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SCOTTISH LETTER.

THE COST OF LIVING IN ENGLAND.

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ST. ANDREW'S DAY IN SCOTLAND

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EDINOAGH, December 6th. St. Andrew's Day has passed once more

My house was in the country in York- without rippling the surface of stolid Seatland, whereas abroad, and in so near shire. It had eight rooms and good and dear a land as England, Scotsmen garden (own vegetables, flowers have at lease chosen the day for a fruit). The Bgures 1 give here are social dinner or concert, or the like.. The authentic, ha I still have all my account Scot at Home was on the whole uncons by me. The family comprise, myself, elous that the Festival of St. Andrew was nurse, three children and maid. I had different from other days; the Scot abroad a woman to wash weekly and a gardener Cities of the World in provide commercial

Mode of one day and a half weekly. was in varying degrees conscious of

complete international Banking Service. difference, and probably his neighbours living was simple and plain. We dineditions and private individuals with in partitus thought he was too self-mid-day and had light sappers. conscious. This is all according to the or no entertaining.. book-that book in which is rvcarded the Cost of one month's living actual behaviour of the perfervidum. ingenium and not the behaviour that some Scotsmen, men of a good type, consider becoming to the race...

Arnold Bennett sent a greeting to the St. Andrew Festival at the Savoy in London, "As England has now been wade: the heel of Scotland for three centuries, the undersigned Sassenach, seeing no hope of an English Free State, rvapectfully salutes the conquerors."

Ta the name tone was an editorial note British the Toronto Globe The Labour Party has chosen a Scotsman,, as leader. So has the Conservative party. The National Liberals are headed by a Welshman Mr. Asquith is a Yorkshire man who site for a Scottish.constituency. Yet Sootames are agitating for Home Rule. Some day England also will de mand self-government.

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Chemist

Milk and cream Rent

Rates (about)

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Total

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3.10.0.

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(3/, a day)

18.0

(8/- a day)

£40:4.0.

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The annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Scotland was held in the Freemasons Hall, George Street, Edia burgh, on St. Andrew's Day, when the principal business was the installation of the recently appointed Grand office them as pet billa: bearers. Brigadier-General. B. G. Gordon Gilmour of Craigmillar. Past Grand Master, presided, and carried through the installation ceremony. The Earl of Elgin having been duly installed as Grand Master Mason, he intimated that he had appointed the Earl of Stair as his Grand Master Depute and Lord Cochrane of Cults as his Substitute- Grand Master.

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It is understood "that there is no pros- pect of the Forth and Clyde Canal scheme being included as part of the Govern- ment's plans for the relief of unemploy- meat. The decision was come to. time ago, but the present emergency has brought the project to the fore again as The Liverpool Executive are charging. being capable of affording employment owners £100 to rua B horse in to many thousands of men. The view the Grand National, thus hoping to of the responsible authorities is, however,

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that the cost of construction would be exclude bad horses. entirely out of proportion to the pro- raising the stake to £10,000. bable gain, and that the cutting of the Canal could only be justified on the ground of overwhelming strategio ne hands, and he was aure that Town Guard cessity. As such necessity does not, in stood fully two hands higher than that. the view of the Admiralty, exist, the pro- Such had been the progress in size, and ject is ruled out for the present at any he believed, in quality of our horses

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No man or woman who is a victim of THE FIrst amateur gole CHAMPION.

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indigestion can possibly cajoy anything like Much has been heard of late of the theo, in that he represented Unionist and good health. For, mind you, when ones the golf championship, and nothing is more Imperialist interests, without say disson: Inquiries are welcome.

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stomach gets out of order, then the whole digestive system-tomach, liver and bowels-interesting than the happy act of justice sion, being as he was British born, bred Scotaman, from a mare is likely to be affected, and so you go from bad that proclaimed Mr. A. F. Mache the by himself, a to worse. Considered as ons, the stomach, first Amateur Champion in history. Mr. whose granddam was by Carbine (bred in liver and bowels may be truthfully said to bo Mache won the tournament held at Hoy.New Zealand, and famous for all time something like a delicately lalanced machine, lake in 1883, which was the genesis of the for his winning record in Australia): single part of the meththim, say the championship, and it was all song actramed by Mr. Gilpin, an Irishman, and stomach, goes wrong, there is an immediate knowledged, especially by his contempor: ridden by Archibald, an American. The Real Situation of "Eden" (Cradle of the Human Race), and the Origin of the Chinese...

danger that it will upset the whole, throw it aries, and those who competed with him in THE CLYDE'S GREAT RECORE 81,00.

order, and bring about a serious break that pioneer meeting, that Mr. Mache was Clyde ships are known as the Amer Do.

dowa Chinese Edition .......8 “50.

in fact, if not in name, the first winnericas put it-wherever the ground is If everybody could be persuaded to realise of the title, for there was a representative damp uough for them to flout. Since that the little shocks and jars of life, the little company of the players of the time in the the days of the Comet, the Clyde parent acts of carelessness we hardly ever think about tournament, and the championship was of all steamships, the speed of ships on worry, too much work, lack of exercise, late sa a direct sequel established in the fol-the Atlantic has increased at the rite"

and so on, very seriously affects the towing season. It must be a satisfact digestive system, and often throws it out of gear, ton to him in these veteran daya, which are people to-day, he says, who think that knot for every five years. There then there would certainly be fewer alling he spends at St. Andrews, as it is, to the price of coal and oil rise much Current, Savings and Fixed Deposits" bear people in the world,

The worst of it is that people will sometimes golfers generally, that, his name has been higher, sails may be able to cust steamInterests at Rates of 3 per cont., 4 per cert, neglect to take proper steps to avoid digestion, given its rightful place, after many years as a means of propulsion. Great Britain and & per cent, per Annum respectively. Unfortunately, they have a dangerous habit of the records of the game.

Bas about one-third of the shipping of thinking that the stomach, liver or the bowels, THE OPEN DOOR IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP. the world, and of that amount the Clyde

B. NG QUINN, when out of order, will of themselven recover

For this year's championship what may produces about one-third, so that the the delicate balance and poise they have in good be called the polley of the open door has river Clyde is responsible for one-ninth of

Acting Chief Manager. health But this

very, very rarely happens been adopted. In view of the transition the world's ships. The value of the ships and so the most common-sense way t

to avoid the miseries of indigestion is either to prevent triction based upon club rating was wiped than the value of the whisky exported..." stago in handicapping reform, the res-exported from the Clyde, however, is les banish it from your system." And praran out, and the only check upon entries was tion is always easier and better than cure- โป case, either to prevent or to

to banish their sanction by club committees. There DIGNIFIED INERRIETY.

It is well known that drunk men some- indigestion, you can't, do Better than take as a record entry of 952 at Prestwick, ocational dose of Mother Seigel's Syrup, the though taking into account the fact that times use exceedingly precise Jangunge world-famous remedy for atomach and liver Scottish artisan players, of whom the as if to refute the idea that they are troubles: It has been before the world forstar" of the year was Mr. John Caven, drunk, Lachanced to overhear the other anary fifty years. Edch year, each week, in have a better chance to attend when the evening atia of the most dignified utter- fact, caacs are recorded where dyspeptica bave event is in these parts, it might have been ances I have ever listened to from drunk found

relief by

resorting to this fine old family expected to torn out a more congested or from sober. The tipsy man's com remedy and

and now

the total of those who, after championship. Things will be different panion had evidently been attempting to personal trial, voluntarily and enthusiastically next year in the conduct of the premier justify or explain something he had recommend Mother Beigel's Syrup, has ran meeting The Championship Committee done, and at the moment I came on the into tens of thousands. Yes! tens of thousands are to make up a national handicap list, scene the drunk man. straightened his

They would not be. say that Mother Seigel's Syrup was and which will govern the entry. Golfers may shoulders as well as he could and in slow Seigel's Syrup was a splendid apply to be included in this list, and for precies tones delivered himself of this means of

flatulence, constipation, and it they are to send in their handicape in quire to judge you by the thoughts you pains after eating, if they did not believe what their various clubs, and the Champion have cherished, and not by the achieve- they were saying was the

ship Committee will also consult unions ments you have accomplished.”. disorders, take Mother Seigel's Syrup regularly for a while, and associations for information in.com OBITUARY

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