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CROWNING GLORY.
MR. W. J. BRYAN'S DEATH DESCRIBED,
"EXACT FOOTSTEPS OF CHRIST."'
(Reuter's American Service,)
New York, July 27. The death of Mr. W, J. Bryan occurred almost on the eve of what he was anticipating as tho crowning glory of life, namely, a trip with hundreds of followers to Palestine following as nearly as possible the exact footsteps of Christ, and his plans were virtually complete.
DIED PEACEFULLY,
The death of Mr. Bryan has stunned the country. Before tying down for the last sleep Mr Bryan told his wife he never felt better and was ready to go to the country and wage war against Modernism.
Mr. Bryan lay down after lunch on Sunday at Dayton, His wife Bent a chauffeur to wake him late In the afternoon and found him dend. His wife, who was very calm, said that she was glad that her husband had died peacefully, He desired to be buried at the Arlington National Cemetery Washington, as he had been Colonel in the Spanish-American War.
THE MODERN PRESS.
LADY ASTOR AMONG
SHANGHAI STRIKE.
LETTER TO GONBUL'A FORGERY!
•*
SEAMEN'S UNION RE-OPENED.
(Reuter's Service.) "
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Shanghai, July 27.
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It appears that the Seamen's Union was scaled owing to threatening letter to the British Consul, which, it was lanrned. emanated from the Seamen's Union. It is now claimed the letter was a forgery.
MANY WIVES.
DON JUAN WHO POSED AS APOSTLE OF TRUTH,
WIDOW VICTIMS.
Berlin, May 30.
A man who described himself as the Son of Zoroaster, and sent into this world to spread light and to preach tenth. failed to imprese
Berlin Court ฟ Appen which confirmed a sentence of twelve years' imprisonment for long series of frands against women. It was stated in court that "he stole their wealth after stealing their hearts."
THE CHINA MAIL.
When the seamen learned that the Union was closed, they show
Otto Sidowelt, the man claiming ed a very nasty mood and to be the apostle of truth, began threatened to call out all men en his career of lying and swindling gaged in Chinese ships. This twenty years ago, and, with the threat, together with the request uid of his wife, victimised a long of the Chairman of the Chinese list of women in different parts of Chamber of Commerce, who also Germany. He posed as a perve guaranteed the behaviour of the specialist and a psychoanalyst, and Union officinls, had the desired fond victim after victim among opened effect in the Union being re- fashionable and wealthy women. who were induced to part with large marriage. sum ef money after a proposal of
WIFE AS STATEN.
with a number of Chinese hands An hour afterwards, a tender, aboard. was preparing to, go to the assistance of the Tateashi Maru, aground' near Chinklang.
In Hamburg Siduwelt persnaded when fatimidators from
a widow to turn over to him her en- Union stopped the Chinese crew Berlin, he been engured" to the fire forume, and in Pankow, near of the tender from going to the another widow, and induced her to rescue of an "enemy" steamer in dispose of her boarding house for distress.
£1.600, which she presented to him as a wedding present.
BRITISH CHAMBER'S STATEMENT.
Shanghuri, July 27.
a statement
Hundreds of messages of con-- dolence have arrived at Dayton,
31 the Betrothal ceremony The crowd, with bared heads and The British Chamber of Comwelt's wife assisted and posed tear-dimmed eyes, gathered round merce has issued
as his sister. When the day for the house. Even Mr. Bryan'stating that the Chinese Cham. the wedding arrived the couple dis- bitteres: opponents paid tributes ber's statement of July 25 is mis-"Ppeared. to his sincerity and honesty.
leading in two respects, namely Sidnwelf
Furing the hearing of his appen regarding the anti-Anglo-Japan.
simulated righteous se boycott and in regard to the indignation of the treatment he apeedy settlement. "The Chinese of the law, and complained to the had reeived at the ads Chamber declared a strike and boycott and hitherto has support-been misunderstood
judge that his mission on earth. bad ed it and when asked officially to- day to state whether they were or were not in favour thereof, de- Viscountess Astor, M.P., made over, hitherto they put every clined definitely to reply. More- a rucy speech at a ladies" uncheon obstacle in the way of a settle- given by the Landon district of the ment and refused to entertain the Institute of Journalists, in the pourparlers addressed to them in course of which she voiced some the middle of June, and their interesting opinions abont
theohairman recently resigned his modern press.
post in the middle of informal negotiations with this and other chambers, which gave promise of success. Further, while dis-
JOURNALISTS.
Viscountess Astor said that when she entered Parlament the aver ag newspaper treated her advent as a joke, and for years continued claiming the intentions of doing, to do so. I did not mind, she anything illegal they have done adthed because knew that in the nothing so far as the ent wo womens should make a joke Chamber's knowledge goes to stop of you. (Laughter.) I have never the unscrupulous intimidation been frightened of the Press which is preventing employees Great reforms have always come in from returning to work." -spite of the Press. The newspaper owners of the country think they mould and form the opinion of the country.
Nonsense! They are
miles behind it, and you know it in your hearts." (Laughter.) She respected journalism us a great and noble
calling. however, and thought that the members of the institute had a great opportunity in fighting for a dean Press.
EASY-GOING SIAM.
LAND OF RELIGIOUS TOLERATION.
SCHOOL BURNS.
SCRAMBLE TO RESCUE TREASURES.
BIX HOURS BLAZE,
SOCIETY DIVORCES.
TITLED PETITIONERS.
LONG LIST OF CASES.
London.
Divorce petitioners whose casea
St. Wilfrid's Preparatory School near Bexhill was burnt out and 100 boarders had an un-are listed for the coming session Include the Duchess of West- expected holiday thrill.
ninster, the Countess of Essex Viscount Gort and the Marquis of Queensberry.
When the alarm was given the boys eagerly helped to remove what they could from the school. and the playing fields adjoining were littered with desks, books, and the boys' own
countless treasures.
When it became impossible for them to enter the blazing building any longer, the boys watched the Bexhill and Hastings fre brigades trying to subdue the flames.
The latter is citing Sir James Dunn as co-respondent, and a divorce from Sir James is also being sought by Lady Dunn,
B
Lady Vestey is seeking divorce from Sir Edmund Vestey, who is contesting the auit.
HONGKONG HOTEL
the brigades were able to leave,
But it was six hours before VISITORS AT HOTELS. and then the school was gutted.
Most of the clothing of the
the boys and
masters destroyed, and they were left J. Bron field with only their blazers and flan-Bristop nels, which they were wearing Mr and Mrs B. W. when the fire occurred.
WES
The boys are being housed temporarily
neighbouring schools,
in
OUR GIRLS OF 40.
ELIXIR OF ETERNAL YOUTH DISCOVERED!
The modern young woman of 40 was the object of flattering re- marks by Dr. Perry Hall, of Mount Vernon Hospital, London, at the congress of the Royal Institute of week. Pablic. Health at Brighton in mal
Витер
July 17
We 8. E. Lystor "Mr G. a. Lynott
Mr T O Lammert Mr and Mrs.
Mangino
Mr Mrs G. Bles Mr J. N. Rurs felt Mr R. J. Bu beck WE P. Beuciscen Mrs E. R. Helikos Capt. Bentley. Mr N. Brale Mr and Mrs 8 M.
Bander M. R. G. Bɔlos
RW.bol. monde'er
Mr RH, "lowes
Wra B. Oto Mr & Men Cleme to
Chalacombe
Mr V. A. Crampton Mr. Cha Mr D E oplemio Mr. R. Clarke Lt. Col. &
R.
M. Crosse & child Mr. D. Dickel
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"Never have the gentler sex been healthy and so attractive as they "I am the son of Zoroaster, heure to-day," he said. "A genera exclaimed fervently, and I have tion ago a noman of 40 was an olds been sent to sprend light and carry lady who wore voluminous flannel world, but you are treating me like shoulders while she sat by the fire the torch of trid through this petticonts and a shawl round her
however, refused to be convinced # common criminal." The judge,crocheting.
SARTORIAL EXUBERANCE.
To-day a woman cf 40 looks 20,
BLOW TO HEALTH.
By this tax on silk Mr. Churchill had dealt a blow against the health of the fair sex.
The
is 0. Ea les
G. F Pi her
Mr and Mr G. D.
Ferre
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Mr F... Focken Mr & Mrs A. B. A. Mr. P. Gerdon
Foog
Mr & Mrs J, Goald H. D. R Gawlar Mrs H. J. Graasle Mrs Grover
B. E. Farroll
Miss Fearon
Mr & Mrs A. P. Mal Mr and Mia V.
Menasobe
Lt. Com and Mrs.
Go bis Miss A 7. Goffin
dr and Mrs W.
Hanson Mr C. Habsen
Mr and Mrs El. V.
Farris 9 phil-- firea Misses A. and F.
Hamilton Mrs A. J. Bardio Mr
and Mrs W. A. Baasibal
Mr A. Hoffanster Mr. E. Holmes. Mr. E. Jinson.
Mr E. L. Judd
J. R.
Mya U. &. P. Murray Mr H. Midd 102 Mr G. N. de Man Mism sỌ. E. & 8. C.;
MaoArtbur
My O. M. McDonald Mr sod Mrs & W
Mio Artbur Mr Men L, Mauric
Mr G. Nil on Mr J. E Misa Omin Mr F. T. Orr Mr and Mrs W. S.
Par
artoa
Mr Isano Poppo Mr. W. PowIT Mr & Mr. R
J. Paron
Mr R. H. Pops Mr&Mr Riggi bach & schild Mr & Mrs Reinstra
Hr A. H. Rowe Mr Joseph 4. 8sto
Mr T. Sizes jol
Mr. Infant Mr and Mrs A.
Springbbig
Silas and
Mr Ed. T. Snugg Mr F. R. Frith Mr J. 2. Smith Misa F. M, Soungs Mr and Mrs P.
Fetvanin Mr Johohrubeole
Dr. H. F. comm Ed. Fchweringer Mrs E. T. Brugge Mrs A. Staton Mr. H. Sparte Mr A. Totur jina Mr J. H Tut M, A, J. Terrant Mr T. O. Todd ... Mr G Truwa Li-Cola Mra G
Tukos
Mr & Mrs L. A.
Tobla
Mr & Mis M ♬
Varp and child Mien M. Voo Mr de Men Wilson
and f.mily
of his apostolic mission, and con- plays goff and tennis during the firmed the sentence imposed.
day, jazzes far into the night, and comes down first to breakfast without the femper of a bear.
"She is emancipated both in body and mind, and appears to have cap- tured the elixir of eternal youth.
What hae she done? Simply cast away her superduous clothes. young men have been seen walking short skirts, and clothing low in the
Of late a remarkable number of By wearing silk next to her skin, Capt. T. P. Hall British
the streets as if they hoped, by acch, she allows more light and air judicious use of drapery, to conceal to get to her body, and as a direct advanced elephantiasis of the lower timba.
16 was at first. a startling sequence she has achieved youth, and a provocative spectacle; but in
beasty, and health."* little while custom began, as usual, to stale the clothes of our young barbarians to such purpose that earnest-minded people are now
A specialist in therapy, Dr. Hall ondencouring to determine the more uttered a warning of the danger and tendency which such sartorial exuberance expresses. So, doubt pitfalls for the uninitiated in the "Siam is one of the strongholds less, any early Briton whimsical practice of light therapy. Contry was passing through a modern tenteney to be indifferent blue wond was hailed as the first mari a crack shot any moro.than Mr J. R. Johnstone
The of Buddhism, and although the enough to substitute burnt cork for possession of a gun did not make period of "horridness as far as to religious matters is as observable of the pessimists. This anxiety to the purchase of boxing gloves made what she called the "Yellow Press in Sium as elsewhere, the people attach a spiritual significance to was concerned, but it would not generally give as much attention to vagaries of dress is a curious one; lamp turned them into finished Jack Dempsey. Yet doctors imagined that the purchase of a last. It did not last in Americs, the practice of their faith us does the and Believing intensely that the British average resident in Christian coun- journal "Isis is rightly sarcastic the Oxford undergraduate
therapists. Empire and the United States of tries appying to this daily life the at the expense of such resolute being done in sauatoria, by the "Already," he said, "harm is America had a great mission in the principles of his belief" says Mr. symbolists. The mutability of world she pleaded for a better new W. Nunn, late Adviser to the fushion we have always understood indiscriminate exposure of patients Dr. & Mrs Losrell Mr and Mrs E. G. Hervier from Americe, in British Siamese Government on Customs, an to be the to three causes the de- to the midday summer sun." newspapers. hibition movements in America, she Society of Arts and recorded in its retire early in life, the desire of ato force our supine legislators to
The peace and proa paper read before the Royal mire of tailors and dressmakers to contended, were now fairly repre Journal.
Urging that efforts should be made sented her. What prohibition was
for young men and women to a deal with atmosphere smoke pollu "The Siamese attitude towards peur distinct from everyone else, doing in the way of better in matters spiritual-their conception and the desire of all other youre ftion," Dr. Hall said there need not dustrial tput and better homes of their duty to God, their fellow men and women not to appear dish one more smoke chimney, either Dr J. W. Anderson Mrs L. To
"I am not a prohibitionist.", ad themselves is simple. It tinet from anyone else. As for our factory or domestic. When smoke
is not complicated by the strife of undergraduates, like Malvolio, they was abolished, rickets, tuberculosis, ir A. Arthur! she declared. "I never have been, hut I am for a frens aus democratic sets, by the competition of conar, wo believe, not black in their and other foul diseases would be Mr F. Austin
ficting faithe, by intellectual minds, though frequently they may tion. Juggernaut industrialism," stamped out in a single genera vote on this question. Let the people arrogance, nor by disciplined be yellow in their legs. here vote for what they want. They enthusiasm. It is an attitude of have never had a chance as far as unencerned belief, quietly hold drink is concerned,, und they never will as long as you have the Upper House.
...
was not related here as it should
·be.
BOOTLE FOR SALE.
LORD DERBY'S OFFER PRICE: £1,000,000.
London.
and practised.
"If one of its most noticeable
MR. MACDONALD.
results is the congregating together TREMENDOUS WHITEHALL
of large bodies of idle priests, who.
Lord Derby has offered to series are me free to work in to the Liverpool Corporation for country as if they were in a £1,000,000 the family's Tnterests Christian land, and their educ in Bootle. which comprise the tional and medical work is encour freehold of the whole town with aged officially. the exception of the docks..
As the currency of many of the ground leases is 999 years, the rents of which cannot be increas ed in the meantime, the Corpora tion may decline the offer.
!.
ADVENTURE.
#!
NO MORE SMOKE,
Mr Jerus Mr V. Jobnerson Mr and Mrs C. Mr. Josenb Mr & Mrs
Lauritaon
Jiho
Mr E. A Larn
L. J. Yan
Leua in
Mr and Mrs G, Woessner &rhild Mr D. R. Wood MR. Wood Mr and Mrs T. B.
Williams and 5 Infants Mr H Watkins M. M. WAIK Mra B. G. Wiliam),
Mr and Mrx 0, 1, Webster
Lafferty & family Mr E. Walker Miss H. Lillie
PEAK
HOTEL
July 2
*r J. Angwin Mr and Mrs J. Krogh
E. R. Falley Dr Balean Mr J A Barton V. Benjamin Wr and His T. G.
Bonnett
he declared, is crushing the lives M out of thousands of poor little children annually and muiming the bodies of others."
Mr And Mrs P. W
Blackwell
W. R Bourne Mr M. J. Breen Mr and Mrs BL
•Ridger
sved
Cornell
Thin
Moe
MI od Mr B, E.
Langston Me Mr and Mrs G. D.
Leys Miss Leys
Mr. & Mr W. Logan
Mis E Murdock
Major At 9. Little-
jobos Dr. C. W. Balesby, chairman of
Mr. B Lloyd M: J..D..Lloyd the Sunlight League, said it was a toil not, neither do they spin, that
stupid and wicked farce to visit
Mr T. Addie Martio result is not resented commonly by
some artificial light clinics not
Mr B. F. Mattingly Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who necessarily a thousand miles from B
Mr J. Mainsh the people, nor does my form of was accompanied by his son, Mr. Harley Street, where the air might Mr S. D. Carothers Mr R. Mar priestly tyranny spring from it. The Alastair MacDonald, most striking characteristic of the 1shbel MacDonald, was admitted to the assortment of toxic and stagnant. Mr. Clark
aud bliss be as unfit for human habitation as apt & Mrs J. O Mr H. 4. Mil'e
Carpenter
Mr X E. Mirasol religious life of Sium is its wonder-the freedom of Edinburgh. At & gases in the casinos of Monte Carlo. Mr B. H. Cleland
Capt. & Mrs R A. F. fai tolerance.
Kottara Christian mission-luncheon afterwards in the City He warned the public against all
fi & M. Cooper Mr A. Morley, the Hall Mr. MacDonald said:
unqualified practitioners of artificial fra 1. H. Cormack Mr and Mr ́W. N. I enjoyed the time of office as light treatment, adding that almost Mr and Mrs W. AB. Mardock Premier. It was a great time. It all registered practitioners were Mr and Mrs 3. D. Mis M. W. Nows was a high adventure. There we entirely unqualified in this respect. Danby
holme were, never having been in office, Mrs. M. A. Clodesley Brereton Mrs V. O. Donald Mr W,
Ogden wever before having been in was not so optimistic na Dr. Hall -Col. F. &. Dobr & * Penz authority in any department, with regard to the ease with whichler & Mrs H. H. Med. Primal 10. Payton Misy C fever having controlled anything noke could be abolished, but was Edwardı
MER B. B. Bamingtan. within the region of Whitehall, confident that, industry would gladir, and Mrs W. A. Me à. Ritabin nud uddenly called upon to enter y co-operate in reducing the out- EastRow those charmed and horrifying but of smoker She referred to a
MrRE_Farrell · Mrs Schfulth portals without the least prepara-suggestion that encouragement
Mriand Mrs F.P. «Mr & Mrak, G. Scott
Me W. B. Beinert Franklin tion called upon to run the coun-might be offered to industries in the try and keep un its dignity and form of a remission of rates for its weight in the world,! smoke abatement, and: mentioned It was exactly like opproaching that Meera. Cadbury Bros. were & baunted place wondering what trying to institute, if possible, was going to huppen. It was system of rewarding stokers for tremendously interesting, and was absence of smoke. one of the higest ventures and Lieut-Gen. Bir William Leish adventures that any body of men man, Director-General of the Army in the history of the country was Medical Servios, predicted, tint in ers called upon to undertale. the next war the use of gas by makasagan the enemy would be incrossed, and
now methods of unirapuiting IS POS TOO LATE THEN TO HUNT.ably by an would be introduced store when suddenly seized with agesiz
No time, to hunt for a doctor or drug ov
It is interesting to note, ns. bearing upon this matter of religious toleration, that the weekly day of rest which is observed in th capital, in all Government offices, is the Christiani sabbath, decreed to bo an official holiday by King Bootle, a municipal and couhty Chulalongkorn in the year 1800. borough, at the mouth of the Is is to be hoped that nothing will Mersey, constitutes a north-west over happen in Binm tomb it of its suburb of Liverpool. Best one country, at least, where extensive timber yards, jute milk, the expression of religious belief and factories, it contains about does not disturb the good will of 400 acres of the Liverpool docks, men.
and here are the loading-berths of
the American steamers. The Smith-You must have a won population totals about 70,000. derful memory to kom all those
A cable, lust week announced things in your hearts, that Lord Derby had solil to Jone - Year Never forget Green, Ltd., timber merchanything when it is ance there Chesterfield, 5.000 acres pointing to his forehead). ancestral property in the
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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1925.
RELINQUISHING BUSINESS
MADAME LILY
begs to announce to the ladies of Hongkong and Outports that owing to ill health, she is closing her business.
She will therefore dispose of the whole of her valuable stock in all departments at enormous reductions,
One Week Only
Commencing on 15th July, we have special BARGAIN SALE of TISSUES in all shades and designs, and
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