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Meade County news., 1916-12-21
By THORNTON w. BURGESS
(cOwrirh, By Thornton W. Burre..)

self, and Happy Jack had saved her
some trouble, for, though he didn't
know 1t, he had planted it for her.
1t all came about Just as Old Mother
Nature had thought it would. Happy
Jack never once thought of that par
ticular little brown seed, for he had
hidden plenty to eat all the long win
ter In the Green Forest. So the little
brown seed lay just where he had hid
den it, until gentle Sister South Wind
came in the spring and with her soft
fingers opened all the little brown
blankets Of the leaf buds on the trees
which Jack Frost with his hard fingers
had been unable to open. Then Old
Mother Nature remembered the little
brown seed, and she wakened a little
fairy who was sleeping in the heart of
1t, and the name Of the little fairy was
the Fairy of Life.
So out from the warm earth sprang
tender green shoot, which really was
a teeny, weeny Pine-tree.
Jolly, round, bright Mr.. Sun, look
ing down from the blue, blue sky, saw
it and smiled, and his smile made the
teeny, weeny Pine-tree very happy, for
1t warmed the ground and comforted
the little roots growing there.
Old Mother West Wind, hurrying
past on her way to blow the white
sailed ships across the Great Ocean,
Meade County news., 1916-12-21

saw the teeny, weeny Pine-tree and
sent some of her children. the Merry
Little Breezes, to drive up shower
cloud that it might not go thirsty.
But no one else saw the teeny, weeny
Pine-tree, or if they did see it, they
took no notice of 1t. Happy Jack
Squirrel ran right past and didn't so
much as look at it, for he had forgot
ten all about hiding that homely little
brown seed in the ground there. Once
Peter Rabbit, nibbling tender sweet
clover, nearly nipped off the mead of
the teeny, weeny Pine-tree and didn't
even know 1t.
But nothing really happened to the
teeny, weeny Pine-tree, and 1t grew
and grew and was happy, for it. loved
jolly, round, bright Mr.. Sun and Old
Mother West Wind and the Merry
Little Breezes, and they loved 1t. So
1t grew and grew, and when rough
Brother North Wind came again he
covered it deep with a soft blanket Of
snow to keep it warm all winter.
80 tne teeny, Weeny Plne-Iree was
kept safe all the long winter, and when
gentle Sister South Wind once more
came in the spring the teeny, weeny
Pine-tree began to grow again. 1t
grew and grew and grew and grew
until it was no longer teeny, weeny,
but put out sturdy branches and was
very good to look upon and held its
head high. for it was indeed beauti-
full young tree.
And for time the young Pine-tree
was very, very happy. But after a
while it began to feel lonely. All the
other Pine-trees were in the Green
Forest, and often it could hear them
whispering together and it longed to
whisper with them and could not, and
so it sighed and sighed, and Peter Rab-
bit passing that way often stopped to
wonder what made such a handsome
] young Pine-tree seem so sad.
So the years passed and the young
Pine-tree became bigger than any OF
its neighbors in the Green Forest. and
became known as the Beautiful Pine,
Meade County news., 1916-12-21
"a M %
Evidently Not.

"Confound the luckl What did she
want to slap me for? She was stand
ing squarely beneath bunch of mis-
tletoe when kissed her."
"son. I'm surprised at your obtuse-
ness"
"WellT"
II suspect that you were Eot the
man she was waiting for"
Meade County news., 1916-12-21


the Lone Little Path that comes down
the hill through the Green Forest.
He was happy, very happy, was Hap
py Jack, which was quite as it should
be, for there was everything to make
him happy. His sides were fat with
the good things he had to eat. He had
a beautiful new coat to keep him warm
when rough Brother North Wind and
Jack Frost should come driving the
snow clouds to make white the Green
Meadows and change the Green Forest
until the little people who live there
only in the summer would never, never
known 1t had they happened to have
come back. But rough Brother North
Wind and Jack Frost had not come
yet, and Old Mother Nature was busy
preparing the Green Forest for them
and urging all the little people to hur-
~ and make ready for them.
So Happy Jack scampered down the
Lone Little Path and pulled over red
leaves and yellow leaves and brown
Meade County news., 1916-12-21
4 N N y, y, N N n
The chrlstmaa snlrlt.

y
IN Let the spirit Of Christmas /"
- time, "Peace on earth, good N
IN will to men," come into your ~
~ heart and be merry and glad. NJ,
IN But In the midst Of your ~
merrymaking and charitable
~ thought, do not forget that "
there are many to whom
~ Christmas will bring no IL
rH cheer. These are the hope
q lessly Ill in hospitals, the hui N
IN man driftwood in the reform ~
O. atories, the tiny inmates ~,
IN Of the Orphanages. If you ~
~, are able to, bring a bit Of ~,
m cheer-practical cheer-intO -
the dead life Of someone con-
M fined in one of these institu- "
tiOns. Do not think such an
- effort Is waste of time or Y
'r out Of date. Indeed, it Will ~
~ be the kindest act you can do N
IN at Christmas tfme-to think ~
~ of someone who has lost his III,
IN place, or Is not yet able to ~
take his place In the great -.
~ world. ~
" ~ ~ " ~ " " "
Meade County news., 1916-12-21

and was beloved of all the little people
Of the Green Forest and the Green
Meadows, and gave them shelter and
was happy.
| Once every year, long after the nuts
had been gathered and all the world
seemed drear and bare, came merry
children, and older folk, and with
laugh and song and happy shout would
cut young Pine trees and young Hem
lock trees and carry them away. At
first the Beautiful Pine had pitied the
young trees, but when 1t saw that it
was the possession of these trees that
made the children so happy, it began
to envy them, and when Jack Frost
told 1t of peeping in at many win
dows and seeing these little trees
made beautiful with many lights, and
hung with beautiful things to fill the
hearts of little children with joy, it
sighed more than ever.
"For," murmured the Beautiful Pine
to the kindly stars, II would gladly
give myself to put joy in the heart of
just one little child; but, alas l am
too big. am too big. No little child
wants me because / am too big"
So Christmas after Christmas the
Beautiful Pine would watch the little
trees carried away and would MUIR
mur sadly, II can give Christmas joy
to not one little child because / am
too big, too big" And the wandering
Night Wind would carry that sad MUIR
mur through all the Green Forest, II
am too big, too big"
Then, one day, when the snow lay
white on the Green Meadows and in
the Green Forest, and the Beautiful
Pine had watched the little trees for
Christmas carried away with laugh
and shout, as it had for so many
ChriStmases, came men and horses,
and keen axes sent shivers clear to its
beautiful top, until it's proud length
lay stretched on the snow. And some
how the beautiful Pine cared not, for
it so wanted to give Joy to just one
little child, and it was too big, too big.
1t was carried into a great city, and
there, in the very heart of the great
city, the Beautiful Pine was raised un-
til it stood as proudly as it had stood
just beyond the edge of the Green For
est, and it was hung with many colored
lights until it was quite, quite the most
beautiful that ever was. And there
came not one, but q thousand little
children, and they danced around the
Beautiful Pine, and laughter was in
their eyes, for joy was in their hearts.
And they sang and their voices were
joyous. And they shouted and their
voices were merry. And they cried:
ut is the most beautiful tree in all
the world, for it is our Christmas
tree-the Christmas tree of all the
children"
Then was the heart of the Beauti-
full Pine, planted long, long years ago
by the great-great-ever-so-great grand
father of Happy Jack Squirrel, filled
with great joy-the JOY of giving, for
1t had given its greatest gift, the gift
of itself, for the joy of many. And
the spirit of Christmas, which is love
for all mankind, descended upon it as
sweet-toned bells chimed, "On earth
peace, good will toward men," and the
glad voices Of a thousand little chill
dren cried, "Merry merry Christmas |"
" & %
A Sweet Revenge.
Meade County news., 1916-12-21

possibly buy! That was the spirit
which prompted Dickens to say,
Though it has never put scrap of
gold or silver in my pocket, l believe
1t has done me good, and say, God
bless itr"
We Should Hang Garlands.
The singing of carols in English vii
lagos was a good old custom and ought
to be revived, as well as the lighting
of the Yule log on Christmas eve, for
the memory Of the English Christmas
fingers ever in the British heart, wher-
ever he may be. In the early days at
jamestown, Va, the cradle of English
civilization on this western continent,
John Smith says: 1.-THE extreme cold,
frost, rain and snow caused us to keep
Christmas among the savages, where
we were never more merry nor had
more good oysters, fish, flesh, wild fowl
and good bread nor ever had bet
ter fires In England" Npling, too
refers to the memory of Yuletide in his
"Black Sheep" with the couplet, "At
home they are making merry, twixt
the white and scarlet berry," And so
we should garland the house with trail
ing pine, hang the wreaths of holly in
the window and the mistletoe meath
the chandelier. It helps others If it
does not help you.
Boston's Fine Example.
Last Christmas in Boston the mayor
requested everyone in the city to leave
their window shades up on Christmas
eve to help light the city. Such
cheerful glow as it gave to old Bea-
con street and Commonwealth avenue
Down In the Public gardens the city
was enjoying its municipal Christmas
tree, stately fir, bedecked with myri-
ad colored electric bulbs, while the
band played old familiar carols that
veered into popular street songs be-
fore the crowd scattered. The scene
was significant of Christmas now be-,
ing cosmopolitan festival holding
the heart of Puritan New England,
whose holy Of holes has heretofore
been Thanksgiving. This Is right, and
as 1t should be, since ours is land
of religious liberty and Christmas is
the season Of "peace and good will
to all mankind"
Meade County news., 1916-12-21
Ghrtattrtaa
Luke d. 1-l4

4 TOW it came to pass in those days,
M there went out a decree from Caesar
! y Augustus, that all the world should
be enrolled. This was the first enrolment
made when Quirinus was governor Of
Syria. And all went to enroll themselves
everyone to his own city.
And Joseph also went UP from Galilee,
out Of the city of Nazareth, into Judea,
to the city Of David. which is called Beth
lehem, because he was Of the house and
family Of David; to enroll himself with
Mary, who was betrothed to him, being
great with child.
And it came to pass, while they were
there, the days were fulfilled that she
should be delivered. And she brought
forth her first-born son: and she wrapped
him in swaddling clothes and laid him in
manger because there was no room for
them in the inn.
And there were shepherds in the
same country, abiding in the field. and
keeping watch by night over their flock.
And an angel Of the Lord stood by
them and the glory Of the Lord shone
round about them; and they were sore
afraid
And the angel said unto them: "Bo
not afraid, for behold-I bring you good
tidings Of great Joy, for there is born to
you this day in the city of David Saviour,
which is Christ the Lord. And this is the
sign unto you: 'Ye shall find babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying
in q manger.'"
And suddenly there was with the
angel multitude Of the heavenly host
praiSing God and saying:
"Glory to God in the highest
"And on earth peace. good wild
toward men,"
az a& M
Meade County news., 1916-12-21
"a "a "a
Annual Phenomenon.

"Now," said the magazine editor,
"we'll have a cover design represent
ing the old year as an aged man and
the New Year as a smiling infant"
"All right" replied the artist. "But
it looks like nature-faking to me. Any.
body knows that a smiling infant
couldn't grow all those white whiskers
in one short year."
Meade County news., 1916-12-21
A Sweet Revenge.

Il sent my present to Nellie Sly
boots when she was at her club, and
1 knew all the girls and fellows would
gather around to see her open it."
"Why, I thought you didn't like Nell
lie."
II can't bear her. The present was
a nice long hair SWITCH"
Meade County news., 1916-12-21
YuIe Log Is Gone.

The old-fashioned season of fun and
frolic has been replaced by meaning
less, mirthless celebration. The Yule
log has gone out, and there is no fire.
place for old Santa Claus to scramble
down and leave his gifts of simple
joys for unsuspectlng childhood. The
steam-heated home, the sterilized ur-
chin, the pure-food laws, all forbid the
painted sugar cats and dogs whose
green backs would have put any par
rot to shame
Yet how, beautiful Id retrospect is
the memory Of some Christmas of the
long ago, when, like Tiny Tim, who
gathered around the simple table and
looked forward with JOY to the home
coming Of all the family, the wonder
full dinner Of goose and the loving
greeting, God bless us ALI" That
Fas wealth such as no Scrooge could
Meade County news., 1916-12-21

"Why don't you send your little
friend nice wax doll for ChristmasT
II don't think she'd care much for
wax doll now, auntle; you see, they
just got meat one at her house."
Meade County news., 1916-12-21

NCE upon q time,
long, long ago, the
great great = ever
so-great GRANDPA
ther of Happy Jack
Squirrel, W h o s e
name was Happy
] a ck, too, was
Scamnarinp alnnp
Meade County news., 1916-12-21
& & "

municipal Christmas
cities throughout the country Shortly before December the
thousands Of lights which
holiday Christmas meeting place
Of life who join the
Christmas erected Madison park
the lake front
The daily Panhandle. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1916-07-13

be- could do there Zimmerman an
sRer,d that while he was of course
willing 10 receive am agent holding
q commission from responsible Eng
l.sh statesmen OF influential political
circles. he declined ou his part to
make peace proposals 20 England
through "a private person.
Nevertheless. members ~ the Anti
Orlog Raad went Co England and had
conference with such peace friends
ls Burns. Tregelyan. Macdonald. and
others When. however, the Dutch
delegates put forward the view that
England and Germany could GER
faluly begin negotiations upon q few
concrete points like the Belgian prob
iom tlsy met with @ general relec-
ton of their plan John Burns In
particular according Co report from
Holland characterized 70 as an i'm
pudsut imputdtiou that they should
negotiate with Germans about Bel
.um Belgium. be- said was for
England u0 bargaining object. ..-'J
could be- no talk oi negotiations UNI
90 Germany had Internationally eva
.uatad Belgium and restored Il as IL
sas before iIo .ar zimmerman adj
dcd that obviously no German in
responsible position could have any
thing more 20 DO with such a mat
ter
Then according 10 the Chemnitzer
l0lksstimme. zimmerman added
some remarks which throw glar-
uE light upon the reckless doings "
those around Hlase Hc said that
Doe had heard that this Dresselhnis
affair eas sull being used iu certain
Socialist circles as material for a
dDmls1e.eal agitation For this rea-
5000 ue invited Haa.r Co come 10 the
furIw Du.. aud have a talk with
him. faut.g showed him 400 the core
ro pUudouD. arI documents pertain
uE to the affair. and then asked him
whether Dee saw anything blame
worthy loo zimmerman conduct
hui IIIan nude uo answer
Tho Ch,mmtl.r yolEsstImme con-
Hud,s
~ IS clear from an this that
Haas. bad been fully informed 20
German official quarters as Co the
character 0f rhis chatter about q re-
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FAKE PEACE RUMOR CAUSES ROW

BERLIN july f3-The story
that England made an offer % peace
10 Germany o. the spring OF 1915.
which BIAS for some time been per-
.steniF circulated Dos the disaffect-
% sling of thr Socialist party has a.
Hai been ei.ectbei. exposed Hy the
a.muitzer goik f.mme. itself a
IrIiiug Socialist organ Deputy Haase
lf k0aHIsbcrr head OF the leading
-r..al faction boo the ReIchstag
was sponsor t0r The story. Accord
uE f0 the Socialist newspaper OF
koeuIgs bcrg boz claimed 90 have
proof that England offered peace
.I condition that Germany make no
annexation of territory for which
Elihm DOB return would agreo Co
0.1. umc 40 .ts colonies 10 Germany
and .ay war indemnity besides
THUS tory aas widely circulated.
saw the k1ou.fsborr neN paper, aud
used much dissatisfaction loo tho
-D....st ranks where b. Nas felt
r1t fHe government should have re-
.pul1rd tu tbD British overture
TH. Chpmu.tzsr NoIksstImme with
roo article Hpf'onei "Haases War
H#s nuW EXPOSES the hole thing
Do. HHtuE lur recent tram sactIuns
in tt. Budget C"mmi'is" OF 'bo
De- .asar According 90 This organ
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SO matter what YOU want. Il will
use Daily Panhandle Wants
Evening star., 1916-03-05

mont Wednesday afternoon Mrs.
Payne entertained at cards in honor Of
Mrs. Barnett. The otner guests were
Mrs H o. Butler of Washington. Mrs.
Edward H. Kemper, Mrs. Alexander
Suter. Mrs. Llewellyn Powell. Mrs.
Herbert Oliver, Mrs. Richard f. Acton,
Mrs Wilmer Waller. Mrs. Frank I.
Chambers, Mrs. William f. Swan. Mrs.
Chester d. Hubbard. Mrs. John {. Free
land Mrs. Frank Warwick, Mrs.
Charles Dare. Mrs Isaac Gregg aud
Miss Loula Smoot. The prizes were won
by Mrs Waller. Mrs Acton and Mrs.
Suter Miss Clara Moore has returned
from a visit to her cousins. Mr.. and
Mrs. Brainerd II; Warner. jr.. in Chevy
Chase Mrs. Robert E. Gronau has re-
turned from visit TO her sister, Mrs.
Jackson in New York. Mrs. John
Chester Freeland entertained at cards
Friday afternoon at her home in Rose
mont The guests were Mrs. Barnett
Of Baltimore, Mrs. Alexander Harris of
Knoxville, Mrs. Frank Warwick. Mrs.
Edgar Warfeld. Mrs. Overton w. Price,
Mrs J. w. Harris. Mrs. Edwin Goodloe.
Mrs. Wilmer Waller. Mrs c. A. Swami
Sinclair, Mrs. NJ. l.. Horner. Mrs. Frank
L. Slaymaker. Mrs. Chester D. Hubbard,
Mrs. Charles E. Dare. Mrs. Robert L.
Payne, Mrs. Alexander Suter. Mrs. Yer
non Branch. Miss Virginia Wheat. Miss
Mary Whitall. Miss Bertha Waite and
Miss Mary Harris.
Evening star., 1916-03-05

forget-me-nots and Ophelia roses. the
blue flowers predominating.
Mary and Helen Ingersoll. nieces of
the bride. wearing quaint ruffled frocks
of white taffeta with blue sashes and
carrying baskets of rose petals, the
fancy handles being trimmed with
rosebuds and forget-me-nots. served as
flower girls. The bridesmaids entered
from the choir loft. marched back of
the embankment of green, down the
steps. then in front of the altar to the
right-center aisle, to the back of the
church. where they were joined by the
maid of honor. flower bearers and the
bride, with her father. and then re-
turned to the altar by way of the left
center aisle. The flower children were
together. the bride was on the arm of
her father, and the bridesmaids and
maid of honor marched sing1y.
Mr.. Pages gift to his bride was a
crescent of diamonds. He presented his
best man and ushers ivory-tipped ma
hogany canes. The brides gifts to the
maid of honor and bridesmaids were
enameIed brooches set with pearls. The
flower bearers were presented gold
pins on which forset-me-nots were en-
ameled.
Evening star., 1916-03-05

Miss Louise Fink, Miss Elizabeth
Boothe, Miss Inez Moore, Miss Mar
garet French. Miss Susan Thomson, Miss
Viola Barrett, Miss Esther Lambert,
Misses Mary. Frances and Lorimer
Fauntleroy, Misses Elizabeth and Jo-
sephine Ramage. Miss Marion Dienelt.
Miss Evelyn Pickett. Miss Margaret
Eggborn. Miss Dorothy King, Miss
Louise Carlin. Misses Frances and
Eliza Bland Cox, Miss Josephine Gregg,
Miss Jeanette Cochran, Masters Jack
Scott. Edward German. Stanley and
Everett Swan. Joel and Edward Lead
beater. Noel, Charles and Wallace Lynn,
Edward Oliver. Robert Wheat, Court
Evening star., 1916-03-05

Chase Edchre Club at their home
next Saturday evening.
Mrs. Arthur Copeland entertained at
her home the past week al bridge.
Tho Woman's Club of Chevy Chase
was entertained the past. week at the
home Of Mrs. Winslow II. Herchel.
Mrs. Pritchard made the principal ad-
dress.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Thomas Dunlop
entertained at dinner the past week
at the Chevy Chase Club in compliment
TO their young niece, Miss Amelie
Craighead. and her mother. Mrs.
Charles Craighead of Dayton. Ohio.
who are their house guests.
Mrs. Laurenz NJ. Prior was hostess
at luncheon the past week at her
home, when her guests were Mrs. Jesse
c. Adkins. Mrs. William s Corby. Mrs.
Robert l.. Corby, Mrs Z. D.. Hathaway,
Mrs. Byron Newton. Mrs. Oliver Smith
and Mrs. Fred TrueIeben
Mrs Horace Mcfarland and son Jack
have reopened their house in Chevy
Chase. after spending some time with
Mrs. McFarlands mother, Mrs F. B.
Moran.
Mrs. John l.. Ridgway entertained
the members of the Chevy Chase We'd
nesday Morning Reading Glass at her
home the past week. There will be no
meeting the coming week on account
of Ash Wednesday, -t
Mrs. Leonard Holman. has returned
to her home from Annapolis Md, where
she went to visit her son, Midshipman
Harry Hoffman.
Miss Irene Smith of North Carolina
is the house guest Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oliver Smith of Cedar parkway
Mr.. E. D. Hathaway, who has been
visiting in Detroit, Mich, has returned
to his home.
Maj. and Mrs. Lord have taken the
McLemore house on Northampton
street. where they wilItspend the sum-
me-.
Mr.. Percy Taylor left for New York
some days ago. where he sailed for
France to spend the next six months.
Mrs. J. v Chase has taken the
Browne house on East Lenox street.
Mr. and Mrs. Evan Browne have
taken a house in Edgewood.
Mr. and Mrs. c. L. Selby have taken
possession of the new house they re-
Gently purchased on Northampton
street.
Mr.. George H. Wilson. who has been
spending some time in Newport, r. l.,
has returned to his home.
Mrs. W. W. Chance entertained a
few friends at tea the past week at
her home.
Evening star., 1916-03-05

land Warfeld, Overton Price. Gordon
Burke. Leroy Piser. Albert Ansley
Smoot. Jack Roberts, Jack Dinwiddie,
Charles M. shepperson. jr.; Everette
Pohl, Bernard Yates, Jack Rogers,
Henry Gasson, Paul Barrett, Cowan
Ramage and Urban S. Lamber, jr Mr..
and Mrs. Alexander Harris of Knox
Vile, Tenn, are the guests of the for
mer's parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Har-
ris. in Rosemont. Mrs. Frank S. Harper
has returned from A visit to Mrs. D.
Carter List in Washington.
Mrs. Joel Barnett of Baltimore is the
guest of her law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert l.. Payne, in Rose
Evening star., 1916-03-05
Gone to New Orleans.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Dunbar. who
were married Wednesday. reached New
Orleans yesterday for the Mardi Gras.
After that festival is over they will
leave for Palm Beach for a weeks
stay.
Evening star., 1916-03-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Krimpke of New
ark. \. j.. spent part of the week here
en- route to their home. after a four
week stay at Palm Beach, Fla.
Evening star., 1916-03-05
Combination Spoiled.

From the Boston Transcript.
He-She married fool with barrels
of money.
She-Then why isn't she happy
He-Marriage brought him to his
senses.