Il ITEMIZER REALTY CONCERN * Room 1. yb e ir s \ si READ the Saviour « atory o er and In tta message see That ev'n as ha was God s own Bon so every man may be. Then for my Christmas boy 1 pray that good may always reign Within his breaat, victorious through the tempting« and the pain; That hia pure soul, so white today. as stainless may ascend Cnto the Soul o f Every Good, still perfect, at the end. Nor oould an end like Calvary Imbitter that great joy for me. IB baby heart U nohly bleased with sen- tleneea and joy. A happy little fellow la my Merry Chriatmaa boy. Hi. face la like a morning lake before the etorma ariae To mar the mirrored heaven blue ot clear and beaming akiee; . Ola eyea are apringa of aweeteat love from aome eu-mal aouroe That atreama to him untouched by taint along tta earthward oouraa In eoul, my Chriatmaa boy, thou art Of the great, living God a part. R it it it » a a a it a a % i* a a it a I it it a a a a * Block, 420 h Main Street, Dallas, Oregon We have British Columbia and Oregon Timber Lands We have California Orchard Lands We have Canada Wheat Lands We have trades all over the United States Besides this list of Home Lands 222 acres of fine farming land for sale, We have a dandy stock ranch in the las a good spring, a small orchard, 26 acres f good clover, good fencing and sufficient coast range of 160 aeree that we are vood for farm use. Will sell altogether or now offering at $2000. There is a good 'ivide up to suit. A most desirable location, house thereon and two hams. There ■etween Dallas and Perrydale. Only $65 ar areabout 40 acres of tine bottom land. »ere. 132 acres, 5 acres in cultivation, 5 A house and two lots one block west acres slashed, balance in fine second of he depot. Fine large 10-room hard grow th fir tin)her. All kinds of berries, finished house with all modern conven- 45 fruit trees, all 2-year-old. Nice run- iences and street work completed, ning stream through oae corner, good Price $3200. If you want a fim mountain ranch, here I.OU,« *ml barn. Price, »2500; »1200 27 acreg „ ithin om) , nJ 8 half niiIe, A living producing home for sale— One of , cs8l.. balance on terms to suit. 'o f town, of the very best land, with he most beautiful living sites in Falls City, is your opportunity to get one cheap. )regon, is offered for sale at a bargain. The We have 720 acres in one body of hill ood improvements and fine orchard. 320 acres, 35 acres clear ed and 100 in' and is 2H acres in extent and is the best V $4000. strawberry soil in the world. It is already pasture, balance timber, two houses and, some in cultivation, bafance in Price (anted in 40 English walnuts and some 60 and other improvements, fine springs, good timber, running water, some in- 84)4 acres, 45 acres in hops ■ pple trees, out four years. An adjoining acre provemeuts, good soil, lots of timber, an be had for $750. Almost new modern soil fine. $17 an acre, half cash. fine stock ranch, close to school, tiey good pasture land, with creek running touse of 9 rooms, with mauy conveniences, through it. Good improvements and 70 acres, 45 cleared, 25 pasture, 25 in miles of town, for $35 an acre -ood barn and outbuildings. The cash price hop house, and yard trellised in fine s $2500, and it is a snap for the person who timber, 38 acres in prunes and pears 34 acres w ithin a couple of miles of a shape. Price $0825, half down and vants a fine location, sure to double in value, from 1 year to 10. Eighty acres can be nd whereon one can easily make a u ving. good little town, 10 acres under cultiva- terms on the balance. irrigated and the creek runs all the year No. 243— 5 acres. 1 mile from Dallas Col round. The land is rolling and the soil tion, 10 acres slashed, ami the balance 307 acres, 140 cleared, 40 slashed, 140 ege, sidewalk to town, 10-room house and a in second growth oak. Price >75 an ;ood barn, two wells and pumps at the barn red and leaver dam. All fenced with acre, $1000 cash and the balance on in pasture, 130 in cultivation, 100 in ind one at house; 2*4 acres of orchard that woven wire. Five miles from Salem and timl)er, fair buildings and water supply, iays from $80 to $150 without attention, ono mile from school and postoffice. term to suit. four miles from town and one from resides nil the fruit that owners can uae. $7000. % casi), balance at 6 per cent. 230 acres, 4 miles from town. Has school, $tk) an acre, one half cash, first I’he orchard consists of prunes, pears, apples, plums and cherries; balance garden and 100 acres, all cleared and under cu lti­ good house ami 4 barns on the place, mortgage for balance. neadow. A beautiful home, giving the quiet several good springs, splendid water. •aay life of a farm and the advuutages of a vation, all fenced and fine soil, 1 1-2 80 acres in cultivation, 40 acres in tim­ Here is a dairy ranch for you that is city. Price $3500, terms $1500 cash, bal- miles to town and school. $00 an acre hard to beat: It consist! of 38W acres, ince time to suit. $3000 down and balance on good terms ber and the balance in open pasture, 125 being in cultivation, 100 heavy tim­ fine grazing laird, the land is gently For only $3000— A 9-room hard finished 147 acres, 50 m cultivation and the • rolling and soil is splendid. Price ber and the balance pasture. There touse in Dallas, only one block from business section. This place will only be on the balance in oak and fir timber. Two ' $7500. $4500 down, balance 6 year’s are 40 cows and calves, 4 hogs, 60 goats, good buildings and lots of them, fine narket for a few weeks. acres of fruit, good house and barn, well time at 6 per cent, soil, a complete outfit of farm aud dairy Admitted to the second class of mail matter. No. 51— 278 seres, 125 cultivation, 80 and springs. Only half mile to school 162)6 acres in Lincoln county, all open machinery, and the cream check each cres of oak timber, balance slashed off, place and church. We want $55 an acre fo : pasture land. It is right on the coast month amounts to $100. The ow ner’s ill fenced, the house is an old one, but the this and it is a bargain. >arn and out-buildinga are good. $50 per on a good river,for only $2000, half cash. reason for selling is that he wants to T H U R S D A Y . D E C E M B E R 21. 1911. icre, one-half cash, the balance at 7 per cent. $5000, only $2000 of it cash, will buy Fine stock and as cheap as you could get out of the dairy business. The land 10-acres tract near Dallas, 9 acres in fruit 80 acres of land within one mile of ask with a good road to it.—Itemizer is situated 2)£ miles from the Peedee nearly ail Italian prunes, 2 year old trees. school and church, on free delivery Realty Concern. store, and within one mile of the rail­ V . P . F IS K E . 1 acres filler of raspberries. Lays well. No route, and fout miles from town. 41 road surveyed from Airlie to the coast. mprovements. Price $1800, half cash, bal 106 acre, 48 in hops, 12 in cultivation acres are cleared ami the balance is in A phone goes with the place. This is ince at 6 per cent. i Item izer,one year in advance................................... ...... ...»] 50 oak grubs, There Is a fine spring and for potatoei, corn or such like, and 1% the best piece of land in the county for House and two lots In Dallas, close in acres is paid for to be grublted, the bal­ 5 or 6 acres can be irrigated. Some SUBSCRIPTION ■] With Weekly Oregonian or Semi-weekly Journal......... dairying or stock raising. The price is 'iew house, plastered, with wood fibre, and ance of the piece being in ash and ma­ D Y ( With Goat Magazine............................................................ ... 1 60 "ms five rooms and outbuildings. Price $1250 stock will go w ith the place. ple timber. This is all good bottom $15000 and one-third can be paid in cash half cash. Will trade stock. and the balance to suit buyer. 10 acres, four miles of town, all in land, and the hop yard turned o u t40,- We have several business chances in Polk Office : 20 acres, one acre slashed, rest in oak good timber, no improvements, on 000 pouuds of first class hops this last county for sale, among which might be men ’ PHONES: m utual ) Z % e nct.m l crop. There are two good plastered hop grubs. Four room No. 506 Main St. [Copyright by American Presa Associa­ up. There Is the pair o f thick warm tioned a barber shop, a furniture store, s county road. Price, $35 an acre. box house. All tion. 1911] houses, with halers and all tilings need­ flouring mill, a livery stable, etc. fenced. Three and a half miles from sue,!;* which mother has knit for the 80 acres, 12 acres under plow, ahd 15 EW conditions have developed boy away at college or trying to be­ We have 120 acres five miles from Dallas slashed, rest in good fir timber, some ed for their operation, and situated far Dallas. Close to school. Good well, Patronize One Another for the Upbuildino of Town and County. enough apart so that both could not good soil. Price $50 an acre with some a new sort of Santa Claus hi come famous in the eity. There are of the best land in the valley that we can sell large oak. New house of six rooms, for $100 an acre. There are no improve­ the United States. His initials presents also for the school teaching ments, but it is all in cultivation and crop, good bam, good water, two springs, and catch from the same fire. It is on a household goods. Terms, $600, cash if good county road, and only one half are it. l‘\ D. He is the rural daughter, for Brother John and Aunt and one-third of the crop goes in at this creek runs through it. One mile of mile from the depot in a good hop dis­ desired. The Itemizer is not given to extra editions o f any This is one of the finest farms in good school, 3 miles of town. Price $40 80 acres, 70 in cultivation. This land free delivery mail carrier. Mail hauler Mary and for the little one?» who must figue. trict. This is a first class buy at $250 Polk county, and the owner has only lately kind, believing that our merchants in giving us their an acre. Terms cash. is the titter way to describe him, for as be remembered an acre, and good time will be given lies well for orchard or anything else. The mall wagon is decided to dispose of it. There are 10 acres in pasture, with nice n rule lie hauls the mail in a light heaped with outgoing packages. We have 240 acres at the head of the Mc- We have 358 acres that isa bargain, on half the amount. weekly patronage are doing their full duty, and all that river and timber; good garden right at Timinonds valley that we are authorised to at $55 an acre. spring wagon. At Christmas time many 47 acres fine garden land and In culti­ the river’s edge; fair buildings and good But this is not all. Santa Claus. let go of at $6400. It is located J mile fionj should be asked of them. We are grateful for the ad­ rural curriers require an extru spring Uonco* s sawmill, and is a part of the old For $2100, )4 cash, we have for sale a vation, 2 1-2 miles from Dallas, on rail­ little orchard. Horses, hogs, cow and wagon or buggy and an extra driver to R. F. I).. Would be glad If It were. Buford Bush place. It is 16 miles from vertising patronage accorded our paper, believing it 10-acre tract that is hard to beat. It is road. Price $80 (»er acre. Terms to suit calf, grain, hay and machinery, all goes handle the rush o f Santa Claus mall Nowadays the rural free deliverer Is Dallas, and has an old house and barn there­ within a mile and a half of town, in one Two blocks south and one block west at $6500. Terms at 6 per cent. empowered to write money orders and in. Eighty acres of it are under fence, and fully justified by the returns received, and for that rea­ both going and coming. there are some 40 acres of tillable land. It of the most desirable directions, and of the depot we have a house and lot for 103 1-2 acres at $50 an acre. Dwelling to register letters. That means lots of is an ideal stock ranch, and a bargain at the will probably be on the new electric The rural free delivery system, son are not asking extra advertising. We have never s.ile for $1200. It has seven rooms and house and hop house. Thirty acres price asked. Half cash, at least, is re which started but a few years ago. has work for the farmers’ Santa Claus quired, It has some improvements, is a bath and the balance can be arranged for. road. cultivated, 60 acres of timber. Good endeavored to persuade advertisers to try out schemes nearly all cleared, and is fenced on one grown to treat proportions. It is said Many persons send money through the 600 acres near Antelope. Will sell at $10 side. Is close to church and school. 25 acres, small house And h arn,^ of a spring and well. One-half cash, with that there are now in the United malls us Christmas presents. Many :«n acre or trade for valley farm. time on the balance at 7 per cent. o f doubtful merit, considering that legitimate and per­ We also have two other tracts in the mile from school house, 1100 cord of States half as many rural mail cur- also buy presents through the mall 205 acres, 80 acres in cultivation, balance same vicinity, unimproved. wood on it, 250 coni of fir wood, % mile sistent newspaper advertising is the best that can be 97 acres 3W miles from Dallas, 30 order houses In the big cities. The lei’s as there were men in the regular u pasture and timber land. There is a good from railroud station. Price $1600— acres cleared, balance in fir and oak tim ­ welling house, barns and other outbuildings If you want a nke small prune or­ Itemizer Realty Concern. iriny at the beginning o f our war carrier must stop and write the devised to increase a business. And we believe that \bout 50 acres are sown to grain, and the chard, here is your chance. ber. 1000 2 year old Italian prune trees, Eight ¡gainst Spain. But not all o f these cur­ money orders. Sometimes he may stance to grass. It is located on the public many o f our business men concur with us in this view 182 acres, all in cultivation except a 100 Pomona currants Fair house and md, within 4 miles of Falls City and 2 V4 acres, with dryer, and all other ini pro v- lers are men. There are many women find In a rural delivery box tacked to barn, plenty oi water, two good springs, ments, dose to town, and everything in few trees around the house. About 100 ■ties of Airlie. The price is $35 an aero. triving rural routes. Whether man or the side of n tree a oote to the effect o f the matter. 5000 cords of wood and a good road to Here’ s a snap— only $4200 will buy two good shape. Seven acres of 10-year old acres in cultivation, House of eight haul to town. Land lies well for hill /oman. the rural mail agent must thut the folks up at the house want in* residences right close in town. One is s prunes, and some nice apples. Close to rooms, large barn, granary ami hen him to register a letter. The house erve as Santa Claus to scores o f fain rge 9-room house and the other a 5-room town and school with city water. The houte. Sixty acres of bottom land, and land. Price $60 an acre. $2500 down, ottnge. Modern improvements. On three price is $4500. Hies at ClIfUmus. Maybe he few acres along the north end, where the a red loam, and it is wire fenced. Ellis addition; has several fruit trees 200 is the price, one-third down, and the eautiful La Creole river runs and bounds the There is a house of eight rooms, and and two large walnut shade trees. Good balance on easy terms. o f much more than passing notice, showing, as it most -ame; affords a copl place for sto-k where $2000 cash will buy my improvements here are no flies to bother. This is an ideal good barns and other improvements. building location. Price $175. assuredly does, that the stock we raise is of the very lace and has an 8 or 9 room house, with Only one mile to town, school and on MX) acres of O. & 0 . railroad land l ) j 340 acres, 40 acres slashed and seeded miles from Falla City. Improvements lenty of shade, ar large barn and all the church. Price $8000, half cash. lecessary outbuildings that go with an up-to- best, and capable o f being placed in competition with to grass, 10 acres in cultivation, very date .farm of this kind. There are about 8 305 acres, 125 cleared ami in cultiva* good barn, shack of u house, plenty of consist of a good 4-room house with • eres of family orchard, including prunes, ' tj0n, the balance in pasture and timber. water, all under good fence. Place is chamber, about 2 acres in cultivation, any. The enterprise Mr. Koser exhibited in going to >pples. pears and oherries. also has about • Thera ia 2 i»rr*»a of fruit a ml u mu. irur loxen English walnut trees that are loaded \\ner® 11 ¿ 0|. ,rU,t f HU‘■011)6 gar- rough and has a good hearing orchard. about 20 fruit trees, some berries, chick­ the expense o f taking back 22 o f his flock is also worthy w ith nute at the p resen t time. Thie fa rm lie* den, two wells ami several springs. The 290 acres of good fir timber, mostly sec­ en house and good picket fence and other improvements. Reason for sell­ is level as could he and has good drainage soil is good and it is all fenced. Only o f much praise, he being the only man in Oregon to This place is easily worth $125 an acre, situ- 2)¿ miles from railroad town. $00 an ond growth, averaging about 20 inches, ing other business to look after. Also with about 1,000,000 feet of large fir. have 40 acres joining same with about ited as it is in a country where the blizzarda compete to that extent. That his belief that he had ire unknown and delightful summers. If acta is wanted for this, and half cash Price $5 7.717 Good house and lot 2 blocks from fine peaches. Conveniently located in We have a few Oregon towns in mind which we think veil furnished throughout. Splendid barn. • P**®® ,n ^ a^ 8 G lty o r Dallas Good bottom land and lots of all kinds of * 20 acres, 10 acres of timber, rest open every way, and the price is $110 an acre. Main street; lot 80x150 ft; 8 room would be better off without than with the newspapers 'ruit. Several large Royal Ann cherry tree» house; good barn; Price $1400, terms if hat last year bore 1000 pounds to the tree land, one acre slashed. Small house, Two improved lots on Havter street, desired. >nly 5 blocks from the court house. Would close to town, a!l fenced. Brice, $50 an they now have. The reason is that the newspapers are close in, for $250 cash. Both fine build­ make an ideal garden spot. We want $2600 acre; $800 cash, balance to suit. Two houses and three lots in Dallas ing sites. «nd $2000 of it down. always quarreling over every question that comes up, for $4(MX>. One has seven rooms ami 16 acres only four miles from Dallas 15 acres within two miles of town, unim We have a fine sub-division project of is modern in every respect, and the and by their editorials making the people discontented proved, but the finest of orchard land. Now that we can now offer at $40 an acre. helps the It. F. P. Santa Claus to get a registered letter to deliver to a in oats, with a few young trees aet out this All in fir timber, bat the best of soil, 60 acres, nearly in Dallas, that is on the other haw nix rooms. The larger can be rather than united as they should be. The only way to spring. We can get you this snap for $125 farmer whose home Is off the route. market for 30 Jays only. Fine soil and purchased alone for $2500. over his vexation when he finds that an acre. Just the place for a desirable home. and you can pay for the place easy in theie is money in platting it. he has sixteen hours o f delivery to do Registered letters must l»e delivered build up a town is for its papers to entirely leave out of clearing it up. Close to school and 264 acres, 220 of which is cleared, and have a 5-room house In Dallas for sale and ••signed for.” ns the mall box nail at We lu eight hours’’ work. only $800. This ia a bargain, and we do other facilities. One house and barn and four lots in 200 under cultivation; 40 acres oak their columns all business jealousies, and devote them­ ed to the black oak tree at the road­ grubs ; 1 acre apples und pears ; well and A few days before Christmas the in not expect to keep it on the market very long. We have 640 acres a it bin 1)% miles of Dallas for $3.500. Nice location, sewer selves editorially to advancing every proposition that is coming bundles begin to pile up in side can’t sign. water. Half cash. running water. Land sightly roiling 18 acres bearing prunes, In 1 % miles of railroad with 10,0*10,000 feet of good saw connections, city and black ami gray loam. Fair improve­ the carrier’s wagon bed. They are Oti Christmas day or perhaps nJpTt&wa ;$888D timber on it. There are no improve­ House cost $2500. for the good of the city—not hang back on a good idea ments and close to school And 3l£ miles Seventy acres of unimproved land in the ments but half of the place is cleared presents from the farmer’s son who day before the carrier who has been a 8 acres near town, 4-room house and Mt. Pisgah region within two miles of town of good tow n. This is a bargain at only because the other fellow may have been the one to pro­ has gone to the city and grown rich real pond Santa. Claus and hasn’t we are authorized to let go of for $80 an land, and there is an abundance of out out buildings. Three aerres in cultiva­ $eariug fruit; one-half acre o f all, and pull together on all questions for public dis­ gain while you can get it. Clover Cliff mansion Or perhfi|w> back gets his reward. The farmers’ in gra|»es ; there is a 7-room house and 1000 acres near a railroad, 600 of 360 acres, 35 in cultivation, 25 acres of a log ham. Terms one lit.If cash, and 16 acres, ail in cultivation. 1 room bouse which is in cultivation, for which we Mary Rusunna, who Is teaching school boys or girls meet him at the gate as cussion. A divided house can hardly stand, and there timber, 300 acres of other land not the balance to suit ut 6 [»er cent. Family orchard, and all the best of laud are oidy asking $45 the acre. Desirable In the next state and can't afford to he drives along, presenting him with On the public road. Price, $2500. fenced, two streams of running water is no other element in a place that can so quickly pro­ location and first class soil. cotoe home for the holidays, has the choicest pumpkins ruisid during the year around, seven room house, not 156 acres, 100 acres sown to grain ami 60 acres of well Improved land within four spent some of her little hoard of the season, with a big chicken or tur mile« of Dallae. Well adapted for fruit or Here is n coast ranch for you : 280 very good, two large barns. Will sell tin* crop g.».* with the (»lace if sol.i In - duce a division as its newspapers. Happily Dallas has poultry, and with eepeeially rich soil. acres none in cultivation, and no im this at $20 an acre, one-third cash and fore July 1st, also seven head of horses money for Christmas gifts for the key or |x»rbaj»s with a warm muffler not to any great extent been afflicted as the towns men­ None cleared, and several balance in five years time at 6 per cent and colts, the t«»ws. two brood sows, home folks Wherever they come made by the motherly housewife who j One of the best paying private sawmill proveinents million feet of good timber, already for interest. dnin good busi in Polk county, | machinery and wagons, in fact every- from, all those packages and bundles has watched the R. F I) man driving ! properties ■H M v • tioned. When anything o f great importance arises, »ees tese and Iota lots of timl>er timidi land in connection a railroad when it gets there. School must be delivered. The R. F. D. mao past day by day lu the chilly air I Owner deal res to retire. A good for $175. Two good lots on ! thing to farm with, including a pair of ami postoffice nearby. Four miles from you see both papers pushing it to a successful conclu­ Wanhington street, with sewer and platform scale*, sheep, goats and chick­ or woman must be the general Santa Thus Santa Onus. It. F. I).. who may j fiOO acres of good ilsrk soil, lavs fine f he »"<1 on county road. Tl.e »oil macadam streets all paid for, one of ens. The price, including everything, sion. Claus o f the route traveled. have children of Ids own at home, gets ! for platting, has about a mile frontage '» »t*1 '» "•>" » «'•« •*»"y tileh is corner. Both face north, hilt I is $65 an acre, or $55 an acre without On the trip back to town bundles (»resents to curry douu his own chim­ I along good county roSd ; only 3 miles of njnrli. " ill trade for valley land, or can lie cut to face east if desired. Will t the stuff mentioned, $2,500 of this can for the outgoing mails are gathered ney good railroad station, within 7 mile« of j »■’OtN). hulfdown and the balance at ti sell at coat, which is $660 for tlie two. run at 7 ¡»er cent. From all appearances the chicken show to be held in good railroad town, livery foot of thia i * r cent will take it. 105 acres for $4earing, rest in limber. Run- j»»M\ Kitty sere« »re clrsre.1 «nac tica I ly level; 338 it rolling and About 100 apple trees, four years ok!, who have from thè first persisted in raising only the o f lot o f exhibitors, that a most unusual interest is be­ or before 3 years, at 6 per cent. interest running water, close to town. Good are on the place and in go«d condition. covered with some oak timber which is best breeds—those that would command the price and on all deferred payments. New build- j improvement«. Will take $13,000 for j There now used for pasture, when cleared is is running water and ing taken in the show, not only in Polk county, where ing* on the place. Prospective buyers | the whole piece, or will divide it into} Jocen acres could be irrigated. T llirt 8°°^ w » fr o lu g land. The entire give the returns. Every home should raise at least a threw different tracts of 25 acres with there are are now so many first class breeders, but could take tlie morning train at Port­ is a go«sl seven room house on the place, tract is No. 1 land and has good im­ tlie buildings at $175 an acre, niee (»each land, look Ihe land over and return the provements. House and two barns, all few chickens, at least enough to supply their own it is I cated mile from school and 4)4 from outside chicken raisers as well, some o f them aim­ I orchard. A Is«» 28 acie tract for $125 an miles trom town. same evening. fenced, well watered with wells ami needs, and it will not be long in so doing until this ing to come from quite a distance to show their fowls. Fine farm for «ale, containing 2n and acres, over 200 under (»low, balance tine 676 acres, 9 cleared, 100 acres of pas­ pasture and fine oak timber. Five acres has good county mud running acroes it. shipping to us from the east o f cold storage eggs will The Itemizer believes that this one exhibit is going to j o: k ; new house, gooq building« and new ture, l»alance in saw timber ami wood, of fine beaver land. Running water Posessioii any time. Price $60 |x*r acre. become a thing o f the past. We would impress on ! fencer, running water, land teen in (ma­ small orchard, fine water supply and and two springs. Fine soil, good fen­ be the means o f thoroughly establishing the industry in We have 97 acres within six mi lea of ture 8 years, is rich and eqnal to new, power, big out range; three miles from ces, 6-room house, barn and other im­ Dallas, close to school and railroad, all every raiser that it would be best for him to enter his Polk county, and give it an impetus that will tend grssl town, and tw<* from school. $ .’& ) provements. If sold in 60 »lays, W ol under fence, goo.1 toil, but no other im­ fowls, ar.d Itain by experience their shortcomings, and arvarre, $5000 down and the balance at crop goes with place at $8,760. $40U) provements, that we c*n sell at $76 an toward in a few months seeing more o f our farmers go- how to improve them. down, balance in two years. 6 (»er cent t acre for the next 6 0 days, with ) 4 down. HEHE lived a lad In Galilee a many yeara ago. Hia little frtoe with Just auch grace and gladaome love aglow, And oftentimee I like to think that when hia eyea would ehlne They were no purer than the eyea ot thia dear boy of mine And that the God who dwelt within Hia heart of holy day Abideth In the boeom or my Chriatmaa boy today. Filled with the aelfhame breath divine, Chriat and thia Chriatmaa boy of mine r E Is a thoughtful boy at times, my little Christmas boy. Perhaps the angels whisper him of wonderful employ. O f mighty tasks, long waiting for a fearless heart and stout. Of business of the Heavenly King that he must be about. Perhaps to lead a people is his por­ tion in the Plan, Perhaps to bear misfortune's yoke and live and die a man. To lose and triumph in hia loss With hia Big Brother of the Cross. THE POLK COUNTY ITEMIZER. I I, Brown ROBERTOS' LOVE N f