The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 12, 1916, Image 7
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The Story of a Mum
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so-great grandfather
of Happy .lack
Sqtilrrel, whose
name was Happy
Jack, too, was
scampering along
the Lone LJttle Path that comes down
the hill through the Green Forest.
He was happy, very happy, was Happy
Jack; which was quite as it should
be, for there was everything to make
him happy. His sides were fat with
the good things he had to eat. He had
a beautiful new coat to keep him warm
when rough Brother North Wind and
Jack Frost should come driving the
snow clouds to make white the Green
Meadows and change the Green Forest
until the little people who live there |
only in the summer would never, never
known it had they happened to have
come hack. But rough Brother North
Wind and Jack Frost had not come
yet, and Old Mother Nature was busy
preparing the Green Forest for them
and urging all th" little people to hur-ry
and make ready for them.
So Happy Jack scampered down the
Lone Little Bath and pulled over red
leaves nnd yellow leaves and brown
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Once Every Year, Came Merry Child
and Song Would Cut Young Pirn
I'sves to see what he could tlnu unaer
them, and his heart was happy, lor
his stomach was full, and you know u
full stomach, unless it be too full, almost
always makes a happy heart.
Now, as he pulled^over the red and
yellow and brown leaves, his sharp
eyes spied a little brown seed. It was
a homely little seed which had fallen
from a rough pine coue, and you and
I would very likely not have seen it
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thought It of no account. But Happy
Jack's eyes sparkled when he suw thut
homely little brown seed, for he knew
that It was very good to eat. ? f
Not that he was hungry. Ob, my,
no I There wasn't room In his stomach
for the least teeny, weeny bit more
Just then. But Happy Jack knew that
there might come a time when his
stomach would not be so full, und then
that little brown seed would taste oh,
' so good I |
Now, he had hidden a great many
little brown seeds and fat nuts near ;
the Lone Little Path, so when he
picked up this particular little brown
seed quickly he scampered over the dry
leaves until presently he came to the
edge of the Green Forest. He looked
this way and he looked that way to
see If anyone was watching him, and
when he was sure that no one was, ho
ran out a little way from the edge of
the Green Forest, dug a tiny hole in
the soft, warm earth with his paws,
dropped Into It the little brown seed
and covered It carefully.
"There," said he to himself, as be
scampered back to the Green Forest
to see what more he could find, 'every- i
one knows I live in the Green Forest '
and no one will think to look out here 1
fAtor things I have hidden.'
' Old Mother Nature, who knew Just '
what Happy Jack had done, smiled, for 1
she also knew that it was more than <
likely that Happy Jack would forget '
ell about that little brown seed, and If J
he did she hud a plan to use it her
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o?rn, una unppy Jack had saved her
some trouble, for, though ho didn't
know It, ho had planted it for her.
It all came about Just us Old Mother
Nature had thought It would. Happy
Jack never once thought of that particular
little brown seed, for he had
hidden plenty to eat ull the long winter
in the Green Forest. So the little
brown seed lay Just where he had hidden
It, until gentle Sister South Wind
came In the spring and with her soft
fingers opined ull the little brown
blankets of the leaf buds on the trees
which Jack Frost with his hard fingers
had been unable to open. Then Old
Mother Nuture remembered the little
brown seed, and she tyakened a little
fairy who was sleeping in the heart of
it, and the name of the little fairy was
the Fairy of Life.
So out from the warm earth sprang
a tender green shoot, which really was
a teeny, weeny i'lne-tree.
Jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun, looking
down from the (flue, blue sky, saw
it and smiled, and his smile made the
teeny, weeny IMne-tree very happy, for
it warmed the ground and comforted
the litt'.e roots growing there.
Old Mother West Wind, hurrying
past on her way to blow the whitesailed
sbit'S across the Great Ocean,
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ren, and Older Folk, and With Laugh
f Trees and Carry them Away.
saw the teeny, weeny Pine-tree anrl
sent some of her children, the Merry
Little Breezes, to drive up a shower
cloud that it might not go thirsty
But no one else saw the teeny, weeny
Pine-tree, or if they did see It, they
took no notice of It. Happy Jack
Squirrel ran right past and didn't so
much as look at it, for he had forgotten
all about hiding that hotnely little
brown seed In the ground there. Once
Peter Babbit, nibbling tender sweet
clover, nearly nipped off the nead ot
the teeny, weeny Pine-tree and didn't
even know it.
But nothing really happened to the
teeny, weeny Pine-tree, and It grew
and grew and was hannv. for it loved
Jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun and Old
Mother West Wind and the Merry
Little Breezes, and they loved it. So
It grew an(j grew, and when rough
Brother North Wind came again he
covered It deep with a soft blanket of
snow to Weep It warm all winter.
So the teeny, weeny Pine-tree was
kept safe all the long winter, and when
gentle Sister South Wind cnce more
came In the spring the teeny, weeny
Pine-tree began to grow again. It
grew and grew and grew and grew
until It wns no longer teeny, weeny,
but put out sturdy branches und was
very good to look upon und held Its
head high, for It was Indeed a neuutiful
young tree.
And for a time the young Pine-tree
wns very, very happy. But ufter a
while It began to feel lonely. All the
other Pine-trees were In the Green
Forest, and often it could hear them
whispering together and it longed to
whisper with them and could not, un<;
so It sighed and sighed, and Peter itan
bit passing tHat way often stopped t<
wonder what made such a nnndsoux
young Pine-tree seem so sad.
So the years passed and the youiu
Pine-tree became bigger than nuy oi
its neighbors In the Green Forest, and
becaino known as the Beautiful Blue,
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and was beloved of all the little people I
of the Green Forest and the Green '
Meadows, and guve them shelter and |
was happy.
Once every year, long after the nnts
had been gathered and all the world
seemed dreur and bare, came merry
Children, and older folk, and with
laugh und song and happy shout would
cut young Pine trees_and young Hemlock
trees und cnrry them away. At
first the Ileuutiful Pine had pitied the '
young trees, but when it saw that it :
was the possession of these trees that I
made the children so happy, it began
to envy them, and when Jack Frost |
told It of peeping in at many win-1
dows and seeing these little trees j
mnde beautiful with many lights, and '
hung with beautiful things to fill the j
hearts of little children with Joy, it
Siirhod mnro tlmn avm
"For," murmured the Beautiful Pine j
to the kindly stnrs, "I would gladly
give myself to put joy in the hear', of i
Just one Utile child; but, alas! I an
too hig. I nm too big. No little cliild
wants me because I nm too big."
So Christmas after Christmas the
Beautiful I'ine would watch the little
trees carried away and would murmur
sadly, "I can give Christmas joy
to not one little child because 1 nm
too big. too big." And the wandering
Night Wind would carry that sad murmur
through nil the Green Forest, "I
1 am too big. too big."
Then, one day, when the snow lay
white on the Greeu Meadows and in
j the Given Forest, and the Beautiful
I Pine had watched the little trees for
i Christmas carried away with laugh
i and shout, as it had for so many
I Christmases, came men and horses,,
and keen axes sent shivers clear to its
i beautiful top, until its proud length
! lay stretched on the snow. And some|
how the beautiful Pine cared not, for
j it so wanted to give joy to just one
little child, and it was too hig. ton big.
It was carried iuto a great city, and
there, in the \ .v heart of the great
city, the Beautiful I'ine was raised until
it stood as j mildly as it lift 1 stood
Just beyond the edge of the Green Forest,
and it was lun.g with many colored
lights until it was quite, quite the most
ueumitui that ever was. And there
entile riot one. hilt p thousand little
children, and they danced around the
Beautiful Bine, and laughter was in
their e^es, for joy wns in their hearts.
And they sang and their voices were
joyous. And they shouted and their
voices were merry. And they cried:
"It is the nvist beautiful tree !n all;
the world, for it is our Christmas
tree?the Christmas tree of all the
children!"
Then was the heart of the Beautiful
IMne, planted lmg, long years ago I
by the great-grent-ever-so-gront grandfather
of Happy Jack Squirrel, filled
with a great joy?the joy of giving, for
it had given its greatest gift, the gifl
of itself, for the joy of many. And
tlie spirit of Christmas, which is love' ,
for nil mankind, descended upon it ns
sweet-toned bells chimed, "On earth
peace, good will toward men," and the
glad voices of a thousand little children
cried, "iii rry merry Christmas!'
THE BED CROSS STAMP.
The sunshine-making fairies
We loved ere we grew wise.
Don't seent to come tiround nnwNot
oven in di-guise.
But whisper! (This is magic!)
They did not all depart,
For here's a fairy "sticker"
To patch a broken heart! I
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Don't ask the why or wherefor,
On who they are who weep.
The fairies hear the sad things.
While happy people sleep.
Don't buy localise you're Heightened
Your own cheer may depart.
The widow's mite was mighty
Through goodness in her heart!
So when you're Christmas-happy,
Remember, as you should. >
uooa-wm is more t&an being i
Just willing to be good.
So kiss the stamp and stick it
(Or else the charm will fall) ?
The finger-print of fairies
On everything you mail?Stephen
Chalmers.
MYSTERIOUS CAINS AND AC HES
Make Life Hard to Hear For Many
Ijincaster Women.
Too many women mistake their
pains and aches for troubles peculiar
to the sex. More often disordered
kidneys are causing the aching hack,!
dizzy spells, headaches and irregular
urination. Kidney weakness becomes
dangerous if neglected. Use a
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Kidney Pills. Hosts of people testify
to their merit. Read a Lancaster
case:
Mrs. H. M. Parks, Market St.,
Lancaster, says: "I ached all over
and when I sat down, I got so si f
across my back I could hardly stoop
and it was hard for me to do my,
housework. I finally got ^ box of
Doan's Kidney Pills at th.> Stnnda- 1
Drug Co. and they brought mo last
Ing benefit from the backache and
I fixed my kidneys up In good shape."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that
Mrs. Parks hnd. Foster-Milburn
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
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