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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-17
3 3 The Wreath Man 3 3

TIES here, the man with the
wreaths Hurrah for him
and the wares he earliest
Oh, | know it isn't the thing to
make fuss over in these days.
Christmas has gone quite out of
fashion, they tell me. It's proper
nowadays to groan whenever you
hear the name Santa Claus, and
it's the correct pose to wish the
hideous holiday season were over
and done with before it has fairly
begun
We are awfully out Of fashion,
the little boy and l. hopelessly be-
hind the times. We love Christ
mas; Why we can't even think Of
sleighbells without wanting to
prance, and as for wishing 1t we're
over, we'd thank people with such
wishes as that to keep them to
themselves with their other gloomy
views of life
Such folks don't know what fun
II is to live at all, do they, little
boy2 I'll warrant they don't even
like mince pie. and the very idea of
a plum pudding would give every
one OF them indigestion for a week.
No Foreign Stuff!
What they want is tea and toast,
or zwiebach and mineral water. or,
cocktails and caviar Well, they
are welcome to them for all Of us,
aren't they, little boy?
Wen take cider, and eggnog, and
roast turkey, and round Of beef,
and mince pie with lots Of raisins,
ard plenty of good, rich crust. and
pumpkin pie, too, with old fash \.
ioaed American cheese to go with it.
None of your foreign stuff this
time of year. Imagine Santa Claus
speaking with "a French accent!
Nuts and apples, and cider and or
anges. big, yellow ones, and little
fat, comfy. piucushiony fellows.
reddish and easy to peel Citrou,
too. candies and preserved ginger,
and candy. sticks Of It. red and
white and candy canes, and old
fashioned chocolate creams with a
little white button on top Of them,
and ginger bread with nuts chop
ped up In 1t. and raisins. too Dear
me, little boy, what a world fun of
good things 1t IS. TO be sure! And
can smell them all whenever I
look at the man with the wreaths,
can't you?
He's a funny little man-isn't he?
Sort Of withered and ragged and
tired-lookiug. and yet there's
atwinkle in his eye [ wonder If he
knows Santa Claus and got those
wreaths right from Santa Claus
own wreath garden. shouldn't
wonder would Nou2
Hello, there. wreath man. how lid
you leave the reindeer. and have
the toy trees borne a good crop this
year? What, Better than ever,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-17
:: Night ::
BY MURIEL GARFORD.

pANTHlER,- LIKE through til
dusk
On creeps the night
Pale stars like yellow birds
Flutter with fright.
Gold moon her amber tree
Quickly withdraws:
Who would see topaz buds
Crushed by black paws?
Close by the city wan
Crouching it lies,
Bats like swift eyelids glide
over its eyes
Shadows are round its throat.
Collar and bars,
Holding It lest it spring
Wild at the stars.
An. see it forward rush
Out Of its lair
Hear an its broken chains
Fail through the air.
Deep is the thunder growl.
Mad with delight.
God! hear the City gasp
Under the Night
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-17
By WINIFRED BLACK.

Hurrah! and the candy bushes are
fairly bent down with glorious
fruit. all colors and sweeter than
ever.
Snow! You're surely going to
have some of that by Christmas,
aren't you, wreath man? There
may be a new sled. a regular sled
with low runners and a screaming
eagle on the side. and we've got to
have chance to try that,
Dollies are Prettier.
Dolls prettier than ever this
year, are they, wreath man? And
soldiers, regiments of them.
T-r-um, t-r-um, t-r-um-can't you
hear the drums, little boy? Hank!
they are faint and far away, but
drums for all that Hurrah!
Christmas is coming. Christmas. the
jolliest happiest, gayest, kindest.
most generous time in all the year
Hurrah for dear old Christmas and
all that Christmas brings!
Show us your wares. wreath
man That's a splendid fellow with
the berries. I'll take that, and
what a glorious green that holly
is! One Of those, please. Why,
we couldn't eat bite without
wreath in the dining room window
and one for the light above the ia
Bile. Festoons? Well, yes, we'll
take some of that, too. Hurrah!
Wen look like the very home Of
the blessed old Santa Claus, won't
We, little boy?
We like you, wreath man. and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-17
Bv GARRETT P. SERVISS.

TIME other Sunday night, at
about IL o'clock, l glanced
out of my window and could
not restrain an exclamation of de-
light mingled with wonder.
Vast shadowy buildings rose high
on all sides of the broad inner
court across which I was looking,
and screened off the light from the
street lamps, so that the view was
like that from huge square crater
with steep, irregular walls all
around and perfectly black sky
overhead. In the midst of this
square Of sky, glowing and scintil-
lating like a hundred Kohinoor dia-
monds pinned upon screen of
black velvet, were the stars Of
Orion, the most magnificent of the
consultations that make up the
universe as we see it from our
earth.
II was veritably a sight to make
one gasp l think l have never
seen Orion so brilliant. Those far
away suns seemed to have drawn
nearer, as if the great constellation
were actually descending from the
sky. Below, toward the left, blazed
the immense star Sirius, it's rays
Pickering with every color of the
rainbow.
At this sight the mighty truths Of
astronomy burst upon my mind
with an intensity of meaning which
I have seldom known equaled.
The Earth Dwindled.
As gazed the earth dwind1ed to
the insignificant point that it really
is, and Sirius grew and grew before
me until it became supernal in its
splendor, and in the sense Of bound
less power that its ceaseless flash
ings conveyed. Space and time
vanished, for the moment. and 1
seemed to be standing in the imme-
date presence Of that mighty star
In its light familiar facts assumed
a new and grander significance, as
II my human intelligence had been
lifted to higher plane.
Then, in imagination, I returned
and seized our sun in my hands to
fling it out into the depths of space
yonder When it started it was an
all enveloping blaze of quenchless
fire, which swallowed the world,
and licked up the planets like notes
of intiammable dust But as it
spun away, it began to shrink like
the receding light of a steamer
speeding out Of a harbor at night:
and when 1t had arrived at the dis
lance OF Sirius 1t was but q twink
ling point, 40 times less brilliant
than the great star flaming beside
it. Although it had made day when
near the earth, now it could not
cast the tiniest shadow with its
microscopic beamsl Distance had
revealed it in it's true dimensions
and strip ed from it the false pre-
dominance with which 1t dazzles
our nearby eyes on the earth. 1t
had become but tiny star in the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-17

. Sky. satellite Of the giant Dog
Star.
Then l bethought me thar even
Sirius imposes upon us with I'M
warranted pretensions. 1t LOOKS
the mightiest sun in the universe.
but it IS not. 1t, too, derives a
false advantage from relative near
ness. Its distance is only about
forty triIlions of miles, but I knew
that before me there were stars 90
far that THEIR REMOTENESS
CAN NOT BE MEASURED with
any means at our command. We
know that their distance can NOT be
LESS than a certain unthinkabIe
amount. but how much GREATER
it may be we can only guess.
1t Looks the Mightiest.
Thereupon. glanced back at
Orion, and fixing my attention upon
the bright star Rigel, on the upIlft-
ed foot of the pictured giant, below
his sparkling belt" I once more.
in fancy, seized the sun and flung
it away into these profounder deeps.
Smaller and smaller it again be-
came, as it swiftly receded until al
last it was not even a visible star
1t faded away like a spark swar-
lowed up in the darkness.
In my imagined omnipotence I
had impaired to the flying sun a
speed of a thousand million miles
per second, but l now saw that
had been too moderate, because i'm
my night watch l could not wait for
its arrival in the presence of Rigel.
1t would require TWO WHOLE
MONTHS. even at that frightfu
speed. to reach the destination that
I had intended! And when It ar
rived I knew that 1t would find
itself in the whitening presence Of
a sun at least TEN THOUSAND
TIMES more brilliant than itself
What goes on in that region
where Rigel reigns; where even the
mighty Dog Star, that makes our
sun seem but jack o'-lantern.
would be as insignificant as a tai
low dip beside a ships searchIight?
In that part of the universe are all
energies grander than here, in pro
portion to the stupendous magni-
tude of the suns that illuminate it?
Mysteries Abash Us.
We can not doubt that there are
living creatures, and intelligence
there, but could we comprehend
them if we met them? In their
presence might not a Newton him
self feel that he was less than lit
tie child?
These things abash us, and yet
at the same time. they stimulate US
There is a deep meaning in the in
SEPARATION that every human being
feels when he contemplates the
heavens. That inspiration with the
thoughts which it awakens is the
true astronomy-not the prediction
Of eclipse or the mathematics that
treats the universe as a soulless
machine.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-17
The Smiles and Stockings
of Atlanta
y y y

The Genuine Happiness of Christmas Lies in Bringing Happi
Someone Else There's Nothing Easier Than That
Try It For the Next Week and See For Yourself.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-17
Let Me Help You Up.

Isn't it fine to get all the queer
kinks out of our queer kinked-up
brains, and remember only that we
are all human, all sick and sorry
sometimes, all foolish and stupid
once in while, all lonely and sad
when our turns come. all brothers
and sisters. all one big, kindly. hop
ing, fearing, striving, stumbling
family, all to be laid alike in the
brown earth some day?
Come, sister, you have stumbled
there on that rough bit of road;
come, let me help you up. / came
near to slipping there myself-what
gasp of the breath it gives me 10
think of it, even now.
Here, brother, things went badly
with you there at that turn in the
dark | had friend went over the
bank in that same place last year
See the lights are shining down
there, all along the road. the CAV
lights the friendly lights Of Christ
mas. Let's all hurry and stand to-
sether among them, just little
while before we start on again
alone on the hard, puzzling journey
along the dark road.
He's here, the man with the
wreaths. Hurrah for him and the
wares he brings'
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we love the thoughts the sight Of
you brings to us. Happy thoughts,
tender thoughts, generous thoughts.
How is the little sewing woman
who worked 80 hard to get daugh-
ter ready for school this fall; how
IS it going to be with her Christ
mas? Lives all alone somewhere,
doesn't she, on the top floor that
is none too warm?
Invite her and her best friend to
dinner at the best restaurant in
the neighborhood. You can't be
there? Well what of that; she can
be your guest just the same, can't
she? Go and see the restaurant
man about it, have a table deco
rated, and send the little seam
stress to dine in style for once.
Won't she be proud to show her
friend what fine friends she has up
there In the big world where people
wear real furs and ride in real au-
tomobiles?
What has become of the old
French teacher who used to say
bon jour- so cheerily every time
he came into the house? He looked
little pale the last time you saw
him? Why not send him a bottle
of French wine and a Merry
Christmas to gladden. his heart?
What a time it is, what a time!
No one can possibly be offended at
any sort Of kindness now. The
stiffest ramrod on earth must bend
little in the wreath season. the
friendly season, the joyous season.
Isn't it good thing it comes once
a y-aar aDy-I,,,,-o
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
Geril T0hin
FIFTY YEARS AGO
ELKToN, AUGUST 80. 1862.
THE MARKETS.

Red wheat, SIPS; white do, $1,9S; corn,
Soc; oats. SOC.
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Shocking Sounds

in the earth are sometimes heard before
d terrible earthquake, that warn OF tn,
coming peril. Natures warnings are
kind. That dull pain or ache in the back
warns you the kidneys need attention If
you would escape those danger Gus mala-
dies, Dropsy, Diabetes or Bright's dis
ease. Take Electric Bitters at once and
see backache fly and all your best feel
ings return. My son received great
benefit from their use for kidney and
bladder trouble" writes Peter Bondy,
South lockwood, Mich. 1T is certainly a
great kidney medicine" Try it. 90 cts.
at all Druggists. F*@
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
Changes In The
Foot Ball Rules

Several changes have be IN maze in the
football rules for this season, summar-
led as follows:
First-The playing field. now ITO yards
in length, will be shortened to an even
100 yards The change in itself Is net
vital, but it Is made in order to make
possible on small grounds an extension
of territory in which the forward pass
may be used.
Second-A zone of 10 yards width be-
yond the goal lines is established. A
purpose of this is to provide ample
space for the execution of the forward
pass, and scoring on pass made across
the goal line into this one rs permitted.
Third-The number of downs to gain
10 yards is increased from three to four.
Fourth-The onside kick is eliminat-
ed.
Fifth-The value of touchdown is in
creased from five to six points, the goal
from touchdown and other scores stand
ing as at present.
Sixth-The 20 yards zone, in which the
present rules now provide restrictions
to interfere with the forward pass, is
eliminated so that the restrictions will
apply to any part of the field
Seventh-After touchdown the ball
will be put in play from the 20 yard line
instead of the rs yard line.
Eighth-On a kickoff the bali, IN
stead of.being put in play In the centre
of the field, will be put in play from
40 yard line of the team kicking off. TAX
ing into consideration the shortening OF
the field and this change in the rules the
kickoff is heightened by five var
Ninth-The field judge is eliminated.
The head linesman hereafter will keep
time and be the Judge of off-side plays
in the line of scrimmage.
Tenth-The number of men allowed on
the side lines. now three, VIII be re-
duced to one for each team.
Eleventh-Pro visions will be made that
bounding ball cannot score legiti-
mate goal.
Twelfth-The interval between the
first and the second and the third and
the fourth periods is reduced from two
minutes to one minute.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
FARM NOTES

The newly Matched chicks must not be
removed from the incubator until they
are thoroughly dry.
A little sorghum makes splendid
green feed and if there is any left over
for winter fodder it is worth much.
Swine raising will put your farm on
cash basis AMI enable you to educate
your children if you follow it intelli
gently.
Head work gives just as good returns
on the farm as hand work, but the best
results are obtained when the two are
rightly combined.
Form, color and similar traits may be
of Importance in handling a COW but the
real question of profit is decided by her
vigor and ability to handle food
The contented and happy hen is the
laying hen.
A writer recommends boiled rice for
diarrhoea in young turks.
Initiate nature as closely as possible
and your turkey crop will pay out.
Eggs should always be protected from
the hot sun while being taken to mar
ket.
Windows should now be out of the
poultry house and wire netting tackled
in their places.
A foorless brood coop on clean, dry
ground is better than one with board
floor in it.
The average hen outlives her useful
ness in two years, and is more profitable
sent to market.
Whether kept for Matching or market
eggs ought to be kept rree from any
form of moisture.
When eggs are soft shelled the hens
are either too fat or do not get enough
mineral matter in their feed.
Don't neglect the water supply as
plenty of water helps TO keep the hens
, in good laying condition.
safe rule to follow in chick feeding
is to give them just as much as they
will clean up nicely at each feed.
The incubator is no longer an expert.
ment, and the demand for poultry pro-
duets suggests its more general use.
The utility" bird is one that is not
without its faults, but it is often from
good strain, hence it has its own eco
monte values.
One feeding rule is to give the hens
half as much as they will eat of a morn
ing nothing at noon and full meal at
night.
The separator needs to be set perfect
ly level on a solid foundation.
The feed bill of the poultry yard can
be cut in two if you know how.
Continued care in handling the dairy
products is the price of success.
The calf that is reared naturally gets
only a small quantity of milk at time.
Don't neglect to commence feeding the
colts some grain before they are wean-
ed.
Waiting to teach the colt to eat grain
until tbs weaned is very poor economy.
The value of silage as the cheapest
and best succulent for cattle and hogs
is fully established.
When fattenng beef cattle for the
market, keep them as quiet and content
ed as possible.
Regularity in feeding and milking will
go a long ways towards making dairy
work successful.
All milk utensils should be heavily
timed and as free from seams as it is
possible to get them.
Many of the irregularities in the
health of the farm stock can be traced
to injudcious feeding
Wooden pals readily absorb milk par
ticles, making it almost impossible to
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
ENTERPRISE
MACHINE WORKS
GEORGE MeQUILKIN, Proprietor

GEORGE MeQUILKIN, Proprietor
Engines, Boilers, Shafting, Steam
Heating, Steam Pumps, Pulleys
and Gearing and General Machine
Work - =: = = =
nldH AND BRIDGE STREETS
EIkfon, Maryland
Long Distance Telephone 81
July l4-l yr
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wHIa EIKroN MARYLAND SATURDAY AUGUST 81,

storm, II the cows are exposed.
1t will be notified that though the
prices OF other farm stock are falling
off. the dairy COW still holds her own.
Pigeons Matched In March are matured
and ready for breeding in July and II the
surroundings are congenial they will
continue to breed every month there
after.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
ARRESTS FOR DISLOYALTY.

A party of three men, John Maxwell
and William H. Smith, of Port Deposit,
and James Michael, of Hartford county
were arrested in Port Deposit on last
Monday by a Federal officer from Perry
Vile, for hurrahing for jeff and de-
flying the government and officer in the
various ways the rebels have of doing
The men were taken to Baltimore and
brought before Marshal Van Nostrand
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keep sweet and. clean.
The Matching egg trade and the raising
of stock for breeders have assumed the
rightly of specialties.
1t is to the poultryman's interest to
keep his stock up to the best type,
healthy and vigorous all the time.
A cold rain, fall or spring rain, will
check the milk flow as much as snow
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
siCK OF THE SECOND DELAWARE

An officer of the Maryland Volunteers
writing from the hospital at Fortress
Monroe, to his friends in Elkton, says
chat several md Delaware Regiment
Capt. Ben Ricketts,, is at Newport News
and several men i'll, among them Will
liam Drew, Amos McNeal, Henry Nelson,
Philip Giles, Henry Shippers and William
Sands.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
LIBERAL REQUESTS.

by the will of Caleb Reynolds, late of
cecil county, he has given $500 to the
public schools of Cecil county, $500 to
Rosebank Cemetery, to be invested and
che interest applied to keeping the
grounds in good order, and the sum of
5000 to this trustees of Union NJ. E.
Church, to be applied to the building of
new church.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
SAD ACCIDENT.

on Saturday, August 90, a young lad,
about eleven years of age, grandson of
Stephen Gilbert, had his foot severely
torn by getting it caught in a threshing
machine. So great was the injury that
amputation above the ankle was found
necessary and was Immediately per-
formed by Drs. Clement, Mitchell and
Turner. The young lad is doing we'll.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
SIXTH MARYLAND CAMP.

The encampment Of the Sixth Mary
land Volunteers has been removed from
Camp Hoffman near Lafayetts Square,
Baltimore, to Camp Moffitt situated on
the ground of the Maryland Base Ball
club, on Madison avenue, near the ter
minus of the Passenger Railway.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
DOG SLAUGHTER.

the fewh Bailiff has been paying his
respects to dogs of the town this week.
Dogs found at large without muZzles are
seized and taken out of town and shot.
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DIED.

DIED.
Reynolds-n the 24th inst, Caleb Rey-
nolds, of South Milford, of this county,
in the 57th year of his age.
Thomas-On the Goth inst, in Elkton,
Thomas Thomas about 80 years of age.
Robertson-In Centreville, Md, on the
ed inst, of consumption, John F. Rob-
ertson, printer formerly of Elkton, in
the 22d year of his age.
Barrett-on the oath inst, Sarah. in
FAINT daughter of Joseph L. and Sarah
Barrett, of Newport, Del, aged eighteen
months.
Hall-On the Gath inst, Henry A. in
FAINT son of Henry A. and Caroline Hail.
of this town, aged months and 10 days.
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being fattened for market they must be
quiet and free from sudden alarm which
will cause excitement
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