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Mr. John Boyes, the adventurous York shireman who for three years was the grost" White King of half a million Barages the Wa-Kikuya tribe of East Africa-is in London trying to persuade the British Government, to redeem, & twenty-ave-year-old promise that he should have a grant of land for assisting an official expedition to pus the country in order.
After he had for three years ruled the half-milhon savaged who worshipped him, Mr. Bayes was arrested by a party of Government officials who had come, with armed troops, to take over the country, He was sent down to Nairobi for trial on various serious charges.
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[BY JORY BLUNY
Because the girls in the town of Middletown, in the State of New York, insist on amoking cigarettes and shing- ling their hair, the young men have all resolved to grow beards.
One may call this a good example of the strange habit some people have of cutting off their nose to spite their face. If the girls have not been impressed by the pleadings of the young men when they were beardless, I can hardly sup pose that they will be any more impressed when the young men wilfully make them- selves less attractive to look upon.
Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face is a form of illogicality to which, curiously enough, many people are ad- dicted. With their eyes wide open they spoil their own chances, deriving mysterious sort of pleasure from doing themselves harm.
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The black sergeant, who knews that Mr. often they arise merely from petulance Dutch in turn Struggled for Mastery,
a host of and bad temper. The type of person Boyes, could easily summon savages, trembled as they approached who, having done a foolish act by mis
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century, a Magnet attracting
every village," and ultimately handed the take, immediately proceeds to do a has been since the 16 blue envelop to his prisoner, begging him foolish act on purpose, is not at all un-
common. It only shows that self-pity from Europe all who sought Trade, Adventure or Gain. to take charge of it.
and spite are dangerous forms of luxury. An equable nature is the best gift the us. If we were all gods can grant equable, then, indeed, we might lay some.
Mr. Boyes was later sent to Mombasa, where he was tried and acquitted, even receiving an apology from the judge for the waste of his valuable time.
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claim to be considered logical But, as To-day it is rapidly becoming known as one of the Gems of-th it is, we allow our own tempera to play havoc with our common sense. Fancy Pacific-The Pearl of the Orient and attracts Tourists and Visitors growing a beard in order to emphasise
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After the fasco of this trial Mr. Boyes was invited to act as guida and intelli- gence officer to su expedition of the East your point of view! And yet these from all parts of the world. African Rifles, and it is out of this ser-young men are behaving no more stupid- vice that his claim arises. NAS ly than many of us constantly do when "I was supplying the Government our tempers become. ruffled and our sense stations with food, which had to be im- of humour deserts us. When that hap- ported into Mombasa and then sent up pens we are quite liable to victimise our- by porters," said Mr. Boyes to a Sunday selves merely for the satisfaction of prov ing to ourselves that we are thoroughly Express representative,
unfortunate.
The Kalyera, a branch tribe of the. Kokuyu, waylaid my men and the police, and stole their rides, The expedition Was a punitive one to recover the rifles and put the country in order. It was successful, but nearly cost me my life.
-10,000 ACRES GRANTED. When-the-expedition was over I was asked what sort of reward I wanted I refused all offers of money, and after being pressed to accept something, said I would accept a grant of land, and this was agreed to.
Unfortunately, though the record of my services went forward to the Gover nor, the recommendation was apparently overlooked.
I have taken up the matter several times, but it is perhaps my fault that, being s lover of a roving life in my younger days, I did not sufficiently press xay claim then.
I feel that I have not been properly treater. Over 10,000 acres have been granted, to other settlers, and I hope the Colonial Office will see the justice of my
claim even at this date.".
PRINCE'S MOTOR MISHAP.
SEMI-OFFICIAL SNUB TO FOREIGN PRESS AGENCY.
Some people, of course, are naturally their own worst enemies and invariably. fall out with those who could help them most but many other people, who are sensible enough in the ordinary way, be come extremely unreasonable when things. go wrong with them-Daily Mail.
TEMPLE 4,000 YEARS OLD.
SCULPTURE DATING FROM 2,300. B.C. FOUND AT UR,
1.
A report issued by the British Museum authorities states that the work at Ur of the Chaldees of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of over three distinct sites, all lying within Pennsylvania during February was spread the Sacred Area of the ancient city
To those seeking relief from the oppressive and trying local sum- mer, there is no place which holds forth such a pleasing" prospect of complete change of surroundings, of secenery and of climate,
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8 days to Batavia, a short journey then takes the traveller to the Highlands, where all the trials of beat and humidity are forgottanin. temperate allmate unsurpassed "in any tropical country.
Wonderful ancient Temples
Motor tours through magnificent scenery Dolce far niente, for those who prefer it, in Hill resorts like Sindanglaja or Tosari, whe Fires in the evening will be appreciated.
The magnificent vessels of the Java-China-Japan Line sail In the first place it was necessary to direct to Batavia, or to Sourabaya via Macassar, and give the complete the excavation of the great traveller the added charm of a sea voyage through Calm and temple of the Moon Goddess,
In this the excavators were helped not little by discovering a number of hinge- stones at the doors of various rooms inscribed with the names and dedications of Ur-Engur and of his grandson, Bur Sin, both of whom had been concerned in the erection of the original building.
MAIN RUINS,
-The main standing ruins are those of temple reconstructed in about 2100 B.C. by Enannatum, a royal prince who
LONDON, July 2nd. The widely published reports of a tyre burst, which occurred to the Prince of Wales when motoring at Thanet, has had a sequel in the appearance of a semi-whs High Priest of the Moon God, but official reproof of an unnamed foreign be followed so faithfully the ground plan advertising agency, which agency stated of the earlier work that even where his that the burst was due to a defect in the walis had been bodily removed by latter tyre
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The reproof is contained in the antrace the mud-brick walls of Bur-Sin for nouncement. The Prince of Wales uses the design of the High Priest's building British tyres and does not intend chang. to become plain. ing, to foreign ones.
"An attempt to exploit foreign tyres on account of the mishap is strongly resented by those responsible for the safety of His Royal Highness."
ONLY ONE SPARE WHEEL.
The mishap referred to was when the Prince was personally driving a party of friends to Sandwich..
The car was approaching the bridge near the village of Littlebourne, when both the near-side tyres burst. The car
In the process of this digging down a very une female bead carred in black diorite was found, an admirable example of Third Dynasty sculpture dating from about 300 B.C
e second site excavated was a nar row strip on the south-west side of the Ziggurat of Ur-Engur. The discoveries made have cleared up the history of this part over a much longer period than had been expected SIAM
KASSITE ACESS
Not only is there a boundary wall dat- swerved alarmingly, but with great ping from the Kassite age of about 1400 sence of mind the Prince, who was B.O, but below this the remains of the hatless, pulled up almost immediately.
Eye-witnesses state that the Prince jumped out, stood on the road and rolled up his sleeves, preparing to tackle the job of wheel-changing himself
He even got down on his hands, knees on the tarred road and smilingly declined all offers of assistance, 50,
But there was only one spare wheel, so the Prince leisurely walked to the village butcher's shop, and phoned to Bandwich for another car. Subsequent ly he reanted his journey,
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chamber wall built originally by Ur- Engur round the terrace on which hia, ggara stood, and, under this again, walls of pudding-shaped mud bricks which must go back to the fourth millennium before Christ.
There could be no doubt that these two. were the enclosing walls of a ziggurat platform, and the experts conclude from this that underneath the millions of bricks piled up by Ur-Engur's workmen there lie buried, the remains of another ziggurat older hy many centuries.
COPPER STATUETTE.
In completing the excavation of a building of which part had been dug by Dr. Hell in 1918, excavators were able to recover nearly all of a very interest. ing plan, temple with two-official-resi dences attached to it, and under one Arraigned at Philadelphia under the ruined corner they found undisturbed the name of Frederick Stanley which he foundation-box of burnt brick containing said would do no wall as any other the
The copper statuette of the King bearing man, who, has been called the “Mester on his head the basket of mud mortar Sheik of the United States pleaded for the laying of the first brick of the guilty to defrauding Mra, Francis Kemp building
of £1,640 and was sent to prison for a
year. When he completes that sentence
With very little more work the excava
he will have to answer charges of swind- tors expect id be able to draw out the ling women in many other Statespland of all the buildings. through
Stanley, who is alleged to have "mar successive phases of reconstruction. ried and deserted: 50 women within the alteration from the closing days of past two years, all of them wealthy, nidus in 850 B.C to the time nea ned various fisser includi that of thousand years earlier wh an English Peer
1 lid out his design for an impe
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