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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1927.
MUMMIFIED BIRD.
STORY OF THE BLEEDING HAWK.
PREDICTS APPROACH OF WAR.
MUSEUM SECRETS.
BEAUTY OF ANCIENT TREASURES.
HOW IT IS REVEALED.
ERRING YOUTH.
PROBLEM OF THE BOY OFFENDER.
HOME OFFICE REPORT,
on
THE CHINA MAIL.
PLEASANT BURGLARS.
SOME SPECIAL TREASURES 'RETURNED,
WOMEN ROBBED AT NIGHT.
Two debonair burglara who tempered their crime with the gay courtesy of a Rafles have set
hand, but they kept a $1,000 ring they found on the dressing table. From a drawer they drew out a £16,000 string of pearls,
AVERAGE MAN.
BACKBONE OF THE
NATION,
"Oh, dear!" said Mrs. Liver- more, "I do wish you wouldn't take that. It's worth ten thou-MEN YOU NEVER HEAR OF. sand times to me what you can get for it. It's the dearest thing my husband ever gave me."
"All right, madam," said the
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And he tossed it to her,
"Is Zat So?" "Jesse," next remarked the burglar, "what's in the safe?”
"Nothing," said Mr. Livermore, "absolutely nothing, and I've lost the combination.”
"Is zat so?" retorted the bur- glar. He pulled out a hammer, swore, and then apologised to Mrs. Livermore for his language. "I forgot myself; I won't do, it again."
Mr. W. J. A. Grant, the famous Few visitors to the British
The report of the Home Offee explorer, has been visiting Rhodesia Museum suspect that an expert Departmental Committee the -he was at Oxford with Cecil scientific staff is employed solely treatment of young offenders has Rhodes and Rochfort Maguire-and while there he told me all about the/on research work which has for (says the London "Morning Post") all New York ringing with won. robber, "you don't have to lose it.
makes several bleeding hawk, of which he is the its object the preservation of the been issue, and
der at the audacity of their enter-Catch!" pro-
prise. owner, writes a South African re-books and specimens from the suggestions for improved
cedure.
Wall Street especially is con- ravages of time and the revela- porter.
It is recommended that magis- That question which so many tion of hidden beauties which the trates who sit in Juvenile Courta sumed with curiosity regarding have asked-"What is the fascina dust and dirt of centuries has should be specially qualified for the the motives of their burglary, for tion of Egyp: 7"-kept repeating obscured.
work, and there should be a greater their victim is Mr. Jesse Liver- itsfif in my mind. I remember, far The British Museum labora-sharing of common experience by more, the most celebrated of days after my discussion with Mr.
stock speculators, who sprang Graat. And, in any case, what is tory, in Russell Square, W.C., is Magistrates,
The right to go for trial should into fame as "the boy plunger" in true history of this great eivil under the direction of Dr. Alex. the tray thousands of years under Scott, who told a reporter be abolished for children under 14, the panic of 1907, and since than that work was also undertaken on hele procedure of the Courts has been the hero of a series of except in cases of homicide. The Volumes upon volumes have been behalf of the National Gallery, should be simplified, and the terms sensational Stock Exchange cam- written, and expedition upon ex-the Victoria and Albert Museum, "conviction" and "sentence" should paigns. pedition bas set out in attempts to and other institutions. He gave not be used.
As a financial gambler he is a unravel the close secrets of these
the following instances of some Reports from the home and school mysterious figure in Wall Street. bygone Bes, when despotic
and medical records should be
Inasmuch as the burglars Pharaohs built great pyramids af of the investigations made:
Prints and Pictures: A large available to the Court, and there chivalrously tossed back to Mr. stone in the heart of the desert tal
as the lanttmark of their number of colour prints by Wil- should be closer co-operation with Livermore, his wife and their
the education
The pro-i greatness, and to house their trea-liam Blake were cleared up bril-ceedings should be informal and guests more than £20,000 worth Sues and to keep them inviolate liantly and rapidly by means of the number of persons present of jewels, but insisted on search- until they could rise again from an ethereal solution of hydrogen limited. Publication of names oring his private safe for financial the miles of bandages and rule peroxide, Discolouration had been photographs should be prohibited. ane more amid all the splendour and pomp of old.
SETVE
Armageddon.
due to the tarnishing of the flake white used and to the poor quality of the gelatine or glue the air. To they really hold the usert by Blake.
data and documents, suspicion is
·natural that cash and jewels were
venture,
be
The British boy should taught to take a pride in:
Being kept in order;
Later, in keeping himself in order; and
Still later, in keeping other people in order.
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BLINDFOLD PILOT.
A LANDLUBRER STEERS IN A "FOG."
INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.
Recently, I steered a ship into Newhaven harbour in an imaginary fog so skilfully that I brought the vessel dend up the centre of the channel,
says a correspondent of
Chhe "Star."
It
was a very bad fog-so thick that I could not see the bows of Those were the progressive steam-tug, nor even my hand in the good ship "Foremost," a stout stages through which the man- front of my face. The "fog" was hood of our country had to pass, caused by a handkerchief with said Major Ian Hay Beith (Inn which I was blindfolded, and I Hay"), distributing the Mortimer was testing a simple and most effec-
de.. prizes for English and the study tive signalling device which London School. He also said: of Shakespeare at the City of pends for its success on the human ear alone, unaided by any instru-
ter,
ty, responsibility breeds charac-stood blindfolded by the side of
Discipline breeds responsibili-ment.
As we steamed along the coast, I
Finally the floor of the safe
the skipper in the wheel-house and yielded. But the safe was bare. a superb average type. As aing sent out from the shore on
Our educational system breeds latend for signals which were be "You always were a man of nation have seldom been well either side of the harbour. Then your word, Jesse," said the burned or wisely directed. The main we turned fathers the harbour glar ruefully. "I intended to pay strength of our country lies, and itself. you this visit when you were in has always lain in our men-at-
Orders to Skipper. Florida, and I wish now I'd done arms, or "other ranks, as we call
"West," I told the skipper, who so."
was steering by compass. "West them in the Army, whether these it is, sir," he repled. After a further exchange of
A monient Residence in Hostel,
not the main object of their ad- compliments the burglars handed ranks be military, industrial, ad- later, "West again." I ordered, and ministrative, or professional. * the wheel rattled over a few points. Better facilities are required for
Mr. Livermore the key of the
Most of our successes as Just then, know I was on # the examination and observation of
Aronsohns room, saying, "Be nation have been the victories of dead centre line running straight Regs of the future? British Israel The Picture of Oliver Crom young offenders under 21, both by Mr. Livermore and his wife, sure to let them out, but not for the average Englishman,
through the mouth of the harbour. ites and other organisations with well, the property of Sidney Sus-he Juvenile Court and the Adult with two guests, Mr. and Mrs. five minutes after we have gone."
At least three observation
Scot is their hundreds of thousands of besex College. Cambridge, Crom- Court.
of different "Due North." was, my next ix- The two descended a ladder, material altogether; he is not struction. Here in the divine prophecy con-
sard is the Great Pyramid of well's college, had to be treated centres ur.central remand homes Harry Aronsohn, were at their
should country estate situated on the helped themselves to a high content, as a rule, to be a means should be provided. Bail
"Nor'ard, sir.". and nor'ard it for mould, for discoloured white be given whenever possible.
powered motor-ear, shores of Long Island when, a
and drove to an end. Gizeh have pored over
was, and we steamed straight for solls, and examined the winding lead, for oily putty, and also to Probation should not be asso- little after 4 a.m., Nrs. Aron- away. Mr. Livermore notified
The average Englishman is not intensely, and to call "a trifle cast" the harbour) I continued to listen fassages, chambers and ante-chan- keep the glass from touching the ciated with institutional treatment, sohn hearing a scraping sound the police, who found the stolen spectacular; but you can rely on and "north again," and thus 1. a bes of this great monument in pastel. After treatment the but residence in a hostel may pro- stone, in which they read the story picture was vastly improved, and i perly be made a condition of a pro- outside her window, sat up. She motor-car parked some miles him. These men work, as a rule, landlubber,
with no seafaring of man's destiny and also his past further deterioration was, arrest-bation order. The young offender saw the ends of a ladder sce- away, where the burglars had not on the quarter deck but below knowledge, kept the ship on her
unheeded, uneredited, course with unerring accuracy, and to a large extent unsupervis- ed; but they see that the wheels
These pyramids-towering
into
ancient
ed.
over
In
"le Nice, Please."
saving along the balcony rail,
A man's head appeared. An Intruder sprang into the room.
Another followed him. Both had electric headlamps and large revolvers.
"Now, hush, please!" said a Mrs.
the bed.
The
abandoned it for unother car. water,
The Livermores place the losses to themselves and their guests at £19,000.
Two other guests and 12 ser- vants slept serenely throughout the excitement.
go round,
of his trials and tribulations dur-
would live in the hostel but would ing the last three thousand years
Admiralty Test, The Stein Collection: Many in- out to ordinary work. A woman ar girl should always be placed and of those that are yet to come.
It sounds uncanny, but it was We are about to enter the ante-teresting objects from burial onder the supervision of a woman
really very simple, thanks to a de- chamber, which is he beginning of grounds in Chinese Turkestan probation officer. A boy
vice Mr. Henry, M. Fellows, a ship- the end.
were discovered, in a marvellous school age should be placed under
Expect No Thanks.
builder, of Great Yarmouth, has in- In May next your should come) state of preservation.
the supervision of a man.
They grumble and grouse, of vented. It was demonstrated to andi Armageddon-more londy
Perhaps the most remarkable "We depreente strongly any in-
course; they tell one another they officials from Trinity House, and more terrible than the mind of man are biscuits and cakes on which states the report. To the boy who well-modulated voice as
discriminate
UAE of whipping,"
are "fed up" and they usually are; Admiralty representatives are to ean cogerive-followed by years of the stains of jam or some similar nervously unstable or mentally Aronsohn started to cry. "Be
EILM AS THEFT EVIDENCE.
but they carry on. They expect test it further, tranquillity and peace the King's
no thanks and they are not dis- All I had to think of as I stood then, the end. preserve are still plainly visible unbalanced the whipping mug do nice, please!" the voice continued, Chamber and Great men lived in those days after 1,200 years. The pure and more harm than good. The mis- "and you won't get hurt.”
was the following A cinema Alm may be produced appointed. They see the ship by the wheel just how great no one will ever dry air of Turkestan is the causechievous hoy, who has often been
The burglars turned on the as evidence in the Assize Court at goes forward, and that is all they rhyme:-
Dots first and best steer west, know. The mysticism and
magic of this remarkable preservation. cuffed at home will make light of light. They were dressed im- Beauvais, when Kouffer and Sout-care about. In good times or
last and least steer cast, of the Far East were as naught Iron Objects: One object of the matter and pose as a hero to maculately, and instead of vilter are tried on charges of break bad, that is what matters-the
When all are one, compared with theirs.
With these ancient Egyptians has been treated in order to is the most salutary method of and humorous smiles as they pink stone known as the Condé
great historical interest which is companions. We believe that lainous scowls they were subdueding into the famous Chateau of ship, the cause, the job.
there are cases in which whipping
Norard you run. - Chantilly and stealing the great certain birds and inserts were arrest corrosion is the helmet of dealing with the offender.... sacred than any human life, and
searched the dressing-table and diamond and other valuables. for the least among these was the the Black Prince wigich hangs all cases there should be a medical fumbled through Mr. Aronsohn's Both men confessed after arrest hawk, the sacred bird of Osiris, over his tomb in Canterbury examination.
pockets before again appoaching and were taken back to Chantilly. which was always regartled as be- Cathedral. The first step of the ing gifted with remarkable powers, treatment was to remove the rust
Prison Unsuitable.
where, in accordance with Franch and which, at death, was frequently completely by means of a soft
Watch Tossed Back. -police practice, the burglary was nummified and placed in a human iron wire brush (not brass); the useful alternative to imprisonment: of them said, pointing to a sap-stitution and it is proposed to show
Detention in police cells is ૧.
reconstituted with their aid, "Better give us that ring," one
A film was taken of the recon- ton, Front-such a tomb, many iron years ago, Me. W. J. A. Grant, the duroprene" to which sufficient ary prison is unsuitable for these £8,500 visible above the sheet form a clent iden of how the bur- with "The chief reason why the ordin- phire and diamond ring worth this to the jury, to enable them to famous explorer of Cullompton. Der, brought home one of these lamp-black had been added to lads and girls is because they are
which Mrs. Aronsohn was clutch- glary was carried out. mummited hawks, about 8 in. high. take away the rusty-brown tint. plastic and impressionable," says and probably 2,500 years old; and
Dr. Scott has written an ac- when development is incomplete
the report. "They are at a stage ing placed it in a ense, lined with count of the laboratory's work and is proceeding rapidly on the grasped Mr. Aronsohn's wrist She gave it to him. He then paper, in his private museum in under the title "The Cleaning emotional side. It is at this and took a platinum watch set England, where it lies at present. It is the famous "bleeding hawk" and Restoration of Museum Ex-stage above all that the lad or girl with diamonds, but a moment a bird prophet of war, the powers hibits" (Stationery Office, 5s.) should be saved from the presenta- later tossed it back saying: "Oh,
a great number of tion of the whole picture of prison well, madam, don't cry. attributed to which have given rise which has to discussion and interest in all interesting illustrations.
life and lis dreary procession of parts of the world.
failures, and of the building that can have his watch, so soon becomes associated with Addressing the couple in the pro- most polite manner, the burglar then said: "We have another call to make in this house, and if you're good we won't come back." locked the door, and disappeared They cut the telephone wire,
pervert by the window. A few minutes
While assisting in excavations in Eert at the time when Kitchener was busily getting stores up thel Nile before the battle of Omdur-
Ccurt.
was then conted.
DANGEROUS "JOKE."
their presence. Such sights duce their inevitable contamina
"In the case of girls the pre- sence in prison of certain types of hardened and depraved women en
hances the danger of contamina-
Prison may
Harry
A dangerous frolic indulged in tion. by two young Kinnell miners led dean, he had come across then to a peculiar charge of assault. canny hawk which was swathed which was heard at Colness Police and properly mummified-although with its beak an! claws protruding
George Hamilton and William tion. in the tomb of a priestess of aj bygone dynasty. It was bone-dry, Scotland had been out swimming qualities admirable in themselves, later they entered the bedroom of in the Forth off Kinnell, Two A notorious criminal excites a kind the Livermores. They took a and, as mentioned, it found its way on to the shelves of Mr. Grant's her young miners were out in a of hero-wership in the lads who £1,000 ring from Mrs. Liver- Devonshire home... where it lay rowing boat, The swimmers caught see him in the same prison... We among such other strange curios as hold of the boat and rocked it to hope that before long some alter-more's hand, but bowed low and necklaces fashioned from the bones such an extent that it capsized, native method may be devided which returned it when she cried. They of child's vertebra, great hear-and the occupants were left to sluk will avoid altogether the use of also, at her request, returned a skins from the Arctic regions, bells swim.
prisons for persons under 21," ring taken from her husband's from Tibetan temples, the eye of a Fortunately they succeeded in whale, a piece of hair and a tooth making the shore safely, from a sea captain who died in thef The Fiscal described the case as Aretic regions hundreds of years a very dangeroua form of assault, ugo, and a myriad other things. and Provast M'Kenzie, in imposing
War Prophecies,
fine of £1 upon each, remarked
Just before the Boer War, how-that the occupants of the boat ever, Mr. Grant had occasion tonight have been drowned for all handle the hawk, and was. surpris- the accused cared.
ed to find that it had become moist
to the touch; and shortly after
blood drops oozed out and trickled
If the judge allows this it will served as an adjunct in a criminal be the first time the cinema has trial.
LONDON VICAR'S LAMENT,
"It is rather pathetic," writes the Rev. J. M., F. Dumphreys, Vicar of St. Philip's Church, Camberwell, in his parish magazine, "to find the parson and the Church he serves of such casual importance as to only
A loan, merit a call when someone wants
An old suit of clothes,
A body belt.
A set of false teeth,
A hypothetlenl character, or The temporary use of the parish
china,
"It is high time we exercised the power of a new attraction in a new form."
wherever the flag flies, men you tion of two signal devlees, one a
To-day all over the world,
The key to this day in the opera-
never hear of, men you never will thousand yards to the west of the hear of, are shouldering respon-harbour and sibility, making rapid decisions, responding distance
the other R cor- to the east. improvising expedients, getting For 16 Aceonds they emit sounds the wheels to go round somehow, resembling those of n foghorn, cause it is their job and it is up by the incoming boat tells not for honour or glory, but be though so exactly sychronised that the order in which, they are heard to them to do it,
thelmsman the safe direction These men are largely produc-him, to take and warns him if he ed by the public schools and our deviate from it by even a few feet. educational system. Upon their burden of the British Empire, shoulders rests the
SCISSORS IN BOY'S SPINE.
the for
The eastward signal' at New- glorious haven is two Morse code dots, and that on the westward side one dash pitched on a different note.
Only a small power signal was transmitted but it can be over developed and made audible A Bromley boy, Gerald Alsopp, many miles of fog-hidden sen aged ten, now lies in hospital in a
The signals can be worked by critical condition as the result of pressure on a button in the har an amazing accident.
bourmaster's office. Mra. Allsopp, the boy's mother, shaking a tablecloth into
wax
the fireplace in the living- AN OLD LEGEND. room of their home at Sudbury- avenue on the Downham Estate, EASTATES WON BY A HUNTING Bromley, when pair of scissors, which had been caught up in the cloth, flew out and penetrated her Bon's back.
HORN.
Prince Leon Radziwill, a chair- man of the board of directors of The boy was taken at once to Monte Carlo Casino, who was found hospital, where it was found
the dead recently in mysterious circum- blade of the scissors had pene-stances, used to tell this story: trated his spine, and he was de-about his family: tained in a serious condition.
WHERE TO FIND SHIPS IN HONG KONG HARBOUR-CHART OF THE PRINCIPAL MOORING BUOYS.
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COSMOPOLIT
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mere chance. "But why it
500TERS IELD."
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on to the bottom of the case in
to
which it lay. This bleeding, on should bleed only during those very minute scale, continued until two wars I can't tell. It is now the peace treaty was signed, when as dry and firm as the day I brought once again the relic became as dry it from Egypt." Mr. Grant added as dust.
At that time," remarked the ex-still to be seen on the paper lining. that the dried drops of blood are plorer, "I really never gave the mat of the case. ter a thought. I considered the nt-
World-Traveller. mosphere had an effect on the em- Born in 1851, Mr. Grant (after balming and that it would soon whom is named Cape Grant in decay."
Franz Josef Land) retains the But the old hawk remained quite agility of youth, and has spent most dry until 1914, when, about 10 days of his life exploring the most far- before the outbreak of the Great dung parts of the world.
His ex- War bubbles of blood again appear- periences as an Arctic explorer be- ed on its breast. They majority of gan in 1874, when he started on a the populace at that time had no six months cruise to the North of thought of war. When Mr. Grant Norway and the Lapland const. In easyally explained to an acquain-1876 he went with Sir A. Young, to tance the hawk's strange condition Baffin Bay and Smith's Sound in during the Boer War and laughing- the Pandora, the relief ship to the ly suggested that another war was Alert and Discovery expedition Brewing and about to commence, under Sir George Nares, for which the whole matter was treated as a he received the Arctic medal. joke.
He later accompanied the Dutch| Once more the body continued Arctic expeditions to Spitzbergen, moist and bloody until within a Nova Zembla and Northern Siberia. short time of the signing of the In 1880 Mr. Grant served in an ex- Armistice, when the bird returned pedition to Franz Josef Land as to its original bone-dry condition. 200logist and scientist. This ex- A distinguished general from pedition discovered and mapped Gallipoli was taking tea with Mr. About 110 miles of new coast Tue Grant at the time when war was and many valuable zoological and threatened in the Near East. Hej ecientific discoveries were made. asserted that hostilities were Inevit- These exepditions were followed by able; but his host went to the many more of a similar nature, In- hawk's case and glanced at its con- cluding a 27,000 mile trip of ex- tents. It was as dry as ever. "I'll ploration in the South Seas. He bet you a hundred to one there is The explorer niso made an at- no war," he said to his visitor, and tempt to get into Tibel, but was Bure enough, as events proved, unsuccessful.. He was a ember of a party that sought in vain for the there was no war.
The owner of the bleeding hawk fabulous treasure Bald to be worth Is'inclined to put its powers down £14,000,000, on Cocos Island.
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He was having dinner in Paris one day, with Prince Constantine. his father-the latter had married a daughter of Francois Blane, the founder of Monte Carlo. Casino when lady at his side noticed tho eoat-of-arms on his platinum ring.
"They are the oldest arms of our family, madame," he explained in his drawling voice. "Three silver bunting horns on a red field."
His father spoke up.
"It is very old legend madame," the old patriarch, who was a
a French citizen of Polish origin, explained to his guests. "One day, about a thousand years ago, the Grand Duke of Lithuania was hunting in the Russian crown forests of Rialo- wicake. He ran down a wild_ox, which suddenly rushed at him. The nobleman was in dangerous posi→ tion, when a powerful woodcutter, who was working nearby ran up and laid the ox low with one blow of his axe.
Heard at Vilna, "Thanks, my brave follow," the grand duke exclaimed, "Take my hunting horn and blow it three times, I will give you the lands as far as the horn is heard."
"The woodcutter, who was my ancestor, took the horn and ho blew so hard that it was heard at Vilna. The nobleman was sorry that he had made his promise: but he was a good sport.
T1OW
an," he said, “Ik "Good, my man, thuanid is yours."
"He blow a second time, and the
horn was heard at Zakopane, which is south of Cracow,
"I keep my word," he sald "Poland is yours."
"My ancestor put the horn to his lips for the third and last time. He took a deep breath and blew until the veins on his neck and forehead almost burst. He blew s0 hard--so hard, madame"
Prince Leon slyly interrupted his father: "Isn't it true, father, that it was heard as far away as Monte, Carlo?"
Prince Constantine, who was a trank old man, did not hesitate.. "Yes, thank God," he said.