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FRIDAY

PTEMBER

TWO-MINUTE TALKS A Daly Tonio

By ROBERT POWER

THE GREAT LOVER.

TRAVEL THRILLS.

Flying Your Own Aeroplanes.

Imagine, please, that you havo deolded to buy and fly a little light aeroplane of your own, says the Daily Mail's air correspondent. Why not? Forthcoming trials

"What," asked Bocrates of his desire: the love of the davoted should evolve a "little winged disoiplos, "is the greatant love?" older sister who sacrificos herselt machino, carrying yourself and a

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of bis disciples, but all foll before is a oloar flamo which is too one might almostenit" foolproof" the analytical wisdom of the often only missed when it is in its safety, and in which you can Наде.

oxtinguished by death.. How ascend from, and alight in, any

The word "lovo" shines like a much darker and sorrowful life field of ordinary size. alar before Humanity. In old would be without these Great! So why should you not enjoy, age the clouds of oynicism may lovore, who love not themselves this newest recreation? You will have rolled Its light. There is but give their hearts as a saorifice bo froe from the dust of roads. porhaps no right more pitious Let us not despise such offerings. You will breathe an air wing-liko than the aged who have lost faith The greatest lovers fill no role in its purity. You will son a in love and thorofore in life. For demanded by Romance. They are wonderful panorama spread bo- love and life are so ontwined often inarticulato, dubbed clumsy low. And you will be devouring that they can be hardly separatod. by the world, written down distance at the comfortablo aerial But we must be careful that a dull by the unthinking. The pace of, say, 60 miles an hour. wo understand just what we wife who envelopes her husband Gone will be the fatigue and boro. moan by this fascinating word, with truo affection may be voted dom, on a Continental trip of Love. If we only see it in the "slow" by hor fastor slators; the changing from train to boat and romantio senso, it will bring with husband who finds his highest back again to train. You will it a measure of disappointment: happiness in putting wifo, just soar up from London, the for "the crown of thorns is children, and home, before any-Channel will fit by benoath, and concealed within all human love" thing elso, may even be thought you will glide down near Paris. sald Goethe with austore satisfac- old fashioned" by the loose For about £250 or £300 you tion.

living. What mattor Y

should be able to buy one of those, The world's greatest loves have The groatost lovers. love them-perfected light planes, cortified had their crown of thorns solves last. Among men it is a as "airworthy" by the Air Minis-} Rolf-abnegation, the hallowing rore but sacred quality, for try, and driven by a staunoh littlo | spirit of sacrifice which puri- greater love hath no man than engine vory economical in fuel. fies from grossness. We may tliis," and which sometimos will Your next stop, costing you £1 think of Dante and his Beatrice, triumph over death itself. Among 18, will be to register your Romeo and fair Juliet, Bwift and women it can rise to supromo machine, whereupon you will ba his Stells, and there is a swoot heights, for can we forgot the given an official identifying sign, melancholy like the dying glorios names of auch as Florence in the shape of a series of lottors, of the perfect sunset in theso Nightingale, Elizabeth Fry, beginning with "G" (etanding for, hopeless lovos." The world's Nurse Caveli-great lovers of Great Britain), which must bel groat lovers are not satisfied Humanity, unselfish, pitiful, and displayed prominently on wings lovers.

and hull. Love lights many lamps in lifo, A lifo without lovo is arid. It After this you will take your and some of them shine in quiot, fills the heart with aynicism. It airear to a good flying school and hidon places--hidden that is spells loneliness in old ago. It ba taught by an expert to handlo from general observation. The will produce love of self-the pro-it. It will cost you, probably, at love of the mother who devotes found egotism which in time oats the rate of about £1 10s. an hour horself to the children does not away the peace and prosperity for the services of a skilled flanie and fluctuate like Passion's of the faul

MORE MISSIONARIES.

A FAREWELL GATHERING.

London, Sopt. 18.

A gathering at Westminster to- night bade farowoll to oightoon

humblo !

DAY BY DAY.

Instructor, and you should bo] ready to tako our Royal Aoro! Club certificato of proficiency after about 8 or 10 hours' tuition.] HOW TO FASS,

This Aero Club cortificate is recognised by the Air Ministry. being taken as evidence that you

Mr. E. Cock left to-day by the are competent to pilot your little

P. & O. liner Morea.

machine in cross-country flights. Tho chief things you have to do, in order to get a certificate,-aro

mon and woman who sro lonving There is considerable specula- to ascend to a height of 6,500 feet, to take up missionary work intion in Canton over the fact that thon descend and after shutting India, Burma, China and Canada none of the officials appointed by off your engine at 4,500 feet on behalf of the Bible Church- Dr. Sun to important posta on the land in a glide noar a specified mon's Society, which has existed ove of his departure for Shiukwan mark. Also, showing your con- for less than three yours. This is has takon up oflice with the trol while alüft, you have to per- the first party of missionarios it exception of Li Long-yeo, Chief form a series of figures of eight is sonding abroad.--Renter,

of the Public Ponco Bureau:

in the air.

COTTON SLUMP.

EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT

INTEREST.

SHARE MARKET.

SHANGHAI QUOTATIONS,

Cairo, Sopt. 18. Replying to a deputation urging Government Intorvention in the cotton market owing to declining values, the minister of Agriaul-Shanghai office :-- turo promisud that Government

Langkats (comb.)- Tis. would intervone as a purchaser buyers. of spote and futures in the markets if necessary, to the extent of two million kantara Reuter.

FRENCH DUTIES.

L

REDUCTIONS DECIDED

UPON.

Paris, Sept. 18. With a view to diminishing the cost of living, the Cabinot has decided to reduce the existing Import duties on certain essential foodstuffs, including condensed milk by 66 per cont., butter by 60 por cont, and choose, barley, rico and preserved vogotables by 50 por cont-Router.

WRANGEL ISLAND GIVEN UP.

London, Sept. 18.. The hoisting of the Soviet fing nt Wrangel Island does not parturb British diplomatic oiroles, which point out that during the negotiations precoding the signa- ture of the Anglo Russian treaty the Russians wore told the island would again become Russian property,--Reuter,

of

In connection with the taking of your certificate you have to acquaint yourself with the "rules of the read" in flying: also with auch matters as lights, signals, and the regulations governing air traffic in the vicinity of busy agrodromes.

Your Aora Club tests. complet- Messrs. Ellie and Co. haveed, you have to go to your doctor kindly supplied us with the and pass a medical examination following cable quotations

rather on the Ings of those re Shanghai stocks

quired when you take out a lifo from their

insurance policy. This is simply to provent anyone who might bo 16,

subject, say, to heart failure, ́or any sudden illness while in the Ewos. -- Tls. 94. buyers. air, from boing allowed to fly Shanghai Dooke. Tl5.· 90, about the country, a possible buyore.

source of danger not only to him- Tls. 6.25, self but to those on the ground.

Your health boing certified as buyers, good, and your flying tests passed, Tis. 50. the Air Ministry issue you a private pilot's licenco, at a cost of 5s., which permits you to fly your own aeroplane for a period! of one yeaT.

Now Engineerings. buyere.

Oriontals. Tis. 3, Shanghai Cotton.

buyers.

BURNING TRAIN.

Saved by Hurling Coal at Driver.

At the end of this time you have to obtain another modical certificato, showing that you aro

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machine is examined officially,1 Ito make sure that it continues to bo in an "air-worthy" condition. Tom Voyce, the well-known These regulations governing national forward, Gloucester and English Inter-private flying, drawn up after the long consultation between the British Rugby team, now touring various bodias and authorities South Africa, by throwing coal at concerned, are dévisad so as to the drivor of a burning train. fit in, at one and the samo timo, with two different points of view.

Havad

It was a feature of an exciting In the first place, they are few minutes on the 28 hours trainintended to be as little restrictiva journey from Cape Town to Kimberley...

as they can possibly be made for those who, in growing numbers. are expected soon to buy and fly their own little seroplanes.

Four mombora of the party playing cards in one of the com. partments, suddenly discovered] that the carriage was on fire,

Their own efforts to stamp the flames out wore aided by other players who hurried to the rescue, While Yoyou raced along the cor. ridors to stop the train.

In the second place, they are intonded to fulfil tho-highly im portant function-of-safeguarding parth-folk against potential risks from an increased use of the highway of the air.

GIRL SLEEPWALKER. Walking homo at midnight

His voios failed to attract the along the Southampton road, notics of the driver, so he climbed Winchostar, two men

A

KOHAT CASUALTIES. of coal at him. This had the speed-towards-thon-It was a

Simla, Sopt. 18.

up.

on to the tender and throw pieces figure in white running at top desired effect, and the train pulled young woman, wearing a night dross, baro-footed and fast asleep. In the Assombly, Mr. Bray baggage had been hauled out of and when pullod aside the girl In the meantime the players A motor-lorry was approaching, stated that 11 Muslims and 29 the carriage, which was still awoke. Hindus had boon killed and 23 burning, but

Her piercing shrieks Muslims and 86 Hindus injured, stopped the outbreak was soon hood. She was taken, to the in- onoe. the train aroused people in the neighbour- and alz police had been injured, put out with buckets of water Armary suffering from shock, at Kohar-Router.

Later, she was identified at Is housemaid

from the engine.

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