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Show If You Have Forgotten Or overlooked anything for mas, lot us know your needs at nee. Wo can fill orders on day of receipt Stock large; prices small. Christ- 0 - Cirt The Easiest Way. A company of select colored artists Twenty-Fou-r Hours snd Curs Any Cough That Is Curable. Midnight's Mistletoe Bough O little babe, O gentle babe, That In a manger Ilea, to the choral sweet the skies Which floats We, through the year, who only hear The world's harsh thundering, Listen that we, dear babe, with thee, s May bear the angels sing. O little babe, O gentle babe. Who lookest toward the star, And seest when they bear their gifts. Those wise men from afar; From wandering wide, back to thy side, Weary and worn we flee; But hearts that bleed and hands that need. Are all we have for thee. ' here?" the cheerful greeting and the newspaper which Mid night, the colored newsboy, held out for him, and walked on briskly down the street, his gaze directed toward the pavement. Mldlnght tumbled back against bis a queer expression of be wilderment and sadness spreading over hla face. "Dat's de firs' time dat Mist' Cam'ron evah done buy a papah from else," he soliloquized, a somebody lump gathering In his throat. "Dat's de firs' time he evah pass niah place widout sayln 'Good mawnln .' He ain't nevah got no kick an' no com make t' me. Dat's de firs' plaint time Ah evah see him go busttn' by like dat an' so cogitatln' he ain't lookln' whar he gwine. Dab. am aholy somethln' de mattah." All the rest of the day Midnight was In a sort of a trance. He watched the elevated stairway from early afternoon for the return of Cameron. His fitful vigil was rewarded when the young lawyer walked wearily down the steps. Midnight watched bis every move Jealously to see whether he purchased an afternoon paper from bis rivals. Cameron stopped at the little negro's stand. Good evening. Midnight," he said. EXCELLENT REMEDY. Will Bresk Up a Cold In d w amtl)'maim n UTAH SALT LAM iT- AN me fo' not seeln' you, but ah dons fo'got my mannahs, Ab guess, fo' de time bein'. Ah was Jus' thlnkln' 'bout de fo'ks ob mah fambly. "Why, Midnight, you never told us about your folks as long as you have been serving papers at our house Are your folks alive?" By "Jus' mah ole gran'mammy, an' she Deltna Marteen Eugones lib wld some ole fr'ens ob de fambly, an' Ah sen's her de money dat she need f lib on. Ah aln' had no daddy an' no mammy fo' de longes time, OOD mawnln', Mist" Robert! 'cause dey bofe froze f def In de bluz-zarwhat come 'long 'bout six year Fine Christmas weather, ago." sah! Fine Chris fine M "How did you ever happen to come Cameron bluntly ignored The following mixture Is often pre scribed and la highly recommended for coughs, colds and other throat and Mix two ounces bronchial trouble. of Virgin of Glycerine, a Oil of Pine compound pure, and eight ounces of pure Whisky. These nan he bought In any good drug store and easily mixed together In a large bottle. The genuine Virgin Oil of Pine com pound pure Is prepared only In the laboratories of the Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, and put up for dis vials. pensing In half-ounc- e "Mist" Cam'ron done brought me hyar. You see, mah mammy been a cook an' mah mammy's sister a nurse GESTURE. OMINOUS In Mist' Cam'ron's fambly fo near 30 year, an when Mist' Cam'ron come hyar mammy ax him t' git me a Job some day an' den he sen' fo' me. He news-stantry me fo' a cook, but Ah guess Ah'm at han'kerchief!" O little babe, O gentle babe. a pretty bad cook ennyway Mist' But the doomed lady only babbled Our hearts were hard and cold t Cam'ron he say one day why not staht The star we loved, the star of fame, of Cassio, and her liege lord shouted a news stan' an' be give me de money The song, the song of gold, an' dat's all de hlst'ry what is 'bout gain: At the manger's side this Christmastlde, me but. Miss Wllloughby, Ah'm glad "I ant fo' de second time to git me We listen and we long 'cause Ah got dat han'kerchief!" you come long that star shine from afar , a Chrlamus present fo' you some Still the fair one parried the Issue the angels' song. hear mah a what branch with a talk of Cassio, and the lordly fine big mistletoe, Rkhard F. Soufr, Othello, now thoroughly Incensed, belgranmammy sen's up from Marylan lowed: git It often de trees right In de "Woman, fo' de third and las' time swamp back o' de shanty. Ah wan'a wit please be so good I tell you to git me dat han'kerchief. f ax you asef yo' come "So your fiancee is smeller than 'roun' In nde t' an' kin' Away!" you. And as he was just about to open mawnln' an' buy de firs' paper, 'cause "Yes, she comes up Just to there. bis mouth again, a big, leather-lungeIt means good luck, you know." Hardly bad the Christmas horns patron In the top gallery shouted down Pathos Out of Placs In Schools. blown their first greetings of the day at him: In an address at a teacher's Insti when Midnight saw two figures com"Fo de Lawd's sake, nigger, why tute Miss Martha Sherwood said that difrom street different down the doan yo' wipe yo' nose on yo sleeve '..3&B ing have sad snd pathetic stories WWW VX.N. n' let de show go on!" Judge. lutions. One was Cameron, walking She schools. In no III m ifclSH the public place slowly along the main thoroughfare, la hu need declared the great pupllr Fair Play. and the other was Miss Wllloughby. morous stories and the kind that "Mamma." said the little boy the "Merry Chrlsraus!" called Midnight, make children roll on fjip ground In bed as bad he even before the young lawyer lay day after Christmas, to make with laughter. "Anythf' and TO GUIDE STAR Is reached the stand. "Ah hopes you and dutifully took the paregoric she them and loudly," laugh laugh, feelln' bettah dls mawnln'." If rUUs Broks other things, "you said yesterday that languidly. said. "It makes them grow, puts I feel all I ought to be sorry for all the poor "Thank Cam'ron. Mist you. Midnight; Merry Chrlstmus, Into their lives and develops Ox tartb grow old rltrj its sunshine Uttle children that couldn't have as De world am treatln' me fine as silk, right Here, burry up with that mismen and women." contented ESCAPED THAT THE POSSIBILITY I aa purflcB of cart, much candy and cake an things an' Ah ain't got no complaint f make tletoe and give me that first paper to me BETHLEHEM. be THE WOMEN added. wanted V jOF no buy," the returned you it didn't boy. is one," But at Chmrwa j always bravely, you?" got. young, Stati or Ohio an of Tolsdo. iI Lucas Oouktt. "Yes, dear." CDt heart of tbe jewel burns lustrous mskw osui mil m bj ism runs J. ckskbt those poor Co., dut of the arm ot f. i. emmr "Well, do you sum p&ruw and of TnWdo. County sod Sum cuv In tofair, in hini Hsvs Boms Name little children are aorry for me sum ot lA. snd ttMl mut firm will par U Rsng Might ttara fortft music bursts a nwy Bni its soul fun of ONb Hl'NUKKU JJOI.l.AKri lur ero day?" Judge's Library. Through All Ages Had She But n un ot a D. euw km us Mat ouuot 'at djt on tlx air, Uall'i Catauui Cusa. Known the 8plrit of ChristHe Came. Why UIIki the song of the angels is sung. Sworn lo before m snd uborribod la my p mow mas Hospitality. TrvaBdust "My dear air, I tfcta tin Uy ot lsamber. A. L :iJ. ' A. W. OLEASOIf. , is coming. Old Cartb, it is coming have noticed you In our church for It In child born the UK "'L Nov abt Pcsuo. f the last few weeks, but you are a tonight! stable of Bethlehem, riAira Catarrh Cura hi taJiaa Internally snd aMS r ans to me. Have you just Joined tx'MXl muoou and lft tflrartly uputi cover On m snovMlakts wMcb "because there was no thy Watam. teend for tratlmonisla. fra. urtaoaf of us?" m t nc-ia.v room r. In for them t. the sod on the Sold by all Druaawa. T,v. Stranger "No, sir. I came Inn." was heralded by Che feet of the Christ-chil- d aaa Uall f aby I'liia far const tpsUoa. fall - la treating gentle whoadvice of my dootor, angels to the shepherds and white me for Insomnia and who la a memPerhaps So. and by a star to the Christ-chil- d UalUuiore tells ber of your congregation." "Your wife does not appear to be wise men; but no voice flni the voice of tbe American. out with delight Battened." told the mothers of "Site ought to be, she always has God. of are children the of mankind netliiiuem Chat wonder which was the George Foxy own way. Oughtn t she be satis- ler In town that nltflit. happening thtjr I wish I were a heroine, Gtrge." fled when I always let her have her some woman trretched sad the the the Cn had and Suppose gentle lencly, "Why. U Is easy for you to become own way without opposition?"' met Joseph and Mary on that Won and poor. a heroine, dear." be better satisfied w ith It If derful Day, as they entered the town, shall fan, be'She'd Che voice or the ChrUt-ctil- d I'd like to know how?" had to fight for It." said to and had "Our them: streets "The woman who la not afraid to are full of homeless strangers. Come flal to every blind wanderer open the remain alone while her husband goes Important to Mothers. dT you and bide with me!" lty that sim Kxnmin carefully every bottle of to a i,ker party Is a heroine." Hous dared of f dream n:t ple act of hospitality, her name Of here that bt CASTOKIA. a fate and sure remedy for ton l'osl. would have been written high, high tefcrc. Infants and children, and see that it A Joint Deal. among the names of earth's happiest Ulltl) a sunshine of welcome f :r all Bears the Is she." we should folk. "l'.W'Hkcd "My dear." Signature have crlid. "to whose home the Che feet of the humtlest may waft in "What la it. hubby?" In I'se Kor Over :W Years. Christmas Joy first came!" Hut the the field "I wish you would drop around at The Kind 'oi Have Always Bought, women of town Judean the did not i ho market today and Inspect a steak Where tte feet of the Relics! trod. to know wide throw their doors and If on. 1 an Tho. option that hold The Country's Spread. bring In the world's gratitude and Chis, then, is the carrel to mortals mi like It. call at my office and well While the area conceded to the IS revealed Youth's the So love, says Companion. states by the p ace treaty of sign the transfer papers." Kansas the Child was laid In a manger, and Ulhen the silvery trnKpets of Chrisftuas original was lTdl s:s,0(0 souare miles, their City Journal oblivion holds the names of all the hJ?e rcalcd. Is but 326.000 square area present women in Bethlehem who slept that Worked Both Ways. Chat mankind are the children of God. miles, the other S02.O00 square miles beneath of the wings night wondering Artist "Have you noticed that forming lo whole or In part 13 other angels. Had they but known! intellec long hair make a man states. Year by year, for 19 centuries the tual?" story of the night at Bethlehem has Oyols Is the Best Oys His Friend "Well. I've seen wives I have ever used. It makes a nice color been told snd retold. Today no housetiltk them off their husband's coa on any kind of hold In Christendom, In town or vilcotton, wool or when It made ih"m look foolWh." TO CHRISTMAS mixed goods. Sogoods, Half Unconsciously the Two Young Persons Reached for the Bough. Mrs. Corbett writes. on distant prairie can fead THE ROAD or lage I'unch. 10 cents per package at dealers. II In which Bethlehem the 10 cents to Dyola, not In send concealing the auxlHy that had been quickly, as he glanced up the street- then Ignorance In Grandfather stock, Pictures But Father Pays for It. Retrospect la If the door shut on lay. and saw Miss Wllloughby spproachovershadowing him all day. Burlington. VI. Mention color desired Yuletide Journeys of Many It Is not from the Christ child The father of s beautiful girl gets and we will send you same with color lad aloud to lng briskly. said the sah," "Yas, Years Ago. of fine lack trails from churlishof but lot knowledge, for a Ah Ah know doan wba' credit having Jog' card and direction book. himself after Cameron had passed on Ah"Ah did wld dat mlstlemtoe aln' Ahon ness or Indifference. that he doesn't posse. All the year long we have been toward his home, "dah am sholy someI have lived to know that the great fool nlKKah? Ah put It right hyar, un The Christmas spirit speaks In I and my secret of human thln de mattah but It ain't me!" Her Judgment. two minutes ago. many voices. The sprig of holly or traveling toward Christmas happiness Is this dls Jes shelf der Midnight closed bis shop that night but Ah can't find It," he replied, rum the plum pudding, the tree laden with old wife, our children and our grand never suffer your energies to stagnste Before she Is miuried a woman wanchildren not all by tbe same road of mind and Judges s m..n by his outlay; after In a happy frame bis nervously among a pile of pa gifts or the cheer for tbe lonely I vn not all with the same expectations home, whistling. mating dered off toward ward by hi Income. shelf. sre underneath the world's sll tbe these of pers top way say.hu-a- . out all K alike and first J J afcirtiiS nr for the but the nnd was sround wirly looking bright p.mjh, lit "Merry Christmas!" called another ing to tbe Mother and the Holy Child, glimpse of Its smoke rising above the lajawwlll. il t mmytm. waia at Ml Mir. His Policy. next day, and when Cameron came voice, snd Midnight raised his head "Abide with ns!" A married msd csn always get a lit landscape of the year. Now "Have you decided what opinions along on his way to his office made and smiled Into the fare of Miss Wll Barred out alike from cottage and wintry we can almost fsncy that we bear He off bis sentence for bad behavior It a particular point to see that be was rou will sdont stood In at the end who Inn other and Palestine, the Hope the chiming of the famous bells all loughby, palace "t don't admit opinions." answered not overlooked. of stand, taking great pains not to of tbe World renews bis appeal each Christmas towns sre famous for their Hours later, when the flying snow seethe Senator Sorghum. "I make an effort to to our modern Chris- bellsand we know that we shall soon Cameron, who was striving equally Christmas-tidascertain what opinions are likely to was painting the dusk a speckled to avoid her. tian world. By the very pathos of the be at our Inn. and came then the bark success Cameron along with he associated black, "Where la that mistletoe you want first Christmas, the heart Is softened If life be a Journey, and each and uncertainpersuade them to adopt me." Wash sidewalk more slowly me to have. Midnight? You see, I and prepared to give him welcome. year a stage upon the road, I do not ed was eve, Christmas It ever. than too Star. ly trig to be the first one To-da-y there is no heralding angel or know where else a sensible man would and Midnight felt at peace with all got up very esrly know you promised It guiding star. snd you here, Sure ft'Ot of Success. were stop for tbe recruiting of bis health world. flying past, People the K eor tn y hmr IT'S rnmleg, than tbe fine old Christmas towns. "How Is that friend of their arms ladn with presents, snd to rne." The Mod In nf Ihix P'K sin. vntdt "Well, ef dat sin de funnlos' thing," Whr m wruls will rrlv Him still, There, If anywhere, men are to be ,ir who went to study In Paris?" - all anxious to be borne. As he stood Midnight, laughing mischlev Tbe Sear Christ ent s la. found living together merrily; the Inns The Artist "Oh, he's getting on fa- In a sheltered corner of his booth, replied "Ah sholy had two fine pieces ously. sre warm, the cheer Is good, the of the be bis fn r n i Y profits day, counting up ob dat mlslemtoe right hyar, but Ah iants Claus Abroad. amusements are of tbe heartiest, snd The Model "How do you know? called to Cameron: tt la strange to contemplate the the society is of the best I bsve been can't fin' 'em t' save mah soul. Ab u heard from trlrnT "Mist Cam'ron, Ah got a Chrls'mus done promise dls t" you. Miss great itavj. 1 know variety of forms the Santa Clans through many a Christmas town for how mot Ah 1st ha. At4 t wan's that's fo "No, The yo' present deed Ah done promise custom sssumes In different countries, I have treveled far snd bsve rested an' Wllloughby. Bits. come Illustrated In well." 'roiin' de It i m i.i ax yoi ef yon will he's doing so irvvvir 11 'CV you, Mist' Cam'ron, fo' yo' moths. tn Belgium the little ones fill their thoroughly In each. I never found two mawnln' an' be de firs' pussen t buy an't' Ah know what t do shoes with carrots and oats snd bsy of them alike. Of late doan Johnn'S Knew. rholy they have been a Chris'maa papr It's good luck fo' It, Ab ran't bus It In two." for the white horse 8L Nicholas Is much grayer and quieter than they Teacher (testing the knowledge of me. yon know. Why, Mist' Cam'ron I" 'bout two to the Half unconsciously drive. Very esrly In the used formerly . to be; but I do not young supposed a class on the vaiue of coins). "Well, suddenly exclaimed the lad as the persons reached for the bough, then morning they fun to the room In think tbst I bava been less happy of what 13 that?" young man rame under the Ilicht. "am hesitated. which their shoes bsve been left and Us quiet towns st which I have of Johnnie H"ds, str!" yon sick? Yo fsee em white as a of course, let Mr. Cameron find that the provender has gone and late years resided. Let me confess so "Why, like wa'k done you git have It for his mother, spoke up In Its place candies snd presents sre much. As for these ghos an you Appreciated. shout me who 4iS grip what ev'ryone ta'kin" tout Miss found. Hk Wllloughby. I'm tfftd declare them to be not quiet by any fxi "Well, RaMos, Mist' Drown, 'cross de street hyar. be "(live U to Miss Wllloughby," said Among the Carpathian mountains It means, but perfectly uproarious with your new employer. Reroembor, yon git It; Mist Bimpklns, op at de eor-oa- Cameron. yon will And the Is 8t. Peter, wbo, dressed ss a bishop, Jollify, 1 do not Interfere with their "Perhaps cannot do too much for blnv" de so Cae ewkly ta suiiuwa rf be he misery Ijordy. git t, and accompanied hy the dreadful other piece after awhile." Children so easily deceive opinion. "No, sah: I don't mean to" stay In de house an' dat lobely la expected by the children on "Ah'll give It t Miss Wllloughby f themslves; It Is enough for me that de you know Miss Willo-ighbMads a Good Job. Mist Cam'ron 11 tote It Lome fo de Christines eve. The visitor first de- I am old enough to see things as they LIVER TILLS y Miss Helen mean Ab one v." livers a short sermon, lars on the sre. Minerva has Just sprung from the Purely X I J not dat sister she come ladThe girl glanced at Cameron, snd In table a rod whitened with chalk, and sorel' f a--d row of Jove. she srnllin' an' ebenin' dough dls 'long The first Christ .ss Tree. I LKJ soother moment the young couple takes his depsrture with his tinkling K srsHy Millie T always had a good bead for fig an" happy like. An know she mtis' git were fc'-- t"It's the 0rmatis who brought the Cera walking away from the stand b11s, while Ropreebt follows close OITTIC she ain't wa'k be us' tn res," he cried. why too dat 11 t tt, VER Tbe children now hasten to pull Christmas tree lo America," the Oer-hiMmntm.yr carrying the bunch of mistletoe be" Herewith he eyed the tfvmlo out flown de street wld you t'day an "Di1n't you know that tween thetn. Midnight grinned as be off their shoes, polish them snd He rriM said. Sua. Tork New lines approvingly. ss tbe The duke of Hesse sold a rglmn against his stand and com th'fn tether; be leaned I I guess she must Tea The Reason. mented: notes of Niklo'S bells have become called The Hessians,' after him, to last a a, twd larlVeioa. TWey U Owr cMy. the under weather," a little feeling "Ab guess Ahll take dis otba plecw lost In the distance they run into the fight the Americans. got so Ha:f the people la th Boott Thy S- -.l as turned he away. fifi. immn Da A. S- -.I PrW. said Cameron, am Mrs. ron t first I man gsrdn snd Christmas tree tbelr hoe be- drunk over their right straight up world don't know what the other -exGENUINE an bAh know Midnight!" dat home from 'cause a ob bush. hers Christina, Merry that pier the self, time neath sway mi,. spend They Washing. are dofDg" voice. musical a t aln' ton In leave claimed snd nvab o'clock Miss tlmfoe them, that csftured ontil 1' ths started because relating tor1. Hon "No, that Is Miss Wlllmighhy's house gin ef Mist' ( aru ron then go to their shoes, to find them the fashion of Christmas trees la ebenin". "Why why pood otter halt are doing them." BosUjb Vlt'mii(Uy Skuse he kin p It" America. It's history." filled with spples, nuts and goodies Merry Christmas. were rendering a venilon of "Othello." a The scene between the Moor and had been reached, wherein Othello demands the handkerchief which he has given his wife as a wedding amulet. "Desdemona," he cried, "fetch me half-ounc- e t, f d I'll i I Christmas Carol hit rr iw 1 jb hh ti 0weA i - Jn hk to-da- lltr'll nltilH r e ; csooRigtf 1 i w The Wretchedness of Constipation b carter's little y f THZf fee-bin- yes-tlddy.- C Transcript. scrte f - |