WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1926.
OPERA ROMANCE.
SNAPSHOTS.
·FAMOUS DOCTOR.
"POOR LITTLE RICH
QIRLA
1
AND WHAT THEY MEAN.
KILLED BY UNKNOWN SON.
NATURE'S SAFEGUARD,
FORTUNE LUST IN RHW WEEKS;
For little "rich" girl! She made a small fortune one you, lost if all the nest, and now abe enót gast je "much needed job"—
beatre she is supposed to be too
rich to want it?
Cyclones on the sun are setting with appalling severity, writes H. Elgle in a Home paper.
rents of rain.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY..
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOST HUSBAND.
NOTICES.
A
MISSING MAN'S DRAMATIC HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL
RETURN
HIS MIND A BLANK.
SOCIETY.
SPECIAL MEETING off
A Members of the above:
ory a blank, has returned 5.30 p.m., with a view to decid- dramatically to his wife. He is ing Mr. B. C. Matthews, an insur-FLOWER SHOW should be held
ance Broker, of Exotor.
whether the ANNUAL
next year or not. Efforts made by friends and
It is hoped that a good atten- the police to trace him had been dance may be expected.
All fruitless. Then his wife, answer-Ladies Interested are cordially ing a ring of the door bell was invited to attend. startled to find her husband 011 the doorstep in a distresed state.
A E. B. C. HORNELL,
Hon. Secretary. When he left home eight months ago Mr. Matthews told
"Hongkong, 24th Dec., 1925. his wife he was going to Torquay. He now states that he left Exeter STAR" FERRY COM- with that intention.
PANY, LIMITED.
Society and all those interested Sensation followed sensation A husband who had been missin Horticulture will be held in the when the Vienna police announceding from home for eight months, Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, that Doctor Wolff, one of the best during which time he has been Matheson & Co., Ltd., on THURS It should not be thought, how-known. dental surgeons in Vienna wandering about, with his mem- DAY, 7th January, 1926, at ever, that they resemble earthly and the founder of the dental cyclones, whirling at the rate of a school-clinics there, had been Miss Murian Wilson, the girlmere sixty, eighty. or a hundred murdered by Joseph Huemer, one
an hour and producing tor-of his patients. who at the age of eighteen made
An hour later it was revented £17,000 ont of "The Beggar's
No, the solar cyclones whirl Opera." and lost it all the next round with a speed of several at Huemer was his victim's illegitimate son and had com- yeur in "The British Bullet" at thousand miles an hour.
And mitted suicide. the Kingsway, suid to a "Sunday they do not produce torrents of Doctor Wolff and Catherine Express representative that train, because they are composed buemer were lovers twenty years was "worse than hurd luck." of vaporised metala.. Moreover, A child was born, but the She curled her diminutive self the whirling particles are elec-lovers quarrelled, and Dr. Wolff up in a low chair and stretched |trically charged.
never saw Catherine Hucmer or her doll-like feet-size "one," bub | One of these awful electrical his son until the day he came to no gronomy because of that, as cyclories may now be seen any day murder him. shoes have to be made to At-to starting on the sun as
If you watch this the fire's bluze as she disenssed black spot. her unusual predicament.
spot through a telescope with shaded eyepiece you will see develop until the whole region becomes dotted with similar black spots, which will eventually Sorm i stream of pollels many thou- sands of miles in length. Each spotles is the upper part of a ypst electrical cyclone!
BROCK OF WASHING'OM ELM
The famous old lære at Cambridge, and which Washington took com- mand of the American Army, stands to mare. Boy seunts thoughout the ountry have small blocks of the historie dm, placed an a metal plate.
.4
w small
Indeed, at the moment of writing there is a long, strax- gling spot-stream visible.on, the west side of the sun, and another.. is developing on the east side. H imay grow large enough to be seen
with the buked eye.
Phey all indiente a disturban: • [compared with which our most
destretive tornades on eartle I would be but the gentle brenth-
ing of a now,bem babe.
San-cyclones, which are now! | markedly increasing in number
dude, are then, rima visible to us on the earth in 'the forna of whs are called “sun- spols,"
next
They will continue to increase in number and size for the few years. That is as dertain us abat there is a sun at all.
Now, after long study of these Shings ask myself if Nalore- brings then about in order to
of Trick this bright orb of ours
such impurities as might, en- danger the sun's existence.
Why, in a few months' time you will see with the naked eye some of these "whirlpools” - so | vast―r, a'', distance of ninety- three million miles, mind you-- that our earth could be dropped into them like a pen into buckel.
"never wanted to be a 'pro- duction magnade. way way." she tension that but for these np- One can only come to the cop- sighed "I just happened. You heavals, acting, as they de, as a „sre, Dad didn't like my going on
safety valve, serious harm would the stage very much, but he
They are wasn't, at the end, a stern parentsult to the sun.
Nature's safeguards for keeping Mother Earth in health.
Rhout it.
"He saw that I had some brain- ing, and then handed me £1,000, and said that if I hadn't, landed somewhere by the time the money was gone I must fend for Byself. He said, of course, 1: could always come home and have a job cooking dinner or washing
fishes, but that was all
came
The youth's mother had mar Fried, but she always refused to tell her son Joseph the name of his father.
HAR CRANES
Nathalia Crane, twelve-year-old wender, poetess gares in a eparh netion over, royalties, having been commnumted to the extent of only $100, according, to, her fallen. It was once said that Kipling wrote some of her wonderful vere," but this, he denied emphatically..
On the way he does not know
THE
where "something snapped in THE SHARE CERTIFICATE his head, and he remembered No. 4061 for ONE HUNDRED nothing further until he found (100) SHARES numbered 78664/ himself lying in a wood near 78753 in the above Company Oxford. How long this was after standing in the name of TSEUNG he had left Exeter he does not ETAK having been reported lost, know,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE is produced within one month from date hereof, 10 wilt thereafter be held by the Company as NULL AND VOID,
he said shares will be issued. and a NEW CERTIFICATE for
He then, apparently, wandered about the countryside until at last he reached London; where a Salvation Army officer took him to a shelter. Here he was nursed until a job was found for him,
Mr. Matthews explained that his memory, came back partially: He remembered he had some connection with Exeter, and saw an append from his life in a Lon- don paper.
This brought things right back to his mind and he returned home..
He is now suffering from the hardships and exposure of the. Ist eight months, and he will probably he sent to a nursing home or hospital, for a time.
During his absence Mrs. Matthews carried on the insur- ance business as best she could, as well as looking after the family of three children.
A HOT SUBJECT.
BAY THE TRADE CAME TO GREAT BRITAIN.
Pepper, was the subject of in address by the Minister for Over- scus Trade, Mr. A. M. Samuel, MP the London Commercia
In early age, he said, Vender was the great truding centre' for the world for pepper and spices.
F. H. CRAPNELL.
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, December 30, 1925.
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The curing of food in those timer was defective, and pepper was used fer camouflaging parposes. Laugh- Recently he came across doen- The Venstions got the pepper ments which revealed his parent-by overhunt route from the western age. This began to prey on histe of India, through Asia Minor, mind, and he aproached his but when the Turks overran Arabia father under the assumed name they piro a stop to the passage of of Engineer, and, as a patient. The commodity, and Venice lost her called a number of times,
monopoly. Details of the dramatic meet- Britain struck out to so how she ing with his father and how he could get pepper herself. She revented his identity are not went to India by a sen route, and known, but the police have estab-ins began the dawn of her great ished that the crime occurred Indian trade. There was in Lon- after a heated argument.
don at that time a Fraternity of The police declare that Huemer Peppers. That company later wished either to mislead them or spare his mother further disgrace, changed its names to the Grosers and to this end he left a state empany, which remained to the ment under an assumed name to present day. The custom was that EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD. say that he hail committed the, Tery member of the Fraternity of murder because the doctor's bili was too high.
THE CHINA YEAR BOOK 1925.
Peppers should take his wife to Large And More Comprehensive
yny fent of the fraternity, alber-
Than Ever, wing he, was hoid, It
"I put every penny into The Beggar's Opera, and, of course, I was thrilled to death when the money came folling in so fast.
"Then, half the trouble From putting all my eggs into one basket, and the other half came from no taking out the income tax first! I'm not com- plaining about the tax a hit, 1 should have thought of it. But,
The startling likeness between of course, I had never paid any
father and son gave the police arou ensdiem, remarked Mr.. The present (1925-6) issue of et all before, and when it piled
clue to the mystery, and after an "Samuel, but it was so. There were the CHINA YEAR BOOK is again up an unearned income and ex
interview with the youth's mother three pivotar events which had considerably larger than any o Pess profits and super tax, it was
they suceeded in unravelling it. affected the destiny of mankind. its predecessors, The Chapter: an awful shock, especially as the
First there was the flooding of on "Mines and Minerals." "Educa money was all gone by that time.
American host, waving a hand Athens, which enabled the mos- tion," "Products," "Labour, "I'm not a bit sorry though, as
founds the painting above him: go to settle there, and to turn "Oplum," "Commerce," "Ship I learned more in two weeks of
the plain into a desert, rendering ping," "Currency" etc., have beer Faikare than in all the months of
The Boss Ginest And Lo was Atheus a dead city. The second rewritten and brought up to date success: We started our ballet the barrens at the corner of the early one of mine: I bid up to 300 was the simple herring, found in the The Report of the Shanghai Chil
with high hopes, but I soon realised that my 'winnings' were nothing but 8 drop in the bucket. The public just refused to come, and we could hold out only so many weeks.
HUGH D'ARCY, WA,
Remember the lines, Twas a balmy Summer's evening and a goodly growth was there, that well nigh filled
square"? The author of "The Face
On the Floor," Hugh, D'Arcy," has dled in New York.
HONGKONG TIDE.
That is one of my ancestors.".
quinens for him.”
Baltke, brought over to Brithii, and Labour Commission is reprintcr pal for in wool, which set up our In full in the Chapter in "Labour." At the races fipsters were busy great system of trade.
"The Political Summary" describei The third selling ""certain winners" for six-
was popper. In order to get it the events up to the end of March Bener i time.
British dimovered India, and out of 1926. The Chapter on "Defence One who had the usu! crowd that sprang the great Indian New Chapters include a Summary appears at the end of the Booli listening shouted: "Didn't I give Empire. The tide-table given below has been
of Medical Events:" "Politics. Parties," "Taxation" a "Biblio graphy for 1924) and a docu mented Chapter on "China's Con stitutions and Election Laws." THE TERMS OF THE GOLD FRANC SETTLEMENT ARE INCLUDED IN AN APPENDIX
"So I came down from the 'magnate stage to doing any compiled at the National Almanae Oflerhree winners yesterday? If you kind of a rag, tag, and bobtail' in London from the result of the intend to me you would all win job that I could get. I danced in analysis of observations taken by means money!"
of an automatic tide-recording machine
After a few more similar remarks,
a cabaret in Nice and other is the Water Police Basin at Taire Shahe begun running yond the ring French towns, arranged ballets Taut during the years 1998-8. and toured with the Ben Greet The zero of the table Company round London, up in the sera of the sounding, the with his slips, saying, invitingly, "Camo" on, now. I've got a little
double,"
Yorkshire, and down in Kent, playing often to interesting and unusual audiences, sometimes all schoolchildren, then all monks or all nuns or all Quakers.
"I simply adored playing Puck and Ariel. You can't imagine any one my size aspiring to play- ing Portia, can you? Besides, I love light comedy better than anything.
In the intervals Miss Wilson acquired an actor husband and a baby girl.
--- hugs endrá up by choking "the dinner and being useful round the house, though not for Dad," she added, "and baby likes the soup I make, if nobody else does.
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A friend of the family had been summoned to testify, much against his will, as to domestic disturbancesį In a certain household.
**You saw those blows administer- ed? naked counsel.
"Yes, ar," replied the witness. "Did you witness the beginning
the quarrel, between Mr.
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