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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4573, 11 June 1923, Page 2

For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Pepperhiint Cure. “They don’t setem to evince any desire to go out,” said Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at Christchurch, of the people in the back of the Magistrate’s Court during the hearing of an indecent assault case (relates the Press). “They are content to listen to the unsavoury details, unless I grder them to go.” The Court, was cleared. The news that, the home of Annie Laurie, as a married woman, Oraigdarroch, Dumfriesshire, is to be sold by her direct descendant, Mrs SmithCunninghame, of Capringt,on Castle, Ayrshire, will probably lead tp a revival of the old controversy as to who wrote the world’s greatest love song The honour is generally supposed to belong to one William Douglas, of Fingland, who fought under Marlborough in Flanders, says an exchange. Whether that he so or not, certainly Robert Burns did not “originate” the song; he merely revised a version he found current in the countryside, but the ballad we know so well was adapted by Lady John Scott-Spottis-woode. By the way, Douglas never married Annie. She was led to the altar by one Alexander Fergusson, of Craigdarroch,, in the year of grace 1709. O, Smiling Eyes ! sweet smiling eyes ! Their charm survives when beauty dies— One happy glance speeds gloom away Like sunshine on a winfter’s day. Bright eyes which greet us with a smile Can even hardened hearts beguile, They cheer the anguished to endure Like soothing Woods’ Great Peppermint cure.