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"I admit I forged, the eheque
A generation ago, the one who you are looking for someone?"
Blue-books seldom lend them- ander
As a potent tonic for emotional very pressing circum- tances," said J. M. Kailey, the In-impulses and as a yardstick with came down to breakfast with the The answer was. "No." "Then
Publication: 1,234 · · (His an, who was charged at the which to measure the true worth story of a dream was snubbed by why do you stay here?" Then selves to the art of the illustrator. riminal Sessions this morning of non-swooning feminine youth the rest of the family. Dreams, the cobbler told his questioner his Air
story. The stranger advised him Majesty's Stationery Office)- with larceny of two Mercantile of to-day, read Dickens. So says bored most people.
Now all is changed (says alto go home and go on with his despite its name-contains photo- Bank of India forms, the property Horace J. Bridges, leader of the of Mr. E. R. Dovey; and with the Chicago Ethical Society which, writer in the "Weekly, Mail"), work, and pay no further atten- graphs that would do credit to the
a dream graphic Society, forgery of Mr. Doveyla signature with the public schools and mem Owing to the new psychology, we tion to his dream. "I myself." exhibition of the Royal Photo- The publication, although de with intent to defraud Mr. Dovey or bers of the Dickens Fellowship are all interested in dreams. said the man," ""had"
ed three nights together that I signed primarily for the use of Owing to his cariler statement Club, commemorated the one hun. Dreams are as varied, and as- about six months ago. I dream- that one of the charges was "only dred and fifteenth anniversary of tonishing as life.
Some dreams have been very would go. into Somersetshire, to officers of the Royal Air Force, partly true," the plea had been the birth of the great English inken as one of "not guilty." novelist in Chicago recently. well worth while. It is reported an orchard, and under an apple will appeal to all who are inter-
Clouds, that Mr. William Archer's play, tree there I should find a pot of ested in meteorology.
according to Evidence against the prisoner Bridges declared that for true The Green Goddess,"
was in- gold. But I paid no attention to was completed this morning by the evaluation of the much talked of, Crown (Mr. H. S. Fitzroy prosecut-I
to immense heights. "Mares- ing) after prisoner had put a long emancipated, educated women of spired by a dream. Tartini's the dream and remained quietly "Manual of Air Pilotage," reach tails," those tufted storm signals wonderful musical composition, at my business.” series of questions to Mr. Doves re- to-day, and her little sister me "The Devil's Sonata," was the That, thought the cohort of the sky, are found at 80,000 garding details of office administra- flapper, one should compare them outcome of a dream in which sounds very much as if it meant tion which appeared to
have no, with the fainting, floppy woman Tartini saw the Devil aitting at my own orchard, and my own feet, higher than the tallest bearing whatever on the charge. of Dickens's time and works.
original apple tree, so he thanked the man mountains of the Himalayas.
Thunderstorms generally take! The prisoner having expressed af Many modern critics unfair- piano playing an wish to call other evidence. His at Victorian THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD. journed the case until this after of Dickens because they are not remembered the dream and the started off to his home. He dug clods, about a mile above the music and Bet it down before it under the apple tree and unearth-earth usually in the form of an noon, indicating that he would not, like our women," Mr. Bridges should be forgotten.
led the pot of gold, and with an however, call a warder at the sil said, "True, we could not stand
The theme of "The Ancient increase in his fortune, he deter- anvil. The "Manual" contains whom the prisoner had indicated a
his Dolly Vardens, Dora Spenlows Mariner" came to Coleridge-in a mined to give his boy a good, beautiful cloud photographs taken
from aeroplanes, desire to get in touch with te speak' and Esther Summersons.
Modern air navigation in- on his behalf.
these women
were real sixty dream, and the story was a dream education.
fragment; whilst his "Kubla; His boy went to a good school struments are so intricate that years ago. The fainting, senti- Khan" was actually composed and soon came home able to read the pilot must be a mathematician mental Victorian women were during sleep.
the Latin Inscription on the pot of more than ordinary ability to real when Dickens put them into "Pilgrim's Progress" came to which had contained the gold. make use of them. Knowledge of his novels. And those who are John Bunyan first in the form of What the inscription said was, magnetism, wireless telegraphy, inclined to depreciate the women a dream.
"Look under, and you will find physics, aero-dynamica, stresses, their Dickens again. of to-day would be well to rend Addison frequently dreamt he better." Father and son went strains and pressure are all re- saw and heard his characters. again to the orchard and dug quired of the young flying officer. Tonic for Pessimists.
His Citizen, Grand Vizler, Sir more deeply under the apple tree, Some modern Johnson will one "Dickens is a wonderful tonic Timothy, and the rest conversed and there found some more gold day evolve a dictionary of flying A Chinese who was arrested in for the pessimism of to-day with him in the night watches. hidden away.
jargon. Even the Air Ministry Water Street, West Point, was manifested in such things as the His famous short story, "The
has been forced to recognise such charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell recent wave of college suicides, Vision of Mirza," was also based A Remarkable Colliery Incident, with stabbing another man who the general tone of cynicism in is now in hospital,
the activities and writing of to- on a dream Addison had.
Macaulay's Terrible Dream. Accused pleaded guilty," and day. Dickens proceeds on the
Macaulay once wrote a friend, when asked why he committed arbitrary assumption that life is the crime, said he owed the other a priceless gift; that every man Mr. T. F. Ellis, about his niece. man a couple of coppers and had is a unique spiritual being; that I have had a dream so vivid that already paid the debt. The man evil is abnormal and exceptional, I must tell it to you. She came denied having received the money, and that men are responsible for to me with a penitential face and There was a scuffle and accused it in that they have either caused told me that she had a great sin absurdity, and said he had eaten additions to the language.
to confens-that Pepy's 'Diary' too good a "scratched" his opponent in the it or can cure it.
supper the night chest with a knife,
"Whereas our realists proceed was all a forgery and that she before.
"ACCIDENTAL.”
STABBING DURING PETTY SQUABBLE.
When the Magistrate remarked that he might have killed the
other man, accused said he did it accidently.
Mr. Lindsell: Nonsense, you can't push a knife into a man's chest by accident.
A remand was given until Thursday morning to await the wounded man's discharge from hospital.
synthesis of mechanical
But
A few years ago a shunter at abstruse terms as "azimuth," one of the Treversali Collieries! "graticule," "hachuring," "orient- named Thomas Adams dreamting a map," and a "rhumb line." that he saw his work-mate, Such words as "stunt" and Samuel Osbond, crushed to death "crash" have already been adopt- at his work. He told his worked in the language of the civilian. mates of his dream, but they Fifty years hence he will, no amused at its doubt, be familiar with other
only were
"Uncle John." said little Joan,
fed on elephant's milk gained 2016.
hind and want some assistance. plied little Joan. through with his work or die in Osbond replied that he would get
the attempt.
Shadows Before. COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
on the arbitrary assumption that had forged it. I was in greatest For a month all went well. life is worthless; that man is a dismay. What! I have been Then one day the group in which mere machine, a blindly fated quoting, in reviews and in my Osbond was working quarrelled "do you know that a baby that was
as a book of the high- 'History,' and
about some bye-contract work. in one week 7" · chemical forces, that happiness est authority, a forgery? How One of the men told Osbond that "Nonsense impossible!" exclaim- is a delusion, a lying deceit of shall I ever hold up my head, he would see him fast before the ed Uncle John: and then asked, Nature to lure us into remaining again? I awoke with the fright, day was out. This seemed to "whose baby was it?". alive and perpetuating life.
poor Alice's supplicating voice suggest that Osbond would get be- "It was the elephant's baby," re- "But Dickens's. assumptions still in my ears." are those of all normal men formed him that he had often Cabanis tells that Franklin in- everywhere. They are practical-been assisted in dreams in the ly shared because they are acted on by the very pessimists who conduct of the many affairs in
| A few hours later, by a pure sneer at them. They write books
which he was engaged. to prove that he was wrong and
La Fontaine and Voltaire both accident, when no engine was then join clubs, drink wine,
composed verses in their sleep. helping him, Osbond got his head and Sir Thomas Browne declared fast between an iron column and Two Chinese one of whom wore marry wives and love their child-that his faculties of mind were a truck and in this way was in- the uniform of a messenger of the ren to prove that he was right. far more efficient in sleep than stantly killed. Not only did the
"Dickens owes his immortality when he was awake. Great Northern Telegraph Com-
shunter's dream prove prophetic. | All Night." pany, were charged before Major to his unrivalled comic charac-
are always but his own words and those of Willson this morning with theterisations and his power of interesting, and Dr. Abercromby, his workmate with whom he Players present "Abie's Irish Rose" unlawful possession of two yards observation, prompted by sym-in his Intellectual Powers" nar- quarrelled were strangely fulfilled
pathy, which has never been sur-rates the following striking also. of silk worth $9.
The first man was arrested try passed, to ever equalled.
Out story ing to pawn the silk on Saturday of a shabby creature you wouldn't
A lady in a dream saw an aged morning. He gave information look at on the street he creates female relative, being murdered to try and sentence to death a "The Fighting Cub." which led to the telegraph. mesora Sam Weller. His characters The dream so impressed her that Justice through a dream. The taurant Parisien, 4.30 p.m.
a. Newman Noggs, a Micawber, by her servant, who was a negro, namesake who was brought to
A FLAW IN THEIR EXCUSE.
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This man said
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May 23--Star Theatre; Matinees,
May 23-Tea Dance, Cafe Res-
senger's arrest.
May 23-Dinner Dansant and Ex- he picked the silk up in Des Voeux have become symbols of life and she persuaded a gentleman to dreamer was a man named Adam hibition Dancing at Cafe Restaur- Road Central on Friday after institutions.
Rogers, who kept a public-house stay in the house, or rather to
ant Parisien. keep watch near the old lady's in the village of Portlaw, near
May 23--Isako's European Circus,} Detective Sergt. Fitch, who had
Waterford.
Hunghom, Kowloon, 9.16 p.m. door. In the grey dawn of the charge of the case commented on
At the trial Rogers testified to summer mormng the watcher having seen the prisoner, Caul- the "Squeakettes," Helena May May 26 Motince performance by the fact that both the silk and the
New York, April 19-Miss Mae heard a slight noise, and on going field, and Hickey, the murdered Institute, 5.80 p.m. wrapping were not.
West, co-author and star of the play into the passage, he met the
June 18-"Squeakettes" perform although it was raining on Friday "Sex," together with the producer, black servant carrying a scuttleman, set out together from his afternoon and one would have Mr. Morgenstern, and the financial fal of coals upstairs, and conceal public-house towards a lonely ance at the Peak Club in aid of'
Clementi's path that led across the mountain. Lady expected to have found the silk leker. Mr. Timony, were sentenced ed in the coals, on examination, a His evidence was so circumstan- Fund and M.C.L., 9.30 p.m. soiled if it had in fact been pick-to ten days' imprisonment.
murderous-looking knife was ed up in the street.
They have been released pending found. So by the dream a foul tioned him as to how it was he hold function in aid of Hospital
tial that the prisoner cross-ques-
May 24-Kowloon Cricket Club The accused were convicted and an appeal.
deed was in all probability avert- fined $10 each. The fines were
was 30 sure of details of dress Comforts Fund. 9.15 p.m. ed. paid.
and manner, etc., since the men
.May 25-Race for Brown Rowing Duke's Prophetic Dream Of Own he described had only called at Cup, starting from Channel Rocks,
Funeral. The CP.S., R.M.S. "Empress of
the public-house and stayed a 15 p.m. Asia" left Yokohama on May 20, The Duc de Berri dreamed one short time.
May 28-20-Second extra race and is due at Vancouver on May 20, night that he was standing at the Rogers hesitated at first, but, meeting at Macao, 2.15 p.m.
window of his apartments in the encouraged by the judge, he told June 1-First game of the Hong Co-partnership and profit-sharing Tuileries, which overlooked. the the story of a remarkable dream Kong Baseball Assen., Happy Val- by work-people in every steady kind gardens, when his attention was he had had the night previous to ley.
June 4, 6-Fourth extra af business are undoubtedly desir-called to the dense crowds assem- the murder. In the dream he new coloured carnations on the market able from every point of view.bled and a procession that ap- saw these men-Caulfied, the big, meeting of H. K. Jockey Club,
peared to be passing. On inquiry powerful, evil-looking man, and Happy Valley Race Course.. he was told that it was the Hickey, the small, quiet man- Blue is the colour which has al- The curse of the Pharaohs has funeral of M. Greffulhe. Then walking along the lonely mour
May 25-The whole of Messrs.. carnation growers, been referred to at the conference there followed another procession,-tain path, when suddenly the big/Sherif Bros. Shop fittings, and and the man who could produce one of the Royal Microscopical Society more magnificent than the former man sprang upon the lesser on Messrs. Lammert Bros. at sundries will be suctioned The latest theory of the credulous This statement was made recently seems to be that those who disturb one, and on inquiring what this and murdered him. .. to a "Daily Express" representative the tombs of the Pharaohs will die meant, he was informed that this
The dream was so vivid that Queen's Road. Central: 2.40 p.m.
May 27-At Mesara. Lammert by a member of the world's largest from mysterious diseases due to was his own funeral. Royalty he told it to his wife over break-Bros Sales Room, household furni- firm of growers, who have more bacteria, remarks a Home paper, were there, and every honour fast, and soon afterwards he saw ture, ste, 2.30 p.m. than 1,000,000 carnations in their No traces of any bacteria, however, was being paid to his passing. the parish priest, Father Browne, hothouses at Saffron Walden. This have been rovented by a microscopic A few nights later the Duc de and not only related the incident May 23-Postnoned meeting of! firm displayed at the Carnation Investigation of the wrappings Berri went to a grand ball given to him, but described the point on members of the China Coast Off Show at the Horticultural Hall as which encased the body of Tutank- by M. Greffulhe, who was not in the mountain road, which they cers and Marine Engineers Gulids many as 4,000 actual blooms, while hamen. An enormous number of a very good state of health. It both knew, where the tragic in- of China (HK branches). 67, Des there were innumerable new colours people, while perhaps not support was held at his hotel in the Rue cident had occurred in the dream. Voeux Road, Central. 6 m. and shades to be seen.
Ing the bacteria theory, are con-d'Artois. It was a cold night, Visitors stopped to admire a new vinced that the tragic death
Later in the day the men of the May 27-First General Meeting bright mouve variety,
tion: Lord Carnarvon was due to the Royal Highness to the carriage and Rogers took Hickey aside and Sang Loong & Co., City Hall, 2.80 of and M. Greffulhe attended his dream called at the public-house of Creditors of Wong Wai-shing smaller than the average carnation; bite of a mysterious bat, which was bareheaded and caught a chill and tried to persuade him not to go p.m.
(deceased) formerly trading as
bere Wła a magnificent orange flower, speckled with crimson: presumably the Ka, of the dead
Juxe' 7-Forty-ninth ∙ananal· there a red and mauve specimen man, who was infuriated at the fover which ended his life. The forward with Caulfield, but to no touched with silver grey. Others desecration of his last resting-place. Assassin, Louvel, before a week purpose, and Hickey was found meeting of shareholders of the were almost, plaid-patterned, with The idea must be pretty widespread, had elapsed, had completed the murdered at the place of Rogers's Chine Sugar Refining Co., Ltd
dream. maroon and copper stripes.
since it has been adopted commer other part of the dream. The "overlaid carnation with a clally and the old fly made out of subtle blending of colours; seems to elastic and a hairpin which delight- have been cultivated extensively by ed children fifteen to twenty years Archbishop Whatley tells a growers during the past year, al- ago has reappeared in the shape of very strange story of a dream. though florists, for decoration pure a large and awe-inspiring, bat. In the early days he was a fellow poses, favour the single-coloured This is set and eptinged in an en- of Orle! and when there he told ones. Every effort has been made velops, and the recipient on tearing this story. A cobbler in Somer-
Intensity the perfume, as the open the letter is startled by a setshire dreamt that someone told At its final plenary meetings quality of the flower is judged not dreadful bat-like creature that him that If he would go to Lon- the American International Law Cathedrals (as in previous years). by its colour, but by its scent. flaps out between his Angers. This don Bridge he would meet with Congress ratified measures relay 27--Kowloon Chess Club r
toy is advertised na. "Tutankhamen's something to his advantage Heating, to the peaceful settlement en match Kowloon v. H.M.S Increased producitan cah only be vampire bat! The story of the dreamt this on three succeeding of international disputes and Hermes. 8. p.m. secured by improved methods of cures of Tutankhamen I as hardy hights, and then resolved to go to neutrality in case of war Reu- June 8-King's Birthday parade, scientific application-Lord Hal-opparently, as that of the painted
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