till' IIIGII SCHOOI TI VIFS The two S1,'lLlkSt11C11 passed nto the tent S 11111 f 11OWlllf tt 1 fathers beck Flrst the men talked of tr1de and then of po11t1c 11 1t'f111s Herod the new governor of Jexusalem who was fast galnmg a reI11t1t1on for OPPYCSSIOH and harshness was freely dxscussed 'lhe general news of the day was the next tOp1C and Mehmed Ben A111 told h1s fr1e11d th tt two days before 1n the town of Bethlehem a beautnful boy Clllld l11d been boln to some Nizarenes WISE men of the East had come to VlSll the babe saymg they had been lei there by a brnght sttr an 'l haft 1n no1nted llllll declarmg the ch1ld to be the Messxah the Snvnor of Men and then of the lovely wh1te flower and could not but beheve that the blossom and the wonderful ch11d at Bethlehem were IH some wly con nected Thus pondermg he fell asleep The next mormng somethnng seemed te call to Selllll and ms he rode toward the sprmg he thought of the news brought byMel1n1ed Ben A111 and could not understand how such a beaut1f11l g1fted qhxld eould he born of a despxsed Nazarene 1n a town of such 111 repute as Bethlehem Then om1ng to the Bower and seelng that a pure Whlte bloom could blossom on 1 plant of such repulslve aspect he understood th1t the new Mess1ah the Sav1our of Men llllght 'also come from a N warene of Bethlehem As Sehm looked at the Hower whnch resembled a wl11te 1086 yet was many t1mes more beaut1ful he wondered for the hundredth tune what 1tS name could be He had been to the noted gardens of Damas cus many t1mes but never had he seen anythmg nearly so dazzlxngly beaut1ful and pure as thls flower ln the desert Then aga1n he thought of the analogy between the blossom and the Chrlst Ch1ld how they h nd been born on the same mght both of parentge as Sehm thought unworthy of them and 1n surroundmgs 111 fitted to two such wonderful natures and he named the beaut1ful pure whnte Bower for the Nazarene Boy and called It C11l'lStS or the Chrlstmas Flower KA111AR1NP 12015111415 6 L . 1 Lf -' : '. ' i , e ' o ' g 1 11s 'Q . . ' . ' ' ' 2 2 'z ' , ' , ,, ' ' 2 . ' . , 5 ' 1 , z . L T. D L L I:- , , ' 1 ' J Q , 1 . . 2 - 1 . . . Al . - .1 Selim listened in silence. but thought long of the star he had seen ' . ' . W ' ' ' 2 f 1 . . . , .' 1 .1 . . ,, A ' - ' - L- V ! 1 1 1 ' . . . .. . ,, Y 11 . ,, , .