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MUTT AND JEFF

DARLING, I LOVE You!

I LOVE YOU SO

VERY, VERY MUCH!

I CAN'T HELP SAYING IT OVER AND

· OVER AGAIN! TELL ME YOU LOVE ME DEAREST!

YOU! YOU ARE MY → VERY SOUL! YOU ARE MY VERY LIFE! MARRY ME, SWEETHEART! I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT

You!

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(Copyright, 1906, by 3, 0 Tackers. Oral Brain Bybis Roervol Tron Mark Ang. U 1. Poa Gilm

WITHOUT

•WHO?

HUH?

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 16, 1988.

By BUD FISHER

WHAT'S THE IDEA?".

YOU JUST GOT TURHED

DOWN BY ONE GIRL-

YOU HAVENT GOT ANOTHER, HAVE YOU?

NO, BUT I GOTTA KEEP IN PRACTICE!

DARLING, YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE I EVER REALLY CARED FOR! YOU AND

PHOOEY!

ONLY YOU

are.ere.

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AIR FREIGHT

MERVIN had a horror of darkness. awake listening to

The day that he spent in solitary confinement at the state penitentiary following his conviction for the slay ing of Fred Newton, he nearly went mad. It began when, as a child, he was locked in a dark closet as punish- ment for some mischievous prank. His youthful imagination had conjured all sorts of horrors then, and it had been doing so ever since. Fear of darkness 'became an obsession with him that he

had never been able to overcome.

The dungeon had no light whatever. Mervin exerted all his will power to keep from screaming. Finally he screamed. He beat upon the walls and sobbed hysterically. It didn't do any good. When they finally let him out he was closer to a gibbering man- iac than a man. They told him that the dungeon would be his punishment if he disobeyed any of the prison rules. He determined he'd behave himself.

His

But he couldn't. There was one thing he hadn't reckoned on. habit of talking in his sleep. That too was a habit of childhood, that he never outgrew. It was probably a result of 'his horror of darkness.

his mutterings, Then laughing among themselves. when he'd begin to scream they would grin to wait for the guards, and themselves as he was led whimpering down the corridor.

A year passed. The warden of the state penitentiary was replaced by a This new new man, a younger man, with scientific and humanitarian ideas. man did not attempt to reorganise or change the life of the prison. He knew that harsh methods had to used in controlling desperate criminals. Hope died in Mervin's breast when a week following the advent of the new war- den, the guards dragged him from his cell one night and threw him into the dungeon.

rea-

Mervin was slowly losing his

He knew it. He knew before an- son. other, year had passed he would be a raving maniac.

A month after the new Warden had

taken over, a guard came and led Mervin away. He protested violently. Last night he had remained awake. He could not possibly have screamed.

The guard led him into the warden's office. The warden looked at him and Sometimes he'd wake up in the mid- shook his head.

Guards + "I want to talk to you about your dle of the night, screaming. would come running, and they'd throw habit of nightmares," he began.

Mervin saw an opening. He plead- him in solitary, as punishment. They wouldn't listen to his explanations that ed with the warden to put him off the screamings were beyond his con- by himself where his screaming would-

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He told about th his horror of darkness and how it

had all come about.

trol. They turned a deaf ear to hin't disturb any one. pleadings not to confine him in dungeon. He was a lifer, convicted of [a major crime. They would show him

no partiality.

021

The warden nodded. "I think can be arranged," he said.

it

"Meryin," said the warden kindly, "I think within a week you will be a free man."

Before a month had passed Mervin

Mervin was overjoyed. He could was a mere skeleton of his former self, There was a wild, unholy look in his not believe his ears. For a fortnight eyes. He feared to go to sleep at he was left alone. Then a guard came night. He stayed awake as long as he one day and took him again to the could, and then would drop into a fit- warden's office. ful slumber. More times than,not he'd awaken with a terrorized scream his lips. His fear

of the dungeon made his nightmares more horrible.

Mervin stared stupidly. He had con- There came a time when his condi- fessed to, the crime. He had ceased tion became so weak he was sent to to hope, to think about the life he had the infirmary. He remained there a left behind. The warden explained: week, recovered rapidly because tem- I have been listening to you talk in porarily the fear and dread of the

your sleep. You kept mentioning dungeon was passed,

name. You associated the name with He hated to get well, because it certain events. The name you men- would mean a return to the horrors tioned was that of Laura, your wife.”. of his old life. He thought of every Mervin's eyes grew wide in fear and possibility imaginable to cure himself desperation.

of his habit of nightmares. And when

a

a

The warden smiled.. "I called on`

am

at last he was returned to his cell, your wife and talked to her. I through sheer power of will, he con- convinced that she didn't kill Fred Newton. She thinks you did it. You trolled his subconscious mind, for period of two weeks. There were no admitted it to protect her. You thought nightmares, nor subsequent long hours her guilty. Newton killed himself

an accident while he was cleaning his in the dungeon.

gun." Then one night it happened again, Mervin gulped. He swayed on his He lay on the dungeon floor and reel. A guard caught him as he fell. When Mervin was well again, the sobbed. All the old horrors came back

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a hundred fold. He cursed the nurse warden présented him with his par- who had punished him in his child- don. Mervin's eyes were misty. He hood by thrusting him into a dark was still incredulous, The warden closet. He cursed the habit of sleep said: "You're lucky, Mervin. It's a talking that had haunted him all lucky thing you are a sleep-talker."

"Yes," Mervin agreed. through, the YORIS.

lucky." And a shudder shook

his. Mervin's collinates had no pity for frame as he thought of the horrors of him. He interrupted their sleep, and the past year.

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NO QUESTION OF FORCE

Herr Henlein And Sudeten German Claims.

Expects Powers

To Insist On Settlement

London, To-day.

No-one in Germany has any intention of settling the Sudeten German question by force, de- clared the leader of the Sudeten German Party, Herr Konrad Henlein, in a special interview granted on Wednesday to the correspondent of the London “Evening Standard.”

Herr Henlein expressed the opinion that should his

-DEFENCE CONSTABLE'S LOAN SOON

FILLED

London, To-day.

The list for the new Defence Loan opened. yesterday morning and closed in the afternoon.

The list was quickly filled, and the staff of the Bank of England has a busy time receiving appli- cation's and distributing allot- ments.-Reuter.

SHARP AFFRAY

own plan for solving the Sudeten German pro-ROUND ROME

blem fail, the Western Powers will insist on such a solution.

Emphasizing his conviction

that

in the course of time even the NOT PREPARED TO

Czech politicians will realise the methods they have been

that

em-

ploying for the past twenty years can never lead to peace, Henlein stated:

LAY DOWN CONDITIONS

London, To-day.

MONUMENTS

Rome, To-day.

APPEAL DISMISSED

An appeal by Shou Hsok-chi Shantung Police constable, against conviction and fine of $300 impos- ed by Mr. H. R. Butters, for being in possession of 96 bottles of dutiable wine, was rejected by the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Supreme Court this morning.

For respondent, was the Assist- ant Crown Solicitor, Mr. M. J. Abbott, while Mr. F. H. Loseby, réprésented appellant.

Hearing was adjourned from Tuesday to permit Mr. Loseby to. call one more witness, an officer from A serious incident occurred here Loseby, however, explained this the 8.5. Kwangtung. Mr. yesterday at a monument erected morning that he had unfortunately between the Piazza Esedra and the been unable to contact this officer main railway station, in honour of and proceeded Italian soldiers who laid down dress to the court.

with his final ad- their lives in the first African Cam-

"I am certain that the Czech po- liticians will come to the conclu- sion that peace and order in Czecho- Commons if the Government would

The Prime Minister, asked in the paign. slovakia can be restored only when make it clear that they did not en-Abyssinian, suddenly kneeled down convict.

A negro who, it is believed, was sufficient evidence

He submitted that there was in- the three and a half million Sude-tertain frontier revision as a pos-

on which to ten Germans are accorded complete sible contribution to solution of the gan to pray.

in front of the memorial and be-said, had been most unreliable and The Crown witnesses, he equality and self-administration."

had freely contradicted each other problem of minorities in Czechos-

When a captain of the Italian and he maintained that with the Herr Henlein regretted that lovakia, said:

Army objected to this, the negro fresh foreign countries stubbornly

His Majesty's Government are not]

evidence which attacked the Captain with

had been short brought to light in the fused to see that the real problem prepared to lay down

sabre and seriously wounded the proceedings,

present conditions is one concerned exclusively with which would, in their opinion, be

officer.

no magistrate would have Czech treatment

been able to register A passerby who hurried to non-Czech appropriate to solution of the pro-

the conviction. groups in the Czechoslovak State blem of minorities in Czechoslova- Captain's assistance likewise re- and is not a struggle for.suprem-

kia.

ceived some cuts. Two soldiers acy between the German Reich and

who

Giving judgment, His Lordship intervened were

gravely said: Czechoslovakia.

wounded.

of

BONDS OF RACE

re-

now

"This is a matter which is being discussed between the Gov- ernment of Czechoslovakia and resucceeded in disabling the negro by that the appeal cannot succeed. If One of these soldiers finally "I have come to the conclusion presentatives of the Sudeten Ger- jman Party, and His Majesty's Gov-

a revolver shot.-Trans-Ocean. That the sympathy of the Ger-ernment sincerely hope that these mans is with the Sudeten German [discussions will result in an agreed population is natural, he declared settlement."--British Wireless.

in view of the bonds of race, lan- guage and culture. In conclusion he expressed the opinion that the Reich would regard the fulfilment of the Sudeten German Party de- mands as an important contribution towards European peace.-Trans- Ocean.

STRAIN ON. NERVES

NO MORE R.A.F. PURCHASES OF PLANES ABROAD

London, To-day.

GENERAL VON FRITSCH

Berlin, To-day.

all the evidence before the court had been brought before magistrate, he would

justified in convicting.

the

have been

heard the

been

"Eurther if he had appellant, he would have Indian constable. confirmed in his belief of the

The former commander-in-chief of the German Army, General von Fritsch who, it will be recalled, re- "On the other hand, it does ap- tired in February, was granted the pear that the blanket, an extremely honorary title of Colonel-in-Chief important piece of evidence, was of the 12th Artillery Regiment in allowed to be carried about the Schwerin by the German Chancel- Colony from hand to hand with no In a Commons answer, the Air

lor yesterday. Prague, To-day.

particular watch kept on it." Considerable importance

Minister said that no further pur-that the Fuehrer has appointer An official announcement states is at- tached in political quarters here to Royal Air Force

chases of foreign aircraft for the

General a statement at the annual meeting in contemplation.

Fritsch, Colonel-in- of the Industrialists Association Manufacture

guished service in developing the yesterday by the President of the Canada was under consideration. army of the Third Reich.-Trans-

of

von

HER FACE WAS

were at present Chief in recognition of his distin- "A PERFECT SIGHT”

aircraft in

Central Association of Czechoslova- but no decision had yet been reach- kian Industrialists, M. Preiss.

M. Preiss pointed out that,

ed.-British Wireless.

the

present tension, which was impos- MARINE WAR

ing a heavy strain on the nerves and economic resources of the na-

tion, could not be maintained for

any length of time.

He then appealed to the Czech

RISKS

London, To-day.

Oceán.

MR. CHADBOURNE PASSES

New York, To-day. The death occurred yesterday of Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne.

Mr. Chadbourne was famous

as

Government and the Sudeten Ger. In the course of a speech in the man Party to conduct their forth-Commons debate, the Parliamentary originator of the world sugar pro- coming negotiations in a spirit of Secretary of the Board of Trade "duction control plán.-Reuter. generosity. Referring to Czechoslo-referred to the question of marine vakia's relations with foreign pow. war risks.

ers, M. Preiss declared that loyalty He said that in view of changes to the allies of Czechoslovakia | which had taken place in should not preclude maintenance methods

Eczema Sufferer's Frank Letter

There is an unusual frankness about this letter from a woman who was once a victim of diafiguring eczema. Other sufferers who are looking for a remedy for this unpleasant complaint will be interested in what she writes:-

suffered very badly from eczema. My "I am forty-six years old, and I have face was a perfect sight. Now there is not a spot to be seen. I had tried good, so about a year ago I thought I other: remedies but they did me no would try Kruschen Salts, and I am more than pleased with the result. I continue to take the daily dose

CLOUDY, SHOWERY morning in hot water. I cannot speak

too highly of them."—(Mrs.) S.

The Royal Observatory reports

Eczema is frequently caused by im- of warfare, arrange that pressure is highest over the purities in the blood-irritant poisons of friendly relations with Germany ments of insurance of ships Pacific to the north East of Japan, to expel from the system.

which sluggish body organs are failing and Italy.

and.: cargoes........in an. "A State

Kruschen emer-and is relatively low over China Salts is Nature's recipe for maintaining such as ours gency, which had been prepared generally, the depression being a condition of internal cleanliness. The should seek to make friends every-some years ago, were under review stationary over Tongking. where without regard to ideological and any legislation must await re- Local forecast:-S. and S.E. winds, prejudices."-Trans-Ocean.

ault. British Wireless.

moderate to fresh; cloudy, showery,

ly, so that all blood impurities are re- six salts in Kruschen stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels to function proper gularly and completely eliminated.

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