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A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^k A^A A^l A^A A^A A^A A^k. T^T y ^jy "^f T^T T^T T^T^T fy Ty V vy V V T f . i Some Reasons Wh Tx TV ft f THE ANNUAL TOBACCO PRODI ff MILLION POUNDS OF WHICH LESS W THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARET' - XX THE PRODUCTION AND THE AVER Ai. WE ARE NOW EXPORTING TO CHIT THE UNITED STATES TEN YEARS I f*y FOUR HUNDRED TO ONE THOU! ft BACCO DISTRICTS OF VIRGINIA 1 %? WELL. IF YOU HAVE, YOU ARE Mi AA THE AVERAGE ONE-HORSE FARM] AA OF TOBACCO IN ADDITION TO HIS i U THE PRINCIPAI X A (i.) The selection of suitable land. ^ /O \ "DrtArvftT? -rvnorvQ-pQfirkn nf nlflllt beds to J J. X Upt/1 Jk/XV/J^UXUV'Vu V? ? ? _ supply of plants. (3.) Use of Liberal amount of the right ki Jf $ (4.) Transplanting none but strong plants Jx before the weather gets too hot. && (5.) Cultivating regularly and often. if you have never grown h perience to show you. there xv for further information tl " PFOl If M XX A. M. DENBOW, President. 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Putting it or TOBACCO FOR MARKET, GET SOME ONE WI ARE MANY DETAILS THAT ARE WELL WORT: CALL UPON OR WRITE PLES By BAMBERG, S. C. 7. RENTZ, SR., GEO. F.HAIR, Vice Presidents. ARREN SEED FREE 0 F CHARGE. WE HAVE A] k ata a^a a^a ata jta ati, ata ata a^, ata a^k. a. a. jftk.a a.,a^a^iftk ij t^r t^t t^t t^t t^t t^fljj ^e I If There a ^y>. Santa Clausfi j Classic Answer of m New ' x^SSt^^Si^^ | York Journalist Affirming s a Little Girl's Belief %/tVi jCT/ J I fJZ^ of finest things ever! ^Iv^^^RSr - - / 11C5 I written about Christmas was /ViJ/\ l^paj the editorial printed 20 years C wjX ) Qh3 as? by tfi? New York Sun in \ } j answer to the earnest appeal of a little i | New York girl to be told whether Santa Claus really exists. Its author, Frank P. Church, was an accomplished fell [Journalist and wrote much on many ] subjects, but his fame will rest cmeny i on this beautiful setting forth of an ! eternal truth. With Dr. Clement Clarke I Moore's "A Visit From St. Nicholas," j It is one of the great classics of the j Christmas season. laH^a ' I answer to the eternal question ! | as printed in the Sun follows: "We take pleasure in answering at tBS'^ once, and thus prominently, the com' ' vi-: f munication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of the Sun: ' " 'Dear Editor?I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is - Wo flanta Plana. PaDa SaVS: If yOU fsee it in the Sun it's so. Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? i " 'VIRGINIA O'HANLON, " 115 West Ninety-first Street.' | "Virginia, yonr little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They : do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this i great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his Intellect, as compared with the boundless world about Rg||]|HP & , H ! him, as measured by tbe intelligence I ! capable of grasping the whole truth I | "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love !P|gj| an<* generosity and devotion exist, and m-, + ' y?u know that they abound and give ? Bill to your life its highest beauty and joy. HiAlas! How dreary would he the world H * if there were no Santa Claus! It would *)e as dreary as if there were no Virginias. ^ There would be no childlike sense and sight. The eternal light with J r" *^mj| 7T " " * TTf j which childhood fills the world would; /'^nCxI / I be extinguished, f? I f J \ "Not believe in Santa Claus! You Vjj J s ; might as well not believe in fairies! j | ^0!1 ml?ht ?et your papa to hire men. k A^A A^k A^A A^V A^* A^A A^A-i^A ^k-At ft IT \r Bright Tobacco 1 || MATELY TWELVE HUNDRED XX JH IS USED PRINCIPALLY IN * INCREASING FASTER THAN ? F SOME OF THE DARK TYPES. T"f , AS WE MANUFACTURED IN %% vf RODUCED IN THE BRIGHT TO- > lVE LAND THAT WILL DO AS tow THIS PROFITABLE CROP. %Y IAKING $3,000 TO $6,000 WORTH >1 TV" ' KG ARE: ?? X 1 YY worms, if any, while they are small. 1 suckers once a week. X V YY :o become thoroughly ripe before housing VV a ii. l the market in proper order. && V, 10 HAS HAD PRACTICAL EXff LEARNING. / \NK 11 & 'I TT C. W. RENTZ, JR., Cashier. W N UNLIMITED SUPPLY. YT A? '"I ; >J| BS! j|\ lH ' Christ ^ Bom | y C\^l LouiseF. Elmendorf ^ 4) ^6 worW> racked with pain %JPtJ 1 1 gSjl K through bloody years, r^*r ^ ^ -V ^ Has climbed its weary long-pathed Ax Where millions died, as Christ, ,;j|j nWL^1*1^ey m^9ht free a \ Hi v O^ers from wrong and black op\ I / /I } pression'js tears. riVvJ^ ?x hj\ \ L I / Once more now through the world UllX/// comes to our ears The song of all the ages, "Christ i '! Mute tongued to notes of joy have been the bells, / i And only childhood and old age ' Jv V\ ' dared try ^e/% / )( I \ ; To sine, so near the threatening Vlv4?i The song that told, though dulled \ / t (idl k&# ; t>y shrieking shells J/V xJ&Sfy'J ^?S ^urst*ny turned a thousand j won^er ?f the ages, "Christ j Our faith in God has brought to us | the goal; to watch in all the chimneys on Christ- earth again; mas eve to catch Santa Claus, but eveu # And in the scarred and fird- '}t\ if they did not see Santa Claus com- purged hearts of men, tog down, what would that prove? So- ^ ^ t j suffeH body sees Santa Claus, but that is no 9 y ? ^ sign that there is no Santa Claus. The ?f *he soul, : most real things in the world are those Through travail of a world once more that neither children nor men can see. made whole, Did you ever see fairies dancing on the Anew in human hearts the Christ lawn? Of course not; but thats no . , proof that they are not there. Nobodj w oom. can conceive or imagine all the won ^ Q d Christmas songs are ders that are unseen and unseeable ic ' * , the world. ! fraught wxth jprayer "You may tear apart the baby's rat- j That Thou wilt be with those tie and see what makes the noise in- j whose tears still pay side, but there is a veil covering the; That we may have the glory of ; unseen world which not the strongest j . , ' man, nor even the united strength ol all the strongest men that ever lived i That men may live their thanks} could tear apart. Only faith, fancy that lives may hear ' poetry, love, romance, can push asid< Eternal witness for Thee, everythat curtain and view and picture th< where 'supernal beauty and glory beyond. If _ . . . .it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this iroctaxmxny that in us the Christ world there is nothing else real anc ?8 horn. ^rsanta Clans- Thank God, h< lives and he lives forever. A thousand' Charged His Mind, years from now, Virginia, nay 10 time.* Doris?I thought you and George 10,000 years from now, he will con J were going skating? tinue to make glad the heart of child Marjorfe?So we were, but when he hood." j saw I had my hat trimmed-with mis| tletoe he asked me to go for a walk.