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KOWLOON WHARF,
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́AH YAU—(Peak Tram Station),
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MOST VALUABLE OF ALL THE ANIMALS.
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an
THE CHINA MAIL,
CANCER SCOURGE.
STORIES OF REMARKABLE CURES.
TESTS WITH RATS.
REGT.'S HONOUR.
SOLDIER WHO GAVE -
HIMSELF UP.
6 MONTHS' OLD CRIME.
convicted.
JOFFRE'S RENT,
سحيه
For an offence committed six London, Feb. 1.
Remarkable cures of cancer-in The Indian rhinoceros at the rats are described by Dr. months ago, Robert Hayward, a Zoo is a proud fellow to-day. All Thomas Lumsden in the "Lancet." soldier, was at Brighton Police: the animals, birds and reptiles Dr. Lumsden works at the Court sentenced to six months' have been valued by the author-Lister Institution in London, with hard labour for stealing £59 in a ities, and the Indian rhino" is a grant from the British Empire wallet from the pocket of n the most valuable of the lot. He Cancer Campaign, and his results Brighton hotel proprietor, who is worth £1,000, a good deal more during the last few years have had employed him as a waiter.
Since the offence he had joinod than any other beast, bird or repbeen, perhaps, more encouraging tile.
than those of any other investiga- the Army, but when he told the Most people will be surprised at tor.
instructor of the regiment what the total value of the animals in Recently he has studied the he had done, the instructor said, the Zoo. The grand total of way in which the body tries to de. "For the honour of the regiment £34,736 seems. ab ridiculously fend itself against the growth of and the honour of yourself you Small that many wealthy people a cancer. There is always, he should give yourself up; get your- will want to start a rival Zoo. considers, an attempt to resist the self clear and start afresh."
He gave himself up to the But it is really exceedingly dif- disease, for cancer is a stranger, ficult to say what the Zoo would whose presence makes the body police in London. have to pay if all the animals had "ungry," though not always His record was produced, show- to be replaced.
angry enough to take effective ing that he had been many times Lions are at a discount.
The action. market is weak, probably because He finds that the blood of a rat the "bears" have been busy. which has a cancerous growth con- "Lions," said
authority tains a substance actively hostile disgustedly, "are a drug in the to that growth, and his object has market. On the other hand, the been to discover how this sub-MARSHAL DECIDES TO SEEK tiger market is bright and active." stance can be increased and the OTHER QUARTERS.
Small But Valuable.
forces of defence reinforced.
When the growth is not very
Paris, Jan. 29, Eleven lions at the Zoo are!
Marshal Joffre, the victor of only valued at £50 each, whereas big, he believes that the tissues
of the body can fight and win the Marne, will shortly be turned £100 is little for a tiger.
Elephants come out of the their own batt if they are alive out of his home like any ordinary valuation fairly well. Each of the to the danger and angry enough citizen. The seven-year lease on which he held his apartment re- five at the Zoo are worth £600. A against the intruder.
Usually the development of cently expired, and the landlord hippopotamus is pat down at £800. and Jimmy," the little hippo, cancer is insidious and gradual, informed him that the rent would who was bred at the Gardens, and so that the body never becomes be doubled from July 31. is only one year old, is worth angry until it is too late, and Dr. £400. The keepers are exceeding-Lumsden's idea is to force the ly pleased about that. Two enemy to show its true colours pigmy hippos are each worth the early in the struggle.
For this purpose he injects into "Some of my friends tell me to same price.
The whole of the population of the growth a solution of formalin, stay where I am, as the law is on monkey hill, which is made up of which poisons many of the cancer my side," he remarked. "Since I 74 Hamadyas baboons are valued cells, and thus acta free the am over 70 I cannot be turned out. at £740. These are the sacred irritating substances they contain, But I shall not take their advice, previously masked. When my lease is up I shall go and baboons of Egypt, and £10 each which were seems a small price for them. A These substances are carried rest my old bones in some quiet I shall leave be- mountain zebra comes high on away by the blood, and so "infuri-flat or house.
ate" the rest of the body that in (cause I detest lawsuits and legal the list at £260.
When the curator had to value the next week or so there is a quibbles."
A letter from Senor Ramirez, the reptiles, he must have felt sharp pitched battle with the can- like an assistant in a draper's cerous invader-instead of a long, a Spaniard who has lived in shop, or the man who weighs cut mild, and unsuccessful campaign. France for the past forty-seven If the body wins this battle the years, is published in the French butter in a store, for the pythons are valued by the foot, or the victory is final, for the armed newspapers, states an Exchange yard, and giant tortoises by their forces that have been mobilised message, offering Marshal Joffre weight. One python was found are never again wholly disbanded. rent-free accommodation.
Astonishing Success..
"As the owner of properties at to be 25 feet. One can imagine the carator singing out: "That will be $75; madame."
The giant tortoise was put on the scale knowing that he would be worth £100 a cwt. He turned the scale at 3 ewt.
French Army pensions, even those of a marshal, are not very high, and so Marshal Joffre has no option but to leave.
The idea behind Dr. Lumsden's Paris (Pussy) and at Nice," he' plan is not, perhaps, new; but his writes, "I offer to the glorious special methods are original and Marshal a comfortable apartment either place at his his experiments have been aston-at
for the rest of ishingly successful. Since March choice
life. If of last year he has treated 70 rats his
he will honour
The collection of 16 birds of with tumours and has cured 54 us by accepting the sunshine of With increas-Nice he would be happy, comfort- paradise is the most valuable in.e, 77 per cent.
the world. Each bird is worthing experience he has had better able, and long lived, and we £40. King Penguins, as their re- results, and of the 25 rats treated should be greatly obliged to him." Senor Ramirez occupies the gal name suggests, do not go beg- since October 24, 96 per cent.
villa L'Aiglon at Nice. ging. Each of the six are worth have been cured. £75.
The total valuation is made up as follows: Mammals, £24,707; birds, £7,454; fishes, £,050; rep- tiles, £1,525.
PEARL WHITE.
FORMER HUSBAND FOUND SHOT.
It would be rash, of course, to assume from these animal experi ments that the method would! give favourable results in man. and there is no doubt that it could} It should be mentioned in his only be used for the smaller favour, that "George," the alliga- tumours which can generally be tor, is now 90 years old. As he cured by operation. On the other Hollywood. With a bullet in grows older so does he become hand, the time is obviously com- his head, the police found the body fatter and bigger, and the bigger ing when this kind of treatment of Major Wallace McCutcheon, on former husband of Miss Pearl and fatter and older he becomes, must be cautiously tested
White, the famous screen star, ly- up goes his price. He now weighs human beings.
Dr. Lumsden has at various ing in a hotel room. 4 cwts., and, is worth a great
times been overwhelmed with ap- A gin bottle lay near by. With many more pounds in sterling.
plications for treatment, which it was a message which said he cannot possibly undertake as "Have a drink."---
POETRY.
(Continued from Page 10.)
"But when chill blustering
or driving rain, Forbid my willing feet, be
the hut,
1
his time is wholly occupied in ex- Mr. Wallace McCutcheon was a periment. It is necessary to New York matinee idol and film state, therefore, that his methods, star for many years. In 1914 he if they should prove to be of prac- crossed the Atlantic and joined tical value, would become freely the British Army as a privata available to the, public through and was eventually given a com- hospitals and the medical profes-mission. winds,sion at large, which would at once; employ any new and effective weapon against the disease.
mine
That from the mountain side Views wilds, and swelling floods,
"And hamlets brown, and dim-
discovered spires;
THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SCEPTIC.
"I don't believe in patent medi-
And hears their simple bell, and cines," said the sceptic.
marks o'er all
Six Wounds.
His war record was a very fine one. He was wounded half a dozen times before being invalid- ed out. He was then 21.
It was during the filming of "The Black Secret" that Pearl White-the.£600 a week actress- met McCutcheon. They fell in love and married some years ago. Differences, however, arose, and Miss White divorced him in 1922. After that he disappeared for "Why-er-all secret medicinal pre-some time, but later again ap- Nothing could be more typical ofparations," answered the sceptic, peared in Hollywood.
all remedies of which the formula eighteenth-century work, and yet is never divulged. It is senseless
McCutcheon, besides being a
clever dancer.
The dowy fingers draw
The gradual dusky veil."
Just what do you mean by 'patent medicines'?" asked the phy sician..
few things in our literature yield to take medicine if you don't know very fine actor, was an extremely to these lines for quiet beauty.what it contains."
The poetry was capable, moreover, "Of course," suggested the doc- of rising at times to # nable tor, "you, always read a physician'a dignity. Whether Goldsmith or prescription and quite understand Doctor Johnson wrote it, we should what is being given you." search far before we could surpass the fine simile at the close of The Deserted Village:
"As some tall elit that rears its
awful form.
Swells from the vale, and midway
leaves the storm,
"Well, no," admitted the sceptic. "But then, you see, it is a physician who is prescribing, and who knows what he is about."
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SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN
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Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong
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physician who, as the sceptic sug- gests, knew what he was about. Dato.
Though round its breast the roll- Their superior efficacy reats upon March
ing clouds are spread, Eternat sunshine settles on
head."
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