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The talkies had cut him out of a cinema orchestra and had left him stranded. It had been a hand to mouth existence, but in some way toâ€"morrow always provided for itself. There is a joy in idealism that few people unâ€" derstand. She had become a leading lady,. He supposed that perhaps people who were mercenary usually did succeed, yet for all that he still loved her for the dream she represented to him. ~A man cannot destroy his dreams; they are stronger than he is. why. The tree mesmerized him. In watching it, he seemed to forget that ho had been cold and hungry,. He stood in the shadows so still that he was almost a shadow himself, and the first light snow powdered his cap and shoulders. Then he saw what was hapâ€" pening aund he became tensely still. Another man, with an ugly, furtive quick The man was standing on the kerb and looking in on the Christmas tree. He watched it as it stood there in the big uncurtained window, with the shadows of a man and a woman moyâ€" ing about it. A tree which every ‘minâ€" ute was becoming more lovely. Sparkâ€" ling strings of tinsel, silver stars, a bugle which glittered bravely in the half light, a doll with a cherubic wax Now, as he watched the two people in the room dressing their Christmas tree, ho remembered again Linda in the coffee shop and all that had hap pened since. Linda had made money. The two people had finished dress ing their tree. A silver tree, wilh a tairy doll standing on its apex. A tree garlanded with brave tinsel and glass globules of emerald and blue and ruby red. There was silence now in the deserted little room, a breathless silâ€" ence full of the coming joy of Christâ€" The man on the kerb thrust numb fingers into his coat pocket, for ho was cold. A few flakes of snow lay in the London gutter, and the moon was a hard light,. It was a long time since the man had known a warm fire, and good food, and a welcome. Once he had had all three! He smiled a little grimly. He had been a violinist He had played in a theatre orchestra in a thin pit with twenty others, and above them had been enacted a play they had never seen. He had heard voices, words, songs, the patter of feet in a dance, but never more. Then he had heard her voice. John had fallen in love with Linda Hurst‘s voice. Later, when he had got to know her, he had fallen in love with the girl. He had been amazed at the complexity of her nature, for she seemed to believe the worst of people, the worst of the world. She blinded herselt to so much beauty, and saw instead mercenary motive where only love and kindness were meant. It had been the cynicism of her which had literally stabbed into John‘s heart. O#â€" teon she was right; mercenary motive was there, but he himselt had the idealist‘s love of holding fast to a beautiful faith, proof against the tarâ€" mishing of a cruel world. He had told Linda that he loved her. It had been in the little coffes shop in the alleyâ€"way behind the stage door, and she had scorned him. Goldâ€"digger‘â€" Yet with those eyes she was not all goldâ€"digger; someâ€" where there was her heart, and he could not touch it. He had cut his job at the theatre for the simple reason that he could not bear to hear the risâ€" ing beauty of that clear voice, could not bear to be imminent to a presence which attracted him so much and yet hid a heart that was so hard. He had said goodâ€"bye to her on just such a Christmas Eve, and she had not even recognized it as being goodâ€"bye. After the show they had gone to the coffee shop. A poor enough little shop, and the proprietor had been standing on an old soap box, nailing festoons of laure! and gay paper streamers to the ceiling. John had supposed the simple cofâ€" fee shop to be symbolic of much. The proprietor mailing up his decorations with such care; the general air of simâ€" plicity. There had been a certain hapâ€" piness over it all, a carefree joy allied with the filling of a baby‘s sock, the singing of a carol, the true Christmas spirit. "Are you quite sure you have set your standards "Money," she had said. "That is all that counts. It is all I want. I want to be rich!" ‘"But love*" "Love won‘t take you far when you are hungry. No, money counts every time." Linda had sat down irresolutely. "So sordid," she had said. "I want to rise above all this." Still John waited; he did uot know the window upwards with & **""/* movement, He stepped within,| "Kismus tree," lsped the child, peorâ€" is nearing the window. He silently to the ledgo and the window upwards vlth & right?" he had asked. l Now he remembered ho had known that she lived somewhere in this street ‘and that almost subconsciously that | knowledge had brought him hereâ€"just to look. Ho was ashamed of himself, He hoped in the fraction of a second \that she would not recognize him; he |had gone back while she had proâ€" ‘gressed; she looked much the sams, | save that time had matured her, She was softer, kinder. Behind her glist ened the tree, ready for the morrow, ready for Linda‘s children. He closed his eyes again. Success changes but little, though defeat clutches with | marring fingers. His face was hollowâ€" | ed and pitted, his mouth sagged; there were caverns about his eyes. ' "John," she said, tenderly. "You*" The safe on the right was opened wide, many of its papers were strewn iab.)u'. the floor, but the other man had | escaped. John knew Linda of old. She : would obviously thing the worst of him, and of course she would be justiâ€" ’fied. Starving, down and out, she would suppose he had tripped and ‘fallen in his hurry to escape. He could | piece it all together as she would do | with her material mentality. He | sighed. "You did not come here to steal?" she asked. From outsids came tise echo of children singing in their little shrill voices:â€" Good King Wenselas looked out On the feast of Stepheon, When the snow lay all about Crisp, and fresh, and even. Brightly. . . . Ho folt the tears welling into his throat and he saw again standing beâ€" tween them & tall tree, significant of children, of joy, a joy he could not mar, Ho must be loyal. "I guess I‘m happier as I am," he stuttered. "Oh, John. Johnâ€"" * The door opened and a tiny child enâ€" tered. Sho rushed to Linda and hid a shy face in her lap. Bocause he could not bear the sight ho turnod ness could only be sinister. | John craned forward. Through the tinselâ€"clad branches of the tree ho watched the man. He had gone to a safe which stood against some books and knelt before it. The silence was ominous.» John forgot that he was poor and ragged. A gross indignation assailed him that at this time any man should think of robbery, and especially when in the very room stood that splendid representation of the season, the trinmphant tree in its brave array and with its trappings of frosted silver. He flung himself across the ledge, his feet sunk into the velvet pile of the carpet, and he stole across the interâ€" vening space with the prickly fronds of the tree brushing his face. An orâ€" nament jarred from the branches and tinkled to the floor. The other man started and sprang up. John felt the sudden harsh impact of a fist full on the jaw; ho slid to the ground. He had underrated his weakness, for great wells of darkness received him. Then he saw behind her the tall tree with the silver trappings, and he thought of the husband who had help ed her to trim it, and the children who would receive it, and he saw it no longâ€" er as a thing of beauty but as a menâ€" ace to his happiness. A tall tree beâ€" tween him and his loveâ€"dividing them. He twisted his mouth into a wiy smile. "Instantly ho grasped at the idea. "Don‘t I look as though I needed the money ?" "Yes, but not that way, John, not that way." "It‘s the casiest way,‘ he stammered. Sho shook her head. "You couldn‘t. I‘ve learned to understand you better than that. From the day I lost you I made money, but somehow I knew I had lost the only precious thing in my life. You had meant everything to mo. What happened to you?" "Drink this!" _ Mechanically, he drank. The liquid stung his throat; he found himself choking, and suddenâ€" ly his vision cleared. It was no longer blurred. The room became vivified, the woman closer. It was Linda. Ho listened to the new Linda, and deep down in his heart he believed he had suddenly walked into Heaven. It had been Christmas Evo when they had parted; Christmas Eve when they were reâ€"united. And it was the new Linda who had found her true selt and had separated true worth from dross. Eyes like gentians and dark, silky hair drawn like a cap about her head. Ho smiled grimly. "I starved said. Then the yellow piercing light peneâ€" trated his consciousness and he found himself recovering in a room brightly lit. Hoe was lying on a leather sofa with a woman kneeling by his side. "John," she said, "I have tried so hard to find you, What became of you, my dear? I had very silly ideas in those days, I wanted to explainâ€"â€"" Ho smiled whimsically, "Odd that I should come here toâ€"night, of all the houses in the world." "You poor darling. I was a little fool. I didn‘t know what I was sayâ€" ing. Oh, John, have you remembered me a little?® Don‘t say you have forâ€" gotten * "Men forget more casily than woâ€" men," he said, huskily. "John, dear, if you are wanting a job we‘re short now at the theatro. We want someone who has real music in was treading. Truly it was a little Heaven that he " he Vanity Vanity fnds in seltâ€"love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by & coup de main, the citadel of our heads, having blinded the two watchâ€" men, it readily descends into the heart. â€"Colton. Crackers.â€"It has long been the cusâ€" tom in France to sell packets of sweets in colored wrappers twisted at the end to keop the contents from fallâ€" ing out. The French called them cosaâ€" ques, They were introduced into Engâ€" land about 80 years ago, and from them the cracker was developed. Some millions of crackers are made evory year and sold all over the world. Christmas has many customs which we all like to keep. But how few of us know the way in which they first came into being. Christmas Fare.â€"On the occasion of a festival, it is always the proper thing to feast on the richest and most delicate viands. This is why we have so many good things to eat at Christâ€" mas, including turkey, plumâ€"pudding and mince pios. Santa Claus, â€" Father Christmas, Santa Claus of Salnt Nicholas, to give him some of his names, who is supâ€" posed to come down the chimaey and fill the children‘s stockings, is well known in every country. The name Santa Claus is really a corruption of St. Nicholas, the guardian and patron saint of children, who gave secret preâ€" sents to needy youngsters. Carols.â€"Songs of joy and praise, ofâ€" ten accompanied by dances, have been sung by the English for more than a thousand years, being handed on from the Druids to the Christian Church. "On Christmas Day in the Morning" and "The Cherryâ€"tree Carol," aro found in many languages, with slightly ditâ€" ferent words. ing up at it shyly. "Kismus tree. Oh, Auntie!" John‘s eyes turned sharply and mot Linda‘s. She nodded. "‘This is my brother‘s house," she said. "I came to live here last year when his wife was illâ€"â€"" John hid his face. He felt the comâ€" fort of her hands on his, of her choek against his own. 4 She received him into her arms. From outside thore came the voices singing Good King Wenceslaus The child slipped down; she went across and stood there staring at the silver tree with its ornaments, wondering at the beauty of it. "I thought you were married,‘ he whispered. "I didn‘t understand, that is why." "Kismus tree," she said solemnly herself.â€""Titâ€"Bits" (London:}. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Ganley of Winnipeg won $122,400 in the Manâ€" shoster handicap sweep. Mrs. Ganley‘s parents had bought a haif thare in the ticket for 50 cents. Result, $61,200. But the rest is n the family. This new pocket plane only requires 15 yards landing place. Furthermore it folds up neatiy and can be parked in a garage. Avorage speed 90 miles an hour. Christmas Customs Lady Luck Visits Winnipeg Family The American 10â€"cent piece was called a dime Lecause it represented the tenth part of a dollar, the national monetary unit.â€"The Pathfinder, "Dime" is derived from the Latin "decem," meaning ten or "decimus," eneâ€"tenth. In the fourteenth and fifâ€" teenth centuries "dime" was applied in England to the tithe, or tenth, part of one‘s income paid to the Church, According to the King James version of the Bible, the last part of Genesis, 14â€"20, reads: "He gave him tithes of all. John Wycliff translated this passâ€" age: "Hoe gave him dymes of alle thingis." New "Pocket Edition‘" Plane However, let the letters be scretched until they are tall and thin, and then the warning can be read casily at three to four times the former distance, the National Safety League Council sugâ€" gests. Chicago.â€"The usua; stop sign paintâ€" ed on the pavement to halt motorists before a dangerous intersection usualâ€" ly is speedily run over, not because of carelessness but because a warning in ordinary shaped letters cannot be read until it is too late to stop. "At a distance of siz or eight yards ordinary letters are so foreshortened as to become illegible,‘ "It was stated. "But if the letters are five and oneâ€" half feet high and seven inches wide, they will appear approximately square Some letters have been designed to give best results for distances from twenty to forty yards. This in general gives time enough to stop. 5% Foot Letter Designed For Stop Sign in Chicago at a distanco of fifteen yards, and may be read easlly at a much greater disâ€" tance." "Dime" Derived from Latin To Denote Tenth of Dollar "I understand Brown is taking lessons from a memory teacher." "He ought to. The last time I played a game with him he forgot about twenty strokes," For the third time since its organizaâ€"! had his form filled in and returned tion the staff of the Lone Scout Deâ€"| before all the letters had been mailed, patment of the Boy Scouts Association| and ho has since filled out two more Oxtend to all the Lone Scouts of Onâ€"| and asked for an additional three. tario their very best wishes for a| ‘That fellow is a worker, isn‘t he. Happy Christmas, and in this greeting| Have you seen the new "Humane they are joised by "Lone E" and the| Calendar"? editor and staff of this paper. ; This is a calendar which is publishâ€" A Welcome The sweetest thing in life is the unâ€" clouded welcome of a wife. â€" N. P. Willis. They hope that you have done your very best to help Lone Scout Santa Claus to perform his gigantic annual "Good Turn", and in return you may be assured that "Santa" will not forâ€" get you as he goes his rounds. Isn‘t it a wonderful feeling to know that you have made someone else happy by just a little effort on your part? We are glad to note how enthusiâ€" astically the Lone Scouts are working on that Disarmament Petition for the League of Nations Society. One Lonie It is quite an interesting compariâ€" son to note that at Christmas, 1929, the Lone Scout Department sent out a Christmas Card to all Lone Scouts of Ontario on the back of which was printed the names of all the Lone Patrols in the province, and the total number of Lone Scouts in Ontario. This number was 12%5, including two Scoutmasters. We note that four of the Lone Patrols mentioned in that list are now Regular Troops at Paris, Sault Ste. Marie, Cobalt and Beamsâ€" ville, A recent census of the Lone Scout Department informs us that there are now about 320 Lonies on the books, and, in addition, five Leaders. In adâ€" dition to this, nine regular troops have been organized as a result of Lone Scout progres®. Isn‘t this a splendid record of steady growth? Oh, fiy with me to Boomside Heights, . _ my lovely brideâ€"toâ€"be, And we will close an option on a villa by the sea; To a careful restricted shore allotment we will fiy, Where a board of commerce sunset tints the subdivided sky There are at prosent about 6,000 head in Buffalo National Park and 1,000 in Elk Island Park, Alberta. In these large fenced reserves the beasts roam over sections of their naâ€" tural habitat much as they did in the early days. At Boomside Heights love‘s dream comes true â€" the blueprints prove it so. In Section Six, Addition Two, projectâ€" ed roses grow. Here‘s a broker‘s affidavit that the moon is oversized ; That the ocean and the starlight are the same as advertised. Ohb, fly with me to Boomeide Heights, nor tarry in your flight; Dear, hand in hband we‘ll roam the land that doubles over night. Come, view God‘s handiworkâ€"the seaâ€" son‘s niftiest buyâ€" Where a board of commerce sunset tints the subdivid.d sky. â€"Pressly Phillips, in Judge. Buffalo Increase Rapidly In Dominion Parks has been little short of phenomeral. From an original herd of less than 800, the total increase has reached more than 20,000, including animais shipped to Wood Buffalo Park in the Northwest territories and â€" those otherwise disposed of. The increase of buffalo in Canâ€" ada‘s national parks since the estabâ€" lishment of the main herd in 1908 Subdivision Love year ended March 31, 1931. Over 32,800 persons visited the Doâ€" minion Astrophysical Observatory of the Department of the Interior at Vicâ€" i In spite of the numerous dificulâ€"| ties it succeeded in bringing togethâ€"| ‘er here the Cortes Constituyentes on | July 14, exactly thr#t montbhs after| | the proclamation of the republic. As things now stand, it is expected thnl | early in December the constitution will be approved by the GCortes.: After it is proclaimed as being ing effect, an interval of a few days will probably ensue ard then the Cortes will proceed to the election of the: first President of the Republic. | A lifesaving sult, resembling a pair of overalls or a oneâ€"piace sult of clothes, is being put on the marâ€" ket for those who ride in speedboats or hydroplanes and are subject to their dangers. It is made of waterâ€" proof tissue and constructed on a system of watertight compartments, The Forest Service, Department of the Interior, states that on about 200,â€" 000,000 acres of the productive and acâ€" cessible forest land of Canada the timâ€" ber is of merchantable size, at least for pulpwood, and on $55,000,000 acres there is young growth of various speâ€" cies and ages. Basrah.â€"A glut of pearls has re sulted from the world crisis and many villages of the Persian Gulf, which depended upon the pearl fishing inâ€" dustry, are poverty stricken. Crisis Hits Pearl Canada‘s Pulpwood Resources Birmingham Post (Cons.)jâ€"A Britâ€" ish tariff must be designed in the first place, as Dominion tariffs are designâ€" ed, with an eye upon domestic necesâ€" sities, Yet, even so, a tariff once esâ€" tablished can be varied, lightened, adjusted as circumstancesâ€"including the objectives of Imperial policyâ€"may suggest. And the timid who fear lest by showing favor to the Dominions we should offend the susceptibilities of foreign countries may be reminded that as far as the world in general is concerned the legitimacy of special {family arrangements within the Emâ€" pire is already fully admitted, No new issue will be raised it a system already actively in operation, on the side of the Dominions, is adopted by ourselves. i This is a calendar which is publishâ€" ed every year by the Toronto Humane Society of 11 St. Alban‘s Street, Toâ€" ronto Each year this calendar conâ€" tains twelve most beautiful colored pictures of birds, animals, etc., and the 1932 edition contains pictures by Major Alan Brooks of Canadian Aniâ€" mals, and these include the bear, for, beaver, lynx, wolf, moose, deer, butâ€" falo, etc. Not only is this a very use ful calendar, but each one of the picâ€" tures is well worth a frame, and will make delightful decoration for your Patrol Den or for any Lone Scout‘s bedroom. The price of this calendar is only 50 cents, and we would recommend every Lone Scout to try to secure a copy, And, talking of calendars reminds us that there is a New Year coming! Information about the Lone Scouts of Ontario may be obtained from the Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto, 2. Write toâ€"day, What will your New Year resolution be* We hope that if you are not a Scout it will be a resolution to join the great worldâ€"wide Brotherhood of Scouting. If you are already z. Scout, then let your resolution be to make your Scout program for 1932 a really active and progressive one! Constitution In Spain Soon to Go Into Effect Madrid â€" The Cortes Constltu-l tion is rapidly approaching the termination of its task of drawing up a constitution for the Second Spanish Republic, awd it is quite possible that the new regime will! shortly have its organic iaw as weil‘ as a president. | Don Niceto Alcalaâ€"Zamora, who did so much to bring about the downfall of King Alfonso XIIl, and who was Premier in the first govâ€" ernment organized under the reâ€" public ({from April 14 to October 14), political observers here believe, will be elected to the presidency. _ The term starts as soon as the oath is taken, and is for siz years. New Lifeâ€"Saving Suit hiterâ€"Empire Trade ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO Visit Victoria . Fishing Industry "LONE E." | This may prove to be the first step |Lowlrdl new methods in curing and preventing colds. Once we know what the enemy is, we can start taking stopm to guard against him. Colds certainly ; mean serious loss, both to individuals \and countries at present. About four fyeau ago American investigators e# ‘timated that the annual loss in wages Iu a result of the common cold was fabout $1,000,000,000.â€"*"Answers." Apparently the Bad Lands of the West was the graveyard of most types of dawnage creatures The Soott Fund explorers who returned from oxâ€" cavations in the Bad Lands of Monr tana and Wyoming report that they uneartited and collected more than 700 vertebrate fossil specimens, . Among them were dinossaur egge shells, the jaw of an ancestral "edentate," and various bones of the three and four toed dawnâ€"age horses and other carly beasts.â€"The Pathinder. ; Bcientists have succeeded at last im tracing the culprit who is responsible t!or the common cold. Apparently, this | mysterious malady, which has bafied 1tho doctors for so long, is caused by & virus which is so emall that it will pass through any filter, and cannot be seen under the microscope. Aliens Get Relief in London London County Council, The growers have brought in literalâ€" ly thousands of thermometers to the government meteorologistâ€" for testing. The thermometers are placed at many points in the orange orchards, so that the orchid owners can tell exactly how much heat should be generated by the orchard heaters that are used so wide ly to ward off frost damage. Londonâ€"There were 925 aliens in London receiving reliet on July 1, and of this number about onehalf Lindsay, Calift.â€"Nearly all orange growers of this district will have the protection of accurate knowledgo of frost temperatures this season. Toronto.â€"Canadians use more eggse than any other people of the world acâ€" cording to recent statistios, "The per capita consumption of egge in Canada is mpproximately 36618 a year," declared J. A. Carroll, secretary, Ontario Marketing Board, "a record unequalled by any other country, be cause of the fact that Canada produces the world‘s best eggs." Based upon the most secent figures made available by the federal Governâ€" ment, this statement is no idle boast, ‘The officially estimated population of Canada is 9,935,000, and, during the last 12 months, this number of people has consumed 304,094,509 dozen egge. In other words, the annual consump tion of eggs in Canada by each man, woman and child, averages 366.18, or glightly more than one egg every day of the year. The official of the marketing board was asked why Canadian eggs are so greatly superior to the eggs of other epuntries. _ "Because," he replied, "Canadian eggs are government graded. Guesswork is eliminated. The annoyance, and disappointment, of paying for for a high quality product and receiving an inferior one, is & thing of the past in Canada, so far as the egg business is concerned. The old expression, "let the buyer beware,‘ is obsolete in this country when eggs are being purchased. The Canadian consumer decides the quality of egge he or she purchases not the dealor, providing eggs are bought by grade." "And as for the effect that this huge consumption has or general proz perity," Mr. Carroll continued, "here are a few figures. The farmer received an average price of 23 cents a dozen for his eggs, or a total revenue of $69,« 041,737.07. The consumer paid anm average price of 38 5 cents a dozen, or a totat of no iess than $117,176,385.96. The difference, $47,234,648.89 is the sum contributed to ‘bus‘ness‘ in the way of transportation, storage, merâ€" chandising, and inciduntal costs." Total Year‘s Consumption in Dominion 304,094,509 In spite of this, the cold virus has been isolated and cultivated, and typlâ€" cal colds have been produced by its means both in chimpanzees and in buman beings. "I like people, but at home I have Mr. Knagzâ€""Fuony thing about you." Mrs, Knaggâ€"*"What‘s that?" Mr. Knaggâ€""The oftener you lose your temper the more you have to display," Dinosaur Fossis in West * imrig > . NK The Common Cold Grove Warns Grower 1a