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#4 ® * i # k 3 BYOIN NERD TODAY It would be hard to find » hard-hearted, cold, Srasplo miser than ERUNE- , Bi 8n00GH, And JACOB "MA Y, his former partner, had been like him, But Mar- Joy had been dead seven years, "4 But en Christmas Kve the Ghost. of Marley paid Berooge » visit, Wrapped in clanking chains and rising melancholy * ories, the Ghost mourned for "the opportunities it had wast~ od in lite, and tried to make #erooge wee the error of his 'ways in shutting mankind out of his heart, "You shall be haunted by ihree Spirits," sald Marley's (host, "The first will call when the clock strikes One One," And ft did, Tt called itself the Ghost of Christmas Past, On the wings of the wind it hore Serooge back through the years and let him see himrelf once more as a hoya boy much ike other hoys--then ns a young man beginning to wors ship money, and beginning to Jose the love of his fellow 1. more i men, The Spirit then departs, Now GO ON WITH THD STORY : vil "HE BBPCOND OF THE SPIRITS Awaking In the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sits ting up In bed to get hls thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again "iipon the stroke of Ops, Hy felt that he was restuved to gonsciouss ness in the right niet of time, for finpecial purpose of holding a con , ference wit the second messenge! despatched to him through Jah Marley's intervention, But finding thal he turned un comfortably cold when he hegan 10 wonder. whieh of his enrtains this * mew spectre would draw back, he put them every one aside with his own hands, and lying down again, established a sharp look-out all round the bed, For he wished to ohallenge the Spirit on the moment of its sppsarance, and did not wish te be taken by surprise and made nervous. Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on bhe- " AIL with a move or two, 'and # usually equal to the time of day, express the wide range of thelr capacity for adventure hy ob- serving that they are goad for any~ thing from piteland toss to man. slaughter; between whieh opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and compnehensive range of subjects, Withont ventur- ing for Serooge quito as hardly as this, I don't mind calling on you to believe that he was ready for a good broad field of strange appear: ey , and that nothing between a baby THREE ' and a rhinogeros would have aptonished him very muoh, Now, being prepared for almost Lt 1 . » prepared for nothing: and conse- §' Lauently, when the bell struck One, "aad Jue. abape anpeared, he was £2 Jaken with a violent fit of trems i bling, Five minutes, ten minutes, | § quarter of an hour went by, yet : fothin came, All this time he lay upon fis bed, the very core and Yeentre of » blaze of ruddy ght, fi whien streamed upon it when the £ 'elock proclaimed the hour, and o which, being only light, was more $ alarming than a dozen ghosts, as | 'S lie was powerless to make out what | © 4t meant, or would he at; and was | sometimes apprehensive that he 4 might be at that very mement an » interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the consolation of knowing it, At last, however, he began to think-----as you & "ar 1 would have thought at fivet; # for iL is always the person not In the predicament who knows what ®' sught to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too--at last, I say, he began to 'think that the source and secret of this ghostly light might be in the | adjoining room, from whence, on "further tracing it, | seemed to #' «shine, This idea taking full pase session of his mind, he got up softs ly, and shuffled in his slippers te the door, The moment Scrooge's hand was "on the lock a strange voice called ® him hy name, and bade him enter, We obeyed, 1t was his awn room, There was Sno doupt about that, But it hed , undergone a surprising (ransforma- tlan, The walls and ceiling were 'so hung with living green, that it looked a perfect grave; from every "part of which bright gleaming her . vies glistened, The crisp leaves of "holly, mistletoe, and {vy reflected hack the light, aa if so many little mirrors had been scattered there; . and such a mighty blaze went up | . the chimney as that dull petrifica- AN & tion of a heabth had never known '@& In Horooge's time, or Marley's, ov y for many fd many a wirter sea. _ son gone, Weaped up an the floor, "to form a kind of theone, were tur: keys, meese, game, poultry, brawn i areat jointa of meat, sucking-nige long wreaths of sausages, mines ples, plum puddings, barrels of ; BETH 8, red-hot chestnuts, cherry a od apple, julcy oranmes, lua- 'vious pears, Immense twelfth-cakes, aud seething bowls of puneh, that "made the chamber dim with their felous steam, In easy atate upon "glorious to see; who hove a rlowing fgorch, In shane not unlike Plenty's harn, and helped It up, high up, to ished its light on Rcrooge as he came peeping round the door, ©. "Come in!" exclaimed the Ghost, 5. %Qome in! and know me better, 3 an!" 7 Heraoge entered timldly, and , 'hung his head hefore this Spinit, +' He was not the dogged Rerooge he "1 had been; and thoueh the Spirit's 51 ayes wera clear and kind, he aia _ mot like to meet them, . £0.04 am tha Ohost of Chrlstwap § Se Cfirisfmas Ca "| Berooge, Present," upon mel' Sorooge reverently did go, 11 was clothed In ons simple deep green ,' ar mantle, bordered with white fur, This garment hung so Inosely on the figure, that its capa cious bresst wag bare, as if disdain. ing to he warded or concealed by any artifice, Its feet, observable beneath the amp! folds of the gars mept, were also bare; and on Its head it were no other covering thas 8 holly wreath, set here and thers with shining feleles, It's darks brown eurls were long and free} free as ita genial face, itn sparkling aye, its open hand, its cheery voles its unconstrained demeanour, an its joyful air, Girded round its middle was an antigne wsoabbard) but no sword was {n it, and the an~ elent sheath was eaten up with rust, *You have never seen the like of ma before!" exclaimed the Spirit, "Never," Hoerooge made ayswer to it, "Have never walked forth with the younger members of my fams ily, meaning (for Y am very young) my elder brothers horn fin thess 1ater years?" pursued the Phantom, "I don't think T have," sald "I'm afraid I have not, brothers, sald the Spirit, "Look Have you had many Spirite"" "More than elghteen hundred," said the Ghost, lerice, There were ruddy, ghrowns faced, broad-girthed Spanish on- fon, shining in the fatness of thelr growth like Spanish friars, and winking from thelr shelves in wanton slyness at the lvls as they went hy, and glanced demurely at the hung-sp mistletoe, There were pears and clustered high in blooming pyra- mids; there were hunches of grapes, made, In the shopkeepers' henevolénce, to dangle from con- splenous hooks that people's mouths might water gratis as they passed; there were plles of filherts, mossy and brown, recalling, in thelr frags vange, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle desp through withered Ipaves; thers were Norfolk Biffing, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and, in the great compnotness of their Juley persons, urgently en- treating and hesseching to be curs ried home iu paper bags and salen after dinner, The very gold and silver fish, set forth among these choles fruits In a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant-hlooded vace, ap peared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fig, went masping round and round thelr Hitle world in slow and pass slonless exeliement, The Grocers'! oh, the Grocers' nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; hut through those gaps auch glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descend ing on the counter made a merry, sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or thal the canisters were vattled up and apples "A tremendous family to provide for," muttered Serooge, down ke juggling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and $/ Sanything, he was not by any means | | | | The people were jovial | th The Ghost of Christmas Present rose, "Spirit, sald sively, "conduct ma where you will, I went forth Jast night en compuls aglon, and I learned a lesson which | is working now, Tonight if you| have aught to teach me, let me profit by it." "Touch my robe!" Scrooge did as he wae told, and | held it fast, | Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, game, poultry, Norooge submis. turkeys, geese, brawn, meat, plas, sausages, ays ters, ples, puddings, fruit and punch, all vanished instantly, He did the voom, the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night, and they stood In the city streets on Chylsts mas morning, where (for {he weathar was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in serap- Ing the snow from the pavement in front of thelr dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mad delight to the boya to wee it come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into arti tical little anowstomns, The house-fronts looked hlack enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth wide sheet of spow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and wagons! furrows that crossed and recrosted cach other hundreds of times . where the great alreels branched off: and made Intricate ohannela, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and fey water, The sky was gloomy, and the shavtest streets were choked up with dlngy mist, halt thawed, halt frozen, whose heavier pariioles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as it all the chimneys in Great DRadm had, by one consent, caught five, and were hlazing away to their dear heart's content, There was noth» ing very cheerful in the climate of the tows, and yet was thera a alr of chearfulness ahroad that™ the clearest summer air and brightest aummer sun might have endeavours od to diffuse in vain, For the people who ware shovels Hog away on the house-tops were, jovial and full of glee: calling out | to one another fram the parapels, | and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball--heiler-natured missile far than many a wordy jest laughing heartily if It went right, and' not less heartily if it went wrong, The poulterery' shops were still ha't apen, and the frultevers' were radiant th thelr glory, here were great, round, pat-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the walats carts of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the atreet in their apoplec i land in {tg Ohristmas dross How and and full of glee, en exchanging a facetioua snowball, coffer ¥ of ) Lhe DORE or even that the rals plentiful and rare, the aime extremely white the cinnamon so long and stralght other 0 delicious died fruilis aAked and With molten sugar as 10 make coldest loakers-on feel fain and subsequently billou Nor was Ib that molet and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest tartness from thelr highly-decorated hoxes or that everything waa good to sal hut the we a0 na wera so da so sticks of the oar spotted the eplces 50 the figs were customers were all so hurried and 50 eager in the hopeful promise of the day, that they tumbled up against eneh other at the door, erashing their wicker baskets wilds ly, and left their purchases upon the counter, and came running hack to feteh them, and committed hun drads of tha lke mistakes, fn the best humour possible; while (he grocer and his people were so frank and fresh, that the polished hearts with which they fastened thelr aprons behind might have heen their own, warn outside for general Inspection, and for Christmas dawas to peck at if they chose, Dut soon the steeples called good people all to church and ohapel, and away they came, flocking thpough the aireels in their best clothes and with their gayest faces And 'al the same. time there emerged, from scores af hystreels lanes, and nameless turnings, ins numerable people, carrying thelr dinners to the bakers' shops, The sight of these foor revellers aps peared fo Interest the Spirit very much, for he stood with Herooge heside him In a haker's doorway, and, taking oft the covers as thely hearers passed, sprinkled incensa an their dinners fram his torch, And It was a very uncommon kind of tore, for once or twiys, when there were angry worda between some dinnerscarviers who had jow tlad each other, he shed a few draps of water on them from It, and their wood-humor was restoved directly, For they sald, it was a shame to quarrel upon Christmas Day, And 80 It was! Cod love It, so it waa! (To ha Continued) DAILY RECIPE Candle Salad Place a whale slice of canned pine apple on a lettuce leaf. Place one hall a peeled banana upright in the centre of the pineapple, Tap the ban ana with a red cherry, Garnish with mayonnaise ta represent the candle with tallow running down the sides, Serve with angel cake for luncheon This is a very pretty salad to serve for the Christmas tea, "Da you really need. thirty law books © That's just (0 seare the judge" FINANGIAL CRASH FEARED BY LONDON Uneasiness Prevails Con cerning Condition of Great Inveresk Company ---- London, Dee, 23, That the unenss Iness in the City concerning the fin apeial condition of the great Inveresk paper company and allied concerns is not without some justification, is shown by an official statgment thurs day announcing formation of & com mittee to safeguard the interests of prefrence stockholders, Dividend pay ments on first and second preference shares have been postponed, William Harrison, who has had u meteoric career in finance, has resign ed the chairmanship of virions gon stituent boards, The committee declares the com pany's indebtedness to bankers and others exceeds $12,500,000 and expre ses the opinion such a sum gannot he regarded as a loan for ordinary banking purposes, 'The company i self announces that while aggremat profits continue satisfactory, the strin gent market conditions now existing preclude the company trom raising further capital and make it essential | tor the present to retain all the cash resources in the business Mr, Harrison 1s the chalrman of some 19 companies, most prominent among them the Inveresk company and the company ning the Dail Chronigle, He also heads companies controlling ilustrated nowspapers anil papers published outside of London, joe four years of age now he frst appeared among London fin anelers four years age, coming from Yorkshire, He is the son of a farm er and was educated at Leeds | versity, becoming a sollelt BRITISHBIDFOR ~~ TRADE IN GHINA Winning by Hustle -- New | | Men and Methods | Brought into Play OW some and ne ods have ly altered 1) { British trade in Ching relval Phillips in a message Dail Mall ( the slogan of the ale hit London men meth tech writes | profound | nique « | Sir Pe | the London | and hustle ehool of who sit | i out | The | | dern man busine sna § lawn [o, long Cl { Lalpan The | fFprinee magniheent! one of the treaty post aloof behind a and permit his Chinese elient proach humbl | screen « Vdvert on his own tern meer ean he look on add 1 at hom Na lk hi I exile ur \ ioeountry house wit) | exert) nan his part, One } | RTeat per | Bn pathetie likely ta } Foreign NaN ay he ere mish, and his epitaph | raft hina Heitaln | ni) chaoti we an trad ereasing steadi! her fair share, but work, Despite th of internal transg unrest, the vear show the highest figures vet tained partmen aver with fretting h \ hard nai Hieal returns 1 ast and the Custon in modern times in th 8 of re \ Britain's Share mereased bh | by 8 no | my Wa tram Great tain OT Imports and export nt sed val | \ gent | rade 1a Inereasing, | petition The He \n Ching th naelve ] ment realize dependent foreign merehant Chine financed by Chinese banks, are | Writien steadily extending thelr acti 3 both I DYN [at the const and upsee laneholy them ave | from Kurog | through the leeal middleman Ta meet this competition firms that are fully alive to the situation fighting tor trade they would in a home market hee he native that they | upon the nem hay formidahl pn dealer and buyer Are no longer can cli di Wi 13! unt Man and out "WN purchasing goods direct instead of going tien British il when reali th | ship CODFISH THRIVES all IN COLD WATER 5: Hew Are " I8 one Investigations Show That Ih | Cod Is Not Found In Water Above 51 Degrees Ht, John's, Nfld, Dee, A I'he | general conclusion that cod are not found in water above 31 degrees {ah | | renheit has been reached by investi. | § gators who last summer studied the fishing! grotinds along the south side of the Strait of Belle Isle at its east ern ond, ane of the two centrey of the Strait where the codfishery is uns { usually rich, | Far the purpose of comparing | catehes of figh with the temperature | of the water, & thermometer was used that could be lowered ta any given depth and drawn to the sur face showing the temperature at the depth in question, Records of the lnvestigatidn eon. | ducted co-aperatively by tha Memer fal University College and the Des partment of Marine and Fisheries, show that the codfishery suddenly | began in the Strait of Helle Isle on { June & when the water at hottom had reached a temperature of 482 F, and that good fishing continued while hottem water in the Day fluctuated || between 47 and 81 degrees, When, in the latter part of July, the water temperature rose pereaptibly, a marked falling off in the cod fishery was observed though herring and por poise were abundant The use of the thermometer ine fish | ing is more applicable to trawling and Hain, since movable gear can be shifted easily into cod water, where {as traps must he left for long pers ods in one place, where temperatives | § {vary tray day to das, not quire the have « "Why op, ising Dally Ma [IY mn told of the proud elipper Wore Ih toll i Lo museum last per ahi missed wit y of i not] ps da n CARVE be warn Wn voy we el Cu that Wi AW nner We have hale per ry Viving the wl for, hould we additional new WILSON Manager The Oshawa Times, "5 0LD CLIPPERS HAD ROMANTIC STORY Are Now Relic of Age of Ocean Trans. portation 1 in the ale al pont S000 1 of the ald time hat bit of new a hriel h reat deal on vanished glories \ties A Ong hather ship was a living is altogether wnlike | built those a different outlook set of standards hip, magnificent, a thing ad romange, pectimen an art musewm, and deel the thought that that is all he | by AR, ALLOWAY Managing Director The Times Publishing Cos , '" . Greetings! AY the Season of Gracious Gifts find all Our Friends, both read- ers and Advertisers, enjoying all the Wonderful Blessings this Glori- ous Season can give, and may the Christmastide of 1929 bring to you all that True Spirit of Good Cheer, Peace and Goodwill which is the real mean- ing of Christmas, The Oshawa Daily MM The ¢INTYRE HOOD Lditoy Oshawa Dally Times, SHIP PASSENGERS" EXPERIENCE ROUGH ATLANTIC PASSAGE | Noted Visitors Arrive At Boston, Including Sir Wile fred Grenfe! and Lady I We ll loo, striving to produce the ul wperous and at most an utility, will, in the end, also) orld | produce supreme beaut) taking one thing "Already there are indications Why should the phan- {mail plane, soaring thiough the sky, Vers ago [18 & thing to lit one's heart, Perhaps tuo shail dhit are hus least WARNS quite with another tom vessels of seventy-five old age | ne toreve and tairly m relatively happ smooth! uy \ an [In the course ol yours, we our modern | De making cargo-carriers that ar 4 orthy to stand beside the elippers ot \ lost century, THE CANDY JAR | move us ta idle day-die "Perhaps, It (8 because ld 18 Just a little hit bepul For the chipp everything elie, was bea iy short Bygone util I in is "n Dreath-taking Was, wa inting or a va t lovely bits | Richard Henry {ull-rigred rehand Creation us a great | thedral, Une of the of prose in English is Dana's deseription ef a ship under sail, Ovorvea 15K, upon in whieh an artist might, engage, not a business of rusty ¢lanking machines ai Nh toda "We miss that than we know We not enough to be carrying on the of daily life with beautify! te carding the clipper for we have saved time and gained pro fitss-and lost omething pre elous, What future will ever want 1920 tanker or cattle hoat "Yet we may console elipper ship, after all Ihe eMclont and wu eful beautiful, It came Into # money maker The elumay, off ships of the eighteenth century Rave way to i, not Haring architects wanted to produce beauty, but heeause they wanted to produge speed and make mone) "They were, in other wonls hy the same motives that move us, And there {a just a ehance--a chanee worth clinging to-=that our own age Lhe popularity of the candy Ju today da evidenced in the variety of designs showing this Yuletide, Cry {utal Jars are particularly intriguing Gold bands add to the attraetiy ness of many of these glagy howls that will prove ernamental to dining room buffer, Rbrary table or bedroom dresser In ve olden days, when th sual plum was a "little rounded mass formed by a caroway seed or a small hit of elunamon heavily coated with sugar" and when fashion demanded, as told by Richard Steele in "The | Tatler," one silver box of a larger slge for a caroway eomiits te be tak on at sermons," Old English sweetmeat lasses, standing mor than six Wo high, were provided with 4 gibbed' ogee bowl, To --------, FASHION TIPS Fishnet is more popular than ever but the mesh {3 going bigger, Roads and more béads 1 the ery from the smart wooden bead for the sports outfit to the precious and semi precious stone for the formal evening wear Dame fashion tells us that the ma jority of the smart spring hats will remain small and will be composed chiefly of felt and straw combinations, Dee, 3=There news that New York hip to an One A Hime, was a trad Banton, De Several prominent Deftishers arrived here during the past few days, bringing tales of stops my ei Among them were wir Wilired Grenfel, noted Labrador missionary, and Lady Grenfell, and Sie Tole Beoderlel, councellor of tha Heltlsh embassy at Washington, and Lady Nrodes I'he latter had been home ster slpamers AI mment ne ni Ament Lt of thing mers nek work alteanic al Para could bh romantie tiles 0 the ek He en, MMos A At he Grenfdf went te England twa month in connegtion with thele Labrador enterprises, \While in Eng» land, Lord Maclay, Heitish ship mags nate, presented Dr, Grenfell with the | framework of a hospital whieh will he erceted at Cartwright, Labradar, in memory of Lady Maelay Another prominent Dreitisher to ars rive was Mrs, Charlotte R, Hope, fors mer Mayoress of Liverpool, Eng, She came over to visit hee sister in Los Angeles, Cal on very the museum of long tn save @ wil HEL Wa i one singe. the day I'he built wo tab aurselyve Was not fabulous okl Existence as sawed Weeause we put the under thy rT ------------ My, Lionel Phillits, Wiliam St, B., in spending Christmas with friends dn Paronto moved 80 stirred hy indication that May the New Year bring Peace and Plenty to all our friends and patrons Yours For a Merry Christmas Cooper - Smith Co. 8 Celina St. Oshawa FEED