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Louis Wain's Sad Story.

ARTHUR É. ODBLL

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ROMANCE.

True At Last.

1 will come as a Shock to It does not take pages of des many, who know the work of criptive prose ora cinth of poetry Louis Wain, the famous cat to fill the landscape at work-a- artist, to know that he is an in-day level with the scenes and mate of a pauper lunatic asylum.) pageant-figures of ronance. The Louis Wain's cuts have given linotype achieves the miracle in Hdlight to chúntless children, and the compass of six words, After to tens of thousands of grown-up the notice of the departure of one children, and, the friends of the of the fleetest of the ocean grey- artist haye issued an appeal for hounds carrying the mails appear) gifts to a fund which would on-the words: "Connects with) able him to be transferred from | Cairo-Bagdad Air Mail the public to the private wards of the asylum.

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What could Aladdin's carpet.

do that was more wonderful than

r. Wain began to draw in frise from the desert sands like. 1886, doing practically nothing the circling gonii from the bottle but cats, of which he drew nearly and whisk toward the glowing 150,000. At one time ho kept 17 East, while the pilgrims of laden caravans rubbed their eyes at the cals which he used as models;

Mr. Horace P. Bastow, editor apparition and wondered if a of Animals is responsible for the mirage had taken winge? Here appeal, which is signed by dis-is the fairy tale come true at last. tinguished people, including Mr. Vanished is the land-trail marked John Galsworthy, Mr. H. G. by bleaching bones where men Wells, Mr. Bernard Partridge, strove and agonized in "the red Mr. John Hussell, Sir Squire Ban-dust and the hot breath of the croft, and Miss Sybil Thorndike. dusert, in the hops of the water- Mr. Wain is now 64 years of hole and the date-palms some- age. He has been an inmate of whore beyond the forever receding an asylum since 1923. It is borim of the 'pitiless inverted sky- lieved that if he were able to bowl imprisoning the heat of "a The flying men live in more congenial surround- fiery furnace. ings his reason might be restored. have come to find what height For some years Mr. Wain made they like upon the airways and a fair income, but he sold his favouring winds or cooler tem- drawings outright, and so receiv-peratures. In hours they equal ed only the initial payment for the weary marches of many days sketches which were reproduced of yore and one pilot in a plane again and again. After a achieves what a King's sumless period of great privation he had treasury and numberloss army in a serious breakdown and was ad- the time of Darius could not do. mitted as a pauper to the asylum. where he has heen sinco.

Calcutta, Sept. 10-An extra- ordinary bull fight occurred in tho Bow Bazaar, ono,,of the busiest thoroughfares in Calcutta, on Bopt. 10th. The combatants wore two largo bulls of a kind which are allowed to freely roam in the atroots. The traffic was parály, sed for nearly an hour while they gored, kicked and chased each other. Huge crowds of spectators' | collected, but for a long time no one seemed "willing to adopt the role of toreador or matador till finally some bold spirits armod with sticks rushed to the com-soon. batants and drove them from the scene, thus releasing the traffic block.

"They are getting married

"Doos he know hor age?" "Some of it!"-

London Mail, London,

THE SHANGHAI SHOOTING.

FURTHER EVIDENCE AT ENQUIRY,,,

A Violent and Howling Mob.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925

FORMER HONGKONG

CRICKETER.

TENTH IN FIRST CLASS BOWLING AVERAGES.

PASSENGERS.

ARRIVED.

Por Admiral Oriental Liner Pros Mckinley from Seattle vin porta; Oct. 15th--Mrs. F. 1. G. Antorfleif, Mr. Capt. P. Havelock Davies, who A. Berblinger, Mr. J. H. Brister, Mr. represented Hongkong in the Inter-Chan Bak Yan, Mr. E. W. Ensor, Shanghai, October 15-At the port against Shanghai and played Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Goldart, Manter H. Geldart, Master Douglas Gel- Judical Inquiry to-day Inspector for the R. A in Lengan cricket W. Geldurt, Master D. Geldart, Mus dart: Miss Joyce Geldart, Mrs. A Everson, replying to Mr. Justice hore, appears as tenth in the first

cines bowling avarages at Home Golang, Mr. Ho Pun-chow, Mr. and Finley, Johnson said that he did His figures are as under: Overs, Mrs. Kwok Fan. Wan, Mr. Limji, Mr. S. C. Lnw not believe that the events of May sa maidens, 23; Runs, 22; Wm. Macarthur, Mrs. Mar Shee, Mrs, 30 would have been averted by Wickets, 13. Capt. Havelock Davios Sze, Mr. and Mrs. O, K. Tellepen, detaining the original mob of stu-appeared for the Army against Alfred Mr. H. M. White. Mr. dents who thronged, the charge Oxford, Cambridge and tho Navy. A,

Xavier, Miss A. M. Xavier

MI room when the first four were ar-

Portmaps the most interesting S. V. Xavier, Master R. A. Xavier, rested. He did not believe that figures are those of the veterana Manter H. J. Xavier, Mr. Yip Hing by preventing them from joining Perrin, averaging 37,88 in 31Mr. E. Zeitlyn, Mr. A. S. Alonso, Mr.

Geo the outside mob the temper of the innings, and Bestwick, who must be R. Madrigal, Mr. Vieter Martinez, Mr. crowd would have been better. He had no special instructions from his superiors to take precautions against riots previous to May, 30,

An Ameriein, missionary, Mr. Clines giving evidence said that he was among the crowd at the time of the shooting. The mob was excited., Waving banners and throwing vallets in the air. From his position in the crowd witness did not realise any necessity for shooting.

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now about 50 years of age, with 30 wickets for 16 runs auch,

MORE EVOLUTION.

Earth Upheaval Theory.

The birth of the, Himalayan Mountains was responsible for the birth of the human race. This is the theory suggested by Sub-Inspector Shellsworth said Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, one he was on duty at the Nanking of Great Britain's foremost au- Road and Chekiang Road cörner.thropologists. At about three o'clock he saw a Dr. Woodward bases his opinion "howling mob" surrounding a upon the fact that just before man policeman on point duty. Witness,made his appearance upon earth, accompanied by three foreign the forests of northern India were police, attempted to break up the inhabited by a race of great apes. crowd, whereupon the mob pulled At this time the Himalyan down Constables Cole and Stevens Mountains did nol oxist, to the ground. Witness then ordered batons to be drawn, and the police slowly retreated toward the Station, pressed by a violent crowd: Witness heard the ery "Kill the for eigners,""and was of the opinion that. both volleys were necessary to repel

the crowd. "Had witness been in charge of the Station he would have done the same ns Inspector Everson.Rexter.

The time of which Dr. Wood ward speaks is known to the geologists as the Miocene era. That was approximately 100,000 years ago...

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Then came one of nature's great upheavals. The crust of the

earth was shrinking.

Sonie think the continents of the old world were pushed against each other.

The result was that the surface of the earth was wrinkled up into great folds the Himalayanmoun-

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The trees died. Large numbers of the apes found themselves in this territory north of the moun tains.

خواهیم

Moscow, September 10.-Intains. Nijny-Tagil, there was discover To the north of the mountains, ed in a cellar of former mill-Woodward believes, the tempera- owner Demidoff a picture which ture was suddenly lowered as a may belong to the brush of result of the formation of the Raphael. The picture represents mountains. Madonnu holding a child and an old man. The critics have not come yet to a definite conclusion, but, when compared with usual copies of Raphael, the picture gains much by its masterly draw ing and wonderful colouring. If it will be found us real "Raphaël", it will be sent to the principal Arts Museum in Moscow Leningrad.

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H. B.. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Maxwell, Mr. Frank Maxwell, Miss Mary Maxwell Mrs. J. Mencarir], ] Mrs. J. Ros, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Sycip, Master David Syclp, Mastor Alex Master W. Sysip, Miss E. Syelp, Mr:| F. Sunico,

DEPARTED.

Per Ss. Empress of Axia for Van- couver via porta, Oct. 15th. Mr. W. Miss S. C. Brown, Mra. Chan Tang, Atkinson, Mr. B. S. Bartholomew, Mrs., Chan Shee, Mr. Chan Ting Chuen, Mr. Chang Siu-zum; Mr. Mr. Cheung Chuck-wen, Mrs. Chin

Kwok-shee, Master Ah Sum, Master Father A La Cruz, Mr and Mrs. II. Ab Tong, Mrs. Leung Kwok shoe, A. Dabell, Mr. A. J. Edgar,

Mrs. H. L. Favacho, Mr. Fung But-sung, Mr. W. Gray, Mr. C. S. Gubbay, Mr. H

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1. Hal. Halpon, Mr. S. Halpon, pon, Master 9. Halpon, Mr. F. L. Ham- bly, Mr. F. R. Hanish, Mr. and Mrs, D. Harrison,

son, Dr. and Mrs. L.

L. Hoffman, Mr. How Yu-chor, Mr. and Mrs. D. Lim-aze, Mr. Mrs. Kam siu, Mrs. Laid

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siu, Mr. Wong Mung-kok and son, Mr. and Mrs. Yue Chow-sang.

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While fishing for conger col seven miles off Eastbourne a member of the crew.of the Royal Sovereign lightship hooked man-eating shark. Hearing his Their trees gone they were cry of excitmont two other mem forced to live on the ground. This hors of the crew joined him, and, after'a violont struggle the three meant a change in habits.

And in time, thinks Dr. Wood-men hauled the huge fish on board ward, man evolved from these and killed it with a boat hook. epes who wore forced to live on The sharkt was five feet long, and the ground,

weighed half a hundredweight.

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