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Balfour Said

u; quarters ft has been 1 that the new Parliament

- but there. are factors he for DIOIDIIBMIOII. of

m; of an election is abhor- a. new House of Commons." Balfour sI-ksd every- n that when, inthe flrat u f “l0. Bis" government. ‘ adedl the House of Lords p Mr. Biff-oil's Education ‘made out. One of Lord Bal- .~ uoollealllel llaiid to bins at - "Suppose the Govern-

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only the lrrisfest of ex- '

THE EYE POLIOEWAN

mil-he's one of DBQDIe like

111111 pencil. Watching you

mm“ "hue 1 1°11 you about him

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"'*1"°11I11 by u» ' 23d Gross Society, w||| Tégww. ‘P0 flllrl-IE LINE. LET near w m CHIPS ALL WHERE Column. Ful-blnlnedmby-rtlil: Tim‘! my” w“ u“ h°"°1° , Leeli Branch u. This City {fag uf°"',§°1’°,",°d"°1' "1 1111 _, ‘ 1'! l“ ‘ arr)’ Leon

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Y“ "'1" 111° 1119 Eve Police

those in isibl but h _ fairies and. browzllesi 15° 98 there with his note-book

so just m! 10b is to watch over your eyes

wmwli- T1118 illlkht seem a qudte surnipie procedure-just u g-Lflflghl. 15911773741 1034/10! B10113 the pplth of rwtifllde. Without deviating to the night or left. But the longer we live the more clearly do we real- the impossibility of hewlng to the line or of telling always the truth. even to shume the dsvu. T00 0mm we see that it might not be ihel devil at all, but die

ENGLISH

Back-Biting, _Ini;ri

Lei. it be granted that anything may happen in poet-helium Eug- land. but-is it likely that in t use Guys of dreamy peace in the os-

HISHIIFS SIIN SATIHIZES

In His New N oval‘, “T Walpole Draws ‘Disagreeable Picture of

because sight ls v l ...¢:: szirsmizi

lves, we should‘ be ‘beat. the Hiouais of Lords would

111s. years of the reign of Queen "Vic

angels’ whom we’ WWW emmarltorin the wife of an rsrcbdeaco in

78:88..

Eliilifillfiilllfi

he Cathedral,” Hugh

giling Clerios.

Sllccimens as Hugh Walpole paints them in this narrative, but 1 fee] sure that the voice story is "what

RADIC NEWS

(By s. n. CUMMINBJ 3'11“ Eiiliflflré General Electric . 0.

Vaflhbl? $911911 bl’ people who see fir‘ speak of a radio transmitter is how fnr will it send?" This ques- gmm l? 9111-11111)’ luetifialble and the 011mm: brie: review of the fac- tors affecting the range o1 rump

the English would pa“ pretty llllllfilf." l should like to know W ut fnvher Walpole, the Blflhop.

Wit-b a» seranbio smile Bel-four ‘replied1—"A new meui. never dissolves," and is proved that be was right.

~17 Election Story

gin one of the miinilnz districts a anuweer sailed to solicit the fyqto of a certain oolider on behalf oi Mr. X.. and saw the good lady of the house. She informed the political worker that her husband was in bed. as he had been work. lug on the late slfift. Noilbing counted (the ‘ilunuohqutpr guard. ion" rob-tee). ohe worker used his powers of persuasion. and Qn_ daavoured to secure the womuu , on his side. Presently n voice cull- ed 110111 "WWW. “Who is it, Marv?" "A man hero wants ih-i’ to vole for Mr. X., Wlafl tho fgply_ "Ax ‘im it he's in favour" o’ relig- foils education for ‘t kids an’ if he isn't, tell ‘im to go to ---,"

395111111110 in this Flistafflan Vein

ISir Park Goff. the Conservative candidate for Cleveland, mention- ed the oober day that. be is a bach- elor. ‘Shame?’ shouted one of his‘ :iudience. "Well now," relplied Sir P1111. "I must jusitiify myself. Mar ridge. we are fold. is a lottery. Lottery is forbidden by law. Therefore, I renmain a. law-abiding subject."

Light on Poachers.

A novel method of combs-tins the poachers is being uried. in South Yorke-hire, where some of ihc large estates are suffering heavily from the operations of a. clover gang. These men know eve- ry yard of the- eskates and every possible ihove ovf the keepers, and m. levying heavy toil upon the pus without. being brought to lock. They have such clever bid- ‘ 5 pluc-i-s that elven with ' ‘ nut full they cannot be locat- vdih nu)’ Cerf-filmy.

New the Riifillers are applying iii-lime lessons to their work, _ iltbe “Very lights" w-hlicb so often disclosed raiding ‘Gyfmang

"w! very effectively.

Another andl more experienced editor has thus ‘hotto hanging in bile off-ice: "Don't. complain to the Editor because ho doesn't prim all the news‘. You will probabil- sée the time ‘when you'll be mhzhty slad he doesn't."

in the give and take of c-very- dluy living. have we ever paused to .tbinik bow much the llctle flat- ieries and compliments mean, and bow nasty lute would be if every- body insisted upon HEWING To THC) LINE’! Wibo has not mei that insufferable bore, the “pin-m, blunt man!’ who insists always on

M 7°“ 1°" 11- DBa-rl or a diamond 1°11 111111111 buy another. but it’ you 1°81 Wur eisht you. would be blind; i?" 111° 11° 6Y9 shops in the world ln thamorning the Eye Police. 11111-11 Deeps in while you are wash. 1118- You know those people who sweep out their houses but leave the dirt on the doorstep. Well, eyes are like that. You don't need to wash your eyes because they wash themselves, but they leave the dust in a little beep in the corner. nud the Eye Policeman wants to see whether you remember to wash it

a cathedral town should hlwe el- oped with a mild-eyed rector uijicd in the community for his faith hnd good works? Moreover, is it at. all credible that a second scandal should have occurred in the szimc family-that the archdeacoms onlyi son, sent down from Oxford in dis- grace, should have cleared our with the daughter of a low-bred, drunken, rascally inn-keeper’! These are questions that agituic the mind of the reader of Hugh’ Wuipolrfs new novel, "The Cathe- dral" (MoClellcnd and Stewart, Toronto).

‘But let us not condemn this em;

thinks of this book’! f should thlnk' If would be ‘the occasion of ~a lively 411111)’ POW, just as heated us the olne (lescribcd in the story between, tic urcbdezicon and his opinionated sou Folk. In writing a story like‘ 111111. clever and all though it p9,’, “T- Ihiiéii “Ila-Irwin's satire at the; r-xpense oi’ Anglican clergymen is. ‘is Slrikiilg ‘un example as l have‘ #9", 101‘ 11 10118 time of a bird foul- iilfi its o\vn nest.

A Tragic Hero.

Nevertheless, whatever we may

“My Bvery morning.

straight when you read,

put their faces too near es the boys particularly because be knows how fond they are of throw- ing dirt or gravel at each other in fun. If be sees anything being thrown in a play-fellows face, be writes something very big in his book; don't ask me whut it is! If "any child gets a lly or a -piece of dirt in his eye. the Ex-Pollcenluu keeps u sharp lookdut to see fbnt no dirty fingers ore poked in after it. Files in your eye are bed, but

At school the Eye Policeman looks in to see how you place your book. and whether your ‘buck is and he writes down the names of people who sprawl over their desks and their work. In the play ground be watch-

telllng us unsavory and unsolicit- ed truths The» feet cf h-Es soul sire big and lrwlrvrard, and be tra-mipiles willibvout palm dine way- side flowers as well ns fbe thorns 1n his way, And who would not rather bc accosted with the morn- ing snluiation elf tbo frzenfl who cheerfully dnmns hlimself to tell us tint we arc looking younger ihnn- ever, rbnt he thoroughly en joycd the pregnant wit and eloqu- ence of our miller dinner address

lnent English novelist too hastily. Perhaps stronger incidents than these, and many others that he rev luios in his last story, may tnkc ‘place in sedate religious com-mun- ities. At any rats, he ought.‘ to know what he is talking aboutgfol- he is the son of a bishop and spent many years in tho cathedral town, of Durham. "Hugh Winlpole, ‘now ranked among the most eminent of contemporary novelists, was born in Auckland, ~Ncw Zeuland, in 11,381-

|(the tragic failure of the‘ night before.) and sis-ks us~ ill’ this bright. handsome litltip boy is really ours who we have by the hand? .We warm to tbils geubfinl liur n-s to a[ long lost brother and cherish the‘ ccbo cf his compliments “long af- fer they nrrc heard no more."

iBut whatever may be our opin-

His father, ibe Right Rev. 6.11.8. Walpole, D.D., st present Bishop of, Edinburgh, went out to the Azntl-i podes in 1882 to be incumbent‘ of,

ship of Systematic Theology on the} staff of

iliivuv ycdus for Brandon to hnvc

lbink of Mr. Wzilpolek: sill against 11111 "W11 i1e°i:le, we must admit lhnr be has the gift for‘ drawing goth-i. val portraits. Six feet two or three 111 ilPizht. bis tragic hero, Archdea- rron lirunrlon of Polchesler Canbe- dral, 1s ibus descrlberL-"Ii would not bdvo been possible during all

remained unconscious of the re- mnrkubio splendor of ‘his good looks, llc was very well aware of it, but llilY one wbo culled him con- vr-lioil (and every one bus ills en- Bmics) did him a grave injustice. llo was not conceited at nll- be 1111111113‘ regarded himself as n com- iilvli-ly ram-optional person. He was

mumcnt of boredom,

32g; £:§§';od:r§a&'::le'the golfg: ion upon ‘the merit or demenli. of ~ - i INE .

man's vole-beck. i1»- e» 1~>11@§.’.‘.'§‘"§.'§§§..T3T§E.d§. ....“3.§§L‘i_ wwher and “k ‘mm m get m“ ‘he mas 89349011 without stretching the “nwelmme vnlm" point a liiiicle. If we all goo. our when 7°“ are M‘ home m the ev‘ delentsr it would‘ moi. be; choco- enlng, the Eye Policeman wlilimte bums we would mm in om. pr°bablY mu m’ 1"“ m make sureiCbrisvmnis stockings. If for no 0v.- mal- Wine m“ smmg h‘ i‘ dark her reason than to be ‘in the fash- corner reading or writing, with the m“ we, mum pm out our ham, work on your lunees. li be finds and, say “Merry Chrstmw,‘ 50m, you sitting at the table, with the ,0 a 1m or people who might m. gghlhygulfiayriglégroiizllgggfisl‘ flight not deservel toh be 11111897)‘. tit Bi‘. we have praci-ise t roug out tie smile on his face and the note-book ymy we. gentle an 0g HEWING

tho ' way.

1° i118 1111131 Midiere are beingirest just as much as arms and ifisfl-iindivirlunis who

in the pocket, for that's the rigbtiAw-AY FROM THE LINE when ‘the chips are liaible to full when. i At night when you so 1o beii- ‘they would hurt slomebgodiy we ‘the Eye Peiiwmuu . 11 1111 111° shun not have much trouble _in ‘ivatch; he puts bis head in at tbelgeyupg Qver ichrlgtnlusi agree. |bedroom door just to see tbat;wp;y_ ‘YMFYB 110i 1611111118 111 bed- 101‘ 11911‘: 'i‘bero lure man-y detestable max- nime is sleeping time. Eves uwi ims. in. use, cbluuu by hurtl-bollerl wbuicvcr their and instead of rest y011 i119 ilivifl-‘efivirtues certainly dlld not possess

i118 GGDBTBI Tilfifll-Ollcfliltbe number of insignificant and 56111111813’; 591/911 Yea-Til 111191‘ IheilillS$llililPlLhlll7lllfl beings. He was moved W111i his family to the P1<i“ru.~.-ou i0 create) m fling info the Cathedral town of Durham, subse-l world, for once, n truly Fine Speol. 111191111)’ 119001111115 31811011 0T Elflnfimcn, Fine in Body, Fine in Soul. 11111511- , lhllne in intellect. Brandon [none of the sublime egolsm of Sir |Wiliougilby Patterne—be thought

Has He Fouled His Own Nest?

Iiougbiry. believed himself to be

ent upon ‘bis own experience <17 “f” of quite another clay from vbe rest

for the subject matter, if not 3'01- tho actual themes, of his stories. What is more natural, then, that this son of the cathedral shdmld

rule, (lod bad put him into "the world for that purpose, and rule be

and Scenes o! his youmml days illttle, if it-must be so, to the glory

perhaps even the characters that! he met in church circles and in his _ , _

father's house? He saw that. by fol-[Lnfkgggyl Qgfii? Elxlnule Pokhester lowing in the path of Anihonyflvm Tlbollope be could write a semed-llqspjgi, iionnl novel tb t would Ifluticribe .. " ecclesiastical ove-cotes of Eng-

of himself. l-le was-a. very simple;

weaknesses"

them terribly bard work when you- lresd in bed. J On his way home, perhaps tbei

Wrilifi’ b? Folly.

an. overabundance- of Aha .milk_‘l.1lud._.llll‘...Wi11D01e could bdvw‘ f1‘ p; hump, kypdpgpsf They dear ten a story that would ‘have sen. chiefly with the gem-ct o-t achlev- complimentary to the clergy of fbe|

transmitters has been prepared 1p a effort to explain the besltancy which is frequently shown by ‘radio engineers lll claiming any 5119111119 111-1180 for a rudio trans- mitten‘.

_111 1111B become sfandurd prac- tlcc wrth compaudes who build radio transmitting Equipment to VFW 13111911111)’ Bilecify the condi- mm“ 1111491‘ Wlliicil flily guaranteed ranges cun be made and even then it is‘ seldom that a conserve. ilve company will guarantee trnus nusslon M. all tylmeu,

‘in the first place a raddu trans. nutter Will transmit several times 119 1W u! uzsht us in. daylight; lv. null transmit farther on a dork Iuishf lbun. on a; moonlight night. 1111s is due to the fact m... u... sued-rut and‘ moonlight cause an ionization. of t-be atmosphere rwinch results in much greater losses ihun occur when such ion- izuuon is not present. The great- csi. ranges are obtained wile-u the atmosphere between the. transmit- but; nud‘ receiving, stations, is ruost nearly u perfect insulator.

‘ibo range fiepends upon the 113'. turc of the territory lying ‘be- uwccn the transmitting and receiv 111$‘ 1111111011. the greatest ranges 5°!‘ P- given power usually being obfahned over water. Any metal, particularly iron or steel, lying

Si. Mary's Pro-Cathedral. Auvk-iuui oldind that be was exceptional, 11111119911 111° 91111101111 W111 vuuse u 111-1111? 59V?" Years 1111-91‘ h“ 111°Ved>bv> did not flatter himself because m“ of 531ml 51791137-11- 5111111 1110’ to New York to take the professor-i“ (VHS so. God had seen f" (in a ml lnul‘ eiithe-r be in the form of

perhaps Mlaritficial structures such asbuild-

inns or building frameworks, or may be in the form of one depo- sits. Some sections of the coun-

try are noted for their poor loca- tion for radio reception, and the

ihnd cans-e of this can usually be irac- home consuynptio“ but pad

cd to this reason. In many place-s it is possible to

I n01 0111??“ 811d W115 kindly wild 011811 receive effectively from all direc- preserve Every novelist is largely dependjllidsfilllril, but. he did like |Sir Wil- 110115 but one “m1 M L; usually amps like clover which is able w

found that in this‘ direction a me- tallic structure or a metal deposit

ception. A radio station which can be winter

municatlon through flu.

months for u given range can only

mcr months over a fraciiou of this

temper was u source of renl dis-ipercentnge presence of scrolled

tress to ‘him m times-ct "mherkgtuuc"

times be fell that it had its uses). On the whole, however, he was sni-

r

11 question ‘to; ‘l

b01119 a‘ a i . certain nllolgr-‘ydgjr: 033,931.83? schoolmaster found next mumupe that hhe sum‘ had not been, “g ‘ iemmed. Hui. fhere wag a no“ from little Jim's father:- 179111‘ 311i‘- I will not lot Jameae

do the slum-you set bi in, . as it castle a slur or: tbs;

hour's- slstum. Any sum not more 2111111‘ iwiirs be is welcome

'1 l lleiry _ Products

Their Value in Promoting Pliy||¢u| and Mental Well-gun‘ p; 50th Child and Adult

h whatsoever a. man soweth that EMU‘ 11° 1150 1911b." was the text lug-Miss Helen G. Campbell of the

, B 1111011 Dairy and Cold Storage . 111mb. selected on which to found a recent address in which she un- derlook to prove that Dairying was E‘"11'y‘b0dy's Business. The speak- " eXlliuined that it was not her in- iontlon b0 deliver a sermon. but, J! a mamer 0f fact, she delivered a "iwmilv so full of truths calculated .10 benefit and flllmire the hearers first. it might have been given voice ‘ 1111? edifice. llomd or secular.

One of these “truths chat came ‘"11 wiy in manner-ass, and which "fly parent ehoilld pay heed to.

was that to train a child in good

A “hwlmlli 11o scholars 911111111111 more»

m“ “s Pmilfgzlw homework l It “amid 1131.11,» men work l0

Policeman will look in nt tbemov-Hug muteuiul giuccogg» uudl srtrlve lo established church, the church of lies, aud‘if he finds the same chlld-lin-culcate nu- ambiiiorf to be hon- ren there more than once o. week est by hinting that honesty is ihc

‘he'll have something to write in hirubesi POLicY- T114559‘ 111111111119. 11f

note-book a-bout them. Picturespli piacee in the world. are put make your eyes cry if you go l00|lni0 school copy books to be ti???)

iopteu, and when your eyes cry ificrlibedi by our yflllnzsters. fmegns that you're working them too would be us amazed .nt them as bard, unless of course you've beentbe angels: must be‘, if they ever plums “m, the pepper-put! ‘thought about the-m at all other.

Even if you go away on u jour- wise than as u. tedious writing e}- ney the Eye Policeman goes with ercfse. Better guides ‘in life could

you. In fact most children keep be culled from the savings of him vary pugy on journeys, for they Falstaff or Sin Toby Belch. to 10W to 19m out o: the windows A good preparation for the

Christmas» season is‘ to forge-t piru- [denitinl proverbs altogether and fake a few nights- oilf to read Dickens. What happened to Scrooge should be lesson enough for the average man and -i‘f he tops this mad-ink. off ‘with The Pickwick Rtopem he will be in fine triim ‘to sally forth to do bds Christmas shopping and to enter iuvto the festivities and enjoy the good fellowship of the season.

QUlD NUNC.

where they are in danger of 26111118 soot and bits of coal in their eyes. That ‘makes the Policeman frown and look for his pencil, for he knows that eyes are sometimes badly bu-rt that way. " ~-

Yon see what a busy person the Eye Policeman is» ‘He goes about ev- erywhere writing down those things lnhis notebook, and than some day he has a grand reckon- ing-up, mud if you're‘ one 0i 1-118 careless ones, he may send you a pair of spectacles. Nobody likes Bpeclflclefl, so be careful to keep your name out of the Eye Police man's note-book.

From ‘the Department of Health. League of Red Cross Societies. Dis- tributed by tbe Canadian Red Cross

Society.

New Minister Inducted At Rexton Church

HARCOURT. N B Dec 8—Rev. W N MacQunrrie was inducted- lnto the pastoralte of the Presby- terian church at Rexton on Thurs- day evening of lest week. wMr MncQusrrle ls leaving the pastor- uic of the Presbyterian chu-rcb at Bedeque, P E l 1B2] comes to Rex- ton particularly well qualified for

Brit-ish Bids Win

First Fioiiio Shakespeare Kept For £5900.

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, , i.‘f' d wilb blms If, bi up ears , “'1 111111911‘ 11'" he h“ °"°-""" mlrrisleubumes, hi: will: hi? fnnlllyéfl g0 in "or Baum‘ Before he hpganfilllil, above all, bis position in Pol-

to write this story, ha mus‘. have _ _ ,_ _ said to himself, “G0 t0, ‘I will nowldiljhter‘ Tms M“ was very SD18“

write a novel in which I will sot up o. tyrannical nrchdenccn of n cathedral town and l will make him the centre of jealousy, infri- gue, haired, and scandal," in “Bar- cbeself Towers," Anthony Trollope ‘bowed us that beneath the placid surface of life in an English (‘athe- drul town there are various am- bitions and antlpathies, but com- pared with Walpole, Trollope is an wafer unto wine, as fur us the por- giléaéssggéelen lspfgfptilgésangafllsjtgl at chapter meeting easly andl cléeap we he“ 1-19 1M <11 "11 “"015-Xi.”‘fiifi..‘ii.iifili’sflhl.é;’..“.l...“?. against their powerful archdenmn’ resist his opinion But ~in that the sordid strife of conservalivc mogul were Fume ‘a new canon to iheolwilan“ against mmermsls’ the cathedral Frederick Render. “met fliims’ aflugtexg’ ma] filmy?" who was to prove too clever for death. '1‘ e ecc es as c n, dc 1m o on English cathedrals may be 111111 115 Brandon and Easel m operati