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BY 'CHARLES G. TRUMBULL
(kdetor of Tho 3unelay School Times)
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PAUL'S VOYAGE AND SHIP-
WF,ECK.
Sunday, Dee. G ---Acts 27;l -.LL
(golden Text.
13e of good cheer; it is it he not
afraid (Matt. 14:271.
It was a fortunate thing fora Rom-
an centurion named Julius, the sol-
diers under his command, and the
master and owner of a ship of Alex-
andria
le�:-
andria'in whish they all hoped to sail
safely from Fair Havens, in Crete,
to another Cretan port only 40 miles
away, that a little Jewish prisoner
named Paul was on board. They hal
a tempestuous experience. the mem-
ory of which must have lingered i.o
the end of their three; and it is safe
to say that not one of them ever for-
got Paul.
The narrative written by Luke of
Paul's voyage and shipwreck is one
of the masterpieces of nautical :.inti
historical literature. The natural
and the supernatural are here; the
ordinary and the extraordinary; the
hard-headed, practical man of af-
fairs, who is also the Spirit -filled num.his heart sensitivelyopen en to the
voice of God. The chapter is a strik-
ing illustration of the fact that God
helps those who help themselves, an
dalso that God helps those who eamt'tt
help themselves.
Luke, the beloved physician. teas
on this vessel with Paul, as the use
of the pronoun "we" through the
narrative shows. How those two
great Christr'an souls must have been
bound together "in the bundle of life
(I. Sam,, 25:2P), Doubtless they
prayed together on shipboard mit,.;
times.
The details of the itinerary are
given in the early part of the el. e»-
ter. and nothing eventful oce•urr•:ri
until after the party had ehan;^art
ships at Myra, on the coast of what
is now Asia Minor, to voyage to
Crete. Paul gives or:wainal advice
to the centurion and the ship's ma.
ter, not to continuo the voyage be-
yond Fair Havens, because the stet-
son was so far gone that "sailing was
now dangerous." They disregarded
his advice, almost to their death
Truly spiritual men al, truly practi-
cal men, and Paul was one of the,
Then follows one of the most vivid,
dramatic accounts of a protracted
storm at sea. Instead of the forty
mile run they expected to make, they
were blown G00 miles by the fury of
the tempest.
Fortunate are those who possess
or who can find in a library, the
greatest uninspired book that has
ever been written on this subject,
"The Voyage and Shipwreck of St.
Paul," by James Smith of Jordan -
hill. Snaith was a Scottish business
man, an elder in the Church of Scot-
land, passionately devoted to the sea
and its shipping. Such scholars as
the late Dean Alford, and the present
Sir William M. Ramsay, agree that
Smith's volume so covers the subject
as to leave nothing further to be
said.
The boat in which Paul's party
sailed was not a trifling affair. Philip
E. Howard of the Sunday School
'Gimes, writing on this narrative after
a study of Smith's book, has said.
""A creditable craft, as large as our
three -masted coasting schooners,
doubtless a grain -carrier out of Al-
exandria bound for Italy with a cargo
of grain for the Romans." It was
•probably about a hundred and eighty
feet long and forty wide, and about
able to early some two hun-
dred acid fifty tons of Such 'cargo as
it had."
Shipmaster, sailors, centurion and
soldiers gave up all hope of being
saved. But Paul had more than mere
hope of being saved; he had definite
knowledge. First, the Lord had ap•
peered to him at Jerusalem and had
said, "Be of good cheer, Paul: for as
thou hast testified of Me in Jerusaletn,
so must thou hear witness also at
Horne" (Acts 28;11); and Paul knew
tbs.. the Lord always keeps His word.
Secondly. as Paul reported to the
men on board, an angel of God ap-
peared to hint on the ship, reiterated
the word that had came from the
Lord at Jerusalem, and added, "God
hath given thee all them that ,ail
with thee" a 27:241.
When we receive a promie a from
God, whether in His written Word
o say
e 'We ready t
or t cn•wt,etire oh
with Paul: "I believe, God, that
it
shall be even as it was told me" (v.
25)', That is the secret of peace ,n
the midst of the storm.
practical tical c•omntOnsenst+ ap-1
pears again when, as the vessel nears
•the shore and wreck is hninimmt, he
'resets ,.very one to take some food,
for he knows their bodies need
strengthening; for the test that hes
ahead. Best of all, while the danger '
is far from over, Paul "took bread,
and gave thanks to God in presence
1 of them all; and when h,• had broken
it, he began to cut" Thanksgiving.
I to God before we are delivered is
more significant than thanksgiving
afterward,
The teseel was pounded to pieces
by the sea. As men were swimming
to shore, or carried in on spars, the
soldiers wanted to kill the prisoners, i
inclndinc Pau?, lest any should ea
rape. The centurion saved the life'
of Patel :mei all the prisoners, even a,
Paul hacl .melt their Basi. And the •
a: -t word of the rhapt,•r is the record
-Gods ke" nines or His premise:
Tan a escaped all safe to land."
The writer had the privilege of
visiting paella at:tl St, P ' "ay ::0
years age, and quotes from an ac-
count written at that time:
"I stand on the rocky shore and
look out at the glorious sunshine on
the place where the two seas must
have met.....i can see the boat go-
ing to pieces on the bar, and the men
drifting, floating, swimming in. And
I ata sure I can see the stout-hearted
Tarsier standing on 'this beach in the
sunshine, after the danger is past,
looking out over the waters through
which he has been brought, and thank
lug God with a full heart: that He has
wrought this miracle for a sign of
His power li +ore the Romans and the
barbarians. I thank God and take
eoutaer'. Inc Paul's God is our God
still."
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CZLEBRATES 77th $111 'HDAY
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llig;ht lion. W. S. Fielding, fernier
Minister of Finance, quietly celebrat-
ed his seventy-seventh birthday at
hi: hone, in Ottawa last week.Al-
though removed from active political
lifs two years ago next month, by i11-
nc - Mr. Fiddlier retains a lively in-
tttet in polities.
rep it,das,nuns,•h•tl iill pro •eri Flo
hes :!4:11:)101.11 ,0 1,1.1.1..1- 1.1 ..n t.„b.
gt,a ft„eine. ,f e1,•, refs 1 g btu?c•
at, tit the bead and possible fnternel
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THE WOMAN IN PARLIAMENT
.The Ontario Farmer
Four years bi the House of Com-
mons have not dimmed Agnes Mac-
Phail's vision, nor dulled the fine
keenness of her enthusiasm, and the
fact that her constituency returned
her in the last election, has .not turn-
ed her head. Her life et Ottawa has
broadened the first, it has sharpened
the second, with its revelation of the
boundlessness of opportunity that lie
about for the seizing, while the third
has but given her a more intense de-
sire to serve.
One of Miss MaePhail's hobbies is
youth, Contiwith its fire and its
daring demand for the truth in all
things. "Whenever I get the oppor-
tunity I tell the young people to
stick to their ideals,” she said. "They
are right, and their ciders who preach
materialism and the gospel of "it
won't pay,' are wrong.” To 'prove
her faith Miss MacPhail has been in-
strumental In organizing young peo-
ples' work in South Grey. and inci-
dentally as she speaks of it, gives
all sorts of praise to the agricultural
representatives, to the Dominion and
the Ontario Departments of Agricul-
ture, and to the 0. A. C. for the co-
operation freely given whenever it
was asked for.
Now she is• thinking about library
work in her part of the world, and
not the least delighted portion of an
hntrr or so that we spent with Mies
?l; 1'hail lately, was taken up with
talk about •'hildren's hooks—she's a
great believer in books for us all, is
Canada's •only woman member in the
Dominion Hous•,. And by the way,
she is very keen on the subject of
a book about the Govet'rmumt, Writ-
ten specially for children. "They
haven't the faintest idea that Govern-
nemt is anything in which they have
tiny concern," she says, "and that
reminds us we must tell you that,
last year, in connection with the
young peoples' movement in Grey,
Mists MacPhail gave the first prize in
a public school essay.competition a-
mong the nineteen school fairs in the
county, the topie being, "The Federal.
Government," and the prize a trip to
Ottawa for the opening of the house.
It was won by Maxine Lyons, of
Markdale. You ran all imagine what
a fairy tale it was for the little girl,
for not only was she on the floor of
the House when the opening ceremon-
•
ies were in progress, but she happen-
ed to be twelve when she Was in Ot-
tawa, so her hostess gave her a birth-
day party in the House of Commons
dining room, and all the Cabinet Min-
isters came there to meet her, the
1HIon. Arthur Meighen gave her a
hook, the. Hon, Rodolphe, with true
!'rtruh gallantry, kissed her, and
there. ora: a storied birthday rake.
The prize this year was won by Ted-
lp Torres, of Shallow .Lake, one o£
the fine products of the • Burned°
Times. :ant he will he Biiss Mac-
• -u+.4 too, and see the way in
I:: h the t,nvernment of the new
ine,l he h•as helped to -build up, be -
it, deliberations.
A VETERAN PUBLISHER
Among the veteran publishers of
r)taaelo is Mr, II. J. Pettypiece of
ere t, who for the past 48 years
ler: published - and edited the Free
Preee et that town. On Armistice
Tay he celehratnd his 7(1th birth-
day. Twenty yenta ago Mr, Petty-
'
ct ; name• wits a household word
1h, otrghput Western Ontario. For
1,:'n whole terms he represented his
riding in the legislative halls at Tor-
onto. and its an .nubile speaker with
a grasp on the political questions of
the day and a vision of the future
of his country and the country's
needs, he was a pleasing and convinc-
ing speaker, popular with the agri-
cultural ehtssee whose champion in
litany respects he was, and who wet -
corned -him as a speaker at every pie•
Me and important gathering througli-.
Out his riding, He wields a ready
pen 'and is still to he recltoned with
at 71,
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Hospital for Sick Children
67 College St,, Toronto, 2, Ont,
Christmas, 1925,
Dear Mr, Editor:— -
This is the fiftiethyear--the semi -
centennial of the Hospital for Slott
Children. it is the Golden Aantrer•
sary of an institution which started
out in 1875 with a six -bed equip.
meat to cure children medically of
their illnesses and to rid them sur
gically of their - disabilities, Fitt)
years have passed and the tiny hos•
pital has grown into 000 of the.
greatest institutions of its kind In
the whole world.
The people of this province de -
mended this service — and they
'have made it possible by their'
Christmas Time gifts. They are
rewarded by the lmowledee that
thousands of Ontario children will
grow up Into manhood or woman-
hood blessing the "little blue cots"
wherein. they were restored and
strengthened to play a full part in
the battle of life.
To win back health for six thou•
sand boys and girls was the measure
of the Hospital's ward -service alone
thise
Y ar. Besides that there were
over halt a hundred thousand at-
tendances in the Oat -Patient Depart.
meat, where the less serious eases
are treated. All this costs a great
deal of money, even though the doe•
tors give freely of their skill and
the nurses of their care. There Is
board and lodging and laundry to be
provided, besides the best that can
be procured in the way of all the
medical and surgical supplies re•
quired to treat the mynas ailments
and accidents to which children are
subject
In order to maintain its high
standard of efficiency and also to
widen the scope of its service
through clinics conducted ail over
Ontario, the Hospital is compelled
to borrow heavily during the year.
On the occasion of its fiftieth Christ
was an appeal is made to the pub-
lic for the funds which will allow
the Rosetta! for Sick Children to
enter upon its second half -century -
of service with Its courage renewed
by a credit balance in the bank.
1t Is Indeed a noble cause which
1 teel sure you will cordially eom•
mend to Your readers.
Faithfully' yours,
(RV1NG E. ROBERTSON,
Chairman Appeal Committee
Note—This Hospital does not re-
ceive an approprlarion from alae
Federation for Coanauunity Service
Drive.
MOTOR LEAGUE TO ASK.
FOR 35'MILE LIMIT
Provincial Association To Recommend
Advance in Legal Speed of Autos.
The stand of the Ontario Motor
league in advocating an advanced pro
vincial speed limit of 35 miles an
hour on highways and 20 miles an
hour in cities, towns and villages was
explained in a circular to the London
Motor elub.
At the last meeting of the board of
director's it was conclucd that this
advance was necessary to relieve con
gestion on the highways and to fore -
:gull the opening of new roads. The
board was strongly in favor of abol-
ishing the speed limit altogether it:
the open country, but decided that
this wait too far-reaching, -
A minimum speod law was also
discussed, it being decided that those
who chive too slowly in faster mov-
ing, traffic are as dangerous as those
who drive at reckless speed. The Dean
tarry or the new speed laws is shown
in the fact that the slowness of, speed
on the completed highways would
necessitate e ssitate the construction of new
highways to take. Bare of the increas-
ires traffic, The proposal will he
triad!, to Commissioner A. W. Camp-
o, of the Dominion Department or
13ir, hw:tvcs as w(Il as to Toronto.
HURON COUNTY
11tH, James 13onahron. Nr,, "f -
Wall, nen, fnnud tread in bed. Hite was
82 veers old,
!'ire crld•tinte donne Ault, at Clinton,
has been moved int» new gnattera 1b
Out hall, 5t. '.illy vaealeal I,y, the
Odd fella We. The liter of their creek.
ly (keeps was weir attended.
'I'hf IT pttaserl a way 01 lit•, hen,' en
the Hellon lib ad, setae (llinto't, tydtvin
41y at Ino age »f 71. The., tette •lir,
gsy had to, the past blusher of year,
hosts 1e petite.I life. Ilir wire mode
r+papd hirer men y yeat ego and Ila is
emvived ivy one son, i+inrinnrr, anti
urn• 1nvelld daughter, .Oaarnee, both
at horns,
Admiral Von Tirpitz, who favors
the abolition of submarines providing
the subsequent abolition of the block-
ade follows as a logical consequence,
FARMS FROM T►III SEA..
Thousands of Golden Acres Are Being
Won Froin the Sea.
England le growing bigger, thou-
sands of golden acres are being won
from the sea at the Wasie, betwecn
Norfolk .and, Lincoln.
A huge banit across a tide -flooded
arca ie being built by mechanical
"scoops," and the dry land is steadily
tclnn r•ng towards the spot where
Ring Jolen lost his crown and all
his Jewels.,
The land whichis being loon back
for England is the llneet in lite\world.
It is covered with a soli whish would
make it French gardener arm green
with .envy—acres which will -be able
to produce nine yearly harvests of
corn without neecliug a rest.
Already at high tide the water
barely ripples over groat stretches of
tate Wash. At low tide it is a vast
archipelago of islands as green as
meadows, The rivers from the east-
ern counties can scarcely held a way
through thein. King% Lynn, the old-
est commercial harbor of Britain, hes
to fight the rising land In order to
remain even an apology of a port.
Three hundred square miles of won-
derful term land will be added to
England in time — the last of the
hugebaywhich. n covered trach o oe eo Bred most of
the tens. -
Even along the edges of the new
country it will be possible to have
Ave thousand Farms and small -hold-
ings, which wilt produce $6,000,000.
worth of food every year.
That dream may soon tomo true.
Fifty workmen are at work, 'with
$160,000 of Government money at
their back, driving the waves further
and further. out. Even to -day you
can ride a horse eight miles out from
the northern shore.
Farmers around tine wash are
watching land of quite fantastic rich-
ness rise from out the waters. They
are preparing to push out into what
was once the sea. -
It is the final act of the great
drama which has been going on since
Roman tastes. Since the legions Ot
Caesar came to Britaiu over 70,000.
acres have been reclaitned from the
sea.
Sir John Rennie, the engineer,
drew up a scheme for conquering the
Wash a hundred years ago. But, al -
Brough the farmers are rejoicing, the
folk of King's Lynn are not so happy.
The harbor is being slowly strangled.-
The local guide books call the Great
Ouse "a noble elver," but it Is a
melancholy spectacle now, as it
struggles from Its mouth at Ring's
Lynn and lights its way across Inc
Wash,
Tv'atmc on the river has almost
stopped and the town is gradually
ceasing to be a port, Within a sew
years Ring's Lynn may be miles
from the coast,
Farther along the coast the sea is
biting into the land. Near Hunatan
ton it is making a determined inroad,
and the elites are tumbling. Sand
hills are being washed away, and
golfers aro watching the coast line
drawing steadily towards their links.
Tin seaside towns are herd'tt work
building sea walls to steep out the
enemy. 13. 10 tit for tat!
011, Oranges and Tomatoes.
Scurvy and rickets were the lrou-`
Met( of a ten-nennths old baby as di-
agnosed' at a hospital. She n'as or-
dered to be given tour ounces of
orange juice three tines a day and
cod-liver oil in addition, The orange
juice for the scurvy anis the oil tot
the rickets, She showed improve-
ment qulckly and eventually recover-
ed entirely.
The only precsutlon the mother or
an artificially fed baby need take to
Prevent her shills having scurvy Is
to rive it every dsy a little Of some
fresh, unheated fruit or vegetable
jetie°.
Tile Is the statement of (looters
connected with the School of .11y-
eleve and Public Health of tine Johns
Hopkins University.
Tomato juice le equally goad,
though, these authorities tell us, and.
one very important thin:; for motiles
who live in remote places to know
Is that the ati"aa,'d ,iuiet of -home -
canned or beeeeht canned tomatoes
can be riven if treat] tomatoes er
oranges cannot bre obtained, A peeul-
far thing about totnatoes Is that hent-
itag does not deertroy ani; of vitamin
l0 them: Give about -twice as much
tomato Jule, as iSrangc_ juice sines
tomatoes are not as rich in vitamin
C as oranges. Never use tomato
Jule.. which has stood over -night,
'Lawyer. ant Christian Mince.
Sonia time ago a well-kiicwn Pasci-
ile (.`oast attnruey, who prides himself
upon his handling of Chinese w11r
nesses, was defending a railway dam-
age case, The lawyer !s a bit near-
sighted, so failed to note when a
Chinaman carne upon the stand that
the witness' clothing wee or finer tex-
ture than that of the ordinary coolie.
Instead of the usual titrestfons of an
oath, eta„ the following dialogue en.
sued.: '"W1tat your name?" "Kee
Lung." "You live San Francleool"
"Yes,"
„ You (rabble God 7'a "Mt, At-
torney, if you mean, 'De you under -
Mend the entity Of our Creator/' T
wilt simply say that Tlhurs4 y 9/011-'
lel
0p-
ieg mut i' snail tddrelle :tire ems
llllnlpterlal Aesonlatlou on dist eubjeet
01' Trlperaonality,' and 0a11 .be pleas-
ed 4o have you attend.” To the $ Y
Of bis death that lawyer' will neves'
0e0e to be asked, "Sabble God?"
ISedit,rtl blond.
Pn;+ name Bedford was recently
given to an island in lielndeer Lake,
near Swan Elver, Seekatclrowan, The
island is givers the nanie Bedford 1»
eospmemoratinn of Bedford House,
established In 1786 by the Hudson '
Day Company on the wast side of
Reindeer Lake,
Telephones In Canada,
Telephoto subscribers in Cauacits
now total were tlrau one In line of
the population.
MILITIA WILL MOURN
THREE MONTHS FOR QUEEN
King Orders All Corps To Wear
Full Mourning Till Jan. 20,
Orders have been received from
the adjutant -general at Ottawa by
the officials at Wolseley barracks,
London, expressing the desires of
His Majesty the Ring in the matter
of mourning for Flee Late Majesty
Queen Alexandra,.
The orders are as follows: "Hie
Majesty the Ring has commanded
that all military corps wear mourn-
ing for a period of three months for
Her Late . Majesty Queen Alexandra,
Men will wear full mourning from
November 20 until January -20, and
half mourning from January 20 un-
til February 20. His .Majesty has
also directed that all flags on govern-
ment buildings be flown at half mast
until next Saturday, November 28.
His Majesty has issued instructions
that all officers wear the mourning
armband until further notice. The
drums are to be muffled with black
and hung with black crepe, . Black
crepe is to be hung front the color
staffs of the regimental standards
and' the staffs of the cavalry: -
The North Huron Election Case
The - Toronto Star hat the follow-
ing editorial
ollow-ing-editorial on Tuesday evening:.. -,-
Ther
No thur
H on election e ton ca c
s
naturally excites a great deal of at-
tention, not only on account of the
facts of the vase, but because of the
narrow - margin in Parliament on
which a government may standor
fall,
Tdecision of Judge Lewis has
the.effehect of taking the North Huron
seat from J. W. King, Progressive,
with a majority of 170. and award-
ing it to George Spotton, Conserva-
tive, by a majority of. 8.
In three polling subdivisions the
deputy returning . officers evidently
did not know that it was their duty
to detach the counterfoils from the
ballots before they were deposited in
the box. In then three polling places
the total vote was 200 for Mr. Ring
and 83 for Mr. Spotton—a majority
for Mr. Ring of 177. Judge 'Levis
ruled that these ballots could not be
counted, and leaving them out, de-
cided that Mr. Spotton had been el-
ected by a majority of S votes.
Action is being taken against this
decision on behalf of Mr. Ring, and
no doubt the ease will be straightened
out by legal process. Our courts
are usually adequate in the handling
of such an issue. Perhaps there is a
certain judicial importance- in having
set up , an arguable case embodying
such a decision in regard to ballots
with counterfoils attached, as Judge
Lewis has here made. so that there
will exist an 'authoritative court rul-
ing in the future for such matters,,
but our courts, while sure and reliable
enough, are slow; and it might prove
to be a serious thing if Parliament
should meet in special session next
month with the result of the North
Huron election still up in the air:
The ballot coueterfoil is meant to
be detached. Of that there is no
doubt. But the elector has nothing
to do with that. It is clear that three
deputy returning officers did not
know their business. 11 so, such
punishment as their fault deserves
should fall on them, not on the elec-
tors of those polling subdivisions who
properly marked their ballots and
'entrusted theta to the ofltg ars legally
appointed to receive them --nor
should the ).tunishnient full on the
man duly chosen by a majority of
170 of the electors to represent
North Huron in Parliament. One
does not believe, of eourse,,„that a
punishment so severe and misplaced
will he inflicted, and that it will be
found, when the resources of - the
courts have been utilized, that law
and jttstice tit together well enough,.
Former Premier Edouard Herriot,
of. France, who advised President
Dournergue that he, was unable to
form a new ministry to succeed that
of hl, Paul 1'atnlove,
Hon, Manning Doherty, Progres-
sive member of the Legislature £4t'
East Rent, and 1'r'omer 't'rovinGiai
Minister of Agriculture under Holt.
E. C.• Drury's U. 1+, 0, regime, who
resigns his seat at Queen's Park .with
the announcement that he now sup-
ports the Conservative party in fed-
eral polities.
GW,r.T3NSi'AL (riti'I'Lil.
Offered to Irish Free State as fronts
for Presiiioni.
Glenstal Castle, which Sir Charles
Barrington offered as 0 gilt to the
Irish Free State, is situated on an
eminence known as Slieve Phetlnt,
near Limerick city, within a short
distance of the Atlantie and com-
manding a flue prospect, including
the Plain of Limerick 011. one side
and the mountains on the other,
It le an ideal home tor a statesman
'who wants to get away from time to
time from the environment of olpcial
life, with he exacting routine, About
110 ranee from Dublin, it is near
enough to tbe capital, with modern
means of transportation, and it is at
the same time far enough away to
insure that the President would not
be worried with the details of official
business which would inevitably be
thrust upon him in a residence near
the seat of government.
Were the Government to consult
its own convenience the offer would
be accepted without delay, but in the
present state of Irish finances, and
With the insistent clamor for econ-
omy, 11 naturally hesitates to commit
itself to the annual expenditure
which the upkeep of Glenstal Castle
would involve,
vol e,
When a Dublin correspondent in-
quired at Lie Government Bulldluge
in the Irish' metropolis, he was In-
formed that there was no information
available as to the decision of the
Government,
There is a good deal of clamor
from polittclana and others about th
cost of maint, ing the Vice -Regal
Lodge as a residence for the King'e
representative, the Governor-General,
and this in itself is au®clent to ac-
count
scount for the hesitation of the Gov-
ernment in accepting Str Charles Dar
rington's offer, The cost of mainten-
ance would be anything from $20,000
to 580,000 a year, and a President
who receives a salary of 510,000 a
year could not be expected to main-
tain such an establishment out of his
private purse.
Preeldent Cosgrave, as bead of a
Government tvbich rules over twent-
ty-six counties . o1 Ireland, has loss
than the salary of Sir James. Craig,
the Premier of the six -County Ulster
Parliament, and it would -not seem
unreasonable that lee should be pro-
vided with an official' residence, It
there were a political settlement in.
Ireland which would be accepted byy
all the people, the provision of such
a residence probably would be agreed
to without: question. But with near-
ly one-third of the people's represeu-
tativee refusing to take their seats in
the Dail, political considerations
what necessarily influence the minds
of the members of the Government
in deciding what to do with the
castle,
Glenstal Castle was built in the
first half of the nineteenth centum.
It is on the style of Sir Walter Scott'e
castle at Abbotteford, but originally
wee planned on a much more ela ber-
ate scale. The designer had Wind-
sor Castle in mind, and tbe founda-
Cons were actually laid for a build-
ing much larger than the preset
Glenstal Castle. The building as first
conceived was abandoned, and many
years after the castle in its present
size was erected the successor in title
to the founder had to epend close to
$4,lottnda000 tlonin As,iling In the tlnoecessary
The estate Included 10,000 acres
at the time the castle was built. The
greater part of the land has since
been sold, to the occupying tenants
under the various land purchase acts,
but there are still some fine deer
Perim, a big demesne stretching
along the slopes of Stievo intense,
and 801115 splendid, shooting going
with the property. Pite avenue to
the castle is a. mile and a hall long.
The castle, with gardens, ponds and
lands immediately around the build-
ing, is Included in - the offer to the
Free State Government, The outer
land probably will be sold, as the
owner is now seventy-seven years old
and the younger members of itis fam-
ily have made their homes etsewberd.
Rising to tate Occasion,
Among the atorles told of Int'. Mar-
ion LeRoy Burton, :president of the
university of Michigan, is one front
Minneapolis, A party of 13ritfeb odtf-
eaters were once visltieg Atmmerican
universities, and en their tour visited
Minnesota, with wbioli he was then
connected, and stayed at the lui'ton
home, -
After °very one else In the home
had retired, Ar, Barton made a round
of inspection through the Italia to see
that everything had been dello toe
the cemfort of hie gueete, lie re -
tented to his wifeee room, sinning
and perplexed. Together they went
out !Me the hall and Dr, Burton
pointed to the other doorways,'Iliere,(
euteldo °eel door, was a pair of
shoes for each occupant, plated for
cleaning and polieldng, as is the cus-
tom in England. The Burtons did
not have nranaorvatlts; not even 0-
butler, Dr, furton mulled, 00110dt44
the shoes and took them (0 the base-.
meat, where he donned and pollshed'
them acid returned them to their
places at the doors of hie guests,