The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 13, 1912, Image 20
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KOINA Kasod d<*
epondently out of
tbl wi&dov
A l^ght Know wa?j
falling like. inlllloiu
of ^ptuUlIng dia
mond# and pearl*
yet KeKliiu t Hftw
nOiblOIi II ?? r
ChriHtniuo tree hud
not como! It mat
tered not that the
duy wuh a won
der flay and that
the cVo of Chrlnt
mas wan close at
hand. Nothing that
torea to ticglnu nave tho fact that
she had promised her Sunday school
class a glorious treo and that now
I hero wbb no troe for them. Tears
welled Klowly Into Regina's ey?B and
blurred the glittering landscape.
Bho nrr.'uod with herself that she
might ha vcr known that tho, New Yorl<
lllOPf cvvAil not be; relied upon to send
a treo- to the suburbs at ko short ?
notice, but that did not help tho situa
tion,
u< iglhg KhranU from facing tho??
twelve lit! io gli |?4 whoso smiles would
vanish in childish disappointment
whonvtho/ learned that the treo they
bad been promised was not to be
Uiolru.
The teur? brimmed over and fell.
Region's \ i*lon was cleared and In
the clearing sho gazed directly at the
miniature fir treo in the vacant lot
next door. A sense of kben delight
swept over ilegitia. After all, ? her
children would havo a tree!
Bomo fifteen minutes later Ileglnu
appeared in outdoor costume. She
Had put SB Kfif gymnasium Bult, hlgb
rubber boots and
her father's groat
top coat. Over n
riot of curls her
snug fur cap fitted
closely,
"You look for all
the world as If
you deserved your
nlck-amme," expo?
tulated Reglna's
mother. "Regfna,
I do hope no one
will see you."
"There's no one
for inlles around,"
Heglna laughed
and shouldered an
ax. "llnleHH the
pooplo who live In
the bungalow turn
up ? I will have
the world to my
self.*' She picked
up a big tub with
her free hand and
trudged off toward the flr tree in the
vacant lot.
Roglna's eyes wore too Intent on
hor mission to Bee that a thin curl
of Binoko was twisting from the chim
ney of tho bungalow tnat rambled in
(ho lot beyond the vacant one.
Regina drew near tho coveted tree
and her heart expanded lovingly.
"What a little beauty!" she ex?
claimed half aloud.
Tho little tree was of special origin
and stood not much higher than He
glna. Over its branches a voil of
smoke seemed to linger. After a mo
mont spent In admiration, the girl put
down her hlg tub and began to clear
away tho light fall of snow from about
the roots of the, tree. Her clucks
wero gloriously red and the sparkle
In her eyes rivaled the day Itself.
When tho snow was cleared Regina
swung the great a\ into tho frozen
earth. The ground scarcely responded
to hor sirength. She swung again.
"Hey! What are you doing to that
tree!"
Regina dropped hor ax and gazed
1n the direction of the deep, gruff
voice. A man was standing on the
:>;;.xcranda of the hunjralow. - .
Regina picked up her ax. and with
dignity 8\\i..K it again. . ?
"I say there, you? that 7 tree be
longs to me! * The man was coming
toward her.
Regina stoj>{?<'d and turned. "This
is a vacant lot." she called out with
asperity.
The approaching male whistled. Ilia
-speed quickened, lie made an invol
.:_untary movement to raifcp a cap that
in his haste he had forgotten to
put on.
"I bes your pardon." his voice had
lost tho gruff quality. "1 thought you
were a man? but ? that tree is mine.
1 brought it up from my father's gar
den in the south." David Langhorn
spoke rapidly, Jtegina's face was
rather startling in Jts beauty a nO ne
had a desire to cover her embarrass
ment. "I have take* very special
care of that tree."
"Very special," Regina 'fiaid coldly.
"I have lived here a whole summer
and no one--"
"I have been away- ? lately."
t 'iwe. why leave youi
poo*' HUW fRfes around In vacant
k>t?." Kc^lna put In hurriedly because
she full like qrytag, *M>w that ber
prccjjpui trAe wan tafcea from her
^Tnlg l* d?, li>^" Irfngborit ?toM
heK "it ?you haid chop pod town-"-'' .
"I wasn't chopping It down!'* He
glim cried indignantly. "1 was going
to put It very carefully into this tub."
Bbe atumbled over
her word*. but de
termined tp tell
tbU very good
looking man wf tit
the red hajr that
?be waa not a
Ooorge WaHhlng
ton. "I or da red i
Cbriitfl&ta trt < hy
exprc'tta an<! It
didn't come. My
B u it <1 a y achool
claoe- twelve lit
tle glii?- -are et*
peetiug a tree to
night In my bouse
and now-?" Worda
failed lt?glua. 8ho
hit her Up and
looked appeallngly
up Ut l.anghorn
The man laugh
< <1 Ix'caUHO It wa?
the *afe#t thing to
do for the present.
"And I have brought down twelv?
little settlement boys with tho sum?
promise ? knd nary a treo have I got. J
reckoned on getting one In the village/'
ltegina laughed and the whole worh!
to cjcho thfii laugh.
"I have tried evtm the department
utore!" She gazed Into David Lang
horn's eyes. "1 am sorry fOr tho pool
little souls whom wo are disappointing
? my class worked bo faithfully al)
luHt Bummor,"
"JJy Jove," David said. "I read onde
of some people who had a Christmas
tree out of doors! Tliey had great
bonfires and the tree was lit by o
thousand candles as well as the stars
and a Santa Claus drove up over the
real snow! Couldn't we do something
like that?"
"With this treo! JIow perfectly
glorious!" Ilegina, beside herself with
Joy, began to shovel away a greatei
clearing.
David took the shovel away from
her,
"My kiddles -will do that ? it will be
tho treat of their lives." David looked
seriously at Reglna. "Now go home
and get warmed up. This afternoon 1
will call properly an^ln tho evening
? Christmas Eve ? " He did not finish
with words for the hearts of both
David and Reglna wore overflowing
with good tidings of great Joy.
That evening Santa Claus drove ujj
through the crisp snow and opened
htp great bags before the little tree.
It was a wonder tree there In the
vacant lot and It was hung with a
hundred electric bulbs. Six bonfires
reared their flames skyward and
around and about danced and capered
twenty-four Joyous children.
And when the moon was high In
me ncavens and
the spirit of Christ
mas had entered
into each heart
David and Regine
drew the band oJ
children about
them and led the
young voices in
carols.
Still later when
one tiny girl had
cuddled herself in
to Regina's arms
and two more had
fallen asleep in
David's there wae
only a duet of
voices. David and
Hegina sang all the
old English carols
until twenty little
kiddies had fallen
into a happy sleep.
"For unto you is
born this day.
"In tho city of David, A Savior!"
The voices of David and Kegina
trailed Into alienee and they only
looked at each other. Kegina was tho
first to speak, the mother Instinct
prompting her. "
"Perhaps we had hotter waken
them now ? the fires might got low."
David was silent a long moment,
then he said slowly and reverently,
"The fires will ?never burn low ? Ke
gina. This Is the night when the
Great Spirit of Love was born into
our world."
BEST TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS
They Should Suggest Action and Sol
the Mind of the Child
at Work.
In selecting toys for tho children'!
j Christmas, remember they should be
! such as to suggoat action, and bring
the imagination into pl&y, as it is
the child who plays, not the toy, and
Imagination is the soul of the play.
Tho boat toys are those which set
tho mind to work, and give the little
brain scope for expansion. This la
one of tho strongest recommendations
for tho simpler toys.. The wonderful
mochanical toys sold In the shops are
complete In themselves, and leave the
child nothing to do but to wind them
up and start them going. In this
case, It ,1s tho toy that plays, not the
child. Children soon weary of hay
ing nothing fo do, and. losing interest
in fche monotonous repetitions, the lit
tle Inquisitive mind sets about Id
vestigatlng the Internal mechanism,
, greatly to tho damage of the toy,
! which la noon ruined and thrown
away, while the child turns for amuse,
ment to tho old toys that are bo
hopelensly undone that everything
thoy are supposed to do must com?
: from the plnv-splrlt in tho child.
Femlnlno Diplomacy.
"Y?h, I finally not rid of him," win
fluid, "without having to tell htm In
no many words that I never could
learn to love blm. I didn't want to do
that, because he's an awfully nice fel
low, und 1 should have beeu very sorry
to pause hi in pain/'
"How^did you. manago it?" v bar
friend Mked.
"Why, you see, he'? subject to hay
fever, ho I decorated the bouse with
golden rod whenever ho sent word
that he was coming."
An Explanation.
The steamboat came splashing
along her course, at full speed, and
the llrut thing the passengers knew
had crashed head-on into the pier.
"Mercy." cried a passenger, as the
bow crashed and the splinters flew.
"I wonder what is the matter?"
"NothlnV said Pat. one &f the deck
hands. "Nothln', ma'am ? ut looks to
me as tf tho captain just forgot that
we shtop here." ? Harper's Weekly.
He Begins to 8ee.
"When I flrst hit town," remarked
Farmer lleck, "I ustei* stand on a
corner and wonder how all these city
poople managed to live."
"Well?"
"Well, seeing as they have got $38
out of me in four days, it ain't such a
mystery, after all."
?. ? Borrowed Fame.
"I see that a New York editor !e
accused of insisting on attaching Mb
name to poems that were written by
paid contributors."
"What of it? I know a rich corBot
maker who puts his name on a corset
that was invented by another man."
SOME DIFFERENCE.
Mr. Sapliead-? I certainly admire an
athletic girl.
Miss Pert ? But you married just the
opposite.
Mr. Saphcad? Oh! I didn't say I'd
marry an athletic girl.
Vindictive.
Tho comical boarder
Is fond of his Joke;
Ills landlady hopes,
In her heart, he will choKew
Lesson From the Past.
Tho nymph Egerla, on learning that
King Numa Pompilius was dead, melt
ed away in tears and was changed into
a fountain.
"This is better," she said ? or the
fountain murmured ? "than committing
hara-kiri!"
Would Miss Himself So.
"It does a man good to get away
from himself occasionally."
"Every nan, perhaps, except a pro
found egotist. He never gots away
from himself because he knows that
if he ever did he would die of lone
liness."
Serious Accident
"What's the matter, Tommy?"
"Jack fall into the water when ho
went to buy bomo candles."
"\Vell, never mind; he got out all
right."
"Yes, but without the candles."-?
Pele Mele.
In Plunkville.
"Bill, why on earth did you want
to buy that second-hand fire escape?"
"Oh, I 'bought mebbe I could get
somebody Jo build a hotel to fit it, or
perhaps open an opery house."
Enjoyable.
Miss Quiz/. ? Have you ridden in
Charley '8 new auto?
Mrs. Malaprop ? :Tes; 4t was lovely.
There was some osculation, but it
didn't bother me a bit. ?
?The Cause.
"I saw Jennie in a violent fit yes
terday."
"Good gracious! What caused it?"
"Her effort to get into a skin-tight
waist."
BOBBOWINQ AS A FINE ART
Prtof That Thla Bad Habit la Impoa
?Ibla to Eradicate In Borne
People.
Day by day, as Mrs. Worth's bouse
hold and kitchen furniture and grocer
les slowly disappeared, she saw that
the moment approached when a Anal
stand must be made. One morn lug,
when Jimmy, sou of the borrower, ap
peared at the back door with the stato.
qui lit, "Ma wahts the wash-boiler, " Mrs.
Worth determined to act.
"You tell your ma that when she
brings back what she has already bor
rowed, 1 will lend her the boiler."
In a little while Jimmy reappeared.
"Ma wants to know what she bor
rowed."
"There U a quart of flour," began
Mrt?. Worth, "a pi ck or potatoes, a CUp
of sugar, a can of coffee, a half-pound
of lard, some onions, and butter and
apices; the screw driver, the hatchet,
a pair of scissors"- -she paused, recol
looting three spools of thread, a pa
per of needles, and ? "
Hut Jimmy was gone. Presently he
rapped on the back door again.
"Ma ?ays for you to writo 'em down,
I forgot some of 'em."
Mrs, Worth eat down with pencil
and patlet^Uy made an alphabetical list
of all the articles she could reihefh
her.
Jimmy took the list and disappeared.
A half-hour later he once more reap
peared at the back door and an
nounced:
"Ma ways if you'll lend her tho wash
boiler to carry 'em In, she'll bring 'em
home." ? Youth's Companion.
POETRY IN PAGAN LEGEND
According to This, Woman Is Made
Up of a Compound of Many
Contradictory Thlnfl?.
"Our fable of the creation of worn*
au its more poetical than your Chris
tian one, which forms woman out of
a man's rib," said a Hindu. "Listen,
and see if you don't agree with me.
"Twnshtri, at tho beginning of time,
created tho universe and man, but
when he came to create woman he
found that he had exhaustod his ma
terials and no solid elements re
mained.
i "Twashtri mused a while. Then an
idea came to him, and in order to
mako the first woman ho took moon
light and the undulations of the ser
pent, flie slenderness of reeds and
tho soft movement in the wind, the
tears of a raincloud, the velvet of
flower petals, tho grace of a roe, the
tremor of grasses, the vanity of the
peacock, the softness of the down on
a dove's breast, tiie hardness of dia
monds and the sweetness of honey,
the cruelty of the tiger and the
warmth of Are, the cold of ^now, the
chatter of a Jay and the coo of a
dove ? and out of these things Twash
tri creatcd woman."
Glass Over Paintings. ?
Yielding to the criticism of artists
and art experts, the authorities at
I tho galleries of the Louvre have re
moved the glass that covered and was
' supposed tg protect some famous pic
! tures. A few, however, are yet in
| closed in glass, and among these are
: l'Antiope of Corrogglo, the Laura Dl
antl of Titian and the Concert Cham
i petro of Giorgio. It is held that tor
: all purposes of art, for study, for
i admiration, the canvasses should bo
; naked, as under glass all the fine qual
ities of these great paintings are lost,
i Examination of the paintings from
; which tho glass has been removed
shows that a number of them, among
| which is Titian's famous Man With
? the Torn Glove, have been injured by
I moisture that formed under the glass;
i others are the Antiope of Correggio,
the Country Concert of Giorgio and
? the Virgin oji the Rocks, of Leonardo
, da Vinci. "All these deteriorations,"
i says a critic, "have been wothout
; doubt accelerated by moisture inclosed
' by glass."
In Simple Language.
Beware of the habit of using big
; words. Like other habits, It grows
i upon its victim. A horrible example
| is instanced by the Philadelphia Pub
He Ledger.
The "superintendent of a Sunday
school in Philadelphia recently called
upon a visitor to "say a few words"
; to the school, the members of which
J are mostly children of tender age.
The visitor, a speaker well known
! for his verbose and circumlocutory
| manner of speech, began his address
as follows :
! "This morning, children, I purpose
?( to offer you an epitome of the life of
Saint Paul. It may be, perhaps, that
1 there aro among you some too young
to grasp the meaning of .tho word
'epitome.' 'Epitomo,' children, iB In
its signification synonymous with
synopsis."
Bite of a Centipede.
Jeff Fitch has had about the closest
j call of his life the last few days. About
[ one week ago, while sleeping in his
bachelor quarters, ho felt something
' bite him and after applying some tur
: pentlne he thought no more of it.
A day or two later the wound began
I' to swell and in a short time Pitch was
!' a very sick man. Pie was removed to
tho home of Chris Powell, where for a
| time It was feared he would not re
| oover. A search of the room where
Fitch had been sleeping revealed a
dead centipede upon the floor back ol
the bed. where It. had fallen when the
half awakened man had crushed hiE
? tormentor. Fitch is now said to bf
out of -danger, although far from recov
ered. ? Arizona Hepubllcan.
K..r Hal* or Rout: 8 room bou.e on I,yUletou rtrefft (tw.
?ncrly occupied by T. 0. DuBom) lot 100,1 j"60; Uar? ??4 ,u.
"" rl> terms; price on application.
i.ww g? ^|tT on cbe.tnut .treet (between Heel how
a Dr 8 C Zen?P'? residence.)
N? Om lot on Fair .treet, 100*250, a bargain for quick ttW.
1 1 1 acres of land on Adams MHJ road 7 milt* Kant of
i Two horse farm open aud under cultivation, balance
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??*> b?uw.. ,*? ?<>? mm*
31 ?? o((*r tbli ?? ? W?W?
-a .?? of 1?>"1 ? ?'Uo" ?ou'bea?t 01 0wn4,n ?? ???
Jill . niibllo roud; 54 B acre* open and under cultlw
DnrllMtOT P{ lQn| abort leaf timber, balm,.-,, i? wood
' ' <m(? rtw?ning, barn and .table.; good ryuta,
",hr,;;,Ki. ?? ? good ?mu farm ?* ??? *
bought for $1500.
1&5 acre, ot IMtf ' m,leB <rom Cttm<)<m ou ""rllu?>??
Camden road, 30 acre. op?B and under cultivation. U?Un? ta
woo4 plnw timber. 12 acre. I* pa.turo, .under ?l?.
& "tablc"' ?I"0 ,mfll cotto?
hOUM. 1'r'ce ??-00 por MM.
? f t ti and 8. H.' Truesdale, U mllei north ot
Farm of J. u,lu
; i B c This tract contain* 131 acres; 75 acres open
SSiifr ' 4'ro"'" s '"w<1
<>f water.
REAL ESTATE
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Do You Want to \ loan
BORROW
^ May ttclp You.
LAURENS T. MILLS,
CAMDEN, S. C.
To My Friends:
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I wish to announce that I havo enlarged my stables on 1
Ilutledge street, by having quite an extension and addition <
for the ' accommodation of my stock of buggies and wagons.
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in this line as well as In ?he stock line. I am handling
a number of well known
Buggies and Wagons
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I call your attention to the "Virginia" and "Roland" Bug- j
.gies which I handle. Also* the famous "Studebaker" and <
'Louisburg" Wagons. These are the best grades on tho (
market. ? -rM
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An Up- to- Date Stock of rtarness^j
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When in tbe market for a good buggy, a good wagon> |
or for horses and myles be sure and see rae. I ?m ^
ing to the needs of the public,' and watot you for a co?W^|jj
mer. ? - ? v
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Call and see me, "*
W. C. MOORE