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OUR SHORT STORY. 1
OUR SHORT STORY. 1 LOVE'S "UPS AND DOWNS." I By PEAREES WITHERS. I Captnin George Wilmott Collingwood, of Coiiing°wood Hall. Leicester-] ire, and the L'. T-. fiance, stroked the bare place on his upper lip whence he had removed a uery, toothbrush moustache a few hours earlier, and glared at the bald spot on the top of his solicitor' s head. "Oh, 1 don't care," he said bitterly. "Let. it. go to the CatV HOle, or the Dcg, tloine, or the Home for War-weary I oil- ticinns, or any old thing like that ttiafc j comes into your head. You ought to !;e full of ideas, now that you've got no hair en top to keep 'em cut." "I think," said Dion, the solicitor, as he gravely balanced a long pen on his right forefinger, "I think that you are a very foolish young man." "Hear, hear!" appbudcd Collingwood. "[ never could understand any man losing his head over any girl who came into his life, pursued the solicitor; "but it is still more dfficult for me to understand any man lo-ing his head over an undesirable girl who goes out of his life. He ought to be pro- iourdty thankful." "But, my dear old woman-hater," Colling- wood interrupted, "you surely wouldn t -suggest that I ought to let the present will stand. Why, it wouldn't even be decent to ¡ leave all my worldly goods to a girl who has gone and married another fc-Ilovi "I never approved of the existing will,' retorted the solicitor. "As I said to you, in this room, six months ago, such a will ought to be drawn after marriage, but never before." "Well, Miss Willoughby is married all rio-ht now, Dixon," complained the Captain. "I suppose that's why you object to my making a new will?" "Nothing of the sort. sir! What I abject to is the spirit of levity in which you talk of the disposition of your properl V. Cats' Home,' The Dogs' Home, —the—the Of course you ought to muko a new will. But for heaven's sake let the new will be a sensible one." ,t t Captain Collingwood studied the attenu- ated features of his lawyer with a v.-hnnsical ?mi!e. "'I'll IoLive everything to you, then," he said maliciously. "Would that be sensibler "It would be impossible!" snapped Mr. Dixon. "As the law stands just at present no man can be another man's lawyer, execu- tor. and sole legatee combined. How many days' leave have you?" "Two gone and seven to go. Why?5^ "Because I refuse to take your instruc- tions to-day. This is Wednesday—-come and see me again on Saturday morning at eleven o'clock, after you have considered the matter with a certain degree of sanity." "But," protested the Captain, "suppose anything were to happen to me in the mean- .vhik! She'd get everything 1- And you know, eld man. she'd take it, too! A girl who would go off and marry a major with- out mentioning the matter to me till it was all accomplished fact is capable of doing anything. Why, d'you know, she wrote and told me she was perfectly certain we should never get oil together because we ye both got red hair; vet it was only six 6ago that she declared red-headed people ought always to marry one another because thev were bound to match "Miss Willoughby'* hair is probably another colour new," decided the lawyer. "When I saw her in the new revue at The Pantheon the other evening it was black. PcswibH the majora bank balance "Xu, 1,0; it wasn't that! lie's the third son of the Earl of p-iil over me. But that black hair you saw was only a wig. Dollie?8 hair is really carrots—like mine; only she turns it auhnr at four ,Iie 'ii:iis it 'lul)llrn ?,t four iii(I six a 1),)ttle. But as I-,?, a?4 Mr. Dixon rose from lii.s desk, revealing as he did so that he was a very little man, 'and having crossed to a -j apanned deed-case which was sitting on a chair near the window, he removed a document from the_ oise and offered it to his client. "It"" an irregular thing to do," he said; <Õ¡mt ;vprythillg about you is irregular, Captain Collingwood. Throw it on the tire, and come back on qatLirday." Captain Collingwood took the despised will and dropped it on the fire. Then he lit a eigarett-c and picked up his cap, his ca-ie, and his gloves. "What a bout some lunch" he queried. "You're a dull dog, but I like you all the same!" "It ml my usual hour;" replied Mr. Dixon, glancing from the flames in the grete to the clock on the mnntel piece. •"And, besides, I don't approve of an elabo- rate uical in the middle of a working day. Tak« yourself off- -and with you my advice. It' you must marry—though I decline to recognise the necessity—marry a girl in your own cla-'S. These theatrical ladies But Captain Collingwood had fled. He had fled through the dingy little den labelled "Clerk-' Office" cut into the corri- dor. But on the way he winked once more at the two very attractive lady clerks with whom lie had conversed while waiting for his interview; and as he rang for the lift he told himself with a chuckle that "Old Dixon" was a pious fraud, though he didn't really believe anything of the kind. The lift whose button he was pressing was not of the sort that carries an attendant. It was an automatic lift. And it- refused to obey his summons, because it was already conveying a passenger to another floor. Antomatic lifts are quite all rilght-i-,nlil they go wrong—but they have certain dis- tinctive features. They will not operate un- less all the gates on all the floors are shut; but when all the gates are shut, they re- spond-with supreme indiffercnce-to tho pressure of a button inside them, or to the pressure of a button beside one or other of their gates, whichever first happens. Captain Collingwood craned his neck arid saw the lift stop at the floor below. Some- one got out and the gate slammed. Deciding that the psychological moment had arrived, the Captain immediately pressed, his button ain. a 'The lift shot upwards and came to a standstill opposite Collingwood. But, in- stead of being empty, it contained a very fat and very red-faced man who was looking surprised, but none too pleased. Ho had entered from the floor below, but the Cap- tain had forestalled him at the button by the fraction of a second. Captain Collingwood moved to open the gate, but the red-faced man, being a bad- tempered one, promptly pressed the bottom button in the lift—marked "Ground Floor" —and disappeared with the cage. Collingwood characteristically dismissed all thought of his broken heart, and set himself 1-,0 circumvent tho stranger. He waited with a crick in hia neck and hie linger on the button, till the lift had reached the ground floor; then, before the red-faced man could pos-ibiy open the gate, he pressed the button home. The lift began I to rea"cend. Now among the other buttons in an auto- matic lift there is one marked "Stop," which, when pressed, will arrest the career of the cage, no matter where it may be. 'The red-faced man pressed this button yiciously ÿ nd stopped between the first and second fioorB: but cie he could press the "Ground Floor" button nyain,» Collingwood had pressed h, button, and restarted the lift on an upward journey. Thus did a mere accident develop into a wattle .royal; so that for the space of ten minutes these two men fought each other with buttons, while would-be passengers, on -( 7c ii-oii d erecl. 'J.h c various floors, waited riiKt wondered. The I lift wavered up and down, but always with a tendency to mount higher; and in the end the red-faced man. tiring of so much un- wonted exertion, decidcd to permit hia-.elf to be carried up to Collingwood s floor in order that h" might tell Coiiingwood exactly what he thought of him. When he arrived, however, Colling wood was missing. Recog- nising that discretion i. sometimes the better part of valour, he had climbed to the I flo:1r above! Aft-er a few momrgfs cf blasphemous irrs* solution the red-facad man descended—this ■•time without let cr hindrance. But still be- side the lift-gate on the topmoet floor stood Captain Collingwood in impish mood, hii eyes gleaming, his wretched love-affairs for- gotten, and his hunger ignored, intent upon a new form of pastime. He would, he de- cided, bring all sorts of people up to the top floor against their will, and see what they had to say about it. For a full quarter of an hour he played "t this game, bringing up in han an. 0:(:- eiothc.* man, a bearded fellow who looked like an un d erta k er, a wisp cf an ofncc-gir?, ;:ko: ,;tri¡l:'l/ l\? \;tha;l r:f,t,i'1:: nervous-looking grcy-h-ad?d man ia a. t-.?k k:t (who murmured, "G-id bless my soul I"), und—Mr. D i xon Mr. Dixon had entered the lift from tne f'?r be l ow with the intention of go?n g cut i: c g: ¡' ¡} \r 'i fdr; hour having ;:? length arrive d ). en d he w.;s net at aU pleased at being taken cut of .r? ':)11I"SC, He did not, however, see his irre- sponsible eli"I' because Colliugwcod srrY ;'{-:ii;¡la';r:t.rigi;t"a:: I;\tt;d down hali-n-donen ?ta'rs. After the lawyer had departed in peace, Coiiingwood, remind -i of his lunch, dvilcd to abandon 1he sport and summon the ii-t for the more legitimate purpose of descend- ing to the ."treet. As toon, 1 hcreforc, as he heard the c'ang of a distant gate, he pressed the button. Once more, however, he had pressed m advance of an unsuspected—and unsuspect- ing—pnssenger, with the result that when the lift arrived his eyes encountered on im- prisoned vision of. feminine loveliness. "[—I beg your pardon," he stammered stupidlv through the non intehworx tx tü,) gate. "I—-I aidn't know there was anyone inside." The von smiled divinely. "It doesn't matter," siie a:.i in n soft musica voice that went straight to Captnh) Collingwood's head, like wine. "I—or—I was going to Mr. Dixon's omcc on the floor below. Will you take me down?" Captain Coiiingwood opened the gate— very clumsily, be it said, for one so prac- tised in the manipulation of lilts—and joined the lady. But he did not shut the g-ate, Illtead, he looked at the girl with embarrassing admiration and murmured: "I'm sorry, but Mr. Dixon lii,, just s'cne out. Why—dash it all! You must have brushed past him in the gateway down below." The vision raised her beautiful eyebrows. "Was that Mr. Dixonr" she questioned "A little thin man, with gimlet eye-- Captain Collingwood nodded. The descrip- tion appealed to him. "Oh, what a pity You ree, I was recom- mended to him by a—that is Collingwood didn't know why he did it, but on the whole it was juot as we.! he couldn't help it. "A major;" he suggested. The vision seemed perceptibly to freeze. "No. indeed!" said she. and her voic. icy. "I—that is, will you take n:e d./vn, please r" At this moment Collingwood bee? roe aware of an angry voice, "omewhEre in Tee depths, veiling loudly, "Gate! Gate. be closed the gate, and before he crux! press the button for the floor below t:;e began to descend. Collingwood was toe ei.s- turbed to take immediate note of the He thought he bad done the proving. "I beg your pardon," he said :v.vKv-;s~c.,y to his fair companion. "The fact is, I—J ve rather got majors oil the brain." "Have vou?" murmured the- vision, wj a the merest hint of sympathy. "I here rather myself. Oh' Why, going right down again Thcv were; but with the aid ci t.:e "Stop" button Collingwood stayed th^ e higi.t of the lift. Nevertheless, a.s seen he released the button the cage began to de- scend again. "Someone keeps puling us down,? .?id savagely, then pre?-cd the "Step .oiui'on again— and kept his finger on it. "I'm absolutely mad about, major-. he cou?did? "because one of them married, behind my back, a gi? I wa s S-?n? to m-?rrv myself. "Cood gracious'" excbumed the ,c' "Are you a friend of Mr. Dixon's, by chance;" "Not exactlv a one of JÓ; client' "I see. Then perhaps—yes, I tlnm: r v,  tell you. I'm mad' about majors, GC'aèe the one I was engaged to marry-— By the way. what is your ma jor's name'r" 'ojiiit,woc?l-tec,t her with icuiyd eves- Several voices were crying out lor te.e lest lift, but he y: quite unconscious oi t h the third son oi the Ene! of Blessingtonhe said. "Is yours The vision nodded emphatically. "Isn't it extraordinary!" she exclaimed, "lie married that horrid actress person, Do!lie Willoughby. Oh, what have I saidr' "Not at all," declared Coliingwocd?, "That'? exactly how I should descrih her myself—now. Seems to mc they must be a to ;nc they iiiiist ) ) ,?- a "Oh. she'd far worse than he is. At least Has this silly lift stuck. Captain Col- lingv.rod:" Collingwood shifted the pressure oi Lj, finger from one button to another, and the cacre mounted. Y ou know my name, then?r he said i.t; astonishment. «Vihy of course! I found cut al. the woman after—after she wrote me b t horrid "What did she write your" asked L„onnig- wood, his choleric blue eyes fixed intently njion her violet ones. Well, you see, Major Burlingham a Jot, of letter. of mine—foolish letters. Oh, vou know the sort of letters a silly g'ii writes to the man she- Collingwcod nodded understandingly. "They're only foolish," he protested. "Ye?»," agreed the girl, "I suppose are. But I've got a silly way of not dating mine, and this—this awful creature pretends that I've written them to Major Burling- ham since his marriage" "The-the horrid little cat So tnat s why you were going to see Dixon, ell" Yes. I found out that you had been engaged to this woman, and that Mr. ibxon was your solicitor. So I thought he niigul know something about her—and—and "I say—er—Miss "Bliss—Ellen Bliss. I know your cousin, Dicky Ly"le. He told me-" only a second cousin really, ana not a bit like me. What I was going to say was, have you had lunch yet?" She shook her head. "Nor have I," confessed the Captain. "Well, lock here, we're sort of vaguely related to one another—on the major's side, so to speak. And, anyway, you know Dicky. Let's go and have some." The girl considered the proposal care- fully and at some length, while Colling- wood murmured ecstatically to himself, She's stunning! She's absolutely stun- ning! But. she won't come—yes, she will! No. she won't come!" "Very well," announced the girl at last. "But we mustn't be very long. Will you call up the lift?" "No," said Coiiingwood. "We might never get out ance we got in—it plays tricks. Let's walk down "I approve of your selection," Mr. Dixon told Collingwood u. few days later, "but I disapprove of your haste. Still, as yon say, such a wedding will make an end of the actress's schemes and as your leave is nearly up, and it is eminently desirable that yon should make a'fresh wilI- a cheery old bird, I don't think," churl-dfd -Collingwood. But I insist upon your coining to cur wedding dinner ail the same. We ought to have a skeleton at the I' feast!"
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Mr A. G. Ferguson, the Gla?go? :?c-- "hant ?no, aMon?ai?ed by hM 12-yeer-old 30n, journeyed from ?tl?rd to t. K?ua, in the Outer Hebrides in a ??. cpeu motor boat, intends to mke tre re.iun trip- in the .cam?< way. Knocked down -by a cyclist in Verncn- olace, Bloom.dmry-, puree, London a young printer's reader nam^i Edward Charles Stoekbridrre, of Jiayt:-r-place, Islington^ tell in front cf a meter ch ■r-a-banc, -the wtieeis of which pascsd over and liiUed him.
(ALL Rights Rbsbrvbd.JI PENSION…
(ALL Rights Rbsbrvbd.J PENSION PROBLEMS: HOW TO SOLVE THEM. By AN EXPERT. Full Details Respecting Parents' Pension! —The Three Classes of Pension-What. Parents Shou!d Do—Training in Fruii and Vegetable Growing—Further Infor- mation About War Gratuities. FREE ADVICE TO OUR READERS. I Judging from the inquiries which reach me from time to time,! think the follow- ing statement regarding pensions to ourents will serve a useiul purpose. For the parent or parents cf a soldier who has died in consequence of military duty there "ire three classes of pension, only one of will be granted; however. The flat-rate i>ension is a pension not ex- ceeding as. a week granted to the parents ,to the two parents, not to each one) whose son was under the age of 26 at the outbreak of the war or at the date of his joining up for duty if later; had not married; and has left no child or ether dependent in receipt of, or eligible for, pension. The dependency pension can be claimed when the er ]iLi.; helped the parents. In such a case the parents may he granted a pension up to 15s. a week, equal to the help given by the son before the war, or enlist- ment, but not including any increased help he may have been giving through inflated ivar wages. In reckoning the help given, the cost of the soldier's keep, if he lived at lome, will be deducted; but in any event i he pension will net be less than 3s. Gd. a vveek. If the dependency pension awarded 3hoiild be less than 5s., and the parents come within the flat-rate pension class, they •.an, of course, apply for the 5s. fiat-rate eension instead. Dependency pensions may se granted in respect of two or more sons ivho helped the narents before the war, or enlistment, but the total coming to each parent will not exceed 15s. a week. Now, as to the special pension. Parents who arc in need, through being too old or infirm to support themselves, and have no >ther children who can support them, niay be granted a pension not exceeding 15s. a week. This pension, which will not be less than 3s. 6d. a week, may be given, even though they had had no help from their son. Here, too. if the special pension awarded is less than 5s. a week and the parents are within the nat-rate pension da& they can apply for tho 5s. Bat-rate pension instead. al)'I)ly ferth.3 5s. flat-rato Some ejKcial points to remember are these A jiension to a mother will cease on re-marriage, but a gratuity of half a year's pension may be granted. A dependency or flat-rate pension will not he granted to the mother of a soldier if she has married after the date of his mobilisation or enlistment (if later). Parents who are entitled to pen- sions should make application to their Local War Pensions Committee. All matters of training for new jobs are now in the hands of the Ministry of Labour, and the most up-to-date information, and so on, should be procurable at- the Employ- ment Exchanges. One of the training courses set up by tho Board of Agriculture for the purpose of giving inexperienced ex-Service men who desire work on the land, short courses of practical instruction in agriculture is de- voted to fruit and vegetable growing. This centre is situated at Shippea Hill, near Lakenheath, Suffolk, and 25 ex-Service men are already under tuition. The next course, which will last eight weeks, begins on July 7th and ex-Service men desiring to enter for it should apply to the Secretary, Board of Agriculture, 72, Victoria-street, London, S. W. 1. Such men receive allowances dur- ing their period of training, and an extra allowance is given to married men. The Local. War Pensions Committee is the proper authority to which demobilised and disabled men should make application con- cerning pensions and gratuities. Before de- mobilisation every Service man should state whether he has or has not a disability due to war service. If a demobilised man falls ill after his furlough he may receive ad- vances and medical treatment from his Local Committee, provided the medical referee certifies his disability is due to his war service. The following arc the exceptions to the payment of War Service Gratuitift: Con- scientious objectors, men discharged as un- fit within six months, soldiers released for civil work for such time as drawing civil pay. A private who has served overseas draws £5 for the first year and 10s. per month afterwards; and a corporal, X6 for the first year and 10s. per month afterwards. For home service the same gratuities are paid for the first year, and then 5s. per month additional service. Soldiers dis- charged before December 9, 1918, should apply for war gratuity to the Regimental Paymaster on Army Form W.5063, obtain- able at the post office. No application is necessary from soldiers discharged after that date. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. F. H. P., Canterbury.—Apply to your Local Employment Exchange. A. A. M., Dover.-I am taking up your case, and will report as soon as I can. A Hero's Mother, Rent.-Yoit might apply for a dependency pension. This runs up to loa. a week, equal to the help given by the son before the war (or enlistment). If this claim cannot be sustained, apply for the 5s. flat rate pension. To do this you must write to or see the secretary of your Local War Pensions Committee. If you do not know the address, you can get it from the Post Office. Sapper E. P. O'Connor, R.O.D., Royal Engineers, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, E,l ypt. -His first period of engagement, i.e., on current attestation, expires Decem- ber 11, 1919. He will reckon then 17 years 308 days' service towards pension. This is too little to qualify towards service pen- sion. The only way out of his difficulty would be for him to re-engage to complete 21 years, and if he wishes to obtain a "modified" pension apply for his discharge after February 6, 1920, when he would have completed 18 years' service. Our Pensions Expert is anxious to assist sailors alid soldiers and their wives and de- pendents in dealing with intricacies of the War Pensions System. Address your queries to "Pensions Ex- pert," c/o liditor of this paper. All essen- tial facts should be stated as briefly as pos- sible, such as name, number, rank, regi- ment of soldier, name and rating of sailor, particulars of families and eeparation ale lowance and (in inquiries concerning civil liabilities) pre-war or prc-enlistment in- come, present or war income, and full lia- bilities. Do not send any documents, birth certificates, or discharge papers, etc. Will correspondents please make a point of sending their regimental number, rank, name, and regiment?
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Mr. J. W. Taylor, head of the Lough- borough bell founders, who cast Great Paul, the deepest-toned bell of St. Paul's Cathe- dral, has died, aged 66. A terrier which, as a mascot of H.M.S. King George V., came through the battle of Jutland, has been run over by a motor- car aud killed in Golder's Green-road. Mr. TTiomas Hussey, who built Albert Hall-mansions and a large part of Crom- well-road, has died, aged 85. A London County Council Committee sug- gests the appointment of a Director of Housing at a salary of = £ 2,009 a year. While crossing Pall MalI, Mr. J. M. Fidclesj ag-cd. 5, a retire-d Army surgeon, was knocked down and kiJld by a motor- car.
NAVAL OFFICER TARRED ANDI…
NAVAL OFFICER TARRED AND I FEATHERED. [ An extraordinary story comes fro? Cam- bridge, ?hcrc a i.ivijl' terred and 'stripped of his clothing, was found early in stril)l).ej of his IV.. chains to a the moriiln,- ,?,o,,ii!d il,y ?:Lo,,i t cliaiis to a The police, ?ho made the di-covpry, had to smash j wo stout padlocks securing chains round the officer's week and body Lc- fore he could be re loused. It is said that -while on leave last year an Army cmccr, whoe-e home a J;'d\tÜ?.;llij b;f'; marr i ed the daughter of ;) doctor. A iter he had returned overseas he received infor- mation, it is alleged, that a you:),, Gfficer was paying great at'enticn to his wife, thereupon the Army ofaeer returned to Cam- bridge and with his brother is alleged to have stripped, tar:el, and leathered a naval officer and conveyed him in a te.xieab to the spot where he was found by the-police, which is in the residential centre ot th« town. Afterwards leaflets were distributed which stated that "fcub L; en tenant son of has been to-day terred and feathered." The young oiffcer concerned, who is said to 1 bo but 14) eld. is Sub-Lieutenant Des- mond B. Kinahan. He has been sent to bar-
THE COAL SHORTAGE.I
THE COAL SHORTAGE. I As a consequence of the reduced hours granted to miners, it is estimated that .when these conic into force there will be a. de- crease in the coal output of from 287 million tens to between 211 and 217 million J tons. It was hoped to introduce modified ration- ling, said- Sir A. Geddes, ail consumers h(':ov five tons a year, cr the equivalent in gas or electricity, to be exempt, but all others to be rationed as at present for another twelve mouths from July 1. They would be allowed up to September 30 to stock up to their assessment so far as supplies permitted. After guaranteeing pre fit? to owners at the rate of Is. 2d. a per ton the estimated deficiency on the working of the industry would amount to < £ 45,500,000, equal tc 4s. 3d. per ton on the output, which meant an increase to the consumer of about is. Gd. a ton.
I1?-TONA.I I FLORETONA. I
I 1?-TONA. I I FLORETONA. I With all its pre-war colour and attrac- tiveness the great day in the school year at Eton, Je.ne 4, was celebrated on Wednes- day. There was a large gathering of parents and others, and the Eton boys were out in new toppcp, and wearing buttonholes oi roses or carnations. At lunchcon the Provost, in proposing the toast, "Floreat Etona," read telegrams from all parts expre-siug affection for the old school, including cne from the Duke ol Devonshire and other Etonians in Canada. There was also OHe from fifty-six old Etonians, members of the Peace Conference in Paris, present at a luncheon presided over by Mr. Balfour.
LIQUOR CONTROL. I
LIQUOR CONTROL. I Mr. Bonar Law. pressed in the Common! as to whether liquor restrictions would be relaxed during Peace celebrations, when "chaos" would ensue if reasona ble refresh- ments could net be obtained, said if there was any likelihood of that it was a mattei for consideration whether special arrange- ments might not be made. Mr. Bonar Law added that the Board of their f iiiict i ons. Control were exercising their functions. Whatever arran gements were ultimately made thev should be under the responsi- bility of some Minister who was answerable to Parliament.
IFAMOUS ANALYST DEAD. I
FAMOUS ANALYST DEAD. I News comes of the death of Sir Boverton Redwood, B.Se., who was responsible for the analysing of the oil taken froni the recently Irilled well in Derbyshire. The deceased scientist died suddenly at his residence. Avenue-road, Hampstead, aged seventy-three. He was director of Technical Investiga- tion in his Majesty's Petroleum Executive, and chairman of the Inter-Drpartmental Committee on Alcoholic Fuel and of 'the Inter-Departmental Committee on Gas Traction.
I THREATENED COTTON STRIKE.
THREATENED COTTON STRIKE. A conference cf employers and operatives' representatives in Manchester failed to come to an agreement regarding the wages and hours dispute, and the operatives will now tender notices to cease work on Juno 21. By this threatened strike half a million workpeople in the cotton trade will be affected.
I 50,000 THIMBLES. I
I 50,000 THIMBLES. I When Qpeen Alexandra unveiled a tablet in Greenwich Hospital which recordu tho endowment of a ward by the Silver Thimblt Fund, it was announced that more than 50,000 silver thimbles and many other articles of value were sent in response to an apeal, and these had been melted into bullion. Of this a sum of = £ 10,000 was allo. cated to the Greenwich Hospital, and that amount was handed over by Queen Alex- andra on the occasion of the visit.
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It is hoped the public will again be ad- mitted to the park and grounds of Alex- andra Palace when it is used for the housing of Government staffs, stated Sir Alfred Mond. Three pounds- a week is the least any working man should be asked to live on at the present time, when its value is equal to 30s. in pre-war days, said Mr. A. Watts at the L.C.O. Education Committee. The tank presented to Birmingham in ■ recognition of the city's response to the appeal for war funds has been formally handed over to the civic authorities. The strike of dyers and finishers which began at Leicester, has spread to Notting- ham, and many thousand hands are now out of employment. Over two hundred acres in and around Swanage, including the famous Tilly Whim caves, are to be sold by auction. Since, the armistice all pictures removed from the National Gallery, to the number of 675, have been taken back to Trafalgar- square. A &pecial Commission, representing the League of Nations, has arrived at Geneva for the purpose of viewing the proposed site for the buildings to be erected as the seat of the League. 11 e At Silverston, Northants, a woman and her daughter were feeding fowls when light- ning killed the bird", at their feet. For selling bread less than 12 hours old, 14 bakers were at Nottingham each and X2 2s. costs. On condition that Croydon spends jC 4.0,000 on road repairs this year the Road Board has granted £30,000 in addition. Mr. Arthv. Reginald Dyer has been ap- pointed chief officer 05 the London Fire rising to < £ 1,500. As entertainment which was to have been given at the Mansion House, Dublin, in aid of a memorial to James Connolly, Socialist and rebel leader, has been prohibited by the authorities.. The Norwegian Government is to sell to Germany 750,000 tons of salted herrings and 10,000 tons of lard for 80,000 million kroner. Albert Joseph Andrews, a Swede, has been fined iJlOO at Marvlebone. He was allowed I to land at Southampton on condition that I he returned to Sweden, but married an Eng- lish girl, came to London, got a job, and did not register as an alien. Fire broke out in the power house of the Main Colliery, Brynocll, Neath, but was got under before much material damage was done.
THE TROUBLE IN INDIA.
THE TROUBLE IN INDIA. fhe India Office announces that a full translation of the Ameer's letter to the Viceroy of May 23 has now been received by telegraph from the Government of India. The Viceroy also reports that he has replied to the letter stating the terms on which he is prepared to conclude an armis- tice al a preliminary to the discussion of terms of peace. MORE BOMBING. In the course of his letter the Viceroy made it plain that the Afghan incursion had no justification whatever in any action on the part of the British authorities. The enemy forces near Thai have again bœll bombed and machine-gunned by our aeroplanes (says a Reuter's special mes- sage), and there are now no Afghan troops remaining east of the Kurram river.
SOLDIER-SOLICITOR LOSES.
SOLDIER-SOLICITOR LOSES. Judgment was given in the King's Bench Division in the action brought by Mr. Christopher Henry Heddon, a solicitor, of Ripon and Harrogate, who formerly served as a private in the Army, claiming dam- ages from his lat-e commanding officer. Major G. C. Evans, for alleged slander, malicious prosecution, and false imprison- ment. The action m'osc from a term of "confine- ment to barracks to which Mr. Heddon was sentenced while he was serving in the Army. In the result judgment was given for Major Evans.
SOME WEIRD BAPTISMS.
SOME WEIRD BAPTISMS. Numerous are the stories of strange baptisms. Recently the child of a well- known M.P. was christened in the crypt of the House of Commons. Some yeara ago a baby was baptised in a London tramcar. It had been born there prematurely, and as its life was despaired of, the ceremony was per- formed without delay. In similar circumstances, too, a new-born babe was christened at the bottom of a oal mine in South Wales. This was in the bad old times, when women worked under- ground until almost the eve of their cor.- finement. In America, w here christenings other than in church are the rule rather than the exception amongst we ll-to-do people, babies have been baptised in all sorts of odd places. In one recent case in California, for instance, the ceremony was performed in a diving bell at the bottom of tho sen. In another case tho proud parents of the new arrival persuaded a clergyman to bap- Li-)e the child while up in a ballcon.
I CLUB WINDOW. I
I CLUB WINDOW. I A good story of the King's naval days li recalled by his birthday, which has jusl been celebrated. In 1S88 the Commander in-Chief at Portsmouth received a message from the late King Edward, then, of course F?ti?l Pr nee of A*t",i l ei, rtiil Prince of Wales, asking if Princ-t George could have leave to join him at Goodwood. The Prince was in command 0: ¡ a torpedo-boat under crdtTs to proceed t< Spithead, and when the message was passec on, asked, "But what- would become of 11n boat? I must take her to Spithead." Th< proffered leave was declined, and aftei I Prince George steamed off to Spithead it the teeth of a gale. The King's birthday lS the busiest of the year for the specia post office which deals with the Palac; letters and so on. Heavy mail-hags poiu in from all parts of the Empire, and there •r? hundreds of telegrams to be dealt with I ,md suitably replied to. It is a very busv day altogether, for the Royal Familj always shares these anniversaries er famille, and there, are luncheon and dinnei parties to which members of the family and a -few very old friends are invited. r Another birthday of ncte is that of Mr Thomas Hardy, who has turned seventy- nine. He is not only a famous novelist for there are some who, if they know he writes at all, regard his writing as hi* second string. A stranger once visit-cc Hanly's village in Dorset and asked a cot- tager to direct him to Mr. Hardy's house. "Which Mr. Hardy?" asked the old woman "The Mr. Hardy who writes," said the visitor. "Oh, I know nought about him,' she replied, but there be a Hardy near here who rears grand pigs!" After hearing a good deal of hard swear- ing on both sides, one 0: our witty judge* lately a ddressed the jury: "Gentlemen of the jury, if you believe the evidence ten- dered by witnesses called on behalf of olaintiff you will find for plaintiff. If you believe defendant's witnesses you will find "or defendant. If, like myself, you believe neither, heaven knows what your verdict .vill be." The popular composer, Mr. Herman Finck, tells an amusing story of the famous llus-ian dancer, Mile. Pavlova. Pavlova stood out among all the other ladies of the onl:et when dancing at the Palace, and in order to avoid hurting their feelings or pro- moting jealousy, she made it a rule that her bouquets should bo sent to the sWige door and not handed to her publicly across the footlights. On the last night, Herman Finck. who was conducting, suddenly saw a boy approaching with a large laurel wreath. He waved the boy away, but the boy refuse d to retreat and passed along the ore.hestra. The solution came when the boy cried cut: "It is for you, sir!" Another g-oo..l -to:y from the same source relates to Finck' days, when he and G. P. Huntley to write songs together at a guinea a time. One day, Finck was approached by some .American performers wiio were dcing a sk-ets'i called "A Naked Dog." Thev wanted some good music, and Finek asked boldly for twenty pounds. ''Twenty pounds for the music!" they ex- cla, "S¡:y, it's more than we paid f?r the dog! n c-in-,e d in Quite a sensation h?s Ix?n ca ud in Paris in connection with a most remark- able espionage case, in which a certain Corporal Teulat, a French aviator, and Edoimrd R-aviez, a soldier, now in flight, are accused of informing the enemy where the Big Bertha shells and Gotha bombs fell in Paris. Acting on information from Paris, the Swiss authorities seized a letter written by Ravicz to a young women of Fribcurg-en-Bresgau, Raviez's domicile was searched, and instructions for the use of a S:CYit ink were found. The letter to the, vouiig woman contained the merest com- monplaces, but on being put into water it showed that Raviez wanted information about the aviation camp at Le Bourget, which had been bombarded by the German squadron. « Another letter by Raviez to a linen seller at Geneva informed her that he was send- ing a p-Ol containing perfume and six han-dkcrolj-fs which had to be sent from Lyons to-a girl working in a telephone office rt Villejuif, in the Department of the Seine. The parcel was seized, and the handkerchiefs were found to have absorbed secret ink. A watch was kept on th2 tele- phone operator at Villejuif, and she was seen to give the parcel to Corporal Teulat. Both were arrested, and the case will ¡ shortly be heard by court martial. The holiday question will this year cause greet heartburnings. Thousands of people of moderate means are finding that they cannot take a seaside holiday this year be- cause of the exce-sive railway fares. Not milv does the Government persist in main- taining the 50 per cent. war-time increase in fares, which has been officially pro- claimed time and again as a temporary in- crease for the war period only, but they re- fuse to sanction the issue of holiday, tourist, and excursion tickets. This, in effect, means that the holiday increase is from 100 to 150 per ccnt. and more. These hio-h charges mean that many middleclass families simply cannot afford to go away on holiday, for there is the additional con- sideration that the charges for seaside ac- commodation have doubled. < < The present system in regard to the War Cabinet is to be changed after peace is signed. Mr. Bonar Law has said in the House of Commons that it was not pro- posed to continue the government of the country by the War Cabinet, which took the place of the old Cabinet system, after peace is signed. Alterations in the organi- sation of the War Cabinet, he explained, were contemplated, but the nature of the, changes could not naturally be settled until after the return of the peace delegates. An industrious scribe has pieced together from the French Press the week-end doings of the Lord Chancellor. It is as follows: Friday afternoon, played tennis with his brother Harold (unsuccessfully) against a pair of the Oxford University team. Friday evening, addressed meeting of new Carlton Club in Wadham College, Oxford. Satur- day morning, flew to Paris. Saturday afternoon. attended meeting cf Imperial War Cabinet to discuss German terms. Sunday morning and evening, more meet- ings. Sunday afternoon, went with Mr. Bi,lfour to finals of lawn tenms tournament in Paris. Monday morning, flew back. Had a forced landing this side of Channel. Mon- day afternoon, delivered considered judg- ment in House of Lords. This week-end adds the scribe, would surely have given "ven Lord Brougham food for thought. As soon as matters are straightened out in Paris, and Mr. Lloyd George can return to this country and take up his manifold duties once again, he has resolved, it is said, to make a tour among the !oc.tJ authorities of thLS country to urge on them the "reatcst possible expedition in carrying out their building and improvement schemes. Mr. Bonar Law is also meetinc; representatives of iocal authorities from all over E gland to urge c-ri them the import- ance of the housing question.
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Superintendent G. W. Page, of Grays. appointed deputy chief constable 01 Essix. has risen from the ranks. CT60K.s. an e-tate of 140 acres., overlook- ing the Forth at Inverkcithmg, has bd:ü bought by the Admiralty. The shooting by a sentry of a German prisoner, Frenz Radgowski, who tried to escape from Dorchester Camp, has been held by a coroner's jury to be Justifiable homi- cide." A special committee appointed by Marvle- boni) Borough Council has reject ;d the scheme of the executive for building a war memorial, at an estimated cost of "£10,000. & favour of sgms œo. utU:tar:aa ehen.
FUN AND FANCY.
FUN AND FANCY. "Why do you have all your mail sent to your office?" "Because there's still a cen- sor at my home." "Chauncey said I was the only girl he had ever loved." "Doesn't he say it beauti- fully, dear?" Mrs. A.: "Josephine is progressing by leaps and bounds in her piano practice." llr. A.: "I thought t'ohe couldn't make ail that racket with her hands alone." Knicker: "Has Jones returned to his pre- war work ?" Bocker: Yes, he is looking for the same job he was looking for before the war." Tom: "Shall we live with your parents ifter we are married?" Ethel: "The ques- tion is, can we live without them?" Alf: "What's your company officer like?" Bort: "He's the" kind of bloke what reks yer a question, then hollers out silence when you start to answer it." "What a beautiful thing to see a young girl growing into womanhood:" sighed the nice old lady at the ball. "Ye- indeed snorted the crushed cavalier. "Nowadays most of 'em seem to want to grow into man- hood "What do they mean by poetic licence! Does a poet have to pay for a licence?" N o. If he did we'd have fewer poets." Townleigh: "There is never an angry word spoken in your home?" Subbubs: "No one dares lift his voice. The cook might think we were talking to her." Small Boy: "Mother, won't you buy me a watch?" Mother: "What do you want a watch for?" Small Boy: "I want to swop it with Jimmie Jones for one of his pups," "A sailor has a wife in every port, they l b?it's the reasou say," said Miss Simper. "That's the reason he spends most of his life at sea," growled the bachelor. Nodd: "I don't mind your borrowing money from me, old chap, but please don t promise to pay me back. That hurts!" Todd: "My dear boy, I thought you knew me well enough to know that I didn't mean that. <:> "Helen," asked her mother, "who loves you best, Jack or Harry?" "Well, they're both awfully good at it, mother." "Was your daughter's musical education a profitable venturer" asked Smith. "Rather!" said Brown. "I bought the houses on either side of us at half their value." Mistress "Why are you eating all that custard?" Mary: "Well, mum, didn't you tell me to put it where the flies couldn't get at it?" He: "But I "lwd you, dearest, to keep our engagement a secret." She: "I couldn't help it. That hateful Miss Oldun said the rear-on I wasn't married was because no fool had proposed to me, so I up and told her you had." Percy (after the proposal): "Have you ever lovel before?" Edith: "No, Percy! I have often admired men for their strength. courage, beautv, intelligence, or something like that, you "know; but with you, Percy, it is love—nothing else!" First Actor: "Hallon, HoraceHow's the show? Still drawing well?" Second Actor: "Better and better! Last night, my boy, the front row was packed!" Angry Customer: "Look here, waiter, I have jut found this trouser button in P'Y soup." Waiter (with a beaming smile;: "Oh, thank vou, wir; I couldn't think what had become of it." Niece: "Uncle, they say that there arc more marriages of blondes than of bru- nettes. Why iti it, I wonder?" Uncle (a confirmed bachelor): H'm! Naturally tho light-headed -ones go first." Mr. Thickedd: Wher. I read about some cf these wonderful inventions in electricity it makes me think a little." Miss Smart: "Yes, isn't it remarkable what electricity can do?" Teacher: "Which letter is the next cne to the letter H?" Bov: "Dunno, ma'am." Teacher: "What have I on both sidea of my nose?" Boy: "Freckles, ma'am." Bindie: "Your new typist spells ridicu- lously." Dingle: "Doe6 she? Well, then, it's the only word she can spell, so far as I know." Tommy entered the village general store with an assured air, and said to the shop- man: "I want a lamp glass, and mother Bays she would like it as strong as the bacon she had yesterday." Neighbour: "How is your boy getting along in the Army?" Veteran: "Well, he attracted the attention of the general, and attra4et-2 d the ?).ttention of tLe general, and made quite a hit with thecolonel, but he is finding it awful hard to please the ser- geant. Flinty: "It's a shame to think that any- one would swindle a poor, 'ard-working man. Stubble: "Why, whafs wrong now?" Flinty: "Wrong! Why, 1 worked 'ard painting up a sparrer inter a Belgian canary, and I'm blowed if the feller 1 sold it to didn't give me a bad half-crown!" Hubby: "I must go awav for a little trip." "All right." "But what sort of a trip shall I take?" "Go as far as you like." Old Customer: "I usually have two pieces of meat, you knew, waiter." Waiter: "Ah, that's cook's fault, sir; he must have for- gotten to cut that slice in two!" H,c, had been fishing for several hours without a bite, when a small urchin strolled up. "Any luck, mister?" he called out. Run away, boy," growled the angler. "Iso offence, sir," said the boy, "only I just wanted to say that my father keeps a fisn shop down to the right." Johnny: "1 want sixpence to give to a lame man." Mother: "You shall have it! And who is the lame man?" Johnny: "Oh, he's the doorkeeper at the picture palace." Burns wrote:— "0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us." To this a student of human nature with a pretty wit once suggested the following gratifying addition :— it "But how much better if by spells Ithera could see us as we see ourecla." Butcher (to applicant for situation): "Let me hear you go through the weig-hts table." Applicant; "Fourteen ounces make* s one pound, and-" Butcher: "Thatlll do.. I'll engage you." Wife (who wants him to buy it): "I saw such a duck of a hat to-d»jr." Husband (not to be caught): "Yes, and lik-e othe. ducks, it has got a pretty big bill to it. I suppose. "Did Harold speak. to. You this morning, papa? "Yes; but I couldn't make much out of what he said. r -understood him to say that he wanted to many me, and that you had enough to support him, so I aeut him hime and told him to write it out."
" \VliA T'5 VOURS?"
\VliA T'5 VOURS?" REMOVAL OF THE NO-TREATLNG RESTR.CriONS. On Derby Day—a happy choice—the Liquor Control Board, after a lour years' ban, re- voked the "No-Treating Order," which has, s ince the armistice, ca-,t.cd o much heart- burning throughout the country. Ihe "No-Treating Order" was principally aimed, states the "Board, at the suppression of two practices, which were causing grave trouble and loss of naval, military, and indus- trial efficiency during the early months of the war, namely, group-treating, or the practice of each person in a group taking his turn to stand drinks all round, and the practice of the indiscriminate treating of members of the Fi-rcet!, particularly when home on leave or travelling. IS THE LESSOX LEARNED? These practices have by now been so long iu abevance that the good sense of the com- munity should suffice to prevent their revival, with the wasteful and excessive drinking to which thev lead. The Central Control Board have, therefore, come to the conclusion that the maintenance of the Order, with the attendant minor in- conveniences which are involved by a prohibi- tion of treat ing, ia now no longer required in the national interest. Mr. 13aiar Law stated in the House of Com- mons that the War Cabinet had asked a com- mittee, assisted by representatives from the Ministry of Food and Central Control Board, to furnish them with a report on the control of the manufacture, sale, and distribution cf liquor.
FARES, PLEASE! I
FARES, PLEASE! I AND VERY MUCH LOWER, TOO. j In practical protest against the extor- tionate fares now charged by the railway vompanies throughout the country, a body has been formed .with the laudable object of compelling the railway companies to reduce fares to the pre-war level. The new association is to be known a • the :ational Association of Railway Travelleis, end has already received considerable sup- ort. Those comprising the executive u:o of a -representative chareeter, and are greatly enthusiastic in the work they have undertaken. The present executive com- mittee consists cf Mr. C. F. Higharrt, M P. '(South Islington), hon. organiser; Sir R. Park-Goff, M.P. (Cleveland); Major A. L'oyd-Carpenter, M.P. CNorth Bradford i; Major J. P. Pretvman-Newm an. M.P (Finchlev), representing the Middle Clnss Union; Lieutenant A. Baldwin Baper, M.P. (East Islington); Mr. J. A. Seddon, M.P. (TIanley); Mr. N. Grafton Doyle, M.P. (North Newcastle); Mr. Jack Jones, M.P. (Silvertown); Mr. W. H. Sugden, M.P. (Royton, Lanes.); Mr. O,.m-old Mosley. M.P (Harrow); Alderman J. Parkiuson. M.P. (Mayor of Blackpool); and Sir Forster Tcdd (Lard Mayor of York). Sir Harry Brittain has been invited to join the committee.
PRISON FOR ASSISTANT VICE…
PRISON FOR ASSISTANT VICE CONSUL. A sentence of three months' imprison ment in the second division was pissed at Bow-street on William Montague Williams, aged twenty-eight, formerly assistant Vice- Consul at Trondjhem, Norway. Mr. II, A. Thompson, of the Ministry of Shipping, from whom it wris alleged Wil- liams obtained money, stated that defen- dant told him that his uncle allowed him £:300 a year, but that he was net yet twenty-five and could not command the easily. As he was coming to England to got mar- ried (it wes known he was going to marry a daughter of one of the Legation Staff at Copenhagen) Williams and witness travelled to England together. Oil August 29 Williams called at the Ministry of Shipping to see Major Pinkeney, a coUoa?ue of Mr. Thompson's, who was away on leave. He said that h? owed £ i0 at the Hyde Park Hotel and for the moment was out of cash. His uncle was away and his solici- tors would net reveal his whereabouts. Wit- ness believed v the storv and lent Williams £ 20. A vritten statement by the defendant wes reads, in -which he admitted that the story of his rich uncle was false and also that he had never been offered a position as secretary to Lord Hardinge. He had bor- rowed £ 1,000 from the Consul at Trondj- cl never paid. hem, which debt he had never paid.
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Bradford's Water Committee has ap- nointed Mr. L.' Mitchell, a native of Kil- inarnock, water engineer to the city, in suo- ucssion to Mr. J. Watson. The Education Comn/ittce cf the London County Council recommend closing the school for one day, so that children may attend the peace celebrations; the ex- tension of summer holidays by cne week "as a. peace holiday." Heather on 700 acres has been destroyed by fire on Wocd«?:de Moor, between James- town and Boiihill, Dumbartonshire, and many game birds have peri hod.