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FURTHEST NORTH.

Englishwoman And A Motor Car.

ARCTIC ADVENTURES.

Completion of Six Thousand Mile Drive.

|BLACK MAN'S BOOZE.

Profitable Industry In Transvaal.

A SNAKE STORY

AT THE

QUEEN'S

GOVT. DEATH BLOW.

Obliging Clerk's Reward.

PUZZLED YOUNG MAN.

Fortunes Made In Mining Town Walking Around Shangbai With

Liquor Dens.

Huge Boa Constrictor.

Shanghai, Sept. 22.

The South African Government To England and to an English- woman is the honour of driving a has dealt a death-blow to one of

A puzzled young man, follow- motor car nearest to the North the most lucrative professions in Pole. The little expedition of the Transvaal-the illegal brewed by several coolies carrying a three, Mrs. Victor A. Bruce, hering of skokiaan, a highly in- huge box, yesterday stepped off husband, and Mr. Beare, which toxicating concoction made by the the gangplank of the world- left England on July 8 with the natives, who are not allowed to cruising liner "President Mon- intention of motoring into the "possess" any form of liquid roe." The young man was Mr. Arctic Ocean, arrived back in Lon- from yeast. An embargo has L. J. Winter, Freight Clerk on don recently after an adventur- been placed on all imported yeast, the liner. Inside the box, which ous 6,000 miles drive. After a much of which was sent out in was carried none too eagerly by race against a forest fire and nocently from England, and the the coolics, reposed a monster many miles of driving by the manufacture of the liquid will boa constrictor.

It's a strange story, mates; a light of the Midnight Sun, when consequently be impossible. As 37 miles from the Arctic Ocean much as 100,000 lbs. of "com-story of the sea, of an apprecia- BTL obliging the party found bogs made fur- pressed" yeast was being sold tive passenger,

monthly in Johannesburg, says a Freight Clerk and a mighty ser- ther progress impossible,

pent. In the words of Ceasar, Respattered with mud, but gay correspondent. with the flags of half a dozen dif- Fortunes were made rapidly in lend your ears:

When the "President Monroe" ferent countries, a cream and the countless liquid-dens, of the blue saloon car entered the court- mining areas by brewers' of the sailed from America a passenger drink. A gallon manufactured with a passion for collecting yard of the Hotel Cecil.

A slight, sunburned young for ninepence sold for eight shill weird and wonderful snakes, woman, wearing a stockingette ings, and the demand was always boarded the liner. He brought frock with a close-fitting blue greater than the supply the his peta. Mr. Winter, who has felt hat, alighted. She was Mrs. police saw to that! Victor A. Bruce, a daughter-in-

Easily Made.

charge of the freight, went to a great deal of trouble to provide warm, comfortable quarters for the reptiles. The passenger was pleased,

law of Lord Aberdare, who had Ease of manufacture was the just completed a 6,000 miles drink's chief charm. The police drive by way of France, Bel-patrols had a habit of raiding the

Mr. Winter Accepted. gium, Denmark, Sweden, and shebeens daily and destroying all

The days passed and Yoko- Finland, towards the Arctic the liquor they found, but sko- Ocean and back. She was ac- kiaan matures rapidly, and four hama was reached. The snake companied by her husband and hours after the departure of the collecting passenger disembark- he ap- police trade could be brisk again. ed. Before doing so Mr. Beare.

Mr. Winter. He The recipe for. the drink is proached

wanted to thank Mr: Winter this

and to show his

appre with a little pre ciation sent. Would the good Mr. Winter accept?

3 Miles in 24 Hours, The party left England on July 8, and averaged 207 miles a day, During the whole of the peril- ous and nerve-racking journey Mrs. Bruce never left the wheel except for sleep, and got little of that.

"Our object was to get into the Arctic Circle," she said to a press representative, "and we had hopes that we should reach the Arctic Ocean.

three miles.

miles.

:

1 gallon of boiling water; 2 tables of "compressed" yeast

'and; 3 cups of

sugar. Mix all in a large tin; bury it (for secrecy); leave an air vent (for safety); and wait four hours.

Thick and Evil.

Mr. Winter would. He said so-unsuspectingly.

The appreciative passenger forthwith presented him with as The resulting concoction will be huge and mean a boa-constrictor thick, milky, and evil. For varie- as Mr. Winter, in 14 trips around ty and flavouring add orange peel, the world, had ever seen.

Mr. Winter attempted to re- a local 'When within 40 miles of it we pineapple rind, or a lemon. The

"cream" of skokiaan brews, the gister with his pet at struck swamps, but we pushed skokdaan de luxe, is a mule among hotel but got a decided "no" for forward, almost inch by inch for liquors, evolved simply by adding an answer. He was told that he "We were compelled. to run a bottle of methylated spirit and personally was welcome but a Mr. Winter three lumps of carbide!

snake? Never. back, and it took us 24 hours to It is known descriptively as the didn't register. retrace those three treacherous carbide cocktail. Two mugs of it

No Takers. Yesterday Mr. Winter spent "We had to break down trees suffice even a three-bottle man; and shrubs so that our wheels three bring oblivion; and four, in the day trying to give the huge nine cases out of ten, the doctor. serpent away.. Two ship-mates could get a grip of something. The dusky geniuses who evolv- of the liner, Mr. J. C. Thime, "In Sweden we encountered aed the drink thought nothing of Radio Operator, and Mr. J. terrible storm and the lightning paying a £50 fine of Monday Kennedy, Cadet, also scoured the set fire to the forest. It meant a

week city in search of someone in need mornings, week race for dear life over a fearful for brewing it. But now they of a first-class boa-constrictor. road

must turn to fresh avenues to An aged Chinese eventually "The fire spread rapidly and discover a means of slaking the agreed to accept the suake if he we could almost feel the flames dusty mine "boy's" thirst. was given $10. The Chinese! scorching our enamel.

No doubt they have done so pointed out that he has several already!

anakes at his home and would take the bon-constrictor and raise it the same as if it were! a snake of his own. Mr. Winter is happy to-day.

Hot Up North.

"The curious thing was that the further north we got the hot- ter it became. It was almost in- tolerable in the car. It was over 90 in the shade when we crossed 4.30 p.m. the Arctic Circle. 4.30 p.m.

"The air too was simply black with mosquitoes. They bit con- tinuously, and my face and arms

after

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the wheel, and on many occasions ports, apparently on good authority, that the conference of Federation

WRITER STABBED.

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Berlous. Reutere de that each section has decided to re- [A message, dated August port the proceedings to its execu- stated

U.S. PROHIBITION AGENT. ARRESTED.

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New York, Yesterday,

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