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CHINESE SLAVE GIRLS.

"A Story of America's Pacific Const.

The story of Lim Tuis is the story of 75 per cent. of the Chinese slara girls in Amerios, Bays an archange.

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PATHWAYS OF EMPIRE.

Extensions of Wireless.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI

MILLION YEAR OLD MONSTERS.

Finds Of Fossil Giant British Reptiles.

The opening of the broadcast- ing station at Cardiff this month, and of another at Glasgow in a

Fossil remains of two recently few weeks' time, illustrates the discovered giant reptiles which rapidity with which wireless is existed many millions of years ago Every liner that ploughs insinussing itself into the web of have been placed on exhibition at through the Golden Gate from out ordinary life. And it only the National History Museum,

A reminder of the South Kensington. the orient brings its quota. They serves land bere as "merohanta' wives "greater functions which must be

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These Mesozolo monsters,

and soon are swallowed in the awaiting suckwforce in the wider bitherto unknown to science, have]

Chinese underworlds.

mastera

bean named after their dis coverers.

FRIDAY: MARCH 23, 1923.

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compass of the Empire, if there is San Francisco is the obief such a field for it in lesser uses slave market. Girl slaves are within the boundaries of one

It is One 20 foot specimen in a literally sold to the highest small and compact island. bidder. Their

"take most accusing paradox that particularly fine state of preserva- them wherever they please. science should have presented us)tion, though not quite complete, In China their prices range from with the invention that seems, was presented by Mr. H. Gerrard $50 to $200. Here they bring from above all others, ideally designed Thornton, and has been, there- $2,000 to $6,000. As a girl grows for the service of a community fore, christened Rhomaleosaurus older or loses her health her scattered in groups over the whole Thorntoni, which seems almost as valua decreases in the mean-earth, and that it should be so iacongruous as it is impressive. time be must earn back bar slowly and almost reluctantly Found. ja price and a profit.

at Kingsthorpe, We have in the past few weeks ampton, it is a representa- At the immigration station on Angel Island there are to-day 45 dealt very fully with the obstructive of those huge sea-geing Chinese girls. To-morrow a boat tions that impede this inestimable reptiles known will leave as many more. Some instrument of an Imperial system. which had long, slender necks. of them are faird for shame and But it cannot be repeated too often small heads, and limbs in the THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. Buffering. Where are they going? that in neglecting wireless we are form of swimming paddle. What will become of them? depriving the Empire of what These questions are answered ought to be its most disfiactiva by Lim Truie.

strength. A scattered Power vie-

vant until I was 15.

utilised.

near

clappit

North-

as Plesiosaurs,

Dr. Smith Woodward (keeper of| the geological department) point ed out that there is only one

other specimen of this form of Plesiosaur known-and that is

& cast.

"I was kidnapped from my 4-vis those which are territorial home in the Kwong Tung pro- units can bare no hope of main vince in Chios by bandits. Theytaining its relative position unless sold me for $25 to a woman in it is second to none in communi. of an allied species and in the Dublin Museum, being represent Canton who kept me as a ser calions. We have organised oured at South Kensington mezely by Empire first upon the traffic of the 888, and afterwards upon roads and railways and cables. Now in The second rarity is a skull of the era of faster travel and faster a large carnivorous land-reptile. Communion through the air. Megalosaurus Bradley, named Primacy in all the older facilities after Mr. F. L. Bradley, F.G.S., will go for nothing if we do not who found it in a stonequarry take the utmost advantage of the at Minchinhampton, Gloucester- new. The lack of initiative in jahire.

"Then I was sold for $100 to dealer in slave girls. I begged ber not to send me into the resorts of Hongkong, to which shipments of girls were made from ber bouse each week.

"This woman said she would find me a rich busband from America. I was very happy. He wireless and air travel is the It is the only relic in the came in the person of a Mr. Lee' most serious criticism invited by possession of man of this kan- from San Francisco. Mr. Lee our political system in its recent garoo-shaped creature," which is paid $200 and took me before the record. And it must rapidly-be-thought to have measured about American consulate at Canton come a fatal fault, if not amend where we were married. My hused.The Observer.

band was American born and carried citizenship papers.

"I had no idea that anything but a happy bome awaited me. My husband left me when the steamer docked in San Francisco and said he would call for me. I never saw him again.

"I learned afterward that he was a highbinder and that he bad received 8700 to marry me and bring me to this country.

"I was at the inimigration station two months when a white attorney called for me with land- ing papers. He said he would take me to my husband.

He took me in a closed cab to Chinatown and left tie in charge of an old woman. When I asked for my husband she laughed and said "there was no husband." "The old woman brought me a bundle of clothes and ordered me to put them on. Theu she told me my doom.

"I have paid altogether $3 600 for you, "and I must get it back,' she said. She promised I could buy my freedom by earning this amount. Tonight, she added, you must entertain my customers!'"

"That night I refused to work. The old woman beat me terribly! and locked me up in a dark room with rate. By morning I was FO terrified that I agreed to obey ber in everything.

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"My frat owner sold me in ix months My second owner told me that be had paid $4,000 for me and before I could go free I must earn that amount.

"Frequently I was told I would be killed by the highbinders if I

Tan LWBY.

"My owners belonged to tonge. There tongs employed gunmen.

SONG OF THE HAPPY VENTURER.

10ft. in length-quite a pygmy for

a Dinosaur and to have preyed upon the relatives of the Igusno- don.

Au interesting remnant of the latter class of herbivorous raptles has, also, been added to the collec- tion in the form of the biadgesr

covered in Sussex.

When it is considered that this 30ft. in length walked, or leapt creature, though measuring about

size of the big-bones is not sur- upon its biodlegs, the enormous prising.

The still blue silence of dusk inters of a Trachadon mirabilis, dia-

the woods of sleep. Pale star dust trembling over

the shoreless night," the flowers of foam on the

halcyon breast of the deep, And the call of the hills and the road, and the wind's dolight, The tender beacons of primrose

waking the morn.

One needs to inspect such ex-| Through whispering boughs un-hibits as these to appreciate what

might have been!

voiled-to these was I born. The laughter of youth is mine and

a faith that glows, The passion of love and the peer-

less treasure of friends; A venture is mine to a haven that

no man koows, And dove-winged dreams that

enchanted alumber sends, The thrilling of life, and pride in

the road thar is worn. By the numberless legions of man,

to these was I bora. Rejoice, my soul, rejoice in the

glowing of youth... For the shepherd of dawn has

gathered the stars away:

AYR'S AULD BRIG."

Council Gives Way to Strong Sentiment.

"I'll be a bric, when ye're a shapeless cairn."

This boast, which Burns.jeat- "Auld Brig," may, after all, be ingly attributed to Ayr's historic

mittee for the Preservation of fulfilled by the action of the Com-

Ancient Monuments, who havej

preservation.

The glad-mouthed trumpete have assumed responsibility for its

eouaded the quest of truth... And the golden valleys are rich

with the promise of day. And death's but a sleep at the

gates of an infinite mora; The glory of being awaits for

which I was born.

H. R. COLMAN, in the Observer

IN THEIR HOME-LAND.

It was the duty of these guamen to Baby's Own Tablets Safeguard

guard us. There have been many cases where slave girls have been murdered when they tried to fee.

Innumerable Homes.

I became ill and began to lose A BRITISH COLUMBIA MOTHER'S

my beauty. My owner, a mem

ber of the On Yick Tong, shipped

war

"TILAN KS.

A Canadian remedy. Baby's

So ends the force controversy that has raged over the proposal of Ayr Town Council to reclaim land from the bed of River Ayr, and possibly damage the bridge.

Last month the council agreed by eleven votes to seven to abandon the scheme.

It is not known precisely when' the "Auld Brig" was built. In the year 1266, Alexander II. granted a charter to the burgh of Ayr for the maintenance of the bridge. In 1440, and again in Burns saw it three centuries after 1491, the bridge was restored.

its restoration in the reign of James TV, and dedicated his song

A PUZZLE A DAY.

me to Stockton. A highblader of Own Tablets have an immense re- the architect of the new bridge the Suey Sing Tong fancied as putation in their home-land. Mrs. which was then built to meet the and one night at the point of a R. E. Long, of Peachland, British geeds of local commerce. gun be kidnapped me and took me Columbia, is but one of thousands back to San Francisco.

"The On Yick Tang threatened praise to them. She writes,

of mothers who give grateful with the Suey Bing "My baby is now thirteen Tong if the kidnapper did not months old and my experience return me or pay for me. A has been that the zeo of Baby's Buddhlat priest in Chinatown Own Tablets allays the fever helped raise the money and took caused by teathing and gives baby a part ownership in me. There-healthy sleep. My baby has al after 1 worked for two owners.

ways been healthy except for the

PRSVRYPRFCTM NVRKPTHS PROFTSTN.

The jumble of letters shown in Can be

My earnings in six years as a fever and restlessness accompany. alave girl have exceeded $18,000 ing teething and an occasional the above inscription

all of which my masters took cold, but the Tablets have proved formed into a perfect sentence, There are hundreds of girls like so beneficial in these cases that I by merely inserting the letter E me, bought and sold, body and would not be without them."

The action of Baby's Owa discover the inscription ?

at the proper places. Can you Tablets is prompt yet exceedingly

Boul."

gentle. They reduce fever, dispel Yesterday's answer: SYNDICALIST LEADER SHOT. collo and constipation, check DDH NNHSBS HN NHDD Barcelona: A number of un- diarrhoea, silay feething pains, By inserting the vowels a, er identified men have shot and cure indigestion, expel worms, and i, the above jumble of lättera Lilled Salvador Segur, the leader quiet the nerves, and bring restful, may be formed into the statement: of the Syndicalist Party A health-giving sleep in a natural Panic ensued during which the way. Druggists feell them; also shopkeepers began to leave the post free at 60 cents the Tial direct HANNAH DID. city, fearing that the Syndicalists from the Dr. Williams' Medicine

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The sentence reads the same

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