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C. 1 December 13-17, 1915 ||| Acconnf. o/vvK ^nuni^HHR o(<3 HHHHHHern Commercial Congress wM |HnB^BtractionH including (Jrent Battleship m#! ^BEBH^H^^Blitary Parade, Special Selected Carni- ($3$, and Athletic Sports. yji |^H|^^HH8nHs h^Hfett|nent people on Commerce, u?|g Agent |05g CMS PANG : ^ r* /"Dm/mnnrl i I ill E It E was once in a far ! away country, wliore few people have ever traveled, a wonderf il church. It stood on a hi^h hill in the midst of a groat city, and every Sunday, and on sacred days lil o Christmas, thousands of people climbed the hill to tliechiirch. j When you came to the building itself you fouud stone columns and dark passageways and a grand entrance leading to the main room ot the r, church. This room was so long that one standing at the doorway could scarcely see tho other end, where the choir and the minister sat near the marble altar. At the farthest corner was tho organ, which was sc loud that when it began to play the people far off could hear it. The strangest thing about tho whole 1 building was the wonderful chime of I uvua. iimru hiuou ai one corner or the church a gray stone tower with ivy growing over it as far us one could ;j .see. It was so high that it was only in very fair weather that anyone ( claimed to see tlio top. Up and up i climbed the stones, and since the men who built the church had been dead for many hundreds of years, everyone had forgotten how high the tower was supposed to be. | Now, all the wise people knew that , at the top of the tower was a chime of Christmas bells. They had hung there ; ever since the church was finished and | were the most beautiful bells in tho world. Some thought it was because I a great musician had cast them and arranged them in their place, and otliI era said it was because of tho great I height of the tower, reaching up to where the air was clear and pure; however this may be, no one who had heard the chimes denied that they were the sweetest in the world. Some ! iHSd! Laid His Crown on the Altar, described them like angels sounding ' " far up in the sky. ' Hut the fact was that no one had heard them ring for years and years. There was an old man living not far from the church who said that his mother had spoken of hearing them when she was a little girl, and he was the only one who could say as much ' us that. They were Christmas chimes, you remember, and were not meant to be played by men or on common occasions. On Christmas eve all of the people 'i in the city brought their offerings to thi* fhlirrh to offor to tho ...1**1*1 and when the greatest and best offer- | lng was laid on the altar, there would come sounding through the music of the choir the voices of the Christmas chimes far up in the tower. Some : said the wind rang them and othero j . that they were so high angels would I set them swinging. Hut for many long years, as was said before, they had , never been heard. The minister said that people had been growing less careful of their gifts for the Christ a | child, or gave them rather to make a " i display for their own honor than for love of htm, so that no offering was t brought good enough to deserve the j music of the chimes. Still, every Christmas eve, the rich people of tho ' city crowded to the altar, each one ' trying to give some better gift than 1 anyone else, and the church was filled j with those who thought that perhaps the wonderful bells would ring again. | Hut, although the music was sweet and the offerings were plenty, only the r>.*r of tho wind could be heard far up in the old stone tower. Now, a number of miles from tha 1 <5fty, In a Utile village where nothing could be seen of the great church, save glimpses of the tower when the * feather was fine, lived a boy named Pedro, and his little brother. They knew very little about the Christmas J L. chimes, they had heard of tho service ( church on Christmas and secret plan that they had often ^^^^over when by themselves for e H^^nB^the beautiful celebration. I j can guess, Little Hrother," D Bl>! say, "all the fine things ^ |Bra?B^<> see and heat' in the I B1 have even heard it said 5 |H^H^ktst child himself some & blew yhp .meet- 1 ? - ' / > -' >1 ? Ins. What If we coul<* Bee hru*i The day before Christmas k \ra? bitterly cold and a few lonesome snow flakes were flying In the air and there was a hard white crust on the ground. Sure enough. Pedro and Little Brother were able to slip quietly away early in the afternoon on their way to the celebration; and although the walking was hard in the frosty air, before nightfall they had trudged so far, hand in hand, that they saw the lights of the big city just ahead of thorn. Indeed they were about to enter one of the great gates in the wall that surrounded it, when they saw something dark on the snow near the path, and stepped aside to look at it. It wag a poor woman who had fallen just outside oi the city, too sick and tii^d and cold to get in where she might have found shelter. The snow made a soft pillow for her and she would scon be so sound asleep in the Winter air that no one could ever awaken her again. All this Pedro saw in a moment, and he knelt down beside her and tried to rouse her. Ho turned her face toward him. so that he could rub some snow on it, but he soon sighed and said: "It's no use, Little Brother, you will : have to go on alone." "Alone?" cried Little Brother, "and : you will not see the Christmas festi- i val?" | "No," said Pedro, and he could not j help a little choking sound of disap- : pointment in his throat. "Seo this : poor woman, she will freozo to death : if nobody cares for her. You can | bHng someone to help her when you j come back, and I can keep her alive. | You can easily find your way to the | church, and you must see and hear j everything twice, little brother, once for you and once for me. I am sure the Christ child must know how 1 : would love to come and worship him, : and, oil, if you get a chance, little ; brother, slip up to the altar without : getting in anyone's way, and tako ; th.s little silver piece of mine and lay ; it down for my offering when no one j is looking. Don't forget the place where you left me, and hurry, now, so you won't bo late." He winked hard to keep back the tears as he heard the crunching footsteps of little brother sounding farther and farther away in the darkness. It was also hard to lose the music and the splendor of the celebration that he had planned so long, to lose the chance of offering his silver piece that he had saved for the offering to the Christ child, and to spend the time instead in tho lonesome snow outside the dreary walls. But it novor ftppurrnrl to him ir\ lnovn tho nnnr woman in the freezing cold. The great church was truly a wonderful place that night. Every one ' said that it had never looked so bright ' and beautiful before. When the organ played and the thousands of peo- i plo sang the hymns, the walls shook < with the sound, and little Pedro, outside tho walls of the city, felt the 1 earth tremble all around him At last came the procession to bear the ] offerings to the altar, when great and 1 rich, men and women marched tip to I lay down their gifts to tho Christ child. Some vbrought wonderful Jewels, some baskets of gold so heavy | that they could scarcely carry them I down tho aisle. A great writer laid " down a book that he had been mak- ] ing for years, and last of all walked tho king of tho country, hoping to j win for himself the chimes of the Christmas bells. There was a great murmur through the church as the people saw tho king tako from his head the royal crown, j all set with diamonds and other pre- , eious stones,and laid it gleaming on tho ( altar as ids offering to tho Holy child. \ "Surely." sa'ul evorv one. "wo shall i hoar the holla now. for nothing like i this has over been offered before.' < And they all stood still to listen, but 1 only the cold, cold wind was heard In 1 the stone tower; and the people shook 1 their heads, some of them saying aa ' they had done before, that they really ( never believed the story of the chimes, i anyway. i The procession was over, and the 1 gifts were all on the altar, tho choir i had begun the closing hymn. y Suddenly the organist stopped play- 1 ing, and every one looked at the minister, who was standing in his place 3 holding up his hand for silence. Not ' a sound could bo heard from anyone ' In the church. While all the people * Btrained their ears to listen, there ? carao softly but distinctly swinging 1 through the air tho sound of the bells ' in the tower. So far away and yet 1 so clear seemed the music, so much 1 sweeter were tho notes than had been y hrard before, that the peoplo in the church sat for a moment as still as though something held each of them j by the shoulders. Then they all stood up together and stared straight at the 11 altar to see what great gift had awak- 1 ened the iong silent bells. But all that the nearest of them saw was the childish figure of Little Brother, who had crept softly dowa the ?in'o when no one was looking and had laid Pedro's little piece of silver on the altar. f / McCall carries in stock from he dollar Ingersoll to the very lest standard makes of watches. They are going at bargains. a A ASHCRAFTS * Condition Powders ? A high-class remedy for horses p ind mules in poor condition and u n need of a tonic. Builds solid }J usele and fat; cleanses the sys ? em, thereby producing a smooth, (lossy coat of hair. Packed in bees. 25c. box. Sold by Is D. H.LaNEY < BlHHiuMiHBflilw ijuiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiii liinnimmniBW =| Ho! for the holly and the Yuletide jolly and the joys {== = of Christmas Time! = js Ihey are worth a song, and we'll sing it strong, s E? with a resonant ring of rhyme. || (CHRISTMAS GIFTSf = rrvr* r-tTt^Tv..^ ? ? | QMprlatm^B I M r* HRISTMAS itlMEl That mn g gs| ^ must be * misanthrope indeed ^ ^ I in whose breast something like a tovial St feeling it not roused?in whose mind 3! some pleasant associations are not S awakened?by the recurrence of g; Christmas. .There are people who g will tell you that Christmas is not to them what it used to be; that each succeeding Christmas has found some 3C cherished hope or happy prospect of sj the year before; dimmed or passed away; that the present only serves to ?? remind them of reduced circumstan- S ces and straitened incomes?of the ;? feast thev once bestowed on hollow fgt friends; and of the cold looks that g meet them now in adversity and g: misfortune. ?5 Never.heed such dismal remlnis? pc cencev There are few men who have S gjg k-'ed long enough in the world who cannot call up such thoughts any day in the year Then do not select the Sjj ^3 merriest of the three hundred and sixty- ^ five for your doleful recollections, but draw your chair nearer the blazing S2 S|3 fire?fiii the glass and send round the ?5 song -and if your room be smaller pig gjj than it was a dozen years ago; or if 3E "3j your glass be filledwith reeking punch ^ ??jj instead of sparkling wine, put a good pig face on the matter ... Look on the merry faces of your fe; grT children (if you have any) as they sit 5^31 round the fire One Hale v.t m?? F?" |3 empty; one (light form that gladdened jfcr; ErT| the father'* heart and roused the fc3i mother's pride to look upon, may not ifc be there. Dwell not upon the past; legs ?r? think not that one short year ago; the trJi fair child now resolving into dust sat K?; before you. with die bloom of health fcj upon its cheek, and the gayety of irv ^ fancy in its (oyous eye. Reflect upon ?? ^4 your present blessings?of which sr fcTj every man has many?not on your ^ 13 past misfortune* of which all men ^ have some Fill your glass again, ~ tr?) with a merry face and contented jp^ heart Our life cn it but your Christ' KT5 mas shall be merry and your New JF^ ErJ Year a happy one. ?Charles Dlc^cm jj?E i '5)5J T5?j )3^135i^ NOT A MISS. ScpiBSP As two little girls were hurrying to school, one of them saw a discarded Christmas tree in an ash barrel. "Lizzie," said she, "do you think Santa Claus is a myth?" "Certainly not," retorted her companion. glancing sharply at her. "Santa Claus is a mister. What makes you IIbp so?" " WHOLE WEEK'S CELEBRATION Descendants of Old Spanish Settlers Observed Christmas With Dinners and Parties. Among the descendants of the old Spanish settlers we find that they observe a week in the celebration of Christmas. This begins one week before Christmas. In the daytime they have dinners at each other's homes, md in the evenings they give a series if parties at the different houses. In the evening the young folk go to the home of one of their number and knock, and then all begin to sing. rhoso within the house ask, "Who is | :here?" and the answer is, "The Virtin Mary and St. Joseph seek lodging n your house." To carry out the BiDlo story they are at first refused admittance, and then the door is opened wide and they are ail given a hearty welcome. On Christmas eve the old and roung all Join together and nave a )ig celebration. In a large hall they ix up one side to represent the mantor. and here they very solemnly give l little play in which many take part, :ho characters being Mary and Joleph, the wise men, the shepherds md the angels. This play Is very real o them, and they all play their parts J with a reverent spirit. In watch ami jewelry repairng you want the hest. You will tiake no mistake if you carry i hem to McCall for repair. SAVES DAUGHTER Ldrice of Mother no Doubt Prerents Daughter's Untimely End. Keady, Ky.-?" I was not able to do nything for nearly six months," writes Irs. Laura Bratcher, of this place, "and /as down in bed for three months. 1 cannot tell you how I suffered with ly head, and with nervousness and ' .or.,inly troubles. j Our family doctor told my husband he 1 ould not do me any good, and he had > give it up. We tried another doctor, 1 ut he did not help me. ( At last, my mother advised me to take lardui, the woman's tonic. 1 thought was no use for i was nearly dead a.id othing seemed to do me any good. But took eleven bottles, and now I am able 3 do all of my work and my own /ashing. < 1 think Cardui is the best medicine io ire world. My weight has increased, < nd I look the picture of health. " If you suffer from aoy of the ailments 1 eculiar to women, get a bottle of Cardui iday. Delay is dangerous. We know 1 will help you, for it has helped so lany thousands of other weak women 1 the past 50 years. 1 At alt druggists. Writ< tm: Chkttanoota Co., Ladle*' idvitory D?l4.. ChattanoOfla, T?nn., for Suae! - t'H.tim on your com and 64 page book,' Horn* reetmaat tor Women," In pialp wieppei. M.O. 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