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UEUEMBER Z0, 195a

The llharlnttotown Guardian

President, LleuL-Col. W. Cheater S. Iolmre. Vloo-Prouldout, J. ll. Burnett. F. J. l. Secretary. IJIIlM-cfil- D. A. lluliinuol, D, S. 0.

Director. J. B. Burnett. lf.J.l. k Waller and D. K. Ourrle.

Editor and Iluuglu Auoollh Ilrlltorl.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER l0, 1935

Carl Before The Horse

The KING Government having flickered successfully with MR. LARABEE to vacate his seat in Queens County for the sole purpose of providing Hon. MR. DUNNING with a con- stituency, MR. Dunivixds acceptance of the "offer" having been announced and the date of the by-electiou fixed by MR. Kind-the “yes- meii" of the Queens County Liberal Association are to meet on Dec. 28 in the Strand Theatre, for the purpose of holding a full-dress nomin- ating "convention"! ‘

It: does Iiot require a prophet to forsee that this dramatic show of independence will result in the convention “nominating” bin. Duxnmc unanimously. Such is Dictator Kinds will. Like the early Roman Emperors, he has no objection to the‘ machinery of democracy being employed so long as it is employed to carry out llis man- dates. Let a spark of independence be shown at the convention, li0\vever,-—let the ‘nom- ination of a local candidate in place of Mn. DUNNING be moved, seconded and Adopted,- and what a furore there would be! UR. LARA- Bliliis new job as “special officer in the Depart- ment of Fisheries to supervise boats of the de- partment on the Atlantic" would. vanish into thin air; federal patronage \\’0lll(l be withdrawn; and deserving local Liberal democrats would find themselves cut adrift from all hope of favors, now or to come, while the KING Gov- ernment remained iii power.

But there is no fear of such a catastrophe happening. The convention will be Carefully handpicked and will g0 through its paces like a wcll-tlrillcd Fascist battalion. MR. DUNNINifs “foriiial" nomination will be dulynnnouiiced, and MR. KING will wire congratulations from Ottawa on the marvellous harmony and uiiani- niity of the proceedings.

Another great (leiuonstration of Liberal Democracy, to preserve the principles of which MR, KING appealed so eloquently inhis cam- paign speech in the Charlottetown Forum!

Lord Atholsla n's Success

The career of Lord ATHOLSTAN, Canada's most (listinguisherl journalist, who recently cele- brated his sixty-sixth year of newspaper publi- cation, is ably reviewed by Mr. E. J. ARciIIiiALo, Associate Editor of Lord ATItBusTANIs paper, the Montreal Star, in an article which has been published in convenient pamphlet form. Char- itable contributions amounting to millions of dollars have been made to worthy causes by Lord AriIoLsrr/m, \\‘l‘lfi,.llU\\'€\'Cl’, is a firm be- liever in the old atlage that the shoemaker shtiuld stick to his last, and remains, first and foremost, a newspaper man.

“It might appear singular,” writes Ur. Aaciiiii/ILD, “that (luring the past thirty years when he has had control of a large amount of liquid capital Lord ATIIOLSTAN has never identified himself with enterprises other than his 0\vn paper and its auxiliaries. It has not been for lack of opportunity, for lic has had many invitations to join the boards of industrial con- cerns. His invariable reply to such invitations has been characteristically modest: ‘My capacity

for work and direction does not exceed what I'

require for my own business and its auxiliaries. Moreover, I have not the requisite taste for, and would not in all- probability succeed at, any other.’ ”

Of the many lessons that could be drawn from Lord 1\TIIoi.s'rA\"s success, perhaps this one of “stick-to-it-ivcness,” of knowing his limi- tations as well as his capacities and conceit- trating on the work to which he is fitted by training and experience, is the most significant.

Laughing At Us

Amusing to the St. John Telegraph-Journal is the idea of l-IoN. I\lI<. DUNNINI; assuming the role of a Nlaritimer. It says:

“It looks as if the Ailaritime Provinces will give another finance minister to Canada iii the person of IloN. C. A. DUNNING. At least in- dicatioiis are that, as a scat has to be found for the finance minister, lie will take advantage of the reported offer of Ma. A. E. lllzicLiznn to vacate Prince, P.E.l., on his behalf. \\"e Mari- timers will now have to {Klflllli CHARLIE DUN- NING and we should make a good job of it. We will all forget about what he once said of our being “born, (lying and getting a free ride on the Intercolonial” now that he is to become one of us. It will require a little careful thought as to ivhether we adopt Alberton, Tignisli, Mont- rose or world-renowned Malpeque, as the pur- ticular spot of Prince in which the finance miii- istcr will have to be reborn in order to qualify as a lbiaritimcr. Certain it is that in these times- no finer training ground could be found in

Canada for a minister of fiiiaiicc_ The Islanders-

are thrifty and they know the value of -the penny. We can imagine that once MR. DUNNING acquires the viewpoint of the residents of the tight little Island, it will be all off with tbosc who call for ivildcat expenditures in Canada.

“Withal, we will welcome to a Maritime Province seat a man who has made a fine con- tribution to the public life of Canada, and he may well take his place with those outstanding men who preceded him in the portfoliowhich he now occupies and be reckoned with them as 1' ~rthy of distinction.”

Noble Dream V-anishes

Fhe noble dream of eight provincial Liberal rr' ziinlrtratloris co-operating with a federal Lib- ‘fill ldsniniatration in solving the nationplqprob-

syimkif the Dominion iiasilissolv‘ ," writes Mr. Nohmnt ‘MAcLnon, Ottawa correspondent, in Ibo Hail and Empire. “la in place in been an

Jenis, only the uninitiated have any idea that these bodies are named for any other reason than

up the reality of a federal treasury fighting 0H the assaults of provincial ministries all anxious to unload upon the central Government the bur- den of their financial difficulties.

“The conference has cost, including the ex- pCllflilllftfS of provincial delegations, in excess of $25,000. For this sum the net return has been a grudging agreement on the part of Mr. KING and his colleagues that the Dominion should bear a greater share of direct relief expenditures, and that the Canadian Parliament should exer- cise final jurisdiction over the constitution of the Dominion, namely, the British North America ACL

“It is true that continuing committees have been set up to deal with such proposals as the creation of a national‘ loan council and other matters which the present assembly had been confidently hoped to solve. .When the full dele- gations of the provinces, however, could not reach an acceptable formula upon these prob-

saving the faces of those who participated in the deliberation. Mr. HEPBURN (who left before the Conference was ovef) is accepted as the archetype of realist who has been associated with the gatherin| 1

Editorial Notes

NotesiBy The Way’

Tint. unfortunate warrior, the Emperor of Ethiopia, seems to be in the position of the prize fight/er doing his best, still on his feet and full of fight, while his seconds are doing business with the seconds of his opponent. ~

506k] CPU!“ PNIIIIEI‘ Ahgrhgrf, announces no divldens tlll 1931. MeB-nwhile. wholesale dismissals of Government: employees and their ie-laceme ‘ by Aberhart support- ers prove thai: many Social credit. ors are taking no chances on the 1937 payout. But it remains to be seen who will fare best—the old civil servants who have got the sack or the new ones who may not get their salaries. Alberta's tax revenue ls nearly exliaiisted.-l..ondon Sun- day Empress.

The British Invcrnment would in- deed betray the League of Nations if it dropped the policy of economxc sanctions against Italy because Ethiopia would not surrender large slices of her tendtory. There is nothing yet to warrant a belief that Britain will act in this way. But if slm did what becomes of the thesis of the I-Iearsts and Coughllns across the line that Britain is prompted only by jealously of Italy, that Ethiopians are savages who should be conquered and "civilized." and

The first real test of the League of Nations’ collective action has been effective-and the little fellows won. '

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Sir SAMUEL Hosiufs resignationas For- eign Secretary saved the BALDWIN ministry at home, but will cause complications with France

and Italy. y“ a“ 3K

Premier LEA and A t t o r n c y-General CAMPBELL who, hitherto, have been boarding together have parted company, and now patron- ize different boarding houses.

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When there is no official opposition to find out the actual facts, questions affecting the public's interest in the Government are likely to go by the board. Is it true. for instance, that the son of one of the members has been ap- pointed beer purchaser for the Government, and that that is partly the reason why the doctors’ scripts have been increased from 5o to 65 per month? I

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The attempt to foist Mr. DUNNING upon us is another example-of Mr. KING'S dictatorial and tyrannical methods. It will be recalled he compelled Queen's County Liberals to adopt Hon. CYRUS MAcMILLAN as a candidate because he \\‘€illt€(l him in his cabinet. Now he compels a. duly elected member to vacate his seat in Queens, and similarly compels the Liberal exe- cutivc to offer it to Mr. DUNNING whom though not even a candidate, he appointed to the sec- ond most importantakporaéfolaléo in his Ministry.

The familiar remark spoken of some hum- an beings-“They caift stand prosperity"—was applied to bees recently by the Rev. FRANCIS jAoi-ni of the University of Minnesota staff. re- ports The Associated Press_ He said that bees, their storcliouses filled with honey, behaved much like certain persons whose pockets were filled with money. “The bees have a feeling of prosperity and swarm around in idleness,” Mr. jAoiziz explained. "The way to break up the swarms is by reviving their industriousness through setting up storeliouses and making them poor again.” i

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Our boys booked for Denver may be there in time to witness the inauguration of a new sixteen hour daily passenger service be- tween Chicago and Denver, to start early in lune on the Union Pacific Railroad, and the Chicago and Northwestern. The 1,048 miles be- tween the two cities will be run at an average speed of 65.5 miles an hour, making this the fastest long-distance passenger service train in the worlrl_ Two Diesel electric-powered ten-car steamlined trains will provide this service, which will shorten the present fastest running time be- tween Chicago aiid Denver by II hours 45 min- utes and between Denver and Chicago by 9 hours I5 minutes.

9K 9E

The U. S. A. has just issued several mil- lions of $1 silver certificates of a new type. The obverse of the Great Seal is the familiar ‘eagle design with the motto “E Pliiribirs Union.” The reverse of the Great Seal, presented for the first time on any money, shows an unfinishedipyra- mid, surmounted by an eye in a triangular glory. A Latin motto above the design is “Armuit Cor/ink," translated as “He (God) Prospered Our Endeavors." A lower motto is “Norms Orilo Scrlorimi,” and is translated as “A New Order of the Ages.” As explained by the de- signers, the reverse of the seal is rich in sym- bolism. The eye in the triangular glory repre- sents an All-Seeing Deity and with the motto Animal"! Coc/rlis “refers to the many signal inter- POSlliOIIS of Providence." The pyramid is the symbol of permanence. The motto "Not/u: Ordo SFCIOYIHM," in the words of the designers, sig- nifies “The Beginning of the New American Era." '

~ 7 it IE Q ' There is a dispute between the Mayor of New York and his wife whether. he is 53 or 54 years old——as though it mattered a row of beans. Five years ago the world fell into error on the subject of VIRGIL, who was born in 7o B.C., and observed his 2,oooth birthday in.i93o, instead of waiting until I931. A similar mistake is being made this year about the poet HORACE, born Dec. 8, 65 B.C. The day was really Qum-rus Hoiuvrius FLAccus’s I,999th birthday. Future errors of the kind may be more easily avoided by thinking of the anniversary year instead of the precise birthday. This is ‘the way MARK Tw/mfs centennial year was observed, and after two millennium: perhaps a whole year of cele- brbtion is not too much. In that way we can escape altercations between those who maintain that the Mayor of New York is 53 or 54. or the poet Hornet: last Sunday was 2,000 years old and those who insist that he did not look a day

that the League is a tool of British Imperialism?

In South Dakota, relates Mersey Safe Worker, a farmer left his horses in the field and went for a drink of water. When be returned the grasshoppers had eaten the horses and were pitching horse- shoes to see who would eat the har- ness.

York County is setting an ex- ample for other municipalities in the Province 1n the matter of maintaining inmates of the Muni- cipal Home. It is announced that the cost per inmate of the York County Home the past year was 95 cents per week.

Injury to a passenger caused by a. suitcase falling from a. luggage- raok in a railway carriage, rec-eni- ly cost the Southern Railway Coin- ‘pany of England something over $10,000. The owner of the suit- case was joined with the railway in the action for damages brought by the plaintiff, but. the court ruled that there was no evidence the owner of the suitcase liacl improperly placed it on the rnck and held the railway entirely re- sponsible for the accident.

The world-wide interest In the 2000th anniversary of Qulnlus l-Ioratlus Mucous. Sunday, Decem- ber 8, ls a reminder that ‘qualifies of the heart are mightier than those of the head lo hold and retain the affection of posterity To Vergll, Catullus. Cicero. his contemporaries, many scholars

‘mav ascribe purer poetlciforin or

nrofourider philosophic ins‘glit. ‘Bu-t the palm of popularity must go to the freedmriirs gifted son. For Horace possessed the great gift of the common iflllfllrvcllfiS- than Science Monitor.

The Central Government nf China is credited with bovine,‘ abo- Pshed more than 5.00) kinds of “illegal, exorbitant and miscellan- eons taxes." Wonder if the head of the Chinese Central Government could be persuaded to make a wren- tlon trip to Canada this winter’? We would like to have him "sit. in“ in im advisory capacity: at both Toronto and Ottawa ses us. In China, it appears. they re? _' go in for statesmariship.-Wiudsci" Star.

The trade of the United States with both Britain and Canada showed a substantial growth in October compared with the same month last year. The fact that Britain is the best customer of the United States and that. Canada is next should lead to SOlllt‘ \\'!lOlC- some reflections in the minds of the American people, even if llle high protectlonlsts weep and wail over the trndelreaty with Canada and the fear that another vuitli Great Britain may be in the offing.

Canadian savings are. going up according to the bankiii-z returns. There 1s almost $100000 000 more in savings accounts in the Cana- dian banks than a year ago. De- posits have been tstininterl at $1,465,30l,708. Th5 has l.\"2ll de- posited by the Canadian people for safe keeping at low interrs‘. rates. Current accounts are $8‘,- 000,000 greater than u year ago.

The charge of a. former Toronto police constable that 24 members of the Toronto police force were in a conspiracy to rob many stores. and dlrl rob,them, must be Dl‘0l)"(l to the bottom. No one will desire n searching inquiry more than the police of the province excepting the guilty ones, if there are Iiiiy. The purity of the administration of lus- tioe is a Canadian boast. It can only be- justified if the strictest care is taken in the choice of the law’s agent-s, from the highest to the lowest. Toronto owes it to the pro- vince to go to the bottom of the shocking charges made against. many of its reputedly "finest."

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Are we to assume that all these years Canada. has been giving mere lip-service to the league and the collective system The League is en- Ilflfid right now in its first. and vitally important effort to establish the rule of law in international re- lations, and Canada, of all coun- tries, la the one showing least con- cern and dolng moat to weahon and betray the cruiser-Winnipeg Tri-

Delulfe the decrease in number of families on relief in most oi’ the municipalities, the question of re- lief payments will be a major one in 1036. In ‘Ibrorito. where these pay- mentn in lute years have been moi. out of borrowvd money. a proposal will be considered to npplv the pay-u-you-(o pflllclple in at lent part of the burden-Toronto Star.

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‘FLU CAN BE ‘VRY, DANGEROUS

Those of us who went through the 1918-1919 influenza. epidemic, when hundreds of thousands were taken down and many thousands died, sometimes ’ if this fluenza that comes every year and attacks so many is really the “mar influenza of the 1918-1919 type.

Some research physicians tell u that these severe epidemics occur at intervals and that those" who llve through them acquire an im- munity (freedom) from severe at.- tacks perhaps for the rest of their lives. That ls, the influenza that comes every year is the severe type but we have become immune cause of previous attacks.

Other research physicians tell us that what many call influenza is just a mild infection like the com- mon cold and sliou‘.d not be oom- pared to real influenza.

However the point for u; all to remember it that whether it is n. cold or influenza we should con- sider lt influenza, and 911M; it u- cordingly. r , The symptoms of this yearly flu or influenza are about the same in the majority of cases.

There is a sudden onset, without

‘ previous warning, of chllliness run-

ning up and down the back or through the rest of the body, then a. rise in temperature. pain 1n all the muscles of the body (u if these muscles had been beaten), head- ache, nose stuffed up, and a general feeling of tiredness and exhaustion follows which lasts two to four days.

The treatment of this form of flu is now about the same every- where the central though being rest. It is now believed that if all those attacked in the 1918-1919 epidemic had gone to bed, at once, n. pent many lives would have been saved. Keeping on the feet. for the first two or three days gave the flu organism a. chance to go on to u. broncho-pneumonia. and thence to heart failure. Those who were weak and had to go to bed when first attacked seemed to efaeape bronclio-neumonia. and heart fall. ure in most. cases.

In addition to rest. the intestine should be cleansed and only easily digested food eaten.

‘An extra coupleof days in bed after the temperature is normal riot; ony helps the heart to regain its rTTSCYVL‘ but enables the patient to .11 strong in a shorter time.

L _ R PEACE

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shall it be said, in this most fateful E l l?‘ Y1K an . that. thou, . faint- of heart, u one grown 1305i 111113’. with bated breath and pulsied power’ 'M°11;st the leagued nations 5n 1g. noble part? 11"“ 1w lflzsard proved To I through the long your; 181" 11w wf°n8ed and ma the slave go free: Shall now the world in vain fet- tered by fears, ' For freedom cry from works fell tyranny? BY my Pli-‘dged word thou stunt-lest consecrate To hold war felony-outlaw aver-red

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“k9 39°41 by de d C my W0l‘Cl-—- e as valiant as

011M 1w cost hi h . for thee, B . no hazard vein

‘T111 Peace on earth b with sovereignty, e crowned

—A. H. Storrow, in T), Ch 1 world. E rstian

Mean Business

- (Sydney POSL-Rgmrd)

The case of m. n. A Macuod fllllromted Peniions Medical Exam.’ Inc-r for Nova 5mm, and Pane, Edward Island by th¢ Civil eel-vie; Commission on November zq and summarily dismissed by the Domin- ion Government on December 12. ""115 I01‘ an immediate explanation

from the Minister of Pensions, Hon, 3-1180- kplwer, who is responsible for ,0 n” 1""? cqllrse o! action. A. fr ‘Ir. MacL-eods eminent. qimi. lea“ m“ m1’ ‘he DOSE 0r u regards the meritonous service, both over. w“ “"11 "1 Mme. by which hi! won the appointment, nothing need be said here, foi- he .1, mow“ m @1118 City and throughout the 1c- land of Cape Breton as an out. standing leader in his profession, as well as one of the most. highly ppteemed cltlpem in the commun-

y.

R-Plflrt says that political wim- iwlllns. directed by cxplolter; or the @9011» mtem. u the lana- iion of this affront to an ear-service man with a distinguished wlr no. 0rd. 0f this flagrant. interference with the merit. _ * in __ *- as administered by in. Oivil m. vloe Commission. It mu be w, it calls for two observations. One is tbetitlaobmiturneanondde- apicable a thing u stands 0o the discredit of martian ruminants among the spoil: of port warfare, lnthewholereeordof tmtton

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A Christmas Carol

A cnosT STORY i (By Charles Dickens)

FADCONWOOD DISMISSAL

Sin-Permit me space in your valuable column that I may voice my grievance to t-be public in re- gard to my dismissal as chauffeur on Falconwood truck, which took effect Dec. 1st, 1935. I might say that I was dismissed from the pos- ition of chauffeur without an ox- plonatlon. ‘more were no ineffic- iency on my part at any time while I was in the employ of the present Liberal Government. After my appointment on Sept. 15th.. 1935 I ‘came to the conclusion that I had a. number or enemies in Charlottetown On several occu- lons while the Faloonwood Truck was parked in Market Square the ignition was tampered with. I have returned on one occasion and found the wires cut. Furthermore the local members of the present Government were swamped with uncalled for propaganda about rny chin-peter and the most serious part is yet to be explalnecLIu-iight say that a great number of citi- zens think that I was dismissed on account of the acclden in com- ing in contact with the Eastern train at Grafton St. railway cross- ing. On that occasion the truck was tampered with which caused the accident which might have cost the lives of myself and partner. I was returning from southport at. the time of the acci- dent and on approaching the rall- way crossing I retaliated that a train was coming after hearing wanilng of bell and whistle of on coming train, also the crossing signal. The truck I wu operating was going 10 miles per hour at the time of warning. When 35 feet; from cross- ing I applied mikes but received’ no response. Therefore I came in contact with train which resulted in the accident. On, making in- veatigation after the accident we found that the brake rod was tampered with. The lock pin being removed allowed the bolt. in brake shackle to drop out which dis- engaged the brake rod from brake. The extent of accident was as follows: left fender buckled rods twisted, axel bent, and train held up five minutes; not. as serious as it mlgiht have been. Within one hour after the accident I got in touch with Mr. Butler the bursar. and Mr. McKenzie, the engineer at Falconwood. Those men can verify my statement. I mliiht state that I Wm replaced by a. young man. who did not have u, application fortlie position until ~ two weeks after my appointment. Since I lost the position of chauffeur I made application for another position at Falconwood but received no con- sideration. I am a married man with a family; have had six years experience as truck driver in llmssaeh “ , and am also an ‘Ex-Service man. I have absolutely nothing against my character and

ask the local members, the Hon. Messrs. Prowse and ‘Trainer, to

reply through the press and state the mason for my dismissal so that the public may know; and in the future it might help me to obtain another position. I am Sir. etc. P. F. MCMURREB. Spring Park Rd.

prgctice in this part oi the Pmv- ince. The other is that it. cannot fall to discredit the Minister who has been weak and foolish enough to assent to such an outrage on the advice of mere ward-heelers and party hacks. Decent people will be disgusted to know that eucli s Minister holds a place in a Fed- eral Cabinet.

IRUISES

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GIFTS

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Days. FOR MEN CIR!!! and Clprettu, all duo Xmas Wrapped.

Tobacco: C' Wflppgfl Mllltol’! Ihlr BflllhQl Military llnlr Brush Set English Leather Writing Cale: Yardley Shaving Sell

Potter t Moore Shaving Sofa llolla Bonn Tobacco Pouches, ole, mil III-ll! other [tfh Iitlbln to men at popular prion.

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The Ghost of Christmas Present rose,

“Spirit,” said Scrooge, submissively, “conduct me ivlien you will. I went fortlr last night on compulsion, and ] learnt a lesson which is working now. To-night, if y"; have ought to teach me, let me profit by it.” '

“Touch my robe!”

Scrooge did as be was told, and held it fast.

Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, gamq poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, pud, dings, fruit, and punch all vanished instantly. So did the room, the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night, and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning where (fol the weather was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops ofitbeir houses : whence it was mad delight to the boys to see it come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into artificial little snow-forms.

The house fronts looked black enough, and the win. (lows blacker, contrasting with the smopth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon {he ground; which last deposit bad been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and wagons; furrows that crossed and reerossed each other hundreds of limeg

where the great street branched oil‘, and made illlflcalq

channels, hard to trace, in the thick yellow mud and icy water, The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets iven; choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain bad, by on; consent caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts’ content. There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet. was there an air of cheerful- ness abroad that the clearest summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavoured to diffuse in vain.

For the people who were shovelling away on the house- tops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a face- tious snow-ball-better-natured missile far than many a, wordy jest-laughing heartily if lt went right and not less heartily if it went wrong. The poulterers‘ shops were still half open, andthe fruiterers’ were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the Waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out. into the street in their apo- plectic opulence. There were ruddy, brown-face, broad- girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars; and ‘winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe. There were pears and apples, clustered high in blooming pyramids; there‘ were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeeperb be- nevolence, to dangle from conspicuous books, that people’: mouths might water ‘gratis as they passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their frag- rance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shuf- flings ankle deep through withered leaves; there were Norfolk Biffins, squab, and swartby, settingoff the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and in the great compactness of their juicy persons, urgently entreaiing and beseecliing to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner. The very gold and silver fish, set forth among these ClIOlCO fruits in a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant- blooded race, appeared to know that. there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless excitement.

The Grocers’! oh the Grocers’! nearly closed, with per- haps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on tbemounter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled u and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended sc nts of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, or even that. the raisins were so plentiful» and rare, the almonds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamonni long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as loaruilw the coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently lllll0ii9- Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or lliatlhe French plums blushed in modest tartnesa from their high- ly decorated boxes, or that everything was good to eat all" in its Christmas dress : but the customers were all so hur- ried anti so eager in the hopeful promise of the day. ill"! they tumbled “up against each other at the door, clashini! their wicker baskets wildly, and left their purchases 111W" the counter, illld carae running back to fetch them. an" committed hundreds of the like mistakes in thqbest humor possible; while the Grocer and his people were so frank and fresh that the polished hearts with which they fasten- ed their aprons behind might have been their own, v11?" outside for general inspection, and for Christmas daws i" peck at if they chose.

But. soon the steeples called good people all, to chllffh and chapel, and away they came, flocking through ill" streets in their best clothes, and with their gayest film‘- And at the same time there emerged from Scores of bl" streets, lanes, and nameless turnlngs, innumerable peel) 1‘~ carrying their dinners to the bakers’ shops. The Bill"! "i these poor revellers appeared to interest the Spirit V11} much, for he stood with Scrooge beside him in a baker" doorway, and taking off thecovers as theirbearers Pilfwli sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch. Arid I! wa a very uncommon kind oi’ torch, for once or twice wilt" there were angry-words‘ between some dinner-carriers who bad joatled with each other, he shed a few drops of if?!" on them from it, and their good humour was restored dircl- ly. For they said, it was a shame to quarrel upon Christmas Day, And so it was! God love it, so it was!

In time the bells ceased, and the bakers were shut up?‘ and yeHbeI-e was genial shadowing forth of all those din- ners and the progress of their cooking, in the than?" blotch of wet. above each baker's own;- where the pnvemen smoked as if its stones were cooking too.

“It! there a peculiar flavour in what you sprinkle from yourtorch?” asked Scrooge.

‘There is. My own.” ,,,,

“Would it apply to any ldnd of dinner on thii 11"!’- naked Scrooge.

‘To any kindly given. To a poor one moat.”

“Why to a poor one most?" asked Scrooge.

“Because It needs lt moat." ,1

“Spirit,” said Scrooge, after a moment's thou!!!"- woruler you, of all the beings in themany worlds ab“! us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities 0i innocent "enjgnent." ' ,

“I!” cried a Spirit.

“You would deprive them of their means of 111"!"

every seventh day, often the only day on which they "1"

billlll to m. in all,” mu sci-om. “Wouldn't you?” fi

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