TWO-MINUTE TALKS A Day Tonio
·BY BOBIET POWER/
SUMMER HOURS.
ILES CANAL
An Interesting Trip,
Most Londoners would be per- plexed to describe the Regent's Canal. A small company of ad- guests of the directors, found that venturers, who were recently the It-runs-for-10 miles tirough the
-the
DAIRY FARM NEWS
FISH
"It's a poor heart which never in ripening all around, carrying rojolcen"--and a miserable Sum on her immutable decreas. mer which has not some intor There is a fisherman by the heart of London, taking its cours Indes of glorious days. Day of river's brink, but he is as lazy as from Regent's Dook on heat, when the sun bathes the the fish. They will not food, but Thames, through Stepney, Mile earth; those hours when the skulk in the deep pools and under End, Bethnal Green, Hackney, great flossy blouds move slowly the projecting bank. He drowson Shoreditch, St. Luke's, Islington, across the vault of bluo, casting over his rod, saturated by Sum-St, Panoras, aud Marylebone, to down vant shadows upon the hills mor heat, idle-yat rosting body Paddington, where it joins the and the fields, the woods, and the and mind and lulled to the vergo Grand Junction Canal, and is rivore.
of slumber by the murmur of the thus linked with inland naviga Canadian Salmon Through the haze of noonday rivor and the hum of heat the hills soom very far away. insects.
the tions that sorvo important dis- tricts in the Midlands; and the
Shipments just arrived
Haddock
The mist was thick in the dawn, The Summer is the full time of North of England. and wreaths of vapour clung to fruition. Winter meant waiting The the ground when the day was Spring came in with germination was
voyage of exploration far advanced, A dull day." and "budding said the townsman, but the old the goldon hours Nature fills her thickly populated districts, where Kippers life; then
mado in a small steam In bargo, and its progress through farm-hand-who-had-milked the cornicopia with plontoous fruits, the canal to summer is a great cows and been around the Boon they are safely gathered temptation to juvonile bathore, ineadows while Town mouse was in," and as the leaves futter oxcited attention. Al-Fillets
Joro.
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60 cents per lb.
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bnug abod, knew better. "Mist down, the swallows wheel for though the members of the party in the morning, heat comes their flight to warmer elimos, and did not experience the exhilarat- without warning" he repeated, a chill in the air proclaims the ing breezes a ses trip, they were giving out something of the com- breath of coming Winter. inon stock of country weather What an epitome of human al importance of the canal in able to appreciate the commerci life! The strange twilight days serving alactric light generat The hedgo rows are beginning of childhood. The growth of ing stations, gas works, timber to loso their froshness. A Youth's springtide. The Summer yards, saw mills, and thor The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. thin white film of dust powders hours of Manhood's fuil meridian. factories. thom where they bordor the Tho doolining days of Autumn,: road. But down in the depths of warning of the immutable law of great interest in the construction The Prince Regent took a the wood, Nature is in holiday decay. The shortening hours of of the canal by Renato, and by mood. The birds sing coaselessly. Winter, when the head is covered his order it If wo lle in the cool shade cast with the snow of Ago, and the life-Regent's Canal.. Thirty years was called the by the umbrageous trees we can blood runs chill in the veins. Boo the shy but worry squirrel; a But whatever your season tons a your. During the past!
ago the traffic was over 1,000,000 Blick of white tails where the Childhood; Youth; Manhood rabbits are busy; while away in Ago-through all houts sounds the competition of road trans- ton years it has suffered from the distanco a woodpecker is the majestic warning of the Psalm busy with his endloss tapping, of Mesos: "So toaoh us to number roturaing to the canal in large
port. But tradors Langerous hours these Summer our days, that we may apply our numbers. hours of noontido heat. Nature hoarte unto Wisdom.”
'BOLSHIE CAUGHT.
UNDESIRABLE IN EAST
AFRICA.
Nairobi, Sept 8. Tho Yugo-Slav Bolshevist inel- tioned some days ago has boon caught, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment 28 an undesirable Immigrant. Ho will bo deported on the expiration of his sentence.-Reuter.
[A Router message on August 30th. reported that a Yugo-Slav, 1oputed to be a dangerous Bolshe- vist propagandist among negroes, boarded a liner at Adon, booking for Tanganyika, where the police were waiting to seizo him, but ho oscaped when the lir.or called at Mombasa, landing at night in a small boat and leaving his lug. gage bohind. Ho was traced to a Uganda goode train which stopp- ed in wild game country, whore the mau disappeared, although the police olosely watched the railway.]
MOROCCAN CAMPAIGN.
GAINE AND LOSBES.
Madrid, Sept. 8.
The acting president of the Directorate announces that the nows from Morocco is now inore satisfactory. An onomy attack on Kaala was ropulsed. The enomg lost five hundred dead and six hundred wounded in the recent fighting at Tetuan.- Reuter.
Gibraltar, Supt. H.
It is reported from Tangier that the railway between Couta and Tangler has been out. Tho raiders have torn up the per- manent way for a distance of some miles, cut the Lolograph and telephone Rnos, and captured the post of Bondiah.-Reuter.
DAY BY DAY.
We learn that Mr. William. Mel G. Harlow, who has been a olork at the U.S. Consulate in Hong- kong for the past four months, has boon promoted by Seerotary of State to Vico Consul at Hongkong.
aro now
CHANGES AT TILBURY.
Docks and the Way There. Plaus are in hand for increas: the facilities of the Port of London. the
One concerns a taw landing atage at Tilbury, which, will add greatly to passengers' convenience, A new entrance to Tilbury Dock is to be construct- A Tokyo telogram to the Daily and
ed, a now dry dock is to be built, Bulletin says: The Princo Re Docks are to be extended and tho Surrey Commercial Admiral Sir A. Loveson on relin-include the dredging operations gent granted an audionco quishing his command in the Far to render the river accessible to to improved. Other developments East, and cordially thanked him ships at all states of the tide, for the co-operation of the British ships at the time of the earth-already been spent on this work, Two million pounds have quake.
and the rosult is that ships off 23,000 tons, drawing 37ft, of water, oan now como For the possession of a quantity up the river. of opium ong
Meanwhile the to was given road twelve months and another six much
docks loaves) room for improvement. months at the Contral Magistracy Probably one of the first ques- this morning. The former was tions to which the Ministry of given the option of paying a Transport will turn its attention, $10,000 fine,--and as he would when the London Traffle Bill is persist in arguing without point out of the way will be that of after being warned by the providing a new road from tho Magistrate he was given another City to the Victoria Docks. torm of six months to serve in addition to the first.
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The cost of such a schome has! baon estimated at £3,000,000, and It is understood that the Ministry of Transport will be ready to pro The hoalth roturn for the past the other half is found by the vide hulf this sum, provided that wook shows eloven cases of local authorities intorested. A typhoid fovor (of which five were Chinese, two British and one way of Whitechapel, and one fatal), the sufferers being eight road of this kind would run by Indin. Thore, were Chinano cases of diphtheria (one of the way it should be carried by: suggestion which has boon made fatal) and two non-fatal British
le that for some considerable part cases of paratyphoid fovar. Amonds of a viaduct. Chinose death from influenza is, also notified, During yesterday a further caso of typhoid was reported, the sufforor being a Chinese,
also two
Priscilla Doan, the well-known from crowded houses star, is still winning applausa at tho Queen's Theatro where hor latest the current attraction at 5,15 and picture "The Storm Daughter," is 9.15. At 2.30 and 7.15 Queen's Theatro
showing "Tho Unfortunate Girl," a product of the Chinoso Hollywood (Shang- hai) with complote English sub- titles for the convenience of non- Obinose PEACE BEING DISCUSSED.Shanghai'a bost known Boenes
patrons.
Many will be recognised in the picture,
AFGHAN REVOLT.
Peshawar, Sept. 8.
It is reported that a truce has boon declared at Khost, and peaco. negotiations between the Afghan officials and the robel leader, are afoot.—Reuter.
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NEW AEROPLANE GIANT, | 21st, says: Cuboroo, the world's making up a list of all that you can
A London cable of August
After you have spent a few ilutee largest and most powerful single- remember, taua nt ile paper apale, and ungined battloplane, has done out how any you mlased. There its first flight near Hull. It was slipped your raind 5 Tes this "teaser" will probably be ults or two that built by the Blackburn Company kinds of rout you called, and look for on your friends. Itensember how y and has a 1,000 h.p. Napier Cub tosiare "rating" Mosers Namazie and Co's engine. A unique feature is two -pilgrim ship, Arrusneatan, staircases, one connecting with
Yesterday's Tesser, brought over 1,000 roturning the pilot's cockpit, accommodat pilgrims from Jeddah-for Singing two, and a central cabin, and spora recently, when 34 doathe the other loading. to the were reported as having occurred machine-gun towar behind the on board during the voyage, Bix wings. It carries three tons of Jufante were born
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