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»bitetor.Oiliatdoildiefon**are-obrm:heitsiepH.the/orlanma r a ro-thece-y aA London dispatch says that the Duchess of Marlboro was dreadfully upset by the deed of a man sitting next to her at a roulette table at MonteRitchie, Vallens, Davis or any other tobacco plutocrat undertakes to ante pew rent, devout Methodists will grabthe collection plate away and let theCarlo. He stabbed himself thru the the golden simelons roll in the dustheart. The duchess promptly left along with the cigarette stumps andMonte Carlo to join Lady Sarah VVil- old chews.son in Paris.We always hadThat settles it. it put up that the duchess was a chub-ber. No real sport w'ould quit a goodof such a triflinggame 011 incident.accountThe Duke of Cambridge is hand-do ling the patriotic fund in England.in According to his say so there are 2500 lardo relatives left destitute in the old coun-bvO *3000 orphans and 1600try by the loss of their supporters in the South African war. As the government which uses these men while alive does not provide for the widows, orphans and aged parents when the to soldiers are dead, the duty devolves onice Cambridge’s patriotic fund, which is:ut hugely inadequate. That is to say,ut the families of the heroes w ho died inhe Chamberlain's African follv are to bemis- made the victims of ostentatious charity, and their chances are good to starve when the war fever subsides.he This is a phase of war which is not heralded by booming guns, martial — music or the splendors of triumphial ias parade.;ss ---ie- W. W. Baer, a Methodist preach-le, er who has the misfortune to live insk the Victoria district, smokes. For)al this diversion some of his dearly be-ra- loved brethern of the cloth undertookThere are severalthe caseto discipline him. technicalities mixedink. which make itupdifficult fora nonprofessional to savy, but it seems that after being referred back and forth ice from one clerical court to another the :he case—in the particular of principle at rd least—has been decided against thesmoking parson.This seems a rather narrow ver-:he sion of the broad, free and enlightened ty. Christianity of which we hear so muchnow-a-days, but of course these self-appointed judges are theologians by trade and should know by intuition just where Christ stands on the tobacco question. Having declared themselves on this matter it will now be in order for consistent exponents of Methody to refuse to accept contributions cigarette fiends, tobacco chewers and others addicted to the use of the fra-tromgrant narcotic sistency thruTo follow their con-they should also keepMethodist boys and girls from McGill as W. A. Macdonald’s tobacco moneypermeates the structure from mudsill to stringer ; and then when the Mc-Alpin crowd or the Tuckett folks or
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Sandon Paystreak
Sandon, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Apr 20, 1901
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