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Story of The Christmas Stocking. Years and years ago stockings were ' wot hang on Christmas eve as we < hang them now. No one ever heard of soch a thing as hanging up a stock- i ing for Christmas gifts. And if chil- i dren had thought of such a thing they i would have said, "What a foolish idea! , ] A stocking wouldn't hold half the j i things we want." So the children. 1 throughout the world placed crocks, j big brass basins, and copper kettles j ] on the hearth on Christmas eve and i < left notes in them telling Santa to i fill them to the brim. Each year the j < children left larger vessels to be filled, ; Up in the great white north Santa's ' Mj'n/Jno. T\r\ lnnoor nranciv) JJnH nawwl. 1 UV f * VMIWVV* WW f-w ?? ? ? I impatient to be off on Christmas eve, j' as tbey once had done. They hung j their heads and a tired look came, into their big brown eyes, for they re- j membered how heavy the loads bad frown and how many more trips they were forced to make year by year. St. Nicholas no longer rested now through the summer months, as he once had done, but labored every day throughout the year, and often he boflt toys late into the night, for a great many gifts had to fye made to fill the baskets that the greedy children left The twinkle left his merry eyes, and he no longer sang about his work, for he was sad and thought of the time that would come when he could no longer build enough presents to go around. Late one December day St Nicholas atepped from his workshop into the deep snow. Facing the south, he ^*?ti>h*d i>nt his tired arms and call ed: "Hear, oh hear, children of the earth, my loved ones, can you not see ? you are becoming selfish and that your greedy demands are too great a task, even for St. Nicholas, king of the t Christmas spirit? Can't you see, my i children, that you are killing the spirit i id Christinas?" < His chin sank upon his chest and i tears glistened in his kindly eyes. A < soft white snowfiake fluttered down ! and nestled against his cheek, and a t tiny voice whispered into his ear: 1 "Santa, I will help you." 1 "Who are you?" asked St. Nicholas, "I am a snow fairy," answered the 1 tiny voice. "As my sisters and I have 1 danced about the air we have often swirled about your sleigh on Christ- 1 mas eve, and have seen the great i bads you have always carried and < bow tired you have looked." < "What, 0 what, shall I do?" asked I Santa. "Just go about your work as usual," i answered the fairy. "I and ail my i 0 |r=^^=^^== i ^ / Ft Ex A V I We ' - -? .. . . / asters will kelp you." "Oh, thank you?thank you," cried Nicholas. And the fairy floated out among the other snowflakes. As the children went about the snowflakes whirled around them, and it seemed as if they heard the chant- j ing of tiny voices, and as the snow- j flakes nestled against their ears they seemed to sing: "Just a stocking? hang a stocking up on Christmas eve." "Just a stocking?just a stocking,"; rang through the hearts or the chil- j ilren on Christmas eve. And in place of leaving the great vessel as they once had done they just hung up their 1 stocking. Some children are too selfish to hear the song of the snowflakes and left the great baskets as they always oad done. But when they saw the i' tii -1 _1_ M J? I I great joy tne unseinsn cniiuren i?*u in their gifts and how contented and lappy they were these selfish ones were ashamed, and they, too, began to hang up only their stockings when Christmas eve came round. When St. Nicholas found stockings in place of the great baskets and isrrels the twinkle came again into lis laughing eyes, his cheeks grew red, and he aang as he drove through he merry sea of snowflakes. With just stockings to fill St. Nicholas had time to rest, and he ?rew strong and well, and the spirit >f Christmas lived. So this is why lowadays we hang up our stockings >n Christmas eve. 'All this we are ?ld by a writer, who learned it from i Christmas fairy. EUROPEAN CORN BORER State Entomologist Warns Against IUC * P>(. Clem son College, Dec. 28.?Realizing ;he great danger to South Carolina From the European corn borer, which is now found in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, Prof. A. F. Conradi, entomologist for the South Carolina State Crop Pest Commission, calls attention again to the quarantine regulations against the European corn !>orer passed by the commission April L, 1920, and urges South Carolina Farmers to help prevent the infestation of South Carolina by this pest. The quarantine regulations call attention to the fact that the insect is & very destructive pest of corn, broom corn, and other farm and garden crops; and that it spreads rapidly and threatens to be very difficult to control. Therefore the importation or novement into or within the state of South Carolina from all foreign coun/ ) he I % tends to patrons Happj I / / would suggesi absent fri /. . . , .... . - . . A j tries aid from the infested states is prohibited of corn, broom corn, rye, oats, wheat and other straw, sedges or rushes, celery, beans in the pod, beets with tops, spinach and rhubarb, cut flowers and entire plants of chrysanthemums, cosmos, zinnia or hollyhock; also cut flowers and entire plants of gladiolus, canna, peony, and dahlia, and all herbacious plants of shrubs with hollow or pithy stems. The regulations do not apply to shelled corn after screening and cleaning so that it does not include cob^ of parts of cobs or other parts of com plants or other plants prohibited by these regulations; nor to articles enumerated after they have been manufactured or processed in such manner as to eliminate risk of carriage of the corn borer. Free Garden Seed. Senator N. B. Dial requests us to announce that he would be pleased I to hear from any constituents in South Carolina who wish to receive any of the Government's free seed for planting during the coming spring. The lists are now being made up in Washington and any persons wishing to receive these seed should send their names to Senator Dial immediately, and he will see that they receive their quota. 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