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MIDSUMM NIGHT'S MEENG
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TRIBAL EXPERIES AND ADVENTUR
MIDSUMMER night in theȚing-roch some heart of the forest.
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Fork, dated Albany, August 6, 1917.
A committee of 500, among The order was never officially re-them some of the leading figures cognised by either State or Fed-in contemporary French art and eral Legislative action De Costa letters, has just been formed to died, in a Field Hospital at Ossin have the statue set up an
Neared more could have look- ing and was buried at Bonticon prominent site in Paris.
by a river rapid murmured the than thing and majestic ident facing the Gras in the Rondout Valley,
The statue has had a stormy his ceaseless saga of its travels, and multitude
baking a last hur whence the body was transferred tory. Rodin undertook to do it in the roundest and whitest moon of ried rote
lichened rock for to its present location in the 1891 for 90,000 francs. When by the year was just topping the the speec};
come, ch had to HIGGS-At the Matilda Hospital Sleeps, Hollow Cemetery, Scar-1896 it was still finished
the pines and shortening the shadows however
the dreaded its Catherine, wife of the Rev-donated by William Rockefefer manded that he should repay the B. in the
December 7th to Marrborough, New York. The plot was subscribers grew restless and de before the Meeting-Rock, writes coming.
Christian Science J. R. Higgs the gift of a son. and the cost of the funeral was 10,000 francs he had received on Monitor.
defrayed by the regimental com-account.
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rades of the deceased.
Mrs. G. H. Wilkins wishes to thank Williamson & Co. and all her friends for letters of condo- lence, floral tributes and atten- dance at the funeral
Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 7, 1936.
Democracy And Rearmament
Meanwhile
He was eived. He was as populars fat-it was
e gist of his
met, as you midsummer
a to our tri-
All the queer things that tradi- the best ber for years. Al- to humans that though they hot be his ac This briefly is the story of the
Rodin had made tion attaches Forgotten Soldier and his re-scores of studies. He tried show-night of nights are nothing com-tual words.
ing Balzac, who was short and pared to the mysteries of the deep remarks. pudiated regiment
very stout, în a frock-coat. in woods, when all the wild things know, to hond vest and drawers, in nothing at forget their differences and mee. tradition and all Finally, in despair.. he
en-at the rock above the otter slide, bal experiences adventures. I veloped his subject in an ample at the end of Mystic Lake, t: jam glad to welch a repre- share the most astounding and ex-(sentative gathernd, if that dressing gown,
citing experiences of the past is Mr. and Mrs. back there in the shadow, whome we are using, may I am 33 our
THEFT AT BANK COUNTER
Ex-Soldier Gets Three Months Lui Fui, unemployed, was, this it caused an outcry.
Idin's admirers described morning sentenced 50 three Balzac in a nightmare.
hard labour by Mr. K.
When the completed statue was year. shown at the Paris salon of 1893
Even
Ro-
35
No one has ever seen it, but it hosts on
this oc
*o
take
must take place somewhere be more prominent sei it
Better St
cause the strangest and loveliest things happen to animals and they Rodin have never been taught to keep back to things to themselves. There wer
Your Daily Smile!
"You know how
our ex-
It is probable that the re-months'
in last Keen at the Central Magistracy Its rejection followed. passage imarkable month's
Commons debate in for the theft of $1100 from Chui said nothing, but took it
Hang Bank, his studio, q which the Prime Minister ex-Yuk at the To
faint patterings and scrappings, Periences have taken form of mela how plained why he postponed Des Voeux Road Central
Connoisseurs are now agreed but no human could have told that encounters with Detective - Sergeant Cashman pressing the urgency of re- armament in the last Parlia- said that at 245 pm yesterday that it is one of his finest works in the gloom, beneath the rock, many of them have hastrous delegates from every tribe great endings for us I had rea- ment sooner than he did will be the complainant went to the bank
and small were assembling; and son to believe that a spirit extensively canvassed.
He was count- When-to deposit $2,000.
that, when the moon topped the rowing in the work haps ever discussion arises as to the ing the money at the counter and
pines in another half-hour, thei am a little more closelouch
with humans than many ou packet containing duty of a political leader to placed
whole concourse would be The head of the house thought he sent all the way up and down th, and that we shall live to the wards an unpopular question $1,100 on a stool next to him, when where immediate party interest defendant rushed in and snatched world best his little son's general scale from the Moose to the Chip day when we shall be on hiess
the money. He ran out of the points one way
"I want to ask you a little scienti-munk, ready to be called to order and kindly terms both am tional interest may be repre-shop but after a long chase he was fe question, my boy," he said. "When by the Black Bear whom they all selves and with the two-le sented as pointing another, arrested at the junction of Hillier the kettle boils, why does steam come knew had been named President this apologia of Mr. Baldwin Street and Connaught Road Cen-out of the spout"?
at last year's meeting. will be turned to by those who tral. Defendant was formerly a
Well Received sustain the argument on either soldier in the 4th Route Army. side An apologia, of course,
and the
112-1
is not an apology. It is an ex- planation and a justification, and though it may seem rather startling at first sight that one in Mr. Baldwin's position should admit that while xressively convinced
pro- of the
one
RADIATOR CAP THEFT
Unemployed Fined $30
+
Kurowledge.
The Betrayal
"So that mother can open your letters before you get them,” replied, his son
Ready Wit
prc
"Therefore I have decide
our experiences to-night take the form of man's hum and kindness to us, instead o
I have never heard that black cruelty, and your response bears are orators — natural-born prove whether my belief is ju
Sandy went into a chemist's shop comedians seldom are; but, when fed or not.” and asked the owner if he would let the moon finally flooded the meet- him have an empty Łottle.
"Certainly," said the chemist, "bat
The worst was over!- Thai
His black ft goodness for it! quivered with relief and he far
it will cost you a penny. I tell you! what, though," he added;
as the said, "quite a number of plants which ned himself with a pine branch Scot's face fell, if you will have have the prefix 'dog': for example, he had broken off in the excite necessity of rearmament in Tang Hang, unemployed, was something in the bottle, I'll let you dog-rose' and 'dog-violet are versment of his peroration. “The 1933 and 1934, in view of the this morning sentenced to two of the penny.”- state of Europe, he nevertheless months' hard labour by Mr. K "Aye, that's fair enough,” replied tell me another"? held his hand and refused to Keen at the Central Magistracy, Sands. "Juist put the cork in it." Igive the lead. It is nothing to when he pleaded guilty to the
*
The Quick Student ̈
the point to say that Mr. Mac-theft of a radiator cap, valued at Donald and not Mr. Baldwin $30, from the car of Chief. Detes- The teacher was explaining “pre- was Prime Minister. The Con-tive Inspector J. Murphy yeater-fixes" to her class. "There are," she servative leader could have day.
forced the Premier's hand at Defendant had only been bound any moment. The responsibility over three days ago, and, for therefore was his.
breaking his bond be was fined
Why then did he hold back? $50, în default six weeks' imprison- Because a strong tide of active ment
not to say violent pacifism Sub-Inspector Kirby said that was running throughout Eng-Inspector Murphy left the car for. of i land, and the Socialists were ten minutes at the junction fighting every by-election on Bonham and Hospital Roads, and the slogan that they were the jon his return found the cap miss- only peace party, and that the ing. He reported the loss to thei victory of the National Govern-Upper Levels Police station. ment at the next election meant fendant was met by one of the two war. If the first White Paper detectives sent our and on being on National Defence had ap-searched, the cap was found on peared earlier than it did in him. He admitted the theft. March, 1935, before the re-
De-
armament of Germany had jagitation in connection with reached a point where doubts the League of Nations Peace. were no longer possible, and Ballot. Its main impulses no the zar menace had become doubt were humanitarian: its visible to all, does anyone effect, unhappily, was to en- think" to quote Mr. Baldwin's courage the British democracy words, that this pacific de- to cling to its false hopes andį mocracy would have rallied to vain illusions. The people know the rearmament cry at such a better now. "The conviction." CO.moment? And if the election said Mr. Baldwin, is biting had been lost, how would the deep into our country with all interests of the nation have its love of peace that there Eared with a Socialist Govern-must be no going back on our ment returned to power on a resolution for such rearmament pacifist policy of No Rearma- as is necessary to meet any pos- meat or of Collective Security sible peril from whatever quar without Bearmament, not tafter it may come." Dictators mention their domestic policy never succumb to the delusion of immediate constitutional re-that each war will be the last volution accompanied by finana delusion which has cost cial panic? That was the Britain dear for two centuries. ghastly alternative before those Mr. Baldwin has often express- who realised what ravages the ed his view that when a party locusts in the livery of 15 chooses its leader it invests years of unilateral disarmament him with the right of putting - had made în the defence forward the party policy, as forces of the British Common-suming, of course, that he will wealth. The interests of the be guided by his own common- nation in such case were the sense and by his knowledge of interests of the National Gov- the currenta, of public opinion. ernment. The defeat of the He misread those currents in Government must inevitably 1923. He read them quite cor- have postponed rearmament rectly in 1984 and 1935, "Great for years years which could men" it has been said, "should hadly have escaped being years think of Opportunity and not of national humiliation of Time. That may do for shame.
¡dictators. A. democratic leader That pacifist movement of has to do as Mr. Baldwin did 1933-4 coincided with a paralelland think of both
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