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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON7 8. C
THURSDAY,
Week
The Chronicle does not necessarily
endorse or commend all of Mr. Bris
bane’s views and conclusions. His ed
itorials are published as expressions
of opinions of the world’s highest sal
aried editor.
ANOTHER BRYAN WANTED
SCIENCE NO MENACE
170,000 AND TOO CHEAP
BEWARE OF EMPATHY
The Iowa State chairman stya the
Democratic party ought to find # a man
like W. J. Bryan—somethnig hard to
do. Bryan had one great quality, and
you could say, as it is said of another,
“That man believes every word he
aays. Such men are dangerous.’
There is a tremendous power in sin
cerity, and, right or wrong, on gold,
silver or prohibition, Bryari had that
power.
Dr. Lorenz, “bloodless surgeon of
Vienna,’’ says science is injuring hu
manity by keeping the unfit alive.
Nature tries to wipe out those not fit
to perpetuate the species. Science
prolongs their lives and adds unfit
children to the population.
Red Indians used to kill babies that
did not seem vigorous, and killed all
children born deformed. That didn’t
make a great conquering race of the
Indians. Some of the most useful
men, Voltaire for instance, would have
died in infancy but for extraordinary
scientific care.
Pope, who wrote the “Essay on
Man” and other things, worth while,
would have been killed had he lived
among the Indians.
He had to be sewed up in a canvas
jacket each day that he might sit up
and write.
And consider the good moral effect
that helping the unfit has upon the
abler types. What we call charity is
largely a philanthropic gymnasium for
the prosperous.
A Stock Exchange seat sells for
$170,000, the highest price on record,
but a great deal too low. In these
booming times, and with the prosper
ity that is ahead, every able broker
ought to earn the price of a seat in
m year.
The value of Exchange seats shows
that it is -better to buy and sell things
than to make them. You know how
cotton growers feel just now. In
some places cotton isn’t worth picking.
Yesterday in New York a seat on
the Cotton Exchange sold for $2,000
more than the last previous sale.
Whether cotton stocks sell high or
low, the intelligent broker makes his
profit. ^
Rabindranath Tagore (fine, old poet
of Bombay) joins Europe’s hymn of
American hate. He won’t come here
again; did not like us last time. We
the “too aggressively anti-Asiatic and
selfish.”
We are not “aggressively anti-Asi
atic,” but we notice that India in five
thousand years has done nothing but
turn from slavery under the rajahs to
slavery under Britain and rajahs com
bined. We, on the other hand, have
done several things, steamboat, fly
ing machine, automobile, telephone,
phonograph, radio, in much less than
fiive thousand years.
We don’£ believe that Asia and
America would go in harness any bet
ter thim a yak and a submarine. Nev
ertheless, we like Asia, all but the ra
jahs, caste, suttee and child marriage
—and Britain is attending to them.
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Santa
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Are you inclined to empathy? It’s
the new word of psychologists, and ex
plains stories of witnesses, describing’
saw what we never saw.
3 T HAD always been such a nice,
deceptive way in which to speak
of specially delicious and delect
able sweets—sugar plums.
Her grandmother had called candies
and candled fruits and luscious bon
bons “sugar plums.” And she had
always, because she liked candled
fruits so particularly, called them
"sugar plums.’'
It had been seventeen years since
Rose had first remembered hearing of
"sugar plums.” She had been three
then, and her grandmothai' had said
ac
ross Had Bssn Vory Busy Getting
Ready for Christmas.
First we think about a thing with
sympathy. Then we get mixed, in
ject ourselves into the sffsir, in our
imflginatjons, and soon are ready to
swear, with perfect sincerity, that we
aay what we never saw.
Dreams lead to empathy. You
dream you saw s friend in a certain
place, think about it, and in a week
you believe that you dreamed of him
and then saw him, just where you had
dreamed of him. And you tell your
friends how your dream came true,
whsn it did nothing of the kind.
Beware of empathy. The world is
full of it. '
Professors Fryer and Shaw, of New
York University, invented or discov-
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NOTICE-1*0 STOCKHOLDERS
Tbs arm ual meeting of the stock
holders of the First National Bank of
Clmtoa, S. C., will be held in the Di
rectors’ room of the Bank at Clinton,
• g. Ct on Tuesday, January 11, 1927,
«t three o'clock p. Please be pres
ent er forward your proxy.
B. H. BOYD,
President.
In the wise, wise way that grandmoth
er always had of knowing what was
what, “Yes, only Sants Claus knows
how to get the choicest of sugar
plums,”
Rosfe was very busy getting ready
for Christmas. . It was a busy time
In the family. There were mince pies
to be made and plum puddings, and
almonds to salt, and fudge to make,
and wreaths to make, and bells to
fix, and fresh candles to put In the
candle-sticks—red candles at this
time of the year.
It was a time for general cheer, and
from Rose’s family a great share of
this cheer went forth.
It was not that they were wealthy.
They were. In fact, the opposite.
But it was their greet satisfaction ,
that by hard work and great energy 1
of spirit they could do a great deal in
a small way for every one with whom
they came In contact at this season of
the year.
Every present, no matter bow sim
ple, was prettily wrapped. There was
no condescension In their giving. To
them it was a big part of their Christ
mas delight that they knew so many
people with wfihra they could share
their Christmas sacrifices and the re
sult of the late hours they kept for
weeks before Christmas in their Innu
merable small preparations. Saving
was always such fun throughout the
early autumn. - Of what fun was sav
ing It it were all to be foraver hid
den?
There were two presents awaiting
Christmas morning for Rose to un
wrap. They were for her and she had
taken them in when they had arrived,
but she had not opened them.
She was curious about these pree-
She knew they would be finite
but one waa from Billy and
one waa frqra Joe, and both Billy and
.loe had lately been running • race,
as it were, for Rose’s acceptance of
engagements, for her favors.
She liked Billy much better than
she did Joe. She knew that Billy
liked her. She knew that Joe liked
her, too. She felt that Joe would al
ways .make her very comfortable,
Vrould always be very kind, very duti
ful, and that she would always have
to be dutiful, too. ,
Of course, that was all right But
she felt that with Billy She would
want to make him §o very happy, and
with Joe, that It would be so much
more of a duty.
Yet Joe was more reliable, he was
less Irresponsible, less spontaneous,
and so much more exact But Billy
was such a dear I
She could label all Joe's good
points. Billy’s were less tangible, but
they were there, all right, even If she
couldn't name them.
She helped her mother with the last
Christmas Eve touches, covered the
fire • over with asheu, put out the
lights and finally went to bed.
The next morning she opened Joe’s
present first Somehow she wanted
to keep Billy’s to the last the way
she had done with things when she
was s child.
There was a little note with Joe’s
present telling her what she knew
be had been wanting to tell her for
a long time—how much he thought of
her, what a good wife he knew she
would be—of that he said, he was
confident And he hoped she would be
of the same opinion about him. He
would make her, he was quite sure,
a good husband.
Then there was a word about the
present. He had not known what to
give her this year; he knew she had
all of those things which, as their
positions now were, were t£e only
things be could give her, but bis moth
er had suggested a very complete sew
ing-box.
There was no note with Billy’s pres
ent Just a card upon which he had
written:
_ “I think you like these 'sugar plum’
things. Merry Christmas.” It was
a wholly unreasonably large box of
candled fruit.
Later Billy himself came around.
Wit t s dear be was! Oh, yes, BlUy.
“Crazy
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Prosont I Gave You,” Billy
Was Saying.
was s dear. And. they had mistletoe,
too, and Billy was grabbing her and
was saying:
“Crazy present I gave you, but I
know you like sugar plums; ktad, any
way, I had in mind a diamond ring,
but just thought I’d speak to you about
it first.” -
Billy had "his own ideas. “Sugar
plums.” Joe had consulted his moth
er and there had been a sewing box.
Oh, she couldn’t tell .Just why^jer-
haps, hot she did love Bitty and she
didn’t love Joe. Perhaps It was be
cause BlUy was, just a dear.
"The ‘sugar flams' win,” she said,
and I’d love the diamond ring."
Billy didn't finite understand the
first part of her sentence, hut be did
the tkst—and, after all, that , was Ml
that was naceaaaryl
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The Holiday Season is Hie rime When
Good Food is in Demand—
\ Choice, varied meals are a Yuletide necessity. When the
Christmas spirit lives in the heart of mankind there’s a natu
ral craving for choice delicacies.
This store strives to anticipate the wants of its customers
and always be prepared to promptly supply each request
OUR HOLIDAY STOCK OF GROCERIES, FRUITS AND
NUTS CONSISTS OF EVERYTHING NEED
ED FOR EVERY HOLIDAY MEAL.
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And when the Christmas rush is on and every housewife’s
moments ar eoccupied with Christmas duties wO try to even
improve our service and deliver all orders with promptness and
dispatch.
Our store is loaded down with everything imaginable that’s
good for Christmas.
VISIT US—PHONE US YOUR CHRISTMAS WANTS EARLY
Little & Denson
Clinton, S. C. — 50—Two Phones—54 — Clinton, S. C.
Furniture
THE-
Logical Christmas Gift
Brighten the Home!
Provide Comfort!
Give Enjoyment!
Save Labor!
SOMETHING lasting—a (gift more useful—that is the
^ Spirit of the 1926 Christmas. Our store is filled
with scores of useful, appropriate Gifts for Every Mem
ber of the familyr WhV hot come in this week—today
—and select your Christnias Gifts? You will find our
prices the very lowest, for remember: “WE RFT.t. it
FOR LESS,” and we guarantee the quality of every ar
ticle we sell. Brighten the home for the Holidays with
a piece of Furniture—Santa says there’s no better place
than here to look around. \ ■ '
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CLINTON,
“SELLS IT FOR LESS”
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