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SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Flation between division in one! party, and failure, on the one hand, and unity in one party and success, on the other hand, la against logic. If the current. Australian Labour triumphs pave the way, as they should, to greater co-operation among interests A "MAROOT" impressions and re- opposed to Socialistic govern- ment, they will be no unmixed evil from the Nationalist point of
view.
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A THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY,
**Whatsoever things are pure, what sveter things ara lovely, ..think on these things."
.When St. Paul wrote to the Christians in Philippi to hearten them under their double burden of
STony.
The latest sheaf of
"My husband FLASHES FROM good out, like
collections" by the THE FOPLMETS. & lion and comes
Countess of Oxford
in like a lamb."
"He's trying to kill himself and
is full of good things. But there is ong story which has never been seen in priut which should not be the bread-knife won't cut any. lost, for it is a sparkling example thing 1" of Mrs. Asquith's natural gift for repartee..
The incident happened at a din- ner presided over by Sir Henry Luan, and the conversation turned to the pursuit of the world's glit tering prizes,"
Mrs. Asquith had given her views, when a Bishop at her side remark
mamMOB.
poverty and persecution, it is signied, somewhat sententiously: Rennt that he should have exhorted "But we cannot serve God and them to dwell upon the pure,
"No?" Mr. Asquith retorted. beautiful things of life as a sort of antidote against their troubles.
"Well, at any rate, we all try!".
A barber's pole, a
fort
to signify that bleed.
For all who have ever put up a real fight against the umbing, burdening power of earthly sorrow BACK CHAT. daily reminds us, sed and adversity, know well the com
and inspiration that can being was done on the premises. drawn from these things. It was Lawyers, however, bave never been not for nothing that we were told allowed to advertise. to consider the lilies. The Christ whose incarnate life was fail of sorrow suffering, hardship, from beginning to end, was conthiually looking away at the loveliness of earth and sky, drawing from it all his finest imagery; and most of us, in our little way, come sooner
F-
What is a good secretary?'' have every opportunity of grum», "A fellow who sees that members
bling, but no cause,'
"
"He's a and case. Ha's the kind of young man to whom it is absolute- y essential that someone leaves £6,000, & your
*
"What's a financier ?'' "A financier is a pawnbroker withi imagination.
"He's gone to America."
What's America, done?"
From "Irie,"
"I'm sure this place is full of re burglars, and we won't be able to
seee them."
Explorers are flying to the North Pole. It won't be long now before
"Well, who wants to see them?" the tired business man will have to
From "Rose Marie." explain to his wife that he's. late for dinner because his plane was
Willesden Magie- delayed by fog, off the Greenland Police Count trete Are you Coast.
HUMOUR. guilty or not guilty? Accused: I have-
A dumb woman, found wandtering. inter to understand what these in Germany, was claimed by three n't had time to consult my solicitor precious things of God's material husbands. We should have expect. pet. creation can do for the human hearted a much longer queue than that...
A search is being made for the ham that his wife was always plac A husband complained at Totten- weighed down by grief or anguiah having in it often the very texture site of London a first post-office, ing before hint advertisemente, of Antiquarians are hopeful of finding apartments for husbands noxious For despair.
Is explaine something that is the original wrong number engraved to live as single men.""
otherwise unexplainable-Tow new. on the foundation stone, blown Bower, or green spray, or
wild bird's song at dawn, even
VEIN.
Solicitor at Willesden: I wish to
The verbal instruc. withdraw the summons, on the ground that the money has been Lord Fisher paid. Admiral Sturdee for ' Clerk: And very good ground,
when only reproduced in loving IS THE FISHER tions given by words upon the printed page, have such giamorous attraction for fives: that seem spiritually the most hope. the naval engagement which was less. It is that what we call the the admiral's chief active achieve beauties of nature is just God giving ment are believed to have been a usa glimpse-doubtless as much as record for brevity, though quite in The story went can beer-of sheer ultimate the Fisher vein. Perfection in a world that, as that Fisher sent for Sturdea, and whole, is obviously, bewilderingly, said: "You can have and
(numing the battle cruisers). imperfect in so many ways. and get von Spee. I don't want
see you again till you've done it." And he didn't:
We
TO BE FLOGGED ?
INTIMIDATOR AND HOUSE BOY.
Go
to
Mathematicians may COMPRESSED Welcome the chance
too.
Man answering a summons at Wood Green for using bad lan-
guage: "It was after I had taken sedative for neuritis. I never use bad language at other times."
Patrick McCarthy, charged at Willesden with being helplessly strike. I was tired at walking, so drunk: "It was all owing to the I look a little whisky to help me.co my way, and it didn't.' He was fined 5.
of you two women is speaking the "We are unable to decide which SPELLING, to calculate the truth, so we will bind both of you waste of newspaper over to keep the peace."-Magis space with unnecessary letters of trate at Tottenham. the alphabet. Dr. S. Levin, was pioneer of "The Orthography of the magistrates at Onger-Police- An old lady asked the advice of Commonsense, has discovered Court on the ground that s neigh- that one daily paper may make hour had called her a baliy" some- attempted to intimidate the loyal N in a year of 45 millions thing-or-other, and she wished to house boy employed by Mr. "Kid" of superfluous signs. He estim- know the meaning of the word.
To'. C..4702
A
Chinese. watchman yesterday convicted at the Kow loon Magistracy of
having
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court.
| hours or so, know that there is a Marriott and the Magistrate, Mr. ates that, the whole of the The chairman smilingly replied the to be wastes 200 million pounds sterling but he was not prepared to explain taken against the punishment to every year, without counting what it meant-especially in open be meted out to the man until he readers' lost time. had taken the opinion of the Attorney General regarding the application of the powers of flog- passed emergency measures. ging given under the recently
said about it. After all, their dities do not oblige them to work like navvies clearing debris away, to lower themselves into openings which may or may not provide sufficient support for them, and generally to work at the highest- tension for as long as it is humanly possible to do so. That is what
our firemen and police have been doing, and although in proportion to the numbers buried the rescued may seem smull, they represent all that human efort could accomplish, and those who have seen the ter rible task with which they were faced must have marveled that any- one nt, all should have been taken
ative from such a colossal heap of
the complainant.
There was the corroboration of
der
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should
is
THE TURF LIBEL CASE.
action
As regarded the actual offence the defendant's excuse was that
Fools bring libel actions in or assert the truth of the words com he was asked by another man if
that lawyer may live plained of in his defence. All that' he had seen the complainant and
comfort, Comments & writer is required for the defendant, if he was merely telling the latter that such enquiry was being made for in
the "Outlook:"
"Nobody desires to launch this attack against him at the time of the alleged in libel except the Angel Gabriel" notice before the trial to the plain-
bring an
for the plaintiff, is to give seven days' timidation.
Buying The complainant denied this Mr. Justice Darling. Somebody relied upon for the attack.
attributed, to tiff, with particulars of the matters and said that he had never seen qualified it by adding and then is the weapon employed, to reduce This the man before until by threats he only if the Angel Gabriel retaine the damages to that contemptible endeavoured to get him to leave Sir Edward Curson." The wealth battle coin known as a farthing. his employment.
of sense lying beneath the surface No case has been tried in recent His Worship said that He of there jesta is well understood by times where & more inconsistent or entirely believed the evidence of lawyers,
unreasonable verdict bas been There is no legal action whose given than in the Turf libel action Mr Marriott, who had said that apparent simplicity is so insulting of last week. The defendants, by to the meanest intelligence as an their defence, admitted that there when he saw his boy he Was action for libel. It seems so simple was no truth in the statements obviously frightened. Complain-for the lay mind to understand; made in the words complained of ant was further given an excellent whereas, in resiity, there is no in the libei. Therefore, the only character by his employer be done, and that the workers will
more complex and complicated or questions for the jury to decide Although the Rev. G. R. continue their unsparing efforts so Lindsay had spoken in the defen-decisione in a libel case where one how much damagen? As it seemed deal for a jury than to give proper were (1) Was it a libel? (2) If so, long as there is the slightest pos.dant's favour, that evidence, when or more defences are set up. obvious to the jury and others. that
analysed, was merely that Rev. xibility of further success attending Lindsay had obtained for him his. It is for the judge to say whether the words constituted a libel, the the words complained o: are cap judge's summing-up might have position as a watchman and hadable of constituting a libel; it is for copied the shortest summing-up on heard that he was progressing the jury to say whether they do so record (that of Mr. Justice Haw. satisfactorily. This latter state- ment was not, however, evidence.
This is only the pre in fact. liminary step. If a defence of examination of the plaintiffs to die, The defendant had further made a statement which Was not corroborated
debris, To those who have re- latives there still unaccounted for little hope must now be held out. but much as it is, the consolation is theirs that all was done that could
them.
It is a well-known psychological fact that weakness and helplessness Virtue in Defcal. in others appeal to all that is best
kius), Gentlemen; how much?"
Moreover, there was no cross- 'fair comment' is relied on, the
credit them jury must decide what is fair,
in mitigation of whether there is malice, for if so, for there was nothing discreditable damages. Indeed, there could not be, no comment can be "fair." Then
Purefoy, the question
Briges, what is upon which Messts. matice, which might well perplex Bendir could have been successfully Harper, and Beasley or Mrs. the joint minds of Aristotle and Spinoza.
attacked. Yet, the jury found that the "words" were libellous, and If the defence is one of justifica assessed the damages at a farthing
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do anti-Labour Administrations 30-32, Des Voeux Road, C. occasion requires is shown by the reign. In five Australian States urdered to be expelled from the Shanghai, July 17-Dosser was 0000000000000000000000 splendid responses which are the Socialists hold the keys to the International Settlement as an un- always made to appeals for volun- Treasury. Why? Labour, of desirable by Magistrato Zou and teers when terrible disasters visit course, claims that such success is the British Assessor at the fixed tion, the jury must decide whether A verdict for the defendante would particular localities and there are due to the worth of its legislative Court to-day, The charge of pouses the words complained of are true have been more intelligible, and programmes. Political beliefsion of inflammatory literature of a or not. If they are true, & verdict better for the plaintiffs, for such a human beings in dire distress and does not always accord with nature tending to cause a breach of for the defondante if not, verdict would merely have meant peril who may be saved by the political fact and the assiduity the peace was dismissed. A stay of verdict for the plaintiff. The last that the words complained off, did efforts, of others. The local up with which Labour fans the execution of the sentence for a fort question for the jury is If the pot amount to delematon natten. plication is, of course, to the good flames of dissension in opponents night was granted on the applica- defences fail, how much damages But the stigma of farthing work which is being carried out in camps suggests that all Socialists tion of counsel for the defence, who for the plaintiff? There is no damages deals a more serious blow do not frown upon a close com-intimated that he might file an opstandard of assessment to guide the to the plaintiffs than the original connection with the collapse of panionship of Virtue and Guile.plication for a rebeating, in which jury no measuring rule by which liber itself. To sum up. It was houses near the disinfection station The results of the general elec. will raise the question of the the jury can give one hundred or a libel; there was no evidence in mitigation of damages; therefore in Chinese quarters in the Western tions in New South Wales and Court's authority to expel one thousand or five pounds,
Further, there is another weapon the damages could only have been part of the City. Most of the Tasmania may do much to clarify foreigners. The Court held that
writing the atmosphere before Federal piers of silk purong to be a little known to the by public. By Mr. Lloyd George is not
the sluman tua typewriter con- for... defendants to libel "actions" pubstantial manade Tescilers ure Aremen and p
police, and polling day. No anti-Socialist the cynic may possibly hold that elector can shut his eyes to the certificate issued to Dosser by the Order 96 (Bule 37) of the Supreme foolish so to bring a libel action this coming within the scope of fact that in every State where Russian Communist Party, was dence at the trial of any discredit did, would be enjoyable for every
Agitation Department of the Cours, the defendant can give evi sgainst Mrs. Asquith, whi it he their duties there is nothing further Labour rules dissension cracks authentic Bouter
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able things done by the plaintiff body except the plaintiff and de and can crom-examine plaintif as to fendant. I trust that he will not tion of damages. The defendant is not so foolish as to emulate the his character and past, in mitiga counder at libelous of me to my he
can do this even if He does not Angel Gabriel.
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