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CANADIAN SCOTTISH

GATHERING.

HIGHLAND FESTIVAL NEXT ΜΟΝΤΗ.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY,

AUGUST | 27, ́ ́ 1927.

SNAKE IN WOMAN'S FUR.

MIDNIGHT WRIGGLES SCARE

TWO SISTERS.

Thinking her sister had been careless, the elder woman remons trated with her, but was assured that the fur had been carefully hung on the door. The fur was then hung in the wardrobe, but next morning it again lay on the floor.

Recently a woman living at With a hundred medals of gold, silver and bronze offered for su- Purley purchased from a London premacy in

shop a new fur. A younger als singing, dancing, games and piping, the Scottish ter who lived with her borrowed communities in the Canadian west it to wear one evening, and on re- are looking forward with keen in-turning home hung it behind the terest to the Highland Gathering bedroom door. Later the fur was and Scottish Music Festival which found lying on the floor. Is being organized for September -8, 4 and 5, at Banff, and to which the Prince of Wales has given his patronage. Although there have been highly accessful Scottish games held in various parts of Canada, these have been mostly of local interest and lasting a single day, but the Banff gathering is planned to last three days and will have a national character. Each of the seventeen Highland. regi-room door hooks. Next morning ments in Canada has been authey were horrified to find it thorized to send a piper to com- underneath the bed. pete for the trophy for regimental piping offered by E. W. Beatty, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The rules for this com- petition have been drawn up by

Fraser Colonel Alexander Toronto, the leading authority on pipe music on this continent.

of

The two sisters became uneasy, and that night they hung the fur the bed- still more carefully on

After a consultation the fur was taken-back to the shop, where the queer stor, was received with incredulity. The firm, however. returned the article to the farriers who had supplied it.

An explanation of the uncanny movements of the fur came later in a letter from the furriers.

Many of the finest exponents, of

While handling the fur an assis- Highland dances in western Canada have intimated their intant had noticed a curious twitch- tention of taking part, and the ing movement inside. He ripped tourist capital of the Canadian open the lining and to his amaze- Pacific Rockies will be ablaze with ment, a live anake protruded its tartans. Tossing the caber, put head. ting the shot, throwing the ham- mer, and all the games in which brawny Highlanders are expert will of course be conducted.

The snake had lain dormant until aroused by the warmth of the woman's neck, and had evi- dently attempted to make its es- cape by violent wriggles which had shifted the for across the bed

room.

As the fur was imported it is surmised that the snake got into it during the voyage.—Daily News.

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of the Hapsburg family, adding: "I will say that a duel arranged and I slap in your face my fighting glove."

Series of Concerts. Supplementing these features will be a series of concerts in the great ballroom of the Banff Springs Hotel for which several of the best known Scottish singers have been engagd. J. Campbel! McInries, famous for his rendering of border and Highland ballads, will be there with Mme. Leanne Dusseau, who under her maiden

The Archduke has now tele. name of Ruth Thom attracted the attention of Mary Garden by her graphed to Admiral Horthy, the beautiful interpretations of the of Hungarian Regent, equesting Scotch songs. Davidson Thomp. funds to enable him to return to son, a resonant baritone of Winni-Hungary to fight Coun: Szechenyi peg, who has sung with the Minne- apolis Symphony, and Ruth Ma- thewson, a fine contralto of the same city, will also be there. The Gaelic singers will be represented by the tenor, Norman. Cameron, and by a group of folk singers from the Hebrides who has recent ly come to make their home in Canada.

The programme of Scottish music has been drawn up in historical sequence, commencing with old ballads of the fourteenth and fif- teenth centuries, followed by groups of the periods of Mary Queen of Scots, the Stuarts and the Jacobites, followed by selec- tions from the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Lady Nairne and Christopher North. The Hebri dean music recently made popular by Marjorie Kennedy Fraser will also be featured.

In addition to these Scottish elements of garnes and music an- other Highland feature will be in- troduced, namely, folksongs and dances of the Highland tribes of Jndiana whose hunting grounds were from time immemorial in the neighboring Canadian Pacific Rockies. These Indians will be gathered in a picturesque encamp ment, and with their treepees and variegated costumes will make the cffair unique of its kind.

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AN ARCHDUKE'S TAUNT.

MINISTER CHALLENGED

TO A DUEL.

New York, July 23. The Los Angeles Examiner states that the Archduke Leopold of Austria, who, recently, with his secretary arrived in Cali- fornia, has challenged 'Count Lazlo Szechenyl, the Hungarian Minister at Washington, to a duel. The secretary gives this account of the quarrel.

His Highness last most of his money-how I am not permitted to say. He found himself financially informed hlm embarrassed: I

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To this the Minister replied by telegramos, auying': "I received your tactless telegram. You must Bay to your friends 'in New York. that they must not send money to you through the Hungarian Lega- tion."

The secretary explained that the word tactless" meant in- discreet, and that is a word un- known to the family of Haps- burga."

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