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Show THE BULLETIN QKristmas THE 8T0BY SO FAB Miserly. tiKht-flste- who didn't believe selfish old Scrooge, In Christmas, was wakened one Christmas night by the of hii dead partner. In chain lurgrd by hli own miaderda, hi partner Mrned that even a won fate awaited him. adding that three aplrlU would fhoit ghost in eomt to viait nun. showed Scrooge his former self. Togeth- er they watched Scrooge one Christmas as be stood alone In front of hla school when a young boy. He wai shown again the friendi he had known as a youth during his apprenticeship. If ow he thrilled tool Cbrfetmatf Cantles Do you act as if you had 10,000 years to throw away? Death stands at your elbow. Ee good for some-thin-s, while you live and it is in your power. What remains but to live easy and cheerful, and crowd h Active Nature Nature knows no pause in progone good action so close to an- ress and development, and at other that there may be the least taches her curse on all empty space between them. to the scene showing their ChrUtmai eve sayety and the generosity of bis employer. When he saw the bom of his former aweetheart when her husband came home on ChrUtmai eve with pre enta for their happy children, he fell e bauited upon his bed. (Now coadnu wlia the story) Christmas tree candles date back to the very earliest times in the Christian era. The Yule candle, of goodly size, lighted early Nativity celebrations. The lighting of candles la Indeed a universl religious and national custom. Candle lighting featured the Norse festival of the turning' of the sun. The Jewish Feast of Chanuckah or Lights Is also celebrated similarly at the same season. Awaking in the middle of touch snore, Scrooge had oo occasion to be told that the bell as again upon the stroke of One. Now his bed became the very core and center of a blaze of ruddy tight, which streamed upon it when the clock proclaimed the hour. Light might be in the room. He got up softly and shuffled in his slippers to the ly mid-wint- er Cfjrtsftmatf GUts door. own room. lbs Hear! if new it r-"r mi ItW so ib wan. l Uw em Haa of tfiunag darns a BcU-u- u TiUrta aaait Bra ud Mi CM fm. Ma luaUr. km bmi af IM (iun-pflb- ii BvdldBM kma far arid ludlautlua. II laa bMur. Mine; S1H6T IXMIC auM'l prw litU-aand nuua VwUUJt Hmu hck. kauia W , n.. ti .wmi Buy la iht Sau-uiM- WW Service. INSTALLMENT THREE STAVE THREE The Second of the Three Spirit! It was his INDIGESTION alert Good Actions But it had undergone a surprising transformat- ion. Living green filled It that It a perfect grove. The crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe, and ivy reflected back the light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered there; and heaped up on the Boor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great Joints of meat, bar chestnuts, orrels of oysters, red-hof punch. bowls and seething anges, In easy state upon this couch, there at a Jolly Giant. '1 am the Ghost of Christmas Present," said the Spirit "You have never seen the like of me beforel" it continued. "Never," Scrooge answered. "Have never walked forth with the younger members of my family; meaning (for I am very young) my elder brothers born in these later years?" pursued the Phantom. "I don't think I have," said "Have you had many Scrooge. brothers. Spirit?" "More than eighteen hundred," a M thm Rhnat "Spirit," said Scrooge submissive ly, "conduct me where you wilL I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt 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 was told, and held it fast They stood In the city streets on Christmas morn. But soon the steeples called good people all, to church. And at the same time there appeared many people, carrying their, dinners to the bakers' shops. The sight of these poor revellers' appeared to interest the Spirit very much, for he stood with Scrooge beside him in a baker's doorway, and taking off the covers as their bearers passed, sprinkled Incense on their dinners from his torch. And it was a very uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice when there were angry words who between some dinner-carriehad Jostled each other, he shed a few drops of water on them from it and their good humour was restored directly. For they said. It was a shame to quarrel upon Christmas Day. And so It was! God loved It! "Is there a peculiar flavour in from your what you sprinkle torch?" asked Scrooge. "There is. My own." "Would It apply to any kind of dinner on this day?" asked Scrooge. ' "To any kindly given. To a poor cne most" "Why to a poor one most?" asked Scrooge. "Because It needs it most" Perhaps It was the Spirit's sympathy with all poor men, that led him straight to Scrooge's clerk's. On the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinklings of his torch. Then up rose Mrs. Cratchit Cratchit's wife, dressed out but gown, but poorly in a twice-turne- d brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Peter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes. And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, creaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own. "What has ever got your precious father then?" said Mrs. Cratchit "And your brother. Tiny Timt And Martha warn't as late last Christmas Day by half an hour?" "Here's Martha, mother 1" cried the two young Cratchits. "Hurrah! There's such a goose. Martha I" "Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are!" said Mrs. Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times. ''We'd a deal of work to finish up last night" replied the girl, "and had to clear away this morning." "Well! Never mind so long as you are come," said Mrs. Cratchit "Sit ye down before the fire." "No, no! There's father coming," cried the two young Cratchits. "Hide. Martha, hide!" So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father, Tiny Tim upon his shoulder. Alas fur Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch. "Why, Where's our Martha?" cried Bob Cratchit, looking round. "Not coming." said Mrs. Cratchit "Not coming!" said Bob. "Nut looked The smoke of slower-burnin- g ot rs "Tiny Tim npon coming upon Christmas Day!" Martha didn't like to see him disappointed, if It were only in Joke; so she came out prematurely from behind the closet door, and ran into his arms, while the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the wash-housthat he might hear the pudding singing in the copper. "And how did little Tim behave?" asked Mrs. Cratchit when she had rallied Bob on his credulity, and Bob had hugged his daughter to his e, heart's content "As good as gold." said Bob. "and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see." Bob's voice was tremulous when he told them this, and trembled more when he said that Tiny Tim was growing strong and hearty. Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits, went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession. Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds. Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with Incredible vigour; Miss Belinda Marsweetened up the apple-sauctha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and crammed spoons Into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped. At last the dishes were set on, and grace was aaid. It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs. Cratchit looking slowly all along the carving-knifprepared to plunge It in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah! There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner fur the whole family. The youngest Cratch its in particular, were steeped in age and onion to the eyebrows. But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda, Mrs. Cratchit left the room alone too nervous to bear witnesses to take the pudding up and bring it in. Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. Bob Oh, a wonderful pudding! Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage. Everybody had something to say about it but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family. It would have been flat heresy to do so. Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a tiling. At last the dinner was all done, all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; and at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass. Two with' tumblers, and a custard-cu- p out a handle. These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden gob lets would have done. Then Bob proposed: "A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!" Which all the family "God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all e; e, Camels gives you EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA MILDNESS COOLNESS FLAVOR Romans exchanged gifts during gay celebrations. But giving of presents of course goes back much ear- his shoulder." sat very close to his father's side upon his little stooL Bob held his withered little hand, if he dreaded he might be taken from him. "Spirit" aaid Scrooge, "tell me if Tiny Tim will live." "I see a vacant seat" replied the Ghost "in the poor chimney-corneand a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadow! remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die." "No, no," said Scrooge. "Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared." "If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost "will find him here. What then? If he be like to die. he had better do It and decrease the surplus populaHe r, tion." Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit "Man," said the Ghost "if man you be in heart not adamant forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it Is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that In the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and leu fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!" Scrooge bent before the Ghost s rebuke, and trembling east his eyes upon the ground. But he raised them speedily, on hearing his own name. "Mr. Scrooge!" said Bob; "TO give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder lier. The Romans, however, gave It clearer identity as a part of their festival program. Christmas boxes and cards of today have a link to the ancient Roman festivities. In France, gifts are distributed to children New Year's eve instead of Christmas. In England, Germany, Italy, and most everywhere else, the custom is like in the United States. Santa comes at Christmas. Cfjrfgtmag tBrratf) AN- D- mimmmmmmmmm wmmm than the average of the A other of the largest-sellin-g' cigarettes tested leas than any of them- - according to Independent scientific teats of the smoke Itself. camel THE SLOWER-BURNIN- CIGARETTE G Narrow Minds Fool's Curtain In ancient times the Teutons reNarrow minds think nothing Gold is the fool's curtain, which garded holly as a symbol of good right that is above their own ca- hides all his defects from the luck. The custom was widespread pacity. La Rochefoucauld. world. Feltham. of hanging evergreens In the interior of dwellings. Later the legend was widely circulated that all growing things blossomed and bore fruit the night of the Nativity. Holly came also to symbolize the crown of thorns worn by Christ The Puritans, however, regarded holly and mistletoe decorations as pagan in nature, and they therefore were raj m ren ChtiStmai tor.fefng the Feast!" "The Founder of the Feast Indeed!" cried Mrs. Cratchit reddening. "I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind." of "My dear," said Bob, "the children! Christmas Day." "It should be Christmas Day, I am sure," said she, "on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge. You know he Is, Robert! Nobody knows it better than you do, poor fellow?" "My dear." was Bob's mild answer, "Christmas Day." "I'll drink his health for your sake and the Day's." said Mrs. Cratchit "not for his. Long life to him!" The children drank the toast after her. It was the first of their proceedings which had no heartiness. Tiny Tim drank it last of all. but e he didn't care for it was the Ogre of the family. Scrooge After It had passed away, they were ten times merrier than before. Bob Cratchit told them how he had a situation in his eye for Master Peter, which would 'bring in, if obweektained, full ly. The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the Idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income. Martha, who was a poor apprentice at a mil liner's, then told them what kind of work she had to do, and how many hours she worked at a stretch, and how she meant to lie abed tor sorrow morning for a good long rest And now, without a word of ing, the Ghost and Scrooge moved on. A light shone from the window of a hut A cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire. "A place where miners live, who labour In the bowels of the earth," explained the Spirit. "But they know me. See!" The Spirit did not tarry here, but passing on above the moor, sped whither? Not to sea? To sea. They lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-ou- t in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tunc, or had a Christ-ma- s two-penc- w-ir- p thought (TO HE C0M1MED) St Nicholas rides Woden's horse on Christmas eve In Holland. There the children put up their wooden shoes in the chimney corners as a stop signal for the merry fellow. Children of France followed the custom by placing their shoes for Noel by the hearth. In England and the United States, boys and girls Improved on the Idea by hanging up stockings. These can hold more gifts. Bon-hom- C&rfshnatf 5tt)mns Use WEED American Bar-Reinfor- ced CHAINS TIRE When winter dumps snow and ice on roads and highways, the crash rate goes up. Lives are lost. People are injured. Cars and trucks require expensive repairs. Accident costs are tremendous. Even the most careful drivers are in danger. A quick safe atop may be necessary any second. Flay safe. The Puritans predicted the disappearance of Christmas carols and did what they could to discourage the custom of singing them. But it has grown more and more a part of the Christmas tradition which began in early Christian days in Rome. The French Noel, dating to the Eleventh century, and the German have the same origin. National Christmas Tree Scene of Annual Service The United States has a national Christmas tree! It Is not a spruce, fir or hemlock, but a giant Sequoia which stands more than 2C7 feet high. The tree is located In General Grant National park, C4 miles east of Fresno, Calif. Devotional and patriotic services held beneath the tree each year since it was selected In 1923 are broadcast over a nationwide network. Don't gamble. Keep WEED TIKE CHAINS in your car and truck and be ready to use them for stormy weather. With WEED AMERICANS you can start easier, drive safer, atop quicker. And you get snore than twice the mileage. Ask for the chains with red end hooka. 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