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lilli 1 Some of Salisbury's Leading rjerchanto and ffepv-i 'mw :k7 .,' ..V.". W 1ME (AN SERME 7" 51 3 V 0 Cb 81 mwr. J Druggist. l Perfumes, Toilet Articles, Cigars, Pipes and Tobaccos, (I for the well and strong; -) Z Mineral Waters, Crutches, the Convalescing, and - vi Pure Drugs, Accurately compounded Prescriptions, , 7' Proprietary and Patent Medicine for the sick. You are cordially invited to give us a" call. Your pa- trnnacft will hft Hnlv annrftp.iated. PromnT"service. f tronage will be d uly appreciated. Prompter vice . S. M. 0 L;OaiC for Ladies, Misses at Greatly Reduced Prices DAVE OESTBEIGHER. aQGOOBMHMi GLOBE DEPARTMENT STORE H. I31LLER, Prop. 121 South Main St., Salisbury, N. C. We have always hae the reputation of doing what we say we do. Our line of - Clothing, Hats, Dry Goods, Skirts, Etc., Etc., is without a doubt, the latest wearables manufactured. Watch for our big ad. 121 South Main St., Salisbury, N. C. H. MILLER, Prop. GLOBE DEPARTMENT STORE sooooooooooooooooooooo 'Jj5SB1' Something for Music Loving People During Christmas: To every one sending- us one name of some one interested in buying- a piano or organ we will upon receipt of. their letter mail to them a selection of beautiful songs entitled "Songs of the Sunny South," The famous Harvard Waltz and Everett Twostep. . The above songs will be mailed absolutely free, postage prepaid, to all who comply with the above request. Write for our catalogues, terms and prices on pianos and organs. B. P. JARRETT, Box 65, Salisbury, N. C. SOLID SILVER Fi Q. Solid Silver Toilet'Sets. Q Solid Silver Manicure Sets. 0 Sol d Silver Card Cases. Solid buver rurses. Solid Silver Cloth Brushes. Solid Silver Puff Jars. , k Soljd (Silver Military Brushes, r Solid-Silver Match Safes. Solid Silver Hat Brushes. Q bond Silver, Umbrellas (I ,v r . Always the Lowest prices at, 8 GREEN'S JEWELRY STORE, s,r to Gorman & Green. sssSSfcSi ' toU TifT-BFffiil" H BaBBsJI SfiSsSSwl "WhteteiiSB Liniments and Tonips for Purcell, The Ledi i r Druggist. 0 flJO.DL and Children 0 0 CHRISTMAS GIFTS THEIR EVE NIIj BY - Virginia LciliaWcntd "M ERCI, monsieur!" cried the. concierge as he cheerfully took he silver coin. happy NoeL monsieur r , Lansing Drake, entered the little Im passe on the broad Avenue du Maine shaking his shoulders, for his back .ached. , He hacLbeen working at the Louvre for five steady hours till the very last fraction of light held out. Why not? What part had he in the festivities of these happy French peo ple? Was not he one of the homeless -ones, separated by the width of an ocean from his family? In his studio apartment he threw himself on a divan with a pipe and a Journal Amusant But the Journal was full of allusions to the season, and j somehow he sighed. The eve of Noel f Christmas eve! It had been the very best time of the year over there in his dear southern home. What were they doing now? Getting the things ready for the trees, and tying up the wreaths of holly with red ribbon, and hanging a branch of mlstle oh, pshaw, what right had he to think of such things tonight? A clatter of sabots across the flag stone court the small daughter of the concierge fetching water from the common tap; from the Boulevard Montparnasse the toot of a St. Phil ippine du Roule train and then si- IF HE ONLY DARED lence. Drake was picking up his pa- per again when The snow lay on the grround; The starB shone bright Ah, it was the quaint old English i carol, with Its liquid, sweet melody, ' which he'd learned at his mother's knee, and It was the American girl across the court who was singing it: When Christ our Lord was born On Christmas night. No wonder the tears came to his eyes. That particular carol and that particular girl made up a combination to which he was a bit sensitive if the truth had been dragged from him. Just that very morning he had writ- ten home: "There's a little American girl oppo- site. I don't even know ner name, i but the mere sight" of her keeps me stralght She's all ' alone, and she's evidently studying music. As for her singing, she has the most beautiful voice the good God ever saved from a lost violin, a voice to make ' you pray, little mother, to turn your laugh ter to tears, to turn your tears to laughter." From the day when he had first seen her, watering her geraniums on the sill, the window across the court yon der had become a sort of shrine. And at each new glimpse of her an unform ed prayer of thanks surged up within him that a-creature so lovely had been sent by heaven to keep the word "gentleman" stainless, to make it a thin? to strive for and to take a cleanly comfort to. She was a stranger too. Tt was a bond between them. Tonight perhaps she was suffering like him from home- I sickness and loneliness. How soon he could make her forget all that! .They .. could have a reveillon of their own and a Jolly little supper, laughing, tc-i gether In sheer happiness of a mutual understanding of tha Christmas spirit 7 abroad. Unchaperoned? What would4 they need of a chaperon, they two two tollers . for the sake of art, com- rades hvanns made equal hi rank by the blessed chance of being both strangers In this wonderful old Paris? There was a moving gleam of some- thing behind the geraniums yonder. i The cheesecloth curtains stirred, and ttien the window was lifted. She threw out some crumbs to some cold looking sparrows. The last rays of the winter sun touched the fine, white parting that separated the burnished waves of hair. If he only dared speak to her! She might, misjudge him before be had a chance to show his intentions." But he would do it. He would seize the mo ment while this fit of madness lasted and speak to her. In saner mood his courage might be unequal to it He hurried out of the room and stood, hat in hand, in the court close to her win dow. "I sin your neighbor across the way, n.:ulenioisc'e." he said. "It is a liionth since I first saw you, and I've Irk" i wanting to know you so much, so much. I have no means of obtain ing an introduction, and at the risk of your displeasure and your scorn I have ventured to speak to you tonight, to tell you how the little Christmas carol you sang just now somehow flew straight to a fellow's heart and made him think of home and all the old familiar joys of the season." He held out a card. His hand shook a trifle. But the girl did not notice. She was looking at him steadily, after the first start of surprise, the color coming and going in her cheeks. But in her eyes was no fear, no displeas- SPEAK TO HER! ure, rather the expectancy of an ex- plorer who, venturing far, finds the present good, though "that to come be unknown. Presently they went out and hailed a fiacre. "Where shall it be?" asked Drake. "Laure's? Voisin's? Peter's? No, I have it Marguery's." So they drove to Marguery's, and Drake ordered a bouillebaisse (to be quite seasonable) and a langouste mayonnaise and a bird and some sweets. They had a very Jolly little supper indeed and no end of amusement watching the merry looking French people at the- tables, all devouring bouillebaisse and other nice things, "And to think," cried the girl as the clock struck 11, shivering with pre- tended alarm, "that I'm sitting here at this hour, unchaperoned, in a French restaurant with a man who hasn't even been conventionally intro duced!" "Don't!" cried Drake abruptly. "Come! We must be going home. It is a bit late.", . She was silent while they left Mar guery's and hailed a fiacre. Then she broke out tn a queer little voice that was low and tremulous: "I think you must have a sister. You take such good care of a girt." The fiacre rolled Into the glare of an overhead arc light, and he saw her looking at him with a half mysterious, half divine gratitude. "Please don't do that," he answered In a hashed voice. Something Inside him was pounding furiously. Some thing at his temples beat and throbbed. "Don't do what?" "Look lie that" t She not only looked Hke that, hut , more so. -. - "Young man, young man," laughed she, with mock warning, "I fear you ' are wishful of turning a girl's head." "The Lord be good to mel" he broke out; his pent-up passion of dreams rushing to his lips now that the bar- rier fell. "Dont you see lfs because I well, I'd hoped to pass the evening without telling you that I loved you that's why I was hurrying youiome, i told you a little? while ago It was your friendship 1 wanted. I was wrong -She made no answer, but stretched out her ilttle gloved hand to him,x then drew it back quickly unnoticed, a singular smile on her lips. "You've, known me for .a few hours only," he went on in a steady voice, "and I. understand what yoa think of me for speaking like this. If I had known -you for years and had waited and had the right to speak and keep your respect" His steadiness did not carry him to the end of his sen tence. i " ' ' Then she. laughed Joyously, dell ciously. : , "You are mistaken," she said. -"I have known you lop years. I used to chum with, your sister Gertrude at school, and you used to come down rrom your university, and we'd take walks. And we went up to all the meets to see y on-run rand you used to win. xou called her your kld sister1 and me 'the other kidand you kissed me once. You've fonrotten the little girl who stood silent in corners and looked at yon with wide eyes. But I couldn't forget. I used to have Ger trude write me all about you till she married that missionary and went to live in China. And . then I had your photograph-the one In your track suit. Ana lust to think for a whole month now you've been living opposite to me, across the court, and I never knew It! Ah. Lanse. I've felt for years you would come to me, and when saw you tonight my first Impulse was to srretcn out Dotn lianas and be so glad, so glad. At once, though, I saw you'd forgotten, so I determined not to tell you who I was. I wanted you to recall. When I spoke of your havine sister just now I tried to make you recall, but I'm glad you didn't, be cause it's me, all me, as I am, that you love, and if s so good that way." A little later throueh the frostv air rthe midnight bells of Noel rang out clear. Then at the last, very softly, from a darkened room across tha court, Lansing Drake heard a verse of the old Christmas carol he had suns at his mother's knee: The snoVJay on the ground; The starb shone bright He bowed his head In his hands for the great gift that had come to him When Christ our Lord was born On Christmas night. Mother's Coronation Day. That first Christmas was the moth er's coronation day. Each recurring Christmas perpetuates the memory of her great glory. In public and in pri vate celebrations of it hers should be the central figure. Solemn gladness akin to the Creator's satisfaction in his "very good" work should fill ner souL In Mr. Harrison S. Morris beautiful poem, "Incarnation," we read how a laborer, laden with "a tray of tools, a timbered frame," walked In the sun shine through a city street Nor knew that out of myriads one -Beside him saw a shadow run That clasped the centuries in its shade. But, like a loving spirit, there. In even footfall at his side, A shadow walked the pavement wide With bended headend humble pride r And angled cross aslant the air. It was as if the dateless sun Forgot the years, the far abode, And, lo, upon the sordid road The cross worn Nazarean trode, . Holding the journey never done. Every mother who holds her baby In her arms repeats, unconsciously or con sciously, the story of the Incarnation. The blended shadow "clasps the centu ries," past, present and to come, and tternity Itself 'In its shade." Marion Harland in Independent The Navy's Christmas. Christmas In the. regular navy is ob served as one of the big holidays of the year. Starting off with a grand dinner In the middle of the day, ; discipline Is from then on relaxed, and the fun Is fast and furious till sundown, and of ten the evening is enlivened by amateui theatricals. The vessel is gayly deco rated with bunting, and at each mast head and at the bow and stern green trees are lashed If procurable. Self Help. Dashaway Well, Uncle Jasper, how are you getting on with your Christ mas dinner? Uncle Jasper Fust rate, .sah. Colo nel Winterblossom done guv me a present of a fine fat turkey, sah. Dashaway That's very strange. I just left the colonel, and he didn't say anything about it. Uncle Jasper No, sah. He's got to countdem turkeys fust When Mistletoe Was Banned. Because of its association with pa gan rites the mistletoe was for centu ries forbidden-a place In English church decorations at Chrlstmastide, and it was not even mentioned in old rhymes until the seventeenth century, in Herrick's time, although the holly and Ivy had for two centuries previous been the subjects of various poetical effusions. Circumstances Alter Cases. Crawford I thought you were per fectly delighted with the Christmas present your wife gave you. , Crabshaw At that time I didn't know she'd had it charged. How It Was Done. She The Ideal And we weren't even standing under the mistletoe! He No. 1 - did that sub- rosal Brooklyn Eagle. In Christmas Land. Mistletoe just . overhead -Touch one spray abovei ... . nan? oemes just, as rea As the. lips of Love. - Christmas skies of blue and gray. Heaven In bright view. And the sweetest gift today Just the lips of you! , i l - - . . :s jfl i . m ' rTTT-'"-- ,l",' ' " ' t Tsyvll3 v i THEO. BUERBAUM, BOOKSTORE, t SALISBURY, N. O. READY FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS! CALENDARS. Special attention called to large line of beautiful calendars from 5cts to $5.00. BOOKLETS for 5cts up. BOOKS. Suitable for all purposes, for young and old, for rich and poor, for everyone and all, from 5cts to $10.00. PICTURES, large assortment. Toilet Cases, Collar chief and Glove Boxes, Writing Desks, Work Oases. FOUNTAIN PENS, from $1.00 to $12.00. And Buerbaum frames for the U: , A Shot Gun or a Rifle It will please the man and tickle the Boy. Special Holiday Prices Slit BY99 t The Sporting Goods Store. I m - Do dLillear9 is the place to buy your . CHRISTINAS Your Patronage is Respect fully Solicited. Yours for a Merry Christmas anda Prosperous - i.ew year. B. M. MILLER, c? 0 0 0 YESTERDAY is gone, TO-MORROW may be too late. 1 NOW IS the i Best Time in the World.; DO IT NOW. 'p Every Department Complete and Overflowing. All Novel and New 0 0 0 Toys, Fire Works, Dolls, Safety n Uruns, velocipedes, wagons, uo-carts, Hand Cars, Children's Chairs Pocket nivfis. Tab! ft Cutler v. Silver ' "NTiolrr . 7 0 plate, Japanese Fancy Wae Books, 0 Piotiirfis. Lnmns. China, r ccs titi a 7 L- , ( Everything for Christmas Gifts. " ; . "S.T A iuui h THE DOLLAR 0 SPOT and Cuff Boxes. Ha makes the picture people. GROCERIES. We carry a full line of everything you may need" in the Grocery line. -v We keep on hand Fresh, Candies, Cakes, ; Fruits, Nuts, Canned Goods, Coun try Produce, Dried Fruits -and all the Staple and Fanr -cy Articles usually carried in a firstclas3 Grocery Store-" A 111 W. Innes St. ' " () goo .7 , -SM.m . IVJVin" 7 t poo nx. x : Santa Clatjs. and ' 1 ub iriena, ' STRETCHER AND V o H - 5 ft: n 1 I IT : t
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