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THURSDAY MAY 8, .99

SIR J. BARRIE.

CHARMING ADDRESS TO

GIRLS

HOW HE LOST HIS SMILE.

AIR LINER IN SEA.

TO BE SUNK. AS AN

EXPERIMENT.

An interesting experiment is shortly to be made by the Air Ministry to determine what would Sir James M. Barrie' delivered a charming address to the-girls-at-happen if one of the big passenger the prize-giving of the Wallasey liners came down into the soa. (Cheshire) High School, where his Napier de Havillands of the "18" For this purpose one of the older niece, Miss L K Barrie, is head-type is now being put in firing mistress-

"After recalling that when his condition. The machine carries niece was only a year old he intro and is similar in structure to the sight passencers in a big, saloon, duced her to

a great man, Sir present machines running on the James said:

Berlin' and Cologne lines.

The scene was a pleasant Scot- tish towa and the great' man was passing at the end of our road. I whinned her up in my arms and ran with her to the gate in order that he might be able to, say in after years that she had once seen Thomas Carlyle. Thoped he would bless her, and perhaps he did, but

it did not sound like that.

In my school days had" often seen him in his great shovel hat and cloak and with his thunderous staff, and scores of times I had doffed what to him, but, alas 1 with a response.

Someone, to bots of ving once been spoken to by Carlyle, once asked him on“ the road how far it was to Lockerbie, but he just pointed with his staff to a milestone and stalked

Tattended a mixed school in the

south of Scotland, and on an un- fortunate day for me the girls took a pichiscite about which boy had

The machine will be taken to an Air Ministry station, probably Martlesham, which is about ten miles from Felixstowe. A weight equivalent to eight passer gers and their luggage will be put in the

cabin.

Flown by one of the Air Mini- stry's test pilots, the machine will be put down" in the sea. The behaviour of the machine as it alights, how it floats, and for how long, and the effect of rough sea will be carefully noted.

Up to now only one British com- Channel, and that was four years mercial machine has fallen in the

ago.

alighted quite gently, and floated The machine on that occasion undamaged for a long time. She was not possible to tow her in. had to be sunk in the end, as it

the icest smile. I won-with the DEATH FOR A JOKE, result that I lost my smile. I suppose it is still jigging about somewhere in the world, but it has

come back to

never

e. A

tragedy in a nutshell.

The moral, the old one-trustful little boys, beware of girls.),

FARM HAND KILLS ́A CRITIC

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A righ farmer. M. Besson, living at Voons, in the canton of Neuchâtel, was inspecting some cattle which were for sale at a neighbouring fari

Entering a rowshed where a farm hand was milking a cow. M. Besson asked how much milk it gave.. Sixteen quarts a day" replied the man.

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"Sixteen quarts a week,” laugh- nd M. Besson, whereupon the man few into a blind rage and struck

THE CHINA MAIL.

BRIGANDAGE AS TRADE.

ASSESSING THE RANSOMS

OF "TRAVELLERS.

THE COMIC SIDE.

UNGRACIOUS AND GENER-

OUS LAUGHTER.·

Chamber's Journal publishes an

Laughter is provoked by many causes it is sometimes malicious, account of the more famous cases

sometimes good humoured. of bandits having captured English, J. C. Grogory describes the differ travellers and held them to ransom,unt qualities in his new book The

The dramatic case that was Nature of Laughton armed bandits foroibly seizing amused varieties of laughter, he recently reported from China, of The ungracious, delighted" and peaceful travellers and holding_writes, do not always, or even of them to ransom, has a number of ally occur simple and namixed. writer. As a general rule, the. parallels in the past, says the Amusement miny mingle with scom scenes of these daring exploits social delight may be tinged with or contempt with amnement, and have been the remoter portions of triumph. Europe; but Asia Minor, North Africa, and certain of the South American Republics have also earned an unenviable notoriety in this respect.

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Thote are many laughters: laughters of triumph, of soorn and contempt, of superiority, of self. congratulation. of play, of greeting und of amusement, which includes pure comic perception of the ludic. rous and humour with sympathy.

MEANING OF,"we,"

Turkey has a very unsavoury reputation for such outrages, which appear to there almost with impunity. At spirit has affected ughter." he be committed "The growth of the sympathetic any rate, it is very seldom that any one is brought to book. In 1896 physien infirmity ns recognised NYH "The disappearance of an instance occurred near Smyrna, object of mirth intimates a wide when an English officer, Brigadier-spread and derer planting of the General Marriott. by brigands, who demanded

waylaid spirit of sympathy.. Man has be

come more humanised. asked." for releasing him. £15,000, and no questions By good luck, the captive managed to the authorities. make his predicament known to promptly, and, throwing a strong The latter acted cordon of troops round the band, compelled the whole surrender. But, as a preliminary, the military had to guarantee that the chief should not be arrested.

NO EARS.

gang to

When a sufficiently large man- som is put up, the victims of such outrages, are as a rule, given their liberty at once; and even when the cash transaction is pot completed, the. usua! custom among

the bandit fraternity is to set them free after an in- terval of suspense. At any rate, the old-time practice of forwarding a couple, ears, or a few fingers, to their anxious relatives (just to show that business is meant) seems to have been dropped.

The most daring case on record, one which (although now nearly fifty-four years old) is still remem-

In those tendor days I used. when in funds, to devour secretly penny dreadfuls, containing ex- clusively sanguinary matter.. They were largely tales about heroic highwaymen and piracy on the high seas, but what most enunnur ed me were the Stories of goings on at English boarding schools.

Those were the schools for me. The masters were sneaks and the hows blew them up with gun-him on the head with a farm imple-bered among the blackest annals powder. My mind became so set on explusions that when Sassenach sent.. me а box. containing mysterious red and blue tubes, I placed them one by one near the fire and darted back in confidence that they would go off. I dare say I went when I discovered that they were only coloured chalks

ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS,

ment, killing hini instantly.

of bandit crime, occurred in Greece..

were making ચ

The word wit has fallen upon. thieves, who strinned it and forced Se te masquerades in, borrowed meant || |ings" or, more properly" perhaps, it has suffered in meaning and reputa tion through the company it has keen compelled to keep

"One source of its misfortunes las been a confusion between the witti, cism and the joke. Wit has been mistakenly regarded ha part of laughter and the word is now used. in

common speech ory india. morons or funny. criminately, to denote anything

as tradition still persists, is a double | "Wit, as formerly conceived and

achievement of insight and expres

and vividly, as a house roveret sion. It illuminates a truth sudden

darkness is remanded by the streen of a warchlicht."

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"ON THEIR MERITS." ·

•What is perhans the latest authenticated' instance of" an Englishman being held to 5071 occurred' in Mexico a couple of years ago. The victim was a demobilised officer, Major Tokn BANDIT'S THREAT.

stone, who was seized by local members of the parents made mightier sacrifices atrocions crime rans as follows: very violent and unless he chose Briefly, the grim story of this bandit industry, and nmmised a far-reaching for this great end. Everybody is Towards the end of April, 1870, to may £5,000 for his freedom. after the Something. Will the old Lord and Lady Muncaster with The gallant major, however, was walls that provide it hold on? Let wlion were the Count de Boy-not afraid of a pack of Mexican us hope so, but life is becoming and three other gentlemen, accom desperadoes, and refused to pay more strenuous. Somebody some panied by a retinue of servants In Chatterbox I read an article on where, somehow, will some day and couriers and a military escort, equivalent in the currency of that un either a brass farthing or its the dire" future in store for those have to submit a piece of that who read penny dreadfuls. I tried Something for scientific examina-expedition in the country round that they would get nothing out of sight-seeing art of the world. When they saw to stand un to it, but when blacktion.

Athens. The tour being com.him that resembled castr. pleted, they were on their way hrirands restored him to liberty, hack one afternoon, when they it would be quite useless. No gang of brigands near Marathon. were suddenly held un" by a one could move them. When theThe escort (probably) in league last trump sounds and all the other buildings fall they will fast as their legs could carry them, with the attackers ran away as common thing for distinguished not even have noticed the dis and, the unfortunate travellers. generals to revisit their old schools turbance.. All I am arguing for is 'thus left in the lurch, were made nearly always famous public that if they are so splendid, prisoners. Their fate was soon schools--and to say, amid general, a way should be found for the settled, for the chief of the rejoicings, that they had always boys outside, and that in the mean- sat at the bottom of the class time slabs of the Something should fans calmly announced that he Well, if I was like that at least I be procured for other schools.ould cut their throats unless they shall never boast about it. Even Until you acquire the Something produced a sum of £25,000.

night fell I stole off to a distant field my pockets stuffed with back numbers, 1 shovel con- cealed up my little waistcoat, and "deep in the bowels of the earth I

buried the evidence of my guilt.

I noticed after the war

was a

the generals might have been still more wonderful in the way if they had worked at school.

Don't think I am saying a word against thos great Institutions,

Even if I wanted to~~and I do not

CHANGED WOMEN,"·

Confronted with this alternative,

· rescue.

you must get along with the Some the party decided that the best thing Else you already have.

thing to do would be for one of Another hardy moral-not to

To a few of you girls the glories to raise the money.

their number to return to Athens work is to miss the best of the fun. of Oxford and Cambridge lie discussion, the bandit chief allow After some Your great. English public ahead, an enchanted land; to theed Lord and Lady Muncaster to schools-I never feel myself a many, practical advantages. You foreigner in England except when, can go from here, as numbers do 50, while he carried off the others trying to understand them. Thave yearly, quipped, or nearly so, to When the Greek Government.heard into the interior. as hostages. great affection for one at least of live intelligently by your own what had happened, they despatch- them, but they will bewilder me work, to make a fair wage ined troops to effect a to the end. I am like a dog look-interesting callings, and to be Furious at what they regarded as ing up wistfully at its owner chosen for your jobs in, preference wondering what that noble face to men because you have proved means, or if it does have a mean- | that you can do them better. ing.

་་ There must be hundreds of girls To look at, these schools are to-day doing important secretarial and stera chase, carried out among the fairest things in Eng-work-for instance, in the cities land. They draw from their sods for the one of a few years ago devotion that is deeper, more A good few others are already lasting, than almost any other love, flying higher than it used to be and I well know that among their thought any girl could perch. masters are men than whom there are no finer in this country. These schools must be great, and yet I

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murdered all their prisoners and "treachery," the gang then

fled to the momtains. After a

with relentless vigour, they were in. irons, and hanged as a warning. arrested, carried back to Athens

BEATEN WITH HAMMERS, Brigands appear to have flourish-

It ought soon to make a change ed in Italy from time immemorial.

in the very appearance of young women in this country-to give

do not quite see how it comes about them a more serene look.

Most of them gravitated towards the southern portions of the country, where they still seem to

A MYSTERIOUS SOMETHING. I remember being in Paris on have a good many lineal descend-t

their way a few good scholars, and not so few eminent in the games that we love in this land and are right in loving; but the other four fifths or so, what do they get from "their famous schools? The generals and other distinguished old boys, answer that question triumphantly at the school festivities, but leave the universal cry-nothing boast

view to

Of course they send yearly on the night of the armistice, and I aats in hotel-keepers and cab-

think the most wonderful sight I drivers. Yet, with have ever seen in this world, was stamping them out, the authorities the changed appearance of the have always subjected them to very women as they realised that, the stern punishment. Thus, one of black years had come to an end. their number was sentenced to No Cinderella ever looked more be beaten to death with bammers different after she was dressed by at Naples; and the "famous" Fra "It's over," was Diavolo (whom his weak-minded her god-mother.

compatriots regarded as a "hero" of the first water, and, round; whose nefarious career Aubert wrote an operal perish on the

the outsider still benighted.

It is not scholarship-poohl It

ful,just shining thankfulness...

A MOTTO.

is not even physical prowess. It Such Schools as yours are a burst

Well, that is going too far, but you can at least say, "It has begun to be over." It will largely depond

is not an awakened soul, nor any Ing of light through the gloom of scaffold. The biggest ruffian of Ciro exclusive manliness, nor even a the past. Never again, will it be all, however, was Don' superior way of wearing a waist- impossible for a girl, poor or rich, Anicchiarico, an ex-priest. The coat. They describe it briefly and to adorn herself in the fair gar blackguard confessed to having unanswerably as a something, and meats of learning. "It's over, the murdered dozens of people. When perhaps wisely leave it at that, dark days are over," you can re brother priest expostulated with him just before he went to the putting in our place for ever, at last. and satisfying the youth still at

gallows, he told him they were school who may have been worry

both of the same profession.” ing a little on the subject.

The islands of Sicily and Corsica This mysterious Something is gos-mith-20-säfest You just an come enrolled a "member of that school and gradually you-acquire the Something. So far as I can understand, it comes out of the historic old walls and penetrates through your clothes.

Never, it is said, were there ao many applications as now to get sons into these houses, never have

on you and myrlads like you-the have furnished several examples agonien of to-morrow when of bandit activity during recent

times; and travellers are

it is to be completely over.

I should like to give you a mettó, by police and consular officials not something to strive for. I should to wander far from the towns like to see it blazoned over the Some years agoun English clergy- entrance to your school, the words, man and a friend fell in with a "That Every Child born into the gang of brigands near Taormion, British Empire should get an and were relieved of their puraca Equal Chance." That will need and there was another case a

couple of summers ago.. some doing... |; v

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**ADE DICKENS CRY.

MAS KATE D. WIGGINIS RECOLLECTIONS.

A delightful account of a' train journey acquintanceship with Dick- ans is given by Miss Rate Douglas Wiggin, the American author of many books that children love, in a | volume of feminiscences, "My Gar

den of Memory." which has just been inblished (Hodder and Stough, to 158.). She makes as think of hot as the child, who made Dickone

Cry.

ESTABLISHED 1841.

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and planted herself in the seat which Dickens's friend » Osgood find just left.

It was a sore point with Kate that she had not been faken to hear Dickens' read in her home town.

TEARS IN HIS KYES.

"Did von want to go to my read- ng very much, child?" he asked her. "Yes, I did" shin told him. more "tham tongue can fell! I know how I feel when I read one of the hooks, but I wanted to hear howe

Bounded."

looked up a second later, when I was sure that the tears in my cvca)

Wiggin was eight years old, and were in precisely the same state of were not going to fall, and to my

during the lecare-tour which the moisture. That was to be a never. The journey occurred when Miss astonishment sly that Dickens's eyes

great novelist undertook in the Unit-in-be-forgotten moment, although I

it, too! That is still more foolish!** What book of mine do you like best?" Dickens asked. I remem bor: and I replied, "Oh, I like David Copperfield' much the best. That is the one T. Have read six times.

"Six times-good, good!" be re- plied; I glad that you like David, so do 7-T liko it best, too- clamping his hands.

Then Dickens took Miss Wiggin back to her forgotten mother-lenv ing me, with the feeling that I must continue my existence somehow in a dull and dreary world,”

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Braise strains and stiff, swoll-a jainte should be rubbed vigorously with Chamberlain's Pain Balm as owing to

ed States in 1867.

was too young to appreciate the full | the window "God bless my soul.

Dickens had been looking out of significatice of it.

he said. us to tunned suddenly and child, where did you came from?

in fact, had seized her opportunity

recommended everywhere the saw the little maid Miss Wiggin,

Do you try when you read out "Yes," Dickens said. "Tery when loud too? the child make him

Copperfield": I cried when I wrote I arad about Steerforti in "David

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