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Christmas eve. and Alice Maitland sat alone In her luxu riously furnished bou ishTngoudfes ol the1 doir, putting the fin- gifts she was to be stow on lae morrow. , . . . , . ... She tied the last bit of scarlet ribbon about a jewel box with mathematical , -; bit of holly under the bow. and pushed ft- o TfnTr f-vn-m TiAfB with lTnnaTionr txtoo T- 1 precision, tucked a "There," she exclaimed, surveying the heap of packages that littered the table and the couch; "there, thank goodness, that's done! I've done my duty by my family and remembered every one that is likely to remember me, and I have worn myself to a fraz zle, and brought on paresis trying to find things for people who already have everything there is. Let me see," she continued, taking up the packages one by one and checking them off with a smile that was half sad, and half cynical. "Let me see here is va silk smoking jacket for Uncle Joseph, that he will never wear, and the Sevres cups that Aunt Maud coyly hinted would be an J he Tr. Don't Believe I Anybody I Have Forgotten Love." acceptable reminder of the blessed season to her; the string of pearls thai Adele has been openly admiring foi months, and a check for Jack for his college larks one's relatives aren'1 bashful about letting one know what they want, and that is a comfort, al any rate, at Christmas. "Then, nm-um-um, a gold bangle foi Mnvm winslow that she will take right down to the jeweler's to appraise, "and a tortoise shell and ostrich feathei fan for Sally Stinton; shell be sure tc Bend me something, though she hatea me, the little cat. and' a couple ol bronze, for dear old Mrs. Bullion, thougli where she'll put them in thai overcrowded house of hers I'm sure 1 don't know, and oh, things for the servants, and steins and etchings foi the men who have been nice to me and er I don't believe I have forgot ten anybody I love, or who holds a v-tw tbnne-ht for me." She paused abruptly, pusnea ine gaj litter of costly trinkets away from hei with disdainful hands, and with a sud den rush of tears, buried her face in her arms on the table. "YeB," she murmured brokenly tc herself! "there is one that I have for gotten, and he is the one in all the world that I have remembered most, and to whom I would give all if 1 dared," and then she sat still. "Why do you not send him some lit tie trifle, just a token that you have not forgotten the old days?" suggested her heart. "Never," said Pride. "Even casual acquaintances may ex change gifts at Christmas," urged her Heart, speciously. "He would cast my gift back at my feet," said Pride. "Christmas said her Heart, la the time of peace on earth and good will towards men. It is a time when pW wrongs should be forgotten, when old wounds should be healed, when broken ties should be mended, and hearts es tranged should be reunited. Why do you not kiss and make up, as children "What!" cried Pride, "and be flouted once more?" . , . "You vere very tired of the old, ,ifh it a monotonous rounds Ill mKm I ' 'J f 11)111 1 1 Ji A I t n n I IB - T .ILU.I . at Insipid gayety." went on her Heart. "You. were that loneliest and most for lorn of human beings, a great heiress ! and an orphan. All your life you had ' had everything you wanted, except the thing you wanted most of all sin- cere and disinterested love. Your father and mother had died before you . could remember them, and you had ' been left to the care of a cold uncle and aunt, who thought that they had I done their entire duty towards you by j seeing that you were properly fed, j clothed and educated, and implanting I In you a distrust of every human be- j lng who came about you. , i "You never knew the joy that other ! girls had of being liked for them- selves. When suitors came you were told they were fortune hunters. Peo-1 ! pie, in speaking of you, never praised ! you for any charm of your own, or any grace, or accomplishment. They al ways said that you were rich, and you wondered sometimes if they knew how eir words hurt, or how it must seem j to a girl to come to believe that there i was nothing about her that could win . love that she must buy it with the i money she hated. j "Finallv von beean to realize that I lUT whoIe ature rped was being atrophied, and so you ran - .. away from it all. M ' -r,,,,,- m it all. You persuaded dear old Mrs. Bullion to take you away as ! her hired companion to a little quiet place, where no one would recognize you. You wore plain little cotton gowngf and snobs who would have flunk5ed before tne rlch Misa Maitland snubbed aad ignored you, but there was a man who saw the woman's heart under the shabby gown, andjthe wom an's brain under the common hat. and loved you, and asked you to be his wife. We shall be very poor, ne said, "for I have my way yet to make ia the world, but, please God, we shall fight the battle out shoulder to shoul der." "You remember," went on her Heart, "how, with your head upon his breast, and his arms around you, you planned out the future the little house, with the rose above the door, the dear little economies, the struggles, and the final success, and you drank deep of the cup of joy, for you knew life had made you rich at last, for you were loved for yourself alone loved as a woman would be when a strong man trembles at her touch, and his smile grows soft and tender only for you.' Then, at last, came the time when you had to tell him that you were none other than the rich Miss Maitland" "And he went white as death while he listened, and said that had he known it he would never have asked you to be his wife," interrupted Pride. "But it was then too late," triumph antly cried her Heart; "he loved you, and nothing not money, nor position, nor anything, could change- that. You came home," continued her Heart, "and vour worldv wise uncle and aunt called him a furtune hunter, and said that he was going to marry you lor your money. You did not believe them, but, by and by, as you plunged into the old life, with its sordid strivings, and selfishness, and disbelief in all that is high and true, the old distrust began to creep up and poison life again." "He should have trusted your love," said Pride; "he should have known that you were merely playing." "His life," said her Heart, sadly, "had not taught him how to play. It had all been hard, bitter seriousness, and so when he saw you smiling into this other man's eyes with the counter feit of the look you had worn when your head lay upon his breast, he thought that you were faithless and loveless, and that you you who had so much had come down out of your high estate to rob him of the little he had, and to make life worthless." "Then," said Pride, desperately, "he came and flung back your promise in your face and told you that he was ashamed to have loved so poor a thing." "Love does not go at any man s bla ding," sighed her Heart; "you saw him the Qther day. He looked ill, and worn, and poor. Tomorrow will be Christ mas day " -' "Think" began Pride; but Misa Maitland had risen up with a look on her face of great and exceeding Joy.' "Think, I can think of nothing but my love!" she cried. The next morning Miss Maitland arose early, and spent much time at her desk printing a large placard in bold and unmistakable letters. This done, she donned a simple little gray gown, much afTected by her the sum mer before, and over this she threw a n-n rinak. An hour later she directed her astonished coachman to drive her to a certain building on one of whose upper floors a struggling young lawyer was, at the moment, engaged in de vouring with his eye the photograph f . rnmelv voung woman, -As she reached his office door Miss Malt land's courage wavered and sank, but, taking a death grip upon It, she hur-' riedly passed the office boy, and before she knew it was in his presence. i "Alice!" he cried, Btarting to his feet; but she did HOt"wait for him to "Tom," she said, hurriedly, "I I I have come to bring you a little Christmas present," and with that she dropped the enveloping cloak aside, and pinned upon her breast was a large placard with the Inscription: FOR TOM. WITH ALICE'S LOVE. "You darling," he murmured, folding her in his hungry arms. v - "It's so hard to know-what to get for a man, so I just thought I'd bring myself," she said, hypocritically; "but oh..Tom, please JS , ever'wfil-Vhe muttered, and a reallza back, and change lt But he sapped , thftt. it wag her mouth with kisses. j w"1 ? 3g SSSt MORGANTON, H. KatliermellflpM (Copyright. 1S13.) LL the stores alonj Main street were gas with Christmas decor atlon. Even the win dow of Scarvin's curie shop bravely flaunted some brilliant hollj wreaths. Edwin Lander paus ed before this window and stood for a loni time apparently lost ic rnntemnlnHnn nf the filigree bracelets displayed there. Al last he roused himself with an effort and opened the door. At his en trance, old Scarvln, the dealer, camt smilingly forward rubbing his wrink led hands. "What may I do for you this after noon?" he suavely asked, while his shrewd, beady eyes noted every detail of his customer's tall, well-dressed' figure. ' "I should like to look at something that would be suitable as a Christ mas present for a lady," Lander an swered briskly, but a keen observer would have noticed that his cheerful ness was forced, and in his eyes was a look of utter weariness. "Certainly, certainly, right over here," said Scarvin, leading the way to a case where some quaint necklaces were displayed. "This amethyst one Spread Open the Book Enticingly. has the antique setting that is so much in vogue." Lander gravely touched the silver links and thought: "My affair with Marguerite is what Aunt Collins would call 'between grass and hay.' It is past the candy-and-flower stage; but has hardly arrived at jewels " Then aloud he said: "No, I had in mind something different a book per haps." "Ah", the very thing!" Scarvin dived into a dusty corner and brought forth a foreign-looking volume, whose brown leather binding was curiously inlaid with pearl. "Early English poems, after the old missal style, and hand illuminat ed," the dealer spread open the book enticingly. Lander turned over the leaves with interest. "Yes, I believe this is unique and costly enough to please even the fastidious Marguerite," his thin lips curved in a cynical smile. "I'll take it," he remarked with the brevity of the average masculine shopper when he finds something which strikes his fancy. Ae he threw down a bill he was an noyed to see how his hands shook. "Burning the candle at both ends has had an effect," he thought, and as he left the shop, added: "This mixing of business and society ia the pace that kills. I suppose stimulants will be the next resort." He recalled last Christmas at his former boarding place, and of the friends there especially Alice Glea scn. Whenever he thought of her now, it was with a sense of remorse. They had been very warm friends, but since his. sudden advancement in busi ness had necessitated more commodi ous surroundings, he had seen little of her.- He had really not meant to neg lect the old friends when he began to go more into society and make new ones, but unconsciously he had drifted awiy from the little circle on Fleet street "The shabby old place seemed far more like home than my new quarters WO Ccsolld-d Nov. 29. 1901. C , DECEMBER I8C 1913, with her sympathetic voice and restful ways who had made it seem 60. No matter how tired she might be with her day in the schoolroom, she was always ready to rejoice or sympathize. "I'll send her some roses the finest I can find," he declared with a sudden rush of remorseful tpnrlArnpsa TTo tn. tered a flower ehop and bought a huge ! bunch of velvety American Beauties. ! ", - .V5 . v.. .. tu mm auuiCB, ue mm the dealer and gave him a card. Next door was the establishment of an expensive furrier, and a Lander passed the window, he saw Marguerite Fenton looking at a set of brown lynx. The rich tones went well with her brown eyes and tawny hair. As she stood there with the soft furs about her, she reminded him of some bar baric princess. Ever since he had first met her at a dinner given at the home ' of the senior member of the firm, I TandAr hart hoon .-oT o ? J i. vgref ly '"Coated. and felt that her beauty and position ; fitted in with his ambitious dreams, Yet, strangely enough, today her beau-; ty did not make its usual appeal to j him that mingled with her sinuous ! grace, was also something of feline : cruelty. "Those furs probably cost more than . my month's salary," he muttered. "Her insatiable craving for luxury would fasten itself, vampire like, on the life ; blood of the man who marries her!" j He strode down the street, feeling ' that the crowded cars would stifle him, and longing for the sense of physical motion and the stinging air against his face. When he reached his rooms he found on the table an Invitation from Mrs. Dane, a prominent society hostess, inviting him to attend a din ner she was giving that night. "That doesn't fit in with the load of work I must get through with before office hours tomorrow." Wearily he laid a package of business papers on the table and rested his read in his hands. "What does it all amount to what does life amount to?" he ques tioned despondently. "These people who Invite me do not really care for me. It is merely because I fill in and make an agreeable dinner guest, and for that I have practically given up my old friends." He realized that his present mood was the reaction from exhilaration of conquest which the past year of al most spectacular success had given him. "I'd like to chuck the whole thing and go back. If only I could have a talk with Alice in the old way, I'd feel myself again." He sat up with new energy. "I wonder if 6he'd let me come?" There was need to look in the tele phone book for the familiar number. With breathless suspense he waited while the landlady called Miss Glea son to the 'phone, and at the eound of her voice his heart began to pound boyishly. She was serenely gracious, i yet he detected a note of surprise as j he asked permission to call. ' Then she spoke of the roses, and added: "I can't begin to describe my delight over that quaint old English book. It filled a. long-felt want for the posses sion of a real first edition." Mechan ically he responded, questioning him self the while: "What book? Did I make a mistake and send Miss Fen ton's Christmas gift to Alice? In my dogged weariness I must have giv en the dealer the wrong address." He thought of Marguerite's demand of the best as her due, and a sense of impish Joy swept over him at the mistake which had defeated the usual order. He sent a messenger boy with a note to Mrs. Dane containing regrets for the dinner, then dressed and hur ried to the lodging house on Fleet etreet, "Shurre, and you're a stranger these days, Mr. Landers," remarked the maid who opened the door. As she went upstairs to call Miss Glea son her round Irish face reminded him of a cheery full moon. He glanced at the worn old haircloth sofa, and cen ter table strewn with magazines, th familiar ehabbiness of the little par lor made the past year seem as unreal zs a feverish dream. When Alice entered she seemed to bring with her an atmosphere of se-; ' renity and peace. Eagerly he rose, 4hen sank back on the sofa, his face , , went white and everything blurred be-. j fore hhn. "What is it, Edwin, are you ill?" she cried, in her alarm the old name ! slipped out unconsciously. i ; He passed his hand over his eyes m ', ; a dazed fashion. "No it is nothing," j ' he muttered. Then, earnestly, "I am , tired weary with life as it is. It is j you only I want, Alice, you, alone in ' the wide world that I love. Is there any hope?" j : His voice sank almost to a whisper, and for one tense moment there was silence in the little room. Then, by way , of answer, she drew the poor, tired face against her breast with a ges ture of ineffable tenderness. I In that moment, Lander felt that to ' his weary questionings as to what was ' worth while, the answer was not ma- j ferial success, but love which means , life in its fullness. &5SSK Curious Christmas Superstition. On Christmas eve, at midnight, coun try people in England believe that the Christ child revisits the earth. Some times, therefore, if there is a sick child in the house, the mother will take the little one to the door, just be fore midnight, and wait till the hour strikes. If the child recovers, it Is be cause the Babe of Bethlehem .has touched it with healing fingers during the earthward journey. But if the child sickens and dies, all is well, for th mother heart is comforted by the thought that the little one was called br the Christ child to be hl "play mate" In heaven. - ; -" Bmxta (Elatta 31a By ELDON PATTERSON 3ust as truly as love is, Santa Claus is. Santa Claus is a personified senti- J"6"-:119 a reallty- . . n M thworM t p-r'Si?1 f 9 whom the world has never seen except in Christ Jesus, yet His existence is manifest in everything. He is a realitv. Santa Claus need not exist in physical form to be comprehensible his spirit is endowed and devolved upon millions of willing personifiers. who in the spirit in which old Santa himself would shower blessings, shower them for him. It isn't a lie to tell the children Santa is coming; it isn't even a "white" lie Santa Claus IS coming! Ha may be the father, mother, brother or a stranger, but the sentiment of Santa w fr -,s "Pn nim- . n& i f r- V He is the expression of that which other wlse would indeed be a m th or tQ exist: He is the action of a world-old thought: He is the physical component of Love, Charity and Pity, Santa Claus is Love made tangible, .. H? s not one, but many, and it takes all the flesh and blood Santa Clauses of all the world combined to make the one big Santa Claus whom the children know and wor-. ship and whom we symbolize in great furs the wondrous figure whose great, kindly face with its never waning smile invites the confidence of the universe. Santa Claus IS, His visible form is generosity and kind ness. You can see him giving the newsboy a Quarter for a Dennv oaner. You can see him, Scrooge-like though it j may seem, helping here and there; I -a tu; i. 4-u u iv i you. can see him sharing his last tiny mite with another, while tears of pity and hap piness mingle in the bright smile the token gives. Every household in its own way knows its Santa Claus. Don't deceive the children by telling them there is no such person. Santa Claus IS, and may he always be. SHINY COINS FOR CHRISTMAS United States Treasury Makes Provi sion for Holiday Demand by Wash ing and Polishing Old Money. T this time of the year many of the banks of the country call on the United States treasury at Washington for new coins of all denomina tions gold, silver, nickel and copper to supply the demands of their customers for bright, new coins for the Christmas holidays. This demand always exceeds the nor mal demand for new coins, and the treasury has heretofore not always been In a position to meet fully each request. The recent satisfactory re sults from the washing of currency has given the treasury department an idea fpr meeting the demand for Bhlnv Christmas monev. Twenty-five thousand dollars In halves, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies Is to be washed and polished by the mint bu reau of the treasury department, so that all who wish can have their shiny Christmas money. Most of the old coins which are to be renovated will be sent to the Philadelphia mint from the United States treasury vaults, whence they will be supplied to the banks calling for them. Just what folks do with all this new coin at Christmas time is a mystery to the treasury officials. Of course much of the smaller coins, bright, new and shiny, are used for Christmas-tree decorations, but the major share of it, it is surmised, is just spent. Surprise Enough. Mr: Green "No, my dear, I will not tell you what I'm going to give you for Christmas. .Why can't you wom en be content to wait and be sur prised? Mrs. Green Oh, tell me now! If you keep your word I'll be surprised ' enough. THE BEST WAY Mrs. Highson What are you going to give your brother John this Christ mas? Mr. Highson Give him? Why, he gets three times as much salary as I do. I'm going to wait and see what he gives me. STOMACH TROUBLES PEAR. DISAP- Stomach, liver and kidney troubles, weak nerves, lame back and female ills dissappoar when Electric Bitter, are used. Thousands of women would not be without a bottle in their home. Eliza Pool of Depew, Okla. writes:' "Electric Bitters raised me from abed of sickness and suffering- and has done me a world of good. I wish every sufi; erirrff womac could use this excellent remedv and find out, as I did, just how good it is." As it has helped thousands of othef s, it surely will do the same for vou Every bottle guaranteed, 50c and $1 00. H. E, Bucklen & Co. Phil a. or St.. Louis. - . - " .25 Subscription Price $1 Per Year in Advance. AbsoSuisSy Pure Atsoluieiy hszs no ssi&sfifufa Many mixtures are offered as substitutes for Royal. No other baking powder is the same in composition or effectiveness, or so wholesome and economical, nor wsil make such fine food. Roya! is the only Baking Powder made from Roya! Grape Cream of Tartar STATE NEWS. Despondent over a case of ty phoid fever, James W. Matthews, a young merchant of Durham, shot himself last nVht. nhnnt 12 o'clock and died instantlv. He placed a pistol in his mouth and fired a ball through his head. The S3rd annual convention of the North Carolina Baptists, which was in session in Shelby last week, closed Friday after- con after selecting Raleigh as -.e meeuncr place for next year. iltiv. E. T. Carter, D. D.f of Newbern was chosen to preach the annual sermon, with Rev (a. I. Lumpkin, of Oxford as al ternate. Last Fridav morninc at 1 oVWk Miss Flossie Barnes, a nurse in the Maxton hospital, was burned to death. She had been packing her trunk preparatory to a trip to Richmond, and after preparing for bed was standing before the fire warming. .Her night clothes became ignited and before help could reacn ner they had been burned off. When she noticed the fire she lest her presence of mind and ran screaming about the hospital and the other nurses could not catch her and smother the flames. Horner Military academy, for 70 years conducted by the Hor ner family at Oxford, N. C, will be moved to Charlotte, Col. J. C. Ho -ner, owner and principal, having accepted a proposition made by business men of the city, who offered $25,000 and 25 acres of land to the school. Other towns of the state were competing for the institution and Salisbury's offer was $35,000 and 65 acres of land. Ground will be broken January 1st for the barracks and it is pur posed to have the school in readi ness for opiiia September 1st of next iar Tor the fall term. The ba-lacks at Oxford were Liuineu aoout two montns ago, hei;ce the chrgo of location. 5 o? ??50505050 v-t - tvk I ILook Over fhis iList IT MAY HELP YOU TO SOLVE THE CHRISTMAS GIFT PROBLEM Globe Wrenicke Sectional Book Cases New Home Sewing Machines Bernstein Iron Beds Ostamoor Mattresses Victrolas Victrola Records Library Tables in Mission, Oak and Mahogany-China Closets Dining Tables Hall Racks Rockers in Mission, Art Reed, Willow, Oak and Mahogany Ladies' Desks Couches Skirt Boxes Folding Card Tables Folding Cutting Tables Work Baskets Costumers China Dinner Sets, French and Austrian China Odd Peices China Cut Glass Our general stock of Furniture is fuller than usual and prices are low they never will be cheaper and we are giying away to our cus tomers a very attractive and useful piece of Hall Furniture. Maybe you need one of them. The 5 and 10 Cent 'Window is full of good things, CLAYWELL BROS. f m i I! 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