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A CHRISTMAS STORY My dear Reader: I wish you to regard this little Christmas story as a personal letter. It hannened one cold, crisp Christ mas Eve five years ago. I was standing in front of a brilliantly lighted toy store in a city not necessary to name. Within was arranged in splendid masses every type of toy to gladden the heart of childhood. Coming and going in eager anxious haste were mothers apd fathers clad in stylish, as well as comfortable clothes, their faces smiling because they knew ' the joy they were making rea^y for x the coming morrow. There were also little ones in that throng who in their childish cunning knew full well that many of those sell same toys wouia bang on their Christmans trees, placed there by a mysterious Santa Claus, and they were glad. ? But 'all seemed to fail or refuse to see a poor, thinly clad mother, whose face showed that she had known brighter and better days. Clinging- to her hand was a little girl of six, whose only Christmas joy would be the view of the toys which to-morrow would be the actual possession of thousands of happy children. I watched her for a few minutes and realized that this Was only too true. Presently a man attired in his every-day working clothes modestly slipped into the mother's hand a crisp Five Dollar bill \ with the request that she spend it for * * T tVioli n r?H tne iituu viik a iio^iutjo. ? there discovered that there is no eloquence on earth to compare with a tear drop glistening in a mother's eye. placed there because of gratitude. Now, my dear friend, as this Christmas Season approaches there are two hundred and fifty thousand hungry, homeless and helpless or phans, whose eyes are filled with tears?r.ot tears for Christmas toys, ' but teaio for bread to satisfy the gn&wings of hunger and to keep their starved and emaciated bodies from falling by the wayside and becoming dry bones to mingle with the thou ' sands of others who ' have already fallen. There is no father to hear their cries because he has been killed by the cruel Turk. Neither is there any mother nor will trfere be to wipe away their tears, for they have been sfnttpTfvl intn flip mountains nnH Hp. sorts, in many cases never to see their loved ones again. Fifty thousand of tliasc mothers are unwilling victims in Turkish' hares*.j where a bran:! has been burned ^nto their flesh and the threat of death placed over* their heads should they escape. How many of these will ever see theiv little oim 3 again, God only knows. Now my friend, I call upoo-you to asJfst in bringing Christmas to these little ones. I call upon you in the name of Him, who made Christmas possible for us all and said, "Inasmuch.as ye have done it unto one of the least of these ye Tiave done it unto me." I call upon you whether you recognize Him as the Christ or not I call upon you in the name of the suffering humanity. You may not see the tear drop of gratitude come into their eyes as I saw it come into that mother's on that Christmas Eve, but n their gratitude to you will be far ; greater and you will not lose your reward. Simply fill out your check for IV*/ whatever amount your' heart may prompt, and forward the same to W. Bank? Etove, State Chairman, No. 211 Liberty National Bank Building, Columbia, S. C. Yours verv trulv. ^ ' W. Banks Dove State Chairman. A FINE EXAMPLE OF DIVERSIFIED FARMING Clemson College, December? County Agent T. M. Mills, of Newtony county, tells below of the success of a small farmer, . who has shown what can be done in the way of diversified farming in that county "I visited one demonstration this week who has accomplished something worthy of note. Mr. H. M. Wicker last year sold from his farm J - iL? other than cotton proauce to uit amount of $1000.00. This year he says he will reach $2500.00 from such sales. This was done by himself and family without hired help, He feeds and milks several cows sells milk and butter and some surplus calves. He was filling a 100-tor silo the other day when I was there ?had it nearly full and had enough left for several more tons. Mr, Wicker manured seven acres of fond j with some of the cow stable manure i and 200 lbs. per acre of commercial j fertilizer and has gathered from the ( 17 acres 13 bales of cotton. A nice pro- ] fit from the cow. ? , "Mr. Wicker also beiieves in mod- < ern improvements. He has just in- j stalled electric lights and is pre- J paring for waterworks in the home, i besides various other improvements, i "He need not fear the boll weevil." 1 MAN.Y YEARS OLD J , i Paris?It is a \ridel" known fact, that Egyptian *vheat which has for * years lain beside mummies in tombs J over 2,000 years old, can be made to ] ? [Chero jjl^ 0SSSSEsSL l! ? r n me i | tUlflL 1 IfJ For the Newest and Best, jgp Happy Thought in Ghristrm IC Fresh Stock of Beautiful and jg tions. jfj BE AN UP-TO-DATI J There are no difficulties in Qj selections from our Profuse l{j Novelties shown for the first S THE IDEAL HOL flj Our Stock develops in the tfi and Profit in Buying'?Deligl uj ceiving-?It insures a Merry jjj PRESENTS TO PLEA !fi In Gifts for Old or Young S anticipated. We will place ffi Remembrances at small cost jC orate Articles should you! pr S CHRISTMAS BUYER l? \\ 'a ur>o /?fforinnr mip T-Tnlidi ijlj that come from the Happy C IS Stock, a Large Assortment i Sh your selections from this st< \iH and 1 ^ MORE SATISFACTION 1 !?fi err rvt to PUDICTR IJfj OLL UUI\ HVliJ X ii I I W. E. Johnsi 1 1 ~J~ sprout, but a far more striking fact, 9 s announced in a statement made J Bj jyDr. Galippo to the French academy I \-f mionco T"ir Halinnn s?id that in I Egyptian papyrus 20 centuries and nore old he had found living micro>rganisms. These microbes were subiected to the usual test of heat, and ilthough the temperature was carried to 248 degrees Fahrenheit they remained as active as ever. Such a discovery carries with it all vinds of possibilities, such as the recurrence yi modern times of the 9 :>lagues of Egypt. These, however, j n view of the very different hygienic conditions which obtain at the present time, are likely to remain possibilities, but not probabilities. ~? I'Lolal ? 9SZHG2503QK ^ \ . jji 'LYING f ? the Original Idea and the jjj j in Gifts, see our Bright ! LC 1 Desirable Holiday Attrac- L|1 I1 ? SANTA CLAUS I Z \ l\ I the way if you make your ? J ' - 3 ; Array of New Christmas J 1 i time this season. | ! \ IDAY STOCK [ 1 1 Highest Degree Pleasure I ? 3 >t nn/J Co4!ofa/>linn in R(>. C _ .3 It CHILI UaMOlUVViVU MM* *VW pp Christmas to all. v ? | lSE EVERYBODY ill I you will find your wants jjj 1 at your disposal Pretty jfi c , or show you more Elab- ft- i efer them. !fl t S' OPPORTUNITY Jfi f ly Patrons the advantages | lombination of a Superior ffi | md Fairest Prices. Make jjj g )ck and get better results Uj | USHAN EVER BEFORE. ilAS NOVELTIES. ffi| IP do, Jeweler || laoDlflDPDPflianio ^ I0313JOTOIUOUJ i > ^ # Ann [#& '! r* | ^apuc j|: CJ? i, | We ar< v | ness. . ! 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