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) I TO UAL t-ui i on- PUBLISHED TUESDAY & FRIDAY Subscription Rates: 1 month 10 I months 25 6 months 50 U months 11.00 "Entered as second-class matter, May 19, 1911, at the Fost Office at Elizabeth City, North Carolina, un der the act or March 3rd, 1879." Advertising rates on application. Circulates in six counties - A CHRISTMAS GREETING i ' We Lope that the kiddies among our readers will enjoy the Sauta Claus story on the front page of The Advance today. And in this connection, we wish to express to you, our readers, one and all, old and young, the hope that your Christmas may bo all that Christmas should be and that your New Year maybe a'l that you may aspire to males it; For ourselves, shall continue to eat and sleep more or less as (Circumstances allowj with the ambl Hon t0 give you the best newspaper service that we possibly can. It Is 0 trifling effort to. assemble and balance this service1 to tit the needs Cf many readers, of many kinds. But We ask neither charity for our short comings nor praise for our possible perfections; just a reading then a Verdict of the merits of our case, and we are content if there are any " ot the latter to say : "Ours be the cakes and the ale; and thine the honor and glory." DEPEND ON BOYS AND GIRLS We do not know of any man in town to whom we could wlnh more sincerely that reward for the years labor mlsht come nt this season than Secretary Ford of the Y. M. C. A. Striving to lay a foundation for the youth of the land, battling a gainst opposition often, and with too many showers of cold water de scending upon his plans and labors to Inspire or encourage, Secretary Ford has stood by his guns and has played the man. Everybody else has known how he ought to have done it, of course. Putting them delves in his place, however, ls a cother thin,?, and we doubt that any of those who knew how It ought to have been done would have done as Well.. When today the young people who have known Mr. Ford best per haps said "We want to let you know something of the help that you have been to us", The Advance rejoiced. , We are sure that. the gift And the demonstration of apprecia tion came unexpectedly to Mr Ford as they did to the rest of us. And yet, we shouldn't have been surpris ed at nil, for we know that we can "depend on the boys and sirls". , ( "It was a strange omission" says Editor Archibald Johnson in this - weeks Issue of Charity and Chll dren "In last weeks issue that we did not mention the fine work of Hon. E. F. Aydlett cs chairman of the committee on entertainment at the Baptist State Convention. Mr AJ'dlett not only sent the visitors to splendid homes, but entertained large body in bis own delightful borne. He Is a capable man any jabere you put him." ARE YOU A SPUG? ECmr Iii'iht ( Moore cf th Bib lical Recorder says: A .out this seas m for years you have been hearing of the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giv ing. The hint was needed. Bit it is negative; and there oug.it somewhere to be a good strong positive over against it. We, therefore, dare to propose an other and even better "Spug" a S, citty for the Promotion of Useful Giving. And this ls needed also; needed more thnn the first, and needed not only at Christmas kbut every day of the year and all through the years. Are you a member? Is your church such a society? rhere are 'Spugsf anr.l Spugs,' you see! THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT There is so, much of the 'eternal selfish' In the grownup's idea of Christmas, frequently that the ori gin of Christmas and the meaning ot the word itself is lost sight of. We heard a mm say yesterday "This ls the, most prosperous Christmas season in years, and less than usual Instead of more seems to be planned for the needy". f And a few hours later another visitor In The Advance office said: "It ought to be called Santa Claus mas and not Christmas, for in reality Christ is put !ast this season." We do not need to emulate Old Scrooge in our view8 of the holiday season, but, truly, we are always happier for giving, and even the little folks rejolco in send ing gifts to someone whom they fee! needs ' them more than thom selves. A few yars ago the movement ror a unite uirt Christmas was introduced into some of the Sun day Schools cf America nnd since that time the idea has gained fav or among Sunday school leaders The keynote of the service used U 'White Gifts- for the Kin? and those gift3 are divided into thfee claueeea, gifts of self, service and suliHtance, making the Christ mas service evangelical and mis sionary in spirit. Those Sunday schools which have once tried "The White Gift Christmas" report that they could never go back to the old idea. In some cases more con versions are ieport)rd than during a lengthy revival meeting; in th ers, funds are raised for the build Ing of a new church, but most lm portant of all a new meaning is found in the Christmas observance, the children of the Su.iday school are taught that It Is more blessed to give thsn to receive, and the foundaticn ls laid for a bigger bet ter community. A "White Gift CbrlRtmas throughout a city would mean i happy Chrls-tmas for the glvers and 400(1 cheer to those afflicted or in need,, and would remind the forget ful world that religion is a real force in the lives of good citizens. A Convention visitor, designated on his letter head ns a real estate dealer and farmer, but belonging al so to the class of men described by Dr, Mullins as "Model Laymen", sends tis the following happy greet ing this week. "Received a copy of your paper and enjoyed its contents, especially your account of the Convention which was very full and very pre else, I nlo enjoyed my few days stay in your city and found your people hospitable and kind, espechl ly my host, at the Southern Hotel, to whom I wish to le remembered, NOTICE Sate of Valuable Property ' " By virtue of a mortise deed ex ecuted to me by A. P. Bowe and wife Sarah P, Howe, for certain purposes therein memtioned which paid mortage deed bears date Dec. 30th. 1913 and is registered in the office of the Register of deeds of Pasquotank County in Deed Book no 38, Page 313 I shall on Saturday January 20th, 1917 offer for sale at the Court House door in said Coun ty, at Public Auction for cash, the property conveyed to me in said mortage deed, towlt: Bounded on the north by Spolman Btreet, East by lot owned and occupied by Mrs. Newton Spence; South by Ehring haus street and west by lot belong ing to Minnie B. Cartwright. Hour of sale 12 o'clock M. This the 18th day of December 1916 J. C. BROOKS,, ( Mortagee. dec 19 26 Jan 2 9 16 .y"wwij"' ' Z The Story of a Municipal Christmas Tree By THORNTON W. BURGESS (Copynita by Tboraua W Bantu) CS if - SLh. upon a NCE uoon a time. . s!1iil lms' lons &s' 1118 so-great grandfa ther of Happy Jack Squirrel, whose name was Happy Jack, too, was scampering along the Lone Little Path that comes down the LIU through th Green Forest. He was happy, very happy, w as 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 snow 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. Bat rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost bad 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 Once Every Year, Came Merry Children, and Older Folk, and With and Song Would Cut Young Pine Tree a and Carry them Away. leaver- r t.. o v .:J nnd uiiaer them, :!' fcr- r-t vr;-s h:.;;;v, -for his rtn-..v.-h v.-:,-- .T.t.l yiM know a full Pto::tte!i, i.it .' t..! too full, al most iilwujr. itv;!-.-:! n firv.y hnrt. Nov,-, an tif rt:!ed ov.," tb red and yellow a:. J l-.uvos, lils sharp eyes spi! u i:i'.' K-'.wn wl. it, was a h :.. .; v ! :,.; o i.eei'l x.l'j-h ! :id i'allen froru ji v; '.; p.i? eo;:c, ar.d yen and I would er.y J:k"l? -,.t brvi- won It at til', or;. '.' !.;i no vcu'.u have tliou' at U ff !.' ii'jjo-.r.t. r.-jt Happy JncU's --'d 1 on he saw that ho;;;o";.v liule !;: . u R-ed, for lie knew t!i:tt it van vcr.r jsod to cut,. Not that ue wns Immrry. Oh, my, nol T.uern wanfi. porj la his stomach for tho least ;e :.y, weeny lilt more Jnst i':;T.. Sv.t HalTT Jack knew that ih'W mtel't crao a time whoa his sionuicu woukl in,' oo so fulli and then that little brovn reed would tnate oh, so good! Now, he had hidden a groat many little brown sord; and fat nuts near tho Lone Little Path, "so when he picked up this particular little brown seed quickly he se.r.ripered over the dry leaves until presently he eaine to the edge of the Green Forest He looked this way and he looked that way to see if anyone was watching him, and when he was sure that no one was, he ran out a little way from the edge of the Green Forest, dug a tiny hole in tho soft, warm earth with his paws, dropped into it the little brown seed nnd covered it carelully. , "There," said he to himself, as he scampered buck to the Green Forest to see what more he could find, "every one knows I live in the Green Forest and no one will think to look out here for things I have hidden." Old Mother Nature, who knew Just what Happy Jack had done, smiled, for she also knew that It was more than likely. that Happy Jack would forget all about that little brown seed, and if bn did she had a plan to use It her- self, and Hnnpy Jack had saved her some trouble, for, though he didat 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 it, 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 tree! w hich 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 ot 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 lng down from the blue, blue sky, saw It and smiled, and Ms smile made the teeny, weeny Pine-two very happy, for It warmed the grom.il avl comforted the little roots prowl:;-? there. Old Mother We t Wlr.d. hurrying past on her way k blow the white sailed shlrt3 n; r--' ft:c i-.:tr 0 n Laugh saw the teeny, weeny Pine-tree and sent some of her children, the Merry Little Breezes, to drive up a shower cloud that It might not go thirsty. But no one else saw the teeny, weeny Pine-tree, or If they did see it, they took no notice of It. . Happy Jack Squirrel ran right past and didn't so ranch as look at It, for he had forgot ten all about hiding that homely little brown seed in the ground there. Once Peter Rabbit, nibbling tender sweet clover, nearly nipped off the head of the teeny, weeny Pine-tree and didn't even know it But nothing really happened to the teeny, weeny Pine-tree, and It grew nnd grew and was happy, for it loved Jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun and Old Mother West Wind and the Merry Little Breezes, nnd they loved it So It grew nnd grew, and when rough Brother North Wind enrae again he covered It deep with a soft blanket of snow to keep it wurm all winter. ho the teeny, weeny rlne-tree was kept, safe all the long winter, and when gentle Sister South Wind once more came in the spring the teeny, weeny Pine-tree began to grow again. It grew and grew and grew and grew until It was no longer teeny, weeny, but put' out sturdy branches and was very good to look upon and held Its head high, for It was Indeed a "beauti ful young tree. And for a time the young Pine-tree was very, very happy. But after a while it began to feel lonely. All the other Pine-trees were In the Green Forest, nnd often It could henr them whispering together and it longed to whisper with them nnd could not, and so it sighed and sighed, and Peter Rab bit passing thnt way often stopped to wonder whnt made such a nandsome young Pine-tree soem so sad. So the years passed and the young Pine-tree became bigger thnn any of its neighbors in the Green Forest, and became known as the Beautiful Pine, and was bt-!vei of all the liule peorle of the Gre'!i Pont anj the Green Meadows, and gave them sV-iter and was happy. Once every year, long aft t the cots hud been gathered and all the world seemed drear and tare, eaiue merry Children, and older folk, and with laugh and son,? 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, Xl 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 peering 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 an too big. I am too big. No little child wants me because I am too big." So Christmas after Christmas the Beautiful Pine wtmld watch the little trees cnrrled 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, "1 am tco 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 Jt had for so many Chrlstmases, came men and horses, nnd 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, nnd 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 P. mutiful Pine, and laughter wns in their eyes, for Joy was in their hearts. And thoy sang nnd their voices were Joyous. And they shouted and their voices were merry. And they cried: "It is the most beautiful tree in all tho world, for It Is our Christmas tree the Christmas tree of all the children!" Then was the heart of the Beauti ful Pine, planted lang, long years Ago by the great-great-ever-sorgreat 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 for all mankind, descended upon It as sweeMoned bells chimed, "On earth pence, good will toward men," and the glad voices of a thousand little chil dren cried, "Merry merry Christmas I" s s s 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." Feed, Seed,and Electric Supolies Feed For Stock Hay corn Oats and mill feai. Have you heard of Sal-Vet the great stock Tonic we nave If given to hogs it will keep them healthy and prevent hog cholera and make them thrive, i Also good for Horses Cnttle'and Sheep. Feed For Poultry Purina chick and scratch feed wiih IJurlna chick chowder la what you want to feed to raise chicks and make hens lay, with some Pratts Poult jy Remedys. Seed For Farm and Garden. Electric Supplies Flash Lights, Automobile Lamps, Dry Ce!l Batteries and all things Electrical li.G.ulLJi & i COTTCN, GRAIN, PROJtJ ELIZABETH CITY, N. C BUYINQ TO-DAY December 22, 1916 COT.TON Strict Middling Middling EGGS Hen Eggs per dozen SELLING TO-DAY .ss FLOU-I Patapsco, best patent JS.9D Royal 53.9C GRAIN Oats, per bushel 70c Corn, per bag, J2.10 MIDDLINGS Spring, per bag, S1.95 HAY No. 1. Timothy, per ton ' t-ROt-EbSiOiNAL CARDS - DR. VICTOR FINCK ctor of "Veterinary Medicine D Office 209 Hlntoa Bldg. Can be reached by phone at othce in daytime or at Mrs. Mol lie Fearing residence after 10 o'clock p. m. JULIAN W. SELIO Eyesight Specialist Next Sellg's Jewelry Store , Phone 616 DR. J. H. WHITE Twenty Five Years In DENTISTRY In All Branches Office over McCabe and Grlce's :-- Store DR. H. S. WILLEY DENTIST Kramer Bldg Room No. 219 DR. WILLIAM PARKER DENTIST Nitrous Oxid . . 22C Hinton Bldg. EHz. City. Phone 888 r ' "V DR. M. M. HARRIS DENTIST , Kramer Build'ng, Main Street Hours: 8 to 12 and 2 to 6 ' DR. S. W. GREGORY 4 DENTIST Office In Hinton Building Corner Main and Martin St. W. D.COX Attorney-At-Law MOYOCK, N. C. Currituck Courthous each Monday oPfcrtATtS KASSENUER TRAINS FROM NORTH CAROLINA IN TO TERMINAL 8TATI0N, '. NORFOLK, WITHOUT TRANSFER. .' N. B. The following schedule Hgf ures published as Information- ONLY and are not guaranteed. ' ' TRAINS LEAVE ELIZABETH CT1 SOUTH BOUND 9:68 a. m. daily for Edentoa an local r.tatiens. 1:00 p. m. daily for Raleigh, Golds boro and intermediate points. Pullman Parlor Car for New Bern. 10:26 p. in. daily Night Ezpresfr for Fayettevillb and Charlotte,. Pullman Sleeping Cars for Ral. eigh. New Bern and - Interme diate Stations. NOXIH BOUND 5.51 a. in. daily for Norfolk and Intermediate statiors. 2:30 p. m. daily Express for Nor folk ONLY. 3:30 p. m. daily, for Norfolk and In tcrtajjlate stations. 1:10 p. m. Monday, .Wednesday and Friday for Suffolk." For further Information apply to C. F. oarrett, Ticket 'Asent, Ells ibeth City," 1 . C. IS. D. KYLE, H. S. LEARD, TiaKic Manager. Gen, Pass. Aft AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT A, year's subscription to 'the Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday Evening Pest, Cosmopolitan, or some other magazine. Beautiful cards announc ing the gift tent so as to arrive on Christmas day with each gift sub scription. Call C. P. Barnes, Phone s 492 405 First Street, Elizabeth City, N. C. ' ' Nov. 28 2 t V
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