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PRISONERS OF WAR FUNDS.
SALE OF WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY.
With the Jandable abject of making a contribution to the Prisoners of War Funds, a sale of work tud ten took place yesterday at the residence of Sir Charles Eliot, Vice-Chancellor of Hongkong Uni- versity. The proceedings bad been or
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LANCASHIRE DIALECT.
BY THE MAYOR OF OLDHAM]
The Lancashire dialect is spoken less than it was forty years ago, but it still
persiste suficiently to account for what may be called the Lancashire accent. It has been a long time dying, for a cen- tury and a half ago T
Tim Bobbin noticed the tendency of the Lancashire people, oven among the hills, to speak much
THE BULLY OF THE WORLD. OR, JONATHAN WILD ENTHRONED.
[BY AN ENGLIBMAN.'']
Napoleon," said Wellington one day to Lord Ellesmere, was the first maha his day on a field of battle and with French troops I confine myself: that His polity was mere bullying, and tory mutters apart he w a Jonathan
milt
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NOVELTY AT THE FRONT.
To no other profession can the Army
owe more than to that of mining cagi- ncoring, both in the proportion of its membors who have joined up and to the unique special knowledge and experience which it has contributed to the commer
ganised by Mrs. Arthur Warren, and better English," although he does add, Kaiser, who fondly believe himet fund. One of the now best known now
were in every way a great success. There if it can properly he called si.
Wild
A
Napoleon's shadow, is useless in the field, was a large attendance, among those pre-
comparison of the speech in which Tum- but at the mere game of bullying he is -sout being "Lady May, who was accom-mus and Moury conversed with the di-finished adept.
Funied by Mr. Ponsonby Fune, and Sirlept as now spoken in many parts ul. To call him a Jonathan Wild would be
Charles Eliot. Those who had made con
to flatter him. For despite his rascality tributions of goods for salc, and who also Lancashire reveals the use of more din etter him. For
-Jonathan was a a man of wit and humour bail charge of the stalls included the fol words than many people would support in which the gloomiest outlaw
qualities
lowing:-Mrs. Digly, Mrs. Franklin, Mrs. Earle, Mrs. Redmond, Mrs, Hooper, Mrs. Middleton Smith, Mrs, Marley, Mrs Marriott, Mire. Hoanley, Miss Sells, Mrs. Hinton, Mrs. Noble, Mra Matthewman, Miss Lander, Mrs. Goodban,
Mies
As might be expected, the dialect flourishes meilly in the remoter places It is, in facta in the hill country.
countryside speech.
Picces of war equipment, due to the fertile braing of mining men, is the Nissen hut, invented by Major P. N. Nissen, E. the originator of the
Nisson stamp, which has already been
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he the Kaiser is a bully, of that there is a dustry after the war, so that the follow-ave the newest efforts in Shirtings and doubt, and his
his late declaration of wiring account of it from the picturesque upon the whole world is as fine an example pen of Mr. Filson Young, which appear- of the art as we have seen since Napoleon's ed in the Daily Mait, is of much more Comprise a variety of Nest Stripen
than merely passing interest : day,
The Dye is the best The Kaiser's resolution to sink neutral At about the same time as the tanks in all, velours. shipping at sight is a mere exercise in made their memorable debut on the imitation. When Napoleon saw that he battlefield, another creature,
almost obtainable, could not destroy: England he announced equally primeval of aspect, began to that he would bring the proud island to appear in the conquered areas. No one its knees by forbidding the rest of the ever saw it on the move or met it on world to trade with it. So he devised a the roads it just appeared. Overnight system upon paper which should speedily you would see a blank space of ground: reduce his bitterest foo to hunger and in the morning it would be occupied by Tuin, and reward him with a bloodless an immense creature of the tortoise fashioned by expert London Shirtmakers. victory. In other words, be declared species, settled down solidly and perman- wiser ther's feast reawm. There are Ireland. And this he dared to do in 1500, smoke from a right angle stem at one blockade throughout Great Britain ardently on the earth and emitting green other words frequent if
In hamlets which lie between towns words that to the city man would seem Piercey, Miss Davidson, Mrs. Goldsmith,couth are in daily use. A convalescent noighbour will tell the woman next door and Miss Hazeland, Mrs. Churcher had that he had been welly nee done for wharge of the fortune telling tent. There A lato arrival at a tea party will call was to formal opening, but the sale of apon those already sat down to hutch up," If a body is unduly pressing for work commenced soon after 3 p.m., and elbow-room, b is asked what he is very soon the various stallholders were thrutchin a If he remonstrates heing kept exceedingly busy, a very happy against this form of address he may to Angary for the financial result of Mrs Warren's enterprise,
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covered with them that had been nothing THE Matheson & Co. Ltd., for useful contribu oratelenly, or, if things are well with to obeye, Napoleon breated the nou of this creature is the Nissen but. It is
on towards the sale S
them, that they are farrantly. If
Moreover, they are very much astonished they detrals, in this matter of the blockade, with the solution of one of the many problems clare that they are fair gloppent. I the same contempt which the Kaiser mates that every war presents The problem. THE HOMELESS IN NORTHERN moderately surprised they may content to them to-day. If they dared to bere was to devise a cheap, portable
traffic with
England, wee would be upon dwelling place wherein men could live themselves with ejaculating “Thoigher.''' Then there is the wordschule their heads The hardships which they warm and dry, cheap enough to be pur which indicates the final conclusion of that mattere not a jot to the Corsican enough to be carried on any road; big were asked to bear might irk them but chasable by tens of thousands; portable any matter. To illustrate the woman I England could not be cut off from the enough to house two dozen men simple said, "I'll come o Sunday D.V, bur rest of the world by his ships, it should if I dunno como o Sunday I'll come o be cut of by his will. As for the Ameri- enough to be erected by anybody and on Thursday schuzhea. Then there is the cars, he brushed them side as masked any ground, and waterproof enough to word" fawse. It is more than a word Englishmen Men and policies were give adequate protection from summer it typifies the only vebity which vaunts alike indifferent to hule, no petatem All these conditions are fulfilled by that it knows more than others. A We will form a complete coast Bolton they have a saying which they said he, and England will end by, shed the Nissen hut, the invention of a Cana
dian (Canadian hy birth, but a member address to their over-sharp people ding tears of blood.
of the British Army, not the Canadian should go an live f Owdham. Per Of courss England did nothing of the contingent) Engineer officer who ent haps Oldham night regard this as a com- sort. She recognised easily the sccent of down and thought it out on an idle day 100 pliment. Some expressions are of the the bully, and comfortably sent in her in May, 1918. He did his preliminary personal sort. To tay that a men 18 way. Now a bully may be defined as one thinking to sell that the third but he
yammerwed or a
NOWING OF who threatens far more than he can built is of the pattern now being used, gaby is to call him a fool or a sim-achieve, who lets ucisy tongue do the of which there are at least 20,000 in the pleton. To speak of a woman as a work of a strong axin. It is perhaps a country to day and which are the home pansement would be to any that she popular fallacy that he is necessarily of some-half million of British Tommies was no better than she should be. To ord. He may indeed, be a brave man One peculiarity of the Nisen hat is that gint" is to spill; to yw i deb hours, but he is certainly a coward it has no walls. It consists of a roof, when he attempts to frighten his adver ends and a floor. The roof is simply an howl:reech is smoke; warty "
sary into acquiescence by weck-day-tooth-warchis toothache These words are not obnocte hut are still the means of verbal communication,
The dialect survives in districts af flourishes more in hamlets than in towns, and more in some towns than in others
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A REPEAT SENTENCE.
Thart top fawse for Bowton thaND TERRORS FR
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It is fairly common in the cotton towns but even there it exhibits variations of accent and pronunciation. In the East Lancashire towns it is marked by inflec tions borrowed from Yorkshire the double a as in "agecanor the double a se in daan for down." As be tween Oldham and Rochdale there are differences. In the latter like becomes Joike, rest is reight and
NOISY THREATS.
merebo
boastful
beat and winter cold,
ness of speech and gesture. The true hero arch of corrugated iron, so there are no is content to exercise his strength in eaves or gables to it. Thus the greatest silence, and makes no paltry confusion ankourt of standing spice is enclosed between words and deed But Napoleon with the least amount of material. You was a bully, and the Kater walks bumbly can order a Nissen, hut as you would in the gr
Nn reat captain's footsteps. order a garden chair, and it will arrive 'A vast project of the isolation uently packed, with instructions how it of England failed, as all projcets fail is to be put up. Anyone can put it up, which exist unly upon paper. And the but four men can do it easily in four Kaiser will assuredly share Napoleon's hours. The only tool required-a apan- failure. In declaring war against all the ner is supplied with it. The whole can world both pirates professed to pursue the be packed on an Army wagon, and its same end the freedom of the sea, which weight is two tons; but no single, part meant and menar no mors, of course, than or package is heavier than can be un- that the sovereignty of the sea should be loaded by two men All the parts are transferred from England to themselves interchangeable,
These are the new homes for which interpretation of the sea's freedorp the thanking his stars in this bitter weather justice and ingleration, and the
sinking without warning of all neutral shipping together with indiscriminate Twenty-four men sleep warm and dry on murder upon the ocean will commend their beds on the floor. By day the beds with less success than did the famous whole middle space (which as a mess blockade upon paper which Napoleon vain would sent 68 men) is available for work, ly hoped might deprive our islanders of games, messing, writing or reading. bread and bel
The hut is warmed by the ordinary
with
nowt is "naught." There is more But England still rules the waver many a soldier on the Somme front is
dialect Safford than in Manchester, probably because the dialect clings to cotton and follows iron, and those are trades in which the workpeople migrate
A polic, who bas quite recently served sentence of three months hard labour and take their dialect with them. The itself to the countries now at peace even are rolled up against the sides and the
was charged with the theft of iron from Taikoo Dockyard, and Mr. Wood sentenced him to another term of three months.
LUKONG CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.
um on the chest
34
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wilta,
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Nissen stamp. the other attack which just two years ago was going to bring the war to a speedy tor
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man from Cockeymoor who got work in the city soon began to say Yos" instead of Aye and in place of Nawe, and was immediately told that he'd gotten bis tung scraped." “Leet” For us, then who know the source of Canadian stove an iron dram with two and meet and weet and seet the Kaiser's inspiration, this new exneri holes in it and a smoke pipe-which is are everyday words, as are also een ment in bullying will have no terrors, the only portable furnace that you can and shoon Theaw is the correct We shall face it without panic of dent, make red hot on green wood fuel. We There, was a lukong in the dock in Mr. form between friends, although one not without masic of thought Our Navy is believe that in the capacity as an army Melbourne's Court, he being charged with a friend might retort with Dunno in gozd, und we live faith in the officer Major, Nissen receives no fee from thenw me? The dialect is strong in. courage and r solution of those who are the Government for the wwo of his patent, assaulting a Chinese tailor of Wing Lok simile. The brazen face is told that she is guardians. At the same time we would but his brother engineers military and Street. The complainant's story was to has a face like Brazil. People who not belittle the menace of the submarines, mining among whom he is universally the effect that the lukng wanted to search are like each other are told that they or underrate their power of doing us popular will wish him as handsome a "favvern, ***** Ombdy and rich injury. But we know how to counter him, but instead of doing so he struck body are not obsolete. One still says to foron by force, and we shall deal with the revenue after the war from the Int
another Coesta, saysta The Zukong's case was that the comthinksta, and is understood A toothri stand, for fow." Speak
mination. And, after all, there must be plainant refused to be searched, and, as
bant" is the string that the latch is an end to the torror which the bully lifted with. Anything that is upset is inspires. Cut flesh has been daked to the Napoleonic bully, forgets one thing. Un said to "waut o'er People do not now creep so often that today it refused to He forgets the ultimate defeat, which call others folnicute, or say "doge stir from its solidity England, we re belongs necessarily to the part which he when they mean damp. These terms, member, was to be brought to her sene by has chosen. Excited to imitation, he has however, arg but lately fallen into the raiding Zeppeling, All the great related war upon the whole world, and disuse
towns in ruin and thousands of dead he has overlooked the wad truff that the will some day want to live dignity of a position in the dictionary cessed no efficient wearon which could be on terms of
Some dialect words have secured the civilians were to convince us that we posGerman teamercial: friendship
with Amongst them is the finely expressive against the all-conquering Hun, the which its Kalor bas wantonly word gradely, which cannot be per- And, to-day we clean, comfortably in our cats aged. Burely 10 will not fmd, its pash The story of a Chinese marine hawkerfectly matched by any other word beds, fearing the Zeppelins no more than strewn with the roses of concilation
*Threnp" is honoured in the same way, the wen in the trenches fear the dastardly Everywhere it wi
will encounter harsh looks who was charged with theft was believed and maybe others will follow. The Educa- prison-gas and closed doors, it will be asked to make dainty road, and then by Inspector Gordon and ho asked for the tion. Acts are ac doubt reponsible for a ULTIMATE DEFEAT FORGOTTEN. its way along a hard. charge against him to be withdrawn, and large part of the modification in its The Germans, it is clear, have been twill carse until the crack of doom the general use. Theso and the newspaper bullies always, and their purposes are insolent bully who thought in his vanity this way dope. The man was charged with have caused a noticeable, change But to-day fully revealed to us. Bober that be might intimidate the two hemis
Bridges has told us in The Lines how the theft of a quantity of copper piping in suite of people having taken to before the war a Fraasian Junker confidedJonathan Wild fell upon the
talking fine the dialect has had a The dealer said that a coolie came up to wonderful survival, due to some degree in the ear of an American the bone and apoleon was punished for his crimes him and offered him some copper piping to the success of our dialect writers, of nest of England as easy and certain, and ajourist St Helens The Kaiser is font aim of Germany. He assumed the coming the lawe of autions by an enforced
Bo long as Come whoam to thi bilder shall do is to impoen an
he the first thing warning the years of seclusion which will
result, bo arrested the man and took him do the police station, He absolutely denied striking the complainant,
Defendant called several lukonga to sup- port his story, and, eventually, the tukong was discharged.
COPPER PIPING.
pheres my iod.
for sale. The desier said he would not have whom Waught must be accounted chiet, afterwards, said he indem bo the only proper meed for his last net
the piping as a print, and, while this ant me and Eawr Folk" and "Owd twenty thousand million pound of piracy II St. Helean be given him was going on, an Indian watchman come Finder continue to form part of popu。 engering kum, but it seemed are for a kingdom. he may reflect there in up and arrested the dealer, the coolie far entertainments the dialect will not trife lo the Prusian who say the solitude apon the recklesmees of assuming be forgotten. Even now, it goce. ““ On domination of the world within, bis pren making off. Inspector Gordon told Mr Change and takes part in besiness
le too big for his feeble talent, and archance compase a treatise upon the Wood that be had reason to believe the If has a recognized formula, when it ap. dealer, and, no stated, the charge was with pears on the boards. It runs Mornin'
Out!"""Nowt. Momin'" and so makes an end-Manchester Guardian,
drawn.
Retes it would have been easy to enllest
on the Germans would have occupied Eng folly of those who set out to murder the
and and rent it neorle enslaved retirens of countries still at parcel with the lesh until the money was paid)
/ (Continued at foot of next column)
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