Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JUST RECEIVED 9 ? A Car Load of Fine Young Mules Prices are RigRt. Come and T ake a Look at Them. I Now is the Time to Buy. SPRINGS & SHANNON Camden, S. C. Heating Stoves We have what you want bo thin Style and Price Wood, Coal and Oil Heaters at prices from $1.25 to $60.00 Haloae -Pearce -Young HARDWARE CO. Funerals Directed We supply the best of burial goods, con duct funerals and relieve families and friends of many unpleasant duties ince dent to death. We are always prepared to serve those who need our service. B. R. McCREIGHT, CAMDEN, S. C. TO THE PUBLIC I am still in the Drayage business and solicit your work. All orders for Coal and Wood you will kindly ive to The Camden Fuel Co., as 1 have sold that part of my business. J. B. ZEMP LITTLE CHOIR SISTER HKY culled her the choir Slater, bo- ; cuuge ?>he wan t lt*> daughter of the Choir Mother. Chil dren have mother* to iu o n d their olotheu and see that their fuoea ar I liauda aru c.loun bo fore they march Into church. The Choir Mother wa? tho wife of the J a 11 i t o r of the church where the choir Hang, and so kind waa aim that till the boya loved her. It waa easy to like tho Choir Ulster, too, hecauae alio pjay^d ball with the i boyw before rehearsals. And those nights when the Choir Master let them Invite their frienls In for games she waa tho girl most of them wanted for a partner. So anyone can aeo why the boys were blue when Illcky Jackson, her brother, cam" into tho choir room Christmas eve and said: "Mil" (short for Mildred, her real name) "Isn't going to have any Christ I mas!" The boys stopped right there, some with their choir clothes only half on. If they didn't find out right away what : was tho matter with the Choir Sister, the Chrlbtmas ovo service would have to go without their sluging. ? So Ricky told how she had come down that morning with a funny tired feeling, and snlttling and hot cheeks, and had to stay, in bed, and how she cried when she thought of the tree she waa going to miss. You can see why that Christmas eve service was not as happy as it fehould have been for these boys. Af terward, when the tree was lighted with the starliko candles and the Sun day school room was filled with boys and girls opening their presents, each choir boy was thinking of the Choir Sister, lying there at home, wishing she could be wlth<*hem. . Next day people in church thought the boys Bang the Christmas hymns better than ever. But the people did not know that just before the boys marched in the Choir Master had told them a plan by which the Choir Sis ter would have a Christmas she would never forget. At evening tho janitor's doorbell rang. The Choir Mother opened it, i and in came the Choir Master and a] lot of boys with red cheeks and smil ing faces. I>ack of tho others four of the biggest boys dragged through the door a small Christmas tree. They set the tree up in the parhm' Everyone was still for they didn't want the Choir Sister to know any j thing about it till it was all ready. J Soon the candles were In place, and 1 the trimmings, and they lit the can ' dies, and each boy placed a package under the tree, and then a wonderful thing happened! The door opened and the Choir Mother and the Choir Master walked in, carrying between them a lltle stretcher, and upon that lay the Choir Sister. You should have seen her face! You could almost see the light of tho can dles sparkling in it, so happy was she! The boys held their breath, won dering what she would say. Her lit tle cheeks glowed as she sat up straight and held her arms out toward the tree. And her eyes spark led as she cried: "Oh! my Christ mas tree!" Then she turned to the boys, and said: "Oh! My Dear Choir Brothers!" Then she cried a little, just because she was happy, and Borao of the boys sniffled a bit, Just because Bhe was crying. Then there was all the Jolly fun that goea with a tree. Dut soon they took her away. She was so tired that she fell asleep right after they put her back In bed. She dreamed that she saw a flock of s^ieep with their shepherds on a great plain. Suddenly there was a great light from above and she seemed to hear angels singing. She awoke. The singing did not stop. She arose and opened the win dow. There, In the moonlight under her | window stood her Choir Brothers with ! lighted candles, liko the Christmas carol singers of Old England. They were singing this hymn: "Hark! the Herald Angels sing." When the verse was finished the Choir Sister leaned out and called down to them: "Brothers, you have made me love God a whole lot more. A merry Christmas to you all!" "And to you!" they echoed. As the Choir Sister crept back to bed she heard the voices of the boya die away in the distance. Then a ' chimo of bells somewhere out in the } groat snow-white world rang out the very hymn the boys had been singing and the Choir Sister fell asleep. A Christmas Motto. The more we know, the better we forgivo; Whoe'er fcrls deeply, feela for all who MOMENTS WORTH LIVING FOR! Ono Mutt Hove tho Soul of a Poet to Appreciate tho Hhapsody Hero Indulged In. I wuh skmlng on u patch of Ice In tho park, under a poverty >?trl.ken itky ; flying ? pitiful ran of sunset, Homo little mucker* woi't: guying u slim, raw-boned Irish girl of 'fifteen. who ; circled and darted under (heir hunter with complete unconcern. Bho was in the fledgling stage, all legu and arm*, } tali and adorably awkward, with a huge hot full of rusty feathers, thin ! skirts tucked up above spindling j anklet), and a Kay aplomb and swing j In tho body that wan ravishing. We caught hands in midtllght, and skated for un hour, almost alone and <jult? j silent, whilu tho raK of sunset rotted I to pieces. I have had few sensations in life that 1 would exchange for the j warmth of her hand through tho rag god glove, and the pathetic curve of tho half-formed breast where tho back of uiy wrist touched her body. I came away mystically tdiaken and olate. It Is t h uk tho angels converse. Shu wati something absolutely authen tic, new, and inexplicable, Kotnothtng which only nature, could mix for tho heart's Intoxication, a compound of ragamulhn, pal, mistress, nun, sister, harlequin, outcast, and bird of God? with something else baflllngly suf fused, something ridiculous and frail and savage and tender. With a world offering such recontres, such aery strifes and adventures, who would nut II vo a thousand years stono dumb? I would, to think on the shut ltd and granite Up of him who has done with tho sunset and skating, and has turn ed away his face from all manner of Irish.? William Vaughn Moody, In the Atlantic. THAT ONE MOMENT OF UFE Her Idea of It Was Not Exactly His, Though Both Recognized Its Tragic Intensity. He ? Did you ever know a moment when the very air throbbed with emo tion? She ? Yes, yes! He ? When your heart felt like a bird fluttering 'neath your hand? She ? Yen, yes! He- (drawing nearer) ? When the whole world wan centered so close to you that eyes answered eyes? She (Edging away from him and his eyes)-? Yes, yea, I have knowei it ? I have? I have! Ho (more and more fervently) ? And Into that moment crowds yoars and years of suffocating Intensity? She ? Yes, yes, and Its memory will liwe forever! IHo (makes move to take her In hfc arms ? And that moment ? that npment Is? /She ? Was ? you mean was that day f when tl?e score was tied, the bases full, two out and Haker up? In about ten minutes the doctor pronounced him out of danger. Uncle Sam ae a Solomon. The departments at Washington are 1 now and then called upon to settle j petty questions of the most Intimate personal nature. For instance, the treasury department once acted as Judge in a dispute between man and wife. This couplo had had a spirited struggle for the possession of several bank notes, each holding fast to tho end of the "roll." A ten-dollar bill was torn across tho middle, and each contestant carried off one-half of It In triumph. Just here the treasury department was brought into the dis pute. It received half of the bill from the wife, with the statement that the other half had been de stroyed, and she requested a pew bill. In a short time there arrived the second half of the bill from the husband, with a similar statement and request. As the government then had both ends of the bill, it ren dered a Solomon-like decision and , awarded five dollars to each Of tho claimants. ? Harper's Weekly. Touched Her Sympathy. A kind-hearted lady was collecting for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chlldron. Sho paid a se ries of house-to-house visits, and at one door her knock was answered by j a rather stupid-looking servant, says j Pearson's Weekly. The lady explained her errand; that ; she was collecting small sums for the ! funds of the Society for the Proven- ' tlon of Cruelty to Children, but the girl found this title rather too much of a mouthful. She went upstairs to the nursery, where her mistress was , hard at work bathing and dressing half a doren lively, shouting children, : and trying at the same time to coax the recently arrived baby to go to sleep, and announced: "Please'm, there's somebody at the door collect in' for the Society for the Prevention of Children.^ The worried mother sent down a willing donation of half a dollar. i Character Told by Laughter. A French paper has discovered that a person's character is expressed in his manner of laughing. If you laugh | in "Ha ha** fashion, you are frank If a man and Inconstant and Incapable of keeping a secret if a woman. If you laugh "Heh, heh," you are neu rasthenic, melancholy and skeptical, j If you adopt a deeper tone and laugh in "Ho, ho'?," you are generous, easy- j going and good-natured. The proper j pitch for the fair sex to laugh in Is ' MH?, h?," while people who laugh with a "Hoo, boo" effect should be j avoided as hypocritical, scandal-moo- I gerfrig and miserly. Mako 1 1 1 i h Yulot.ido a nonnon of complete freedom from tho worries ami inoonvoniencoB of purChnHiiiK tlx* glftn with tho actual money pay tho bill# with OILlOOKH and hiivo a record and recoil) I for every ex penditure made. Inquire about the many advantage that ttic chcckiUK iUu;ouiH ban for YOU? also about tho nafoty and tho nam* with which funda can bo Kent to relatives and frlendtt out of town. Your Account ii Respectfully Solicited. We Pay Highest Cash Prices for Don't gjve your profits away ship dircct to us by express and get your money next day. Wc pay highest prices for green and dry hides of all kinds Beeswax, Tallow and old Metals, old Rubber and Furs. Try us with a ship ment now. Send for Price List. - ' ' - * CAROLINA HIDE & JUNK CO. sb, - CHARLESTON. 5. ?,* REAL ESTATE , SELL Do You Want to > loan A borrow I May Help You. LAURENS T. MILLS, CAMDEN, S. C. "MY MINTS ARE WORKING EVERY DAY COINING DOLLARS. You ought to save a few of them, and I would suggest that you start a Savings Account in this Bank, where it will be safe and earn you interest" The First National Bank * 11 OF CAMDEN, S. C. I Xmas is Near ? Advertise