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THE CHINA MAIL, ŠATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935
Joseph Bears, 84, of Dedham, Mass., carpenter, is revealed us father of 35 children and claimant to the title of the all-American father. His first wife, who died 30 years ago, bore him 18. His second, with whom he now liven, is mother of 17. He has 240 living descen- dants,
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End Museum
EVERYTHING AS IT WAS 200 YEARS AGO
STRATOSPHERE
(Continued From Page 9).
He picked up the receiver of his Now the atmosphere was getting telephone. Giving the number, he very rare. Soon he must put on thought: "It will be best like that. his mask, breathing the air from If I take the mask off after the re- the cylinders until he had climbed cord is broken the Instruments will to the height to be attained for the
record. bring the news down.””
Eold saw him off at the aerodrome. He smiled to himself as he There was not much of a crowd, thought of it. He almost laughed His decision to change the date had to think of the waste; to put on the come too late for the public to get mask and thenmiles above the jearth somewhere in the stratos- to know.
He walked across the field to his phere, to take it off, to feel the air 'plane with Enid. He felt himself rushing from his lungs, to feel his walking in another world. To-day head bursting. his whole being the trees and the sun and the very struggling, battling to live while, all air,seemed different or as though he the time, he would not allow it.
He Reaching forward, he adjusted had not known them before. janid suddenly, "It's good to be alive."the mask and regulated the supply He looked down on Enid, laughing of oxygen.
The roar of the engine came as at her, holding her arm.
She smiled, "You'll be all right?"sweet music to his ears. Through she asked, "You're sure, there's it he heard Nichols's voice, "A very Every-serious view will be taken." He nothing wrong with her?
smiled again, hearing the volce as thing's been tested?"
Preston smiled at ber.. The elait continued. "I think I may ex tion he felt crept out at his eyes. Press the sentiments of the whole very gal- Nodding his head, he said, "Nothing board in my tribute to a ver can go wrong. It'll be the complete ant gentleman."
His voice sounded. But, he thought, not if he came
dawn. triumph." strange to him, as though it, were not his voice at all.
Looking at the girl, he wondered if she had. noticed.
Not if he landed would he be all He thought gallant gentleman. Only if he died. If he lived they would averige
bitterly, she'll understand when! they publish the report. It'll be in themselves. They would hunt him all the papers. I won't have done sound. harass him until life was over. He climbed higher. Soon he musti
badly if I put up this record.
"Everything all right?" he asked make his observations. That, at Macker, his mechanic. The man any rate, would be something worth You feel than anyone else, to have explored nodded. "I've had her ticking over. dying for. To have down higher She'll be all right, air. fit?" Preston nodded again. Im deeper into the stratosphere. And fit," he said. He ran his fingers then, as he leaned forward, he heard the locking from the engine. over the canvas on the wing.
He started. He sat quite still, listening. There it was again: Knock, Knock, Knock
He wondered what Macker would
A 200-year-old cottage stands re-say if he knew he Preston was a For a moment he did not knowi constructed in the Geffrye Museumjthlef. A thief? He shrugged his
what it could be. He turned to his shoulders. That was what Nichols in the East End of London.
What Enid would dashboard and looked at the indica- It is among a collection that de- had called him. picts the changes in furniture, irou-call him; what everyone would call. He felt himself go sick with He looked back at the han-fright. He was out of petrol. The werk, and the tools used in their him.
would get out of control perhaps. construction, from the early days gars. He heard, through the roar tank must have leaked. The plane when the site of the museum, now of an engine, the voices of new He could not promise to bring it in the centre of a vast populated paper boys; saw the placards!
Famous Air Ace Defrauds Firm"down from this height without any
fuel. district, was open country..
He The living-room is panelled and Suddenly he felt sick again.
He tapped the glass on the in- furnished with all the usual con- knew now that no one would under-
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plece.
the grass. He stood by the propelit, the engine died. For a moment the plane seemed to stand still in A rashlight and candle-holder re-ler ready to start her.
silence, the clock in the cockpit the mind us of two advantages gained As he did so he turned to Preston the air, surrounded by a ghastiy since those days, and an ancient and called. "Good luck, sir. bed-warmer of gigantic size of Preston nodded to him, smiling. only mechanical sound. Then the Then, suddenly, he looked away from plane larched. It swerved down- Preston seized the controls and The latter is composed of a the plane over the fields to the high wards. wooden framework supporting the road and the railway line. A traśn bedclothes, while a vessel is sus-dashed out of the tunnel. Above it forced the plane into a glide, but he knew he could not continue. To pended within containing hot char-streamed a long line of white smoke. coal
Preston felt his eyes smarting glide twenty thousand feet? It
was impossible. He put out his hand and found the girl's elbow, holding it tightly,
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And then, quickly, methodically, CAPTURED ON WAR'S, He did not look at her. For the
his one motive to escape, he began
FIRST DAY moment he dared not trust himself fixing his parachute, fastening the to look at her.
atraps with one hand while he held]
Lancer's Four Years In German Salt Mines
He said: "Well, good-bye, dar- the plans with the other, keeping ling, staring away from her over:
it up in the air pockets, preventing the fields. He thought, to-morrow it from falling and taking a nose
she'll know I'm a thief. He waited for her to speak.
The girl clung to him. be all right?" she asked. sure it will be all right? I'm ner vous, Alan. I'm frightened.". · ·
He turned to her then. He knew
THEODOLITE MADE FROM RUBBISH
Explorer's Makeshift Success In Jungle
TO BECOME EXHIBIT IN MUSEUM
dive to the earth.
NERVES WRECKED The sweat fell off him. His teeth "Will it chattered together with his agony. Stated to have been taken a ***You're
One of his hands, holding, the con- prisoner on the first day of the trols, was rasped aside and the skin Great War, Percy Gatehouse, 50, Old kerosene tins, a telescopic on the back torn off.
la groom, of Sutherland Avenue, rifle sight, a camera tripod, a broken But at last ho was ready. Every Paddington. pleaded guilty at wooden chair and a roll of lead Marylebone to stealing a saddle, paper are sufficient material from With both hands now he held the valued at £16 16s, belonging to which to construct a theodolite, the
himself to laugh at her.
He cried, still laughing:
FOL
The United States and posses that he must face her. He forced thing was fixed. sions produced gold worth $107,631,700 in 1934, a new re- cord, according to reports from
month.
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Then, breathlessly, he let go He placed both hands on her jumped over the side. He fell The Philippines, whose output
shoulders. Then, stooping down, he and pulled the cord. has been gaining steadily for
The parachute did not open. years, produced 382,974 ounces, held her closely to him. "Good-bye, darling," he whispered. "You'll be
THE END The previous high mark for proud of me to-night!"""s
"I always shall," she said. value was in 1915 when the out-
But Alan Preston, as he climbed
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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
*BANGALORE
TANDA
SHIRALA
"OHITRAL
BHUTAN TALAWA CARTHAGE NANKIN SANTHIA THEHAR
1935.
6,000 27th Jan. 7,000 2nd Feb. 8,000 7th Feb. 15,000 8th Feb. 6,100 21st, Feb. 10,000 21st Feb. 15,000 22nd, Feb. 7,000 7th Mar. 8,000 th Mar. 6,100 7th Mar.
S'hai Kobe and Yokohama.
S'hai, Moji, Kobe,, Osaka, Yokohama. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka, S'hai, Kobe, Yokohama.
riding master of Somers Mews, ment. and Paddington.
This has been proved by a young It was stated that Gatehouse, British explorer, Mr. W. M. Russell a man of good character, served The theodolite which he built from in the 12th Lancers from 1905 these components in an African until 1919. On the first day of Jungle is to be honoured, it is under- the war he was captured, and he stood, by a place in the museum of was kept in the German salt the Royal Geographical Society. mines throughout hostilities. Mr. Russell was a member of Mr.
Owing to the treatment he re MARY'Still suffered very much van Sanderson's repent expedition
to the British Cameroons. with his nerves and occasionally The making of accurate mapa of gave way to drink to soothe them.
24 LIFEBOATS
Largest Ever Built In Britain
FIRE PROOF AND UNSINKABLE-
was $101,035,700. The produce into the plane, muttered to bimet, THE QUEEN tion in ounces was greater then, "I wonder." however, than in 1934, being 4,887,604 as compared with Now be was well away from the 8,072,192 last year.
ground. Now the plane had Devaluation of the gold con-mounted five hundred feet. He was tent of the dollar, with a conse- far above the trees and the houses. quent 40 per cent. increase in the He climbed higher. ⠀
He looked over the side. Below legal price of the metal, stimu ated 1984 production and caused him he saw the country stetching Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobs & Osaka.lts value in dollars to soar out in a series of small patchwork
Associated Press.
felds. To the north he S'hal, Kobe, Yokohama.
out the outline of the ning along, amo TERRIBLE PENALTY |only on occas
which the rai No Beer To Be Touched Cattle fed in the
appeared Infinitesimally For Five Years
ute black or moving
Stal, Moji, Kobe, Onska & Tokohama Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobo & Ozaka, Shanghai, Kobai & Tokohama.
argo only.
All dates are approximate and subject
All Cabins
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drink for pasture, ta
Preston loo fore, him.
It was during one of these indul-hitherto uncharted jungle was one
taken,
en, and Mr.Russell completed gences that he took the saddle of the tasks which had to be under and sold it for £2
the necessary surveying instrument in two days.
JAPAN'S VANISHING RACE TO BE PROTECTED
Thousands of pounds are in volved in a contract for: 24 fire- proof and unsinkable lifeboats- the entire lifeboat, equipment of Japan's vanishing race, the Ainu, with the Cunard White Star liner are to be given better through Queen Mary which has been under a set of revised laws
y the Bocial used placed with Mesars. Hugh Me prepared by t shey Lean, boat builders, of Govan, Bureau of the Ministry amall, min Glasgow.peterior. The draft of the amended Istatulas will probably?! introduced Hies Mr. Kenneth H. McLenna
mont bills as a Gover
the 67th Resalon of the Dial which
direct of the company
the In-
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the past alx years