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r 4jfcg/\EWARP, .BOUND. ^4PSeTt(vi?$ltriBg the Uraightkt^b. emitting Ktrain ; f^he c^achet reel o'er tiie khio^ wx llitinOcr acrnsk the plain. ^rSSfifisST? ?hroiigh right, through .dax, ^ ?%? ? auu mad ^\ ^nO oar pulses leap as svo home- & ward ,wcci?- ^imSmk v^nd Christina* onmci once innrc., & *aVME -jy ABEL GIFFORD wns out ] I \ / | or aorta. mere was an unI y I happy expression closely ? approaching a scowl upon her fresh, young fuce as she gazed moodily from the kitchen window upon a scene bright with the glitter of suntight upon fresh-lallcu snow. An open letter lay upon her lap. Her mother glanced at her anxiously from time to time on her short journeys to and fro from kitchen to pantry, and at Lust aid gently: "I ain sorry about your disappointment, dear, but 1 suppose It could not be helped." "It Is all Helen's selQshness," hurst tit Mabel, hotly. "She promised last summer to spend Christmas with me. and now because she has had un invitation that suits her better she accepts It, no matter how J feel/* Mabel thought of the rows of mlucn ind pumpkin pies on the pantry shelves, the plump turkey waiting to he stuffed, the numerous other dainties prepared for tho Christmas holidays, tnd of the zest and energy with which >.< uuu mi L l'i illlll uunieu, lUllllUg (III1 bouse in perfect order from cellar to attic, even to decorating the pictures, and every available spot with evergreens, hoping to make the old farmhouse attractive to her fastidious guest. Everything was done, even to the stontug of the raisins lor the plum pudding. She was aroused from her reverie by her mother's voice, snyiug: "Well, I declare. If there Isn't Marin Church plowing through the snow, with a market basket ou hor arm. 1 know It must l>e heavy the wuy she carries it. llob," to her sou, who had Just come in, "if the tcnui is still there tnd the load off, go after Miss Church tnd drive her home. It's enough to kill her to get her skirts so drabbled." "All right. Muz." said the good-uatiired Hob. "Come along, sis, nnd don't sit mooning there any longer." They hoou overtook the solitary spinster. who rjaculuted with gratifying emphasis: "For the land sakes! Is that you, lloh Clifford? 1 guess I'm in luck this , time," nnd depositing her trembling form upon the board with a sigh of supreme satisfaction. After driving a couple of miles they stopped before n small frame house of forlorn and dismal aspect, doubtless owing hi part to Us aloofness from neighbors. "Walt here until I come back," said ftoh. "I'm going to drive over to see Tom Wilson. I won't he gone long." infl fnllnvupil M ?ua flmr/iK the house. It was very scantily furnished. The doors were hare, hut white as soap and water could make them. The table was spotless In its purity. Not a peck of dust could be seen anywhere, ttug* and mats of nil sizc9, shapes and colors were spread here and there, seemingly for adornment rather than Obo. "TWey'rc hern." whispered Mabel's companion, noticing the girl's eyes DECOR4TINO THE HOUSK. fixed upon them. By "her" Mabel understood MIsa Church to tncHD the ulster who had lived with her and had died a year before. "Martha bad a wonderful gift that way,** she continued. "It's aurprisin* what the could do right out ol her X / f /AT CHRIST/wVA5.TIDE Tho~r?mohd flung baek~on the L " J ?hin?njT track. UFSk tike a banner floats and furleV ?<W? With o" teap and bound, like ao yjyCftWScgr: unleashed hound The engine forward hurls. BKQhK^W Bejide u* ^>' lhe held and sly 5vX5S?i-a And the woods with echoed SKHll^NjfttaAod our hearts beat fast as the yi? j llmTO miles sweep past. '^SJ^^I^^lFor Christmas cumcs ones DO*uti7Y D[AKV nH&BSTFMS H ? WOODRUFF* heart. They're nil her make. I never hart uo taste for It." Mabel murmured something inaudible as she contemplated the works of art before her. Scroll work of extraordinary design, bouquets of wonderful flowers of enormous size and painful colors, and animals and birds of astonishing proportions. "It must be very, very lonely for , you," said Mabel with ready sympathy. "Yes. 'tis," replied Miss Church. "I don't know how to stand it sometimes. When I found Christmas was comln' it pretty nigh made tue sick to think of it. When follC3 git old and uuinter 15^'k H ",k i BRINGING HOMETH (Drawn by Sarah S. Stilwe estln* people dou't linnker after liavin' 'en? round much, and I'd'no as 1 blame 'em any. But when you git used to yet own you uiIbs 'em when they've goue." "Yes. Indeed," said Mabel, fervently, swallowing the lump lu her throat with difficulty. "I'm ho Horry you have to live here nil alone, Miss Church." "There's them as has ast me to live with them." Hhe said, "but 1 somehow can't leave my home, where I've lived all iuy life, and I'd'no as I could git along with 'em If I did. There's yer brother come back." "Did you notice that rooster, MlinT' he asked with a snort when they had started homeward. "Wasn't he a caution?" but Mabel was In a brown study and did not respond satisfactorily. Her abstraction continued until after supper, making ltob uneasy at such unusual conduct, and giving her mother real coucern. Then came the unhiirit??nlii<? follnir.id !? - with the result that Rob wan dl?- I patched iu the morning with the cat- I ter with a note to Miss Church, which rend thus: "Dear Frlerd: I, too, nin lonely this Christmas Day, and disappointed, ftor the friend I expected hns not come, and I hope that you will do me the kindness to come In her stead. Pleu?e(1 do not disappoint me. Your sincere friend, MABEL GIFFORD." Miss Church was sitting at the window. with her steel-rimmed spectacles astride her nose and her Bible iu her lap. when Rob drove up. Curiosity quickly brought her to the door. Utter amazement was depicted upon j her couutcuuuce when she had rend I the note. "Mercy ice!" she said, "I ilon't see [ what the child wants of ine. lint If i it's n-goin' to lis any disappointment | my not goln.' why I'm n-goin' to go." and she put on her wraps without nnother wort*. Mabel devoted herself to her guest, who enjoyed the day Immensely. She was Interested In everything?Mabel's fancy work, Mrs. Gilford's recipe for j ginger rake, Rob's account of bow he raufciri the mink that had been robbing bin henroost, and Mr. Gifford's political views. It was Intelligent Interest, too. with a touch of quaint htr.oor that made her company very agreeable. ) t p 4 SUPPL ???^? *1 bad no Idea that Maria Church was so well Informed," said Mrs. Glfford to her husband, discussing her afterward. "She's Just like her father, old John "POhVX SC ItE A MED WITH DKLISHT OTEB THE BIO DOI<I>." Church?shrewd, honest and plainspoken." said Mr. Clifford. The dinner was pronounced a great success by Miss Church, whose opinion was of value from the fact that she was a judge of good cookery, and was never known to pay undeserved compliments. The crowning part of the day's pleasure was the Christinas tree entertainment In the church In the evening. She hea.jed on the minister when he made the customary remarks, and rejoiced audibly when little Tolly Pratt, a yellow-haired tot, screamed with delight over the huge doll presented to her. She was nearly worn out with excitement and pleasure when the evening was over, and said to Mabel when putting on her wraps eHristmas tree 11 for Harper's Bazar.) while Rob wns getting the horse ready to take her home: "I'm real glad I didn't disappoint j-ou. I never had a better time In my life," and Mabel answered earnestly: "1 am so glad you didn't, Miss rhniwh i - ?-.t -- - ? v-x.vu. UVICI LUU U U UTl VjIITISIinug either, and I'm coming to see you often If you will let me." "Come nloug. uiy dear," an Id Miss Church, heartily. "The oftener the better. I don't seem to feel nigh so lonesome an I did. I will let you take off the pattern of them mats when you come. I'd Just as lief you would at not. A girl as smart as you he had ought to copy 'em in no time. Is that you. Rob? Whatever Is the matter with the boy. I guess he's got the high-strikes. Cood-night."?Chicago Record-Herald. All Alike. Husband?"Do yon think we ran afford to give away so many Christmas presents, dear'.'" Wife ? "That's no argument. The people who give us presents can't ufford it, either."?I'uck. Christina* Warning. When once again the calendar has found This happy day when varied joys abound And bidden ua to join in careless glee With all the youngatcrs 'round the Christ mns tree, Let ua be generous in all that lifts The human heart; and not alone in gifts i So. prythee, gentle laas and fair, stay not With thoughtleaa mien upou one aelf-aame spot While others snurther a reproachful sigh. Seem not unconacioua as th y paaa you by. I Nay, pretty one. A kindly spirit show. Do oot monopolize the miatletoe. i _ . ?Washington ill*, * * BH E NT. 8t. Kick by Automobile. Good old Saint Nick comes to one of the np-town stores this holiday season in a sadly unpoetle vehicle. There will be no clatter of light hoofs or jingle of sleighbells to mark bis passage over rooftops In tlirt vicinity on the night before Christmas. No wicked children, who lie awake to catcli him, will hear that Jolly old voice urging on Dasher and IVaueer, Donner and Biltsen, and all the rest of the famous old four-tlmes-four-ln-hnnd team. In other words, reindeer as a motive power are out of date, and the metropolitan Santa Clans comes this year In an automobile. Nor Ys thlR all of the new revelation. The store's decorators have pictured Ivrlss as coming, strange to say, from a southerly direction and not out of the frozen north, as he used to appear to the watchful parental eyes of generations goue by. His newfangled vehicle seems to follow a route that lies over the hills of Statcn Island and just touches a corner of South Brooklyn before it leads up toward Liberty's little island and the skyscrapers of Manhattan. To the youthful "higher critics" of the Christmas saint, these disclosures ought to furnish new material for reflection.?New York Sun. Cliriptma* .Snjicrutltton*. People who are born ou Christmas Eve have the faculty of seeing ghosts, j The old superstition is that if at midnight on Christmas Eve they call the spirit of a departed friend the apparition of the deceased will appear. Quite a widespread belief tn rural regions Is that cows talk on Christmas Eve. and one who is born on the day | before Christmas can understand tha conversation of the cows. To those whose birthday is December 24 special benefits are promised. If they hear a cock crow before midnight they will be lucky in love and marry early; if nfter midnight they will be rich, but unlucky In love. \ Among the foreign population in Phil- j adelphla children are kept in the eel- j lar to facilitate the hearing of the after-midnight cock crow. In some of the foreign households the cocks are kept In a dark closet until the clock strikes 12; then they are let out to give voice. BRINGING THE CHRISTMAS TREE . r L IV KATtfAll*! ftu /kj jWpCg Alt morning long the hetvy oky C* A J Uj? teamed to threaten mow, / wl \ i*) ovcr #r^ M>nlry fiildo \llJq VMV The crown trt JUpp.ng low 1 ^\j\ V Ay> II TW thUdrtn'a xitr, tarry lu V1' / Oa iuch a winter's day. Aai you can hear the hatthrt aound J-yl Al/aou twa ialii away. r"~ 4r ) V/ y. Ta-morrow night iha aturdy ftr KjjJt\Tl ,h*n *"4 *>?- \\ /| \ \ y j And It ahall ahina with toya any giltl.s '.\x ^[/ A .ovaly Christmas twt. ^ ^ Chnatanaa Giving. Don't give mother a useful gift unless you are too poor for aught ornnrueutal. She may be "getting on," but she still loves pretty trinkets. v?ratify her. Don't decide not to give at nil because you cannot give handsomely. ' Good will Is the watchword, and good sense will help you to choose lovely guts for little money. Making presents literally with your owu hands doubles the value literally and sentimentally very often. Busy r.nies are these to every one, and the stores overflow with things that require small outlay. i In Stnln'i Doll Factory. (wEStem. JSIPmT $5? Ho prepares to tnako glaj the hearts Of rood ltf*W girls. ABOUT CHRISTMAS. BiiiArp Gives the History of the Great Annual Event. ON OLD FATHER TIME'S PROBLEM. Different Days Celebrated as Christmas? Russians and Greeks Celebrate January 5th. o Nearly sixteen hundred years have passed since Christmas was first celebrated by Christians. During all these ivuu >.cunii icb 11117 mix; nui'iiiiieu 10 meet somewhere and and pay reverence to the day that somehow was chosen as the birth of the Savior. It is not at all certain that the 25th of December was His birthday, but that does not matter much, so that Christian people observe some day and show their gratitude. Indeed, the Creek and the Russians still celebrate the 5th of January and call it Christmas for they have never yet adopt V. the new calendar established by Pope Gregory XIII in the year 15S2. Now, it is important for the young people and many of the old ones to. know that for nearly sixteen centuries old Father Time had been gaining a little every year on the exact time that it takes the earth to go round the sun. This gain had amounted to about twelve days, so the pope, who was a great and wise man, issued his mandate that lime should be set back, and It was set back. All the Roman Catholic countries conformed at once to the new date, but tbe Protestant countries were jealous of the pope, and so Germany would not conform until the year 17C0. Great Britain and Ireland refused to conform until the year 1752, and the American colonics put It off a few years later. Greece and Russia have not conformed yet, but they will. They arc getting tired of having to put two dates to all their letters and commercial transactions with other countries. When General Young was uui luubiii ill 01. ri'UTsuurK ail his letters that were written home had I two dates that were twelve days apart.; One he marked "N. S.," for new style, and the other "O. for old style. England had to abandon ano'ner measure of time, for until about two hundred years ago the new year began on the 25th of Mareh. Some countries began it on Euster day. I tell you, niv young friend, old Father Time has had a perplexing problem to keep his calendar straight. The day used to begin at G o'clock in the morning. The week began on Monday. The Jews had twelve lunar months of twenty*elg.'it days, and every third year had thirteen to make up for lost time. For centuries there were only ten months in the year among the Greeks and Romans. and February had thirty-six days }ust like all the other months. Hut popes and emperors ruled the civilized world, and changed the measures of time to suit their own whims. Pope Gregory was a scholar, a mathematician and a promoter of public education, and he know that the calendar was wrong, and was getting more so every year. It was a bold stroke of power, but he was backed by all tho great astronomers of Europe, and he set the clock back, and it stands. Rut what about Christmas? It has to be written about every time it coraos round, for there is a npw generation of young people coming on every year, and they must be taught to know as much as those who are older. This is the most important event that ever happened in the history of the world, and every man and woman and every hoy and girl who can read should be as familiar with It is they are with the spelling book. The word "mass" loss not literally mean birth. It means "dismissed." and came into use because after any service in the Roman Catholic church the priest would say the condgregation is now dismissed. in I^itin. it is "mass." Hence, there was high mass and low mass and candle mass and Michael mass and Christmas ?a dismission and benediction after worship. For two or three centuries after inriKi nia louowcrs nan bo many lips and downs they could not establish holy days or feasts or festivals. Some emperors were ltlnd and tolerant and some were cruel and persecuted them. During the reign or the Kmperior Diocletian the Christians of Rome determined to celebrate Christmas In their own church where they had been permitted to worship, but Diocletian had taken great dislike to them, and after the church was full he sent soldiers there and locked the doors and set tire to the building and burned them up alvie?men. women and children. The wretch died soon ? ftcr but it was many years .before Christians dared to celebrate Christmas again. This was about the year 310. But the utmost c;forts of kings and emperors to extin guish Christianity failed. The. more martyrs, tho more Christians. They seemed to thrive on persecution, and hence It was said that "the blood of the martyrs is tho seed of the church." Just think how much we have to he thankful for In this age and in this i /*!;?: iika.i.. ma * iuuu in i rn^iuus nuniy. u inariyrs, every man and woman can wor3h p God according to their own conscience, with none to molest or make them afraid. The turrets and spires of beautiful churches adorn our land In every city, town and village, and are a sil nt guarantee of good 7/111 and protection to every stranger that comes. But ChiL3tinas has had no good tim? in coming down to us through the ages. In some countries it was made 3 frolic?r. bacchanalian revel. The guy and (Hailpated danced to the music Oil silly and profane carols and deserra ted the day with wine and Irreverent I song. This desecration got to bo sr. universal and so shameful that man' good Christians ceased to celebrat * it. The Pucitans refused to observo it nn.t so did the people of Scotland. The Scotch do not observe It now. Well, it is a description over here, for it made a day of thoughtless feasting and frolic Instead of A day of thanl&futnc33. ?I Christmas trees and gifts to the dren are very proper and gifts to ths^^^H poor are especially so. but all the day^^^H Ion * our gratitude to God for His good-^^^B ness should be uppermost in the minds^f^H of all intelligent people. The chil-H^H dren. of coutho. we must humor their innocent faith in Santa Clans and^^BH his reindeer, for he is supposed !o H a great and good old man who love^^^^H them nnd is wonderfully rich. I'ifl H Russian name Is St. NlehoLas and hi^^^BB Dutch name is Ivriss Kringlc, and fifteen hundred >ears he has known as the patron saint of nil goo^^^^B children. He is no myth but was veritable bishop in his day and was only devoted to little children, but tnoV^^^^J pleasure in h<dnl"g young men maidens to mate and marry. The mls*^^^^H tletoe feature of Christmas came downflB^f from him. it is .said, and if a young^^^^H man and maiden will plight their troth, that is. become engaged on Christmas day while standing under a m.stiotos bough, they will never foraake their love, nor be divorced. This is enough for mo to write about H H Christmas. The books have many pretty stories and pcems a1>out this ever room- I cable day. The most beurl'ul .1 n i Impressive of them ail is the one writ-^B B ten by Clement C. Moore, beginning, " 'Twas the night b'foro Chr a : 1 >."fl H The next best is by a Virginia "Kate Pestotlta.' Her maiden ininm H was Neely, but r>hc for some swapped it out for some out: it i hH H jaw-breaking name that I don't. undcr-^^^^M stand. Her poem on Christmas is an quisitc gem. The last verse says: "I.et none unchrLstmassed go, Lot none from any door Unwarmcd, unfed, No kind word said Helpless be turned away For Thine own sake wc pray." That is the best part of Christmas? making others happy?and if I was a lawmaker I would make the whole v.eek a holiday and give a good dinner to the poor and rv. n to the n' isoners in inII M And nobody should dun anybody or ^^^B write a dunning letter to disturb bis ^HHj tranjulllity. I received one this morning. The clans have begun to gaih'r^^HB at the family mansion and the materia^^^^m ancestor is happy, and tripes her li^^^B^^H fantistic toe3 all over tho house. ^B does not cost anything to rim Chrh^J^^^Hj mas at our house, for the children their rations with them, and one of far-away hoys writes: "Hire nnn'J^^^E^H servant cr two at my expense. I want daddy to havo to bring in and coal any more, and I want a dnv dinner every day in the wcck.'^^B^^^B ?Dill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. the Thames Strai?htened. Bj H This fatuous appears in a highly indignant!^? H on a map I the is.H H our wh? making, straij^^^HBHH^H noble thus shortcninj^^^^^^^^^^H <1 friction increasing the ilov^^H^BBBB ventor."?London Globe. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Jk fentrel T1m? at jMk?inrill? end Panvnnalv. Jvnte? a Turn1 at O:her Point*. Sobrdul* in EflVct Junn Will. 1011. J^BB SS liui? C*. Jnolwoavil.o (P. til So ji 7 4op Snvruintih i.-So. Uy i..... 1 - iir> 1J Hon " r.aruw?y it irfjp 4 I.ji .. " K>la>-k vi - in I l.'jj l .Vn Ar. Oolunibla .. AMroj n l.Vt Lv. Oliarieaion. too. ky . 7. "TuTa li jj(< " buuuu<rvillo MInl.MM U(Ln ?ikjo .. ?ranj:rimrg w zsa z 4aa .. " Kin?villo . j tu.n Ar Ooinmhia ha 6 -tun Ct'. Au.'iw Z.?op Houp .. Lv. Oramtoviilo a'A>p lOISp . Lv. Atkt-ii . au&p ... HMB Lv. Tre.i ton a U!p i I ojp ... .iohnston 4 it. J> 11 Alf . , Ar. Columbia :, ? i.,., Lv. OoiomMa, (Uidg at.. .77". uaip filaa ~77.7M " Wimmboro tl,Vj\) 7 i%n . 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