Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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P. 1 ^B^^HHRHH^Hr.tn me severe case <>f Pile knife or detection this liseasei whe in Uandina hrills Gutters arrows us sell you the best >r the money, X with a good Dischave them. y Kay Stalk Cutter. ;ee for yourself. -tooth, two sections j Investigate jrices. time to buy these and lets get right J ling season. 1 irdwarc Co 1 j ~D It Established 1QII JDClllJX. CapitH &25.000 IELD, S. C. MACK DAVIS, CASHIER and cordially invite you to ur town. les Bank <2^<2^|5)G?5)<2^)<2$3)<2S5)? nee See Us ' st and and Best Old-Bine in the World. # ids of Insurance { oai\ & ms Co i 1 is, Manager. J oliday Rates $?| A ? Airline ?| ilway of the South. rfc>; $fl_ L STATIONS fi iMfo cember 17 to 25 ife ial Limit xls y 10, 1916 m home during Holidays Nearest Seaboard Agent rite Uju t*., Savannah, Georgia IJCE xplnin how 1 was cured in 4 s of 40 years standing, wifchfrom business No ona need i this humane care can he had R. M. JOHRY, Lamar 8. O HARM'S CHRISTMAS eve \ ?/y 5 - *x?mk <\r^ ^ ACK HARLAN stood beforo his desk dressed for ( K the street when a boylB'a ! ^ I voice broke the silence j of the ofllce with "What 1 y?u K?t *n all them bundies, Mr. Gridley?" It was the office boy, Jim. talking to Gridley, IlarSfn's manager. "These bundles? Why, here's a v.. uui, nuu mis in an ciovirii; muruuu, mid here's a game of parchesl. Did you ever play parchesl, Jim? It's a great game, all right. My boy A1 gets so excited when he can put one over on me and win a game he can hardly keep from whooping!" "They're all boys, ain't they?" inquiry the office boy. "Yes, and glad of it, too," answered Gridley. "Here, Jim, is something for your Christmas, and hope you'll have a nice day!" "Oh, thanks. Good by, Mr. Gridley. Merry Christmas!" called the boy as the door slammed after the overladen Gridley. Harlan slid down the top of his desk with a bang and left the ofllce. What a happy little hustling fellow Gridley was; a little Shrimp of a man, and yet he always seemed to radiate pleased self-importance and good cheer! Jim caught eight of Harlan as he was going out. the front door. "Merry Christmas, Mr. Harlan," ho called. "Thanks for the check and Merry Christmas to you!" "Men y Christmas, bah! What does Christmas mean to me now, anyway? Christmas is a time for fools and babies," muttered Harlan to himself as I he walked to the street car, first telling the waiting chauffeur to drive home without hirn. And when ho got to the car he walked up on Market | street: he felt he could not bear the fil_ HJWBtk & The News Failed to Interest Him. ! Inside of a stuffy car. The street at ' least held a variety of things to divert one's thoughts. Christmas decorations were on all the buildings; wreaths dangling broad red ribbons hur.g in most windows and ' | every corner was a Jumble of green ! and red where the tiower venders were selling holly, while "Merry Christmas!" he heard on every side. Great bunches of cherry laurel and eucalyptus boughs made a veritable canopy over the llower venders' stands, where Hashed red and white and yellow carnations, red and green Christmas wreaths and holly. "Holly here, mister; onlj 16 cents a bunch, two for two bfls. Take a bunch home to your wife," and a flower vender poked a bunch of holly into liarfan's face. "No. no!" he cried, brushing the vender aside; and walked on. At last, unable to stand it longer he Jumped into a waiting taxi and called out hiB homo address. At hi st he peered from out the taxi; but every window seemed to hold a Christ!, as wreath and he soon gave up glancing out the window to stare straight before him into the dimness of tho cab. When the taxi stopped, he sprang out; paid the faro, and let himself into tho houso with his latch-key. A woman in the white apron of a nurse-maid was just ascending the broad staircase as he came into the | hall. She had a child with her but tinrian flicl not see the child; the nurse was too quick in running up the Blairs. j "I'm sick of seeing that woman siink away like a thief every tinio 1 enter j a room where she's had the child, j Why undf r the sun don't she stay away from this part of the house altogether liko I've ordered her to?" giumbled the man. He hung his hat and overcoat oh the hall rack, and striding into the living room, he tlung himself into a large leather armchair and tried to read the evening paper. Hut the news failed to Interest him somehow tonight; and as twilight came on and the room , darkened, he found himself staring into the grate Are. How many things one can imagine in the flame of a grate Are! And, an the man sat there all huddled in the big armchair, all the dear days of the dead past came trooping out of the 1 coals. An office room he aaw Arat, j I with hlmsdlf sitting at a desk and a I falr-hulred girl at a typewriter In thf ' Giti (WW ggfcggiW v T ^ tnem y y1 CHESTERFIEI s 51 jl rs A ^ mint-vnc fp^ Q ristn corner, The girl was poorly dressed . He mu8tliave dozed along time> f0l| but the sweetness of her smile captl- | when he awoke tho arc light8 in thQ yated the man at the desk. And in , Rtreet wefe |Jt and Q brJght 8haft o( the next picture he heard the man ( w feH acro98 the room and prea. B>r? to *?ec?me h's wllTo A enU lnto thlg ghaft of Ught cama hillside flooded with moonlight he be- j 8tumbllng a littlo white.robed figure, held next-the picture of an evening u waR a |ltUe ^ in h,B nlghtgowlt from out their honeymoon with them ;He oyflr tQ the Chrl8tmaB trefl 8[Uing ?," thai, ? 8 d? " n? and toyed playfully with the ornashadow of the tall, dark, sweet-smell- .ment8 dangllng from the lower lng pines that loomed up as a back- branches ground. Hero there were no more ! ..prett; tty thlng8? he kept say. visions for a time, while the man sat jt oyer and oyer Jn a goft ,utle yoice staring dry-eyed Into the fire. I, Awakened frora a dreamless slum The scene of the next picture was ber. tho first thing Jack Harlan's mind laid in the sitting room. S le was in j revertcd to was the dream picture ol a low rocker by the window, sewing . h|g w,fe ,n U)o rhr,8tma8 tree. And on something soft and white. Every th,B wa3 the chUd biR chUd and henJ once in a while she looked out of the ?e he&rd h<jr yoice aRa,n window. Through the window he saw .<Next chrl8tma8 ho wlll be 8l3 an auto stop in front of the house and mQnthg old q1u pnough tQ notlce the man who got out and entered the ; thlng8 Rrd ho ^ the gUr house was himself. She heard his ... . ? u-i.,1,*? ... . . . It is so bright, step and sat with her hands loosely XJ?H A ? . , ? , .. . . . , | **?u iiu uwm,ru H mat HI 01 IUHC crossed on the sewing as he entered Chr,8tmaB when everythlng wa8 B0 the room ami stepping behind the ! desolato ln that household? Ah. there rocker, put his two hands over her . , . ?? . , . . .. . ' . . . ... had been no tree! And the next eyes. Then she drew down his face na . . . . / . ... ... . .. . . Christmas, when the baby was a year to hers and kissed him on both cheeks . ,, ? ., . . . ..... . and six months old, the nurse had and then on the forehead and eyes ? . , .. . . . . . u . .. ... ... . , . tasked if she might got a tree and Harand mouth. At this, Harlan buried , . . . ,ivr ? _ . . ....... ... . . Ian had said No. This year she had I* 6H h,8/rm' Whi,e a dry 8Cb bought one without asking, and HarS ?! v- hi .|. rttl 1 lan felt thankful to her and strangely Oh, Nadine, Nadine, why did you . . leave me!" he sobbed. He turned from ' saving to himthe naming coals and his eye fell Be]f? Y Baymg 10 n,m upon a Chriatmaa tree all decked with I wnnt?,, , ahlnlnk ornamenta. It waa a real tree , He know it. was there for the child; _ , . , iW , . . .. .. .. . my papa was comln . An now the and was annoyed at the thought of the cause of her death. He lit his pipe :Btar8 811 gGne' 118 a" dark an gonG . . . . . . . .out an I don t see it no more?no and leaned back for a smoke. But moro.. through the blue smoke haze the tree j ' became an airy phantom dream-tree. I The chi d broke Into a 11 tie huddled A ladder leaned up against it and at boap' Bobbing ,n thG 8ha<? 8 at the the top of the ladder, high up. and OGt, of tbG a*d a Btray ray, G half hidden by the pungent green com ng through the hall door fell boughs, stood a golden-haired woman.; "'"J!1...118 a ' And he was standing beneath the tree,! , Vl a rifled cry of remorse and steadying the ladder with both hands.1 i'ar,an Sphered the trembling She was putting the last touches to, ,lttlG form tenderly in his arms and the tree pointed oot the tinsel star at the top She held a shining bright tinsel in! ?* ? tree while the tears of the her hand; and God, what was this she. ch,ld mingled witli his. And a great was saying! Pc3?0 fl,led b,B bou1"Look, sweetheart. how hrteht the ! ??? star 1b! Ah, dear, next ChriatmaB tho AM *1 I *-1 ri baby will bo six months old, Just old r\ lYlCrCllCSS .JUCit^C enough to notice things; and I'm *ure he will notice this star; now wont One WKo Shows No Favor. he? Don't you think so, dear?" . ...... ?? . .. . A merciless indge is I* at.her I line, lie"Come down, Nadine, come down; . v I am afraid you will fall," ho hoard fore h.m the weak and the wanting go himself cry, and then as she laughing* ,0 wall. Duly the truth can stand* ly descended the ladder, he clasped For > -nrs the following statement from her In his arms before she reached a Lancaster resicdnt lias witlistood the the bottom and kissed her again and sternest of all tests. again. .... ., I. I*. Clybnrn. French St,, Lancaster "Vou big story teller, ?he laughing* ? , ,,,, . . . . , ., ? . .. 8. ('.. suvs: "Mv kidm-vs were hinctivo ly reproved him, "you weren t a bit afraid I'd fall; you Jus . vanted to hug ""J 1 '"V .11,,a' k',rh"M- .1" Kidney rills with resiils. (Statement m- Wh.? ,, , did. NOW what are yoo H**1**SarS>2Wh. I1HIK going to do about It?" he was demand- \imi7ft \ 1 {V/.1.m!*'' v r Vim'' I \ . . ,. .... ? . MOlth I HAN I 111(1,h YLAK8 LAing?when the glr. faded, and^ that TKn; Mr. nvhun? said: *1 have had no dream picture of himself in dther days f||rthpr trouble with my kid nays or vanished and nothing was left but the |)MC|, since Loan's Kidney I'ills so greatChristmas tree. It benefited me." Harlan pulled his fhair away from i'riro 7\(\n i?f nil itonloM the flre and over to tflie window, and, ivliink for a kidney remedy?get Donn'n inking back Into It* depths, he Kiilnny I'ills?the name that Mr. (lywatched the gllnunoTf of the windows bntn hen twice publiclV recommended, in the houses ttrop the street and KoVter-Mlburn t o., I'rops., Buffal^ m I ust see I JD DRUG CO. TO 1 rr,oL: f A h*d. " iristmas he fami v?i f?sF~ f^/ih dU at our ^Ol /^^SS^U will fill ias spirit J r=:=::^y I To keep informed on the Great War, cn developments at Washington and all the geni eral news beyond the scope of your County Paper, read Thn ? , i iic mi idhici journal Twice a Wtek I ! 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