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Winston Churchill, Forty Years Old, Trying to Maintain the Traditions of British Navy. Winston Churchill, half in Amerl- of the failure of the British to aid can, has just celebrated hts fortieth the Belgians successfully when .Ant birthday. On him. sa head of thojwerp was under siege. Bet lately! admiralty has devolved the d?fasse of ; Lord Kitchener, in whose judgement the BritlBh Empire in thejgrcatcst tho British people have unbounded war. the world has kno'vn. Churchill confidence, has stated that the British has so far escaped criticism tor , the [action tn the Belgian capital was sn psrt he has played in tho manage- important strategtlc move which ment ot the war? with tho exception served its purpose. Asking Too Much. A man rambled Into a village cafe, selected a table and to Ml the attend ing waiter tc brina bim a ??a?f duck. Fifteen minutes wont hy. Then an other fl'taen, and yet another. Finally the man at the table began to show symptoms of ^Impatience. . "What can I do for you, sir?" asked the walter, going over to the table in {response to an imperative call. "What about try ordert" demanded the diner. "How soon dc I get that half a duck?" " Tust, as soon "as somebody comes in arid orders the other half," was the calm rejoinder of the waiter. "You don't think wo can go out and kill a half a duck, do youl"-Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. 1TJLVJLJLN JL OF A KIND AND QU THA T SECURES ? ll Prompt Deliver -aciory k CA TALOGS BOOKLETS ST FOLDERS RULING BU ^^^^MQO^ ?|? CALL US s ? TELEPHONES: 693-L and 321 We wi)l cheerfully > submit The Anderson Intel) Advertising and Pr?nt?n Anderson* S. C. 9m A Peaceful Nntlon Unprepared for l'eace. Ida M. Tarbell ls beginning in The American Magazine a new aeries of articles entitled "The Golden Hule In Business." In her article In the De cember number, entitled "Keeping Men at Work," she shows how care ful planning and scientific manage ment can provide steady employment for men in place of the seemingly nec essary laying off of hundreds of men in critical times such ar thc present. She cites many Instances of business in the United States which are Ndng operated on this principle. The Intro duction to her article follows: "War thrusts a sure lance Into a na tion's weak spotn, be that nation neu tral or combatant. Hardly had the first Bound of the European crash reached us last August when to every body's lips sprang the horrified com ment, 'And wc without ships!' A peaceful natron unprepared for Peace! "But closed seas were not the only weakness the European war disclosed in this country. AB quickly wo were face to face with a vast out-of-work throng-true lt might be short-lived, but again it might not. The worst of lt was wc had no plan for handling the situation. If lt had been necessary we could have prompt!" raised ss array in an orderly, well-though-out fash ion. Individuals, states, the Federal government would have known the Im mediate and logical steps to take. But when lt came to the greatest business of Peace in the time of calamity-keep lng men and women at work- nobody knew what to do, unless to contribute to a soup kitchen. "There were employers without a sense that patriotism as well as policy demanded that their wheels should run ; there were communities " that looked apathetically cs the closing ot factories, as if they had no urgent duty in the matter. States, for the most part, were helpless: so was the federal government. Thus lt was re vealed on the Instant that there is in this country no organization for hand ling labor. It takes care of itself, grop ing hither and thither as instinct, ru mor', hope, greed may call. When the di moralization of panic, disaster, war, comes lt ie tho first to feel the pinch, for industry, like money, ls a natural coward. In times of trouble it seeks a hiding place." Why! "Gentlemen," began an innocent faced old man as he approached? a couple of men waiting on a corner for a car. "I waa kicked by a cow a few weeks ago, and I find that my mem ory ls not what it was. Perhaps you will answer queutions." "We will," was chorused, according to tbs Pittsburg Dispatch. "If I hadn't been kicked by a cow, I shouldn't have to trouble you." "Ob, no trouble at all." , "She kicked mo in the back of tho head." "Too bad." "She kicked with both hecla to ?once." VYesr "And lt waa two days later before I come to." "Yes, but the question you wanter Ito ask?" "Yea, the question," Sure it won't bother you to answer?" "Certainly it won't." "Thoh gentlemen, for what reason dd wo celebrate Hallowe'en?". Tko men looked down, and then looked ' up. and then looked at each other. Thua for a long minute and then they turned away and left the man who had been kicked by a cow They couldn't answer his question. finnier ALIYY y ice es ATIONERY WING and^es?mates 9 'HE major felt a vague sense of personal griev ance. It- was Christmas morning. Everything was moat agreeable at the hotel. As he had distrib uted his customary gold pieces to the "bells," the telephone girls, tho check-room boys, his walter and the head waiter, and the cham bermaid on bl: floor; he felt o?dly disturbed. "Carter, my boy," fie told the tall, gray-haired image ia the mirror. "You're getting sentimental. You're thoroughly disappointed because there isn't a soul in the world who can call out a 'Merry Christmas' to you, and mean it from the bottom of bis heart. You're like a boy with nothing in his stocking. I'm ashamed of you. sir; I am indeed." Yet that didn't help matters. He wandered r.round the deserted hotel corridors In the morning feeling -ut terly lost. Nearly every one seemed to' be going out to dinner to some, place where he was urgently desired. Four times he strolled over to the desk and looked casually up at bia box, but there were no mail and no presents for Maj. Robert Lee Carter. The last time he had really de cided to give up and ring up some business associate to take dinner with him at the hotel. But he saw a let ter in his box, and the clerk handed him a curiously shaped parcel, rather bulky and oval. He took lt up to bis own rooms, snd opened it with a funny little thrill ot anticipation. By George, he was wrong. There was somebody, he didn't know who it was, but there was somebody who had remembered bim. The last wrap per fell off, and he stood staring down at a little homemade' willow basket, filled with mistletoe. A card on top read, "Love and Merry Christmas from Pam." Pam? He remembered ho Pam. He opened the letter for enlighten ment, and as he read, hts heavy gray eyebrows drew closer 'together, and every now and then he ejaculated, "God bless my henrijusd -soul!" 'You won't remember me nt all, but I'm Pamela Grayson, and my mother was your, sister's .'aughter, so I'm your grandniece, * -e ? Mother died about a year ago, just after we came north, and I h?vn bAAn here alone ever since. S didn't; even know you were silfo until cousin Florrie, cf Carter's Landing, down home, wsote and told me to shara this mistletoe with you, for she had- gathered) lt in the old oak grove where you used to go when you were a little boy. Here's wishing you a merry, merry Christ mas, and I wish I knew you, because lt does certainly get fearfully lone some here In New York holiday time when you haven't any one of your very own." . Tho telephone bell rang sharply Just as the major was about to say "God bless my heart and soul" once ugatn. But he lifted the receiver, and smiled at the voice that answered bia hall. "Delighted. Ralph, delighted, my boy, but you Bee, 1 ara going to havel a young lady guest' here to dinner with me, my grandniece, sir, from Virginia. Now, Instead of my Joining ypu in your bachelor apartments, sup posing you Join us, and try and com pensate to her for having a surely old chap for a dinner partner. Name's Miss Pamela Grayson. Coma right down." Then he emited, and Kept on smil ing In tho oddest, happiest way. And ha leaned back In hts deep leather chair, and Ht a cigar, and watched th? smoke ringa form 'Overhead, and smiled up at them. He bad four sla ters. Pam's grandmother had been the youngest. And now somehow, they wera all gone, as he thought, "tho way of the roses," and he waa alone. He had rather lost track of an the nieces and nephews and grand nieces and grandnephews. Sentiment does not thrive In tho New York at mosphere, yet aa he .'looked at the letter, he felt an odd glow of pride, and he held the *lttl* basket of mis tletoe out at arm's length, smiling retrospectively. Many a time he had gone up to the old oak grove to gather lt for his mothar to decorate the great hall at Christmas. And how this lit tle Pam The major rose suddenly with Quick Intention. Five minutes later he waa, on hfs way op to the address ia the lotter. Upstairs two flights he climbed, and Upped at the low top door with ! ita modest card: "Pamela Grayson ** . She stood at th* easel with her ihack to him, c big niue apron on, and (fha was singing, ! "Oh. holy town ot Bethlehem. ' How atilt we adi thee tte. Above thy deep sad dream! sss ates? i The silent atara go by." Tte major stood at attention, but abe tornad and caught Bight she gave a tittle cry of Joy. Inda Bobt How did you con? av* to mer* Bb, but she was bonnie, thought the major approvingly; very much like her grandmother in her girlhood, soft brown bands of hsir around her small head, and wistful, childish gray eyes. lt took him about ten minutes to coax her into a "real" dress, ss she ?sid, and down into the waiting taxi. And how fast she talked. There were years to catch up, she .told him, and ss long as there was only the two of them left in New York to up hold the pride of the Csrters "There's* one more, child," warned the major. "Hut he ls very distantly connected, very. He is about your nineteenth cousin, but be ls to dine with us, Ralph Carter." Pam sat very still, and did not speak, looking straight ahead of her. "Ever bear ot him?" asked the major. "I just love his shadow," said Pam solemnly. "If it's the same one. I've tried and tried to paint pictures that would sell, and finally I coaxed an old dealer on the avenue to let one Of my Virginia gardens ntanri In ht? window awhile. i ou know Aunt Anna belle's rose garden with the aun dial, snd the old white coach house iu the back? Well, it was snapped up by a Mr. Ralph Carter. And he wanted to know if I had more Virginia scenes. Bo I sent down the oak grove at sun down along in November, with a big orange harvest moon stealing over the edge of the bill, and he bought that And now I'm painting the old flagged walk under the grape arbor, with lt all sunshiny, and Mammy Martha Ann coming along from the outdoor kitchen with a big covered platter of fried chicken, and he's go ing to take that." Tho major leaned back .his head, laughing and shaking with pure en joyment. Up- on the Hudson, st Hast? inga, stood Raiph Carter's bachelor home, and he had made it ahuost a replica of the old ono in Virginia. She Stood at the Kassi With Her Bsok te Him. Successful In every way In New York, ho bsd clung to the old southern tra ditions almost fiercely, this tall, lesa, clear-eyed lawyer. "And so bo's bees sassing your pictures all over his walls," exclaimed the major. "God bless my heart and soul, child. Thia ls certainly a merry Christmas fer us all." Pam was rather grave, though, as they went through the splendid red and gold, corridors of the great hotel. The dinner was to be very select snd private up in the major's reception room and she wondered what thia dis tant cousin would be like. He was all she had wasted him. to be. Even Pam could find no fault as abe sst next to him at the round table. And oh, after years of lonely striving among strangers; how lt made her cheeks glow and her heart boat to hear these two, the splendid did major and Ralph, ide with each other In their delightful courtesy sad com pliments. "You don't know "how good lt in. to find some one of your very own,"[sha said, when the major had gone out after the dinner was over. "Don't I?" said Ralph, smiling down at her. "i've put in about fourteen years up here, and only the major to give me a cousinly greeting now andi then. ?I'm mighty glad to find another one, even if she ls a nlne: teenth one. The major tells me be's going to take a house fori you and himself." "Why." Pant caught her breath Quickly. "I didn't know that" "So I will see a gr?at deal ot you, I hope." He stopped and looked into her eyes. Someway they wavered 'under his gase. Tba major*? votas hailed them. "God bless my heart and soul, boy, cac" ydn see she's nader the mistle toe, I hang lt there on purpose.". , Ralph stooped, and pressai a kiss on the warm, half-averted ptah cheek, while the major draak their health. "And to oar seat CWM?gSM getber, th? little Pam. end roj^W boy, and this old chap who'll never be lonely again." - . "To ?ext Christmas." pledged Ralph. "Will yon kiss me then, ram,*" Bat Pam's eyas only sh one with happiness, aa? very demurely she an swered the toast: "To next Christmas !*" tCoarrlRfct. Meeter* H?ww?jwc Syndicat* > By SOrUT f. OOOLO HIS WM . frail-looking little girl, who had been r*eIf-Bup porting for over three y , ira, .Ince ber mother died, and waa tired now, aa fha walked through the street crowded with shopgirls Uko herself. Listlessly, In order for a minute to avoid the onrush ot hurrylnr humana, she paused before a shop win* dow where antiques of all kinds were grouped attrac tively. There waa little in the window to interest a mite 1 of a ghi earning a paltry $6 Ia week, yet of a sudden her eyes, a moment before so tired, lighted excitedly, and a casual observer might have noticed how exqulsite - iy beautiful they were. The tired line of her mouth also relaxed, and hopefully she stepped closer to the plate glans and peered for a long, concentrated moment at a silver tea caddy of quaint design. After a second's hesitation nbe opened the door and walked bravely into th > UtUe shop. "The tea caddy t" she asked of the woman who greeted ber inquiringly. "How much ls it?" "The little silver one ?" Th e woman looked her surprise, as she noted the shabby black coat and much-worn skirt. - "You wanted to buy it?" abe asked kindly, for Something in the girl's eyes made her know she was in earnest. "It Is IIB.**' . "Twenty-five dollars!" the ?fri gasped, and as suddenly aa lt t.ad come -the brightness left her eyes. "Twenty-five," she repeated. "I'm afraid I could never afford that." She gripped her pay envelope firmly and, turning, walked out of the shop. In her tiny room, es she cooked her meager dinner over the gas plate, and later, when lying wide awake in her narrow bed, she thought of the beau tiful tea caddy. She thought until lt became a cherished Ideal, vested with wonderful scenes among the great 'people of the world. The following day she neglected her lunch, and hurried to the shop to once more view the wonderful caddy. When she entered the woman greet ed her warmly, for the expression In her 'eyed bad proved haunting to the woman all the past night. "Did you really want to buy the caddy?" she asked, aa abe handed lt to the girl, "for if you do--*' 'T must buy it," ehe interrupted, aa she took it reverently in her twp jJto?tU- *3>?U. miii&Z *Ji?.T5pney all at once." She hesitated. ''How much could you; pty ?" The - -suddenly understood tho girl's need, and a great kindness came to her. "Perhaps we could coma to terms." "I koro *2 that I have saved, and ! think I can spare 50 cents each week. I only make $6," she added, apologet ically. "Six dollars!" the woman gasped, as the enormity of the girl's project cam? to her. "You may have lt at your own terms," she said impulsively. "Ohl" Fdr a moment the girl held it to her breast, then abe handed the money without regret to the woman. In the days that followed the woman became very fond of thejgirl, for she came, often to gase with awe upon the silver caddy of quaint design, and In the short visits the woman learned to know what a difference au ideal can make in a Ute., in.watching; Ute girl s lovo for the thing that kept her poorer ttratt abe need have been the woman found her own life broadening. Christmas eve a young man per trled to buy. the caddy, until the woman finally fold him Ute story of ita. sale. He listened In wonder, abd then asked tor the name of the girl, who seemed so ?Teat a marvel tha? he wanted his mother to see and help her. The rfeame awning, after the young man ,hhd left. Ute girl mads her finial payment, and with a wild Joy throb* in her heart carried the tea home, and with tt a be?uUfsJ. of holly,'a festive touch from the woman. She had pinched hard to save th? 50 Cents each Week, but her reward waa great, and worth the happiness the ideal bsd always given her. ft waa again Christmas eve, and a dainty .woman? wrapped In a soft fur coat, .opened the door ot the little shop, and with extended hand earn* bo the woman. "Merry CbriensaaV abe exclaimed. "Dont *">u remember mer* in the deep, winjbme eye* there waa, ??etlWaa fr millar, and soddenly the woman threw her arms about th*.#rt; nag ^verras n?er her ?ead espied the shan. A ;-j "We.hav* just been ssarricd," he ex plained. "My mother fourni har tor me, and we wanted to come to thank yen for wtat you have done." 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