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Pikens Seninebaournal VUDJSBBD UBVX TRUP.5DAT NORMUI -BY The Bontinolournal Company. TBOMPsoN & Rwimm, Pxous. J. L. 0. THOMPSON, EDITOR. Subscription $1.00 Per Annum. Advertising Rates Reasonable. Dntered at Pickenis Pastofflos s econd OlAs Mail Matter' PICKEN~S, 8. 0.: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26 1907. CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS. Christmas is upon us It is the festival of the home and the season when the hearts of the fathers are turned tu the children and the feet of the children turn back to the homes whence they went out. Little ones hail its coming with exuberant glad ness, and older people enter into its festiities with eub4ued pleasure, in which memories of home behind and hopes of the home ahead are strange. ly mingled with present joys. What a time it is for cultivating domestic affections and invigorating the virtues which root themselves in these loveel Whence came our Christian homes? They are not found in pagan lands dwelling places are there, but not homes. Nor are they. found in lands where Christian influences are feeble and Christian institutions are formal -there are lodgings and eating houses. The idea of home comes from him, who, though homeless upon the earth, hath set the sclitary in families-from him of whom the whole family in heaven and earth are named. Accordingly, at this season our doors should be wide open to his coming in, and nothing else admitted which would shut him out, He knows how to enter into a festive oc easion, and sympathizes with human joy as really as human sorrow. His presence at our feasts will not dimin ish their gladness, but exalt their s9tisfaction. And now, while merri ment reigns in all our homes, let us invite him to sup with us. Let the children play with the babe of Beth lehem among them, while the angels of Bethlehem sing over them. Let the youthful keep company with the earnest, obedient boy of Nazareth. Let them who come into the Christ. mnas season out of life's busy care come apart with Him to rest awhile and be fed by His hand. Successful BIllPassers. --Who is the most successful bill passer in congress?" was a query pro. pounded the other day to Speaker Cannon by an inquisitive representa tive. As a rule Mr. Cannon can answer questions of this kind without reference to reports and records, but he admitted he was "up a stump." "If I had two guesses," he said, "I *should guess Babcock, or, Sulloway. Mr, Babcock, of Wisconsin, was'for many years chairman of the commit tee on the District of Columbia. Mr. Sulloway, of New Hampshire,is chair man of Uommittee on InvalidPensions. By reason of holding these chairman. ships Mr. Babcock and Mr. Sulloway had many calls on their time from persons outside their respective die tricts, and it was natural that the speaker should have selected them as the members wbo would be shown by the records as charged with the past age of many bills. S'r. Cannon did not make a good guess, for it appears that Represent ative Wyatt A iken, of Abbeville, 8. C., led all his colleagues in bill-passing last winter. Alr. Aiken is a Demc crat, and, naturally, is "agin the administration." Thirty bills intro duced by him passed both branches ol the Republican corngress last win ter and were signed by a Republican prrndent. Mr. Aiken never held political office until his election to congress four years ano. He has not bates, and probably not. one of his colleagues is aware of his success in seourin(I the enaactinent of bills in which he is is'terested. None of the thirty Aiken bills is a'Ameasure of large public concern, most of them being private bills, or bills of special interest to the Third district of South Carolina. Nine of them provide for the buildlug of bridges over South Carolina navigable streams. Representative Don 0. Edwards, of Kentucky, vas a close second to Mr. Aiken. Twenty-nine measures intro duced by Mr. Edwards found their way last vinter to the statutes of the United States. Mr. Edwards is a Republican. The fift y-ninth con gress was hie first appearance in Washington as a natioial lawmaker. Messrs. Edwards aid Aikin com pletely outclassed veterans and lead ers like Speaker Cannon and Repre sentatives Payne, Dalzell. Williams and Clark- Only nine of Mr. Dal zell's 'bills became laws last winter. Representative Payne, the Republican floor-leader, had twenty-one bills favorably reported, fourteen of which became laws. John Sharp WillIIms, the minority leader, succeeded in hav ing fil of his bills pass both houses and receive executive approval. Nine bills offered by Mr. Williams were favorably reporthd by committees. Seven bills fatheied by Champ Clark became laws, while thirteen of Mr. Cannon's measures were approved by both branobes of congress and the president. Representative Brownlow, of Ten - nessee, introduced more bills in the last congress than any other member of the body. In the first session of that congress he proposed nearly 400 bills, and in the second sessi(. n he offered about fifty more. Most of the BrownL. w bills were private pen sion bills. 0O0y two bills introducod in the Fifty-ninth congress by Representa tive Bourke ( ockron were enacted into laws. Representative Sulloway. who, the speaker thought, might lead the list, had twventy-four of his bills passed last winter. Fourteen of . Representative Babcock's bills became laws. Repre sentati Ve Jeannina, of Wiconsiu, chair. mai of the Committee on Judiciary, bad ton bills favorably reported, 'bul only two of them passed the House. . Several years ago a critio of con gress divided the members-into 1wc classes, namely. "those.who do," and "those who, dine." This classificationj i~s not accurate or just, but it would appear that those who are most pr ominent.. in the pubjic eye;-.in the %lobates, and in the framing of. legis lation, ar 'n'ot the men who can measure their success as lawmaker by the number of their bills thct run the gauntlet of congressional and executive approval.- [Wash. Cor. N. Y. Eve. Post. T HESE GOODS MUST GO Lamp enimneys 4c, 10 cent gente collar 5o Stove pans 12 @ 14c Matches 4c, can hominy 8o, cofree10, Soda 4o, Baking powders 4, j gal. coffee pot 12c. pint cups 8o, half gal, covered buckets 9c, Pot covers 8o, can peacher 1ic, well pulleys 20i, bowles and pitch. era 70o @ $1.14, Lanterns 500, 10.0 IbE Liberty Bell @ 25, chambers 20o, tiE buckets 20o, dippers 40, axle grease 4c, lantern globes 9c, extracts 8c, 5c kind 4o, soap 81, 9 lovely pictures 900 each, 8 lovely pictures $1.19 each, mens hate 42c @ $1.59, well buckets 41c, dolls 8 to 25c, $1 umbrella 75o, $1.25 umbrellaa 90o. 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