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of the Atlantio Iner Victorian has been watched wi' more than ordinary interest, no' only be- cause of her precious cargo (newspaper proprietors and editors bound for the Im- parial Press Conference Ottawa) but because of the Įdemonstrations given on board [of the conveniences which, thanks to wireless telephony, may now attend ocean trával.
Of course it'll take some time yet for that sart of thing to catch
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talk in mid-ocean wi friends you've left behind, to ask them
to be sure and sind on the wife's Cream
best back comb she left in the right hand bottom drawer of the
bedroomdresserand, when they're Picnic
at it, no to forget the razor strop you left yourself hanging at the back of the bathroom door, as well as wee Jeania's second best pair of sand shoes left under the hallstand: to listen to concerts and let them listen to yours; and what you said to the captain about the weather and the parser | about the wee gladstone hag: that's amissing; to dictate edit orial policy and make the Gov- eznment tremble just when it was congratulating itself at hav ing got rid of you for at least a week or two-this is a bit arrest- ing to say the least of it, even in these days when folks are no sa easily surprised at anything.
But on telephone falk weLe quening. They couldna have chosen a better time to show of the capabilities of their invention. Look at the free advertisement, eh? No penny to pay either and all the Way chance Di being believed into the bargain.
more
We're in the midst of miracles Ja: Lourdes again. A batch of Scottish pilgums bave just come back and as usual a few of the lame bave left their stilts and such-like behind. Cured, age, so they say.
Miracles at Lourdes, bogus DT true, might be all very well as a kirk advertisement long ago or even to-day, for that matter, but wi' sickness benefit, workmen's compensation, and the dripping roast of insurance, there are thousands of folk, Protestants, Catholics and even agnostics. who, if they were cured, would have more sense than let on
la tax on the press. I can mind To my father once telling me that he could remember the day wher be had to pay sixpence-ball-about it.
penny for his paper. An ordinary I had a crack wit our Doctor
letter in those times. to London, abou: Lourdes the other day. He
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for instange, cost as much as belongs to the old school. None surplus profit of something like one and threepence. Sagar then of your fancy diseases for him. £66,000,000 after a year's working 4th August. 1929.
cost tenpence a pound but we can He calls a sore inside by another of the mines and they can't see beat that price to-day. "A yacht race," says he, But as I was saying about the name and ye needna" zak him to eye to eye wi' the Government. When baby is cross and sleep (
come back twice if there's little regarding the disposal of this less there is something wrong like son se had last week, is papers, when the tax was rea used the matter wi se. He's good at sam. It's been extreme and the little one is taking the more vexatious nor a funeral. there was in consequence a great saving a body from the brink of difficulty that the miners have only means he has of telling it. Perfect conditions has never expansion of journalism. No the grave bus feckless at pres-gossen the truth squeezed at las: Under such circumstances" "the been attained, and never will reporting, mind ses journalism, cribing when its a case of freckles out of the Government as to this temptation to administer a sleep- There's either too little wind or Reporting bits of snippets in the
figure, but as the profits would of ing draught, of opiate of some for an ingrown toenail. too muckle and,if the wind's all news line came into vogue at a Lourdes Well", said he, "well.fcourse have to appear in the kind, is often great, but don't do it right then the sea's all wrong. later date still. Well, as I was it might be well but we've got a national balance sheet in an unless expressly ordered by a And if there's a finish at all, as about to say, there's no doubt that weil here that's no far short of itcase, the truth can no longer be competent doctor who has seen like a no nobody knows for all this was for the good of the when it comes to securing, if no hidden. You see it works this the child. Instead give him) certain if there's been a race le:mation, for the average news perennial youth and freedom way. The Government took over Baby's Own Tablets, which are alone who's woo, and if they did paper is a public service and from all the ills that flesh is beirthe mines. The surplus profits
guaranteed to contain no opiates; Inow then someone else is sure being musi contribute to the
16. at least a fairly reliable are to go to the Exchequer they send the child to sleep sim- to prove that the result is all cational intelligence. Now a new protection against the feck on the spring the price of coal ply because they remove the wrong. D'se tell me it's worth tax is going on newspapers. The
was upped, the rise being required causes of his sleeplessness and man's while spending a hunner halfpeing postage is going of. You mean the well at the to ensure the State is fair share make him feel good and com- tboosand to lift a cup jigaring. As everybody abroad knows the back of the hill" "The very of Excess Profits Day. Now
fortable. ing between and around two of newspaper post is of considerable samt. says be. An excellent according to that is means that
"My baby was not feeling well three mark boats in sight o' each importance. This applies wit spring says he in his best the Government upped the price and was cross and troublesome, other?
Man I've seen better equal force to those who dwell in English style" for those addicted of coal in order to provide funds I gave her several doses of racing in Hongkong Harbour remote places even in this coun- to wells and ills. Let me for itself to taX. Now as a con- Baby's Own Tablets and they did atween the Sugar hoose and try. Except the friendly letter inform you sir, that the water sumer this doesn't appeal to me her so much good that I would Stonecuttery. No! Stick the there can be no better link wi' the there is hepatic or sulphurous at all. What I say is that this not be without them for many flaming Cup on the Mull o'
homeland than the local journal and has moreover, a peculiar £66,000,000 aught never to have times the amount they cost. I Kintire and let them gang bell Take MacPherson now and his empyreumatic odour, somewhat been within the reach of either strongly advise every mother to for leather after it frap Sandy Lennot Herehd. Yonder in Hong-nauseous it is true but palatable be miners or the Government give them a fair trial," writes Hook,"
Rong, he'd be fair loss without iteren to the most delicate.
but if it is now used to reduce the Mrs. F. Emery, of 8 Barclay
them.
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Aye. Mac WZA filed right | It would be worse than parting) Now what more could you price of coal (which never ought Place Grand Rapids, Mich. enough sad no wonder, consideri sa ere tooth for him to miss wint than that? I looked at him to have risen) it will do a lot USA ing the money he must have spent it. Births and Deaths, Crops and sitting there in the gig wi. a face towards strengthening the hands Baby's Own Tablets are a re on newspapers watching out for Corpses, sprees and water work the result: But mind ye. I believe rips; their recital, even in coli on him as serious as a halfin boy of the Governmens if the minersmedy for simple fever. indiges |
at first communion.
down tools on a, parely wagestion. constipation, colic. diar- Aye," says 1, "what you mean claim. In any case the moneyrhoea. They make teething easy doctor is that the water round doesn't belong to the miners and destroy worms. Of chemists, the hill is all right, provided you they've already had their whack, It belongs entirely to the con- hold your nose."
sumer-the sufferer. first, always and last. No wonder there's Bolshevism in the world to-day.
there's something in his idea for print, all help to strengthen the the next Cop-lifting competition frail cord that binds us to home. after all. I said as much to him. I went further, I suggested his
writing to Lipton about it. But
be only glowered at me.
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Well, let that be as it may, I see anyway that a deputation bas. waited on Mr. Pease the Assist-on. ant Postmaster-General. A man
The weather? Hoh I see of hard. official mind
from last night's paper that a
yor.
Exactly," said he, and drove
Mind ye, I never heard of our well causing a stir in the miracle
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The storm in Ireland is still blowing gathering force every day. Next week we are promised De Coercion Bill-for that's
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Again appealed to on behalf of line but many a time as a laddie I see though that there's some man down England way was the press, (small."p" please or on a warm day I've had a drink folk wit sense left in the country. charged wi'being drunk and what's they'll maybe think I'm referring there. It is round such spots The seamen have lately been what I take it it will be. It'll more forbys, the policeman in the to the H.K. Daily Press), he said that towns have spring up wi' voting on the question whether mean martial law for Ireland. case gave it out that he spent the
shipping should in Parliament, just the other day, their fancy waters, medicsted British
be They'll never.cure Ireland wi previous night walking round, is
that it was quite unreasonable baths, electrical treatment, expen-nationalised and though it'll be shooting an overdose of lead in a circle carsing the weather. He
that folks should bave their sire hotels foarflashing some time yet before the final any system never was fired for drunkenness. Ag
newspapers carried at other doctors. Our well water certainly figures are out, there seems no clearer thinking. That these Sin regards the weather, the Magis folks expense. Exactly: but won't remove corns, or make hair doubt but that they're going to Fiend murderers must be punish- frate maybe badna' the heart to
see where each an argument grow on a bald bead let alone prefer private enterprise to the ed there can be no doubt but wa interfere.
generally applied could take us. fix up instanter a burst ankle or national boss. Now in their case cannot hope to rule Ireland wi Why maintain public libraries broken limb, but for all that, they've had something to go on the machine gun. Laws have no and art galleries for some folks granted sufficent faith and a not for already they've had a touch of strength except by recognition by at the expense of other people over particolar nose. I believe is the national way and gaided by the people. It's statesmanship Why keep up maseams instead to be as good in its humble way experience they're cast their we need, no sandbags and of music-balls, public gardens as most of the wells, spas and votes wi a view solely to their pickets. There's no doubt what instead of picture-bouses, and places three parts round the globe. own interests. I don't blame them. ever that our Government is They're evidently convinced that weak. One man canna be ex-
Our minister said yesterday that he saw a swallow flying over -Hill. I gather from this
that winter must be nearly over.
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I was glad to hear that you were getting the Weekly Scots- nur regular. Aye, a fine papar Let me tell you this, written Once more the miners have the shipowner is a better empeoled to settle the differences of at the price papers are to-day, on another anniversary of the issued a solemn warming to the ployer than the State. Truly the world unaided: Lloyd George But wind ye, postage on papers Great War, that the same war Government. A strike is threaten-we're getting on. If the salient is awash to the backteeth wi will be going op soon. Now that has pushed us into an age of ed once the cooler weather comes truths that economists have been trouble as it is. A little more
State sort of thing is very apt to make selfishness and
or any in and it would seem that this preaching for months past are and he'll drowned a difference in more ways than other kind o altruism is now a time the men mean business, beginning to sink in, then there's one. Years ago there used to be thing of the past.
They say that there will be a hope yet for the working classes.
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