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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 5 January 1916, Page 1

LOST. OST between Bridge street and Bishopdale,, gold , Indian work.. ■bangle, Reward, "Mail" Office. \ v " OST, yesterday -afternoon, leather"_J bag, between Nelson, and Stoke, via: Tahuna, containing money,staimps, and parcel. Reward at Jackson's, bookseller. OUND, a Bievcle. Apply ]i 1 "Mail" Office ANTED, BOY FOR OFFICE. ' GRIFFIN- AND SONS, LTD. , I

Charlotte Bronte and Edith Cavell. Let us have the courage, to-our insulari T ty, and celebrate Brussels chiefly for the sako of two—aliens and .women—both most illustrious and niosfe memorable, who-mi tho chances of life and death have associated for all time' to come with the . Belgian capital. , A mingled political, military, and civil, a, very mixed architectural record, and all the ambition of "a little Paris," as every smiling merchant told you across a counter (before the war), Brussels deserved to be called all this seems to some of us of - less importance than tho two unlike greatnesses of an English governess and an English nurse! <i As an instance of ■ unconscious humour in the index of a law book, it would be , hard to beat the entry in a volume of ■, reports: "Best, Mr Justice, his great mind." And the reader who turned up , the page to peruse the evidence of the judge's intellectual superiority, found that "Mr Justice Best said that he had a great mind to commit the counsel for ' contempt.". Canny Scotland ! At Kirkcaldy- Towu Council meeting recently, it was agreed to make arrangement for the removal of obsolete guns which form part of the, ornamentation at the!, main entranceTto the Beveridge Park. , being done so that in the event v of\'a* Zeppelin raid Kirkcaldy might, not 'bft' put down by the Germans as a fortified town. ■ ■ T » At the age og 86,> John Chapman, of Hole Farm, Finchingficld, Essex, has . just died. He began work when nine • vears of age, at Hole Farm, and he worked there all his life. Five years ago, When tho Essex Agricultural So. ciety offered prizes for long service, Chapman took the premier award. In the'recent harvest ho worked' every; day as a horseman, carting corn, to tho stacks. He had never ridden in a traw, , never had a ride in a motor never smoked but he liked a little homebrewed been. ' " .'" The production of Turkish tobacco ill , the Western Province of the Union of , South Africa is an industry of compar&-» tivelv recent growth, hut it.has develops .: ed with extraordinary rapidity, especially in the French Hoek Valley, -where the soil and climate appear to approximate closely to tho native conditions of ,the best varieties of Turkish* 'tobacco.'-' In several instances farmers have uprooted; their vineyards in order .to pmnt to-, hacco. T'lie number of growers is . .0, and the area- under ' b ,dtivation «p----acres, with l a Vield of 2K>,vXK)ld. annual--ly. The, average price lor *iie 1913 crop was Is 8d per ipound. ',

THE SAME WITH A. DIFFERENCE., "Aa sav, Jack, hev ye. seen jm-s£«];, paapers that the British hev been amft.. Us in France?" "Wey, man BilL;that,a nowt! Ma aad muthor's been, iism gas in Newcassel for years, and bilea' her; • s kettle on't, tec !" , - ' OTHER INTENTIONS. •:"■"»■.'. Recruiting officer: "And now, my lad,. just one more question—Are'yov ««»*.,«. . cd to die for your country?" ' Recruit: "No, I ain't! , That ain't wot I'm J'ining for. I want' to make a fow ,- of .them Germans die for their!" •,