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his majesty the king one touch ot nature makes the better serve the state have won for whole world kin and the new3 that him in everincreasing measure the was flashed suddenly round the esteem and affectionate regard of lis world of the indisposition ot hl3 majesty has knit millions of peo ple not oul throughout the british canada adds to her atlantic fleet people everywhere since the day3 of queen victoria when the daily life ot royalty wa3 empire but in lands which owe shrouded by a cuitaln of official no allegiance to king george secrecy the world has learned much tho illness has taken a turn jot the magnitude of the tasks which tor the worse the knowledge devolve on the sovereign and the bf his majestys predisposition to i long hours of labor that his exalted fculmonary trouble coupled with a office command more than this rise in temperature and the summon- not only his subjects but thousands ing of physicians to buckingham of men and women from all parts of palaco has increased the general the world many by personal contact anxiety have come to regard king george as king george has won a firm place a man worthy of admiration a man in the affections of his people and among men a good sportsman a man by his constant and understanding of deep sympathies ot infinite tact sympathy with the ideals of th vari- and unfailing courtesy with that gift ous nations that constitute the em- that the gods bestow on kings and p he has identified himself with all princes ot he discernment that in- ir varied interests his unswerving stlnctively does the right thing at thol devotion to dutv his serious concep- right time hon of the onerous responsibilities anxiety is intense and tho pray- thta devlve upon him as the head ot era of an empire and of the whole the state and his unselfish denial of world will be offered fcr his speedy his own interests that ho may the recovery parliament backs wireless merger british bill passes second reading despite oppo sition of labor london the imperial telegraphs bill to give effect to the ireless cable merger has passed its second reading in the house of commons by 258 to 134 votes the chief new point raised britain first among customers of united states commerce canbe missionary of friendship says new consulgeneral london albert halstead the ncw- ly appointed american consulgeneral i in britain addressing the american chamber of commerce at a welcom- in the debate being whether this meas- 1 ing luncheon quoted a number of re- ure might lead to the domestic inland markable statistics as an argument telegraphs also being transferred to for what he desribed as a tactful consideration of one another by brit ish and the united states among the united states custom ers for example he said britain ranks first with the dominion of canada a good second the united states on the other hand is britains third best market overseas being surpassed only by india and aus tralia new ship of the canadian national fleet the lady nelson first of the five canadian national liners for service betwoen the dominion and british west indies arrived at st john inset capt j m relth opens department at scotland yard byng appoints solicitors to safeguard public witnesses private hands arthur m samuel for the govern ment defended the merger on the ground that the bargain made with the new company was a good one and was approved by the overseas do minions ramsay maedonald opening it claimed that it would put any future labpr government in the equivocal position of having either to accept a step in an opposition direction to socialism or to reverse the legisla tion of its predecessor he hated the former course as a socialist and the latter as a constitutionalist the gov ernment he declared had no right to decide so important a question of im perial policy in a dying session of parliament before the general elec tion walter baker another labor mem ber warned parliament that if it ac cepted the merger it would be diffi cult to avoid including also the inland telegraphs for which he declared careful plans already had been laid john withers conservative sug gested that further safeguards were desirable to insure an equitable divi- sion of the new shares among the dif ferent existing classes of marconi shareholders london gen lord byng has only been chief of the scotland yard forces for a short time but already slaying at eloping pairs feast stirs up jugoslavia government may move against wifestealing custom belgrade coming back many miner harvesters ex press desire to return to canada herbcure patient stoneblind again indian whose case created wide interest goes back to bed st catharines georgx- elijah lickers 28yearold indian whose al leged cure from blindness and par alysis by herbs caused a continent- wide sensation last spring is again stoneblind and the paralysis from which he was believed to have been freed is again creeping back upon his limbs charles silversmith an in dian who lives near port weller was the man who gave lickers the herbs which were believed to have cured him two weeks ago lickers lost the sight of his right eye on tuesday night he became totally blind and today he lies in bed a pathetic sight unable to see an ciectric light hnng- mg directly over his head with his left arm numb and with his legs cold from the knees down silversmith claims that lickers by undue anxiety lias frightened him self into his present condition though commercial rivalry some times leads to serious differences department and not by police officers mr halstead said when there is aj ia making statements solid basis for understanding inter- wi hs spaeially advised and warned est and good will then commerce it- tho consequences wheih- might self is a missionary of friendship t0 themselves in this way it is believed that such scandals as that attaching to the interrogation in the leo money case will be avoided and the liberty of the subject will be pre served lord byng is determined to restore tho reputation of scotland yard sir william joynsonhicks has revealed that the questran of criminal prosecu tion of the officers who have been ac cused of taking bribes is under con sideration it is stated taht goddard who was dismissed from tho force had 12000 in his possession which is now held by joynsonhicks london more than sco letters have been received by dominion offi- cals in london from harvester now 1 back in britain after working in can- jugoslavia wife steal- ada expressing their desire to return he has decided to introduce a system- ing still common in parts of jugo- to canada next spring kigftt hon l which will safeguard the public fromslavia las led to a tragedy which has q- m s amery secretary for do- exeessive zeal on the part ot the stirred the whole nation from time minion affairs revealed in the house police there will now be a special immemorial it was the custom in of commons recently interrogation departmnet at scotland rural districts when parents refused the minister said he believed most yard which will have four solicitors consent to marriage of their laugh- of the 2720 harvesters who remained well versed in taking statements from ter for the wooer to forcibly curry ir canada had found winter work he persons who are likely to be called off tre girl such was the case with was endeavoring to keep in touch as witnesses dragomir filipopovitch in love with with them asked whether when the it is intended that all statements m ilka jovanovitch of the village of nicn had returned to britain thejrhajil shall e taken only by ociciais of the mislodpina been treatid as deportees the minr ii n f w nobel prize winner prof charles nicolls director pas teur institute at tunis has been awarded the 192s nobel prize for research work in connection with spotted typhus fever woman quits parliament after fortyfour years annie began carpetmending in building as a girl london for fortyfour years annie has been carpetmender in the houses of parliament soon she will retiro to a wellearned rest for almost a half century annio every morning has takon a penny btreotcar ride from her homo in ken- nlngton to westminster then sho has settled down to her work on tho floor of one chamber or anothor with needle and thread to repair tho holes in the carpets mado bf tho rest less feet of members ot parliament annio started work in tho housos when she was eighteen year3 old now aho is sixtytwo when lady astor first came to tho houso of commons annie was tho first woman sho mot there lady asor smilod at hor and said you see my dear they cant ret on without 3 annio replied of course not mr lloyd george hopes naval accord has gone forever oxford eng a hope that the an glofrench navai accord has gone forever was expressed by david lloyd george in an address at oxford university the wartime premier used strong terms in discussing tho disarmament policies of the baldwin government the naval accord has- well been called a compromise ho said it compromises our honor and the peace of tho world i hope it has gone for ever so long as we go on with huge armaments intho face of our pledged w the covenant of tho league of nations the locarno treaty and tho kellogg pact are- mockeries and shams i am told that our relations with franco and germany nro better than thoy hvo ever been 1 wish it could have been said that our relations with america are bettor i am alarm- od about tho situation tho nations aro sharpening their knives on tho very stones of tho templo of peace big increase in use of gasoline edmonton alberta sales of gaso- lino in the province of alberta for for the first ten months of 1928 have exceeded by about c000000 gallons the sales in any previous year thsi increased consumption is attributed to the growing use of tractors motor trucks which are being more gener ally used by farmers for hauling grain meeting with opposition from mil- is ter replii in the negative he auo kas father a rich peasant dragomir said he was without any evidence re- and his friends went to jovanovitch s garaing the suggestion that some ot liouse at night seized the girl and the 2720 remaining had gone 0 ie took her off to dragomirs house in a units i stales neighboring village wiiere an elabor ate wedding feast tad been prepared milkas father however discover ed the theft of his favorite daughter and formed a rescue party breaking in on the wedding celebration at dragomirs house he demanded the return of his daughter a free for all battle ensued in which revolvers and knives were drawn the girls brother fell dead and six others were wounded police inter fered dragomir was held to be tried for murder and wife stealing the girl wept for her lover and her dead brother and the government is con sidering measures to terminate tho growing practice of wife stealing congratulations to mr fielding in a little red brick house in ot tawa not ten minutes walk from parliament hill but seemingly far removed from the siress arsd turmoil of public affairs william stevens fielding celebrated on nov 2lth tho 80th anniversary of his birth an invalid now the iittle gray man who for 17 years bestrode can adian commerce like a giant but bene- ficient colossus is fighting the battle for health and strength with the same indomitable courage which distin guished his long career as a public man from his bed he has watched the seasons come and go the fullness of summer merging into the splendor of autumn and now the trees gono bare outstanding character of countless parliamentary battles mr fielding was tho recipient of congratulations from hundreds of leading citizens of all political parties and n all sections of the dominion he was visited by his former colleagues and by the lead ing members of tho opposition for it was characteristic of fielding that doughty debater though he was a giver of shrewd blows in unexpected quarters he rarely made an enemy throughout his illness ho has never been forgotten by his friends and he has never had occasion to recall tho remark of townsend pitts col league who controlled government atronage in britain for many years and whose balls and receptions wero crowded with churchmen and politi cians eager for advancement town- send fell from power and when next he held a reception his halls were de serted ah he exclaimed even bishops can forget their maker fielding is one of the last surviv ing members of lauriers first cab inet the cabinet of all the talents he assumed high office in the con- federatienfi whose formation he had opposed tooth and nail but he accept ed defeat and gave his best to prosper the dominion when he became min ister of finance the population of can ada was about 5000000 when he resigned office in 1911 it was 7200- 000 the value of manufactured pro- in 1s0g was 3450000000 in herbert hoover nation and athenaeum london it is undoubtedly mr hoovers ambi tion to promote the welfare and even 1911 i12c0ccff statistics may sem cold and hard but only in this way can one tell the story of what fielding helped do for canada in the difficult years of the postwar depression fielding grown old and weary was called once more to tho great responsibility of the fin ance ministership confronted with falling revenues expanding debt and enormous current expenditures he ap plied himself to the taskof bringing order out of chaos of balancing can adas budget strachey once said that his hair stood on end when he watched chancellors of the exchequer devising new and painless methods of plucking feathers out of that golden gooso tho taxpayer fielding devised new taxes increased old ones shaved ex penditure to the bone and it may be sais that the business men of canada never doubted his ability to right tho ship of state and chart a course to safety and prosperity and who can tell to what degree armistic day medal i tho present prosperity of canada is issued by the royal mint of eng- ascribable to the wise policies of tho world supremacy ot american of the medal ty trade whether thi3 will lead him land for public issue the obverae fielding carried on and enlarged by his pupil and successor hon j a robb to pursue policies which will accent- 1 uatc angloamerican friction is from the british standpoint tho most in- deliverance the design is by c l doman e v who remembers the old day3 when and other products of tho farm and 1 teresting question which his election father got all the blame for tho ashes harvester combines in tho province raises of one thing we may be con- j on the rug aswell as the increased number of fldent his policy in world affairs automobiles licensed during the pre sent year much of the gasoline used in alberta is produced in the turner valley which is about 45 miles south and west of calgary will be clear consistent and deter- j of late it has become something of mined this makes it the moro imja problem to the proof reader of wo- portant that british policy should mens fashion pages toidetormlno not be open to legitimate criticism whether the new word is a misprint from the united states or merely the name of a new color the active volcano of the sicilian isles pacts for peace leo maxso in tho national review london had the american poaco pact beon signed ten years beforo tho groat war instead of ton years afterwards it would and could not have had the slightest influence in stopping germany from invading belgium though it would undoubted- 1 ly have immensely strengthened the pacifist section of the liberal gov- j ornmont who would have made it a plauslblo oxcuse for still further tie plotlng british armaments but it would not havo restrained germany by one hour or dollectcd her by ono inch as she maintained that in at tacking belgium sho was waging a war ot solfdcfenco which is ex pressly excluded from tho operation of tho kellogg pact fieldings days as a minister are done but the old energy still animates him his secretary who came witfc him from the maritimes long yean ago is still in the department and fielding will not havo anyone but her she goes frequently to the humble home on charlotte st at first the dictation is clear and brisk the words apt and to the point all the old lu cidity and power flash out but after a sentence or two the weakening and confusing pall of sickness descends tho words trail off the directness is blunted and the letter is unfinished it is to his boon companions of former days that fielding remains the same as of yore that inimitable tol ler of stories kirk cameron never comes to the capital without calling upon fielding always he is greeted with a bright smile and well kirk tell me the latest in his prime fielding had an amaz ing capacity for seeing visitors dele gations pnrty supporters and friends his office was as it were a court in which ho presided listening patiently and with understanding to tho com plaints and advise well he knew tho wisdom of gladstones remark that delegations are schools for the education of ministers today ho holds court in tin invalid bed in the caital of the dominion he served so long and faithfully and it is crhaps not the least tribute to his greatness that the friends of his days of power and influence are still his friends lava from mount etna buries two villages molten streams pouring down tho sides of the volcano destroyed the sicilian villages of masealf ami anmra- zlala and other places on tho island arc in danger from the fiery liquid rock youth is not degenerate london wo hear a good deal of nonsense about the degeneracy of tho presentday youth said tho west london coroner presenting a royal humnno society certificate to a 14- ycarold boy who attemptcdto rcscuo a drowning friend i am not of that opinion what is in the blood will come out in an eng lishman when tho need arises i hope all boys ill learn to swim for in my opinion swimming is moro useful than learning to play tho piano