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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH Mmit IL n i V Ir j Nicks Bag m out HKKK are a wt f U.al iu the lumber cauiju for aren't going to get houte tirtsimas.' MurgarelTomp kins tuld a grout- - f yUI1S lb iteu and women at N in club early country vmdwr. "I an' u rt oa u'"eUClirUliiwa has h Who'll promise a Christmas twgT m vm i like to help." said Nick Ur at that ring, "only thing is I'm green sort of thing. Do you suppose you a has could get someone to and DIl It If I Pid '"r said "Yes; I've thought of that.' a that out Margaret. "I've tiered dolnice hag can be got up for three I d nke l,r lars." little later when Nick Urring found Margaret alone he told her be wanted to be responsible for ten ot -I'll send you the check in (lie hugs. the morning." and Margaret pressed Nick's hand his eyes. into looked up gratefully "Yon're the most generous man in the world." slie said. Nick yearned to take this opportunity to' tell Margaret Just a little love for her. of his but to do It now. it seemed, would the tenor be to taint with of his generosity. The afternoon before Christmas Margaret telephoned to Nick at his A g self-intere- was early astir. Sprigs of holly windows. The graced the maoy-panedeep armchair had been drawn Invitingly before the fireplace., The plump and tender turkey was turning an Irresistible brown.' Onions," turnips, white and squash and potatoes " "sweets" were cooking merrily. The and strained been sauce had cranberry set to cool upon the pantry window sill, and, adhering to a precedent, grandmother slipped away to don her black silk dress, lace , cap and snowy apron, ., She was becoming a trifle anxious about her guest when she spied a gaunt figure coming up the walk.' She fluttered hospitably to the doorway and beamed at the visitor. . I declare I was getting worried for fear you wouldn't come, after all,' she said. "Edwin and Effle Ann have gone away and you're to have dinner with me. I'll, dish It right up." . ', I I jThe visitor's 'gaze' fastened Itself upon the loaded table, and power 'of speech seemed, to desert tHm. At granduother, f request be carved the tnrkeyV ahd hav- d r , ???5s-j- by Vivian v Hae '"TBlFTOffl ANN adjusted her fun I I Ci and aros, her round black 1 14 ejei refusing to meet ino piteous gaze of the little old fkjM be reason-- I "I know you'll able, mother," she conclud- I .J ed, ' "and see that, needing money aa Edwin does right now, he couldn't do differently. When pa died and Edwin bought this house of you to kelp jqn put, he iiad every notion of letting yon stay tight here, Rslhe told you ; but the $1,000 la absolutely need ed to set aa on our feet again and with a customer turning up right now and willing to pay cash well, twna nothing short of providential, and the f deed was made out last night." She bit her Up and reddened as she shot a furtive glance at the bent fl ure, then rushed on, nervously: "Of course you're to come right over with us as soon aa Christmas is over. Packing up will be easy, for, knowing you'd have n further use for your furniture, Edwin's told the customer he could buy It Just as It stood, and. of fnlce,' course, the moneyH be yours-ja tidy sum for Mr. Craig was aH carried away with your braided ruga and old dishes ami furniture ; said It made blra think of his boyhood home., J x "He'i over to the Cllendal simltarl. a Nice Tidy The Moneyll Bs ?Your am now for his health got nervous Sum." dyspepsia, or some such thing. Well, I must be rushing along." Ing served his hostess, devoted him Halting In the doorway, she called self unreservedly to eating. back sharply: "If that "My land," mused . grandmother, Ing brother of (Edwin's comes 'round aghast, "that poor creature must have here tomorrow asking for us. you send been fasting for a week !" him about his business lively. He can But when the Indian pudding, pumpamell a Christmas dinner a mile off." kin pie and fruit cake had been eaten The door closed resoundingly. and they were picking placidly at the Sunshine . poured Into' the spotless nuts, the j guest wused talkative, kitchen la a golden flood, lingered How this all reminds me of home on the bright braided rugs and when I was a little boy this room a china closets laden with willow ware, facsimile nd you how you remind china and pewtr4 Tbe grandfather roe of mother I tit .must be great," he clork ticked contentedly In a corner. broke off sharply, ''for you , to have The kettle hummed drowsily. Gleeful own little home all td yourself-- r ? the canary sang one exultant song aft your ehr r another. The Christmas sun was already set The table with its cheerful red cloth thnt her bad been drawn up to the window, ting, reminding grandmother ' With a over. was almost last day daintily set for grandma's luncheon. sudden sob she shed her gallant garIt was the same tranquil scene upon ment of aa over in and pretense, on hu rested which her eyes had she for sympathy, hunger, powering dreds of other days, and upon which, llttIe atory. out hr after tomorrow, they would rtevei roM ;quavered J The gaunt, visitor came around to again. And tomorrow was Christraaal hand witn a day when the friendly ghosts of her side and took - her tenderness, clumsy woold were all the Christmases that "I'm not the guest you were expectstead lovingly back, only to flp In 1 saw that dinner weft, horror at tack ef festal board and ing but when unless you'd understand couldn't ' you f Jt Chrlstmns cheer ;? lived for three weks on prunes and It must hate been the affecting picand skim uilik. Anyway, I, wrts ture of those disappointed ghosts of toast ravenous from hunger and I havent other rhrlstmases that Impelled grandbad a dinner of such pure, unadultermother to sit erect, swab her red eyebliss ; since mother cooked It. ated and lids, stiffen her trembling chin I came over for today was to What resolve to thrust her troubles Into the r that r why, my wife finds say be Cbrlstmns should 'til background wants to live nearer the city, so 1 she over. "Ill have a Christmas dinner," to consider this house abso want you, she planned. "Just as If nothing had as yod need it. yours lutely Edwin's Invite Til happened and why, It put In writing tomorrow.. I'll have brothwP He shouldered hurriedly into fc'.s Feverish with excitement, , grand then halted Irresolutely , In the 6kU mother hurried to djbw marketing, and for th rest of the day the old doorway. ."Maybe,, some time," he ventured,' uncertainly, "you'd be wil kltchrn abounded with tantallxtng ling to teach my wife to cook." cwklng odors. ( by MeClur Nwpitpr Sroitwt.) Christ mat morning i grandmother (WNH Sorvlc) ' . good-for-not- , lov-Ingl- y lr-a- v :, 1 ' oas ly Hki.ks tiiVisrowt was sadness in the Jordon's cottage on Indian Even the merriment Hill. of an aprpoaching Christmas season could not super- sede the fact that Foster Jordan was going blind. lli.RH I I - J Blind . 1 1 That was bad enough. But Foster Jordan, swathed In bandages from the operation that had failed, knew that Helen could never carry on alone. It had been so expensive, that operation that had only served to pronounce his doom more surely. All their savings were gone, add what couid the most faithful of wives do, with a baby ia arms, and a blind husband? The cottage would go, too, and then t He roused himself from these gloomy forebodings at the sound of her step at the door. And that she should not think hira grieving, he began to sing. "Foster," his wife called, , as the door opened, "who do you suppose Is here? My . old chum, Pauline West-land- ! "You know, the costume designer in New York? Paulina, this is my husband, that Tve written you so much about." f "How do you do. Miss Westland. Sorry I can't my eyes, you know " "Of course. I'm so glad to meet you, Mr. may I call you Foster? Helen has told me so much about you." "And oh, Pauline," , Helen InterIsn't he rupted, "here Is pur baby. adorable?" Then In a whisper, "Do If you look more cheerful, darling! don't I'll cry and 1 mustn't do that !" "The doctors give you no hope?" But we'll get "None whatever. along somehow " Helen dabbed at her eyes with her handkerchief. "Foster, dear," she said aloud, "you were singing as we came In. Won't you sing for PanlineJ" i : i , i. "Yes, please do." "I'm afraid 1 can't" "Yes. you can, dear. I'll play for you." And so he sang. ; At last their guest rose to go. "1 can't tell you how I've enjoyed your songs," she said. "Pm so glad I stopped off on my way home for the : . V holidays." , "You must come again," Helen answered. "I've enjoyed seeing you so much." , ; "I'm pleased to have met you. Fos-- . ter, and I wish you both a blessed , Christ mastide," , ,. , ,. , Pays passed, and It was Christmas came a special de Bright and jeariy ' livery letter!'Dearest Helen," It began. "I hav the grandest news for youl As soon as I got home I phoned to Jud Myers He's staging a new In New York. show .that I'm designing the costume for and has been simply wild for some act to put In the heart throbs. "Well, I talked him Into seeing that a bling singer would go over big, and raved about Foster's voice, so It's all arranged. . I am enclosing his check for &S00, and If you. can be read we'll all go back to New York ti gether. "With love for a Merry Chrlsinin Pauline." WMUra Nwppr Unloa. C , ' orlice. "I want to tell you, Nick," said Margaret, "that I filled all the bags and ' Kach one they were so wonderful. Now I find cost Just three dollars. that there. Is Just one left over after all the men at the camp have heen I can't supplied. As It Is ail tilled. I thought maybut return the money, be you knew of some poor fellow who . might like one." Nick thought a moment as he held the telephone receiver. "1 do know a fellow," said he. "Used to work for us. Then he quit and went to farm Ing over In the next county. Sort oi a luckless fellow. Suppose I take that bag over to him." Sd after the ofllce closing at five, Nick called at Margaret's for the bag He planned to drive the fifteen mile to the shack where Barry Smith lived and back before his sefren o'clock dinner. The cabin seemed deserted. Nick forced a window and walked In. But Barry was not to be found. , Nick felt In his pocket for a match, but matches he had none. Then he groped around Barry's room, but was no more successful So with nearly frozen fingers he undid the wrappings from the Christmas bag. opened it and found. n "Yes; I've rnought of That," Said Margarot. as he had hoped, a box of matches with the cigarettes and tobacco in the bag. By the time he had lighted a lamp, found fuel jiuj warmed himself,1 the storm had covered the roads so that to attempt to return llml night would be an act of folly. So Nick spent Chrlstmns in poor Barry's for- : ' ; lorn cabin. for he carried, In Nick, Fortunately in his car. h box of groceries, bacon, bread and butter as a present to Barry to help through the winter. Much ol this he left for Barry on his return; from the rest he made tils own rather meager Christmas dinner. But If it hadn't been for Margaret's bag. Christ- mas would h8ve been a doleful day, indeed. When Nick went to see Margaret on his way home on December 28, he found her in a state of real agitation: "Somehow I felt responsible for the whole thing, said Margaret. "You were responsible for the fact that I had 'a rather pleasant Christ' mas after all. You jiept uw from freezing and starving to death. yoti cheered me with a good hook, amukes uid a mouth organ, and kept me from degradation by means of soap and a comb. That bag was a godsend.". "Oh. Nick." said Margaret, witt, eyes very tender. "I fei as If i knew you so much hotter because ol this." "Margaret," said Nick, -- I've bvei. trying to get up nerve for thrpi months to tell, you I lov yon to dls ruction." I "And ever since you sent me th. heck for the bags I've known i want d to hear you tell me." answere. Margaret, (It b Mcl lor Ntw.tNii Sjrndlcau iWNUCtnin) - - Pina at a Mobil Mill. Paper From Alabama . bubbled, Towus, plantations k Vg"'-WashingtonPrepare br National U. u all multiplied. Paths and uimv more than a half on the ground turned to roa& i was almost tial steamers, with romantic SLIGHTLY Alabama agricultural region and and string Danas, deck hand t railroad Birmingham a small tettes, and steam calliopes to Junction town. Today the state, though the passengers, came to ply the- still numbered among the southern Cotton was king; sometimes it cotton growing regions, has more than cents a pound and more. nil and 2,800 Industrial establishments companies abounded and the jj than more of a now city saw Its nrst tana Doom. Slau Birmingham, a quarter of a million Inhabitants, Is lowed booms; but men talked t, called the "Pittsburgh of the South." of slaves and cotton and more! While Washington, first President, struggled with a new nation's many New Orleans before 1810 the from Vitb2i Express" was running. problems, and Paris still rocked white pioneers riders and 500 horses, relays revolutionary disorders, 12 miles, the "fast mail" avera from Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia began to penetrate Alabama. e miles an hour! Mounted on blooded saddle t Some were settling along the Tomblg-bon land claimed by both Spain and attended by slave grooms and sons of tl the United States. Some, as traders, servants, fnnnrtml crude nosts that grew to stockings sought culture at Tusfs, where the new university wa towns; others, married to Indian A "railroad" one of the firs women, took no part in the life of new .the boast of white colonies. Occasionally there was In America-r-wathe renegrade, or fugitive from Atlan- - cumbla, . Its tiny coaches ran oni tic coast Justice, ins '"Savannah .lack.";' enjrailSj drawn byf horses until It Ruin boasting he had slain so many wen Inivimntlit trnftm In t that be eoold "swim In their blood, cotton still jwent by V winding Tennessee river up ta were it collected In one pool." But the historic rush of Ohio, and . down " to the Missis, New Orleans. which was to put tens of thou' After , J850,-- , jshops aqd effi sands', of whites on, Alabama , lands within a' generation, did not betin till creased, "ilore men began t after 1S00. When treaties with, the weave, saw lumber, smelt Iff Choctaws in 1S02 and 1S05 threw open inaW' sboekfvptowsr'5 and' rich lands for settlement, new routes everything from tax handjes In r of travel were opened ; and the human ; boati Put jnnlyvw a' small sr; tide moved Into Alabama, along with bama was still k big buyer (if iw other great .migratory tides to the e things and r essentia tf west. By 1 SOS thousands had staked rlan. These were "old plantation ft out homes in the picturesque Tennes-that golden nge of; Alahanaif see valley, which crosses northern Ala1,' piWe1 mention, arouses bama, ; f in the born Southerner.. , j 1 ; The old Immigrant or "Federal IJond t Then the gifts if,Sumter?, w from Georgia west was to Alabama federacy. Years of war and.rrj what the ancient TiaAppIa waste the Alabanja, lnwhlc; ishe Mrt country south of Rome. The trek and good lesson: that she could ai trudge! over if, was so continuous,' says herself live within her own bn; one early writer, that for days, 'joiir- -' Then' tbkt iqulet Palm SnntUn neylng' against jlhe immigrant tide, he pomattox. when: the great arw?' was always th teight of wagon trains, r.rant and 'teei without parste!! pack horses, and long files of trampmttsic, swords,; or cannon ing slaves.-- Whitney's new cotton gin quietly amade terms 'of surreiff. helped start these men west and exFor more than ft century cottos: tended slavery. England, nfter. her ..ike symlol "Of .41fe,4 The ,n,Wr ri revolution, was bidding' for wun one mute ana one paw, m cotton, find r'ch, cheap cotton land rich' pJanter with domain Intact was the lure. From Virginia, the daro-lina- s slave fimes. depended on this onti and Georgia came planters, merThen Varied Industry, J j chants and artisans, the world" But conditions cha'nj. ' often r In elegant carriages, barouches or sulkies.. Other thousnmls walked )j olj customers overseas no InngMi buy inoef of itheir cotton to an ine way. More and more it is raised eM How They Went to Alabama. as In Africa, Asia. So now M It was like the later gold rush to jiarder fori Alabama to sell 4 California. In one of the 1819 issues abroad at a fair it price. Bnt of the Augusta Chronicle Is recorded f planted, talked, the fact that there passed through a thought, ginned, pressed, and sold cottq "man, his wife, a son and his wife, long, and so fixed Is this with a cart but no horse. The man habit that the state import i had a belt over his shoulders and drew milk,' potatoes, even haj butter, the cart. The old woman was walkescape is in sight I Happily, ing, carrying a rifle and driving a with research, farm science, cow." Others had their goods "packed of the nw and good example in a hogs-heawith trunnions put In Alabama W nrove farmers who the ends and shafts attached." It is recorded that some families rolled much besides cotton you scj new. dWl their goods in this manner all the way lnir tn tho Rtntn a i agriculture, from Carolina to Alabama. Yon can But that Is not all. From the H talk still to older Alabama residents men have come with money who remember what their grandfathers told of this historic migration, chines, starting mills, shops. 0 A!al when they came with it as young men. many Industries new to our scattered Its factories, "My grandfather brought his boes In fe41 be to hives," says a Birmingham lawyer. "If state, with workers wtdontn murker for AlahanU they swarmed, the whole wagon train turned out, drumming on pots and vcciHuic, ,i,i yuuiwj aim i?n trv ''iu pans to make the bees 'settle' again. Swiftly, as the lives of staWj He brought garden seeds and measured, you see this clamoiw young fruit trees. Even a strand of culture of smoke and steel t pussy nosed on n nrnild. leisurely willow, worn as a hatband, he planted on the new land he chose and accustomed for generations to It's Btill growing there. eotrnnfieldH. nlnntatlon non rural exi "When my folks first settled calm, they With her water nower, cw had to ride a mule, by compass, 100 miles to the nearest blacksmith to lumber, raw Cotton, surplus get fine fcllmate, Alabama Is forcw plow points sharpened, if their fire died out, they used to 'borrow fire.' Cotton she will grow, Indefinite There being no matches, a boy on a more of other thlnes. too- -1 horse was sent to the nearest neigha happier economic ba bor, to come galloping home finally with a tween town and country life- burning piece of i)ine fat.'" Collcgeg dot the state ; frf "j Unique in Alabama annals was ttie busses biul children many mlW foundling of Demopolia, on the Certain distinguished French-men- , solldated scfeools, And far no era are graduated each yearno banished from Paris after 0 . . . nA : iou migrated here to state can use measure ?aJ tart vineyards and olive groves. yardstick ., ;to v .... "ere, says history, "men who They march. had Vf electric Next to schools, ss who had had Alabama In the factor prime conspicuous part in the It has worked miracles ciety, intrigue, and campaigns b French revolutlon-a- nd ti'exS dammed the streams and me a French klng-a- nd W00"S.L. the avenues through ladle! wlm ww of steel towers that carry Wherever state. parts of the ? the smiles and favors terlals exist, there power of Josephs nd Marie Antoinette," Copper wire, hosiery. s"k'f,(. milk, EteeJ freight cars, brw i J i i kid-glove- d s . ' keel-boa- hp- home-seeker- " . - ;erh-mad- 1 ? well-to-d- o fl ,, well-order- J Tora-bigbe- e. Na-80- ' n, , Jr? .r.U8h Alabama antc-Mur- u grow docadei up. P0m,C8 bons, electro-chemica- l these and more, are now In the state. PJ man" |