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"Now," thundered the teetotal lecturer at his somewhat weary audience, "an any person here give me a solitary instance of any good results attained by consuming alcohol?" "Yes," replied a countryman. "My own father drank three gills of whisky a day, and lived to the age of 80, and “But ahoated the tempestuous lecturer, if he had not drunk the whisky he might have lived to a 100." "You didn't let me finish," came the reply. "When my father died, he was buried at his own special request at the bottom of our garden, and when, some six years later, the railway company bought our land for their new line, we exhumed the old boy, and by golf he was even then a better-looking specimen of a man than you art now."

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huddling close together in a small space, men will spread out over the countryside. Thers will still be cities, but they will merely he

places where men work; most of

DAY BY DAY

THE STRONGEST OF ALL ARGU- the time they will be empty. MENTS AGAINST THE INTERFERENCE There will still be tall buildings OF THE PUBLIC WITH PURELY FER- BONAL CONDUCT, 18 THAT WHEN IT but they will be widely separated. DOES INTETFERE THE ODDS ARE THAT each with acres of ground about it.IT INTERFERES WRONGLY, AND IN THE WRONG PLACE John Stuart Rapid transit-the motor-car; | Mill. the fast train, the aeroplane--will make all of this possible. People The will get back to the land. ordinary house will have an acre

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A non-Chinceo case of typhold war notified during the week-end,

Another "Napoleon"

at Elba.

By a Reader.

Date pirit rains withid hoard shouts and groans that would

URING past days

Over in another passage be him. He walked commanding-grow louder and muffled once more: ly here and there in his small cell, as the doors were opened and shut. sounds under Just then, he heard not with Imperious,

demanded per- his window, and thought that at The P. and O. s.. Rajputans, from ridiculous gestures. When no last someone was coming to rescue. of ground around it. The entire Singapore fa duo here with the English | fach took notien of him, he would him. He looked around carefully,

Life.

at Ba.m.

on

who

and

silence of

A little, way off, some aniformed.

Caithfulness.

It is highly probabje, saya Sir

Chan Chol, a married woman, living Jeans. James

well-known the scientist, that life is a rare phenoat 32. Shaukiwin Road, was infared menon in the universe. The sky yesterday when, in lenning over

verandah to hang out clothes, la bright with hundreds of thou-verbalanced and fell into the street. this brutight, hirm some relief, so then to dismay, then,

was taken to the Government sands of stars, but the choucea are She

Civil Hospital. that few of them are inhabited. Most of them awing through the

and had com>>

sit on his little cot with his head then after assuring himself that no country, in fact, will be "a well-mails on Thursday at

The Ben Line 8.8. Benarty, from between his hands and with tears one was in the vicinity, he placed developed park-buildings stand-

in his суса,

"Freedom. chair on his little cot, and clambered Home ports via Straite and Manila,

would say: ing in It, tall or wide, with beauty is due here on the 18th instant. V.

freedom, let me have b nime again. and look down into the small gar- till he could grasp the iron bars up dom, and Europe will be one." every and privacy for

of the FrenchMy friends and followers await den. On the ocension There is a great deal of encourage National Holiday, July 14, the Consul ment in this vision, which, after Generat for France will be At Home me. and they will cluster around

That at the Consular Residence, 13 Peak my banner once more." Then hemen were digging a potutoe-bed. would rise and begin to pace the His face lightened as he thought he all, merely means vision.

Rond, from 11.30a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

recognised the face of one of his oll narrow confines of his prison. men will come to their senses and

Prison walls irked him, and lie colleagues, and he knew without a The forthcoming wedding in aB- will use their new mechanical de-

Gar- could see the green leaves of a big doubt that they were his own meg. nameed of Mr. Frank Kavler

which, cell he was vices to make life happier and eis, No. 549 178th., Seattle, Washing tree through the top of hls barred They probably did not know in. menced to dig so that they could be freer. Will not succeeding go-ton USA.. to Miss Emily Young, window, where the sky formed at

No. 41, Mosque Junction, Hongkong. background of deep blue.

there in case

in ense of need. Teura rin erations wonder why it took so

Liberty, just behind a couple of The Empress of Japan, which is due feet of stonewall, seemed to beckon down his face as he thought of their long to reach this conclusion?

0 4.53. here from Musilant

to him like a tantalising dream.......

"Here I am, my mon, heto I am," - Wednesday, is to proceed direct

At times he raved and best, with he shouted joyously. Some paused Kowloon Dock for dry-docking and painting. Sise will herth at Kowloon futile hands the hard brick, bruis- in their labours for a moment and ing his hands severely. Driven on fixed him with a vacant stare, and Wharf on the following day,

as he was by his intense desire for then continued their incessant freedom, he grew more crafty, and digging. He yelled again. This and ways In his time no one took any netice of him. devised means

Again and mind of overpowering the guard Agal

again he called as hi who brought him his meals, and look of joy changed to wonder and realizing that that he even began to visualize how their attention could not be attract- his friends would spread the news ed, he sat on the back of the chair. The engagement is announced in the of his return, and how his cager and with his head clamped between

0 mc. banner. He would perhaps have to have forgotten

my Gou, heavens without any passengers, London Times of Captain R. 1. Tutten. soldiers would once more flock to his his hande, began to moan: "They

hon, of the Gold Coast Police, and And Sir James remarks dryly:-"! Nyisalie Fearce, elder daughter kill the guard, he thought, but what what can I do, I'm buried alive wan ONE life compared to the here. I at nothing now." He that must went on in between heartrending Major enormous bloodshed' leave it to you to be pleased or not of Major and Mrs. J. F. Pearce, of

Pearce will be recalled by many necessarily follow his plane for sobs. at a large fraction of the life of Dean Lodge, Busingstoke.

former work conquest.

He swayed from side to side up- the universe being concentrated on langkung residents as 4

He, even spoke in conciliatory tl the chair balanced precariously our planet." Planets, Sir James Inspector of Army Schools here.

tones to the little keeper who passed for a moment at the edge of the Crossing the street in front of an up and down the narrrow corridor camp-cot and they both fell with believes, were formed by the close

A Chinese approach to the son of another!

was with a bunch of keys hanging on a dull thud to the ground.. Approaching star, which, by tidal action, pulled knocked down by the vehicle and his wrist.

A little while inter, passing by. out from the sun a great streamer suffered head injuries which led to his

"Do you know" he would say, the guard saw him there. He of blazing gas which eventually mission into hospital. The accident

to retake a doctor and they placed him at occurred on Saturday morning in that even though you imprison me, called someone who appeared to he condensed, like drops of steam front of the Bank of China Building my followers are sure

Then the from a locomotive's whistle, intola Queen's Road Central. The car is whatever we may have lost? If once on the cot after the doctor lest captain of a regiment. Think warder went outside and he could planets. But the stars are widely owned by a Mr. Rey, who has reported you let me out, I can make you at had felt his pulse.

how handsome you would look in be heard talking far-off.

"Hello," he said," Central 12345" separated. Those clasest together

a magnificent uniform. all em-

timber

-Yeo are relatively as far apart as two

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DEATH.

ADAMSON.-On May 30, 1931, at "Ardmore" Godolphin Road, Weybridge, Alice, the beloved wife of William Adamson, uged 69.

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Thongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JULY 13, 1931.

morrow."

room.

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the accident to the police.

Convicted ann charge of having conducted a fan-tan game in a factory in Ma Tau Wei Rond an Saturday

game.

Emil

ke's only →→→→

AI-

Mr. Silverthorne. used spirituatistic influence upon

over-

Hence, ainer life van exisij of the Green Island Cement Company medals and decorations hanging on please. Well this is the Ben- only on just the right kind of afternoon, a Chinese youth, Leung But this flattery failed to make ham Latmatic Asylum,Yes, planets formed by the close phasing-You, was fined $50, or twelve strokes, any impression on the keeper, for the lunatic asylumh. It's about that

by Mr. Humilton, at the Kowloon together of stars, life must be rare Magistracy this morning. A second he only smiled, as though he had History professor who thinks he's

no illusions about his squat Agure Napoleon,No, intleed. All of this, to a race whose man was fined $3, or in default seven

right." handsome in a uniform. utter insignificance in the general days, for having taken part in the and battered countenance looking stunned, Alright scheme of things has been em- phasised by scence for more than The many friends of Professor and CITIES OF TO-MORROW.ļa century, is somehow, rather Mrs. Danenberg will be interested to HYPNOTISM ALLEGED

learn that their young SUN, irrationally, comforting. Perhaps Charles, still continues to delight Lo

IN WILL CASE.

"This story," said Mr. Davies, "will read like a story from tho there is no good reason why it Angeles audiences by his musical Ever since it was realised that should be. Those who despair of skill. He recently gave his eighth WIDOW AND GIRL'S "POWER." Arabian Nights but it is stark true.

annual pianoforte recital at the

We hold that Miss Wall by using steel framework, build the universe are usually led to do Baldwin Ifall, assisted by his father,

Allegations that a young woman so delighted were his hearers

Miss Wall, he said, was a woman ings could be made far taller and by an examination of the follies, and lighter than any that had ever cruelties and stupidities of their that he had subsequently to give a had used hypnotic and spiritualistic powered this man's will."

repeat performance, Later, he gave powers were made by one of the of considerable personal charm who been built before, architects have fellow men, and not by contemplate his first organ recital, at the Page counsel in a will cane at Monmouth had neted as medium at spiritual-

Istic meetings at Newport. There is Military Academy auditorium, his Assizes.

The plaintiff was a good-looking, Mrs. Silverthorne, in her evid- been putting in their spare time Ing the empty heavens.

Gluck, Mendelsohn,

woman, Miss Cissle Wall, of ence, said that she had written to studying a city slum than in ali lent. Tschaikowsky and Wagner. speculating about "the city of to-more despondency to be gained by programme including works by Bach,

Freysinger, Yoration-road, Newport, and the Miss Wall asking her not to enter defendant, Mrs. IIarriet Isabella her residence again, the letter pro- Sketches have been the books of physical science ever This likewise was a great success.

Silverthorne, widow of Mr. Luther ceeded, "This power of yours must drawn and books have been writ-written. Yet there is comfort in

Silverthorne, of Hope Rise, Curist-cense, or he is doomed." We

churchroad, Newport. Miss Wall John Williams, an accountant of ten: wyd in most of them we are this assertion, nevertheless.

set up a will in her fa- Ebbw Vale, said that Mr. Silver- Hought shown a rather terrifying conglo- are not exactly rational, and the

vour of

of Mir. Silverthorne, who was thorne had told him that Miss Walt 62 years of tige

possessed supernatural powers-- meration of cloud-scrapers, with simple fact that life may have

Mr. Campbell Lloyd Davies, for powers to heal, powers to bless, and elevated aidewalks, hanging gar-been reserved exclusively for our awn little corner of the cosmos

the widow, submitted that the powers to curso. He also said she deus, four-deck streets and tall makes us feel that our bright

testator's signature on the wall was was his spirit child. spires that would make even the dreams of our Importance

The hearing was adjourned. be justifled. Sir

Ambrose Fleming, the higbest present-day balldings look may. pany. This, they have told us, is Science, which has told us for so scientist, apeaking on "Light" at This is many years that we are less than the Victorin Institute suggested what we are coming to.

thut there might be supernatural what the city of the not-so-distant the dust, suddenly turns about and light from another world about

Ands that we are very rare pheno- which science knew nothing.

"There are many mentions la menu. To be sure, many people knew It all the time-or, at any rate. Scripture," he said, "of light which suspected it. The finest minds certainly did not proceed from the

combustion. that the earth has produced have combustion, incandescence or phos said so; more, they have, by their phosphorescence but which could conditions affect now book, mere existence, proved it. They under

human eyes at once Architecture."". Mr. have told us that we do not owe many

subjective phenomenon. Nolther Wright predleta that instead of an our existence to,accident, but that and, therefore, was not merely

we are here miraculously, with all

can we regard these as ern of super-cities and Auper- of creation as a backdrop for our wholly fictitious and non-occurrent,

We did not an ers slow climb upward. skyscrapers we shall have

future will be like.

Now, however, comes Mr. F. L. Wright, whom many consider the best of all American architects, to declare that these prophets are all mistaken. In "Modern

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own after all,

of smaller elties and fewer sky-really need a scientist to tell us scrapers; and he paints a picture that life is not a common or an that is, to say the least, rather insignificant thing in the universe, more attractive than the one we But it is comforting. to have one are used to. His idea is aimple.say so, just the same. The skyscraper, he says in effect, fan noble achievement: but it must be judged, finally, by its effect

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on the lives of the people who live in and around it. What do the skyscrapers of to-day do for us? They cramp us, they give us un- The following cable at the close bearable congestion, they confine of the sugar market on Saturday

treath and Co.

London Terminal. Market steady, prices unchang

us to city pavements, they forca has been received by Messrs, Pen- our lives into restricting moulds. Judged on that basis tho aky- scraper, like the skyscraper elty, is a failure. Indeed, Mr. Wright bolfoves that the city as we know it to-day will die. Instead of

od.

New York Terminals. Market closed.

SUPERNATURAL

LIGHT.

SIK AMBROSE FLEMING'S' THEORY.

some

incandescence

of

events

"One of them was the Pillar of Fire over the tabernacle which guided and guarded the hosts of farael during their wanderings in the wilderness. Also at the giving of the Law on Sinai the mountain 'burned with fro' and was seen by the hosts of Israel.

Then again the angel of the Ite aurrection, whose face was liko lightning, struck torror. Into the hearts of the sentry guard, in which there were perhaps four to six more men. There must have been some. thing unearthly in this light, an to alarm these hardened Roman sol- diers.

"It is clear that there have been manifestations of light which were supernatural. Inquiry into theso mysteries, however, lies: far be yond our present pawors

of

Sir Ambrose Fleming Is one the greatest authorities in the world on light and radiation, and was the Inventor of

of the thermionic valve

telephony pos which tunde wireless te

ible. He is 81 years of age.

a forgery and that Miss Wall had

oney, there aren't any

pictures playing