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PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN. A PROGBESSlVt ^ "“UBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN IJvDUSTBIES. BL VGTO>*, ALAMANCE COb'NTY, NORTH CAROLINA, rUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, S914 ■% Reindeer Palace, Kris Kringle County, North Pole. December 2lst, 12 ;.?0, 1914 The Twiee-A-Week Dispatch, Burlington, N. C. My Dear friends;— I am in receipt of the many letters you have forward ed me from the many nice boys and girls tha*^ have writ ten me letters through your paper and I am going to do my best to bring them all something. Some of them are asking for so much, and as money matters have been a Itttle close with me this year, I rtay not be able to bring them ail they are asking for, and then, too, soma of them have not been very good, so 1 am told, and of course I can not load myself down with toys for bad boys and girls. I am having all the little Santas at my command to look ap the record of those who have written me through your paper and v^hen I get the record made up, I will decide just what I will bring each one, there are some among your writers who promised their parents last lear that if they would tell me to come to see them they would be good for a whole year, but they have forgotten their promise and have been bad. Now% don't you thisik I ought to forget them and not bring them anything? No. I can not do that, although they have been bad, yet I will re member them. The Lord is merciful, and as He is my Cre ator, I must be merciful also. But the bad never get as much in this life or the one to come as the good, and it will ever be thus, therefore I will not bring the bad boy or girl as much as I will the good boy and girl, so if some of you do not get as much as some others, you will know the reason why, but I know you will be better the next year, so I am going to do my very best for you this year. I wili start from my palace promptly at midnight on Chirstmas Eve, and I am going to travel in a flying ma chine this time, the weather has been so bad and the roads are so bad I cannot make time with my reindeer wagon this time. Now, let all my little friends go to bed and to sleep early Christma.s Eve nisht and if the chimney is too small for me to enter, just leave one of the doors unlocked, and be careful that you do not watch. I skip all houses where the little ones are watching. V/ishing you all a Merry Christmas, with Love and Best Wishes, I beg to remain As ever, SANTA CLAUS. P. S.—-Do not have a big fire that night, I might get scorched, or your goodies might get spoil^. OEPBEHI25TH, iGliRiSm^ilEETHIJa^ What it meaii to Anierica?| Hurrah for* Christmas’. Hurrah foriJ«ck SeHars Ls Enjoying a Peaceful And, indeed, to every clvlUiced country. !oid Sar:ia' ^iay his pack he filled with ; Lifo .at thu County Home Near ciaimitig’ Christian civilization? —:0— Christmas Bay is the “Christ. Day. Whnt is the “Christ Day"? with I joy and good cheer, i w^ep or a’ si^ch. .. ' i May I^avc behind him e.igu^h ' peace and i^ood will l.shqre to shore and from.pole to pole, 1 to Ia5t- iifuil he . comes ag-ain. And ■ may he ta>.e with him all unkind fthous'hit;, U'ords. and deeds. Mav he , It is the day nearly *2,000 yoars \Viiy back in the dim past- In an a^a of itic-ral chaos;. •, In a desperately: wicked age; In an age %vhen God not considered, known, or worshippsd |and by any nation, not even His chosen malice, envy people of Lsrael. It was then that i the poor shepherds on the lonely Ju-j Wg-bundle, and my his .wift I dean hills, keeping watch over theiiY‘'°“=*- rein-deers flee flock, their hearts open to truth. That"’‘t’> 't- ‘he uttermost part. (St. Luke 2:9) “The .\ngel of the Lord the earth, and nmy it all be buried came upon them and the glory of the ^epths of the Wue sea. Barliiigton. N. C, Dec. 18, 1914. g-o to the Burlington Graded Schools, Dear Santa Clans:— j Your little friend, ■I want you to bring toe a wagon! JUANITA AMICK, and a baseball bat and 4 bail and a mit and breastplate- and a mask and sorae oranges and apples. GLENN CHRISTOPHER. Burlington, N. C., Dec, 18,1914, Dear Santa Claus:— Violet Coble said bring her a rock- 0 ling chair and a wagon and some or- Bcrhngton, N. C.. Dec. 18,1914. |ansres, apples and candy, and a baby Dear Santa Claus:— S want you to bring me some car.dy and a drinking cup and some apples and oranges. I want some raisins. I fnmt a toy wagon and a little violin. Yours truly, CHARLIE CHRISTOPHER. WANTS A TOOTH BRUSH. Burlington, N. C., Dec. 18, 1914. Dear Santa Claus:- doH and wants some soap. VIOLET COBLE. PLEADS FOR ALL. Saxapahaw, N. C., Dec. 188, 1914. I am a little girl eight years old. My name is Laney Petty. I want you to bring me a doli and some apples, oranges, candy and nuts. Dear Santa Claus, I have a little brother. He is five years old. His Will you please brin^ me a doll name is Floyd. He wants you to bring with dark curly hair and eye lashes, him an automatic pistol and some brown eyes and a little trunk with caps and some apples, oranges, candy dollies in it for her. Bring wo a and nuts, toothbrush and some fruit, candy and Dear Santa Claus, I have a iittle |but papa calls me his littfe Tom Boy. nuts, raisins. sister. She is two years old. Her^I live on R. F. D. No. 1. I am a Utye gif! six years old and name is Lueze. She wants you to bring i her a little doll and a doU carrtage and a little bed and some candy, or- ansres and nuts. Good Santa Clause, if you think thU; is to much for us. just send us what you think we ought to have. Goodbye. Froiii LANEY PETTY, FLOYD PETTY, LUEZE PETTY. A SMART LITTLE GlRt. Burlingrton, K. C-. JDec. iS, 1914. Dear Santa Clause-- I am a little girl nearly throe years old. afama says I'm mighty smart, says she donH see how she Cxyoid do vv’ithout me. I will be good to you. Old Santa, if you will come to see me. I know two lUtle speeches I will say to you. Now, Old Santa, any thing you tfaiiik I ought to have, ploase bring. My name is Mary Letitia Shoffnetj Ijord shone round about them”— The angel said uulo thein, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to iill people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David, a Savior, which is Christ, the L»rd-” These were startling events and revelations. But these honest heart ed shepherds* susceptible of truth, said, (v. 15) “Let'us now gr even unto Bethlehem and see this thin#j: which is come to pass, which the .liord hath made known unto us,’' A.nd they catne with haste and found Mary, Joseph and the Babe lying in a inan- ger. My sinner friend, let me lay thi4 matter before- you, for your consider ation, (V. 11) “For unto you h born this day in the City of David, a Sav ior, which is Christ, the Lord,” Won'^ you? Pray for your i>wu salvation from sin as I am praying daily for you? That you may sing with me your jrreat Redeemer’s prai:5e. (v. 14} “Glory to God ia the Highest and o»' earth Peace, Good Will toward men/' My sinner friend in the Church and out, God has give)i you great powers and capacities for good. Please let me beg of you* don’t drink whiskey and thereby fit. yourself for ali manner of the groKSfer sins, the outgrowth of a heart steeped in sin and a brain deranged by mean whiskey the broth of Hell. Don’t thus debase this ble.ssed 2i>th of December, 1914. For tJie Christ Child, the Incarnate* Son of God, the Only Savior of the world of humanity (Jew and Gentile) For God incarnated Himself in human flesh and appeared on the stage of hu man activities as a poor little Iniiocent babe. Figaratively speaking, in one hand he brought to us, humanity (steeped in sin and all unrighteousness) Light and in the other Life— The two es sential elements of the God head— (Life and Light.) In view of all of this, please let our people everywhere reverently spend this, as a holy day. Not in riotousness, gluttonry and drunken ness, but sending portions to bless others. The poor who hav*> no com forts of life to cheer them. That we m-ay at Crod's Judgment Bar hear f these blessc?d words, (St. John 25-34) Chrismas only comes once a year, and so let’s all begin now, to gf^ther up the sunshine lying all arourd us, and let's have one record breaking ;rood time. You old horny handed lord.s of cre ation, you husbands and fathors, yc men who sit at the head of the table, and a blessing when coiDpany comes, you are the “Rwbes” we are isfior. and that, we are calling nith :i voice sweet, soft and low. We want you, every mothe7*’s .-n/n of you, to go and stand before the look ing glass ar5d take one long look at what you see there. Be honest with yourself. Look into your own 3oul, talk out loud and say what you think. Tel! that reflection in the fflass that if he was once made in the miage of his Crcati>r, he has changcd most wonderfully, and fearfully,ar.d that il is, up to him now, to beat bjjrk lo hi.s fir-st estate. Tell him he h;is been meaiu mejisly, oncry. and no good, I hv)X that is ail in the past, and wi)] not be ohai-jrt.'d tjp to him, or against Jjim if h{» will on«y wash his huiids, his face and his feel, and keep clean hero, after, bou! and body, forever and ever, Selah. We like io see people enjoy them selves. We like fun and frolic, and have lot-s of it. And while it’s ‘lean a!id above reproach. v.’e have the co?i- ^'itiiution at our }>ack, for it gritnt.s un lo ail people the right to seek happi- nes.*? in their own way* but wlien & certiiin set can't J>e happy without while lightning, and gun powder, we think the Constitutioii l>eing *>tPain ed, and in danger of being snapped. We would Jike lo see one Christma: Durham. Durham, Oec. 21.—Recent visiior.^’ to the county home report that at to men, from ! {east, one of the inmates is happy. This inmate is no other than Jack Sel lars. Jack is doubtless one of the be.-t kfiov/n charactei's that ever walk- , ed the sti*eets of Durham. He is. and ha:-^ been for years demented, although usually harmless. About one year ajyo he was fpund lying behind a build ing ill from the cold weathei'. He was then taken to the county home where he has since remained. He roams ai*ound on the big farm, ,fr,3s from the tortures inflicted upon him by the mall boys and men in the city. Also ireQ from strorig drink and other haiTuful surroundings that waro his while ho lived in the city. Jack is gettJT^g along in years and is ■vnlling to remtiln the lemainder of his life at the county home. He doesn’t want to leave and states to visitors that he is happy. There is one thing that makes him Just a little happier than the usual run of life and that is a package of cheroots. Acquaintances of the old fellow that happeii. to be paying a visit lo Capt. Tom Mangum’s county fann will please him inimesely if they will carry with them a package of smokes for Jack- (Evorybody here remembers Jack as t\ jolly good fellow.—Ed.) MARY LETITIA SHOFFNER. “CJome, Ye blessed of My Father, in herit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World: For I was an hungered and ye gave Tiie meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me dring: J was a stranger and ye NO DECISIVE GAIN BY EfTHER SIDE Uattk'is Now Uein)^ Fouj^ht Amid Owp Snow in Bitter Cold.—Contradictory Reports—Germans in i’cland Are Makinj; Fierce Attack Toward Caii- ital and Rusciaiui Opposing Them With sn Army Fifty Milrx Uonir; Serious Fightini; in Armeiua. Germans Steadily Invading Poland. Turkinsh Army Said to Be Well .Supplii-d With Munitions of War. O WRONG IMPRESSI.ON. Some people seem to think that The Oisp.atch is Roing to act Santa C'.aus to all thf- children who have \\Titten U'tU't's to Santu. Now, we ■nrould ciiid to do so, but more than a thousand have written and it would when the right of the birds, rabbits a miliionaire to foot the bill, and squirrel, were respectod. 'XheseJWe are just acting the part of a good fellow by sending: the paper containing thv letters to Dear Old San^a, who wiii do the rest. O-^ poor little creatures of She good I.orrs handiwork, don't have any happy an ticipations before Christmas, cr any joyful memories after, but a few of them survive, whether it i.-i a survival of the fittest, or bad martcsnianship, we do not knew. But we do think Christmas without so nfiuch ‘'licker” and gun powder, woald be an improvement. Don't spend so much money for ani- mu»^ition, cJther wet or dry, and see that your wife and babies, both isi? and little, have nice presents. Nev er mind whether it is useful or not. it is the spirit that counts. The tender thought, the Chri.^f feeling- of love, peace and good v.iil to all mankind, either beginniiiij at JerasaJem or home. And then see to it that you keep that good ipirit alive tn your gizzard all the year. Lenoir county estimates that is sav ed J3,000 the past year by having county officers on a salary. took me in: Naked and ye clothed | Don’t give a few presents at Chriirt- me; f was sick and ye visiteti me: I was in prison and ye coMc unto me. Blessed Day. It is coming. Avirake my sinner friend, let us be ready, for we know not the day nor the hoar when wa die. With love to al! and malice to none, I am, Very truly, W. C. THURSTON. mas just simply because .you are ashamed not to, and then draw in your horns, and shat down your shell, like a turtle, until the Lord, or .■some body else, lays a live coal on your back, to start yon off again. Be up and doing all ye men of the Old North State, and remember that by sharing your happiness with an other, you are doubling it. See t&at the poor are fed, clothes are wnrmed, and on ihat day see that the .sick are visited, ministered unto, cheered and comforted. Many a home in the good Old North State has been bereft of some loved 'ne since last Christmas, father's seat ; is vacant, never to be filled any more. Mother's smiling face is gone. Many a (iear hoy or girl has gone over, and acros;! the Kroat divide, and all iround ym there are bleeding hearts that cravo your sympathy. Search out all and show to them that you sympathize with them. Speak lo them words of good cheer, und show to them that you want to help them surmount all their difficulties, and go back (o that same gla.‘!.i, and behold that .lame re flection, and see if there has not been a transformation ■ftTought. May CHriRtnia* joy and Christmas cheer Be with you :itl the glad aew year. PRINT
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