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A DAY WITα TEE POPE.
RESTRICTIONS THAT SURROUND HIM.
Turning over, in the mind's eye, the pages of Ranke; conjuring the worldly majesty, of Borgia and Colonna and the sustained splendours and imperial luxury of the Papacy of other days, and then switching for ward five centuries, one senses what a vivid return has been made at the Vatican to the simplicity of St. Peter -at least in so far as the manner of life of the sovereign Pontiff is con- cerned. Pope Benedict's existence bas just been described to me by an the cruellest life on intimate as
of appalling earth... A life responsibility with not one loophole for relaxation."
And if your enquire into things you will probably agree.
To begin with, anyone condemned to live in Rome all the year round for the rest of his life must rapidly become the victim of a sapping. malarious summer climate, with con- fmement to the Vatican a mental burden aggravating the physical one. But restrictions upon the Pope by
no means end there. He must always eat sinne, day after day, week after week, month after month year after year--just imagine the maddening silence of that meal and as if some
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SUPER-SALARIES IN BOMBAY.
Bombay, August 10.-It is under stood that the salary which the Bom-
THE CHINA MAIL
SMASHING A TYPEWRITER:
· CONSUL INTIMIDATED.
MINING ENGINEER'S THREATENING
LETIKĖS.
DEATH PENALTIES.
WHERE THE`AIR 18 USED.
HOW IT IS DONE IN CHINA.
You might supose that it was, A perfectly simple matter to hang a man and that therefore the hangmen Germany who are on strike could easily be replaced.
A. Canadian mining engineer named Charles Grant has been charged by the Fublic Prosecutor in the Intern national Court with causing damage to the property of the British Leg ation and with sending insulting and threatening letters to the British Consul-General, says the Siam Observer
The accused, who was in custody, was produced before the Internation
Faces go to show that execution by the rope is not a particularly 45 air and that it requires considerable experience to give the exact length of drop required in different cases.
TALE OF THE GEAR
REMÄRKIBLE STORY.
THRILLING SERIES OF ADVENTURES.
A remarkable story of adventure at sea was told the other night by a mem ber of the crew of the Commonwealth steamer ** Carave," which was wreck- od in March last on one of the Gas-
pagos islands, in the West Indies. he passed two and a half years in the Shipping originally on the Berrins North Sea. He was on the barque Burrowa" when the Germans sank
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Berry, who was responsible for ber by shell-fire, and later or board this country, used to test his appara-pedood. The "Tyne's crew was us over-night with a bag of sand of rescued by a trawler, which in turn was mined near the French naval approximately the same weight as pestation of Brest. morning's victim,
al Court on August, 13, Mr. R. about a hundred and thity executions the steamer-" Type "when she was PIONIO..
To complete his advectures the sea. In any case hanging is not the usual
man · joined" the “ Camwa,” which, form of execution in Germany. Priving at Fremantle in the midst of sis still reins the old-fashioned a strike, was compelled to return to headsman with his are and block England, whence she sailed for the Brunswick, Oldenburg, and Beden have altogether abolished the death penalty, while in some parts of the country the guillotine is retained.
The only other European country, besides Prussia, in which the axe is still the means of capital punishanent
Azores with coal. Fom the Azores the "Carawa" left for Port Arthur, Texas, where she shipped a cargo of 112,000 cases of oil,” valued at 1,000,000 dollars.
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BOY SCOUTS.
MOVEMENT. IN HONGKONG.
ENTHUSIASM IS REVIVED.
Lient-Colonel Bowen, Commis
Boy Scout Movement is about to be It is now generally known that the resuscitated in Hongkong. It was
PRESS IN CHINA,
AN IMPORTANT POINT,
``FOREIGN PAPERS ́SUBJECT TO
CHINESE LAW.
Mr. Wen Tsung-yao, Minister of
G. McDonald, the Legal Adviser, sitting is the case, interpreted and explained the prosecutor's indictment to the accused, who admitted that he had smashed a typewriter at the British Legation but denied that it was the property of the Legation He admitted writing the letters com plained of to the Consul General, but intimated that he would prove that he was justified in writing them.
The first witness called by the pro- secution was Mr. Warten of the British Legation, who deposed that BILLET WORTH AS, 6,000 A MONTH. the accused went into the British
Legation on July 6 and taking up a is Denmark. But it is a great my Artinar on March 15, and when, one typewriter which was the property years since sentence of dead was day out from Panama the lookoutmansioner, writes: of the British Government, dashed it actually carried out in Denmark Bel-sixed the steamer Olocksons, to the ground. The typewriter gium, like France, uses the guillotine, which was in flames. The "Carava" bay Government has agreed to give was damaged beyond repair. Wite but, as in Denmark, it is a very long stood by her for half an hour when
Foreign Affairs of the Military Gov. Si Lawless Hepper, late Agent of ness produced two letters writ-
time since the last execution. the G.LP. Railway who has been ap-ten by the accused, to the Consul-
it was ascertained that the crew had | started originally the year before the crament, in a reply to the acting The guillotine, by the by, which is pointed Director of Developments in General In one of these, dated
| been resched.
war by a Troop in St. Joseph's Japanese Consul, General in Canton, Bombay, is Rs. 6,000 monthly. Ser Jane 22, 1920, the accused said he supposed to have originated in France
Abbot 4 pm. alternoon, when College, but owing to a variety of relative to the recent search of the Lawless is the highest salaried officer was going to make a statement within the year 1792, is nothing but a
about
one hundred miles from circumstances it did not spread Lingnan Sampoo, a Japanese owned in the Bumbay Government Service, regard to the Mines Department in revival of the engine called "The Panema, a disabled lunch was sight beyond that College, and died Chinese, daily newspapers and the not excluding Members of Council court, and that if the court would Meiden" commonly used in Scotland
ed. One of the crew boarded the a natural death in. 1915. The war arrest of three Chinese, who-claimed Another recently created post is that not hear him, he would then commit in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
"Carawa" and informed the master produced a great strain on the Boy "to be Japanese subjects, has raised of Director of Information, held by a serious criminal offence which Major Dawson. This post carries a wond bring about his arrest and he Italy, Portugal, and Rumania have that there were five South Americans Scout Movement all over the World. several points which will greatly up- salary of Rs. 2,000.
would then be enabled to make a all abolished the death penalty. Curi- on the latch They had been with-it was therefore only with the great "hold Chinese sovereign rights, says
est difficulty that existing Troops the Canton Times. could statement in justification, in which ously enough, Russia was the first out food or water for four days.
be maintained at all, -Mr. Wen points out that foreigners be would charge the British consular country to take the lead in this reable to repair the defective engine masters called to the Colours, territory, but publications cancot go
The steamer's engineers being un-
→with 30 and
many - scout, “may publish newspapers in Chinese authorities with "persistently protect spect. That was as long ago as 1750; CONGRESSMEN IN KOREA. ing and condoning Mixes Office mal. but it was restored later, and thou the "Carava" took the launch in the formation of new troops became against existing authorities and local
administration.
sands have since perished by behead and reached Porn Chico, on a practical impossibility. That so policy; that a foreign publication
Chatham Island, on March 21.
many of the old troops, however, which, after being warned by the THREATENING THE CONSUL-GENERAL.ing, hanging, or the terrible "knout."
The meeting with the launch proved were able to hold their ground, and Chinese authorities, through" "the The second letter was more or less-Spain still executes her murderers disastrous to the Carawa," for when even often increase their numbers, foreign consul concerned, against to the same effect except that it comin public by means of the gart backing out from Porto Chico the speaks well for the vitality of the publishing certain things, stal acts tained a direct threat that accused The gate consists of a brass collar steamer struck the rocks about a mile movement, and the power it undocbt would do bodily harm to the Consul containing a screw, and when this is from the shore, a large hole, being edly possesses of infusing enthusiasm
turned by the executioner the sharon in the stem. General and other persons.
in those who devote themselves to point pierces the spinal marrow, caus-
what is one of the most successful ing instantaneous death.
movements of modern times for the improvement of boys.
SINISTIK INOIDS TS.
ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN?
גן
A Seoul message dated August 24 states
i Mr. B.-C. Neoh, derk at the British The Congressional Party arrived Legation, was the next witness. He bere safely this evening. Some signs said he saw Mr. Grant walk up to of restlessness could be observed the typewriter, lift it up and dash it amongst the population and many of . on the door making the remark at the Korean shops were closed. A the same time," Tell Mr. Lyle I did rail was discovered dislodged yester-
After calling" police evidence the
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petry, nursery hand were pestering day near Pingyang and it is believed Public Prosecutor closed his case. trocuted. In reality the chair" the first Sunday of thei: erife, but all over the world; and shortly after
that it was an attempt to wreck the train in which the party were travel: The accused was asked by the court ling. The police are prepared for whether he wished to have legal any emergency. There was some assistance to help him in bis defecce, cheering and flag waving along the but he replied that be preferred to conduct the case himself. He wished route of the Congressional special.”
The Seoul police cleared the streets to give evidence on oath in his own and evicted thousands of persons just behalf. After being sworn the accused prior to the arrival of the party. made a long statement going very
nothing of this.
IN A PENAL SETTLENEST.” The crew stood by the Carava" Japan is more civilised in this director three days, when Capoda Hyde tion than Spain, for she hangs her decided to abandon her. They landed criminals in private inside a prison.
Many people are under the impres on the island, which is the penal
colony of Ecuador: " sion that all criminals' sentenced to death in the United States are" eier- used only in New York, Massachu sets, and Ohio.
Elsewhere hanging
For five weeks the "Carawa's" remains the legal punishment.
men fought mosquitoes and endured At one time there was an agitation great hardships and exposure, crist in certain Western States to allowing on stores which they had been able man sentenced to death to swallow to secure from the wreck, supplement poison in his cell. But the only cours
When peace came at last a re trospect was made of the situation: steps were taken to reconstruct the existing troops and forth new ones bis appointment as Governor of Reginald Stubbe Hongkong, Str received a letter from Sir Robert Baden Powell, requesting him to in the Colony and inviting him to be Chief Scout. His Excellency accepted resuscitate the boy scout movement
the invitation, appointed Lieute Coloral Bowen, Commissioner, and From this plight they were rescued the following to act as the Committee
A ship appeared in the distance on hose on board failed to notice their signals of distress. ・・・
him, he may not carry'a watch!
The late Pope refused to eat alone and always had his secretary to cable with him, and he even insisted on carrying a huge dial watch his mother had given him. But Benedict the Fifteenth, on being asked at his elec tion what Papal etiquette he favour ed, replied: Everything as in Leo the Thirteenth's time." And so it The members of the party saw minute into his transactions with is Morocco-one should say was by R 40-ton schooner, which" took of the local Boy Scouts' Association:
has been.
Here is the Pope's day: 5.a.m. to
6 a.m., meditation and prayer; 6 a.m. celebrates Mass privately; 7 am., at- tends
а second Mass, kneeling throughout; 8 a.m., black coffee. The next five hours are taken up with correspondence and audiences. Every letter of three or four hun- dred a day the Fope reads or bas read to him, and as an example of his thoroughness in regard to audi- ences, 1 have met a young English girl here whom he received for half
TOKYO AEROPLANE SMASH.
BRITISH AVIATORS KILLED,
HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED,
he
try in which such a practice prevailsed by the meagre fare of the convicts
contrary to local policy, is subject to local interference; that a Chinese may be naturalized in foreign country, but, when residing in China, is subject to Chinese laws
Mr. We charge "the" Linguan Samper with being an organ of Chen Chinag-ming for the purpose of spreading sedition in Canton. *
LOSSES FROM STRIKES.
WHAT LABOUR'S, FOLLY
GOSTE..
WARNING TO FAR-EAST.
Statistics to hand from America
the Mines Department during bis Morocco-where, up to a few years them to Guayaquil-600: miles away-The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, set out some of the heavy losses that 250, man, of high's birth. charged in 18 days. An English vessel car President, Mr. R. Hancock, Vice country has sustained in recent with reason, might receive a gente ried them to Panama, and the most President, Mr. Weyman, Hon, Secret. strike. Labour and Capital have int, in the shape of a cup of poison-serious result was a case of rheumatary and Mr. Brawn Eon. Treasure both been hit, and a consideration ed coffee.
The Boy Scouts, it may be of the figures may well give reson China decapitates her criminals is made scute by exposure.
After 15 days at Balboa the men observed, are administered by the for thought in industrial circles in the The executioner uses a sword, boarded the "Austrairage," and the Boy Scouts Association, which has Far East, where labour troubles are axe, and is proud of his ability to cut voyage was uneventful till Sjuney its Headquarters in Victoria Street, being organised or are at least fore off a bead with a single blow. Her Heads were insight. Then a second | London, close to the Army and Navy -shadowed. In 1919 labour in the Government has not yet abolished the disabled launch signaled for assist Stores. The Chief Scout in any industry about $1,500,000,000. The States lost nearly 1 $725,000,000 and lung ch'i or lingering death.
eight years stay in this country. The court continually reminded him that was going far beyond the bound of relevancy also that being an undefended prisoner the court was willing to allow him as much latitude 29 possible but that he must not take advantage of the court's tudul gence. The accused persisted, how- ever, and when the court rose at 4 p.m. he had not come to the conclu- sion of his statement.
This,
which used to consist in kerally sence. The Australrange" took the of the Colonies of the Empire re The following day the accused ing the victim to death, has now been craft in bow, but the fine parted, and presents Sir Robert Baden Powell, Production of bituminous coal de- an bour privately and ultimately the aeroplane'accident in which Mr. in a written statement running to three cuts are inflicted before the fall for stearer, which immediately we the assistance of a local Associations less of steel ingots; 5,000,000 Investigation into the causes of continued with his evidence and put ‡ modified," and ir practice paly two or the captains reported the der to the and administers the troops, through Creased 130,000,000 tons and an-
counselled not to become a non
At one o'clock, the little sallow stopping, bespectacled gure eats a pessant's meal all alucemacaroni. cheese, olives, bread, and wine from Frascati Then follow an hour's siesta, a carriage drive in the Vatican
gardens, and an hour's walk-the only exercise and relaxation of
their lives has been conducted by cluded his evidence at noon-and F. 5. Kilby and Mr. A. Sunman lost many pages of foolscap. He con Mr. C.. Tiffany, the head of the asked the court to take the evidence aviation department of Messrs. Sale of a clerk in the British Legation and Frazar. It is reported that none and of the manager of the Smith of the control wires were found to Premier Typewriter Company to
be broken, but the two safety belts prove that the typewriter damaged
A PETITION TO THE KING.
was desirous of sending a petition to
The accused also intimated that he
to hold the pilot and the passenger by him was not the property of the the day, during which specially explanation is therefore that upon get
In their seats were unfastened. The Legation." good story-tellers are deputed to ting into a side slip either the pilot i accompany the Pontiff and take his or the passenger slid from his seat feverish mind off his task. The rest and in an effort to regain his position of the day, with a break for a silent fouled, the controls. Death was in meal at 7 pm, is given over 10 stantaneous, as both aviators, were unremitting work which does not pinned beneath the machine. cease till midnight strikes. And that
is going on till death.... Twice
only has the Pope wavered from his
blow.-Daily Mail.
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26 TO £7 PER WEEK..
to-the rescue."
Within four years the seaman from the Berrima has been four times lost
at sea.
THE MAYFLOWER.
DEPARTURE FROM-BRITAIN.
which has power to obtain warrants
thracite 12,000,000 tons; 9,000,000
[year.
for troops, appoint examiners, frame fewer cotton, baies than 1914: bye-laws, and raise any fand 76,000,000 bushels less wheat than it, may consider necessary for 1915; 140,000,000 bushels less corn the development of the work than 1917: $10,000,000 less gold and Besides the committee, all seront and $5,000,000 less silver than in 1918. club masters are ipso facto members The State of Pennsylvania alone lost of the Association, but any ladies some 4,555,118 working days last or gentlemen interested in the. movement are eligible for election.. Needless to say, troops, and, the Association are limited to British Sobjects, though troops of other misted to the Baden Powell Scouts nationalities may, if desired, become in fraternal association."
His Excellency convened the first
CROSS-CHANNEL SWIL
·IN: AMERIGAN'S · ATTEMPT.
PILGRIM FATHERS PAGEANT. His Majesty the King of Siam, but AND NO INCOME TAX EITHER. that the official in charge of the
Southampton, July 24.-Scenes at remand prison would not give him
sending the departure 300 years ago permission to do so. The Court in Police-court on a summons for deser-known to history as the Pilgrimeeting of the Committee ou
When a man appeared at Old street of the "little band of adventurers formed the accused that he must tion his wife said he was a Dews Fathers were re-enacted to-day in August 26 in order that steps might" Sullivan, who has arrived at Dover The American swimmer. Henry appeal to a higher Prison Anthority: programme. Once when he married Pope, whose main work was the
Later the accused called Mr. W. de Paper vendor, and carned from £6 to pageant inaugurating a
four day's be taken
for the raising of for the purpose of making another a noble Roman couple and watched weeding out of seminaries and who Silva, manager of the Smith Premier 7 per week.
celebration of the tercentenary of the troops and the commencement of attempt to swim across to Calais, bas the wedding party feasting off his was never at home except when dis-Typewriter Co., who after referring "Mr. Wilberforce I wonder if that sailing of the Mayflower." The their training as soon as the Schools been carrying out some long training golden plate. Again, when be visited cussing things spiritual. Fope the to the sales book deposed that the is true?
pageant was preceded by a luncheon reopen in September after the Sum “get in the Channel. On Sullivan's St. Peter's all alone in the middle of Marquis della Chiesa has, it seems, a
typewriter in question was not sold Cocoplainant: Yes. He bas bought tendered by the Lord Mayor. There mer Holidays. Encouraging reports last attempt to swim across the the night and, at a sudden impulse, brilliant brain for State affairs, nur by the branch of the compasy in Siam. a stand. She added that her husband, were 400 guests at the luncheon, as to the formation of troops both Channel from Dover in 1913, when prayed at the tomb of Pius the leath, tured under Cardinal. Rampolla and Mr. Hendriks, clerk in the British after striking her on the head a fort- cluding prominent persons in Ameri- in Hongkong and Kowloon Live" he was twenty-one years of age, he who, just before his death, made him Cardinal Merry del Val, but his forte Legation, said that the typewriter night ago, had driven her from the can and British official life and the already been received and there is had got to within six miles of the t a cardinal, and who, they say, will is his faculty for sering a definite was the property of the Consulate house.
heads of various Anglo-American every reason to expect that with the French coast in ten hours when rough and it was given him to use when he some day be made a saint,
Defendant; in reply to the magis societies. PLUMBER
advent of the cold weather the train seas which had developed during the
end and, while never swerving from i became an employe of the Legation trate, stated that he could not say how Soutienpton desirous of reminding i fog practices will be taken in bead; swim made it secessary to abandon - Perhaps there is comfort for the it, being perfectly willing to compro in November, 1919. This concluded much he cared. He had not been the world of her proud claim to fame with vigour, the attempt has carried ou prisoner in the knowledge that no mise en route. As an instance, bis Pope can stand it for many years. insistence on the Joan of Art cele- the acccused's defence. He then able to sell halt his papers, he de as the original port of embarkation of Boy Scouting is intended, as is Since then Sallivan-has out Over Benedict the Fifteenth since he cited, and for another, one might Minister in his letters, and wished to had no desire to live with his wife commemorating the event. An extraordinary change has come bration taking place this year is made a statement which he regretted clared
the reference he made to the British
the founders of the American comenon well known, to appeal to boys of some very long swims in America The missionary said the defendant wealth is vying with Plymouth in every class, but is most bene and has beaten Sam Richards, the ficial, perhaps, to those poorer previous bolder of the long distance
was elected six years ago. *
add his equal insistence that the withdraw anything be had written, any more,, and offered £23 week for By staging to-day's pageant which classes for whom. in England and Championship of America in a swim" At 59, and but a few months before. Plunket beatification should be gone but he could not withdraw anything her support and the support of her is entitled John Alden's Choice," at Seewhere it has done so much good tim Massachusetts Bay, in which be simple Bishop of Bologna, the forward with despite the been desire he had said about the Consul General Cardinal Marquis della Chiesa came of Dr. Hagen, of the Irish College nor was be prepared to apologise for into the Vatican like a whirlwind. here, for a postponemerit; He had a broom and he meant to use: You will hear, strange tales in some it. Restless, never still for a moment, Rome of the Italian Government
The court adjourned for judgment, he talked in his small, clear, quick craping, after solidarity these times feticed to one month and twelve and accused was subsequently sen voice heedlessly, and made many of stress and always coming up days imprisonment and a fine of enemies, and became widely mis against the sheet-anchor of the Tes. 224 understood. He would see every-Vatican; you will hear it said that body, do everythilog, m
the Pope may one day, not far off, Today, six years after, he is "2
"a be offered a corridor of 20 miles "quier old man, keenly intelligent down sea, enabling to be An article in the Kokumin says Ane fngulative, and wink eyes which from of the wond and in travel once that. 1. German specialist, employee fight up, fait Immobile and keeping again.
by the Japan Paper Manufacturing hi-marquietly down by his side.” One doubts if Benedict: be Fifteenth Corporation, has recently perfected Ne more year,” added my - would accept the offer were made, the invention of a paper shell to be otishe will be a great Pope." ". All roads have led to Rome latter used in place of a "steal shell-- The
I asked:
as never in the past To break the 1 biyentar claims that the paper shelf not exactly politically, and Mecca-like spell might be a finity is just es effective in war as the steel uity nor in Cardtual Supa'ng zooves, Ferdiman, Trony in The Shell and costs about a third as
deeply religion. Daily Meli,
children.
quore?
TO CURE SUMMER
HEADAC
the ancient quayside near the west For such the expenditure entailed covered thirty-four miles slong the Complainant: Can't you give me gate, through which the Pilgrima left can hardly be expected to be met by United States coast in just over
the boys themselves, and it is anti fyrenty hours" swimining, because no roadway existed, and garb- law England altered. If the man dress, an attempt was made to have of a local fund
The Magistrate: You must get the ing the performers in Puritanical cipated that for the provision of
uniforms and equipment the rasing? has been earning £0 to £7 a week, the reproduction as historically fall necessary. The President and Com
will be put the income-tax people on him fuf as possible.The gate has remain mitee would, therefore, be glad if
When the defendant observed that of though the intervening he had had to buy a wooden leg that
any Isdies and gentleman desirous of -- Dee ssisting, and of Election to the As morning for 43: 105 his wife ex-
„sociation, in their name claimed. "A customer paid 22:19% towards the purchase
The magistrate made an order for maintenance of £2 a week.
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