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lig .,flasl1, many millions volts; and the heavy flow obcur- rent for the moment we can mal- iine that the power used by the av‘- erlge first-class radio station

given oft by nature in a. single dis- "139-1789 lll-UCMIWIE

menthol: static ~is nearly always present to some. degree in a sensi- tive radio receiving set.‘ It has been estflblished that thunder stcnns are always in mvgress at some place on the earth and that more than a thousand flashes of lightn- ing occur every minute. The dist- ance that ihesc static waves from lightning will curry la unknown; but. is ibclieved to bemany hundreds of miles." Dust storms are also very productive of static for. the im- mense quantities of dust particles create intense ionimtion and elec- trification. Such storms highly charge all metal objects in the vi- cinity. This explanation, we trust. will. help develop a greater spirit of tolemticn toward eta-tic.

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DEATH (IF DOUGLAS HAIG “MILLAB

(Newcastle Advocate)

Another home in Douglastowri ts saddened; another father and moth- er are grief stricken and another little mound appears in St. lularlcs cemetery. 111m timc the angel of death visited the homo of‘ Rev. George ‘and Mrs‘ Miller and removed fronrthem the 19y of their house- hold ln the person of their little son, Douglas. He was a bright little follow ‘only ll years old. but bearing i115 long illnofia with a patience and strength of charaowr. bespeaking his resignation‘ to the divinewill and knowingmait he was only passing on to the bosom of his Heavenly Father there to owalt ills beloved parents. . '

loug 111m. Buffering from some di- secscof the cranium. His

to keep their beloved with them. p the best poseflale medical treatment in Montreal, but without avail. He was beyond medical science and his death came peaceably at noon on Saturday.

His funeral service was held at his home Monday afternoon at half post three. Rev. George A. Cln-istie of Chatham officiated. assisted by Rev. A. W. rtson of mllerwxa, Rev. F. W. Thompson of Loggieville. and Rev lL-Krarlmunrr of New castle. Rev. George Anderson and St. Mark's Choir under the leader- ship of we. King .

At the conclusion of =the services the casket con the remains wasborne to the grave by the Tuxls Boys of St. Matt's Church followed by n. long line of his playmaiesand friends. The following Tux-is Boys in relays acted as pallbearers. Earl Bhnpaon. Elliot Cowle, Allison Wood, Graham Creighton, Leslie Anderson. James Icalic. Joseph Cowle, James Wfliflwll," Marveu Grey. Fred Russel, Charles Waldh, Richard Howe and Wlllisvon

_ Arriving at the graveside. Rev. Wm. Glrdwcod of Redbauk, assisted by Ecv. L. H. McLean of Newcastle, read an loslfaorvlcea ‘. flwrerwem many floraltrlbutesof

regret received by his parents. Douglas was o“ t favorite cm- ong the old and ung and his

_ amigo}; the gap in-thelr- circle mode

w- . The Advocatocxlnnds its sincer- eatsympdthytoMrJndMrnMili- ._ or for their irreparable‘ lou.

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BETHLEHEM‘ ‘ 01L 100.4 Y

(By Claire Price) I Christmas this year marks the aloventh-‘bnnlversary cf tho British capture of Bethlehem from the Turks. Before the war, during the Old, Christmas Eva fcstivnla at Jiethlelwm. the campfires of 6,000 Russians sparkled by night on the slopes of the Kharrubeb and upon its summit the fortress wall of the old- est church in Ohrislnndom stood darkly silboottcd against the stars. But a new govcrnmenthac risen in chi from Odoua to Jails have stoppgd sailing. In the pleasant old days their deckloada of Russian peasants

support for the townsmen of such places as Bethlehem but the old days have vanished. probably for ever; - Armies have fought across the P0“? hillsides of Palestine since the Russians kept their last Christ- mas festival at Bethlehem before the war. Possibly you know what shrapnel does to u. rocky 111115149, Pflcslbly you can imagine what a midi!" buciness the fighting in Palestine was. Yet throughout its Ions course both the Turkish and the British commands scrupulously i which the llttlc country is stlpgetrll]. The ancient rock-hewn cistern at Bethlehem. known as David's well bury- ing place known as Rachel's Tomb stand in 192'! exactly as they stood when the last of the tourists finger- ed the last of the Bacdekers‘ before thcm in 1913. The fortress wulls of the oldest church in Christendom islands atop the slopes of Kharrubeh at the eastern end of Bethlehem as stark and whitish-grey in 1927 as it stood when the last of the Rus- sians kindled their campfires be- neath ii. in 1923, the sound of clash- ingnrms without comes dim with distance into the gold and Jewelled silence inside the Church of Holy Nativity. It is upon the town of Bethlehem that the fighting has left its scars and among the lownsmeia that the stresses and strains of these lust five years h ve done their workJ You‘ may at l see. if you look sharply. a single line of old Turkish trenches zig-zagglng like a grey hair across t 1e for side of the Bahib Valley to tie south of the town. You may dine in one or two weirdly new res- taurants in the town whose owners are Natives and whose cooking is degraded British. consisting in the main of tea, hardboilcd eggs and

of the street. dogs that isccvexiged the town in the old days. You will see a few of the 250 war orphans is caring for. some of them lodged French order; some with thc Sisters

the rest farmed out in dwellings about the town.

tom on the Rahlb Valley side of the town (the south side), and on the Karrubeh Volley side (ihc north

klsh system has been dug up and

town's building regulations forbid modern windows. or any other Wes- l

white subinal harmony of the place. You may pay one Egyptian pound to your carriage driver to fetch you down from Jerusalem in 1927, where

piastres would have sufllced. When you reach it. you will find that mo-

sharp staccato whiio utcp the grey- ish-brown of an elongated hllLJcr- usalemilies five miles to the north of it. Hebron lies fifteen miles to the south of lt. The Dead Bea. lies twelve miles to the east of it. 0t the bottom of a tremendous wilderness of rocks, ravines and ravens. Beth- lehem lies on tho very roof of Pul- estlile. half a mile ubovc the trucks of the ships at Jafle. It is a Chris- tian town. the most Christian town in the south of Palestine. its pop- ulation consists of 7.000 Christians and a remnant of Moslems wlwue number hardly exceeds 500.

1n a, quarrel over a new tax levy. its Moalems wen: driven out in 1031 and Ibrahim Pasha. wipcd out the Moslem quarter in 1834, slncc which time Bethlehem, like Nazareth in the north of Palestine. has been n pugnaclously Christian town. De- spite the fact that it is Sacred to lvfcrlemsiChrlstiarm-and Jews alike u. we birthplace of David. its Christians have refuncd- to tolerate Jews and Mocléms lib been P6!‘- mittcd to live in it on eufferance. For centuries ln~ the oidgdayfl ' We Christiana of Bethlehem v quarreled with the Moelemu of Hcbron with ~ the Bedouin.

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where the unveiled women of Beth- lehem are busy at their morning's marketing. waists and their tall peaked head- dresses of while and green- the Western bread. You will see none same head-dress that the returning Crusaders brought -bo.ck to their ladies of the Middle Ages— make

which a. native charity commission nimble anywhere in Palestine. Little groups _squat on the flug- = with -the Sisters of St. Joseph, n stone pavements of the market place " with their skins of sour milk, their of the Rosary. a ilutlvc order. and sheets of bread and their pannieris of fat lambs’ ‘tails besidc~ them. Goats and fat-tailed sheep, herded You will find a new drainage sys- together by Bedouin shepherds, lie along the edges of the scone. I lofty wull of the church, czumels ~ m 3mm. was m (m. u side) you will find that the cldTur- lic chewing the cud, their legs fold- Dougm l‘ ' ed beneath them like the blades of g5 modernised. Also you will flnd, if a jack-knife. their bells breaking in- ; evmm hum M; you look into the matter, that the to a heavy tlnkle as they gulp. Be- - d d 1mg ‘my was douin women with. tatooed faces the introduction of red tllcd roofs. walk nolselessly about on naked feet

tern gewgawa which might mar the mouths. Donkeys and mllch goats patter through the crowd. A Be- douln sheik with g walking stick digs his fingers thoughtfully into the bunches of sheep and passes on in 1918. Imlf us much in Turkish with the flap of slippers. An clfendi ill European dress, with an um- brella. in one hand and a chaplct dern Bethlehem is a blanket of of beads in the other, passes with l:

scene today possesses much in corn- mon with the old days, but be- neath the surface of the stresses and strains of these last ten years have made ‘hemselves felt even in the Christian communities whic worship within_the stark walls of the old church on the market place. Of the 7.000 Christiana in the town. 3.000 belong to the Orthodox com- munity, about anicqual number» to the Roman Catholic community and the rest to the A. ity. No communit has been so hard hit by the events of the last ten years is the Ortho- dox community. Its income from Russian pilgrims in the old days has stopped. Its revenue from its landed endowments-hr Old Rullib. most of them now within the fron- tlers of Rumania. has been cut off. Forced to sell some of its landed holdings in fialcstinc to meet its expensol. it_ has been embarraaed from another quarter by tho 11l- tlonallnt disruption- whlch has split so many war.

Christmas hi! been o centurec at Bethlehem on the eve of December 25. the Orthodox Nativ- nyDgyonJmuaryTpandtbcAr- man f rnenim Baptism

frrm CHARLOTTE" Town? cum/Dim’ f,

rain scuddinl up from behind the Mount of Oliv . ‘

Hundreds of them have fwther from homo than .1 In theolddayumcnyusodtcoon- sign themselves from Jello" to ‘a Uflrflvlllw license agenrwnn no

peasants in foam ‘mg gum m‘, m». yam m ilmijbclkct m: five!

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nom of mm indicates its reputation 13mm“... name. Belt Lahm, la ' "hem o: mm." 780cc! Arablcfor But their principal Occflpgflon used to be the manufacture of sou- lgnirn and articles of religloug m. rest out of Olive wool and Red Sea mother of pearl. In the old days every other house in the town "V" ‘"1 K111181811 Dllkrlma and four- lm- Fifty different sorts of tog. arles. made of nfty different sorts of vegetables and mineral beads. were made at Bethlehem.

Mother-of-peurl. was imported 1n "h" "W $11911 by caravans from the Heiaz, and the men of Bethlehem, seated cross-legged on their smug floors before low wooden benches, white with mother-of-pearl dual; carved it by hand with meticulous’ nlcety. made possible only by pa]- estlnian patience. into exquisite bas- rellefs of such biblical subjects as "l" Birth» the Agony. the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. The largest and finest of their pieces required from six months to a year for completion and" commanded prices whlcmhfier an hour's coflee and cigarettes, might have been bargained down to $200. The small. er pieces were done into curios, crosses and cruclflxes. For 500 years Bethlehem and have been synonyms.

the white glure and the poppy col- ours of Bethlehem are much the some today as they were in the old days. You may see them at their best in the market place which lies between the white stone Govern-

ment bulldinglsnd the fortress wall .-

of the Church of Holy Nativity,

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that one has to stoop to enter it.“ Twenty centuries ugo. its site

was u. bare limestone hill overlook- ing thé wilderness "of the Dead Sea,

with a grove, a number of caves and an ancient inn whence the caravans left for Egypt. When Christianity was adopted at Con-

santhzople in 820, the Empress Hel- ene identified a cave on its eastern

slopc us the site of the Birth, and her son Constantine hnd the grove cut down and the cave enclosed a basilica which, restored, added to and surrounded by Orthodox. Ro- man Catholic and Armenian Mon- asteries. i8 the modern Church of the Holy Nativity. The site soon at- tracted pilgrims. Other traditional

sites grew up around it. By 600, the churches and monasteries which

clustered about it begun to be

known throughout a rapidly expand- dnfl Christendom. .

Their fame increasedmuntil 1on9

when the Arabs enraged at the cap- ture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders,

destroyed them all. In 1244, , the invasion, from- ‘lurkes- and

had restored. In 1489. thby lflln

restored fortifications, and monas- teries were pulled down. Thereafter Bethlehem lost its prestige until the last two din-three centuries, when it

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red buildings of the country and their fixed festivals remain un- moved and» immovable. .

The Catholic service begins 10.30 o'clock on Christmas Eve and lasts until 2.30 o'clock in the morn- ing. The gorgeous drlll. display and repetitions. the marching and coun- ter marching of acolytes gleam g in purple and gold and floating snowy vestments. the changing of thelishopu robes. suppers, gloves and caps. the unending intonation of four readers droning the four Gospels for two hours in Latin-the accumulated ritual of fifteen cen- turies makes up this marvellous Christmas service. At midnight an organ lullaby preludes the sudden folding back .of n. cmtuln above the altar: revealing a manger-cradle containing the symbolic doll, at the sight of which __urgan and choir bin-st into magnificent Gloria in Excelsls. Thereafter the- stately pl ion of priests and acolyfcs, chanting and swinging cancers, moves continually back and ‘forth through the aisles and up to the High Altar. tho audience sinking to its knees as the Bishop advances with tho symbolic doll in cambrlc and lace estled in his arms.

level of the vhst church is n chain

made by windingvuublonnnecn poa- sagcwayu hewn out of the ll rock and barely big enough to stoop h. These cave: Jnolude the Abode and ‘Tomb of 8t. Jerome, the

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“t “m1 dfwlllll! tears. The little place

Home twenty feet below the floor '

second star. bearing thefiarms ‘of Home. helped to bring about the; Crimean War. It is a silver star. let into the marble pavement and partially encircled by the words: "1717 Hlc dqvirglne Mariaklesus Chrlstus natus est.“ > ~ ' '- '

their franklncense and myrrh, and. close at hand. two figures kneeling silently before thensiar, wliqgpimu. lions of Russian pilgrims once‘. knelt

is filled with the speaking silence oi‘ centuries of son-ow.

A second glance, after one’: eyes v have adjusted themselves to the —€~ol-o>-i- dlmnesfl. reveals the fact that it is ' not a statue standing dimly against PARENTS MAKE GIRL BIGAMISI; the (Mk 1100811188. n as a British _ soldier. standing where a. Turkish Efforts of Government officials in‘ soldier once stood, and the gleam Imlla to stop blgamous marriages

‘against tho hangings beside him is flllwfed a 110W Phil-Se 0f 111v 6M"- |thc gleam of the bayonet fixed in Pflign recently whenthey pltrsccuted his service rifle. Of the two fig-the parents cf.u glrhwho had given _. urea kneeling before the Star. one islher in mpg-ridge to a man when she _ a British officer on leave, who at already living wmr her husbqnd. ' the moment is whispering w. m; The first husband. Nandalthnl. was dragoman beside him the amount of W916i!!! with the girl wife. Suha- flme BXDoaure at which he pfflpoggg dowcr-‘u, wt Mutgiun, when hm- to sot his kodak. Before the two Dcwnw guvl: her in marriage to - of them burn the nix lamps o: the one Nnnd thal then com- Qrthodor. the five lamps of the. phi . and _‘ maglati-ate. or Armenians and the four lamps of 559011! sentenced all the .81111ty - the Romans. which have burnedPflfl-ies to impflscrumnt at lmrd for centuries above the star. In the 5M1‘. the [other lo four months. - dull light they shed the star itself the newyh mtwo months Rumored exactly as it appeared 4n and the" m and daughter w

1847. when the propogg] p; add acne month. In addition fines welc- '