The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-20

never had the heavens sppeareu 20 pos
| sess such depths, never had the stars
! seemed 50 brilliant. Suddenly the door OF
the field opened and pretty Stephanette
made her appearance. She could not sleer,
The animals ratified the straw as tbev
moved about, or bleated in their dreams
She preferred to come to the FIRE Seeine,
this, cast my sheepskin over her shouI-
ders. I stirred up the flames and we sat
down. side by side, remaining thus withous
utteriEg a single word.
If you have ever passed night in thu
open air You know that at the hour when
we sleep mysterious world awakes amid
the solitude and the silence Then tho
brooks sing ia their clesrest tenes and tha
ponds are lighted mp with tiny 8a1les. All
the spi rSts of the mountain freely come and
go: there is \ rusSliHg II the air, there ara
almost inperceptjble sounds, as II wehoArJl
the tree branches growing and the grass
springing up. Day is the life of creatures,
but night is the life Of things When one
Is not accustomed 10 this II 1lls one with
fear. Therefore our demoiselle vss all Of
CULVER and clung to me closely at the
slightest morse
At one time, a long melancholy cry arose
from the pond that spanked below Us and
came rolling upwaRd 70 our ears. IA tbs
same instant a beautiful shooting star
glided over our heads IN the same direction.
rs IL the lamentation we heard were bear
ing a flash of light with 1t.
What rs Uhstg" asked Stephanette. in a
whisper.
"A soul entering paradise. mistress.1
answered | making the sign Of the cross.
She made the same Sign and, for a mo-
h..
Then she said to me:
is it true, shepherd, that you people are
magicians;'
Not IN the least. our demoiselle- But
here we live much nearer the stars than the
people OF the plain, and know better what
is taking place among the sparkling lights
Of hesvenw
She was still gazing upward, resting her
head against one OF Ter ha; d., and wrap
ped in the sheepskin Ike little heavenly
shepherd.
''Ah, how beautiful they arelr cried she.
Il never sa. 50 many Of them beforel Do
you know their names, shepherd"
Yes, indeed. mistress Listen: Righs
above Us IS St Jacques highway. Il goes
from France Straight into Spain IL was
ST. Jacques de Galicc who traced il 20 show
his road 10 the brave CharlemAgne when
he was making war upon the Saraoens-
Further away you have the Car OF Souls,
with its four Teplcndapt axirtrces Tbs
three stars i'm front are the three horses.
ana thar tiny one almost against the third
Is the car driver Do you see all around
that shower of falling starsg They are the
souls the good God does not want in heaven
"A little lower is the Hayrack or the
Three Kings. The stars fortnight serve
as our clock. / have only To glance at
them 20 know that II is now amer Md
night. a little lover yet still looking to-
ward the south, shines Jean de Milan. the
torch Ot the stars. Regarding that star
this Is what the shepherds relate. IL ap-
pears that one light Jean de N Lsn, with
the Three Kings ard the Poncinisre. was
invited to the wedding Of a star, one Of
their friends The PouCtniere. more in a
hurry than the rest, started, they say. The
first Of all and took Tee high road. Look
at her up there away in the midst Of the
heavens.
THE Three Kings went by lower road
and overlook her but lazy lean de Milan.
who had slept too late. was left behind,
and, in order 70 stop them, in his fury he
4Srew his stick at them That IL why the
three Kings are also called Jean de Allan's
Stick. BIT the most beautiful of all the
tars-mIstress-iH ours, the Shepherds
Star, that lights us at dawn when ws drive
forth our focks. and sL-o in the evening
when use bring them back We have Given
1t another name, Maguelonns, the bsauti-
full MaguelOnuc, who runs after Pierre do
Provence aud marr4cs him every seven
years
What, shepherd Are there thsn mar
Tiages among the gtarsf'
Yes, indeed, mistpessf''
And, / wss striving 70 explain 70 her
what these marriages were 1 feIt some
thing cool and soft weigh Lyhtly open my
shoulder. r. was her held, heavy with
sleep, that was leaning against me. with q
pretty rIstliHg VI ribbons. lace and wavy
hair. She rcraGiuesl thus without stirring
until thc moEocDCEhen the stars Of heaven
paled eda ced by the ctnUntna d5y
As for me- betIrsd her s.sspiag, zorns-
what tTo1 bled, Dtlt sally protected By tho
bright night that bss never gwen rDe other
than pure thoughts Around u lie stars
continued their siIeut marub as docIIs a. .
vast mock. aud At times I iusaaiusd that
che OF those stars-ths prstttest and unusE
brilliant OF them au-havmg lost its way,
had como 20 me aud placed tn head upon
my shoulder thai II might slumbsr "a
peace.-AIy nOnss Daudst ia PhiladG1g pima
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