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ILi-oDAV, I.i.Ci... , liiio. 1 CEFORE AND AFTER I ROBINSON SHOE' CO. 1 . FELT SLIPPERS FIXE LINE INDIES', CHn OBEX'S AXI MISSES' FELT AM) KID SLIPPERS IX ALL THE XKW tXLORS $1.25 and $1.50 if -J Men's Fine Shoes XOW IS THE TIME TO BUY' A NICE PAIP BEFORE THEY CO HIGHER. WE A II E SHOWING ALL THE N E W STYLES. . $2.50 to $7.50 Encased Girl I'm going to give John cigar case and a diamond stickpin. What are yon going to give Frank? Married Friend Oh, I'm giving him a fireless cooker and a dime savings bank. 3 c c CHRISTMAS CREED UNIVERSAL ' Atfjusta Itaelf to All Conditions and All Plaeaa If a Magic Influences the World. t X UV lroil vami vauru vui iBiiuaa uv v come to lure a creed wider than any altuaL Its magic has influenced the - world In a degree more profound and . - Ihan ihal s1 anw Athar nwnirrlnr InHrfonr markAd hv fhp hln- tory of mankind. Its sentiment has. Indeed, overflowed all boundaries, both of sect and of social condition. Its high, clear note of cheer and charity has appealed to an unbounded degree wherever human Ideals have had sway. Pessimism halts at its portal. The creed of kindness adjusts Itself to all conditions and all place. It seems to be a good working creed, despite the unattractive phases of -r-fanctory giving and taking. It is a cheerful creed. It strews life with gay ty and color. It lit a culmination to entiments of fair play, to active sym pathy, to the do-it-now Impulse. Christmas has no climate. It glows where life is green and where t is white. In city and in country, Jn the hills and on the desert, among tin pines and antong the palms it finds a voice. It Is holy day and holiday. It drapes the altar and the hearth. It has many American versions, and many races add their varying symbols to .its tenderness and to its animation. A kAW all Ka jmII PVotmaa la "Peace on Earth." In the present grievous crisis of the world there is , significance In this call reyond that cf any crisis n;ankih'l ever before was called to read. That war ha.4 darkened , Christmas for so much of the world .may well seem, at the moment the crushing condemnation of all such con flicts. Yet It will remain true that the full beauty of the day and the time is duo those who may find that beauty. Chll Irea of every land seize It for their own. And, "except ye become as one cf these," life loses Its saving luster. 3tl (LlfiriBtmaii 3m On ; : Christ. v4- f mas morn. t ' when I I awake, and f 4 sleep-dust from my eyes I that. I see a sight that makes me start and 1 causes thumpmgs m my heart I A Christmas tree v oh. pretty sight with can v. dies, bells and balls alight, "r With horns and dolls and sugar plums, and skates and trains and beating drum. And oh. it is a won. ., der-tree. with heaps of things for me t to seel Rare gifts hang upon the side, which tinseled fairies cannot hide. A soldier- doll, a doll house. n , too, and strings of gold come to my , J viewand as I look I i seem to J V hear sweet -f Christmas music soft and clear. A Merry Christmas it seems to sop, A merry, happy. hoh day t Wist Willi. . After live-year-old Willie had gone tto bed on Christmas eve his mother went Into the room to see If he had hung up bis stocking properly for Santa Oaus. Much to her surprise she found that the little fellow had appropriated one of hers for the occa aloa and had Attached a slip of paper 00 which he had printed la a bold hand one of his Sunday-school texts: ThE LoRd lOwEtH a CheaRfnLL fiVveB." & z His Portion. BID Do yon expect your landlady to give you anything for Christmas? JillSure. -What do yon expect It to ber '. "Oh, the aeck. I reckon." Tbe(3iBatIrmCrDSS A Christmas Stortj Harry Irving Greene SVTZ&t OST things Deacon took as SJL ' ,1..... nn.A . . . 1 v. -Aaf calmness of spirit, for he was an even-tempered old horse, whose disposition a dozen years, filled with the usual allotment of equine adversity, had thoroughly seasoned. Yet now he was pawing and stamping as Impatiently as any four-year-old. At In tervals he would stretch his neck, thrust forward his old white nose, and In dulge in a complaining whinny. There was reason for Dea con's restlessness. More than an hour ago he should have been on the move". but here he was still waiting In the post office shed, and never a sign or word from his driver. Deacon, you understand, pulled Uncle Sam's mail over Rural-Free Delivery Route No. 2, Havertown P. O. He had pulled It for three years, and he was fairly well versed In the business. At any rate. he knew that It was past his starting me. Long before had the sway- back sorrel on Route No. 1 taken the road. The pert little bay mare on No. 3 had followed a few minutes later. Tet here was Deacon, with the heavi est and longest route of them all, still standing Idly in the shed. Inside, In the Havertown post office. were a number of men whose frame of mind was worse than Deacon's. One But Deacon Would Not Turn, of th-m was the postmaster himself. In the first place, the simultaneous ar rivnl of a three-foot snowfall and the bulk of the Christinas mall was bad enough. Next came the disabling of one of his best drivers, and the discov ery that two substitute carriers were out of- town. Well, the postmaster said things. Dan Sweeney, driver of No. 2 route, was disabled beyond doubt. There he was sitting on a pile of mail sacks, his hack n gainst a steam radiator, his face white and drawn out of shape by twinges of rheumatism. He had dragged himself down to the office, but that was all he could do. Now, although he should have been sent back to bed, he was sorting the mail fur his route. "The Christmas mall, too!" groaned Dan. He had a conscience, Dan had, and his heart was in his work. It was a sight of the great pile of packages which made Danny groan deepest. They were more to him than simply so much fourth-class matter, these string-tied boxes and bundles. They were invested with something besides the statute-guarded sanctity of the United States mail, for which Dan Sweeney had no light respect He knew that each one of them carried not only merchandise but a subtle freightage of the goodly holiday spirit, the joyful sentiment of Christmasttde. And to think, just because of this plaguey rheumatism of his. many of them might not be delivered until the holiday was over with, when they would come lagging along, as stale ts firecrackers on the 5th of July! So Danny groaned. "There V said Danny at last, to the office clerk who was to attempt the task, "you stow the packages In just that order and do your best to find where they go: Old Deacon 11 take you over the route all right If you give him his head. Be knows It liks a book." So the Christmas mall was finally started out over Route No. 2, Deacon turned an Inquiring eye on the new man, as much as if to ask what was the matter with Danny. fjt No sooner had they reached Joel's road, where the route began, than Deacon realized the Inexperience of the new man. Why, he was actually going to drive right past the Powers' place, and the Powers almost always had mail of some kind, even if it wasn't more than a poultry 'magazine or a seed catalogue. After one or two such mistakes Deacon took charge of things himself. From house to house he went, stopping wherever he had been in the habit of calling, wait ing until the new carrier found who lived there and had looked through let ters and parcels to see if be had any thing for thera. All the forenoon and all the after noon this went on, but when the red sun went down In the frosty west there still remained half a hundred letters and more than a peck of packages to be delivered. The new man was hun gry and tired, but he was no quitter. So he begged some hay and oats for Deacon, borrowed a lantern, and to gether they started to finish the route. As for Deaefcn, his old knees were stlffer than ever, his shoulder muscles ached, his flunks heaved like a pair of blacksmith's bellows, but he pludged on, never skipping a single house, never hesitating at a roundabout half mile, doing his whole duty quite as thoroughly as if there had been some one behind to urge him on instead of a cold-numbed clerk, who had. no longer even touched the reins. At last only one letter was left, a thick, bulky one In a blue waterproof envelope, bearing a foreign postmark. "Joslah Bralsted, Esq.," was the address. "Braisted, eh?" muttered the clerk. "Wonder if the old horse knows where he lives?" Evidently Deacon did, for he was plowing through a big drift, heading straight out on th Boston road Into the darkness. Far ahead, on the top of a long hill, the clerk could see the lights of a big house. There were no other lights between. Mles behind he could make out the glow of the city. The clerk wished he could be back there, where one could be warm again and get something hot to eat. With numb fingers he pulled out his watch. Half -past nine ! Why, it would take them a good two hours to drive back nw! Bralsted be hanged! He could get his letter after Christmas. So he grabbed the reins and indi cated to Deacon a desire to turn around. But Deacon would not turn. Pull on the rein as he might. Deacon would only swing his head about, keeping his legs moving straight ahead. By much shooting and sawing on the reins Deacon was stopped. Then the new driver waded out to his head, took him by the bits and tried to point the horse the other way. Dea con refused to budge. Those lights on the top of the long hill marked the end of the route, and Deacon knew it. And to those lights they went. "Josiah Braisted?" asked the driver curtly of the young woman who answered his ring. "Oh. It's come, it's come!" she shouted to someone within, as she held out her hand eagerly for the letter. Never before had he seen so much excitement caused by the delivery of a letter.Jn a moment there were three or four persons in the front hall, all talking at once. "Do you think It will save him, doc tor?" asked the anxious-faced old lady who had followed the girl to the door. "It will if anything will. I guess," answered a stout, bearded man. And he mounted the stairs to see the pa tient In the upper room. Then they insisted that the half frozen clerk come Inside and have something to eat. Deacon? Oh, they would take care of Deacon. They did all this and more. It seemed that this letter had been long expected, and was sadly needed, for It came from a prod igal son to a very sick father. It had Its effect, too. Of course the clerk told them of Deacon's heroic stubbornness, of bow the old horse had insisted on going to the very end of the route when he had tried to turn him back. Josiah Bralsted, Esq., heard the tftory during his convalescence. "I must tell my son about that when he comes home," he would repeat as they told him of the part Deacon played. In the story. "We ought to do something for that old horse," he' said. They did, too. The office clerk. 'who will first show you a handsome gold watch, tells the story best, always end ing with, "And old Deacon, why, he lives out there on the Bralsted place like a thoroughbred. He's In clover, he It." "Well,'' Dan Sweeney will add, "It's no more'n he deserves. Old Deacon was a mighty good horse In his day, and mighty knowlnV St. Louis Globo-Democrat Brown Kid and Gray Kid Shoes ARE HAVING THE CALL NOW. WE ARE SHOWING A BEAUTIFUL LINE HIGH CUT LACE IX THESE STYLES $6.00 to $8.50 LADIES' IU.ACK KM- AXi PATENT KID BUTTON AND LCK SHOES $3.00 to $6.00 ROBINSON SHOE CO. IF FOR PAP.V MAMA, B HOT HER. SISTER. UNCLE. AUXT, GRANDPA. G R AX I) M A COUSIX, SWEETHEARTS AND FRIENDS. RRI.XG THE K!IS TO UMBO'S. SEE MUTT AND JEFF. A GREAT SELECTION OF BEAUTIFUL STATUTES, VASES, SHAVING SETS, MANICURE. SETS, ROLLS, ROLL CRADLES AND CARRIAGES, TOY PIANOS AND ALL KINDS OF TOYS. HUX DBEDS OF OTHER SUITABLE GIFTS THAT WIIX BE MOST PLEASING TO EVERY ONE, RICH iD OB P(K)R, LARGE OR SMALL, OLD OR YOUNG. COME TO GASTOXI.VS LOWEST PRICE CASH STORE WHEN IN XEEI) OF CJXTHIXG, SHOES, HATS, DRY (iOOIM, NOTIONS AND MILLIXERY. SPECIAL PRICES IX EVERY" DE- gj PARTMEXT. I Big Line of Furs Just Received To Go At Special Holiday Prices Men's Pants, Overalls Dress Shirts and Furnish ings at Special Prices. Men's $1.50 Work Pant..Bc Men's $2.00 Dress and Work Pants. Special SI.4S Men's $.1 Dresa Panta ..flJM Men's $3.50 Dress Pants 2.48 Men's $4.00 Dress Pants S2.BB Men's $5.00 Dresa Pants :1.48 Men's $1.25 Overalls made from Blue Indigo Denims. Special, per pair 9fc Men's 50c Work Shirts, in all . colors and sizes. Special 3c; 3 for 73c 25' Dozen Men's Sport Shirts. worth up to 75c. Special 38c; 2 for 75c Men's 75c Dress Shirts... 4c Men's $1.00 Dress Shirts 69c LEBOVITZ GET THK Shopping Christmas Suggestions OIK STOCK WAS X EVE It IX BET TER CONDITION TO SUPPLY YOU WITH NICE NEW STYIJSH SHOES FOR THE HOLIDAYS. EACH DE PARTMENT IS FULL OF THE NEWEST AND BEST SHOES TO BE HAD AND THEY ARE ALL MODER ATE I A' PRICED. COME AND MAKE YOUR SELEC TION' WHILE YOU CAN GET WHAT iOU WANT. :: MAIL OICDEKS FILLED DAY RE CEIVED. :: :: :: :: COMPLETE LINE HOLIDAY GOODS AT- The Greatest Values in Gastonia in Ladies' and Children's Underwear. Ladies' 38c quality Underwear Special 5K5c Ladies' 75c quality Underwear Special 4c Indies' 75c Union Suits.. 49c Ladies' $1.25 Union Suits. Spe cial Children's Union Suits at 2V, 30c nd 48" KiR-IES' HIGH CUT BOOTS AT LOW PRICES ladies $3.00 White nigh Top Boots In high of low heels. Special ! Ladies' $6.00 and $7.00 High Cut Boots. Special and .... S4.W DEPARTMENT STORE GASTONIA, N. C HABIT. WHERE THE DOLLAR BUYS MOST. . Men's John B. Stetson Hats ALL STYLES Suit Cases and Bags ALL STYLES SUIT CASES AND BAGS. NEW SHIPMENT- OX THE WAY FOR OUR HOLIDAY TllARK. . WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF CHII.DBEN S AND INFANTS SHOES. Men's Clothing at Money Saving Prices During These Days. Men's Suits worth up to $10. Special ...SO.Mi and $7.98 Men's Suits worth up to $12.- ..y ana at... Men's Suits, worth up to $18. 50. Special $18.95 BOYS' CLOTHING AT SPE CIAL PRICES. Small Boys' Suits, sizes up to . Special $1.48 Boys' $3.50 Suits in most all colors and sizes at ..$2.98 Boys' $2.50 Suits In Norfolx and assorted colors at $1.98 Boys' $5.00 Suits ' In blue. brown and grays at.. $3.98 H i 'A
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