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Pfi i W‘AS the Saturday be
mff;{,fl ' fore Christmas. The
«(;.-{' winter’'s day jvas fast
& disappearing as Tom
{ Danvers and John Hard-
DY ing stepped out of the
y club and joined the mov
{’; ing holiday crowd. For
G an hour they had
watched it through the
window as they smoked and talked,
and Tom, while he had been much
amused at John’s cynical comment,
had taken it all as a joke, for John
was never pessimistic. Now, as they
walked down the crowded thorough
fare conversation was difficult, and
John was unusually silent. Recalling
bits of phrases in their recent con
versation, it suddenly occurred to
Tom that there had been an unac
customed tone, even a note of bitter
ness, underlying the smile and lightly
spoken words of his oldest and best
friend, whom he felt he knew as he
did himself. At the thought he
looked sharply and piercingly at him,
but the strong, resolute profile bore
no trace of the cynicism of the last
hour, much less evidence of its cause,
It was just imagination, Tom con
cluded.
As they stood waiting for a eross
town car an observant and clever beg
gar approached. Tom answered the
appeal with a coin.
“Not from me,” said John, in a dis
approving tone.
“Oh, well, it’s Christmas time,” said
Tom.
“Yes, that's just it, and he knows
it and makes capital of it. It is sym
pathetic or senfimental charity, and
1 don’t approve of it.”
“Upon my word, Tom, you are fun
ny this afternoon. What is the mat
ter with you? First you condemn
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wormen, then you denounce this happy
holiday crowd as a ‘passing show,’
ard now this poor beggar. It's well
you are going to be with me for a
while; you need the home influence,
and—by Jove! you need a wife! That
is the antidote for you, old fellow,”
he concluded, emphasizing his convic
tien with a slap on the back.
“No, thank you,” was the laughing
reply as they stepped aboard the car.
It was well filled. Across from the
friends sat two good-looking women,
ovidently mother and daughter. Next
te ihe younger woman sat a sweet
faced Salvation Army girl, with her
tambourine in her lap. Her plain
dark blue dress was in marked con
trast to the fashionable suit and
beautiful furs of the ladies beside her.
Syuddenly the younger of the two
turned and spoke to her. She smil
ingly responded and shook her head,
but as the other continued to urge a
wistful look came into the Army girl’s
face as she glanced about the car.
“No, no,” they heard her say; “the
concuctor would not allow me. The
rules are very strict,” she added in
explanation. For a moment or SO
there was silence, and over the faces
of both showed disappointment.
Then suddenly the younger woman,
with the color suffusing her lovely
face, caught up the tambourine and,
de positing a coin In it, started down
the car, ignoring the shocked and ex
pestulating “Nancy 1 and the detain
ing hand of her astonished companton.
Passing from passenger to passenger,
«he extended the tambourine, always
with a little smile and “It’'s Christmas,
you know,” or some little word, until
each one felt it a privilege to contrib
vte something. As she turned by the
door the conductor stepped forward
with., “Please, miss, I want to add
something to that, too.”
Flushing, she exclaimed, “Oh! thank
you so much.”
She passed on to her seat and re
turned to its owner the tambouring,
that never before had received contri
butions so promptly and cheerfully
restowed.
John Harding’s hand had gone at
once into his pocket when he realized
what the girl was doing, and now he
wes watching her with an almost awe
struck intepest—her lovely, sympathet
ic face, as she talked earnestly to the
little worker in blue, apparently un
conscious that her sudden impulse had
first astounded and then knit together
in kindly sympathy an entire car of
strangers.
“By Jove! that was a great thing to
do,” said Tom enthusiastically, when
the tension of an absorbing interest
had subsided a little.
“Yes, I never saw its equal,” replied
John. After a moment’s hestitation he
added: *“I should like to know that
girl. Do you suppese we could find
out who she i§?"
“We cap try,” his friend replied;
“but why do you want to know?”
“Well, I do,” John answered curtly.
Tom glanced quizzically at him and
smiled to himself. This was another
phase of John he was just getting ac
quainted with, When the car reached
the railway station where John and
Tom were going to take a train for
Tom's suburban home, the two women
also left the car. They went straight
to the ticket window. Tom took out
his commutation book and passed it
to John.
“You follow them and I will join
you,” he whispered, the spirit of mis
chief and adventure now possessing
him. Having bought their tickets, the
women turned from the window and
hurried to the train. There in the
same car Tom found them all.
“Well, it this isn’t luck,” he ex
claimed, as soon as be was seated.
And then, with the air of a boy burst
ing with news, he said: ®They are
going to D—-"
“Yes, I know it,” Harding replied.
But as he vouched no information and
did not seem inclined to talk, Tom
took refuge in his paper and prompt
ly forgot the whole affair, until he
was abruptly called back by:
“Tom, I cannot tell you when a
thing so impressed me as that did”"—
as if there could be but one “that.”
“That?”’ asked Tom, a little puzzled.
Then, “Oh, I thought you did not be
lieve in that kind of charity—sympa
thetic and sentimental, I think you
called it,” he teasingly reminded him,
remembering the crisp bill John had
dropped in the tambourine.
“QOh, that is altogether different,”
John answered, half defiantly.
“Yes, different because a pretty girl
made this appeal, an old man the
other,” laughed Tom. “But, tell me,
how do you adjust your acts to the
ories?”
“Oh, theories, the dickens! What
are they ever compared to acts? And
that act this afternoon was a spon
taneous expression of the true Christ
mas spirit, from which springs the de
sire to hedp, to.bring some joy to a
lot of poor unfortunates, because ‘it's
Christmas, you know,” he quoted
softly. “It was the real thing, and
everybody in the car felt it.”
And having, as it wers, justified his
position and interest, he looked across
at the unconscious subject of their re
marks. Truly she was good to look at,
though at present all he could see was
the well-cut profile and the glorious
copperish-brown hair turning to dull
gold where the western sun struck it,
and eyes, that with her mood, he knew,
varied from hazel to brown. A verit
able gem of a girl, he thought, as she
began adjusting her furs. With an
{ntuitive feeling of understanding her,
he turned to Tom.
“Don’t mention the affair to anyone,
not even Mary, for it would not please
her, T am sure,” he added, as the train
pulled up at D—.
The station was small and John had
just finished greeting Mrs. Danvers,
when Billy Grant’s deep voice broke
in: “Hello, Harding; glad to see you,”
as they shook hands.
Grant, an old friend of both Harding
and Danvers, also lived in D——.
“Now, I want you to meet ouyr
friends, for its cold and I want to get
home.”
While Tom and John were bowing
in acknowledgment to “Mrs. North
and Miss North,” their host chatted on
about its being “too bad they couldn’t
have met at the other end of the line,
as long as they happened to be on the
same train.” X
Nancy North threw a quick glance
at Harding, but otherwise no outward
slgn was given, as he walked with her
to the car, that they had ever seen one
another before or that the same
thought was in the minds of both, but
John was so strangely elated that Miss
North'’s color deepened each time she
looked up and met his smiling eyes.
“Now, don't you fellows keep our
bridge waiting tonight,” called Grant,
as he gave the signal to start.
“I'll guarantee our arrival on time,
Grant,” answered Jokn, well satisfied
with the arrangement, whether it was
chance or fate, for somewhere within
him something was thrillingly alert,
tantalizingly expectant, confidently
hopeful, and the feeling of the after
noon that had expressed itself in
cynicism and manifested itself in lone
liness was gone.
At the wedding reception of John
Harding and Nancy North, six months
later, many of the guests were curious
as to the presence in the gay assem
blage of guests of a sweet-faced little
woman in the dress of the Salvation
Army, who was the recipient of much
attention from the bride and groom,
and was quite a center of attraction
as she related agaig and again the re
markable story of that December aft
ernoon, after which all looked with
greater interest and understood why
in the array of handsome and costly
wedding gifts an old and battered tam
bourine occupied the place of honor.
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Lost.
Bhe stood beneath the mistletoe
And she wag fair to see,
My wife was in the room, and S 0
That chance was lost to me. i
WILSON STAKES ALL
When President Wilson brushed
precedent aside and sailed for France
to lead the American delegaiton at
the peace conference he staked every
thing, so far as his personality is
concerned, upon the outcome.
Public opinion today as to whether
or not his action was wise or other
wise cannot alter the situation one
way or another; results alone will de
cide the question, and they will speak
for themselves.
Today Woodrow Wilson is in a
position of unquestioned pre-emin
ence among the world's public men.
He is universally recognized as the
most conspicuous figure in this great
est of all political crises the world
has ever seen; and it was as such that
he dared Fate and went to Europe.
He had a definite objective in view
when he sailed.
If he succeeds in accomplishing
that objective he will return with ad
ded laurels.
If he fails he will come back with
prestige impaired, and shorn of at
least some of the laurels he wore
when he embarked upon his historic
enterprise.
Nobody knows that better than
does Woodrow ‘Wilson himself, nor
better than he knew it before he
stepped aboard ship.
He knew then and he knows now
that his place in history is largely at
stake.
He took all the chances; and he
is the one who must stand or fall by
the consequences.
Thus far he has made no mistakes.
1t is as Frank Simonds expressed
it in his article in The Constitution
Wednesday morning :—
“The least friendly critic of the
president will concede that he has be
gun his European visit with skill,
spoken wise words and shown tact
and good judgment in dealing with
the first problems.”
If the president commits no error
during his sojourn abroad, no criti
cism can be lodged against him.
If he does commit an error it will
be time enough for his critics to
yap after his mission has proven a
failure.
In the meantime, the part cf every
loyal, patriotic citizen is to remain
quiet, sanguine in the president’s abil
ity to carry out his ideas, whatever
they might be, and not to lessen his
chances for success by inopportune
and premature criticism.—Atlanta
Constitution.
ENGLAND GETTING
BACK TO BELIEF
Alrfed Noyes, the English poet,
said recently in an address in ‘New
York:
“Literature in England had been
growing anarchistic since the death
of Tennyson and Browning. It had
been agnostic for twenty years. We
were saved from the decline of Ger-
With any grade of Potash goods desired
P_rof. B. W. KILGORE, director N. C. Agricultural Experiment Station Says:-
“The lack of Potash with us has been shown especially in cotton, tobacco and »otatoes in coastal
plain sections. This has been especially true of cotton and potatoes, more potash having been used
on tobacco, relatively, than on these two crops.”
Dr. H. W. BARRE, director of S. C. Agricultural Experiment Sgation Says:-
“] will say that a survey recently made of the cotton situation in South Carolina leads us to be
lieve that at least 257 reduction in the cotton crop has resulted this year from lack of potash. In
some cases not more than half a crop has been produced on light land that is very deficient in potash.
The appearance of the plants indicates that what is known as potash hunger is responsible for the de
creased yield. We are, therefore, recommending that liberal amounts of potash be used in feritlizers
for cotton next year. At the usual rates of application I feel that ig will pay to use as much as 3% of
potash at the present prices.”
AT T RN I
Engquire of Royster Dealers Place orders early.
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THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
many only because we had kept some
traditions of honor, of playing the
game, from the days when we had
religion. But we are getting back
to belief, to knowing there is a great
er than ourselves, While losing from
twenty to thirty thousand men a
week, England has affirmed something
she had well-night forgotten—that
there is a power above the State. She
has gone back to some words of old-=-
‘ln the beginning, God'."”
RING, HAPPY BELLS
* ————————
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go,’
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out, my mournful
rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
—Tennyson.
Two splendid Duroc-Jersey Boars, ready
for service. Big bone, high back, best of
feet, cholera immune. Farrowed June
20th, 1918.
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Can be seen at 209 Atlanta Street
J. R. MILLER
This litter with sow won first prize at the Southeastern Fair,
also won first prize at the State Fair in Macon
: PASTOR RESIGNS
LaGrange, Ga., Dec. 18.—Dr. A. B.
Vaughn, whe has been pastor of the
First BQPtist church for the past six
teen years, has notified the church
that he will formally tender his resig
nation as pastor on next Sunday, the
22nd inat. This will necessitate the
calling of a new pastor, as the assis
tant pastor, Rev. M. R. Gaddis, resign
ed a short while since.
It is ppt known at this time who
the chupgh will call. During has resi
dence beye in LaGrange, Dr. Vaughn
has won the confidence, esteem and
‘affectian of all the people of our city,
‘at his decision to sever his connection
and many regrets will be expressed
with the First Baptist church.—At
lanta Constitution.
NOTICE!
I am prepared to
do all kinds of auto
mobile trimming and
painting. Give me a
call.
W. W. Watkins
- ECONOMY NEEDED W“g%
Now that war is over we'?w ar
Senators and Congressmen }fi
squarely against all waste of %’
ple’s money for unnecessary ¢amps
and military activities. In nearly ev
ery Southern city which has any kind
of war work or military camp, the
chambers of commerce and all com=
mercial interests are begging for the
continuation of the same government
expenditures. Our Congressmen
should remember that while a few
thousand very local people are ask
ing for these things, the silent mil
lions want economy and will be satis
fied with nothing else. To waste a
dollar of money that men, women and
children saved and sacrificed to pro
vide through Liberty Bonds and .War
Stamps would be little less than erim
inal.—The Progressive Farmer .
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
On Sunday at the Presbyterian
Church there will be special Christ
mas services, with music.
The subject of the morning service
‘will be “Peace,” and for the evening
service the subject will be “Joy.”
~ Sabbath School at the usual morn
‘ ing hour.
~ On Friday evening at 6:30 in the
'Sunday Shcool room will be held a
‘children’s service which will be unique
in character. Some of the grown
‘ups will take part and assist in this,
and everybody is invited.
CALOMEL IS INJURIOUS
Many people who use calomel
know that it is undermining their
constitution and making them prema
turely old, but feel obliged to use
the drug for liver troubles because
they have never found a safe vege
table remedy that will take its place.
To all such Laxanodine is proving the
preatest boon of the age. It effec
tively relieves acute and chronic liv
er troubles more permanently than
will calomel, and is the most plesant
in its action of any medicine on the
market. Laxanodine is guaranteed
to be asure remedy for all liver,
stomach or bowel troubles. Relieves
sick headach in 30 minutese, indiges
tion, sour stomach or heartburn in 15
minutes, relieves congestio nand re
duces fevers, and breaks up colds.
One dose relieves dysentery and will
not make costive, and is the only rem
edy that will benefit chronic consti
pation. Sold on a guarantee to sat
isfy or money back by Griffith’s Phar
macy.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
M. C. GORE
Experienced Veterinary Surgeon
[ have had 12 years’ experience
in veterinary practice. Can give
you best of service and advice in
my line. Terms reasonable,
Phone 44, 3 Rings, Austell, Ga
D. W. BLAIR
Lawyer
North side Public Square
MARIETTA, GA.
Holland & McCleskey
Attorneys At Law
Office in Reynolds Building
MARIETTA, GEORGIA
FRED MORRIS
LAWYER '
Office in Manning’s new building.
\ MARIETTA, GA.
‘W. H. PERKINSON L. L. BLAIR
~ Res. Phone 191 Res. Phone 159-J
Drs. Perkinson & Blair
Physicians and Surgeons
Office Over Medford’s Cash Grocery
Office Telephone 23. .
DR. W. M. KEMP
General Practitioner.
Office in Gober Building.
Residence Phone 78. Office phone 9
JOHN H. BOSTON, Jr.
Attorney at Law
Real Estate, Loans, and Title Work
Handled Especially.
Campbell Wallace
Attorney at Law
Office in New Manning Building
MARIETTA, - - GEORGIA
"~ H. E. KERLEY
Licensed Optometrist
Eyes Tested and Prescriptions %
North Side Square
MARIETTA, - -
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