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...meantime the course of events has presented for solution new problems which the Washington Conference did not contemplate. The Washington Conference has, however, laid down the principles to be followed in such cases. Upon a strict adherence to those principles will depend peace and order in the Far East...
None so humble and strict in her pieties as hollow-breasted Leah, penitent Jewess. The wicked willows saw her live black hair hacked off. Come Yom Kippur, she fainted with fasting. After a year, pale, pious Eli from the yeshiveh (seminary) brought her to peace...
...coast guard established a strict blockade along the Atlantic coast to break up the rum row that stretched from New London, Conn., to the New Jersey coast. It succeeded. Rum row practically disappeared. But it has reappeared in the Gulf of Mexico, furnishing gulf ports with many kinds of dangerous drinkables. Last week the Coast Guard announced that it would extend its blockade in that direction, operating from Biloxi against the rum runners from Bimini...
...statement that the amount of lace imported from Ireland during the last few years was so small as to be negligible is not accurate, because most of the Irish lace went to England and was shipped from there as an English product. In England, the trademark laws are so strict that no one dares to misbrand any article, and so we felt safe enough so far as the English trade was concerned...
Somebody said immigrants were badly treated on reaching Australia. Said Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, to Lord Apsley: "Either you or I will have to go and see things for ourselves." As a day laborer at $5 a week went in strict incognito Lord Apsley, heir apparent to old Lord Bathurst, whose wife was until recently owner of The Morning Post. Last week he came back, said that immigrants were not badly treated...