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EDINBURGH, December 20th A judgment which is perhaps the most important of the year, in view of its consequential effects, has been pronounced
Session in the actions by Glagow ship- Scond Division of the Court of brokers and commission agents agailist
certain well-known insurance ch
for recovery of moneys under se
limp
certain conservatism of temperament!
the most part lacking in the assemblaga of unassuming faces He lets the adora- ment grow venerably white, Disraeli de fied nature and bought a bostle of dye, But a Labourist bas tu acorn such aids in case the fierce limelight of the day brought that tell-table purplish geam to view and wrecked a career. Donald has always worn it of
Mao Ensay
of the ALMA farid size
and shaps-as if to tspitz
tion to flourish erratically like a tropical Lima Csorge of chard his hands allowe George, allowed hirsute protec with the fluctuations of
Mr. power. grew Tocks
in rivalry Then recall if you can the German Emperor's over the hull, care of thei meustach****
Common gossip" knew that Spathari, which
off the Portu-"
that monumental aspect of the Chief of guese coast in April 1921, while on Hohenzollerna was not Nature's dras un voyage to Greece. The Court found that the ship had been scuttied by the chief aided experiment. Even beyond the bar engineer for the benefit and by the direchers it was known that Wilhelm slept with his moustache elastic bandages or tions of the shipbrokers and commission something o of the sort. With royalty gour, agents-two of them Greeks and one of the necessity for a martial assumption them a Scotsman. it sms that H. Demetriades purchased the vessel with the swept from his life, Wilhelm reverted not profesional help of a friend, Mr. Borth to barbarism but simply to a beard. His
moustache was permitted to fall wick, for £2,000; and the funds for the For the first time in forty years he lay
I were obtained by mortgages for!
on his Then Demetersdes, set about get Donald's moustache, however, has never pillow in comfort. Ramsey Mac ting cargo for Greece. To some extent
typifies venture was intended to be philanthropic changed, and people say that this towards his friends in the projected, for, that the erant. It was 1s in curious,, when the thinks of it, thu
to the Man in the Street Kamsay Mae purchase the vessel for 9,000 or more Donald, is always identified with this with
a view to its occupation in
Levantine trading
Inderd, Borthwick was under forid moustache, as part and parcel of nder his principles. Truly, great is the power egreement
Grrect to deliver the vessel in to Demetriades for £9,000 against his of the political cartoonist. selling it! With the aid of the practised ege of another friend and countryman, It can be taken for granted that E. H. Carbitsis, of no capital but with some Liddell will not be able to take part in the maritime
antecedents and fish and chip 100-yards race at the Olympic Games at shop experience," or as he called himself. Paris next summer. The date axed for t restaurateur,' Demetriades was very lucky in
in - Leith
running the heats of the event is a Sun-
day, and unless it can be ... polish of " rejected dried
altered the Pr Edinburgh University fier will not war strength. It was said to be none
run, holding, as he does, strong views on the worse of having lain for some years the subject of Sunday sport,
He will, in Iceland before its importation in De however, be free to compete in the races cember, 1990, to Scotland, by the which correspond with the furlong and Jade Lord Sands tells us, however, it the quarter in this country that is, if mistake to connees, this coa he is willing to enter for the latter. sigunent in any way with the Floud. There is no Sunday clashing with theso Cambitsis was successful in securing 00 races, tons of this cargo for certain other friends
E. H. Liddell, says W. J. A. Davies in at the not over stiff price of 18. per ton, and still more successful in turning it over his book on Rugby, is the fastest wing to a Levantine purchaser as the oderate three-quarter I have ever played against.! figure of £60 per ton, he, the buyer, pay. Davies holds the view that Scotland failed ing in addition the freight! It should to fully realise the possibilities of Liddell not be omitted from the story that some last season, and says the ball should have 10 tous of the same codfish were bought been got out to him without a moment's by other people for mannire. Prudent ship hesitation. That would have given Liddul owners and merchants, Greek or otherwise, time and space wherein to manoCuvre,
of
Borthwick insured on
with the result that his exception Demetriades, time or voyage policies the hull of the al speed was wasted. Another criticism Spathari for £9,000, and Cambitsis and of Scotland is this:-"The Scottish out- 5thers, interested covered the codfish and sides often short-punted in the hope that other cargo, with freight, disburse Liddell would gather the ball on thei stores, so the extent of other bounce. The manoeuvre was tried and ments, nad £15,000. The vest in sailed, and, as repeated by Scotland notil it almost be has been said, sank in the son off Porta came, an obsession. Thus it lost its gal. The Scottish Judges haul no diffi-urprise effect.
would be 2
KIN,
LIDDELL
insure their ventures So, by the agency, however, never employed these!
culty in pronouncing judgement against
the swindlers and in favour of the under- TO A BUNKER.
1
writers, But many people to wondering (3ile turning it up with a golf club.3 how they accepted the risks, not very
heavy, it is true, as marine risks go, with- O, thou unhallowed pit a' sic.
out making the least inquiry into the That wiles ma bran' new gutty in mercantile reputation of the proposed Fur frae the green, far less the tin insurers. If they had Jones more
I'm aimin' at-
of the dried codish at et might have been put to better use in this country as a fertilising agency instead of slowly rot:
ing in Portuguese waters. FUTURE OF THE TEMPERANCE ACT
Ye'll gar'me think that I'm as blin'
As ony bat!
Ah thocht''twas driv'n as straught's a die, An unco ba. ht fair a' high, Werl certifeed, at need, lae y
Past time an' space, Till-Whang!-An' I behold it fie
In thy embrace !
Bae, if your ba' though fairly struck Geta whammed mang the glaur an' muck O'bunkers, bents or sie like truck,
Star tea't the mair; Gin ye play up an trust tas luck
During the General Eletion a consider- able number of the Seuitish members, irrespective of party, stated, that, while they could not support the suggestól repeal of the Scottish Temperance Act, they were willing to consider any scheme of amendment, înd also any" sound pro posal
for the reform of the licensed houses. This course will be resisted by extremists on both sides, by the Trude and by the Prohibitionists, but the Scot- tish members interested feel that the great bulk of public feeling wil be against deadlock. the Scottish Socialist members, who gen ouITUARY. It is significant that certain of erally hold temperance views, are of this | opinion now, and that they have been
Yo'l sune be there.
By a Junior "Colonel Bogy" in the Hutcheson's Grammar Schost Magazine, Glasgow.
The death is announced, suddenly, at strengthened in their attitude by the the Northern Nursing Home, Aberdeen, request of considerable numbers of work on the 17th December, of Elizabeth Ander who, while against no licence, son, widow of James I. Adam, China
Inland Mission.
ing men. urge that at present many of the houses are in 1 thoroughly unsati
tisfactory condi tinu. With the prospect that the next Government, whatever it is, will not log
EN PASSANT,
Scotsmen have a world-wide and well- earned reputation for being "canny, but surely the record was reached, if not broken, when the other day the gateman at a local dyeworks was cautiously asked
There's one danger of a job here f The with
"Quiting Bontleman was
quite safe here, ma Don Marquis, the American humorisat last month went down the Clyde on his way home to New York.
In his paper,
in power, it is scarcely likely that there will be immediate legislation, but that some amendment of the present Tem- perance Act will eventually be carried may be predicted with every confidence. MR. BAMBAY MACDONALD'S APRILÈNTICESHIP,
A Lossiemouth" anan has been giving ne reminiscences of Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald's early asacciation with the place. One of the most interesting related to a
The New York Tribune, he now mentions In called Jimnie Alexander, a well that in Glasgow a large part of the popu. known character at Lossiemouth. Helation drink but one thing along with kept a tinsmith's shop, and was familiarly koown a Tinnie. He was a man of whisky superior education, and his shop was the
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's late anda resort of all the ardent politicians. Every was for many years a well-known guard important question of the
He was a on the Highland Railway, mall, pawky, and unassuming man, and Tinale" himself was a crusted old general favourite. When questioned Tury, but every shade of opinion was about his nephew, all he would say wa represented, and many
day
thrashed güt at this local parliament.
their whisky, and that thing is more
in the dyed. ! « Imphm! Ramsay was aye à clever like!
The chiel." Then he would smile and inquiro E. Sutherland, P., for if you had get all your luggage
tors took" part Elgin
late gbs, and Sir Archibald William
son, M. P., for Elgin and Nairn (now Lord
res), when they had other members {
their constituencies need t to bring
Ramsay MacDonnie's
them along to
shup.
an
Radical in
in his ene, used to tako Betise the share in the debates, and aequired!
of
of the skill of which he has
made such good use at Westminster. Tinnie," who, alas! has passed aways always took great interest in the career the Socialist lender, who had served his political apprenticeship in his shop, always declared that Ramsay Mac Donald was a bigger man. np in London than he was in Lossiemouth.
but
be
RAMSAY MACDONALD'S MOUSTACHE
Ramsay MacDonald's large moustacho is prominent in the pictorial press now.A. days. The cartooniste soc to that. And it has come to he reenliuris identified with the man.. It is not quite so black as it used to be, it retains a curl and an elegance reminiscent of the ninetie carrying some consolation thereby to old- fashioned folk. In picture groups of the Labour Party it adds a distinction for
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