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ARABIAN NIGHTS TALE
HOW THE GENTRY DISHED
THEIR OVERLORD."
The Arking (Anhui) correspondent of the N.C.D. Nors contributes the following true tale of Chinese life in his province.
A police official in a small town not far from one of the provincia; capitals got into the bad graces of the gentry by demanding too high a squeeze for allowing the annual theatrical performances. Also, under his regime opium dens had to pay a little more than usual to escape his official eye.
him. After many mutual expressions of regard and cordial greetings, one of the gentry said suavely. Perhaps | your honoure has not yet satisfied your craving, (for opium); let's have a friendly pipe." "Oh, no," said.om policeman. “I don't sanke. I used to many years ago, but Tong since have I broken of the habit.” Ob, you are fooling. We know you still smoke. Came bare a pipe.” “And new their man and ended by having the dispate started. The gentry his luggage searched. They were not mistaken a good supply of the "foreign earth," pipes and necessary implements were disclosed. Caught red-handed, he was then and there arrested and sent back to the capital to prison. Thus the gentry "melted" their temper."
THE ESCAPE.
DEATH DRAMA.
A BURMESE ADVENTURE.
“METHODS OF A MONGOOSE.
While a much respected resident of j this neighbourhood (Meiktila), whom it will be convenient to -refer to as tening home the other day for "Wiper" in this narrative, was has
breakfast, across some roughly ploughed paddy fields, writes correspondent to a Burma paper, his attention was attracted by the frenzied cries of a king-crow which appeared to him to be entangled in the branches of a low, thorny bush.
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An enormous cobra with its body coiled up and bood expanded, was slowly but surely mesmerising · the But the end of the tale is not yez: unfortunate kingcrew, and every Smoking opium is not what one few seconds flapped its wings helpless- would call a serious offence and bely and shrieked aloud. The snake was This year he announced he would cause of his rank, our hero was well so intent on 'capturing its grey that allow to theatricals, giving as his treated in prison. When the day for it paid no notice to the human reason that they would attract dis- his trial came, two guards conducted watcher, who was determined to save banded soldiery and other bad him through the street toward the the bird if he could. Just as the characters and cause trouble. This court. His way lay past the home of a ferocious cobra was on the point of 1,500 Feet above Sea Level, prohibition caused much excitement, distant relative of his, a military official seizing the kingerow in its deadly as the_theatre-had been an annual) of high rank, at whose door stood his jaws, Wiper dexterously hurled a affair, delighting the whole town wife and concubice. As he approach large clod of loose earth at the After much talk, our policeman gave ed, his wife cried out “You mustn't reptile, but before this miate could his consent for a three days" per- go to court looking like a coolie, reach its märk a mongoose suddenly formance, his squeeze having been Come in, have a bath and change appeared on the scene, and springing duly provided for...
your clothes.” After a little per at the cobra from behind, buried its All was excitement and the show stasion, the guards good-naturedly | sharp teeth in the back of the a great success. At the end of the consepted. But no sooner had he sazke's head, and after a fierce three day limit, however, those in gone in, than the door was violently struggle, killed the monster: charge said: "Kever mind the slammed in the face of the following oficial, let's have one more day. We guards. The wife was left standing can make it all right.” The next outside, angrily demanding, why day swift rumour informed the these two men were trying to get official that the fourth day's theatre into the house and denying absolutely was going full blast. Af once he that their prisoner. had escaped summoned his myrmidons and set within. In vain the guards stermed off post haste to the theatre. There and swore. A nice street row result- was a free fight between police and|ed and there was nothing for them to people, ending in a riot and the do but to report the escape of their burning of the police station. The prisoner.
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official fled to the capital There he The commotion grew apace. The arcused the gentry, who were sum-provincial judge demanded that the moned before the police commis-head of the military put the res- --sioner. After much palaves they ponsibility on his officer, from whose agreed to rebuild the station if the house the escape, had been made. oficial were cashiered”.
DISSEMBLIES EVER."
Onreturning to their city, however,
This mad was away from home and [denied all knowledge of the affair, But the civil held the military, rese ponsible and "there was much -re
the gentry decided that their revenge crimination and angry wordsi” „The had not been sufficient, and 'so pultcity gates were shut and search
The mongoose then disappeared as mysteriously and as quickly as it had come, and Wiper, the only human witness of this rural tragedy, picked up the king crow," which bad ap parently died of shock-since there were no marks of violence on the body-and took both the bird and the sake to his bungalow with the intention of stuffing them as a memento of a thrilling adventure the like of which sceptical town-dwellers- can never hope to see.
CHINESE MURDER
CHARGE.
CURIOUS RANGOON CASE:
Calcuits, April 24. A curious case
log their heads together, they wrote parties of soldiers and police seat is reported from Rangoon in which a letter to the police commissioner, out ware CL Chines) woman is charged with "In this they stated that although in. To return to our official, who at the murder- of-the-boy- she had this affair, they and the cffcial had ose escaped from the house by a bought for Rs. 460 and had made her been opponents, yet it was not a door. Instead of getting out into adopted song mp
large matter and he had made a very the country at once, where disappear. The accused belongs to the Lee good "record "rn the whole. They ing was easy, he foolishly hid in family while the deceased boy bei "therefore prayed the commiscloser to another house until nightfall, when ↑ longs to the Sen San family, which is Bend him fuck to his former Bost. I he tried to let himself down over the of a higher social position" and This letter mightily pleased the com, wall by a rope. But unfortunately culiare..
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- Bit all was not as smooth as the beard, by the soldiers patrolling the that “ he refused. Accused, com oiled surface seemed to indicate | wall, who bore him back to prison sequently, beat him day and night Da them great manaz arrival at the fandig, hewy sentence in triumph (with age hamboo stick for 10 to 15. town, the gentry turned out in full The further/ joy of his enoudain - days until he died from the injuries, - Peter Bystem throughouto; Best of "pid o force with fire "crackers" and the friends, the gentry, can be left to Deceased's body, was covered" with': Takphone #2: Zalographie Katzant sub prepp umal' accompanimenta to welcome jour imagination!
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