Great distress, as you are ready aware, prevails in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland. dite.to the almost total failure of the crops and the but it must be added that] the present state and immediate) future of the Highlands as shole-is very' far from hopettt. are declining by ye, The unger aiid more robust leave £or and. more hospitable scenes.
wear atone. lis witnessed the departure for the Colonies, principally Canada, of thousands of the best life of the straths and gions, with the result that to-day' note' than' ever before the High-Iand population consists of large proportion of the older folks, These struggle as host they eau to eke out their existence from the harvest of both land: and sea, and it is wonderful how eom-Tortable and contented. they make themselves. in their Tot. Tu nex ral seasons their life is tolerably apps. They huve at lenge, sufioicney of life's necessities. Buch Iuxuriew as they enjoy come from their kith and kin who. have! wandered to the cities oP the South or have crossed the. seas, and it to their" credit that the sons and daughters of the North, where they aro_at all blo, dutifully remember the old folks at home, suitable count pended for 0 cottages who de-little part of their the streams of visitors from the sot What of the future? tthe} moment the representatives of several Colonies are in the Highig on the prospects! offered under the British Flag abroad, and large DUmbers are:
thei northern homes for now life under other skies, That!
good for thos other but it bodes ill for the highlands and Istands—dustrial centres at home which hitherto have reaped) the benefit. of the infusion of Highland blood among the city population, UNEMPLOYSIENT AND THERLT, 'There was published recently a table showing the umber of persons out of every'
10,000_ population w hho were in recent poor-law relief in the chief indust rial centres Great Britain, For Scothand the figure was 887; but while in Edinburgh it was only 446, 30 Glasgow it was 1249, a proportion exceeded only in' Paisley and Greenock, where the figure was 1,905, the in the United: Kingdom. hose figures give some iden of the extent to which] the Clyde area has been affected by" the trade past two and depression of tho} a half years. north=w been in existence Who present distress in the hi wsineo early in the present year, but nothing tas hea heard of it the outside world awing to] the sturdy: independ of thie Highland people and their ticonee in complaint.
It is perhaps forgotten, ov unknown, in many quartets that] the war has told ite sad tao the "Highlands more than other parts of the land or Kim. pire. No doubt the war has had Conditions throughout England have been bad rough; Out in Glasgow they have been three timeses bad.
There would have een little occasion for surprise,
effects of Glasgow's passage fore, iE the cunmlative Unrough the worst period of trade depression experienced by any Bri sh jndustrind oxea in lem times, had "been reflected seriotis decline in the deposits of the Glasgow Savi Bank, an/ institation whowe depositors ~nre} main); of the working class, But but in the Highlands specially #0. Refora 1914 the younger popula tion of the north and west had! hoon diminished by losses through emigration, But. when the war practically y able~ ida nan joined up for service with either the land ox sou for and they did so mostly during: the fiat thea mouths of the fight: ive population of e-bodied for service in, the Navy and such Highland Lertorial regiments as the Sea-forthe had) their fall strength aver in France by November of Tol, Naturally, having been £0] early in the trenches and on the High seve and. continuing their service right Uhrough the stress of the casualties among] them was correspondingly large, ud when the way was over it. was! Fouwi that but few of these fine: follows returned to the home: acones, This tleprived the older folks of the n_ supports, leaving mother 0 curry on, with an oittlook ae snd. fae it was hopeless, xu Toit Added to th jo condi has completely revolutionized the life and work of the north, Tho} ne byron felt. the pinch. of reduced! incomes ory shat meant Ursin thing te acre out St taxation, the fect on the iving and the growing burdens
People keneallyy Gnethe. Fura Heaters wna a Blogs {Fm which hey are "sti" suffering." Along thy old time wid sports se-shoot with angtiog—have ven sintoc 1918 but the, ghost} their former selves. This has} nent less employment for the! Targr mander of men who used to engaged for tite or more) months in-the year as. ghillies, and so forth, at good pay, The tourist seasons in the Highlands} have also been failures since) 1914, with the obvious consequence red had exceeded the ammount} maid out by over £300,000, which balanes, along with weered me to the accounts the total deposits to the record fi wre of $20,189,208.
Phe bank as proved a sheets anchor many decent people who, but for the encouragement, Tad given to thely instincts of]
cand dependence, might have found th themselves in des-straits, The kind of people who have built up a bank Tutlanee are not the kind who go and yield to the ug influences that are, ately, affect certain proportion of the unemployed.
sat tory record in thrift repented in. Edinburgh and deed every place in 8 land where a savings: Bink that hon QOLY AND MELLIANDS, A discussion has been going ov in west of Se muscle and sport,' and this recalls theory voiced by a xen-Ueman some years go. He was} keen upon elf; he read and everything connected with the game, and at last he came to m that Te could become hiss player. thing he was 'a scratch or first-Tie possessed every told. was necessary to become such, but he discovered for himself thal he lacked the one thing essential, and that what he called "equal" or eyesight, ig. search' for also he discovered that among his nds ability at golf was al-equal to ability at billiards.
one thing common to these!
games is eyesight, and_ tigation among "his circle!
club, mem! bers he found That person's proficiency at each of] these games depended almost entirely on their Possession of equal true eyesight. that, very few people have true eyesight, and that their ability at golf and billiards depended on. the difference between the sew large number with the strength of one's exon
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