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EVERYWHERE

KIPLING BANNED IN AUSTRIA ·

The American Ambassador's statement at the Kipling Society luncheon" that "he had read everý line of Kipling" could be repeated Cruthfully by many of his com- patriota.

Kipling's popularity in the States is remarkable. A kading publish-

BRITAIN AFRAID OF DROUGHT

FARMERS TOO SCARED TO GRUMBLE

COUNTRYMAN'S PHILOSOPHY

(By A. G. Street.)

O-DAY it is not a case of the happy enough, but some of the weather being good for one other creatures are in a bad way. er in New York, when asked how crop and bad for another. To-day A towneman neighbour who had he trained his salesmen, said: the weather is bad for everything, been trying to catch a mole in "I send them out on the road and, in consequence, the country- his garden a few weeks ago found with nothing but acts of Kipling's man grumbles less than usual, the culprit running about on top works, he said. "If he can't sell Why? Because he is afraid. The of the ground three mornings fol- them I know he is no good."

long-continued drought, which has lowing last week, squeaking as "The Jungle Book" has been put now lasted for more than twelve though in distress. He had not on the black list in Australia. An months, is without precedent even the heart to kill the little animal, ultra-clerical censor has detected in the memory of the oldest in-and it was evident that the ground pantheistic tendencies in Mowgli's habitants of the village, and coun- was too hard and dry for it to adventures.

RUSSIAN ZIONIST

try dwellers are afraid for the burrow; su on the third morning future. They know that each sea he picked up the mole and put it son brings Its special peculiarities, into an old burrow, down which but always in the past these have it went like a streak of velvet. And Max Baer is not the only Jewish levelled up to somewhere near only, a few weeks ago he had bor heavyweight in the world'' Middle-

average over the year. A dry sum-rowed a trap from a farmer neigh aged Peter Rutenberg, bullt on met has been followed by a wet bour! Carmera lines, has arrived in Lon-winter or spring, but the recent So everybody and everything in don. He was a Russian Social, sequence of а dry

summer, the countryside is suffering from Revolutionary, but to-day is a lead dry winter, a dry spring, lack of rain, and all are worried ing Zionlet.

Land a dry summer is be and afraid; for this long-con- Thirty years ago he was the yond their comprehension, and so tinued drought is beyond their collaborator of Savinkoff, a conthey grumble leas and fear the comprehension. Some of my federate of Kerensky.

friends have not been able to When Father Gapon, the sinister To the casual towa visitor the have a bath in their own bath- priest who led the Russian work patch-work quilt with which our rooms since March: when the need men to their slaughter in the farming industry clothes the coun for cleanliness becomes pressing Winter Square, in St. Petersburg, tryside looks about the same. But they drive to the nearest neigh= on that "bloody Sunday" in January to the countryman it looks very hour whose water supply still 1945, was discovered to be an different from its customary ap functions, and in some villages agent-provocateur, Rutenberg was pearance at this season. He be Monday's washing-day 'la becom-

moans the fact that it is a faded ing a holiday. quilt, and one which has faded at Must Keep Fighting least two months too early in the What to the countryside doing

༈ F* ་ ༈ བ་》 The China Mail he seems to have cornered all delegated to remove him.

the halfpennies, how are we to toss up a million tons of them TRIED TO HANG TROTSKY

thing is to agree with him, and

more.

Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 25, 1934, by way of experiment? The best During the Kerensky Revolution year. Grass, which is far and to combat this state of affairs? In

The Spin Of A Coin.

away the largest and most im some districts countryfolk are Bave all trouble. In his Ludwig he was one of the police chiefs of

portant crop of British farming, is hauling water-an expensive busf Mond lecture on "The New Uni- was responsible for the suppression the poorest crop that he has ever less. In others they are deepen- Verse" at the University of Man was

known. In many hayfields iting their wells and sinking new chester two years ago, here of the first Bolshevist attempt at would be possible to hunt a mouse ones; and in every district they When England won the toss in marked that the human mind e coup d'etat in July 1917. The farmer realises that the hay are wondering why our adminis the fourth test match. it is in could seldom penetrate far into He captured Trotsky and was already made and ricked is of trators did not teresting to note that England the darkness which lay beyond prepared to hang him on the spot; first-class quality, but when he efficient water supply in rural establish an had won the spin of the coin 67 the circle of light formed by but in view of the importance of looks at the Little ricke in the mid England before they bothered times and Australia 66 times. affect observational knowledge, his prisoner he telephoned to dle of the large fields he wonders about electricity. Nothing could be closer than but it was clear as daylight that Kerensky for instructions. that. It shows how fair, in the "the trembling universe must Kerensky's reply was that a winter. long run, is this age-old method have been balanced with almost Socialist Government does not of reaching a decision. Menyanthinkable precision." "What countenance capital punishment. matters of great moment have uncanny law of precision have Trotsky was liberated and history been decided by the toss of awe operating in the case of changed." coin or the drawing of lots. Was the half-pennies!

not one of the Apostles elected

how he will keep his stock next

But they do not grumble much because they are afraid, and when Wealth Of Bloom {people, especially countryfolk, are Many of the patches of grain afraid; syen while they battle Westendere pare not a pleasing sight. On very against adversity with all their bad light land and on land which might and with the aid of every has been badly cultivated or over-invention of mankind, they turn to Your Daily Smile!

cropped the wheat has dried right fundamental things for comfort. out and exhibits a sickly yellow Witness this remark of an old

a result. Spring countryman of seventy-five: "We.

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and far too many of them areThe countryman smothered in yellow charlock. An sounder philosophy than the politi old country rhyme about oats cian or the would-be dictator. A life lived in close contact: with the runs something like this:

run soil of England has left no doubt at all in his mind as to Who really mankind the necessary

in this way? It is one thing to Verily, it would seem that have an even chance, and "an- there is nothing in the heavens other thing to have only one above, nor on the earth below. Rastus way sent to the general chance in a thousand or a minor in the waters under the store, "My boss," he said to the clerk, countenance as tion. When it is simply a choice earth, that can escape the Law!wants a pane of glass nine by leren corn is in even worse case. Some maun keep on fightin, but we've "Hain't got none that size, Rastus, oat fields are coming into ear at come droo avore, an' I 'low we shall as between two persons, or two Back of the spinning top, which said the joking clerk, but, will a 'leven not more than eight inches high, agen, please God." sides, each has exactly the same is a pázzle to every child, we by nine pane da?" chance of success as the other; have the spinning earth and "I try " replied Reston; Some Judges have even allowed spinning universe, an enigma tomabbe if we slip 'er in sideways no certain questions arising in us all. And multitudes of phen- body'll notes it." court to be decided in this way; omena find us without any coher- and a few years ago, when Sen-ent explanation. The 'strangest ators Kingsmill and Lynch fled things happen, and we know not for the Presidency of the Senate or why. Up in Mackay, in at Canberra, the matter was de-Queensland, a year or two ago, a termined by drawing from a hat. Woman purchased a card of darn-

ing-wool, Though Senator Lynch was a

She used the' wool, little bit upset by the result, he and threw the card on the floor.

A lady was viewing an exhibi- June, and unless a lot of rain WHARF COOLIE AND was not at all resentful, and One of the children picked it up,

comes soon they will sing a dirge when the time for the next electore part of it off, and disclosed tion of the Siamese Twins.

"If this

"Sisters, I presume?" she murat harvest time. tion came round his fellow Sen-some handwriting

mured. ators did the correct thing, and should meet the eye of will r duly installed him in office. And the please communicate with her sister?" The name and address so it is with test matches and everything else.

of the writer, who was working A great deal depends upon the "luck of the the card factory owing to game," but we can be sure that family misfortunes, were given.

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for

"Perhaps so. but certainly not

an absurd figure."

+ +

Ah. Discernment:

Dry Room Preferred - Hotel Clerk: "Inside or outside room, sir?”

Guest (from the prairies): "In-

rain.

Oate in May make a man

away, Oats in June tell another tune. grants Usually that is true enough, for power and permission to live." oats as a rule pick up wonderfully In the latter month, but this year oats are singing a poor tune in

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which

SISTER-IN-LAW.

When Purse Strings Withdrawn.

The only compensation this unprecedented-"drought": "has brought is an increase of colour in the patchwork quilt. This season It has been gaudy. Never before

Loung Kan, a 24-year-old wharf have I seen such a wealth of bloom coolie, was fined $25, in default everywhere. Fruit trees, timber one months' imprisonment, by Mr.

even though there may be a suc-And the sister lived next door wide, I guess. It looks like a trees, wildflowers, crops, weeds, E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon

Americans En Tour

to the woman who bought the

it that sent that particular card

never get around!"

A Broad Question?,

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stand."

the hedgerowa were hung with t may blossom like snow in summer,

cession of spins against us, the pltimate result is absolutely fair fard! What strange chance was Visitor In Museum: "Sayl. don't none have retained in blood foraging the iron-grill door of No. all have bloomed in profusion, but Magistracy this morning for dam to both sides.

This is one of the most fascin- of darning-wool to Australia-to start looking at thinga, or we'll very long. For two or thres days 980 Canton Road on July 17. ating of mysteries No mathe

the Mackay, of all places to a pur

Inspector Kennedy stated that matical. proposition

was ever chaser who lived next door, to the

but a few days later this sweet he had been making a nuisance of more certain of proof, and yet it woman whose sister wished to It was a social event. The young scented bloom was turned into a himself by visiting Leung Kip, his cannot be proved mathematically communicate with her? And was man had just been introduced to the rusty brown. It was the same sister-in-law, and demanding It just happens, and we are stag child to tear the card which had awkward silence, he ventured:

it merely chance that caused the young lady, and after a brief and gered for a reason." There would

with every bloom-a riot of colour money from her. He had been almost seem to be an absolute been thrown to the floor? When You are from the West. I under- for a very short time only, and doing this for several months, but "law of chance;" considering We speak of coincidence, what yes, from Indians," the replied; faded

o the frogs are looking her money supply was running low she had decided not to pay things quantitatively. Nobody exactly do we mean? What do "Hoosier girl"

any more to him, so the locked the can say, when a penny is tossed we mean by chance? It is the The young man started and flush- Birds Change Habits

door. up, whether it will come down subject of one of Conrad's greated deeply why-er-really be Even the wild birds and beasts

When he came she ordered him head or tail (though gentlemen est novels. It is, indeed, a sub-stammered - don't know that Je, and fishes have been compelled to

haven't quite decided yet.” with erperience in some of the fect beyond the reach of our

alter their habite for went of away so he ran downstairs picked "two-up" schools may differ on poor human minds.We think

water. Some of the smaller up a big brick and returned and this point); yet scientists tell us we know so much, and we know Facts You Did Not Know streams have dried up entirely started hitting the door. He dam- that if you throw up a large en-80 very little. Shakespeare sum

and the remainder are shrunken aged the grill so much that it ough quantity of pennies half med it all up with Hamlet's Experiments are under way in an into mere trickles. There are no could not be opened.

"In future you leave your sise will come down heads and half words to Horatio: There are Ohio city in the construction of repuddles and no mud in the coun

ter-in-law and her,; money tails. At least, Sir James Jeans more things in heaven and earth wees from steel sheets, welded to try to-day, and all the swe

sald Mr. Wynne. Jones. says so in his book on The My-

than are dreamt of in your phi-gether without frames. sterious Universe." If we goin`a losophy!" halfpenny, he says, nothing with in our knowledge may be able to decide whether it will come down head or tall; but if we throw

MINE LAYER FOR CANTON,

alone

JUDGE RETURNING TO TUNGKUAN

and martins have to visit Virtually every dwelling in Copen-

river's edge in order to obta hagen has electricity for light and meterial for their house building. power and about one tenth are heated You can see them in hundreds by from central plants,

the village ford. In many chalk |streams, so beloved by the dry-fy Chromium platedpiston pins have been invented that are asserted to feherman, the fish have been the First Group in which they are used,

river level to congregate in the ese Judge at the Inter rotection

mill pools, and that mile of good Court of Justice, Dave water has beer

"A" new "ming layer, bough

up a million tons of halfpence General Chen Chi-tang, Comman last as long the automobile meters driven by the lowness of the].

know there will be 500,000 tons

of heads and 500,000 tons of n-chief- tails Sir James says the ex Arnty for

periment may be repeated times ton, arrived at the Whampoa River

without number and the result two day will always be the same. But as

The boat was

2. foreign concerny

Chromium, plated piston pins writer firmly on a person's

Living in the Unit

The

Dr. Wang Chung-hul, the Chin

fa,mere fraY6: His at present ing to Tangl and bares seem 'trict