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MERRY CHRISTMAS. 1»• ar Children How full your letters! uro of J •yful .mil-ipatiot of Christmas. j r< i: i sincerely do 1 wish tie " may all ba 1.1 know you have been wishing and ;banning for Santa to bring you , :-.;>:ty tilings I gathered my little boys I <■ - ■ rd mo th- other night and asked i •' -n w at they wanted Santa to bring tio-m, and when they began to tell, I ' i to call a halt for it would have m';;en two Santas to bring them all they wai t- .. and he don’t like children to b- gr.ns'ing In their desires. Then they ! .-ted t> ki tw what I v.anted him to . m T • >l,l th- tn 1 W"-.'d be satis- ' ,1 a:;.; a :>’.>x of Florida oranges, a nice .: . }<•_. Jyou g te.-s Santa ! w. 1 bo b- ' ■■■ ■ d with -a,T. things as | • : . ■ would but I said I Or. Lyon’s | PERFECT Used by people of refinement tor over a quarter of a century PREPARED BY 2>2). a). SCn "0 COLLEGES. t? ! O ’ n r r '' oxvnr<! 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Ar nold, Viee-Preß . /, rianta, Ga —.-- i .-. —»i i—r—r—rj- LEARN TELEGRAPHY AM> B. K. \'Tl> r . O ’- gra ten fr • I Pay After Ton Have a Position. l.uih rsc<l l.j al! rail road e fr «»rargia 7 <-lf*gra ph < olJoge, senoia, Ga. SHuations Secured V" f«.-r : -Ucs ; re/ , n refne-<j. Write a - or - <r !< r catalogue and special offers. N Massey Colleges | K- Louisville. Ky. Montgomery. Ala. Houston. Tex Columbus. 6a. Richmond. Va. Birmingham. Ata. Jacksonville, Ffa. BOOK-KEEPING ■ for all graduates of complete commercial course. Outfit for Hon »• <t . t!y .?' ( ntalog free. TE LEG R A R II Y taught thoroughly and quickly. Positions se cured. Catalog frc<*. Bout hern T < I< graph School, Box 5, Newnan, Ga jij cukes” whi reall else Fails. ” eZj Be?t Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Lse (Tj In time. Sold by druggists. p»| that to satisfy the boy». I have such a ; sweet Christmas story for you. sent by a kind friend, ami “Unde Wdl” has a story ; that I will not write more. I want you I all to remember that Christmas means to show other people w‘‘ love them and ; want to make them happy. Don't enjoy j your Christmas until you have found : I some one to make happy. There were two , ■ little poor children who stopped at a ■ 1 big w.Tidow to look at the pretty things , and this Is vJiat the oldest one said to her littl sister: . See them dollies, baby? Them's fer lit tle girls i That has warm, furry jackets and pret- ‘ ty, flowin’ curls. 'Santa Claus'll take 'cm an’ strlbute ev’rv one Among them happy children. Won't they I i jusf have fun! We ain’t got no dollies, baby; mo an’ i I ... Mos' stand hero lookin at em. an won- I ‘ der what we'd do | If It d get mixed up somehow in passin’ j '• m around. j An' I’t't a pretty dolly at our house, safe I an’ sound. I j I think we'd just go crazy. If wo had j • one of those i Tdg blue-eyed. yellow-haired ones, with ill them pretty clo'cs We'd pet an' hug an' love It a whole lot more. I’ll bet. Than anv prettv r.ch child that ever had I one yet. But that won't ever happen, an’ baby, you an’ me. Are . ivin’ all the Christmas that wo will Come on! let’s be goln' It makes me awful blue To thi’nk they're all for others to play j with. Don’t it you? Think of how many poor children there ! I are who feel this way. Last year at i this time Aunt Susfe's charity box was I real full, and the money you sent made | ■ -ii.'iiy poor children happy, but this year J I there is very little in It. you have tor- j ! gotten to save a few pennies, but it Is j I not too late for you to find some one I Inrar you and divide with them some of : vom good things. Make some one happy j and your Christmas will be all right. ; : Aunt Susie wishes yon one and all. a • very merry Christmas. THE CHRISTMAS STORY. j ; my little nno, ‘tis Christmas morn. ; i Hc’ig- ' a£?o th' 1 Christ was burn; j < n. . -.!t« st down thy iittlc head doth Lay; I It’s o --lie bed wns but. the new-mown. ' hay. | I’rom highest heaven's throne of majesty | 111 came to c.i> th for love of thee and . me. Ho . ,mc, from sin and death to set us , !f> suffered much for love of the" and j i mo. Mv tittle one. th.'nc ryes with tears art I dim: I>. i t long to show thy gratitude to Him? i in helping those who poor .and needy be. ’ Hr say-; oh. list. "Ve do It unto Mo." MAHDI. coitXC.DTA MATSOX A CHRISTMAS STORY. A great many hundred years ago. away | :ii’d away across ;it o water, one beautiful 1 starry night something happened. i I p among the hills and the rocks tho : sic •■!> w :e taking th’lr rest, safe from i wi.lt or tiger, beeau the faithful shep- j I h. ds watched all night. I i They were gathered In a sheltered plae around the Are and they were talking. Good men. they were, who be li.wd what God had told them in tho 8y.!., and were watching for His prom- | 1. ■to come to pass. : If WO bad been mir I think we might ,ha . heard something like this: ''lt is ■'< long time that we have been wafting for ■ t’ae King to come.” > "yes '' says another, ‘‘years and years' i I remember how my grandmother used ; to gather us about her and tell us how , th. Lord was to send us a King to rule I over us, and tn make all wrong things right.; s’ao used to think He might coA | in her day, and sat often listening and w.it iilng to see if -die cow'd hear His l voice." : "How do you think it will be?” asked | a t’:iid. "Do you think He will come j 1 smbi< nly from the sky, with bands of music and guards of angels and with a crown on Ills head, speakfng in a voice of timnder to all wrongdoers? 1 ' ; Th" first shepherd shook his head. "I : do not know." he said. "1 often wonder : how it. will lie. and I read over and over ■ again th, promises of His coming; some of them sound as though 11. was to be i poor and alone, but how can that be • when He is to rule the world? I do not understand it; but I long to see rny ! King." Just then a light brighter than the sun shone all around them. "What is that?" they said Could the world be on fire? No, all was quiet down in the valleys, and the earth was sleeping. The shepherds looked at one another and said not a word, but their limbs trembled so that they could hardly stand. Cook! What is that coming from the brightness! It must surely be an angel. He is speaking. "Fear not.” and His voice was like the sound of music. As He spoke the fear seemed all to glide away from ’.he slv pherds and they felt ia strange, sweet happiness stealing over ; them Then < .ime the wonderful wods: "There was born this day. in the city of David, a Savior for you; lie Is Christ the 1.0 rd.” Oh, glorious news! How shall they THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER. 21, 1903. 1 know where to find Him? Listen, the angels tell them, "You will find the Baby | In a manger.” Wha'» strange news was i this! The King of Glory, the Savior of the world to he found In a manger! But before they could say a. word, sud denly the air was filled with angels. They were singing this song: “Glory to God in the highest; on earth, I peace, good will towards men.” I The music to which these words were I sung was not like any that the shopherds ' had ever heard before; nor did they hear I anything like it again, until the angels opened the golden gates and showed them the way to tho palace of their King. Only a few minutes and the angels soar ed away, the beautiful light faded, tho sweet voices wore lost In tho blue distance, and there was only the sheep asleep on the hillsides and the stars smil- : ing down op them. | Do you think they thought ll a dream? I Oh, no! Listen to what they said: "Let I ns go right away to find the Lord. Ho will Ibe in Bethlehem; that I - the city of David; the I,ord has sent His angels to ‘ tell this news; w. -hail so,-; out King!” ] And they hurried away. Did they find ’ Ihe King? Yes. they foimd him: a little ■ Baby in a manger. His father and | mother watching over Him. Oh, I don’t know what they said when they saw that ; Baby. I have often wondered whether i they dared to touch Him. to put Tils soft ; hand on their faces. But this 1 know; ■ Wherever they went they told that tho I King had come, and they had seen Him. ■ Years and y-ars ago it happened, yet. j the mon and women, bov.- and girls are : talking, singing .and thinking about it to [ day. The most wonderful night tho world has over known was that in which tho angels sang the song of the newborn King. CHRISTMAS EVE LONG YEARS AGO-DADDY GOVERNOR AND i THE BOYS. There wore six of us. Daddy Governor, j Mac. Dh-k Stephen. Bill and Lewis, a i little darkey. The. first, an old colored ' man, and like, a.Il the older ones of bls I race before the w*r. was given by young <T people, white and black, the title of i "Daddy " The balance of us were ' boys from 13 to 15. including Lewis, who : I was friend, servant, companion, butt and i everything else of the white boys, ami ■ they would fight for him at any time, right or wrong This ill the crowd and this is what they were doing: There was, across tho Ogi-vchee. river 14’f miles from Savannah, a large toll bridge and long causeway. The night be fore Christmas many folks, traveling from place to place for pleasure, would j slip Ove,- thp bridge at night, get over a fence In some way’ and not pay their ) toll. j It was Daddy Governor's business to ! watch at th< foot of the bridge and col ! loet the toll from any passer. The boys | thought they would enjoy it and told tiia | old man they would come out and help 1 I him. so that lie could sleep from midnight ' to morning. Daddy Governor had never j had any assistance, and my recollection I Is that, he never asked for any more of the same kind. I Two gentlemen at the house promised i I to awaken us just before 12 o’clock so I I that we coul'l get out and salut the in- ' : coming Christmas by firing our guns and • .inv fire-works we eeiild desire. It was ! v. ry kind in them, so wo sought our I beds, with Lewis at our feet, about 8 ; o'clo' k. and slept as only boys' can ft seem'd a. very short time when we I were awakened by being pulled out of | bed with all sorts of unearthly yells. ■ It used to bo about way boys ; I could bo waked up long ago. nnd it may | require something ol the same kind I now. Anyhow, we got tip. dressed, took o tr J guns and we:-, out of the house and .it i the foot of the bridge In a very few ' minutes. i Daddy Governor, as he dozed over a big light-wood tire. I confess, looked a ! little doubt fu! about his company, though t wo hail promised io lot him sleep the ba-1- I a.Tice of the night. ‘'Win yun-ner bnckra boys- da do yer, I hlrn vent 9 o'el "-k. wo- his salutation, liy. Dad'iv (lovi rnoi. how do you : know what time It Is? They told us at i the house it was m arly 12 o clock. 1 Ymi h.iven’t got a watch.” s "AV’at use mo got fur watch w'en de ' Stars shine. Ea'nt you see dem sebon stars, twelbe o’clock .ley's rib- ober my head.” pointing upward to the dark i vault. I Someh.'W we know he vt.-is right, .and look. .! at each ot'.e,- in van der, asking by our looks why we w. re thus treated. We found out after a little while. We began by firing all <ur guns. At th,- word "fire." every gun snapped. We tried it again and again with the same result. We tried our ramrods and found th. guns filled with something, most of whi.'h was damp ] -wder as we found. They had tilled each gun with layers of damp and dry powder like n Roman can dle. "Who on earth could have done this?” said Stephen. Lewis, the little darkey. answered quickly: "I spec it dem pporets; dat ole house full of dem." "You dander head," sold Mack: "what does .-< ghost know about loading guns?" ■‘Notldng, I spec." said Lewis, "dem t guns y.'.mt lodened and dot’s de reason 1 t'ink de sperots <lo urn.” The boys laughed at Lewis reasoning. One of the bo-.-: sv uild not wait to draw (!.•■ <-harg.'-'. so he unbreached tho gun and pct th, barrel in th.- fire. Lewis seemed delighted at the state of affairs, and rolle l over on th. sand, joking the boys. in flu midst of this there was a little: "fix-bang” and the whole load of paper and powder went up the Tegs of Lewis' pants. He had just time to straighten his mouth from a saucy speech when there was a little fizz and puff-of smoke from h.'s breeches icoEFrrs When I say I cure I do not mean merely to stop them for a time and then have them re turn again. 1 mean a radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING ; SICKNESS a life-long study. I warrant my I remedy to cure the worst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send at once fora treatise and a Fret Bottle of my infallible remedy. Give Express and Post Office. Prof. W.H.PEEKE, F.1)., 4 Cedar St, N.Y. I leg. "Grate fairer." yelled Lewis, jump- I ing up, "wha fur yunner do dut?” He hardly got the words out before some dry powder went "puff" and he Jumped 2 feet, with a yell, slapping his hands on the place. "Mass Bill,” he yelled, yunner gwlne bun me up?" I "It's only an accident,” said Dick. “Wha kinder ting dat? Acciden’. I nobby yeddy of him. Wat him is. Tho fizzes and puffs camo rapidly and Lewis yelled. "Dis nigger gwino bun up." It. looked SO to the boys, as tho smoko was coming from ids waist band and they were alarmed, so they picked him up and sat. him down in a ditch half full of water. “Grate farror," yelled Lewis, as tho water sfrtick him, “dose yer buck a boys : y'ent satisfy to bun mo up, dey gwfno 1 froze this nigger to det.” His yells called the dog Solomon, who ; ran Into fho water and tried to take a. ; ' hand In it himself by taking hold of f | Lewis. ! “You fool," .veiled Lewis, “yon tink , ■ T wus c'oontarror night. Wat you tek :me fur now? Tink I flsk?” I Examination showed some burning of the pantaloons. .. little, blistering of the skin and a faint odor of burned moat. "Mass Bill, runner dun merit dso clodes. T feard de upsher (Overseer) ; lick dis nigger's back fnruny.” “I'll I make it all right, Lewis.” said Bill. “When I start home I'll give you my j I corduroy suit.” “Ongh." replied Lewis, “den dis nigger ! all right. Yunner ken bun me agen if yunner want to." Stephen said: “Roys, that reminds me ' of a tale ! heard once. Yon know a darkey's heel Is mighty tough. A lot of them went out hunting, but wont to sleep with their feet to a. fire. After a while one of them awoke and smelt something burning. It smelt like flesh. : He touched the one next to him and said' I ‘Sam, yu fut da bun.’ Sam replied, ‘Yu le-ine lone, my fut no da bun.' I 'Tic touched tiio next: ‘Folio, T smell ‘ nigger fut da lain; T spec you da bun.’ I Ho roused up just enough to make a , slight examination and said: ‘You fool ' nigger, nuttln' de matter wld my fut; i von tink T no hah sense enuff to know ; when my foot da. bun.’ Ho wont around | the crowd with tho same want of sue- i i cess, ami then looked at his own foot. ' ' To his surprise, he found his heel had : been burned in the fire. 'My fair, r.’ lie said 'dis nigger dun woke all dem, en now please God da i my own fut da bun. me no know urn.' The boys enjoy i tin- story, but I don’t ■ bf'ik D iddy Governor did. Shooting their guns and exploding i rockets which lit up the broad river beau i tlfully, occupied their hours. Towards morning Mac said to Dick: “Can’t you tjik like a ventriloquist?" I “Yes." Dick 4 lied. little ' "Do you ’ think," said .Mac. “you could imitate I the. voice of .Y.’adily Backus, who died some time ago'.''' I "Y.'S," •” ..g ’ think I could. | He hafTa -w* •>c . ." “Well," said Mac, "f want to play a I owisi When you talk to him wo boys VI ill pretend to hear nothing, and we will see what antics he will perform.” | Everything became quiet when Mac, in j a full solemn voice, said: "This is th I wii 'liing hour and ti e sieeping -|.> walk tho earth again." Lewis was sitting within 20 fe. t of a dense canebrake and not 3 f< .-t from th ■ bridge. He jnm| d to his ' , t and I: a horrified whisper .di: "Great fairer. Mass Ma •. wha fur you do da.t, only J u Know de se beep ob sperets ‘bout : yer?" No answer was made, but Stephen groaned dolefully. I'.uty yu yeddy dat now," said Lewis looking ghastly. Just as he quieted down and before a • word was said, they all heard a low ' I whispering voice. "Louie. Louie." ; lewis' hair could not quit, stand on ! end, but hL ■ ves looked ; iH ,f they would . jump out of bls head ns he raised’ up. “Alass M m,'' lie 14 f n a i 11);)rs ,, x v;i | s . | per. "yun-ner yeddey dat? Da I'nele , Bacckus do call me." kus. ’ said Mac, "has been dead ; a long time; how could he call you?" i Me. d ,n-no. ear," sai l Lewis, "but him , bln call me.” I ' "by, s;iid Mac, “you must be drunk; ! nobod.v called yon.” > "Yes um did." replied Lewis; "en dis | nigger dun good as ded.” | All got quiet again, when “T.-o-u-l-c- ! 1 Louie " was heard coming from under i | tho end of the bridge. I Lewis turned his staring eye balls to ' . the foot of t,,0 bridge with so despairing 1 an expression that It was hideous. I "Mass Mac, onty I tell yu T’ncle Bacc- > kus call me?" said Lewis. "Nobody but 1 him ebey call me Louie. Ebcybody else say Lewis." “Why, you idiot." said Stephen, “I have been listening; nobody is calling, It is only the water against the piling.” “No. Mass S-teben." said Lewis, in despair, "am no water, da. Uncle Bacc kus." Again was heard. "L-o-u-i-n—Louie; come here.” If Ij'wis could have looked more terr!- ! tied, and his look was Indescribable as : he whispered: “How da call me fur cum I to him? Oh! farrer wha. dis poor nigger I gwlne do?” "Well." said Bill, “if lie calls you, why , In the mischief don't yon go; ho must I be cold standing in the water.'' ! "Ongh! Mas Bill'” said th,- horrified i Lewis, "how ken you mek fun?” Again came tho words, "Louie—Tzmf,.. : come here.” as if the spirit was Im- . patient. “Enty yunner yeddy dat gen?” said Lewis "He da. cal! me." “Why 1 nthe thunder don't you go to him?" said Stephen. "Can’t you be po lite? If T called you. you would come quick." “Dis nigger rudder be ded," said Lewis. “Me can’t go." Just then the voice seemed to be just 1 by Lewis, as it said. “Louie. Louie, come ! to me quick.” Lewis lumped as if he had been shot, and trembled all over. Bill said. I’ll go with you Lewis. If you are afraid.” He dragged Lewis to the foot of the bridge, and. of course, nothing was there to Ids Intense relief, and li ■ began to grin. But it looked frozen in a moment, as he heard the voice: "Louie, Txiuic, come to me by yourself." All his hope was gone, as it came from the canebrake. Lewis would not have ■ gone into it by .daylight, and nothing • could carry him in tlwre at nle-ht. The boys dragged him to the edge of the eanebrake, and the pleading voice, call ing “L-o-u-!-e. Louie,” seemed to recede into Its black depth, and they tried to push Lewis into it. Just then Stephen and Mack each picked up a lightwood knots and threw them over their heads among the caries. A chain coul.l not have held Lewis, as he rushed among the boys, knocking each one of them down, or, rather, all in a bunch and fairly flew toward tne house. Daddy Governor bad been too frighten ed to say a w. rd. But after a while the boys went for Lewis, and found him covered up h a.I and ears in bed. still trcmbl ng. They told him enough to see that the box- had played a prank on him. and he came back to help them pnv 1 off the people who had made Roman I candles of their gnus. First, they fired off all their guns In tho piazza of the house to awaken the ! Olber people. Then every time the boys 1 would think th poopl' 11) the house were I ,| r , ppimr o sb T th' ' would fire them j again. Just about fully davllght their with powd( r. The onlv thing Wat sound , d like it was the cannon that she, man tired y writer v. as izear the same <lurimr the civil war. But at the H, ni . t ugh th.-:, might have heard j 1,10 r ‘- port in SilVannah UNCLE WILL CHARITY LIST. i Edna Westbrook. Beech, Island. S. ! two contributions, 10c each, names lost, j S. e. AVall, Colson, La., 15c. ' JUNIOR CORRESPONDENCE. Onhella Dobbs. Woodstock. Ga., d ar Ji,nior:--This is a small, but “wl<ie awake” little town situated about half between Canton and Manetta. on the A K & X. railroad We have sev cri! hn.-T'i-'.'-s houses Iv-’-e, two chur-.i*., Methodist and Baptist, ami 1-ir • school. The people here, are ma. g< n- I Woodstock also has a nice hotel, and 1 liverv s-ibh • ! Christmas Is almost here and evry one 1 should be planning to make some In a Sweats an* <»nis tin j miles from here, wl.i 'll makes it so ' healthy. i | wbh all n happv ‘Tir'- im.is. I Corresponoents solielt.-d. Pearl Blume and Florence Vaughn. I Girls’ Dormitory, Ruston. La.—Dear Ju nior: We I: ive long been thinking of i writing to the dear juniors of which we 1 read so much nl o ' arc attending I the Ruston Indtist rial seh -al and are ■ dormitory girl" There a:.< about six ! hundred girls of t."o,line this school. Ther ■aro several Indir trial departments of which toofg-rapm. b" >l;keepiiig and shop I work er Ihe mm t imporlant. We study j 1 e:,y;Ta ph.y a.ui domestic scion, co and I think it wry ni'<• to know how to sew land e „di. We have our class work tn the ' morn'm-- in the afternoon xve go t-o our Indm-lrla'■ ’1 m r- re about one hundr- d and sixty girls ii: th'- dormitory and we. enjoy seeing nml me -.ii.g so many dif ferent girls. Well as this is our first time, we do not want to tir 1 you. but will say that If this does not r, ach tho waste basket wo will write again soon. Cor -1 rospondepee 50P.cit.0d from age eighteen to twenty-four. 11,1.1:1 L.rdrnr kid. Pr.ttvllle. Ala. » Dear Junior: Why yes. to be -ertaiiilv, the Kid min get on another sufijm-t now an.l then. I have been In winter quarters for som< thmi past, but Thanksgiving I' Stivities have brought a 11,: w life my v. av. and today, while tlm memories o!' .Xovember 26 are slill fresh in my mind. ! am writing io tin junior < olumn. 1 enjoy ml an lee:. I 'lTmuksgiving day at country homo. When I say a. coun try horn, 1 do not moan a log cabin in some out-of-1 hi:-way nook In the liaek woods, win r- I],,- cooking is done upon : the fire I'l 0. by means of the crane ami I tongs, but I hmm? r, I'oremm to a typical soul hern plantation. A home whoso high '-oilingr, broad room:-: ae.d long halls are alive with that genuine fre, mm ami hospitality wld -li e'm r.u t "fiz, s the only seeti m of our nation which is purely Arm ric.in -the n-'tiib. Iler" we Lad fremloni • f>''"’ili,rn oi thought, freedom of speech, anti every’ one was free from care. Wo ’x ere out of the smoky little • ■lty. away I'mm :1m <mu ven I ionol: t les >f city life, away from tlm si.-k- ning and slimy sm '■ oi the ,-ity seemly "jay." I. .io not nmari to say tli.T .ill of the efty people a: "s ■; ity jays" m-r that th” bad in the city outw- the good, but I along th,- !' it trodden by all soci- ty j .«•,m,. m crawl ami hiss Bid lam j leaving t’m day v.hmh prompted this j ven'mre; agai:: to Hi- pim ,- where my • Thanksgiving was spe-nt. The forenoon was largely t.-il-mn up it expectation, looking and wailing for the arrival of tlm a meiit nio’iv' rs of the family Tlm 10:50 train brow:::!, ihe last ami only member who fii'l not arrive the night previous. Thi-- ermipletcd the rlrr-l, ami eb'Ctri" “1 the whole party. Tlm dinner j hour arrive ”. Tlm u :al turkey did honor p, tlm tablo, : ■ ? ; d. -■ oßwr ami further "solids and fill'mwlrch nmdo th’ nl.an lerf,-. fi ai. S-X ■■/.-.1 •! ilm leal of the table was the : :t’mr ami —re I f.a t Is'-, whose i" .t.'i,’>- ’ 1 n>-.i .liv.rv t,..->rd be I-.? ovldeno, that life's pathway had led h'm throi’cli sonm six-iv odd winter's 1 wings I'".-,os!' . film sat mother ana tyratid” -Tlior. whoso opf.-.-bTed bodv told Im sfnrv ~f a lpr,<." and >•-- -'"I life, but ’n wf'o?o eves tlmre snorkled love an.l Ken,,tv '" br'af-d 1’,.. d'v van in a cTovT.'sa ’round tlm table sat , ~i, o.and cron t-era nd i 'l'il<lr"ii. Tlm siimnio'is before us j was , -b fn .'.or,, p,.. ;-,. ( . nr ..., and 1 most deO-atc ".''wl’to yvlida ;l look info I *bo'.'o fa ni ■ 'it. am : m with lovo. , and sidm in sTont tones tho'r . Tb-it'k 'i-tvl-.- ->bl"h w:,< 11m,re convincing j ' w 1.1 b ' e.. j..-,,. j Thi> :> f h-* L'lnn v.'.ir -i L’Tnrimis r< n»'inyi. , ; w-'h- v/hib- tlv v.'irm 'b*.- '»n-’klod. fli • nf th-,. n;i<f vr-r I's pG’h ()!“’ ti’tb?. Tb.'V pjcrhf , m Tbr . f , , 1 Mid rn-nnrv. •} .if ib. sir, t arel fir. th- ' Lu' .Li rkoy i’ist left f]p. “ w Lm. fo'iv •" b ■'v''h ”*•?-= 1 Ic f iiiieki t <>*’ w.'i I '-'!’ f ( ,r fhnt ,] • > . ;irnT .19 tho i ’ s’t str ti"•; .if th ”p.qn- - dyiTiL’- upon the? 1 'ib'ar ooln s’’vncnlir.r.* th»- vnns! pluiis- ■ :nt day of »ny Jifu :••!. -‘d into history. ! W. U TTpII. Ashlind. W Va Dcir J’ T'nc>n tilts paid whifi-r’s ove T wilt ori)<? ! inning nvc-r snow-clad hills from far tn Virginia tn chat with ynp all for awhile. 1 Tow many of the cousins have had a good sleigh ride or a saiownalllpg this winter? 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I think that some of lite girls write excelletitly and most es pecially a couple of young girls who write from North < arolina. one on “Character” amt the other on •‘Obedi ence." 1 looked for them in last issue Come again. ! ’.as L t otne of I?lue Eyes and Soldier Boy? Miss Bennett, DeLand, Fla., come again. I like to hear from that state. I will wish you< ali a i happy Christmas and a merry New Year anv- ,m!? U > n .° l gct 10 chat wlth y° u a” Coodhv n \ bc ?'Z' n now and that Period, (.oodby. Aunt Susie and all cousins. Better Than Spanking. Spanking does not cure children of bed I w-etting. if u ,ii d thc > re wou||l b(? few children that would do it. There is a constitutional cause for this. Mrs. M. Sumim rs, box 404. Notre Dame. Ind., will send her home treatment to any mother. She asks no money. Write her I Iwi y f your children trouble you in this way. Don't blame the child. Tha I chances are It can't help 1C