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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, ́1934.`
Survivors of Family Poisoned by Fath
Mrs. Chester Barrett of Sapulpa, Okla., pictured with her four surviving children after the en- tire family had been given strychnine polson by the father, a poverty-stricken F. E. R. A. worker, who confessed to the deed. Three of the children died and one is not expected to recover. father told the authorities that he could not supply food for the family.
STABBED, SHOT AND EARTH'S
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"Retter? Why?" I asked. "No dates in it," replied Jorkens. the total weight of all of them"Well this bow! was kept as silver should be precisely the weight of nught to be kept, except that it was
too often. the same bulk of gold; without that, cleaned far
Always
6,700 21st July,
Marseilles, Havre, London little ice-choked creek three miles intensey elaborate.
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17,000 25th Aug. 16,000 8th Sept. 7,000 15th Sept.
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the book was about.
I was warned, the experiment would bright, always shining, whether I Wilmington, Delaware. be not only useless but dangerous. was at home or not, it stood always The bodies of two Philadelphia And the calculation of all those on the same table, giving a certain racketeers have been found in a weights was, as you may suppose, air to the room, and never dinted
That's what or scratched since Mrs. Mergins |
first handled it. So that when I from Wilmington.
They had been stabbed, shot and! "Well, as soon as I got to under-entered Sen View and saw Mrs. Mer- strangled. Their bodies were wrap-stand the book and to understand gins and gave her that little bundle the of thin Tibetan paper, the first per- &ped in a blanket and fastened to the queer names he had for
xether by a sashcord bound around elements, it was easy to follow the son with whom I would trust it their necka. In their hands were figures, their numerals being no after coming 8,000 miles, the actual
words I used, and they are impor found the underworld's symbol of harder to read than ours.
"So that it was not necessary for tant, were: 'Keep it as you keep chiselling, a penny.
It is much more The bundle had apparently been me to take the tedious and dan-my silver bowl. trssed from a car on the bridge gerous course of making a copy in valuable,"
"Those were my exact words, and ever a small tributary to the creek. English; dangerous not only be
In the opinion of the chief of cause there is twice as much risk I couldn't have made them stronger, police of Chester, Pennsylvania, of theft when you have two copies, because the value that Mrs. Mar- the men were tortured before they but because an English copy could gins had chosen to place on my were killed.
be so readily understood by anybody bowl was beyond all reason as the Four men, known as beer dis-who stole it. I didn't want another care that she took of it was beyond tributors, have been held in con-man going about making gold; it praise. * Cargo only. † Calls Cambianca.
"Well, I hadn't been home many Frequent connection from Fort Said for Passengers and Cargo to Connection with the murders.--Reuter. would have cut prices.
"Well, I got out of that country days when I had all the elements) stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the
as soon as I had the thing clear and bought, and soon I was tediously Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
1 got it clear without any native weighing them out in their exact
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8th July
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LIGHTNING STRIKES Buspecting what the scraps and lines proportions. I remember the day
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he translated could be about, and I put them all into the saucepan that wasn't too easy, for they begin and lit an enormous fire and hand- on suspicion before you've started ed back the papers Into Mrs. to talk to them, and they are all of Mergina's safe keeping. The work them pretty neat in following it up. before me, the melting down of a) "I never had the papers out of pound of mixed metals, was noth- my reach until I got to London; in ing compared with the calculations A large congregation attending my pocket or under my pillow, night of days and days, with the Tibetan Mass in a Roman Catholle Church and day. It was a packet of 80 figures beside me on the table op near Ettumanur, a few miles from pages or so, very thin paper, about posite the minutest scales, in which B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for here, had a miraculous escape when four inches by three, just like a weighed everything to the frac
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the bell tower wha struck by
met no one with whom I'd have "When that quiet work was over lightning.
A 40-year-old man who was intrusted it till I got home, as I used the active work with the roaring the belfry at the time was killed to call the lodgings I had down fire and the bellows, however un
Wimbledon way.
comfortable, seemed to me like a on the spot.
"And there was my old landlady holiday. My mind was muzzy with The tallest in the whole of
somehow Travancore State and even taller in the doorway as I came up the those calculations, and 3rd Aug. Manila, Rabani, Brisbane, Sydney than the lighthouse in Alleppy, this path. She was delighted to see me the blazing heat on my face seem-
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7,000
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tower stands 120 feet high. It was back, if I may say so, though it ed rather to clear it than otherwise. creeted at a cost of over £2,500 and could only have been the reflection You've no idea of the thousands now is damaged beyond repair.of my pleasure at seeing her, for af figures that I had had to plod never mind that what had I ever done for Mrs. Mer-through. But gins? Whereas she had brought now; the reaults of those calcula- comfort into my life whenever I was tions were all in the pot and the in England.
pot was gradually glowing. "She was a very soothing in "My eyes were sore, my face was! fluence in the house; more than dripping, my fingers were actually that from her there seemed to burnt, and still the metals in the radiate an orderliness and a quiet pot, though turning white, remain- which, but for her, would have beened solid. I had made the Happy Marriage
replaced by litter and a perpetual like a stoke-hole. And all of a sud-| That the Hindu-Buddhist mar-searching for papers. A woman den the metals collapsed and ran
Iinto liquid. It happened so swiftly THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION. riage has been a happy ons is evi- with a quiet face, going grey.
Head Office:-TIENTSIN, dent from the demeanour of the had been her first lodger and she that I had no receptacle ready. I her house couldn't keep the gold in the sauce-; Nepalesa. They are an essential- had asked me to name
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room
By human race. Combined with for her because she didn't like a pan; Mrs. Mergins would want it the vitality of Hinduism In its mere number. There was some op-for cooking. prime they have the Buddhist's position at first to the name I chose,
her
VILLAGE BUILT FOR VETERANS.
Model Settlement In Rhineland.
Cologne.
"I looked round, holding the
making it?" "Did you go on calm and contemplative philo-jeven criticism among the neigh-handle with a duster and my hand sophical spirit. Moreover, they bours near Wimbledon, but it was burning through that, and my eye asked Terbut. are. born of another union besides no affair of theirs and she seemed fell on the bowl; Mrs. Mergina's
Jorkens rubbed his chin. "It was exactly what I meant to the religious: the racial. They are to me so perfect a landlady, so truly beloved object, my silver bowl. I part Gurkha and part Newart: the very type of our English lodg-knew that the molten; masa Was that is to say, part soldier and part ing-house-keeper that I could think are to spoil it, but I think I was do," said Jorkens. "I took a few artist.
of no other name: I called it Bea rather amused by the idea of spoil-hours rest before going back to ing.a thin piece of silver with solid that awful work on the figures, and There is no doubt that Nepal, View.
the papers?" "With the detatis of the fural gold. I wondered what Mrs, then I went to my landlady and dual racial and
A village is to be built near. religious factors keit together, ita nationlture of Sea View I shall not frou-Mergins would say when she saw said: "Where Are pride and Independence stimulated blu you. You have probably see what it was that had tarnished it. That was the way I put it this Gimbsheim, in the Rhineland, sole
It will cover 2,000 acres, of which .... by her ambitious Rajput rulers, is plenty like it. For myself I think And I was wondering how much time, though I usually asked her ly for ex-service men
to hold to be so kind as to get them. I a country with a future.
It is a beautiful thing that there longer I should be able
duster don't know what impulse it was 1,500 will be used for dwellings, There are only two precedents should be people, after all thees that handle before the
caught fire. So I went as fast as that made me say Where are the 300 for shops and the rest for for visit to Europe by a member years, really to love plush, of the Prime Minister's family; the
"But there is one detall I must I could to the silver bowl, which apera?" And she said, 'In the agricultural purposes.
Man wounded in the War will first in 1850, when the Maharaja refer to a silver bowl I once won shone in the dimness caused by muy silver bowl'
"I could only say "What, and, she have preference over ́the '-- able.... Jang Bahadur visited the Court in a quarter-mile. Yes, a quarter- half-boiled eyes, and poured the of Queen Victoria; the second mille, and I was a Heht-weight, too. metal in, and it lay there half all-repeated it and added, "Where you bodied when the late Maharaj Chandra It was the sise of a good large ing the bowl and turned rod and told me to put them." Shum Shere visited King Edward sugar-baald and Mrs. Merging kept cooled and was yellow and L ́ans In 1908 Thus the recent visit of it as Blaine kept the skisid of Lan- that I had made gold” General Bahadur Shumshere, Jung calot, or whoever did keep It I'm "And was it gold?” said Terbut. Bahadur Bank, la e grast oc- not very strong on myth, thonkh)" "Certainly," angwared pound weight of It" Csalon.
It's better than history."
"Of coursi TA never. wells
There are times when Torkes, for all the brilliancy of his man
dollberately forgets the past.
Oh
Each Inhabitant of the village will rosive a parcel of land cont ing about 2800 for which, he wil pay £80 at once and the remainder by instalments over 80 years ----Bau-