THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928,
PEARL MYSTERY.
VANISHES AFTER TESTING.
MAN ACQUITTED.
a cultured pearl.
Sir
und
Mr.
Mr.
peared for the prosecution. Sir Henry Mudlocks, K.C., Cecit Whiteley, KC, and A. W. Ek or the defence.
When the ease was called, Sir Edward Mirsha-Hatt said the pena promeed, which had been In the custody of the police, was not the one which had been tested
cie. scientiacaly, end in these cumstances the prosecution found It impossible to proceed. They therefore offered no evidente.
The Recorder (Sir Ernest WHO) What has happened. ` to the original pearl?
Sir Edward: That we do not know.
On the Recorder's direction. the jury formally returned a ver. thes of Not Guilty, «
Sir Henry Maddocks said that until he came into court he had
THE CHINA
WHEN SHE FLED.
GAS FOR RATS.
THE FIRM-FACED
WOMAN.;
AN OMNIHUS COMEDY.
half-a-crown.
8
WAS
"Excuse me, miss, you gave me two shillings."
The populution of the omnibus pricked up as cars and listened.
"Oh, I am sure it was half-a-
ม {
crown."
DEATH RAPID AND PAINLESS.
SVOURSSFUL EXPERIMENT.
A
MA
ORIGIN OF MAN.
SIR OLIVER LODGE ON
·EVOLUTION.
TWO THEORIES.
Passengers in
London A case which had aroused much!
Some singularly successful ex-
Sir Oliver Lodge, speaking in interest in the jewellery trade omnibus were in the stalls, so to
Westminster, on evolution, refer.. ended abruptly at the Old Bailey, speak, at a private performance periments in the destruction of small week, at Christ Church, William Giles, 48, jeweller, had of a comedy entitled, or worthy of by the agency of poisonous gred at the cutest of his address being entitled, "The Honest Bus were owned through a few days to the signature of the Locarno been committed for trial on
go, writes Sir W. Beach Thomie
Treaty charge of attempting to obtain Conductor, or Never. Intervene,"
in the Morning Post) Land- 210 by false pretences in request-anys the "Daily Malli".
"We are living to-day," he said, There Are omn/buses and owners, farmers, and County Coun-in great historical times. Only ing an advance on a pearl stated at Marylebone Police Court to be omnibuses, of course, there arefcit representatives have joined yesterday we passed through the even buses, and this was one of together to give the method greatest war known to history. Edward Marshall-all, the latter, having as buses will haugh and soientide trial.
and the conclusion of that great- Fuams Lamiliar to the writer botest war had witnessed what may K.e., Six Travers Humphreys, rather a bad morning. It and Mr. Warter Frampton ap-being stopped all the time; jerk Berkshire and Hertfordshire prove to be the greatest pact. I succeeded jerk as it pulled up at va boon beast this year by rate, see in it a sign of hope that the intervals of twenty yards to re Cerve woman after woman, Tran-which are to be reckoned by the nations are going to stand, or try tically waving an umbrella.
thousand, auki, indeed, ten thou to stand together. Mankind The conductor was obviously ad. The signs of their prevenge might have destroyed itself with Hittle tried.. He grew still more blazoned everywhere. Wide internecine strife, but man has plenty to do in his struggle with tried shortly when a girl said, and remote stubble fields running Nature, and it is madness for him You have given me change for a up to the Berkshire vns are to struggle with his fellow-man two-shilling piece and I gave you crossed and recroused by narrow, Man has a great future before
polished pathways, trodden
ahim. Sooner or later the dawn firmly by the many ras de any of peace must come, and perhaps.
hoop-puth on the moors. As you it is coming now." approch buildings or ackyards Turning to the subject of his The rans incrense, and every bank address, Sir Oliver Lodge said! Iannelled. Many of the stucks that both in America and in Bri- fre so populous that they have even bain people were apt, to think "No miss," two shillings.
externally an untidy and tonaled that there was something wrong. At this point the firm-faced
Appearance. Continual trapping about evolution, and that it was Woman sitting dir the seat across the aisle From the Radiy, "of the
has had little effect, though the antithetical to creation. Spencer might have thought that he was F101101 must join in. " was fully victims were numerous
replacing A personal process, wholesale method of exter-guided by something like will and half-a-crown; i saw her give it to favore
ninukjon, had become necessary. intention, By, so to speak, a you," said she to the conductor. 1 intymation of the course to be
Nently severing her jugular
The trial of the gas excelled all mechanical operation among the ven with a look, the conductor expectations of those who were things themselves. The attempt adopted The finest experts in
www.to it. It was absolutely dead-thus to explain evolution had led the works would have been called turned again to the original com- to say that what was alleged to plainant, who was searching inly when applied to the holea. Into a material philosophy. This be false representation was not her bag. Suddenly, "Oh, conducidentally, it was surprising to had not been so much wrong as false representation at all. Theyor. F'm so sorry," came her re-see by the little clouds of emerg. incomplete. As an intermediate would have said that a cultured pensant voice, "you're quite right.ing gas how very long and widely step it had been helpful in biology. pearl was in every sense a real only had the two pieces in silver, ramifying many of the holes were.and was still helpful..
LIFEBLOOD OF SCIENCE.. pearl
and here's the half-crown. PleaseIn these dug up for test purposet Sooh, however, it had been It was stated that the peart in forgive me. I should have made every rat was dead. and there was epurt was a different pearl from certain fire. Oh, I've got to get no sign that the death had been carried too far, so as to exclude that which had been scientifically out here," and out she got. painful. It must have come rapid-mind and purpose from the examined. Where did it eome
ly or the animals would have universe. It was now recognised that the theory was insufficient attempted escape,
and faulty, and could not provide It was, perhaps, a little less explanation. It was a mistake sudden in its effect in the stacks.to oppose evolution to creation; it. A few rats fled from it, and some should be regarded rather as a fell off the walls moribund. But method of creation
The idea of sudden creation even so it is more humane than most traps; and the cardinal value similarly, was erroneous, but it also contained elements of truth. of the method is that it can be The feeling of antagonism be- applied to the stacks.
Rajs, and mice together havetween the two views and the feel- only order he could make was that Statisticians claim there is only
been so numerous that they haveing of alarm and dislike of one of the expenses properly current by one bath in France to every 800 devoured up to 20 per cent. of them had survived In certain Now we know what som stacks, and fouled a good States of America, and had led to an attempt to suppress the dis- they mean by French Dry Clean- deal beside. The loss to the coun-liked view by fegal enactment.
try in food alone without
It was not by legal enactment reckoning the damage to strike- tuves-mist certainly be reckon Freedom was the life-blood of phat truth was really served. Boulange pouring watery milk fed in millions. Most statisticians in reaffee); "Pierre, where you get who have taken up the tale put the science, and freedom was only Messrs. Orar "P. Ribeiro and this milk?" Company issue a neat little diary Pierre: "These milk she come
loss at a figure scarcely credible consistent with the power of mistakes and going to those ill acquainted with the
making as an advertisement by Messrs. from my cow." Eberhard and Company. Swiss
rat's voracity and its multitude:rong, as well as with the power. Boulange: "Well, you had better chronometer and watch manu-get one tarpaulin for these cow.tural Committee of the County fined to one side of the
It may well be that the Agricul- of ascertaining truth and going right. Crudities were not con- facturers.
Councils could give farmers, and indeed, many houscholders, no troversy, and as sectarian differ- more concrete help than by pro-ences had limited freedom on the viding apparatus for this method one side, it had secured time also of extermination.
on:
And then the conductor turned from? It struck him as being the firm-faced woman, and very peculiar.
every passenger in the omnibus. He asked that the costs of the burned on the form-faced woman.. experts for the defence, who had. The form-faced woman stood the came from the Continent, might silence and the glares for a minute, and then as the conductor The Recorder said he had allow-rang his belt she fled, colliding in ed Sie Henry to make his state-the doorway with an eager dele- ment because he thought it only gate of the Women's Professional right, as no evidence had been 'Busstopping Association. offered against Mr. Giles. The
be allowed.
the expert witnesses should be inhabitants. allowed.
discharding Mr. Giles, the ing Bevorder said he left the Pourt without a stain on his character.
She leaks."
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CONTENTS.
Page.
Domestic Occurrence
I
Cricket Notes
Leading Articles
5.
Earthquake Here?
Peculiar "Theft"
Three Centuries
5.
Lawn Bowls
.17
Cricket "Caps"
6
Brenda Wins
.18
City Burglary
6
Rugby Cup Tie
.18
Local Soccer
6
Annual Races
.19
Great Liner Here
7.
Soccer "Caps"
.10
A "Wrong Seizure"
7
Interport Soccer
19
Brisk Bidding
7
9 A.M. Grab
19
"Rose" Wedding
7
East Asia Bank
19
Governor's Tour
Our University
Echo of 1922 Strike
8
Tourists' Farewell
Soccer Appeal
$14,000 Haul·
Bandit Attack
8
Police Shooting
.21
Local Mothers
8
A Tricky Bean
21
The Next Advance
9
Burns Cult
Company Meeting
Island Myth
.28
Expensive "Find"
9
Trespassing
.23
Hockey Match
.10
Truth in Trade
23:
Medical Men Meet
.10
West Point Bre
.24
The Flower Show
.10.
Pipe Burst...
Further Progress
Canton Success.
.10
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Merchant's Loss
Volunteer Orders Local Cricket
A Silk Deal
Japan's Consul Poultry Sallers Seeing Hongkong Rables Position An Honest Answer Naval Ball Arme Charge T Canton Advance Illegal Lotteries $4,000,000 Port Rescue at Sea Police Fight Last Night's Ball Company Report
Boxing
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Toy Pistols
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INSPIRATION.
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"Women are no longer satis- Bed with imitating men by smok- ing and drinking," writes a Home correspondent. They have also acquired his habit of using dtrong language.
It was a mistake to exclude factors other than reason. There was, for instance. Inspiration but what that meant had not been defined, which was just as.
"I was astonished the other day: well, as it was not known what it to hear a pretty girl use the most was. He was certain of the abominable language in a restaur existence of the spiritual world, ant. I have also heard typists and he believed that it was from using expressions which one that source that inspiration came. usually considers the exclusive In the first book of Genesis the privilege of the managing direc
wag made that the statement
tor... the divine spirit brooded over
"As the habit seems likely to waters a poetic expression In- dicative of a mind planning and spread, cannot something be done executing. If people said there to check it at least among the was no mind at work they were young girls-before It becomes a making a baseless assertion, but recognised form of conversation they were right if they said that mong women?" mind was working by evolution. Only the philosophers of Gulliver's "The other night I was at the Laputs would imagine that there Unfortunately in most of the theatre and my double' was in was no mind at work. The most engagements between motor cars a box. I was in the stalls, and automatic of automatic machines and pedestrians, the motor cars between the acta I heard one was proof of the mind of its come out on top, woman say, "Look! There's Eina creator.
1
"But I have a 'double,' and it 22-23 has caused me endless fun. The woman is well known in society, and facially she is very much like me. But she is just a little older and has silver hair.
"May---but háan't she aged! A Sir Oliver Lodge questioned He fell True, it is a moment The same thing happened at whether we were right in beller of overwhelming temptation-her restaurant. I saw one dinering in a beginning and an end upturned face with rosy lips puried. But still, as she crept pointing out my double as the So far as the material world was American young thing who took concerned he believed in are sorrowfully away he told himself London by storm and is now it current cycle of events. He be that he had been a ead to steal. white-haired millionairess. I am lieved in regeneration in some- neither a millionaires nor white thing of the nature of an eternal hered, but it was
visohn
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His broken apology still range the Mttle room where the girl) lobbing on the couch,
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