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•Mf I 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. 8 | « To* vTT/s 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. >5 Mr 1 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. I M 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. \ § 1 I ' 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 M 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.