You's th* E THE RETURN i AT YULETIDE i CHRISTMAS comes and the old world turns \ Fondly back to Ifs falryy days Days that saw Him whose splendor burns . B: ight through eras of murk and maze; Back to the Star whose speaking rays Wise men spied as lt beckoned them Over Judea's winding ways Back to the Babe of Bethlehem! Christmas i comes, and the old heart goes Gayly back to the dear days past-, v Days, whose breath of the budding ros? Scents the years that have followed ?a3t;_ v Back to the Star whose spell was cast Over young eyes and dazzled them. Filling rapt youth with a wonder vast Back tb the Babe of Bethlehem! Christmas comes, and the old faith lives. Summoned back from the days gone by- I Days begemmed with the joy that gives Mortals bul m for their sob and sigh; Back is the Star in the smiling sky, ' Pilgrims haste as it urges them On to the haven ever nigh- - Back to the Babe of Bethlehem! '. I 1 .. '? / Chrlrtmas! come, when the world shall go Bounding^ back to the best of days Days whbn He int a manger low Sages charmed into prayer and praise; Back to the Star whose speaking rays All men spy as lt beckons them Over Judea's winding ways- .-, Back to the Babe of .Bethlehem! -rJames C. McNally. In St. Louis Dispatch. Post / i Cookies for Christmas Time. ' \< Cream one-half ^cupful of shorten- j lng "with one cupful of sugar; add two . well-beaten eggs, one tablespoonful of milk or cream, two and one-half cup fuls of flour sifted with two teaspoon fuls of baking powder and one-half teaspoonful each of powdered nutmeg and ginger. Mix and stand aside to chill for one hour. Roll out, cut Into fancy shapes and bake in a moderate oven. Fancy 'cutters furnish an as-.| sortment of cookies and are desirable when they are to be enjoyed by chil dren. Lacking a variety of cutters, a pastry wheel can be Mised, or pat terns cut out of stiff cardboard can be laid on the dough, and the outlines followed' with a slender "knife. 4.?.H"H"H"I # ? ? 11 ? ? 4 ********* F Jj Hope He Fills jf'| i? Bofe of 'Em f ************************** \ Hard Christmases, for G. Washington v^fc O ONH has told us much about JlnJ, George Washington's Christ mases. But from the record of his life we learn how he spent some of his Christmas days. It was a very cold Christmastide In 1777 ot Valley Forge.. Snow was on the hills. Everything was frozen. And Washington's army was In great need^ of food, clothing and shelter. Instructions of parties of men to go foraging for food are entered^ In the orderly book for that Christmas day at Valley Forge, which was anything but murry for Washington. S?111 more desperate were the food conditions at .Morristown, In 1779, when Washington reported that his army-was. on half allowance and near starvation. "We have never expe rienced a like extremity at any period of the war," declared Washington, pleading, that food be sent. Ther? was a welcome Christmas present for Washington and his men at New Windsor In 1780 when a big Christmas wagon came with over 2,000 shirts and other comforts made by Philadelphia women patriots-things needed by the men under Washington* who were cheerfully suffering ali sorts of hardship in order that this country might be free. The Philadelphia wom en also raised, that year, over $300, "000 in aid of" the soldiers. The ;lne old Colonial mansion (the Craigie house) In Cambridge, Mass., (now widely known as the home of Henry W. Longfellow), was the place where Washington spent lils first Christmas as commander of the Rev olutionary army In 1775. Mrs. Wash ington was there with him (as she was later at Valley Forge), and there was some pleasure In the midst of the heavy cares and responsibilities car ried by the great Washington. A yeir later Christmas day .found Washington at the head of his 2.400 \ brave men making his celebrated crossing of the Delaware river, nine miles above Trenton. The snow and sle(et were blinding, it is recorded, and the cold was Intense. But hearts were brave. > , , ? . I Wherever he was at Christmastide, Washington was cheered with the thought that the cause of the strug gling colonies would surely win. A few days ' before Christmas, 1776, he wrote o his older brother^John Au gustine Washington:, "Between you and me, oiir affairs are in a very bad situation. . . . However, under a 'full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though lt may re main foi: some time under a cloud." Washington must have had some very merry Christmases at Mount Ver non. There were no children of his own with whom Washington could romp. But ' we can easily Imagine the big-hearted general putting on a false beard of fuzzy white whiskers and slinging a pack over his back for the delight of the little ones in the neighborhood. , General Washington was truly the "Father of His Country," and we have a very good Idea of the sort of holiday spirit in which he observed the "glad Christmastide" when our republic was in Its Infancy. No one in all our bright history as a nation has handed down a more ra diant Christmas message of hope and faith. V To Clean Leather Furniture. . Add! a little vinegar to tepid wafer and wash the leather with a clean ?.'.>th: wipe dry. To polish apply the following Whites of two eggs beaten slightly (not stiff) and mix with two teaspoonfuls of turpentine; rub with clean, d;-y cloth. Music and Song Always Associ ated With the Yuletide. Original Sacred Character of Carols Was Almost Lost Sight of in Thirteenth - Century. USIC and song have always been associated with Christmas. In Roman Catholic Countries, as early as the Third century, it be came the custom to usher in'.th? Christmas festivities, with Eguslcal masses.' The practice of singing carols pr canticles was supposed to recall the "in Excelsis Gloria''of the angels and the song of the shepherds on .the. first Christmas night. ! k A very old carol, published In 1521, gives an amusing description of church revelries: . , \ .', . . %,' A wooden child in clouts on the altar sat, About the which both boys and girls do dance and timely Jet. , And carols sing in praise or Christ; The priests do roar aloud! And round about the parents stand' To see the sport, and with their voice Do help then}, and with hand. At first, carols were generally re ligious In character, and' were written with Latin and English words In al ternate lines, or with a Latin refrain^ Thf well-known carol When Christ was born of Mary fr*? In Bethlehem, that fair eitle, Angels sang, with mirth and gie? In Excelsis Gloria, and another with a chorus, Christus natus hodie :j, The babe, the son. The holy one f Of Mary, are good examples of this class, j When the tendency to ribaldry be^ came marked, some of the carofis got to be very peculiar In subject and language. Joseph ls treated with a great want of respect, for one| carol runs: Joseph was an old man, .? s- . An old man was he, \ When he wedded Mary, The Maid of Galilee. ,< ./i l Another relates the story pf the shepherds watching their flocks by 'night: A shepard upon a hill he satt. ? ' He, had on him hys tabard and hatt, Hys tarbox, hys; pipe and hys flagatt; Hys name was called Joly-Joly Watt Having been informed of the birth of Christ, the shepherd sets off for Bethlehem, and on arriving, says: Jhesu! I . off Thee my pype, My skyrte, my tarbox and my scry pe. . Home to my fellows now will I skype, And loke un? o my shepe. In the Thirteenth century the sa cred ; character of these Christmas songs was almost entirely lost sight of. The Puritan parliament abolished Christmas' and carols altogether, but feasting ' and revelry, returned with the ' Restoration. Carol singing, which had fallen into disuse, was revived by a collection of carols published by D. Gilbert, in 1822, but caroling, wftilch was formerly ushered in by the chiming of church bells, and the sallying forth of choirs which chanted their way round vil lages until their throats were hoarse and their noses red from cold and ' friendly Christmas potations, ls now almost a thing of the past-Tit Bits. Notice. All hunters are requested to stay off of lands we control or own. This means you regardless of our friend ship for you and we urge you to heed this notice. GEO. T. SWEARINGEN, W. R. TIMMERMAN, B. R. TILLMAN. J. S. 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