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which contained a threat to mur- Mr. Schwab answered that there for the Assessor and Magistrato Beame in it of passionate con- was not enough money in all unless the tinuity, of the unbrokën relation Germany to induce him to do [released.

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The following is a translation

to the old life of the earth, to the anything of the kind. soil, to light, to motion and He also refused ̈£30,000 000 for things. It brought to my control of his company offered by of the letter: mind the memory of those Great Britain" onthidding the early dark races, balf un-Kaiser.

"To the Magistratee and Asses- |sors, Mixed-Court, Shangbai, “

Peking, June 10, 1921. "Gontlemen,-Wei Ch1⁄2, Chib

known to history, whose strains. These facta, rumours of which made a part of the ancient blood, had been current towards the end and spoke in the shadowy omens of the war, bave been confirmed and cults and secret sites. De by Mr. Darwin P. Kingsley to a Fing and the four others are meter the Earth Mother, Mary cheering gathering of the New warm-hearted patriots and their the mother of God, the strange York Chamber of Commerce, of aim is to promote the happiness music on the horns, the torobes, which be is president, writes the of the human race. Now they the mourning for Adonis, the dead Daily Chronicle special correspon have been arrested for circulating handbills advocating liberty, god carried on the shoulders of dent at New York.

bis mourners, the flowers, the old SECRET SERVICE COMPETITIow, equality, fraternity and enlighten- city and the spring of night. The From another unquestionablement for the human race, an aim life of the Mediterranean, ancient, source details have been obtained in which they should receive the continuous, unbroken! Moments which, pieced together, form an sympathy of a I sensible beings.

"You are generally respected like this have in them the quality exciting episode in the war of

bes.

Yours in anger,

of the life of men and the life of wits that was carried on in the for your uprightness and we the earth become ons; the body United States between British request you therefore to release becomes one with the things ofland German secret service men the men who have been arrested the world; the uplifted band lifts while the life and death struggle with all speed and restore to up the heart with it; the lanterns among the nations was in pro-them their liberty, otherwise од the battlefields of the members of this party and shadows are not only in the gresI

will bo driven by their street but shine and darken in the Europe.

Count von Barnstorff, the Ger- rage to go to Shanghai, where we son),

From all this strange wild man Ambassador, sent one of his swear that with bombs and re- beauty and poetry I subsided next most trusted sides to Mr. Schwab volvers we will offer you up as morning with coffee and rolls to on the mission to bribe the iron-the victims of our sacrifice, thoughts of our professors of the master to break his contract on

We are fighting for liberty which the huge foundries were and prefer to be fragmenta af} classica.

Classical professors! I thought working faverishly 24 hours broken jade rather than an un- of their plaster casts, white as day. He offered a sum that it broken earthenwara tile. chalk and dry as ashes. Of their was not thought possible would have long valued our own lives Ciceronian jargon and Roman be refused, but it was refused and as nought, and if driven to it we platitudes. Of their dens and although Bernstorff's lieutenant would not hestitate to blow every- studies full of weak watercolours raised the offer again and again, thing to bits. of Roman ruins and spotted with Schwab was deaf to all entreaties.

Then the cables with Berlin and see where your advantage. "Now, gentlemen, look clearly brown prints of the Parthenon! and Apollo and the Foam, and a were kept busy with code mes- biggly-piggly of tiny reproduc-sages, as a result of which name! tions from Pompeil. I thought of an order from the Kaiser that the their modest exhortations and activities of the Bethlehem con-(Sd.) "Anarchist Party, Peking" mottoes and their chaste render-cara, on behalf of the Allies,

One of the defendants admitt- ings of ancient authors init Eng- must be stopped si no mattered that he was responsible for Tab. Of their fig-leaf editions of what cost. The offer of £20,000 the ramphlets, which were print- the poets!

000 was then made. Schwab turned is dows amphatically, ed for him by a friend in Hankow. He denied being acquainted with with the answer quoted above, How much do they know of all and the Germans y despair gave the Assessor told him that another the "People's Voice Party," but this that I saw, with the kissing

up.

latter showed that he had applied of the ground before the altar candles and the host in the taber-

Meanwhile the British Intelli.for copies of the "People's Voice" nacle, the pale God and His gence Service, which had every which he had said he wanted to Mother and the music and the German official shadowed, be take with him to Russia. torches through the old streets?came aware of the object of the Three of the prisoners were Do the professors really believe visits to Bethlehem. The Ambas sentenced to six months' im- that the temples bad yellow sador, Sir Cecil Spring Rice. prisonment and expulsion and the capitols, or red columns with blue communicated bastily with his man charged with attempted capitols and gilded acanthus Gaverament, and was instructed murder was ordered 10 years' leaves? Do their eyes remember to frustrate the enemy's desigs imprisonment and expulsion, the that sometimes beyond the rocks by every meas Within five remaining defendant to be ex and cleanders you saw at the minutes of the receipt of the pelled from the Settlement The baad of a valley a vermilion message ia Washington the Magistrate marked his charge- shrine? Why then the caste? Or Ambassador was in communica-sheet that the last man should do they remember, when they tion by telephone with Mr. A.be brought before the Court after make their little axiomatic ser- Barton Hepburn, chairman of serving five years, for further monettes so full of exalted senti-the board of directors of the orders. ments, that the Greeks included Chase National Bank in New

WHAT DO THEY KNOW?

SHADOWED GERMANS.

(all things that are acinally a part York, who was financial advisor

of us in their scheme of living to the Embases.

however regrettable these Mr. Hepburn burried to Mr.A RULE FOR LONG LIFE

things were then, though not on-Schwab, and offered a sum far în mentionable, as the professor excess of that the German had

Few Ought to Fast.

would have them now? One named for control of the corpora-People Should Eat Less, but professor of Greek told me that tion, finally raising it to £30,000- be considered the Greaks the 000. He met with a smiling most immoral race that ever refusal-but also with assurances

Would the health of the nation:

lived. A professor of Latio that that caused no little relief, and improve if people fasted for a day know has spent much of his life elation at the Embassy and at for two at intervals?

on the theology of Milton taken Whitehall, seriously and in comparison with

Homer, a heathen with a very

poor theological showing. How

SID

A Daily Chronicle represent- ative put this question to. diatelic expert, pointing out the record of an 83-year-old Edmos-

attributed bis longevity periodic fasts.

to

People had much better not play about with themselves," said the expert,

far do these good men, when they true to the classics. I am patiton man, whose stepdaughter

sorting out Plato and sure how much it is tinged with Heriod the desired order and dis-mediaeval theology: or how much cretion, conceive at all those the Romans would recognize it, other forces also working in these not to speak of the Greeks. And ancient minds: beauty and the fact remains that theso class-

"Some people would, no doubt, madness, fierce changes, barbaric room conclusions are extracted blood, sudden earthly poetry, and not from philosophy but mainly benefit if they ate leas, and all darkness; so much of all which from literature, whose very truth old people are better if they eat was bere in Girgenti still, though consists of infaite living elements little. But abstention from food the wider intellectual aspects had blended together, and rests always three or four days would not a foundriion of a life of the be good for everybody. People dropped away from it.

senses, of natural experience.

on

TOO MUCH, TRANSLATED. But the professors have at least must find out what suits them

individually."

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After all, of course, we are not done well with Roman maxime. Greek and must make Greek suited to empire building, and things over for ourselves some limited suffrage. They can lasle what before we can use them, the new time, with their ball- give them our own image: though beaded old Cato and his sup we may at least remember that posedly pristine virtues; how there is almost as much comfort we have done so. And certainly moch better can they give off and pleasure in wearing Pince a good deal of the ethical and the those gaseous Roman morals nez Eye Glasses, as there is in JUST received a large Consigantent of (1) LACTOGEN the institutional the professors bring than Greek light! Musty Oxford possessing a perfect pair of eyes most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality durlug over, or at least illuminate, clergymen mincing fue old for they fit so comfortable and Hot Weather; (2) LACTOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweatening the foods means of the classics; though phrases, with the of Infants and Dyspeptics; (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID this is done better perhaps by the

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