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SHREDS AND PATCHES.
HUMAN.
How political enemies
The Shreds man does become very human in | GREAT, not know Colonel their everyday. rela-! J
Tillinghnst L'Hom tions is illustrated by Mr. Will | medico Huston and is not quite" Thorne, the Labour M.P., in his sure if the Bishop will be alto- The local Police Department
"My Life's" should have just reason
gether pleased at mentioning him to be autoblography ·
and his projected. mission to proud of their efforts when the Battles," which Messrs. Newnes
Europe. The Colonel says:- statistics for the year come to be publish at 38. 6d. published us the measures when Mr. Thorne says that he met
Landor "I tuve bat one purpose. That since the commencement of the Lord Birkenhead in a
when he (Mr.is 10 try to sample every legitim strike four months ago have re-tube station sulted in a remarkable Thorne) wys. about to set out onate form of liquid refreshment.
that Europe makes falling
the off in
number his wartime visit to Russia. serious crimes which in normal times fill the daily regis- Len. This happy result has been. achieved by hard work on the part of the officials of this depart ment and to some extent through other causes. These latter in-
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Hello, Thorne," said Birkenhead (then Sir F: E. Smith). "I've been reading about your going to Russia as delegate. Do you know it is very cold out there?"
"I may not live long, but I want to be able to gasp out in my last words that I had a few weeks of unashamed drinking before I died.
"I d not feel that I should have to drink in private. Drink-
Mr. Thorne replied that he onlying is not a crime. knew of what he had read of "The average American is law- abiding, but he can't persuade himself the Volstead act in a law.
"You
any one in New York who doesn't drink. But they're law-keeping citizens.
special constables, the quietening | Russia. effect on evildoers by the pre- "Oh!" came the reply. sence of the mobilised Volunteers, had better take this coat with So he ignores it, I don't know and the stoppage of the Canton traffic, which enabled the authori-you." ties to exercise more efficient con- trol on Chinese passengers by shipe. Added to these is the good which resulted in eliminating the lawless element by periodical raids on suspected houses dwellings in general.
1
CHARMED 1492.
and
A LUCKY SWEEP TICKET NUMBER.
MOVIE AND FORTUND.
Has any particular number special significatier lotteries, cash sweeps, ratlles, draws, etc. purely Phatters of lock in which euch und very member has the sune chance? Some proply maintain but No. 788 las better chance of winning than, say, 777. Again, the and last maber in a sweep are dways thought to net have the Highest chance of coming out. Thos who went down to last Submdays' moes will be able to bear | testimony thuf ticket Nu. A wolf a
big prize!
At any rate story is going gound town that ticket No. 1495 in next year's Deplay sweep of a travellers had in this connection. el cibin which the total is A judge, the son of a judge, feel-ikely to be very big-is going to be Hucky, Like the eash sweeps of ing the restraint of Soviets glubs, ench ticket costs $10 hospitality, freely acknowledged, bus ticket No. 1492 is now used feels called 'upen to recount hist value of $50. Supralitions?
If you like. But there is also and his fellow-passengers' experi-incidence. Very recently the caces during a journey home. given's Titatre showed a picture Three times held up by the over-
"Conductor 1402" featuring a well- kawa comedian. For some reason healing of an axle, may not be a
rother, somebody who saw the mafter worth complaining about; is alleged to have taken but 'a considerable delay due to rucial Isney To the number, hence the work of bandits, is a reason-w rise in value of the ticket. Just as there ar faddists who say that gol cause of complaint, more so
2 number divisible by seven or when the work of these outlaws three, or the total of the digits of results in the loss of lives of rail-which is divisible by n, will win way workers, and is likely to do piees of gem cheese from the icon, so there will be others who so in the ense of passengers and a message from the Goddess of belonging to different countries. ] Chanc. in a movie title,
The incidents mentioned by Mr. W. W. Grantham, K.C., point to serious facts which cannot be blinked. Russia's internal affairs are by no means settled or secure. Counter-revolutionaries appear to Rongkong, Thursday, October 15, 1925-be carrying on a sort of guerilla
As some consequence.. route, the Russia way has yet to
CLASSICAL RECITAL.
LAST NIGHT'S GREAT SUCCESS.
Despite the Labour member's protests, Lord Birkenhead insist ed on lending his magnificent coat there and then.
Lady Astor regarded Mr. Thorne with special favour be cause he gave his. corner seat in
exam-
'My bootlegger is, for pie, an excellent man. He has told me from time to time that he would never dream of selling narcotics, for, he explains, "It's against the law'.
The
the house of Commons to her.
"But, after all, we have never, "Just after this incident," he in all American history produced reiates, "she presented me with a single bottle of real whiskey or two gold-cased pencils and a
a legitimate drink of beer. beautiful diamond and pear! tie-quality of drink has deteriorated pin.
especially in the past year, "When I was ill in Aberdeen she though in recent months it has sent me roses from. her own gar- | improved a bit." den. During my wife's illness Prohibition bath her heroes, she also sent her fruit and Arthur's Knights in search of the flowers, as well as to my son when Holy Grail are not in it with the he was in hospital in Falmouth." Colonel.
Mr. Thorne was later a guest at one of Lady Astor's political dinners, but he would only go on condition that he could wear his everyday clothes.
The last page of the book con- tains a pathetic reference to the author's late wife.
Though he may be misunderstood the Shreds man believes he is not far wrong in accusing the Colonel of red tin- denelec Who nove!
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
One impressive feature at least of Mischa Levit- "During the 30 years of our
zki's recitals, is married life," he writes, "I had
his playing úf the British many ups and downs, all of which
national anthem. It is played She was a she shared with me. thrifty and economical Chan-impressively and thereby com- mands respect. But perhaps celler of the Household Exche-best of all, Mischa plays at the quer.
commencement and not at the end "Her foresight was revealed to of his recitals. Here is a prae- me in a way I never realised when, ice which might well be copied. after her death, I found that she In Australia it is almost the had left me 2450, which she had custom In Hongkong it is only saved, and of which I knew no-done when E. the Governor is thing."
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THE ISLAND OF "MARY ROSE."
The glamour, he mystery, tha trucks ishontal in every smise romance of the Hebrides have of the with. bern the theme of My SOUL
There are so many roads to aad maay
Mr. Mac-9 tales, some kon only to the Gregor lus treated his lost with peat gulerer on, to the ukla a freshness and inderstanding | inthever or to the fisher folks, while which must compel astrégation and others, are no more than the beal on excite admiration,
teks of the mountain hare and the His youthful and vivid imaginatid, swift-footed deer. tion is love of Nature in all But they all have their jobby; her manifestations: the distine and they are visited by the curlew tion of his phrasing the in-and gren-hooded arthavan, timney with which he bids his and the birds that come in from the readers wander hand-in-hand so bringing with them something with him by the hills and techs of their deep. impenetrable habitap. and send which he loves so well. These downy-winged stmngars, the must make a strong appul, at last fragments of another age, are any rate to Highlanders, whether continually visiting mong, is. they dwell at home or copss the They know all the roads to our Iles; and, as they pay us a call
20-YEAR OLE VIOLIN,
Shover delight was the result of well the concert given, Inst night by known under the word Bolshe-Mesers: Leon Jongen and J. A.--Terd Alness, in a Foreword to in pussing, they add their little
warfare. and this suggests that "Red" activities now 80
Bilewski. The progamme opened with the exactnig Krentz. Sonuts we of Beethoven, för violin und pano.
vism, are not generally appre- viated. Nor are they,
to come.
the least.
contributions to what is oirendy 241 envisonment of magic and of full-
Behold the Hebrides!
*
•
This tribute by Lord Alness to meit."
sley !'
VIA SIBERIA."
One of the signs of the return to normal after, the war Was early considered to be the "Via imagine, likely to be appreciated. The title has a Tolstoyan davor Mr. Alasdair Alpin MueGregor Little wonder that some folks Siberia" mode of travelling to the Thus we may still expect the re-the composition is one of the great book Behold the Hebrides or sather traux what Muscheld,
muferprices in music. Amongst | Wayfaring in the Western Beleg
s-lever.*** says Mr. Alushair East, or the direction to this moval of bolts and pins from rail-he whiri and excitement of the bold (W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., 76. G.Ancfiregor in a later clupter on effect written on correspondence. way-lines, more or less as a mat-and vigorous opening Presto, the t), will be cudorsed by al who
The Call of the Sen. "ind Only this week is it given as a ter of course for some little time in-life and subject standsret Mr. MacGregor's delightful could only watch the
out. Nothing is lost of the tender-Book. The author, for instance, piece of interesting news that a
The statement that the of the Andante in the brilliant is familiar with the island assortare of thee from Stornoway Can a calm, quiet afternoon, or when mail from Hume arrived in 'a re- railway track and rolling stock variations which follow it, whilst rinted with Barrie's Mary Rose.
fresh gale was blowing. I feel cord transit of twenty days are both in a shocking state." the aruncle-like Finale has He writes in one of his sketcher-certain that with lean you would say wonderful appeal. Both artistes
The roads to the Isles have a Information of this sort was fair-suggest a laxity of control due played as to the manner born, and charm that only the roinastiest ply must en down to the ses y common before the war, und either to indifference, or to what gave a sapers rendering. Mendels- comprehend. I am thinking at the gun, to the lonely sen nad the the Via Siberia route was be- is probably more correct, to the 's Concerto in E minor is moment of a bridle-path that runs
beautiful-the Andante and allegro between the great mountains of the "And, as I writ. 1 feel this 'seum coming a fairly popular one with fact that the Government has its movements particularly. Mr. Bile Forest of Harris on the one side,ould give anyshare if I could go fever coming over me; and I those who either were "no sailors hands too. fuli as a result of its waki's technique, lightness of touch, and a gleaming sunlit sew on the bold," or with whom time was of interference in things which it and great interprelative powers other, until it merges into a beather down to the win the mysterious
mail can be argued do not concern it in this thing of sweetness. This was on the hillside.
were shown, in his rendering of and bracken-covered track far up Isle of Lewis, and linger along those white and golden sanda, In the Far East the further, down in a cycle of four It leads by a whaling station to where the players and the carlows Oh1 to be scrambling work of Russian politicians is pieces including Couperin's Chan-Bumbinneader and Amlainn Wade! equalled and surpassed, as seems well known. The fact of it is self-Ho Louis XIII and Pavanneside the river of the Stranger among those rocks that have with-
evident, To Bolshevicks Wience Brims Valse
to the inmense liking of and, of the Wanior-Guest. Here xxl the storms of countless ages, probable by air mail routes--for.
In heath-sprent path branches off to or lo be investigating again that. it has meant the early, confirma- ascribe all our present troubles; Tempe tailliant Capricios. Mr. I.
from which 'Mary Rose was to dwell, and where the daunt tion of cables, contracts, and and in spite of denials to the con- Jongen is not a whit behind his the ferry for the Island of Sony, cave at News, where the pigmies away to Tir-na-Og. less seu-rievers of oil were wont ta orders, and has made home seem trary, there is a vast deal of truth colleague and demonstrated the pos-ointed
Hion of great gifts in his The main track-if it may be conceal their plunder !........" just round the corner. It is only in what is said. This pointed work at the piuro. Mr. Bilewski's tamed a track-continues in an "The sen is a great levaller of recently that the line has again warning from home will certainly violin (by Guernering), is exactly other six or eight miles, and ulti- men as well as of tunge that have been open for traffic and there is have the effect of hesitancy of itisfaction of playing on a tuneful in front of the Isle of Scarpe-an or clues distinction about the sea. 200 years dd. Mr. Jongen had the mately brings one down to the sen no being there is neither, diodaần on record the interesting experi- abstention. Sympathise w
As we Collard and Collard supplied by island simply teeming with spooks Seafaring is a calling, whose watch ences of those who have essayed may desire to do with counter. Mesra, Anderson. The audience and gromes and weird things that word is internationality. Nothing the journey since the Soviet revloutionaries, sympathy, stops was large in numbers and keenly only show themselves in the dark could be more pleasingly instructive
appreciative.
in these days of imperialistic ten- became responsible for the con- Ahort at the possibility of being
Anyone who has never soon dercy than to inspect those abrange- trol of the line. These expert killed by them in their efforts to
fay or elf, and sincerely wishes to ly different visitors from many ences were interesting to say the romove from the earth those who
do so, should certainly go along this lands that are berthed in the docks. iskand-road on a dark suple, and of a modern seaport town t least, but not encouraging to apparent are doing no good on
meander round the black eerie Seafaring is calling where all those who contemplated e journey it. Me Grajtham's warning will
walls of Amiumsuidhe Caste, kad men are meni, and nothing shore across Europe,
The news how probably be misconstrued and
he will readily be assumed of the and which higher prolae, dan wee cabled out will effectually damper rash ated But, it will a
existence of the supernatural bestow, por a home base in this Then the Island of Taranety, which nge of artificality than orang that d-be good in
alio ta plaufty dbserrible from this, he is a plain, unaffected man?
be equalled-unless it will be
the
and
First Boy (displaying pet "dog) : **I calf this dog Sausage, because he only half-bred be?
I Second Boy: te That reminds me of a goat we called nearly be cause he was all butt; and a prize enskarel was called Robinson be to the cause ha dem so...
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