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A Result of the Flued, As a result of the fluoda car. tain portion of the salt fields io' Tangobuhsion, Shansi, has been entirely buried under eanu. The land is now considered usolces. for any agricultural purpose as a large amount of sals has been buried underneath. At tha ̧res quest of the Governor the land is exempted from further taxation
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Eugene, Ore., July 17.—A+8 o'clock on the morning following her marriage, fe. Mary Jane Carter Moosly walked into the county clerk's office and demand- ed a divorce, B fore being direct- ed to a lawyer, she anrounced that a few minutes after - the marriage, the evening before, Moosly get drunk. "No man can play such a trick on "ms and get'; away with it,” she declared.
Magistrates' Firm Action, The magistrate of Hstang Cheng-hsien, the President's na tive place, has arrested and panished one of the President's kinsman, who relied upon his relationship to the President for immenity from the law and oim- mitted excosten, The Provident has expressed his appreciation for the courage of the magistrate in the performance of his duty and will present the latter with a tablet in recognition.
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The ship by which I left fo the north side, is so called be- Egypt should have discharge Cause it wne, in the reign of James its cargo and left on Tuesday: I., the residence of Chief Buron
En tead of which it left on Sunday' Topfield. Before that time it bad tak a its name from Henry Brad- the scarcity of dcok hands being
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I took a basket of oranges UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. THE FORMIGN POLICY OF SIR ourto-aallera behind me. I and boxes of cigarettes and wept.
going to ask the to one of the big hospitals at shaw, a former Treneurer of the watched three transports leave, Sphinx a question" What is Heliopolis, distribaled these Inner Temple. It has suffered packed with young French anthe meaning of the war?" Bat things, and talked to the men. Eastern Extension Australasia through rebuilding, and the diers going to the Dardanelles when I saw the face I forgot what They are crazy for orangee; for
M ster'e House is its only pic turesque feature to-day.
Man.
There was a terrible parting with women on the quay ide-got that
I was going to ask. The question talk also. All were renty to tell Death of a Well-known Coursing the French boys wept, their en. Its bright and confident face ex- and the Turks. They had varioue could not be put. The Sphinx how they got their woon le and aa serene. It dwarfed the war, what they thought of the Germane thusiasm was indescribable. It A well-known North of England coursing, man in Mr. William ies grand sight to watch a liner pressed no interest in "to-day." stories of the Dardanelles. Three Watson, of Darlington, died Bad- go out, its many decks thick with And my questions-Is the war of the men had been in the same acidental or elemental? Will all regiment es Rupert, Brooke and Jenis in July in bis sevenly met, men in the rigging and high bo as before or will nothing be ne I met one who was present. st
on the maste, men on every con- seventh year. From 1872 be was honorary secretary of the North cairable emicence and perch all before?-fell away. Egypt bids the funeral. It was at 8-yros, of England Club for twelve years, end on his retirement was the
ed as they broke into Vive Pharaoh, and one's sense of time from a French hospital ship. The recipient of a presentation. Mr. l'Angleterre, and the 30 British and antiquity changes as one funeral was at midnight, by Watson, who owned several, grey. bounds in bis early days, witness board cheered and cheered cea face to face the King who torchlight. If you go there you
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waring their caps and singing In Cairo lies the great from the shore.
pot Lemnos, about 350 yards in the "Marseillaise." As they pare-
He was landed
would not let the children, of will find a little wooden cross Iraelgo. Egyptremains a place with just his name and the date of mystery and splendour, pomp of bis birth and his death marked and human abominations. On on it in black. the one hand, the desert with its Caves and, temples, and on the other, the cities with their plessure and sin.
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I met a man whose right hand was shot away. He was retura- ing to Australia as soon as he got well. "How far inland-did you get?" I asked.
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Southward Bound. Rome, GA,, July 17.-The 24-Placid was the ees. The tran year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. sports dipped beyond the horizon and we followed them southward. M. Carver, who lives near Morrison's campground, claims There were only a few passengere that he has more names than any-on board the great liner, mostly body in Amerion, and his people going back to India or sigrature is a orose between a Barma after eeme months' leave I felt sorry for the troops wait "Not at all." said he, with a Bible concordance and a bielory in England. There were some ing in Egypt, marching and cheerful smile. I was shot in of the United States. When he French, however, for Port Said. drilling in a temperature of over one of the landing boats. I 237er was born his parenta differed in With the exception of the oficere 110deg. F. in the shade, spending set foot on the land." their choice of names, and each the crew were all Indiane. The their leisure boure in the Cairo
"Did you see the man who suggested for the other's con- little dasky men kept everything streets. Bat they at least were shot you?" 'aideration various names, Neither clean the ship was always speck enjoying themselves and gaining "I never saw a aloglo Tark," Hongkong, 27th August, 1915.
would agree to yield to the other's less, the voyage serene.
an interesting experience in life. sold he, and he was choice, however, and it was We pass but one warahip. Only The lot of the wounded was featly cheerful."It's rather rum decided to have the boy include at Fort Said we get back to harder. Egypt tends to be a place to come all the way from Austra all the suggestions. He was war reality, looking at the more of wounded soldiers than of la, be shot in the first half-hour, therefore christened, and is now hospital ships and the transport whole ones. It is strange to see a never see the enemy, and then go kuown to his friends as Mord alive with British troops. There great fashionable hotel, the last back home again without my Talmadge
Zachariah Taylor is the turmoil of making a land- - thing in luxury and tourist con- right hand. But it's all for the Benjamin Franklin Eleazer Poole ing, the registration of passport venience, changed into a military cause-Stephen Graham in the Stewart Breckenbridge Carver; by a garrulous Egyptian in a fcz, hospital.
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