... Allegations Against Merchants. To the Editor the Telegraph and Post. Sir, —Carlyle, the Sage o£ Chelsea, wrote years ago Great Britain contained about million aoids, mostly fools. wonder what he would have said about now ? I just find that my wife is a fooL She got tome new-laid eggs 4s 3d per dozen. Now, there must be millions of laying hens this country just now busy daily laying eggs. Some ...

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... Chancellor's Long Catalogue of Injustices. tenner, the Austrian Chancellor, has , Ciemenceau a first Note the Peace terms. , ,j s a lengthy resume of the hardships wiled German Austria by the Treaty, ( , e keynote of the argument being that t,„ , remains German Austria can longer live. it is believed, the Allied German counter proposals trill . handed to the German delegation. taken for ...

... PEOPLE IN THE STORY. Barbara Bellairs, known as the Angel of the ] Ward, is loved by Sidney Dane, a young house surgeon. She recognises a patient who is leit Lascars at .the hospital ( Geoffrey Desmond, who married and de- serted her years before. He heir to a fortune, which otherwise falls to Or Philip May, his cousin. Barbara photo graphs Philip in the act of trying to poison Geoffrey. Nurse ...