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:;.v PROGRESS,
Christmas Seal
Of 1914
T HE executive committee of the
American Red Cross unproved
the design for the '11)14- Rial
Cross ClirlstmoS seal,, to - lie
sold throughout the United Slates dur
ing this year's holiday season to help
lu the war on tuberculosis.
A different design .for this stump Is
adopted every year. The.1014 stamp
is brightly colored, with red and' green
predominating.. It Is taken up almost
entirely by tiie ruddy face of Santa
Claus. The background. In ' vivid
green, represents part of ii Christmas
tree. At the upper corners are red
crosses. At the bottom on no unrolled
scroll are the greetings “Merry Christ
mas” and "Happy New Year." The
legends “American Red Cross" and
”1914” appear. ; .
instead of an oblong design, as used
during the 1013 Christmus season, the
1014 stamp is square.
Tbe Red Cross antl-tubercnlosls
Christmas seal first was. used by the
American Red Cross as a nntlonnl body
in 100a Since then over Sl.8o0.0d0 Ims
been raised through tbe sale of these
■tamps at Christmas time In the cru
sade against tuberculosis. Last Christ
inas over 40,000,000 of the stamps were
sold in the United States. .The Red
Cross Christmas Beal was first used, by
the Delaware chapter of the Red Cross
In 1007 ut tbe Instance of the secretary-
of that chapter. MiSa Emily P. Rlssell.
and tbe national organization took it
up tbe following year. •
Oh, Tender Tale
. The Star of Bethlehem.
This old sobbing world of ours ts one
year older than it was when tbe last
Christmas carol Was clmnted. It (fas
bad another twelvemonth of expert
ments and of experience, o£ advance,
ment on many lines'of human reseurcb
and acquisition. But it has not out
grown Jesus Christ. For him It Ims
discovered no substitute. Tbe star o'
Hetblehetn Is tbe-ouly star that never
sets. Jesus Christ alone, cqu satisfy
all buninu necessities and tbe loftiest
of human Inspirations. Christianity Is
the only universal religion.'the onlv
one ndapted to all ages of life, to. ail
human conditions, to all races and all
nationalities. Other lights bnve nrtsen,
waned and vanished forever. The
Creek mythology is as utterly shaken
to ruin as Its own splendid Parthenon
The chief religions of Asia-Brnbmun-
leal, Buddhist and Moslem—all are lim
ited aud local; they are nil moribund.
While they make uo inroads on Chris
tianity, tbe religion of Bethlehem and i
Calvary makes constant Inroads uphu -
them. The systems of error which 1
Paul and Peter fought, nave vanished;]
out of sight.' and the whole east Is !
catching gl'inpxes of the star t(int brat'
dawned over Jiiilen s sky. In- splritftui 1
dynamics blood tolls, and God has I
trusted his gosuel of salvatiqn to the 1
most powerful races ob tlifc ginbp.-
Bev. Theodore U Cuyier, D. O-
Oh, tender tale of old,
Live in thy dear- renown!
God’s smile was in thedark—behold
That way his host came down.
Light up, great God, thy word,
Make the blest meaning strong,
As if oui ears, indeed, had heard
The glory of their song.
It was so far away,
But thou Moulds! make it near,
And all its living might display
And cry to it, “Be here!”
Here, in the unresting town,
As once remote to them
Who heard it when the heavens
came down
On pastoral Bethlehem.
It was so long ago,
But God can make it now
And, as with that sweet overthrow.
Our empty hearts endow.
Take, Lord, those words outworn;
Oh, make them new for aye;
Speak—“Unto you a child is born,”
Today, today, today.
—Jean Ingelow.
Christmas, Christmas Everywhere.
“We have received pur first Christ
mas gift,” said a city man the other
day, "lu the shape of two.little square,
cube shaped paper packages of tea
with Cbtuese characters puiuted all
over them. They came from our Chi-
uese luuudryumn.
"When we go for the washing and
produce the ticket the Cblimnmn
reaches for the huudle.
•"Ninety eeut,' he says, and as we
are reaching for the coin he reaches
O NCE nn n time there' was a
young tmkey gobbler named
Bronze Wlug. Me lived with
bis inutlicr and brothers4afid
sisters lu a little house In Eurmttr
.leaks' poultry yard, ’i'ltelr bouse?was-,
very cumfortable, mid the farmed fed
them well, so that the young turkeys
wgre no happy ns they could ho.
When cold weather oniue the tur
keys were fed more liberally than usu
al. Tin;.other turkeys who lived In
the poultry yard gobbled the food until
they began to get very rut.
Old Mother Turkey', who was u very
wise old fowl, said to Bronze Wing
and the rest of her children;
; "He careful, my dears. Don't eat
too much. Christmas Is coming, \vheu
every truly wise turkey scratches linrd
uud eats very little.”
i-Bronze Wing milled up his feathers
and said; “I dou’t see why, mother.
Farmer Jonks seems to like the fat
turkeys’ the best. lie has put all of
them into u nice peu by themselves,
and they lire getting extra flue food."
“Yes. for awhile,” Mother Turkey
replied.
“Aod one of them fold me today that
Farmer ,looks said Unit he would take
them to the city. The city Is duo,"
"They will never come hack from
the city,” Mother Turkey answered,
shaking her head sadly.
It did seem hard to fast and work
when every one around was feasting,
but Mother. Turkey kept watch over
her brood to see Unit they did ns slio
told them, for she was a turkey of
many Chris t-
maxes, and she
knew tbe ways of
the human folk
well.
Young Bronze
Wing gobbled
about In n very
disconcerted wny.
It was small com
fort to him that
lie could, after
tile holidays were
over, feast as
much us be liked.
"Ob, dear! 1
wish 1 had a nice
Juicy grasshup
BfiOVZK WING DAI1T- p „„ .
' ,:vohh - bled one day.
"Come, come! Scratch tor worms
like tbt? rest , of us," Mother Turkey
urged. ".Scrafcblng Is fine exercise aud
will help to keep down your weight."
"1 dmi't care about being thin,"
naughty, Bronze. Wing grunted. “I
don't see why there are no grasshop
pers any more. They were delicious."
"Foolish child! There are uo grass
hoppers In tbe winter," Mother Turkey
told him.
One morniag Bronze Wing noticed
that the gate Of the‘poultry yard was
open. lie glanced uround. Mother
Turkey and the rest of the flock were
busily scratching on the other side of
tbe yard and would not notice him.
-Sodiu snenkud out, lnteudiug to go Just
'.a little way on the lookout for grass
hoppers.
F’resently he came to tbe woods. He
had been able to find no Insects. The
trees were bare, and the wind blew
through them, making strange noises.
The ground was covered with leaves,
and every now mid then Bronze Wing
would stop to scratch these up to see
If lie could find u grasshopper lurking
under them.
He was stepping along, cocking bis
head now on this side, now on that, on
the lookout for grasshoppers when he
heard a voice in some hushes say:
"Hello! Wild turkey for Christmas!"
Then there was a flash of lire and a
bang. With a squawk of fright Bronze
Wing darted off. lie half ran. half
flew until lie was far enough away
from the men with the guns to take
breath. Then he hurried home ns fast
as his legs would carry hltb. He was
glad then he wns not so fat He
could not have got over the ground so
fast if he had been.
It was evening when be neared the
bouse. And what do you think? As
he passed the kitchen porch be saw
the fat turkeys of the pen banging np,
bare of feathers and without heads.
"They'll make fine Christians din-
ners for soiuo one.” Brouze Wing
T HE Christinas Treo children, as
you may guess, live In Christ
mas Tree loiliil,- which, as you
of course know, ts the country
wbere’Snntu Claus' wonderful pnlnce
is built And In this palace the Christ
mas 'free children buve a place all to
theinselves.
Of all the Christmas Tree children
the dolls aro perhaps tbe prettiest
They have a room where you will tlud
dolls of every klud and of every Blze.
The doll room Is Just like u big
town, for each family of dolls lias a
bouse, which is furnished Just like u
real houso.
These doll houses are set tip In rows
along, tiny streets. Each house tins Its
little Ihwn and toy trees standing In
froht lif It Here and there you will
flhd a -toy dog guarding a front door
or a plump toy cat watching a make
believe mouse. Back of Borne of tho
more fashionable houses are garages
In which toy uutomobtles ore kept or
stables In which there are toy car
ringes and toy horses.
The dolls have handsome clothes, but
usually they keep them put away until
Chrlstmns comes. Then they kuow
they will need them all to wear when
they go to live with the little girls lu
Real Folks Land. They dream about
tills. Encli doll loves to talk about tbe
dear little girl ,to whom she is going
and who. she Is sure, will love aud
cure for her tenderly.
You see, Santa Claus Is very partic
ular to take only the best behaved and
good tempered dolts to the little girls.
He makes a list of these and on
Christmas afternoon goes Into their
room and calls out tbe names of tbe
favored ones who aro to go with him
In his sleigh that year. They all try
very hard to ho good, and tbe dolls
who are left behind always feel asham
ed and disappointed.
The Candy children nre the little
candy folk who are htiug on Christmas
trees to make It handsome. They live
in a room all by themselves, where
they have n cute village of their own
Once Santa said he didu’t see what n
Christmas tree would ho liko without
the sweet little Candy children, and
after that. I'm afraid, the Candy chil
dren put on a good many funny airs
in the Candy village live dear lit
tle chocolate Santa Clauses, colored
candy angels with gilt wings, pink
ballet dancers with gauze skirts and
many cute illtle Candy children. There
nre enudy ani
mals, fishes and
birds also.
One year the
Candy children
made up 'their
minds that they
under the counter and produces from ‘ & " l " s
2SP 2 =3 ssi^rsrs,
~
■■"And as we smile In return and pick 1
Up the odd little packets we think the shuddered He felf he mSlrt
Chinaman is ready mobe or less adapt- c „re t his food I gain
ablo to the customs of the country."
The Message of the Bells.
The Christmas bells ure ringing.' In
every nenllne note they say to the !
Door: "Jesus wns one with you. Me
chose to, share yohr lot because it was
that or tbi; majority.' in ad that yon
have to bear you arc a brother Jb Jesus
Christ.’' .-Chrlsf never took - on his
blessed Ups the philosopher's e'nnt. He'
never said that misery, poverty!
ease and' (tenth were natural results
of a divine law. They were ns nu
natural as liii/pfiii, nut for. tljem all.
lie has a remedy, “That .ve' love one
another.as i have lo'Ved you."-Bishop
Cheney. •'
He crept sadly into the turkey house,
where his mother was wlde.awake'on
her roost waiting for him.
“Wherever have you been?" she de-
The Cradle and the Cross.
Cnlvnr.v’s-cross out of mind, the
full significance of Bethlehem's cradle mnntlwl -
Is missed. The great lesson of Christ- , Bl-ouze Wing told her all about It
mns in not half learned except our ” Yes ' my - dellr " she niiswered. “I
thoughts project themselves hevond comd hnve told - vol ‘ "» this, but I
the scenes of tbi* Redeemer's birth to wlshed to kee P yol > r o ""S "nil happy
tli|! scenes of Ills death and the rela
tion of his hiinilllntlon nnd suffering
to. our redemption be borne In inliid
-Christian,Intelligencer. .
When Hone Was Born.
Rise, happy morn; rise, holy morn;
' I* 16 cheerful day from night.
The. light that'shone *v turn ifo^was born 1 T ' lrkey t,enr<1 hlru s,ly . "CbrlirtWli
-Tennyson "In Memorlam." ’. a horrid day for turkeys!"
as long as I could. Cheer np. though
There will not be nnother Christman
for a long, long time, and then remem
ber not to be greedy. It wns their
greediness that got those fat turkeys
into trouble, you see."
Bronze Wing- hopped up to his perch
nnd tucked his bend under his wing
Before bo vent off to sleep Mother
would give
rarewell party to
the other toys.
They knew that
the candy folk
would nil go with
Santa Onus. He
needed them all
for the trees, and
their conduct hnd
been quite per
THE DOLLS BF.OAN TO fcct yeur
DANCE. The do||s WQre
their best dresses to the party. They
meant to he very careful not to get
them soiled or mussed. They 'were
determined to show the Candy chil
dren bow fine nnd beautiful they Were.
The Candy children had only one suit
of clothes each, poor tilings, and could
uot take them off.
The Candy children welcomed their
guests heartily. They were rather
awed by the elegance of some of the
dolls who came In their automobiles
and cartinges and wore the most stun
nlag silk and Im-e gowns.
At first they till sat around quietly
aud chatted. Then some gnines were
started. The Candy children wished
to play only quiet ones, lest they chip
their coats or scrape off some of the
paint
“Whoever heard of a pnrty without
dancing?” one of the more stylish
dolls said scornfully.
Now, the Candy rhlldrea were
afraid to move around much for fear
of getting overhented. If they got
overheated they would melt nnd that
would be the eud of them. However,
they know it wns only polite to do ns
their guests wished, so they snid that
If the doll children wished to dance
they would all try some nice quiet
dances.
Euch Candy child chose a dolly pnrt
ner nnd led her out to dance the min
uet The dolls looked bured. ' Then
one doll spoke up:
"Huve'yoti ever turkey trotted?"
The Candy children said no, they
hadn't, hut- that sounded like Just the
dunce for little Christmas children
So those dolls began to turkey trot
with the Cnndy children.
First they danced slowly; then ns the
dolls got excited they whirled pround
faster and faster. The Cnndy chil
dren began to grow warm and melt
They melted completely, and tbe dolls
were so frightened that they ran
straight borne.
And-the next morning when Sorts
fame In all the Cnndy children lay In
heaps on the floor.
“Dear, denrl" cried Snntn. "This Is
most unfortunate, with Chrlstmns so
near. I’m afraid we’ll be short-of
Cnndy children for our Chrlstmns trees
"this Reason."
And. though the little boys nnd girls
didn't know why. there were few can
dy toys on their trees on Christmas
that year.
Statement of the Condition of The
Bank of Whigham
Whigham, Ga., at the c!os of business Dec. 4, 1914
RESOURCES, LIABILITIES -
Demand Loans 1 ...... 8 ;-,0o7.2:fl ■
III"*.* I.OMIIS .. lud ’^ d 'gi, Capital stock paid in $ 26.000.00
i •verrlraI ts,secured .. 2,103...8 Undivided profits, less cur-
flvotYirnffa nnanntiFO/l ?» 9 ’ < : .fl , ...»!- ' I ' i
Overdrafts, unsecured
B.fida hud Siotiks owned 1 >y
the Bank
Banking house
Furniture and Fixtures
Other Real Estate
Due from Banks and Bunkers
in this State
liuo from Banks and Bank
ers in other state-!
Currency l,3t>1.0o
Hold 26.00
Silver, Nickels, etc 127.72
Cash Items 1,871.00
Profit and Loss
Collections
rent expenses, intorbxt and
taxes paid.
i3,G->0 OimjuB to Bank and Bank-
2.748.70
; ,834.71
1,500.00
12,001,35
27-1 17
3,825 3?
1,203.40
Total
... $ 152,719.8s
Duo to
In 9lller States
Duo unilald UlVidends...
ir.(:ivM?itfldbposlt'if "'
subject to check
Savings deposits..
Demand Certificates
Tin ncertificates
Cashier’s checks
N( t > - and Bills Rediscounted
Hill < Payable, Including Time
Cor; ificutes representing Bor-
rum d Money..
Total
1,490.61
NONE
NONE
14.00
32,930.82
16,226.35
NONE
26,383.60
3,646.00
NONE
STATE OF OEORtilA. (irady county. .. ■ y-..■.
Before me came E. B. Stupieton, Cashier, of Blink of Whigham, who
being duly (Worn, says that the above ami foregoing statement is a true condi-
tion of said Bank, as shown by the bucks of filo in said Bank.
E. B. Stapleton,
Sworn to and subicribed bofo -e me, this, ; li.ii day of Doc. 1914,
U B 11 uloek Jr., N. P., Grady County, Georgia.
We will close our store on Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, De
cember 28th, 29th and 30th, on ac
count taking stock. Will open again
for business on the 3 1 st.
Will thank our friends who are due
us on account or note to call and settle
at once.
Wight Hardware Co.
M. J.
AGENT
(Incorporated in Kentucky)
air©, Georgia
Wholesale Gasolene and Kerosene
by wagon delivery. If you are not a
customer become one at once. Qjjick
service and prompt attention.
T-10
for C. E. VanLanding-
ham’s Store for Best Qual
ity of Merchandise and
best prices during 1915.
All goods guaranteed to be as
represented We guarartee sat
isfaction or monej, refunded. AH
goods sold for cash and very
small profits. Come and see me
bifore buying. Shoes a specialty.
C. E. VanLandingham
