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THE THRONE OF SIAM & AN ABORTIVE CHINESE MAP.

BOBBED HAIR.

PASTOR'S FACE SLAPPED FOR AN OFFENSIVE ALLUSION.

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TIN OF BEEF, IN FRANKLIN'S STORES.

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A relief expedition found

An article by Mr. Fred, J. Backed tentatively at least by A tin of bee!, part of the stores of the Franklin North-West Melville, the well-known phila- the Governor of the State in her telist, in the "Daily Telegraph" of defence of boo-baired women. Miss Passage Expedition of 1845, bas Murtha Bates, & fów works. #go, beds opened by Professor J. M. June 10, from which the follow-came nearer being a heroine for Beattle in the Liverpool City ing is extracted, may be of inter-Kentucky than any other member, Bacteriologist's laboratory.

at her sex in the publie" eye. A beef dooked eatable in spite of the est to collectors in the Far East.

The new stamps of Siam which degpatch to the "New York World's yours which have intervened. have been heralded as coronation from Frankfort. Kentucky, thus For the last half-century it has been a problem among géographers stamps were actually designed to explaina:

Miss Bites was free at Whiles- why Franklin failed. It has beere commemorate the completion" of

clerotested th fu t some of the beef fifteen years of the reign of King Lurg. Letcher County mountadas, Vajiravadh.

They had been of an unserved portion of a forty-supplied--to last are yours-by! erdered and were in preparation ay Jul Sentence given her for the Admiralty was bad bezorg he when the King died suddenly in having clapped & preachers Mas set out November last year, but the Bates wineked the Rev. Arlie heap of opened tins which had Brown across the face with her been thrown away uneaton. That stamps did not make their ap-

band because he astacked sobbed |reemed to substantiate the theory. new until after the pea anee

but this in at least must have King was growned in February Women in a sermon.

Girls at the State Capital build- been perfect in 1845.. Professeg last. The stamps are of impos-ng started to raise a fund for Miss Beattie said there was no shadowy ing design and beautiful engrav- ing. representing In the zentral

of doubt that it was perfectly pack- panel the Royal Throne of Siam.

ed. Whether it was netually eat- able now would be known later In a narrow panel at the top is

when a careful analysis had been The name Slam in native and

made. This tin is the last relic of English rendering. and in "a"

the expedition which set off with deeper panel below the central

Franklin on March 3, 1845, in the device is expressed the value in

Erebus and Ferrer, to And the tiends ta tical is about 1s. 6-gd.).

Northwest Pasange, Not a single There is also a commemorative"

member of the'expedí inń ever e me inscription in Siamese, which has

back. Thirty-nine expeditions went been transcribed as Sompoth Siri

in search of them during the next Paj Sembat Duei Bajakin ti Song,

12 years. They found a few silver which is interpreted "To celebrate

spoons a pile of empty beef tins, the happy and prosperous reign

and one full beef tin, which was which has equalled in duration

senind. Later they found a pleen the second reign: 2168-1925,"

ad, paper, on which was scrawled by Captain Fitz-lumes, the second in command:-

According to the original plan the stamps were to have been issued at the great-Siamese, Ex- hibition, which had to the aban- doned on account of the King's death. Only a limited edition has been printed all of high values, and printed from racess plates in two colours, on paper without watermark, and perfor-l Inted 12. The set comprises

1 Beuk, violet and green,

2. ticals, carmine and red,

3 ticals, ofre brown and blue.

5 ticals, violet and olive.

10 tical, red and bistre.

20 ticals, blue-grey and brown. Staraps with the pertrais of the new King Prajadípok are,in pře parasion-da replace the current. ordinary stamps of Siam, and are expected to be ready this summer.

tea's fight, and John A. Goodman, Clerk of the State Court of Appeals, fecided to send a petition to news-

Lillian Gish, cinema actress, is the.'

bonita Government's star witness perjury PARE against Charles H. Duell. lawyer. Perjury was alleged- ly committed in Duell's sait to maintain management over Miss Gish.

Sir John Franklin. is dead. The Erebus and Terror' are des tyed, having been beset singe September, 1946. Te-morrow we are going to Buck's Airent Fish Rive

the

The beef tin opened was rended one found in 1850 Beechey Island. It is thought that Beechey land Franklin had xamined what was supposed be

his three years food supply, and found that much of it had Kone bail, thus limiting his resAULDER. That is the only explanation," Professor Johnstone, Professor of Oceanography in Liverpool Uni- versity, has said, "that, I can offer for the failure of Franklin's expedi tion. Franklin was the most-ex- ¡perienced Polar explorer of his

time.

The spring number of the #Philatelie Bulletin of the Chin- ese Philatelic Society, contains much of interest to the specialist student of Chinese stamps, which issues are enjoying a great popu- larity just now." Among the lustrations is one of an abortivë stamp, prepared for issue to cele-pere arking that popular sub-adi pistols. And they know how

around the pulpit..some on my side and some on the girl's. Twenty- five of her friends, men, were stand- ing with their hands in their poc kete, and figured some of them

scriptions be made with a limit of to use them where come from." brate the establishment of the $1 each for the defence fund

The preacher said he used every Republic in 1912. That specimens

Governor W. J. Fields Wax means to placate Miss Bates, even of it exist will come as a surprise understood to be preparing to go offering her a part of the cake he to most collectors of Chinese personally to Letcher County to had with him for his lunch, He stamps. It appears that the first investigate court procedure that re-added details of the slapping. samps prepared to celebrate the sulted in Miss "Bates's being con- "It is the custom to invite a visit- memorable change of government victed. He reserved expressioning minister to..preach, and I was consisted of a set of thirley) -however-farther than the words invited to talk," he said, " said values, bearing within an orna contained in his order to Jailer the churches were becoming de- mental frame an embossed Fens Whitaker at Whitesburg to aerted to-day because there were so map of China, boldly labelled release Miss Bates on her own many talking machines, threatres, "The Republic of China" in recognisance. It is my informa dance halls, and amusements of English and Chinese. The frame,tion." said the Governor, "that the every kind, and that perhaps some design bore the bi-lingual in-assach was provoked by the un-bobbed-haired, lewd weman attracts

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attention. Republic warranted and unjust criticism, on men'e stription,.

That's why Memorial Sump." These stamps the part of the Rev. Arlie Brown churches are not crowded like they were ready and supplies printed, from the pulpit, of all women who used to be. when, according to Mr. M. D. wear bobbed hair." Chow, president of the Chinese Philatelic Society, many people desiring to Antter Yuan Shih-k'a pressed for the adoption of his portrait on the commemorative stamps. Sun Yat-sen's party op- posed this with the result that the well-known parallel sets of stamps were issued in November. 1912, one complete set portraying "I slapped him as hard as 1 Sun Yat-sen in commemoration possibly could. I told him it wasn't of the revolution," and the other hair that makes the woman. We depicting Yuan Shih-k'a "in must fight the battle against such commemoration of the Republic." devils. If we bobbed haired women The stocks prepared of the map) had a union we could get rid of slamp were thus rendered useless, such talk"

The Governor's intervention followed receipt of a petition from the Master Barkers of Newport.

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Miss Bates also is in the humour carry on her campaign for bobbed hair. In a statement at Whitesburg'she told of the Rev. Mr. Brown's remarks and said:

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"After church was ever, Miss Bates approached me and said: Mr. Brown, you insinuated that all bobbed-hr.ired women are lewd.' did not; there are many, many good women who have bobbed hair,"

told her.

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Why do you jalk to a lady, like that instead of as a man?" ask- ed.

"wasn't talking to any indivi- dual and meant everything I said. just as I said it, I told her.

"Then, abe slapped me on the face. I turned "the other cheek. She did hot slap me on that one. I kept my mouth shut and got out an but Mr. Chow does not state whe- The Rev. Mr. Brown is at Louis quickly as I could and I don't think ther they were destroyed or are ville. 300 miles from the scene and with ever go back to Thornton I did not institute prosecu- still in existence. He does say. is quoted as saying he will not go Gap. however, that "there are only a back to the church where he preach- tion against Miss Bates, and 1.did very few with a cancellation." Ted the anti-bobbed hair kärmon not want her sent to jall. The The values of the map stamps | That. slapping almost started a brethren of the church caused the were the same, as for the issued' general fght there in the church,etion to be taken against her. 1 was called as a witness and had to sets, except for the addition of a sald the Rey, Mr. Brown. "Mem- thirteenth value, a $10 stamp. bers of the congregation arowded teatify*

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