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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1939.

LAST RUN OF TWOPENNY TRAIN

London-A stage in the history of London's underground railways was marked recently when the last train

of the original type "tube"" made its last journey on the Central London' line. Both driver and conductor were veterans in the Underground service, and the train and Ipcomotive were near their fourth decade. One coach was actually in the train driven by King Edward VII when,' as: Prince of Wales, he opened the line in the year 1900.

What is now the Central London line was the first tube railway to be biult, and it was known colloquially as "The Twopenny Tube" because' 3d. was the flatrate fare for the whole or any part of the distance covered. It was sald at its opening that one was "blown in at one end and shot out at the other," all for twopence.

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It seemed So strangely clean with its electric propulsion and light. To those who remember the old Inner Circle with its steam trains, oil lamps,, and sooty, sulphurous atmosphere, the tube seemed a marvel of comfort and cleanliness.

Now, London has a network of in- terconnecting tubes; the old elevators have given way to quickly-moving es- calators; the passenger can get his ticket from a row of automatic ma- chines; the latest rolling stock is the acme of comfort; station platforms are even now being lengthened to take longer trains; and tubes have been extended to serve districts which were open country when the old "twopen- ny" began its service.

M. MAISKY WILL BECOME

DIPLOMAT NO. 1

Coming diplomatic changes will make M. Ivan Maisky, 55-year-old Soviet Ambassador, the senior mem- ber of the Diplomatic Corps in Lon- don.

Mme. Maisky will thus become chief authority on Court procedure; and will be consulted by the wives of other diplomats.

AG RAMMUS

AN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN UNIT IN TRAINING-Men of the 61st. (London) Anti-Aircraft. Regiment, R.A. (T.A.) are at present in training at a camp near Watchet, Somerset. This picture shows shells grouped round an anti-aircraft gùn during gunnery practice. (Passed by War Office).

CHISTIAN SCIENCE

LESSON SERMON

Subject: "Man"

The subject of the Lesson Sermon in all Christian Science Churches to- morrow Sept. 3rd will be "Man,"

The Golden Text will be: "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him." (Gen. 1:27).

MAYORLESS NEW YORK CITY

New York.

The largest city in the country had no chief executive July 29.

Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was speaking in Wilmington, N. C.

City Council President Newbold Morris was in Bermuda.

City Council Vice-Chairman

John

RELICS OF GOLD AGE FOUND IN SWEDEN

Stockholm.

Three gold circlets believed to date from A. D. 500 have been found in the western part of Central Sweeden. Cashmore was across the city line in This is the first important archaeologi- Nassau County, Long Island.

cal find in this district. The succession of authority ends there.

legally

Kansas City.

Among others, the following cita- tions will be read from the Bible:--- "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dom- SHE'S CONVINCED NOW inion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lle: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity: The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God." (Gen. 1: 1, 26; Ps. 62: 9; Rom. 8: 16).

read from the Christian Science Text- The following citations will also be book, "Science and Health with key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy:- "Man: God's Spiritual idea, individual, In Science we are perfect, eternal. material sense, or mortal, belongs not children of God; but whatever is of

to His children, for materiality is the M. and Mme. Maisky have been inverted image of Spirituality. Even here since 1992. Their home is in though you aver that the material Kensington Palace Gardens known | senses are indispensable to man's exis- as "Mitlionaires' Row."

tence or entity, you must change the human concept of life and must at First change is the impending trans-length know yourself spiritually and fer of the Brazilian Ambassador, Sir scientifically. As mortals give up the Raul Regis de Oliveira, who has re- delusion that there is more than one ceived orders to return to Brazil in October. Sir Raul is in the early fiftles and has been Brazi- lian Ambassador In London since 1925.

After he leaves, the senior diplo- mat will be the Belgian Ambassador, Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, who went to London in 1927, but he will be retiring on age limit-he is. 67— at the end of the year.

It is 27 years since M. Maisky first went to England. He was а poli- tical refugee, had difficulty in get- ting past the immigration barriers at Newhaven because he had only £3 2s. In his pocket instead of the regu- lation £5.

NO ONE WANTS THE MONEY

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County owes $5,807 to creditors who won't come in and col- lect it.

a strange condition," mused ioner Grover Pendleton, "when people we owe money won't bring their bills in and collect. We have the money available and still they won't come in.”

Mind, more than one God, man in God's likeness will appear, and this eternal man will include in that like- ness no material element." (Pages 115, 572, 359 & 191)..

REAPINGE KINDNESS

Brule, Neb.

Earl Smith spent quite some time tinkering with his combine to place it' in first class condition for harvesting his wheat crop.

When he moved into the field he

itinerant combine operator had work- found the crop already harvested-an

ed Mr. Smith's field by mistake.

HE MAKES AMENDS

Minot, N. D. R. F. Steinmetz, returning to his parked automobile, found one head- light shattered, but a new lens lay on the front seat..

-Attached was this note, unsigned:

"I backed into your light, Mr., so I got you a new lens. Sorry?

The connections to the cross Har- bour mains were completed on Thurs- day and the 17 hours supply was re- introduced at 10.00 am. yesterday.

"Water is now being supplied to the Island through the new maing,"

No one in Sheffield England, could convince Mrs. Betsy Gordon it would be hot in Kansas City in July.

But when she arrived, equipped with heavy woollen underwear and a winter coat, the temperature was. 103. She came here to visit her sister, Mrs. Leah Koppel whom she had not seen for 42 years.

thanks to

BLACK · POLISH

A protects

And Preserves

The period to which the circlets are attributed is known to Swedish archaeologists as the Gold Age be- cause of the number of gold objects Į of similar date that have been found, but this discovery is remarkable be- cause of the amount of gold the cir- clets contain. Their fine workman- ship also adds to their value.

The ornaments were turned up -from-under a stone slab by the owner of a farm who may now claim the gold value of his find when it is hand- ed over to the State collections.

They're

Worn

{ well. but they've

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TAN POLISHES