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* ?00000?<>0<>?&00<X><> St His First | % 6 Christmas 6 0 By If ARY GRAHAM BQNNBR 0 tgi Copyright. 1921, Western Newspaper Union. I# quiet in the ' I house. Outside } I the snowflakes S??KJp^ JBL were chasing 9i{j&L*ty K each other with 2-* vigor and a gayety and a . 7 (5) sense of the /w\ merriment of Voices could k he hear?^?outing across streets, wishk. ing^Sthers "A Merry Christmas." Now and again the wind blew loudly, but not shrilly nor harshly nor with a wailing sound. The wind, too, aeemed to be quivering with happiness. All of nature had joined together to be as beautiful, as radiant, (. irr honor of the day as possible, ft The hills were covered with snow. 9k The branches of the trees were laden B with it Icicles hung from eaves and 9 from corners of houses, and windows B were frosted with exquisite designs. The shrubs, too, were covered with HL snow. It looked more like Fairyland 9 than anything else. In the house they were waiting, waitBt ing, waiting. MR How tense and long seemed the wait. P* How nervnns how frightful, and yet how marvelous?if all went well. But just suppose everything didn't jgf. -t fo well? Suppose anything happened? ! Bay Clarke paced -up and down the floor and wondered how he could have . been so happy?so free from nervousu ness for so long a time. He hated the great beauty of the I outside world. When he heard people ^ wishing each other "Merry Christmas" he almost hated their smiles and their cheerful voices. How deeply he loved Lillian. She was worth all the Christmas presents In the world! Of course. There were no two ways about that. And the doctor had said with such If a aenial. merry twinkle in his eyes: I "Well, J fancy the young son and t heir will be a Christmas present from I the missus to you!" He had laughed at the time, and g Lillian had blushed and smiled and laughed, too. The doctor was such | a friendly old soul?he had been the - doctor when Lillian had been born. 1H And he was fine, too. | * But perhaps he counted too much on Lillian's strength. Ray had been sent l out of the room and he had been alone here now for so long. At first he had been so full of high r; spirits. But the 4elay bad been so strange. They hadn't told him there would be any such delay. They had simply sent him out of the room and had said tl^at everything was all right, I I and that they'd come and tell him . soon to be back to see his child. ^ #He would go upstairs. He couldn't It stand this another moment And it was so quiet He had fancied it ^ . would not be quiet, Then he heard a L_ strange shrill voiced I How curiously it sounded. Was f that Lillian. She must be very ill to P have a voice sound so curiously. He |: never heard it like that They couldn't keep him,> from her. h one wouia wane nun, too. ui course K: she would! 2 He hurriedly ran up the stairs. The ' doctor was at the top of the stairs. "Wait a moment; not so fast; not so * fast," the doctor smiled. "I was coming to tell you." "Couldn't you have let me come to her? Did you have to wait until it Mg was all over to come and tell me?" Ray said in a husky voice. J "She wanted it to be that way," the doctor said. Still he was smiling. How could he smile at such a time? f' } * How hard and inhuman doctors became. [ "I don't believe a word of it," he Kat T mM. "She wanted me. I know. I r heard her cry. , That was it. You kept me from her. You wouldn't let me go to her and she?she?wanted zne." Mnt "My dear Ray, just a minute," the BBR doctor said, but Ray had rushed past jH^V him and was in his wife's room. Tears were in his eyes. HBB Oh, he'd never forgive himself that ^^^H he had consented to do what the docMBIBl tor had told him to when suddenly Ha he noticed that Lillian was looking at him, her eyes wide open, smiling hap H A pUy. |HB "Did you hear him shout out a <Merry Christmas' to you, Ray?" she [j^SB^fcaske d. H B "It was the baby who cried?" 9HHH "Not a cry, my love, 'Merry Christ^^Hinas' was what lie said I" MBfflL "Lillian, my own, my own," he mur|H^^^Hkired, and bent down over her. And the tears came freely. He didn't fit ill about them. Nothing matKSSEHBHrecL For the tears?they were the HgBKrs of joy I I A Christmas I | Joke ^ 0 By MARY GRiAHAM BONNER 0 ooooo<xx>ooooooooo Copyright, 1921, Western Newspaper Union. \ IE was a young # bride. Every present she Iiad received was very welK come. She had Sfc?>T X.6 depended on VJ presents to r5?Lrf (l!) furnish her )&\ new home. f^.TyP When she had received a u plicate which were not initialed she hastened to the place from which the? had been purchased and picked out other articles of beauty and of household necessity. Her friends had really keen remarkably kind. She had been surprised to find how ready the shops had been about taking back g|fts and substituting with others, or in engraving pres ents which had not already been engraved. Only one had charged for engraving?the gift had been purchased at "wholesale rate" and so engraving was not included. Altogether from the point of view of presents as well as from the point of -view of a mate she had done remarkably well. This would enable them to make a very good appearance in their home without having to draw from the none too plentiful savings. She viewed everything over again one evening, presents and those which .were exchanges. There was just one thing among them that was not nec essary and not particularly pretty. It was a gravy-dish. She knew of no particular use to which she could put it?she had one of the kind she really liked. She could not exchange it. It had. a monogram in the center. "I know what I'll do with it," she said to her husband. 'Til give it to Molly Stevens for a Christmas present. She has been so good to us and I'd like to show her how much I appreciate it. "You know she is going to get married in the spring?that is?her engagement is all but announced. "Don't you think it would be a good idea? She was so helpful about my wedding and she has fold me, quite confidentially, that the wedding will be in the spring. "It would be a good Idea to give her "I'll Give It to Molly Stevens for a Christmas Present." something for Christmas that she could have for her new home. "We really can't afford to buy another thing just now and that wiil do beautifully." "But the monogram?" her husoana inquired. "Oh. that can be taken off you know, and another one put there in its 'place. I heard some one ordering that to be done in one of the silver shops the other day." "Yes, that's a splendid idea," her husband heartily agreed. "I'll go down-town and attend to it tomorrow. I haven't much time. Christmas is almost here." "Our first Christmas," said the , young husband as he clasped his bride to him. i "Our first Christmas," she mur- i mured. The next evening he asked her if she had arranged about sending the gravy dish to Molly Stevens. "I couldn't send it," she said. "Why not?" he queried. "Because of the monogram in the center," she said. "But you told me that that could be erased by the silversmiths and a new monogram placed there" her husband persisted. "I know I did," the young bride answered, "but you see they told me . today at the shop that it would be possible to do it were it not for the fact that it had been done so often to this gravy dish that they wouldn't dare take a chance with it again. They'd not be able to avoid boring a hole this time! It has been given away once too often for me to put to any use," she sighed sndlv. "And I shall just send Molly a Christmas card. After all she did no more than any one else!" I Celery and Banana Salad. Cut the bleached portions of crisped "oiorr intn half-inch lencths. Mix with it an equal quantity of diced banana. Arrange in small mounds in lettuce cups, dress with mayonnaise and garnish w'rh English walnut meats, or, if novelty is desired, serve in banana cases. . _ NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. All persons having claims against the estate of Charles Ehrhardt, deceased, will please file the same, duly itemized and verified, with the undersigned, and all persons indebted IU saiu esLctut; win yicaae ^a,y iuc undersigned. G. B. KIXARD, ALEX F. HENDERSON, Executors. November, 21, 1921. 12-8n SHHERIFF'S TAX SALE. In accordance with the executions to me directed by G. A. Jennings, treasurer of Bamberg county, I have levied upon and will sell for cash to the highest bidder, on Monday, December 5th, 1921, during the legal hours of sale, the following described real estate, situate,lying and being in Bamberg county, state of South Carolina; said real estate to be sold for taxes due and owing the said county and state: Land known as the Silcox place, Containing six (6) acres, more or less, bounded as follows: On the north by lands of J. B. Black; east by lands of J. E. Varn; south by lands of G. W. Dyches; west by lands formerly of Annie Eilcox, now of J. B. Black. Said lands to be sold as the property of D. B. Roberson, Lula Silcox, Ned Silcox, Mrs. Minnie Black, and J. J. Carter. S. G. RAY, T% 1 r~\ A ? onenn joamuerg oouui/. Nov. 10, 1921. 12-1 MASTER'S SALE. By virtue of a decree of the Court of Common Pleas in the case of H. A. J Hughes, plaintiff, vs. I. L. Zeigter, et al, defendants, the undersigned will sell at public auction at the Court House in Bamberg* S. C., on the 5th day of December, 1921, between legal hours of sale on said day, the following described tract of land: "All that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the County of Bamberg, State of South Carolina, containing one hundred and thirty eight (128) acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: On the North by lands of Mrs. Annie Folk; on the East by lands of H. A. Hughes; on the south oy ianas or estate of J. C. McMillan; and on the West by lands of J. L. Priester." Terms, cash, purchaser to pay for revenue stamps and papers. J. J. 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