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v A, F - f,' 1 V ,1 THE BOXC030 nn doxcobo couuto December 20, un. , 1 , , . ui , - v f DECEMBER t PAGE TWO 5 I 1 M I; V 5 ? i f. 'I 1 If. r i. i1" 1V 1 1 I ChrUtmas Greens. A quamt old thus spintualixes jthe practice of Christmas decorations. jSo our churches and houses, decked ("With bays? and rosemary, htUy nnd.h-y and otlicr phmts which are always jgreen, winter and summer, signify and pnt us In mind of his Deity that the child that now is horn was Iod and man, who should spring up like a teu dr plant, slmiiM always be rrp and ' flourishing and should live forejer- 1 1 r Logical. "Mumr , ''Stop that noise irilh your V&ristmas drum! Do you want to deafen us?" '"Yes'm: then yov won't wind theynoiu" Life. Risky. 'Td like to give my dollars fi.r Chris twits." : "Well, why notf ain't ccrtiin tlvi! I c'juhl co::.'; it away from hrr (ujuin." Louis ville Courier-Journal. 0 A Sign of Age. "Just iclicn does a v:-vin grow C4 . old?" "When she ceases to regard t hanging of the hii-.lletoe us m ' event.1" Buffalo Express. All He Remerr.tcred. The PrracTier And did you re- member the poor on Christmas? ; Little Albert No. I didn't re member -noikin' much, except about pa ep.tehirV we with inn hand in the box where via had the raisins hid.' Up-to-Daie Xmcs Maxims. Hever look a Christmas gift in the price tag. There is nothing so. rare, as a present you canted. A ton of coal is rather to be chosen than gaudy jewels. Betcareof mistletoe; it grows cn ike border of matrimonial jmgles. Better broken toy drums than broken eardrums.. Christmas spirit sluo:n intoxi cates, but it general :.i bankrupts, Christmas belles :; anage to ring in qvil- a few rifts. Just now ii,e niosi jupular book seems to be Hie poekctbook. Vever v ' a gift vijar in tlie mouth, i . CUristmas gifts are somewhat like babies you cant always get what you want, but wisely be con- HHted mth what came.Nete Ttrrfc American. j - h - 1 , 1 P3 X, 1 1 I Christmas Mcane Love. We cr.nuot picture it without seeing the spangled Christ nas tree girt with the faces of sleeft.l youngsters,' glad parents and hap Iwdiw illumed borae from town or far metropolis. It sounds like bell.- nd crackling lojpi ;md shouta ot chUdrn. And even our old, round shouldered, sorrow ridden planet, with his eye knocked out on Ms cheek, pauses to sini W from sea to sea. and lott everywhere rejuten ated. James Whltcowb itilej. Good Old Soul. "irfty haven't you asked him, "To your snowy gone. they i j mountain ranytt f" '"I'm- tea i tiny, said Santa Clans, "to make The reguhu- exchanges." Christmas Anticipation. '7 don't believe the approach of Christmas brr.uj&ijou a single joy- ous anticipate, " said the sweet''' yow.iq thing. j ''Don't chr replied the savage huehelor. -Listen to my secret. ! That youngster on the third' floor is sure, to get u tin trumpet for a present." : "Yes:' . "Then he will get careless and leave it on the hall floor. And, then I shall, step on it with both1, feet. Don't yd it call that a joyois ' anticipation r' j r lO A Long List. Parke Have you decided, what to give your wife for Christmas? Lane Not yet There are so many things I can't . afford. Judge.- i The Canny Scot at Yule. A commercial traveler had taken a large order in Scotland for a consignment of hardware and endeavored to press upon the canny Scottish manager who had given pie order a Christmas gift of a box of Havana cigars. "Now," he replied, "Don't try to bribe a man. I cudna tak them, and I am a member of the kirk" ''But will you not accept them as a Christmas present?" "I cudna," said the Scot. "Well, then," said the traveler, "suppose I sell you the cigars for a merely nominal sum say, six pence?" "Weel, in that case," replied the Scot, "since you $r ess me, 4,nd, r.o 'liking tae refuse an offer well j meant, I think Til be taking ie.) bosccs.' WILLIS " BltOOICS (Coyrlglit, 19X7, Wet tern Ktwspaptr Uxxloa. ) OrrTt village paper had Issued it very ' reditable Christmas edition. : 1 was looking over the newt tec tlon by the front window. My wife sat near, (absorbed in tbe story part "What's t tat f she aBkedlistenlnf. She was always on tte lookout for inore" eggs. What she heard certainly did sound, like a lien announcing the arrival of one-twelfth of a dozen. "That" I answered, "is Ezra Barn stable in a state of amua ementH We looked through the window, and,; sure enough, here he came down the street, an expansive amile illuminat ing his moonlike face. What on earth can the man be laughing so about all alone?" my wife wanted to know. She waa that way never content uto let a man b happy unless she knew the reason why. So I went to the door and sang out to Ezra, "Isn't It kind: of stingy to en Joy it all by yourself V When he had unwound th wool tip pet from his neck and taken the rock ing chair which tbeanissis had set be fore the fireplace for him he leaned back and cut gashes in the atmos phere with another flourish of his sharp cachinnations. Tve heard o' Santa Clau playin' tricks before now,H said he, "but I don't guess he alnt never, played none no funnier than this. "It was like this: Three, four days aj?o my hoy Chet come home with a rabbit one o' them big white critters with the pink eyes that he'd swapped off one o' his mittens to the one armed Mayhew boy fcr. When he come In, luggtn' the thing "In his arms, his ma ast him whose it was, an' he said it was bls'n an' its name was Jimmy an' Eddie Mayhew save it to him. "Them Mayhew boys ain't givin' nothin' away fer nothlnV says she. 'Wfcafd yon give him fer It?' "Chet knowed he was cornered, so he owned up that he'd give Eddie one o his wool mittens. I don't never wrar but one much atfyhow, says he, 'an'. Ieides, Eddie's a poor, one armed hoy, an' hi hand was cold, an' It,was coniln' Chris'mus.' "I seen the look in his ma's eye, an' I felt sorry fer Chet, so I teiys, 'CheV says I, severe-like, 'you come to lite bam along of me' like I was goin to lick him. i niit j.ii.-m-u iiia ilia. on xiivl iui me went to the barn an' made a box to keep the rablwt in. I knowed tlto thtnir M freeze to death if he kep' it .'luvwlicrcs lmt in the house, an' I knowed. his ina wouldn't listen to his (iou' that, so I puts him up to gittin' rid of it by iuvitin' his Cousin Artie over fcr Chris'imis an' jiivin' it to him fer a Chris'mus nrpsont. f "Artie, you know." Ezra explained, "is my wife's brother's boy.. You re member my wife's brother, Dan Baker, over in Center township, the one that died an' left a widtjor with eight ehil !ern? "Waal, when Chet told his ma what !:e v.as oin' t do she said he emilo l.oep the rabbit-in Uo attic till Chris' mus an' not a minute longer. So ho writ to Artie an' this morn in' bright :m' early here comes the hull family Mis' linker an' Uu- hull eijrht ehildern. "Chet, he hadn't even got up yet, but I rousted him out. an' when he come down he tolt Artie about rne Jimmy rabbit he was jroin' to'jcivehim. Then Mis' Baker chips in an', says she never 'lows one o' h.er children to accept presents unless all the others gits, the same thing. 4Tt makes the others jeal ous says she, .'an' creates dissensions "Tsoen trouble com in' to Chet in flocks an' herds an' I says to myself they's j.est one way to settle this thing. You know, if you give a rabbit a little cuff on the back of his neck he never knows what hit him. So I sneaks up to the attic, but ole Santa Claus.had got there ahead o' me." ' . ' Ezra' rocked back and "let out a few more staccato notes of merriment. "What had happened?" my wife asked. ' ; "Wait 'till I tell-you," said-Ezra. "I called Chet to come up quicjk, an -he come a-runnin'. 4Look here says I to him, 'you give the eight little ones to the children an' the old one to Mis' Baker. If you do it nice she can't refuse 'em, 'specially when "the little rabbits needs the services of immy fer awhile, yit' So Chet he lugged the hull box o' rabbits downstairs an' made sech a elckent presentin' speech that , " thfl"k him. an the wither couldn't do nothin' but take the . hull mess home with her i. BY CHARLES S. PEASE j 1 , (Cosyrfffct, WlJ, WoltroNtiwtpwUBtoa.) j " j yV--, OFcoaweyoowtnttokDowiitonce 7 1 if how cariitoa)rw can twi any j . I Vf H if last year, ao I shall explain that the trw lUlph and Ehoda had by accident one w1nter2ras!ifooted in the ground In the Laka Superior wood. First you must be told that the town chlldrea n? thera had the good tixnea la bataamer'aAd;'irin' tha minera boys and girls had the hard times all the year around, and that's the reason why mother said to Ralph and Bhoda the day before Christmas: tI daa't aee how you two are going to hare a happy holiday when the chit drea ap at the mines do not expect to have any tree at alL How would you like te go mp the mountain and take thea a lot of presents and things? Too can get back before dark. I will telef&ooe the mine captain that you are eomlng' "Jaat the, very thing' said the chil drea. And away they went soon after with a sled loaded with everything you can think of for a jolly Christmas, just lota el gifts and royal trimmings for a tree. They were making good time along ike mountain side when Ithoda atam bled over a root Whea sb tried to stand up again her aakle .would not work. Of course Rhoda would not hear of leaving the miners' children's "Christ maa" in the snow and coasting back home. So Ralph went back to the Hilfway store for some help, but the place waa locked and barred. Before they decided on what to do next a flock of the mine children came racing down the road., It seemed as though the tele phone message had emptied the settle ment of youngsters. "We've come to help take the 'Ohrist roas' up the mountain. It's a hard pull farther along," they explained. When they found that Rhoda was hurt they wanted to take her home, but she wouldn't listen to a word of it. "I'm going right up to see that tree properly trimmed and hung with these things' announced that young lady and, lelng of the sturdy and determin ed kind, tried to forget the pain. So the swiftest runners of the mine boys started back to get a sled to car ry Rhoda to the summit. Before the ambulance corps could re turn, down eame one of those howling blizzards so dreaded in the rough northern country,. and there was noth ing for It but to retreat and take refjtige in the Halfway store. This old log j house proved a hard nut Jo crack, but Ralph finally managed to get in through a rear window and soon had a roaring fire going in the big stove. Th1 plucky lads got back from the moun tain, and everybody thanked his lucky stars to be safe and warm. Out side the storm roared and the trees bent low in the gale. All the evening Rhoda stood the ache bravelv and said t it was nothing, but Mary Martha Mur- j yhy knew bettcr When all was quiet j she brought a f ail of water so hot that ! Rhoda squealed-when her the swollen ankle into it. nur and put these two girls, nne who had a lovely home and rich furs and many other fine things a:)() the little poor girl With a warm' Irish heart." sat up till "all hours." During the nkrht the stoni turned to rain and then it became cold, so very cold that the forest was covered with n icy coat. In the morning the bliz zard drifts were many feet deep. So the only thing to hS'Ylbne. was to wait till a rescue party came out for them with shovels and horses and .snbwplows. And then a great thought occurred to Rhoda. A giant hemlock tree stood right in front of the store, in .a place swept clear by the wind that is, it had be,en a hemlock before it became one great dazzling emerald with pearly Icicles hanging all over It. When night came, dear and perfect-' ly sfill and "inky black, the rescue par ty found a celebration going on the like - of which had never be,en known. The children had taken hundreds of miners' candles from the store and had wired them all over the hemlock. All the presents and the gilt ropes and the other ornaments had been hung about the branches, and the candles lighted. ' . . Rhoda, half smothered in furs and tucked up on a high seat, was mistress of ceremonies, while a ring of singing, dancing children circled around the tree, nnd in the background, all about the dense forest, shot back millions of sparks of light. r III I DOYOURBIT? 50 head of nice p nice horses, always on hand. Virg inia Raised, all - ready ac climated to this climate. All sold upder a guarantee. You can find what you want at my place. Brood Mares of all kinds. - Don't fail to see my stock be fore buying. If not as represented, your mon- v ey Will be cheerfully refunded. R. E. Dillard, Mangum St. ; DURHAM, N. C. . t : a l-l- . . . 1 1.1 ' 1 i ' t . 1 1 . r- TTtv TI 1 Days Prosperity dates from the first dollar sav ed. If you are earning 'money you ought to save something. What you do now in the way of saving may determine what the fu ture will bring you. We pay interest on sav ing accounts. Let us open one f qr you. We are prepared to serve the public in an acceptable way. Have you tried us ? : j' j I ( Banl of ITieYIl Roxborb That every individual shpuld lend as sistance: to his countrjh FIRST: By conserving the material re sources of the Nation, the unit upon which it wealth is based. If it is property that will burn, protect it with j one of our Fire Insur ance policies. ; SECOND: By Hcving the State of the expense of caring for thse vho are depen dent' A good life msurahce policy will meet the demand. V See ours-none better. mules, 50 . head - Roxboro N.C. Demand DO IT IUOW. ! - . 3? t i 1 f
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