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6 LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS. Dear Old Santa Claus: I want you to bring me a doll and a carriage and a piano anil Indian suit. \nd a litle doll house and some good r'rult to eat. I have been good and jl nave utTii ^uuiK iu miiuui aim 1 am in the 3rd grade. Your friend, KOSA WARDEN. Lancaster. S. (V, Pocembtjh lb. Dear Santa Claus? I am a little girl eeven years old. I want you to come to see me. Please bring me a big doll with brown curly hair and a rocking chair for it to sit in. Good bye. CONNIE PITTMAN. Lancaster, S. C. Route 3. Dear Santa Claus; I am sending you a leter to tell you what 1 want you to bring me Christmas. I want a little wagon and a bugle and some apples and candy, oranges, i pokoful of nuts I have a little nephew. Ito i it.n >n. Who wants sonic fruit and a bugle and a little In rse. I am a good little boy. We are on y three . cars old LITTLE I). J. IIINSON. Rich Hill. S. C. My Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl sixe years old and go to school every day. 1 will not ask much of you this year, as times Is hard. I want a doll and a picture book and all good kinds of fruits. Good-bye. MARY IIINSON. Rich Hill. S. C. Dear Old Santa:?I am 9 years old. Bring me a little rifle and a bicycle. Also remember my little brother and bring hint some nice presents, a trycicle and me a little wagon. My little brother is Edgar. Front POOVHY BECKHAM. Lancaster, S .C., Dec. 2, 1914. Dear Old Santa Claus:?T ant a little girl 12 years old. I would be glad for you to bring me some nice presents. 1 want a doll and a pair of skats and some fruits find candy and a doll carriage. Front DORA BECKHAM. Lancaster, S. Dec. 2. 1914 . Dear Santa Claus:?Christmas will soon be here and I thought I would notify you so you would know what I want you to bring inc. Dear Old Fellow, 1 want you to bring me a nice ring and some other nice things and some fruit. I have al ways been pleased and hope the same this Christmas. From your friend, MA I'D BLACKMOX. Lancaster ,S. ('., Dec. 1. 1914. Dear Old Santa Claus: I ant a little girl iust six year., old. and you know that it will soon be time for you to come to see tne. I will tell you what T want you to bring me. a teddy hear, doll house, some nice fruit. Yours truly, EFFIE P. BLACKMOX. Connie Pittman, Donr Santa (Mans: As Christmas is most here ami 11?# war is going on 1 thought I bettor tot yon lour front nm I want yon to please bring mo ai) Indian nit and lots of irni and ' a:wl\ I< 1hi i not askitu: for to mjli yon might teave me a little more/ Hoping to l.oi.r from mi (Miristn >s. KTTA MA!-: P.LACKMu\*. Rodt o Dear Santa < inns: Please brim; 1110 a do!l and a 1 it11* pT.mo " it. T guess tliis is enough f?>i . you have so nta:y ohildron. M> little sister, Mildred, wants i doll and some nice things to oat. So good-bye, Santa Clans. Front JRSSIK AND MILDRRD HRLMS. Lancaster, S. C. ,K. F. D. -t. Dear Old Santa:-?Please call and bring me sonte -nko presents, brinb nie a little rockinf^WiaJr and a doll and a carriage, bring little brother a wagon and a tricycle. I am seven Years old iiml enlnir tn ootm.vl ? iii the second grade. I wilt tjinnk you very much Santa if you wilt call ' bring me some nice presents, bring So good-night. OVEA KOREKTA. 1 Lancaster, S. ('., Dec. L 1 # 1 -i. Dear Old Santa:- Wil' you please' come to our house Christmas and bring me some fire crackers and a little banjo and a heap of other things, and Jessie, she wants a big doll and carriage and a hi? sack of pinders, and don't forgrt to bring IPMe Connie a rubber klt'.le and she lo\ es oranges. Wo wlH be good !f you will come. If it is raining ' wit! go and meet yo i with mv littlo v agon. Oood-hve, Santa. WILLIE P. \Y Mf VTEF.R. i. ancaster, S. C. ltoute f> Dtar Santa: I want to write to yon to let you know wha' 1 war.t Christmas. I have a little brother four years old. We want you to bring us a little wagon, fruits and nuts. Please come to sec us, for we have ' been good little boys. Lovingly. JAMES AND CAUL RODGEHS. Osceola, S. ('., Dec. 5, 11 4. Your Cold In Dangerous llreuk It l"p? No\v * I~ -?in-- ? n iuiu mauiiy c-aicning. A run- j down system is suscepdhe to Germs. You owe it to yourself and to others of your household to Ight the Germs at onee. Dr. Bell'r Pine -Tar-Honey is fine for Golds and Coughs, It loosens the Mucous, 3fops the Cough and soothes the Lungtj. It's guaran teed. Only 256 at your Druggiot. Hear Santa Claus; I am writing ! I you a very short letter, asking you . to bring me a cowboy's outfit and ' lots of fireworks. I would be glad ' to have a bridle and whip for my goat, fruits, candy and nuts of all j kinds, and sister wants a doll ! (cradle, trunk and sewing box. -Your Mtiie friends. TALMAU12 AND ISA HULL FKH- [ | tsrsoN. Lancaster, S. (\, Dec. 7, 1 !* 14. j( Dear Santa Claus:?I am a little girl four years old, and live just be-j, yond the depot. I want you to bring me a doll and doll carriage, a nice picture book and lots of fruit and ;1 candy. Your little friend. EDNA STOGNEIL < Lancaster, S. C., Dec. 7, 11* 14. , ________________________ iikx puttin-it-off j; lie Takes Martliy to tlie County Fair j Deer Editor: I was consider.tbel . suprized 1 day bnk to got a letter j out of the poast offis. I opened it rite away an' found it was an invito i to tiio county fare, it sod me and j my fumly was accordingly and re- | sportively invited to atend the Hr: cnli 1 county faro, li went on to say tknir i was to be awl kities of an < :t ; ti moasi everything you wanted to, i etc. Ac.. on' we was welctim to all ; they was goin'. f I was mity pleezed to think that I they giv me a printed invite, an' 1 a toald Marthy 1 bleeved Ide go up an' taik it inn. Marthy loud it was e my poket hook they was so corjal t ' toUut ennyway, she sez, "less go s an' have a good tyrae for wunce, if it duz cost a littel munny." 1 1 wan't a flggerin' on her i.'goin', i | l>ul she soecod so shure I wanted to tier tnat I didn't no how to get j h t it. I node it worn! cost duo| bel if she went, but I ben plannin' jd to taik her out an' show her a good ' \ tyme for :i or 4 years, an* jes kep li I puttin' it off. | c "Well, if it doun't cost moarn ?i , c ! ijuarter apeece wee'l go," sez I. We planned to start erly, but Sam 1 i Slackem cum over abbut 7 o'clock ; e i an' we got to tawkin.' an' delaide me a cuppel of ours. Then when i <' was reddy to hich up 1 cohln't And ' I the lynes. 1 hunted the place over til 1 hapened to rember having 'em to draw watter with at the barn wel. ia (The red caf got holt of the draw r 1 roap an chawed it up the other day ' I ben atnin' to by a ney roap, but 11 jest kep putting it oft. T11KY FINALLY CKT STAKTKI) 1 i It was lo o'clock at last when we ' ilroave oil', with Martljy lussin' lie- s caws we was rite in the licet of the x day. When we got to the fare ground s I got out of the wagon an went to tin- ' feller setting at the little winder by 8 by the gait, an. nhodo him my invite. "Advortizin' stuff, frend." Jio sez; ' "L'5 sense eacll for self an' 4!uiy and' ^ "5 for the teent' 1 ' "Six hits!" J exclamed. 1 I stood all' steddied .i hit. I baited ' like l ew ry to pay out that much niun ' ney lir silt' seein,. "Hurry up. pleeze," sez lie. "Doan' pluck ilic gait way." "Don't you be so snippy to a cash <"iisiiminer, sun," sez I. hut 1 dug up a hat an' a quarter an' gi\ him, an. ( In gi\e Pa! the likcis, an' 1 handed 'cm to the gait man an' we droave in. We sio| i under ,i tret an' unhitcth , an I tin iiuli' sum . trav. over the lioo o\ of dinner Wirthy had hrot j n a.i i started out. tho I didut' no whalr we was gain'. . I noerlj f ergot to greeve about my i? hits when we begin wuching the j crouds. That was more people thair ^ than Idee seen sence the last sirkus. IT WAS A NOISY DAY. ^ Tliay was a steddy rore of tawk an' lalfin." with Mary-go-round mc-w ( sik with red hubher squawkers a skuakin' an the stand men farely yellin' thair heds off. It put me in mind of the tour of j Babble an' the eonfewsion of tungs oanly of course I was t thair when ^ that happen. V/e finely hrot. up in front of the ^ "Daldes hall; we see the naim of it over ilie (lore. They was't nuthin' i thalr but wimmen's flxin's?dresses ^ an' quilts an* fansy wurk, etc,' &<:. ! "Vew go in here," sez I to Marthy, , "an' lie go an' hunt up the plaice whair they air showin' the cattle a'n < hogs." "Wei, cum bak by noon," sez sh,e ' an' toald be whair to find her. I wept an' sene the live stock. ? V Thay some fine anlmlles thair. I bin amin' to bet sum o' that Rood ^ stock for a long tyme, but I Jest put- j tin' it off. _ T After I watch the horse ralcing awhlle it was tyme or dinner, an' I i T begin to feel lank. I thot Ide get the box of dinner an' weed go an' eat in the ampyfheater I hunted a bit beforel sited the wagln. uoin bait with my box I past ?i plaice whair a lot o' fellers wan ' throwin' at doll ^abya on wyroa Ywe pado nickel a throw, an' If yew hit " 1 yew got a quarter. ^ I loud makbe I could bet bak part of my aix bits Ide spent, so I tse 1c my shoo box doun an took 4 trows, *3 but I never liit a think. ^ An' whenl turned around for my w THE LANCASTER NEW * i)'j\ it was Kono. I 3 or 1 toilers t thane seen it, but they t n l se, no, tit* I seen I mite as wel y'v it up. Thay is times when it anl't no yews Lo tel awl yew no, so 1 jest toahl Matrhy somebuddy had stoald tin < .nor. She lolt'i she was to blatm or not takin" it with iter. 'tie no an' K' t a sack of pop corn \ir dinner " sez i, but Marthy !o?i.l ihu wanted soumthin* more subs.uiiillOl. lie Ret u cuppel of sandtviches, then,'' Martliy Stands Treat "Now. see hear, Ben Puttin-it-off," jez Merthy, "1 ain't eat a meel of snny 1 elses eookin' for 5 yeers, in' line Roin to by us a Rood dinner it that tent down youder. J brot iloiiR a doller of my ej?R money in' bein' as I aut to a wacht that jrub liox, I'll stand trete." I toald her that ffb sense woud jy a lot of slioogar an' coffy, an' was i site of munny ',o eet at 1 meel. tut thay can't uoboddy say I ain't ibberal with, my wife, so I took the nunny an' sex earn on. After dinner Martliy met sum win. ii 'ii she node an' 1 went down to loot, ifter the teem. Goln' bak I seen i eller sellin' tikela for a line top illrrv, so I rot a cnpplo of draws it a dime each. The feller had a littel blind foaldd ri:rl draw a No. from a box. an' hen hered it to the eroud. "The number winnin' this hanuni prize," he sez, "is i3,324." I looked at my tickets an' see that of them had 1 it, an' I begin pushn' throo the croud. "Here I am Mister,'* I sez. glvln' ilm my paste horde. He looked at the tiket an' lalde it oun an' looked at me an' laffed. "Not tills time, Ruben," sez he lundin' me link the ticket. "This alls for 13,534, about 2b0 difTernse. I looked agin an' see he was rite. "That's jest my luck," sez I. an' ver boddy laffed. When 1 loft, sum spoarty lookin' hap with a white soot rn' a ehok ap was claimin' the buggy. . . . Mart by llad a < ??<??l Time 1 weni down to the ampytheayter n' found Martliy an tald her 1 was eddy to go hoatn. She didn't seem o be in no hurry an' sed she didn't io when she had as good a time. She laffed an' tawkod all the way loam, an' toald about the funny hings she had seen. I was kinder oared on the fare in^iolf. but she vas s? livened up i. tfluld her that if lie was real s: vin" an' litis e!ed liar I in the egg muiiny niayby weed go igin next year. "Less do, lien," alio sez; "less lav a littel fun as we go long. Wo'er rettin' old fast ennff." the* about the Innarli box an" the linner hot with the egg tnunny an' t sootnod she needed a littel en urrigemeiit. So I sez: "All rite, Martliy, we'el go." N'oboddy can't say 1 anin't lihbcri! with my wife. Ren Puttin-it-off. I'll \ IS!'. ..ct >is halt now for spr.ro in our hurrying, rhese lists are sent to hoards of < minting of u^ take time to look up and look out: .rt us rofu for a spell to be worrying : .et us decline both to question and doubt, f one goes caviling lair-splitting, flaw-hunting ?ready for strife? ill the best pleasure is tnlssed in the traveling inward through light. UKt for today we will put away sorrowing? ust for today not a tear shall be shed, Tor will we fear anything, or go bor rowing 'ain from the future by profitless dread. 'bought shall go froliclng, leasuring, treasuring everything bright? anting the joy that is found just in rollicking >nward through the light. ust for today all the ills that need bettering /e will omit from our note book of mind. 11 that is good we will mark by red lettering; hose things alone we are seeking to find, hinge to be sad over, Ine over, whine over?pass them, I say! othing is noted save what we are glad over? his is Praise Day. -Ella Wheeled Wilcox In tJood [ousekceping. ET THE L.ITTLE NEWS ADS do the work?A few months ago a >cal merchant placed a little twenr-five cents notice In this column, Dmething like this: "7 pounds of reen coffee for $1.00." This one ant ad sold 140 pounds. \ V B. DECEMBER 8, 1914. Bi i n? < r FROM n ps j j Sj^OK t I CTART the 1 ^ ^ the hreakfns | the wh< le room I The food tastes bett I for the whole family B The Perfection is ai I extra heat is ncede< | kerosene ? easy to use. It is smokcles At hardware and furnit I STAND I Waahington, D. C. H Norfolk, Va. I Richmond, Va. EESChZZhm^^MZBI ? Captain of Kmdcn Miwier of Ironic! < "ourtesy San Francisco, Dec.2.?The reckless daring and ironic courtsey of Captain von Mueller of the German cruiser Enuleii, lately destroyed by the Australian cruiser Sydney, are illustrated In ancedot#s by Captain Phillips of the Standard Oil Tanker Wabassa which narrowly missed captun' by the Emden in the Straits of I Malacca. When seeking prizes the Emden j , whuuld ask In English, "Have you; I seen the German cruiser Emden?" "No." would come the answer, dis- i closing the proximity of a merchant.-! ; man. | "Thank you," would he von Muel- ! I ler's reply, "we'll he alongside di-. redly. Prepare for the worst." While Captain Phillips was at Calcutta the tale was told on the quays of how von Mueller had nearly sue- ; ceeded beguiling the commandant there into furnishing him with sup- j j lilies. "This is the itritish cruiser (lamp- ' ' shire, "came a code message from the mouth o:" Hoofelie river. "Send us con I and provisions." A barge whk actually loaded and dispatched. Captain Phillips was told and would have been delivered, but for th?' arrival of an Italian merchantman which sighted the Kmden and brought word of von Mueller's presence. "Thank you for your courtesy," he (lashed back when he learned that his ruse had been uncovered. "Hope to 1 meet you later. Have the beer ready." I Germans Krase Foreign Names from Menus Amsterdam, via London, Dee. 2.? The resolve of the crmans to be ex- , jclualvely German nnd to expel even (i i from their menus all foreign words 1 'has led to the compilation of a small ! book which goes over the whole . That Irritating jp Itch can be prom; tly relieved if K you seek the right remedy. I I Your Eczem i may he the I I result of a variety of causes, I I u... ...u_._-.I uui muicvcr hi origin ? whether from improper diet or hereditary*?there's one reliable, guaranteed palliative? Ex - Zema - Fo It ia odorless, colorless and cannot stain the clothing. A pure, liquid preparation for outward application, guaranteed to give quick ami permanent relief, or money refunded. A printed agreement to this effect goes with every bottle. This is the only Eczema Remedy that is sold with suc h a guarantee. Put up in SOc and $1 j bottles. FOR SA1.8 BY ' STANDARD DKUG COMPANY. Court touching hii Bankruptcy. Wherefore, he irays the he may ' be declared by thi i Court to have a full discharge fron all debts provable against his estat under the said j Bankrupt Acts, ex 'ept such debts as are excepted by li w from such dls- i rharge. Dated this lft dr v of November, A. D. 1014. , k. II. ROBBINS ' Bankrupt. Order of Not re Thereon District of 11. 0. Mi On this 2R day ol Nov. A. D. 1914, on reading the f< regolng petition, | it Is? i Ordered by tl e Court, that a hearing be had upoi the same on the tlflt dnv of Decemlx r A. D. 1914, before snid Court at Charleston 8. C., In said District, at m o'clock in the forenoon, and that irotlce thereof be published in The iJnncaster News, n newspaper printed bi Hald District, and that all known\creditors and other persons in Intenwt may appenr at the said time and place and show cause. If any they hfwe, why the prayer of the said petitioner should not be grnnted. I And It Is Further Oidered by the Court, that the Clerk shall send by mall to all known creditors copies of said petition and this brder, address- i ed to them, at their/places of reel- i dence as stated. / Witness the Honorable H. A. M. i Smith. Judge of the said Court, and the Seal thereof at/Charleston. 8. C. In said District on/the 26th of Nov. A T\ 1 A r\ # u, j jf i Rlchhrd W Hudson I Clerk U. S. D. C. 8 C. ( T?E CHILL THE liLEAKFAST ] /: ^'3' J?L?.$J QJLl HEAr Perfection Heater goino five i t hour; hy the time tl e fain i is warm and cozy. cr ? everybody feels better. Its a bull] i ever-ready comfort. It is lighflr? you d ? sewing-room or cellar, bedrobm o handle and inexpensive ? and costsNjioi s and odorless. ure stores everywhere. Look for the Triangle ARD OIL COR (NEW JERSEY) BALTIMORE ground of the kitchen, and supplies substitutes for the numerous foreign words at present applied to a vari ? ty of German dishes. Some of the ti'les provoke humorous comments! from the German papers, many is famous is henceforth to be known as Lcckereinen or tit-bits. I Sauces, which have hen known by j their French cognomen, art* to he called Heiguesse? supplement rv t fluids. A mutton "chop'' must be called in German a double mutton t in in the pot in citizen'.! fashion." b.iu piece," and Irish stew "mut Mil. C. L. McMAN'US, county demonstrator for Lancaster county, will be at the Chamber of Commerce, in Springs block, every Saturday Irom 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. 'J-tf NOTICK In tlie District Court of the t nited Stall's lor tlm District of S. In I he matter of A. H. Jlobblns, Rankru pt. To the Honorable U. A. M. Smitn, Judge of the District Court of the I nited Slates lor tlio District ui South Carolina; / A. II. Itobbins of Lancaster, in tlie ( (ilini v Dl' I aiwucLit/ oml v't.-to . ? S. in said Districts respectfully represents that on Hi J 9 day of January last past he wuh duly adjudged Bankrupt under the/acts of Congress relating to Bankruptcy; that he has duly surrendered Jail his property and rights of property, and has fully complied with allJthe requirements of said acts and ofl the orders of the span 'H ROOM JJN I rERS I minutes before B . ily gets down b r morning send-oft i carry it wherever r parlor. It burns thing when not in Trade-Mark. 1PANY Charlotte, N. C. Charleston, W.Va. Charleston, S. C. I t 3Ba ? % WOODWARD SAYS We sell the llest Lamps * and have all elegant \ line o l'Fleeirie Fixtures on halid. Also Plumbing U clods. All vork guaranteed and the Underwaters al- , ways approve! it. Standard Plumbing & ELECTRIC CO. Located in basement of Telephone building. Residence Phone 64. Office Phone 399. "Unless We Make Good, No Charge." L ?i NOTICE. k* To the Stockholders of the Catawba Fertilizer Company: You will take notice that a meeting of the stockholders of the Ctawba Fertilizer Conrpany w'.ll be held at the ofllce of the Oompany at Lancaster, South Carpllna, on the 8th tiay or December, 11914, for the purpose of conslderlr g the advisability of Increasing the c lpiUil stock of the corporation from Eighty Thousand ($80,000.00) Dol ars to One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars. ' The said neeting is called pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors of the corporation passed on the 30th day of October, 1914. L. O. LA ZEN BY, 13-19 Secretary. CITATION. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lancaster. By J. E. Stew man, Judge of Probate Whereas, J. 11. Caskey has made suit to me to gran htm letters of administration of the estate and ef forts of S. Reeee C iskey, deceased These are, theref >re, to o'.te and admlnish all and sii gulnr the kindred and creditors of the said dec ms"d, ihat they be at d appear before me. In the court o probate, :o be held at Lancaster o i 1st day of Decomber next, after [ ibllcation thereof at 11 o'clock in Uie forenoon, to show cause. If anv they have, why tlin fcnirl 41 ' * ...... uuiuuHBiiucion anouid not bo granted. Given under my hand, this 17th r'.if> of November, Anno Domntal, llil*. J. E. STEWMAN, ^ Probate Judge.