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being impressed by both sides of an argument and his difficulty in deciding between them. much cogitation, venture the tentative proposition, Lord Sands in the inaugural "I think so and so," but then, address to the members of the realising that this was perhaps Scots Law Society of Edinburgh Putting it too strongly, he would University indulged in interesting qualify it thus-" At least I think I think so and so." (Laughter.) reminiscences, many of them

He recalled how on one occasion touching upon the humour of the Scottish Bench and Bar, for when the Second Division had twenty years ending in 1900 of the Parliament House.

before them one of Kincairney's nicely balanced opinions Lord Young remarked. The Lord Ordinary has found, but by a very narrow majority." laughter.)

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(Renewed

Lord Sands, after remarking that there was so much to say about the place and its leading in- habitants in 1890, that he could not trace the course of events Speaking of the late Sir J. H. at one time down to 1999. spoke of the A. Macdoneld,

Lord Sands changes which had been made in Solicitor-General, Parliament House since 1880, and said he had known him stand all recalled that the addition to the frengoa at a corner of Pall Mall library was made as was record in order to count the relative ed upon a brass plate in the news proportion of motor-propelled to

Horse-drawn vehicles. when John Hay paper room,

Criminal Athole Macdonall was Dean of

law interested Faculty. He recalled how

Macdonald, and he was one of the gauche young mumber of the blest erbuinal lawyers of his Faculty cause!

time. He invented post-cards, much amuse. ment by remarking to Mac up the meriner's compass. donali. Don't that plate make developed the modern system of you think you are dead?" (Laugh-pen order attack, liberated publie ter.)

buildings front prison railings, re-

i

The W. S. Library, continued formed criminal procedure and, i Lord Sands was practically 'un-i

taking him all in all, must always changed. Forty years ago they are wanted as a Scotsman of upper library was the stately hallmark woong the late Victorians. of solitude and silence that it

R. L. S. AND A CHAIR.

was to-day. He remembered Lord Sands observed the short how, when a poetic W. S. was career of Robert Louis Stevenson showing some of the speaker's in. Parliament House was over friends over it, he (Lord Sands) before 1880, but a year or two saw somebody sitting writing in later he was brought prominently one of the windows. He called before them by his candidature the fact to the attention of the for the Chair of Constitutional W.S.. who exclaimed--" He was Law and History, for which the the first that ever burst into this Faculty of Advocates made up a Filent sea." (Laughter.) -

leet of two. Stevenson bad only On another occasion he went nine votes. But among the nine through the English Law Courts who preferred genius to dry. with Lord Stormonth Darling, as-dustery were Shaw, Mackin- who remarked that it was curious tosh, Guthrie, and another, who that in all such buildings in Eng-was now a Judge. land one found refreshment There wero

some quaint place in every corner.

characters in Parliament House In 1880 the scle provision for in these days, continued Lord refreshment for counsel, agents, Sands.

court officials, and witueses was There was an elderly advocate, one small bar about 12 feat square, who used, summer and winter, to partitioned off from the outer bathe each morning at the chain hall Small. however, as was the pier at Trinity. There were three space, he believed that more men of the name of Mackintosh drink was consumed there in a in the Faculty, and this old day then was now consumed in gentleman's fad was, that as Parliament House in a judicial senior, he alone was Mr. week. (Laughter.)

Mackintosh.

in

A WIT OF THE BENCH.

Then there was "H." who had a Lord Young, he said, had a delusion that he was employed quick wit and a strong sense of hy the Russian Goverment to humour, and when he was

codify the law of Russia. He had good trim the Court in which he curious sqeaky voice and his sat was never dull. Craighill good lady was believed to have a had an extraordinary fluency in

wooden leg. The legend was language. There was a story of rather confirmed, when, after her the address to a little boy who was death a donation under his name a witness in a Glasgow criminal of a wooden leg appeared in the

case. Now, little boy, if you

Chalmer's Hospital list. Lord! speak the truth and nothing but Sands recalled him once saying the truth, all will be well, but if "You know my poor wife has a you deviate even by one hair'g- wooden leg, but she's got some breadth from the strictest veracity, very nice feu-duties."

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Mr. Benjamin White, at the first meeting of the 41st session of the Institute of Bankers, held in London, read a paper on "The Romance of Money. In the course of his lecture, Mr. White said:

It is evident that currency as between nations generally has been divorced from the metallic basis which previously had been effective. Some nations, by aiter- ing the terms upon which they are willing to receive gold and by other signs show that gold is inacceptable, that is to say, they regard it as at a discount to their currency; others, by their inability to produce gold for export, reveal that gold is at a premium to their currency.

In fact the world has reverted to harter, and gold has become s commodity like wheat or pork, with the added disadvantage that it cannot be eaten. The sort of currency now in most request be- tween nations is goods, not gold or silver, till the exhausted actions can produce sufficient "of these -if business is to be placed upon 3 fair footing "by normal exchanges-there must! be an extension of credit. Whence can such credit be obtained There is but one an- swer from the United States of America. Whilst Great Britain was pouring out her blood and treasure for the Allied cause without stint, this nation, already the richest in the world, was adding enormously to her wealth by supylying food and munitions to the combatants, until at length the Great Ideal drew her also. into the Allied ranks.

The War debt from the Allied nations to Great Britam exceeds by hundreds of millions the war debt of Great Britain to the United States. Hence it is no cause for shame, but for honest pride, that the gold standard is temporarily ineffective, because it is an historical witness to the i supreme effort put forth by Great Britain for civilisation..

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The prosperity of the United States of America has been built up in past generations largely because many hundred million sterling of U. S. railway and other securities have found a free market in the United King- dom. These formed at the time most of the currency material by which the then balance of trade Was adjusted: gold ship- were trifling in coin-

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parison. If any international; ideal is to be translated into practice, credit instruments must be the currency material by which the present adverse trade balance of the United Kingdom, due to no fault of her own, is to be ten- perarily adjusted.

The claims of the nations; however, which have borne the brunt of the German onslaught upon the liberties of the world should beyond all question, not be regarded from the standpoint of mere profit..

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MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF UNKNOWN MAN.

A mysterious death, which might well invite exploitation by writers of the school of Edgar Allan Poe, was recently being inquired into by the Paris police.

The strange story opens in the Saint Louis Hospital, where a: werkman named Laurie was sup- posed to have died very suddenly. As he had no home, and bis relatives were not known, his body was taken to the Morgue, When, however, it was placed in a freezing chamber, the Morgue employees discovered, to their borror, that it remained warm for some time, becoming cold only very slowly.

The startled employees inform. ed a police commissary, who set to work to solve the mystery. The occupant of the bed nearest to that of Laurie had left the bos pital, but he was found and questioned.

"Laurie anored so loudly al night that none of the patients in the ward could sleép said the man, "EO I gave Boothing pation."

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When asked what sort of potion he had administered, the man could not give a satisfactory. reply.

The magistrate is now inquir- ing into three theories as to the cause of death-whether Laurie died a natural death, whether he Wan killed by the soothing potion," or whether he succumbed to cold-in the Morgue freezing- chamber.

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