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Central record (Lancaster, Ky.): n. Thursday, December 21, 1899. Central record (Lancaster, Ky.). 400dpi TIFF G4 page images Cartwright & Landrum, Lancaster, Ky. 1899 cen1899122101 These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Central record (Lancaster, Ky.): n. Thursday, December 21, 1899. Central record (Lancaster, Ky.). Cartwright & Landrum, Lancaster, Ky. 1899 $IMLS This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognitio n (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has be en done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through an automated process using the recommendations for Level 1 of the TEI in Librar ies Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file. Entered at the Post Office in Lancaster Ky as Second doss Matter LOUIS LANDRAM Publisher LANCASTER KY THURSDAY AFTENOON DECEMBER 21 1899 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR i 0 tnttas TENrHYBAR UMBEt 38 RR rv bi ge ttiz 2 Qs2 2 Q ysy 6 LANCASTER AND VICINIty S 2S2 Z o o o q00OO Oq OOd Dolls and toys irJyariely sons Come to Haseldens for a nice coffe e or tea pot For nice Christmas presents go to J A Beazley Co Fuller Sympsons is the place to getyour candies and fruits Large line of Coal faces at Low Prices J 11 UASELDEN Mclntoshes and slickers from 150 to 500 at Jennings Co Paint Lick R Cook bought of Alex Doty a nice pair or threeyearold mules at S250 Christina present that is useful See our goods Morrow McRoberts Butcher knives lard cans sausage mills lard presses sage pepper etc at Jennings Co Paint Lick Ky R Kinnaird has several cart loads of pretty calenders which he is to give away to first who call for them Payments will be required from all who purchase tickets to the Lyceum course whether you or not Prescriptions brought to us will competent hands We use nothing but the purest and best drugs the affords Frisbies Pharmacy 2t Rev Massee will move to the parsonage in a few days W I Williams and family will move into the Doors property vacated by the former 3Hr Thos Stone has moved to the Totten property on Crab Orchard street and has on hand a large stock of boards for sale See him when in need of them Good and Low In Price Come and buy an all wool suit or overcoat readymade or tailormade at 7 to 30 They are lower and than ever M D HUGHES Have Benton Ashley make you a nice sign for your store There is nothing looks as bum as a poor sign over a door People judge your taste about that like they do you writing on cheap hash stationery The Best Hotel Rice Benge has taken possession of the Best and refurnished and refitted it throughout If you want a firstclass meal or good lodging the Best Hotel For Pneumonia Dr C J Bishop of Agnew Mich says I have used Foleys Honey and Tar in three very severe cases of pneu monia the past month with good re suits C C JE Stormes 1m As Monday is a legal holiday there will be no session of the county court The court will be held Tuesday follow ing There will doubtless be a big crowd in town Monday however most of them coming solely to pay their subscription to THE RECORD Temperance Meeting at Hubble A union temperance meeting will at Rubble in Methodist church next Sunday afternoon at three oclock Miss Rhena Mosher National Organ izer of the Y W C T U will address the meeting All are cordially invited to attend A collection will be taken to defray expenses Graded School Entertainment The children of the 1st and 2nd Grades assisted by pupils from the other grades Miss May Hughes and Mrs Rogers will give a Christmas ser vice The Christ Child in Art Story and the Graded Chapel Friday afternoon at 230 The parents of these children and others who are interested are lovingly to be present Christmas There will be a Christmas entertain ment at the Christian church next Saturday afternoon at four oclock Everybody cordially invited Any persons desirous of making their friends or children presents will please have them at the church by three oclock Saturday afternoon everybody and make this Christmas meeting a joyful one The Railroad Mr Tommy B Robinson has been added to the list of gentlemen at work ascertaining the cost of the way for the Southern A mighty t and in the right place too The J committee consists of Messrs E H a Walker J N Denny and T We do not believe a better could have been selected As to the road coming through Garrard we will repeat our oft said say that it will most assuredly be if the rightofwaw is given If this is not forthcoming we will be equally as positive in will not come our way Put this in your pipe and smoke it as Its just way j p s at I W Buys leer Lancaster attend market Baptist Hotel beheld Songin Schools Comet 0 build sayIngit I pE Thom Sterling C anions bin better I f stoat MondayS O i j n invited F right of good- man B Robinson committee tat y e G o T Oysters Fruits Nuts Grapes and Celery at T Curreys Nice Chairs at JA Beazlcys for New Christmas are arriving every day All kinds blankets to 350 per pair at Jennings Co Paint Lick W McC Johnston has moved into his handsome new residence on Danville street Fuller have decided to continue their Of queensware at cost a few days Dont forget W J Roman has a fine line of buggies and for as Yanhook of Stanford has bought of W II Lackey his property on street for J000 He will im prove the property of Ladies Shoes at Josephs S See the ad of the Blue Grass on page 3 Silver spoons in handsome cases without charge and engraving free at J CThompsoif s For pent Store room 23x45 on public square plate glass front witlu r without con crete basement Lancaster Hotel Co Go at once to McRoberts and have your seats reserved for Spillman Riggs to night Thursday Already one hundred and twenty five reserved seats sold There will be regular preaching ser vices held by the pastor at the church Sunday morning at 11 oclock No services at night school at 945 a in T A Royse has bought of O G Speaks the latters dwelling on Dan ville street for SI 300 Mr Rovse tells us a big baby boy has just arrived in his family Vernon Richardson of Danville has sued the Louisville Post for 10 000 damages for alleged slanderous by a contributor to that in regard to Richardsons conduct as an election officer Mr J A Royston is here from Junction City and tellsus the Central Kentucky Liverymens Association will meet in Lancaster Dec 28 to their interests His firm Royston Russell Junction City are mem bers Spillman Riggs will appear in an new programme tonight He will deliver his most lecture The Funny Side of Life Those who miss this opportunity of hearing this masterpiece of eloquence and art will miss the opportunity of a Banks Will Close Both banks will be closed the 25th and on Jan 1 They are both legal holidays and no business can be Bear this in mind and have your papers etc fixed up on the before 2t To be Married On next Wednesday Mr Sam Has elden of this city and Miss Ruth Duncan of Nicholasville will drive to Lexington and be married in that city Mr Haselden is one of the most honorable and industrious young men in Lancaster and no one is liked or more popular than he The bidetobe is a young lady of ma ny accomplishments and great beauty will return to Bryantsville to a day or so and return to Mr Ilaselden is in business with his brother J Raymond Hasel den and holds a good position THE RECORD extends congratulations in advance Gov Bob Taylor The lecture last Friday night was attended cultured and audience and it goes without saying that everybody was delighted His flights of eloquence were far the ordinary and his anecdotes of mountain life together with his of human action both in the sublime and the rediculous were entertaining and elicited frequent applause Gov Taylor has many friends here and we hope that he will come again in the near future The audience was not as large as it would have been on account of the fact that number of attractions had preceded him and the Lyceum course is booked ahead beginning tonight Thursday when the popular lecturer Spillman Riggs will appear at the Court House accompanied by MegibbenKmbrough the famous pianist The QUEEN CRESCENT only through carline to Ashville The QUEEN CRESCENT only through Pullman line to Florida fiSgjglRKR PiKJIW HR t r suitable Xmaspresent ca ies atFuller S mpsons from rOc i longer ex a surri s r wagons phe tons presents Danville Sabbath humorous lifei better Lancaster bye beyond J IY Handsome Tne Grote Snips sal ad Chris t Methodist utterances paper discuss entirely Thursday transacted Saturdays appreciative pictures highly I at Josephs Elegant line of Clocks forrow McRoberts i J C ThompsorNufs a large line of Cut Glass at low Get all your ingredients for your Handsome set Silver Spoons Knives and Forks at Morrow McRobertt See our new line of neckwear LOGAN ROBINsoN Spillman Riggs and Migibben Kim brough are registered at the Mason House banks will be closed next Monday Also on the Monday following Dont be deceived but go to T Curreys if you warn the best goods at the lowest prices The L N roundtrip tickets for one and onethird fare during the holidays Jesse Doty has rented the dwelling on Richmond street now occupied J A Royston and will move to same next week N Handsomest line rff Battenburg Work ever now at Josephs Y the patterns and braids Have you a cold A dose of COUS SENS HONEY OF TAR at bedtime will remove it Price 25 and 50cts C C JE Stormes Complete line of tooth brushes combs hair brushes sponges trusses in fact everything that should be kept in an uptodate drug store Frisbies Pharmacy 2t A boy was instantly killed at Lex ington Monday by catching hold of the pulley wire of an Electric light Lancaster kids should take warning and not monkey with the wires Today Thursday is the last that you will have of securing the season tickets for the Lancaster Lyceum Course for 150 Go at once to McRoberts drug store and secure a ticket and save 1 Notice to Masons The annual election of officers for the ensuing year will be held at the lodge room next Wednesday afternoon at two oclock promptly ROUT LANDKA3I Master Holiday Rat One and onethird fare via the Queen Crescent Route Dec 22nd to 25th and Dec 30th to Jan 1st Tickets are good to return Jan 4th To points north of Ohio River return limit is Jan 2nd W C RINEAKSON Genl Passgr Agent Cincinnati The ladies of the New Antioch church will give a pound and basket auction at the old house place Wednesday night Dec 27th Young ladies bring a basket and married a pound Proceeds for the ben of the New Antioch Church All to come and help Auction will begin at 5 p m Lancaster Mm Yin Prizes At the poultry show in Nicholas ville last week Lancaster exhibitors were especially lucky Master Robert Ware McRoberts only showed one pen of Pekin ducks and was given second prize Mr Robert L Elkin took first prize in this ring and also on young ducks and old ones Mr Elkin also took six prizes on his celebrated Black Minorcas the same breed he has so often come out victorious with at poultry shows all over the country A Swell The Knights of Pythias are arrang ing for the swellest banquet ever in Lancaster It will be given in the new hotel and will come off the second week in January This office has been given an order for handsome menu cards and judging from the length of the bill of fare it will take all night to get through eating A number of good speakers are to scrape the cob webs from the sky a band of music will be in attend ance and the boys are looking forward with great pleasure for the occasion x No Issue Next Week Ai we have some very important business to attend to matters which call us from home and cannot be de layed we will issue no paper next week The time lost to advertisers will be made ip in subsequent issues We dislike to miss an issue but it is unavoidable this time We will take occasion in this connection to say that we are deeply grateful to those have patronized THE RECORD in past year and devoutly hope we have merited the favors Editors like the rest pf mankind frequently wake mistakes and if tread upon anyones feelings we are sorry for it and if you liars tread upon we are glad of it wishing readers a joyous Christmas and we hope every of them will reap Gods richest blessings not oply throughout the year but fo r all time to come 4 s y a 2 Lovely Dress Trimmin a p s Black Cake at will sell b caster eve ds s poor ladies given probably whoa we ave Her s out new C God ss and c Curreys Remember the J shots 1n opportunity Secretary s Banquet ours one M Go to ThompsonX for Xmas bar Best and cheapest harness in town W J Lovely line of rings and othr jewel ry at Morrow McRobertsyv pieces at Thompsons e of Josephs Nofilrfng nicer for a present I am standing a nice Jersey Bull at 100 cash m25tf R L ELKIN Hear Riggs at Court House tonight Thursday as Opera House is A nice line of furniture always on hand at R L Jennings Co Paint Lick K Highest market price paid for all kinds of produce R L JENNINGS Co Paint Lick A few pairs of Buell bootees left Come and get your size before they are all sold Logan Robinson E traycd Large Poland China sow Left R L Elkins about Dec 15 Reward for return J A BEAZLEY The management of the stock pens requests THE RECOUD to say that there will be a big lot of cattle at the Monday court or no court We wonder if the law prohibiting use of fireworks and pistols will be Get ready for Christmas the most glorious time of the year Come and see the beautiful presents we have on exhibition at our store R L Jen nings Co Paint Lick The prettiest and best show of are now on sale at the Blue Grass All kinds of the very at the most reasonable prices Go look at the stock and we know you will be pleased The person who disturbed the con gregation last Sunday by coughing is requested to call on C C J E Stormes and get a bottle of Foleys Honeys Honey and Tar which always relief 1m Election Contest Proof is being taken in the contest brought by L L Walker against Wm Ray Jr for the seat in the Robinson and Hays represent and Walker is his own lawyer This will be a long tedious job and no one can foresee the result A young couple were standing fit a Lancaster store looking at the pretty Xmas gifts She said she wanted Santa to bring her a silk umbrella The dude asked her if she was going to hang up her stocking to receive it and now she does not speak as they pass by The fellow swears he meant no reference to size Advocate Souvenir Edition Friday the Advocate out in a sixteen page souvenir and trade edition which surpasses of the kind attempted by the rural press of Kentucky It is of interesting matter pertaining the history of the little city and many writeups of her business men and matters The edition reflects much credit upon Bro Harry Giovan noli upon whom the work fell The press work is elegant and goes to the careful and painstaking methods of Mr Donnegy the foreman He is one of the best foremen in the stateand never goes at his work with only a view of getting through but shows his honesty to his employers by putting forth every effort to turn out the very best work Such men are joy forever in a printing office or in any other business The Advocate has one of the best plants in thesouth and enjoys a fine patronage which it justly deserves metropolitan The doors of Frisbies Pharmacy were thrown open to the public morning and the all day by those who admired what all said was The prettiest and most complete drug store in Kentucky As had been announced to the public- it is located in the corner room in the new hotel building The show run up to the ceiling and are draped in purple and white velvet lighted with numerous electric In these are displays of cut glass silver ware and all kinds of pretty holiday goods The interior is all of quartered oak the counters having many pretty carved figures show cases run from the floor to heighth of about three feet and are the latest patterns The prescription case is also of quartered a large beveledge mirror in Centre The shelf bottles Have the prettiest gilt labels The stock of goods consists of everything a firstclass drug store should carry and all the sundries by the city stores Give them a call and take a look at the most corn drug store incentral ky The QUEEN CRESCENT only 24 hours to New Orleans gains I Bisque and Porte in a fancy Beautiful r at unfinished ens youI candies Grocery best 1 I i 1 1 Danville blossomed anything chock- full contains Saturday roomcrowded I I c beautiful carried c Roma handkerchiefs S vices Legislature t- Ray how windows burners he oak oldie enl A xt Best fresh oysters in town at T Turkey roasters and carving sets at HASELDENS Do not fail to see the handsome lamps at J A Beazleys Co Silver noveltiesi alJLthe useful pieces at Thompsons Guns hunting coats and loaded shells at Jennings Co Paint Lick Good boots for S150 200 and S250 at Jennings Co Paint Lick New line of dried fruits also cabbage and potatoes at Jennings Co Lick Ky Pretiest line qf Sterling Silver goods ever brought Morrow McRoberts candies ever brought to Lancaster ao Fuller Have your prescriptions at Frisbies Pharmacy Nothing but the purest and best drugs used The Graded School will in the lan guage of the urchin Turn out to day and not Take up again until Tuesday Jan J A few mammoth bronze turkeys Toms S150 Hens 100 Mrs G T Higginbotham Marcellus Ky I will take steps against me if debts are at once business must be closed up and mean what I say Ballou Co have moved into their quarters in block and one of the prettiest groceries in Kentucky Nearly all the Lancaster Odd Fel went to night some ten or fifteen candidates put through by the excellent of that city A well improved farm of G9 acres on Lick in Garrard county Good etc Splendid grass Call on for particulars tf W McC JOHNSTON An Christmas what the children will expect what you ought to furnish them Dolls Pistols Watches Fire and everything to make happy at R L Jennings Co Lick Curreys t9 ancaster r The fin freshest of Xmas compounded For Sale hose not ai the Owsley StanfordTuesday Fr lOuse Ideal s ands rackers aint stand line S Sons owing G S GAINES Rut For Sale A nice Jersy cow Apply at this office Go to Logan Robinson for heavy boots and shoes Handsome Silks for Waist plaid and plain taffeta at Josep X High top shoes for S150 at Jennings Co Paint Lick Ky We are headquarters for heavy boots and shoes Logan Robinson For useful and handsome Christmas presents go to J A Beazley Co stairs offices or living rooms Jno E Stormes Evaporated peaches prunes Grits Hominy Flakes and Oats At TvCurreys Smokers and chewers will find they want if they will go to Frisbies Pharmacy 2t Our line of perfumes soaps toilet articles etc is complete Come and give us a trial 2t A few choice cattle shoats Tom Adams near Camp Dick Robinson What nicer or more ap for a present than a hand some umbrella We iave a beautiful stock J Joseph 21 nice 850 to 900 Ib steers and 13 nice 750 lb steers Apply to T M Johnston or Sons The remains of Uncle Andy who had lived with the family of M F Elkin in Stanford for many years were interred in the Lancaster Cemetery Monday We carry the handsomest line of stationery ever displayed in Lancaster all the different shades and shapes call and look at our new wedge wood paper Frisbies Pharmacy 2t flank Stock For Sale As executor of the estate of E W Lawless decd I will on Monday January 22nd 1900 it being county court day at 2 oclock p m at the court house door in Lancaster Ky sell to the higest bidder two shares of the capital stock of the Citizens Bank of Lancaster Ky 2t Dec 11 1899 JOHN N TEATEK More local on page 4 5 r upIHom- iny FrisbiesPharmacy For Sale would i For Sale National G wha lie ProImate Wallace Is a new metal which will not tarnish and always looks neat We have a complete line of Chafing and Ser vino Dishes Coffee Pots Tea Pots Cream Pitchers Sugar Bowls made of this ware which are nice for Christmas Presents Full stock Table Cutlery Coal and Fire Sets i R Ratchester Ware ices Beazley ft Banghnan Funeral Directors Arterial and Cavity Embalming A Specialty Pull Line of Furniture and Carpets TIME TABLES K C Branch Mixed passes Lancaster 11 10 AK Northbnd Mixed 335 r x 252AM- Xonthbnd S h 12J North bnd Pass gr ax Cliristmas Bells SOON BE RINGING Our Complete line of Holiday Goods for Gentlemen is now on and we have extra Salesmen to assist our customers in making their selection Our showing of Neckwear Suspenders Mufflers Handkerchiefs Umbrellas and Gloves Is we believe the best in Lancaster and represents the newest ideas in Haberdashery We are doing a large holiday business siinply because at this as at other times during the year we adhere strictly pulirpric33 Tak3 fur instaica our lina of NECKWEAR and SUSPENDERS We challenge any competition to produce any thing that will excel them We disposed if anything to sell goods at this Holiday time than at any other for with us it closes the most successful seasons we have ever done and we feel like doing our share toward making the Christmas season of our customers as pleasant as we can We are Holding a Special Sale of Sizfis and Overcoats it500 750 850 1000 and 1200 Boys Knee Pants Suits at 150 200 250 and 350 We shall be pleased to serve you at this season and i you need not look any further than For the Best in the Market Logan 8c RobinsonT- HE PEOPLES OLOTHIBRS I display iJ o tim to p are business i EE ec j tvj i r l S 4iIt 4u 4 J J j k S- yLu 4 CENTRAL RECORD EVKXT WEEK BY lOUIS LANDRAM Publisher LANCASTER KENTUCKY r raM8 TBKKI I ONB YAlfcloo 25 Yiaa1Six Moxrae THURSDAY DEC 21 1890 MARKSBDBY Durham bought of Wm Diehouse a good cow for 25 Mr Robert Humphreys and wife of Chicago are their parents Mrs Boner Mr Scott and bride of Nicholasville visited their parents Mr and Mrs T D Scott last week The school boys of Rice Academy caught in a trap near the a very cat supposed to belong to the Maltese It measured 36 inches from to claws were an inch long and it was supposed to weigh 26 Moore closed a successful school at Rice Academy Dec 22 She gave a nice of can dies and fruits which delighted the juvenile taste Masters Thaddie and Joe Aldridge cousins 12 and 13 the same number of htad marks in the advanced spelling class Little Gene Aldridge received fifty marks in the smaller class of them received a handsome knife a prizeWe THE RECORD force a Christmas with all the luxuries of the and a substantial reward in dollars and cents for their hard years work A SURE CURE FOR CROUP Twentyfive Years f Constant Use without a Failure The first indication of croup is and in a child subject to that disease it may be taken as a sure sign of the approach of an attack Follow ing this hoarseness is a peculiar rough cough If Chamberlains Cough is given as soon as the child hoarse or even after the croupy cough appears it will prevent an It is used in many thousand of homes in this broad land and never disappoints the anxious mothers We have yet to learn ofa single instant in which it has not proved effectual No other preparation can show such a re years constant use without failure For sale by R E Mc Roberts Druggist 1m MT HEBRON W D Scott bought ten barrel of corn from D at 2 per barrel John Montgomery sold his crop of hemp to E D Lawson at 250 per bushel Dennis Scott is shipping turnips to Cincinnati this week h y ry J C Clarence tipIts Katharine a ed o I hoarseness Remedy becomes attack cordtwentyfive JfIJifiJll Miss ye me H chas Bev Stamper of London Everybody in herfifteentha number of her friends were present and enjoyed the nice supper prepared for After supper the crowd was taker to the parlor whereo they were highly entertained until a hour Hattie received nice presents Mr G A Bruce visited relatives at last week Miss Edith Montgomery spent last week with her Miss Lucile Mar August Flower It is a surprising fact says Prof Houton that in my travels in all parts of the world for the last the years I have met more people having used Greens August Flower than any other remedy for dyspepsia deranged liver and stomach and for constipation I find for tourists and salesmen or for persons filling oflice positions where headaches and general bad feelings from irregular habits exist that Greens August Flower is a grand remedy It does not injure the by frequent use and is excellent for sour stomachs and indigestion Sample bottles free at J E Drug Store Sold by dealers in all civilized countries PREACHERSYILLE Plenty of rain now S Ballard will soon have his house completed and J L Anderson will move to where Sam Ballard now lives Mr Ansi Siler will make his future home with his motherinlaw Mrs Britton Rev Mahona of Stanford was here Monday writing life insurance poli Richard Robinson bought a small house and lot here from Menifee El more for 165 Miss Purciful will spend Christmas visiting rela tives J H Thompson a bunch of nice in Rockcastle county last week J B Hutchison sold a fat cow to S Morgan for 2750 J L Anderson sold a pair of horse mules in Danville Monday for 110 J L Hutchison has a car load of wal nut logs out ready to ship We will have a saw mill in opera tion here next week It The Spot When suffering from a severe cold and your throat and lungs feel sore Foleys Honey and Tar when the sore nes will be atonce relieved a O warm grateful feeling and heal ing of the parts affected will be experienced and you will say It feels so good IT HITS THE SPOTS Guaranteed C C J E Stormes 1m 5 at vlted to come several visited MondayII system in Pineville take a dose of IZ H Storm ruts i b ff h S a S C e a BRYANTSVIfclK There will be a Xmas tree at thisplace on the 25th at half past 2 oclkAll are invited Mr and Mrs Elliott visited relatives near Paint Lick last week Mrs Mollie Swopes school will close on Friday which she will return to home near McCreary much to theregret of her many friends in this community Miss Mattie Dunns Friday last Miss Mattie is a teacher and satisfaction B F Jennings of Paint Lick is visiting this week Woods are rejoicing over the arrival of a son at Mrs Fletcher Ison and children of Wilmoreare the of Mrs Dr Armstrong Miss Powell of here Sunday and attended preaching at In sluggish liver HERBINE by its beneficial action upon the biliary tracts cite bile morefluid and brings the liver into a sound healthy condition thereby banishingthe sense of drowsiness lethargy and the feeling of apathy arise from disorders of the liver Price 50 cts C C J E Stormes 1m WALLACETON A few fat hogs are selling here at 3 cents per pound Jas W Wallace finished gathering orn on the 18th inst H C Kinnaird has been on the puny list for several days Rev Parsons of Berea preached a most excellent sermon at the Baptist church here Sunday on the Evidence of Acceptance with God The many friends of Dick Mitchell were very to hear that his sister Miss Bessie had received a letter from him few days ago as he had not been heard since he left Ft Thomas about the last of August He is now at or near and is reported as enjoying good health buoyant James Kinnard who left here 15 years ago then a little boy for Missouri is now here on a visit for the first time He is now a shrewd and ul business man being employ as salesman of the A Thousand Tongues Could not express the rapture of E Springer of 1125 Howard St Philadelphia P when she found that Dr Kings New Discovery for had completely cured her of hacking cough that for many years had made life a burden All other remedies and doctors could give her no help but she says of this Royal soon removed the pain in my chest and I can now sleep soundly something I can scarcely remember doing before I feel like sounding its praises throughout the Uniterse So i will every and who trigs Dr Kings New Discovery for any trouble of the Throat Chest or Lungs Price 50c I and 100 Trial bottles free at R E I McRoberts Drug Store every bottle guaranteed orF i hersister appointment general which traveling Consumption j Cureit I j i I renders N in Annie t s a m New York A meeting to select a Pastor for the here forwestern states for a large firm innext year is called for next Saturday at 2 oclock On Tuesday oclockat the residence Hiatt Mr JB Wallace and Miss Carrie Pitts were quietly married by Rev J R Howespastor of the M E Church of which both bride and groom are membersMr Wallace was born and reared here has been a popular teacher for 15 years with thechildhood and has always been as pure and consistent a man asone may expect to meet Miss the was left an orphan several years ago and only came to Wallace ton to live some 3 or 4 years ago butin that short time has herselfas noble consistent and zealous Christian girl as blesses our com munity by these noble virtueswon the heart that had withstood thedarts of for 36 years Such a union deserves and in the present case at least receives the universal The disposition of children largely depends upon health If they are troubled with worms they will be irritable cross feverish and perhaps seriously sick WHITES CREAM VERMIFUGE is a worm expeller and Ebb Cook sold a mule to J C Fox for 50 George Miller sold his farm tc B C Anderson for 70000 Ebb Scott sold his fine sorrel mare to Lucion Perkins for 10700 Jake Clouse traded a cow and 1000 to WH Furr for three calves On last Wednesday evening the 13th Mr Wm Miss Nannie Lawson were married at the residence of Rev Crawford near Paint Lick The then drove to the grooms fathers where a nice supper was spread The bride is the charming daughter os Thomas vicinity and the groom a promisingyoung man of congratulations 4f indentified considered acquaintances cheerfulmss 1m WOODS exte is s I LINT LICK John Lawson sold to J R Davis a bunch of 100 Ib shoats at 3c per Ib J B Leaven and W B Adams left for the wild west Monday morning on a prospecting If should a with the Indians there is not much danger of Mr Leavell loos ing his scalp C B Engleman has a cow that will work anywhere and is a number one and she gives five gallons of milk a day daughter Mrs W B Adams Miss Nellie Ray who has been vis iting her aunt Mrs Clide Pullins for several weeks returned home Satur day Mrs Annie Adams has home from Lancaster where she has been on a visit for several weeks Milton Smith the butcherof Lan caster was at home on a visit Sunday Mrs Minerva Pullins is on list this week There has been a moving around in this vicinity Mule colts are so cheap that the farmers will have to bunch them up them in job lots Some thief stole two shoats from Wm Wallace and one from C B En gleman Robbed the Grave A startling incident of which John Oliver of Philadelphia was the subject is narrated by him as follows I was in a most dreadful condition My skin was almost yellow eyes tongue coated pain continually in back and sides no appetite grad ualls growing weaker day by day Three physicians had given me up Fortunately a friend advised trying Electric Bitters and to my great joy and surprise the first bottle made a decided improvement I continued their use for three weeks and am now a well man I know they saved my life Slid robbed the grave of another victim No one should fail to try them Only 50cts guaranteed at R E McRoberts Drug store BAdams county returned DI r j I I I and sell sunken PAINTS ALL KINDS Window Glass ALL SIZES NOW is THe TIME TO soy THEM AT R E MCROBERTS 000100 OOOOOOOO O 000000010010 Clcr 101000 1Ieoecc coocoococ r II IfI III 011 I I I JIB00000 MOOC a co a GO 000 a aa aa U 010 0 a a 0101 0 OIUO a g g uOoaoo g aaooo09O U I TOT to Buy is a Good T But Knowing WHERE to buy it h Better leastmoneySuperb stock of ORANGES BANANAS LEMONS NUTS and FANCY CAKES Nice line of Dolls Give us a call Faulconer HerndonOur Stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries is Complete Bring us your produce Knowing CHRISTMAS selectedofus i ffta Im T tir1 I I I I i I Overcoats worth 5 at 350 750 at 650 S 900 at 750 1000 at 900 f1 Boys overcoats at 225 to 350 af from 175 to 600 All wool suits at 650 to 10 aGood suits at 450 and 500 11I 1I III lOTH INGrn 0000010000010 u u 1 El CLOTHING VERY LOW Mens boots worth 175 at 150 liens boots wooth 250 at 200 Mens high cut oil grain shoes worth 250 at 200 liens high cut shoes worth 175 at 150 Good felt boots at 200 and 250 A big line of MENS Also Blankets Comforts and Everything for winter wear WHAT ONE WANTS IN WINTER Might require quite aspace to list if you take in the entire range but its what hewants in clothes his that ought to cause him tocome here gets correct the kind of qualityhe can safely bank on and then the kind of that thebuying in great bargain month at thisintroduces him to values that will make him an eager buyer that will cause him to feel grateful that the season did nothurry his selections R L JENNINGS Co Paint Lick Ey CHIL DRENS frill ReasonsHe Decembera kindsof E l i ii UNDERWEAR E o 0 0 F3 IS OUR BIG SALE OF Has Proven Very Popular and Crowds our Store Daily We give you Same Advantages in Prices and Quality that You Would Get in the Big Cities COME TiET TJSI PROVE THIS We GUARANTEE SATISFACTION in every sale we make and will not only refund the money but pay your expenses book to our store if goods are not exactly as represented 71lfL fifJ UNPRECEDENTED I 8 0 J J J I OurSpecialSale SuitsandOvercoats ASSERTION GLOBE nO LI OVERCOATS CLOTHING FINE SHOES UNDERWEAR L tj 0 o P JLFrohmanCo THE DanviUeKyoo 4 Yzii i Ztr fr I J7- C c 41 J- i Y NEW Complete Throughout with Entire New We are supplied with the most complete and modern stocks of Drugs to be found in Central Kentucky We will open our doors Saturday December i6th and invite you to call and look at our Elegant lines of Holiday Goods We make a specialty of Cut Glass and Sterling Silver Articles and call especial attention to quality and price oo 0ooooeeo e4Otto KH COur prescriptinn department is in charge of Mr Schenck a Registered Druggist of many years experience Nothing but the purest drugs used We have a select line of Cigars and Tobaccos and a complete line of Druggists Sundries Frisbi s Pharmacy or ij tor 8 I D UG Stock I I U 7 y r I I I STORE CENTRAL RECORD THURSDAY DEC 21 1899 PEOPfcE Mrs A H Rice is in Danville relatives Miss Tevis Carpenter of Stanford is the guest of Miss Bush Homer Batson is at home from Ann A arbor Mich to spend the holidays Mr John Mount of Anchorage is the guest of his uncle Mr R E Me RobertsMr Graham Price and wife of Danville have been Mrs Martha Fris bies guest Mrs Wooldridgeand daughter Miss Mary have returned to their home in Denver Col Miss Florence Harris is at home again from a delightful visit to friends MaysvilleMrs Patterson and daughter Mary of Lexington is visiting Mrs O G Speaks Mr Alex West has been visiting his daughter Mrs Charles Denman in NicholasvilleMr of Crab Orch ard is U S Storekeeper at Pilgrim DistilleryMiss of Lexington has been the charming guest of Tomlinson D Terrill and family of Lorella Ky have been the guests of J L family Mr and Mrs Bookout left Monday for Bowling Green where they will reside in the future The Social and Industrial Club was entertained Wednesday afternoon Mrs Mollie Young Misses Nannie and Daisy Pope and Miss Maggie Jackson of Barboursville is visiting Mrs W H Smith Mrs Samuel Wooldridge and daugh ter Miss Mary IIarvy left Monday for their home in Denver Colorado Mr W S Rand of Hotel Rand Vine and Race sts Cincinnati spent Snnday with his friend J H Sympson Hon M F North of Hustonville who is a candidate for clerk of the House of Representatives was here last Saturday S 0 O visiting r V Jarvis and y Gi40 400Oa ROOT dQ0 0 4OrO ObO Maggie l o Earnest Brown has recovered ficiently from his recent illness to I work behind the counter of the Lo gun Dry Goods Co Judge Joe Robinson and wife left Friday for Columbus Ga where they will spend a few weeks before going to Florida for the winter The friends of Miss Mary Wooldridge were entertained by her Saturday evening the occasion being her good bye before leaving for home Bradford Jennings has returned from a few days visit to Tenn lie accepted a position as traveling salesman for a firm in that cityGov W O Bradley is expected home today TIm RECORD will give a of the work of our townsman as won as we can catch him still long inough to interview him Stanford Journal Misses Mary and Dorcas Leavell of Garrard were here yesterday en route to Corbin to visit Mrs James Francis John B Rife will move to Lancaster Jan 1 Mr Schenck prescription clerk at i Frisbies Pharmacy was taken sudden ly ill Friday and it was eared he had pneumonia but by catcful attention he has about passed the danger point At the hop Thursday night Saxtons orchestra played a twostep written by Mrs Levin of Lexington and ded icated to the L A C of that city The piece was heartily applauded and was repeated It is one of the pret tiest twosteps of the day Danville Advocate Hon John W Yerkes was in Washington last week to attend the meeting of the Repub lican National Committee Mr and Mrs Henry E Woolfolk and Mr Spil man reached Boca safe and sound on the Oth after a vaxatious delay in the sailing of their ship Dr Jas B Kinnaird has returned from several weeks sojourn in New York City and Philadelphia He went to attend a special course of lectures in each city Doc certainly believes in keeping abreast of the times and goes every year or two the learn all the new points in his profession While in this city Gov Bob Taylor spoke to the writer in the highest terms of Col Baxter Smith of Nash ville who has many relatives and friends in this county lIe said no purer or more polished gentleman lived than Col Smith that no one stood higher where he was known Mrs W O Bradley and daughter Christine returned from Frankfort and have taken possessson of their residence on Lexington street suf- I I I Knoxville I t I I I l I review A Fair Proposition for the Holidays It will do you Good to Investigate Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year we Propose to YOU not for your hand but for every cent that you may spend for goods in our line Ten car loads of fruits nuts and candies has been shipped to our 59 retail stores and slaughtered at the following Special Prices CANDIES 1 Pure drops assorted flavors fresh and soft per pound 5c Our Daisy French mixed candy a snap per pound at 7ic Pure stick candy all flavors per pound Tie Nice caramel all flavors per pound lOc I Finest chocolate cream drops loc Finest homemade creams per pound 12c Yucatan chewing gum 3 packages for lOc 50 other varieties accordingly J You must see our candies to appreciate their low price and high quality i JNUTS- I I Mixed nuts per pound All fresh sweet and juicy IQC- i I New and large cocoanuts each New Taragona Almonds per pound 20c t New Texas pecans per pound s 12c fc New Brazil nuts per pound lOc New Filberts per pound 15c New English walnuts per pound IGj- cr Fresh roasted peanuts per quart 5c FRUITS i Oranges sweet and five flavor per dozen i Finest Aspinwal bananas richest flavor and yellow as gold at rock bottom prices according to size i Fancy Messina lemons per doz 20c y I Finest Northern apples forty different varietiesf rom 35c a peck up i1 All kinds of grapes at less than retailers cost Finest London layer raisins per pound 15e Nice raisins per pound 8lc New Leghorn Citron per pound 18c New cleaned currants strictly per pound lOc J New seedless raisins per pound 12ici j Committees of Churches Schools or Societies when wanting large quan tties will do well to get our Special Discount before placing their orders J Hold this for your guide and visit our Store whether vou buy or not These prices are supply now as the indications point to a heavy on all Christmas goods See our line of Fancy Olives Pickels Sauer Kraut Pickled Pigs Feet Catsups Table Sauce Canned Meats etc Strictly Fancy Oysters Cape Cod Cranberries and choicest Kalamazoo Celery YOUR FRIENDS The Blue Gnu Grocery Co LANCASTER KENTUCKY l IS I 5 and I 20e up I I forpresent Baltimore I c c toooooroooooaoaooooo00000 a1 i 7c- i r t J r I t- d h yi They speak in the terms of courtesies shown them by the peo pIe of Frankfort and leave many warm friends there They are glad however to get back to their home Those having friends visiting them or are going on a trip themselves would be put to a very little trouble in telephoning the fact to this ollice A said the other day That there paper nefer has nothing in it no how Some people havent as much sense as the Almighty gave geese Speaking of the new members of from Kentucky the following reference was made to the Congress man from this district in the Wash ington gossip of the CourierJournal G G Gilbert Democrat is a bright lawyer from Shelbyville noted for his attractive oratory He is tall straight as an arrow and presents a fine appear ance in a long Prince Albert Lexington Herald Dr and Mrs F O Young and little daughter Jane leave tomorrow for Havana to visit Lieut Lucien Young U S N and charming wife Mrs E D Potts re turns today from a weeks visit to Mrs Joseph B Dunlap in Louisville Miss Christine Bradley of Frankfort arrives ths week to be the guest of Mrs AV S Barnes Rev Robt R West of Washington City who is visiting his parents in this city honored our oilice with a pleasant call this week He holds an important desk in the Treasury De partment and stands high with his superiors His home is at Brooklyn a suburb of the capital and he has charge of a large clutch at that West is well posted on public af fairs and his company is quite enjoy able The many Garrard friends of AVrs West will be delighted to know that she is in good health Rev West tilled the pulpit at the local Baptist church Sunday morning lIe returns to Washington this week Mr Jerry Respess of Winston IN C and Miss Sue Fisher Herring of this city were married at the home of the brides parents on Richmond street at nine oclock yes turday morning The ceremony was said in an impressive manner by Rev J C Massee of the Baptist church E B Respess brother of the groom The bride is a daughter of Dr and of lovely manners and disposition She has a splendid education and pupil of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Mu sic She is a pure sweet Christain girl who will indeed prove a loving helpmeet to the man of her choice Her petite figure graced a venitian cloth gown of castor shade the skirt en train and the bodice tucked daint ily below a yoke of point de Paris lace over white satin trimmings of brown martin She wore a jaunty hat of vel vet slightly darker tnan the dress trimmed in handsome goober breasts small hard fitted in gloves to Miss Herring the attendant wore a handsome princess of light gray cloth trimmed in gray fringe yoke of cerise silk with lace hat and gloves to match Mr Respess is a North Car olinian by birth and residence and has been engaged in the civil engineering business in many states of the union lie is a man of splendid address and fine education lIe has been employ ed in many of the most importantrail road surveys and has had charge of a number of them He is considered among the Southern Railways best men as his assignment to the work through this state will testify Mr Respess is a man of steady habits and a business man in every sense of the word The happy couple were drived to Danville where they took the Queen Crescent for Winston where they will spend some weeks thence visit other cities in the south TIlE RECORD joins many friends in extend ing congratulations to Mr and Mrs Respess The ushers were Messrs Fisher Herring and Jesse Walden The wedding march was played by Miss May Z Hughes in her usual ar tistic style The swellest dance given in Lancas ter in many a day was the one last Thursday evening It was with much dilliculty that a room was procured but Logan Dry Goods Cos new rooms were finally chartered and put in shape The only drawback to the rooms was the fact that the furnaces had not been connected and it was hard to heat with the coal oil stoves But when Saxtons superb orchestra broke forth in one of its lovely waltzes or a frolicsome twostep the dainty slippered feet of lovely girls and the No 10 brogans of as many boys were soon so swiftly gliding ore the newly planed floor that thought of uncom fortable quickly van islitl The scene THE RECORD rheumatic joints jerk with envy as we sat and watched the happy youngsters frolicking in their hap py A lady a worker in church affairs too sat next to us and said What harm can there be in such pleasure as that I am satis fied that if those who tear their hair about dancing could witness this love they would stop gossiping about it The young men worked unceasingly to entertain the visitors and if any not enjoy the occasion it was his own fault We lack of space prevents giving description of some of the dresses as a number of beautiful ones were worn The young ladies present were Misses Sadie Lexington Earl and Emily Chenault Bessie Rich mond Pearl Burnside Annie Evans Bright Stanford Carrie Currey Nell Marrs Altie Marksbury Jennie Burn side Florence Harris Julia Mae Gaines Alberta Anderson Maggie Tomlinson Eugenia Bush Mattie May Robinson Mesdames J E Stormes Dolph Rice Baughman A H Rice Fleece Robinson Louis Landram The young men were Bob Bruce Stan ford Robt S Taylor Joe Watts Tom Thompson Wm McChord Chas Che nault Jno Hunley Zarring Wallace Wagers Rogan Richmond Buford Hemphill Young Goodwin Nicholas ville Price and Marrs Danville Doty Robinson Marksbury Herndon Kin naird Beazley Walker W M and L West Shugars Denny Burnside and probably a dozen other from An editor prints his paper to give his patrons the news of the day and for the money there is in it He is presumed to know of what he writes and he generally he writes as he does in the Leader Courier Osceola Mills Pa without fee or hope of reward that Chamberlains Cough Remedy acts magically and we have found none better in our household If you shave a cough try it it may be accepted as an honest expression worthy of credence For sale by R E JtcRoberts Druggist 1m I placer beautiful LoydHerring youngladyis a suggestionssnatch I surrounding was lyscene Jno I doesWhen maps Lancaster V n n n jury lffJHAV to look all just call to see US we have it We keep the most complete assortment of GROCERIES n Lancaster Our Motto High Class Goods Low Cash Prices nwl Courteous Treatment j FULLER 8s SYMPSON over town The Democratic National Commit tee has been called to meet in February 22 A New York firm shipped 250000 in gold to Europe The total thus far engaged for shipment abroad is now 2tOO000 Chamberlains Cough Remedy has saved the lives of thousands of croupy children Ie is also without an equal for colds and whooping cough For sale by R E McRoberts lyr The GrilnnPhilipot fued in Clay county broke out afresh One man was killed and another seriously in a battle I was nearly dead with dyspepsia tried doctors visited mineral springs and grew worse I used Kodol Dys pepsia Cure That cured me It forms of dyspepsia F P Frisbie 1m wounded indigestion Washington When you need something GOOD something FRESH and TEMPTING no use Wages of 3000 miners and laborers employed by the Lehight Coal and Navigation Company of Pennsylvani were raised In biliousness 11ERBINE by from the body the excess of bile and acids improves the assimila tive processes purifies the blood and tones up and strengthens the entire system Price 50cts C C J E Stormes The authorities of Irvine sent to Lex ington for a man to take the place of the late Marshal of that town who was assassinated there this week So far nobody has been found w ho is will ing to take the place There are few ailments so uncom fortable as piles but they can easily be cured by using TABLERS BUCK EYE PILE OINTMENT Relief follows its use and any one suffering from piles can not afford to neglect to give it a trial Price 59 cts in tubes 75 cts C C J EStormes 1m I expelling S INVITE OTJil FllIENDS CALL SEE OUR HANDSOME M Articles and Books mT- rraYYTrrtrrzrsTTOFinrtr DRUGGISTS SUNDRIES Msi fn f 5 I PURE DRUGS s I LSLlIKINeSieFTseHOOLTBOQKS 1 TOUT DANVILLE KY pnrjfinrrff nr TrTnnrraTre HEMP SEED FOR SALE 3 Will sell best Kentucky River Cultivated Hemp Seed at 250 oj g per bushel and Lint Hemp Seed selected from choice crops at 150 t g per bushel payment to be made in hemp grown from same ej Address W J LAUGHRIDGE 3- S 5 Cheapside Lexington Ky CjlSJULSULfi 9JL2JULSJLaJL2fi SJUULSLtOiJLSULaJUULJ I ff1fJlf lfjf 0WJrJJlJjjJJ I TO 0 t fffd I I LILLARL I l E0 r0i fffjj 7jJtfYJ rJ e FV V OOOOO OOOO O OOOOOO O y QY T Q J bOldsr szsa rsmsoss rZ p et l IQ w i Q f iv 5Z tf if StRSilL9StAQILQStQ fI fT1 J ill m J Ili JI pl 4- rti 6- xt r ri 0 tI- t r And no doubt are thinking of making some f M For The Holidays I you I preparatIons 1 We have a well Selected stock of Merchandise we will offer at Special Low Prices Ifyou want in DRESS GOODS TABLE LINENS Napkins Towels Underwear Ladies Misses and Childrens Jackets Furs Blankets Comforts Underwear Shoes Clothing Trunks c We are Ready to Supply you for less than value We expect to move into our new building about January 1st and we want to have as few goods as possible to move and for this reason we will make SPECIAL LOW FIGURES on our stock from now until the first Vanything 1 n 1 ajll One lot of ladies Jackets at 200 worth 350 at 375 600 550 900 at 675 worth IO and 12 Our Stock of Fur Collaretts Misses and Childrens Jack ets will be closed out at a great sacrifice Special Sale of Table linens Napkins and Towels for the Holiday trade Red Damask at 150 worth 22C Red Damask at 2oc 3oc H u H HatH H i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 I IT I rr I E Bleached Damask at 42 0 hoc Bleached Damask at 55C 75C Bleached Damask at 68c S c Fine Satin Damask at gSc 1250 Fine Satin Damask at T 112 0 1500 One lot of Ladies Dongola Shoes small and medium sizes 79c worth 150 One lot of Zeiglers fine shoes at gSc worth 250 and 300 Also some good bargains in other lines of shoes We have a number of other good things we like to mention but cannot on account or not having space I I Eat a would Come at once or you will miss some of the good bargains On January 1st we will give away 10000 in cash premiums Those who have our punched tickets should bring them in and get their name in the can before January 1st and get a chance at the money After Jan 1 1900 we will be in our new building on the East side of the square near the National Bank THE LOGAN 1 f w J6 L DRY GOODS CO i 4 WOMAN HOPE The only hope for ninny weakly women Female Regulator It is the one safe and sure cure in all stubborn and severe cases of Profuse Menstruation of the Womb Leucorrhoea Headache Backache and Nervousness It distinct remedy for the distinct female troubles Those are the diseases for which it should be taken Z SZ THE BRAOFIELD REGULATOR CO Atlanta Ga AIORE Town Lots In Bryantavillc Sale Will sell privately two lots with dwellings Apply to 3 X Dunn or myself at Bryantsville or particulars- tf lAS HILLS Feed Sale corn and cob meal Baled hay cut fodder straw and hay for making chop feed Also the best Blue Gem and Jellico obtainable Give a part of your trade at least will be appreciated S T Leavell Son tf It Will Go Higher We are getting rich too fast and are going to quit the coal business We have ten cars of Kensec Jellico coal we waqt to close out at once Also two cars of Altimont and Pitts burg at lOJc per bushel Buy now it will go higher when we quit W B Moss Co The gentlemanly agent of the Northwestern Yeast Co is around again with the little sample of Magic Yeast This Company are the larg est yeast manufacturers in the world Magic Yeast has been on the market over twenty years without an equal as a healthful bread raiser and is ex tensively used in all parts of the United States Every body is with the good qualities of Magic Yeast AN IMPERISHABLE CAPITAL 1200 a year realized from an Invest ment of 8G5 or fur an education The above statement has been made a by hundreds of graduates of the or the Shorthand and Typewi it ing departments of the famous Com mercial College of Kentucky Univer sity and who are occupying fine po sitions For catalogue and full par ticulars address only Wilbur E Smith Lexington Kentucky Blae In Bed Springs Herbert Kinnaird one of the clev crest young fellows in town is chief cook and bottle washer in J A Beaz leys furniture store He is a first class clerk but there are many of the tricks of the trade he has yet to learn Saturday Mr Beazley received a doz en wire mattresses which were mash ed down to a thickness of about eigl teen inches and tied with rope Not knowing of the great force of springs Herbert got upon the on his hands and knees and began cut ting the ropes All went well until the knife severed the last rope when Herbert quickly left the earth and started on a sudden journey to what he supposed was the better land After reaching a heighth of ten or to twelve feet his course changed and the downward flight was begun In the latter he cut a swipe through a maple shade tree knocking the back oroff a dresser broke three chairs sitting on the sidewalk and finally reaching terra firma bearing some dozen cuts tieand scratches The mattresses wLen released flew in all directions and its said one landed on the Court House portico Herbert says he thinks this is the final degree in the trade As a cure for rheumatism Chamber lains Pain Balm is gaining a wide rer utation D B Johnston of Richmond Ind hits been troubled with that ail ment since 1862 In speaking tf it he says I never found anything that would relieve me until I used Cham berlains Pain Balm It acts like magic with me My foot was swollen and paining me very much but one good application of Pain Balm relieved me For sale byE E McEoberts Druggist Satom Band Saxtons band arrived in town the afternoon of the day they were to play and as they are all per sonal friends of the editors they came at once to our office and its been many a day ere a jollier or more sociable set have been together A procured and the immortal Saxtcn shed his coat and soon had us forgetting of earth and dreaming of heaven His playing is marvelous and few can play upon a piano the pieces he plays with all ease upon guitar In fact he is the only we have ever heard who can get music of that instrument It sounds like a I full orchestra and the runs he makes would require a good piano performer much practice to execute Saxton feels much at home in Lancaster he hay Iing played here since a little boy when one he played cornet in his fathers band be He was a great pet of Gen Landrams coe as his father and Gen Landram often played together and had much to do in the music line in ye olden times Prol Herman Trot Prank Wolf forP Eckert and Kent Storm who with Saxton last week are is isa v 1C a GCL by a thee Bradfield Scantyor Painful ailments S or or Such as corn on the ear crushed coa j familiar 90 Business HenryS f c T p t bOCM b dur- Ing I oi 2 here says per leys It is gun as been aged see Scald cures 25cts ted rivers Court cases Three eitljer sores SNX Price mes Gen adier made My with also among the older musicians of wide reputation arid well known all over the state Bert Wilson Charlie Storm and Brown Anderson are younger members but are among very best musicians of the day The orchestra and the brass band too is the best in the state as they keep and always have the same men There is not a man in the number who indulges in the Oh Joyful they strictly to their business and perfect gentlemen in every sense the word That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave you if you used Dr Kings New Life Hills ThouS ands of sufferers have proved their metchless merit for Sick and Nervous Headaches They make pure blood and strong nerves and build up your health Easy to take Try them Only 25 cents Money back if no OldFaaliinncd lint Good The city fathers at Des Moincs Ia have passed laws which resemble very much the old Connecticut Blue Laws The curfew whistle has been blowing at 8 p M for years More oldfash ionedregulations are now being made The first is an ordinance requiring all persons to be in doors by 11 P If not and they are unable to give counts Of their business out so they will be promptly incarcerated in the city jail and fined from 1 to 50 Jail tor 20 days Bother ordinance prohibits spitting on the streets and sidewalks penalty 10 fine banana peel on the sidewalk or street will cost the offender 10 The making of a loud noise will subject the noisy one to a tine ranging from 5 to 100 A hot war is to made upon loafers and persons without visible means of sup port A good many Kentucky towns Lancaster among the number would do well to follow suit in this For Hoarseness Benj Ingerson of Hutton Ind he had not spoken above a whis for months and one bottle of Fo Honey and Tar restored his used very largely by singers C C J E Stormes 1m GENERAL Tames F Blaine a nephew of the Plumed Knight created a sensation Minneapolis by marchinga Prussian Count out of his olllce at the point of Lost Many have lost confidence and hope well as health because they have told their kidney disease was in curable Foleys Kidney Cure is a Guaranteed remedy for the discour and disconsolate C C J E Stormes 1m Chaplain Wells of the Frst Tennes says strong drink is demoralizing the army in the Phillippines where the can purchase a weeks jag for five cents A Frightful Blunder often cause a horrible Burn Cut or Bruise Bucklens Arni Salve the best in the world will kill the pain and promptly heal it Old Sores Fever Sores Ulcer a box Cure guaranteed Sold K E McEoberts Druggist 1m Thousands of dollars worth of m ber and railroad ties which were raf on the Cumberland and Tennessee during the summer have begun move Free of Charge Any adult suffering from a cold set tied on the breast bronchitis throat lung troubles of any nature who will call at J E Stormes dug store of Boschee German Syrup free of charge Only one bottle given to one person and none to children without order from parents During the term just closed the of Appeals disposed of more than at any term for years hundred and fifty cases were dismissed or decided Forbroken limbs chilblains burns shinssorethroat and of every kind applyBALLARDS It will give im mediate relief and heal any wound 25 and 50cts C C J E Stor im Lawton commission as a Brig General in the regular army was out before news of his death reached Washington The Best Salve in The World Is Banner Salve It is made from a PrescriPtion a world wide know skin specialist and is positively the most salve for Piles Burn Scalds Ulcers Running Sores and all disease C C J E Stormes The new bank at Wilmore Jessa capital stock of 25000 Leslie Gaugh of Grant county was elected cashier son has been troubled for years chronic diarrhoea Sometime ago persuaded him to take some of Chamberlains Colic Cholera und Diarrhoea Remedy After using two bottles of the 25cent size he was cured give this testimonial hoping some similarly afflicted may read it and benefited Thomas C Bower Glen For sale by B E McEobertsDruggist im At Lexington City Judge Eiley has decided that the toy pistols sold boys Christmas amusement are deadly weapons and that the same penalty attached to carryin them concealed ant lice five be sr J together attend DrugS I usor sent to or jail sentence To throw a u voices JOhOBBOO soldiers Will pIe will be presented with a sample bot by healing mine county has been organized with Orb scalds 1 S speake rs eOOOOOOOOOeO N6WS bruised WLIN1MENT as is colds Garlic the One some The lines in ments given and m for the Our skin prescribed for carrying a or Smith Wesson revolver One Minute Cough Cure is the best ir I ever used for coughs arid It is unequalled for whooping cough Children all like it writes H N Williams Gentry ville lad I ever the armless remedy that gives immediate results Cures coughs colds hoarseness croup pnou bronchetis and all throat and troubles Its early use prevents I consumption F P Frisbie Lt T M Brumley lieutenant under at Manila died in the Hospital at Washington of typhoid lIe was from Georgia that State through its ture presented i sword Oct 20 at Atlanta which occasion was duly celebrated Keep Quiet and use Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for all pains of stomach and all unnatural of the bowels It always cures For sale by R E McRoberts lyr Independent Telephone System of the pioneer telephone men in Kentucky is A II of Lancas first venture was to build a line from Stanford to Crab Orchard three years while he was in mercantile business at the latterplace Sit Vernon and Livingston dded later on then Bee Lick followed after the Lancaster and Crab Orchard line Lancaster exchange and county were to the July1st 19 Mr Bastin as president manager has been constantly improve the today tIme best Kentucky Time members of theTelephone Association Sledged to make such ad to their lines and improve that good connections would be to systems Some of them have kept their promises othershave done nothing except draw theirdividends are abominable the service is indifferent and very unsatisfactory The Assocation will about Feb 1stwhen there will be some warm dis is the extension and betterment of system in Kentucky Mrs E Churchill Berlin Vt says baby was covered with running DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve cured her A specific for piles and disease Beware of worthless counterfeits F P Frisbie 1m Many Go ml Things to Uut The ladies of the Presbyterian church will open a Marketin the store of Mr Jesse W Sweeney on Saturday Dec 23 sup ply you at the very lowest rates with ham chickens salads pies sandwiches homemade candy in fact anything in the eating line you may wish They will glad to re ceive orders cakes which they will cake will be cut and sold in such quan tities as you wish 2t Little Early Risers purify the blood clean the liver invigorate the system Famous little pills for constipation and liver troubles F P Frisbie 1m To wagons we will sell good Lump Coal at lOc a bushel at our yards for the We have also a full line all other coals in cluding two canneltlirce sizes of An thracite Woolridge Jellico Paint Rock Bry Bros Fire Creek Smithing and Hay Corn Oats Cow Feed Salt Lime Cement Patent Plaster Sand and Manufactured Ice DANVILLE ICE COAL CO W S GLORE Ngr S Depot Telephcne 24 Town of and Factory d St Telephone 151 ESTRAY NOTICE White sow bobtail w ight 325 lbs Came to my house 1st of August and has had pigs Owner can have same by paying charges of keeping and for this notice K L ARNOLD Manse Ky becSlst inn 4t Dr R Goldstein The Celebrated Eye Specialist of LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY Will be at Gilcher Hotel Danville on Tuesday Jan 2nd and at St Asaph Hotel Stanford Wednesday Jan 3d returning one day each month Eyes examined and Glasses scientifically adjusted You Are 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All hearts take up the theme and sing sang oer Bethlehems hill Be peace on Earth to Men good will When Christmas comes When Christmas comes holly hangs upon the wall OClowly home and stately hall Then men put by for one brief day The that frighten peace away All thoughts that vex and festal cheer Comes in this best day of the year To gladden hearts and homes and make Man better for his brothers sake When Christmas comes When Christmas comes We someway feel the whole world kin Then friendships fires are kindled in Cold hearts whose doors have long beea shut Come in rings out from hall and hut Come in come in this Christmas day rut all old differences away Join hands and hearts as all men should In universal brotherhood When Christmas comes When Christmas comes Ixit us remember generously The poor of earth whereer they be And share with them our Christmas cheer As Christ would do If He were here And what we do for His dear sake Love will a fitting tribute make To Him who came to earth In love So may each heart its fealty prove When Christmas comes Bben E Rezford in Chicago Advance HE bell of the St Nikolaaa church was merrily going the bell of the quaint church in New Am sterdams fort close by the blue water that rippled around Manhattan Island Dingdingdingding- It was Christmas eve and not St Nikolaas bell have a right to awing mer ply It seemed to say Christmas com ing coming coming and in its joyful tones one might have caught the echo of that ju bilant proclamation For unto us a Child is born unto us a Son is given and the gov ernment shall be upon His shoulders and His name shall be called Wonderful Coun selor the mighty God the everlasting Fa ther the Prince of Peace Swing and ring 0 bell Christmas was coming Ring away 0 iron bell To Gov Peter Stuyvesant stamping around the little Holland town on his wooden leg to the townsfolks in baggy breeches or quilted petticoats to the weary sailors in the lighters that had pushed up the canal divid ing De Heeren Graft todays Broad street or the seamen in the craft moored by the shore the thought of Christmas brought a new joy Hans Van Schenkel stood on the stoop of the shop where he sold beaver skin er furs the ringing of the bell brought no special satisfaction that bell ringing for he asked turning to his daughter Katryne- It is ringing for Christmas I think and that is good news Verily daughter there is something bet ter than Christmas and that is that snow is coming and thou hast a home with thy fatherI those without a home Then she stopped and her blue eyes so filled with tears that they were like sapphires floating in fountains of crystal Come come child thou hast a good home What is the matter with thee Thou knowest father Humph growled Hans Then out I know what ails thee Thou art sighing for that sister of thine and is it any fault of mine because she would yes would in spite of all I could say marry that English sailor that Jack Lang I warned her When then she went into the wilderness was it my fault Katryne turned away to hide the pearls that fell so freely from her blue eyes She thought of the when Jack Lang and Lysbet Van Schenkel stole through a in the wall of the palisades running where Wall street now is and giving a name to it The lovers disappeared there and not for a long day was Lysbet seen but Jack never It was said that they were married by an English clergyman somewhere at ring- Ing As angel Aqd Cares ll A fir k andoth father lIe broke lli Altt l I1 II l 1 17 1- a no s o r I1 gateway some time Finally came a story that the sailor had died and soon after the arrival of these tidings there came through a gate in New Amsterdams wooden wall a worn and weary woman with a babe in her arms Where she was received and sheltered Hans did not know She had my name once he doggedly as serted but she is no child of mine now One might naturally feel that this wintry night Lysbet and her babe would be ex posed to the coming storm That swing ing bell might say Rejoice rejoice but was not there room in some hearts for the feeling of anxiety Hans was not at ease He could not drop this subject that had come up for notice Families he muttered ought not to be broken up by a childs disobedience She that broke that chain must take the respon sibilityIf broken father can it not be mendedNot unless wisely justly done Christ says that we must love one an other As she spoke she was facing a rude wall picture of the child Jesus in His moth ers arms Joseph standing by that father She pointed to the picture They love one another father and I love thee good daughter This encouraged Katryne and she broke out into a bold proposition Then let Lysbet come home Katryne No more Only three words but he put enough Lookat whynot a quilted crimson hood over her locks and of the door When Katryne returned Hans was in a very painful mood and he remarked in a sympathetic tone It is a my child Yes father but Christmas will soon be hereIs the Yes father and he almost ran into me as if he thought I were a savage that had just come down the North river in his canoe and needed to be looked after Humph The watch is a savage if he cant tell a goodly woman of New Amster dam from one of those upriver Indians Unless he follows better fashions I will re opinionslippedout badnight watchout port him to Herr Stuyvesant He will beat him with his wooden leg Oh oh father Yust my child I was only jesting and to show that thy father will care for thee I thank thee After this pleasant and domestic episode there was silence Hans sat before the broad open fireplace with its frolicking flames and smoking his long stemmed pipe while Katryne made her spinning wheel fly merrily round In one of the pauses of her wheel she said I heard a voice father It is nothing The wind my child blow ing straight from East river and Helle Gat Burrrrr went the wheel and then came another pause I do hear something father The snow sliding down the roof my childIt is something at the door Let me go Katryne The watch is up to a trick I dare say lie went to the door opened it and there upon the stoop what did he spy A roll of beaver skin exclaimed the fat Hans stooping and grunting Ugh a Christmas gift of beaver for Hans Van Schenkel What luck He bustled back to the fireplace opened the beaver skin and here to his amazement was a sweetfaced child It opened its eyes cried once stared at Hans and then as if it had found a pro tector shut its eyes again Oh oh father A poor little babe Let me have it I will take it to my bed At first Hans fumed Then he gradually be came quiet At last he did what Dutchmen have been charged with a fondness in doing he went to sleep the beaver cradle still in his arms He had not ventured to drop it for what if the baby and the neighbors heard it The baby had found a protector knew it would not be separated and had gone to sleep Hans followed In his sleep he heard a voice Hans thou hast the Holy Babe in thy arms the Christchild who comes this night to 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LOVELY FOR THE HOLIDAYS I Q We have the Newest Designs in Cut Glass and Sterling Silver Goods and at prices that 11111111 lOur sock smoke I i Frisbies Pharmacy i a 4 o Q 4 aim o Q SELECTIONS 4 Qi iS A foundling Katryne Who cumbers my stoop with a foundling The watch shall take it to Herr Stuyvesant this very nightFather stay thee Look and she the picture on the wall Its like the Christchild Wouldst thou turn Him away this eve of the blessed the Nativity No no keep him till I get back anyway I pray thee Katryne was very nimble Hans was very slow Ere he was fully aware of it she was under her crimson hood and it was slipping out of the doorI keep itonly until thy return he called but a door of oak was already between her and Hans He was in a dilemma The when it was moved to a bed pointedat festivalof childcried returned and a woman followed her who knelt beside Katryne at his side and said Father My child Thou wilt forgive me And thou wilt forgive thy father That was all No not all Hans reached out his hands and rested one on the head of Katryne and one on the head of Lysbet The babe stirred now inits furry cradle only to and smile And somehow it if the picture on the wall had got out into the room and the love and peace in that group of the Holy Family came down like wings and the air of June had made summer and song that Christmas eve under the roof of Hans Van Schenkel Ed ward A Rand in N Y Observer lookup seemedas Ticr DO not know what I thou wilt bring What gift whatchanges from the King With thee New Year As from His presence thou shalt fly There from the palace In the sky To me down here I do not know how it shall be But whatsoever comes to me Full sure I am That he whose hand the Master kolds May watch the year as it unfolds With perfect calm Content in this sure faith to rest That all for him is truly best The King supplies If tears are sent or other ill He knows they come as blessings still Though in disguise I welcome thee then from above For freighted down I know with love Are all thy days And as they pass be this my care That back to Him each one shall bear My grateful praise R G McLees In N Y Observer HIS CHRISTMAS PRESENT The Great Prize Harpy Found In His Lost Slocklacs How He Was Accepted She was the prettiest and brightest girl we had at our house party that winter related the smiling old lady who love to dwell upon the holiday festivities when she was a girl She was a great favorite with the men because of her dashing ways and the air of good comradeship that she ways carried about with her Yet we could never see that any one of her suitors was favored above another and often she would fill the appointed destiny of womanIn party was Harper Allisoa We always called him Harpy He was big athletic goodnatured and good to look at but we never thought of him as a bril Rant man It was as plain as could be that he was in love with her and men of his typo are so persistent They lay siege and no matter what may come they continue the siegeI know that he proposed to her a score of times but he was always put off with the laughing assurance that she was not to be won by any of the stereotyped methods and that if he ever did find a lodging place in signChristmas up our stockings outside our doors just as a lark you know In the morning we all had presents to show but Harpy He pretended to be disconsolate beyond consolation He had put out a great long pair of woolen stockings knit in black yarn and tipped ia red by a fussy old aunt in Maine who ways feared that Harpy never dressed warm selves were gone After dinner there was a aleigfaride of the oldfashioned kind As she raised her dress to clamber into the big sled we all saw that over her dainty shoes she wore heavy woolen stockings and the toes were red Now I know what I got shouted Harpy and before us all he tossed her into the air caught her as she came down and kissed her indefinitely Detroit Frea Press 9 THE NEW YEAR We Should Meet Its Trials tad TemptaHois With SSrono Filth la God The return of New Years day invites many people to the most somber Undoubtedly most of us can find abundant occasion for these but there is thing as pushing selfexamination and selfcondemnation to the point of discour agement The best temper with can enter upon the new year is that of faith faith in God and faith in ourselves through His help It is about as certain as any thing can be that the new year will bring us new experiences Our courage our ca pacity for endurance our steadiness of and power of resistance is to be tested At the end of the year we are going to be nobler men and women than we are to day or we shall have and forever afterward there will be opportunities While we think of the latter alternative it is well to strengthen our hearts by the former Let us believe that we are not going to fail and we have taken a long step towards success When another New Years day comes around we temptations and emergencies 01 the years experience Boston Watchman The night before Christmas is one of the rare occasions on which the small boy is threatened with insomnia Puck ffIJf t ale wondered- if ale slightedby reflections sucha whichWe character deterioratedmorally narrowing gainsin i a I Clqistm 5 tsii IiBUDAY 5UPPl MEN1 bt artsQnBV3R GENTRHLEGORD Lancaster Ky December ijl 1899 Some twenty years ago a I think it was or ry maybe something better X That first I took the jr liberty to know Your residence and bore you with a letter You never sent an answering line I fear That your attentions may have been I wonder did it never strike you queer Our correspondence being so onesided of philanthropists you were the king You always managed without word or warning ing May I that generosity abuse At this late date by asking for another IWee little present of no earthly use To just Prlscillas lover Simply a little work worse luck of art meInlily very dear sir wont you bring it to me Jfo need of course of mentioning It to her I stocking Tou shall be welcome The address I gave rememberForslave And humble servant dating from Theodosia Pickering Garrison in N Y Truth HEY had been mar ried only six weeks from nowhere and little Rosy Dietrich the orphan hill girl They had a small cabin the rent of which Rush paid by chopping wood on the steep hillside and carrying it down to the wagon tracks below His fire wood was had for the cutting there were a dozen chickens two pigs and a cow This live stock Ross aunt had given her be cause she was going to tale the little yel brother with her that had been a burden to the aunt So they dwelt together in the tworoomed cabin Rush and Rosy and the small boy who had not yet worn trousers Rosy had been the prettiest of the hill girls but land no prospects She loved Rush Palmer with unquestioning unreasoning trust lie had worked all the summer on a farm near When he came from nowhere in particular he said he was thin and white Now he was brown and brawny When he asked little Rosy to marry hum and she said Yes with out question he had given her a curious lookYour cousin Karl calls me a tramp he murmured I care not laughed Rosy he is mad thats all They were happy in a careless innocent way On Thanksgiving day Rush killed quail Rosy how to broil them He liked to keep Thanksgiving day he said It made him think of the time when he was a boy and had a home Are they all dead asked Rosy from the stove glanceWhoYour people There must be some but you never tell Me I have my aunt Karl my cousin and Hilda Hast thou none NoneI be to you all she said with her mouth on his cheek The third day before Christmas there came a halloo from the wagon track Palmer Palmer Halloa Rush Palmer Heres a card from the post office SUPPLEIWENT Yet thingI anyonebut preferThe December i1ij aJ1 I Q E5iX 11 t E 4 i oJ lr t U this Rush Palmer or such hadno andshowed 2 dC- Kati Wj1 r divided shocking J14 TflLitiJt1h N4 ow headed THOU HAST COME When Rush came back he looked so changed Rosy cried I know not what news cornea Rosy said he but there are letters for me at the village I will return The night came and the morning still no step of Rush on the threshold Her cousin Karl came to hear of the letter i You will see him no more he said Our neighbor Haller watched him jump on the cars He was a tramp and you youBut her arms and would not listen The next day was Christmas eve Rosy Rush were to make a tree for Otto It jras a small evergreen on the hillside l will cut it and have it ready thought and Rosy and he will come He is not un kind Yet she wept while she chopped the tree with Rushs bright ax She killed the chicken set apart for the dinner she baked pies and made strange figures of animals You shall return with me demanded her cousin Karl when he came over the hill after dark VVe are not coldhearted My mother sent me for you and for Otto I will upYou Rosy with tears but when he comes the cabin will be cold No no Karl I will wait anyhow until the new year She set up the little tree and dressed it There were bright berries strung there were rows of white popcorn there were long vines with red leaves carefully dried There were the reddest applies the gingerbread dogs and cats boys and girls There were red stock beganto darkand CHRISTMAS MORNING ings and mittens knitted by Rosys nimble fingers and a boy doll of wood skillfully carved by Rush It was dressed by the little wife in quaint trousers blouse and cap There were whistles of alder and pigs blad der that gave a delightful squeak There were cows horns covered with tissue paper and destined to hold the candy Rush was to buy at the village Alas alas sobbed Rosy there is not any candy for Otto now but I have made these sugared balls from cake he will not know Shame crept into Karls heart that he had not made Otto a Christmas gift He spoke roughly to hide it You are childish Rosy Never before had Otto such a Christmas as now For my man made it my man made it sobbed Rosy and not his blood kin No no Karl I know his heart He home Marl went homeward through the storm Rosy sat by the stove with her her head It was bitter So often had they doughand willcome apron over sat here while she knitted and he made al der whistles She sat long but Otto called out from his little bed and she went to lie by him then How long she slept she knew notThere was a noise in the outer room She rose softly and with beating heart stole to the door The tree The tree In among the and the apples and the gingerbread dogs were strands of glittering gold and sil ver pink candy hearts oranges stars aye a dozen gleaming devices From the top bough hung as flying a wax angel About the rough stand were things Rosy had never seen save in dreams A rocking chair a beautiful cloak all fur and red lined A grand hat with feathers a silk dress dull blue and crimson changing in the light Was she dreaming But a figure crossed the floor softly a figure that set all doubts at fellasleep popcorn arrows Dear to the heart is the old love Though faded and hailed with wear And sweet is the face of the new love So fascinatingly fair I rest Rush her husband With a cry she burst out her flaxen braids hanging her eyes shining She cried in her mother tongueThou hast come He soothed her with a mist in his own eyesDid you think I would not come I had to go to Lawrenceburg to the bank There was money for me that I thought others had taken from me See I have made my faith mas day See the clock is at 12 We will light these candles and call Otto He can sleep tomorrow He lit the candles still holding his arm about her As they went to the bedroom he I will buy your cousins farm for you to morrow if you say so I have after long disappointments come to my own And I have you truest heart that love a tramp Art happy Tis Christmas day Chicago Daily News keptback laughedagain forwedded A BEAUTIFUL CUSTOM Christmas Giving Its True Significance Often Lost Sight Of There is no more beautiful custom than the timehonored one of Christmas giving when it is observed in the true spirit when the gifts are those of love not of Present giving at Christmas is of heathen origin During the yuletide season our heathen ancestors were wont to make concil iatory offerings to their deities whose per sonal movements and direct interferences on supposed to be traceable at that period Later when the church Christian ized the custom the giving of reciprocal gifts substituted for the heathen observance imaginedobligation earthwere greatlove delight tha- is t It is hard to decide between them Which one the heart loves the best The new can not be resisted But the old holds its own in the test Frank B Welch yet the excessive giving so much in vogue at the present will soon by its own weight to some extent this pleasure If all would have the courage of their convictions on thus subject and refuse to degenerate the ancient custom so fraught with sacred meaning into one of exchange and barter this danger would soon be overcome Even within the confines of the family circle the true significance of the custom is too often lost sight of and the opportunity the occasion offers embraced to make some necessary article of clothing furniture or the like do duty for the Christmas gift This is a wrong interpretation of the festival From the head of the family down to the tiny tod dler the Christmas gift should be no matter how insignificant in itself that can be treasured and preserved as a memento of the joyous occasion Make the season one of joy supreme Let log on the hearth the tree laden with love offerings down to the specially prepared dishes something everythingfrom extinguish But count not your day a success if the Christmas cheer is confined to your own fireside Forget not those homes upon whose hearths no yule log is burning Alas they are all too numerous Seek out such an one and transfer to it at least one ray of the sunshine which your own heart and E Megee in Ladies World t9 Christmas Advice for a Millionaire Although handicapped by your circum stances it is not impossible for you to ex tract some comfort from Christmas One of the best rules is not to allow yourself to your condition You would gladly swap places and stomachs poor devil who has to earn his own living but do not dwell upon this Instead ascer tain the address of some misguided philan thropist who is in the habit of giving a Christmas dinner to a lot of ragamuffins homeKatharine thinkabout withsome HARD TO CHOOSE Get him to take you to the place and view the moving spectacle He will be glad to have you see it and it will be a source of considerable amusement to you Then after you have been driven home you can esti mate the cost per plate and the number fed and easily ascertain how much you have saved by not doing the same thing This will cast a gentle glow over the of your holiday and help you to en joy what otherwise might be a cheerless t9 Happy Children Blessed are the children who can stilt hang up their stockings and believe im plicitly that a really truly Santa Claus will fill Life Look to the Future It is not wise to have so merry a Christ mas that you cannot have a happy New Year Chicago Tribune ChristmasLife themBrooklyn remainder OODBYE old year Weve journeyed s e ther many days And now behold the W parting our waysIs near With thoughts of mingled gladness and of dread I see the winding way that I must tread To Future Lands For thee awaits the realm of shadows deep The Silent Land of years that lie asleep With folded hands Goodbye old year A few more steps ere we forever A To hope and fear A farewell smile a lingering clasp of hand Ere thou shalt lie within the shadowrant All silently The while I haste a glad new year to greet The while I journey on with memories sweet Old year of thee Goodbye old year Alas not half I felt or knew till now How kind and brave and true a friend wert thou For ah twice dear A loved one seems when comes the day When heart and lips all tremulous must say A last goodbye Yet though thy friendly face no more memories sweet my heart hay kept of thee Alice Jean Cleator in Ladies World THE FIRST CHRISTMAS The Town of Bethlehem Where the Wise Men Were Guided tjj a Jljjsterlous Star The place is Bethlehem but the Holy Family are no longer at the inn in which there is no room for them writes Rev Armory II Bradford D in the Ladies Home Journal of The First Christmas Present They are now in a house and by themselves The dwellings or the poorer classes of that land and time were of primitive simplicity The walls were of stone often without cement or plaster the roofs were of boughs or poles laid side by side and covered with mud and straw the floors were of earth They contained fev rooms if indeed there were more than one and no windows such as are to be found in modern houses The best of these build ings were hardly more sumptuous than the dugouts of the American prairies or the crofters cottages of Scotland and Skye but because of the dryness of the climate they were not uncomfortable Neither walls nor floors were damp Jesus and Mazy were in such a house and were as well provided for as most of the peasant people of their time and their means The strangers who appeared in the streets of that little town were wise men from the east They were guided by a mys terious star They sought one who was born king of the Jews When they found Him in true oriental fashion they first bowed their heads to the ground in saluta tion and then presented to Him gold frank incense and myrrh The phrase wise men or Magi indicates that they came from Persia or Arabia that probably they were followers of Zoroaster and therefore that they were fireworshipers That is all that the Gospels teach us either directly orby concerning them What He Makes He was wondering how Santa Claus the presents that he gives away Papa he asked docs Santa Claus make anything lie does my boy lIe does replied the father who had just seenthe results of a little Christmas shopping He makes some men prosperous and he makes others fail Then he retired to the and made another attempt to balance his cago Post Os Peace on Earth While merry bells are ringing And happy voices singing Because the blessed Christchild Long years ago was born Oh may we all remember Jn the cold and bleak December There are many many children TJrJiappy and forlorn Let us try to lift their sadness Let us fill their hearts with gladness And share with them the brightness- Of the joyful Christmas morn Youths Companion STUMPED onto A o Jr throbbingheart darkened r see- The D inference cashChi f l i r iw9I got r Mrs are you going to give your husband for Christmas Mrs I dont know what to give him Ive been looking through the house this morning and I cant think of a thing we need in the way of furniture or decoration that is within our means Chi cago News f9 A I Philanthro- pistI I hed money enough ter make poor child in NYork happy termor rer remarked Dusty Rhodes on Christmas eve started for the free lunch Put it inter government bonds an de interest replied the philanthropic Rhodes Judep MaldenWhat AtkinsReally wiry BoweryStaggers o liven ClJtdm lass OUR ilOliDAYt 5UPPl MfNT 1 ar tgno TmLlALBEKTS ETTER Y PAPA says at San ta Claus Is goin to bring to me Another mamma Christmas time And papa says at she Is beautiful and good and kind And says she hopes at I win like her awful much and learn To love and by My papas often seen her and He says her eyes Is bhie The same as mine is and her cheeks Has dimples In them too And she aint more an halt as olds My other mamma was And papa says I ought to thank Dear kind old Santa Claus But I aint glad and I dont want No other mamma here Id rather have him bring me back My own sweet mamma dear My nice good mamma that is gone So far away Ill write to Santa Claus to bring Her back to me to stay THE LETTER Dear Santa Claus My papa says Youre goin to bring to me Another mamma Christmas time Ats as sweet as she can be nut I dont want no other one Dont put her in your pack But please good Santa wont you bring My ovn dear mamma back She said before she wont away At she would tare my hand laid lead me out of here name day Into a happier Lid So bring no row mamma here Ats younger than she was To talc the place weve kept for her Dear kind old Santa Claus If you can bring new mammas round Why cant you find some way To bring a boys own mamma home And give her to him say I dont want no now mamma here Ats as sweet as she can be But bring my old one Santa dear To papa and to me S E Kiser in Cleveland Leader WISHES HE TOLD THE TRUTH Smiths Trouble Began When lie Sold His Christmas Present It pays to be truthful said Smith as he a cheap cigar after looking long ingly at the expensive brand he usually smokesSome time before Christmas I chanced to remark to my wife that I needed a new overcoat but that I thought I would try and get through the winter with my old one as matters were pretty close and I couldnt afford it Christmas day most to my surprise and consternation my wife presented me with a handsome silklincd overcoat that I saw at a glance didnt cost less than However I had to grin and bear it and try and figure out some way to pay for it One day I chanced to meet Jones on the street and as he was admiring the overcoat an inspiration flashed over me Jones is about my build and as he need ed an overcoat I asked him what he would give me for mine He said 25 and I ac cepted the offer so quick that it gaspI figured it out this way By accepting 25 for the coat I could manage to raise the other 25 and thus get out of a situation that was keeping me awake nights I had to tell my wife some sort of a fairy tale so I went home that night with a long face and a story about a sneak thief having stolen the overcoat out of my office while I chanced to be away I felt like a sneak thief myself when my wife burst into tears But I burnt the bridges behind me so I had to carry out my part My wife while down town one day chanced to run across Jones wearing the overcoat She recognized it at once and calling a policeman had Jones arrested There was nothing now for me to do but to confess the whole thing and get Jones re leased from behind the bars that I had a bad hour with my wife and a twodays struggle with Jones to talk him out of suing me for damages But the worst remains to be told My wife had bought the overcoat from funds that her father had sent her I never want to see another Christmas again I never want to see Jones again I wouldnt mind if I didnt see my wife again until it was warm enough for summer cloth Inquirer A Profitable Combination Talk about luck That man it in tripleplated chunks How do you figure it out Why his wife was born on Christmas and Christmas is also the anniversary of their marriage You see the rest of the pure velvet for him Cleveland Leader ONE OF THE FOURFOOTED KIND ITW FJ I Ifj herby farso ont i pickedup withme 50 madeJones Theresultwas ingPhiladelphia Denslow has year is rl l t 1 l i liu V 1 I 3 It jj sj is Do you hang your stocking up Miss StoutI hang up four of them Mr Cos lingGood gwacious And what do you ex pent to receiTef A piano Mr Gosling Cleveland Plain Dealer r CHRISTMAS SPIRIT Its True Promptings Would Make the DaD the Brightest and Best In the Year It is the day of all the year best and dearest among the time marks of our recur ring calendar It is the day for peace and harmony in every heart and at every hearthstone We celebrate Gods chiefest gift to man and discordant thoughts or con tentions have no place at the joyous fes tival All should ring clear and true and sweet as the Yuletime chimes The spirit of Christmas is that of Him whose birth it commemorates It softens evil sorrow and hopelessness with the magic touch of charity for in charity is the em bodiment of all the Christian graces It gives to goodness a brighter luster and to a nobler purpose It is a spirit born in every heart that can know its inspiration without regard to creed or race or station Of all the days to which man has given special observance Christmas alone has grown in its power its beauty and its value It has been stripped of the grandly devised liturgy and dramatic representations that had their root in heathen customs dispelled by the true Christian spirit but the Has been one of purification be yond cavil a clearer conception of the sub andmarks resolve twig yields some new triumph of discovery when the sweetfaced mother and romping father feel not the burden of years but are warmed with the youthfulness which the spirit of Christmas makes perpetual But the day fails of the fullness of its ob servance if something of the same bright cheer is not brought to every home and ev ery person Those who move in the true spirit of the Christmas time realize upon this day above all others that men are the children of one God one earth and one com mon purpose Good will tion go hand in hand They seek the poor and unfortunate as did He whose memory we consecrate They would give repose to the aching heart True to the promptings of the Christmas spirit they would make it the brightest sweetest and best of all the days that make the year Detroit Free Press The Festival of Motherhood Christmas is the festival of calls our thoughts back to our own be her who gave us her to whom above every other human being we owe all that we are for that we might have been and are not We recall her gentleness and patience with aspirations and prayer for us We plan and andselfabnega motherhood- It ginningto birthto goodall usher think of what we might have been had she been other than she was We would to God that we were nearly what she would have us be We say Would that all chil dren might be so blessed She Knew Him you give Miss Gotrox a Christ mas present refused you thats what it amounts to She said she didnt believe it was right for a girl to accept very costly gifts Brooklyn Life Keeping the Anniversary Age disowns novelty It is true that the more a wise man learns the less he finds that he knows Yet it is also true that the older we grow the more we see the world repeating itself In new music we hear strains that remind us of old melodies the preachers illustrations the poets similes the novelists plots all remind us of gone before and like a of old stories And so when the Christ mas anniversary with its tales of the Christ more TomDid youknowTomAndshe JackIsuppose seem something revamping child the New Years day with its good res olutions and big promises and renewed en ergies come around there are those who say Let us have done with these trite recurrences But if ever there was in the old festival season it is there still There are new generations who find no staleness in the antique but to whom the same regenerative stimulus comes in the anniversary time We lived because those who went before us helped us to live let us be a like help to those who are blos soming into younger S Times English Christmas Custom The Christmas tree found its way into England through Prince Albert soon after his betrothal to Queen Victoria A peculiar is that of passing a small tree round the table after the Christmas dinner from which each person plucks the gift previously placed there for him or her An Enthusiast is a great observer of the Christ mas customs say so Hell kiss an ugly girl just because he happens to catch her under the lieS Englishcustom TedTom NedIshould mistletoeJudge anything Iy clbclf g rtG I g Under the Mistletoe in the Sunni South The Christmas Dinner Table Place the table for the Christmas dinner in the center of the room under the if there is one and then see that it is perfectly level and the leaves well fitted writes Mrs S T the Ladies Home Journal From the chandelier hang a large spray of mistletoe or holly tied with scarlet ribbon If there be a mantelpiece in the room bank it with holly and ferns Ar range a pretty corner blending all the greens used in decorating Cover the table first with a heavy cotton flannel place over it the spotless linen tablecloth Place in the center of the table a mat of Christmas ferns in the center of which stand a high fruit dish filled with polished red apples grapes and such other fruits as may be obtained Cover the base of the dish with sprays of holly on each side of this place cutglass or china dishes filled with bonbons olives and salted almonds The water bottles and a dish or two of celery may occupy the other places One Cause of Trouble wish Christmas really was a sea son of general peace and He Well it might be if hadnt introduced the custom of giving Christmas chandelier Rorer in clothand SheI presentsPuck goodwill l Fore Christmas For Christmas with its lots and lots of candies cakes and toys Was made they say for proper kids an not for naughty boys So wash your face an brush your hair and mind your ps and qs And dont bust out yer pantaloons and dont wear out your shoes Say Yessum to the ladies an Yessur to the men An when theys company dont pass your plate for pie again But thinkin of the things yerd like to see upon that tree Jest fore Christmas be as good as yer kin be Eugene Field Christmas at the English Court There is one custom always gone through with Christmas eve at the the appearance of the great baron of beef This is cooked at Windsor for the kitchen at Osborne will not accommodate it Also there comes a big woodcock pie a boars head and the queens plum pudding This pudding is a giant for after part of it has been sent to the queen for her Christmas dinner enough is left to furnish dessert for all the queens near the Russian court in Roumania at Sandring Jest Englishcourt relativesandat lime fact that the Son of Man is the Son of God That which is divine in our common nature grasps its kingship with Him whose spirit is the spirit of the Christmas time How potent how more than human is this spirit appears best in the universal obedience given to its sway All with un varying regularity and with hearty appro val bow in glad submission to its estab lished customs and emulate the example if they do not indorse the faith of those to whom it is indeed a holy day Strange mir acles are wrought by this same Christmas spirit It brings smiles to the face of melan choly itself It gives life to a hope that seems dead It exorcises the evils of hatred malice and envy To old age it brings the keen fresh joys of youth and to childhood a clearer appreciation of the spirit that pre sides at their Christmas revels But above all this spirit which is the vine spirit of Christmas makes it a day of loving remembrance of doing good to oth of seeing that all about us have at least one bright and happy memory of the dying year The admonition of this spirit is not alone for universal rejoicing but for individual contentment and thanksgiving There is an ideal reached when merry chil dren dance about the symbolic tree glitter ing with remembrances that fill the cup of childhoods joys when each branch and die ers ham and in Denmark portions of this sweet appear every Christmas day The Christmas dinner is served in the huge Indian diningroom which presents a bril liant appearance Gold plate is used and gleams from table yule log in the fireplace blazes brightly and the large party of relatives who have been asked to share the Christmas dinner includes many of the younger members of the royal fam ily who on other days of the year are in bed at the dinner time of the grownups There fore they especially enjoy the occasion Chicago Daily News A Misunderstanding I notice Jenks doesnt speak to you Whats the matter- I cant help it I started to talk to him about Christmas decorations the other day and he thought I referred to the he got in a broil with a mutual friend re cently Judge Twas Ever Thus Ted Ive been trying to catch Dolly un der the mistletoe but Miss Autumn seems to be the only one I can find there seems tb be an instance of the wrong girl in the right gigantic andsideboarda blackeyes i NedIt placeJudge E HAVE our share of ups and downs Our cares like other folk JY The pocketbook is sometimes full Were sometimes nigh deadbroke But once a year at Christmastime- Our hearth is bright to see The babys hand just touches heaves When Daddy lights the tree For weeks and weeks the tittle ones Have lotted on this hour And mother she has planned for it Since summers sun and shower With here a nickel there a dime Put by where none should see A loving hoard against the night When Daddy lights the tree The tiny tapers glow like stars They mind us of the flame That rifted once the steelblue sky The morn the Christchild came The blessed angels sang to earth Above that far countree We think they sing above our hearth When Daddy lights the tree The weest kid in mothers arms Laughs out and claps her hands The rest of us on tiptoe wait The grownup brother stands Where he can reach the topmost branch Our Santa Claus to be In that sweet hour of breathless joy When Daddy lights the tree Our grandpa says twas just as fine In days when he was young For every Christmas ages through The happy boils have rung And Daddys head is growing gray But yet a boy is he As merry as the rest of us When Daddy lights the tree Tis Love that makes the world 50 Tis Love that lightens toil Tis Love that lays up treasure which Nor moth nor rust can spoil And Love is in our humble home In largesse full and free We all are very close to heaven When Daddy lights the Margaret E Sangster in Womans B mo Companion CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS Gift Making One of the Iost Gracious Features of the Season Giftmaking is one of the most gracious features of Christmas and uric that 1 pray may survive ill other outgrown customs writes Florence Hull Winterburn in the Womans Home Companion When love and sympathy are close counselors there is little fear that we shall make the mistake of leaving out of our little ones stocking the particular thing he has set his heart upon getting And if his choice is beyond us to gratify let us come as near to it as we can and not convert this season into a sort of convenience for ourselves thrusting upon his reluctant acceptance such prosaic arti cles as shoes hats and other essentials of the toilet Far prettier is the German custom of bestowing gaudy trifles that have no use in themselves but are part of the glitter and fashion of the holiday When it is possible nothing is so good to have as the traditional Christmas tree In after years memory hangs upon it fondly and we bless in our hearts the kind hands that took so much trouble to give us pleasure Then the stocking hung up on Christmas eve has a romance all its own The break fast table dressed with hollyberries and gifts piled under snowy napkins is a graceful custom and is far nicer than the blunt hand ing out of our gifts Some trouble should be taken to create the welcome element of surprise We all like it but it is one of the greatest delights in a childs experience lIe finds out before we would choose to have him that what is looked forward to most eagerly seldom turns out well It is sad philosophy yet true that it is dangerous to set ones heart on anything in this world But the love that hides its intention until the hour of fulfillment and then lets out its secret in an outburst of generosity is the best substitute that is ever offered for the special Claus and all other gracious myths An example of generosity is seldom lost upon children if it is true not artificial They are very willing to live up to their lit tIe knowledge if we allow them the chance and part of our duty to the day is to en courage in our young people the same kind liness we cultivate in ourselves It is so much easier to learn in youth to be genial sympathetic and generous than it is after embittering experiences have hardened our hearts The First Celebration of Christmas Christmas was first celebrated in the year 98 but it was 40 years later before it was officially adopted as a Christian festival nor was it until about the fifth century that the day celebration became perman ently fixed on the 25th of December up to that time it had been irregularly observed at various times of the year in December in April and in May but most frequently in January Ladies Home Jour nal Made Him Wait Mrs Hopkins where is that Christmas present you said you had bought for me Well Mr Hopkins you talked so much about hard times that I put it away until your birthday Chicago Record JUST LIKE A MAN y 1fr8TH round tree ProvidenceSanta K 1 t a t y ra John is such a goose he gave dear mam ma half a dozen silver nutpicks and a nut cracker Well isnt that all right Poor mamma she has dyspepsia and hasnt eaten a nut for 20 veare Detroit Free Press t Cr i ma t89Q 5UPPL 1 I ON0LpDAl4 FN5i rett zrisuu I Y MEASURE OF u w THE S t airy HE rendered unto him all day The good saints due praise gratitude And with such warmth Im free to say It put me in a jealous mood So when she came to say Good night And whispered in my willing ear On tiptoe in her gown of white Softly I love you papa dear You love me but how much I said And after just the slightest pause She answered pulling down my head I love you more than Santy Claus The day had been a happy one As evry Christmas ought to be There was no dearth of cheer nor fun And bell pealed merrily Those near and dear had said Goodwill In more or less substantial ways And nothing in the guise of ill Had called for pity or dispraise nut Stellas bedtime hour by far The happiest was to me because Twas then she found my own bright star She loved me more than Santa Claus Edward W Barnard in Judge lSfEWEAR RESOLUTIONS LSIE was sitting in her pleasant library intently reading a neat typewritten list 2O What is it I in quired with interest New Years res olutions she responded promptly Goodness gracious I exclaimed aghast you surely arent going to try to keep that many Its enough to bring on paresis even to attempt to remember what theyre aboutDont be returned they arc not intended for personal use They mot merely a little list I have prepared for some men I know You see Dorothy she went on earnestly Ive been thinking over the matter and Ive come to the conclusion that the trouble with us women is that we have gotten into the habit of trying to mo nopolize all the domestic virtues and self sacrifice You cant pick up a paper with out seeing a long article on a womans duty to make home happy or a wifes duty to her husband or a mothers sacred duty to her children But do you ever hear of its lieiiig a mans duty to make home so his wife wont want to go out in the evenings Does anybody ever advise him when he comes home tired at night to put on his dress suit and try to entertain his wife to keep her from being attracted by younger and handsomer men Not much Do you ever see a roomful of prosperous middleaged men sitting around in a fathers convention discussing how to do their duty to their children Nobody ever did It isnt right Im in favor of giving the then a show and letting them take a hand in happinessmaking and the duty business Now when the New Year resolution time comes went on Elsie studying her list I just want to get in a few of my do mestic principles and my word for it you trill see it will do more real good and bring about more genuine reforms than all the swearing off from smoking and drinking since Adam Comparatively few women are afflicted with husbands who get drunk or smoke to excess but millions of us have to put up with men who are in crying need of I as long as her arm alarmedshe e every 0- QO FORNtiL 1 a attractive the THEY AUf NOT INTENDED FOR PERSONAL USE a little welcome reformation and who might make us so much happier if they only would What would I suggest Oh lots of things To begin with Id have them make a castiron resolution to spend more of their time at home When a man marries a worn an he leads her to suppose he does it he yearns for unlimited quantities of her society and it must strike any fair minded person a good deal like getting goods under false pretenses if as soon as the hon eymoon wanes he chases off to the club or downtown the minute he gets his dinner leaving her to solitude and the unexciting delights of her own company It is a situ ation that perhaps a man never appreciates because he has never been there himself It couldnt happen to him because the mo ment he detected lonesome ness he would put on his hat and go off to the theater or the corner saloon or some place where there were light and brightness and gayety A woman has no such resources She cant go around at night by herself hunting up company but must sit at home no matter how lonesome and bored she may be Men are forever wondering why women want to congregate together iii One answer to the conundrum is that they want somebody to talk to while their husbands are downtown at night I have yet to see the woman whose husband was a homekeeping and homeloving man who wasnt satisfied to stay there too Theres one thing dead certain and that is that if men were as anxious to stay at home evenings as they were to call on a girl be lore marriage and if they took as much trouble and pains to try to entertain their wives as they do their sweethearts the millennium would be in hailing dig tance Another good resolution that would symptom of boardinghouses domestic because make household angels sing together for joy would be if men would remember that a woman doesnt make anyone enjoy having all their theories and ideas derided at There are plenty of women who cant venture an opinion on any from the weather to the political without having their husbands tell them they dont know what they are talking about and theyd better keep quiet It true but if a man marries a fool it is his own fault He picked her out from among all the other women in the world be cause she was the one that suited hum best and was most congenial to his taste and if she doesnt know a blessed thing he has no right to say a word As a general thing men fall into this fault of disparaging their wives opinions through sheer carelessness of their wives feelings and conceit of their own views But just let one stop and ask himself how he would like to be continu ally made to look cheap before the and the servants how he would like to have his ideals and often even his ridiculed and every time he tried to tell a joke or a good story have somebody who went out into the world more and saw and heard more remind hum that it was a hoary chestnut Could there be a more ex quisite cruelty practiced Yet thousands of women go through thus daily martyrdom from men who think they are good Tom was always good to me said being andscoffed subject situation children religion husbands maybe a poor wretch of a woman weeping over the body of a murderer he never beat me where the marks would show Then it seems to me a man might solve not to unload all his troubles on the family hearth Of course I know every day a has to go through with enough to try the patience of a saint but because cotton has gone down instead of up or things havent run smoothly at the office is no real reason for slapping Sammy and kicking the cat as soon as he gets within his own door A man might occasionally remember that a woman has troubles of her own and needs to be cheered and brightened We are continually told that a woman should always meet her husband with a smile but no woman can smile long enough or enough to raise the temperature in a house where a man is sitting around with a scowl on his face It takes reciprocity and its just as much a mans business to smile and help to make home happy as it is a womansTheres always room for plenty of good resolutions New Years day and other days He might resolve if he really meant to a new leaf and try to do his part towards making home happy to make his wife an allowance and pay it promptly as a debt of honor to remember that servants are mortal and that you cant hire a three dollaraweek girl to cook like a 1000 chef rev turnover man brightly 10 i mOW the P the Ire e new r gut ffts Qoj 5 0 ioi qn z a iFPenta to litre 1 ro rle of- i year wfveRrm- C tXx c eets to bear in mind that a woman never gets too old to like a compliment or to be inter ested in hearing that her husband loves her her and above all to save some of his good manners and good humor for home consumption- I dont suppose Ill live to see any of my theories carried out added Elsie dolefully but I can tell you they are needed reforms in a lot of families I thy Dix in N O Picayune NEW YEAR IN WASHINGTON When One Keeps Open House with Lavish Southern llospltalitg Mary Nimmo Balentine writing of New Years Day in the White House in the Home Companion thus describes the public receptions Announcements are published in the newspapers proclaiming the levee at the white house and the exact minute at which the different officials of the government service will be received but it is usually near one oclock before the sovereign people are admitted to the groundsThe state levee at the white house is but the beginning of the calling that con tinues throughout the afternoon into the night in official private houses The official social season is inaugurated on andappreciates knowDoro Ever andwell and oman s New Years day in Washington It is the grand rallying day of the neighborly proclivities of the people of the entire dis trict Many men make their first and last visit of the year on this day and only see certain of their friends on this one day of the year As they grow older these fes tival days seem to come closer and closer to gether Lists are published in the news papers of the houses where receptions will be held with the names of the ladies who will assist in receiving The assisting lady often attracts more callers than the hostess and newlyarrived families are on the look out for popular women for their New Years day receptions There is no need to interrupt the grand round of calls for luncheon or dinner the carriage is hired for the day and dressed in his very best the caller must see all the old friends and make as many new ones as time will Everywhere open house is kept in the lavish southern fashion Tables are loaded with viands hot and cold supplemented with real southern eggnogg or a bowl filled from the housekeepers winter supply of Fish house punch mixed from a well guarded formula that is an heirloom in Philadelphia families The whirl of revelry is intense but this gala day comes for Washingtonians but once a year and it is celebrated with true southern warmth and enthusiasm permit Overdoing the Being Good I Busine- ssI Jimmy dont you think you are rather overdoing this being good business volunteered one young hopeful in confidence to his chum Not on your life Dont you know Christmas is coming replied the youngster who was accused of being too good Yes thats all very well But you may be makin a mistake You dont know what yer talkin about You ought to hear all the folks at our house talking about what a good boy Jimmy is getting to be and how that fake Santa Claus is going to give him such a lot of nice presentsAw yes Thats all right But then I want to tell you that it may not turn out the way you want What are you giving me Well I ought to know I tried your game last year and I got four Bibles and three Sunday school books for Christmas Not a pair of skates or anything of the sort They said they thought I would like the Bibles and the books better Aw I tell you you dont want to overdo the being good TimesHerald Beginning Afresh What a breezy sound there is in the words Beginning afresh They have a ring of businessChicago il Jimmy glad new life in them They put life into the heart that has grown almost discour aged by failure and nerve it for deavor Let us enter upon the life and serv ice of the new year under the inspiration which they give Baptist Union Her Bright Scheme First Lady What New Years present are you going to give to your husband Second hundred cigars First what did you pay for themSecond Lady Oh nothing For the last few months I have taken one or two out of Jacks box every day He hasnt noticed it and will be so pleased with my little pres ent and the fine quality of the don TitBits Directed Court Amusements Down to the reign of Henry VIII and occasionally since a Lord of Misrule was appointed to direct the amusements of the English court during the holidays He pre sided over the festivities prepared the games directed the sports and saw that the court was kept properly amused during Christmas week The office was considered highly honorable and the Lord of Misrule freshen LadyA LadyAnd cigarsLon cIi Y was generally some wealthy nobleman who was willing to spend money lavishly in pro moting the gayeties of court It is of record that during the reign of Elizabeth Essex as Lord of Misrule spent in one Christmas season 15000 of his own money on the court games Chicago Chronicle For the Children Yes said Mr Blykins we always celebrate Christmas for the childrens sakes They expect it you know and wouldnt have the heart to disappoint them But you and Mrs BIykins always Oh yes I am going to give her a two hundreddollar coat and I have reason to think she intends to give me a fiftydollar chair We always settle well in advance what our presents will be All we have to now is a doll for the little girl and a tin wagon for the boy Washington Star i Willies Text After fiveyearold Willie had gone to bed on Christmas eve his mother went into the room to see if he lied hung up his stocking properly for Santa Claus Much to her sur prise she found that the little fellow had ap propriated one of hers for the occasion and a slip of paper on which he eachother thinkof hadattached LlA remember The Start for the Last Lap of the Century had printed in a bold hand one of the Sun day school texts ThE LoRd LOvvEtH a CheaRfuLL giVveR Chicago Daily News Progressive Peace We have good times at our house along before Christmas You do Yes the children try to please their mother and she tries to please me De troit Free Press A Backward Look kin be made so much ef the stern parunt will ony let his min wander back tew the time when be made a dash fur the ol chimneypiece Truth Tact It really requires a marvelous amount of tact to appear thankful at Christmas for something you didnt En quirer Put Them in Good Shape If your morals are in bad shape the first of the year is a good time to reform them L A W Bulletin pleasanter himselfN- Y Required wantCincinnati Gl Chrismss tJSOLUTION1 r HAVE risen Mr Chairman cause Ive got a mate An I want the boys to listen if but for politeness sake I have sot a short pre amble an some 1I speech- t S i resolutions too An I want to jes submit and to kinder push em through Whereas weve been neglectful an forget ful of our work Whereas weve been too careless an too often prone to shirk Whereas weve been unmindful bout the little acts o love An little deeds o kindness why Im gain to make this move Resolved well be more faithful an more watchful all the day Resolved well scatter sunshine all the weary way Resolved well let no brother who may need our friendly grasp Plod on another single step without our warmest clasp An nowll somebody second o the resolu tions then Let every feller vote an I an add a strong Amen An then go out an act em right in all his daily walk An make his livin tally with his resolu tion talk D G Bickers in Atlanta Constitution THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS We Should Each and All Tnj to lake the Day Thoroughlg Enjoyable Because we cannot have the Yule log and traditional roast pig shall we refSe the cheer of anthracite coal and baked key 2 asks Florence Hall Winterburn on the Spirit of Christmas in toe Womans Home Companion Or the open fire the mistletoe and the family gathering are beyond us must we disdain the homemaking attempts of the steam radiator and find no comfort in the dainty elaborateness of a wellspread table to the needs of a refined modern taste Suppose the misanthrope for the recluse who lives only in an imaginary Christmas is a misanthrope came out of his shell and gathered the young people about him to charm their ears with tales of the old ways of holidaykeeping when he was a boy Would not this be better than grumbling out protests against the new ways that have their own reasons for being and offer in turn their own measure of enjoyment to willing spirits Genial old age is always a welcome presence and it never suggests any contrasts that put us out of conceit with the pleasures that lie within our reach But carping even if it proceeds from the patri arch is an infliction severe enough to blight any holiday- In the nature of things there must be holidays How povertystricken is that soul which does not recognize this necessity and throw itself heartily into the work of help forward the good time and all unspoiled minds accept with gratitude There is no predeterminate set of for holiday making that need tie ad venturous hands and if traditional customs belonging to Thanksgiving and Christmas are vanished beyond recall we can harmonize the day with our present abilities My sympathy is with those who wish to bring back upon Christmas day the sweet old traditional observance I love them well even those that are known to me and were in that shadowy period alluded to as before the war But no one thing is indispensable to happiness with any of MB unless with children and not even with them if judi cious substitute is made Whatever we have or whatever we lack the quality that makes the occasion is the spirit we bring to it Good will never fails to create a good time It finds merit in rain lifts fog and lights a cheery blaze within that passes for the sunshine in its absence Aad has not passed away with chivalry nor perished under the onrush of science It lives and breathes now and is here at this moment to light our Christmas fires and swing incense before our altars All w need do is to recognize and adapt it HIS REASON along f writing ifeven catering outh conditions cow A goodwill cA 1 Willie said his father what good solves are you going to make for the New Year Im not going to fight with Joan nie Jones any more replied Willie Im glad to hear that said the father but why did you make that resolve was the answer I always get licked Chicago Daily News Imperishable- The Christmas bells will silent be The Christmas lights grow dim The brightness faded from the tree May leave it gaunt and grim But Christmas never so Its echo lingers on With memories of long ago And hope of joys to dawn So oer all time its might extends And ready homage wins As one glad Chirstmas season ends Another straight begins Washington Star Wise Precaution There said the prudent housewife as she looked over the Christmas decorations I think that will do very nicely Onl vj must not forget to take the mistletoe fro the chandelier and move it to different parts of the room during the day What is that for asked herhusband I dont wish to wear the carpet out 1 in one spot 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