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SCOTTISH LETTER. THE LOCAL VETO STRUGGLE

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

September 19,

per cent, reduction of licenses, or tatal

sitles prohibition-buth

ave increasing The their efforts to influence, the voters. siguing of the requisition for a poll, which must contain 10 per cent, of the total electorate, is at present engaging all the In the" targe attention at the "drys,” vities, they say that the signatures are coming in satisfactorily, but the country

parishes are reported as lukewarm.

tending parties.

COUNTERATTACKS BY THE WETH."

By

AN HONOUR FROM THE POPK.

Lady Margaret MacRas, who“ is the Fecipient of a rate honour. from the Pape

the Cross pro-Ercetesia et Pontifice-is the only sister of Lord Bure. She takes

ABY inaster mariner, Facht as well as Major Colin Mackay, er husband, as Exon of the Yeomen of the Guard, has offcial residence' in Friary Court, St.

Jam Palace,

MEASURING EMOTIONS IN GOLF.

The British Association seem to be fast becoming a "human institution. Science

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NEW

TREATMENT OF ENTERIC.

AN EVENT IN BACTERIOLOGY.

In is a truisai"of medical science that the

DOCTRINE OF THE "FALL

CANON BARNES ON SCIENCE AND

FAITH.

Canon Barnes, of Westminster, preaching As the date dras nearer when, under els interest in the people of Bute, where correctness of an hypothesis is no measure at Cardiff on August 20th in connexion with she lives for the most part, is fond of of its value fago The Times). Examples the visit as that city of the British Associa the provising of the Scottish Temperance Act, the stertors are to be asked to axer open-air life and active amusements, and are not dificult to obtain of advances regis- tion, took for his subject "The Christian sise their threefold iption--no change, 25ving studied navigation, an mail her bered and measures of practical utility Revelation and Scientific Progres.

secured by deduction from premises which, He said that after a period of natural in the light of fuller knowledge, are found hesitation and deplorable hostility Chris to be untenable. Perhaps the most notable. tian thinkers now quietly accepted theories certainly the most recent, instance of this of the origin of the curth, and of man due kind' is the so-called side-chain theory of to modern scientific investigation and spo Ehrlich which gave us the Wassermann testulation. They, therefore, found it neces fo syphilis. The Wassermann test bassary to abandon the doctrine of the Fall is le discussed for its own sake than for emerged triumphant from nest rigorous and arguments deduced from it by theold- its bearing, more or less immediate, on the examination; the side-chain theory is to giuns from St. Paul ward:. There was

We strong temptation to allegorize beliefs which the end of the month we shall know this problegs of life. Only a non-gòlâng cynje all intents and purposes abandoned.

would deny the vital importance of a sub must bear these facts in mind when's new it was no longer possible to hold; but, this perliminary skirmish has gone and have some idea of the strength of the confert raised at the Cardiff conference by a cientific doctrine, evidently subversive of though allegory had its value, it was missed A faith Glasgow member which led to a scientific accepted views, is introduced to the world, when, in obscured the revolutionary

The mere fact that the latest observations consequenced" of new" knowledge. consideration of the question-Why golfers

tend to dispravis an established conception that feared the progress of knowledge The defenders." the members of the make bad shots when, faced with the drive of disease in no way wenke the value of anticipated its own dissolution. Yet, whites. Licensed trades, are not idle, and on paper, from the Erst tre or on a critiëni occasion at any rate, mrith to have, the “Brite in the course of a gound. That, certainly, any reults" which may have accrued some elements in the Christian tradition consequence of its application, When, for were perforce discarded, the essential organisations They are more busine-like is one of the thingy that matter.

Lexample, we are told, as we have been jast nature and strength of the Christian Faith The learned Professor Waller described in their methods. Their publicity depart

recently, by the Pasteur Institute that had been more clearly disclosed. For ment is far better than that of the drys."experiments with an slectrien! device for distinguished worker in its laboratories has Christianity the perfection pf. Christ's re- Already they have spent an "normous measuring human emotions, the records

Corned new theories on "kubjects so import ligious teaching sack the revelation of "His amount of money, The double column being made by application to the most ant as the protection of the human body own supreme excellenco wore alono of drei- manifestors in the newspapers mast alone sensitive parts of the human body-the have cost a mint of money. Then every palus of the hand and the sales of the xainst onteric fever and dysentery, and sive importance. The unique value of available, bourding has one or more fret. Thereupon Mr. Walter Dixon, of plat these theories portend a revolution in Christ's self-revelation was a fart of history com and of religions experience undisturbed by On the other hand. their immense coloured posters, and this iasgow, suggested that the Professor's bacteriology, we need-even supposing

plete proof to be forthcoming rush to seisatific progress. kind of propaganda overlons on the train theory might explain the cause of bad golf the conclusion thas earlier opinions were in Christ's religious teaching dogtailed with ways, the vinomas, the grand stands of the shots, especially in crises in the game,vain. Dr, Besedku advatters arguments singular exactness into the wider scheme of football,enelowi rex, Programms of all and did it not; he also askoil, explain why which tend to show that the future defence evolution now coming, into view. It now kinda are invaded by appeals and deanne cold-blooded. unemotional Seitsmen were ciations,

Leaflets are being scattered least likely to err in their shots when most "gainst diseases of the enteric group will be seemed broadcast by millions, and voters are ask, depended on themi Professor Waller, in by much simpler, means than the anti-rome ed toTM" guard their rights by voting! No a short reply acknowledged he was not a typhoid vaccination with which we are all vere the electrons change." Every bag used by a licensed golfer, though he understood that keep now, happily, familiar. This in no sense Le grocer carries its message to the customer, ing the eye on the ball was also a factor detract from the splendid achievement of emerged. sod every bottle in the trade is imide A factor, truly, tou often forgotten by the the war in ridding oür armies of their most mind spiritual conseienaatult) was messenger of liberty" by means of an golfer when playing his shot. Mr. Dixon, deadly for. On the other hand, it does ing. There was a time when maiter, life, Few deal they were. Each kid ariter as part of a adhesive label. Twelve millions of these on the other hand, is presumably a golfer, Promises more easy way. If it be true that mind, the soul of man, rent not bus | labels have already been issued. In short, yet he commits himself to the opinion that the mere net of swallowing a every licensed house is converted into a shots are spoiled because the thought of bacilli can secure us against such redoubt vast scheme planned, by God The Christ centre of propaganda. "A good deal of missing them passes through the brain to able foes av typhoid fever and dysentery Spirit within a man, the quality of capital is being made out of the fact that the highly susceptible palins of the hands and thug without the smallest personal deity." as in had been called, separated hi the working nan will be the chief sufferer and the sales of the feet

This theory suffering even inconvenience then a new from the animals whence he had sprung. because he has not the money to buy up- plies in large quantities and has very might apply is putting: but hardly to the chapter in the prevention of disease has just as life separated then from the matter. The fuller phots. The golf swing is a rythmical been opened. Without doubt, that new of which they were made. And through the advantages of a club.

claim that Labour will not vote affair, whose apparent simplicity in its

So.. mnch depends chapter will afford the scientißr worker the same Spirit of Christ men put on im fur no license." because they say, a greatest deception. Trades Linionists they will not permit on grip and stance, on the wrists and many brills. Dr. Besiredka adduces evid-mortality, inasmuch as the things that ware dictating on a question of personal babits arms, on the-tarnuf the body, on timing, enes in favour of the view that certain of God were eternal with God. Thus science

and most of all on the still head and the eye on the ball, that the palms of the gerine of discuse have special, specific areas described the process by which nun had hands and the soles of the feet may play in the body within which they are active, came into being, and religion offered him Bath sides, of ecore, prophecy victory, a quite insignifirant part in the total No matter where you introduce the under guittance towards his spiritual desting The wet however, admit this in some operation. How the learned professor areas, the voter will entry a limitation of would apply his reading instrument to the skin, into veins, or by the month, they Evolution described Tais; the uftin

menning of those facts the Christian retifa licenses, and even no license. Their great the palms of the hand and the soles of fear, they say, is the apathy of the elec- the feet while the player is standing seek out these special areas, and are more tion discloud. torale "But surely there is little ground squnrely to his ball and holding his club or less harmless until they find them." for this view, if anyone is left unmoved by both hands, in difficulty that seems Thus the question of protection is local

A test while the after the next three months strenuous to have been shirked. agitation, he must be of a particularly golfer is awaiting, his turn to drive off rather than general. If the locality, which phlegmatic temperament,

would obviously. "be valueless. The ren the particular germ requires for futter emuld it somehow he recorded, would LONDON'S INTEREST IN THE STRUGGLE,

case will not ́Decur. Our efforts liitherto! Much interest is being taken in London culy come when he was on the tee, with development is rendered suitable, dis.

perhaps, as on one popular Tayside course, in all the details of the Local Veto struggle hurn 10 or 40 yards ahead of him. So have been directed by the idea that protec The licensed victuallers are, in some cases, we arrive at this conclusion, that thetjon should be general and universal to the providing a daily bulletin for the informa-thoughts of missing a shat may pass human system. Possibly our many failure tion of their customers. Placards and through the brain just as readily to the may have sprung from this misconception, leafels implore them to remember what

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RETIRING AMERICA. FOREIGN TRADE MARKETS LEFT TO BRITAIN;

America is divided "Pent by a follows-Expenses of the Washington Ulice, £14,000 commercial attaches to Embassies, £33,000; promotion of com merce in Western Europe, £83,000; in South and Central America, 220,000 - im the Far East, £20,000.

The Duity Express New York corres pondent writing on September 1st, says

America is leaving the exploitation of gign trade markets to Great Britain is happening in Scotland." The pain for golfer's wrists and arms as to the palms Our undoubted successes, let us repeat, daher than spond the necessary modes not lose in merit or in worth from the for propaganda. Reports published by tho recognitions of a former oversight. Indeed, Department of Commerce show that dur. this kind of propaganda goes to an inn in of the hands and the soles of the feet. Chancery Lane, which has banging in its NERVES AND THE FIRST TEL...

we may go farther, and suggest that the ing the last fiscal year, excluding expendi bar a great placard with the inscription First-tee mistakes are in nine cases out truth of every hypothesis is to be measured ture on consular services the American "Help Scotland in her hour of need!?! ; of ten due to a meatal condition. The

not in terms of acceptance but in respect Government spent £180,000 for the pro player has a fear of missing, a fear acten to the solid advantages obtained from it. motion of overseas commerce, while the GIFT TO DENBLANE,

tuated tremendously by his consciousness of When the tree ceases to bear fruit, then, and British Government sprat £3,504,000. The Mr. Thomas.

British figures do not include the experdi If there is a hazard to catch then only, it proclaims its own doom. "gallery.

ture of the Indian and Colonia! Offices Tor a native of Dunblane, who recently retired topped drive, it is another adverse from the position of senior manager in factor. He may have been swinging pers

trade purposes.

The money p London of the Chartered Bank of India, fectly on the other side of the starting box, Rick Australia, and "China, has gifted to his bitting the heads off daisies with a fellow parishioners of Dunblane £1,000 of of the wrists and a follow through worthy Bearer Bonds of the 4 per cent. Funding of a Vardon. Then his name is called. Lead in order to commemorate the memory. He tees up. The whistle blows. Now, of the 98 Dunblane men who gave, their he says to himself, with all these people But lives in the war, The annual revenge from watching I must get a good one.**

The Daily Expres, Melbourne corfes

There are no indications of American the fund is to be expended in prizes for at the back of his mind there is a horrible pondent, writes:

cessful.scholars in the parish,

fear that be may top ur sciaff or commit

Eugenie Fallini, a woman in male interest in foreign trade being sustamed NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL.

some other golfing sin, and it is this per attire, who twice underwent marriage cere to the point of making the United States a serious rival to Britain ín new, markete. An appeal on behalf of the Scottish Nu-haps rather than the other feeling which monies with persons of her own sex, bas

So in his hurry to get tional War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle predominates.

murdered Annie Burkett (or Crawford) consumption of domestic

Product is issued by the Federated Council of way from all this first-tee publicity he arrested and charged with having There is such an enormous demand for the America, owing to the constantly rising Scottish Associations in London.

swings back too quickly takes his eye off at Chatswood in 1917. My It is

the ball, hits with anything but the rhythmi The case pussesses extraordinary fea- rates of wages, that manufacturers are proposed that the Scots in Loudon shall contribute £10.000, and towards this of his practice swings a minute before tures. Fallini, according to the story she concentrating most of their attention at foozles badly, and sends the ball running told the police, married a man named home rather than embarking on foreign amount over 24,700 has already been re-into the burn. He may play a respectable Marteifen in Italy. The couple went to ventures. American experts therefore con ceived or promised.

game once he is out of range of the start- New Zealand and resided there for several aider that British foreign, trade will have ing-box, but from pure stage fright he years. Subsequently, with her daughter, largely unhindered course of developm A very large number of Japanese are faila over and over again at the first-tee the woman want to Sydney under her ment for some time to bome. in Britain at present, and not a few of test, them are in the North. When here they mostly affect the West of Scotland and the 4 RADICAL CHALLENGE.

JAPANESE VISITORS..

maiden name. She assumed male garb and worked Rs

oman. In 1917 she went industrial, centres, Some have come to There is every indication, of a lively through the ceremony of

months later open up markets, and expect to be with political tussle in Scotland in the late widow antned Burkets. Some ringwith us so long shat they have brought their autumn. In view of the Liberal confer the charred remains of Burkett were found wires and children with them. They say ence at Ayr in October, the Scottish Radin the ashes of a fire in the bush at Chats. that there are more openings in Japan cal Council are appealing to supporters wood. The supposition was that she had for British goods than is to be found here to forward resolutions conderaning the fallen into the fire in a fit or while drunk,

Scottish and

an open verdict was recorded. Further evidence which came into the for Japanese goods. They profem to be Coalition policy demanding anxious that trade between their own Home Rule, and advocating all the fami- special East and our West should be fur-liar planks in their platform. The Coun hand, of the police led them to charge Fallini in Nove- ther developed

cil intimate that they will apply effec- Kallini with murder, tive speakers for winter meetings," but ber last went through the marriage cere BURNSIANALY

they decline to assist Coalition or Whig mony with another woman.

It is added that Scottish The Rev. Dr. Bacintendi, Kinross, form-candidates." erly, British Chaplain in Germany and Liberalism, that is, Scottish Radicalism, Lecturer on English Literature at the must either' progress or ga ander. University of Jena, has published a short study of Barns in Germany,"

He is A BOXING BALONET.

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AN INTOXICATED CARROT. INDIAN SCIENTIST'S DEMON- STRATION.

Sir J. C. Pose provided possibly the mos" delightful lecture of the whole week, säyn the Daily Telegraph, of August 25th. Be fore the Botanic Séopion he related how, his Botanic Institute Calcutta, he found out that all plant reacted to stimulus, and their actions closely resem- bied those of humun organisms › under similar tente. By delicate instrumente he bad aucceeded in making planta record their eated under alechol, and the "recording in strumen, indicated a line which, from being straight, became erratic. Under chloro- form or either a plant become unconscious, is Mont Blanc of a plant at 100,000th part of an inch Ho placed the borrash rate of the growth

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At a boxing competition held at James- LEAGUE OF NATIONS" PRICE FOR own movements. A carrot became intoxi-

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The Geneva Trbung announces that the our national paet are reproduced, and a and Soldiers' Association, Bir Inin point is made of the obvious resemblances Colquhoun, Bart.. D.5.0. of Rosahu, League of Nations paid £220.000 for the between" Tam o Shanter" and the Wal Lus, Lochlomond, the Lord Lieu Pnant of Hotel National, pargis Night. We are reminded that Dunbartonshire, not only officiated a Geneva.

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perienced opponent.

of the League on November 15th. Burns.

instancing that he had found out that certain substances supposed to be harmful, if administered in vers aaall quantities. tended to stimulate growth,