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AS THE WINNER IS UNWRAPPING THE PRIZE, YOU SUDDENLY REMEMBER THAT IT'S THE ENAMEL ASH-TRAY YOU WON AT HER HOUSE LAST MONTH. (Copyright, 1939, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

SWYAS WILLIANE

NO SLEEP FOR 15 YEARS.

ASTONISHING CASE OF A WOUNDED OFFICER.

IHS TWENTY-FOUR HOUR. DAY.

TRACING STRAY

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ENTERPRISE OF THE TAIL- "WAGGERS' CLUB. “

CHURCH ORNA- MENTS.

BISHOP'S PETITION TO REMOVE REJECTED.

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The war between Dr. Barnes, the Every member

of the Tail-Bishop of Birmingham, and the Waggers' Club receives on joining Angio-Catholic "rebel churches" a medallion, bearing on the obverse in his diocese was carried a step.

further last month when a petition, two crossed tails and the motto, hacked by the bishop, for a faculty Brain and nerve specialists of "I help my pals." On the reverse to remove certain ornaments Central Europe are puzzled by the is the address of the clab, at 27, from Stirchley Parish Church whe astonishing case of an Hungarian Temple chambers, Temple-avenue. dismissed, with costs, by Mr. E. E.C., and the registered number: W Hansell, C., Chancellor of Government official who has not of the member. Hitherto the Lon the Birmingham diocese. slept, or even closed his eyes, sincodon police have accepted the wear

"Altar "Ornaments." he was wounded by a Russian bullet ing of this medallion as compliance:

The "ornaments" were a taber- with the regulations, which may benacle on the altar, a statue of the in 1015.

in force or not, according to the district, about having the name and Virgin Mary and Child, and two address of the owner engraved on stoops for holy water. the collar-plate.

The sleepless man ja M. Paul Keru, who despite his affliction, work daily in one of the ministrica at Budapest. His case is one of the most amazing phenomena of the great war.

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"It will be recalled that on the death of Father Noake, the former vicar of Stirchley, the bishop order. ed the removal of various articles from the church, and that Mr. Han- sell, who held the inquiry, then sent a vigorously worded protest to the bishop against what he des- "a serious invasion of cribed as the functions and the jurisdiction of the Consistory Court."

Recently, however, a resident in Paddington was summoned for allowing, his dog to be at large without an address on the collar, It was in one of the early battles although he WES carrying the on the eastern front that M. Kern medallion. Mr. Bingley, the magis received the wound. that was to trate, held that membership of the turn his every night into day. club did not absolve anyone from He volunteered as a cadet on the the responsibility of showing the outbreak of war, and soon won re-name and address, but in view of cognition in command of a

com-the previous practice of the police. pany of shock troops, being decorat he dismissed the summons on pay ed with a gold medal for bravery.ment of Ps. costs. A year later he was transferred to another corps, with which he again

The case serves to call attention distinguished himself in the de

Bishop and Council, fchce of an important sector to the services that are being ren-

Mr. A. S. May, his counsel, against terrifie odds, when all his dered by a remarkable organisation

that in eighteen months has enroll-stated that the council were in- brother officers were shot down.

On the third day of the battle ed well over a quarter of a million formed that the bishop would not a llussian bullet found him, and he members and raised £90,000 towards institute Father Paralew, the, pro- recovered consciousness in a Lem- the rebuilding of the Royal Veteri- posed incumbent, in succession to the late Father Noake, unices the berg hospital before being tran-nary College. By means of an

ornamenta were removed. sported to Budapest.

Good Work Done.

The petitioner for the faculty to remove the ornaments was Mr. Henry Edward Causon, acting secretary of the Parochial Church Council and people's warden.

These ornaments, he said, had been installed without a faculty, and it was understood that failure to remove them would result in

д incumbent. The the appointment of a Modernist council therefore passed a resolu- tion complying under protest with the bishop's request for the re moval of the ornaments.

elaborate system of indexing the From the momont be opened his staff can ascertain the name and eyes in the ward at Lemberg address of the owner of any mem- Kern never slept again; nor, in ber in a few seconds, and in this way it has been able to restore more deed, has he the slightest desire to do so. His case has been studied than 800 stray dogs to their homes. by the best brain and nerve speci- In some cases disconsolate waifs Churchman alists of Budapest. who are unable have been discovered many miles to trace any abnormality. X-rays from master or mistress. How dogs have revealed nothing, and, from Norfolk and a Sussex water- spite of examinations made over ing-place happened to be in London ia a mystery that was never fathom- A number of years, Dr. Frey, a noted professor of the univercity, ed. One woman bad an intimation has been unable to put an end to from the club by telephone that her Fet was at a certain police station M. Kern's strange condition.

before she was aware that it had

A curious feature of the casa is that, apart from an occasional been lost. headache the sleepless man suffers

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It was stated that the resolution was carried with six dissentients out of twenty-seven persons voting, and was confirmed at subsequent meetings.

the proceedings."

The application was opposed by Mr. E. H. Kendrick, a member of the Parochial Council. Mr. W. N. Stable, his counsel, contended that the petition did not represent the! real wishes of the Parochial Coun cil, and that the proceedings of the council were invalid.

Mr. Causon, giving evidence, This, however, is but a subsidiary stated that he was informed that no ill-effects from his consistent part of the club's work. The most, the bishop would meet the costs of wakefulness. For years, he has useful of its duties has been to im- never доле to bed. His work plant in the minds of owners of shows not the slightest, signs of de-members-it is the dogs that are terioration, and the widows, or enrolled-a desire to give their dogs phans, and invalids with whom M. a square deal, to see that they are Kern daily comes in contact have properly fed and tended, and to nothing but affection and praise for treat them generally in a rational their fellow victim of the WET, Tanner: The thousands of letters whose fate has taught him to be that are received show that this sympathetic and patient with responsibility is being taken seri others more unfortunate than himously, and that owners are also anxious to see that dogs other than their own are looked after in a decent manner.

self.

Joyous Haunts.

At first M. Kern tried to sleep.

Show dogs are in a category but hours of wakefulness in bed apart. As a rule acilled cars is exhausted him more than the pre- bestowed upon them, if from sent "rest", which takes him every no higher motive than that they night to cafes, clubs, and other shall be kept in the best condition. joyous haunts of Budapest. A The general public has less know

Mr. Hansell, in dismissing the petition, held that Mr. Canson had no authority to present it, and ordered the council to pay the costs.

Mr. May gave notice of appeal to the Court of Arches.

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An appeal for protection of the

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His daily and nightly routines ledge of the correct methods of office of Lord Mayor was uttered works out as follows: Work from management, and it is in this direc-by, Sir George Truscott, senior 9. a.m. to 2 p.m.; writing and read. tion that the club is doing so much alderman of the City of London, ing, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.; round of good.

the night clubs, 7 p.m, to 7 s.m.; bath, change of clothes, breakfast, then work again.

when he spoke at a luncheon of the City Livery Club. Sir George, who was Lord Mayor in 1908, said that

A Siberian Klondike" awaits since 1918 they had had six resigns- Alcohol gives him a headache, so development in the Yakutsk region, tions of alderman who were quali M. Kern, whose affliction is well-according to Prof. A. Obrucheff, who fied to serve in the office of Lord known to the "kinga" of Budapest headed an Academy of Science ex- Mayor. On four occasions a mem night-life, is expected only to eat pedition there. Between the rivers ber of the Court of Aldermen who Indigirka and Kalima in North-went forward for election as sheriff when he entere the clubs.

The position at The man who cannot sleep com- estern Siberia he found a gold area failed to gain it plains that the only unpleasant re of at least 100,000 square miles the moment is that we are very sult of his wound is the cost it which he describes as potentially short of candidates qualified for the means to him by forcing him to be among the richest sources of the office of Lord Mayor. The livery

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