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r I I I A ! v .r i 77ie oa Municipal Christmas Tree By THORNTON. W. BURGESS (Copyright by Thornton W. Burgess) 1 S NCE upon a time, long, long ago, the great - great - ever- j so-great grandf a- 1 ther of Happy Jack Squirrel', whose name was Happy Jack, too, was scampering along the Lone Little Path that comes down the hill through the Green Forest. He was happy, very happy, was Hap py Jack, which was quite as it should be, for there was everything to make him happy. His sides were fat with the good things he had to eat. He had a beautiful new coat to keep him warm when rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost should come driving the ?;now clouds to make white the Green Meadows and change the Green Forest until the little people who live there only in the summer would never, never known it had they happened to have come back. But rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost had not come yet, and Old Mother Nature was busy preparing the Green Forest for them and urging all the little people to hur ry and make ready for them. So Happy Jack scampered down the Lone Little Path and pulled over red leaves and yellow leaves and brown self, and Happy Jack had saved her some trouble, for, though he didn't know it, he had planted it for her. It all came about just as Old Mother Nature had thought it would. Happy Jack never once thought of that par ticular little brown seed, for he had hidden plenty to eat all the long win ter in the Green Forest. So the little brown seed lay just where he had hid den ijt, until gentle Sister South Wind came in the spring and with her 'soft fingers opened all the little brown blankets of the leaf buds on the trees which Jack Frost with his hard fingers had been unable to open. Then Old Mother Nature remembered the little brown seed, and she wakened a little fairy who was sleeping in the heart of it, and the name of the little fairy was the Fairy of Life. So out from the warm earth sprang a tender green shoot, which really was a teeny, weeny Pine-tree. Jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun, look ing down from the blue, blue sky, saw it and smiled, and his smile made the teeny, weeny Pine-tree very happy, for it warmed the ground and comforted the little roots growing there. Old Mother West Wrind, hurrying past on her way to blow the white sailed ships across the Great Ocean, and was beloved of all the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows, and gave them shelter and was happy. Once every year, long after the nuts had been gathered and all the world seemed drear and bare, came merry Children, and older folk, and with laugh and song and happy shout would cut young Pine trees and young Hem lock trees and carry them away. At first the Beautiful Pine had pitied the young trees, but when it saw that it was the possession of these trees that made the children so happy, it began to envy them, and when Jack Frost told it of peeping in at many win dows and seeing these little trees made beautiful with many lights, and hung with beautiful things to fill the hearts of little children with joy, it sighed more than ever. "For," murmured the Beautiful Pine to the kindly stars, "I would gladly give myself to put joy in the heart of just one little child; but, alas! I am too big. I am too big. No little child wants me because I am too big." So Christmas after Christmas the Beautiful Pine would watch the iittle trees carried away and would mur mur sadly, "I can give Christmas joy to not one little child because i am too big, too big." And the wandering Night Wind would carry that sad mur mur through all the Green Forest, "I am too big, too big." Then, one day, when the snow lay white on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest, and the Beautiful Pine had watched the little trees for Christmas carried away with laugh and shout, as it had for so many Christmases, came men and horses, and keen axes sent shivers clear to its beautiful top, until its proud length lay stretched on the snow. And some how the beautiful Pine cared not, for it so wanted to give joy to just one little child, and it was too big, too big It was carried into a great city, and there, in the very heart of the great city, the Beautiful Pine was raised un til it stood as proudly as it had stood just beyond the edge of the Green For est, and it was hung with many colored lights until it was quite, quite the most beautiful that ever was. And there came not one, but a thousand little children, and they danced around the Beautiful Pine, and laughter was in their eyes, for joy was in their hearts And they sang and their voices were joyous. And they shouted and their voices were merry. And they cried "It is the most beautiful tree in al the world, for it is our Christmas tree the Christmas tree of all the children !" Then was the heart of the Beauti ful Pine, planted long, long years ago by the great-great-ever-so-great grand father of Happy Jack Squirrel, filled with a great joy the joy of giving, for it had given its greatest gift, the gift of itself, for the joy of many. And the spirit of Christmas, which is love i for all mankind, descended upon it as sweet-toned bells chimed, "On earth peace, good will toward men," and the glad voices of a thousand little chil dren cried, "Merry merry Christmas !" A Sweet Revenge. "I sent my present to Nellie Sly boots when she was at her club, and I knew all the girls and fellows would gather around to see her open it." "Why, I thought you didn't like Nel lie." "I can't bear her. The present was a nice long hair switch." t t I Hopes Women Will Adopt This Habit j As Well As Men ! s t Glass of hot water each mom- fng helps us look and feel 1 clean, sweet, fresh. T Once Every Year, Came Merry Children, and Older Folk, and With Laugh and Song Would Cut Young Pins Trees and Carry them Away. leaves to see what he could find under saw the teeny, weeny Pine-tree and them, and his heart was happy, for sent some of her children, the Merry his stomach was full, and you know a Little Breezes, to drive up a shower full stomach, unless it be too full, al- j cloud that it might not go thirsty, most always makes a happy heart. j But no one else saw the teeny, weeny Now, as he pulled over the red and Pine-tree, or if they did see it, they yellow and brown leaves, his sharp took no notice of it. Happy Jack eyes spied a little brown seed. It was Squirrel ran right past and didn't so a homely little seed which had fallen much as look at it, for he had forgot from a rough pine cone, and you and ten all about hiding that homely little I would very likely not have seen it brown seed in the ground there. Once at all, or if we had we would have Peter Rabbit, nibbling tender sweet i . . , . . . thought it of no account. But Happy clover, nearly nipped off the head of vs Jack's eyes sparkled when he saw that the teeny, weeny Pine-tree and didn't uraL complexion and freedom homely little brown seed, for he knew even know it. from illness are assured only by that it was very good to eat. But nothing really happened to the clean, healthy blood. If only every Not that he was hungry. Oh, my, teeny, weeny Pine-tree, and it grew woman and likewise every man could no ! There wasn't room In his stomach and grew and was happy, for it loved realize the wonders of the morning for the least teeny, weeny bit more jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun and Old insi(je aj. what a SS change just then. But Happy Jack knew that Mother West Wind and the Merry instead of tathousands of sickly, there might come a time when his Little Breezes, and they loved it. So anaemic-looking men, women and stomach would not be so full, and then it grew and grew, and when rough girls with pasty or muddy complex- that little brown seed would taste oh, Brother North Wind came again he ions; instead of the multitudes of so good ! covered it deep with a soft blanket of "nerve wrecks," "rundowns," "brain Now, he had hidden a great many snow to keep it warm all winter. ' fags" and pessimists we should see a little brown seeds and fat nuts near So the teeny, weeny Pine-tree was edSS eer?JSefe. the Lone Little Path, so when he kept safe all the long winter, and when An msiae bath is had by drinking, picked up this particular little brown gentle Sister South Wind once more each morning before breakfast, a seed quickly he scampered over the dry came in the spring the teeny, weeny glass of real hot water with a tea leaves until presently he came to the Pine-tree began to grow again. It spoonful of limestone phosphate in it edge of the Green Forest. He looked grew and grew and grew and grew to wash from the stomach, liver, kid- this u-riTT onrf ho InnVorl thnt wnv tn nntil if -,: nrk lnnmr tppnv wpphV neys auu tell aius, ul uuwcio f see if anyone was watching him, and but put out sturdy branches and was when he was sure that no one was, he very good to look upon and held its ran out a little way from the edge of head high, for it was indeed a beauti the Green Forest, dug a tiny hole in ful young tree. the soft, warm earth with his paws. And for a time the young Pine-tree dropped into it the little brown seed was very, very happy. But after a and covered it carefully. j while it began to feel lonely. All the "There," said he to himself, as he ; other Pine-trees were in the Green scampered back to the Green Forest j Forest, and often it could hear them to see what more he could find, "every- j whispering together and it longed to one knows I live in the Green Forest , whisper with them and could not, and and no one will think to look out here i so it sighed and sighed, and Peter Rab for things I have hidden." j bit passing that way often stopped to Old Mother Nature, who knew just j wonder what made such a nandsome FIREWORK V We have a large display of all the moderate priced and popu lar Fireworks for the Christmas season, including ROMAN CANDLES, SKY ROCKETS. CATHERINE WHEELS, CHINESE CRACKERS AND MANY OTHER NOVELTIES FRUITS A LARGE STOCK OP HIGH GRADE FRUITS FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON. PRICED REASONABLY GROCERIES THIS IS THE TIME WHEN FANCY GROCERIES ARE IN DEMAND. WE HAVE ANTICIPATED YOUR WANTS AND CAN SUPPLY YOUR EVERY NEED IN THIS LINE AS WELL AS IN NUTS. CANDIES AND FANCY CAKES. :ash grocery COMPANY s 'fe rCZD IlllllllliWliilllTO tmsssasss SCOTLAND NECK, : : NORTH CAROLINA 7tA ft'" l!i Jpfc Another Bid Picture Wednesday Night Ethel Clayton and House Peters -in- "The Great Divide" By William Vaughn Moody 4 Produced in the Grand Canyon of the Col orado by Edgar Lewis A Five-Part Drama what Happy Jack had done, smiled, for she also knew that it was more than likoiy that Happy Jack would forget al! about that little brown seed, and if hs did she had a plan to use it her- young Pine-tree seem so sad. So the years passed and the youpg Pine-tree became bigger than any of its neighbors in the Green Forest, and became known as the Beautiful Pine. vious day's indigestible waste, sour fermentations and poisons, tnus cleansing, sweetening and freshening the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. Those subject tc sick headache, bil iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism, colds; and particulary those who have a pallid, sallow complexion and who are constipated very often, are urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate at the drug store which will cost but a trifle but is sufficient to demonstrate the quick and remarkable change in both health and appearance awaiting those who practice internal sanitation. We must remember that inside cleanliness is more important than outside, be cause the skin does not absorb impur ities to contaminate the blood, while the pores in tie thirty feet of bowels THURSDAY 13th Episode "Iron Claw" r FRIDAY 8th Episode "Secret of Submarine SATURDAY Big Western Feature Picture 99 The Palace " 5 mWm 21 Iff s I I J lit
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