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The olitary of the week is a long eno swi coumains the names of several well; known Scate.
Lad Colin Campbell, author and arb vitis, married to Lord Cali ·Cimpbell, youngest wou of the late Daha of Argyll, from whom she obtained an order of sa; ata tion yun the ground: ufsruelty, alteri, the, hosting of an action that extended over
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Kut. Dr Duke, 86 Vigom's, Arbroath, one of the leading olergymen of the Church
of Scotland, 80. In-hia youth he was tutor
of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Two
of his ss sro in India, -on, F. Y.
Duke, O.S., Acting Lisntenant-Governor of Bengal and Lieutenant-Colonel, 1080 nonard Duke, G.S.L., £9.91.
Samuel 1.
*native of Laurison, Kirkcudbrigbucated At Edin
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burgh, and for many years Lecturer Pro- fessor of Materia piedica Cand. Therapeutics in Durham College. In his youth he servod the Royal Navy was present at the bombardment of Kagoshima appoint.
surgeon in charge of the Royal aral Hospital, Yokohama, present at the bom bardment of Shinoncsoki, and on shore with the Naval Brigade at the taking of the town and fart.
Professor of Mathe-
George
matics Crystal Fairersity for the last
26 years, and Secretary of the Royal 30,000,000.00 Society of Edinburgh, was Born near Abordoen. Educated at the University of 17,150,000.00
that City, he excelled in obasice as well as mathematics, finibing a brilliant course by: carrying of the medal Awarded by the Town Connell to the most distinguished student
the Lift year, and being"swarded the Fer- to all four
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3 per cent per annum, For 3
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TEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL
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ESTABLISHED 1824.
About
I-goson-Scholarship,ng on to Cam-
Scottish Universition.
bridge, he wor a Smith's Prize, and wis Second Bathematical Wranglor of his yoAT. Drending the
of Cara- narrowing, effect bridge environment, lo obtained tho Ragius
gius Profansorship at 8 St Androwe, where ho established so high a reputation as a teacher that op Kelland's death bìa ap- pointment to Edinburgh was inevitable. In this, his great field of work, he sat bim- self to raise the standard of mathematics, and, to him more than to any other indivi- dual was dus the geons advance that the last thirty years have witnessed. In his relations with his students, Chrystal was did not spare those who were guilty of
abora all things a straight man, and be duct which he regarded as disingenious." His bibliography would make a formidabla list, but his chief work was the great Troation on Algebra," He was one of the fow scholars whose writings have been translated into Japanese,
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Sir Kugh Gülzean Reid, another Abo: • deenshire Scot, who has passed away, was a well-known journalist, owoed many news. papers, and was, prominently connected with the great preis organisations of the United Kingdom. His public life and services are to be found in all books of reference; but his more intimate early Scot tish life is littlo known." One of h
f his parents came from the upper roaches of blorayshire and the other from a valley in the Binck Isle" but he himself was of Aberdeenshire In his own words, "It was indeed a bloak and barren land, that north-east neak yclept Buchan," ifty your or more, aga,
bad But education was never neglected. W A rough..time of it at our school, to which we werily trudged neverni miles anch day. The master whe an X- ploughman, and he had a fow faTOOT iten, ons and daughters of farmers, who could invite him to spend the weak-und" with them; and one luxury
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be hart was to place a poor hulpless child 'BRITISH BUSINESS AND THE who had given some offence on the floor, secure him half-naked thre, and employ two of the strong lade to beat the bapless victim with willow-wands. After school hours, the weaker boya were often subjected, Fairplay gives expression to a general, to foul and ferocious horseplay, and even fooling in business, circles in this plain the girls did not escape. Why did you speaking paragraph :----
pit in your sister's
Inca 1"
isked a dominie,
one day, and the roply was significant of Politics The word stinks in the nostrils the spirit that prevailed Cos she is a of every business man. If it were only
lasele!" Still, wo were taught reading and
writing, with glimpses of Latin and English found possible to shut up Parliament for composition, and the hard time, it may be
ten years à profound sigh of relief would
fitted one for the harder, if higher, strug go up from the heads of thousands of;
gles that followed in life's battle.
Churchill variety. These mon, spoon fed, taking no risks, entrenched in the security of the thousands a year the British.tax
He tells of the Besicity and value of commercial concerns, who now find them- newspapers in. Scotland in those days. One selves faturusly harried by pinchback copy of the Aberdeen" Journal come politicinte of the Lloyd George and “into "our district, sad went its
weekly round of tan or a dozen rasders. It was my mission to walk some miles every Satur day for the gater and then to rond its chief contenta aloud to a group of eager listeners, either by the ingleside rout on the green, payer is fool enough to pay them, hare Amongst the listeners being a veneribldone nothing for years past but disturb pansinger, who interspersed his own wild trade condition and pile up fresh taxation and wonderful adventures in what he'den.
F). 45,000,000 (£3,750,000), ...FL. 7, 12-4,317, (£503, 893).iguated the Pen-in-an-ins War, rory much with a free and easy hand. Every spe the manner of Bill Adame's side-splitting 'culator and investor is sick of the gush yarns.
and twaddle which is mado, to do'duty sa "Sir
HEAD OFFICE---ÄMSTERDAM → HEAD AGENCY—Batavia.
BRANCHES-Singaporo, Penu
High bad a hard youth. He says,
At the age of eight storn necessity, dreve argument on behalf of the Land Bill, the Shanghai; Rangoon, Samazing, Soura bays, me to a place" on a small neighbouring Uld Age Pensions Bill, the Inkarance Bill, Djember, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan,
arr ; dution were suficiently miscel Home Rulo, and all the rest of the Criccietă Pasoerosan, Tjilatjap, Bandoeng, Padang laneous, and not very inviting. Many panaceas for every evil that ever came out Medan (Dell), Palembang, Rota-Radin years afterwards, when I caused to (Achren), Macassar, Eandjormasin. published a book with biographies of the of Pandora's box. There was musichall Correspondents at Bombay, Colombo, founders of the Northera ironi trade Johnsong with the tag "For the Lord's sake,
Saigon A Calcutta, Bangkok Roskin wrote that he would infinitely let me sleep!". And that is what every
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rather hare seen me still tending the business man is praying for-nepenthe flocka" on my native hills** than in any
The situation abroad, f. way identified with the pioneers of an in from politics. dustry which had hinckened the rivers although showing some signs of improve. sonred away the scals and the birds, and
The Bank Lys and sells and recaivos fo: pollated the atmosphere, Well, one of intment, is still unsatisfactory, and, what collection Bills of Exchange, issues letterstaties who to take part in turning a hand with one thing and another, business in of credit on its Branches and cerraspand threshing machine (stoam had not been in
the Stock Exchange is at a low ebb. 'Mr enta in the Fast, on the Continent in romtroduced in those regions); my mata was a Britain, America, and Angiralis, and trans-woe brown Scotch Tassie; and a failsome, Lloyd George has not even a rubber, arta banking business of grary description, hand-blistering k it was. Our daily gamble to point to (us le nace had) to food consisted of catmeal in various 'forma,
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