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headquarters that we ever had. Some
hundreds of packages were sent out,
mostly going to brighten the bedside
of shut-ins, filling little neglected
stockings, in fact, in many cases,
were the little stockings themselves,
not to hang up for Santa to fill, as
he is an unknown quantity in their
little lives, but to cover little frosted
toes that have stung and burned this
last cold weather from Jack Frost's
vicious bites. Much of the cheer
Sent out was necessaries for the des-
titute, while others were simply re-
membranes of the season.
On the whole, North Carolina Sun
shine did herself proud, for many of
the Circles are new, but the daily re-
ports coming in are not only excel
lent, but are inspiring to new effort.
One Circle of scattered members,
"The Helpful Neighbours" Circle,
live in a small town, and while all
are limited in this worlds goods,
their report is one that might do
credit to any one. Their thoughtful
kindheartedness is full of suggestive
ness for all of us, for Sunshine, you
know, keeps not only Christmas, but
all the year. One member made a
Christmas tree and invited all the
S~anta-less neighbors' children to
come and have a good time, and they
had it, too, although everything on
that tree, even to the decorations,
was homemade by this 'Shiner's own
fingers. Another baked a cake, and
Christmas sent a big slice to all her
neighbors who had none. Another
sent for a woman whom she knew
who has nine children and no Santa,
to come in; sent not only word to
come, but a wagon after her, and
gave them all a good substantial din
ner and a bright day. Still, another.
who had not been able to make and
sell her butter for a month or two,
and had depended on that for Christ
mas funds, was feeling much disap-
pointed because she could not pass
on the cheer she desired, but she
looked around and found folks who
had no butter Christmas day, and
her butter was their Sunshine, and
she sent buttermilk to another fam
lily who had none to make their
Christmas biscuits, and when she sat
down to write her report she found
that she had briphtened thirty-four
different lives in her Christmas Civ
ing, and was no poorer herself. She
says that the riches of this Yuletide
will never pass from her.
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TRAINS LEAVE RALEIGH, N. c.

xNA1NO LIZA w NAAGA01 M ~
200 A. NJ. No. III daily for
Greensboro and local points. Carries
Pullman sleeper Raleigh to Greensboro,
connecting at Greensboro with No. 50,
,'FloridasExpress," for Charlotte, Column
bia and Savannah. Pullman sleeper to
Jacks nville, Fort Tampa Charleston and
Augusta connections for all points in Flor
ida. No 81, washington and Southwest
ern Limited, " solid Pullman train drawing
sleepers, New York to New Orleans
and Memphis, connection is also made
for Winston-Salem, Wikesboro, DAnville
ard local stations.
5.55 A. M, No. III, daily for
G ldsboro and local stations; Connect
ing at Go,dsDoro with Atlantic Coast
Line for Wilm ngton, N. c., Wilson
N. c., Tarbo o, N. c., Norfolk, Va,
boro with Atlantic and North Carolina
Railway for Kinston, N. c., Newbern, N.
c., and intermediate stations.
$40 A. NJ. NO. Io7 daily for Greens.
boz and local stations, connects at Dur
ham for Oxford, Henderson, Keysville
and Richmond. At University Station
for Chapel Hill daley except Sunday.
At Greensboro with train No. SO, y, S.
Fast MALI for Washington and all
points north; Pullman drawing room
sic epers to New York and Richmond;
close connection for Winstou-Salem,
Mocksville and local stations, with train
No.. 7 for High Point, Salisbury, Charlotte
and local stations.
1880 A. M. No. 1os daily for Colds
boro and all local points, connects at
Selma for Wilson, Rocky Mount and all
Eastern North Carolina points. AT Gods
boro for Wilmington, Kinston, New
Bern, N. c., and Norfo K, Va, where
close connection Is made with Chesa-
peake Line for Baltimore and all other
outgoing steamers.
3.25 p. n. No. 135 daley for Green's
boro and Intermediate stations; connects
at Durham for Oxford, ClarksviIle, Keys
Station for Chapel Hill daily except sun
day. At Greensboro with train No. 40 for
Columbia, Augusta, Savannah, Charles
ton, Pullman sleeper and first claes
coaches Washington to Jacksonville, Fla.
No. IS ~. s. Fast Mall for Atlanta and
all points south and southwest, Pullman
drawing sleepers to Birmingham
and New Or ears, day coaches Washing
ton to New Orleans, alko with north
bound trains, No. "a and 80 for Wash
ingt.n and all points north; Pullman
drawing room sleepers and observation
car to New York; connection Is also made
at Greensboro for Winston-Salem and at
Salisbury to Memphis.
$50 P. M. Nc. 136 daily for Colds
boro and local stations.
G. II. ACKERr, Gen'l Manager.
w. A. TURK, Pass. Traf. Manager,
S. 81. HARDWICK, G. P. A.,
Washington, d. G.
R. L. VERNON, r. P. A.,
Charlotte, N. G.
TIE. GREEN, City Ticket Agent,
O&ce in Marlborough House Building,
RALEIGH, n. G.
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home reading which is divided into a

1our-yearS course, one year, being
a French-Greek year, in which the
reading is the history, literature, art
of, and travel in those countries. The
other years are Russian-Italian;
English and an American year. This
was her English" year. AS a school
girl she had always found nemoriz-
ing dates or a succession of events,
difficult. The books are written in
an interesting style, and are enter
tanning. So she enjoyed her even
ings, OF picked up" reading, but
she thought with dread of the exam
ination and review questions at the
end of each chapter, but she had an
ambition to answer them too, Yet
never a minutes time for seemingly
SO impractical a thing. This was her
plan: She copied on a little slip the
of paper old rhyme of the succession
of the kings, and the first time that
old churn got refractory she just
said to the invisible butter: "Take
your time, Pm in no hurry at all.
Just when it suits you to appear, Pm
here"
Up and down went the church
dasher with every stroke also went:
First Observation-Disclosures
then Wil-yum-his-son-n
Hen-ry-Stephen- and-Hen-ry,
then Rich-ard-and-Joh ohm"
AS she said all this aloud, that old
butter must have gotten curious to
see what was making the new noise.
Before she knew it, up it popped to
the top of the churn, for ~glancing
down there she saw it's yellow eyes
smiling up at her. After that the
churnlng was not nearly SO great a
task, it was almost companionable;
in fact, it got so hat she only hal
to see the milk and waiting dasher
in the churn, reach out her hand to
grasp it, when lol the great con-
queror and all his quarrelsome
stalwart sons, yes, and descendants,
too, trooped past her in one long
unbroken throng.
Of course after a time even the
Norman and his many sons became
monotonous. Then she took a bit of
poetry with some thought in it that
she wished to make her own, the up
and down of the dasher emphasized
the rhythm and assisted memory.
Later still, any facts that came up
in her reading that she wished to
memorize, she did it in the same
way.
Now of course you don't have such
a time with your butter; you use a
thermometer and have the tempera-
ture just right, and you let your
cream stand just long enough, and
not too long; but it's a good plan for
you, nevertheless, to make some good
thought your own by ~memorizing
while doing any work that is, or
can be made. mechanical. You will
broaden both outlook and character
and feed your starving soul and
brain.
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MRS. RANSIER'S LETTER.
Morning Prayer for the New Year.

Morning Prayer tor the New Year.
Tet me to-day do something that
shall take
A little sadness from the worlds
vast store,
And may l be so favored as to make
Of joys too scanty sum a little
more.
Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed
Or thoughtless word, the heart of
foe or friend;
Nor would / pass, unseeing, worthy
need,
Or sin by silence when I should de-
fend.
However meager be my worldly
wealth,
Let me give something that shall
aid my kind,
4 word of courage, or a thought of
health,
Dropped as l pass for troubled
hearts to find.
Let me tonight look back across the
span
'Twixt dawn and dark, and to my
conscience say
Because of some good act to beast
or man
The world is better that 1 lived
to-day"
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Cut out the above morning
thought Cor better still, copy it, and
leave your Farmer" uncut to pass
on to some one who cannot take IT'D
and pin or paste this little prayer
where your eyes will rest on it, the
last thing at night, so that it's
thought may have the whole night
to take root in and also meet your
eyes first thing in the morning, and
thus while you go about the daily
tasks it may be an ever present in
'piration to you. You will soon
nemOrize it and it will become a
part of you. A good part, too. 1t
won't hurt you. Try it.
l know one farmers wife who had
avery refractory churn. The butter
would have stubborn spells and ut
terIy refuse to appear in little yell
low balls on the top of the milk in
the churn. She would coax it. First
oy a little warm water; but it would
look farther away than ever; then,
BY a little cold water; but it would
loan in defiance; then, she would
peat the contrary milk hard and fast,
but 1t was often a long time before
The offended butter would condescend
70 reveal itself to her tired and i'm
patient eyes. 1t was so ~aggravating
and she used to get so tired and wor-
ned and discouraged. So she hit on
a plan for utilizing the time neces-
sarlIy consumed by the monotonous
humping of that churn dasher, keep
ing her patience and making it a
more attractive operation. She had
taken up the Chatauqua course of
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SIINSHINE
-oDru CAROLINA DIVISION OF INTER
S0NITIONAL SUNSHINE SOCIETY. .

Ms ]. NJ. Ransier, State President, Hen
dersso constitutions, bylaws and names Of
lns N the society will be furnished on
DEVIATION. Each correspondent should en-
~ ~ stamp for re ly.
e0es PRESENTATIONS ColOrs-Yellow and White.
sIs e Colors-Tnr4uo ise Blue:
S,ate FIower-Marguerite.
Totto-Good Cheer:
Snciety Song-Scatter Sunshine.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY
In effect Nov. 29, 1903.

This condensed schedule Is published as
information and is su' ject to change
without notice to the pubic.
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houses located near the shops are resi-
dences of superintendent and heads
of divisions.
1t is the only factory of its kind in
the world, that is, it is the only fac
tory which builds organs, manufac-
lures cars, makes Pullman cars, tents,
hand-organs, merry go-rounds. circus
wagons, shooting galleries and every
mechanical and material appliance
that goes with a complete carnival in
stitutiOn or circus attraction. Others
do some of these things sing1y, but
none does them all In the musical
department are experts from Ger
many who are capable of making a
SteinWay piano or a mouth organ. The
foundry department is as complete as
any in the state, and orders come
from all parts of the west for large
castings and other portions of ma
chinery. More ry-gO-rOundS are
made in Abilene than in any place in
the world More shooting galleries
have the Parker name on them than
all others combined. The work of the
factory goes on twelve months in tn e
year and orders are always piled high
on the superintendent desk. During
the past winter a complete train of
cars has been turned out, including a
private car and two Pullman cars
which will be used IN the carnival
tour of the present season
After Mr.. Parker had made success
full his ventures in the merry-gO-
round and shooting gallery business,
he looked for larger fields. Just about
that time the carnival craze was upon
the people all over the country, and
Mr.. Parker grasped his opportunity.
His first experiment included chiefly
the -go-rounds and shooting
galleries with a few mechanical eccen- |
tricities. Last year his idea broad |
ened on the subject and he conceived |
the idea of making UP a big carnival
company with ten strong, clean at
fractions carried on special train /
The tour took him as far east as Illf-
nois, back through Missouri and /
southern Kansas, and finally closed at
in a week of mud and diSa- !
greeable weather. That was the first /
year "Out" with "the big show" and /
it was a big success. 1t stamped Mr. !
Parker's amusements as clean, whole !
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was a janitor in the court house at
Abilene, and who now is known as''The
Amusement King" He himself tells the
story of what started him into the
show business.
zone Saturday night" said Mr.. Par
ker, Il went up town in Abilene with
one single dollar in my pocket to buy
a few groceries. That was in 1892. My
little girl was with me. We passed a
merry-g o-round, and both got on to
take q ride. We took another and an
other until practically the entire dollar
was gone. had just fifteen cents left.
After ] went home commenced think
ing about it. I made up my mind that
an institution that could get my money,
badly as needed it for my family,
could get anybodys money, and right
then and there I made up my mind to
run a rneTry-g O-rOund. I made several
attempts to borrow money so as to get
started and finally succeeded BY
spring I secured one on the payment
plan and started then on my first trip"
That was Mr.. Parker's beginning lin
the business" By good management
he succeeded right at the start It
was not long until he recognized that
a merry gO-rOund was chiefly an en-
tertainment for children. Clerks,
travelling men, railroad men and grown
up people generally. needed some more
complicated amusement.
To satisfy this demand, he COM
menced in 1895 to manufacture the
Parker Mechanical Shooting galleries.
They We're somewhat crude affairs 10
begin with but the moving figures. the
music and the training in expert
shooting made them popular. Now
there are over 400 of these shooting
galleries in use in this country, while
many have been exported to foreign
nations, and scores are built here
every year.
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| ing love. bewildering love I
| kissed the eyes that never knew my
royalty and never guessed the gulf be-
| tween US. The mummy had been
! torn from it's wrappings, and the man
! breat he'd Gods air, and realized Gods
earth!
she was all the world to me, all this
and the next and my kingship was
obliterated. I flung custom to the
winds of heaven. She made me rea-
lie that love can burst the hearts of
l loved herl For flash of time was
left in peace, alone with love.
Memory was a dead vampire.
Then they came for me
cried for mercy; but the vampire was
alive, and 1 had lost my dream. I re-
turned to captivity, a helpless fugitive
from fate.
In time. they told me that I had set
tied down again with wonderful ease.
But I knew better. The man in me.
the awakened man in me, refused to
be smothered out of existence again
and made the court a purgatory.
All day all night, 1 thirsted for
her Love was all-pOwerful. 1 could
not beat it out of my aching heart. /
starved it; but it thrived apace. I
tried to murder it; but it sprang to
life again and again, and stronger
each time.
And at last it drove me back to her.
| saw her again She had
tell her that a Was ! k mag TO
She stared at me like dying woman.
Later I heard the awful thing the vii
layers whispered about her and
the name they called it by She
came to me again, before they parted
US forever. She was ill, and the gold
mad gone from her hair. But mystic
love remained like a fairy wreath about
her. She kept staring at me, imploring
me to be impossible, an agony of long
ing for the king to abdicate and the
man to live, in ner eyes. But the king
was a devil and as hard as stone. The
man was a. pitiful coward and cried for
mercy. But the king strangIed him
with a brutal force, and urged that "A
whole empire blocked the way.
She was unable to realize the barrier,
the immense barrier
I was ORA eyed back to my kingdom
to play the king again. This time il
was forever, though the old longing.
the same love, swept into my empty
soul and fought for mastery as it mad
done before
But the King. God bless himl conquered
again and again. And the man, God pity
him. was heap of despair and love, like
a broken bauble-was a phantom that was
half sweet. all bitter to remember. 3 81
And I have nothing left of that
summer nothing but the memory
of her eyes blazing with hope, dulling
VITA despair, black Things wrapped hol-
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some. reliable, and something which
would interest everybody.
The season had scarcely finished
when town after town which was
planning carnival festivities began to
write to Mr. Parker for information,
and followed this up with request for
dates. Before the Christmastide was
over, nearly every week of the present
spring and summer was engaged, and
the full force of the shop was enlisted
in the task of preparing for the big
season.
And that is how Topeka got him.
Last fall when the semi-centennial
committee began looking over the sit
uation in regard to preparing the pro-
gramme for its festivities. Major T. J.
Anderson, the Nestor of many a car
nival and celebration in Topeka, i'm
mediately suggested the Parker shows
as a good attraction, such as Topeka
wanted. He saw the pike" last year,
and he knew it good. That the Ma
jors judgment was first class has
been demonstrated over and over
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to the statement that Mr.. Parker is
giving the people d good show and the
kind of show they want, there is no
emphasis.
Topeka was pleased that the show was
clean, wholesome and of the kind for a
self-respecting person to attend. This city
has had some street fairs in days past
which did not leave the best Impression.
Mr.. Parker did one thing for this city
he gave back the people of Topeka their
confidence in Midway and Pike amuse-
ments and the people appreciated his act
by turning out in crowds.
The attendants at the Parker shows are
gentlemanly and uniformly courteous. Mr..
Parker insists that his men shall be so,
and that no visitor shall go away dis
pleased. Every accommodation is shown
to ladies and children and kindness al
ways is the inspiration.of popularity.
THIS attractions for the season of 1901
which Topeka has enjoyed all week are
as follows.
Whirling the perpendicular fiume: LANCER,
thrilling slide for life; Irridescent electric
fountain. new and larger; jumping horse
.-Carr7---3s-elf." nothing newer: Jerris
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a KINGS TRAGEDY.

was a king. even In my cradle,
had been born. had to die. The
only two things they said I could
share with my people.
Majesty! It hemmed me IN on
every side. The reverence of it filled
the lullabies that were sung in my
baby ears. At every turn I was i'm
plored to remember it 1t made me
thing apart.
For twenty years was a stranger
to everything that means life!
And then I awoke in spite of them,
in spite of my lzingshipi I
awokel My God, the awalk-
enfng A ray of sunlight crept into
my poor, starved, ignorant soul.
The king was a thing apart no
longer.
l was i'll, so i'll that they grew
frightened, and sent me into the apple
gardens of Brittany to recover. And
[ met her therel She was not a
princess of the blood, not a lady of
quality. She was just little girl with
wealth of love in her eyes, and a
golden youthfulness that bewildered
me, and that made the Garden of
Eden real to me. For one brief sum-
mer I was allowed my birthright, and
dreamed my dream, as other men. I
heard whispered words of love, amaz-
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Horse Notes.

Efhe Powers has been II years on the
turf.
Elastic Pointer has been a half mile
in 1909 recently.
Zephyr, 2il1, is going sound. and will
be raced again
Rhythmic is in fine condition, and has
been stepping miles in 2:30.
c. F. Emery, of Cleveland. O., recent
~ refused an offer of $1,000 for NOrrie,
E,noIa D., dam of Chase. 2:O71k. has
foaled a bay FLY by Onward Silver.
Ansella. 2:OeA. is wrong in the near
hind leg, and she is being very care
fully handled.
out at Portland, Ore. they have two
good ones in the stud in Diablo, 2:O9A,
and Red Seal, 2:10.
J. R. Smith, Jackson, Tenn, has leas-
ed for the stud season Silver Bow, 2:16,
by Robert McGregor.
A. J. Welch's brown mare Lucie. sis
ter to Lucrative, 2:1312, by Dexter
Prince, has fOaled a fine colt to Men
docinO.
The Wisconsin mare Phyllis, 2:141z
that went wrong last season in train
ing, has been bred to Mckinney, 2 :111z.
Palo Belle, one of the few living
daughters of Palo Alto, 2:0S4, has 'fOal-
ed a chestnut FLY by Sidney Dillon.
The well known New England stall
lion Sir Walter, Jr., fOaled in 1882. died
a short time ago at Biddeford. Me.
The New York trotter Eric has been
purchased by Theodore Laporte, Of
Rhinebeck, n. Y, for use on the road
and at matinee races.
The haIf-mile track at Unity, Me.
has been purchased by Frank Reynolds
and George Dustin. the well known
New England horsemen-
An offer of $1,000 was recently refus-
ed by z. c. Seabright, of Wheeling, W
Va. for a green 3-year-old FLY by Bow
Bells, dam Marie Sanchez, by Happy
Medium.
A green PAGER, by Seymour Wilkes
2:OS15, is attracting attention at the
San Jose track California. He went a
mile recently in 2:1s; last quarter in
80 seconds.
George P. Urban. of Buffalo, n. Y
has purchased from J. A. Vipend, Al
toona, Pa, the gray horse Wauban,
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r. 1. HORTON REPLIES.
Says He Pays License for Running a
Stand.

r. I. Horton. who runs the popcorn
stand at the transfer station, has this
to say about the proposed ordinance
to prohibit street stands in front of
places of business where the owner
of the property objects:
Il paid my license to the city for
the privilege of running a stand. The
city gave me the permission to use its
streets, the only restriction being that
I do not block the thoroughfare.
Mayor Bergundthal inspected my 10
cation, and said that he could not see
that I was doing anything contrary to
law, and told me to stay where I was
until he had time to investigate the
matter. I understand the city ordi-
nances and know my rights. If the
council passes an ordinance prohibit
ing me from running a stand on the
streets, I am willing to obey it, but I
shall demand that my license be re-
funded 1 have been running a stand
at my present location since March 81.
and / have been continually called
upon by the patrons of the city rail-
way to furnish them information
about the running of cars, etc. The
railway company does not have a man
there, and I have taken pains to post
myself so that I can give accurate in
formation. I think that my stand is
an accommodation to the patrons of
the street railway. I am not a faker;
I do not sell fake goods. 1 have lived
in Topeka a great many years; drove
the first street car that ever operated
in Topeka. I have no better right to
operate on that corner than has any
one else, but expect to stay there I'M
less the city officials believe that I am
violating some ordnance.
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wheel; miniature railroad; trained wild
snfnaI arena: the Coliseum; a Day in the
T-vroleau Alps beautiful electrical crea-
Sions C.rystaplex, a revelation IN glass;
Temple Of Music. eco ponds of musical
YOU erys <ssCsfrl RON Abilene" the queen
OF ligSht and color harmony Palace of Il
lllS1ons, bewfl3erInss Tny StIfT1ng. perpleS-
tertainines Foolish House, a side splitter;
LSey MfnstreIs, RaudeVile and naIhstrei-
ssts Electric Theater. carrying its own
stan OF photographers Old Plantation.
scenes nom the souths ParEeF's Mechani-
cal Shooting Galleries. the AIutoscopti-
con. penny pleasure palaces.