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TOLD BY THE PADRE, when the ship was in harbour dis-
ADVENTURES OF “GINGER” IN
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*Butthe worst I ever encounter-
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tinguished visitors were boing shown over her.
"This" said a patty officer, "is the chapel,"
CALL AT THE WHITE
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AIR OF REVOLT.
CHINESE CITY MASSES AFFECTED.
SENSE OF APPREHENSION.
liana.
Necessity of Peace.
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In these circumstances there are sity of peace. What about peace not a few who speak of the neces- men inquire: is it so completely impossible to find a formula which
to
now being
P. I. POLICY.
UNCHANGED, SAYS PRES. COOLIDGE.
A DENIAL BY QUEZON.
Washington, Nov. 15.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
23, 1927.
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ing it into a purae Instrument of government to protect and prepa- gate Bolshevism. The march the Yangtsze Valley was consented torby the Moscow Communists with He was horrified to see, lenning
much apprehension; they know that once riches' were in sight discipline casually on the altar rail, à more
and unity of control would vanish. CONSTANTINOPLE ADVENTURE or less religious figure which was
They strove mightily to stop at certainly not the padre.
Shanghai, "And who," asked the distin- Mr. Putnam Weale writes to the least the advance on
knowing that one rich city would
Meats and vegetables, the staple When a fleet la at anchor Sun-guished visitor, "is this clergy- "Shanghai Times":- day morning is a time of great man?"
Just now the atmosphere in make corruption universal. When Several recently published stories articles of diet in the temperate activity. At about eleven delock For once the composure of the China is still the atmosphere of Chiang Kai-shek would no longer that the administration had chang-zones, comprise only a small part the sea becomes dotted with boat- Navy was shattered.
revolt, of sedition; and that I listen they prompted the Nanking ed Its Philippine polley brought of the human food supply of the loads of religious conviction mak "That," said the petty officer, why there is a feeling of unrest. outrages; every other way having from the Whitehouse to-day a state world, says Dr. Austin H. Clark, of the world-famous Smithsonian ing their way to worship. Wes-hustling the visitor fram, the They city masses have become in-} failed, the last possible method was ment that President Coolidge stil Institution in Washington. leyans are seen rowing to the ship chapel, is probably some sort of fected. Their peaceful character- to force the destruction of the ad-
"Fastidiousness is an attribute in which their particular padre curate!"
istles have been replaced by a ser vancing army by a foreign bomb- stood on the basis of faithful ap-
preciation of the Jones law That rapidly acquired by all peoples "hangs out"; Roman Catholles are But he knew who it was, and the vousness and a sense of apprehen- ardment.
The grand plan for the Bolshevis policy, it was said, means giving with increasing prosperity," he do- UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER on their way to visit the priest in poy knew he knew; and so it went sion which are new in the history another ships small boatloads of on until the captain knew, and of this country. Men are sceptical ing of China may have failed, but the Filipinos an opportunity to declares. "other denominations" wind in and then, of course
work monstrate their capacity for self- "Wa have thus eliminated from the Lord High where formerly they were trustful; the administrative frame out of the fleet in search of their Executioner knew also!-H. V. they are increasingly rough, and in- which in 1925 still survived from government by the ability with our list of edibles many items that creasingly filled with the mobdays of the Manchus has gone for which they comply with the Jones are important economic factors proper spiritual comfort. It Is a Morton, in "Daily Express.”
elaowhera. Wo disregard cats and great day for visiting
spirit which delight in seeing au- ever. There is now frankly no-act-
thing remaining but taxation- thority chastised. The young men
The President was represented as rats, for instance; yet when cook frame of mind offices and city police which serve some one of fancy religion for GALAXY OF AIRMEN. bave got back to the frames wish to as the appendages to the armies feeling that the net is fundamental-rabbits ther countries and called
are not so bad. whom no ocupation can be found
immolate themselves on the altar of Until the provincial groups in the ly a good law which has given satis-**
Whale Meat, their Fatherland; and they go to field have been defeated or acat- factory results and which at pre- ed in all my experience," and a
the execution ground
working out very well. chanting tered by Peking there is no way at sent is
"Sentiment, too, has always been songs so reckless in spirit that they all of talking peace, since you can- Although the President is ready to against snakes, though they are petty officer, "was a Jew. He was
stir even in their guards that ever not ask men to surrender their investigate any suggestion for nesten in some places, even in this the only one we had and we were
Washington, Nov. 14. a bit vngue-like about the Jewish President Coolidge to-day enter- present fanatical sense which is se peculiar way of earning a living change in the Philippine policy, he country, and they are very good to regulations; and he knew it! Well tained at luncheon a notable galaxy petuliar to Asia. Even the scien- until you have beaten them
feels that for the present the old eat, as I can testify. South Ameri one day his sister died suddenly, of American trans-oceanic bird- tine celebration which was to be obedience,
held in Peking in honour of the Up he comes to ask for fourteen mon.
Money or Its Lack.
flesh is tough and strong. President Coolidge
held has
"We have been known to eat days leave. What for? we asked, Heading the list, of course, was centenary of the great Berthelet, But money, or the lack of it, will!
numerous conferences with Henry skunks, and in some Eastern sea- suspicious at once.. "Why he said. Colonel Charles A. Lindbereh, who had to be indefinitely postponed be not that prove the dominant fac *to mourn over the body of course, was later in the day to receive a because it was feared that any con-tor? No. No war has ever stop-1. Stimson regarding the islands, alde places large frait bats are according to the Jewish faith. medal for his famed New York-to-gregation of students might give an ped for lack of money; so long as but it was emphasised at the White- higher esteemed.
excuse for a patriotic outburst ima population has food it can con house that the question was not one "Chicken and rice three times a That didn't seem quite right to Paris fout, ns, but we didn't want to be hard
Lindbergh flew here from New possible to suppress except by rifle. tinue to fight. In China to-day, that could be considered in the day formed my entire bill of fare once for a period of alx weeks. on him, so the padre wired to a York with his hardly less famous are. And rifle-dre in Peking to brought here by grim, necessity, terms of personalities, rabbi, or something. and, believe schoolteacher mother. thereby day, with the dull grow! of the there is consequently a sudden eon- Senator Manuel Quezon and Com-We then caught a whale, and I ac me, it was all flannel...just fla nel qualifying her as a "lier" so that howitzers firing in the hills always cern about price-levels. Prices of missioner Guevara to-day donfed quired forty pounds of good fresh
In the air, would be dan prime necessities are from beginning to end.”
she might attend the luncheon on j
published reports of a new secret meat. As far ag possible,
"I still look back on that whale' The padre in a battleship gets a thoroughly honest and above-gerous music for the listening mil-regulated.
with the primitive machinery avail- movement under way to revise the meat as the finest meat I over taat- to know all the bad hats.
board. basis, as they laughingly ex-
government 40 "Some of the worst cases." aan!į plained.
able, profiteering is being dealt Philippine
thated, resembling the best of beef, the padre wiping his spectacles and Mrs. Lindbergh decided at the
with in a summary way. It is dim- American supervision will be re-, but more tender. ly realised that a war of exhaustion moved. Mr. Quezon telephoned from "Nearly all kinda of birds are replacing them, "turn out rattling laat moment, however, that she good fellows. I have known real would not attend the luncheon but
will play their allotted role. Al- untrue." has set in and that the grain-bins New York that the "whole story is eaten unless their flesh is nauseat- bud lots suddenly reform, fellows would rest up and feel in good
though taxation is becoming more
ing, as in the case of vultures, or whose conduct sheets into condition to enjoy the ceremony to-
and more oppressive, purposely it with Senator McIntyre, had been the case of spruce grouse, Hawka The report said that Mr. Quezon too bitter to be swallowed, as ini night when her son will receive the will allow these dogs of war to re- is relaxed wherever it conflicts working on a plan to establish the are a delicacy, as are herons and The excuses that are dished up Hubbard Medal
turn to their kehnels? What is it with the demands of the population from time to time are most elabor- There was one other woman flier that is making Chinese fight among for fuel and feed. Food is still Canadian form of government in the ate. There was Jack, who asked present-Mi
Elder, Buth
seen the English re-themselves so continuously, bestow very cheap and plentiful in most Philippines. In denying the report. sparrow in leave to go to Inekney to see his cently arrived from Europe after ing an amount of patient thought centres owing to the abundant Mr. Quezon added, "We haven't dis- days past
our markets, and in old mother before she died. He her disastrous venture with Cap on the matter which if directed to autumn harvests, and nothing like cussed the
our fathers feasted obtained four days' leave and re- tain George Haldeman
matter with the beter channels would do them in a famine is anywhere in sight. McIntyre or the
General royally on robin pies. turned on the eighth
Haldeman He went American Girl.
was finite service? The answer is that Food will not play a great role just We aren't aware
war department. "Some of the larger lizards, es. before the captain He gave
with her to-day..
I although the military campaign now no matter what it may do in
of such a plan, pecially the iguanas, are delicious vivid description of waiting for the
Clarence Chamberlain and could certainly be areated without the future.
unless it's the one sponsored by and in high favour whenever they former Governor Carpenter."
can be procured. Crocodile meat train at Charing Cross, then he met Charles Levine, another flying pair | much difficulty by a few concilia- an 'old ship' and they went to have and a more successful one because tory moves, the war within the war
Simultaneously,
is reckoned good food by the Afri- Commissioner a drink.
car, and the tails of alligators are "'And while we was of their landing in Germany, were } (or behind it) is a much more dim-
Guevara declared that articles pub-enjoyed by Southern negroes. havin' a drink, sir. he said to the among the luncheon guests. Brock cult problem. What principles are
lished in two Washington papers captain, one of these 'ere Bolshe- and Schlee of round-the-world to be accepted in China? What is
concerning the establishment of al
Shark Intoxication, viks comes into the bar and, kind speed fame, Art Goebel who won the platform to be? It should be
semi-parliamentary form of govern- The crocodile appears regular- of sneers at us, and I; not wishin the Dole Contest trophy for his understood that it is no longer an
ment in the islands, were without ly as a market food. In Siam and to make a fraces in the King's, uni-fight from Oakland to Honolulu, idle discussion which is proceed- form, made to go out. quiet as a Lieutenant-Commander Richard E. ing. Certain falladious doctrines
foundation of fact. He said that in Greenland the natives eat the Cebu, Nov. 14. lamb, when he ups and says sonic- Byrd, who flew a navy seaplane have taken hold of so many that the
neither he nor Senator Osmena had flesh of the great Arctic shark; thin' to which I took inintejet ex- over the Atlantic, Bronte, Captain mere opening of discussion might
An investigation of alleged per- "Bubmitted or discussed with off but an amateur may quickly suc ception......
Davis and Maitland were also prove more provocation than the secution of Chinese in Cebu by cials of the government of the cumb to what is known as shark
intoxication. Coolidge guests.
present slow drift of anarchy. It fake secret service agents has been United States plans for a semi- "Fish eyes in the West Indies is not the Communist party which requested by the is dangerous in China; it is the consul of this city. Yesterday the Philippines. Those articles have as North-Eastern Asia boiled salmon Chinese vice- parliamentary government for the are considered a delicacy, and in fact that the Moscow Bolshevists consul sent a vigorous letter of their objective the poisoning of the eyes are a favourite dish. They were suficiently astute to see in 1925 that China has reached the protest to the local authorities. mind of the administration and resemble large blueberries, Sheep's crossroads; and that since forelyn According to the consul'a state-people of the United States and eyes, too, are very popular in Asia nations as a group could be look-ments; many...of the
Minor. prominent Filipinos." ed upon as neligible, and would not Chinese business men have been
"Jellyfish often excite our inter The articles were said to have eat because of their beautiful do their duty, they had only to Bubjected to searching of their been based on private cables from colouring. preach that a new day was dawning homes by alleged secret service Manila to
We never think of two high government them as insistently enough to break down agents who claim to possess search officiais, both of
food, but jellyfish are control. They played the part of warranta.. In every instance these named. It was said that the new Islands.
whom were un-eaten in Japan and the Inland Sea Peter the Hermit and cailed for a agents claim to have found opium, plan would remove every trace Detroit, Michigan, Nov. 14.
This dish, flavoured with con- crushde; they availed themselves of Edsel Ford, son of the famed Heaven-sent chance in a very as always in small amounts,
The Ginger...When I joined a new ship Henry and vice-president of the siduous fashion. Allying them guarantee the Chinese immunity and direction, and that the United jellyfish in ages past was also re-
and American supervision, Inspectiondiments, is very appetfaing. some years ago I saw a notice post-Ford Motor Company, to-day an-
selves to Sun-Yat-senium, ed up: "Volunteer wanted to be ser-nounced that plans have been com- planting themselves behind the money.
and from arrest by paying a sum of States would only help the island lished as far north as Cornwall, vant to the padre. Under this was pleted and work will begin imme- Canton Sun flag, they
England. government out of possible interna- stage- written a scrawly name and mendiately upon a million dollar as-managed one or two
"The seaworts include one that: The searchers are thought to tlonal entanglements, Associated is very important as food in many were laughing at it. I heard such sembly plant at Yokohama, Japan. claimed the credit for many others. a small amount of the drugs in the
coups and operate with confederates who plant Press, remarks as: "What, Ginger?" "Yus,
places in Polynesia. It is called The new plant will have a capa-They were successful as long
the palolo, and when fully grown Ginger.' 'The Gawd 'elp the city of producing 200 Fords of the their disciples were poor and 28 home of wealthy Chinese, to be
it averages about sixteen inches in padre Ginger turned out to be new forthcoming model each day their Staff retained control of the found by the alleged secret service.
length and makes a fine stew. an elderly, retiring, but experiene- by August of 1928, Ford said. ed individual whose Record filled
military machine. They under-agent. In all such cases money has The Ford Company will also stood the psychology of the Chinese been demanded. three sheets. It was an appalling build a large bonded warehouse to as only Slavs can, since they, too, The consul said that the persons record.
store imported materials. Ma- are entirely subjective and cannot who had been making complaints "Ginger turned out to be a mudel terials of the most durable and fire- understand objective truth. They to him were not addicts servant as long as I saved his pay proof description will be employed infected their victims individually opium habit. He urged
of the and 'doled out a shilling a time and in an effort to make the warehouse and rejoiced at their success. But
a strict never enough for him to go ashore thoroughly fire and earthquake re- they did not understand until too
Investigation in order to avoid with. However, at Constantinople sisting, due to the frequent shocks late that warfare in China is a trouble in the future and asked that I smashed my watch and I decid- in the Yokohama district.--United trade, a basis industry; that their preventative
steps be taken. ed to send Ginger ashore with a Press.
Staff could never succeed in turn- "Manila Bulletin." friend to get it mended. friend returned-but without Gin- ger!
#
What did he say? asked the captain. I hardly likes to repeat it. sir. Repent it at once" Well,
in
The President expressed his pro found admiration of the courage of sir, what he said was "Down with the fliers and said they had made the King!" Well I couldn't stand tremendous contributions to world it, sir. So you luft? No, air I aviation,United Press,
'il "im!" 'And then?' "They thought 'e was dend, sir.' 'So you stayed four days to find out?" 'No, sir, it would have been all right! but for an interferin' cop.' 'Oh, I nee.'
"So," said the padre, "he went to the cells.'
"Then there was the unlazing
The
"The friend described how Gin- ger accused an Armenian watch- maker of stealing the 'jools' from the watch, which only cost me: fifteen bob, so they could not have been too precious. However, in the course of the argument the Ar- menian found Ginger's fist nose, and when the general scrap which ensued was over Ginger had vanished. The friend
his
Was suro
that he would turn up. He did! I was asleep in my bunk. Ginger entered, swaying, carrying a pall of hot water,
"Where the devil have you been, Ginger?' I asked,
I won't have you scandalised, air, he said, spreading his fingers. like a star-fish in my direction!
"'You're drunk,' I said.
"Less and more, he replied, 'but
I won't have you scandalised. They say we've the dirtiest cabin in this ship, and I won't have you scandalised.'
"He then began to scrub the cabin until I kicked him out, where. upon a terrible row arose outside because some of his friends had gathered to hear the upshot of his return. It ended ima fearful fight. The atrange thing is that on the following day Ginger, very meek, borrowed some money went ashore, and returned with my watch. How he got it back is a mystery."
Some one entered and summoned the padre.
"I must go," he said. "Anyhow, Ginger is now a trusted and res pectable private servant."
"By the way, padre, how's the boy who dressed up?"""
The padre laughed and went out. This is the story of the boy who dressed up. A young : salfor of seventeen was told off to clean the ship's chapel. In the corner of the chapel was a cupboard in which the padre kept his robes. One day
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Caterpillars.
"The seventeen-year locust, or periodical cicada, was eaten bolled) by the American Indians, but white settlers never used it except in the manufacture of soap.
"There exists in the eastern foothills of the Rockles a large moth, called the pandora. It has the longest life of all the moths, and its caterpillar larvae are par ticularly relished by the Pai-Ütes In the Klamath region of Oregon. "Quantities of caterpillars are gathered and dried for winter use. I have tried them, but they seem to fill my mouth with dust. The 'manna' of the Biblical anclents appears to be a term applied, to these dried caterpillars or other Insecta.
"Grasshoppers, when they are abundant, are eaten by the Arabs, being ground up in hand mills as a substitute for four, or botled or stewed in butter. The Hottentots feast on them, too, and make a coffee-coloured soup from their
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"Dried grasshoppers form an in- gredient of the most delicious. curries in Calcutta. White ants, too, are enten by Hottentots," and remind you, if you close your eyes, of sweet-almond paste:
"Large earthworms are also awallowed by the singing girls of Japan in the hope that they will in some way improve their voices."
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