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THE BICYCLE.

REMINISCENCES BY FAMOUS

MEN.

THE PIONEERING DAYS.

CAGED BIRDS.

196

"FEATHERED" GRAND NATIONAL

PETS WORTH £160,000,

From G. Bernard Shaw, In the pioneering days 1. enuid no more afford a bicycle than £150,000. Towns and villages all stcam yacht. I learned to cycle 1895 or thereabouts, and bought

in

write about pictures as "Artist Un- known."

Sir James C. Percy.

THE CHINA MAIL,

THE PSYCHOLOGISTS. to have been observed by Sir William Gilbert, barrister-at-law, since he wrote:-

PONDEROUS EXPLANATIONS OF SIMPLE SINS.

1

(By Lord Darling, P.C.)

Hearts just as pure and fair may beat in Belgrave- square.

As in the lowly air of Seven

Diale,

But further authority for this

SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1928.

FOR A DEAD KING. LION & ONLOOKERS.

SEEING ACROSS.

ELECTRIC EYE IN A LONDON | TUTAŃKHAMEN'S WONDER

LABORATORY.

FUNERAL CRAFT.

ATLANTIC TELEVISION.

Harrisdale, New York, Feb. 9. One more dream of science has

MR. H. CARTER'S REPORT.

Cairo, Feb. 5. Mr. Howard Carter has issued

.A PRESS DEMONSTRATION

INTERRUPTED;

BERLIN PANIC,

Berlin, Feb. 3, The breaking loose of a live lion

a pante which may well be under- been realised. Man's vision has his report on the work accom- at a Press demonstration by an spanned the ocean and trans-plished on the tomb of Tutank- Indian fakir last night resulted in A flotilla of eighteen craft stood; the nerves of the popula Atlantic television has been de- hamen for the season 1927-28.

A man and a woman last night which was found in the third tion of Berlin, and especially of monstrated to be a reality. sat before an electric eye in a Lon-chamber is of special interest, as its Press, have been worked up to people in a darkened basement in tom of providing the dead with acrid controversies, including the don laboratory and a group of it is a survival of the ancient cus- a high pitch of excitement by

low the pastimes of Horus in the the appearance on the stage of a this village watched them turn model ships-ships to follow the minutest details over, the stig

to side. their heads, and move from side voyage of the sun; canoes to fol- mata case at Konnersreuth, by

The images were crude and marshes; vessels symbolishing broken, but they were images the holy pilgrimage to the seat of Osira at Abydos, and craft to ren- nevertheless.

der the dead independent of the Transmission Marvel The demonstration was made favours of the celestial ferrymen

Gold Statuette. Mr. Howard Carter states that to reach the fields of the blessed

Silesian miner who could produce blood tears at will, and at the same time by the crumbling away and explosion of several Berlin houses.

He could

rabbit to a lion. The great mo-

On the title-page of a book pre- The present year marks the A vast choir of fluttering jubilee of the Cyclists' Touring songsters filled the lofty halls of sented to me by a friend, solici Clab. The club has played a not- the Crystal Palace, when Lady tous lest I should waste my time opinion may be found in the pages able part in the history of cycling. Sydenham opened the Grand Na-over the commoner products of of Mr. Brasol, where he says, this period of sociable assembly, "While the rates of wages have Below famous cyclists of the early tional Show of caged birds.

these seasonable words: been substantially increasing in! days give some amusing reminis

The Grand National is the are

There "Ubi societas, ibi crimen." The the United States, and general cences of those days.

world's biggest show. were 3.845 exhibits, and their inferior Latin may well he excus prosperity, during the last decade throughout this country, has Now this book, "The Elements reached a fabulous mark, crimin. value is estimated at more thaned of its classic truth, over the British Isles were repre-of Crime, (Psychosocial Interpreality in the same period has sented, and thirteen special tations)," is written by Mr. Boris broken all previous records, be "canary

trains" brought thou: Brasol, M.A., sometime Prosecut coming a grave menace to public my first, motor-cycle in 1913.

enthusiastic avicultur-ing Attorney of the St. Peters-order."

This is followed by official.re- It was when learning how to sands of

say, some time before we might cords which completely justify ride my first bicycle that I solved ists to London for the last day of burg Supreme Court that is to the evolutionary problem of ac- the show.

Yesterday the Fakir Blacaman, Mr. D. Seth Smith, Curator of truly say of that tribunal "Dat Mr. Brasol's conclusion, and final- quired habits, on which the neo-

the 25-year-old son of an Indian exile tive table, from which it appears Darwinians have sines wasted so Birds and Mammals at the Zoolog-veniam corvis, vexat censura ly there is presented a compara-

yogi, gave a special demonstra- much time, and so little brain. Ical Gardens, who was one of the columbas"-but now an

tion to the Press of his uncanny The late Jo Pennell was cycling judges, declared at the lunch be- safely settled in New York, and that in the matter of robberies, by Mr. Baird of the Television correspondent of the "Star" when fore the opening that he believed there studying, in circumstances "were France in this respect to Development Company, of Lon- have been necessary for her to sets for the transmission of induced the editor to let him many birds were happier in cages, exceptionally favourable, every keep pace with Chicago, it would don, using short-wave wireless

There could be no cruelty under form of modern misfeasance.

Here we are given the rich re- have approximately 24,206 rob- "vision sound" and a televiser in- in a nest of four mininture coffins powers of self-control. He could a gold statuette of Amen- throat and arm, he could place his proper conditions, he said, and

bare feet he could climb a ladder, And I once narrowly missed kill the caged bird did not have to ults of his reflections-together beries, or 830 times more than vented by Mr. John L. Baird for fashioned like those of a noble draw long needles through his

The transformed vision of a Queen Tyi.¦'

London Two days of strenuous work the steps of which consisted of. ing Mr. Bertrand Russell (not to fear hawks and other enemies, with an admirable introduction by she actually had recorded." Com-tuning the sound back into vision was

of the American Institute of Gray's parents, "poor but honest." mention myself) when coasting The show proved that the keeping Mr. John A. Wigmore, President paratively, France is, like Gideon after its journey across the ocean. hotep III. and a lock of hair of bare back on glass splinters, with madly down a hill in Surrey. Had of foreign birds was on the in- Criminal Law and Criminality In face of this how can any man and woman in a

in the form of the drone of a bee, the entrance of the fourth chamallow himself, as the Press care. I brought off the double event, the crease, and this was an excellent and it is gratifying to one who European ever hope to become "a laboratory came through the air were spent in clearing the way to painted swords; he could even

had begun to suffer a little form hundred per cent. American"?? consequences to philosophy and thing from every point of view.

Incidentally, Mr. Brasol pauses a musical buzz of irregular cad ber of the tomb, which was found fully points out, to be "genuinely Gloucester Fancy Canaries,

the attempted intrusion into our

Cameras Overturned. the drama would have been really

now on exhibition for the first

There were couches, chairs, worth writing about.

time, have taken eight years to Law Courts of psychologists, at this point to recur to an all-ence representing in sound the to be a jumble of every kind of buried alive for 15 minutes.

When the televisor, which look-

gaming This was not all. evolve. The "Gloucester Fancy" paychiatrists, and suchlike, to pervading proposition of Karl lights and shadows of their faces. funeral chattel.

read Mr. Wigmore's statement Marx, that where capital accurau- The most humorous incident in is a new comer to the bird world. that "They have seldom taken intes there does pauperism keep ed like a compact black box, had foot-stools, hassocks,

across the sea, the alabaster vases, remarkable for my early cycling career happened It is the outcome of the efforts at the Cyclists Camp at Harrogate of a group of breeders in Glouces into consideration the established pace with or outrun it. On the done its work with this rhythmic boards, boats, baskets of fruits, hypnotise anything from a hen or

experience of the criminal law contrary we see the multi-million-hum from at the beginning of this century. ter, and for grace, attractiveness, when they have proposed changes aires surrounded by masses of visions gradually built themselves their diversified shapes and sizes, ment had arrived. Two lions had suspended in a whirling rectangle weapons,, toys and boxes of all state of terror, the journalists I had brought from Ireland a com- and song it is supposed to be of law to give effect to their own happy, wealthy, wicked workmen. up out of tiny oblongs of light wine jars, missiles and other been beaten by a trainer into a pany of wheelmen, who formed the paragon among canaries. It is a doctrines; yet the criminal law

Right and Wrong. of brilliance in the machine's descriptions, their contents spilled were eagerly watching, cinema everywhere; everything was in and Press photographers were "Irish Brigade." The settting was cross between a Border and has an experience vastly older

To one trained, as most English mouth.

prepared, and the fakir in the confusion. From London. the cricket ground, the occasion Crested canary, and has a brown than modern psychology." And

Doubtless this disorder was the cage benignly smiling on the the August Bank Holiday, Sportstop-knot.

the learned Professor proceeds to people are, in the belief that some

manifestly right, These oblongs shifted and Carnival, of which the piece de

into a state of lethargy. Incidentally Great. Britain is resistance was a Marathon race.

Suddenly one of the lions the foremost producer of all lead-assert his belief that the pro- things are

"would undermine law and order, not cricket, as is taught in the first figure to be put before the of plunderers.

sprang up, hurled itself against. All the events were run without ing types of canaries, exporting posals of these rash innovators whilst others are simply wrong swirled almost unceasingly. The result of the work of destruction animals, was hypnotising them. the cage, and broke through into bitch or delay: then the huge can hundreds of thousands every year and eventually lead to a virtual Public Schools; mala in se as is electric eye was a ventriloquist's

of spectators excitedly to every part of the world.

criminal anarchy." Indeed, there maintained in the Temple-those dummy.

Because there was no motion to

the open circus. nwaited the arrival of the Mara- The foreign bird section was are already places where they systems of jurisprudence which thon winner. Soon the shout was full of exotic delights and strange have made much progress in that are content with the doctrine of transmit the picture of the "social friction" must appear in-dummy which appeared in the heard, "Here he comes?" and the cries. Gorgeous Birds of Paradise

direction.

It is clear enough-and consol-sufficient. In England, and ap-mouth of the televisor was much great entrance gate was flung wide stand cage by cage with marvel- open to admit the winner.

Jously robed love birds, vigorous- ing to an ordinary lawyer-that parently in the United States also, clearer than those of living per- WITHDRAWAL AT FARMERS' cameras

A man then went before the Never have 1 seen the winner of ly articulate parakeets, cockatoos those who occupy themselves not the power to recognise the differ-sons who followed it. any contest who looked less like and macaws, and sparkling wax- in punishing offenders, but in eace between right and wrong is

in the televisor in a one. Every visible sign of phy-bills, firefinches, and grassfinches. minute speculations on nice demi-still a part of the legal test ap-electric eye, and his image was

Starlings. sical exhaustion and fatigue was

tions of crime, of right and of plled in order to ascertain whe-built up There is a remarkable variety

o' Lantern," but one which could there, but by a mighty effort of

One ally responsible for his acts. agree amongst themselves. will and pluck he reached his goal, of starlings-crowned, white, wrong, cannot either long er often ther a man should be held crimin-form suggestive of a lighted "Jack Although not entirely orthodox turn its head from side to side and and sank on the ground utterly capped, green, lilac, Royal, and writer after another has his vogue

After this a woman took her spent. It sounded as if the whole purple-headed glossy.

There is the Amherst pheasant and his disciples, only to be refut- from our point of view, Mr. Brasol open its mouth. world was cheering, so great was

ed in his turn, until, in reading lends no support to the theory, the uproar. But the joke was that with his sweeping tail, and the the names of these discredited dear to certain teachers, that all place before the transmitter in expresses himself broken and scattered, was seen the "victor" had never raced at funereal Western Black cockatoo

time "when Wisdom's lights in Indeed, he all! He was a young Irish humor of the Marquess of Tavistock. ones, we are transported to that criminals are irresponsibly mad. London, and her image, although

shone," and in thus: "The supposition itself that here.

It was not so clear as that of ist named Tracey, of my "Irish The Marquess of Tavistock is also fanes fantastic Brigade," who had the daring to showing his famous hybrid Prin-hold with amusement that world, all criminals are, or necessarily

must be, insane cannot be held the man, but it was plain that the try on a gigantic spoof that work-cess of Wales, a crimson-winged

true by science, and should be em- picture was of a woman, and there ed most successfully. His entire parakeet, with body feathers of a

phatically rejected; for lunacy was no question that she moved journey was less than 300 yards. diaphanous yellow that would

and delinquency are by no means her head so that first her full Persons face was visible and then her pro- His perspiration, travel stains, make a painter despair.

Mr. II. Whitley sent a wonder-

identical conceptions.

Lord Dalmeny, as Master of the and fatigue were fakes; his make-

affected by mental disorders very file. ful collection of foreign birds, but

"It was impossible, however, to whaddon Chase, was asked to pre- up perfect.

often show no tendency whatever

side at the dinner of the local Result When the real winner it is a disappointment to find that

OK ground The doctrine of heredity, for of committing crimes, whereas distinguish her features.

branch of the National Farmers' being hunted ran reached his objective he was re- he has named none of them. His

Union, but he declined because of belonging to the Illing family. ceived absolutely without enthu-exhibits remain mysteries to all instance, as applied not to the habitual offenders, in nine cases knowledge transmission of chattels at death, put of ten, evince no symptoms of

the obstacles placed in the way of The two brothers rushed out to siasm, most of the spectators hav-but the expert with

to the tendency of bird-life in all the tropics and but

meet the hunt that followed, and an-psychic anomaly."

the hunt by the Illing brothers. secretly ing gone home!

lawfully and sub-tropics of the world.

It is agreeable to feel assured a person

A special secret meeting of the angry words were used between seize them, has been push- ed so far that a theft committed that so far the doctrines of the tality

Mr. W. R. Monk, an antagonist recently was held by some to be extremists have in our courts met of psychic dleeasc.. In practice, local Farmers' Union was accord- the two brothers and the people excused on the ground of a tempt with little but polite derision and in much too many cases, this ingly held in Winslow to-night to riding across their land.

The meeting degenerated into a of the Illing, ultimately apologis being slashed across the face with END OF THE WORLD.non ofort to a top-lifter's firm rejection, for Mr. Brasel thus, policy defeats the fundamental discuss the question.

great-grandmother, though by makes plain what we have escap-aims of criminal justice and

cd. "Partly under the influence leads to the impunity of the de-wrangle. Many speeches were ed to the brothers by saying, in

made suggesting that the Illing front of the meeting of 250 farm her resisted.

It is no small aredit to our own family. had insulted the Prince of ers, "If I was told that the Illing Even if it is true that "the of Freud and Jung, partly how-linquent."

brothers swore at the Prince, I underlying cause of criminality is ever due to the extreme doctrines

This suggestion of an insult to was misinformed. I accordingly "The time will come when the found in social friction and in the of the Anthropological School, judges that they have so well suc Wales.

resort to tion of the body of English Law the Royal Family followed an in- apologise to them.

Mr. E. A. Illing agreed to pro earth will stop spinning, and the centrifugal tendencies existing in alienists and attorneys for the ceeded in preventing the penetra- moon will crash down upon us," every organised society," I will defence frequently

Whaddon. The fox which was dent to Lord Dalmeny, We took the law into our own stated Sir Oliver Lodge at the hold fast to my intime conviction both the sexual symptom and in- by the pernicious prescriptions of cident some years ago when the

It was the Guildhouse, Eccleston-square, in a that; besides the malum prohibi-sanity in order to justify an ordin- psychiatrists, psychologists, and Prince was hunting with the vide an axplanation of the inci- hands in those days. only satisfaction cyclists could ob- lecture he delivered on "The Birth tum, there really are certain ary criminal act perpetrated by alien alienists.

of the Moon."

mala in sc, although sociolog- tain. The world was against us.

course

S. F. Edge.

As an illustration of the anti- pathy to cyclists that existed in

the early days, I well remember

a whip by a baker's man merely

He

because I was on a bicycle, had a pony, and luckily, I was young and strong enough to catch

up with his trap, get into the back of it, pull the fellow

out, drive

his pony on to the side of the road, and upset his cart for him,

Hon. Gilbert Coleridge.

SIR OLIVER LODGE'S

THEORY.

Where all was fairyland that

met the view

No truth untheorised and no

theory true.

The Doctrine of Heredity.

to

"It will be millions and billions ists, intent on collecting rare of years hence," he assured his specimens of "egocentric" per-

Mr. Brasol himself remains adf-

It was in 1879 that I happened audience. "The speed at which sons, do stoutly deny it. to be astride of a tall "ordinary" the earth rotated was gradually bicycle, the brake of which (a glowing down, owing to the fric-ficiently old-fashioned to quote small reel, attached to the tiny tion of the tides.

with approval Shakespeake's line, back wheel) was operated by a Need Not Be Nervous. "There are more things in heaven 'leather thong wound round the "You need not be nervous," he and earth, Horatio, than are straight handlebar. At the top of said. "Each day is only a 240 mil- dreamt of in your philsophy"—a a long Sussex hill the thong broke, Honth part of a second longer pronouncement the significance of and being unable to control the than the day before." The moon which has been delightfully ex- machine by back-pedalling, was no longer spinning because tended by a Scottish metaphysi who, whilst hardly pro- threw my legs on to the handle-the earth had produced tides in Cian,

it which had stopped its rotation.nouncing the little word your,”

bar.

I

To my horror a waggon hove ! There was a time when the earth lays a contemptuous stress upon sight. 1 yelled; the horse took spun so fast that the day was "philosophy."

At that Perhaps to neither the law- fright, swerved across my path, only four hours long.

and received my wheel in its ribs. time the moon was part of the breaker nor the judge are the in I rocketed over a tall hedge and earth, but it broke away and had vestigation and discoveries of the landed sitting in the thickest moved slowly farther away ever criminologist of any especial bramble bush in Sussex.

since. In time the earth's pota-value, but to the not altogether

:

I had a twenty-mile walk home, tion would cease, when the indifferent observer of life's page- and I will not enumerate the num-process would be reversed. ant they are capable of supplying

the

would ber of thorns picked out from my and

at material for the modifying of

moon

nother limbs. The farmer after last return and crash down upon some early standards. Thus the wards threatened to sue me for its parent' causing the braken shaft by "rid

ing a philosopher, or something of that sort."

Sir Harold Bowden,

stories written for my learning when I was young would seem to have been commonly based upon a disputable assumption, for did

Imported honey is to have its they not usually start with some containers marked with an indica-

such allegation as this: "Gideon

Early in the present century, tion of its origin under the Gray was the seventh son of poor after reading George Borrow's Merchandise. Marks Act, 1928.-

"Bible Spain," I thought I

would, with limitations,, follow hi

route on my bicycle from Lisbon

but honest parents...? Yet from récent statistics collected, corrected, and arranged by our anthropologists, sociologists, and

to Madrid, and, facidentally, im-thrown at me; fortunately the fel-criminologists, it becomes clear prove my Spanish, ̈ ̈*:

lows were poor shots.

that the long-presumed natural

Bo it came about that one pla-Ahead, however, I saw some antithesis between poverty and sant afternoon I was cycling quiet thing more serious. Two bravos" virtue can no longer be malu- ly through a Spanish village, whom had stepped into the road with |tained. -

I heard a crack; a stone had hit ugly-looking sticks in their hands. That want and wickedness are my back mudguard. . I glanced There was no time for parleying. not ever-constant companions is round, and there stood half a I put my head down and rode at suggested by the present condi docent vicious coking. Bpaniards, them just as hard as I could. tion of the English themselves, Erimson Aldeangeboten Marked bilan uddanezzah they lend that the Early Victorian view thing about Ingles Immedi jumped aside, and I pedalled firl of vice

subtle modification would seem was dusly to safety.

with

men- of average

710 indications

ALLEGED INSULT.

MEETING.

There followed an unusual tableau: hting apparatus and tre over-turned, the terrified p. .tographers scattered in all directions, panic-stricken spectators rushed pell mell for the exits, and the equally frightened Winslow (Bucks), Feb. 3. An alleged insult to the Prince lion scampered around among of Wales provoked a scene when them. The general tunult wes the Winslow branch of the Farm soon allayed, however, by the era Union to-night discussed tramor recapturing his penitent whether Lord Dalmeny, son and heir of the Earl of Rosebery, local branch next week. should preside at the dinner of the

beast.

Miners aged 65 and upwards, now eligible for pensions, have been given a fortnight's notice at several Derbyshire collieries.

Trouble arose over the two acre farm just outside Winslow. brothers Illing, who won a 250

A drayhorse bolted in Cheapsido These brothers have for some their land, and only last Saturday the window with its head, which

was cut. time objected to hunting over and collided with a bus, breaking they slot at a fox on their land.

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