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SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1923.

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CHILDREN'S CORNER.

THE NEW YEAIUS PRESENT.

It was near the end of December,

just after Christmas Day, and Tuddy heard is father and mother tribing to some friends about the New Year.

"In my part of the country," his father was saying, "We always have. a dark man to let in the New Year"

("Let it in, thought Tuddy, "I wonder what that meats.")

"Oh that is all right then "laughed the New Year, Because I don't want to bave a great losi to rarry away. I thought the Old Year whe getting along very quickly."

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY. SCISSORS LOOT.

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Napoleon's ob`ut.

A eilver goldt said to have been ured larly by Napoleon ou his campaigns, formed part of the righ | booty ercured by a gang of burglare and Schloss Kampeln, the nose of the

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

THE CHINA CLIPPERS.

Middlesex County Council refused MORE OF THE FAMOUS" OUTFY to allow Sunday opening of kinemas.

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Belgium's unemployed fell from"

100.408 in August 1921 to 27,729 in August last.

Statistics collected concoming the Paris London air tre show that the

SARK."

Sir Herbert Russell writes to the

Naval and Military Record:

There are very rare occasions when the burthen of years which we all

satisfaction. I covica, that whenever deplore bringe with it a ray of genuinu

Dowager Princess Blucher, between majority of the passpgers aro Ameri; come across any reference, to tho

China tea clipper I find conrolation at the approaching shadow of the next imacteric in the fact that I am just

Berlin and Homburg.. The thieves, who are believed to have come from

Canon Bowers. Reator of Market Berlin thoroughly ransacked the Bosworth, Leicestershiro, niece 1886,old enough to recall the beautiful lower storeys of the chatmu, and and Archdracon of Loughborough, carried off a large quantity of valuable diad agus 67, plate, while the Princess, her daugh ter and servant, slept peacefully upstairs.

Plt Bog's Iracalous Escape.

A Cannock pit bey he had a miraculot's enrupe from death, He was trapped in a mina by a huga fali of roal and partially buried end it was only after 4 men had worked in lays that the lnd could he refsared, In was conscious during the whole

You seem to know a lot although you are not very old, "Teddy time bie rescuers were at work. A marked.

Al but you see," plied the New doctor at great personal risk finally Year, ak ng very wise. Wharnerwed through a long passage to where the lad was imprisoned and ad- came from.

ministered an injection. The lad was in a state of collapse, but he had so boas broken. He is now in hospital

At that moment Teddy beard his father and mother with some other people talking and loghing oat⚫ide the front door. The New Year mads "Yes," his mother went on, "At eign to him to run away and, putt- twelve o'clock in rings the front dooring his finger to his lips, with his bell, shakes hands with everyone and

goes out at the back door,"

Teddy wanted to hear me re about this and listened bars! tart, instead of going on with it they began to talk about ever so many other things Da grown-ups do, and so he let them and went up to the curry to play cost and cap..

with his new toys.

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When he came down the next mor- Bing there in the ball hung the fur

recdivering.

Eribqu-ko Shocks.

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Winder of the Daily Mail £1,000 gilder prize, M. Manette, the Fresh pirman, has been awarded the Cruss of the Legion of Honour.

Professor Rudol! Kjellén of Upsala University, Sweden, a pre-German during the war and a strong advocate at Teutonic Kultur, has died.

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fabrics in all their glory. I do not koov Captain Dowman, except by repule as a survivor of that grand race of seamen who beister the Red Ensign to the very masthead of the world. But my heart goes out to him for his recovery of the famous cld "Cutty Sark" and his de:ision to pul beback, as far as is humanly possible,

by

e semblance of her great racing

Thetast time Leaw the "Cutty Sark" as a China.clipper was in the late A stone bearing the conseemtion 'eighties: I was living at Deal at the mark of the old Abbey of Bermondsey time and nur next door neighbour S... founded in 1802, has been fouulie Cuplain Willis, who had her built, in excavation in the torou:h.

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In recognition of the number of recruita supplied by the city, colours of the Grenadier Guarde were deposited a Bristol Cathedral.

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It is reported in East Linich, Sooth Africa, that coal-bearing cans 13 miles in extent have, been dis covered in the Mount Frore dire

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"I can't hear two women spealing at once. To ar sur is bal enough said Judge Parfitt to a woman inter rupter at Clerkenwell County Court.

It a little more than 100 years! little face twinking all over, hidago that English people had a lively blind the trouble suck in the corner. interest ja earthquakes. There had Teddy clipped upstairs quietly andern several shocka in various parts was soon in bed and asleep once more, of the entry and then, Tebary and March 1700 two shóc sitten elt in London. Something like panic ensued. People fled into the Belda, in some cases going ten miles out. The clergy preached on the subject, and special prayers were said. There has been no serious casthquake shock however, since 1884, and Expertsber, 206,441 aliens (excluding trans- say that England was practical migmats) loaded in Britain 250 396 y immune from them largely breause leit, and 1402 were r fused leave to of the coal mires which honeycomb land. so much of the country.

"So it must have been true and But when-New Year's Eve come not's dream," thought Teddy and and ble mother was tuking-bidap jut then his mother came out of te in bed Teddy temu mired what leg room and when-the-saw-hit Mother are you looking at the cunt and cap she said, That in New Year's present for Teddy boy."

bad beard and said going to let in the New Year !"

"Why you funny bur," laughed his mother (for no one had noticed how hard Teddy was listening that day) Daddy and I are going out to

dinger."

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“Oh," said Teddy i

y in a disappointed voico and bu lay down and chut hie “eyes,

"He is very sleepy," whispered is

mother to his nurse.

But, began Tekly and then he rimembered the New Year with his freger on his lips and instead of what he was going to say he thanked his mother, though he was very puzzled.

Many times during that year thought he say the New Year about the house, but, when he tried to catch him as be fitted about he always fout that it was only a ray of su shino shiolug through the window.

PETER PAN.

Can you trh me what this is ?---- "When it was begun it was done. When it was half done it was done. But when it was finished it was not

But Teddy was not really sleepy, he was only thinking, and you know how much easier it sometime makes think! ing if you that your syre. And he thought, "Suppos: the New Year comes and knecks at the oor and 'nobody lets him in, how sad be will Leel. I wonder if I can manage to keep awake until it is twelve o'clock and then I can let him in. "Though den at all " he did not really quite know what ha ex; ected the New Year to look like or what he was going to do when hess him. But while he was wondering he actually did fall asleep for he is been out all day and was very tina.

Teddy woke up with a start. Guns were booming and boils wore ringing and at first he was very puzzled as to what it was allabout. Then it asked. acra is mind that it must be to welcome the New Year.

"Suppoee he is waiting and there is' no one to let Lim, is, he thought! and he fan baself out of bed and without even waiting to put on his dressing gown or slapers ran dowo- stairs an opend the front door.

A he did so an old gry bearded man rushed past him crying, Quick! quick, Let me go and rest,"

Be almost knocked over a little boy who was standing outside but be tond round to say, Forgive m little brother. I do not man to Hurt you but after you have worked for a year as 1 have dure you too will! be anxious to hurry off to your rest. And be disappenia in the durs Bebe hy, who is that asked Teddy

in a earprised voice.

"It is the Old Yest," replied the little Boy, "I wonder it I shall be as old as that when I have finished. 1 am very new DOWY.”

And inde. c be looked it for he was small even that Teddy and bie chubby hunda were dumplea like a baby's.

"But come in" cried Teddy. "You will-gold standing out there.”

halk you," answered the New Year and be steppeu aide an. hang up hie warm sur Loat and cap on á the hat stand and Iw Leg on tbiew a black Back which he was arrying lui a čorbet.

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tat is that?" asked. Teddy

"That answered the New Year, who was fling up and down the ball tooking very jelly. On that 1. just my trouble big,"

"Troutle bag. What is that " enquired Teddy.

*** Will” said the New Year, "*I ani not qu lorora w at it is myrell but I was told to bring it with me and wheu the year was over to take away in it

all the troubles that 1 could and. De

This is the answer. There wass girl called "Dan" who was being married To begin with and half way through the remocy her one was "Dunn" and when it was finished of curse it was something quite d.ferent.

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£ Romark.

In the nine months ended Septen-

After a two-days' strike the City of As the outcome of a wager made London road cleaners return d to Curing the election for the Newbury work accepting a minimum wage of division of Berkshire, the Mayor £2 198. d. They claimed £3 53. per

Wokingham received from week. of Mr. Harold Stranger, the defeated Asquith Grey Liberal candidata, a cheque for £5 for the brieft of the local orthopaedio chaic.

Indications are that the number of private bills-30 to 40 is suggested to be promoted in Parliament in the coming cession will create a record in minntence.

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The wager arose in this way saya the London Evening News. During the cheion campaign Mr. Stranger promised to give £5 to a local charity Post Office engineers have complet- if anyone could prove that the pasted the removal, rendered nece eary by member, Big-General Howard Coast ero-ies, of the English end of Clifton Brown, bad ever spoken in the Bachy. Head-Dieppe cible to the house.

A man thereupon rose and aid that. the general bad once stated in the House:

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Eastbourne. E

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We sat upon the verandah, overlook. ing the Downs, with telescopes upon our knees, for he knew that his ship had left the London docks two tides, previously, and must soon come tow- ing around the North Foreland. Abilst we waited held me the 8 ory of how he came to have her built "to Scatt and bent ill flyers afloat"

in 1868 ipbuilding was cheap in Linton, of Dumbartoo, launched her thuse days. Their estimate was for £22.000. "Ifered them £500 extin if they would throw in teak decks, for Captain Willis, and they did so." A which I have a weakness," asid

PASSING IN SUNSHINE.

When at last the wonderful little

ship have in sight, coming through the Gulls antern of on: of Walking' to make sail. I forget how to wind paddle tugs, she was only beginning was; it was a fine enmmer afternoon, and there was probably very little of

it. By the time she was abreast of

the South Sand Head lightship she was

a smother of white wings, rolling like eun shot coold over the water, with the tug ecarrying bomewards again.” And as sho paas di from view begond the lowering spur of the South Fore land, Captain Willis closed bia telescopa with a click, and begin to bum the refrain of the old shanty, "Good bye, fars ye well."-

Curiously enough, it was in this came tract of waters that I boarded theThern.opylao." in 1889 on her last the role of a Chibi ten clipper. She voyage in the full kilter-but not in. bad anchored is the Dovins, and I General Carrasco, tender of the went off to lier in one of the Dest rebel army on the west coast of galley punta. I still recollect the Mexico, has been killed, with 7 of his pride with whist her second was followera, in a tight with Federal told me that the main truck was 212 troops at Guamu hilito, Durango.

When Walter Shepherd, 32, was committed for trial at Old street on a ebarge of burglary, it was stated that the dog at a bouss which he was alleged to have entered. was found with its tail cut cli.

feet from the waterline. The main track of a fourmasted ship of from three to four times the borthea of the "Thermopylae" would not soar to within 30 fat of this height.

It's stuffy in bore: please open the windows"

General Brown was re-elected. Unbreakable Glass.

Aowding to cent reports, says on American joural, à Bohemian inven- tor after thirteen years of research, has exceeded in producing unbreak able glass, At a recent demonstration, it is said, plutea and vessels of the material remained whole when thrown to the ground from a height of twelve fret. Ment was roasted on a thin of 1br. 59min. in the Daily Mail bably only as the difference between

of glasa for a bnroe er. A thin klass

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I mention this because urcat little green sided Aberdeen clipper was the most redoubtable rival to the "Cutty. Sark" Of the two I am inclined to Having made. improvemente in bis think that George Thompson's ship machine with which he made a plilo was the prettier. But it was pro

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glass plate ovos a open fire at a Competition at Itford Hill, Bussex,, Hebe sad her reflection in the mirror. particular shig. Such vessels as the blematical which ship was gring the temperature of 750 F. Tin was melted Mr. Rayahan bae entered for the In their greatest ocean race tte "Cutty "Cutty Sark" and "Thermopylao" (it fastor; but, anyway; it was a pretty in a glass pot, end nails were driven French gliding competition in Algiers Bark" and "Thermopylae" left Shang- Reems so natural to bracket them) did race, althong not in the best of hai within an hour or so of one another, not merely do it" once and then weather for it, heing far too equally. in a piece of hard wood, using a pleen in Janusiy

Laded with tea for London. The log "claim the cock": they were always We hd frequently to stand by the Their records are in royal balliards and pull down the tumbler was I eated in a stove to uch Mrs. Stephen Williamson, mother of records show that she "Cutty Sark" duing it. a temperature tha wood pla al in it Lord Fortes (formerly, Sir Archibald vintained the lead for a long while. voyagis, not in twenty four hours higher stayssils, which we set again was charred to nebes The glass not Williamson), has died at Copley The atto had rudder trouble which spurts. Take the first performance of directly the squall would p.as, "Wo only stood the heat but even re- Thornton Haugh, Cheshire nced 82. rendered her unmanageable, and the Thermopylae." She made the were going a good 10 kncts at times, mained unbroken when plunged into She was a daughter of Dr. Guthrie, necessitated heaving to for six days passage from the Thames to Melbourne with the fee 1ail under, but when the cold water white still in au overheated the, Scottish divine who founded the whilst the damage was wade gord. in sixty day-a record which has squalle would case ap, slowed down to The "Thermopylae" arrived in the never been beaten by the immenre 12 kunts; we were close-bauled to the condition. The carborundum toes Rogged School in Edinburgh.

Downs six days before her rival, no four masted wool clippers of later wind, two points off our course so not

at our best. used for cutting ordinary laes Ceanot

Stat'onianster, for 5 years at that but for the mishap to the "Cutty years.

"However in the afternoon we had RACING THE "CUTTY BARK.”.. be used on the unbreakable glass, even a diamond sometimes faits to cut Latbert, Stirlingshire, the Scottish, Bark" it would have been & neck-to-

Captain W. H Angel-an old Ply closed up to the "Cutty Sark" within railway junction, and well known to nec race. To such porfiction had it, due to its extreme toughness.

Queen Victoria and King Edward, the art of the builder, the etevedore, mouth master mariner, by the way-apraking distance; the captain said he Local Nicknamca.

who used to talk with him when their and the raman been brought in ella a good story in his reminiscenos was ging to call at St. Helens, and. Most big cities and towns have trains to and frora Belmoral stopped those zanith days of tucks and shorts of an impromptu match with the would report that the ''Sheila"

morningslis certain localities which have had there, Mr. Willians Baillie has died at that superiority was measured in "Cutty Sail. He commanded ile was coming along after him! nicknames bestowed upon them-Newburgh, Fifeshiro, aged 93. linura over a voyaga of ten thousand. Clyde built clipper "Sheils "leonchad Toen x

in 1887. She was a vesel of 1,600 tons still in sight, bat six miles aetern miles. names that are anything bat officia).

and 258 feet long. The "Cutty Sack" is But anyhow ehs. was the nearest Not in quaily these bave their

Nothing further has been heard origio among the tradespeople, or from the Rev. T. G. Gwilym Young. I believe the Thermopylae" was the 901 tons and 212-feet long. The competitor to tying as up whad yet artistante who serve the the minister of Salem Welsh Congre faster ship on a towlize, and that "Shrila" be tells us, was designed-on come across, I should have liked to runde," and wortly they subtly suggational Church, Pengam, Glamorgan the b et point of sailing of the "Cutty the composite lines and models of such do a bit of hard running with her in gest dissatisfaction with the dwellers who disappeared, and sent a letter Sark" was with her braces slightly celebrated clippers as the "Sie ompany. in the areas to which they are applied, bearing a London postmark to his checked. The greatest recorded fent Laccelot Thermopylae, Taeping, observes the Morning Font. There is, landlady stating he was undergoing

What an exbilarating pialare emergra from this simple little car- for example, "Sloper's Island" in mental treatment in London.

i. 24 houre' ran chimd, ap. After recording various trials of rative; the two lovely halls finging several London subuaba.

for the spred during the maiden voyage of glittering bulos from their cutwatere Get this done before the end of propriately enough, possesses one, so ders Raynes Park. The origin is not far to seek the war," was the comment which the clipper ship "Lightning," which the Shila," Coptain Angel writes: they urged through the squall- Te pse "Rabbit Warrens" Bra quite late Lord Fisher scribbled across the logged 432 miles for a day's work. But now came along a competitor whitened billows under ther numerous, while a certain poor quar specification of an invention for do The greatest speed through the water in the "Catty Bark" Captain Wallace time old men looking on with ter of Edmonton is known as "Don-troting enemy submarines concerning ever logged in any seiling ship is that from Whampoa (Ctias), bound for hawk-like vigilance for any advantage viots' Island." Hoxton has which the inventor, Mr. C. Teesdale given for the "James Baiuta," on Jute New York with general cargo, mostly and the crons springing to bulliards. "Thieves' Kitchen" and a "Coiners Buckell, gave cvideos before the 18, 1956. The entry ran: "830 p.m. ta, -8he first appeared at daybreak, and sheets. Bred with excitement and Cornar." In the East End le a "Fea Royal Commission on Awards to Ia all starboard stud sails, ship go about five miles away on our port that all but dead-sentiment, pride of fan Barracks," the residents being a Inventors.

ing 21-knots with main krenil anz.bw sbead of us, with the same ship. poor class of Irish, while in the West

their

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of the Willis ship was reeling of 363 John R. Worcester, Cutty Sark, Deko kacte in 14 hours. The record for a of Abercorn, Ailsa and Jura,"

"DEPARTED. GLORIES.

The Red Jacket," in 1863 van 417 tail on that we bäd—ikat nas-The-Sheila was a noble clipper, and End is an dies named "The Pot Notice of intended marriage has nautical miles in a da, and the nothing higher than the three top made some famous jassages Bat'en Cargo ox BR. Caponhagon" not Woolwich has

cries"; why nobody seems to know. bern entered at the register cffice, Sovereign of the Bass," on March 18, gallintrails, as it had been very equal now remember her. The Cutty Sark

"Dusthold," Princes-row, Buckingham Palace 1853, logged 411 Enote for the 24ly in the night. We at the ropala, and thank hraven-and Captain Dowman. altarod by January 8 will be subject to

most of the stayealle, and were siteris doning home a ain. Long sal rent. Damaurd goods will be examined. Little Italy," a stone's-thow off road, 8. W., between Prince Carlos de hours.

But just as one bright day does not her: she did the same and as we pracefully may she live in the leg 0,50 m on the data: Holborn, is aptly named, its pupu Rohan an Austrian Prince, aged 27, Cngo by the City of Dunkirklation being mostly. Italian organ only son of Prince and Princess make acmmer, so at abormal exbibit increased sail, she followed, rail for thening sadows I hor bygone ocea not delivered. by Jan. Bil be subfret gidders and iotaream unders; but Joseph de Rohan, and Miss Dikusha ion of antling under every con sail, until we both had all plala contas glory. Probably I feel an added allection for her from the fact that No I don't think so, "Teddyrore Damer solli koos Little Hussia," in Norbiton, Wrench, of 109 Knightsbridge, W, ceivable combination of favouring on the shilp

sheet Blis memed to nol ine du why Tuesday or Fridayattuongh buasting many allens, the only daughter of the late Major circumstances must n't be fakeh us Į tid? In last I am not quite sur

tion y and zom within the contains very few Branpor

(babyblishing the supremacy of any long time, and Wao

youave many, troubire at you- -hour he asked pálit ly,

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