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The announcement that Mrs. Besant
The Right Rey, Principal Cairns, Moderator of the U.F. Church, hasar- rival home in Aberdeen from an exten- sive tour on the Continent, as a meniher of a Committee appointed to investigate the position of Protestantism in other. Fan countries. The two most pro- Buitend tendencies on the Continent at present. Principal Cairns syy, are a Episaron May, gosp.
trend towards the Church of Rem an Pets and artists have long found in the one hand sind, as in Russia, towards the Scottish Highlands the elements of blatant materialism on the "other. "the sublime and the lovely. But the idea | gouunan saying on the Continent, he tells
that they are, from the utilitarian point his Scottish friends, is that fronin poli... of view, more or less useless still gene-rical point of view Britain won the wor rally prevails. The Highlands are, in trom a military point of view France, the main, deft to the mist and the meum from an economic point of view the tain torrent, the deer, and wild-tow|;| Uuited States, and from a religious point there and huge areas of them as remote】 of view the Church of Rome. from human interest and as unaffected 3 BESANT IN SCOTLAND. by modern enterprise as the unbroken Solitudes of British Columbia. The Is to make a lecture tour in Scotland Access to Mount ins Bil which has just at an early date recalls to the older gene- been read a first time in the House ration some of the angry passions Commons, is pathetic, evidence that th playground id is going to be very dif. are in certain eireles by that „laig's icult to dispel. It really a very old first visit to Sentland about forty years ago. She was in those days a go-worker Bill, which: Governments have chattered of the late Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, and
HLADN Sessions without the slightest, effet upon the fact that there in eral towns she found it almost im aw three million arres of Scotland and sulle to obtain a hall for her meetings, amyriad lofty brus ran which the Ber Glasgow friends, I think, bad rooms mblir is rigidly excluded. Out of 313 of their own; but in Aberdeen every door" Scottish mountain praks attaining the sued to be closed against her had it was only at the eleventh hour, that ne.. height of on feet above the sea, nearly
d are inaccessible to the blist conmolation was found in a poky little room soewhere in Market Street. Since should be said that if the Bitį werze, sub mitted to
a plebiscite of the Scottish then Mrs. Besant has visited Sentanil ut several occasions, both in Ber Socialist people it would be carried by a huge days and after the mantle of the late majority This Bill, however, if it be Madame Blavatsky had fallen
on her comes an Act of Parliament, will do the shoulders, but by that time most ofthe more than slightly increase the number at fiings against her had vanished. " of visitors-climbers, botanists, and genius į gists-to territory no less than ever re maining a sanctuary of grouse and deer. The lyrical vision of the Highlands as a sort of Switzerland. attracting thousands in fashion of tourists annually to magnificient new hotels, red not be paid much atteson quote. to; such at anticipation will seem absurdourite, you will remember, of M: Bonar to anyone, who know the difference be law. tween the climates of Switzerland and lands the field, his democratic sentiments Scotland. Far more important to the Highlands and to Scotland generally that the liberty of a few people to roam as will over heather are the iudications we have now of a really serious intention to release those mighty pawers confined and going to waste in incuntain loch and stream and apply them to commercial purposes. The waters of the Spean, Ben Nevis. Loch Luggan, and Loch Treig are very soon, we hope, to make a living for thousands of householders in Lochaber. Am qibbling or procrastination Shoul be allowed to impestes the pen moters of the Grampian Company's electrification` suheine ta a project which, by impounding the waters of Loch richt, Loch Rannoch, and other paru al mamrain reservoirs, may provide light and wer for twenty-two burghs, mdst of the far remete from those solitary lochs. The wealth of the Herblande- practically still untapped-is in their white cual in the water that up till now has contributed gratuitously to the Portemoods of an occasional pedestilan For the pleasure of a rare privilegedness by the greatest fortune in the world.
A MINER AS KING'S REPRESENTATIVE.
SCOTH QUOTATIONS,
English observers in the House of Commans have been discussing the change in the Scottish authors When the men from the North delight to
Once it was Carlyle the Fay
Now Burns almost exclusively
appealing irresistibly to the Laur group. Robert Louis Stevenson also has
ecently bean quoted by Sents on both sides of the House. One of the most effective quotations ever unde in Parlia fuent was by Lord" Derby, ex-Prime Minster. in his last speech in the Hanse of Lards. He applied to Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues in relation to their treatment of the clergy of the Church of Ireland the pathetic address of Meg Merrilees to the Laird of Elangovan in
Guy Mannering." PERSONÁLIA,
The Maharajah of Nawangar—onco khown as “ Ranji "—is this year an early summer visitor to the Highlands. He is in Ross-shire. where he has rented Gramarils for a short term. He is after- wards going to Dornoch, where he has taken rooms at an hotel.
American lecture agents have recently been pestering Sir James Barrie to go to the States. Needless to say, the famous Scot, noted for his phyness, wil not be tempted across the Atlantic on such busi-
And I fancy he would commuind the big- gest price of any living British writer..
When the Russians thought they were
Five Peras.
The advent of a Labour Government ES PASSANT has been responsible for any surpris ing changes in the personnel of importing, to find an easy thing in the new. ant departments, but name of these British Labour Government, they forgot changes marks more dramatically the that the Premier is a Sentsmän-Defreit process of evolution than the appoint-
A large motor car stopped before un ment of miner, in the person of Mhotel in the Rob Roy enuntry last week, James Brown, to be the Lord High Com missioner to the Church of Scotland and its Yanker occupant, strolling up to a laird's son who stoud at the door General Assembly. We are growing uc customed to working people filling pain Highland.dress, inquired in all good tions of importades, but this is the first faith, Sye, are you the auivt for this time in bistory that a working man bas he'owse 1 been the King's accredited representa tive in the General Assembly. The st coragoner and by no means a commoner in the same sense as Mr. Brown-to-act as Lord High Commissioner. was Sir John Hope, a Lothian Landowner. That was over 10 years ago. The Lord High Commissioner acts at the General As sely as the King's representative. In his Commission he is referred to as our
He r right worthy trusted cousin." presents the Royal Person, and stands s the visible tokee of the connection of
Church and Staté.
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It is preuliarly appropriate that this Ayrshire miner should be the rat modera communer chosen for the high position. He has been a church worker since his youth. and has filled every posi tion the church offers a layman-Sunday Schoul thucher. Bible Class teacher, Superintendent, ruling elder, representa tive in the Presbytery and in the As
Dollar Academy must surely be able to supply its pupils with the staret of Perpetual you. At the school sports one of the competitors in a half-aile race was watched from the ropes by his perambulator. An small son seated
excellent example for the child?
The Scots "flier has been held up t Caleuita because water made its way into his petrol supply the dilution of spirit below proof being, unpopular with shy Sent even so far away from homes
Ulster the other day with a party of One of my colleagues who was touring
British journalists ritains as an inter- exting souvenir of the trip a gutting from a Belfast newspaper, which records their visit to a distillery, "where the party jurtook of the finished product." The cutting enntinues Reluctantly the visi tors left and proceeded to Portrush.” where the plus-four men unfortunately fouzled their drives."
sembly. Mr. Brown still resides in the G. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
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STATE OPENING OF THE ÄSSERELY.
Scenes of extraordinary, enthusiasm were witnessed in Edinburgh as Mr. James Brown drove from Holyrood Palace first to St Giles Cathedral and afterwards to open the Assembly. The crowds which lined the streets were of unusual dimensions, and as the carriage in which the Royal Commissioner, roda passed on its way the spontaneous and cordial cheering of the citizens, Way Lo unequivocal tribute to the personality of Mr. Brown and an unmistakable indica- tion of the stirring of democratic senti- ment. There was a novelty and piquancy in the situation that moved natural curiol, sity, but a finer feeling was evoked. An emotion of kindly and friendly sympathy, not unmingled with national pride and satisfaction, may be said to have zerom. paniel His Grace in the passage from The Palace to the Castle Hill.
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