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CLINTON CHRONIOX. ajNTON.'a. C. .:T THtrSSDAY, DEC im' Yet, He b A .Real Pers<m! ^>1 r. c; K FAMED NEW YORK EDITOR AND LITTLE GIRL SETTLED QUESTION .ugnnjnitaaiii €harIeH Dana Wrote Classic Production In Reply To Letter From Child Asking, “Is There A Santa Claus?“ In the Corpentor Shop Just Before Christinas ZtJ long ago It wn* the day be- f»»re Chrittmas; but the eorld WitM nut cel)>hrutlng Chriatroat then at v.o do now. In a little carpenter thop with cnjde tool* and henchet, an are j prentice was quietly planing a sandal wood blwk to |>erfect smwfhneaa. Ills tunic was drawn ntmut his waist with a cord. Ida hair fell about his hliotilders III dark silken curls. hU I'oyirli clear cat features wore il-e ex- |tri*ssion of r>ejioe and. love. .Su(l(!<*:il.v a eliiH«‘l slipitod. n mao ••r!**d out In A cHn>c:;ter li nM.‘ived a splinter full in (he Itierclng (lie e.xehall. Others giilliere ' iilHaii liiiii to liind up the wound'Tiii . ‘'<ih!I.v sliiaik tlieir heads. “Ife will h hlind." tliey said. Tile ii|»|»reniiee worked on ctilinl.t niin St smiling. A great physhdan fame and removinl the bundHee. *‘TI»e eje U sound.” he said, “.vou must Inive been nilstnUen. It haiks ns if t* had never lieea Injured at all." “I am sure it never was.” said tli" man. lint llie otlier carr)enters >.lnMik •lielp lieads and the apr»ren(l(-e went oil siiiootliliig the sandalwoia]. \Twits t'hristinas eve—Noiil Clack I'liiirey. (® 1839. Wenlerii NewaiMpar Uiiton.) STATE TO MATCH FEDERALiUND Ben M. Sawyer, Chief Hitiiway Co«< misafoner, Ta Say Where Read - Mowey Goea. Columbia, Dec. 23.—Ben M. Sawyer, chief highway commiationer, said the highway department would announce "in a short time” where the 636 to be received from tAie federal government for highway construction would be used. "We will apfdy the sum as far as -permissifttle to our f5,000,000 let ting of Dec. 30,” he said. “Announce ment of plans to use the balance in highseay construction over the state wiB be made Shortly after. ed the governor “to pot your state in^ a position to use at th« aariiaat sible moment such federal road funds ‘As yet the state highway depart-' as may be available.” 'Yj ment has not received ofncial advices j The governor replied that as to the immediate availahility of twenty million dollars available the appropriation.^ ally, the state would have no The federal funds must it irktcbed cuity. hy state funds., but since bonO' to the- ——— ^ amount of 310,000.000 recently were [Why not solve your “Gift ;Prahktai” sold, no diff.culty is anticipated injbv giving Magaalaes this ChriataMS? this. I have ;;onie attractive affera wliere- New York, Dec. 20.—dust 33 years: mind and put into print time and time ago, as Hjc mauve decade was draw--again as the ('hristmas season nears iiig to a close and people were begin-1 ea<*h year. A few days later in the column.s of the Sun came the reply; “We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the com munication below, expre.s.-iing at the same time our great gratification that its author is numliered among the fi'cril.^ of the Sun: ‘ ‘Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some cf my little friends say] there is no Santa ('laus. Papa sajiR] ‘‘if you see it in the Sun, it’s so.”' Please tell me the truth; is there a ning to talk abcut the dawn of the twentieth lentury, a little girl, living at lir» West Xinety-fifth street,tNcw York, asiciKl her father a question. “Papa,” she queried, "is there real ly a Santa Claus?” Her father, who proliaiblv was p' lMi ning the evening new.>vpaper, wmok'PK his cigar in the r<*d plush, high-ceil- inged room of the period, was piu r.led. He wasn’t exactly prepared fuf that, coming so abruptly as it Hid from the .small duugbter playing with SantA*’Claus ? her dolls at his Mide. j •• ‘VIRGINIA 6’HANU)N. “Papa,” the child iiisi.-tc !. ‘‘.villy. ” ‘115 West Ninety-fifth, Street.’ ” and Peggy/aind ./ane say there’s no' “Virginia, yoQr little friends are' SanU riaus, :\r,d 1 want to know wrong, 'They have been affected by whether it’.-; sn.” j*he skepticism^ of a skeptical age.' The dolls hail slipped to the floor hey do not bdieve except they see. now, a hand \vi§ tugging gently at his. They think that nothing ean be which ^leeve. and two bright eyes were gaz-i .s not eomprehensihle hy their little mg querulously into his fu<e. minds. All minds, Virginia, whether “Well,” replied her parent, at last, they be men’s or children’s, are little., and .seizing u|>on a way out, “why | in this great universe of ours man is I <h»n t you writs' to the newspaper, a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, d.oul it. If you see it in the Sun, it’s 1 as eompared with the boundless world' ' about him, as measured by the inteJli- > That night, after she had put herl^rpnce capable of gi-a’spin'g the whole; (lolls to lusi. Virginia O’Hanlon Wrote, of truth and knowledge. • to Charles Dana, then editor of the' “Yes. Virginia, th^i>t< t« a Santa; New Toil; Sun, and asked"him thefClaus. He exists a.s certainly as love! .same (|uestion, Is there a Xanta ; j^nd generosity and devotion exist, and j ^ l.vou know that they abound and give, .Mr. Dana might have tossed the to our life its highest beauty and joy. leHer into his vva.stdiasket and for- Mas! How dre^ary would be the world] gotten the incident, for the editor of if there were no Santa Claus. It woultl' a great city newspaper has many he as dreary as if there were no Vir- Ihings on his nvind. Rut he didn’t. Af-' jrinias. There would he no childlike tei all, his duty to hi.s leuders, even faith then, no poetry, no romance, to' the small Virginias of the city, de- nake tolerable his existence. We nijuidcd that it he answered. He turn-1 should have no enjoyment, except in] ed to his desk. sense and sight. The eternal lignt- VirginiaO’Hanl.m might he a moth- with which childhood fills the world' er to Virginias of her own now, and ; would he extinguished. ! Led by the Chritlinat Spirit, They Rejoiced ITTINO before th« biaxing llr» and listening to the merry cu roiers wlthniit, Martha llarroiis ft li nil the joy of the Christmas season Hiniteil hniipily at her husliand nnii | son. Then her ^honghta went buck tn ' that memorahle Christnaa years ag* u lion sonieihing had led her steps to the lh>ncon p.ah.r home. Again slo liHikod Into (he eyes of a hlubeyis' hiili.v and felt that sudden desire to lone him for their own. George hml ri'iidil.v agreed to the adoption. Ules' Ids heart, he would have agri'ed to anything to make her happy. Rut tin hiiliy had brought him happiness, too He was low one the ablest law yors In town iind had recently iit ir.icled nationwide attention In win ning a conipllcated case. And the love and comnidesldp lie had given then .tUmuglr the years was as deep and lino IIS If he liad hoeii their very own Truly, Marllin Rarmns thouglit. n^ the voic.'s of the carolers faded Into tlio iilglit. It was the spirit of Chrl.«t inns I lint had directed her steps oi- that long-ago Christmas.—Katherliu Kdolimin. (®. 19"0. We^tfrn .Newii|>«ppr Union t •'t f! I I'i il' Govemol* R'clutrds tofUiy repli^ ' T or.,mqre copict of the sa a letter from Frank Bane, of the pres- majTs^ine^can be had at the i»riee 9i ident’s emergency commit ee for em-'2 and 3 year subscriptioaa. -r ,.i. ' p’oyment, in which Mr. Banc h:. i a^k- ] JA8. W. CALDWELL, ^LL of us here at Buchanan’s extend to you, not alone as a customer, but as a friend— i I uli I h I n t x’Mm mi; iff: T! It- li " I I i it! Little Children*’ 1 UK survival power of Christ mas. jits persistence ns uorld wide festival, lies In the fact that It quickens in all of us (t the s**nse of human kinship. It D gels honoiith the surface cviil- A Hsm and releust's tliose finer ,!] Impulses which we aJI pos.s;*ss f- Eor a„da.v we hecome ag.iin “ns i'.‘ little chlldn'ii.” and the child In Jd our midst Is the syiubol of the yj Joy wldcli ue seek. L A .Merry Ctirlstiiiiis then—luer- y ry because |t brings (o us the vision of love ruling In the •• hearts of men, and renewed hope . that the ilroain of u day imiy V' yet hecome the per|ietunl rtmllty. C We wish to thank ycu for your confluence and patronage the past year. We deeply appreciate your business and it is our aim to constantly lender to our patrons in all departments of cur burinesa. the very highest class of skill and service to be obtained. W'e wish you a CHRISTMAS ... Merry as the dancing suds with whkh we purify your clothes. We wish you a New Year ... as f/ee from trouble find disappointments as your newly washed laundry bundle, ts free from dust and germs and soil. BUCHANAN’S DRY CLEANERS AND STEAM LAUNDRY Office Phone 28 Laundry Phone 29 the high ceilings and red plush of 11.5 We.-it Ninety-fifth street probab ly are faded and worn, if they exist **t all. hut Vrginia’a lot.or and Editor Dun I’s ani-wer w ill liv( ui, brought' to Niobt after night I could not aleap,” writaa Mra. Mary J. Roberta. 117 West Franklin St, Raleigh, N. C ”1 would lie awake half the night I waa dizxy and weak, suffered frrquortly with pains in my side and small part of my back. ”Wh m I was a girl, my mother gave ma Cardui, and H did me ao much good, I thought 1 would try it again. I took flea bottlet, and I feel like a new peraoa. 1 think it ia flna. 1 would imI- Ties sfeery woman who In wank to try Cardui, fog it ban onr> “Not believe in Santa Claii.s! You might a.s well not believe in fairien! j Y(ni might get your papa to hire men' to watch in all the chimneys on I Ghristmu.s eve to catch Santa Ulau.q | hut e\on if they d.d not see Sant'ij (11au.-( coming down, what would that prove? Nol)ody sees Santa ('laus' l>ut that is no sign that there is noj Santa ('laus. The most real things in: I the world are those that neither chil dren nor men can see. Did you ever .see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of] .course not, but that’s no proof that I [they are not there. Nobody can con- 'ceive or imagine all the w-onders th?re aixj un.seen and un.s«eahle in tiie>world. “You may tear apart the baby’s ' rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there ia a veil covering | I the unseen world which not the' ■ .strongest man, nor even the united I : .strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can pua: aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Vir ginia. in all this world there is noth ing else real and abiding. “No Santa Claus! Thank God! he Uvea, and he lives farawr. A thou*- and years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.” Saturday Bveniiig Pout, $2,00 per yw, * yaara, $$M; 3 yeara, $5.00. See me fur attractive Gift Offera. iAS. w. caldwel:. *Tke Magaiine Man” PlHma 241 at 12:30 P. M. .* .-i? .'i. Blostinf River Daaube It hits Ikcen the cuKtom in from lime lmnu'tm»rlal to bless tl o l>:im:he on ('liristiims day. A pr(»ce. sioM of priests and people drcs--(Hl to repre.sent Dlhlical ehnmeters nuive> througl) the streets singing ehnnt' itnd so t(* the bank of the river. T'ht ice Is broken, and a small woodei. cros s Is thrown Into the w’ater. An> one who can rwover this ones l9 regarded ns extrt'mely fortunate nod sure of''Kood ln<k.^for the .rear to come. Origta of Cbriatauw Bomos Christmas boxes got their imiiu from the boxes—made of clay—ti. which, at Christmas, apprentices hm’ tlie right to collect gifts of nhme.\ from I heir mnstors’ custoniors. Likas to Soo Daddy as Saata Even the youngster who does not believe In Santa Claus enJo.vs iw'elng hta father arrayed In red flannel an ct>tton whiskers. •Tfolo” “Tule* ta a very old name f<»r'' Christmas, and there are a score o: more explanalioDt aa to its origin ami meaning. Santa Clans Rvorywhoro Apparently Santa Claua breakr down'the anciant rule ttmt a per»oi cannot ha in two placea at one time CofKie to my re8cue>-QUlC3U Fm HG^BLBSSLY LX)ST in these treecherooB, tmcklcis eeteieiiihe>. I’ve tried lor hours to find the ri^bt pedi to freedcMn but here 1 iMi ri^ beck in dw middle a^rin. Cam gjsid tbs Rislit Pntfef try? ATHGUSAND THAMES!^ kmffr you wooM. I dmt TTiBJtS IS ONLY ONB BATH to frUdflin sad il ANY Wffl you try? A THOUSAND THAMKSt^ iatfm you would. But finl^ lot m you THBB5 IS ONLY ONB BATH to froodoin oad m to «od?It ttorts in tfao mkldlo wbM I.sm and. WITHOUT GR06SINO OP The walls, R ends aoinewlioro ou Am outaldo ol 4iw«o torriblo rnmmi . i hflM YOU CM! find THE RIGHT PATH to tot om out II you do, mark k plaiidy Tddi pan or penal and aend it to mp quMh B? OOPEEQT, Til aae dbai' you aro ^adined at ooca for an opportunity to wH aa nuMoi m mm iut of the SStWAA IN REWARDS d»t Fm i^iai*to fhra away. YmTR pa^dvak tHQIA^ DOLLARS apA ta p£ainaMa#jMpf ALLRmt Aagaaa ■afiry tor au Buren Slrest» ' T";- -s, a