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J^ORIiilN OF CHRISTMAS CARD It Is Said to Have Sprung From "School Pieces" of Middle of Nineteenth Century. k The Christmas card is the legitimate -descendant of the "school pieces" or "Christmas pieces" which were popuV lar from the beginning to the middle Br *i- ii'ui-u w -vi iue uiueteemu willing. i w sheets of writing paper, sometimes surT rounded with those hideous aud elaborate pen flourishes forming birds, scrolls, etc., so unnaturally dear to the hearts of writing masters, and sometimes beaded with copper plate engravings, plain or colored. These were used by schoolboys at the approach of > the holidays for carefully written letters exploiting the progress they had made in composition and chirography. unanty noys were targe purcnasers ui ^ these pieces, says one writer, and at \ Christmas time used to take them around their parish to show and at the i same time solicit a trifie. The Christmas card proper had its tentative origin in 1854. Joseph Cundall, a London artist, claims to have issued the first In that year. It was printed in lithography, colored by hand / and was of the usual size of a lady's card. Not until 1862, however, did the custom obtain any foothold. Then experiments were made with cards of the size of an ordinary carte de viste, ini scribed simply "A Merry Christmas" ^ and "A Happy New Year." After that : came to be added robins and holly branches, embossed figures and land sen pes. NEVER DEIGN TO EXPLAIN Japanese Have a Peculiar Philosophy Which Westerners Find It Rather Hard to Understand. A Philadelphia lady, now resident in * Jspaa, has written to a friend in her Jinmti a lpftpr whif?h thp PllhllP Ledger reproduces in part, because it Is "so fine in its reading from within -of the Japanese nation and uature." . Mrs. Nitobe says: J MI am hoping that the light may soon dawn upon the uninformed mind of America in reference to the true thought of Japan. "It is. part of the Samurai training not to explain. *If you are wrong, show that yon acknowledge your error by changing your conduct. No amonnt of explanation can set the wrong right If you are right and your -accuser is mistaken, time will make manifest the justice of your cause/ This Is the underlying thought of this particular teaching. It is, I believe, t often carried too far?certainly, it may I prove misleading to an impatient westerner, and I do not hesitate to say that I have at times resented the situation it has created. **On the other hand, it is impossible to bare one's soul to the unsympathetIc or curiously minded. "Every man or woman of fine feeling knows that, and the Japanese are singularly sensitive to a sympathetic or an unsympathetic, a coarse or an understanding probing." ' Rare Book's Price. Collectors of rare books and manuscripts were very much interested ini the announcement that a first edition of Shakespeare's works, published In 1623. was sold at auction in London a few weeks ago for 1,150 pounds sterling. The volume is said to be in excellent condition, though the binding is considerably worn. This costly book has increased in price by bounds. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the volume was bought for five pounds from a book dealer. In 1800 ii was valued at fifty pounds, and in the year 1890 240 pounds was paid for it. This was a record price until 1899, when its value again increased. The indications are that with the years the price of 1,150 pounds will again be advanced, as the value of the volume will be more and xnore enhanced as time passes. Good Slogan. An imposing cemetery was opened tn a young and thriving town in the Middle West. The mayor, ha(* charge of the laying out of the grounds, was puzzled for an appropriate inscription to be placed over the gate. Riding along in his car bne day he was cogitating over different holy texts, which were not entirely satisfactory; so he explained his dif ficulty to his chauffeur, an intensely practical man. Without hesitation the chauffeur suggested: "We have come to stay."?Harper's Magazine. Choice of Voices. Edith?Mr. Boreleigh? Oh, dear! '11 XT 5 rtff/v f aII Kim T'tv\ Anf AM uaic mucnc icu mui x in vui. Alice?Won't the still, small voice reproach you? Edith?Maybe, but Fd much rather hear .the still, small voice than Mr. Boreleigh's.?Boston Evening Transcript. Sad Blow to Pride. "Mr. and Mrs. Wbiffer put on a great many air* since they have returned from Europe.M "Yes, they do, but while they were away several people mistook the caretaker and his wife for Mr. and Mrs. Whiff er."?Brooklyn Citizen. Proper Acknowledgment. "You are what they call a self-made man." "No," replied Mr. Dustin Stax; "my wife and family helped with advjre and encouragement. I'm not .self-made. \ - mmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmamtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmammmmmmmmm ' TfifcT CAT " EXPEST~ANt?L.Ef; English Writer Tells of Feline That Catches Fine Trout Without i Bait or Line. Oats have a passion for fish and will hover about a room plaintively mewing long after the piscine substance has gone and only the smell is left: hut it is not generally known that they are export anglers, says a writer in the Family Journal (London). A Hampshire sportsman whose garden bordered on a well-stocked stream staled that his cat takes more trout out of it than he does. All fish love to bask in the sun and. taking advantage of this on tine summer days. Mr. Tom lies in ambush, con cealed in the reedv grass bordering some bright pebbly shallow. lie needs neither rod nor line; unlimited patience is his whole stock in trade. Not a move does he make, his quivering tail merely rustling the slender bents as if stirred with the gentlest south era breeze. Presently there is a splash and a flounder, and a fine, fat trout, bursting with condition, comes flapping up to the shallow for its morning sun bath. For an instant only it lies there contentedly gasping in the soft, warm air, but in that instant the four-footed angler has made his spring and fastened his claws firmly in the fish's shimmering back. WHY AVERAGE MAN WORKS Labor May Be Its Own Reward, but the Home Is Thing That Inspires Him. The 8:10 Sausalito hont was disgorging its crowd of Marin county commuters in the morning. Said one commuter to another, according to the San Francisco Bulletin: "I've timed this crowd getting off the boats. It tabes more than twice as long to get them off at the ferry, when they\yare on their way to work, as it doeS to land them at Sansalito at night, when then are on their way home." In spite of sundry wholesome precepts about labor being its own reward, the fact is that we do not live to work, but that we work to live. The i little brown house back in the manzanita trees, with the porch lights burning, the rush of little feet, the welcoming arms, the good dinner, the hnnlr.c and th*? nine?this is life. These are the things eternal to which tlje eager shuffling feet are hastening. They make and motivate the things temporal toward which move the laggard footsteps of the morning. Joy In your work? Of course, hnt the fact remains that you / wouldn't build those skyscrapers amj string those railroads around the world and send big ships into far seas if it wasn't for the "wife and kids." Mark Twain's Toast to "Babies." pacTvnrwliiKT tn tho fnoct of at the memorial Chicago banquet in honor of General Grant in 1870. Mark Twain concluded with a sentence that set the gathering in an uproar. In his inimitable drawling voice he said,: "In his cradle, somewhere under the flag, the future illustrious commanderin-chief of the American armies is so little burdened with his approaching ' grandeurs and responsibilities as to be giving his whole strategic mind, at this moment, to trying to find some way to get his own big toe into nts mouth, an achievement which (meaning no disrespect) the illustrious guest of this evening also turned his attention to some fifty-six years ago. And if the child is but the father of the man there are mighty few who will doubt that he succeeded!" At that conclusion the audience broke into cheers and roars of laughter in which even the reserved Grant joined. King John's Bath. As to the washing habits of royalty in former times, there is one thing, at , least, to be remembered to Kin? j John's credit. His accounts show that j that constantly traveling king nearly ' always had a bath at his resting places during his journeys. His "water man" could generally reckon upon getting the bath fee of T7* ? nvepeuc?. r ur tu our ean; Muf;, na to the modern sojourners in most hotels, a bath was officially accounted as an extra, to be paid for as such. The royal water man obtained his special fee every time his majesty demanded a bath?except upon the three great church festivals. ? London , Chronicle, i When Did Civil War End? Ask anybody the date of the Civil j war's end. xne answer win mvariaoiy be: "April, 1S05." But, in a literal , sense, that answer is all wrong. 1 The supreme court declared that the i Civil war came to an end "at the pe1 riod designated in the proclamation ol the president of the United States." That proclamation was dated April 2. 1866. Thus the Civil war came to a formal conclusion on that date, not in April of 1865. **Up to and before that date" (April 2, 1866), says Secretary of State Bay, ard's decision, "the insurrection in I those (the confederate) states was held oviat After that date it was held to be at an end." I Some Proposal! Edith?So Mr. Bronson proposed tc you. Did you accept him? Ethel?Mercy, no! He's too awfully matter of fact. Why, he proposed 1 by asking me if I felt favorably disI posed toward a unification of inter TVtmcr-rJT\i | IN SHEERCRUELTY; Boches Operated on Prisoners Without Anesthetics. I Ample Proof That There Was No ; ! Shortage of Medical Supplies Is Evidence of Fiendishness of Hun Surgeons. I A British prisoner taken near St. Quentin in March said that all 21m put a* lions in Germany were being done I without anesthetics, owing to alleged shortages of them. A correspondent writes: "On the day that the prince of Wales entered Denain and attended the service of thanksgiving in the church there I lingered behind after all the cere 1 n 1 tlia monies wore over au? uukcu \>nii inhabitants. They had been badly trer.ted. They were tun or tne siones of their legitimate woes. One old man said ro me: " 'M'sieu should see the English doctor. He kuows!' MI saw him. He was a major In charge of a Canadian field ambulance. 1 When I found him, in the huge building which he had transformed into a hospital, he was busy superintending the treatment of women and pitiful little children who had been gassed by the Boches in defiance of all the laws of humanity. There was one little fel' 1 L ^ IJ a A ? /I nnt IOW nowiJiig wiiii ifiiui. ixc uiu uw j wish to remain with the military. He | had only known the German soldier! i " 'Well, then take him away, poor j little chap,' said the major. 'Bring him ; back three times a day to be dressed.' j "Then the major and I talked of the i successful Canadian attack and of the I condition of the town when.it had been j ' taken. It was not a pretty story. It j was. in fact, a terrible indictment ! against the Boche. " They starved the civilians. The I only meat .they gave them in three j years was three dead mules. And all j the time their own officers were living ! nn flip hpst.' ! "Then there was shortage?' I 44 'Oh. yes, there was a shortage; but j the German officers (id not feel it.' j " 'And their other supplies? Your j line, for instance?medical supplies?' "The major laughed. j " Come with me.' he said, 'and I'll ! show you a field medical cart that we | captured just as they were driving it . i off. It is one of the most wonderful j things I have ever seen.' "We went into the transport yard and here we found something like a Scotch cart with a closed-in top, bear' ing the Red Cross on its sides. The major let down the back flap and we saw a series of drawers, like an enlarged card-index file cabinet. He pulled one out. j " 'Look at that,' he said. There you { have most of the drugs we have been ! short of for months?and have them J in profusion. Morphia, chloroform? anything you like. It is the most perfect thin? of its kind I have ever seen. You could sell that cart's cargo in Engj land for its weight in gold. It conj tains some of the most valuable and rarest synthetic f|rugs in the world. It i is treasure trove Like a souvenir? Here, then?here's a case of a ! aozen pnials of morphine?or chloro ; form?or antipyrin.' j "That was in a field medical cart! j If such a supply of rare drugs could ! he sent up practically to the front ; line, what must the German have had in his rear hospitals? What, then, can be his excuse for amputating the limbs of oor wounded prisoners without anesthetics? Can it have been anything but wanton cruelty? "That field medical cart is the evirton*v? t"?Rnstnn Transc'riDt. I * . ....... Health and Height Count. Every flying man in the United States air service has to undergo a strict medical test periodically in order that he may be classified in one of j four grades. "AA" men are the few i who can stand air work at altitudes j above 20.000 feet. "A" men can stand I the strain between 15,000 and 20,000 , feet, while the "B" class consists of pilots for duties between 8,000 and 15.000 feet, and the "C" group includes , all airmen fit only for service between ground level and 8.000 feet. It has been found that airmen of most robust pnysique nmnoi si aim mc outturn . changes of air pressure entailed by | diving and rapid climbing for any I length of time. Hence the frequent medical examinations, carried out by experts who have drawn r.p a carefully calculated standard of efficiency. I Sh* Did. f' She was a four-flusher, particularly o as to her abilities in various sports. "Do you golf?" he asked. I "Oh, I love golf." she answered. "I play at least 36 holes twice a week." j , "And how about tennis?" "I won the woman's championship! r in our state." b "And do you swim?" "The best I ever did was a half j mile straight away," she replied. Somewhat fatigued he changed to literature. "And how do you like Kip- e ling?*' he asked. "I kipped an hour only yesterday," ?1- Tnnrnol nf was ner unoiusnuig icpi;.?wu.u?. ^ J the American Medical Association. . D I | a Large Offer for Map Haig Used. ! j Offers up to $1,750 have been re- ^ ceived for the map used by Sir Douglas Haig in the direction of the Brit? fsh armies on the western front October 8 and three following days, and t sent to the lord provost of Glasgow's a secretary for disposal in aid of the king's fund for disabled officers and i men. The man eventually will be put up at auction. 1 jjj^ jjj ^EBr BB Va Eb2EBEs^ M? oa ^ 6unr II Ertili: j I ^|'** * *^L^?" ""*" " Best for Cotl and AH C / Always Insist or Manufactured i (Fertilizer W< LOTT ^ j FOR SALE B Summer Br Newberry, J jSIMPKINS' IDEAL PROL jgMk<S ! 0ne ot the best and most early cottons; grown ninetj ^ much as three bales per a *J69R& ARTICLES ing 40 per cent, lint and in ^ 400 I at the Arkansas Experimen PICTURES ; averaged first out of twen each j rietiec tried. month j This cotton also took firs POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE , at the North Carolina Sta is for sale by all ncwsocalers ; several years. Aslc them to show yon a copy or tend 20c for ? the latest issue, postpaid. Yearly ?nbscriptioa I The advantage Of plan til 82.00 to all parts of the United States, ; * *' 1 nnttrm IllT PfhA J its possessions, Canada, ana jnexioo. . lliaiUl 1U^ vvvvv? wel1 understood by all cotfc Particularly where dange ~ \ - J By express, freight or per l)usliei.f" ?" ^eorg< spring planting. ? ENTERPRISE TRUCK CITY LICENSE. Georgetown, S. C I ? Get your License at once. License I SALE Q- PERS0NAL PF or 1919 now due and must be paid at : nee. By order of city council. I pursuant to an Order of 1 J. W. Chapman, o0urt 0f Newberry Coui Clerk antl rreas. j Carolina, the undersigned 1 ' the highest bidders, for c: REMOVAL NOTICE. | -ate residence of William Blease & Blease, Atoorneys at Law, j inick, deceased, near the ave removed their offices to the j prosperity, S. C., on Frida] [>urth floor of the new Exchange 21st, 1919, beginning at 11 Jank Building?rooms Numbers 403, certain personal prope 04, 405, 406, right in front of the estate of said William Lak< levator. 12-20 lm deceased, including two n wagons, DUggy ana na.rue< XOTICE OF FETAL SETTLEMENT. Implements, etc. Terms of Notice jfl hereby give that I will Pearl E. Do aake a final settlement of the person- Admii .1 estate of Ernest ^fcise, deceased, at February 5, 1919. 0 o'clock a. m., on Friday, the 21st [ay of February, 1919, at the office of THE WEMlUD ANV N he Judge of Probate for Newberry YF^R FOR ONLY $1.5$. bounty, S. C., and will immediately hereafter, apply for a discharcje a3 SPECIAL ELECTION IN H " RC.HOOL DISTRICT idministrator of said ?state. Henry Wise, STATE OF SOUTH CARO Administrator of the Estate of County of Newberry. Ernest Wise, Deceased. Whereas, one-third of t! >afe ^ | ij on, Corn I rops I 1 i the BEST I by I : flMPANY arks) ? 1M* 0? others Co. I .!FIC COT- electors and a like proportion of the resident freeholders of the age of productive j twenty-one years in the Hartford r days from; School District, No. 11, of the County roduced as j of Newberry, State of South Caror.re averae:-1 lina, have filed a petition with the tests made J County Board of Education of Newt Station it berry County, South Carolina, peti? ty-eight va-Stioning and requesting that an elecj tion be held in said School District on t premiums J the question of levying an additional te Fair for special tax of two (2) mills on the taxable property within the said school ig an early district. Simjkins is Now, therefore, we, the undersign- ?' on growers, ed, composing the County Board of r of bool Education for Newberry County, South Carolina, do hereby order the Board parcel post of Trustees of the Hartford School ;town $2.50 District No. 11 to hold an election on now for the said question of levying an addiI tional special tax of two (2) mills to FARM, ! be collected on the property located . 5. I within the $aid School District, which - : said election shall be held at the Hart1 * 3 1 TT /Nf/tA +V>A coi/? QnllAnl 10PERTY. j ioru aciiuui nuuac iu uic ocuu uvuwi | District No. 11, on Monday, the 24th the Probate j day of February, 1919, at which said ity, South i election the polls shall be opened at will sell, to j 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. ash, at the The members of the Board of TrusLake Dom- tees of said School District shall act Town of as managers of said election. Only r, February such electors as reside in said School o'clock a.' District and return real or personal ;rty of the property for taxation, and who ex* Dominick, hibit their tax receipts and registralules, two lion certificates as required in gener38, fanning al elections, shall be allowed to vote, sale: Cash. Electors favoring the levy of such tax minick, shall cast a ballot containing the word listratrix. "Yes" written or printed thereon, and J * v ' -V.1I each elector opposed 10 suuu ic*/ suou ? cast a ballot containing the word "No" TiJWS ONE written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seals this, the 3rd day of Febru try, 1919. A r- *,r nZTT CnV (1. SO IMn I rwni/ v/. ?u. x~. , JO. 11. O. B. CANNON, (L. S.) LINA, J. M. BEDENBAUGH, (L. S.) County Board of Education for Nettie resident J berry County, S. C. A