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"PILLARS OF WISDOM.”
FROM HONGKONG.
THE G.B.S. ON COLONEL T. E. LAWRENCE.
CHINESE SEAMAN FINED IN EDINBURGH,
MUSICAL FIND.
18TH CENTURY MASTER- PIECES UNEARTHED.
A touch of the Orlent was in- Turin, February 25-What is Any country with a Valhalla or Many, many hundreds of thou- sands of years ago an oyster Tay spark of gratitude would have troduced into the formal atmos-described as "the greatest musical or the sen bed at what is now rewarded him with a munificent phere of Edinburgh Sheriff Court. And of the century" has been made Plecadilly-elreus. In the acon pension and built him another recently when a Chinese seaman by the Superintendent of Pied- of time the earth's shape changed. Blenheim. The British Govern- named Ching Cheung was charged monteau Bibliography at Turin. Underground miners, workingment left him to pension himself with a contravention of the Dan-who, invited to inspect a room 00 feet down from Piccadilly-eislike an ex-Minister by writing a gerous Drugs Act, 1920, Having full of books and manuscripts, we know it to-day, have book about it all and living on the been found on February 15 with discovered an enormous quantity 1 ounce of propared opium, s of 18th Century masterpieces and The above is from a striking brass opium pipe, an opium mixer, minor works, including 43 operns. The publicntions are of the Relss, Massey & Co., Ltd. Just recovered the shell of that proceeds.
poor, Tone oyster,
greatest variety and include many Other small shells have also preface by Mr. George Bernard and an opium-lamp-in-his-posses
passed com- been found, and of this shell in Shaw to the catalogue of an ex-afon.
The articles were produced in works, which have partidalar there
pletely out of sight, including edi is little doubt hibition of paintings and drawings
Philidor that it was the fixed abode of alustrating Colonel T. B. Law-Court, and as the accused was un
rence's book "Seven Pillars of able to speak English a Chinesa tions of Gluck. bivalve which escaped the rocky wisdom," which was opened ro-chief steward from the same ship Ramedu, dining-table of a very ancient cantly at the Liccoster Gallerica, as accused acted as interpreter,
The Fiscal stated that accused |·. Leicester-square, on Monday. Evidence has been fond, too,
Knowing only too well the sort was a ship's fireman on board the He had that at one time Piccadilly circus of people we are, continues G.B.S..ss. Benvorlich, of Leith was woodland, for the miners have Lawrence saw that if he came to been signed on at Hongkong some nearthed the fossilised remains our rescue by making the Araba months ago, and arrived at Leith of trees that doubtless once form-revolt during the war he would when the vessel brought a cargo
agrent Piccadilly have more trouble with us than of ed part of
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These miners are hardy fellows, opinion and official routine dis- He was known on board the and in hollowing out channels in approves intenruly of geniuses, ship as a confirmed oplum smoker. the earth far below the circus, so even when they have been hall that the tubes may run this way marked at Oxford. and that with greater freedom, they have never stopped working
for two years.
and there was no doubt that the opium found in his possession was The Government was not wholly for his own use and not intended ungrateful; but it did not under- for importation to this country, stand. It offered him all sorts of Consequently it was not regarded. Like Father, Like Son.
jobs that he did not want. Military as a serious ense.
Sheriff Neish ordered a fine of They keep up night shift and commands in time of peace did not day shift, and the coal stoppage appeal to a man who had for years £2, to be deducted from accused's. was to them but a regrettable piece played akittles with army routine. wages, which were stated to be of news. When London is to be. What more could a Government £3, 10. a month, and also ordered pierced with new tunnel the offer? Money enough to follow the forfeiture of the opium and underground miners come for-his star does not seem to have sug- the instruments. ward, father and son, for it is a gested itself to the departmental Accused was linble under the Dangerous Drugs Act to a fine not skilled business which runs in mind. families for generations.
"He transferred his patronage exceeding £200, or imprisonment Seme 40 of them keep the good from the Regular Army, chang-for six months, with or without work going (writes a Daily Chroni ing into the Royal Air Force, and hard labour.
I saw them becoming Aircraftsman XXXX. de representative).
at work far below the Monico and... He is now out of reach of this the Criterion pavement. It was a exhibition and this preface, which hot and atleky experience, is perhaps lucky for me, as I am I went down the main shift on able to say all these things behind narrow ladders and made a super-his back. What will happen in latively cautious descent. As India nexty Heaven only knows. Mr. Shaw discloses that Colonel vanished, the noises of Piccadilly, with its traffic going round and Lawrence refused to accept a round, became stilled.
Oxford grant for his book. He Where Erus once stood and spent his own means to the utter will, we hope, stand again--in a most. winch which lowers working material and raises London mud.
This shaft will in the due course to use the "shield," which on of events, become the stairway to straight stretches can press a the underworld.
clear way through the earth of London.
Down below T'was shown hug, sloping shafts which in time will be filled with escalators-11 in all
For Autumn 1928.
F
THEY SPELL HEALTH.
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The blocks with which the child is entertaining itself, arranged as message of they are, convey a
to parents, spelling the value name of a slurple means of ensur- ing happy, roay healthiness to their little ones.
Baby's Own Tablets are specific for those minor aliments of in- fancy which, if neglected or im- properly treated, may result in the impairment of the child's constitu- Lion. They correct disordered digestion and arrested interținal function. In teething they swift- ly assuage suffering. They el- minate worms, relleve colds and croup, reduce feverishness, quiet DEATH OF INVENTOR.
the nerves, quickly bring calm, The inventor of the Stokes | health-giving sleep in a perfectly trench mortar, used in the Grent natural way. Your chemist can war. Sir F. Wilfrid Scott Stokes, supply Baby's Own Tableta, or of Millwater, Ripley, Surrey, and post free, 60 cents the vial, from 7. Park-lane, W., has died at the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60, age of 66. His invention, after- Kiangse Road, Shanghai. wards used no extensively, not favourably received at first. He said on one occasion:
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"The experts, with one accord, "turned down" the proposal I put forward. At that time there was All the work at Piccadilly-circuso Munitions Inventions Depart MASSAGE HALL and partially finished tunnels
which will become part of the is a mixture of sheer brawn and ment Acting on the courage of brain. Much has been dona re- my own convictions 1 had made a Bakerico and Piccadilly tubes.
gently, but a great deal remaine primitive gun out of a piece of to be done, and it would be exag tube and a shell which gave pro-photographic gerated optimism to expect the rising results. In fact the range opening of underground Picca-s much exceeded my expectations dilly-circus before the nutumn of that my first shot nearly took re
fure in a cottage.
"I devoted my week-ends to But when all is finished, it will
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To my mind, the most remark-hall, 15ft, below the street level, The Stokes gun was first used able tunnel of all is one which is almost from any point of the at the Battle of Loos in Septem-
circus.
ber 1915 and fired smoke shells. not shown on the map.
This is a great tube which will] This booking hall, or central Later it fired also high-explosive circle the Circus. No trains will suntion, has yet to be began; until bombs and gas and incendiary run there, but within its circum- the work further underground it shells. The gun consisted of a ference, slightly greater than that completed its contruction is im-steel barrel, supported at an angle of about 15 degrees, with a striker of an ordinary sabe, will be ga- possible. thered the water mains, the elec- When it opens, and the double at the bottom. The shell, which tric mains and cables, the tele- and triple escalators are carry-contained a cartrige was dropped phone and telegraph lines. ing their multitudes to the trains, down the barrel and the cap hit the
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It is an impressive tunnel, hold- there will be the world's most re-peint of the striker, causing the ing as it will most of the services n arkable trafic clearance station explosion and the propulsion. It essential to modern civilisation.] It has been said that there will was possible to fire 40 shotz a and causing them, in gyrate in the be underground shops, but this minute.
Sir Wilfrid was made a K.B.E. manner of the traffic many yards is hardly likely. It is more pro-
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