TEN v. ELEVEN O'CLOCK CLOSING.

Evening Star, Issue 11891, 20 May 1903, Page 7

TEN v. ELEVEN O'CLOCK CLOSING.

! TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your 1 to-day's issue your correspondent "St. Andrew" has written upon the above subject, and, as I am fairly well known to a few intimate friends as having written numerous letters to the Press at different times under the same nom de plume, I think it only right to repudiate the authorship of that letter, as I know nothing whatever about what is going on in Glasgow, neither do I know, or even care, so far as that goes, how the liquor business is swimming along in the "dry" or granite city of Aberdeen, because 'we have quite if not more than enough to do to look after our own business here. I King Solomon said "There is nothing new* under the sun," If he had lived at the present time, under the regime of "King Dick," he would have found out differently, as "circumstances alter cases," and, accordingly, would have had to play ••second fiddle" in the land of Seddonia—a land flowing with milk and fads, without the honey. Apart from that, I don't in any way say my "dignity" (sensitiveness), or even my "purse*' was "touched" by your correspondent—far from it; but nevertheless I don't want to be " mixed up," like ' Girofle-Girofia,' in being identified with the "new St. Andrew," as his ideas don't altogether "blend" with that of the "original."—l am, etc., i St. Andbbw. j May 19.