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Rugby'service will be the fact that the steamers on the Australian run will be no longer dependent on the news from the German station at Nauen, which hitherto
merely acting from a deep sense of man's humanity to man. The proposed..competition should do good in laying down" true" prin- } ciples of greatness:
Great, not like Caesar, stained
with blood
and removing the subject as far ns possible from the scene of warring conduct to the conflict of everyday life.
A Health Vision.
There was formed last month in London the New Health Society, whose glorious vision is a Britain without disease. It sounds Utopian, indeed, but it is claimed in all seriousness that drugs and operations will vanish if the new
WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 20, 1926,
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
January, 1926,
jamin Franklin born, 1706. 19, Tues. John Howard died,
1790,
A CALENDAR 18, Mon.,
northern parts of Scotland by the Ben-mountain peasantry. A number of young lads and lasses meeting together on the eve of St. Agnes at the hour of twelve, went one by cne to a certain cornfield, and threw in some grain, after which they pronounced the following
20, Wed., John Ruskin died, 1900. 21, Thurs., Henry Hallam, his-
torian, died, 1859, 22, Fri., Lord Byron born. 1788.' 23. Sat., William Pitt died, 1806. 24, Sun, Federation of Trade
Unions, 1899.
事
rhyme-
•
Agnes sweet and Agnes fair, Hither, hither now repair: Monny Agnes, let me see The lad who is to marry me.
The prayer was granted by their favourite saint. and the shadow. of the destined bride or bride- He belonged to groom was seen in a mirror an this 'vory night.
L1
The value of the
health principles prevail; the JOHN RUSKIN. the century golden age of health will dawn.
which he just Medical men will be reassured lasted out, did Ruskin, and the THAT TREATY. Cinemas, as a re- when they are told that their services will still be required; but clever people of to-day say that he
corder of his- the supreme test will be the pre-is old-fashioned. Very modern torical acts, is shown by the pic- yention of illness. not caring it. artists laugh at his teaching, and tures of the signing of the has its way-will be the keepers theories are unsound. Doctors in future-if the Society economists 'telli
Locarno pact at the Foreign 1:3 that hist Office. London. Future genera-
of the public health, not merely curers of the people's sickness.
diet is
*
*
tions will be able to see what our presend political leaders looked like on an occasion of great inter- est. The Queen's Theatre should
during the screening of this brief ceremony,
There once was f
CHARACTER. betli,
has outdistanced Leafield by thou The panacea is all a matter of Yet Ruskin had an influence Overland China Mail.sands of miles. The head of the it and healthy living. There which was profound not only in have been pred to the doors."
Post Office Radio Department, in the four points of which are his own time, but which stil a statement, said the Rugby increased milk consumption, counts. Himself no Democrat, transmission, would soon be in greater consumption of fruithe yes influenced Democrats more public service, and the wireless more green leaf vegetables, and than perhaps any other writer, SHAKESPEARE King named Mac-
the whole cereal-the non-machine would then supersede the cable for milled material that retains its "nto This Last" still has the| ordinary communications around husk and its germ. None of these power to stir the noble emotions the world Sir Robert Donald, four points is novel or fresh. It of generous youth. writing in the "Daily Telegraph."must be over thirty years since a prominent medical man at Home states that, the range-testing stage published the results of feeding There is a wonderful magic in has been reached at Rugby wire one dog on white bread and his prose, and he owes much of his less station, which, early in the another on brown bread for three influence to his word pictures and months, at the end of which period new year, will be sending me sages to reach every ship on the a bag of bones and the "brown-But he counts most for his mes- THE STREET." phrase, sever seus and the remotest corner brend dog" a picture of good
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GREAT.
A better King never drew breath;
The faults of his life. Were all due to his wife, The notorious Lady Macbeth,
What
the white bread dog" was merely his long. rhythmical sentences.THE MAN IN origin is the
4
of the
The
man in the street." and in what connection
was it Arst used? The phrase The man in the street" is usually This night was attributed to Emerson, who uses JANUARY 20; formerly much the phrase frequently, but the..
expression was.. undoubtedly before his time. The ST. AGNES EVE: ventured by used
young maidens earliest quotation. of .it who wished to know when and by in the large Oxford Dictionary is whom they should marry, It was dated 1831 (from the Creville, required that on this day they Memoirs), the context being as should not eat, which was called follows: The other side affirms fasting St. Agnes fast." Keats that the King will not consent to entirely praiseworthy; but, even has made this custom the subject it, knowing, as the man in the as it is one thing to take a horse of one of his poema. Formerly street' (as we call him at New- to the well and another thing to on the eve of St. Agnes' Day the market) always does, the greatest make it drink, so if is one thing following custom was, and secrets of kings." It was evid-. to preach the doctrine of the perchance still is observed in the Fently a common phrase in 1831. simple diet and quite another thing to induce the populace to practise what is preached.
· LOCAL IMPORTS.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT.
In
GAELIC WRATH.
the good old times many things of great interest were wont
fervour
of the Dominions. These are nourishment. More recently, with sage against ugliness and against indeed notable facts. "For in addi-the aid of the music hall and the wrong. tion to the boon Rugby's wonder ramophone, the "eat more fruit' propaganda has created a great Hongkong, Wednesday. Jun. 20, 1928.station will represent to Britons deal of public interest. Still, the In all parts of the world as giving New Health Society is not con- them daily news from the Home-demnatory of meat; nor does it proclaim that. nuts are the only land, there has been no greater foed. Its aim is to take some single step taken towards knitting thing out of the enormous variety the far-flung, lands of the Empire of foods that are accessible, from into one great commonwealth. which can be put together a diet meddling through. Their custom Hereafter the Empire will be perfectly adequate. All this is seems to be to allow the rest of joined, not only by ties of kinship the world to gain the start and and loyalty, but also by the actual then, awaking to the fact that contact of continuous communica- they have been left behind, to uion, which no doubt, in due forge ahead and pass all rivals. course, will be by medium of the This has happened so often now spoken word. When that has that it ceases to excite any şûr come space has ceased to count. prise. Thus the big strides that Britain has just made in the wire- Jess world leave us cokt. None
parishes outside his own, convicts the less they are worthy of note.
him of "curious Ill-breedings," and From a London despatch we learn
to happen "north of the Highland changes the target for a shot at that amazing success has attended Who are the twelve figures in
line." says the "Daily Telegraph." "the innate quarrelsomeness of the official tests of Rugby's huge human history most worthy of
The dull Saxon, who had supposed Presbyterians" wheresoever they remembrance As the world's wireless station. The first tria!!
Extracts from the chapter on that the blood of the Gael coursed, are found. Coming back to the greatest heroes? This question was in broad daylight and the would tax the oldest, yet it is to imports, in the fortnightly report with less effervescence nowadays, minister. His Grace "intends to (on January 15) of the Hongkong results were most gratifying. be given to school children to General Chamber of Commerce must learn that his feuds and his have religious peace throughout America advised that the Rugby decide. "Prizes are to be awarded
read:-
are still lively enough, the marches of his lordship," and signals came through extremely historic characters deemed most for the best essays on the dozen
IMPORTS PRICES CURRENT. The news of a recent flurry about will set that divine "certain pen- well, and were easily ten times deserving of being placed in the The figures are published as Inveraray teils of as pretty ances to do." The minister is not stronger than those from Leafield, itategory of the great. The supplied by Importers and the quarrel as a man need want. The of those, who turn the other cheek. which hitherto was Britain's best schools of the world, if the scheme Chamber cannot accept respon-protagonista are The MacCallein He begins with a sprightly refer-
matures, should be busy in the sibility for the accuracy thereof. The report from Southcoming spring.
Mor and the minister of Inyerence to one of those little affairs In the effort to Cotton Piere Goods and Fancy Africa said Rugby was easily the make a case for their heroes; the Cotton Goods:The market re- chaplain, and that, simple fact about which the enemies of the most distinct station in Europe, youthful judges are expected to mains virtually unchanged with throws glamour over the whole Clan Campbell have always been to little or no new business in either affair. It began about 肆 font unpleasant, the Lamont "incident, Since then the test signals have ive special consideration
nobility of character, fearless Greys. Whites or Fancies. Both
which wax missing from the He goes on to ce facetious about ranged over the whole 24 hours, and self-sacrificing devotion to a descriptions of cotton shew an parish church of Cairndow. How discretion and volour, and laments and the officials were delighted to great cause, and constructive upward tendency. Latest quota- learn that predawn signals were work for humanity of a perman- tions to hand from Liverpool are churches lose fonts we are not to the difficulty of explaining things picked up with amazing clarity in en nature. Pupils, and teachers those of January 14, 1.e., Mid. Am. inquire. This is a story of life in "to one to whom Provdence has Fulike throughout the world 10.80 "Spot," Eg. Sakel. 18.56d. the Highlands. Rumour with not granted a humorous mind." Australia and New Zealand. The are thus to be stimulated to a latter an advance of over 2d per success was all the more surpris- fresh uppraisal of the elements pound on lowest point touched on many tongues said that Cairndow's That we must pronounce an error font had somehow got into the in tactics. The minister ought ing because only half of the 12 of greatness. The worlds' men! December 23, 1925.
and women who have reflected Cotton Yarn:The situation is Episcopal church of Inveraray. not to have said anything about this quality are to become the practically unchanged, and dealers bewildering array of three miles familiars, through research, of are still holding aloof from the The insinuation we humbly con-humour. But when he really gets
Nominal quotations ceive to be that the Episcopalians going he is admirable. of aerials were in use. The re-the boys and girls and their market.
No. "conveyed it. At this the Duke style: "Gone happily are the days Idenis are are:-No. 10s. $175/195. mainder of the aerials at present peadagogical guides.
a Campbell: sheriff, tt to be awakened or revised, and 128. $190/98, No. 168. $205/210 of Argyll arose in his wrath and when are being devoted to two-way the young peoples will declare No. 208. $210/216. Arrivals 600 telephony tests to America, as a what, in their opinion, is the bales. Shipments nil. Sales ail, wrote to the papers, and if we un-Campbell jury, and a Campbell Unsold stock 4,500 bales. Bar- derstand him, of which we feel no prosecutor, a Carapbell. chaplain, result of which, it is hoped, a character or the achievement
gains 3,800 bales.
confidence, he said that the font and a Campbell hangman, in a London subscriber soon will be most worthy of emulation, and the!
Woollens --Nothing to report of the Episcopalians was a font Campbell court, could further the able to call up a number in New process of imitation will receive a
new, impulse; for youth,
Raw Cottons:No sales to re which had been lying about in the polley and glut the vengeance of a York. Meanwhile it is thought indeed, maturity, though possibly port.
Metals: Spot business stag-
ducal shrubbery whither it had Campbell chieftain"; there is no limit to the Rugby not so vividly, visions itself in the nant, with few enquiries for acme from the old parish church Minister appeals to the avenging station's possibilities for swiftlikeness of that which it most ward Flour Market Report of Klimallow. Why any font shades of Lamont and MacDonald, and accurate wireless transmis. admires, and consciously or un-Stock: About 350.000 sacks. should walk into a shrubbery, even MacDougal and MacLean.
consciously moves towards that Market easier on account of sion throughout the world. It is ideal.
We sincerely trust Hong smaller demand from outports. though it be the shrubbery of teem to hear his reverend voice revealed that the secret of the long will be invited to take part Quotations: American Patent, MacCullein Mor, we vainly specu-chuckling success achieved is the creation in the competition. The names of $4.35
sack; American late. In the course of this fas another good of master oscillator, produced by religious founders, as well as Straight, $3.60 per sack; Ameri- cinating explanation something Campbella "Man, am I no a bonny
names of persons now living, are can Cut off, $8.60 per sack; was the British Post Office's Research to be excluded from the competi- Shanghai Flour, $3.56 per sack Inverchaolain, What he had to do
said about the minister of fighter?" Department, whereby the wave tion. Some may wonder how Australian No. 1, $3.60 per sack; length keeps its own path, and much of true greatness is to be Canadian Cut-off, $3.20 per sack with it, or how he came into it,
Sundries:Market quiet. Very remains
The Hague, Jan, 8-According overcomes the atmospheres. This found in the annals of all peoples is especially important in the case and perioda apart from the little movement of local stocks on
Etruscan.
But having got in, the to the Detering plan, teachers of element of deep religious convic account of restricted exporta of traffic to Australia, and it is tion. Many objects of
Java an
reverend gentlemansen, the lower and higher schools in Sugar: Market quiet
Holland will make a triples Ugland:IWAMAR, KUANG considered that it will permit of ameliorative and uplifting nature and/or very quiet...
may say so, to enjoy himself the Dutch East Indies in the Ex-director ships being in constant touch with have emanated from a purely Philippine and Hoihow Sugar, thoroughly. The Dake and the course of this year. the Rugby station from any point religious feeling: but many of the Singapore Candy:-Market very minister have been blazing away dustry, has been sentenced to Philips, of the Dutch tobacco in- of Australia, and also continuously engaged in such things, whilst
world's best and purest are quiet,
in a mutual bombardment of great that
masts
and only half of the
and
per
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mysterious
ag
Et
In this.
and tho
We
like
Alan Breck's hater of the
on the voyage en route to London. disowning any of the recognised 11,000 bags. Market remains fury. The Duke complains fierce served for himself, 800 shares at One of the great advantages of the orthodox religious beliefs, and very dull since last report.
of the minister's meddling in lower price,
£2
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