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GEORGE IV. BRIDGE.
AN EDINBURGH CENTENARY.
WAR ACTS.
BELGIAN DENUNCIATION OF GERMANY.
Exactly one hundred years ago, The Belgian Government, reply- on August 16 1927, the founda-ing to the Reichstag sub-commis tion stone of George IV. Bridgeston's report on deportations of was laid.
Belgians during the war, says that The eventful morning dawned the deporteca numbered 120,665, wet and misty, but the persistent and indescribable sufferings were drizzling rain and cold east wind inflicted on thousands of them in
German camps. did not daunt the huge crowds
"It was hell," the Government of Edinburgh folk who assembl continues, "and even in Germany ed-to witness the inauguration of there were denunciations of the the wonderful bridge which was outrage which caused thousands of to provide Auld Reekie with deaths. another thoroughfare, bringing aver the Cowgate and Merchant puting the facts might well have Street between the Lawnmarket dissociated the Republic with the and Bristo Street.
A great procession of important citizens, including the Lord Provost, Magistrates, Town Coun cillors, and the Grand Lodge of Scotland, headed by the band of the
"The Reichstag, instead of dis-
war policy of the Imperial Govern- ment. The thesis that deportations were necessary to reduce the labour shortage and meet the necessities of the public is untenable."
ATTAR OF ROSES.
BIGGEST GARDEN IN THE WORLD.
King's Dragoon Guarda, Bet out at midday from the Register House, and marched slowly along Princes Street, round the back of the Castle to the Grassmarket, and up Candi King Boris of Bulgaria, who is lemaker Row to Merchant Street, said to be touring Western where platforms had been erected. Europe in quest of a Queen, has The proceedings were opened Royal rights over the biggest with prayer, and then came the rose garden in the world. It is . solemn masonic rite of laying the about 40 miles long and 10-broad.
foundation' stone.
The peasants of nearly two
"The Grand Treasurer and hundred villages, cultivate it. Grand Secretary then descended Their womenfolk get up before from the platform, and placed in dawn to strip it. When a gentle cavities of the stone two crystal breeze blows they say that its bottles, containing the various acent penetrates far beyond the coins of the realm (obligingly Thracian plain in which it. is transmitted by the Master of situated.
His Majesty's Mint for that pur- It is this garden which yields pose), along with copies of each the world-famous attar of roses, of the Edinburgh newspapers, that luscious perfume which, in and the Edinburgh Almanack." olden times, Persian Shahs com- In another cavity were placedmanded should be used exclusive- two silver plates bearing a longly in their harems. This, even descriptive inscription. Then to-day in India, is offered to wed- the stone was carefully lowered jding guests on a little twisted and securely fastened by means cotton at the end of a short stick of strong bolts and screws. (says J. D. in the Westminster
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George H. Heald, M.D., writes "But," protests the stout per- in "Signs of the Times":--
son, "I'm very careful what I eat. I do not take enough to The insurance men have been keep a rabbit alive," and so on. telling us such disconcerting And he believes it. He has such things about excess avoirdupois a splendid appetite that he does not realise how much he does that "fleshiness" has gone decideat, and forgets the little titbits edly out of style, so that evoncandies, nuts, and the like girls in their "teens" live on a that he nibbles on between meals spare diet in order to acquire and perhaps again at bedtime.
Fat is not built up out of air that slenderness which is now so and water. It can be made only much in vogue. To such an ex- from food. And unless a per tent has this reducing been prac. son has some abnormality of the tised by girls that it has been endocrine glands, for which he a matter of considerable concern should consult a specialist, his with some doctors, for under- obesity is an indication of the weight and undernourishment, amount of food he has taken in in young people, is not conducive excess of his needs. In order to to long life.
stay this process of rushing the undertaker, the stout person must do two very disagreeable things. He must cut down on his food intake, and must take vigorous exercise to work off the surplus,
But with elderly people, over- weight, more often than under- weight, is a shortener of life. Insurance men tell us that not only is the overweight man or woman in danger of having life i
Canadian Ports for Canada's Use
Active steps are being taken to divert Canadian trade through the port of Saint John instead of through foreign channels by the newip. formed Saint John Board of Harbor Commissionera. The Commission · headed by the Hon. Dr. W. E. Foster visited Montreal recently, to confer with Canadian Pacific Railway officinis in connection with immediate improvement and additions to the Saint John harbor.. in order to cope with the winter traffle and to eliminate the congestion that occurred last year. According to the Chairman, a pumber of aug- gestions advanced by the railway Company will be scted upon at once. Dr. Foster, through the press, urged that Canadian grasp the significanes of using their own national porte to the fullest extent,
The photograph shows the Commissioners from left to right W. E, Scully, Hen. W. E. Foster (chairman), and Lt. Col. Alsz, McMillan.
ON EARTH IN 300 YEARS.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927.
ROE-KID COATS.
STORM OF PROTEST IN BERLIN,
Geneva, Sept, 11. Roe-kid coats, advertised by Within another 800 years it is several firms as the latest thing estimated that the human race in women's fashions, have stirred will reach a total of 8,000,000,-up a hornet's nest. 000, which is all that the world Parliamentarians, hunters can maintain from an economic sportsmen and numerous nature point of view.
lovers have joined in protest These and other important against auch a gross nuisance, population figures have been pre- condemning young deer only a sented before the World Popu- few. weeks old to brutal slaughter lation Conference, held here in to satisfy the passing whim of conjunction with the Assembly certain women.” of the League of Nations in
It is alleged that if the fad be- order to impress upon the latter comes popular it will menace all the gravity of the situation aris- German game preserves, for the ing from the constant increase conservation of which so much is in the world's population. being done, since it will mean the
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Other questions taken up in- "whole-sale butchery and ultim- cluded the differential birth rate, ate extinction of all young deer." fertility and sterility in rela Inspired by the German Asso- tion to population, biology of ciation for the Preservation of population growth, population Game and the German Chamber and food supply, maximum den of Huntsmen, all parties of the sity of population and migration Reichstag, with the exception of and its control. United Press. tion demanding "that the Reich- the communists, passed a resolu-
stag adopt measures prohibiting the manufacture, advertising and sale of all articles of wearing ap
the German federated states."
LABOUR AND CHINA. parel made of roe-kid skins in all
MOTION TO CENSURE HOME LEADERS.
When the Labour Party meets at Blackpool in October for its an-
RHINELANDER WALDO.
nual conference it will consider | NOTED FIGURE IN EARLY DAYS
one "momentous" .. resolution- "That the time has now arrived when a National Party colour should be established, and that that colour ahall be red."
IN MANILA.
New York, Sept. 14. Colonel Rhinelander Waldo, New York's only police commis- Nearly 100 resolutions' appear in sioner who "couldn't be fired," the final agenda fasued by the soldier and millionaire farmer, National Executive of the Party died recently on his estate at and subjects to be discussed are Garrison, N. Y., victim of an ill- as far apart as the capital levyness. that had its roots in his and China. In regard to China, World War service. He had been
the conference will be asked to
censure "the direct and indirect in ill health since a pneumonia atë support given to Baldwin by the tack a year ago. Septic poisoning Labour Party leadership, In the set in.
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shape of speeches and articles at- Colonel Waldo, who was a tacking the Nationallat Govern- veteran of the Philippine cam- ment. of support for the shampaign served as police commis pacifiat policy of the Foreign sioner under Mayor Gaynor, but Office," with a demand for the when Gaynor djed, Mayor Kline withdrawal of British troops. The ordered him removed. To this suggestion to apply an embargo on Colonel Waldo replied, with great all troops, ships, or war material dignity, that he could not be UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS leaving for China to another idea "fired" since he had tendered his to be mooted at the conference.
resignation with his acceptance
of the post. The courts upheld him.
Salute from the Castle, Gazette.) In the unavoidable absence of Attar of roses has long been the Earl of Kinnoull, William the costliest perfume put on the Inglis, Esq., of Middleton, acting market. During the war it ran a Grand Master Mason of Scot-up to £10 per ounce and at present land, then descended from the is round about sixty shillings. platform, and applied the square, The Bulgarian rose grower who the plumb line, and the level, does his own distilling does not decording to Masonic form, finally get anything like such prices. giving the foundation stone three Eighteen shillings an ounce is knocks with the mallet, while he nearer his recompense. It may said in clear ringing tones:-even be less if there has been a "May the Almighty Architect of glut of roses, or if attar specula-! the Universe prosper this under- tors hold big stocks when the new taking."
harvest is due. In any case he The foundation stone of the will have had to pluck, or pay for new bridge having been well and plucking, a million blooms to get truly laid, a salute was then fired sixteen ounces of the precious from the guns at the Castle. essence. Scenes of wild enthusiasm follow- Rose-oil factories on a ed, and amidst loud cheering from scale are a feature of Kensanlik That is, the person of average noon, and a small dish of por Chamber of Commerce and the zine. Police. He resigned, it is be- the assembled multitude, the to-day, but twenty years ago most
And that
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When Richard E.. Enright, who had served under Waldo A8 & shortened, but that the person First, he of thirty-five or over who weighs
police lieutenant, became police commissjoner, Waldo was made as much as the average is likely
The translation Into Chinese of an honorary commissioner, acted to die sooner than he would if
the British Pharmacopoeia (slightly as secretary of Enright's Inter- he were a tew pounds lighter
abridged) undertaken under the national Police Conference and as big
joint authority of the London business manager of the maga weight at middle age, the per-ridge at breakfast with milk or British Chamber of Commerce, lieved, when Mayor Hylan took DODWELL & CO. LTD. son who has been locked upon cream, but no sugar,
Shanghai, has been completed and exception to a boom started in as the normal, weighs too much His breakfast should be large-published."
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The primary object was to
Enright for Mayor. that in consist of such foods as string familiarise the Chinese medical
Col. Waldo saw service in two civilised life, food is too cheap, beans, green corn, and other practitioners and students of
wars, sandwiching his police too easy to obtain, and is pre-vegetables, particularly the leafy medicine and pharmacy with off- pared in such a way as to be vegetables, including lettuce, cial British pharmaceutical pre- officerships in between them. He too tempting to the average ap- which should be eaten without parations. The proposal to make was born in 1877. In 1898 he the translation dates from May 25, was graduated from the Columbia petite. Savages who often have much mayonnaise dressing. a hard time to get all they need, His evening lunch (if he must Chemicals, Dyes and Drugs Sub-ly applied to President McKinley 1921, when a meeting of the then School of Mines. He immediate and sometimes go hungry for have one) should be a bowl of Committee of the British Chamber for a commission in the army in considerable periods, may be ex-milk, with a few crackers, or a of Commerce, Shanghai, recom- Cuba, but was sent to the Philip cused for living like hogs when slice of bread, with some fresh mended the General Committee of pines instead with the rank of food is plentiful, for the chances fruit.
the Chamber to issue the necessary second lieutenant in the Seven- are that before long they will If desired, he can go for a authority. The translation has teenth Infantry. have a partial famine, and then time entirely on uncooked foods been made by Dr. C. L. Kao, a mem- In the campaign against will work off their extra calories, fruits, vegetables, and milk, ber of the Chinese Terminology Aguinaldo he, distinguished him- But civilised man lives amid a He should in any case forget Committee. The translation was self not alone as a fighter, but for constant surplus.
about ples and cakes, puddings, begun in 1924, and by the early Modern man, with cheap and candies, and other sweets, and spring of 1925 was sufficiently ad- his singular ability to maintain a through rice abundant foods, and with des all the "good things" that is, if vanced for the authorities of Shan-Sartorial Impeccability while lead- serts to tempt his appetite after he is in earnest in his desire Dr. McAll, to begin the work of marshes, jungles or any manner
tung. Christian University, undering his men he has been antisfied with plain- to reduce. "He can not eat his revision, which they had previously of physical barrier.
Later he er foods, and with soda fountain cake and have it."
became known as an able diaci- plinarian and a stickle for the ideals of official and so erly con- duct.
procession, which was nearly a of the attar of roses sold in the mile in length, wended its way Levant came from small distiller- up Candlemaker Row, along ies individually owned. With the Bristo Street, Lothian Street, and equivalent of a five pound note South Bridge to the front of the a rose-growing peasant could buy Royal Exchange in the High the necessary apparatus—a cop. Street, where the processionists per cistern, cooling vat and pipe gradually dispersed.
to connect the two; the brick That same evening, the Lord furnace he built himself at a small Provost entertained about three cost.. hundred gentlemen to dinner in Then all there was to do was the Waterloo Tavern, when a to simmer rose petals in the pro- letter from King George IV. was portion of 22 pounds to 19 quarts read, congratulating the citizens of water for an hour and a half, of Edinburgh on the laying of pipe the liquid that remained into the foundation stone of the new the cooling vat, redistill it, and bridge, upon which His Majesty leave the residue until a yellow later bestowed the name of oily film formed on the top. This, "George IV. Bridge."
skimmed off with a cone-shaped spoon that had a hole at the bot-
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tom to let out the water, was what the attar speculators bought The Home evokes a warlike to
the perfume ré-sell to memory to most of us, for it was manufacturers. here that in the year 1898 a Bri- tfah force under the late Lord Kitchener finally broke the power. of Mahdism and opened up a large territory to civilisation and proa- perity.
It is to-day the scene of even greater peaceful activity in the pro- vision of the improved means of Communication so necessary to the development of any new country. A large steel bridge to connect the two citica of Omdurman and Khartoum is being erected over the Nile by the well known British firm of Dorman Long & Co., Ltd., and a "Sentinel" supplies all the loco- motive power required for bringing up and disposing of the necessary material on the site.
After about nine months' service the contractor's engineer reported that "the 'Sentinel loco has proved one of the most efficient pieces of plant we have, and I think it was a very good investment." None of the, spare parts supplled with the loca have been used, and the only repairs found necessary have been grinding valves In once, re-| lining brake shoes once, and renewing platon packings. The coal consumption worked out at 500 b. per 12-hour shift, and the work done included working 160 tons deadweight up a gradient of one in eighty
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When Warren G. Harding be came the Republican nominee for President in 1919, he immediate ly organised a Harding Democra- tic Club, with headquarters at Broadway and 42nd Street, Manhattan, and carried on Harding meetings every night for the duration of the campaign. Four years later heorganised the Coolidge- Partisan League:
In 1910, he married Mrs. Virginia Offs Heckscher, widow of John G. Heckscher. She sur vives him
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