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BRITISH LEGION.

OBJECTS OUTLINED.

A CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRAMME,

The National Excentive Council of the British Legion, in which all the

THE CHINA MAIL.

AMERICAN APHORISMS.

CRACKS OF THE EDITORIAL WHIP

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Lipton is reported coming back in 1922. What an optimist that man 15!

The latest tariff 'khocker wadis to know why they didn't take salvation of the free Hist.

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Northcliffs says he can't find pro- hibition in America: Proving Eng. land can't see a joke.

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Tillie Clinger says the reason she is quitting her present job is because the bois said her tongue was so sharp- she couldnt laugh in her sleeve with out cutting a gaal in ber am,

Nations pray for victory but they never pray to be delivered from temptation when the time comes to divide the spoils.

A dentist is being sned by bis father, for whom he palled a tooth END OF 271 YEARS' FEUD, For telling him, possibly. This

PEACE BETWEEN THE MOHAWKS AND THE HURONS.

The feud of 271 years' duration ex-Service associations have been between the Hurons and the Iroquois amalgamated under the patronage of (Indian tribes) has ended in an in- the Prince of Wales and the presidency teresting ceremony on the shores ofį of Field Marshal Earl Haig, has Georgian Bay, while Indians, pic. constructive protoresquely garbed, were grouped completed the granime" of the organisation. As now issued this sets forth the domestic, national, and imperial objects of the Legion.

harts me, dad, more than it does

Fou."

And a few years ago they told us war clouds were caused by reigning monarchs.

95 YEARS" IMPRISONMENT:

HOW HABITUAL CRIMINALS ARE MADE.

TRUTH IN COMMERCE

POINTS ON WHICH PUBLIC NELDS PROTECTION.

Dr. Johnson once remarked that in The problem of "recidivism" or confirmed criminal tendencies, was writing lapidary inscriptivosť my YAMA raised at the Old Bailey by Mr. E. Las not on oath It? appear, obec.res the Daily Telegraph, that Hadfield, who-asked som be

those who draw aptids descriptions sometimes allow themselves a similar

If two million honest men cannot find work how can these criminals 1

Counsel was defending Ernest Griffiths, aged forty-three, an a housebreaking charge.

FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1921

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

CHEESE

GRUYERE GOUDA (Full Cream) AUSTRALIAN CHEDDAR PICNIC (own make) COULOMMIER (own make)

$1.25 per lb.

1.15

11 $1

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Jar.

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40 pat.

lat tude. Not being an oath, they take certain liberties with the normal and accepted meaning of words. We It was stated that fear men are reminded of this by a case at the concerned in the case had served West London Palico-court, where a sentences of imprisonment which firm of brush manufacturers was fined mounted in the aggregate to ninety- £42 for selling shaving brushes as "real badger," when they contained five years.

only two-thirds badger hair and one- third goat-hair. It was stated by the prosecution that anthrax could be conveyed through Chinese gout-hair, and thereiers, presumably, the public THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE. Co., Ltd. were deprived of the protection to which they were entitled in buying what was reputed to be real badger

Mr. Hadfield asked the judge to pass light sentence.

For thirty years," he said, "Griffithe had only six year freedom from goal, and under the present system he goes to prison and comes out only to return. Like many others he comes out and tries to go straight,

but fails

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NOT UNTIL DEAD,

"Under the present system this man bea no chance, and never will before he is dead and in his grave."

Judge Atharley Jones, in sentencing the men, said that he agreed with what Mr. Hadfield said.

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"The men are tainted with crime, he said," and it is difficult for them to obtain work, but I do not think that this is insuperable. One of the Some one should discover a few oil men, named Davis, who has been wells in Ireland.

what is known as a goal-bird, redeem ed himself at one period."

The hardest lesson for any govern- ment to learn is to lessen taxation.

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Not all the folks who visit the

The judge sentenced James Davis, aged sixty to six months' hard labour. "I look at the records of the other

Anthrax, as a matter of fact, can! be conveyed in any sort of hair, wool, akin, or rags, but the point, with which we are concerned is that the solicitor for the defence: urged that there was a distinction between “real badger" and "pare badger," and that the term "real badger" might|| property be applied to a mixed brush. as long as it contained a certain. Proportion of badger hair. That is just where the public need protection, and without requiring manufacturers to be absolute precisians in their choice of words describing their wares, it is important that they should not use words in senses which are calculated to deceive It does not):

statues repres&ng cellar nowadays go down to see how men," said the judge, and I find no matter whether, marmfacturers agresij

around two Ontario and Quebec.

Suddenly a big canoe bearing Chief The constructive programme states Ovide Sivici of the Hurons ran ashore. that the domestic objects of the moment later Big Chief Andrew organisation are to make the legion Steath, leader of the Mohawk tribe truly national by drawing into or of the Iroquois, stepped ashore and affiliating with it all existing ex-strode to the wigwam erected for Service men's and women's associa- them,

tions, benevolent funds, clubs, &c., Patting a match to the great pipe and, in co-operation with the United of peace, the Iroquois handed it to Services Fund, to provide in con- the Huron. There is peace between venient centres for all branches facili-our peoples!" he said it Iroquois, ties for social intercourse, recreation,

There is peace replied the Huron and recreational education, acquiring where necessary permanent halls, club as he drew the first puff and passed premises, or meeting rooms for the the pipe to his sub-chief, who handed

it back to the Iroquois. use of members.

On its national side the legion aims When all had smoked the chiefs at securing that the Government, placed their hands aide by side on a municipal, and local authentics, and war tomahawk, which they placed other employers of labour shall give a beneath a huge blood-red boulder sus- preference in employment to ex-pended from a crane. Slowly the big Service ana and women; taking rock was lowered on to the hatchet. active steps to obtain the co-operation Then the Huron turned to his new "Now we will go of the Government, public and private friend and ea'd: employers, and of the trade unions, in and kill moose together." securing the fullest possible facilities

for the training of ex-Service men

and women, and the admission to

the different organisations of skilled

labour; supporting and encouraging

RUNNYMEDE SAVED.

by financial and other means suitable TO REMAIN CROWN PROPERTY.

nanies are on this roll.

Arthur Griffith-Boscawen (Minister of Agriculture) in the House of Commons explained the position, in the following statement:-

"The Commissioners of Woods,

with the approval of the Treasury decided last year to offer for sale by auction €22 acres of the outlying On its Imperial side the legion aims portion

of the Crown's Windsor at instituting throughout the Empire estate, in the parish of Egham, in-

fast the gas meter is travelling.

Bobbed bair and bobbed skirts ought to go well with the prevailing masculine fashion of a bobbed income,

Hairdressers Bay man are to have permanent waves. After paying for them they will have at least a ten- potary crimp.

hope in the past and no promise for the future. I do not think that a small sentence would be of the slightest avail, and I order them penal ser vitude for five years each.

BEAU Y'S DOWNFALL.

GIRL WHO WAS LEFT £100,000

JUST

RECEIVED

A LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF

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among themselves to use words in a certain way, for they know enough to be wary as to what they buy; it is the public which is apt to be victim- ised by this laxity of language-the innocent public which assumes that things are what they are said to be. Unfortunately, a rather bad habit of speaking in superlatives has sprung up in the commercial world, and when ever the lowest grade of quality is styled the best, no natural adjective is left for the highest grade.

"Real" is a word which has suffered The daughter of a

railway such cruel usage at the hands of philo magnate and once a leading figure in sophers that it is piteous that it Baltimore, Sara Cowen, aged 33, died should be further martyred in the Short dresses are disfosing more alone, amid the sordid surroundings of

market-place There are, too, s family skeletona.

The French police are searching for a cheap New York hotel, apparently many grades of "purity" as there are an alleged swindler known as Anguste from an overdose of morphine, to of "freshness," and the marvels of Grouit, who seems to have a keen which she had become addicted.

science are such that the addition of a sense of humour. The most beautiful debatante of

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Five men have been sentenced to attend church regularly for a fear. As every golfer knows, this is twice as cruel as it is unusual.

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Everybody is wearing the lovely new sports clothes except the sports- women

Did you ever stop to tensider that the man who is continually blowing his own hom always remains at the

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MASTER OF HOAXES,

REGISTER OFFICE SOLD 12 TIMES IN ONE DAY.

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WHISTLE LANGUAGE-

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SIGNAL NOTES THAT, SHEE?- DOGS UNDERSTAND.

Sheep dog trials were included in the sports programt at the annual show of the Bletchley Horticultural Society at Bletchley Park, North-East Buckinghamshire,

In the fat trial, in which entrants

pure adulterant may be held to give He has taken advantage of the her coming-out year, she figured in a reality to the genuineness of the many administrative changes in the had to pen 3 sheep with the use of romantic elopement in 1909. She article adulterated. The fact is that devastated regions to pass many 1 dog, the dog's master tethered him. divorced her husband two years later one loses cneself in a maze of contimes as a new Government agent self with a rope to a stake in the and afterwards disappeared. Nothing tradiction as soon as one departs from sent to supervise the work of recon-middle of the natural amphitheatre was heard of her until three years ago, the simple rale that articles should be struction. little end 1

when she was fond in prison Isbelled truly according to their con-

roped off in the park. Three sheep hospital at Blackwell's Island under tents, or at least not labelled in such peared at Beuvry, in the department

Shortly after the armistice he apware released about 300 yards away. Those reform preachers who de-treatment as a drug-taker.

The dog, acting on his master's signed the moral gown for women did

s way as to deceive. A certain

of the Nord, and told the British Dia.whistled signals, brought the sheep She was discharged apparently Istitade may he granted. No lady,posals Board officers there that he between two hurdles set to form & s good job. Now to design a woman cared in 1919 and joined the New for example expecta a permanent" who will wear it.

York post-graduate hospital as a pro-hair-waving to last her for the term with the work of rebuilding the horses fences and again round the inside of was an envoy from Paris entrusted gate, round the outside of a circle of undertakings by ex-Service men and

bationer nurse. Less than a year later of her natural years, but neither docs and factories in that area. One of the best things out is a she was dismissed for alcoholism.

these posts. This done, the man wW women conducted on business lines,

The historic site of Runnymede is defunct tooth.

she expect the natural lankness to and preventing the exploitation of the

After that, nothing was heard of the reassert itself on the marrow. Large army hut at his disposal, and from through one narrow pen and then into He pursuaded them to place an free to help the dog to drive the shop employment of ex-Service men. Other to be preserved to the nation.

millionaire's daughter until she was assertion has been said to be the there be ruled the district for over a second... Sir

If that X-ray contraption for taking found dead national objects include the necessity

the floor of the essence of advertisement, but, after month. He caused woods to be cút bedroom. She of providing for ex-Service men and

Fictures through walls works the gold botel

The 1st prize was won by Mr. Ernest Esh won't have much on us for with

arrived all, words have their natural feelings, down and sold the timber, received Priestly, with a black and white collie, women maintenance allowance until

a man, and

the two re- and too much violence must not be payments from peasants for work that privacy. they are absorbed into industry; and

gistered as M. and Mrs. Cowen, of done to them. It is not when buying he said the Government would carry 17 minutes 35 seconds. A black andt *Mosa,” which completed the work in emphasising the importance of the

Baltimore. Her companion, a chauf- shaving brushes and the like that the cut, and made a number of contracts white bitch, "My," belonging to Boll of Honour and giving precedence

wives to select a dress. Then they hotel clerk that the woman was not phrase was invented in respect of ployed several secretaries and typists gained the second. Mr. Hayton Husbands ought to go with their fear, disappeared after telling the people wishes to be deceived." That with engineers and builders. He em Mr. M. Hayton, Otley, Yorkshire, in public contracts to firms whose

might be able to prevent the par- his wife and that she was very ill" chase of a gown with inaccessible in her room. Near the body were two

politica. buttons and apps.

in his office and lived free in the town told a reporter that the faintest bottles containing morphine tableta.

on a lavish scale.

hint of ill-usage in the training of She inherited a fortune, estimated

When he thought his presence at a dog in this work fatal. I have her parents died several years ago. at £100,000, from her father. Both when her husband was in India. She Beuvry was beginning to arouse seven distinct notes in my signals, "

had last seen him in July, 1920.. suspicion, Groult mored, to Secin he said," and sometimes I make s

'There was a

new development, and recommenced "business. His mistake and, give an incorrect one. however, when Mrs. Martha Richard last escapade is said to have taken The dog goes wrong. Then I call him san, of Dewsbury, anived at Bridlingthe form of a successful hoax on a up and apologise to him." ton with her married daughter, Lille register office. He is alleged to In the second trial, with the help and stated that from the published have told the agent, who wished to of 2 dogs, 6 sheep were driven up "These meadows are situated some

description she was convinced the retire, that he would pay him £1,000 through hurdles, as before, split into half-mile to the south-west of

body was that of her husband, Ed- for the goodwill of the office, but that 2 bunches of 3, and penned separately. Runemed,' or Magna Charta Island, Permission has been given for the where the Great Charter is said to

ward Richardson, 39,

be needed first of all one day's on-The sheep were Cheviota, a heavy, formation of branches of the legion in have been signed, and which is

A remarkable case of mistaken

Superintendent Robson at once disturbed possession of the premises obstinate, suspicious breed, but the the various Government departments. private property.

identity has occurred in Yorkshire. motored them to Humanby to the to assure himself of its respectability. anticipation of the dogs, coupled with A body was washed up on the beach home of Mx Taylor, where the Granted this concession, he is said to the patience of their masters, was "The auction took place

on July

**Moonshine" despite the name, is at Reighton, rear Filey, and at the identification was confirmed. Mrs.have sold the business for eash to a uniformly successful TREATMENT FOR DYSENTERY. 16 last, but the 99 acres referred to not a light drink."

inquest it was identified by Mrs. Taylor was also convinced that the dozen different persons taking lange were not sold, and I am communi-

Louisa Taylor, of Hunmanby, as that had made a mistake. MAMBEKLAI VB Colic and Diarih

ces Remedy followed by a Cuse ufcating with my co-Commissioner, in Minister threaten to invade golf of her husband, Joseph Bradford caster oil wii de gay cure the most whose jurisdiction the matter lier. courses to warn Sunday players of Taylor. stabbom caves of dysentery. I with a view to withdrawing them the error of their ways. They'd more She believed that the marks on the especially good for summer dirbies in canidrens Fur sale by all Chemiste from the sale and so retaining them likely welcome advice on the error of body and bead were caused by wounds

as Crown, property." (Chsers.)

their plays,

in the war and by an attack of a tiger

a National Commemoration Day for cluding 99 acres of meadow land

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strike for Lavelling

conductors

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those who fell in the Great War; forming a part of the land: on which it is only a question of time antil cooperation and federation with according to the Ordnance Survey ex-Service organisations throughout uap of the district, the armies of the Empire and the Allied countries: King John and the confederated and active support to all direct effort: barons encamped on the signing of for peace, and to the League of Magna Charta. Naticus, while taking care that the defence of the Empire is adequately provided for.

and store.expert.

HERE IS A NICKEL FOR YOU LITTLE BOY-NOW RUN

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companions.

The great need of the country just at present is something to make hoes as attractive as hose.

who owes you a little bill pronáses to Time is money, that's why the man pay you in time.

SI AL CLAIMS TO B›DY,

FUNERAL STOPPED AS MOURNERS ARRIVED.

BRINGING

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ANY NOISE OUTSIDE

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At that time relatives of Taylor were already beginning to enter the church for the funeral service.

It was arranged to have the body to Dewsbury.

FATHER.

FOR GOODNESS, SAKE WHAT IS "THAT? SOUNDS LIKE A RIOT-

sums on account in each case.

He is also said to have leased the was a constant succession of tallers flat which adjoined the office and who had come to take over the office, sold its fumiture several times. Next move into the flat, or take away the day, when the agent returned, furniture they had bought and paid Groult had disappeared and there cz.

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