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THE HONGKONG

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QUINS STRANGERS TO

Discoverer Of Windsor

Secrets

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Windsor, Sept. 5.

TR. ROBERT BURNS ROBERT- SON, who discovered secret underground passages at Windsor Castle, is retiring from his position as Chapter Surveyor this month.

Ho is 70, and was appointed Chapter Surveyor 24 years ago after having been resident architect at the Castle for 14 years,

He supervised the restoration of the Interior of the Hound Tower to its original form for use na archives department.

He specially Investigated

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the

numerous legends of secret passages, some of which were supposed to run

as for us Burhum Abbey, seven miles away, while another wos thought to

They Wrote Hymns That Will Never Die

Nearer, my God to Thee,

Nearer to Thee!

Een though it be a cross That raiseth me, Still all my song skall be Nearer, my God, to Thee,

Nearer to Thee.

Reck of Apes, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee, Let the water and the blood, From The ripen alde which

flowell,

Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its quilt and

poteer.

ANNIVERSARIES of the deaths of two of the most famous.

hymn-writern in the English language occurred.

of

On August 11, 1778, the Rev. A. M. Toplady, author “Rock of Ages," died, and on August 14, 1848, Mrs. Sarah Flowers Adana, who wrote "Nearer, my God, to Thee."

Toplady was sheltering from a sudden storm in a cleft running down a mass of rock at Burrington Coombe, Somer- set, when he was inspired to write the hymn.

Mrs. Adams was an invalid, and while she lay on her sick-bed was inspired to compons the verses, Passengers and crew sang the hymn in the saloon of the Tianle when she was sinking.

“Sugared”. Services

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936.

BROTHERS

& SISTERS

Living Like Little Princesses

Callender, Ontario, Sept. 10.

IN sharp contrast to the luxury which surrounds the famous Dionne quintuplets in their palatial clinic here is the farmhouse life of their six little brothers and sisters a stone's throw away.

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Not for them is the searchlight of publicity which brings pilgrims in thousands weekly to worship at the shrine of five little girls whose clnim to distinction is that all were born of one mother in one night. The quintuplets, acclaimed by their native Province "Ontario's Royal Family," live five little princesses under the trusteeship of men unrelated to them, whose overwhelming concern is to see them grow in loveliness, while painstakingly acquiring for them a fortune which will place them among the world's wealthiest women.

The ambitions of the six little brothers and sisters also the

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fun from the heart of Windsor Forest Rector Criticises Popular Hymns children of Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne, uneducated farming people. Pres. Garfield

to the banqueting hall.

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He actually discovered three secret | 441 passages, one on the cast front, one on the south side, and another on the west.

THANKED BY KING GEORGE "In all cases," Mr. Robertson said, "they end in the castle mont which used to run round those three sides and all lead out into what is now the town. I have proved beyond doubt that one that was thought to exist on the northern front has never been there."

The object of the passages is be- lieved to have been for nortie pur- poses, and, in the event of an attack on the main gate, to enable partles of defendern to leave the castle under the most and take the attackers from behind.

In 1926 Mr. Robertson Why per- sonally thanked for his researches by King George and Queen Mary, who presented him with signed portraits,

YSTICISM and water heavily sugored with sentimentality," was the description applied at the Modern Churchmen's Conference at Oxford to some Church services.

The Ilev. G. L. 11, Harvey, rector and rural dean of Sutton Coldfield, all that some parsons had a flair for what was beautiful, dignified and wwe-inspiring in ritual monkal,

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They are adeps in the technique. hendded. psychology."

THE "They indulge in a pseudo-mysticism which wafts the worshipper into a realm where the doors are bolted against the intrusion of the hard facts and clamant probleins of everyday

"NO" TO WILL

Bombay, Sept. 3.

who until the advent of the modern miracle lived sparingly on the dole-are limited to three meals a day, their future apparently no dif- ferent from that of other impoverished inhabitants.

The Dionnes have learned, the

Meni Shri Misri Lalji, ascette of bitter truth of the Scriptural Ascetic Fasts

the Jain scet, has been fasting here admonition: for one hundred and forty days in an attempt to pursinde his co-re-

their sectarim ligionists to settle differences,

the Be belongs to Stunnakvasi sect of the dains. This sert hus thirty-two sub-divistons whom Lalji has been trying to uute for the past twenty-five. years,

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them.

For 140 Days In India

"Man does not

brend live by alone." They have more brend. butter. Jam. and other things that these symbolise than they

ever imagined would fall to their lot. but, while the practical people who constitute the majority of Ameri- According to Yoga elulins, It

cans and Canadians envy

Mr. Jullus Kayser, a retired steel they feel themselves the least en-manufacturer, of Westbourne-road, possible to go without foot or water for six months. Two other ascetics,

viable couple in the world. Muni Shri Shivji Maharaj and Muni!

Sheffold, hoped, before his death Shri Baul Mull, have at one time, Sentimental like all Latins, they last March, that Minnie Garbutt,

Cooper, faster one hundred and eighty-six and particularly Mime, Elzire, the his nurse, and Eliza

hla would mukse their and one hundred and eighty-two youthful mother of eleven children housekeeper, init-days, respectively, Lalji's pradius feel the ache of deprivation. They home together. Ancient fast lasted one hundred and sixty-six | realise that half of their family is no

days at Jodhpur-United Press.

Funger theirs,

"it finds netusical expression in the worst of the miore popular Victorian tunes of Hymns and Modern."

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PATERNAL INTEREST

Authoritative assertions that but for the Ontario Government's paternal interest the quintuplets would long ago have perished na martyrs to parental selfishness leave them uninoved.

IIe left more than £55,404, and among his bequests were annulles of £50 and £200 respectively for the two servants.

"I have in mind their making a home together," he wrote in his WIH. "I am very wishful that they should do so."

But the two faithful servants suw no reason why they should Hve in Instead of taking advantage of all the same house any longer. They parted, one to live in Lincoln, and the opportunities afforded him the other in Sheffield. co-guardian of the quintuplets Mr. Oliva Dianne vents his resentment against the Government control by National Exhibition in Toronto inst absenting hkuself from meetings, autumna. while both he and his wife rebel at the restrictions against handling the infants imposed by Dr. Dafoe, the country physielan whose skill and resourcefulness saved the "Quins" for the world.

£200 CIFT FOR FATHER

Mr. Oliva Dlonne receives a mon- thly allowance of £20 from the quintuplets funds. On the "Quins"

Mr. Dionne drives an expensive and powerful motor-ear.

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But the Dionne family, excluding the quintuplets, atiil live in Wooden Carmhouse which la painted

a sickly yellowish green and around whose grounds a high board fence has recently been erected.

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