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Port Perry Star, 3 Sep 1913, p. 3

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After a agora Breaking: Tour-The Siniple Lite, Lady 'Constance 'Stewart-Richardson, who recently "earned: the y of $8,000 Weck a8 5 dancer in. Now. York is back a hading dhe simple life with a vengeance, She set to tour the country in an up-to-date cara- ub her 'wanderings is yetermined to live up to the "Is. Proof of Mind © Capacity. _ The theories respecting oriminal- types as set forth medical: 'officer at ment, Dr. Goring's. meas Bes tha the i dete (10 roso. that ig. a defini AM ad REE b 18, Dossiio | 0 recognize various ia of orimis "do copy ihr tier "Take, for camp he said, | "sehiat: is commonly with a man who is successful petrat- ing f¥auds :on: property. He is of- ter & most fascinating man, some- dis times hatidsome, with a good edu- cation to his dredit."! In this con- nection Bir Robert relates ax. in- ansodote. by | be said: !| terialism. i do nything to get back what he haa lost." That the vast majority of 'orimi- nals are of a low standard of intel- ligence, often amounting to mental deficiency--in = other words, criminality . "'is not inherent wick- edness but. natural stupidity"--8Sip Robert wholly disbelieves. 'What the police call a 'good' oriminal is always a clever man,' "Weak-minded people of- ten do :wrong things thoughtlessly, but in estimating criminality = the low 'standard of intelligence is a negligible quantity. " "The "criminal is generally -defi- nitely clever. If you were to the prisoners in jail and ple in slum around which Joa | Rad put & sing fence for purposes .ol compari- ou would mostly find the pre- rance of ability among the Ld ng 1" ep ec EMIGRATION FROM SCOTLAND Nearly 200,000 "Persons Left Her Skores in Last Four Years. Nearly 200,000 Scottish . persons emigrated from Scotland during the four years 1909-10-11-18. ° This number is equal to two- thirds of "the population 'of Edin- burgh, or nearly to the combined populations of Grimsby, Ipswich a 8: _ Btatistios are printed in a Par- ry reply by the Secretary Ll for Bootland to a 2 Question by Mr. Jesse Collings. They show how im- migration has increased, the follow- ing, figures being the number of r. Boottish emigrants only : a long time and. finally shirked the: decision, . One of 'the he was that of Woerth} Et a Wi r. * Seobinhoy of : Canter- 1909 ... 1910 1911 . , 1912 AX nus y ve yous: 04,008 The Aguites for the first three years are those of emi- ts' from: Scottish - ports = only, gran while the 1912 figures include Bcot- | tish emigrants from other ports in United Kingdom. . iy hove Take a total: expansions, - 2, Iam shore thy God--Tt was important that'the people should ie ill that ue lov sot' forth owing wo! was tof Jehovah, himself gr people. 3. Thow shalt--The pronoun is in the second person: singular. ' The '| law addresses itself to "each indi- vidual-member of the nation. 4 Graven imagé--In reality an hewn from wood; as distin. from a 'molten' image. Fhe hed, io of the words "Nor any, likeness" shows that the intended reference is to idols in general, As the first commandment asserts; the unity, of God and is a protest against polytheism, so the second emphasizes his spirituality and is a protest against idolatry and ma- 'The commandment has sometimes been understood to for- bid the making of all statuary and sculpture; but it should rather be combined. with vérse 5 and be in- terpreted as forbidding the making of images for the purpose ol wor shiping them. The water under the earth--Ac' cording to the Hebrew conception the earth, which was flat, was sup- ported | upon 'the waters of the "great deep" (comp. Gen. 1). 5. Upon the third and upon the fourth generation--The inexorable law of heredity is valid for good as well as for evil. Its subtle work- ings whereby it appears. sometimes to skip one. or more generations have in our time especially' become © | a matter of careful scientific study, and investigation. 6.. Unto. thousands--Or, a thou- sand generations. 7. The name of Jehovah thy God --Among ancient Oriental peoples the name of a person. was regarded as of much greater significance and importance than in'our day, stand- img, as it did, in a peculiar sense for the person himself. 'Hence to blot out a name meant practically the annihilation of the person and all memory of him. To use unne- cessarily or carelessly the name of God was the height of irreverence. Later a too literal interpretation' of this commandment led, to & sub- stitution. of the word "'adonai" Gord) for "Yahweh" in reading the Hiptures, which - habit, "in tirh, resulted in & corruption or combi- nation of the two, from which has come our English word "Jehovah." 8. Remember the sabbath day, to bop it holy--The word "sabbath'® is derived from a root meaning "to desist, to, cease."' It is worthy of note that in a time when religion consisted chiefly in the observance of ritual and ceremony this super- ior ethical code places emphasis on only one external and formal reli- gious dut; Bariouly a 80 called, namely, that of observa 0. oe Bix days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work--Note that the posi- tive comménd to work is as binding as the prolubition ¢ to work on the Subbath day. . /man- rvant', ibility 4 is far-

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