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Show THE BULLETIN Styr (EattM? in tfa Hintam ATTERN iiiAiiiiliiilaiAi By MARGARET HILL McCARTER o a. c Mcciuio WNU December During evening. Tod Withers poon, veteran wet-er- n Kantai mail carrier, joins a group of men In the Star City hotel. He telle them of his best Chriitmat of little "P'like" Gabel, who got his name from dreaming and from his habit of saying Tod often takes "Jet's play like." "P'like'1 home from school with him on his rural mail route, and learns to love the little lad. "P'like." an orphan. Uvea with poverty-strickeGrandma Gabel d and her son, Tobe, a boy. "P'like" attends school at District S3, taught by Ruth Ravenatow, a beautiful girl, seemingly friendless. 8he seems very unhappy, and refusea to become friendly with the parents of her students, though aha la well liked. "P'like" knows she la unhappy, and this makes him sad. blizzard-wracke- d n slow-witte- IDE At STO RT kind-hearte- Continued tht teacher'g request they'd built a room the side of the sod schoolhouse, and she lived in it all by hersell It seemed so unnatural for a smart pretty firl like her, that bad had a college education, and been associated in a fraternity. There isn't one of the Star County lean-t- o no matter how hard I tried to put "Seems like a body ought to do more than that 'specially to make it out of my mind. They was hardly any show of the children remember the day with a little gleam of Joy when they're season's regular spirit of good-wiin the upper Smoky valley that year. grown up. Just some little sort of You all remember 1917, closin with Christmasy thing that's a bit difwar clouds black around us though ferent from the other three hundred we was so many thousand miles and sixty-fou- r days. It makes the d fellow that does it feel so good, too. away from them fields of France. May Kind of forgets himself in the dothe good Lord protect this world ing," I says. "If it's nothin mor'n from ever seein' the same again. a candle in the winder, it's a token And may the good sense of the U. that it's Holy Night And that's a S. A. help Him to boost things so lot Children never forget those things, never." it won't "But if you ain't got even the canTod paused a moment and stared ei dle, no matter how willin you are, ins lobby floor, but not a men moved what are you goin to do, Mr. Withor i pake. iTe were all with kirn back she asked me. in that b'm his story wot painting for erspoon?" "I'm thlnkin' about that too," I us. says. "I believe where the mind is Three days before Christmas I left willin' to carry a bit of Christmas my cart down by the corner and run sweetness in it somehow the canup through the canyon to the Gabel's dle comes. That s what my own with little P'like, There wasn't no mother back in old Vermont used use for me to try to drive through to tell us, when she made a happy the canyon over that rough trail. Christmas for her eight children out And as I told you It was a shorter of Just next to nothin' at all the way to the shack of a house hid be-- Withers poons was so poor. And I never did forget it neither, and how happy the least little snip- of a did make us, thing Christmasy though we couldn't believe beforehand they could come. But miracles ain't all in Holy Writ not yet even in a world at war, and hatin' and killin' like devils; and Christ seemingly go lost and forgot out of it Gentlemen, I ain't no preacher. The clergy missed me when it done its pickin' fifty years ago. Tod looked up at us with that mischievous grin that made us all love ll rain-sogge- blood-blackene- "But this girl was clear shut away from the world." girls ever went to college that didn't come back brimmln' with life, and doin' things, and makin' themselves felt every day in the week. But this girl was clear abut away from the world, walled in by the can- hind the hills. The dark was drop-pidown fast that night it was just about the winter solstice, you know, the shortest day of the year. And I felt sort of uneasy about the bey goin' up there alone in the deep-enidark. But I needn't of, for his yons of the upper Smoky HilL How ever, as I say, us rural carriers bright eyes wasn't in his little buttoncome by and by to be more or less -head for no thin'. He could see a part of the folks on our routes and better'n an owl any night in the Ruth Ravens tow wasn't no excep- year. As we turned out of the deep- tion. n' n' before Christmas, God knows what, made me stop at the school house one evening, on my wsy back to town. The children had all gone home and Miss Ravenstow was alone. We talked a little while and when I started to go I said sort of careless-lik"I'll try and bring you a let- JUST e, ter tomorrow' She looked up at me with her big dark eyes like she'd look me through, her face gettin' whiter every minute, then she said slowly: "There is no letter to come. Mr. This was the best Christmas Withers poon. Nobody who could write to me knows where I am. I est pocket of the canyon he caught can neither help, nor be helped any- sight of Tobe Gabel wanderin off down where I know I'd never seen where." "But you'd oughtn't bury yourself him myself. Tobe had started out to meet us. while you are still alive," I couldn't as usual, with his poor twisted and old me beta' enough help sayin', to be her father, "and there ain't mind, about directions and everynobody in the world so alone they thing, be went the wrong way. By can't be worth something to some- the time we'd corralled him and body else. When Christmas eve run him in it was almost plum dark. comes we ought to put candles in But I stopped to speak a word to our winders as a sign we still re- Grandma Gabel, and tell her I'd member what the night means to brought the children home all right She wasn't uneasy about Tully bethe world." "What win it mean to the world cause he was with me almost evof the December of ery night And he was such a cockthe twenty-fift- h 1917? The world was never so full sure little scamp, anyhow, and nevof hate before. And who would see er afraid of anything. Always pop-piIn, singin' like a bird Just when my candle out in this far away place she was beginnin' to feel anxious if I should light one?" about him. But it was different with "1 guess I'm kind of an I but Miss Ravenstow, may big. gentle Tobe. He wasn't ever codger. say that they's One who always off her mind. Their home was an awfully cheersees, the Good Bein' who never forlittle less, cold place. But it was real gets even a lost sparrer. I do sort of wish you'd clean, and when Tobe and little Tultry it for your own sake. It might ly hit for the supper table I noticed make you a little speck happier," I that what little there was on it insisted. seemed to be well cooked. Mrs. "I thank you for your kindness. Gabel being a southern woman, you Mr. Witherspoon. It was very good know. I stayed a minute to talk of you to think enough about me out with Grandma. Those folks are so here to stop and say this to me. I lonesome out there they are glad to know you are sincere in your faith, visit a mite with anbody. and it makes you happy. Good"Merry Christmas." I says to be night." as I started to go. cheerful Mebby some of you men could "Same to you. Mr. Witherspoon." have gone further with her. you know how to plead Her voice had a hollow sound like it cases. You'd know what to follow come from anywhere, but the real up with. 1 didn't That was all 1 heart of her. "If I can keep Tobe and the could do. But her look haunted me and Tully from fret-ziall the way back to town that night. stock fed and watered, and a bit ot 1 could see her eyes every way I food so as we won't be clear starved, turned. Every shadow by the trail it's all I can hope fur." seemed to hold her face, white, with There come such a hungry, pitithem great dark eyes. 1 knew then ful look into her hard, wrinkled face there was a ilow growin" despera- just then I couldn't leave her, fur tion in them that I couldn't mistake. a minute. n' old-sty- le n' lOVKI 1 ever had. mas spirit in what simple way I could. Makes you all grin to think about it now, but you remember how much we needed peace and goodwill in 19171 ITe were not grinning, not a men of us. Tee Jenningt and Elbert UeCullen and old Abram Star were very Hill; even the New York City commercial traveler sal like e stone men. There was something in Tod"s voice as well at kit word lhaf held us alL And if we eoid nothing it was because nobody wanted to riik the sound of hit, own voice just then. next day I wrapped up a for every single mail-bo-x I had. Wrapped It in pretty paper, and tied it with a red silk cord. Cost more'n a red ribbon, but didn't look quite so cheap as this here papery ribbon. And I put a pretty little Christmas card, with the season's greetui's on it in with every candle, askin' the folks at every box to take it with my best wishes, and the hope they'd light the same and set it in the winder Christmas Eve. T wasn't that the candle was worth so much. It just stood up with its tiny light to say that the Bible Is the biggest sacredest thing in all our outcomin's and higher develop-in'You know, gentlemen, gettin' right down to brass tacks, once In a while, that we can psychologize society in general, and criminals who are rich men's sons, ia particular, and get away with it fairly well, at least for temporary purposes; and we can educate the youth, each com-igeneration a little more'n the step-by-st- ep 8576 is designed for 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, and 40. 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This, through his own ef forts, he increased to 5,000, which again was doubled through the act had been disastrous, John death of his father-in-laTen Marshall's definition of treason in thousand acres then comprised the the trial of Aaron Burr thwarted estate with the fine residence that the President's attempt to convict in course of time was to become a his former associates. Bluenoses national shrine. Reitrement In Monticello proved assailed him as an atheist because of his friendship for Thomas Paine. an expensive luxury. Jefferson was Jefferson was a man of many beset with visitors who went to see talents. He possessed a smattering and remained to be entertained of French, Italian, Spanish, Latin often for several weeks. He en and Greek, but was master only of Joyed the good things of life, was English. lie was a fiddler and com- a genial host despite his lack of posed little tunes. He invented a humor, and right royal were his duofold writing machine and a cane gatherings, when it is rcmcm that could be converted into a chair. bercd that the Southern callers took He had a finger in platting the city their own servants to lessen the reof Washington and dabbled in archi- sponsibilities of the host and to intecture to the extent of being credit- crease their own comfort, It can be ed with what is known as Colonial. seen what a drain was put upon With these manifold interests he Monticello. Light$ Street Car Diners For "black-outs- " during air raids, England has perfected highway and traffic lights, headlights and police uniforms that can be seen only by those on the ground. high-price- eyes. Say, If you gentlemen think the winds have forgot how to blow, because Kansas is higher civilized. and intenslver cultivated. Just start up the Smoky Hill valley some day like this one's been, and you won't need three guesses on how long It will take to sliver your eyeballs to pieces. One of my eyes was bloodshot and half blind; and the other one would never been eli gible for no labor union, and do all the time and half time it had to do for nothin'. That was how it hap pened I got so I couldn't hardly read the addresses on my mail, unless it was writ big and plain, or type-wr- it clear. I just had to depend mainly on the rural box number. If that was all right I let it go at that (TO BR CONTINUED) 'Black-Ou- t' Immortal Trees n' Thomas Jefferson a Man of Varying Talents When Thomas Jefferson retired from public service in 1809, as he left the Presidency, he turned to the broad acres of Monticello to spend the 17 years that were to round out his life, writes Harlowe R. Hoyt in the Cleveland Plain His second presidential Dealer. term had not been a happy one. His attempt to enforce the embargo choices for this. If you've done scarcely any sewing, this design is heartily recommended as a good one to begin on, because it's so easy. A sew chart is included to help you. THE The day before Christmas was a corker that year. Started in well enough, but "the end of that perfect day" was a good deal like the one endin' on us tonight only fiercer, a lot And while I wasn't as loaded with holiday mail as some rural carriers, and nothin' at all like town and city postmen, I was pretty well worked down, helpin' In the office, till I hadn't had enough sleep in a wnoie week to matcn more n one good night's rest Added to that I had taken a cold that settled in my girl-herm- it Mate- rials like faille, moire, flat crepe are excellent and velveteen d one behind it at our colleges, and make the State, I mean, government and all it stands for, a lot safer for our posterity than it was for our ancestry. And we and decomay domestic-economiz- e rate our homes with all money can put there and be wised up on these here calories, and salads, and draseats. But peries, and over-stuffgood and proper, as it all may be, without the Bible in your home-lif- e and what It stands for, you don't have no foundation under either your home or society, nor much above that either. Your house Is just a hollow sound, a shell. The real thing 1 AIN'T no preacher, but as I told ain't there at alL You remember, you, this was the best Christmas Elbert, what some poet said I ever had, and I guess I got sort of "A house is built of brick and softened down in spirit like it does stone. a body good to get once a year. With sills and posts and piers. I went skallyhootin' home that But a home is built of levin' night full up of a big idea. What's deeds the use preachin' to other folks stands for a thousand That about cheer and good-wil- l, and doin' years." little things to make folks happy, if they can't do big ones, when you And when the knowin' ones throw ain't liftin a finger to be and do the Bible overboard the Ship of the same your own self? I made up State, and the little crafts that we my mind right there I'd do my bit call our own, why then either as a along with the free gratis advice I nation, or as a endurin' home, we was shed din' on my route so willing- go down for the third time. You can out bet that Well, a bit of something ly. Fd take every mail-bo- x there a good wax candle to set up in like this was in my mind when I their winders Christmas eve, far off wished them candles onto every lonely little homes, miles apart and house on the upper Smoky route out of sight of anybody. But I'd that holiday of 1917. You see I was learned to love the folks out there, try in' to do my share. and bein a bit sentimental down Tod paused, but nothing broke the under my alligator bide, I Just wanted to once help spread the Christ-- stillness of the room save the swish of the bluuvdrlathed mow against the Star Housa window. Tod didn't soy it, but we who knew him could understand what that kindly ace, and cheery smile mail hava on hit meant to tha lonely route. ENT and supple at the waist. a co. SYNOPSIS M AaUAA A yourself this pretty cess (8576) for town wear, business and general runabout, in a dark shade or your favorite bright color. The double collar and cuffs give you a chance to wprk out daring and delightful contrasts, in a season when adventurous color combinations are so extremely smart. And you can trust this dress to make your figure look slim and youthful, small yf AKE prin-AV- AS K M E ANO T H ER ' The Questions 1. Can you write in Roman numerals? 2. 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