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NATION OF SINGERS.

WHY A PIT MANAGER HUMMED A TONE

Mr. Yacholl, K.O.: Thoy all sing in Wales.

Mr. Matthews My friend has said, on former occasions that they sing Land of my Fathers,". and then turn round and pick up a clod of it and throw at each other.

Mr. Justice Groor: According to experience I have had recently, they sing something callod "Aberystwyth."

SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1926.

"ST. JOAN."”",

GERMAN PROFESSOR'S CRITICISM OF MR. SHAW.

An essay on "Shaw's Portrait of Joan of Arc," published in Berlin, is arousing considerable the January Histuria! Review, attention as a posthumous work whoso untimely death of Professor Felix Liobormann, months ago robbed Germany of a fow

one of her loading historians.

"Professor Liebermann basos his criticism on the fact that in the preface to tho play the author: clainis to portray the historical This dialogne on the music of truth. Ho in no way discussos Wales occurred during the re-the problems of Joan's character sumed hearing of the action as interpreted by Mr. Shaw in brought in the King's Bonoh his purely artistic capacity. But Division on behalf of 800 miners the historical truth, as soon by employed at the Hafodyrynya Professor Liebermann, implies Colliory, near Pontypool

that Joan was more strongly than the Shaw play indicates. directed by her patriotic foalings Throno and altar were strongly allied in the paasant- girl's imagination" than modern mind can conceive; the glory of God and the Dauphin were tohora more or loss concrete, whole,

The mon sued for loss of wages on the ground that they could not work in the miac because it was

unsafe.

During an oxamination; the under manager was said to have boen "humming and treating the whole mattor in a very off-hand fashion."

He replied that it was his habit to hum while in the mine.

A mechanic named Thomas Liowollyn said he thought.that u shaft about which the men com. plained was safs.

"I would not have been afraid to put my bed there and sleep all night," he declared.

Mr. Mathews: And dreamed tlust you dwelt in marble halls, expect. (Laughter.)

The hearing was adjourned.

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Not the enthusiastic fantasy of the adolescent, but the really morbid hallucination of the montally unstable must be Promised as the basis for the strength of her convictions.

Granted these premises, which do not actually differ so very ception, Professor Liebermann strongly from Mr. Shaw's con- attacks the big scene of the play. The tribunal that tried Joan, he insists, was actuated less by ro Iligious than by national-political

motives. Joan's support of the Dauphin's claim to the throne meant more at the time than any polomics against the Pope and the Church, To burn her as a witch implied to the world.. that MILLIONS. the Dauphin's claims were in-

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murder garm" trial of last spring is re: called by the recent decision of the courts that William D. Shop herd is entitled to the fortune left by his millionaire ward. Williant Nelson McClintock.

spired by the Devil, and the way mado clear for the English pre tensions. Hor judges were politically directed, not actuated, by the Professor Lieberman maintains that if Mr. Shaw has chosen to differ from the opinion famous error of justice, he know posterity has formed on what he was doing. But the spirit of the satirist studying the past in the light of our present- day system blow historical ac. At the time of his death Me-curacy to the winds. Clintock was 21 years old..

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His last business deal before! he died was to sell this mine for 93 million dollars (over 418,000,000, He left his fortune, 390 million marks (19,500,000), Miss Pope was at young Mc-to seven relatives still living in Clintock's bedside when he died. Freiahorn,

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