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TEN LETTERS TO SITU OLIOS ■ n writing Santa Claus letters to The Serald make letters as short as possible and write only on one side of paper. All letters must be addressed to Santa Claus Editor, care Herald, and must have 2-cent stamp on each when put in poatoffice or letter box. This plan has o be adop.ed in order to get all letters published before Christmas. Dear Santa Clause. I am a little lwv to yearn old. 1 want you to bring mo a 22 rifle and :t box of eardregc* and a horr an a fiddle an a acdarlng an a drum an a rap ptsul an plany of fruit an plany of fire works an 1 clou** for this time from Johnny Whittle, Vaurlause, S C. Dear Old Santa: You were so nlra last year and brought me what I want ed so 1 ana writinc again please linns me a Rlue rain root and pair of Hub er's. a tea set a suit of furniture some nice hall ribbons and a doll with a pacifier, as you know I will be ion vears old Xmas day that Is Ibe reason 1 « mt so much now Santa be sure and doji't lose my things on the way an good Bye your little Friend Mario Garrtson. 52.6 Wright Ave. Mv Dear Santa Claus: 1 will write you a fop lines to let you know what i want. I am a little boy 6 years old /mid 1 go to school and 1 am In the first grade. 1 want you to please Or ins me a eowboy suit and a overcoat and train that run on a track and some fire works a story booy. I'lease don t forge* Ma and Va. Bring them some thing nlr • hoping you a Merry Xm.if and a happy new year* your little hoy, Archie Thurmond, 409 Hamilton St. Dear Old Santa Claus. 1 ant a little noy 4 years old and 1 want to know if vou Will bring inc a wagon and a tool Box and some Building Blocks an I any thing nice that will do for n llttl i boy and dont forget my .Ittie cousins upon Hicks street. Willie and Kffla I.ee Burrus. Your little friend, Melton Thurmond, 409 Hamilton St. • Dear Santa: I am a little boy, four years old, and I would like for you to come and see me again tills < lirls. 1 want a lnden suit and a tedy bear, an I would like to have a streat car, a boy doll and a nice little trunk to keep my things In. 1 can't think of anything clrc. Know cany thing that you think will please me and Sandy, don't forget to tiring me some fruits of all kinds and Sandy, don't forget my grandmother and father. Hoping you a mery Chris and a happy new year. 1 am as ever your ltttlo friend, Master Edward Prescott, 2026 Broad Street. Dear Rnnta: I want you »** bring mo doll carriage, a drum, a liorn. ft horse and candles and fruits and fin* crackers. Yours very truly. 811110 Mayson. Dear Santn Clause: 1 am a little girl. 9 years old. I havn't missed a da.y from school this tern*. 1 want you to please bring me a big doll and bed, carriage and a football. O, Santa, do hurrie and come, for 1 ilon’t feel like I can wait much longer. Bring me some nice fruit. 1 will close with much love to all. I am your little girl. Louise Brldwell. 1355 Cooper St. Dear Santa Claus: 1 want you to bring me a set of doll furniture, a lit tle doll, a bracelet, a carriage, a tea set and some fruits and candles, and 1 want you to remember Mrs. Brown and Mr. Brown. Hoping you and Mrs Santa a aerry Xtnus and a happy New Year From your little girl. Susie Rodgers, 1001 Liberty Street. Dear Pant: Claus: Will you please bring me .. little doll, stone furniture, a ten set, some little gloves to wear to school. I am Just 6 yenrs old, and 1 want lota of fruits and candles and that la all. With love to you and Mrs. Santa. Louise Rodgers, 1001 Liberty Street. My Dear Santa Clause: 1 will sum take pleasure to tell you what 1 want. 1 want a nice new doll and a small baby doll and a trunk and tea set and anything else you could bring me. Love to Mrs. Rants lam your little girl, Delmas Louise Thompson, IMS Broad Street I*. 8. Don't forget Nanna Smith and Nanna Thompson. Dear Santa Claus: 1 am seven years old and go to the John Mtlledgo School, l'lcnse bring me a boy scout suit, a tent, drum, pistol and plenty of fire works l’lease bring me some fruit; I like grapes best. Love to you and Mrs. Santa Claus. Your friend, Charlie Bohler Prlckctt, 171!S Hicks Street. Dear Santa:l sm a girl, 11 yenrs old. go to the John Mllledgo School, am In the sixth, l'lease bring me a LaValllerc, a pair of gloves, shoes hat and a box'of black paint to paint my bycycle. Don't forget my brother, Charlie Bohler. Don’t forget my lit tle girl friends, Bessie Barnes, Lily Maud Platt, Kutrine Foster, Ludie Satrnce and Resale Wilhelm. Don't forget my Sunday school teacher, Mrs. Tueton Your friend, Alice Prlckctt, 1723 Hicks St. Dear Santa Claua: We are glad to see you back in Augusta Santa Claus 1 am 9 years old, and 1 am In the third gread at school and I want you to bring me a wheel and a foot hall and lota of fruit. Your* truly, by by, Wat son Long. 1726 Hicks St. Dear Santa Claus: 1 atn a little girl 4 and 2 months old. I am write you lines let you no that 1 want you to bring me something good. Bring me doll and finger ring, a pair of stock ing and pair of shoes and a red teddy bear coat, a red dress; that all 1 want for this Xmas. Dense don't forget my brother. WlUle. Bring him something good From Laurie Paskel, llephzl bah, Os., R F D. 2. Box 3n Dear Santa Claua: 1 wnnt a bicycle and a cap pistol and some caps; I want a pistol case and some fireworks l’leass bring ms lot* of candy and fruit* Dense do not for get Billie and Hall. Lot* of love to you. From Webster Cason. 821 Telfair SI, Dear Santa Claua:•! am a little boy. 6 years old. 1 want a shot gun, ahot, bicycle and plenty of fireworks and fruit. Don’t forget Manta and papa and grandma. I<ove you and Mrs Santa Claus Your UtfTe boy, Dckens Turner, Hephzlhah. (la Dear Old Santa Clause: I have been a very good little boy this year, so 1 want you to please remember me I would like very much for you to bring me a drum, horn, train and a cowboy suit. Now. Santa. 1 ant not asking for much, so you can bring anything else that you want to. All aenda love, and pleaae give my love to Mrs. Santa. Y’our little boy, Leroy I. Baty, 1232 Mauge St. Dear Santa Clause: 1 am a little wee girl only four years old. 1 would like for you to tiring me another dollie; I have a snukum doll, he brought, me Inst Christmas at my Aunt Mm's house In North Augusta. Also bring me a tea set. and a car riage and u new bonnet and fruit and candles. Good bye, Nellie Mae Rob ertson, 1465 Cooper Ht. Dear Santa Claus: I'ain a little boy seven years old and I want you to bring me a eowboy suit, a pair of shoes, a drum, « born, a pair of skates, a box of sparkles all kind of fire works a lots of fruit donl forget mama and papa. Your boy Edward Howell, 1107 Miller street. Dear Santa Claus: WNI you please bring me a football and a air gun and a knife and a pair of cow-boy gloves. From your little friend Alex 8. Frank, 546 Reynolds Ht. Dear Santa C ans: 1 am a little boy 11 years old. And I want you to bring me a moving picture machine and some books untl some fire works and some fruit. Julian Reynolds, 506 Lincoln St. Dear Hunm Claus: I am a little boy 5 years old and will be 8 Dec. IS 1 want a bicycle an automobile and a little train that runs on a track, a hall and I think that Is all for this time. Hurry Reynolds, 506 I.lncoln St. Dear Simla Claus: I am two years old and mama says I am very good and I want you to bring me a doll a piano, a teasel a doll carriage, an some nuts, apples and candy. Your little friend— Kllluihetli Gordon. Dear Santa Claus: 1 am nine years old, am In the third gride at school. Mama says that I am very smart, and the teacher says that I know my lesson. Anti I want you to bring me a wagon an some shots to put in my gun. and some mils, candy, apples an oranges, an some fire works. Your little friend Theodore Gordon. llehow Dear old Santa: A good look ing old fellow you are Dear Santu 1 thank you very much fur your little souvenir >on gave me at J. it. White's toy land the Friday afternoon I saw you. I Ike foi Xmas a blue cost e white fur set a ueckles a toty hair a box of hand kechlefs a large storry book a pair of glows a lots of hair ribbons a few doll clothes and a lots of candles anti fruit. Dear Santa don't forget my little Cousin llelenFotd ami HeltMount and Dear San t i don't forget my sister, teacher, Miss Gibbons Hope you will have me u beautiful holly Xmas tree for me to put tint toys on for Xmas. Hy liy. Wish you a Merry Xmas ami a Happy New Year. I lattie Hell Cutes of Dean's Brdige Ave. Dear Santa: I will write you a short Inter to let you know what I want you to bring me: I uin a little hoy 10 yrs old and go to school. 1 haven't nilsstd a day tilth term. 1 like my teacher very much. Will you please bring me an air rifle and a football and a suit of clothes Irult and fire works and that w ll he all fi#r this time. Santa please dont forget mama Grandma and Grandpa so 1 will close, with much love to you.— Claude Mai per, 1.165 Cooper St. Dear Santa Claus: This Is all I want for Xmas, so please dont forget my lit tle Hubby he is seven months old and a big old fat fellow he Is he Is so sweet Santa Ills name are Doctor White Joe Ford santa tiring Ruby a lota of nice dresses a pair of white logons a white pair of boot tees a Teddy Hear a rubber doll a tattle a white cup and a lots of white stocking*. Dear Santa this Is al we both want tills Xmas. By Hy Mr. Santa Clause My name la Walter Usu ry Ford of Survall Ave. Dear old Santa: I am so glad you have arrived from your home of Aiken, S. i\. to be here tills Xmas with the lit tle ones again Xmas. Dear Santa thank i you for your little souvenir you gave ; ine at J. H White's toy land. bur Santa dont forget m\ little cousin Wll- , ham Morrow Wileon Ford an licit Mount I Ave. Dear Santa IMs Is a 1 1 want for j Xmas a white fur ret a checked coat ■ with a black belt of velvet n pair of gloves a necklace a music hook a large ; hllltken and a large story book a box of handkerchiefs a lots of hair ribbons a few doll clothes and a lot of candles and fruit. By By Mr. Santa I'lßnse wish you a Merry Xmas and a Happy j New Sear. My name Is Mattie Lee Cates of Dean's Bridge Ave. Dear Sandy Claus: lam a little girl j 4 years old. Please bring me a cap and Cloak, a pair of shoes and a little muff, and fur and a big doll and oar- ! rlage a little piano and a little teaset and some fruit and candy and dont few get my little first cousins Kveltn Her ron. she wants a little Rubber doll cloak j ami cap and shoes. So good by—Cathe rine Hoard 1332 Cooper St. Dear Santa Clause: lam a little boy (> yrs old and a smart little fellow and 1 want to go to school so had Santa will you please bring me a train and a bell, cowboy suit, a horn and lot* of fruit Santa 1 have -t little brother anil ts you ,l«n't tiring him everything you bring me 1 cant play with mine for he takes everything t have Well 1 will cose with' much love to all. Ralph Gay, 1259 Cooi>- : er St. Dear Santa Claus: lam a little boy j one year old l don't want much. Just; bring me a doll with pants on, a wagon I and some ndlk to go in my Jack. With ! iove from your little boy—J. D. Baird, i Sr., HOt Sbcox St. My dear Jolly old Santa. lam a lit- I t> boy 5 yeat* old. 1 go to school. 1 I want you to come Xmas and bring me j an automobile a mouth organ lots of fruit and any thing you think that would | be nice for a little boy like me, I would like to have a wagon and some sparklers With love to you and Mr* Santa Augustus Baird, 1404 Sllcox St. Dear od Santa: I am a little girl i years old, p ease don't forget to see nte Xmas I want a ball two dolls and some dresses and ribbon far them. 1 want a tea set too so 1 can have a party. 1 am a good little girl Would like to have a piano if you have any for me. With love to you. good bye Kdna Karl Baird, 14**4 Sllcox *t Dear Santa I am a little boy nine years old and 1 go uv school e\*ry day, nnd In the Fifth grade I want you to [bring ms for Christmas a football and a byeyele end what all rOH think I* good for a soy like me Your lovlnk Child WutYin Baird, 2404 Sllcox Su > Dear good Santa Claus: I am a lit tle girl will be 7 years old the last day of the year. Would like for you to bring me Xmas a large baby doll a lit tle doll In long dresses a tub and wash board an Iron and lots of fruit and can dy. Santa don't mind coming down our chimney for I will have a. has.n,of water and some soap for you to wash in. With love to you and Mrs. Santa, Your little ,<!ri Sara BalYd, 1404 Stlcox St. Dear Santa Claus: I am n little boy 4V4 years old, and Mother says I'm very good, (when I'm asleep) I don't want very much this Xmas for 1 still have my nice rubber tired trycyele you brought me last year and I have had Many a ride on it too. 1 also have my large hobby horse that you brought me when I was two years old, so you see I take < ire of niy things Now dear Santa this year please tiring me a drum with sheep skin on both sides so It wont burßt like the ones vou brought last year, I also want a self running top, a horn, an Indian suit, and please fill my stockings with fruit and nuts. I don't care for candy. Dove to you and Mrs. Santa. FVom your loving boy—Robert Wilson, Jr. 810 Bolder Ave. Dear Santa: I will write to you again no you will know where 1 am. We have moved hack to Augusta. You shure was good to me list Christmas. I thank you so much. So pie.ase bring me a packer and a boat and any thing else you think will suit me. 1 hope to have my cousin Robert with me Christmas. So please bring him something nice for he has no Mamma <tr papa. But my pappa will pay you for all the things. Bring us some fire works for I sure do enjoy them. I know you will bring me plenty of fruit, candy and nuts. For -. no always do. So thanking vou for your kindness, I am your loving little boy Thomas B. Roberts. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 8 years old. 1 want a bicycle, 22 rifle, shot, watch, and cow boy suit, plenty of fireworks. I want a kodak also. With love to you and Mrs. Santa Claus. —- James Turner, Hephzlbah, Ga. Dear Santa: I am a little girl, seven ymru old, and 1 want you to bring me a doll, d"M carriage, doll bed, table, chairs, stove, tea set, piano, set of paper dolls, some ribbon fed' my hair, a sweat er. and lots of fruits. Please remember my little sisters, Pauline and Elizabeth, i nd my little cousin Frankie. Your little friend -Rosa Daby, 612 13th St. Dear old Santa: 1 am a little boy five years of age. 1 want you to not forget me Christmas. I want you to bring me a little tvaln and air tfle and automobile and a plenty of fruit. With lots of love to you and Mrs. Santa, from your little friend Howard Hudgins, 1741 Walker St. Dear Santa Claus: I hope you and Mrs Santa have been well and happy ever since last Xmas. 1 have my beau tiful doll and carriage you brought me two Xmas ago. All I want you to Wring me-this time iR a hig character baby dull tit will be the last doll I want) and some I toddy Dimple Books. I'd like for my doll to have light hair and blue eyes. My lltlle brother Is sick so I'll write what be wants. A big wagon, bow and arrow cash register and a cow boy suit with fur pants. Put in some sparklers too. YouV little friend—Sara Emma Dldlehoover. Dear Mr and Mrs. Santa Clans: Please bring me a boat and a motorcycle and a winding automobile and fruits and can dy Please bring me some fire works. Howard Kusell Plunkett, 1337 Estes fat. Dear Santa Clause: lam a little girl two years old I want you to bring me a .heiutlful doll and a doll carriage and a piano and some candy. Please don t for get my little six months old brother, he wants a little rattler and some fireworks. Phase send my two little cousins in Co lumbia. S. C. and Werthvllle. N C., lot Of nice candy and fruit. Your loving lit tle girl Margaret E. Bean. 448 Broad fat. Dear Santa: I know you are glad you arc coming to Augusta once more. Santa 1 want a nice doll and carringe and plenty of fruit an*t nuts. 1 am a little girl 10 years old and am In the third glade and go to school every day, hop ing you to fulfil my wishes I am yours truly Naomi Gregg. 1726 Hicks St. Dear Santa: lam a little girl, 3 years old, and 1 want you to bring me a dull, doll carriage, table, teaaet, chatrs, stove, piano, a pony, a act of paper dulls and lots of nice things to eat. Don't forget my Utile sister, Bl be h, and remember all my friknda Your lit tie friend -Pauline Daly. Sl2 13th St. Dear Santa Clause. lam a little girl of four ve.irs old amt I want a doll and carriage a pair of shoo number S tea and fruit, candy and fire works. Fvorn your little friend—Nellie Brazaell. 1113 Coggln St. Dear Santa Claus: lam « little girl of 12 vent's old and would like a sewing machine, a nice story hook, a bracelet, ribbons and a new dress, "omecandy. fruits and fireworks. from Y 0“ “ friend tluxel Jones, 1142 Coggins St. Dear Santa Claus: lam a little girl of nine years old 1 want a doll and carriage, stove and story book and tea g. t and table, piano and small lamp, and sewing Box. also lYuti. candy and fire works. Front your little friend Ruth Jones. 1142 Coggins St. Dear Santa Claus: lam a little girl of seven years old. 1 want a doll and carrlge, doll Bed. stove, sewing Box. lamp, story book, tea set fruit and tire works, candy. From your little friend— Trcuse Jones, 1142 Coggln St. Dear Santa Claus: lam a little girl of seven years old, and 1 want a doll and cairage and doll safe, ttva set. table, fruit, candv and fire works. From your little friend —Ellen Brazxell, 1142 Coggln St. Dear Santa Claus: lam ft little boy going to Wood lawn Kindergarten school and am studying Geography pictures al home, and can make lots of my letters but l can't make ail of them. Please bring me a train that goes around on a track and coal car that holds coal, and seme cow boy pants because ray old ones are patched, and 1 want ft wagon with brakes, some sparklet's and poppers, and please remember all the poor children. 1 love you so good. Your little friend —• Harry W. Johnston, 1410 Sllcox St. Dear Santa Clause. 1 atn a little girl 13 years old. I want you to bring me a works box and a prlttie sweater, and anything you wantes to for 1 havv got ever thing I wantes to play with from Your friend Grvacy Lee Johnson, 2007 Division St. P. S. rk*n« forget my fruit and (to to Mr. Mulligan* and get me some nice candy. Dour Santa Clause; 1 ant a llttlo girl 5 years old. 1 want you to bring me a doll and a carriage and a train that runs on a track and fruit of al. kind front yours friend Suaey May Hoover good my Saint Luke St. P. 8.: I wish you nml Mrs. Santa Clause a tnerrle Max and a happte new year. Hello Dear Santa Claus. I am a lit tle girl 15 months old and I am glad It Is ncrly time for you to come. I want you to bring me a cape and a pair of shoes and a tea set and doll ami some fruit. With love to you and Mrs. Santa good by from Martha John son. 1949 Broad St. Dear Santa Clause: As It is nearly time for you 1 will write you a few lines to let you know what I want I am a little girl 2 years and a half year* old please bring me a pretty doll and tea set and a little chair for my doll nnd dont forget my little sis ter meldred she Is 2 months old bring her a pretty rattler 1 wish you and Mrs Santa Clause a merry Xmas and' a happy new year front your little friend Gladys Christie, 1949 Hroad Bt. Dear Santa: I'm Sadie's sister and I want a pair of skates No. 7, a doll baby, piano, workbasket and sewing j machine Don't forget the little or ! phana. I'll be at Curtis on Xma# tree I night and will give you some money. I Don't forget Billy wants a veloclpeda THE AUbua.r, HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. a real train and tracks, a doll what wont break. Dove from Louise Oliver. Dear Santa: I am a little girl nine years old and in the third grade and I love my teacher very much. So now lam going to tell you what I want I' want a rain coat, some ribbon and my baby doll dressed over and lots of goodies a kiss to you and Mrs. Santa your little girl Nellie Fell, 706 Craw ford avenue. Dear Santa:—l am a little boy three years old. Well I am going to tell you what X want for Christmas, Santa bring me an automobile and a wagon, and a horn and some fruit and candy. Well Santa that is all I want for this Christmas. I am your little friend James Early, Orangeburg, S. C. Dear Santa Claus:—l am a little girl nine years old and I want a great big old doll and a doll carriage and a rain coat for myself and a tea set too and please bring me lots of nice things Butch like little folks enjoys. Good night Santa Claus you must come and see me soon. Lessie Lee Hyatt, 414 Polks alley. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 10 years old and don't want you to ferget me I want a pretty doll and tea set and table and some nice candy and fruit anil a lot of fire works and don’t ferget my little brother Albert he wants an automobile and oh my little baby sister be sure and bring her something nice to play with to. best wishes to you and mrs Sanda A merry Xmas to you both. Camlle Pate, 1575 Hicks St. Dear Santa Claus. I am a little girl 6 years old and I want you to bring mj a llttel doll and a little broom and a rain coat and a little trunk and a horn and some fruit and some fire works. I will close. Your little frlnd Leola Rabun, 1834 Greene St. Dear Santa Claus I am a little girl 9 years old, and I want you to bring me a rain coat and a pair of rubbers and a pair of gloves and some fruit and some fireworks. I will close. Lit tle Julia Rabun, 1834 Greene St. Dear Santa Clause: —Here is your little blue eyed Helen. "You know my name isn’t Mutt, even If Uncle Edgar and Mr. Joe do call me Mutt, don’t you?’’ So don't you bring them any thing and bring it all to Errol, Fred and myself. Nannie says I have been a real good girl and says I may ask you for a "two wheel bicycle," a beau tiful doll with blue eyes and curly hair, new dresses for "Rllly, Sarah, Eliza beth, Minerva,” "because they get so dirty I can't keep them clean." Please bring me a bed for them and a set of dishes, pair of kid gloves, lots of fruit and candy and nuts. Santa please don’t forget my mother. I’ll tell her to leave a note on her stocking telling you what she wants. "Good night!” I like to have forgotten our Xmas tree please don’t forget that. We live at No. 817 Telfair St. Be sure to come. Nannie will tell nurse to leave the parlor window open for you. Good bye. With a heart full of love. Your little Helen M. Gay. Dear Santy Clause. I am a little girl eight years old Dec. 2, 1914. I want you to bring me a rocking horse and doll an a little table with four legs an four chairs, and some apple an some nuts and candles. Love to you and Mrs. Santy Clause. good bye your little girl Savannah Southall, Aiken, S. C. Dear Santa Slaus: Please bring me a fire reel, wagon, drum, horn, a lots of ire works and fruit. I am your four years old —Clyde Howell, 1107 Mil ler St. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a fire reel, a wagon, drum, a horn, a lots of fire works, and fruit. I am four years old. Your little boy—Clen ton Howell, 1107 Miller St. Santa Claus: It is nearly time for you to come again. lam a little boy 9 years old and I go to school every day that I can. I want you to bring roe a cow boy suit, cap pistol and fruits and candy, I also want you to bring itny sister and brother some thing. My sipter’s name is Junlta and my brother's name la John. Junlta wants a doll and doll bed. John wants a train, and fruit and fire works and I have two little cousins, Essie and Wil lie Owen. Essie wants a necklace with birth stones in it and Willie wants anything that you will bring him. Willie is 5 years, Essie is 16 years now thanking you for presents you have brought us and wishing you and Mrs. Santa a Merry Xmas I am ns ever your friend—Attwood Owens, Thomson, Oa., R- F. D. No. Box 1. P. S. Don't forget mama and pap Willie and Essie also lives here. Dear Old Sonta Clause: As Christ mas is here again. I will try and send you word I am at Grand Pa Robert son's this Christmas. I am a little boy. 6 years old. I want you to bring me a goat and wagon, a horn and tool box and soldier suit and fruit and candies. Hoping you a merry Christ mas Don't forget my Uncle Edd. Robertson. From your little boy, Thomas Leon Robertson, 1486 Cooper Street. Dear Mr. Santa Clause: I go to the Woodlawn School. I am not 8 years old yet. lam tn the first grade. 1 haven't missed a day from school since It began. Miss Katie Ellenton is my teacher. I like her very much. I want you to bring me a suit of clothes and hot, a gun and drum, a cowboy suit and don't for get my grand pa nnd Grand Ma Robertson. Please don't for get the fruit and nuts. Lov ingly. William Vernon Robertson. 1486 Cooper St. Dear Santa Claus: I hope you and Mrs. Santa are well. I am nearly 9 years old, and what I want you to bring me, a Indian suit and cap -with It. and I want a llttlo cap pistol with It. 1 wish you and Mr a Santa Claus a merry Christmas. I am your friend, Charlie Martin Connor. Dear Santa: Please send me a big doll, ft tea set and a turkey full of candy, and a doll table with some chairs. Y’our little Widows Homo Baby, LuelUo James, Widow's Homo, 124 Greene Street, City. My Dear Santa Claua: I am a little girl, 12 years old and In the 6th grade. 1 want you to bring me a little sew ing box with the things In It, and I want a rain coat, age 14 years sixe. If you will, I will he so glad I wont know what to do when I go to my stocking. And pleas*. Dear Old Santa, bring me a pretty little box of candy, fireworks, nuts and fruit. 1 sure will think you so much for them. Give Mrs. Santa my love, and keep lots for your self. Your little loving friend, Norma Toole, Mlllen, Ga. Hello. Dear Old Santa Clause. I am a little boy Just 8 years old. and I am very smart at home and as It Is near Xmas 1 want you to bring me a blllle gnat and wagon and a auto and I a little horn and a little drum and lots lof fruit and foreworks and don't for iget my little playmate, his name Is Millies. 1 want you to bring him (something nice. " will close for this Unto Your little friend. Earl Gary, 1682 Rroad Street. Lots of love to you and Mrs. Santa Claus. Dare Santa Claus: 1 will write a few line to let you no what 1 want you to bring m«. 1 want you to bring m« I a big doll and a black board and a [sowingbox and anything else. I am a little girl, 8 years old. I live at 409 Chaffee Avenue. My name is Willie May Mills. Dear Santa Clause: I am a little boy, 5 years old. Please bring me some building blocks and a gun and a In dian suit and a street car, candy and fruit. Your little boy, Fred King, 559 Watkins St. Dear Santa: I am a little boy, 5 years old. I want a tricycle and a rain coat and a little basket. Yours truly, Vernon Marlone. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy, 7 years old, in the 2 grade at school. Please come to see me and bring me a rain coat, rubbers and hat. a build ing set and anything else you think will be good for a little boy. Much love to you. I am your little boy, Carlton Smith, 1702 Walton Way. Dear Santa: I am a little boy, four years old and mother and daddy’s baby. I wish you would bring me a drum, automobile, Indian suit, wagon, a train and a clarinet like uncle plays, some fireworks and fruit. Your little boy, Clarence. Riley, 1360 Cooper St. Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl, 10 years old, and I go to Evans Acatemy and am in the fourth grade, and my teacher’s name Miss Griffen. I want you to bring me a doll car riage and a tea set and a doll bed, some firework’s and candles and fruit. Don’t forget mama and papa and don’t forget our nurse, Fannie May. I am yours good little girl, Katherleen A. Clark, R. F. D. 2, Box 60. Dear Old Santa Clau*: Please bring me a doll and carriage and a doll bed. Please bring me a rain coat, sister have one and I want one to wear to school when It is raining. I am in the third grade. I am 7 years, am a good little girl and help mama wash dishes, I and sister. Don’t forget fruit and candy and plenty of fire works. Don't forget mama and papa. I am your little girl, Constance W. Clark, R. F. D. 2, Box 60. Dear Santa Clause: Please bring me an engine and to pull my train and a cowboy suit and plenty of fruit and candy, fireworks a plenty. I am a good little boy, go to school every day, am in the second grade. Don’t forget mama and papa and my nouse, Fannie. She tends to me when mama go to town. So good bye. dear Old Santa Clause. Your little boy, Henry H. Clark, R. F. D. 2. Box 60. Dear Old Santa: Please bring me a cowboy suit and a wagon, train to run on a track and little automobile. Don’t forget to bring me plenty of fruit and candy and fireworks. Don’t forget gravdpa, he lives on the Midleville. Don’t forget mama and papa. I am a good little boy, go to school, am in the third grade. I am 8 years old. Many kisses to you and Mrs. Santa. So good by, Creston R. Clark, R. F. D 2, Box 60. Dear Santa Claws: I am a little boy ten years old. I know you are a good old man so I thought I would write you and ask you to be specially kind to me this year. Dear Santa I want n cap ipstol and some fruit, and some fireworks. Hoping you and Mrs. Santa a merry Xmas and a happy new years I am as your little friend, Stacy Hall. Stump Row, 126, Bath, S. C. Dear Santa. I am a little girl six years old so I thought I would write you ask you to be kind enough to bring me doll carriage and some fruit and any thing else you have to spare when you get along by here. Your little friend. By by Santa. Bessie Ready, Bath, S. C. Dear Santa Claus. I am a little girl 5 years old and go to school ev ery day. Please bring me a pretty doll and carriage and a little red chair and don't forget a airgun for my brother. Well good bye dear Santa. With a heart full of love. Sara A. Sherlock, 536 Reynolds St. Dear Santa Claus. I am a little girl two and a half years old. I want you to bring me a doll and a carriage to ride my doll In and a train a horn and a piano lots of fruit. Be sure and don’t forget me. Well good by Santa Claua with a heart full of love. Row ent Speerlng, 538 Reynolds St. Dear Santa Claus:—l am a little girl seven years old and I have a little brother five years old. 1 want to ask you to bring me a doll and carriage, a set of doll furniture, a tea set a sewing box and some fruit candy and nuts. And Brother says bring him a train, a ball, a horn, a horse and wag on and some fruit, candy and nuts and Sandy please bring him an overcoat too. I will close with love to you and Mrs. Santa. Ethel and Flenoy Gunn, 1358 Cooper St. Dear Santa Claus. Please Sir bring me a big doll with real hair, a baby pi ano, some clothes for bahy doll, some dishes for baby doll to eat from, knife, forks and spoons, a sewing machine and a work basket. Don't forget the poor children and both of my Grand mas. With love to you and Mrs. Santa Clause. Lottie Ann Oliver. Dear Santa Clause. I am a big boy 15 years old but want you to remem ber me. I want you to bring me a northfork stile suit of clothes blue serge, and a 4 dollar pair of Button shoe*, and a pair of fine cowboy gloves, and a 4 dollar Stetson hat, and plenty of fire works, don't forget my little friend in Augusta Walter Stel ling give him all he wants and oblige your great big friend Hansford Bllton, Bath. S. C. My Dear Santa Claus: Tam a little girl 3 years old, a very good Girlie, to. every sines you were here last Christ mas.’ I want you to please bring me a large Willow Doll Cart-lage. with a big Dndle In It. a Chair for Dollte to sit In, a Picture Book, some Candy, and lots of Fruit Dont forget My Dear Mama. By. bv. for this time. Wishing You and Mrs. Santa Clans a Merrv Christmas. Marian Mlal Scott. 1515 Walton Way. Dear Santa Claus: This letter Is from Elizabeth. 1 want you to bring me a doll, a pencil box. and a large tea set. T am going to the convent and I love my teacher dearly. You mav also bring me a story book. Your little girlie. Elizabeth .Tenktns. 713 Heard Ave., The Hill. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl, 10 years old. Please bring me a piano, a coat, a doll, a pair of shoes, a little stove and some fruit and fire works. Y'our little friend. Maggie Doolittle. 1859 Hicks Street. P. S.— Please don't forget mama and papa: bring them something nice and my lit tle friends. Ethel Burch. Doris Reid, Leacer Doolittle and Gaynell Laner. Dear Santa Claus: 1 am a flttle boy, will soon be 6 years old, and I want you to come to see me again this Chris. I would like to have a train that runs on a track, a home, a gun. a little boy doll, Indean suit and a streat car, a drum and tedy bear, and Sandy, don't forget my little couslna. Ruble. F.mmer Lee and as there big sister, bring them all something nice and don’t forget to bring me some £rult of all kinds. Hoping you a merry Chris and a happy new year. A am as ever, your little friend, Master Jack .Uarbuck. 2024 Broad St. “BACK TO THE FARM" IX—The City Man as a Farmer. E ly Q. V. G&I&mZLY. [Copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso clation.J THE “back to the land” move ment is not confined merely to keeping the people on the farms who are already there, although this Is the most Important part of tlie problem. The boys and girls born and reared In the country have a better appreciation of its prob lems and its possibilities than a city bred man or woman could ever have. Yet there are many country boys born with a taste for machinery that noth ing but a factory can ever satisfy. There are many born with the ability to handle men that might make them the head of n great mercantile estab lishment. The city needs men of this kind, and the country can well afford to spare them, for it is for the good of the nation that they should go. At the same time there are many city born boys nud girls to whom the air of the crowded streets seems sti fling. They love the country, and they belong there. There are others who through no fault of their own have never been able to get higher than the first round of the ladder. The fierce competition for places has left them well nigli stranded. With them it is a question of staying in the city at a pit tance that scarcely suffices to main tain life in decency or of going to the country and making a comfortable liv ing. The fable of tbe daisy who tried to change places with the rose is often Ipli’. % v ; W- • ‘ . *&-' **i* ,P'C ■ ■ ' :—?• ’■ Ui- \v - l *> __ > ~»,v HATING TIME ON A SMALL FARM. quoted to discourage such people fron casting their fortunes in with the country. The cases where the city man and his family have been success fully transplanted to the country an too numerous to warrant the assunip tion that it cannot be done. At tli> same time it must be admitted that there are difficulties in the way. The easiest transition is made by tbe conn try boy who has grown tired of city life. He is used to the ways of th< farm, and it will be a short task fro him to learn the new methods and taki. up the furrow at the point where h*- left it a few years ago. For the man who has lived all his life in the city the proposition I altogether different and much morr difficult He has all the ways of tin new life to learn, ne is unused to country life and country customs Worst of all, he is unused to country methods. If a man listens too ere 1 ulously to the land shark who tell him that on the farm he proposes,. t< sell conditions are all so perfect that a gentle tickling of the soil will bring forth bountiful results disappoint ment Is almost sure to follow. T! real estate men are in the businc - for money, and if they can make n sale by minimizing the nr*ed of train lng for fanning they are going to do i: Farming is composed of three parts the art, the science and the business. Of the three the latter is the on!. 1 one that the average city man knov : anything about. The same busine principles thnt apply to any line ri business hold good on the farm. Con raon sense and a fair amount of bu. i ness ability comprise the chief essen tlals to success in handling the bttsl ness end of farming. There remain the art and the sc! ence. For a young man undoubted!.' the best place to learn the scien o of farming Is In n school or college. The agricultural college offers the most complete course of Instruction along this line. A considerable share of the enrollment at the agricultural college Is made up of city boys who are there to learn the science of farm lng. 1 have known many of tbe * college made city farmer*, -a corah!: tlon that would have shocked the practical man of t>’e past generation Into insensibility. I have known many of them to go to farming or to follow some line of work closely related to farming, and 1 have yet to see the first failure. A college education means a consid erable cost in both tlnm and money Tbe city man who wants to turn far: - er seldom has a very large supply . the latter. To stR-h men the secondsr* courses In agriculture, or "she; i courses." make a special appeal. .) READ HERALD WANT ADS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 Short course ui a V.i iiiu years In one of these schools will go a long way toward grounding the city farmer in the principles of scientific agricul ture. Even such a course is impossi ble for the greater shar* of the city men who see the opportunities of farm life and would like to become farmers. The next best thing a course of home study. A number us agricultural colleges offer correspondence courses in agriculture, by means of whicb the science of agriculture can be learned quite thoroughly. Then there are a great number of experiment station and government bulletins which may be had for the asking. There are many good books on agriculture in its various branches. Last, but by no means least, there is the agricultural press. Much of the advancement that has been made in agriculture is due to the agricultural papers. They stand for all that is best and most progres sive in rural life, and they contain a fund of information on methods of farm practice that are invaluable to a beginner. There yet remains the art of farm ing—that is. the art of handling the plow, of caring for the horses, of feed ing the cows, of regulating the ma chinery and the thousand and one oth er things that the farmer must know how to do. The only way the art of farming can be learned is by prac tice. The best way for tbe city man with limited capital to learn is to hire out to some good farmer by the month. Farm help is scarce, and farmers are always glad to get faithful men at fair wages. They prefer skilled men. but these are often impossible to ob tain. It is not at all difficult for a so ber, industrious city man who really wants to learn farming to get a job with a good farmer. In such a place he can learn how to meet all the emer gencies that come up on a farm. It is even easier for a married man to get this sort of job than it is for a single man. Farmers have a theory, which is generally correct, that married men are more to be depended upon. Many of them are willing to furnish a house and garden to a man for the sake of getting one with a family. After spending a year or two work ing for some one else the would be farmer will have a fairly good idea of the art of farming. If he has been putting in his spare moments studying he will have a fair understanding of the science of farming. His own com mon sense and the training he has re ceived in town will fit him to handle the business end. He is now in a po sition where he can plan on going to work for himself. He will have sa*-e<l something from his wages while on the farm, and he probably had a little money saved up before. Then comes tbe question of whether to buy or to rent. A good many beginners in farm ing make the mistake of tying all their capital up in land and having noth ing left for stock and equipment. In order to make the farm pay the farmer must have plenty of working capital. It is usually better to rent for a few years until enough money has been saved to make a fair payment on the iand. Then a farm can be bought without robbing the equipment fund. The question of where to locate is an Important one and one which the con flicting mass of evidence makes hard to-decide. The irrigated districts of the west offer some of the best oppor tunities to be found anywhere. The country is new. and settlers are wel come. Land is high, but it does not take much of it to yield a good living. The dry farming districts of the west have been loudly boomed. This dry farming land can be bought very cheaply. It costs little to get a start. At the same time the man who goes on a dry farm must remember that only half of his land will yield a crop each year, sometimes not more than a third of it. The principle of dry farming is to cultivate the land for a year or two without sowing a crop. This prevents *ffie rain which falls from evaporating, and by the second or third year enough moisture will have been stored up to raise a crop. No one should think of going on a dry farm without having enough money laid by to pay expenses for two or three years without any in come. Dry farming means many losses and much discouragement, but the success of many dry farmers proves that it offers opportunities to the man who has the courage to stick. The fertile lands of the middle west have been little advertised of many people are of tbe opinion this part of the country Is fully settled. This is far from being the case. The Mississippi valley could support four or five times its present farming population with ease. Land Is high, but it is worth the price. The middle west offers the advantage of progressive neighbors, good churches, schools and colleges and modern con veniences of every sort. There are thousands of chances for the city man Jn this section. In the east probably the best oppor tunities are found In truck farming. Only a small tract of land is required, and the returns are large. The abaudoned farms of New Eng land can be purchased very cheaply. They can never he made as productive ns tbe lands farther west, but under proper treatment the fertility can be restored and n very comfortable profit secured from them. The agricultural opportunities of the south have been little advertised, yet there Is no section of the country where the opportunities of the small are greater. Diversified farm ing and stock raising are a compara tively uew thing In this section. The moo who are growiug less cotton and more corn and hogs and dairy cow* are getting ahead. Land Is cheaper here than In many parts of the coun try and can be made very productive. READ HERALD WANT ADS.