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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1936

THE RAINY DAY

(Continued from Paga 91

But

And in the tin bar behind the mantel clock there was close on

VETERANS BONUS

BILL PASSED

(Continued from Page 6)

sometimes as he paused, one hundred pounds. little Brian would plunge towards There was a season of stormministrative capitals, but him with chabby arms outstretch- and tranquil rain, and in the mael-nowhere so frankly as in Wash- ed and the derisive laughter of low maturity of that year, Mary ington. The "lobby" is the re- the very young.

Then John died. John followed her one ever-presentative of special interests Bates would turn to his ploughing when a mist ruse faintly from which hope by persuasion not again and urge the old horse over the land.

necessarily in corrupt form- the jagged slope, sweating, strain- They were both content, to go to influence Congressmen for ing.

There was sunshine in their sleep, for against a measure.

There has been a consider- The shadow of the rainy day had hung over that simple couple able Veterans' Lobby in Wash- throughout their lives.

ington ever since the Civil War, Brian, up in London, received a after which the men of the legacy-close Que hundred Northern

forces formed pounds..

Grand Army of the Republic. "Dear old Mum and Dad!" he The controller of the present mused; and was aware of an un- Yeterans' Lobby is the Ameri

can Legion. over 1,000,000

on

In time he won the rich earth from under its stony surface, and the furrows ran straight and were alled with seed. The seed sprang to life and the crops came forth.

Brian was getting a big boy now. Brian must have “education."

"Perhaps I could sell some poal-į. ry up in the market. John said suspected-blank in his life. Mary

So John fenced off a corner of his land, and Mary worked among her chickens and ducks until the sun had gone down-feeding, kill- ing, plucking, drawing.

He happened to mention the strong, speaking, for 3,500,000 legacy some time later to Rita ex-Servicemen, and estimated Roberts when they had both decid- to be capable of, swaying 10,- ed how silly it was to wait until 000,00€ votes.

you could “afford" to get married. Through their lobby the ex- "I suppose we'd better hang on Servicemen have been a strong to that," he told her. "You see, and persistent influence in

PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY Seldom now that John's hand the old people-left it, it seems, American pension legislation.

stretched out to draw her close with the idea of me having some- DIRECT

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when the light had gone so that thing for a rainy day."

Nominees

man was

in the stillness of the night life "Rainy applesauce!" retorted seemed to loom more ominously that modern young woman.

At times they have had in "You the administration men who than ever. She found sleep in the might wait years without it ever wore as good as their OWN solace of the tin box...

happening. You're only young nominees. Such a In the morning, long before the once"

Corporal Tanner. President sun had awakened, she would be So. Brian Bates took his bride Harrison's first Commissioner up, loading the produce from John's to the Riviera, and in that plati-of Pensions and Taxes. who land and the poultry from her cor-inum and blue strip of paradise, promised to "drive a six-mule 6,000 29th Feb. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamner into the cart which she drove where the sun shone so, they spent team through the Treasury"

burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & through the dawn to Bristol Mar- the rainy day dowry on a honey and came near to doing so.

Ton

From.. Hons Fons About

1*BURDWAN

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RANCHI

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RAJPUTANA +*BHUTAN

CHITRAL

•BEHAR

KANPURA **SOUDAN

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CORFU RANCHI

17,000 7th Mar. 14,500 21 Mar. 7,000 28th Mar.

17,000

4th Apr.

- 16,000 18th Apr.

Destination.

ket, ten miles away.

And by the time that Brian had grown to the appropriate age: John and Mary had set aside quite an adequate amount for his "edu- cation."

Full Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

Hamburg, Edam & Hell Marseilles, & London.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. 6,000 25th Apr. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-

Then they put on their Sunday burg

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull

clothes one day and went to call} 2nd May Marseilles & London, 17,000 16th May Bombay, Marseilles & London. on Mr. Markley, who preached in 6,000 23rd May Marseilles Havre, London, Han- the little Methodist chapel to ask Botterdam, Antwerp & Hail that eminently respected gentle

14,500

15,000 30th May. Bombay: Havre, London, Ham. Man if he would intercede" for

-6,000

6th June

17,000 33th June

5,000 20th Jane

London. Maarenes burg, Botterdam, Antwerp & Hall. Bombay, Marseilles &

ules & Loader. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall 17,000 27th June Bombay, Marseilles & London. 14,500 11th July Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 25th July Bombay, Marseiller & London.

• Cargo only.

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+ Calls Casablanca. $ Calls Tangier all vessels may call at Malta.

BRITISH INDIA- APCAR SAILINGS

-TILAWA

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10,000 29th Feb.

10.30 am.

8,000

JALALA SIRDHANA- SHIRALA

10,000

14th Mar 29th Mar. $,000 11th Apr. 8,000 25th Apr.

their son,

રા

Mr. Markley was benign enough to make arrangements for Brian to go to

in grammar school Bristol where the boys wore elongated lions on their caps.

Perhaps Brian began, to, grow away from them from then on. Perhaps he had really been doing

moon they remembered for rest of their lives.

THE END..

PAN-ASIATIC FEDERATION

Founder's Visit To Canton

KWANGSI OFFICIALS CONSULTED

1 From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, Yesterday.

the

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Pres Coolidge

and Honolulu Pres. Pierce Midnight Mar. 10 | Pres: Grant.

Noom Mar. 21 Pres. Jefferson Midnight Apr. 7 Pres. Jackson

Noon

Apr. 18 Pres. McKinley

Pres. Lincoln Pres. Hoover

Pres, Cleveland Midnight May 5 Pres. Grant

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Mar. 13 Mar, 27

Apr. 10

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While Tanner was office BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE

there was introduced, à quarter. of a century after the Civil War ended, a Bill providing that any woman who subse- quently married a Civil War veteran should be entitled to al pension after the veteran's death..

Though the application of this Bill was restricted by Grover Cleveland, who succeed- ed Harrison, it cost the Ameri- can Treasury over £500,000,000 in less than twenty years.

In all, Civil War veterans cost the United States nearly. $1,000,000,000 up to 1917.

War Risk Bill.

30 for some time, but John and General Iwane Matsui, founder That summ, however, is small Mary accepted it naturally, quietly of the Pan-Asiatic Federation, re- compared with the expendi-

Mary did not mind now that turned here at 5.15 p., on Tues-tures on ex-Servicemen approv John's rough hand was passionless day aboard a specially chartered ed or projected since the war.

The United States Govern- Such things had been put sway Stinson monoplane from Nanning, with the memory of the years. She provincial capital of Kwangsient did not lack foresight in stooped a little as she held

the where

this connection. be called or General Singapore, Penang. Rangoon and reins on her long journey to the Pai Haung-hsi, deputy head of the 1917 it made an attempt to put When it entered the war in market. John had to rest much 4th Group Army, and General

he toiled

future pension and similar the Huang Hsu-chu, Chairman of the claims on an actuarial basis. land.....

Kwangsi Provincial Government. Brian had decided he wanted to

There W29 introduced A It is learned that General Mat-World War Risk Insurance Bill go into a profession. It took sui discussed the Pan-Asiatic which provided generous, but

But they wanted things movement with the Kwangsi of partly contributory, to be easier for Brian than it had ficials." been for them. -

for American soldiers and their The Japanese visitor left here dependants. Mary urged the horse

yesterday for Hong Kong en route President Wilson described

Calentza.

* Calls Port Swetteriham.

Now is the time to visit,

lands of Sunshine and Eomance, "Down Under" you will. teel a new being and even if you are not inclined towards Suring, Fishing, Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you-inclading 25/-for your pound

IZOTE · GS

money.

on

more as she held the reins,

little

insurance

Australia & New Zealand quicker to the market these days; to Shanghai and Nanking, expect this Bill as, "one of the most the cart was more heavily piled ing to discuss further his doctrine admirable pieces of legislation with produce, and she stooped with Chinese leaders there. that has been proposed in con- High Kuomintang leaders here nection with the War." Samuel The boy had gone up to London have enlightened General Matsui Gompers, the then president of to try his fortune. A year or so, with the necessity of Japan fore the American Federation of and they knew he'd be on his feet going her aggression in China, if Labour, went further and called --independent, maybe. Ther all Mary and he would have to mind the Pan-Asiatic Federation is to the Bill a "perfect piece of

become a real success. about was themselves, B0

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And by the way, there is no additional charge for Deck Cabins and there is of course a Sun Deck Swimming pool, an Orchestra' and a £ne Laundry

A Surgeon and Stewardess are at your disposal and last but not least we had almost-forgotten-the cuisine will set you Satening, eagerly for the gone!

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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

NANKIN

TALMA

RANCHI SIRDHANA *BANGALORE

6th Mr. Shanghai & Japan. 7,000

5th Mar. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan. 10,000 17,000 6th Mar. Shanghai Kobe & Yokohama.

8,000 19th Mar. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan 5,000 19th Mar. Shanghai & Japan. 17.000

NALDERA

SHIRALA

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Brian sent his parents a studio portrait of himself, expensively framed in silver, on the occasion of their silver jubilee. They gave It pride of place in the parlour.

The boy's doin' all right.

Mary."

“Yes, he is É at, John."

ve

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CINEMA NOTES

They had been married, twenty-

What are the arguments pro- years, and Weston-super-

duced in favour of the Banus cent in payments Mare was still twenty miles away throughout the country owing to In the first place, the reply 7 per cent. on motorcars; 2 per

is having a holiday Bill?

estate; 8 per cent on clothing;, And it came to John and May the holding of a plebiscite to de- is made to President Roosevelt cent. on home equipment; and 4 that they really had grown old.termine the form of Government. that he has already introduced per cent on miscellaneous pur-

One day Brian brought a young A large majority of the people sweeping financial measures chases. woman down with him from Lon-demanded a democratic constitu- which benefit certain sections don. One of those modern younz)

"Meet the future Mrs. Bates, you two!" " cried blithely "Rita, to you?”,

Rits Roberts pronounced John and Mary to be quite "priceless:*** like "something out of the past. ¡darlin'."

LORRY WRECKS REFUGE

Part Payment Favoured

(Continued from Page 3.)

ly Courtndidge are co-starred in the new film

Bratida in the Istest of the

the brother

en players

For the past four years' she has

pieces, she was, who looked you on, and that Parliament should of the community, such as the farmers, at the expense of straight in the eyes and laughed commist of two Chimbers.

There is also yet another at life.

Two years ago. Estonia was other sections.

school of thought which Brian placed under martial law, which What section, it is asked, is favours part payment of the Forbes Brian continued until the present, owing more deserving of favour than borns now, not because it con-screen,

to disorders laid-by the Radicala the men who saved the country siders such payment a good Ealph ha

18 years ago? That argument thing, but because it believes for several years Reuter's Bulletin Service.

is advanced with particular that it will stave of further vigoar in the Hearst Press, raids on the United States which says the ex-soldiers are Treasury until, full payment of been in Katharine Cornelli com- After Brian had whisked his

entitled to receive their bonus the bongs becomes due in 1945, any, on the lady-love away again. John and A lorry skidded in St. Paul's-when they need it-BOW, Mary looked at each other so churchyard last month, mocked A further reason advanced Presidents have been against

As a general rule American the role of solemnly, and at last the former down & refuge post and a lamp for immediate-part payment of bonus payments. Every Prest with Miss Coran {ventured:

standard, crashed into some iron the bonus is that the distribu- dent from Harding onwards !tion: what do you think of her. railings, and weturned, Imprison- tion of so huge a sum would has vetoed one or other of the Incidentally, Uns O'Connor, who

ging the driver in his exbin. give a very desirable fillip to many Bonus Bills introduced

American retail trade.

in Norma Shearer's As a rule Congress both screen presentation is also in the The American Legion recent the House of Representatives cast of "The Farfect Gentleman,” ly conducted a survey to dis-and the Senate have been in playing Frank Morgan's sustere cover how bonus money would favour of the Bonus Bilis

But the Presidential veto has

Mary

"She's the bar's sweetheart. John

[know what was best for himi In

NEW CATHEDRAL

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"The Barratta

sister.

Les. She created in Wimpole Street" stage, prodne

For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc, ziply And, of course, Brian would THE ARTisz

that brilliant, bewildering world Gifts and promises for the be spent. in which Tolm and Mary had never building of the new cathedral at It found that the money hitherto held the field in many Tim Whelan directed the Ed- had their being.

Guildford total over" £39,000. would be spent sa to 31 per instances because the Senate ward Childe Carpenter comedy of cent to pay old bills; 17 per has not maintained its favour London life. Henry Stephenson, One case of diphtheria was re-cent. on savings and invest to the extent of the two-thirds' Richard Waring Beather Angel, ported to the Health authorities in ments: 14 per cent on home majority which is necessary to Herbert Mundia, and Ivan Simp- the 24 hours ended on Tuesday. construction and repairs; 11 per override the Presidential veto. son are in the cast.

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Mary stopped going to the "mar-

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Joan could no longer toll on the land.