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Thare may have been more disreputable cases brought before a civil Court than Mrs. Dennistoun's action against ha divorced husband. but it had features, says the Daily Telegraph, which could hardly be matched from the longest experience
scandalous litigation. Whatever the position may have been when the proceedings were initiated, more than a year ago. it was hardly pretended during the course of the trial that the question of modes, its nomina! subject-matter, was what weighed with! either party, What was in progress was a personal vendetta, waged on both sides with such determination that either party was withing so free the certainty of unspeakable disgrace in fighting it pu Nor did it end there. ble to a finish.
name of a dead man was dragged in, his personal and professional honour was blackened by allegations to which no Whatever view aaswer could be made.
cessive.
commen
may be taken of that matter; the fact. retains that the relatives of a disting.. nished soldier are among the sufferers How from this crgy of vindictiveness. much has been spent altogether in the pursuit of this repulsive quarrel cas
Tor only be conjectured. estimate of £30,000 is probably not er. the "In cases of this sort.'
on both Judge observed. "money is
spent sides in ways which would provide in- teresting matter for comment by those of the public who are not familiar with The bear- some aspects of such actions." jug of the case, apart, from the determina- twin of legal points" that is still uncod- cluded, occupied fifteen days of the time of the Court Much of the evidence. given was of the most serdil ebaructer. and there would have been, far more of legal this than was heard but for decision of the learned Judg. which ruled out a great pars of what was ready The conflict of sword to be produced. testimony, moreover, was as direct as it possibly could be. It is not too much to Bay that the matters legally in issue were completely lost sight of daring the greater part of the trial in the vehemence of the attacks directed at the honour and edibility of the principal witmenses. Counsel, of course, are not to be blamed for that, nor was theirs the responsi
of bility for the mephitis atmosphere scandal and passionate ill-wil: in which Mr. Justice. the proceedings took place. Melardir, in bia samming up, did all that was possible to remove the effect of Denunicasion, he said, had been frequent: every appeal had been made to emotion, to resentment, and to prejudice. aside all ques- He asked the jury to put t sions of sympathy and indignation, and determine the questions between the par- ties in firm and fearless manner.
this.
The jury, no doubt, did their best to l comply with that direction, and we do not propose to affer any comment upon the It is the case us outcome of the case.
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a whole that demands some considera tion by thinking people, and particular- ly as regards the effect of such an ex- hibition of moral callousness upon the public mind. it is possible-it is in drnt, too easy for such an affair to be regarded without any sense of pro- portion. There have always been what are called society cases of an unsavoury character. "though seldom, perhaps, sink. ing to such a level of grossness; and the Lary 14 auad-the-law-with-respect to reports of a farewell sermon preached lytin uses of relatively high pressure covera 8.
INFANT GUARDIANSHIP. BILL. QUESTION OF EQUAL RIGHTS FOR PARENTS.
The Bill presented by the House Secre
The New York newspaper are full of
April 24th at 18.10-Pressure has decreased moderately over N. Japan and fram Chefoo to Shanghai, and slightly over Indo-China. I
elsewhere. increased slightly over Luzon, and is nearly
area
temptation for same minds to represent the guardianship, custody, and marriage the Rev. Dr. H. E. Fosdick,
-of-the-First Jasions are situated over N.E. Giza,
them as specially typical of "society" of infants was considered last month, by Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue, and has always been irresistible. When tensa Standing Committee of the House of author of world-famous devotions books Dr. Fosdick is the chief storm centre of thousands of pounds are spent in the ormons. Ma A. Short presiding.
and conduct of such a case,
case, Mr. G. Locker-Lampson (Under-Secre of the religious controversy between
preparation names and the actions tary. Home Olice) ranved an amend fundamentalists and Doderaists, now
when
For the farewell sermon the church was of persons in plices of high responsent which was agreed to providing raging in the United States. bilty are involved, the matter is magni- that where an order for the custody and
After the sermon the con- Bed us it gaz neve be when stories just maintenance of an infant has been made beseiged by a large crowd. Hundreds as Bad are set forth in a "less costly in favour of the mother, it shall cease were in tears. and sensational setting. It is not the truth that broad distinctions in the mat ter of private morals exist between dif ferent classes of the community: but there are always thour who make it their busi- s to insist that it is 0, to suggest
to have effect if for a period of three gregation mobbed the preacher in the norths after the banking of the order pipit, and it took him an hour to
escape from handshakes.
the other resides with the father of the
Wild.
Lady Astor proposed a new clanse pro- mate infant should have the guardian
*DISTRICT
FOREGATT
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at Indo-China and between Tobio and Hakodate.
January 1st, 2091 inchas, against an average t 18 hours, April 24h 0.00 inch. Total since of 10.33 inches.
The format for the 24 hours ending st 18 hours, April 25th is a follows:
Hongkong to Gap Bock ( Farmoss Channe
Hongkong and Lamocks Bouth coast of Chias between į
Hongkong and Hainan
...N.E.winds, moderate. E. winds, moderate; overcast,raisty.pro- "bably rain later.
-do,
Dr. Fosdick, who is a Baptist "loaded" as special preacher to the First Pres the Westminster Confesion or resign. be the rule above a certain undled it and custody with the, father, and is friends will appeal to the Fresby limit of Hocint position, and to seize upon should have equal authority, rights, and terian Ceneral Assembly, but he has THE EVILS OF INDIGESTION such affairs as the Denistoun car as reponsibilities with regard to such is given up hope after six years' struggir. demonstrating the justice of the noxious fant. She pointed out that in the State and will go on a preaching tour through
sermon at the League
of Nations Assem political prejudice which they are working of Ohio, and also in British Columbia. America, and will preach the opening
bly at Gener2 next August.
In his farewell sermon, he said he want- ed the Church to include Nonconformists,
that a general decency, of life trases 19 Filing that the mother of very legiti. byterian Church, was forced to accept South const of China between -
AND HOW THEY ARE BANISHED
AND PREVENTED BY MOTHER' SEIGEL'S SYRUP..
Of all human sufforing, indigestion is far and
away the most common,
to inculcat Their activity was never
to
3 greas or so dangerous as it is now: qual rights of this character had been and it may be anted that the leader of conceded and had worked very satisfac- the Labour party, in a sent speech, torily. The Bill. noir stod did not.
guardianship. descended so low as to hold language of the outer led, zivs round rights of Mr. Locker Lampson said that the In its very earliest stage, farligestion is this kind in a vague reference to these
legal proceedings. We have used unpleasant in its later stages it may be ex-
fully by the Home Other, and they were tremely painful, and finally it may become is surprised at anything said by Mr.tion had been considered tre care
Eleg dangerous. Further, it leads to many other acDonald since the fast General
The sufferersion campaign: he has clearly been made of opinion that if a contentions an and yet more serious Exorders,
to realia that bis political position de amendment were proceeded with it would from indigestion knows no res! rest or comfort by day or night, and his antlook is darkended pends upon his fomenting the class-war wreck the Bill: He. therefore, usked
spirit which beard once to condemn Ludy Astor not to erit. by dread of worse things to follow.
Good foxl, when properly digested becomes But what may be believed by ignorant Lady Astor said that the late Government lucked the courage to deal with this pure, rich blood, in which the germs of disease and intemperate minds Curtaustion, and she had hoped that pre
world the cannot thrive, but when food remains too long known to is false by Mr. MacDonald,
xunt Government would have had t in the stomach; and does not readily undergo
society.
The clause was eventually withdrawa inte blood and expe! waste produces, that is told his audience that there, as in all indigestion. There are many causes for the offer social environments, there are little and the Bill as amended was ordered to complaint, rating burriedly being probably the coteries of disreputably living people he reported to the House for third read. most calumen. Improper food (with which whose conduct is considered by those of inu. may be included bad cookiraly responsible gust and reprobation as it meets with and eating too similar position with just as much dis- much or too often.
1. an
Human na-FALL IN FRENCH BIRTH RATE. Hot no matter what the cause, the effect in from any other quarter. But arious Onge the trouble takes hold, indigesture is everywhere, and nowhere without
a variety of ways, of Lito share of weskness, its victim which Hasbing or a sense of
who
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it
those natural processes which should change it 14 in maintra, *** Hu canld have courage to do U.
tion
pain, bar|
of falness after meni,
horthore,
disagreeable watery
palpitation of the
the bringing up of
duid into the mouth and
sick beadachos are only a few.
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The French, popilation figures for 1994 show that there were almost exactly the same number of marriages (335.92 to 8.501 in 1927) about in.000 fewer births, and 15,000 more deaths than in. the previous year.
HIS WIFE.
"I give my soul to God and my body
The excess of births over deaths frll disregarded for indigestion has tendency to the warth, com twiter still the Bea, or
from 94.871 in 1923 to 79.216, but this curonic, and then the diffcnity of better still to my university. but all as Encome
my wife shall appolot, and I thank her was an improvement on the 70,579 of it becomes enormously increased. the proper course to adopt in to take from for forty years, box of living. I won't 1993. "The birth rate per 10.000 of the fteen to thirty drops of Mother Saigal'a kay anything to think my son for what population declined from 191 in 1925 to day, after meats, he did for us everything that I have 192, and the death rate rose from 170 In water, three time
The population is taken as Mother Beiger's Syrup is a herbal remedy, and is settled upon him. Thanking everyone to 173,
so acts on the stomach. liver and bowels, as to concerned for a very happy life runs 38,29,318. It may he added that in 1915 cause them to perform their various functions part of the will of Mr. John Jepson the marriage rate was 15 per 10,000, the healthily and just as Nature intended. Indeed, Atkinson, of Stoney Stratford. Not birth rate $83, and the death rate 176.
of roofs, barks and thants, one of the oldest member of the the medicinsi extracts leaves, contained in Mother Seigel's Byrup, Ciration Haub and one of the original have a beatinin effect upon those organ members of Northamptonshire County which is not obtained by any other medicine Council, who dine in: December, aged 50 whatsoever. Relief follows after taking a "doses of the Byrap; and if the treatment is years, intelligently and faithfully carried ont, the happy result is never in doubt.
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He left, unsited property of the gross value of £7,316, with net personalty
7,287.
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1 live long enough-Str. Bernard 'Shaw; } if a child wants to do naughty things, teach it how to to them-Dr. J. A. Hadfield.
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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, April 24th.
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Dr. Fosdick said: "They call me a heretic. Well, I am, if conventional Westner...
I should be Bais ashamed to live in the present generation Hightest open-air Temperature on 23rd orthodoxy is the standard.
scem modern will be and not be a heretic. A few years hence Lowest open-air Temperature on 24th views, which now orthodox."
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