Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A RUNAWAY'S : JOLLY CHRISTMAS ''' ^%'i i' siwi dourff!* of :i 11 kTOOll. rl?:ir niiimimu li:iil gun* sway never to como back. I'apa i was almost always at his oHice. Jitan.v heard llannab, the nurse callto^ ".rtayny. oh. .liuiniy! Just come and see Wi.it papa lias sent up from tinstoI'M. It's just Hue. I can tell you." Jimmy jumped up and ran to the kitchen. On the kitchen table lay a huge turkey, "with loads <?' tixin's," cook said; a great pile of red cranberries. crisp, curly celery, raisins, nuts and several big boxes. "Will papa be home for dinner? I haven't seen him in ever so long, and I don't want dinner without papa." asked Jimmy. "I'll tell you. We'll phone to papa and ask him specially to come to our Christinas party tomorrow and to dinner tomorrow night." nurse suggested. "Can I really, truly phone, Hannah?" "Yes, Indeed, and I'll show you how," and Ilannah led the way to the room where the telephone was. Jimmy had to climb on a stool, he was so little, but he didn't mind a bit. Then nurse told him just what to say to central, and he called papa up. Yes. papa was coming home to dinner and would be out all day tomorrow. Jimmy was very happy and could | scarcely wait till dinner. But when dinner time came papa did not arrive. Nurse came in and told Jimmy that papa could ?uot come home that night. Jimmy said nothing. Tie didn't cry, as nurse thought he would. He only looked very sober and went to his room. Tbeu he washed his face and put on his hat and coat, lie slipped down the stairs and out the front door. lie w:?e going to run away. When he got out in the lonely country Jimmy began to be afraid. Night came on. and it was bitter cold. lie felt tired and sleepy and crawled under a fence and lay down to sleep. When Jimmy woke up his head was ? resting in somebody's lap, and somebody had her arms around him. "Poor little fellow! He's nearly fro sen- Jack, carry him up to the house," y ' fh he heard a motherly voice say. I jf He looked up. The lady who was holding him -wasn't a, bit like ids pretty l\ or*u?c.h, ~*? ? JIMMY ?OT AN ORANOK IN HIS STOCKING. mother. She h:ul on an old. dingy brown dress and a rough gray shawl, but had a kind face. Jack, a great big boy. carried him to the farmhouse. Next morning Jimmy was awakened by being vigorously shaken. "Get up. get up! It's Christmas, and we want to see everything." piped Hill. They ran downstairs, and the little girls seized the boys' bauds and danc ed around the old grandmother, who was making cake. Then they all kiss ed her and kissed mother and father Jimmy got an orange in his stocking, too, like the others, and a nice new tie Ilut dinner was the best of all. They all crowded around the table Jack had shot a wild turkey, and they had celery and mashed potatoes, cran berries, Jam and lots of other things, with a big pumpkin pit to crown tlie whole. They had lust homm to ent - ? ?, c Jimmy declaring ho "could enfa whole house of turkey," when there was n 0 knock at the door. Jimmy looked up. and there stood papa, with Tim. the s very oldest boy "I'tipa, papa!" cried-Jimmy, running j to lilm. Papa looked tired and white, c He had been so frightened about Jim- n v my. Tiip had found out that morn c !ng from Jimmy who his father was t and had hastened to Jimmy's house. \ "And I'll never miss having Christ tinnier wim .inn nxiuii, Hnill pflptl <j "Hut. pnpn, you'll hnve Christmas t dinner with us today,'* snld Jlininy n "Mrs Russell says you're to atay." ( So papa stayed and had dinner with t Jimmy after all. t SANTA MAKES : A TRIAL TRIP T was n week until ^ Christmas. Santa 1 Clans went ail over Ills work >BK<s/UL)r rooms. All the toys x were done and ev un. iMgy erylhiug in place. "Tlie reinTleer are 1 R^^Spl^inLM in such line shape I \,L7Cn and anxious .for < V C?exercise 1 thinku'll J take them out 'for < i trial run today," said he. { V saying. Santa hurried to his sta- i jles. There the reindeer were showng their impatience to he out in tin; jpen. and Santa gave orders to his i stable elves to hitch up the steeds to i he sleigh, as he meant to give tli^good tnbnals a little exercise. 1 ' They need a race now and then," 10 said. "Otherwise they'd get stiff uieed and would feel clumsy when 1 Tying to gallop over shifting clouds iiul ragged treetops and uneven roofs." 1 After tlie ride of several hours Santa 1 cried out to his reindeer: "Now to earth, my good fellows. And lon't lag. We must he there just as the dark is falling over the land. If ive wait till the moon comes out we'll he seen, and that would never do." As the darkness settled over the land )ld Santa dropped from a fleecy cloud 1 to the top of a tall church steeple. There he got out of his sleigh, told his reindeer not to move from that steeple ind made his descent to the roof of a convenient house. And past the winlows of hundreds of homes he darted, peeping into them and counting the 1 new faces he saw for the first time. ' "Lots of new little ones," he said to himself, smiling. "God bless them I ill. Well, they keep me busy through- 1 nut the year. And they are increasing so rapidly that I'll have to take sev- ' aral hundred assistants next year." I Then Santa returned to the high church steeple, and as he was getting Into his sleigh the aged bell ringer, accompanied by his grandson of ten, 1 came out of the church with a lantern 1 In his hand. The little grandson looked up and cried out to his grandfather: "Oh. lookee. grandpa, there in the 1 sky! It's Santa Clans and his reinleer. See them flying! Oh, now they ire gone?clean through that white cloud over the church. Oh. grandpa, j jiu you see mem?" "No, m.v son. and neither did you. JTour mind Is so full of Christmas Just M 1 ||1 ^ G2>Cfe*/S?JO SANTA PEEPED INTO HOUSES. low that you see things mentally. You 11st imagined that Santa and his rein- j leer were over the church. Why, it ^ wants a whole week before Christ- | lias, sonny, and Santa never comes ( ill Christmas eve. Come along and lon't imagine tilings like that any , liore." And the aged hell ringer , ?,wung his lantern and led the way j ilong the snow covered path to his , lome, his little grandson, Sammy, folowing. But in Sammy's heart was a ( 'eeling that he liad not imagined seeng Santa. lie felt the thing had been ( eal. "lie was Just peeping round to ice where the good children live and , retting acquainted with the chimneys," . mid Sammy to himself. "But grandpa , s too old to understand. He hasn't ared about Santa for many, nianj rears. But I do. oh. I do! And how should love to slip away up into the 'hurch tonight and visit Santa's realm! tut that would he impossible. It Is lot intended for Ik>3,8 to get off the tarth, so Santa comes to them." Just then Sammy's grandmother ipened the kitchen door for them, and is Sammy entered the good old lady inntio/l n.wl kl? ?I ivupcu iiimi mnnru null, niljruiK* "I Just had n letter from your cousns. Mabel and Ted. saying they were oinlng to spend Christmas with us nd that they hnd written Santa Clays >f the change of their address so thAt le could fetch their gifts hero?along Pith yours. Bless the dears!" And Sammy knew that Santa would |o a*? his cousins asked him to, alhough grandpa laughed at the Idea ud said: "That is nonsense, good wife, t Children should not believe such silly c hlngs." But Sammy knew n thing or c wo that grandpa did not know. t RECIPES FOR THREE DISHES VERY POPULAR AT CHRISTMAS TIME WHAT is Christmas without n plum pudding ur.il .1 tnltP'e pie? Those disht - will ho foiiiul on the table .-it every family reunion, at every big function In our cities ami tow i . at the little cottage on the hill where mother ;fnd father and their two lit:lo children are [lining alone and. in fact, everywhere Pile following recipes have I tried and are excellent: Plum Pudding.?One pound of lait ter. one pound of suet, freed front strings ami hopped tine: <>!ie pound of sugar, two and one-half pounds ol flour, two pounds of raisins, seeded chopped and dredged with Hour; twi pounds of currants, picked over care fully after they are washed: one pound of citron tshred tinei. twelve eggs, whites and yolks heaten separately, one pint of milk, one cupful of brandy one-quarter ounce of cloves oue-quar ter ounce of mace, two grated nut nftjgs. Cream the butter and sugar: beat it the yolks when you have whipped them smooth and liirht- novt not ii tin* milk, then tlu? Hour. alternately with the beaten whiles; then the bran fly and spice: lastly the fruit well dredged with flour. Mix all thorough ly. Wring out your pudding cloth in hot water. Hour well inside, pour in tin mixture and boil live hours. Mince Pie.?Two pounds of leat fresh beef, boiled, and when cold chop [ted fine; one pound of beef suet, clear cd of strings and mimed to powder live pounds of apples, pared and chop ped: two pounds of raisins, seeded am chopped; one pound of sultana raisins washed and p'cked over; two pound: of currants, washed and carefully picked over; three-quarters of a pount of citron, cut up fine: two tablespoon fuls of cinnamon, one teaspoonful o powdered nutmeg, two tablespoonful: of mace, one tablespoonful of cloves oue tablespoonful of allspice, one ta blespoonful of fine salt, two and one half pounds of brown sugar, one quar of brown sherry and one pint of lies brandy. Keep in stone jars tied over witl double covers. Add a little more liquo: (if it should dry out) when you make t batch of pies. Let the mixture stanc at least twenty-four hours after it i: mnde before it is used. Lay strips of pastry notched with i Jagging iron in crossbar pattern upoi the pie instead of a top crust Orctnr Plo ?Mnlr/v r? Hiimo u 111 U pULL |MHie roll out twice as thick as for a frV pie for the top crust, about the nary thickness for the lower. 'Line t pudding dish with the thinner and 111 with crusts of dry bvead or light crack ers. Some use a folded towel to til the interior of the pie, but the abovt expedient is preferable. Butter tin edges of the dish, that you may hi able to lift the upper crust withou breaking. Cover the mock pie with tin thick crust, ornamented heavily at tin edge that it may lie the more quietly and bake. Cook the oysters as for : stew, only beating into them at tin last two eggs and thickening with : spoonful of line cracker crumbs. The; should stew but live minutes, and tinn them so that the paste will be bakei in sfuson co receive tnem. Lit the top crust. pour in the smoking ho oysters and send up hot. f SEASON IN THE SOUTH, j t 1 For many reasons the Cliristinas sea son is especially enjoyable in the south New Euglanders, following Puritai initiative, make much of ThauUsgiv ing, but the resident of Dixieland cele brutes Christmas with all his mighi end main. Because of the severity of weather earth's deep carpet of snow, ironboum game laws or other reasons hunting i> tnore or less restricted in the north ai this time. But there are rare Joys foi the game seeker in all that great sweei >f country from Virginia to Texas. Fox bunting, quail and duck shooting ind even the more prosaic rabbit chase ire indulged in to the heart's content , ? .a Ui,c luuni Ijrpuill III HOUUHTIl Will er sports, however, that stirs the blood like a draft of wine when "Merry Christinas" is In the air. Nights spent In chase of the possum :>r the coon, snappy days In the forests ifter deer or wild turkey, expeditions n cunebrnkes after hear?these make ife worth living for the* man who units for the love of hunting nix! varms to the local llavor and traditions >f the south. An Old Christmas Carol. And all the bells on earth shall ring Ot? Christmas day. on Christmas day; And all the bells on earth shall ring On Christmas day In the morning. And all the angels in heaven shall sing On Christmas day, on Christmas day; And all the angels in heaven shall sing On Christmas day In the tnorning. And all the souls on earth shall sing On Christmas day. on Chrlstmns day; And all the souls on earth shall sing On riiplstmn. *?.. i- ?? ... uu; in 1IIU IIIUI I1II1K rhen let us all rejoice amain On Chrifitmns day, on Christmas day; Then let us &11 rejoice arna'.n On Christmas day In the morning. Wrapping tha Presant. Use n lionvy brown paper to wrap he Christinas box and a stout, strong ord. taking care thnt the ends are not ut too closely, making It possible for he knot to become unfastened. a \ 1 I I if iuur Last ; . ' x I have a tremendous > : r V : x dise that mi s ?X jj Regardlesj ' ? | X All I ask is that you i X yours T ' f T : | Men's Shoe | Shoes, Men's I Goods and Di I j ? My prices on these lir : *? ingly low that you > | your eyes. Our Big J ' ^ \f will continue through need the goods, I need I | Everything Goes I LS.Tov lown&nd Block # * /* '' % / /ALU! Chance!; T stock of Merchan- X T i st be sold % 5 Of Cost | f T come and see for % elf. | T I is, Ladies' f ? Hats, Dry % Y ress Goods. | T les are so astonish- f % vill hardly believe \ v :<?i~ - i > 3ciit; is now on ana >' h Christmas. You X X . the money. X J I i at a Samfinp! * Wl M VUUI IIIUUI i vnsendl Opposite Express Office X