THUESDAYMAY 29 to
72 YEARS AT THE BAR.
WHEN JUDGES SAT 1
HOURS A DAY.
TO STOP AEROPLANES,
BRITISH INVENTOR'S
CLAIM
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MR. H. G. WELLS. FROM 2,000 YEARS HENCE.
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But is it not actually inaccurate To say that in face of the cancer: Bourge there, was general spathy? And that "the priests and In Mr. Well's new novel the rejournalists and so forth, the common opinion-makers were jealous of scientific men' ant did all they could to discredit its discoveries. [those of scientific research], to neule its patient workers and sot perla naine, ther"?
That's what pt zles me most," kindhearted Summy interjects. It puzzles na too. On second thoughts it ought to "puzzle", Mr. Wells.
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Mr. H Grindell-Matthews, former has begun eating up the who during the war was paid | artist. As Sir Harry Poland would not £25,000 for an Invention which ***The Dream," published (Cape, write an account of his long and otrolled motor-boats by searen- 78. 5di) to-day, recalls Tono Bun "distinguished career at the Bright, claims to have discovered an Ray," but with all its searching Mr. Ernest B. Bowen-Rowlands visible destructive ray which he vision and carnful sunity-it leke has done it for him, "working" this was the means the Germans the rich charecarisation of tha with unflagging skill a veritable used last autumn to stop French curlies masterpiece, its bubbling ful. gold mine of memories, entitled aeroplanes in flight. A fewness of the joy and humour of life.
Seventy-two Years at the Bar
meaths ago,"
he said, "when this case my uncle Jolz (Macmillan, 18s), which has just I read in The Daily Mail Julin, a gardener, with the manner been published.
that French aeroplanes
of a sporting baronet who steala his repeatedly falling in, German employer's vegetables Indes away territory as the result" of into shabby drunkenness without mysterious engine trouble when having touched the reader's heart. passing over a particular spot, I
The story, as told from à platformi realised that the Germans had of 3,000 years hence, enables Mr.THE Steamship found an invisible ray that put the Wells to shower his pity and scor magnetos of the aircraft out of the confusion and futility of to having arrived Consignees of Cargo
"PREUSSEN" action., I concentrated on efforts day. Man is then really master of by her are hereby notified that all to discover what it was, and, with his destiny. "having had as he step-goods are being landed at their risk the electric ray now at myping stones the Grg War, the Age into the hazardous and/or extra of Confusion, the Poison Gas War hazardous Godowns of the HONG und then-befor the Now World KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD., whence, and/or from the Wharves, delivery can be
Sir Harry-long famous as the "Sleuth-hound of the Treasur" was appointed Counsel to the Treasury at the Old Bailey and Adviser in criminal matters to the Home Office as far back as 1865; and he held the position for 23 years. He is now flourishing in *his 95th year.
His personal impress adds to the value of Mr. Bowen-Rowland's command I think I have succeed. fascinating back, since, in answered."
to the author's questions, the To demonstrate the ray's power the Great Desolation.
couusel delivers
veleran
At a guest-house amid delectable hisa motor-cycle was started mountains we meet the men and wo account of the thrilling trials he in his laboratory.
From a has taken part in, and his reminis distance of soft. Mr. Grindell-men of the fur furre, naked and cences of bygone lights of Bonch Matthews directed the lens of his and Bar at first hand. It is a book apparatus" upon the
that will interest lawyers in particular and the public in general
a'pretty severe test.
machine.
There was no light, no visible ray of any kind-just a low murmur like a cat purring but the engine stopped and the flying wheel came 10 standstill... Again it was
started.
ample, talking plainly and nakedly in a clear, beautiful room. One of them, Sarnac, is taken with a queer, sidden illness. He falls into a deep
oubled sleep. Coming slowly back dream in which he has lived 10 ennaciounesa he relates "the through an earlier existence in this present age-38 Hairy Mortimer Smith.
In those days (the early 'fifties] the court sat from 9.30 and did not risa till 8,30 or later.
. the judges did not stop work as a This time the raywad flashed navvy does when he hears the across the machine- missed fire, whistle."
bur with the ray immediately re-
He tells then about his upbring. There was a train that ran from moved the momentani of the ing in the squalid greengrocery kept Black wall to Fenchurch-street, and driving wheel caused the engine by his kindly, tipping father at the trains were hauled backwards to pick up and it was firing liftstone"; of his tage, widowed. and forwards by a rope attached to regularly again. Once more the mother, who became a drudge in a a stationary engine at each end. ray swept across, and again there imi spurtent-house; of his Up to 1870 an alien put on his was the stopping of the engine.aster l'anny, who ran away and was trial for a criminal offence. was The ray reinained stationary for happy with her lover of sister Prue, entitled to be tried by a jury of a couple of seconds and all the
who pilfered; of his brother Ernis, which "half were English and half momentum of the wheel failed to came a chauffeur and was were foreigners."
restart the engine.
killed in the war; and of his own Wolsun craving for "education and of his own successful career as a writer and editor in a cheap, mul he magazine publishing house- and then his death as an angry hus band's farci,
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BRAIN STORM PLEA.
In 1871 what then the novel.plea of "brain storm was put forward by the Rev. J. Selby Watson, who murdered his wife. It was known popularly as the
"I am confident," said Mr. Grindell-Matthews, that if I have facilities for developing it I can stop aeroplanes in flight—indeed,
believe the ray is sufficiently powerful to destroy thera in the "Stockwell air, to explode power magazines, Murder." In a note to the surgeon and destroy anything on which it Watson said: "I hope she will be rests:
buried as becomes a lady of birth and position; she is an Irish lady' and her name is Anne." He then went back to bed. He was sen tenced to death, but was reprieved and sent to a criminal lunatic asylum.
"
upon Maule said to the clerk of the court: Swear the girl; she knows mure than 1 do:"
WORRIES OF MARRIAGE.
bachelor"
"Thank heaven I am a confirmed
It need hardly be said that the old about which Mr. Wells is at times rather heavily jocose, is a bad
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I am sure if I had fulmination have the one of dis- married I should not now be on granted rhetoric. He allows that by "What will be done to you if the point of celebrating my ninety-ne of the fow really good things you tell untruths?" She answered. fourth birthday.
I shall go to hell, sir."
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