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Show YOUTHFUL SCOT WELL VERSED. Prompt and Concise Answer to Categorical Cate-gorical Question. Boston, Massachusetts, has long en-Joyed en-Joyed the reputation of having exceedingly exceed-ingly learned children who are able, so it Is said, to dispute on subjects far above the heads of their elders of other oth-er regions. But Boston is not unique. In a book entitled "The Scot of the Eighteenth Century" Ian Maclaren describes de-scribes a similar characteristic of the Caledonian. It is the Inevitable tendency of the Scot's mind to follow out every line to its terminus, even If it be over a precipice, and to divide every hair till infinity is touched. It is not only in church courts, but in market places and in railway stations, sta-tions, in humble cottages as well as in university societies that the Scot is I disputing, in every spare moment of his time, from morning till night. The story goes that a minister overheard over-heard a mother questioning her child, as It supped its porridge, after the day's work was done. "What," said this austere mother, "is the true relation between kirk and state, according to the principles of the Free church?" And the favored child promptly replied: re-plied: "Co-ordinate jurisdiction with mutual subordination." Youth's Com- nnninn |