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FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1925.

OUR CABARET.

LAST NIGHT'S SPARKLING ENTERTAINMENT.

الية

FAMINE RELIEF.

HOW" TILE MONEY WENT

VILLAGE SMITHY)

FAMOUS SMITHS AND SMITHIES.

HOSPITAL REPORTS.

LAW AND LORE OF THE FORGE.

THE CHINA-MAIL.

PRICKLY PEAR.

POWER. ALCOHOL TOR "AUSTRALIA"OS

NOTICE TO SHIPPER AND PASSENGERS:

Juno

VESSELS DUE.

\FROM "SWATOWI 8. .K.K. Lahno" Mara

-NAK. Rangshan-Marn

FROM BANGKOK, 4.-E. AVANS VBanka B.-A.

Bimbing FROM SHANGHAI,

As is well known, prickly pear,sunu a cuctus of the Oponia tribe, is one of the worst pests that Aus- tralia has to deal with, and hitherto it has not been dealt with

May 30- but left alone. In New South3.7K lenita Karu Wales and Queensland there are Jens

Moorish Fince

was allotted to the muter repair/into the situation of village more than fifty million

acres ETA dar

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Calcott Mara

FROM JAFIN.

31-NIE ... 31.-B.

abandoned to the pest, and this acreage is increasing at the rate of one million acres per annum.

All efforts to eradicate the pear faos 19.-B. L have failed, and the cost of a national effort for this purpose May 30-A.TK would be enormous, certainly not less than £260,000,000, and pos-Jane K sibly without result. It has been found impossible, to destroy the pear by unrooting, and the only known method is by means of a parasite which lives on the out. side of the pear, and if it can be, introduced into the cellular formation" below the tough skin, kills the plant.

16.-N.V.K. 17-MAYA

19. —N.V. K.

Onka Martt

Tairea

Haruna Maru

Tands.. Empress of &

Washington Maru

Eskate Mara

Kamo Maru

Ald Mary

Tanka Haru

FROM SINGAPORE.

May 30.-3.3. Jaly 1.-B.F

- Tuño 28.-P. & 0.

G-B F. 8.-B. F. 19.-B.F. 10.-B. F

Telesias. Mirzapore. Eurypylva

antiloch un Forsens Ápapanor Antenor

Taust might's audience proved a discerning dus. It readily encored an interesting rendition of Grieg's

Nourly $98,000 was spent on Mormug: after which it sat back | mussures of munedinte retier in con

Is the village smithy doomed? and listened to what is known as setion with the appeal issued by asks a writer in the "Observer" amking

Bible piano tutk. Ar the Tang Wa Hospital for the Sonte figures and facts presented Regmäld Sellecks is endowed with relief of inhabitants of flooded areas in the report of an inquiry by the mit uneamy power of dexterity in Kwongining. Nearly $250,000 Kent Rural Community Council -techimque as the corrvet wer

shithies in Kent, suggest that the So far as t piano is concerned; of embankments.

Phose figures and others more question is not wholly a fanciful but with it all Here göus un artistry.

performance to directly concerned with the opertone, for the number of smithies in HD 27 Jus gent Heights. De Ias also cong of the Hospital ure contained that county has decreased by half Sulcrable comerly powers use in the annual report of the Secret-in the last forty years, and the number of men employed shows The same artistic way. Foftunteary for Chinese Allpirs

corresponding Ty Our Cuburet** is not a

The total number of in-patients an almost one-

¡duction. sartist show, There is Mr. Charles admitted during 1924 was 0.149

These ominous figures turn the Tanner Wah is very plaing võige sumpared with 1,142 i 1923mind to thoughts of the part which and Jan Curyil and Delyse in and 8,079 in 1999, Of these 4,871 the village smithy has played in some superbe danEEN. Au Apie 5 prent, its against 51 English social and village life for Sits Ongole of many items ent, in 1923 elected to be treated many centuries. It is impossible to think of an English village which stumped his happy compley European methods.

The oft-patients numbered 197 without thinking of lis amithy, for as being in the forefront of her 736 as against 166,429 in 1993 and it is, an invariable snd, necessary jatitess.ön. Muriel Va Madge Carter plense mightily. 166,002 in 1022, and of her constituent of a village com The former gave the song, which 15,140 or 24 per cent, as against uusity. The church, the hall or is said to have engel London per cent, in 1929, "The manor hons, the inn, the mil, the Infchers at more Fruit." Pho Kuropean-trentinacist,

farms and the smithy-all these. The muter of surgical operations pivot rural life. Perhaps there is that power alcohol could be dis- It has been known for long adier was not losteon the wudience, i And this ong

is cerain to berkamed was 66 as against no real fear that so old-established tilled from the pear, but the cost There were also 187 byen feature will really, die out. The of cutting, crushing, and distill. hummed in the L'ofony during the 1920

Frank Mite isprations performed as against it is likely to adjust himself to ing has been estimated to be so next. Brw days.

anered conditions as other crafts enormous that the return of one comedian and a mimid and hự.

The work of the Kwong Wamen have done, but with the ad-and a half gallons per ton would easily kept his audience forget hospital continued to show an injust nent he and his workshop ntay be quite incommensurate with the time and place. The sketchese!

In all 6.460 no longer play the same pictures- given have

erense during 1024. Q. Henry-le

expense, ending expected amusing.ients were admitted (os against que part in rural life.

Five years ago Dr. W. M. (4,000 in 1929 of whom -1,657 or

Everyone must have in mind Sinclair commenced investiga-taly Gertruds #ggé deserves a word

72%

per cunt, tas against 68 per cent, some particular smithy which he For the extellent work, she does in 1998 and 60 per cent, in 1922) envisages as a sort of ideal smith ions into the problem of the ang. 1 pinn 14 might be. ex pooted |

mer Europe treatment, or childish dreads and remem- prickly pear, in connection with CBC that yet another entertainment while 1803 derted to hemented brances, the smithy of Long-research that he was conducting June 1-U.B.S.B. could not be any different from the

fellow's poem. There has recently into the problem of by Chinese molheds, many which have visited Hong-

been an attempt not very con. Assuming that cancer is a disease kong, “Our Cuburut" is "somehow

vincingly authenticated-to iden-of the cellular system, he deduced different" 14 grembly and

tify a Kentish village smithy as that the cactus should be able to... Tastefully mounted and the mem-

the one Longfellow had in mind give him

25 Pree. Jackson useful information her of it are able to supply m

when he wrote. It does not seem which by analogy might be avait-Joly 7-1.0.7 entirely different programme ruch

a likely identification. for the able for cancer research. He has ang. 7B evening This shouli Re noted.

poet compiled an anthology of during the past five years obtain- Sept. 4.-E. A The Chim Mail' has no hesita

"Songs about Places" (in Englanded a great deal of information, tion in

recommending

Addressing the London Scotland Wales), a quite wonderful but so far it throws no light on May AL-J.C.J. L. 'C'aburet,**

Labour Club, where he was the

the problem of cancer. guest of honour, Mr. Ramsay Mac collection of verse writen about particular towns, villages, and spots in this country, and though the included several of his own noeins, he did not include "The Village Blacksmith, as he might have been expected to do had it pictured an actual place instead of an idealised one.

POPULAR BANDIT.

DEATH SENTENCE

IN THE US.

"Our

Gerald Chapman, described as America's most popular super baudit," was, after a remarkable

trial, sentenced to die on the gallows at Hartford, Connecticut. After his historic coup-the robbery in New York of a post office van containing £400,000 worth of securities-Chapman, a trueamateur cracksman, lived in one of the most fashionable sections of New York, He was known as the "Count of Gramercy square." With a beautiful girl from the Middle West who was ignorant of his crimes, he lived in a fine house, kept an expensive motor cor, which was driven by one of his accomplices, and spent at the rate of £200 a day.

tr 1923.

JOKE FINDER

TWO A DAY FROM A" SECRETARY.

Donald referred to many ups

and downs of a queer kind in

fe, and added:

If you had been in Lossiemouth about 50 years ago and had asked what was the general opinion of certain nickum with a black head, and very often not much else, you would have found that he was

regarded as being destined to be hanged.

cancer.

*Palauie

Aug.

B. F

Proteillaus

9. B. F 16.-B. F.

Tencer

Komeaus

FROM BOMBAY,

June, 8-NY.E.

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B.-P.&O. 11.--E. 40.

FROM MINILA.

Bada Marn Sardinia

Delta

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West

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Tasda

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Tiilebook FROM SYDNEY AND MELBOURIN.

Chapgaba

E. &.. 17.-N.Y.R

On the other hand, he appears Juno -B. & 8. to have solved the prickly pear problem. He has resolved the July 10-E, & &, difficulty of getting the parasite inside the skin: he has discovered

a

LONDON SMITHIES. But there are famous individual smithies. Probably the best-known something like that has happened, England is that at Cockington, because there are certain ex-reached by close, hot Devonshire periences in life that are of nearly lanes from Torquay. It has surely the same kind of trouble.

been more pictured than any other,

I am not at all sure, but that and best-advertised smithy, in ali | ago now abandoned

and

free it for

Dona

Arsfors

Aki Maru St Albans Bishims Mars Aki Mara

Tanda. Tango Maru Arafura Aki Maru Et. Albans.

A Mishima Mara

Toda

THORO H

method of distilling power Aug.

7.-B.L I-NY.R alcohol from the crushed pear to Sept. 11. A. give a yield of 14 gallons to the 16.-N.T.K. ton, and thus it will be possible Oct. 9.& for him and his associates not

13.-N.Y.K. only to clear the enormous acre- Nov. migrants, but to provide power alcohol for Australia from illimit- FROM SEATTLE, VANCOUVER, ETC. able local sources.

June 1.-Q.P.8. B.-A.O.L 10.-B.F. 12.-N.Y.K. 17-8.0.

One really interesting and that there are parts of Australia where, to ensure economy of cost, prickly pear will have to be July cultivated for the production of Power alcohol.

All the jokes at the expense of Nearer to London there is the amusing feature of the business is t Scotsmen, declared Mr. Mac-smithy of Edgware, for whose Donald, were invented by Scots smith it is stoutly claimed-again men, and the peculiar thing was on not very good evidence that that no one understood them or he was Handel's real "Harmonious saw the humour in then except Blacksmith." The smithy at Three Scotsmen.

Mile Cross, too, is not likely to be.

The scheme has received the I once employed a Parliamen- forgotten, for did not Miss Mitford tary Secretary for the purpose of give it fame in Our Village" enddiction of the Queensland supplying me with two original | And it still remains much as it was Government, and will received jokes against Scotsmen every day in her day. I recall, too, that the those of both the New South of the week. He did it, and that smithy at East Dean, near East-Wales and Federal Governments. is the reason why the Labour bourne, has upon its walls an ox- Government was so successful,

yoke as a reminder of the use of It was a good thing for Scots- oxen in ploughing. men to retain in this weary, world theories, habits, galeties, and dress of home. There was more fun and life in a little. Scotch village than anywhere else in the him world.

Ar intervals he journeyed. to different parts of the country and committed robberies. Among other acts of daring he held up an express train near Niagara Falls, riting the mail coach of £15,000.

A detective who is an excellent actor finally unmasked Posinga'a safe blowerthe detective gained the complete confidence of Chapman's chauffeur. With a large force of police he raided the bandit's aristocratic residence, where they found securities worth £100,000 andam elaborate wardrobe consisting of more than 20 suits of clothes.

If only we could get into touch with those glorious experiences, those glorious evenings, and re- member the great heroes of our youth those great rollicking drunken heroes-we should be all the better for it.

PASSENGERS,

ARRIVALS.

Chapman's thrilling escape sub- sequently from Atlanta jail, his recapture when wounded in Florida, and his second escape from a prison hospital have raised him to the front rank in the Per P & O. 5.5. "Malwi" on criminal world of the United May 28:--Miss C. N Gawald, Mr J. Gawald, Mr and Mrs Johnson, LL-Col. and Mrs I. G. Tuke, Mr W

States.

Finally he robbed a safe in New Britain, Connecticut, shot dead one of the policemen who surpris ed him, and again estaped, to be arrested six months later in Illinois. *

THE WHITE SISTER."

LILLIAN GISHLAT QUEEN'S THEATRE.

Lillian Gish appears in her great

Cat role in "The White Sister,

which

It is curious how many smithies

there are buried in London whose forges and anvils and ruddy glowing fires still mark where a one-time village has been swept into the maw of the ever-growing city. These city smithies are often at cross-roida, as where the Croydon and Mitchai Roads, fork at Streatham. Baturely the most remarkable of London forges was that which, until a few years ago Was at work is the then- rálie d transept of St. Bartholomew the Great.

ARTISTIC WORK

Aug.

16.-N.Y.K

1.N.Y.K. IL-A.OL 15-4.0L 2K-N.Y.K.

30-B.

4-4.0.1 1.B. F

Sept. 7.-N.K.K.

8.-B. F.. 17.-N.Y.E. X.-Seyen years ago Farrived 31.-B. F. In this town with only

one Oct. 17.-B..

Nov. 11.-B. E.. shilling, but that shilling gave

Dec. 93. R. 3087

me my start.

• Arafura Aki Maru.

Empress of ATING Pres. Jackson Achilles Jyo Maru

Pick McKinley. Pra. Jeifarsca

Fhidroka Maru."

Pres Grant Pros Madison

Yokohams Maru

Teltbyblus P Jackson. Tyndarous.

Kiga, Mart. Iyo Maru

Achillon

Shidzuoks Maru...

Philloafotos.

Trederous

Protomilaus.

Achilles

Philantatos

Y-You must have invested it fag. 18. Tendareu

very profitably. for money.

X-I did. I telegraphed home

There is other fine work by this Bedfordshire blacksmith in certain Bedfordshire churches

My sledge and hammer o

reclia'd

Feb.

Mar. 8.-11. F May 14.-B.F

FROM SAN May 30,T.E.K. Juno V-TE.E.

8.-DSL

Jaly

27-T.K.K

Protesitaus hilloy Palinctetas FRANCISCO.

Blinyo Maru Karen Maru Praza Polk Fres. Lincoln.

Shinyo Maru

Siberia Maru

Taya Maru,

FROM BUENOS AIRES VIA 7.-V.YA: 200 Kawachi, Maru,

FROM HEW YORK.

A FOLK EPITAPH. Nothing shows more certainly how deeply rooted is the place of The smith has been, to a large the smithy in English life than the July extent, an artist craftsman. Inlere which has gathered round the Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, and calling of the smith. There is, for particularly in Sussex, where for instance, an epitaph to be found Jute centuries the iron industry, was in scores of English churchyards settled. there are inu nerable to bygone smiths which runs proofs of this. In farmhouses, A. Harding, Miss A, G Bonnett, manor houres, and cottages are Lt. Com. Bindluss, MrR. P. Moodie, firebacks and hom chold imple- Mr A. G. Gordon, Mr H. L. Keen; ments that testify to individual Mr and Mrs J. H. Stewart, Lt. Com. artistic ability, and in the churches Greathed, Commdr., W. Fallow there was door-fittings, screens, field, Mr D. J. Lloyd, Mr A. H. grilles, hinges, strapwork, escut- Boyd, Mr I Salveson, Miss Acheons, locks, and the ornamental akin, Mr J. McClockie, Mrs Fbanding of church chests, and Rowe, Mr W. G. Gull, Mr S. B. sometimes even tombstones, which Firth, Mr W. V. Star, MrH. R. H. bespeak the high artistic accom- Prince George, Lt. F. E. Halsey, Bmith, Sunie of these pieces of Mr. Lockwood, Mr P. Lagrange, work have lasted from Norman, but there is every reason to regard Bept. 7-7. Miss V. Rofa, Miss O. M. Russell,

My bellows, too have lost their

wind;

(Via Paraxa:) B.-N.I.K. Takaoka Maru

(Via Buzz) day 11-P. L

rish Princo FROM SAN FRANCISCO & LOS

•ANCELOS..! June 1-0.8, B, Wish Jester

87,8,ALB - West ProdRat :: FROM HUROPEAN PORTS.

June. 1-3.0.J. And in the dust my vice is laid ;.-NY.K My coal is spent, my iron gone,

8N.Y.R The nails are driven, my work is)

19-B... 31-3,0.J.D., Olderkerk UA donc..

SN.Y.K Because this appears at Felpham, 10.-N.Y...

My fire's exilact, my forge May B.-B.

dapay'd,

July

It has been attributed to that poet, NY.K. plishment of the mere village near Bognor, where Hayley lived Aug. 10.-N.Y.K.

Silabangka Hakosaki Maru Matanya Marn Hakusan Mare.

· Kitano Maru Matsumoto: Maris

Hakone Mara. Sewa Maru. *Fühhimi Marn

91-NYK Mr Hábozaki MáTE"

Mr W. Pak Kum, Mrs J. M. Brun days; and. they are of so find at as a much older composition of Askusan klára tá

100, Mr and Mrs E. Chamier, Mr quality as to bespeak a long train. son of folk epitaph. There is,

line, Mr Caryll, Mr Sellick, Mrlag and apprenticeship la iron furthermore, the famous story of Nov. 3.-H.1 Creasey, Miss Clegg, Miss.Deiyer, working. This fine Ironwork may the horse sold by a farmer for

K.

Kitano Marn

Haru

Kamaru ·

Theatre to-morrow for a week's run. H. Findlay, Mr Woo Y. Kal, Father London in the door of the old the horse's shoes, the amount to Dác.

John Barrymore las acclaimed F. Lau, Mr Ung T. Lean, Mr B, R

church at Merton. There was, be doubled for each succeeding 1.11.Y.K. Miss Gish as the ons actress who Leydig. Mr S. A. Marican, Mr S 100, Some sort of a communal all which work out at an in- carries the supreme tradition of M. Sheriff, Mrs E. J. Nicholls, Miss or factory production, for incredible sum, The National Master Bernhardt and Duse to the screen. E Nicholls, Miss E. E. Nicholls, the days of the Scotch Barriers and Blacksmithsocia June And in The White Sister she Mr Tslea Shaw, Mr T. H. Taiter wars the English armies drew ton has just hold an annual meet o has a picture that is incomparably sall, Mr Mc. Kuan Ting, Mr nails from the Horsham district add to have stated that this little their supplies of herse shoes and at which a well-known lawyer is the finest of the year. Nothing L, Vanderberg, Mr and Mrs Wand it is perhaps in memory of catch equals the beauty, pathos, suc Webb, Mr and Mrs P. A. Wright, this that one of the oldest houses, pence and spectacular magnificance Mrs F. Taylor, and Misses Taylor in that town has gable pendants of F. Marion Crawford's story of

Six Liar, Már 19. Balas, D W Ibe well soon on

the, borders of one farthing for the first nafi, in LAXMI Mary:

love and sacrifice.

In "The White Sister""

Boven

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