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yV Not only in costly gifts or A?
rich run- food lies Christmas
joy or Mussing. It lies no Aj.
one can tell another where It ■
lies. The finding must be for
one's self alone. 1 can only
say to all little children, to all
grownup children, to all who
are looking hack as well as to
those who are tonkins forward,
to them I can say with Tin.v
Tint, "God bless you each this
happy Christmas time," and
If you would be very sure to
got Its meaning best make a
real Christmas for somebody
who might not have It but for
you. Kate Langley Kosher.
Christmas In
The Farmhouse
When as a child you read stories of
Christmas eelobrn linns where the
houses were decorated with holly and
mistletoe and the people had such Jolly
times putting them up, didn't you look
nround your own house and wonder
how that would look If trimmed with
those same preens? And didn't you
long to smell their spicy fragrance and
to have a hand In putting them up
where you thought they would look
the liest? And didn't you long to feel
that peculiar Christmas spirit that is
In the very air in cities and villages
for more limn a week before Christnns
•lay Itself? And then did you just
settle hack and say to yourself: “Well,
It's no list*.
"As long as I live on a farm Christ
inas must lie Just the same as it al
ways has been an exchange of gifts
and afterward an unusually big din
ner?"
I want to tell you that you are mis
taken that you can ltave Just those
very same things, even to bringing In
the old time Yule log, if you are so
fortunate as to have an open fireplace
In tin* farmhouse.
City people pay from 115 cents to $1
for a small house Christmas tree, and
every one who can afford It buys a
tree every year for his children. How
often do farmers' children have trees?
And why not? because the pnrents
say, "We haven't gifts enough to innke
n pretty tree." Many people never
put a gift on simply make It a tree of
beauty for the children. Strings of
popcorn, wishbones and canes glided
gold stars anything bright and shiny
hung on a tree delights it child—a bag
of popcorn with n few eandlbs In It
tastes live times as good If it lifts only
once hung on a tree. Kvon If the gift
must be underwear, shoes and things
nottinlly needed to wear, have them
come as surprises and In as "Christ-
masy" looking packages as possible
It Is well to keep the Christinas spirit
In the home.
II seems a pity for us country people,
surrounded by these beautiful things
deemed luxuries by our city friends,
to make no use whatever of them and
to let our lives become so common
place. Christmas Is not solely a day
for gift giving and receiving and eat
ing. It Is a day fordoing everything In
your power to add to the Joy of the
children a day to remember the feeble
and lonely old people- a day to think
of the strainers and the poor. If you
haven't money to spend for gifts for
them you enn give some of yourself
and of your own home Christmas
cheer. There arc homes that It Is an
Inspiration to enter, because of tbe
Christinas spirit they bn the forth. 1
trust the farm homes will not he lack
ing In Christmas beauty or Christians
cheer—tlmt all of them will truly
"keep Christmas."- Kerthn G. Mark
ham In Country Gentleman.
There nru many beautiful
stories associated with the
origin of the llrst Christinas
tree. One legend says that on
the holy night all nature, even
the animals and the trees,
was rejoicing and that the
cedars, Instead of pointing
their launches upward ns
pointed, slender trees, spread
their brunches wide to pro
tect the mother nnd her new
horn child.
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The Sentries’
Christmas Dinner
»• OrlHIb I m Mb Unrtvrt tnO,
Do "plnnts" for making pretty gift*
grow ut> to Christmas trees?
And are "the soil-sons' greetings”
sent by salt sons of the seas?
Arc Yulo logs cut from snow drift
wood by Yulcti'U; washed ashore?
And would you stub a mistletoe
against a parlor door?
If Eve had tried from holly twigs a
party gown to weave
Do you suppose that Adam would
have called her "Christmas Eve?"
St. Nicholas In autoslclgh defies po
lice and lows.
Do regulations oh to speed contain
u Santa clause?
Llpplncott's Magazine.
CHRISTMAS DUSK.
Raymond 1’. Sanford, a robust and
healthy undergraduate of Cornell, lived
for sclentllie purposes on 85 cents u
week, his food including buttermilk,
lentils, peanuts, raisins, cabbage, pep
pers, ontmcnl and apples.
I thrive on lids fare," Mr. Ban ford
said. “I admit, however, tlmt to stick
to It takes will power. 1 have to gov
ern my sybaritic propensities. I must
not Imitate the young sentries.
There was once a Christmas
masquerade hall In a European palace,
you know, and a squad of young sen
tries stood guard out in the snow.
“Well, as the ball progressed the con
duct of a certain guesi disguised ns a
Santa Claus astonished and perplexed
everybody. This Santa Glaus would
dance with (he prettiest women for
lift ecu or twenty minutes, and then,
hurrying to (he buffet, in* would drink
a bottle of champagne nnd cat lobster
salad, lees, caviar sandwiches, truffled
turkey—everything In sight.
"Tlte host, after several .hours of
such gluttonous and intemperate con
duct on the part of the Snnla Claus
guest, conferred with Ills butler nnd
to his amazement learned that the of
fender had by act uni compulation de
voured forty sandwiches, sixty ices nnd
eight quarts of lobster salad, while he
had drunk thirty-one bottles of cham
pagne and ninety glasses of punch.
"II seemed Incredible! Yet there ho
was, as vigorous and fresh and sober
as ever, now whispering compliments
in a pretty matron's ear, now rushing
to the buffet for more wine nnd mori
lobster.
"Puzzled and vexed, the host took
Santa Claus by (lie arm and led him
into a recess.
'“Show me your invitation card,’ be
said.
"Hut Santa Claus, alas, lind none.
" 'Then unmask!’
“Dolefully tlte spurious guest obeyed.
" ‘Why, you’re one of the sentries!’
" ‘Yes, sir.'
"lie was Indeed one of the sentries—
one of the squad of sentries stationed
outside lit (lie snow.
"These young men had hired n cheap
Santa Claus makeup and, donning it
one by one, had each enjoyed a brief
but delightful share of the Christmas
festivities the dancing nnl lobster and
champagne In the ballroom."—'Wash
ington Star.
Come, little hoy, to mother's knee,
The Christman twilight trembles down
With rose tlnt‘i for tile wondrous tree
And rose glow for the snow clod tuwn,
And nil Is marvelous— but you
Most marvelous of all lo me,
For I may hold you ns ] do.
As Mary held him on her knee.
And bo wns sweet nnd ho was fair,
As urc all mothers' little hoys;
His lips, his smile, blH eyes, IiIh hair.
To Mary wore Iter chlefcst Joys.
And she would sing to him as 1
Sing while the sun dies In tbe west;
I hear your weary, sleepy sigh
Ah Mary heard Ills on her brenst.
And In tho nfter years, I think,
Win n ho was treading sorrow’s way
And In Id the bitter cup to drink
She brooded on tbe happy day
When ho run singing through tho room
And found a hundred things to do
To drive away all chance of gloom—
And was a llttlo boy like you.
So drop your toys nnd lot us sing
The songs that heart and home have
blest,
For love Is more than anything
And lifo Is work and play and rest.
And Mary's was the mother heart,
A heart of love nil fair and fine,
That Into tender throbs could start
For just a little boy like mine.
Across tho years I reach to her
And touch tier white and empty hands,
Down all tho agr-s secm» to stir
A message that she understands;
The subtle rapture that 1 keep
Shrined In the very soul of me,
When I may hold you here, asleep,
As Mary bold bint on her knee.
—Wilbur 1). Nesbit in Harper's Weekly.
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lit Holland but always on
Pee. (> instead of the 25th—
the little boys nnd girls put
their wooden shoes iti front of
the hearths Instead of hang
ing tip their stockings, nnd the
good old patron of children
comes nnd (Ills them, and
there Is general gift giving.
When the dawn creeps up fqs
nS from the darkly slumbering -JS
%5' ocean Christ mas morn and PK
speeds brightly around the
world, circling it with a gold- fK
Sg en girdle of llL'ht. myriads of
vj bells In many lands awake Pts
Nil and from steeple to steeple -W
fit ring out the glad tidings that wS
"the Messiah Is king."—
>]T Klolse Roorback In Crafts- Pis.
g man ^
a:ss«*s?»s*s?B;s«s«
A H»ppy Tr**.
“Oh, look at
Hong th* <■ -vtm&ji '*«•»—
A Jolly u.-.* r*rr*n—
“I'm -.p h»r.
For » tn*t • r.i»4r,
And l m » » • .* v &• e.a
To crow |r. . wood
1* T«rr kood—
Of air ynW«. * 'rid* mor«—
But T r-
It eunnot ., —par*
To a block or. tit* parlor ffooc?
You may stand tn • h* rr.ld
TUI a rattfirry nid,
Not a Moaaotr. ?r *c.*ax of rrmrw.
But hrr« in an hour
I'm all tn flnw.r
With mtttar.H t-.d doe* and drama.
1 know »r. wall-
An, 1 <t»r.r. : to fr’.l
Bo much that I'm •* to burst.
There's a ir."strry Mir.*
Or n irr.t swung
On each branch from ’.oat to first.
How I'd lov* to shout
All my nu?'
But I daren t even ,-ouch;
And Just tbe half
Of a great big .augh
Would shake all my andlrs elf.
So 1 have to hide
All the tun inside
Till I'in full ns I ran he.
Whatever folks say.
I'm king of the day!"
Sung tbe Jolly Christmas tree.
— Youth's Companion
Before the birth of Christ
tin; ancient Romans indulged
nt the midwinter season in a
festival from which it is sup
posed that many of the pres
ent day traditions sprung.
Presents were given nnd re
ceived. An expression of mu
tual brotherhood was shown
in the custom of the masters
and their slaves exchanging
places and the former waiting
upon the latter.
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The Cruller Lambs.
Our kitchen’s nice round Christmas time!
1 cun t seo In til' greut big pot;
It's where th' crullers—they cum turn—
An' whnt'B Inside Is drotlle liot!
1 musii'l stand too near th’ slovo
’Cause "spatters" might get on my
dress.
My mother thinks that things round there
Would burn her little girl. I guess.
An’ so 1 stay real close to her
When she puts aprons round her waist
And rolls th' rings out on u board.
BonuUmes sbo lets me have a "taste."
An' then, you see, I'm helpin' too,
I help her 'member she inus' make
A lot of little cruller lambs—
I like that kind of Christmas cake!
Th' lamb when he goes in th’ pot
lie's yellow, an' be looks till tint.
But when they lift him out of it,
W'y, he'H all brown an' round an’ fat!
I have to wait till he’s "cooled off"
‘Fore 1 can have my lamb to eat;
An' mother, she puts "wool” on him
Wlf sugai^that’s wlint makes him sweet.
An' nfter when my father cotnes,
1 get a lamb for him to see,
My mother laughs at how he does;
She says he's "big a child as me."
She don't like lambs In bed, 1 guess,
But father says to let mo keep
It squeezed all tight up in my hands—
An' that's th' way I went to sleep!
—Marie Louise Tompkins In Harper's
Weekly. •
Dixie's Noisy Christmas.
In lower latitudes, where the weath
er bureau makes even no pretense at
supplying snow, says Hie Now York
Sun, the celebration of Christmas takes
on a different manifestation. South of
Washington Christmas has always been
the day of great noise, the day set
apart for the clangor of bells, the
shrilling of trumpets, above all else tbe
firecracker.
In tbe social conditions of the south
before tbe revolution the day of noise
anil crash of gunpowder was the 5th
of November, on which day all loyal
subjects were adjured to "remember,
remember the gunpowder treason and
plot.” The celebration of this noisy
execration of Guy Fawkes by the loyal
cavalier families of the south estab
lished a winter holiday of which noise
was the predominant characteristic.
After the southern colonies had joined
equal hands with the northern in the
long war, gunpowder treason was no
longer the theme for celebration. But
some celebration there must be to
provide for the noise which had be
come a habit in tbe early winter. In
the earlier times Christmas had been
a day of sobriety out of doors, of lavish
hospitality within.
What more natural, then, than to
postpone the racket of gunpowder day
until the next holiday in course and to
give Christmas an outdoor element
which it had never possessed?
FOR
Thompson & Scroggin
Funeral Directors
AND
Embalmers
Newnan, - - Georgia.
Fasting at Christmas.
When Cromwell ruled England he Is
sued an edict against all festivities ut
Christmas. The festival was altogether
abolished, and the display of holly and
mistletoe and other emblems of the
happy time held to be seditious.
In 1(144 the Long parliament com
manded that Christmas day should be
observed us a strict fast, wlien all peo
ple should think over and deplore the
great sin of which they and their fore
fathers had been guilty in making
merry at that season.
This act so provoked the people that
on the following natal day the law was
violently resist tn l In many places.
Though these scenes were disgraceful,
they served their purpose and put an
end to tin unjust order.
When diaries II. regained the throne
the populace once more made Christ
mas a time of rejoicing.
Different Sorts of Christmas.
Each stage in our progress from the
cradle to the grave has its different
Christmas. Old age forgets itself, the
ghosts which lmunt its memories, and
enters into the young creature’s hap
piuess with a relish second only to the
child’s. The grandmother no longer
wishes sleds or hoops or gingerbread
monkeys for herself, but she looks
with love nnd wonder upon the little
beings who respond so radiantly to
these objects of domestic manufacture.
Between these generations stand the
parents, with their own lives of bustle
and responsibility and desire, their
own games and gewgaws to pursue,
but yet with a beginning of the change
from living for themselves to living in
their young.—Norman Hapgood in Col
lier's.
»akaK!SK!sai»k:as«S!
It was In New York, or,
rather. New Amsterdam, that
Santa Claus made his first
American appearance in some
thing like the garb and man
ner now familiar to all of us.
From tbe Netherlands tho
Knickerbockers brought with
them the Christmas of love
and sympathy in religion, of
comradeship among neigh
bors and of festivity in the
family. \
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C. W. STUART
REAL ESTATE AUCTIONEER
Sub-divides and sells your farm at high
price. Five years’ successful experience.
Services with or without advertising cam
paign. We sell others’, why not yours?
Give full description and write for terms
and dates. Address 518 Ga. Life Bldg.,
Macon, Ga.
Libel for Divorce.
Charlie Hiotis j Libel for Divorce. In Coweta
vs. > Superior Court, March i term,
Marie Hiotis. I 1916.
GEORGIA—Coweta County;
To Marie Hiotis, defendant: You are hereby re
quired, in person or by attorney, to be and appear
nt the next term of the Superior Court, to be held
in and for said county on the first Monday in
March, 1916. then and there to answer the plaintiff
in an action for a total divorce; as in default of
such appearance, the court will proceed thereon
as to justice shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable R. W. Freeman. Judge
of said court, this the 29th day of October. 1915.
L. TURNER. Clerk.
Notice of Discharge in Bankruptcy.
In the District Court of the United States for the
Northern District of Georgia.
No. 4952. in Bankruptcy.
In re William M. Turner. Bankrupt:
A petition for discharge having been filed in
conformity with law by the above-named bank
rupt. and the Court having duly ordered that the
hearing upon said petition be had on Jan. 16.
1915. at 10 o’clock A. si., at the United States Dis
trict Court-room, in the city of Atlanta. Ga..
notice is hereby given to all creditors and other
persons in interest to appear at the time and place
named and show cause, if any they have, why the
petition of said bankrupt for discharge should not
be granted. O. C. FULLER. Clerk.
By F. L. Beers. Deputy Clerk.
Notice of Discharge in Bankruptcy.
In the District Court of the United States for the
Northern District of Georgia.
No. 4936 in Bankruptcy.
In re Frank L. Cavender, Bankrupt:
A petition for discharge having: been filed in
conformity with law by the above-named bank
rupt. and the Court having: ordered that the hear
ing upon said pi tit ion be had on Jan. 15. 1916. at
lo o'clock a. m,, at the United States District
Court-room, in the city of Atlanta, Ga.. notice is
hereby Riven all creditors and other persons in in-
t« rest to appear at said time ami place and show
cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said
bankrupt lor discharge should not be granted.
O. C. FULLER. Clerk.
By F. L. Beers. Deputy Clerk.
Give us a trial order on
job printing.
The White Star Market
Wishes to thank its friends and customers for their
liberal patronage since the proprietors opened for bus
iness a few months ago, and extends to them the
compliments of the season, hoping that all may
have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
BROADWATER BROS.
17 E. Broad Street. ’Phone 62
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Buttermilk Cerate perk"
trates, sooths, heals ana
whitens the skin. J u?t
the thing for these wmtrv
days. Tube, 25c.; jar, 50c-
For sale only by J- ' •
Lee Drug Co.