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OBITUARY.
THURSDAY,
MAY 12, 1927.
BYZANTINE FINDS.
A WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN
MAL EW
TRAVELLERS BY PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
DENDROLOGIST.
RELICS OF DAYS OF CONSTANTINE.
Professor C. S. Sargent, who The British expedition, which is The round world liner President Garfield of the Dollar Line (Cap-had a world-wide reputation as a making an effort to reconstruct the tain Lowry), arrived on Tuesday dendrologist, died at his home at glorious past of the Byzantine Brookilne, near Boston, Massachu-Empire, on the site of the ancient with 17 disembarking passengers setts, not long before his 86th Hippodrome, near the famous and 48 for porty beyond, 250 bags
birthday. mail, 1,500 tons cargo for Hong- kong and 2,520 tons freight in transit.
mosque of Sancta Sophia, in Stam- Charles Sprague Sargent was boul, have already (says a Central descended from William Sargoal, News message from Constantino- Among those disembarking here who emigrated to America from ple) discovered the mummy of u were Captain S. C. Dildine, U. S. Cloucester in the 17th century. Byzantine chariot driver or jockey, Army, stopping over at Hongkong He was born at Boston on April case, containing gold and pre- en route to Manila from Shanghal. 24, 1841, and graduated at Har- clous jewels, said to be the tren Mr. Chester A. Gile, Assistant-vard in 1862. He immediately sure of the greatest of Byzantina as an Emperors, the Emperor Constan- Secretary of the Miller: Rubber joined the Federal Army
alde-de-camp on the headquarters tinc, a small pyramid like those in Export Co.;
staff of the Department of the Egypt, a statue of Venus, and Gulf with the rank of second lien-other very important relics. The tenant, and remained in the aor-finds have caused a sensation vice till Aagust, 1865, when he among scientists in the city. was mustered out with the rank of brevet major. After travelling in Europe for three years he return- ed to America and took up the study of botany, devoting himself murator forth America and
Mr. D. H. Hazell, Export Mana ger of the Amalgamated Photo Mig. Co., returning from North China;
Mr. Robert Stoops of the Ham- mon Advertising Co., New York, en route to Singapore:
Through passengers, many of whom were bound for Europe, numbered 13, among whom were
Mr. William Jefferson, son of the famous actor Joseph Jefferson, on tour around the world:
Dr. W. T. Ni, late Councillor of Geroa; Mr. and Mrs. George Sax, connected with the administration of the Salt Tax at Peking, return into Marseilles:""
shrubs of
The excavations have heen in
progress for over a week in the Stamboul 'district of Sultan
situated, under the direction of
Ahmed, where the Hippodrome is
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Mr. Casson, Professor of Archeo-ZEJAB
to.
TSANG FOOK PIANO CO, the Peking Cabinet, travelling to Boston, which forms part of the Byzantium by the Emperor Con-
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Mr. Samuel Roberts, Vice Preal- dent of the De Hoven Steel Mills, New York; ...
Captain Edward Dignowity, U. S. Army, returning to Manila;
Licut. Chandler, U. S. Army, re- turning to Manila from Kobe;
Mr. R. R. Marsh, Export Mana ger of the Parafine Products Co. San Francisco on a business trip through the Orient;
drome.
Acrona,
Common place. 5 Boy.
8 Obligations. 13 In a new form.
16 Stains.
6 One the lee side.
18 Part of the mouth.
19 Liberated.
20
England, (abbr.)
21
Skill.
23
Evening.
25
Great. Porsonal gossip. Point
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20
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PREM
1AM
¡11 Grief
AND JUNE 12 Chair.
t of the compass.
31 Porecives, 33 Mud. 36 Floating ice.
Bird.
17 Wisc..
19 Respect.
22 Mass of rocks.
24 Curtain.
27 Employ
20 Fasten with thread.
60 Demand as duo.
32 Seperate.
$3 Clergyman's dwelling."
34 Grallatorial bird.
135 Not many.
36. Fragment..
39 Deeny.
40 Fresh.
44 Watering place.
45 Melody,
16 Gaelic
47 Pig's home.
61 Fine particles of stone.
vallant and the most renowned 57 Wildness following domestication:49 Pertaining to oil, chariot conductor of the Hippo
For the glory of His 1 Organ of hearing. Majesty the King and the Hippe #2 Contains metal. drome, and his remembrance are 13 Fewers of the mind. perpetuated in his spot."
45 Rigld. 47 Pack. Underneath the Greek inscrip- 48 Emit. tion was discovered a bas relief Formerly.
53 Inclined. 54 Declares. representing the here with his horse.
67 Period.
logy at Oxford University, and In 1872 he became director of the while digging operations were in the serpent instituted Arnold progress between then newly Arboretum at Jamaica Plain, near column-originally brought botanical equipment of his old stantine in 329 A.D. from Delphi university. To the development (Greece) and the second obelisk, 14 Intrigue. of this institution he gave up the the pickaxe of a labourer struck rest of his life, his whole energy, something hard in the earth. and not a little of his wealth, with
Death in Hour of Victory. the result that it became as famous as it is unique. It differs
Further excavations brought to from botanic gardens in general, in that it is concerned solely with light the small pyramid at the trees and shrubs hardy enough base of which was a Greek Inscrip. to withstand the rigours of the tion. Mr. Casson was able to de Eastern North American winters, cipher the words as follows:- which freeze the ground to a "Here, died Justinius, the most depth of many feet. To enrich its elections and in pursuit of his studies, Sargent travelled over the Mr. Henry U. Umstad, many North American continent O years resident of the Philippines, systematically that he had seen all returning for McLeod and Com-ht a few of the native tresa in pany, Manila;
their habitats. In 1879 he began a complete survey, which took five years, of the forest areas of the United States, and his report led in the establishment of the Bureau Mr. W. G.-Hall, Vice President of Eprestry and to the Act setting,
To the assembled journalists 69 Allow. as per- of the Honolulu Iron Works, tra- aside 19,000,000 Acres
Mr. Casson stated that a recent 61 Cave, velling from Honolulu to Manila;petual forest reserves.
German publication which treats 62 Knot.
64 Before time. Mesars. Cercon, Vierro, Mas-
Sarkent's magnum opus. "The of the Byzantine epoch contains an
Grain. 66 samini, and Del Rocca, members Siler of North America" publish- important fact which perhaps is AS Hang down. of the Italian Military Flyinged between 1891 and 1902, is in co-relation with this discovery 70 Plant. Corps, en route from, Kobe to quarto volumes, and is splen-One day the games and races were 71 Surrender. Naples;
didly illustrated. in 1892 he in- organised in honour of the Em-72 Tone of voice. vestigated the trees of Japan, and peror Justinius. The jockey came 73 Fence. published his "Forest Flora of first in the race, and at the moment 74 Friend. Japan" two years later, and he he was about to be honcured with 75 Perspiration. was the author of various ather the crown of victory from the works 011 trees and forests. hands of the Emperor he fell from During the last 20 years he had his horse and was seriously been largely concerned in the injured. botanical exploration of Western China and the introduction to cultivation of hardy plants from that country, and the last journeys to China of Mr. E. H. Wilson, the explorer and for many years past Assistant Director of the, Arnold Arboretum, were made under Sar- gent's direction and inspiration.
Mr. and Mrs. Russel Jones of the General Motors Company, | Supervisor of the Far Eastern
Territory;
BRITAIN'S POLICY.
PRESS APPROVAL.
on
in
The Emperor ordered his im- mediate removal to the Royal
his Palace. where he succumbed to his
perpetuate injuries. To memory, he was buried in the Hip- podrome, and a tomb similar to those in Egypt was erected.
A Venus Statue.
London, May 11. The Financial Times comment- ing on Sir Austen Chamberlain's statement
China in the House of Commona, de. clares it 18 justifiable. To
Austen road into Sir
Cham- berlain's review of recent events, an attitude of confidence that the
Sargent edited "Plantae- tide has turned. Chink is to be wilsonianae," published in l The pyramid was examined, and. congratulated on the fact that Mr. 1913, an enumeration of on one side a small metal door Eugene Chen does not retain a all the woody plante was discovered. It was opened, shred of power or authority, and
Wilson had found in Western and inside was found a sarcopha- MASSAGE HALL it may now be hoped that an era
of useful co-operation will be in- China during the two expeditions Eus containing the mummified hody he made for Harvard University. of Justintus. Nearby, presumably Sargent's judgments of plants in accordance with the religious were sound, and as the directors rites of the period, was a barrel of the botanic gardens of this of wine and pieces of Byzantine country and his friends here have gold, reason to know, his generosity was unbounced.
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augurated wherein the British re- presentative should be cast for a leading part. The worst that can be said of the present situation, is that the chances of willing co- operation are improved. A con- tinuance of patience and tact will repay our efforts and enhance
Not the least of his services to
NATIONALIST POLICY. our prestige in the long run, botanical science was his founding
A NEW OUTLINE BY C. C. WU.
Shanghai, May 11,
C. C. Wa, the new Foreign Minister of the Nationalist Gov- ernment, in Nanking) attended the Central Political Council yes- terday and announced that the future foreign policy of the Na- tionalist Government would be: 1. No radical
Reuter.
The mummy was that of a young and vigorous, man with Patrican features struck down in early life.
in 1888 of Garden and Forest, an An electrie installation was sub-3 excellent weekly journal which sequently erected on the inside of he edited until 1897. He was the tomb, and further search FRENCH COMMUNISTS. the Preservation of the Adiron to light.. and that was a statue of chairman of the Commission for brought another sensational find
TWO MEN AND A WOMAN SENTENCED.
Paris, May 11.
M. Dorict the Communist
de-
dack Forests in 1885, and of that Venus, the goddess of love, and appointed by the National beauty, a sculptured stone maps- Academy of Sciences to determine ter, a fish made in stone, and a a policy of management for the stone figure resembling a dragon. national forests in 1896-7.
A case containing gold and precious jewels weighing over a ton was opened in the presence of
activities.puty who has been travelling in months and fines of 2,000 francs, Halil Bey, the Director of the Tur- 2. When time is opportune the abe-China and Indo-China has heen and Suzanne Giraud to ten months.kish Museum. It is supposed that tton of unequal treaties will be sentenced to thirteen months' im- The authorities have asked the this constitutes a part of the tren taken up with the foreign Powers. Prisonment for subversive agita-suspension of parliamentary im sure of the great Emperor Con- munity in the case of the Com-stantine. The work is being con- 3. Attack on foreign imperialists tion.
munist deputies, M. Marty, M. Cla- tinued, and further sensational does not mean anti-foreignism,
discoveries are expected. manus and M. Duclos.-Reuter. Wuh Kiu Yat Po.
The notorious Communists, M. Cashin and M. Monmousseau, to slx
TRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
A Perfect Shot
1 Founded...
2 Forthwith.
Down.
3 Cry of a horse,
4 Pointed instrument.
5 Seasoning:
6 African sorcery.
7 Part of the neck.
9 Organ of hearing. 10. Cry of a sheep,
62 In the mouth.
163 Passed.
56 Purloined.
50 Depository.
58 Unusual.
60 Journey.
61 Valley.
63 Greek lotter.
36 Limb.
167 Affirmative.
Uncultivated.
59
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