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Curiously enough, this last theory re fceived some substantiation from an Aber
deen cabby, who informed the police that a month or two before the discovery he had taken two dark-eyed, Italian-looking gents to and from Dunecht, and that they had questioned him about the mansion and the vault. But, alas for romance!
Some months later the Earl's body, rolled in a blanket, was found in a hedge-hole near the bouse, and suspicion fell, not on any dark-eyed stranger, but on`a keenl vermin-killer named Soutar. Soutae' ad- mitted having written anonymous letters about the outrage, but strenuously denied being the perpetrator. He was found guilty, nevertheless, and sentenced to ve years, at the end of which time he non- chalantly returned to his vermin-killing, dying recently at a ripe old age. 4 BARRIE LOVE LETTER.
Miss Haldane has written a book about her mother that well-known "Scotswoman, Ms. Haldane of Cloan, who died a few months ago in her hundredth year, and among the many good things in the volume perhaps the gem is Sir James Barrie's self-described love letter. had visited Mrs. Haldane in 1924, and he afterwards wrote to her as follows
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EDINBURG, December 9th It is soothing to a maligned nation to see Arnold Bennett denying in 3 Sunday Pictorial article that Statsmen are really mean He regards the libellons label as on ingealous method of advertising our selves for nothing, and, though he him self protests against the of the label, he admits that it will stick for ever. In every respect we agree with the novelist, The legend about our meanness is sound advertising, and we would be disobeying one of the principal articles in the creed of publicity if we did not encourage it i ourselves. It was
n. Lord Northolife dictum that the best advertising lay in being talked about; it did not matter whether you were reviled or praised, so long as someone said something about you Henry Ford was never angry at Ford car jokes; he gavouraged them by publishing the latest ones regularly in a monthly periodical emanating from the
Dear Mrs. Haldane, You have a Detroit works. Harry Lauder never personality if ever any one had. I lenies the personal bel of parsimony.
never thought to see the way when I could be in a house with the Lord Chan he is always ready to stress to an inter-cellor without thinking Eim the dominant viewer the popular conception of himself, figure (and Miss Haldane is pretty good because he knows the value of such you Bowl them over. I believe I went at personality also), but I tell you plain advertising. That is also why the best drive with her and a walk with him. Aberdeen stories are coited in the Granite rod); and in my memory Oloan consists but you swallowed them up (Aaron's City. As a nation we collect the results of you. I see you vividly knitting that of such advertising daily Before the looking the dearest person I have seen
shaw! (to which my compliments) and, echo of the Premier's St. Andrew's Night for years and years. You really do make words praising our frugality has died more hopeful about the world. Some of the intruder into that serene room fecl down Arnold Bennett says flattering the loveliest lines in English poetry are things about us-and so the, good, work very like you.. It would not be bad to goes on. Should we not be really sorry call you an ode to immortality. it the meanness libel against us were gilenced for evert Ireland has done its best to kill the absurdity of the stage Irishman. Wigan has done iss utmost to destroy the music-ball jokes that rises above that place. But bave we not a shrewdness that rises above travesty?' We know quite well that the Scottish, regard for the bawbees is magnified out of all proportion. But we know that there is a modieum of truth in the libel. and we further know the wonderful pub licity qualities that lie in exaggeration So, let them say..
A GREAT CURLING BONSPIEL
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course, I am using strong language, but this is frankly a love letter. I know a great deal more about your son now. I home. My love to all at Clean, and know, for instance, who is his spiritual graters, as the schoolboys say, to myself for having been there."
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Bro. Field-Marshal the Right Hon. the Earl Haig. K.T., has been installed Right Worshipful Master of Elgin's Lodge at Leveu, No. 81. Tan lodge is a venerable one, Laving been founded so long ago as 1763, and, in accepting office as its Master, Earl Baig is following in the foot-steps of his father, the late Mr. John Haig, of Cameron Bridge, and of his brother. And all the lochs are covered with ice the late Mr. Hugh Veitch Haiz, gf and skaters and curlers are holding the Ramornie. Earl Haig was initiated in the great open air carnival of the winter sea lodge a good many years ago, but the son. Curling Bonspiels are being played fullment of his military and other duties all over Scotland, and so severe has been prevented his completing his degrees until the frost that the great national match February of last year. The installation between the North of Scotland and the ceremony was performed by Bro, the South was played on Carsebreck Loch in Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin and Kin Perthshire for the first time in thirteen cardine, C.M.G., Past Grand Master years, and the contest resulted in a win Mason of Scotland, Provincial Grand i for the North by 223 shots.. All classes Master of Fife and Kinross." and all ages took part in the bonspiel: the average years of the players in one A CURLING STORY.
of the Dankeld rinks was 69, there is no. Here is a tale of curlers that comes age limit for a curler. Not being an all from Castle-Douglas with the statement season sport curling attracts sportsmen that it bears the ball-mark of truth. The from many other games. On the ice thero Inda of the village were having a day on " was seen Mr. J. M. Dykes, of the Scot the ice and had made arrangements with tish Rugby Union; Messa Gordon Lock, a local baker to send them up a big steak hart and Joe Anderson, of goif fame; and pie for their mid-day meal. The pie duly many Sgures familiar in other fields of arrived--a noble specimen, and very hot. sport. Baile Robin Welsh, the president The fun was fast and furious just then, of the Scottish Rugby Unico, who is one and a stoppage of play was not to be of the keenest of the Edinburgh curlers, thought of. One of the skips told the was ably assisted in his rink by Mrs messenger to "put the pie, at the edge Welsh, the latter exhibiting quite as much of the pond and cover it with costs to skill in propelling the stones over the jee keep it hot" When the curlers had as abe is accustomed to show in sending mished their game they gathered round tennis balls over the net. Several other the pile of coats: On raising them no pie ladies took part in the play, and although was seen-but there was a nice clean bole the granite stones are not by any means in the ice (which was very thin at that light, they wielded them with more pe part) exactly the shape of the pie-dish. parent "case than the, c. The skips And then it was the roarin' game indeed. were not quite easy about the women-
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AN OLD SCOTTISE MYSTERY.
The Society wedding of the mouth, that of Lord Balncil and Lady Mary Caven dish, recalls a tremendous scrsation of the early eighties the acrilegious enter. ing of the mausoleum at Dunecht, near Aberdeen, and the stealing of the body of the Earl of Crawford and Balearres, great-great-grandfather of the bride groom. On a bleak December zuorning forty-four years ago an estate worker observed that a slab over the staircase leading to the vault had been removed. Police officers sent to investigate made a shocking, discovery. On descending the stair they found that, not only had the coffin of the Earl been rudely hauled from the recess on which it had lain for exact
The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, stated in the House of Commone Iust month that "the application of the iron Zag steel trades for the appointment or is committee under the Saxeguarding of Industries procedure was referred to the Committee on Civil Research, and its report had been received by the Cabinet.
The committee had heard a large num ber of witnesses representing both the employers and the employees engaged in the iron and steel and allied trades. The evidence showed that foreign com petition, aided by long hours and low wages and depreciated currency, had been severely felt by the manufacturers, and had the Government been able to deal with the iron and steel industry in isolation they might have regarded the case for an enquiry as completo.
tariff.
It became clear, however, in the course of these investigations that the safe guarding of basic industries of this magnitude would have a repercussion of a far wider character which might be held to be in conflict with the Govern- ly a year, but that its body had vanished ment's declaration in regard to a general from the vault. During the subsequent search for the vandals who had stolen it controversy raged, of course, as to then all the circumstances the Goverti motives for the ghoulish deed. Some ment had come to the conclusion that suggested revenge-a theory quickly dis the application could not be granted, counted, however, as the Earl had been although the Government would keep this á model landlord; others suggested that industry under close observation with a the thieves were simply out to get ran view to promoting its well-being. som from the relatives for the return of It was hoped that the loan for railway the body; while not a few scented dark development in East Africa recently ap romance from the fact that the Earl had proved would be found helpful, and fur- died in Italy and that his body bad beenther similar projects were, ander 200- embalmed by a Florentine physician.sideration.
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