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BECAUSE of a good
BECAUSE of its Large Capital and Earned Surplus, $550,147.5
BECAUSE of its total assets of nearly $3,000,000.
BECAUSE of its good management.
A. T.
W. B. HOLMES
W. F. SUYDAM
We
CHRISTMAS IN
CIVIL WAR TIME.
A Veteran Tells About the Box
That Came From Home.
"EEING- all the people buying
Christmas things now," said a
reteran of the civil war, "makes
me think of some Christmas expert
ences of my own, first of the time
when I used to hang up my stockings
by the fireplace, stlckln? forks through
them and then Jamming the forks Into
a crack nnder the mantelpiece, where
Santa Claus could get at tbein handily
when be came down tho chimney, and
then of a time when we were more
grown up and Santa Claus cnino to us
In the army.
"The regiment I nerved In put In a
good part of Us time in states on the
southern Atlantic seaboard, In Soutb
Carolina, Georgia and Florida, where
with water transportation to us we
could be got at rather more easily
than troops not so far away, but at
Interior points, and so, while you
couldn't have things shipped to you
thero us you could to this- town or the
other In times of peace, you could
get things there pretty well, and the
patron for whom our company was
named when It was first recruited used
to see to It that at Christmas time
there was delivered to us a big box
filled with things from friends at
borne.
"We no longer bore his name in the
army for from tho mlnuto wo were
mustered into the United States serv
ice we had become simply Company
So-and-so, of such aud such a num
bered regiment, of such and sucb state
volunteers, but we never forgot our
frleud at ion-e, and surely bo never
forgot us, and at Christmas time he
used to see that our company got that
box.
"Well, in advance be would announce
in the homo papers that on such nnd
sucb a date a box would be sent to the
company and if friends or relatives ot
members of tho company would bring
In tho gifts they wished to send they
would be carefully packed nnd duly
shipped. And then the people used to
bring In the things, and, though some
how 1 never thought of it then, I have
thought ofien since with what loving
care und tenderness must those Christ
inus gifts have been prepured, those
things sent from home to their soldiers
In the Held!
"When everything was all in our
friend would have tbe things securely
and safely packed, and then he'd hike
the box down to New York, nnd there
the quartermaster's department would
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put it down to us. So Santa Clans
wasn't coming to us with his pack on
bis back, down the chimney, but in o
box in the bold of a steamer.
'When we got our first Christmas
box we were on an island down thi
coast there, drilling some and doing
guard and picket duty, but largely en
gaged in building corduroy roads
through swamps by day. and by night
in hauling by hand, with a whole regi
ment on the ropes, heavy mortars and
guns over these roads, and nlso, under
the same friendly cover of darkness.
in bulldiug masked .fcatteries In which
the said guns and mortars were mount
ed, all this in tho course of besieging
n fort occupied by Confederate soldiers
on another Island.
"It was plenty of hard work, and not
much play nnd most of the freluht
that came to us, besides tho usual coin
missary supplies, was guus and mor
tars and powder and shot nnd shell nnd
the various materials of war, but one
day there came ashore on a lighter
from a transport anchored off, along
with barrels of pork and kegs of pow
der, that Christmas box from homo
for us soldiers.
"We kauled it up from tho beach
and set It down carefully, right sido
up, at tho end of tho company street,
and I doubt if any fireplaco on a
Christmas morning was evor a greater
magnet of attraction to children than
that box was to the men of Company
X. To n man they gathered nround it
to see what Santa had brought them
from home.
"It was n big box, a big dry goods
packing box, big enough to hold some
thing for everybody, and carefully we
opened it, and with the lid off it seemed
full of Innumerable treasures, so full to
the last inch of spaco was it packed.
"The orderly sergeant of the com
pany made tbe distribution. He raised
bis band and reached over and picked
np a package that lay at tbe center of
the box and lifted it and read the
name on it and passed it into the out
stretched band of the man to whom it
belonged.
"Then ho went on more rapidly, pick
ing up tbe things nnd reading off the
names and passing them over, pack
ages of all sorts and shapes and sizes,
all eagerly received. Some men stay
ed to see everything given out, and
some went to their tents to see what
the folks had sent them or to read tho
letters thai had come with tbe gifts.
Ana so the things in tho box got low
er and lower, whilo still there wero
some men who hnd as yet got nothing
and who now were moro and more
anxious. And how Joyfully relieved
when at last something came up for
them I
"But there were a few, a very few,
who lingered in vain, who among all
these gifts got nothing, and plainly
disappointed were some of these, while
others took it Jauntily perhaps they
had no one to send them, these but
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A Christmas
'bells
?cal
Jerry
church
the air a -
mingle
re's
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witn. tnese tn
blls ,
score. JPnc
f fare ' meeting i there's the knelP f
2-df Christmas fleeting as the clocksV
rike o'er and o'eri
,-shrilly,
eshrieking
fife's not; .stiTJi he makes attempt
y but illy :3Vsounds of guns
Ti . There's Z the scmeak of Mollies dollv. and
sqUawk of Dollie's polly,
laughtefVjally from thisjuippy little I
i yiour.i 'Byt above
-ladepjyittle girls
than all
setter.
'
(of mother
about out
as she calls
( we're itchin'j "Come to
I dinner I" throug h the door. 1
still nl' bore it bravely, and bo sure
that those who got shared what they
could sharo witb those who had noth
ing in the box.
"What came in the Christmas box?
Well, not much bric-a-brac, not many
fancy candlesticks nor cardcases nor
fancy purses nor that sort qf thing,
1 but mostly useful articles, though
among these there wero watches and
pocketknlves, nnd so on, but there
were home Unit stockings and sowing
kits and suspenders and shoes and
books, not forgetting Ulblesrnnd Testa
ments, and tpbacco and pipes nnd ci
gars, 'all sorts of useful things and
man letters and pictures.
"And from whom did nil tlieso things
ome? From wives and from children
FRIDAY, DEO. 8, 1011.
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SAVINGS
OFFICERS :
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W. J. WARD, Assistant Cashier
T. B. CLARK
H. S. SALMON
FARLEY
Tree Talk, 1
sleign
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witlT
utxzlCF
bells set"1
tingleThile)
in at syncopated
the sound
Johnnie!? trumpet
Philip's
drum and J
that outside,
and the screams
all Christmas noises,
and boys is oka thatj
I
toys isi more" good
in
istoreA
'Tis
t h e
sbund '
pitchin' things!
in the kitchen'
(she knows
and from sisters nnd sweethearts and
mothers, nnd it wuc that that made
them all so dear. And,' bless tbeir
dear hearts, they did not forget they
did not at all forget tho things to eat.
"Tho box seemed full of roasted
chickens and cookies and Jellies nnd
sausages and scaled up cans of butter
and grand cakes and all manner of
good tblugs to eat. True, we had
pork enough, and we had plenty of
bnrdtack, but hero was something that
savored of Christmas.
"Now when' I seo everybody buy
ing Christmas things and tho children
and everybody .happy it makes me
smllo and, I confess, choke up a little
as I recall that Christmas in the
army."
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C. J. SMITH
well. We are always after new
A CHRISTMAS PRAYER.
Lord, for the lonely heart
I pray apart.
Now for the son of sorrow
Whom thli tomorrow
Itejolceth not, O Lord,
Hear my weak word.
For lives too bitter to be borne.
For tho tempted and the torn.
For the prisoner in the cell.
For tho shame Hp doth not tell.
For the haggard suicide,
Peace, peace, this Chrlstmastldel
.Into the desert, trod
J3y tho long sick, O God;
Into tho patient gloom
Of that small room
Where lies the child of pain
Of all neglected most, be fain
To enter, healing and remain.
Now at the. fall of day
1 bow and pray.
For those who cannot sleep
A watch I keep.
Oh, let tho starving brain ,
Be fed und fed again.
At thy behest
The tortured nerves find rest.
I see the vacant chair.
Father of souls, prepare
My poor thought's feeble power
'To plead this hour.
For tho empty, aching home,
Where he silent footsteps come.
Where tho unseen face looks on,
Where the handclasp Is not felt.
Where the dearest eyes are gone,
Where tho portrait on the wall
Stirs and struggles as to speak.
Where tho light breath from the hah
Calls tho color to tho cheek,
Whoro he voice breaks In the hymn
When ihe sunset burnetii dim,
Where the late large tear will Etart.
Frozen by tho broken heart;
Where the lesson Is to learn
How to live, to grieve, to yearn.
How to bear and how to bow.
Oh, the Christmas that is fled,
Lord of living and of dead.
Comfort thoul
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Christmas Once a Year.
Those Christmas bells as sweetly chime
As on the day when first they rung
So merrily In olden tlmo
And far and wide their musle flung.
Shaking the tall gray Ivied tower
With all their deep, melodious power.
They still proclaim to ev'ry ear,
"Old Christmas conies but once a year!
Then he came singing through the woods
And plucked the holly bright and green.
Fulled hero and there the Ivy buds;
Was sometimes hidden, sometimes seen,
Halt burled "neath the mistletoe.
His long beard hung with flakes of snow,
And still he ever caroled clear,
"Old Christmas comes but once a year)
What though upon his hoary head
Has fallen many a winter's snow.
His wreath Is still as green and red
As 'twas a thousand years ago.
Again we're happy all day long.
We smile and listen to the song.
Its burden still remote or near,
"Old Christmas comes but once a yearf
Joaquin Miller.
Among the Wise Sayings.
If Christmas came more than once
a year, say four times, the sbcritl
also would call around about that of
ten. Yes?
GETTING MISTLETOE
FROM OKLAHO
How the Kissing Plant Is
ered and Marketed.
Tjf-fcOUBTLESS many peoplo
purchasing their Yuletide
rations have often won
w rnrH c-diiiH iiih liniiiHnsf. hutiiii
holidnv season in tho cities and
parasitic growth to thrive, says
Among many of tho peoplo i
11 . - L . . 1. M TT 3
sourl who havo never taken the
Idea provalls that mistletoe is
iminii fiiiiv ui rnrn ini nrvn h. n
diligent search, and then on oak
place.
capital of tbe new state of
lima
during tho winter time and,
walk out to Wheeler park, wb
situated In the southwest part
. ,,. i i i .. i i . t
his attention will bo drawn
strange appearance which thol
present at that season of the I
when tho leaves are off and tbe,
toe thrives on every branch.
In the summer time, when the
are on tbe trees, tho mistletoe
bo seen unless it is specially
for, and then it appears to be alii
part of tbe natural foliage of tlfl
upon which it is growing.
Contrary to general belief, mil
is rarely found on oak trees
Oklahoma is nearly always foil
swamp or water elms, which ail
erally seen growing in lowlanil
along river banks. Here it thrlvl
uriantly.
There is but one species tl
found In Oklahoma out of tbe 41
species known to exist, most of I
are found in tropical countries a
parasitic tn nature.
In Oklahoma two or three we
fore Christmas the annual mi
harvest Is gathered generally b
who don't mind tho dangerot
risky Job of climbing into all s
trees after it and brought to
where it is packed in barrels ant
and shipped to the northern clti
towns, where, along witb the hoi
evergreen. It finds a placo in
happy homes which have not fol
the good old custom of decoral
honor of the glad ChristmastideJ