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Britain, whilst other crimes are also more numerous, The Presi dont ascribes this to the fact that crimes rarely remain unpunished In Britain, whilst the reverse is true in America. In addition the is of opinion that the apparent
THURSDAY, JUNE
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
:
That the Dangerous necessary expenses, the remainder lawlessness of Americans is due A FALLACY. Qualities of Bad was given to the senfor scholar, rather to carelessless than to
Water are Obviated | who was elected to Cambridge, for moral laxity. There is no sense by the Addition of Wine or his support at that - University. of conviction about such an utter-Spirits.
The origin of this custom, not- ance as this. If there is, it re-. This is one of the dangerous withstanding much antiquarian flects hardly on police Jurisdiction fallacies, for it might easily get research, is unknown.
Some, and the administration of the law. its believers in trouble. The late however, are of opinion that if Most people will smile at the sug Sir Henry Thompson, F.R.C.S. was identical with the bairn or gestion that the breaking of law said: "The only water safe for the bey-bishop. It originally took is to be put down to carelessness Continental traveller to drink is a place on the 6th of Decmeber, the rather than moral laxity. People natural mineral water, and such festival of St. Nicholas (the as a rule do not conimit murders,
is now always procurable patron of children; being the day, thefts, and the rest of the things throughout Europe, except in on which it was customary at coming under crime, from a sense very remote or unfrequented Salisbury, and in other places of carelessness. It is moral places. In the latter circum- where the ceremony was observed, laxity first and last, brought on stances no admixture of wine or to elect the boy-bishop, from by inherent traits, economic con spirit counteracts the poison in among the children belonging to ditions, thriftlessness, and the tainted water and makes it safe the cathedral), but afterwards it sudden bursts of blind passion to drink, as people often delight, was held on Whitsun Tuesday... · which атеер... over
to believe, but the simple process people:
An old custom Moralista have added drink to the of boiling renders it perfectly things that make people err from harmless." A memorandum BOY'S BAILIF. called the "Boy' the path of rectitude; but what is Board states: "It cannot be too provalled at Wenlock, in Whitsun issued by the Local Government
Bailift, formerly to be said of America where Fro- distinctly understood that the weak. It consisted of a man who hibition is enforced and yet there
many murders as take place in "wet". England? There is no deterrent to crime--that is, some- thing that will totally stamp out crime. We can only work along scientific lines, also bringing to bear on the question a little sympathy for those who have fallen by the way.
A Kidnapping Scare.
41.
has to be recorded eight times as dangerous qualities of bad water wore a hair-cloth gown, and was are not obviated by the addition called the bailiff, a recorder, of wine or spirits" (Art. 7.) » justices, and other municipal
officers. There were a large re ETON MONTEM. tem was a long horse-back, begirt with wooden The Eton Mon- tinue of men and boys mounted on
time-honoured ceremony peculiar their right sides, so that they word celebrated and swords, which they carried on
to Eton, and said to have been obliged to draw their swords out coeval with the foundation of the with their left hands. They used. college, and was observed bien- to call at the gentlemen's housed nially but latterly trienually down in the franchise, where they were to the year 1844, when it was regaled with refreshment; and totally abolished. It was a pro- they afterwards assembled at the In view of the fact that several either in military or fancy cos- read some sort of rigmarole cession of the scholars dressed Guildhall, where the town clerk kidnapping cases have occurred tume, to a small mount, on the which they called their charter, within the past few monias in south side of the Bath Road" (sup- one part of which was Shanghai, a report that is current posed to be a British or Saxon in Hongkong may be alluded to, barrow),
"We go from Bickbury, and remarks the "North China Daily money for salt, as the phrase was, where they exacted
Badger, to Stoke on the News." In Shanghai the kidnap-from all persone present, and
close,. ping, at any rate within Settle- from travellers passing. The ment limits, has been practically ceremony was called the Montem. always with the idea of obtaining. The procession of boys, accom a ransom from the parents, while panied by bands of music and of course in the country districts carrying standards, was usually and neighbouring. towns the idea followed by many old Etonians, has been to sell the victims as and even by members of the royal slaves. The Hongkong scare has family-in some cases by the king something much more exciting and queen. Arrived at Salt-hill, about it than this, for the Chinese the boys ascended the "mons," or A CHINESE QUIP. Chinese have there have absorbed the rumeur, mount, the "captain" unfolded the strued, and in the end do more quired for a sacrifice. The "China speech in Latin, and the "salt" from a Chinese Jest Book" pub- that the kidnapped boys are re- grand standard, and delivered a strain? This is from "Quips. not a Jewish. harm than good to foreign inter-Mail" describes
the саве ests. There cannot but be great follows:
as was collected. The principal lished by Mesara. Kelly and
"salt-bearers" inconvenience to foreign em-
were superbly Walsh: Common belief is that to dressed, and carried embroidered players of labour whilst the
The son of a man who was. ensure the supports of a bridge bags for the money. The dona- being carried off by a tiger seized trouble is acute. There will also
escaping the wrath of the water tion of the king and queen was his bow and ran in pursuit. He be some embarrassment through
spirits and to appease the called the "royal salt," and tickets
was just drawing the bow to its dragon into whose back the were given to those who had paid full when his father called out scantier food supplies. But, in "piers, are driven,, a number of their salt. Immense numbers of from the tiger's mouth: comparison with the vital issue at boys must be offered as sacri- people used to assemble to witness stake, these are mere details that
fice, at the spot of the proposed the procession, and the money bridge. To procure the boys,
collected frequently must be cheerfully tolerated...
exceeded Iddnappers are sent out.
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Hongkong, Thursday, June 4, 1925,
ONLY ONE COURSE.
From all accounts the position in Shanghai is, if anything, worse. The student elements are
still.. excited and frenzied, and there- fore at present beyond the realm of reason and sense. For the first time the rioters have had re-. sort to arms, and there is no say
Ugly and even critical- though the situation be, nothing is to be gained by fanning the flames of passion amongst the Chinese in general. Once they are convinced that no parley is possible until the students return to their classes and the strikers to work, there is still a hope that wiser counsels will prevail before the anti-foreign ebullition spreads
RELICS OF A
To Monkhopon, Round Acton,
and so return we." The first three named places are the extreme points of the fran chise, and the other two are on the return to Much Wenlock. This custom is supposed to have originated in going a bannering.
Who says the
-Shoot at its legs, my boy, shoot at its legs. Don't damage the skin, or no one will want to buy it.
LOST WORLD,
"Twenty-five cases of Dino-bad a wonderful bony slúeld do- saur bones and other fossils.veloped from the back of its head have been shipped from aid forming an enormous frill, Tanganyika territory for the several feet acros, protecting the British Museum. They are the front part of its body. This animal first fruits of an expedition led is represented by a skeleton-ut Sonth by Mr. W. E. Cutler, which has Kensington. Where its striking been working there during the features may be studied.
It adds that when several years ago a harbour bridge was being discussed several of the Chinese sent their children up-country so that they might escape the opera- tions of a gang of kidnappers be- lieved to have been sent out by: the contractor. This occurred at bridge were even in existence. a time when no plans for the! What is happening now is that the attendance at schools has fallen off, und parents are keeping their children indoors because of the rumour. Actually three chil- dren are missing, but this is not
The name Dinosaurs (terrible out of the ordinary, for no amount, lizards") suggests animals of great brain, which controlled the move- Local Boxing.
of police work has ever yet suc-size and ferocity. But although it menta and behaviour of this huge The Hongkong Boxing Associa- napping of boys and girls for the nosaurus-a giant with an enormous
ceeded in stamping out the kid- well suite such creatures as Tryan- creature. tion carries out its self-imposed purpose of sale. Yet when people formidable teeth of carnivorous type like the other twe already mention- täsk under certain difficulties in China get such a notion into it is less appropriate for some ofed, as may be inferred from the
skull provided with the most
UPRIGHT DINOSAURS..
amateurs is necessarily limited sacrificial rites, it is difficult to colossal dimensions, writes Sir animula differed from the members The third group were herbivorous, supply of skilled their heads as this one about the group which reach even more characters of the teeth. The supply of the professional erase. it.
further.
The local
reason.
past season."
GIANT DINOSAURS,C%
A cast of the brain-cavity in the. me museum will aronse astoniali- ment at the diminutive size of the
*
These
element is more limited still. When men of position in the pro-
Sidney F. Harmer, K.B.E. fessional world come along it is
F.R.S., Director of the Natural of the other two groups in walking natural that every effort should
History Department of the British their hind legs in the attitude of THEY SAY THAT-
Museum in a Home paper.
a kangaroo, no doubt making use of be made to get them a showing.
Diplodocus, whose skeleton over locomotion.
their well-developed tail us an aid to Every effort that is. within
If people get the Governments 80 feet long is at the Natural History The most familiar of this section between the opponents in the creations. Mr. Max Pemberton, and a glance at its almost inadequate discovered in this country, hut best The terms arranged they deserve, they also get the re Museum, South Kensington, was a (which includes small dinosaurs) is ing at present where a very, ugly forthcoming fight, Dupre against
comparatively peaceful creature, the remarkable Iguanodon, first situation will end. The one hope- Cartlidge, have not been divulg- more coul is being produced that was a less dangerous opponent than have been published of the bones of The trouble to-day is that far skull is sufficient to show that it known from the descriptions which ful ray remains that the Muni-ed: they are secret. Secrecy is a the world needs, became of oil. Tyrannosaurus. Even the gigantic about thirty skeleton found together cipal authorities are determined
bad element. Previously. the-Dr. Alfred Salter. terms were either stated or not to give way to the frantic out- rumoured.
size which is generally associated at a depth of 1,000 feet during coul- burst
There is a rooted idea in England with the popular idea of a dinosaur mining operations at Bernissart, The Frenchman that any foreign contribution to is not characteristic of the whole Belgium. The skeleton of one of of the irresponsible wanted a higher amount than he efficiency is a scandal which cannot group, since some were of quite these animals is to be seen with students, many of whom are still received on the last occasion be tolerated-Mr. Frank Gill. only in their teens. In that attent to receive a much less sum "win, lose, or draw"-his oppon-
diminutive proportions.
those of Diplodocus and Triceratops, tude the authorities will have
I have made the mistake in my Dinosaurs were reptiles which The fourth of the main groupe of the solid backing of all the for- ingness to fight on the usual terms few toes, and naturally I have met the middle of the three great forms, which, no doubt, prayed on although he had expressed a will-political career of treading on flourished in the Secondary Period dinosaurs included the carnivorous
at South Kensington.
eign Powers, Soviet Russia, of winner takes all" or a higher the owners of the toes again.. divisions among which geologist dis- their herbivorous relations Most course, excepted...
percentage than the loser. This Briand. There can be no question of dis latter we submit is the more
tribute the foil-bearing rocks. At of them seem to have walked on time when manmale were their hind legs, and some of them, cussing peace terms until the satisfactory and likely to lead to
small stern fighting. We are not
and inoffensive, the such as Tyrannosaurus, already students first of all return to their entitled to question the amount
dinosaurs were the dominant mentioned, were of very large size. classes, and refrain from inciting of the "purse" provided by the
group of land animals, SEARCH FOR GIGANTOSAURUS the rioters to violence against the Boxing Association, but it la
particularly in the Jurassic and The large complate skeletons ex- foreigners. Tolerably safe guesses Association that it sets Its face
Cretaceous periods, the latter inhibited in the British Museum tre reasonable to suggest to the
cluding the age when the chalk was all casts of originale in other can be made se to the real forces against one man getting a higher.
deposited museums, although the collection behind the outbreak, but these are amount than his opponent no
They are divided into four groupe. ineludes many separate bones and The first consisted of animals which skeletons, or part of them which are in a sense beside the point at the matter where the judges place
walked on all fours ha included the the real thing. moment when hot-headed youth is
him at the conclusion of a fight
largest land-animala ever known. The arguments are so obvious in
running amok. The "North China favour of this suggestion, that
Daily News"
sums up the there is no need to reiterate any
position when it states that there of them,
fe only one
can be
by the
prace
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