Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-21
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Viscount Grey is an exception to the Biblical axiom about a prophet being without honor in his own country for during his 31 years unbroksn repre- sentation in the House of Commons of the Berwick on Tweed division there was no more popular man in North umberland between the Coquet and the Tweed. fFuFther south the veteran Thomas Burt is a rival in popular es teem.) Scores of local children answer to the name of Edward, bestowed in honor of the laird of Fallodon Not all the villages in this rural division posses a hall, and occasionally the Presbyterian church is used as al meeting place. I was once at a meet ing in one of these churches. and pending the arrival of Sir Edward from across the sands at Holy Island the congregation" whiled away the time by singing political songs, to the accompaniment of the church har- monium. Included in the programme was the following, sung Justify, with a generous infusion of the Northun- brian burr" to the Sankey tune, Hold the Fort":-
 Hold the fort. Sir Edwards coming
 He's our champion still;
 We will send him back to London,
 By our votes we will.
 
 every great novelest of recent years has left an unfinished book behind him. Mir. Williams de Morgan is no exception, and the story which he had well in hand at the time of his death was named The Old Madhouse,"
 Fertunately however, the novelist left enough notes and memoranda with his wife to enable her to complete the work. This she did some little while hoforo h orR Nav Ia cf S0nra the work will appear, with the original title and that added touch of interest makes it a, fitting monument to the joint labor of husband and wife.
 Renovating Ypres. Ypres, where it is proposed to erect church as a memo rial to our men who fell in this sec- tor of the old British line, is being tidied up gradually after the devasta tion caused by the war. A great deal qf the work has been done by German nriseners. for whom two big camps have been erected near the Menin read, and the trenches. shell-holes, and mine eraters have been filled in and obIiterated
 Far from heinz unsightly, there is something pathetically impressive in the ruins of the Flemish city, where the ex-kaiser intended to the crowned king of Flanders. Ivy and other eFeepiRg plants have done q great deal to effaee the results the heavy bonn hardments by the German gunners and visitors return with the impression of pieturesaueness rather than desela- tion.
 4 Little Known GeoIogist. Few men whose scientific discoveries are of real importance are so little known to the public as Benjamin Harrison, whose name appeared in the recent 1sv-sN IT 1-k
 Born in 1887 at Ightham, near sev- en-aaks. Mir. Harrison has seldom travelled more than 20 miles from his birthplace, where he kept tho village grocery store for more than 50 years. Although he has never published any account of his geological work, the re- search, extending over more than half a-eentury, into the geological ferma- ton of the North Downs in his viciri- ty have been of the utmost value Tn particular, MT. Harrison's discov- cries of worked fints earlier than the Palaeolithic period have established the existence of man. as a tool-using animal, in Reriods of almost ineredil ble antiquity.
 Book that Inspired an EmpIeyer: In memoir of the late Mir Walter Hazell. former M. P. for Leicester, | printed for pTivate circulation, it is menIlOneu that no BOOK lnHueneed hlm | as employer so much as Elizabeth i Stuart Phelps novel. The Silent l Partner" It was a story of a New England woman who inherited a part l neEship in mill. and was filled with a I desire to improve the condition of her 1 employees. An amusing incident in connection with the serial issue, of the novel is related of the late T. B. l Smithies editor of "The British Workman He discovered a picture 1 of a workman with pipe in his hand. l He insisted on the machines being stopped, and the pipe had to be re- moved by an engraver. That was 40 wears age.
 1 Sailing AeFess EuropaSir. Douglas 1 Hall, M. F., one of the new baFonets. 1 initiated the system of hospital karees which so greatly assisted the transport of our wounded in certain parts of the ] western front. His was the suggestion and he was the chief organizer of this 1 service on the French canals and riv- CTS, of which he has special knowledge. As an undeFgraduate at Oxford he 1 began his world wide wanderings by |