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THE Undersigned have received in. structions to well by Pablo Auction

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A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods

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ZEEBRUGGE

MEMOIRS.

THE THETIS.

Zeebrugge is almost as peaceful now as it was ten years ago, says a correspondent of the "Morning Pest." Almost, but not quite, because of the many folk who come daily to reconstruct for.

themselves in its proper setting an epic of the long war. There is a museum at the entrance to the Mole, filled with war relics and photographs with which to clarify a misty memory before treading -hallowed ground,

At the top of the town which houses this collection there is a quaint panorama of the storming of Zeebrugge-the "Vindictive

Thetis" alongside the Mole, the

sinking in the harbour, shot and shell everywhere, and you can make the scene, more lurid by turning à handle and having different coloured lights. thrown on to the picture! It is exciting, but downstairs you see the reality and suffering of war, and that is the truer view. There is the bridge, shelled into ruins, from which a brave Commander directed his ship for twenty minutes after his feet were shattered by enemy shell; there are violets round his photograph, as there are round Captain Fryatt's in the niche that i is dedicated to his martyrdom; there are submarine nets and torpedo shells, and countless

pictures and histories, and then with one's mind dwelling on the past you go on to the Mole' and gaze and gaze,

SALVAGE WORK Landward the dunes stretch in either direction, dotted with red- roofed houses and grey-towered churches. The sea makes its way with scarcely a ripple into the en trance of the canal; fishing boats glide calmly along it and are lost In its windings. Then the eye is caught by a dredger. What is that thing her crane is lifting higher and higher out of the harbour deep? Bent and twisted and crumpled like paper; surely it is no ordinary debris of the seal Slowly the dredger moves towards the Mole with the shapeless thing held aloft as a victorious standard for all the world to see! Nearer she comes, and the shapeless thing resolver itself into a portion of the crushed side of a battleship; from which dangles a long iron pipe. Wo were watching the resurrection of the "Thetis" from the grave where Britons had laid ber! The dredger anchored, the crane slowly moved, and the bones of the "Thetis" fell with a rattle by the side of the salvage pile on the Mole. There was a moment's silence, then the blows of the salvage men broke the silliness; rivets were undone or broken, gas divided into two portions the long pipe, lead and iron were separated; destruction for re-creation was be- gum..

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A fair-haired English child spoke to the man in charge. "Un souvenir. Mali, soul, mademoi- selle, and with shining eyes the child bent reverently over the pile and gathered 'a twisted plece of the hull lato her arms.

Greep slime oozed against her frocky but she heeded it not, for the wonder of her countrymon's heroism and daring enveloped her as a baze, as, perhaps, for the Arsti time, she realized the inheritance: Sthan was hask

The dredger moved back to her station in the harbour, her divers prepared for more, work, and, tho sun shone over the calm waters and on the gamit heap of that which remains of the briye sahipa - what sank) in those water. I thirs

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'MY CRICKET MEMORIES.”

HOBBS TELLS HIS OWN STORY OF A CAREER IN THE ANNALS OF THE GAME.

[BY A. WAUGH IN THE "SUNDAY CHRONICLE."]

ODDS ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS' LOOT. Amazing Cactus.

Anyone who, for the first time, encounters the cactus called "hairy stapelia" when in bloom, may well refuse to believe that its flower is truly a flower, for it looks exactly like the artificial atar_of Hobbs is batting." Those He realises, moreover, that thesome decoration, a thing that three words heard across the tele- cricketer over something to the amazes and delights all beholders. phone round about four o'clock on spectator. There is a tendency in The blossom is wonderfully paint- warm, summer-laden afternoons, certain quarters to accept the ed in yellow and purple, with a have caused probably more busi-public's money, and at the same gold centre. When fully expand ness to be neglected than anytime to regard the public as an ed. there is a fetid odour, so other twenty words in the English undesirable nuisance, whose pre- carrion-like as to deceive the language.

common flesh-filos, which deposit their eggs round the nectary. These frequently hatch, but the grubs soon die for want of flesh- food, so that the carious plant affords us rare Instance of error in animal instincts.

For the last fifteen years Jack Hobbs has been the dominant personality of cricket. When Hobbs fails not" only Surrey but England are half-way towards the losing of a match, while as long as Hobbs is at the wicket, even though there may be some four hundred runs to get, there is no member of the side that would despair of victory.

pence is tolerated but not invited, But if there were no public and no gates there would be certainly no professional cricket, and prob- ably no first-class cricket either.

Hobbs realises this. He realises that the man who has paid his shilling at the gate has the right to expect amusement. "There are times," he says, "to remember the members and other spectators and to give them something to cheer about myself am tempera mental; the enthusiasm of the crowd always draws a response from me.... Many a time I have thrown away my wicket in order to give the spectators bright cricket,"

He Obayed.

The craze for crystal-gazing, and other forms of occultism, is not confined to the professional cladivoyants who_make_in_most cases, so excellent a living out of their credulous dupes, Society has taken it up, and some of Its amateur female devotees are firm believers

A good story concerning one of these was told by Mr. Clive Muskelyne, the well-known Illusionist.

"He is a personality."-writes P. G. H. Fender (in a foreword to "My Cricket Memories," by J. B. Hobba. Published by Heinemann, 68. net) "who can draw men-and women-thousands of miles to see him play, as in Australia and Africa, who can make executives Only, though, when the inter- view his dismissal just before the eats-of-his-side-are not at stake. close of play as a possible, deter- When he has got to make runs,

She was a pretty woman, but mining factor in their yearly nine times out of ten he makes balance-sheets, and who can cause them and in such a way as the somewhat straight-laced, and with office boys and others to lose occasion may demand. In Austra- a vast notion of her own import more relatives by sudden deathlia where there is no three-dayance and the deference due to her

social position. during the summer than any one cricket, where matches are played realised they could possess."out to a finish and there is no tertainment Hobbs standa alone, and the story cause for hurry, he runs very few of how he came, to stand there is risks. There is no need to. In the told very simply, modestly but words of one of his opponents, "he with much humour and much just bats." And his Test match character in his autobiography record is phenomenal. No one "My Cricket Memories.”

except F. S. Jackson approaches it.

Loss to Leyton..

At a drawing-room charity en-

giving an exhibition

recently she was

of her

audience. Pouncing upon a young powers" before a highly select man, she blindfolded him, led him into the middle of the room, and then made a series of passes, with Carping. Critics."

her hands, saying: "Don't resist Hobba has many friends and any thought that comes into your admirers, but his mailbag is not head; de exactly what you feel entirely full of applications for Without a moment's hesitation the like doing. am willing you" autographs and sonnets from un-young man threw his arms around known admirers. He gets the the lady and kissed her before the other sort as well. The following whole company. To her cries and letter, for example, reached him indignant remonstrances he merely on the day after a certain Gentle-replied: "You told me to do what men v. Players match, in which he felt like doing-so I did. And had hit a very dazzling fifty in you said you were willing me!" twenty minutes:

It is really only by a piece of luck that Hobbs has come to be the Oval's idol, for it was suggest ed first that he should join the Leyton ground staff, and had he been accepted there it is unlikely that so loyal a friend and so true a-sportsman-as-Jack Hobbs would have deserted for more profitable employment the side that had first given him his chance. But EsBEX allowed their opportunity to slip.self very clever for getting a few

"Swanker--you thought your-Norma Meant Well, and Surrey, who have also in their fours off Greswell, and you only time made big mistakes, notably in the case of Braund and Philip Mead, accepted gratefully what a weaker county had ignored, and it was no doubt poetic justice that Hobbs' first county match should be against Essex, and that he should score in it 155.

Like the majority of actresses, did it to pander to the Oval mob Norma Talmadge is very generous, which you are always doing, and when, during a recent visit to They applaud anything Surrey Berlin, an old beggar craved alms there, even if Hobbs Esq. miafields of her, she empiled the entire a ball! You had not so much side contents of her purse into his on Friday when Foster bowled you commented Miss Talmadge in hands. "It was a nice little gift," for a duck!

think,

"England would fall to pieces reporting the incident to her That was in 1904. Three years without you--I don't

husband, "but it made me happy later he was invited to join the Swanker,"

to do it."

And how much did M.C.C. tour in Australia. In 1911 And this was his reward for a questioned her husband. “Oh, It you happen to have in your bag?" he was the greatest batsman not knock of 215 not out at Leyton was all of a thousand marks," only in England but the world, Mr. 'Obbs. No doubt you felt answered Norma. Her husband and his supremacy ever since has very fine making that 215 on rocked with merriment. "And do stood unchallenged. Its complete-Monday, but the people who paid you realise that all you gave him by figures. For thirteen years he terribly bored to compel to watch asked. ness is not, however, to be proved to see a game of cricket were was less than a shilling?" he Miss Talmadge was very

her.

hag been England's greatest. one man slogging for four mortal surprised at this. She insisted on batsman, but he has never once hours to earn talent money. It is going to look for the beggar, and stood at the end of the season at what is killing cricket, chaps like eventually,she found him, near the head of the averages. He is, you sticking in all day. How the same street corner where ha paradox though it may, sound, too would you like to watch one man had previously accosted great a batsman. He grows im-kick a football for four mortal Then he received. a donation that patient with mere batting. He hours on end?

caused him to fall on his knees in knows that he can hit long hops

before and half-volleys to the boundary,

To me you are a darn ugly bat.'gratitude

the radiant to watch for half-an-hour." I say, young American woman. didn't you feel fine? You won't Her Excuse. No Picking and Choosing...

come off so grand with Jacques "He would," Neville Cardus and Kennedy's bowling. I hate wrote, get a century every time your dam swank. From one who connection with the

Well known for her work in he batted if he chose to sit on the hopes to see you out on Thursday. League of Health, Miss Olga People's splice' and wait for the inevitable There was only one retort to Nethersole tells the following loose ones." But Hobbs is too big such a letter. Hobba made it; 167 story concerning a little maid she for that. He wants to score off of the best. good balls as well as bad ones. He

employed. One day, while dress- That was in 1914, and if anyone ing for the theatre, there was an wants to experimentalise to see has doubts of what Jack Hobbs is unusually heavy downpour of rain, whether he cannot hook to square worth he had better dare him and Miss Nethersole, peering out, leg the ball that any schoolboy can some time this season with a of the window at the overflowing slash between the covers. Conse-similar letter and see what hap gutters, remarked: quently time after time he flings pens. For though this book is Why, Lizzie, it is almost like away his wicket. He gets himself called My Cricket Memories" the Flood!" out far, more often than the Hobbs is a man not only with a

The Flood, miss?" queried the bowler does. When the occasion past but with a present. Possibly Bir and the interests of his side do not a future even. For quíte a num- Yes, the Flood, Noab, 'you particularly demand a long score ber of years still the opponents of know, and the Ark." from him, he cannot be bothered Surrey and of England will be

"I never have no time to look to make runs for the mere sake of pretty glad to see Hobbs on his at the papers, miss," explained the making them.

way back to the pavilion.

girl apologetically.

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