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MURDER REVEALED BY CLAIRVOYANT.
TRIAL FIVE YEARS AFTER THE CRIME.
Denmark-the country that has One of the most mysterious set the world an example in many crimes in the French police ways-thinks it has found an annals will have its sequel next effective way to combat Bol-month in the trial of an engineer shevism. It has met the Bolshe-named Pierre vista, armed with Russian rubles
The crime occurred as long ago | though they were, without as Décember 30, 1913. Louis wholesale arrests or prosecutions. C-diou, proprietor of a guncation It has done it simply by elimina factory at Landerneau, near ting the worst result of unemploy-Brest, disappeared mysteriously. ment, hunger.
His wife, awaiting him in Paris, How the Danish Government telegraphed to the factory met the new wave of Bolshevism engineer, Pierre, for news con- coming out of Russia and finding cerning his non-arrival. Pierre fertile soil in Denmark, where an replied expressing anxiety regard- old form of Bolshevism. wasing Cadion's fate. known since long before the war ployment would tend to clumsi as syndikalism, a labour move ness of sentence-formationment which developed along lines I seldom use a summarce ending almost parallel to the I. W. W. in ing." Were one of my agitation, was told to the characters given an "ing" name Fork Eleding Post by Dr. Max should for ever be bothered with Henius, of Chicago, president of -ing" juxtapositions, "Harding, the Jacob A. Riis League of approaching the crossing.
Patriotic Service, and a noted As foring" surnames which chemist. Dr. Henius has just My trade consists in placing are themselves verbs of common returned
· SCRIBBLING ".
ON PLACING WORDS NEXT
EACH OTHER.
For twenty years I have earned my living by a very curious trade.
I
to this
words next each other: large or nouns. I shun them, wholly, I from two months stay in small quantities of large or small might be tempted to introduce a words, the result being then sold Mr. Standing into my story. for a large or small sum of money as a rule, a small one. This is the trade of the author.
Standing is quite a good name: but no sooner have I steered him on to the "stage than we should be tripped up by Mr. Standing was sitting.
that
The police concluded Cadiou must have been murdered on December 30, but a person stated he had seen him in the town on January 2
No trace of the body was found until a relative of Cadiou consult
clairvoyant, who ed a
gare
certain indications which led Cadiou's brother to go to a seclud. Country
ed wood near the factory.
he where
discovered the Denmark, where he was born.
body of his brother. The victim's Dr. Henius said that last fall throat had been cut, and Pierre Syndikalism," or Bolshevism, was arrested on a statement by a appeared in unusual strength workman that he saw Cadiou pong the seamen of Denmark. and Pierre in a heated discussion Words are the materials of my
The striking radicals who agitat-walking towards the spot where trade, and in consequence it is to
ed for the overthrow of the the body was found. my interest to collect and store in For similar reasons I avoid Government and the seizure of industries by the workers were my brain as many words as I can names ending in "s" and "y." But I shall go down to the grave The names are a nuisance clubbed into silence temporarily with thousands of words still lack-when they suddenly became by the police and the army. ing from my collection. My possessive. How can you make However, the Danes soon found vocabulary, which is my source of Ulysses possessive without twist-that the movement could not be supply for materials of my trade ing the tongue? "Ulysses's is downed by force. The signing of
The "y" names are the armistice caused and on which, therefore, I depend borrid.
Dever
ployment.
great
Henius said there was little doubt that the Russian Govern inent was spending money freely to win converts, and the Danish
Certain persons believe that carefully staged his act in order Cadiou committed suicide and to allow his wife to claim his insurance money..
A sensational development oc- curred during the second autopsy, when a doctor discovered a fatal bullet wound in the back of the victim's neck. The gash in the throat was presumably inflicted afterwards by the murderer in a fury of hate. It was proved that Pierre had a revolver. which could not be found since the murder. He strongly procested his innocence, and was released provisionally. When war broke he was called to the colours and did duty bravely, but he must cast of y-named girls. The decided to destroy the arguments now stand his trial for a crime English language abounds in of the malcontents by paying which still remains wrapped in
ords by no means all of them every unemployed person two- adverbs, which end in that offen- thirds the salary earned while sively falsetto "y"; and a sen-employed in his regular trade tence which has one needless or profession. This measure abol ""'in it. the "y" of
ished hunger or prospects of hur.-
a
name
mystery.
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for means to pay my grocer, but more of a trouble and temptation. changes in the industrial life of cher, tailor, and landlord, will English girls insist on being the land with consequent anera
be complete. But my baptised with Christian names anxiety to make it complete "in-ending in the penultimate letter of the alphabet: at least the creases rather than diminishes.
There are various reasons why lovable, pretty ones seem with inevitableness to be labelled thus. it is urgently necessary for me to add to the collection. Author. either as, for instance. Daisy, or authorities had to assume strong :
in affectionate diminutives. ahip consists in something more "Dolly, Gertie, Molly, and so on supervisen over the agitators. than merely making statements and so on. Only the narrator "But the Bolshevists kept on or telling stories. The job has who eschewed adverbs could staging their variety shows, said to be done nicely, neatly, beauti- afford to burden his story with a Dr. Henius, till the Government fully, interestingly.
. in brief, if not artistically at any rate in workmanlike fashion. This is difficult for the man short of materials from which to select. Not only is he hampered for want of words to express shades of
The undersigned have received meaning, but smoothness of flow which, if the author had exercis-ger, and provided moreover, many Flensborg to the North Sea south
is impossible for him and saking information to the effect that a brand of condensed milk labelled And tautology is the deuce. I allude, of course, to unintentional ended in some other letter well, at least the minimum amount of in the island of Romu.
The territory north of this line Carpation MILK is being placed it is a less euphonious sentence clothing needed. The Bolshevists
Consumers and ware robbed of their strongest has and avoidable tautplogy. Some-
population of between on this market.
that the times a word is repeated because than it should have been.
offensive weapons.
The Reds 150,000 and 160,000, practically Dealers are warned it must in the nature of the case Ladmit that many very success-might continue their agitation: all Danish. There is a strong undersigned are exclusive agents be repeated: sometimes it is re-ful novelists splash their pages they could accomplish nothing admixture of Danish blood south in China for the Carnation Milk peated deliberately for emphasis. with characters whose names end with persons of radical tendencies of this line, however, and there Products Co., of Seattle, Washing But he is a happy author who has handy" and "ing. who felt disinclined to destroy or are sharply divided opinions on ton, and that they have not im à sufficiency of synonyms in Wells does it incessantly, and hamper the Government that was whether or not Denmark should ported any tins labelled as above
commencing at I am. stock-metaphors, similes, figures am consumed with astonishment
claim the important city of but that all tins imported by them
labella CARNATION At No. 2 Saifee Terrace (ground of speech, epithets, idioms, turns at his gift for avoiding what feeding and housing them."
me to be the Dry Henius in this connection Flensborg, which has a populat-are of expression, euphemisms: see would seem to
floor) Kowloon what a troop come crowding to inevitable crop of dissonance. said he firmly believed the Allied of 70,000, and the best harbour CREAM and are lacquered on THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO. meet even this small emergency: He can call his heroes Mr. Powers ought to study Denmark in the province of Schleswig. Dr. top and bottom of tins." he is a happy author, I say, who Polly" and "Kipps" And in a experiment with the Bolshevists. doubt that the city was now pre-
Ray E. GUNN can ring the changes in his serious novel he can introduce us and apply the Danish remedy dominantly German. The po
Manager. phraseology and thereby put at to a Lord Boom"! However. where it was most needed in
Hongkong. 17th June, 1919. been It has 20,000. least the polish of outward fresh-Wells is Wells. Lesser folk must Germany. He said the could pulation in 1864 numbered only
in be more circumspect; they dare be little doubt that food conditions on notions perhaps substance stale.
not jest with their job. For me, were extremely bad in Germany, the boom cities of the Ger- if I am tackling a tale, it is a case epecially in the larger cities. He man Empire of late years. Dr. task of com of sitting down first of all and suggested that the Allies permit Henius said that election returas German population.
ness
For example:
י,
2
Henius said there was little
one of
confronted with the task of come with sober caution drawing up a Denmark to ship food into the of the municipality indicated 90 NIGHT-TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME
under supervision per cent.
of
posing dialogue I am, confronted list of the characters. Rarely is country with the task of finding variants the list unrevised. of the verb to say. I cannot two characters adopting the same reached the classes which ware fob my readers off with columns initial; it displeases me when that suffering the most. and columns of alternating. He initial recurs prominently in the For instance. if the Allies
and
although many Danes might have to take Pinkettes, the gentle little I hate to see Allied representatives to see it voted for German candidates for laxatives. Their good effects are the sake of safeguarding their experienced next morning, and
without griping or parging. personal interests.
Schleswig, although Dr. Henius
PINKETTES
said " and " She said." My here print-e.g.. when Percival meets permitted the importation of oil It is not expected that a must sometimes exclaim, cry, Priscilla or Mr. Cartwright woos cake from Germany as cattle plebiscite will be taken in blurt, rap out. growl, grumble. Miss Caroline. Nor may two fodder to Denmark in return for believed that even a larger terri My heroine must answer, reply, characters' names end with the the sale of milk to Germany, I' retort, and respond:
falt same letter of the alphabet, or believe the Spartacar moules tory than that claimed by the dispel constipation, cure bilious- permit her to sigh, falter, rhyme, for this results in a bad would receive a severe setback. Danes would vote for a union ness, sick headaches, liverishness, breathe. sob. whisper.
with Denmark, for many Ger-coated tongue, foal breath, Ob ejaculate. (Were she, and 1, eye and ear effect; nor must the continued Dr. Henius. "Den:
mans would for self-interest,prefer tainable from dealers everywhere, syllabification of characters' mark has lost 30 per cent. American, her eyes would also
Danish rule, as it would relieve or at 60 cents the vial, from The Games be either monotonous or of its milch
during cows "snep.")
And I can dodge jerky. I welcome, in modera-the
but if
them from carrying their share of Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 the Dan- the difficulty in other waytion, suitable nicknames. The fish dairy farmers. the most the financial burdens of the fu- Szechuan Road, Shanghai. without failing
character owning a nickname is expert in the world, could get oil ture which Germany must bear the dialogue, which always easily juggled with, both cake which Germany can supply. F "I found a great change in *peaker is speaking-though in dialogue and in action. But Denmark in turn could milk feed public feeling toward the United my problem becomes desperately oh, how carefully must his nick 20,000,000 persons in Germany. complicated in a roomful of peo- ple all of whom have to join in name be fitted to him!
in
I
to indicate,
war.
10 said
Henius. States.
Dr. that is, supply them with all the "I was in Denmark about two
MISSIONARY'S RECORD.
When the Africa Maru sailed
A roomful of people Yes, it is a curious trade, this milk they require. Denmark years ago, and people. then from Yokohama on June" 4 it
believe
WOMEN AS SECRET KEEPERS.
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the debate.
at our neutrality, carried one who might be called alarms me. It taxes my techni. of placing words next each other, could, of course, sell other food wondered
Danish people at the oldest foreign resident of que beyond what I know that I have no desire to exaggerate stuffs as well to the Germans. The
the Danes would that time, although friendly Yokohama." He is the Rev. J.PHONE 407. technique to be at present capable its difficulty-although in my I of, and I disperse my chatterbox secret soul I do consider it welcome this arrangement in towards this country, thought H. Ballagh, D.D., who is nearly
a term of 75 years, with the Some difficult.
But it is allowable, spite of the fact that they have that our first interest lay in 87 years old, with a record of 58 crew as soon as I can.
option of renewal at a Grown This time I heard years in missionary work in shall be able to without making a fuss about the had no sympathy with the Ger- business.
Rent to be day
fixed by the com- labour of writing, to have a man cause during this war.". deal with loquacious
expressions of amazement every-Japan.
Surveyor of His Majesty the No pro-
Dr. Henius said the topic
where over what the United panies, but in the meantime pru- respect for writing.
King, for one further term of 75 dence makes me stick to twos fessional author ever speaks of uppermost in the minds of the States had accomplished in pre-
business years paring for the war, and admiration
hitherto conducted by the PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. concerned, and I recommend any bling" is of the amateur or of the armistice was the return the allies. Not very many nations Office at salaries in advance of above pharmacy at 32, Queen's
commencing the layman ignoramus. When of Danish Schleswig. The Danes author" to do likewise: the fate a friend (who piles up a fortune are making preparations for have declared war without de- the usual figure because of their Road, Central will on 15th, Júne a-tete is safe ground for the tyro. by buying cheap and selling dear recovering part of the land taken manding some rewards for the ability to keep a scopet. "And the next be transferred to A. S. secrets are meny and weighty in Watson & Co. Ltd., the Hong- sacrifice. an assortment or wares which he by Prussia in 1864. Of late Even the choosing of the pames
"It is difficult to explain in this their work in the Treaty Com- kong Dispensary, who will take of characters in a story is not all did not produce and indeed has mass meetings have been held
which chiefly over the stocks, proprietary medi- never clapped eyes ont cheerily throughout the plain sailing. That the names
country for country how the Danish people mission asks me, "Been doing any discussion of the new boundary feel about President Wilson. It is relates to revision of treaties with cines and prescription books. must be reasonably appropriate scribbling lately? I feel an im-line. There is some difference "not too much to say that he is the Powers to conform with post-Customers requiring prescriptions names is obvious. It is equally obvious that the era of the impulse to murder him. I may not of opinion as to how much of admired, even adored as no other war conditions. Relying on the repeated, will on and after the write well, but, by heaven! I do Schleswig should revert to person in public life. The Danes ponderous phraseology not, to date aforesaid be able to get them at the Hongkong possible-comic is past we can no
not scribble. The
trade of Denmark, but the majority of the feel that he stands for the highest attach itself to the memory of dispensed longer pass off Cheerybles and Pecksuit And there are hun-authorship may only consist in Danes, as well as the Govern ideals of government. They have the female typists, the women Dispensary.
reasonably appropriate he is an ass who thinks that, the language, line running a firmness, and ability to doctor them even a scrap of paper which placing words next each other ment, Dr. Henfus said, favoured a profonus faith in his integrity, are prohibited to take home with becausz their just any old words will do. Ward general northwesterly direction some of the curable historic might contain bits of the text of
these proposed agreements. em- Muir in the Münchester Guardian. from a point zarta of the city of wrongs of Europe.”,
any rate,
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