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CORRECTING A POET.

WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER 26, 1927,

BLACKSMITH M.P.

OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.

HESPERUS DID NOT SINK ON LIBERAL WHIP STILL WORKS

NORMAN'S WOE.

SEARCH FOR THE WRECK.,

AT ANVIL.

"

"I am thoroughly satisfied with the frade I have been taught, and there is nothing I like better than working at the anvil," said Mr. T. D. Fonby, M.P., when inter- viewed recently."

MODERN MEDICINE AND BEETHOVEN.

COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED.

There was no wreck of the Hesperus on the reef of Norman's Woe, according to the United States Coast and Geoditic Survey. What Government office will take up the question whether a boy over stood on the burning deck? ask the New York Literary Digest.linton. He had just finished a By 1815 he had lost his hearing Of course it may come to mean something serious to Gloucester if her growing sea traffic should meet such an impediment as a sunken. ship, and the Uticn Press recog nises the reasonableness of its fears.

On March 28, 1827, Beethoven, one of the greatest musicians of Mr. Fenby, who represents all time, died in Vienna. Enst Bradford in the House of When he was 23 years old he Commons, and is the English began to complain of increasing Liberal Whip, carries on the deafness, which had become worse business of a blacksmith at Brid- during the previous three years.

"The Maritime Association of Gloucester, Massachusetts, recently requested 2 new survey of Gloucester Harbour, where the Hesperus was supposed to have gone down. This was represented Es being necessary because of in creased shipping and in the interest

day's work yesterday at the smithy when the interview took place.

I am at work every day said Mr.Fonby, except when engaged on my Parlimentary duties or sec- ing constituents in my division. I was at work until eight o'clock on Monday night, and I have just been fixing some iron palisad- ing which we made here.

My work consists, of course, in shoeing horses, putting iron tyres on, cartwheels, and doing all the work of a genetal smith A lot of people come to see me at

entirely.

Nevertheless, many of his great- est musical compositions were elaborated during this period and indeed he was able to conduct an orchestra even after 1818, when he become so deaf that he could not even hear the sound of a trumpet.

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of favourable marine Insurance work, many of them visiting me and died in 1827. It was found)

rates.

from Bradford. A surprising number come, because they have never seen a horse shod in their lives.

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Kind of willow. Russians soldier. 18 Govern badly.

With the beginning of his loss of hearing he became greatly depress ed, suffered constant fear of early death and had difficulties of digestion. In 1824 and 1325 he had several attacks of bleeding from the nose and from the mouth,

Captain W E. Parker, after in

that previous to his death he suffer- ed with an inflammation of the liver, making it difficult for him to vestigating the request, announced

recover from an attack of pneu that a new survey of the inner

monia which placed an unusual 11 harbour and the Annisquam River

There are fewer men working burden on his organs. will be made during the summer of

When the skull of Beethoven WAS 10 1928. The original topographic as smiths than ever before to-day, survey was made in 1851. Hydro- and there are, fewer apprentices examined some years later, the 16

At the available evidence indicated a high- graphic surveys of the harbour coming into the trade. and vicinity were made in 1894, same time, I do not see how the ly complex brain, which is taken by 19 Chemical term.

long anatomists to indicate a high 20 Splenetic. and additional work was done in business can die out.

there must degree of brain capacity: The 23 Respected. 1897 and 1904.

as there are horses "Gloucester Harbour and vicinity must be shoes, and while you can triumph of his genius over his 26 Finished.

make has been the

shoes by machinery you physical incapacity may well be 27 Cold, scene of many maritime disasters, and is widely cannot shoe horses by that means. cited to persons suffering with 28 Father.

Develops the Brain. physical defects as an example of 29 Make quiet. celebrated in literature. Longfel-

34 Bristle. low's poem, "The Wreck of the Asked whether he approved of what may be accomplished by those 32 Swanks. Hesperus has for its locale Nor- the modern innovation of rubber with the will to achieve.

Had the great genius lived in 36 Places of indlarubber.

37 Guide. man's Woc, a dangerous reef near shoes, he replied-Yes, they are

38 Drug. the entrance to Gloucester Harbour. good, provided the right kind are our modern times, it would certain- The Coast and Goedetic Survey used. I consider that a horse'sly have been possible to determine

to 45 Division of the calyx. made an extensive wire-drag sur-foot needs air, and if you cover early the onset of his hardness of vey of the waters surrounding this it completely you are not admit-hearing and to take measures

prevent its progress. The liver 46 Grain, reef in 1916. Although not intend-ting 'air. ed primarily as such, this was the I represent the third generation condition from which he suffered 47 Engles.

by 48 Soils.. alleviated could have been first and only thorough search ever of smiths in our family. It is. modern methods and the life of 49 Utters. made for the Hesperus. The of course. an ancient craft, but! wreck of this ship has only tradi- it has not been very remunerative this genius much prolonged, result- 50 tion as its basis, but the survey They say you need a thick bending perhaps in an inestimable gain 51 Transmit. seems to have definitely disproved and a strong back to Be a black.to mankind in the number of his

its existence.

"it did. however, locate the wrecks of two ships offshore, in the open sea, in about twenty fathoms of water. Their identity could not be learned, but it was de- clared that neither could have been the Hesperus. Both ships were of comparatively recent times, it was stuted, since the masts were not tall enough for ships of the earlier days, such as the Hesperus was supposed to have been."

"A Myth."

The Kansas City Star com-

ments:-

magnificent works.

smith. I do not agree. Rather I agree with the remark made by a Board of Education inspector that A well-dressed, middle-aged man 30 far as boys are concerned there fell in front of a train at Selhurst is nothing that develops their Station in mail week and was kill- before B brains so much as work on the t. A few minutes anvil. He did not know what Brighton express was due he was my craft was, although at the time seen smoking on the platform. As he was addressing the rovernors the train dashed into the station of, a school of which I am vice he fell on to the rails and was ran

chairman.

Curiously enough, no one who sees me thinks I am a blacksmith. beeanse I am rather light.

Mr. Fenby recalled with much relish an incident which accurred. into abortly after his entry "Just what does the Coast and politics. He had been introduced Gendefie Sarvey imaging it has at a meeting as the candidate for established. in the way of poutica certain division, and after the criticism, by its discovery: that gathering had separated his intro- Longfellow's Wreck of theduces taking the chairman on en Hesperus is a myth? Of course it side. inquired, "Who do you say My chairman replied, is a myth. So is the stage of Troy this is?"

and the message that was carried "That is Mr. Fenby, our can. from Ghent to Alx. Browning didate," "They told me he was a wrote about that famous gallop blacksmith." returned the other when he was on shipboard. He men, but he is a gentleman.” iked good gallops on shipboard That gentleman to-day. added and in his library; he was not even Mr. Fenby, is one of my very good the on horseback, we believe, when he friends, although he is on

of wrote The Last Ride Together,' ornesite side in politics. that occasion, you know, when heerse, my view is that it is po4- hated the slightest rise of his com- sible to be both a blacksmith and panions" eyebrow, a difficult thing a gentleman. to note at a gallop.

"But what of it? Shall we throw all poetry out of our libraries that deals with mythical subjects? We should have little left, we fear. If there is no wreckage of the Hesperus under the reafs of Nor man's Wor there are plenty of other wrecks there, and one would have Served Longitllow as well as an- other, and will serve us.

eyes were not as the fairy-flax r her cheeks like the dawn of day.

"If we understand it aright, the! business of the Coast and Geodetic Survey is to map our coast lines, locate dangerous reefs, and other- wise serve our shipping. We wish it would attend to it and leave tarary criticism to the Internal "We need not even inquire too Revenue Bureau of the Treasury, closely and we hope the Coast and which has just ruled that authors' Geodetic Survey will not think it royalties are unearned income, it necessary to investigate the point is enough that one branch if as to whether any skipper wrecked Government should have literary in- in those waters had taken his littl:spiration. daughter aboard to hear him com- "If this thing goes on we shall pany. If the Coast and Geodetic have the Bureau of Standards tell- Survey should look into that matter, ing us how to appraise Whitman and even find a skipper's daughter. And the Hydrographic Office editing

doubtless would discover her Poc."

it

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