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1 " ^ - ' ? 1 * < > / PACE FOUB The Lancaster News (skmi-\m;?:klv.) i" Established IK.">2. i Published Tuesday uii'l 1'riday I ' BY T11K 1 v LANCASTKK NEWS COMPANY. I liiiiicttstcr, S. C. , '' . ! ( GEOIRiK 11UM, A ( liAYKN 1 1'Mitnr an.I Manager. * ' >. I | \ The News is not responsible for the Ttews of Correspondents. Shoit atul 1 rational articles on tonics of iretteral > Interest will be gladly received. SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: _ Strictly Casli in Advance. ' , In city and county, except those ( delivered by city carrier and j in postal zones 1 and 2 $2.50 Delivered by city carrier and to postal zones beyond the second, per year $3.00 t Rtx months, one-half the above rates. 1 No new subscription entered for a t shorter period than six months. I . The date on your laln-l is the date f on which your p?|N>r will be stopped. .. " 1 " c TO ADVKltTISKRS. t' The Lancaster News guarantees to ? advertisers a larger circulation In r Lancaster and Lancaster county than any other newspaper. li Rntered as Second Class Matter October 7. l!?0j>, at the Pnstoffiee at ,, Lancaster. S. ('.. under act of Con- s gress of March 2. 187b. FRIDAY, DEC. 17, 1D20. ( _ II THK CltltlST.M \S Sl'IIUT. People have come to regard ^ Christmas as a joyous oeeasion of r eat and <lrink and be merry. So long c as hoisterouBness and dissipation and ^ excesses are omitted, this is not ob-j jectionable, but the fact that it is the anniversary of the birth of the So- w 1 I vior should not he overlooked Cus- j I o toni has made Christmas a time fori t family reunions, for vacations and? n feasting. It is a time for relaxation ' of business activity and a closer communion with others. This is admirable, for in a mad rush for financial and community power, most of us have become selfish , we have ceia- j, ed to think of others and hove for gotten that nothing on earth belong*] c to us; but we keep those tilings we I w 1 11 hold dear in trust only, to use for the i e benefit of ourselves and mankind. ^ / and, in the end, leave for future gen- ^ orations to hold in a similar manner, ti In many homes, the family will not j w lie complete?there w ill he a vacant | tchair here, there. Many circles have ' been broken since the last Christmas A -father, mother, sister, brothe:. i n have been taken away. This is the j way of the world, and of life. There j t IKI j\iy wiuiwui sauui'^M. 11?r i /> without it we would soon come |~l ' I U regard joy merely as a matter of course, and it would then cease to! '* be joy. ! " i ' 1 The season of cheer is at hand I ji r.-M rp, not mistake it f >r a sonson of ^ a ovrosiive living, but let us all be ?* merry with reverence to the nature p of the celebrat'on. t! " "Peace on Earth flood Will to | ward Men. ; ? NEW BIRTHDAV OF THE III - 1 MAN KAMI I.V. | o (IVv REV. J. S. COKI'UMNd.) Christians celebrate the birthdn I 1 of the greatest man. the greatest j teacher, the greatest benefactor, the * world's redeemer. "Imntanuel, flod * with us." In God's own time, in a" . f age of supreme n< od and religious d 1 ' generacy, the Son of Man was born in ! '' Mr;ni*MifMii. rite event was r.^nereu ? in as quietly as the rising of the morning sun, only the angels and a | few wise responsive souls under-| s standing the significance of the event, j ' 'I ?.e events of if is birth are sugge;- j live of ifis mission to meet human | r need. Though of an historic and royai family He was horn in poverty, (1 and so spent his life on a level with ' humanity's greatest need "The foxes have holes, and the birds of f the heaven have nests, but the Son r of Man hath not where to lay his f head." His life of constant toil also suggests this. So His broad sympa- '' thies are with the struggling race. r His birth has an infiinite meaning * 11 j i . ... . . .... i mr i-iiiiiiiuicin. i nnne you goon linings of groat joy which shall ho to ' all the people. And suddenly there v was with the ange|s H multitude of f tlie heavenly host prasine Hod. and n saying, Olory to Cod in the highest. '' and on earth peace in whom he is r well pleased " Neglect and cruelty ^ to c-ildhoorl was (he custom of the I1 nations when Josh* was horn. Now ' through Christ's reign childhood is lifted to Its rightful place in life li Hence thft brightest intellectual ancl't piritual culture has its place in tectum the need of childhood. The reatness of the race is original in all hildhood. Moses, Samuel. David 'aul, Gladstone and NVoodrow Wilson fere once laughing hoys. This was rue of Jesus himself, who spent his loyhood in the Galilean hills. Sr "hristmas is the time of joy for child mod. specially joy in the recogni ion of Ilim who sanctified child mod. Christmas is the birthday of thf tost hopes of man. Nothing else re ninds us so persuasively of tin rrmtness of man. Nothing that cat >e said as to man's capacities anc inssiMlit ies approaches even dis antly to that which is involved ii lod's having so loved the race thai fe pave His Son to take our naturt ipon Hint. While lie was upon <?rtl' ve see the meaning of His mission ii he irradiate lives of those uronnr lint. Poor fishermen like John am 'eter. peasants like Jude and James axgatherers like Matthew, are niorr 0 us than the soldiers and states ilea who ruled Koine. It was he ause the touch of the word mad? lesh had begun to crea* in thesp nen the first samples of a new hitaanitv. The pursrnnce of the word undo flesh is the pattern of the new umanitv He came to create. Christinas is the hirthda.v of hurt an brotherhood. "For ye are all ons of Hod through faith, in Christ esus There ran he neither Jew 1101 1 reek, there can he neither bond or free, there can he no male or fetale; for ye are all one man in 'hrist Jesus." In Christ all classpirit is abolished and all peoples heonie one brotherhood. This is one rent fundamental of Christianity hat the world now sorely needs. Christmas lias also a message as o our duty. "Let this mind he in you rliicli was also in Christ Jesus " ,\s le revealed God's love to us we light also to communicate our love r> others in helpful deeds of kindess THE ER1XKK OK I'KACK. (By REV. I<\ V. ROBERTSON.) His name shall he called * * The 'rincp of Peace. Isaiah, 9:6. Once more we are permitted to rlebrate the greatest event the orld has ever known. For two housand years, the world had gropd its way on in darkness, sn.perstiion and sin; prophets had foretold lie coming redeemer, while for all liese years the world had anxiously raited his coming. Now He is onie. It was a great event, because, st. lie came as the groat teacher, lie hall save His people from their sins ill other plans for the salvation of ten have failed. No other can take way the sins of the world, and bear hem in his own body to the cross , light to lighten the Gentiles and he glory of thy people^ Israel, to rinlight and life, loosed from the onds of superstition and ignorance, ion can now follow Mini, and now in his glorious day wo ran work upon lio thousands of Christian schools nd colleges, wlioro. thank God, wr r>o to it. that tho groat fundamental rinciptos of tlo> Christian religion ro taught. Wo aro waking up to ho fact, that a Chri?tless. Mod loss duration is not tho education that his world needs. God speed tho dav hen those who love the prince of eaco will see-to it that the holv Pile and the principles of the religion f our Christ are taught in everv rimary. high school and college in ho land. 2nd. Great, because lie is the Sa ior of the world, the dream of sages he utterances of prophets, and tin anguage of tho pious are at length ulflllctl, Tod iy the long promised leli veror is born. "Oh," tliis is what ' f needed WitIkMit His birth wf to holploss ami hopoloss If i>v on*1 niphty blow tho power of sin could triko forever into oblivion the fool hat a Savior is born, then the world s doomed |5ut thank find He is con impr, He is born. He lives. IP oipns, and today we pather around mr fireside in peacp without fear be atise He is Christ. 3rd He is preat because He is horr lie Prince of Peace. Oh! how we lovf icace. Jesus is our Prince of Peace; le has established the old relation lotween Cod and man which existed efore that dark hour when man first oso in rebellion jpainst his maker f thoro was no Christ, no Prinro ol 'oaro. then how oonlrt wp on joy 11)is ho creates! of nil festivals in poser >ith our follow man and the world'' ts fl-o walk through tho art calleries* f Iho past centuries, wo soo thr minted scones of bloodshed and sacIficef that pence and liberty ml"t;t >e bought, and today His h?<- s <j loaro eladdonsVvorv heart tha'i lo\ ho Prince of Peace. Suppose thero was no Chi;' m trlfiK peart, no Christ to bind up the irokeii-hearted, no'fhrist tjb wipe I L U(jtT?awi?"'. o. J ir^ I THE LANCASTER M t away the tears, no Christ to sootl i itie sorrows, no Christ to save u I from sin and death, then all on preaching, all our s<?rvice to Him. al L our joy making becomes open mock . erv. Hut yes there is a Christ, am .'as a great writer said, as we gro\ , older let us he more thankful tha . the circle of our Christmas associa . tions and the lessons that thev brlns k . expands. Let us welcome every on of them, and summon them to tak , their places by the Christmas heard Welcome all that was ever real t , our hearts; welcome all the joy, al ( gladness, and as we gather aroun I our humble fireside, we welcome th Prince of Peace on this holy Christ , mas day. Ii nr. * .-ir.l'j * ir?? : ] (By ICKV. \V. S. |?.-\TTKIISO\.) "Behold I stand at the door an knock: If any man hoar tny voice [' and open the door, 1 will come in t him and will sup with him. and h with me."Uev. : L'O. Christ. the Christmas guest. Another Christmas season is draw ing near. and all no donbt. are niak I in^ gome plan for the festal ocea sion. Christmas is indeed a seasoi j of joy and happiness, a time of fes tivitv and especially fireside festivity \t this season there is no place <111 it< as Interesting as home. The scatferei memhors of the family gather aronnt the home table and hearth-side where the spirit of sociability ant fellowship Hows from heart to hear As we make our plans for Christ ; mas, as we send out our invitations and cards of greetings, as we prepare fittr good things to eat. and as w< , look forward to having a good time let us not forget the Cnseen Visito j at the door of every home and heart quietly and patiently standing am knocking that he might enter in ntu take part in all of our Christina' pleasures, for his presence impart! j to us the true spirit of Christmas. T< , Mis wo are indebted for love, joy peace, happiness, unity, harmony and sociability. without whirl Christmas would he barren of all thai 1 which makes the heart truly glad Christmas does not consist in tin . "goodies" which we have to eat hu tn the spirit of life, the spirit of lov< and appreciation, of praise and grat tit tide. We can never keep Christ mas alone, hut must share it witl others. Then chiefest of all let in keep i| with Christ. Not only does Christ bring to in the true Christmas spirit, hut als? his presence purities and heighten! our joy and gladness. Some migh think that to let Christ in would cu short their joys and pleasures on thi: , occasion, and it will do so with ref erence to some so-called pleasures o the world, bii| his presence will purl fy, sweeten and intensify every rea jov in life. Christ is no kill-joy With his presence rliere is fullness o joy. "(), taste and see that God i irood." If you have not supped wltl llim, if you have not tasted of Hi pure and over-flowing joy. open you hearts' door and take him in as . Christmas Riiest, and (his will trul t>e the happiest season of vonr life. His presence will not only assun ( the highest joy bud also an ahidini , joy. a joy for time and eternity. Ma; we "all have and maintain through t h i years (lie Christmas spirit of love i of joy, and happiness by living will Him in the home and heart. "<;< tlt'S It F.ST GIFT TO A WOIM.IK" (lly ItF.V. K. It. MASON.) It often takes a long time for grea ' t ft lioromo Qniiroeinf n/l ????< 1 valued at their true worth. A *eei may lie for months, or even yours before it wakes under the broth o spring into bloom and fragrance am frnit. The birth of Christ was no celebrated during first centuries c / toil) finally settled on Decent be 2.r?. and after the fifth century it observance became general Costiv ities graually became absorbei with the day and joy with the glvim of gifts became its dominant fea ! tnre. The day spread throughou ,Christendom and is now practical!" universal. The star that led thos wise men from the east io pour ou their best gifts at the feet of til Habe who, according to the prom Is of the angels made to the shepb*-td j on the plain, was the Savior*'whirl is Christ, the Dord, wou'^f lead al to the same soiigce T'eere Is a sta in the skv for evr fyone (fed put i there just f?,r us. If we have neve i ' "n it. !t in hecouse wn nave ti? v?? > lilted our eyes above earth to ponf 'rate the beyond. Christ ia the center and source r a true, t horou KhgoinR Christina) lie was C.od's best gift to a worl? Ho khvp bin.self as a remedy fu every disease. Once a Roman Kmpei or was passing through the street of Rome in a trlntnpha'l processioj v - EWS, LANCASTER, S. C. ti surrounded by attendants and sols diors. A child came out of the r crowd and ran toward him. The solll diers cried: '"Go back, child; go - back; ne is your emperor." But the d oltiId replied: "He is your Kmperor, v but lie is my father." Christ came to t Rive us a father. i- Have we caught the Christmas spirit? Ou/r Christmas will be a mere r>". joyous one only as it is a lioly e one. The Christmas spirit is the i. spirit of love. As the Bible is God's o great love-letter to man, so it semis II to mo. Christmas is God's great loved day. All the love of the eternal ? Gild hlMll W n O ir.ltl<arn.l .... .....1 !..? - down front heaven on that first Christmas day in form of that manner Halm. Do we wonder that angels sing? Do we wonder that wise men sought. We can catch the Christmas spirit and show our appreciation of Gad's great gift to us d by opening the soul's door and let?, ting all the graces of the soul be 0 bathed in the pure air of heaven, e Christmas is the time when we should let faith, hope and love have jttfct a hit more freedom in the parlor of our soul. Give God our best, . for Ho has not withheld the best from its. And let us not forget that 11 the gifts are not valued in dollars only. Have you an enemy? Give him forgiveness. Have you a wife? Give her love Have you a child? Give 1 him your best example. Have you a 1 friend? Give him your heart. Have i, you a soul? Give that to Christ. Do I this, and the (irst Christmas carol. t sunn l?y the annuls that night out. si do of Hot h lehoin. will ro-pclio for us throughout the year: 1 Have yon heard the tale of the aloe ' plant. Away in the sit' o.v clime? r H.v hunthle prowtb of a li'Miitred years l It reaches its blooming tone; I And then a wondrous bud a' its s crown * Hurst fnto a thousand fldwcrs; t This tloral preen, in its beaittv yen, Is the pride of the tropical bowers: : Hut the plant to the Tower is a sucnt flee; I For it blooms but once, and blooming dies. I Have yon further heard of this aloe * plant That prows in the sunny clinic? - How every one of its thousand bowers i As they fall in tin* bloomin ; time ' Is an infant tree that fastens its roots 3 In fho place where they fall to the > ground. * And fust as they fall from tin* dying ' st oin. t Grow lively and lovely around? s lly dying it lives a thousand-fold. In the young that spring from the f death of the old. Have yoif heard of Him whom the heavens adore, f And before whom the hosts of R them rail? 1 How He left his choirs and anthems ? above r For earth in its wuilings and woes. To suffer the shame and the pain of i* the cross, And die for tlie life of His foes? a O, Prince of tlie noble! (). Savior diz vine! v What sorrow or sacrifice equal to p thine? !t Have you heard of litis tale, the best one of all ? The tale of the holy and true"* lie dies' but His life now in untold souls I ci|mhikb np in me world anew* His seed prevails and is ftllinc the earth As tlio stars (ill the sky above; Ho i any lit us to cive up the love of 1 life For the sake of tbo life of love; His death is our life; Uis life is our (tain ? The joy for the tear, the peace for 1 the pain. THE KU KLUX ( LAN i NEEDS NO DEFENSE (Continued From Pace Ona ) V To further carry out their plans, e these earpet-haccers formed an allit ance with the deserters and traitors e to the south, coninionlv known as e "scalawags" who were the lead nm wi mi- i f|m 111 iriiii pany 111 h North Carolina, and upon thla a 1 lilt anco heing formed. began to dir ido tho political offices, apportionf Ing out such as they did not osr portalIv ram for amonc tlio tifRrocs r and scalawags, reserving for them - solves in most instances, tho host paving offices, if Tho greatest act of infamy on* acted in tho great tragedy limnediI atoly following tho close of the ?r war, was the complete overthrow r- of tho organic, law of the Southern s States, necessitating constitutional i, conventions for the purpose of _?1 drafting constitutions for th?^g states. -Instead of selecting t^K host and most Intelligent class of M southern men as delegates to these conventions, the records show that there were in the Alabama constitutional convention 83 carpet-bag-!g Kors and 17 negroes; In Georgia. m 133 carpet-baggers and 33 negroes;^ in Virginia, the homo of Washington and Robero K. Roe, 80 carpeti baggers and 25 negroes. The other j ' southern states were similarly j cursed. I When the legislatures of the r southern states were elected audi met each state was, without exeep. c j lion, plunged into almost immeas-; urable debt. Hotids vere issued, ! s not for the purposes of supplying the needs of the state and the res opening of its institutions, but for |" the sole purpose of supplying graft | tj^Jhis army of carpet-baggers who 1 hnd come into the south to prey up- 1 on its misfortunes. North Carolina ! too. "had its negro and carpet-bagI gar legislature; its fraudulent j , bonds and its officers notoriously, j out of sympathy with the south. *' Young man. you of the present day. I 51 j imagine, if you can. a legislature in % | your capital city of Raleigh compos- 1 ed of illiterate negroes and the set.m r>t Northern society Could von afford I , . t to align yourself with the political party which elected them That was the condition which was forced upon ( the South solely because of the fact that it refused to ratify the 14th amendment to the federal constitutton New Jersey, Ohio and Oregon I i after first ratifying the amendment. i i t ; withdrew their radiation. tint no torch punishment was accorded thos ; ! states. ' Almost, if not all. of the southeril v I stag's, had negro congressmen and j tInstate of Mississippi had two I'ni-' ^ j ted States senators, llluce and Rel-! . ( els; tlie state of Louisiana had two ( and Florida one. All of this was ^ the result of the seed sown by the carpet-bagger and the scalawag to I ' I accomplish his own disreputable ^ ptirposes. It wus at this HCtlte stage in tiie r history of tho south that tho "Ku f Klux KInn'' was orcanitod, having | for its object tho restoration of < , white supromney and tho removal of t ] tho negro and carpet-bagger from ( tlio politics of tho south. No nno ( has ovfir learned, and it safe to t say that no one over will learn, by I whom this organization was started. < Itnt that it did start and that it sav- > ed tlio civilization of tho south, ov- \ oryono is bound to recognize. The methods adopted by tho Klan wore at times severe and harsh, but. for ; one, I do not believe that it acted at any time save from an honest and sincere motive to protect the socie ty of the south and to convince the negro that they must not take the J FOU The Musi It's here right in to play lor you the la and operatic selcctm get a close-up of Grafonola. 1 I ear it its tone?and see 1 Columbia Nov Srt operates. N >thing measure. Just star and it plays and sto] Be sure to call I this musical gem( Grafonola. i \\ I ROBINSON-LATE Jewelers Lancaste J ; . I t Bk ?'P J*" I time.^^^Ki jKjflBr had hcd^Hfc^, tef^1 a flame, find it^^^^^Hj^shetf the ncpet-bagger p^^BP^and negro ule champions from its borders to eturn never ag| I'tn. The best of ttie souths citizenship * vas enrolled wi\in the ranks of the T* 'Ku Klux Klan.' v ami not an irresponsible aggregation of rowdies md cut-throats as some porthern ind anti-southern newspapers were vont to allege. It was composed of nen who were loynl to the south and ts traditions; men in sympathy with ? ts Itleals and aspirations; men who bought it better to die in defense >f a righteous cause -.than to live in nfatny and disgace brought about ?> -ml carpet-bagger domina- r i. . v,? in "ould b?^ eligible to nioulmi-v ilia K lliu vvhn nlann<1 lis individual liberty and well heinp ibovc that of the people of the enire southland. Had it not been for he work and activity of the "Ku <Iux KIan." In the dark and trytnjc lays of Reconstruction when the vhole southland lay torn and bleednK; when its fields lay waste; its list it ut ions closed and its civilization inperiled, there woujd he no proslerons south such an we now have ind such as the Confederate sol- 1/ llers through four lonu years of varfare battled for. As a further iroof of the calibre and moral fibre >f the men who composed the "Ku \lvix Klan." history does not record ?ne single instance in which a mem ?cr over violated the oath taken t<p>n his admission to membership hough the whole machinery of the ederal courts was used to obtain onfessions and information relative o the workings of the Klan and Its uembership. To tlie men and wom>n of the south -the true men and vomen I mean the "Ku Klux Klan" needs no defense. Auxiliaries Leaving fork. OSS CORK. Dec. 10.?All the auxllia ies were leaving Cork tonight. it^^V* s understood the city Is under mar^^Y ial law nfld that the military in^^V end to do duty without the assi^^v .ance of the irregular police. V i&h. i RMgsfc ' 4 11 I f ND! ' ; J cal Gem our store?ready * test songs, da noes, ns. Come in and , the Colu m hi a played -listen to low the exclusive 1 Automatic Stop to move or set or t the Cirafonola, If * i and listen to ?the Columbia 'Bag' UN COMPANY -j/f i Opticians