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gut. ousy." A gust of wind threw a urry of snow in the boy s face, where the soft akes quickly melted and ran down his pale cheeks. The wet coat sleeve, brushed across his eyes to free the lashes from the snow, left a smutch that accented the ex- pression of utter wearinecs, and` seemed to draw the frowning brows ' in one lowering` line beneath the wrinkled forehead. If. \\'nn1(l ho um... :_ u_ v uuys parents. Tom remembered now, as he stood at the intersection of the paths, how his mother had cried a little when he mentioned Mr. Ti1ton s plum pua-l ding offer. He remembered, toe,. the gru command of his father to . get busy. EUR? 11`? xvihrl `in-n-v n "-~------ ~`` ' pzu~ .. A day or two before Mr. Tilton had stopped the boy as he trudged by, and asked him how he would like to earn some extra money after` school, taking orders for plum pud- dings and Christmas cakes. It was good business on the part of the 1 proprietor of the bake shop, for few 1 people could resist the appeal or 1 the ragged urchin, and he knew it Tilton, however, considered himself 1 a philanthropist, knowing, as he did, t the pinched circumstances of the 1; boy s parents. s \'F.om 1`Dh`II !n`\]'\c.var] nnw n~ 1- -L-A ` A eyes 01 all who passed. IThe dull day and empty square were strangely in keeping with the slouching gure of the boy, who stood hesitating where the path 3 branched o". One fork led to the south gate and Ti1ton s bakery across the road. Here on Saturday's the boy earned the week s supply of bread peddling pastries. The other rtrailed on_in the direction of the crystal palm house and public con- servatories at the west end of the me we mg coat up over ms ears. !1`om had been a boy Only the whitening walks lighten- time to read, he could ed Ihe wintry gloom. The park was himself adventuring deserted, where usually the children Indies, or wandering of nearby tenements romped m'g1ade. abandon, clamoring over benches, Perhaps it was the climbing into the crotclies of the two tion from winter chi chestnut frees, but always having re- atmosphere, or it ma spect for the flower beds planted and natural exhaustiion tlr watched over by Sergt. Jim. Now. feel all queer, for snow covered mounds marked the booy crumpled up and places where a few weeks before full length on the ag bright blossoms had gladdened the Mind your step th eyes of all who passed. called Sergt Jim as he (lav and nmnfxr QnI1n1r-a Han nrd1'nnr\--t -..JL'1 ` - _,y \I`\.U 3.4: Soft snow akes, the big feathery things, embraced him as he entered. kind, settled lightly on the torn cap Some where In the dense foliage of and upturned collar of the youngster many rare tropical plants, little ` as he scuffed along the path that birds trilled softly as if loath to crossed the city park. One of the break the sweet silence. A minia- flakes must have found its way be- Lure waterfall could be faintly j tween coat collar and straggly, un heard, trickling into a green pool, ` combed hair. Perhaps it even went'Where gold sh swam lazily back 1 slitherin-g down the boy s skinny and forth. Everything seemed to back, for he shivered as he shrugged breath peace and contentment. If the too big coat his from had been who had had ( read. he cmild have 1'.mm:.m,i 01' so in ms canvass for Christ akc orders. Then there would e evening` papers to sell. pair of grimy lit`le fists clinch- the pockets of the too big while a lusty snifl` wrinkled m7 V `ils of the pinched red nose. ething rebelled in the heart of I youn,':ste1'. on \'.'l1nn1 Hm ,, ,.... ...... ..uvx..: uuu uauup hing: kept him in a perpetual ' The cup of hot cocoa from Grimsha\_v s thermos at noun con the only comforting thing (I known. Now he was head- r TiIton :~:, only to be sent out to t.amp slushy streets for an .- or so in his 1 Than liwnvn ....n..m Page Six for hislof fi [1 cold C get his Chris ss tea. post- damp '~\`Ls *petuaJ part} from of us fe(:1 good tellin 1t G "or speec Yhrist~ Scrgt B dc-cla1 1inch- day 3 0 You ; d the again cIo; rt 11.0. r(lm:.: some down Then tter `with i e::ist`- 1:01` m *~`e5:`.'.~`-.1'5 - ILUUEC. In his rebellion, stopped to gure out that the pe..- nies he brought in were practically all the family had to live on, and the chance to earn a few extra one: was a God-send just at this time. A long period,of unemployment had .'.`-"iqgnerated his father into a com- :1;eloafer, who looked upon the l`; of odd jobs as charity, and Tom had not Jifdly resented the kindly efforts . ,1,-:...vf those who wanted " fl`he feeble attempts at made by the frail mother, resulted in spending at the drug store most of t had been paid. Tom rnaliznrl 9: lm cvmrl 0`-`\"" corner he money she to help him. ` earning, . usually _` . ut:uuut:,' ' 1'1`-`l'HapS 1' )f t,wollt1on w having antcd exh: m. qt rked crumpl ks ( lened yol `:y the adjacent. sound of -To oy, _"I say, t rlght, he e2- d by the pathe for the coun aturdayc laddie. Wi" ;upply hand into the he some of the 1 pale face. blic Well, now 1 answer ? he signs of re :. Tilton Hungry? and let his h Juld fhe sergean 3y after about tea am nn in the torn c: Lucky for . bit; o` me fe along, let s sec upeal the old fin bc mew Hot tea wi plenty of suge ho rlizl IH-nr. lm-4&1- :., 'AvyuCll Lulu. So it is---a big Christmas card ` I grew meselzf for all the people who are trying to forget Christmas, or think Christmas has forgotten them. The bov s eves lawerod and hla ORB OI CHCID IOIKS," RC S310. VI`.here you are--another big or der for the florist, '` laughed Sergt. Jim; Where shall I send 'em, sir T he asked, fumbling in his pockets for pencil and paper. Do vnn nwnn vnn l`| emu] lnnv peucu illlu. p'drpEI'. Do you mean you 11 send her more than one 1 Gnu-n +'h~n:-- +1-`nun I'\\QI\ l..L.. -5 mlmc unnstmas nas Iorgotten them. boy's eyes lowered and his ..hin quivcred painfully. I I'!uess---I guess mv mni-hm-'a .1111! q ulvcreu pa.1nI uuy. guess--~I guess my mother's one of them folks, he said. H`.horn vnn nrr:._n11nHm1~ I-n nu- mem, arena me Yes, but I them-un1ess y` 'I`ilfnn s plum ,1)` suggested Tom. ll'I'L - n 1.nu._.-I. ,, .. ..,...u u; Lin; .~Lfl`}.(.`d.L LX213`- ? the boys shoulders a playful slap. Buck up, sonny lad, life s full of battles, all righi, `though you re 2. ' bit young to be in the ranks al- ready--but there are always the 5' palm houses somewhere along the l way if you look for them. (7on1_9 now, I want, to show you - something before the light fails, and ' you have to scurry o` to sell your evenin papers. Tom followed the sergeant to the next green house, noticing for the rst time that he limped badly. l `9There, what do you think of that ? asked his guide, pointing to dozens of rows o bright green foliage on long stems topped with huge scarlet; owers, a` veritable eld of gorgeous poynseltias. Looks like a big Christmas card, replied Tom. On It. - LE'__ (VI HIJYC (Hall UIXC 1' Sure thmg; there are lots of them, aren't there ? Vac }\n1- T r\nn f -nav unn Fnv uu.55\.uu.u LVJAAA ` It's a bargain-make it two and a cake while _you re about it. Now `let me see. the address was, Mrs. on . y LUUHI you." 11 Go:-:h I" exclaimed Tom, almost" n speechless with admiration for b Sergt. Jim. d But I don`t hate Cliristmas now," declared the ex-.-soldier, and some 1- you ll be likin it better, too. see, it vsas nearin the holidays afier I d been in hospital for, on to eighteen months. The` said I would be able to do light work if it could be found. Christma:~: morning came and it :1 big official looking envelope - for me. When I opened it up, what I do you 'hinl< I read 7 Why, that l Sergt. James Mulholland, I\I.C., that's me, was appointedearetaker of the l Alwyn Botanical Gardens by order 5 of the mayor. All this` beauty a ' C`l1!`l.'~,'tm.'.`.S pre:~:en1. Sergt. Jim waved his arms about to indicate the palm hou.-:e and the gardens. Gosh ! exclaimrztl l'om again. The big hand of the sergeant g'ax-.- shoulders a of in ranks there are palm houses somewhere umv H-` IVA I,.-1. Am. _ , -_ ......... uuull: UL L118 1 officers and men of our company got] 1 leave to go to Paris or over to ;!London for the holidays--but I didn =. Host of the fellows who were left behind with me got boxes from home full of candy, fruit cake, bits of r tree and holIy--but I didn t. Cold and wet, I spent that first Christmzza Eve alqgae at a listening post-s'cared to death. The next I Iwas out all night with a working A party, dodging shells, and only three us got back alive. You couldn t very merry, or :~:pread much will around them times, I m you. Cm;-l1 V r.-.-,.l...'.\.-.) wv 1: If sugar in it, d l, the bottle .5 box, d ,told him about the 3 Mr. Tilton s offer, I I with real cream rained from in Sergt. Jim s lunch and a sugar coated Bath bun stuck full of rainsins, warmed Tom and set his tongue to old wine. it, he had conservatories all his troubles. He bake shop am and how he hated Christmas, too. Just for a moment he had t.he feeling that all the loveliness around him shuddered at that word hate. Sergt. Jim stop- ped pruning the dead leaves from a clump of ferns and bo_\"s dishevelled head. "1 know, sonny lad; there meself. I thought I never wanted to hear the word Christmas again after the two Christmas Eves I spent. over there. Some of the got l ve been go London 1 didn". fellows who ln{`+ k,L:..,. , aw - and wagging like . Almost before he realized i told the caretaker of the l ( l l f l I gently patted the I '_' Lu-1: mu rm box. ( coat< _...,,..1. J'..H -4` , now, sonny, what's the 3 asked as Tom showed returning consciousness. 1Hungry ? Tom nodded slightly I head fall back against 2 3 se1'geant s shoulder. How ` - and a bun? The head l . cap nodded again. you, me lad, I was a " feed this noon. Come E see what there is left in S box. f Hot for: u-SH. --A-1 A-~' ' suuno. 01 *1`om's fall. I that was a cropper, all, right, exclaimed, kneeling down pathetic heap of rags. Out: count, too, I believe, poor With this he dipped hie , the green pool and dashed some cool water nn Hm hm. ` `-...... uuu uccu U. uuy VVIIO Had had 1- have imagined s in the East; a in some fairy a 1'gIade. I2 , sudden transi- h )litiOY1 chill to summer 2 - may have been I; 1 that made him suddenly the 8 : and sprawled at 1.` ` ag pavement. SE there, sonny, 3: rushed from orchid house at the Tom s fall. kg N} Ra`; 4-1..., mm. .. M----~-- " bI1l;'I'L' 5" can't pay you for, you ll buy on'e of ,pudding-s, anxiously: (1 I u: green pool and dashed water on the boy s ' the From August 1st to October 30wth,lf.ver( 1930, shipments of wheat from Can- 1 was ada totalled 75,240,000 bushels to`hope Lgined I East 1 I __ ~. .26 countries and shipments of our for ""13" in the same period totalled 2,175,-,nf t mm 273 barrels to 63 countries. The buye bfiell British Isles was the largest buyer of 23c. 1"` wheat and our, having taken 49, play( ' W 807, 595 bushels and 774,311 bar- was `d rels respectively. Germany was t.he,chicl( M` ,, second best customer for our with 25c ; my 388,215 barrels. Eg , I usau Deen paw. All Tom realized as he sped along the winding path, was that hfe kept getting harder and harder, tha: `_f.1_1erc was never any play time for him, '61` 9. penny for a treat hke other boys had. That every day be` ` can at 5 in the dark of the rarlv Lnu pizul 10m's story had sug,q'este spiri. There s going to be another` iofrrial letter Christmas mo1'niny.r,," he said `o himself. I need a lad; By the time like that to help me feed the goldfboy of to-day ` sh and save this old leg: of mine:laiting the horsc so many .=tep.=--and it's about time, coonskin, and I'm thinking. tha` the kid found hi~ poor father ha _ palm house. _ eithe1'.--Sa1`ni:1 3 L:llLLL'K.l(1 ms nrst customer. Half an hour later, with Sergt. Jim's knitted muffler snuggly wrap- ped about him under the too big coat, Tom hurried out into the snowy dusk, a determined look on I the pale face that had been so sul~ len and rebellious. The caretaker of the palm house watched the boy un- ` t.lI he di.=appeared through the veil of I akes. Then he looked the big glass -' door and swung` into the Ivinding 1 path thinking as he went along: of 5 the plan Tom s story had sug,Q`este going to hn nnnmm-! ruom 10, 114'! Garry chuckled his first customer. T-TnH*' rm Inmno 1!1f'nu ...:- 1115 muum. One at the palm house, sonny~ lad, and the cake and the other at room 16, 1147 Garry street. his rst mxsfnmnv I [5 Mrs. Tom Brady, room 16, 1147 Garry street, answered Tom. It was his turn now to search for a bit of paper on which to note the ser- g`eant s order. And where shall I deliver the puddings '.7 he asked, . wetting a stubby end of pencil in his mouth. (M19 -3} Han vunlvm 1...` . . N A . A -- imuch of a success of life.- navulg run 11 1s too late to ._._...__ .. . week s prices, pullt By the time a chap gets through dozen, .s'tandards 50 having fun it is too late to make dozen. gmuch succnsc nf' Iii-`p_ . A r--~--I ---~-`~ ).V1l1lal', uro township. there buying up quant Millard, an elderly man, was dvuce for the holiday so aroused in the small `hours of the- One of the oldest stal morning by `three men who asked heard to remark: I've l E for water for their car. When Mil-fhere for a number of ye. 3 lard opened the door they pounced is the biggest Christmz " on him, dragged him to the ground,-`ever saw. It did not pounded him, tied him up, thrust a like hard times when th ; gag in his mouth and tied a towel!went away laden with over his eyes. Then one sat on himichicken. vegetables and while the other fwo ransacked the capacity of their baskets house, getting only $5 in cash. Geese were the chief ` Ryckman and Jones are also the market and were off. charged with sheep stealing. [and 25c 21 pound. At the market, when it was From _August 30th, were such nmmm.,._. ..r man, za, 0: Norm Uruua; W. Prich- ard, 24, of Oro, and Harry Jones, of Orillia, for the alleged robbery with violence last fall of Andrew Millard, Oro township. Millard. an eldnrlv man mu ORILLIA MEN ARE ' CHARGED WITH ROBBERY Provincial Constables Purvis and Palmer have arrested Ernest Ryc.k- man, 25, of North Orillia; W. Prich- ard, 24. Oro. and T-Tart-v Inm--. OLHCT DOYS nau. '].`Ila'li CV01`)? nay De` gan at 5 in the dark of the early morning and ended at 12 at night after he had been softing up pins in Baxter's bowling alley since 7.30 p.m. Even the hours at school, which the school board insisted up- on, were added. horrors, because he always failed, and some times had to pinch himself to Leap awake in class. 'I"1~m tn-onf. fnuc Jam. .4 L1... v\n`vv-I Don't worry about that. It s easy. If V thirty it only costs 60 cents. I guess v with a son and heir to celebrate". And so, for the price of a movie, the} vieit by telephone every even.ing-the n "Tom. How wonderful! Is it really you?" "It certainly is. I just thought I'd better find out how the two of you are behaving. And Im going to call you every night till I get back". But Tom-won t it be terribly expensive-- and with all these bills?" But that night, when she was as lonely as she could be, the telephone beside her bed jingled checrily. Long Distance calling. Then his voice in her car. Her baby was only three days old when her husband was called out of town. She had such a desolate sinking feel- ing when he told her and it was worse still when he was actually gone. smpments 01' flour their gu iod those I buyers, n( he Only 49,- played at 3 slow. t.he,chickc11 at zner pound. Eggs re] pricc Khan n-nfa +Iav-Anni. .J........ The Northern Auvanoe :1! the average (.'0C;`-.'(` rigboy succeeds in accumu- zglzmting horsohide, the pip:.-`kin, t`-1" . nallv Hm exmr.m1,:.. noun; uuu :lU1':'Cl11(lC, U10 pl nally the hasn t much Ob-~01`ve1'. mu`: u1zu`1u:`L', wnen it found then- Dwth, f.vere such quantities of geese, iti 1 San-ywas thoug`-ht the fanners could not to`hope to get moge than 20c a pound their geese. With the CX(!(`] )Lll)l1 75,-,nf birds sold to wliolosule fhe no geese were sold under a few turkeys were dis- ;9, 35c :1 pound and the sale ar- 'as Duck sold at 25c pound, t.he,chicken 20c to 25c and fowl at ith 3 remained at the previousf pullots going at 40c gh dozen, 50c and ,e.-Im.i_- n-2,. UYOU ples. Vn ..... .. \lL -.....-u guuuneas as he de- livered them from house to house 7 A vicious kick of his stubbed-out boot sent a snow covered pile 0: \_l.eaves in all directions. "$1__giin: bringing Christmas cakes to nobody, he muttered as he bll ~ his blue lips in an attempt to fo_rce back the sqbs that were choking him. I !I`hen he bolted straight for the palm house. l `[9. Id. ....L..n:,._ In ' ` :1tHu: 50c and svlcvts 52 A good supply of vegetables \m.~:'.. brought to market and some ap- _ - av nf' +n-.-in-u mm, 0 Not in years has the Town Hall` :- market drawn such crowds of cus- i- tomers as'lled the lower part of s, the hall to overowing Saturday] 5; morning. The big Christmas market! N was on and most of Barrie was: buying quantities of pro-I s season. 3- slallholders was I been coming -!here years, but this; I Christmas market it ."ever look mucn 1 the cus`Lomer.~:' `!went with geese and` `ichicken. fruit to un- baskets. feature or Jim mm-l:n+ nml Inn:-n An`. I - 'CROWDS ATTEND HOLIDAY MARKET AT TOWN H4 V they had their little 1ing-the next best thing to we wait till eight- we can stand that re"- u` uusxelzs. o!f(.-red at 23:: I. opening of n found 1.hm-4. I nc op(:_nn1;,; of : found ul tn-ncn Hi Evening rates on "Anyone" (station-to- station) calls now begin dt 7 pan. Night rate: begin at 8.30 p.m. [mt give "Long Distance the number you want - it speeds up the service. If you don ! - know the distant number, "Informa- tion" will look it up for you. _ ., ,\(;}._|_\' ,\ .`.'l'Il.'l."'. f'III:!s~: 1'.\1 '5'!) ALL Al\l\l_V auu mma could stand no more How he hated Ch1`i.~:tma.=.. It had never brought anything but tears and grouches to his house. l9 was just another thing` to make poor people unhappy. Why should others have plum puddings and Christmas cakes, when he could only get a whiff of their goodness he de- , house to I 1 sent 1 Jeaves 1 \...~_ 4-.` . . ..:.!.4. l...:....`,- \Vn :mpm-'i:|lv Hw priv- i|v;,w ml .S`('l'\'|ll_.';' _\/ml tlmv illp; HI!` _\'r':z ` nml lnnk Fm \\':II'(l in |'('lH!\\'('(l f'1'i<~Vm{T sllips luring: I955 . We wish um` l'ri<-/mls nml lm'(~(l. (HHEH all llw guml lllirlgs ml lil'u; l:|Hl,in;;' lwnllll, [H'()H|H`l'll_V, yyultl (`lH'!'l' uml ll:I])[)lll!'..\'H. The Home Furnishevr 1. E. amzmi A. A. S1\IJ"`J.f. Christmas 1 930 CIilS>`. The great gh ~ ' Q . W8 l R7-`V0 _021S)ly $0013: the pa]m aim. mmst air 1 `S eager push pungent. Qarthv odofidenf with th(;. . 0 growing Manager ':HURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1930 ...., - - ...._._.__-...__.-.-_- pain.` 01 grnny llt`l0 : 1 youngster, on whom the burdens `_,t"life had been weighing heavier every day. All the bitter` ness of a losing struggle for exist- ence had already entered the soul of The boy, and his unclr.-rnouriszhed body and mind could stand Cl1l`l _rnn: n 1-....J :_*f""'_' Thp pun nl lnnl nnnnn \\'1'lllKlCCl Iorehead. It would be warm in the palm house, Tom thought, as he shivereo again, digging his chin into l11S Cl`.'_`i`L. He had been cold all day. The room in which he and his par- ents lived was biting cold at 5 o cloek when he crawled out to go for his morning` papers. It was still when he came back later to get C share of bl`3`.(l and milkless p A? school his wet shoes and clothin/I; .D.._,,, ( l l ( l l c "I 1: