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A Shipping Correspondent of the Observer writes :--
STORY OF THE FLOOD.
INTERESTING FINDS IN THE EAST.
PRINCE AND PETS. AMBITIONS AS A SMALL
BOY.
TO STOP THE CUTTING OF PUPPIES TAILS
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Paderewski said to her:
the civilisation of the world 4,000 Many interesting sidelights on,
The apprentice system as
years, before Christ, and on the operates in the British mercantile covered of the Bible narrative of every page of the "Singer's corroboration that has been dis There is something good in marine is sadly in need of revision, the Deluge, were given by Miss image (Grant Richards, both from the point of view of the Claire Gaudet, lecturer and exami- 185), in which Mme, Blanche Mar boys themselves-and-that-of-their-ner in art to the London County
choŝi-reviews-a-long-career in the parents, many of whom would re Council, in a lecture she delivered art of teaching singing in the frain indenturing their lads were at the British Museum on the dis- method Inherited through her they acquainted with the actual con- ditions of the service. Up to a few coveries at Nippur. The lecture parents from the founder of the decades ago the embryo merchant on recent excavations in Mesopota first opera company from Europe. was the first of a series of twenty Garcia dynasty." who took the officer served his apprenticeship in mia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean to the United States. sail: The decline of the sailing showing the evolution of architec
"Go where the musters are," is ship, however, has resulted in a new condition of things, and now there lure from the Fourth Millennium Mme. Marchesi's adieu to aspirants. But alus the great masters are are comparatively few lads who
B.C., to Roman and Early Christian
not attracted to England, for when receive their training in square
times. rigged ships. The British Board of
A large part of the lecture they are there they are not treated. Trade, as the result of careful in was devoted to the discovery with distinction by the music world quiry, announce that 168 firms of ly before the wariof 34,000 tablets find that the way to keep on
by the American excavators short, ur society. British shipowners are prepared to (or clay documents) at Nippur, con- take apprentices, but of this number taning records by the Sumerians only ten are the owners of sailing and Semites of absorbing interest. Until just before the war the The terms of engagement are Sumerians were thought to have years if the cadet has completed of the Persian Gulf but excavations usually for four years, or three lived only at Suma, near the mouth two years' preliminary training at Ashur, in the north, brought to on the Conway of the Worcester fight the remains of a temple dat The remuneration-offered varies, ing before 4,000 B.C. Some of the and is usually about £40 for the tablets, which the Americans were four years, provided that the in-nislly engaged in transcribing Peps soothe and purify the delicate air-passages; they allay soreness and inflammation, and soon banish thepleted. In some firms a premium the five antediluvian cities, only two delightful tea-party which in-
dentures are satisfactorily com during the war, contained a list of
It was arranged at the "mošt most obstinate cough, cold or chill Peps are a boon to
is required and this is returned of which were known to us previous sufferers from bronchitis, asthma and other chest weakness
when the service is completed, or isly, and the names of the three gods cluded "Prince Edward, about and they safeguard the throat against disease,
forfeited in case of desertion. With of creation, Euks, Anu, and Enlil,two and a half, Prince Albert, these arrangements, there is, little with their goddess, Ninkharsagga. sixteen months-in a high chair. or Lady of the Mountains, believed and Princess Mary on the knees of to be the mountains of Elam, in the her nurse.”** east of Babylonia,
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The most interesting, however, of the Sumerian tablets was that giving a description of the Flood, with the god's instructions to man
having successes here is to dis- appear from time to fore: Queen!
After singing before Victoria, Mme. Marchesi was told by the Chichess of Connaught: The Queen has been made so happy by your songs, now what can I do to make you happy 2"
To which I answered; "Oh, that hold a King of England on my is very simple. I would like to
knee," - "
She recalls a delightful story about the present Prince of Wales. He was asked:
"What will you do when you are King?" and he answered- quite a little mite he was- When
cut."
reconditioning provest that Ameri- fran shipyards were capable of hand- ing the hardest of jobs. Admiral THE TRANS-PACIFIC TRADE. Benson said the "Leviathan" would | years at sea must go through a the constructitia of the Ark is very to a queen of song even in re- '
JAPANESE COMMENTS.
tirement at Craig-y-Nos.t the house of the diva to bring a It was the custom" in coming to large boret - a cardboard-box similar to a hat-box.
the
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LOST OPPORTUNITIES, But, unfortunately, shipownes do not regard their responsibilities
the ΠΙΕΙΠΠΕΙ that they concerning the building of the Ark., should. In many cases, there is The Sumerian version is almost am King there will be in my not the slightest attempt to identical with the Hebrew story, country nosi, no bearing reins. educate the boy in the calling with the exception that the former for horses, and no puppies' tails which he has elected to follow, and gives six tlays instead of forty the result is that many lads when days downpour. The incident of
PATTI'S FOOD-VASTER. they have completed their four the dove, however, is the same, and
Patti insisted on the adoration
In the fastest vessel plying between course of cramming at some similarly described. This record the United States and Europe and nautical school before they can must date from before 3999 B.C., in (emplausised that they must have hope to pass their second-mate's which year the Sumerians were Japanese papers have lately had many more as fast it the country examination, which they must invaded by the Semites. The dis a good deal to say about the was to montain its status in keep de before they can rise any coveries
also show that the renicnerativeness of the Thing with the 5-6.3 agreement. The higher
At dinner. MNicolini fasted in their profession. Sumerias had spelling-books, paritie trade, says the Japan Chrond- Admiral startled the audience by The average lad who decides grammars, and dictionaries. They destined for Patti, and, after having
· fond put the plate. ele. Singe time ago, there was a list declaring that America's gresiteston ឌ seafaring career is had developed a script, and were of the losses sustained on every foreign competitor is 112 meet, as a rule, good mathematician, careful in their record of history tasted declared solemnly every soge by the principal Japanese haat vessels capable of making and the result of four years" rasting The tablets were bricks, inscribed time: You can eat it."
As a matter of personal ex-- Nowwillestanding that, twenty kaots, while America tras his that he often finds the knowledge
pertence Mme. Marchesi states: Jajetese buyers have recently bree, including the Leviathan,” of mathematics he acquired at school has left him. If the nautical
and girl especially, are absolutely The studies of the British child, bought an old P. & Q. and an ald Bullar Lanje steutner for the pur-
crammer can coach him up he may
adequate in the public schobs. pe, it is said, of engaging in the
scrape through his examination, Pacific number trade, which is
but if he fails he has nothing be- The lecturer described how, They lear practically nothing. fore him but to go to sea as an owing to the frequent floods, the The British woman-student is
Her conclusion ist flourishing again. Perhaps bername
The Russan Government, reparts A.B., an eventuality which is people learnt to live mountain lazy-let us say that terrible word, the wish it father to the thought, the Prada, has decided to declare parents or guardians certainly high" by building artificial mota Spiritually lazywants, the easiest there has also been miners Petrograd and Archangel free ports, never contemplated.
tains with their sun-dried bricks; statements made about the low
The percentage of failures of but, although they. Iuilt their work, the casjest earning, is con- water in which the Angerican come
apprentices It is reported that the 0.8K time-expired
and temples of brick, they were content with a small salary, with week panies find themselves and their
Fends andrea-parties. probable withdrawal from the stern steamer Amerien-tunet" is to be others who sit for the second-tent to live in reed huts themselves. Glory and fame are words that do competitival of the Parties, bird for the trip of Princessmate's examination is about fifty, These inniense mounds The allocation to the Cubs Nagala Kuninomiya) thigh the the distressing feature of it is drained by a simple method of that many of the young men who placing three bricks triangularly in Partic Company of the West NigInland Sea on her visit to wese are plucked have little or no chance the mound, bonded together with does but took me like withdrawal. Japan, Shikoku and Kash. The of subsequently passing the test. bitumen. but the Yainichi now comes out tour is planned for the latter part if the shipowners saw to it that the with a statement that, according to May.
lads had opportunity for study under supervision this condition of things would not arise.
GENERAL NOTES.
It is
CHEAP LABOUR,
with a kind of stylus, and tried ia the sun or haked. A "letter" was enclosed in an" civelope," also of clay, and treated thy the same manner as tablets.
were
PORTER AS RING DOCTOR.
BOXING DEATH WARNING.
By their negligence many own- ers certainly lay themselves open Poplar
оп
not lure the student of yesterday and to day England.
voice that has come from a nation-
After saying that "the greatest
al institution is Clara Butt's," Mme. Marchesi continues:
As long as I taught in London only I hardly ever met phenomenal voices
the American Shipping Board re-
Official denin s given in Wash- port the Admiral Liner ke $100,000 on every trip. We had ington to reports, that the Unites heard nothing of this remarkolde States Shipping Board has sold luss, and sinely if it were really several finens to Germany, ported, such a fine record-breaking painted out that no forment to the charge that they simply re- Humphreys, 27, of Stepney, who my energies to Lontion only. achievenant wald Have been well ship can be sold to foreigor interests gard the apprentice as cheap died in hospital after collapsing in advertised! On the strength of this indess five commissioners of the labour. He is employed to clean the 13th round of a boxing match Juss, the Mainly says, the Admiral Board consem in writing and give brass and paint-work, to shift coats. with Fred Archer, of St. George's Line will throw up the sponge in their reasons.
and generally to do the work of an in-the-East. June. It is true the statement de
ordinary seaman. He does, it is
Manchester I have been But, since I have visited
confronted with such a wealth of The inquest was concluded at British voices that I cry for those Alfred George long years in which I devoted all
"Among thirty- voices tried, two At Derby, Mme. Marchesi states, only were mediocre, twenty-five were excellent and three 80 phenomenal that if they work they wil stir the world."
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Captain Guthrie had a tug-of-war with the reniovalsmen to try to get the furniture back to the house. At the police station he was 'shown. every consideration His wife brought six blankets, pyjamas, bed- On charges of assault, Captain room slippers, and a toilet set. She John Craig Gtric, 48, solicitor, tucked him in and put socks on his
threatening at his house, Taycliff, was a row! appeared at the Sheriff Court feet. Because he could not get a Cupar Fife. He was accusekitof bath or a shave in the morning there Tayport, Fife, to shoot Mr. Williami Giptalu Guthrie suid he had a Dewar, a Dundee auctioneer; permanent pension of £140 a year. Jack Solomons said that he was not unde máte positively, but even According to a cable just received true, pick up much which will be head porter at the London Jewish
assaulting. Mr. David Clark, que He had told the auctioneers from when it is reported that the Ad-by the Mercantile Marine Service of service to him. He learns, fur Hospital. He was not a medical
tioneer's assistant, at the gate at whom he bought the furniture not miral Line is believed to have Association from the Cnadian Mer- example, how to perform his trick man. He examined Humphreys decided." one would expect that but Service Guild, whose counsel at the wheel, but any attempt to before he went into the ring.
Taycliff; and assaulting Constable to get into a panic and they would The Fruit Season
Flaws in Tayport Police Station be paid. They had no right to there was sumelling man which to acted on behalf of the association in teach him navigation or the use of
Bowel complaint is sure to be prava. It was stated that Mr. Dewar, move the furniture He brought Dr. Guthrie, the Coroner: Did lent during the fruit seison Be sure to Mr. Clark, and others went to Tay out his revolver to get the men out found the rumour. Inquiry at the defence of the interogs of the nautical instruments is too fre- you use a stethoscope 7-Yes.
+ keep a botto of Unumba lain's Culio and Admiral Line office, however, elicits second allier, the nine inquiry, quently conspicuous by its ab- Had you had any training? Yes, Olar hos Benely at hand. It my cliff with a lorry to remove furai of his house. He denied assaulting nut andy the statement, but plenty held at Vancouver, British dun sence. In some firms the practice with the British Red Cross under a life. For sale by all Chetnite ture for which, it was alleged, Mr. Clark and Constable Flaws
viders that there is no feuda, into the loss of the Prince during, say, the third or fourth anesthetist and assistant surgeon is 10 sign on an apprentice Italian and British officers. I was
nd Storekeepere :
Captain: Guthrie had not paid, |. The hearing was adjourned. tion at all for the story. In spite steamer usean Prince," which year of his service as a quarter in the ficid. of being squeezed between the less occurred in February 16. during master and to pay him extra. This,
He added that he had never been
sales of the Japanerzs steamers and very heavy weather, on Village - although regarded favourably by to a medical school or said that he Lite superiority of the British stenuand, Bunday Sout, B., is ze the lads themselves, as it gives was a qualified medical practi the Admirat bine shows an ulted in the master and all officers them more pocket-money, is hard tioner. The boxers used to call him signs of giving on, and is generally being absolved from bude.
ly fair to the A.B.'s, who look upón renkound to be one of those who *
"Doctor," as he used to dress their the work of a quartermaster as one wounds.
crs,
.
Mr. Rutherford (for the relatives
look forward with përfect equani. & subject which the Export Sub- of the plums to which they have mity and perhaps with pleasurable mittee of the Shanghai Cham- the right to aspire. It must be re-of the dead man): Did you ever anticipation to the offer of the Ship-ber of Commerce has had before it membered too, that the supply of lead Mr. Morris, one of the pro- ping Board flat to the companies and the Shipping Sub-Committee apprentices exceeds the vacancies moters, to believe you were a how running the ships. Ho the is the galation of the China for junior officers, so that there can qualified medical man?--No, not to statement that shipping competit Homeward Freight Conference that, be no guarantee of employment as
my knowledge: tion for the Puget Sound lines wil:| Where freight is payable at destina- officer when the indentures are be alloyisted by the withdrawal of ton for seeds and cerrale, con completed.
es ural Luneyfi. is not likely to signes y freight on the shipping who has put in two years at sea, without pay
It frequently happens that a boy be put to Elin proof. Shipping news weight and not on this out-turi finding hintself short of pocket- in the Japanese papers is so very weight, which may be less than that often quite wrong flat one wonder indicated on the bill of lading. The what it is inserted for. Certainly views of the two Sub-Committees not for the dissemination, of in this question are not yet avail formation, so presumably for other able for Publication.
"Purposed......***
Joseph Morris said that Solomons attendant, and he acted as such attended the contests as medical
Dr. Guthrie: Did Solonions ever
money, thinks it to his advantage tell you he was a properly qualified to desert and secure the wages of man? Yes, he did. a sailor. There is thus a steady
from the apprentices who joined
recruitment of the ranks of seamen would not have engaged him?-No.
Had you known he, wis not you;
Archer, who said that his real the sea service with the aim of name was Mark' Argebaud, gave It is authoritatively reported rising to the higher grades of their his account of the fight. There was LEVIATHAN NEARLY READY T-side that the Tyne firm of profession. This would not occur no ill-feeling between them.
Swan, Hunter, Wigham-Richard it the apprenticeship system were
Dr. Guthrie said that Solomons
Speaking before e mutuber of on, & Co., Ltd. ivy purchased a not abused. It is, perhaps, only had sailed very near the wind and steamship men at Newport News,orge sile on the south bank of the fair to point out that the aver had better abandon-his occupation Virginia, Mr. Homer Ferguson, the eas near Middlesbrough for the age owner leaves the matter of of attending contests and acting as manager of the Newport Newsonstruction of a new shipyard. the instruction of apprentices a medical man Shipbuilding Company, reported. The rival claims of Clyde and Tees to his captains, and they in their The jury returned a verdict of that the great taak of converting the have been under consideration, and turn perfunctorily delegate it to Death by Misadventure, adding "Levithan" into an oil-burnier wat the choice as finally falled upon their officers, with the result that that no pre was to blame. completed, and that the work of res the Tees. Steel mills for the pro what is everybody's business is conditioning the entire vessel wa Juction of plates exist on an adjoin nobody's, and the apprentice who 85 per cent. finished. There way ing site, and the district offers to finds that he has no better chance arrangements are likely to be niade
joined the service with high hopes. every prospect, he said, that the abundance of skilled shipyard metrov) would leave New York Label understood the commencer usagong this were done much
of a rise in his calling than he other professional education fqr Europe on June 1, as scheduled. Tees Conservancy Commissioners career as a mere deck boy, Parents and air. Ferguson described the vase bave given an undertaking to widen before indenturuin their Inds to the and As the Brest liner afloat, and said the River Toos so se to permit of the sea would do well to inquire what that, whether she paid or not, bor (sunching of the largest vescia,
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