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I have seen the development of time from the Cape cart and even ox-waggon days, to the huge power- fa motor methods of travelling; many experiences, hard, pleasant and otherwise, have been my lot that would take pages and pages to describe them, even if I were able.
I remember my first journey from London to Birmingham, as an assistant to an experienced travel. ler of many years. In those days carried half a ton of samples, which had to be taken around on barrows; it was usual to see buyers by appointment; the barrow charges were 1s. 6d. per hour for the first hour, and la. after. An average customer would take two hours to go through my range. Three customers a day took a little clock-watching when 22s. 6d. was the average day's expenses; that had to include "boots" and general commercial hotel charges. Really, there were no fortunes or billiard tables to be made out of "exes." But with a magnificent salary of 30%. per week as a single man, I enjoyed every moment of it. Bal sall Heath, Acocks Green, etc., fell lo my lot to work as assistant; no New Street clients were on my list of calls. The shops I visited at the start had bells ringing when the door was pushed open, and the family-mother, father, and two the daughters-usually selected order. After many discussions and differences of opinion, I generally left with a £20 £90 order. I was only 18 years old in those days, and quite content to learn the tricks of the road, and have profit- ed by them.
was
The old traveller in England was a character that is fast dying out, I am sorry to say, because with the. big firms of to day there is a len- dency to give preference to the young and experienced man at a cheap salary. I am not criticising British commercial methods; I dared not presume to do so. Figures of export and import trade speak for themselves. May they long continue to improve. But, as the sellers are changing, so are the buyers. There does not exist to the same extent to-day that wonder. ful feeling of confidence that buyers placed in old representa- tives' advice. Men in England get into grooves, appointments are made sometimes after a struggle
and samples inspected. If they suit "His Highness," the numbers are usually snatched and, "All right, I will post the order on."-- From the reminiscences of an old timer after revisiting England. ("On the Road," South Africa.)
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Pally's start was made at four o'clock in the morning; at eight o'clock in the evening of the day following he was found by a Budapest policeman in an exhaust- ed condition, having made the 120 kilometres on the stones at the side of the railway line, barefooted, and running most of the way. re-united with the party. Pally ex- pressed himself as satisfied that he had not missed the treat after all; but he was totally unable to com- prehend why his arrival caused so out a moment's hesitation he start-much excitement among the grown- ed to run after the train.
The priest of the scattered farms of Majsajakabszallas, who recently accompanied thirty children from the elementary school on a three days visit to Budapest, relates that when the train in which the children embarked left the station, a small boy named Pally Fekete was left behind. The prospect of missing the sights of the capital which had been described to him aroused such despair in Pally's breast that with
ups.
Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm
WEALTHIEST GERMAN
TO-DAY
STILL OWNS 25,000 ACRES
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X-KAISER WILHELM lost very little by his exile in a financial way, for it is reckoned that he is to-
dey not only the wealthiest of deposed or exiled monarchs, but is perhaps the richest Ger- man, largely because of the terms exacted by him from the State in settling his claims against it.
In 1926 the head of the house of
Hohenzollern received a State in- demnity of $3,750,000 for curtain property claims, surrendered-ta At the same time there Into the Irrevocable posses- alon
of the family enstica, twenty villas and 260,000 acres of land,
fis maintenance of a sort of mock royal court at Dooen taises toll of between $50,000 and $100,000
an adequate income taxend
EX-KAJBER WILHELM...
of illa, money annually, it is anti- mated, but the Dutch, on the other as such in her husband'a Dutch Hand, complate that he does not pay place of exile.
The deposed monarch bas had to Wilhelm's entourage is a very contend with many domestic dia- substantial one and includes a quilles during his stag Doorn. number of satellites who loyally One culminated in the marriage of subscribe to the idea that what has a sister to a Russian who had for- happened has not changed the en- merly been a dishwasher and more tate of their coyal master; that he recently a post and
la emperor lo Dct as he once was dancer, Three of his six sona haya In Arme. For their loyalty they been tovolved in
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Prince are gald handsome salaries, live on Joachim, the youngest, I was the fat of the land and hope with sorted by his wife, Princess Marle the deposed monarch for his evan-top Anhell, and committed suicide. - lual reatorution.
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IMPERIAL AIRCRAFT
GREAT STRIDES SINCE THE WAR
Jimmy McCord, left, young Omake plutocrat, whom his wife diveread after a sensational trial. Right, pretty Mrs. Lorraine McCord, former madel, who asked "suitable alimony $20,000 in jewale, $81,000 in Inaur. ance and a few other trifles, and who testified to wild midnight whooper parties, charging her husband with being the chlaf whoopto-maker.
BEAT HER UNDER INFLUENCE
| Sylvester Rush, eminent atterrisy and special prosecutor for the Fed- eral Government in charge of mail traud Investigations who is re- membered for his successful expose of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, North Pole "discoverer,"
Miles Rush's testimony was to this effect: Jimmy McCord, she testl- HOOPEE-MAKING on fled, 4ki drink a lot, and was in the
W "Tiger's Milk--a gal-habit of calling attention of men
Ion of alcohol plus a fronds to the beauty of his wife's gallon of water-as celebrated legs At other times ha humiliated, among a certain set in Omaha, beat and otherwise abused her.
Captain Hinman's testimony was was elucidated during the ten-chiefly concerned with a raid on a. day court hearing of pretty midnight bathing party in Carter Mrs. Lorraine McCord's di- Lake, near Omaha, last year, In vorce suit against her wealthy which twelve couples were arrested, husband, Jimmy McCord, club-Jalled in Council Bluffs, and after nam.ee, Corfelted man and genial social spirit of slving ctitious
their $50 bonds. All the arrestees the Nebraska city.
wors of social distinction, bist be Mrs. McCord, a former clerk and cause of the allages they gave the model in Chicago department episode got Httle publicity unit the store, sought to win, in addition to
captain's revelations, Shortly after. her marital freedom, "snitable all-wards he was transferred to Waali-
many. $20,000 in jewelry, 382,000 Jagton,
in insurance and $10,000 worth of household furnishings.
The trial abounded in
F. McCord, before a throng of 2,000 packing the largest court-
room
Aircraft progress since the War has rande strides greater than are generally recognized. Never, per- haps, did an instrument, destined, as The Master of Sempill reminded Sir George Foster's audience, to affect the future relations of thei peoples of the world, advance at once more surely and less ostentatiously. Nor is its increasing value confined, to communications Major Cocktan Patrick recently explained at an afternoon meeting of the Society how the seroplane is reducing to simplicity and efficiency the survey in weeks of vast and difficult tracts of country in Africa, America and elsewhere that would ordinarily take years if, that is, any survey. at all were possible.. The Empire is contracting year by year under the enterprise and daring of the airman and the improvement in the craft. Ten years ago the Atlantic was Mall is in being, and the return of 000 miles without a single fatal ac- first flown; it has been flown since, the Royal Air Force pilots who cident. Unhappily, within three and this year was flown by two made the non stop flight to India daya, the splendid record, was" Frenchmen on the tonth anniver- and but for adverse winds in the broken by disaster tó, sary of Sir John Alcock's and Sir Persian Gulf would not only have the London Parisliner, the James Whitten Brown's pioneer beaten the long distance record, but "City of Ottawa," which in achievement.
probably have flown as far as volved the loss of life of seven of Trouble In the interval, British Empire Ceylon, cannot fail to stir the im the eleven passengers. aylators, the Smith Brothers, Siragination
developed fifteen miles after leaving Pierre Van Ryneveld, Sir Alan At a luncheon on June 14, to com- land and though the pilot made Cobham, Bentley, Hinckler, Lady memorate the tenth anniversary of heroic efforts to return, he was Bailey, and others have blazed the the Atlantic flight, Lord Thomson forced to descend in the sea. What trail of what will some day be Im referred to the achievement of Im actually happened we shall not know perial air routes to Australia, India perial Airways which in less than till inquiry has been held-United and South Africa. The India Afr four years, had flown nearly 4,000, Empire.
got intoxicated and socked her. Ho and thrills, including revelations of avaliable testified that Jimmy “nature dances” parformed by some also had a habit of remarking to ef Omaha's most prominent citizens," | his friends on her "keen form, and touched now and then on Mr. Their liquor bills, she cold, ran McCord's excessive pride in his trom $200 to $450 a month, the fa wlto's anklas: lavish drinking, Dazed vorite Úpple being "Tiger'a : Milk." fles where the cocktails were not The bases of the drink were alcohol sulated; midalght bathing parties and water, with lemon, orange, and followed by arrests, and family pineapple jules added. apats and squabbles.
There probably will be a decrease McCord, in testifying against his in the consumption of Tigers Omaha's younger. wite, named two men. But the E
waong mostly highly colored statements married sct, to believed, an un from the witness stand were those outcome of the bitter icCord legal of-Minn„Angellus Rush, daughter of Battle,
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