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SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1933.

BEDRIDDEN WOMAN'S

STRANGE VISION

Obeyed Command To Rise And Walk.-

MIRACULOUS CURE

Johannesburg.

Correspondence.

DETAILS OF PRESIDENT MADISON MISHAP.

THE CHINA MAIL

BEWITCHED BY ANTo-Day Short Story.

ECLIPSE

Aged Zulu Woman's

Reminisences.

UKATE THE CAT

Durban.

memory

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By Edgar. Allan Poe.

FROG

NEVER knew anyone

...

80 I believe the name "Hop-Frog"

(To The Editor "Chlas Mail.") A remarkable story of how a Sir,--With reference to the re- A Zulu woman whose death

his sponsors at baptism, but it was woman who was bed-ridden and cent accident to our "President by strangulation was ordered by keenly alive to a joke as the was not that given to the dwarf by had been unable to move her legs Madison, a report of which was Tahaka 116 years ago lives to king was. He seemed to live conferred upon blin, by general con or hands for 12 months was sud-run in your newspaper several days day at a kraal in the Upper Ton-only for joking. To tell a good sent of the seven "ministers, on ae- A story of the joke kind, and to tell count of his inability to walk an denly able to walk about and to ago, I have pleasure in advising gaat district.

other men do. In fact, Hop-Frog She is Ukati (the cat"), whose to knit has been revealed. This that we have received further parti

ft well, was the surest, road to could only get along by a sort of seemingly miraculous change con- culars regarding this accident, mother fled from the royal kraal curred after a vision of her which you may use as a news item with her Infant daughter when his favour. Thus it happened interjectional galt something be the tyrant king ordered that that his seven ministers were all tween a leap and a wriggle a grandmother, who had been dead in your paper if you sp desire.

every female baby should be kill noted for their accomplishments movement that afforded illimitable for 26 years, came to her one

amusement, and of course consola- Radio advice from Amercian Mall ed. morning and told her she must

are to To-day Uknti is frail, but her as jokers. They all took after tion, to the king. get up. She was terrified at the Line Executives in Seattle

carries back to the the king, too, in being large, cor. But although Hop-Frog, through time, but later had her shoes and the effect that at the time of the stockings brought, to her and accident, the "President Madison" days of slaughter when Tshaka pulent, oily men, as well as in the distortion of his legs, could move only with great pain and dif- got out of bed and walked about was in Todd's ship-yard at Seattle, ruled and moulded the Zulu na-imitable jokers.

culty along a road or floor, the pro-↑ the house to the utter astonish- undergoing her annual overhaul and tion, to his assassination by

About the refinements, or, as he digious muscular power which na- was not at her regular wharf as Dingham and to the murder of ment of her family.

Piet Retief and his band.

called them, the "ghosts" of wit, the ture seemed to have bestowed upon The woman is Mrs. Sophie was at arst reported.

It is by the latter fact that she king troubled himself very little, his arms, by way of compensation Kruger, aged 49, of La Rochelle, Among the repairs that were tak- Johannesburg. From July 15 lasting place as a part of her annual fixes her wedding date. She as-He had an especial admiration for for, deficiency in the lower limbs. enabled him to perform many feats year until December 30 she was overhaul, three large steel platesserts that she married a messen- in the Chronic Sick Home at were removed from the steamer's ger from the royal kraal a few breadth in a jest, and would often of wonderful dexterity, where trees put up with length, for the sake of or ropes were in question, or any Rietfontein, pronounced incur-hull on the starboad side just above days before the murder.

În due course she bore a son, it Over-niceties wearied him. thing else to climb. able. She was suffering from waterline. These three plates were

I am not able to any, with pre- and when it was being born, she Upon the whole, practical rheumatoid · unthritis and heart being replaced with new plates.

clsion, from what country Hop-Frog trouble. During this time she

jokes suited his taste. far better

It was from sume originally came. A change of the trim of the ship declares, the people came run! was unable to do anything. Mrs. brought the open space in the hull ning to tell her that the sun had

barbarous region, however, that not Kruger lay on her back and had, where these three plates had been covered its face and darkness than verbal ca

At the date of my narrative, pro-person ever heard of vast dis had fallen on the land. to be carried everywhere; she removed to below the waterline, .could not walk and could not allowing huge quantities of water to

This statement is verified by fessing Jesters had not altogether tance from the court of our king. ont of fushion at court. Hep-Frog, and a young girl very move her hands. Later it was flood the ship, causing the steamer scientific fact Piet Retief was gone

little less dwarfish thun himself decided that her condition was to settle in an almost upright posi-murdered in 1838, and early in Several of the great continental (although of exquisite proportions, such that she might take a holi-tion on a mud bottom, the super-1889 there was a total eclipse of "powers still retain their "fools, and a marvellous dancer), had been day and accordingly she was structures remaining above water. the sun visible in Natal.

who wore motley, with caps and forcibly carried off from their re- taken home on December 30. Her The steamer being at Todd's ↑ Ukati believes that the eclipse condition remained apparently Ship-yard wharf, there were

blighted her life, for the six sons bella, and who were expected to be spective homes In adjoining pro- vinces, and sent as presents to the precisely the same and her hus-passengers on board at the time and she bore all died young - either always ready with sharp, witticisms, king, by one of his ever victorious band was making arrangements our cable advises that all members the victims of murder or witch-], ut a moment's notice, in considera-generals. to have a wheel-chair made for of the crew are safe and uninjured. craft. But one daughter Bur- her so that she could be pushed No difficulty is expected' in closing from one room to another when the open space in the steamer's hull his strange vision came to her. land reffoating the vessel.

The vision came to her at half past six in the morning.

"I saw my grandmother stand- ing beside the bed," said Mrs. Kruger, "She looked at me and said, 'It's Wednesday to-day. Your time is up and you have to walk around the house." I got an awful fright and began to cry.]

Yours, etc.,

J. W. MORRIS,

Passenger Agent, Dollar Steamship Lines and

American Mail Line.

Hong Kong, March 31, 1933.

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My grandmother then disappear. REUNITED AFTER 56|

ed and my little son, who was in

the room, woke up and called my] husband. My husband came inj

YEARS.

with a shaving brush in his hand Romance Of Australian

and soap on his hand and face.

He told me not to take any no-

tice and to lie down. Then he went to work. A little later I

Settlers.

vived. She is now about 90 tion of the crumbs that fell from years of age, and lives with the the royal table. fold woman and their descendants.

Ukati is a great-great-grand-| mother. Reuter.

PARENTS' EVENING.

Kowloon Union Church.

Our king, as a matter of course, retained his "fool." The fact is, he required something in the way of folly if only to counterbalance the heavy wisdom of the seven wise men who were his ministers--not to mention himself.

MONDAY'S STORY,

Monday's story will be "The Temptation of Har ringay," by H. G. Wells,

!

two

After that I got up and walked Holman, after 50 years of search- auccess of the entertainment.king that in Hop-Frog (this was the On some grand State occasion-1

Under these circumstances, It is His fool, or professional jester,

Hie not to be wondered at that a clove wan not only a fool; however. value was trebled in the eyes of the intimacy arose between the

Indeed, they acon There was a large gathering at king by the fact of his being also little captives.

cripple. Dwarfs became sworn friends. Hop-Frog. the Kowloon Union Church Hall, dwarf and last night, when the Superinten-were as common at court, in those who, although he made a great deal dent and teachers of the Sunday days, as fools; and many monarchs of sport, wus by no means popular, School were hosts at a Parents' would have found it difficult to get had it not in his power to render daya without Trippetta many services; but she, Evening. Dr. E. L. Allen presided. through their.

Vocal, pianoforte and violin solos both a jester to laugh with and, a on account of her grace and ex- But your quisite beauty (although a dwarf), Sydney. were rendered by scholars and High-dwarf to laugh at. called my daughter. I felt I had Mrs. W. Thompson of Crow's land and Irish dances figured pro-jesters, in ninety-nine cases out of a was universally admired and petted: hundred, are fat, round and un-so she possessed much-influence; and the will to get up. I told her to Nest, near Sydney, has been re-minently.

wieldy so that it was no small never failed to use it, whenever she bring my shoes and stockings, united with her brother, James

The following contribute to the source of self-gratulation with our could, for the benent of Hop-Frog. to the kitchen without assistance.ing. Mr. Holman left his father'a

Helen Taylor, Sheena Taylor, Stella fool's name), he possessed a tripli- forget what the king determined to It has been too marvellous," farm at Northam, Devonshire, în Wicker, Peggy Ferguson, Joan

have ¡cate treasure in one person.

a masquerade, and when The same night her husband 1877, and come to Australia. ·

ever a masquerade or Mrs. Thompson followed her McFayden, Harel Millington, Mrs. JS. Logan, Ronnie Sellwood

thing of that kind occurred at our brother and has been 44 years in

Margaret McFayden. Margaret N.S.W

was astounded to see his wife! open the door to him when he came home from work and her

she saw her mother walking. Reuter.

WILD AGAIN. Denver Society's Plan To Foil Kidnappers.

any-

Frog and Trippetta were sure to be called into play." Hop-Frog, In especial, was so Inventive in the way of getting up pageants, suggesting

When she married four Mackle, Robert Provan, Jean Gray WOOLLY WEST GOES Court, then the talents both of Hop- daughter almost fainted when years after her arrival, she oc-and Johnann Holland.

cupied a house at. Blue's Point, where there were then only a few scattered houser. A few years later she moved to Crow's Nest and' occupied a house hidden in the scrub. She made every effort to trace her brother, but was unsuc- cessful.

42 YEARS TO PAY.

ALIMONY DEBT.

New Ruling In New York. She recently noticed in the news

· State Supreme Court,

News In Brief.

The Organising Committee of the British Empire Fair to be held at the Peninsula Hotel next May,

Denver, Colorado.. Six shooters have become, once

novel characters, and arranging costumes for masked balls that nothing could be done, it seems, | without his assistance.mi

The night appointed for the fete gratefully acknowledges a contribu-more part of the costume of the had arrived. A gorgeous ball had tion of $25 from Messrs. Amritlal well-dressed man and his servants been fitted up, under Trippetts'a paper which she bought that brother and sister had found each Ojha & Co., Ltd. towards the ex- here as a result of the kidnapping eye, with every kind of device which of Charles Boettcher. 31-year-old could possibly give eclat to a mas- other after 60 years, and she re-perises of the Fair.

heir to millions.

Mequerade. The whole court was in a doubled her, efforts. She sent let A Justice of the State Supremeters to every State, and finally re- The final concert to be given by This taking to arms by the city's fever of expectation. As for Court, who insists that "the time is ceived a notice from the Electorial the Schneider Trio in Hong Kong, smart social circles has extended to costumes and characters, It might past when we should throw men into office in South Australia that her will take place at the Hong Kong chauffeurs, gardeners and other ser- well be supposed that everybody, had jail for civil debta" bas Imposed a brother had been 53 years on his Hotel Roof Garden, at 0.15 pm, on vitors of wealthy homes. Probably come to a decision on such points. "fine" upon an alimony delinquent, farm at Salisbury. She wrote to April 5. The Trio will leave the the most completely armed of these Many had made up their minde (as but gave the defendant 42 years and him, and he came to Sydney and Colony on April 6 for a tour of -eleven months in which to pay iti

New York

The fine of £103, the amount of the defendant's arrears, was ordered paid at the rate of 4/- a month.- Reuter...

OLDER WOMEN EARN MORE..

U.S. Labour Bureau's Statistics.

Chicago. 'Silver threads among the gold no

spent a holiday, Reuter,

South Africa and South America.

Bernard Shaw Has His Fun With

the chauffeur of Mr. Paul to what roles they should assume). Mayo, wealthy sportsman and for a week, or even a month, in ad- mer member of the diplomatic servance; and, in fact, there was not a vice. His driver appears for duty particle of indecision anywhere wearing_two__pistols in holsters except in the case of the king and strapped to a belt over his uniform his seven ministers, tunicBeuter.

Hesitated I never could tell; they did it by way of a joke.

Reporters Upon Reaching US.A. TUBERCULOSIS ON venta, time flew and, as a

DECLINE.

sort they sent for Trippetts Hop-Frog-A

When the two little frier

Melbourne Figures Showet the summons of

Less Deaths.

de bourne.

San Francisco told them he was not interested in. George Bernard Shaw, the Irish Hollywood. wit arrived in San Francisco Bay He departed from San Francisco super by airplane for San Simeon, the on March 24 on the Empress of ranch home of William Randolph Britain for his first glimpse of Hearst on the coast between here! longer menu that the business wa America and summarised his emo and Los Angeles, and sald" he A decrease in the number of

thought he would go directly to Los tuberculosis notifications and man is, past her maximum earning tionn

Angeles harbour to board the the number of deaths from tu capacity.

Empress of Britain without so much berculosis has been reporte as taking a peck at the movie the Clinical Officer at the S

Kun Tuberculosis Bureau Shaw Tarred. Ireland, and Man- He added that there had. churia, and juggled the question of

You Americans are the most

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The Women's Bureau of the Unit-tranminary infants in the world ed States Department of Labour has

table wit his be announced that results of statistics

Fataldod/

tue with show that age is an asset in omny slightly lines of endeavour,

hould Aft

Questionnaires submitted to wo- men workers revealed that women Over 60 years earn the highest

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