In spite of the running down youth is forced to bear nowadays, he has a few good pain Thus Mr, Bertram C. Brough, sti pendary magistrate for N. Stafford shire st the resumed sitting of the Royal Commission on Licensing, Said that there had ben a marked diminution in drunkenness in recen years and that whatever amount of drunkenness persisted it was usually to be found among the older ari not among the younger generation. There was a marked change in the and choice of pleasures, of the young men and women of today. While some of them did call at a public house for a drink or the "Fair Maid of Perth" ov "Waverley," yet why not make his five into a round half dozen and.
{throw in "Redgauntlet." Mr. Baldwia concluded "To generation after get eration of men stumbling along in their quest of the idea, distracted by, the noise and confusion of the world, and the perpetual strife of tongues, Scott comes like the. wind on the hearth blowing away the mists and the miasmas, illuminati honour and courage and sweet sanity. Through suda souls alone God stooping shows sufficient of his light for us in the dark to rise by." We who know Mr. Baldwin solely as a politician probably never realized the true affection in which he holds thia famous Scottish author whose memory will never be forgotten and will be celebrated as long as the Walter Scott Club is in existence.
Fire Occurs at Tower of Londow 1
Londoners heard with alarm to-day that shortly before two o'clock im the morning a fire had occurred at the Tower of London, The alarm was given by the pitiful wailing of a black cat imprisoned in a blazing cook house, This reached a sentry who investigated and thereupon call~ Jed the picket. A number of motor pumps and escapes were rushed te the "scene and smoke was see)
wing from a cook house not fae rom the guard room and the Wakes field Tower, in which is housed the Crown Jewels The Guards picket soon got the fire under contro! and there "was no danger when the brigade reached the scene. Consider" able damage was done to the cookhouse and adjoining rooms before the flames were quelled, but none of the Crown Jewels or valuable relics were in danger. It may be remembered that the last fire at the Tower occurred when the Mobilization Store was badly damaged. On this occasion firemen clambered over the roofs and could be seen by hundreds of people on Tower Bridge.
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