The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1913-01-03
[THE sIARQE BETHLEHEM
Tho Three Kings, The Great
= Orion

SfHOpe*IOr sDetIer luck IN lSl3.
noW:beg to cali the attention Q
IEyQur readers to the first festival o
the new year, nanlely,
EPIPHANY
| January otir,. 1913, the feast .
/ the. three Kings, Magi, or wise mel
l[of the East Balthasar, Aid meg,
Hand Caspar5 still folling the star o
ffBethlehem.
Whatever that star was, whlcl
!. guided these pen to the cradle o
tdesllsTin the ihangen.sf a stable a
Neutrality-suspicious. aclose conjunc.
:ftion Of theplanets Jupiter and Sat
rurn, according to Keppler, perhaps
I HALEY Comet, we. saw here ir
y 1910 q sonlssotl,er great comet as
4 represented il BenHur, perhaps a
lbrllllant nswsstar suddenly appearing
Fin the ooisNilatIen Of Verge, Oh
.lsome- mirac,aous Shekinah, to me
lthere is now DO. more beautiful star
Eof Bethlehem, than the bright morn
ling ana evening Star, Venus, the
Greek GODDESS 0f love, human and
devine. !. According tolegend, Venus
4 Aphrodite was born'in a water lily.
land Venus Urania, sprang from the
brain Of Jupiter AT Christmas
time Venusis always present. the
last to disappear in daylight and the
first to reapnear before sunset, well
lup in the south. west, setting $40
p. m. centraLtime. At 81. NJ. she is
on or very near The merdana due
south at an altitude of about AZ de-
grees, where she can be readily
picked up with an opera glass, or
even the naked eyes and therefore
may appropriately be called the
Stal of4Bstlilel,sm.'' as...
The three kings still following that
star are now Known as the sword
belt of Orion, the three bright stars
in the middle of the four principal
stars Of that familiar constellation.
Rigel the brightest, is the uplifted
left foot of the giant hunter. The
upper1nost, next brightest one is
called Betelgeu& in'the right shoul-
der. The next forming the left
Shoulder is Bellatrlx. The upper
and westermost star of the Belt is
called Mintaka. herein Balthasar, the
oldest Of the three kings, which is
very near the celestial EQUATOR. the
lower and eastermost star of the belt
herein called CaSpar, lis known as
Alnilam, thenext two brightest ones
Below this form the right leg OF Orion.1
On the old Zodiacs he is depicted
asa mightvbunter ascending slope
a var club over his head,
n his-uplifted right hand and with
outstretched LETT hand shaking a
ion Skin in the face of the enraged
,ul, Searching for his sweetheart
Mesope,, the lost plead. On January
9Th, Orion rises from 4 to 5 p. m.
md at about half past ten, he will
stand upright on the meridian.
srom to 8 p. m. he. will be- in al,
eclinins position 10 the southeast
'rn sky.
But before we leave Or.on and I
he three kingssiet us take a parting :
ook Of our new star of Bethlehem, !
he GODDESS Of foye, before she goes
Iown to her water lily companions
n the Psscagoula'swamp at about !
AS p. m. singing With the great t
ierman poet Schiller: I
Homer d be woman! shebeams on I
he sight,. i
Graceful raild fair, like a being of +,
sht,
seatters.srcunid he's where ever1
he straysr
Roses ofbllss on cur thorn covered =
'ays; .
Roses Of Paradis- sent from above = !,
TO be gathered and TUNED in a a a
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