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SOME PROHIBITION FACTS.

It is expected that the Prohibi- tion lasue will figure prominently in the current session of the United

!

DAY

BY DAY

THE MAN WORTHY OF BEING RICH IS HE WHOM POVERTY COULD NOT DE- BASE, OR FORTUNE MAKE PROUD.-- Latent, *

The Empress of Canada is due here from Shanghai at 7 a.m. on Thursday.

THAT MISSING LINK.

AS ELUSIVE AS EVER.

By Dr. J. J. Scanlan.

THE finding of fossilised re-printo the evolution which has taken

and the drinking of "kooch," a vile; polsonous concoction which is res- ponsible for more deaths in a year than either cancer or tuberculosis. Mr. Richardson agrees that if it were possible by the wave of a magic wand to prevent everybody in America from drinking alcohol, no harm would be done. Theore- tically, there is something to be said for Prohibition, but in practice I has been proved to be an Impos-

man in a cave in Peking has the days of primitive man.. The P. and O. sa. Perlm, from added zest. to seckers It is not so much a ques Singapore, is now due here at "missing link."

after the To-day man's intellect produces sibility.

machines which render him less de- tion of Prohibition itself. as the a.m. to-morrow, instead of at 51

The discovery of the Piltdown pendent on his hands, while in- offshonta of the system. which p.m.. na previously notified.

man was similarly acclaimed, but creasing the scope of his activities. there still seems to be very littla] His livelihood is becoming more and bring in their train boot-legging

After having bitten Gunner Bar-evidence of man's descent from the more dependent on intellect, and in Kangs of incredible power, gang ker of Mount Davis Barracks, anthropold ape.

consequence another stage of evolu- warfare, and ali manner of establish-yellow chow bitch belong to Ip

Choi, of the Sang Lee firm of The age of the Peking find is ex-tion is marked in the refined deve- ments of a shady character.

building contractors, in Victoria timmted by geologists to be about lopntent of his hands.

His connexion with the apes the opinion of members of

Rond, has been removed to Ken- 1.000.000 years, and it is a very

primitive nedy Town for observation.

type. Unfortunately, Heems, therefore, more remote than Crime Comantesion formed

however, such finds seldom help ta-fever, and the missing link a rtere year by President Hoover, the re-

Described as a conile on board link, for the most important mem

wards establishing the missing fancy. pent of the Prohibition law is the

the 8.x. Nam Ping, a. young Chinë

bers of the body, the small bones af ly way of stamping out the ter- ese was ordered to receive the hand, have in the course of time rible crime wave

strokes of the cane by Mr. Lånd- in thr United

disappeared. But so sell at the Central Polien Court coveries of complete remains of far al día- this morning for being in posses-primitive man have the well-deve- When

rend disinterested | sion of 63 tuels of raw opium.

Haped hand indicative of human in- views like these, it becomes

telligence. Whilst running across Reclama- parent that Prohibition in Americntion Street. Yaumati, in front of Nearly all anthropologists

States

ན་ཐཱ་

the last

arc

is nothing but a shver farce. The motor bus yesterday, a small inclined to agree that if the mins freedom with which liquor can be boy, Wong Shiu-tong, of 210, Port.ng link is to be found it will pro 'secured in a country which makes land Street, was knocked downbably be through the hand and not

and fatally injured. The body the skull that it will be traced. its consumption illegal is nothing was later removed to the Kowloon We may compare the hoof of the horse, the wing of the bird, the paw short of amazing. The truth is, of Mortuary.

of the cat--all are relative to the course, that -in a matter of thin

Pinkerton and the Ghost.

166

A Markinch Tale.

AFTER having spent a chear-

ful evening at Balfour House with Mr. Bethune and his family, he was found in the morning in his bedroom sitting in in chair with one stocking in his

hand quite dead."

This sentence is taken from a monument in Markinch Parish

Arrested on board the ss. Tean human hand-and coming to the kind. control, and not attempted just after her arrival in port yes. paw of the chimpanzee or anthro prohibition, is the real solution. Asterday, a Northern Chinese em-pold ape expect to find some resemi- with the ophus and prostitution ployed on board as a watchman, blonce.

was found to have twelve taels o But man is distinct from the Church, or, as it is now called in problems, to attempt rigormus sup raw opium tied under his arm pits most perfect type of ape, in that the consequence of Union, St. Dorstan's pression is merely to drive the evil He was brought before Mr. Lind-paws of the animal have nothing Church. The monument perpetu- characteristic shape of fates the memory of the Rev. John underground, not to eliminate it. well at the Central Magistracy this like the

morning and fined $350, or three man's four fingers and thumb. Pinkerton, who was minister of the Slowly but surely, the people of the months hard -labour.

A Great Difference.

parish from 1758 to 1784, after United States are coming round to

[having previously ministered for

that viewpoint.

Sino-Soviet Deadlock.

**

On a charge of being in posses-do almost any trick. But we may is so careful to describe the man-. sion of 6.5 taels of prepared oplam, examine the paw of the most high-ner of Pinkerton's death, and to do Chinese, who was arrested in aly "educated" ape, the offspring of fine the exact locality of his grave, divan at 9. Wing Hing Street, was parents similarly brought up, and it is singularly silent as to the man- fined $500 or three months' hard still be unable to trace any resemner of his life. Nor does it explain at the blance to, or tendency to become why it was considered necessary to labour by Mr. Lindsell Central Magistracy this morning. skin to, the intelligent hand of man, put the world quite before the word

dead upon the monument, A further fine of $200, or two The Ingenuity of the human hand months' imprisonment, was passed is the outcome of man's intellect.

The Haunted Room. on a second count of keeping anAs man became civilised the hand oplum divan.

xrew more rofined. A sense

The reverend gentleman find ap touch and expression developed. un.parently been invited to spend the known elsewhere in the animal night at Balfour House, and the evening would seem to have been

1:

A respectably-dressed Chinese Sufficient evidence is to be found fifteen years in the Parish of married woman, named Wong Kan. In the thumb to denote n vast dif-Dalziel. The inscription explaina aged 37, appeared before Mr. Wil-ference. The thumb of even the that the monument was erected by Hams at the Central Police Court most degenerale mun is perfect the only child of Pinkerton and his this morning on a charge of "shop when compared with the weakness

wife, Anna Drummond of Haw General Mo Teh-hui is returning fting." She was alleged to have of the anthropoid digit, while the thorndean, in memory of her par- stolen 13 yards of salin from general formation of the hand fents, and Indicates that their States Congress, a number of Bills from Moscow this week, ostensibly Messrs. Wassiamull Assomull of speaks conclusively of man's super-carthly remains are interred at a

to report progress in the negotin-46, Queen's Road. The defendant for intelligence.

spot 23 feet north from the south- to deal with the question having tions with the Soviet. His chief was remanded on buil of $250. The monkey can be trained, and west window of the church. already been introduced. Some of task, however, will be to explain.

tearns slowly by trial and error to While, however, the inscription these call for complete repeal of the lack of progress and the necessity Volstead Act, others seek a modi- for reconsideration by Nanking of fication of the law, whilst still their instructions regarding the others seek to define intoxicating procedure of reconciliation. The taverages is such a manner as to conversations have dragged on for months and the status of the Regaline the use of drinks of a

Chinese Eastern Railway be no certain aleaholic content. Them nearer definition. Of course, this can be little doubt that the move-

facts does not particularly worry ment towards amending the Pro- Moscow. The Soviet believe they

Alfred Warner, who was re hibition law. it not altogether, hold the whiphand and that they abolishing it, is growing in force, 'can afford to wait, holding that manded by Mr. Bulters, at the world

Geology, anatomy, and chemis.devoted to revelry and merriment. for which reason we may expect to the apparently insolable problem Kowloon Magistracy yesterday,

a charge of having stowed away have combined, and bit by bit It would appear, also, from the in- see artion of some kind taken. Dr. is rasy of settlement as soon as on the President Polk, from Shang- they are convince the idea of scription that he had passed away

suddenly when undressing, arence Wilson, who is the chairs China recognises the inevitable.hai, was discharged this morning the age of the earth and its inhu-n the small hours of the moral man of the Methodist Eplacopal losrow demands the working out A police officer said he could notants. Various stages of evolu-fter his jovial evening, the reader of the labarovsk Protocol which Furnish evidence against the de-ion have been traced, and the pre-being left to form his own conclu-, was signed by Mo Teh-hui in 17-fendant and accordingly naked for sent is slowly being connected with sions as to whether his unexpect-

the pust. Bul, despite our ever- ed demise had increasing knowledge, no evidence What has been regarded by thehas yet come to light to confirm the his "eheerful thing to do with mius what would prove acceptable rusloation of the status que ante uthorities as a false report of any of man's descent from the the neighbourhood has it that off cumstances not referred to on the on the C. E. R. but far more im-armed highway robbery was made ape. to the country as a substitute for

to the police early this morning |

Men and Machines.

monument had not a little to do portant from the Soviet viewpoint by a Chinese, who said that he

with the tragic end of the reverend Prohibition, a circumstance which

also for a settlement of other had been held up by a man armed Excavations of the antiquities of gentleman. Balfour House of that shows that even the "drys."* of

outstanding questions between the with a revolver outside the Lai Ur., dating back some 300 years day boasted a haunted room and as which he is spokesman, are con-

two countries. At first sight this Wah Company's premises in Des B.C., have revealed not specimens the accommodation of the mansion Voeux Rond, Central. It was of primitive handiwork but ex-was somewhat overtaxed by the scious of the demand for a recon- request appears to be perfectly found that the alleged victim was amples of animal sculpture in metal number of guests invited to the sideration of the whole question. reasonable, but in fact it contains mentally deranged and after he the finest ever discovered.

festive evening whatever the oc Some illuminating facts on the serious complications. It would was removed to the Mental Hos- It is true that a period of 100 or chaion may have been-it was ar matter have been male public by imply a resumption of normal pital the police circulated a mess 500 years means nothing when one ranged that Pinkerton should oc Mr. Raymond Richardson, the well-diplomatic relations, which China age to other stations that the re-thinks in terms of 1,000,000 years, eupy this room.

us he must but we do at least begin to appre-

Pinkerton, aware, is exceedingly loth to undertake. port was false.

have been, of the ghost story, would Nanking has been adamant hither-

probably have preferred to find his way home, and would certainly have done so had ho suspected the plot of which he was to be the central figure, In any case, he is not like. to have felt very comfortable as he closed his bedroom door behind him. And, not quite sure

of his ability to brave ghoat, he may

discharge. The defendant had

Church's board of temperance, pro- hibition and public morals, has re-cember last year, bringing an end & proper passport. Leently announced that he will agree to the border hostilities. The to a national referendum to deter Protocol provides not only for the

known author and traveller, who has been visiting the United States,

to, insisting that the negotiations As he is practically a teetotaller, he shall concers the CER, dispute can, as he says, be vindiented from and that only, though even this the charge of regarding the pro- attitude places them in an ex- blem from a blased standpoint. He ceedingly difficult position, that of asserts that in spite of the fact that negotiating with a Power they do ant recognise regarding a railway the Prohibition regulations are be

running through Chinese territory. coming more and more strictly en

The Habarovsk Protocol was, of forced, it is increasingly enay to

course, concluded under duress, obtain alcohol, so much so, that the and the Nanking Government took price of bottle of good whisky, the earliest opportunity of re- which at one time stood at £6 or £6, pudiating it. Meanwhile Chang is now little more than £2. As the Isaeli-aug kas carried out most of its terms respecting the railway. authorities. demand stricter €)-

and it may be taken for granted forcement of their rules, so do the that his talks with Marshal Chiang bootleggers become more expert in Kai-shek at Nanking brought the their business. Mr. Richardson anys entire issue. into, the front. Mo doce ու

dinner at which Teh-hui's return, however. attended a several police officials and a Court not suggest that Nanking's atti

tudo has undergone any radical Judge

champagne consumed with their food, and ho adds that change, and the main obstacle to an agreement remains Perhaps at any important social function, Gen. Mo will be able to persuade excepting public affairs, the host is Nanking to spend a little expected to dispenss liquor. The thought on the terms of reconcilia- ense with which it is possible to tion. It may be taken for granted obtain anything' from liqueur, that both parties are loth to sco brandy to the best champagne any repetition of the follles

last year. laughable. One has only to ring up one'a bootlegger, we rend, tell

more

of

him the requirements, and delivery Ong large and two small sowing will follow in the course of a few unchines and three heat gauges, hours. This is the method adopt-valued at $128, were stolen from a factory at 175, Portland Street

ed by the rich; the poorer poople some time between 3 p.m. on Satur- have to resort to their own atills day and 10 am, yesterday.

"Aek him if he can't just leave the dress, and I'll de- cide tonight if I want to keep ft.”

evening Tradition or rumour, however, in

have put off some little time before undressing, and may even have worked himself up into a condition of nervous excitement before the practical joke, which in said to have been responsible for his death, was played upon him.

A Tragic Joke.

As he sat andreasing, not, per haps, without apprehension as to what the haunted room might have In store for him before the dawn of of day, a trap door in the Floor his room, was slowly and sty pushed up, and as Pinkerton, raising hair and staring eyes, wat ched the gradually enlarging aper-- ture a ghostly head begab to as pear, and Pinkerton, who had suf- fered from A a wealt heart, teil back dead, to the consternation of the follow guest who had agreed to (m personate the ghost.

Tradition has it also that John Pinkerton and Anna Drummond did not altogether "hit it off," but as he rode away on his favourite horse upon his last journey,⠀⠀ Anuş" re- marked to a friend who was watch- ing his departure with her from of the manse, windows, "John Pinkerton may be anything ye like, but he's a gey handsome man, an I wouldna like onything to commer ower, "Im."

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