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AN APPOSITE SIMILE
People Who Make This Week. Interesting
By C. A. LYON
Admiral's Mad Order Cost 321 Lives: Squanderer Of £250,000 In A Year
T
HIS week in 1887-
Jubilee celebrations.
·
Naval Disaster
the Row in a coster's barrow.
a court. martial was concluded
on
Then he was drunk for five He was barred from the ring at years on end. Ascot beenuse he was wearing He excelled them all in profli- an eccentric hat like a canopy. gacy at eighteen.
Queen Victoria's This week, in 1893, jubilee year-Jubilee
Ho never sat in the House of He tried to steal a kiss from Juggins arrived in London. the loss of H.M.S. Victoria.
Some people thought he was This was one of the worst die Lords, but once, when he anticl- the King's mistress, the Duchess the best entertainment of the asters that ever happened in the pated doing so, he had a peer's of Cleveland, when she was get- robe made concealing two large ting out of her coach, and when Navy in peace time.
Two proud lines of battleships flour-bags he intended to throw she laid him out with a blow of His name was Ernest Benson..
Eastern at the Lord Chancellor.
her hand he got up and paid her He was the greenest thing that are steaming in the
an eloquent, impromptu compli- Mediterranean off Tripoli. At
He married chorus girl, ment. ever happened.
the head of one in the new £700,-
Ho disappeared from Court, took the name of Alexander Bendo, and set up a stail at
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He was a loutish young man 000 Victorin, finest ship of the daughter of a Brighton baker's of twenty-one who had just in- fleet, is the admiral, Sir George roundsman. herited a quarter of a million Tryon. from his father, a midland mer- chunt.
He lived only thirty years.
The "Cannibal" Sailors
He is a strict disciplinarian. He gives the order to perform what is known as the gridiron ON July 28, 1884, the seamen evolution.
Each column is to
Ernest came to town, and in one year, crooks, women, money; lenders, tailors, barmen, and turn inward, toward the other cardsharpers bled him dry.
until they have turned round and His spending worked out at are again parallel at very close £600 a day.
quarters.
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Ernest started with a £900 The ships are only six cables' teams of horses and six car- lengths apart, and are almost ringes. On his first visit to certain to collide. Epsom he lost £6,000 five minutes The officers explain this to the admiral, yet. he gives out the
after he arrived.
Turf crooks ran special races order. for him so that he could lose money.
They wonder if he has taken leave of his senses. The flag- lieutenant queries, but the ad- He plunged in the Sussex rac-miral reaffirms. ing fortnight and lost £30,000.
The captain appeals, but with- He put £13,000 on a horse at out avail. Sandown. It lost.
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in the famous "cannibalism"
case were picked up at sea.
The yacht Mignonette, going from Southampton to Australia, sank 1,000 miles off the Cape of Good Hope.
In an open boat were the sur- the mate, vivors the master, another man, and the cabin boy,
Nothing to drink but rain water. Nothing to eat but two 1b, tins of turnips.
They caught a turtle and made it last eight days.
Eight more days passed in starvation.
A horrible idea was born.
LANDRU
The captain and the mate fell Tower Hill to supply beauty The commander of the column on the cabin boy. The captain hints and cosmetics to women.
He was caten.
He stole a miser's wife from In one night he lost between says he does not understand, but killed him,
the admiral signals back, "Why
him, having taken the miser's £16,000 and £17,000 at cards.
Four days later they were are my orders not obeyed?" Another day he lost £15,000 on Discipline is such that the in- picked up. The story could not secret store of gold and drugged horses and £10,000 at cards. sane manoeuvre actually begins. be concealed. In due course the the miser's sister.
The husband hanged himself. The two great ships at the captain and mate came up for The Thirty thousand pounds went to
lead of cach column, H.M.S. Vic- trial in London. The judlein Rochester soon tired of the girl. a moneylender.
toria and H.M.S. Camperdown, edict was given that:-
He held up the coach of a rich woman he wanted to marry and He lost £8,000 in a day at clay turn-and head for each other.
The necessity of avoiding carried her off. He went to the did not They cannot avoid a collision. pigeon shooting. He hotice that the people he was Twice the admiral refuses the starvation does not excuse mur- Tower for it, but he married the ahooting against had put blank Victoria's captain permission to der." cartridges in his gun.
reverse the port screw iu un effort to turn in time.
The Camperdown rams Victoria at right angles.
In the midst of the stress and turmoil into which China has been flung by the developments in the North, it is worth while pausing and taking our minds Elisabeth Schumann, back to some of the high lights in Japan's policy towards her Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (Brahms). C2909—Lucia di Lamniermoor (Mad Scene) ....Lina Pagliughi, neighbour in recent years.
virtual seizure of Munchuria, Splendon le sacre faci & Spargi d'amaro. DB3049-Che gelida manina (La Boheme-Puccini). Jussi Bjorling. which, incidentally, as now, was
Celeste Aida (Verdi),
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hoth Peiping Tientsin, is still fresh in public memory. Then came Japanese
The Jubilee Juggins would penetration in Hopei and Char-stand in West End bars, his har, in which, characteristicallylumpy figure clad in the most outrageous clothes, his foolish interesting enough, the services of Chinese mouth open, a vacuous smile on
were utilised. whilst his face, and an imitation dia. he has done.
mond about the size of a walnut traitors last year an unsuccessful en-
in his shirt front, and his hair deavour was made to gain con- carefully curled. trol of yet another province, Surrounding this prince of Suiyuan. All through these mugs were his "pals."
B8574-My Lovely Celia (Monro arr, Lane Wilson)
The Lass with the delicate air (Arne). B8573-The Valley where wishes come true
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The captain and the mate were sentenced to death. But
woman.
At thirty-two, his constitution, the there was evidently sympathy worn out by debauchery, broke
The admiral knows now what
"It is all my fault," he says. He makes no attempt to save himself, but clings to the rail as the ship goes down,
Three hundred and twenty- one officers and men were drown-
and
the court-martial
Eccentric Marquis
A KINDRED spirit with the
LORD ROCHESTER.
down. He began to have talks with a bishop and repent his mis- spent life.
He ordered all his licentious writings to be burned, and his death-bed repentance was striking that sermons were made out of it.
But copies of some of his most being improper poems were hawked on the streets at a penny each immediately after he died.
Bluebeard
Emile Landru was in court this week In 1921.
By newspaper advertisements, by chance street meetings, by his strange personality, this ex- cheir-boy son of a stoker had ac- cumulated a file of 283 women
While eating his champagne ed. suppers they picked his pockets. The public outcry was enor- a well-prepared Japanese plan, They would commend some par- mous, which, even on the showing of ticularly hideous pair of trousers, found the drowned. admiral to
and he would order a dozen. blame. leading Japanuse- statesmen, Then they collected commission aims at wresting further ter-from the tailor. ritory from China. Even, Man-
remarkable Benson was that He went to Paris and Monte churia, with all its wealth and
Carlo. He spent hundreds back- extraordinary aristocrat George riches, does not suffice to satisfying hopeless boxers who were to Marquis of Ailesbury, who had the greed of Japan's militarists. be heavy-weight champions. just entered the world this week for them as they were reprieved and served six months' imprison- as the heir to many But China was too weak in. 1931 When the trustees tried to in 1863
save him one of the hangers-on magnificent titles and pedigree ment.
Repenting Sinner resist Japanese
encroach-
would
say confidentially, dating from Henry III's reign. ments on her
He took to horse racing. By LORD ROCHESTER, who died citement grew.. A tenfold mur- territorial "They're only trying to stop you
your own money, the time he was twenty-one he integrity; and, left entirely to getting
Ernest."
was £200,000 in debt, her own resources, she was com- pelled to bow to superior military strength, What is
to
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friends, carefully indexed.
Ten of them--and the son of one of them-disappeared. As the police investigated, the ex-
on July 26, 1680, was well- der.
born and talented, and, until he They found the notebook, It lasted one glorious year. He went to the races dressed went to Charles II.'s Court, with how much he got out of Then he went bankrupt and fad- as a costermonger. nd out.
He drove in modest.
each victim neatly set out, with the price of his return railway fares and their single farce.
They hundreds of small
gether into
thedicated to all THE HUMOUR OF CHILDREN, which pieced to-
happening to-day is altogether He came down to living on in line with Japan's ambitions; charity and then wrote a book all the occurrence, or, possibly, about it, stage-managing, of
"in-parents to whom is entrusted the cident," followed by demands responsibilty of making or mar which,
would ring the future of helpless child- conceded, rob China of national rights ren entrusted to their care." Over large
own
if
her
women's skulls,
ALL the stories we are told of the who had been taught to share her teeth, hands and feet.
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humour of children are not true, sweets with others.
"Do have one for your ittle girl,"] but I can vouch for the following
Despite his plea that he had A little boy had been rebuked for the child pleaded.
She took him; "I have no little girl," said the not studied his defence because rudeness to his nurse. areas of
for a walk bolding his hand. His blushing youth.
But the generous child insisted on he had not enough money to buy territory. In 1 broad-Philadelphia or Baltimore are other hand was occupled carrying a
amall parcel. Presently. small pressing a chocolate into his relue-a pair of glasses, the trial start- cast talk to the United outlets of Washington. Ignor-voice
will tant palm, saying, "You could keep ed, soldiers with fixed bayonets. piped. "Please, nurse,
it till you have a little girl." own my
holding back the crowds. States from Shanghai the othering the provisions of the Boxer you lend me the loan of
The story of the 'ten victims day, Mr. Hollington K. Tong Protocol, Japan has greatly hand, to use my hanky?"
A child who had been to nuctions A pretty little girl was found pos presented a simile which hits increased her military strength turing in front of the looking-glass, where articles of furniture, &c., were was told, from the woman of the situation off to a nicety. He both in Tientsin and in Peiping, arranging her curls in different ways. sold, heard her father reading from fifty to the poor little girl who "If you are so proud of your hair the papers an advertisement offering rode a bicycle in boy's knickers, of which centres she in imagined a position in which an both
was sentenced to I shall have it cut off," said her an estate for sale.
and Landru To be sold within Dowell's rooms, death as tears streamed down. alien force from overseas seized obviously bent on placing under mother. "You must not be vain."
Streek" he read, A long own control. The simile
engelle smile, and said, "Even if you the New England States in her
Mme. Landru divorced America, using that territory as presented by Mr. Tong is not cut off my hair, I'll have my face lowed.
The little girl istened with intense base of operations for the only apposite,, but it serves to left. That's pretty too, you know."
interest, then enquired naively, "flow during the case. Hundreds of conquest of the rest of the explain why China is in no mood
A governess had given a lesson to do they get the estates Into Dowell's French Landrus changed their names. His sons changed their country, but particularly the to bow the knee to Japan, any her pupil, and asked him to give a rooms, papa?"
A visitor had several times said ranic. States, Atlantic Coast
Mr. more than the United States, or brief account of Charles I in his own
After the case was doll "same Kive her king. Some of the people thought she would Tong pointed out that Peiping, any other nation, would do in words. He wrote: "Charles I was to the little girl of the house that which is Japan's main objective conditions similar to those pre-him good. Some of them thought day." But the promised doll fulled French newspaper put in the exact counterpart of Landru nd- him bad bad his head off, the others
On hearing that the visitor was in the present crisis, is located, valling in China to-day. There him bad. The people who thought to materialise. like Washington, about eighty is a limit beyond which Chinese were very angry-but it's all one to again expected, the little girl sur-vertisement to see what would.
prised her aunt by saying," Auntie, happen.
Replies from women poured in: miles inland from the seacoast, patience will
*I do not care for sweets, thank when Mrs. Brown comes to-day could whilst its outlet on the coast is appears
you," said the shy young man, when you not gently alope the conversation
by the hundred. girl round to dolls?" offered chocolates by
a litlo Tientsin, just as New York, ' stepped.
The child looked round with an Gription of house and lands fol-his counsel's checks.
a
go. It now
met"
to have been over-
Blayo
him
over a