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a dirty piece of paper an which is written 24641. Mr. Tupman was in an embarrassing position he knew so many ladies. He was not the man to spend hours perusing the Telephone Directory, so he spent an uneventful evening waiting for the second call.
That was enough for him, he went out the next day and purchased the TELEPHONE handboOK. Now he is able to tell in a few seconde who rang him
up.
Contentment shows on the face of Mr. Tupman after his par- chase of the Handbook. His note book is the result of a survey of this book. He is genuinely satisfied, and does not regret buying this book of reference. {
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EX - MAHARAJA
INDORE.
OF
APPEAL AGAINST AWARD OF
'PENSION TO GUARD.
Paris, May 20.
The ex-Maharaja of Indore has appealed to the Versailles Court against the award of a pension to one of the guards at his chateau who, as the result of an accident. was permanently incapacitated.
The ex-Maharala stated that the man was not employed by him, but by M. Calmette, ex-Police Com- missioner, who contracted to supply guards for a monthly payment, allegedly Including commission.
Later:--The ex-Maharaja of Indore's appeal has been postponed till July owing to the pressure of business before the Court,
RETURN OF THE NATIVE.
OLD MAN'S SEARCH FOR HOME HE LEFT 40 YEARS AGO.
▲ allver-haired man of 60 is searching London for relatives he left over 40 years ago.
He is Thomas William, Taylor, who left Southwark Park Terrace, Bermondsey, as a boy of 13 to soek his fortune in Canada, and has returned.
He hopes to brothers and two sisters, or any of their children.
find his two
So far his search has been in vain-and even his old home has disappeared, for in its place stands Morton Terrace.
"I was the youngest of ✡ family of five, and when I was a baby my father died," Mr. Taylor Bald in an Interview.
"My mother cared for me ir such a way that I made up my mind that as soon as I was old enough I would go into the world and make good to repay her for her wonderful love,
Mother Died.
CAR CRASH..
Falls Over Embankment in Baguio.
OCCUPANTS BRUISED.,
Baguio, June 7. Three young ladies miraculously escaped death here this evening when a touring car in which they were riding turned turtle and fell over an embankment on Pack Road between the Pines Hotel and the Mansion House.
The injured were Nenita Catacu- tan, Paula Valdez and Isabel Pasace. They emerged from the badly wrecked car with slight bruises, and were picked up by H. C. Heald, president of the Baguio Chamber of Commerce, who happened to pass by a few minutes after the accident.
Mr. Heald took them to the Baguio Hospital where they were treated by Dr. Rafael Teopaco, re- sident physician. They were al lowed to go home after treatment. Vicente Carulla, owner of the car, was lodged in the city jail, havlig been found by the police responsible for the freak accident. Ho emerged from the wreckage of what was once a beautiful auto- mobile uninjured.
for
The four persons were out for an evening drive along Pack Road, a broad and perfectly safe road automobile driving. Miss Catacutan, who was sitting beside Carulla, the driver of the car at the time of the accident, asked him to let her have the ateering wheel, according to police Investigation. he was making a safe turn, but kept on turning until she hit the embankment.--Manila Bulletin.
STANDARD TIMES
Sunrise And Sunset In Colony
QUARREL
OVER DEAD CAT.
THE CHINA
NEIGHBOUR WHO WANTED A "DECENT FUNERAL”.
Penang, June 3. The comedy--and drama-of a dead cat.
MAIL.
A LESSON FROM MALACCA.
KIND TREATMENT FOR CROCS.
The Malacca Guardian vouches
the nt
“MILLION - HEIRESS
BOUND OVER.
HIGH LIFE LETTERS FROM NOVELS.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1930.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
A NEW SHIPMENT OF PRINTED CREPE-DE-CHINE
AND GEORGETTE
HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVED. AND BEING SOLD AT VERY MODERATE PRICES AT THE TAJMAHAL SILK STORE,
Opp. China Mail
Hilda Lewis, the 19-year, old for the genuineness of the following London typist who for 18 months tale:
posed to her fiance as a million- One morning, the villagers heiress, living "an empty Society of Klebang,
2nd life in a mansion In Green-street, mile, became greatly excited Mayfair"-as she put it appeared when the news went round that for sentence at London Sessions on certain deep-sea fahermen had land- & charge of stealing from her em- ed on the foreshore with one of the ployers, a firm of printers In 5, Wyndham St. biggest and largest catches of their Hampstead, lives-a ten foot crocodile. The foreshore was soon crowded with excited villagers trying to obtain a glimpse of the buaya.
It had been caught in the nets, and with the very greatest of dim- culty had the shermen been able to bring it ashore. Realising, as it were, the fate in store for it, for the fishermen had decided to send it to the market and find a purchaser, and very avidently disliking the treatment that was being meted out to it. the crocodile struggled des- perately and loshed its tail from side to side. But it was all to no purpose. The fishermen were not to be denied, and they soon had the beast a helpless captive.
The Blood Money.
Very forlorn and chastened did Hilda look as she stood in the dock one day in mall week-very far from being a million-heiress.
་
A fortnight before Hilda pleaded Guilty, and judgment on her was postponed for a medical report from Holloway Prison. After Dr. Morton, medical officer of Hollo way had given very remarkable evidence she was bound over and placed on probation, as she has been in prison since March 20.
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Pair which she wrote auch wonderful Crepe Rubber Sols Canvas Shoes 35.00 Leather Sole Canvas Shoca...$ 4.50 letters to her fance, Bernard Louis Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 Sheker, & 29-year-old clerk who Black or Brown Shoes from $8,00 lives in Stoke Newington, is not Black or Brown Boots from.. 8.00 really Hilda's home: her home is Children's Bools or Shoes from $2.00 In the crowd was one who, on ac-in Priory-road, Kilburn. There is
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WONG BIU WOON her acquaintances: her 21, Pottinger St. Idiot. He went up to the fisher father is a plumber.
Phone #1471. men and told them to release the. At the last hearing it was said crocodile. They refused to release that Sheker-who was originally their catch, but offered it to the charged with the girl but was ac- Village idiot for $3. To the sur quitted-is a Jew, while she is a prise of all the offer was accepted, Christian, but he was willing to and the Idiot went off to fetch the marry her, in spite of the objec- money. He returned soon with tions of his parents, because three one dollar notes and claimed thought she was much above his the beast. This concluded the station-in fact a society lady. transaction and the buaya became. Here is one passage from a let- the Idiot's property. The crowd ter she wrote to Sheker-typical of wandered what he would now do many passages in her letters: with the beast, and speculation was "I went back to dinner in the rife. Wonder gave place to con- traditional Green-street manner. sternation when the Idiot was seen Clear soup, turbot, saddle of mut- to kneel beside the crocodile, and ton, game followed by sweets and having set alight some joss-sticks, cheese straws. Tea was brought started to pray.
he
in on the heavy silver tray. I measured the china tea from the
Prayers for Its Happiness, Although securely held the Queen Anne caddy.... Every- crocodile all this while had been thing is feverlah excitement, and I expect you will be bored by all struggling ineffectually to release; itself, but it was remarkable that this rot, but it is an example of as soon as the Idiot knsit beside it the nothingness and the platitudes and. started to pray
the crocodile which make up the days of the idle ceased its struggles and lay per
rich." fectly at rest. The Idiot having
Here is what Dr. Morten, of Hol- concluded his prayers rose and to loway, had to say about the let- the astonishment and alarm of the tera: "A person living in Birken- onlockers started to untie the ropes the newspapers, has written to me head, who read the girl's letters in securely holding the crocodile. The Maurian made not a movement. It pointing out that portions of the lay on the sands perfectly still, like lettera correspond with extracts a log. The Idiot even removed the from a novel, "The Harcotts,' by
Muriel Hine." cords which held the beast's jawa together. And the crowd with one accord moved away farther from the crocodile. Still, the buaya made no movement.
And a Pat on the Back.
·
"Mentally Norma],"
Dr. Horton produced the novel. and read extracts from it and from Hilda's letters to illustrate the similarity.
Because the dog of a neighbour had killed his pet cat, Wang Teh-:
Then the Idiot patted the "When I was at the Borstal in- in, a resident outside Tebahenmen, crocodile on the back, point. atitution I had similar experiences insisted that no reparation was auf- ed in the direction of the of this sort of thing", he continu- ficient unless the owner of the dog, sea, and uttered what seemeded. "Girls wrote most extra- a widow, should provide a decent to be a word of command. The ordinarily fantastic stories of coffin for the dead cat and order her crocodile, as it were, came to life. things they were supposed to have 20-year-old son to play the part of It swiftly turned its tail on the done, although they were not ac- principal mourner at the burial of crowd as if in disdain, moved for- tually taken from books, as in this the coffin.
ward, slithered quickly into the sea, case. and was lost to sight.
Miniature Comin, The woman accepted the first con dition, bought a two-dollar minia- ture coffin and hired two profes slonal coffin bearers to carry the
46 GET-RICH-QUICK.”
"Lewis tells me that these let- ters are practically extracts from novels by John Galsworthy and Marie Corelli.
"She was very attached to this boy, but he, apparently, had other
cat to a spot outside the city for Curse of Mandarinate in lady friends. She wanted to be
China.
right in the forefront, so she pre- tended that she was very much better off than she is.
burial. But this was not satisfac- tory to Wang, who said that the widow's son must wear mourning, for his cat and walk in the funeral procession of the animal.
That curse of old China, a parasitic and corrupt mandarinate seems to
"She is perfectly normal mental. Neighbour's Offer.
be a present menace While the
among they, and the sort of girl who ought| point of yielding, another neighbour, Government.
on the officials of the Nanking National to be given a chance." A Warning. Chang Teh-lin, who is described as The authority for this statement
woman WAS
In binding Hilda over the Chair-
"One of remarked:
a boxing expert of no mean calibre, is no less a person than President man, Sir Robert Wallace, KO appeared on the scene. He urged Chiang Kai-shek himself.
Was
"You have
a
most
the woman to resist the demands of the main purposes of the Revolu powerful imagination. If there is Wang, saying that he would back tion," he has declared, her and her son up.
to any repetition of this kind of thing "exterminate the traditional man- you will be heavily punished. You darinate which was characterised by must not indulge in flights of fancy corruption and lethargy."
which result as this has done.” So ho warned all officials of the | Thank you, my lord," said Bevolutionary Government that they Hilds in a quiet voice. Then she Wang replied that Chang had no must remain constantly on the bowed to the judge and left the right to butt in and should mind alert and guard against falling into dock. his own business. A fight ensued a rut
Court Sequel, Chang also went to Wang and advised him not to go too far against the widow.
in which Wang was badly beaten, The present Government," he said Police arrived and took the two into in a speech at Nanking, is not
custody. The widow and her son an ordinary "Yamen," and the the Manchu official every day was also were summoned before the Canton China Truth, quoted by the performed a the oplum bed, where Police Court. The case is now in Statesman, Calcutta, affords a very he thought out all plans to squeeze the hands of the district court and vivid picture of what a Yamen" the people dry has attracted a great deal of atten- really was!
***As President Chiang pointed out, tion in Chinese circles-Straits It was the office and residence of the revolution is to wipe out Echo.
the gorgeous mandarins. The parasites of this type. Apparently, Yauen was a very dignified building there is still a large number of such which was not generally open to the officials, otherwise Marshal Chiang public, even on official business, would not waste his time in urging Before a commoner could see the them not to regard themselves for a mandarin, he was usually subject to moment as officials in the traditional thirty, strokes on the backing
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for June (Standard time COL. O. BARNES DEAD "When I was 18 I got in touch of the 120th Meridian, East of with a Mr. Fegan, who ran a Greenwich) are as follow boys home In Southwark, and he sent me to a home in George June
Street, Toronto. I worked on farms in different parts of On
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When my
touch with the folks at
ved, which if I am
them will
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sense.
Inside the Yamen mediaeval "His warning against the de splendour prevalled. The haughty generation of former », Peking Invariably wore embroidered robes officialdom should be borne in mind of silk, and Imagined himself a very by corrupt and competent officials. important and solemn personage. Their sense of duty is to 'graft,' and The servants when addressing they think mostly of lordly him had to lower their heads. He automobiles, miah jeng, and dimmer
Bé Joined the Indian Army In Zooked upon the people as ante, and parties, derasiting their wealth in
1855 and served during the Indias could handle them in any manner allon banks, and buying real estate
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