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PAGE ItN "Me Too," Said Me 2, for He Too, is Me Tu, So the Judge Evanston, 111, Dec. 11, --Have you ever wondered what was a "Chinese punt. Read the strange case of Me Me Tu is a Chinese. Really, he fs two Chinese, Or is he? He runs a laundry and has & bullfid- fle and a tomcat, The neighbors complained that Me Tu, the bullfiddle and the tom- eat constituted a trio which for un- alloyed noise had few equals and siticely no superiors, When Me To began sawing on the bullfiddle and the tomcat got under way with his shrill arias, the resultant cacophony was suggestive of & Gershwin rhapsody played on an umtuned calliope in competition with two dozen riveting machinesy they said, ' Constable George Harrison went to the laundry to arrest Me Tu. He saw no one, "Where," he demanded, "is Me Tul" Fines Me Tu.and Me 2, Too » ™ Two Chinese as alike as the fa evitable two peas in a pad, bob- bed from behind the counter, "And which," u the eon~ Tu?" = said the Chinese nearest the mangle. "Me Tu," sald the Chinese by e bundle rack. The constable took the two Me Tu's before Justice of Peace Samu. el Harrison. He, too, was per- plexed; but he devised a solution, «put them both in that closet," he said, pointing, "Turn them around, and when I shout 'Me Tu,* the first one to jump out is the M Tu we want." . Twas done, "Me Tu!" cried the Court. The two Chinese came forth in a dead heat, --< "Enough of this," said the Court, which had its own idea of solving a Chinese pusszle, He fin- ed them both, DISARMED THE KAISER Edmonton, Alta,, Dec. 12--From Holland and the disarming of Kais- or Wilhelm on a certain historic day shortly after the signing of the Armistice, to Canada and the Uni- versity of Alberta, seems & Very long way, yet the very man who re- quested the German war lord and his son to hand over their weapons is now a student at the University. of Alberta; He is Peter Keyser B.A, of the Hague, Holland and he is now rounding out a most remark- able career by a course in scientif- fe agriculture, Just out of school, et 17 he found himself in Utreent, a second lieutenant in the Dutch motorcycle brigade, where he serv- ed until demobolization in 1919, He was a guard on the Holland frontier when the Kaiser and his son fled from Belgium and received the weapons of the war lord. GENERAL CLEAN UP (By Canadian Press) Winnipeg, Man, Dec. 12--"Cran- berry Portrage Steam Bath" a big sign on the newest building at Cran- berry - Portage indicating that this new town in the new north of Man- itoba is trying to be up té date, has proved a magnet for the residents of the town. The sign bears the word "Sauna" in Finnish, which is said to mean anything from a steam bath to a manicure, and includes a shave, haircut, massage, clothes washed, trousers pressed and shoes shined. In short, "Sauna" is under- stood to mean a general clean-up, and this is what the residents of the TIME TABLES CPR TIME TABLE, taking effect 1201 am New Schedule Sundey, April », : : T town are now enjoying, especially Saturday nights, Boys attend the bath house in droves, In one corner is a fireplace capped by an"arch of stones, ARMLESS, LEGLESS PAINTER (By Canadian Press) Hamilton, Ont,, Dec, 12~Deprived of the use of arms and legs and therefore imprisoned in the house except at such times as he is taken out, Albert Lowry, a Hamilton man, finds a way to get close to the beau- ties of nature that he loyes. Holding a fine brush between. his teeth he aints in watercolors and oils many eautiful scenes from natare and decorates cushion tops, silken hang- ings for .walls and other lovely things that would be a credit to an artist who had the use of all- his limbs, PROTECT YOUNG TEACHERS (By Canadian Press) Victoria, B.C, Dec. 12.--All young school teachers in the lonely parts of Canada will be interested to id that the Local Council of Women has been stirred to action by the tragic death of Miss Estelle Jones, the 20-year-old school teacher of Cowichan, whose death was brought about by the "unjustifiable, unfeel- ing and underhand" criticism of her work by two members of her school board, They have arranged to send a delegation to wait upon the min- ister of education to urge that steps be taken by the department to pro- tect young teachers in isolated dis- tricts. Speakers at a meeting of the Local Council emphasized the young irl's unhappiness, alone, without riends, subjected to criticism and trying to keep discipline in her little classroom and teach her handful of children. Miss Sharp: "Perbaps you won't believe it, but a strange man tried to kiss me once." Miss Snap: "Really! Well, he'd have been a strange man if he had THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1928 ANCIENT MUMMIES ARE. DISCOVERED IN EAR NORTH Traces of Stone Age Race Found By P: - Expedition believe rank With finds whi ut's tomb in with those of ng 3 antiquity, if "not in splerfdor, nine members of the Stoll-McCracken Ex- pedition of the American Museum of Natural History have returned from their exploration of lands in the polar zogions, for north of Prince upert, B.C, where they left the schooner Effie M. Morrisey, which had carried them through the Arctic waters, The rty consisting of Charles Stoll, of New York, backer and director of the Expedition, and his wife, a noted big game huntress; Harold McCracken, Associate Editor of Field and Stream and leader of the expedition; Dr, H, E. Anthony, curator of Mammals of the American Museury; and other museum experts, left the port of Prince Rupert, on May 1st, for northern waters, and were, at one time, 225 miles north of Point Barrow, Their search was for ancient mummies, believed to be of Stone Age men, whose presence on the barren island of the Aleu- tians group had been reported. Burial On a barren island, far from the present haunts of men, a burial ound was discovered in which were our bodies in a rude sarcophagus, constructed of driftwood, cleverly mortised together and held by nails of walrus bone, The mummies were those of a chieftain; his hunter, who was sent on the long journey with him"to provide game for his food; a seamstress, who had her sewing equipment for repairing the chief's garments; and a child, thought to show the chief's love of children. Beside the body of the hunter were the stone hatchets and harpoons of his craft, Well Preserved The mummies were splendidly pre- served and showed every indication that the people of the Asiatic 'races, from which' these Stone Age men were believed to have come used me- thods of preservation similar to those COAL a ~~ COKE Waterous-Meek, Limited Oshawa Agents for STANDARD BRICK WOOD of the ancient Egyptians in preserv- ing the bodies of their Pharaohs, The four mummies, including the trunkless head of the hunter, were br to Montreal with the party on "The Continental Limited," of the Cana National Railways, and will be placed in the American Museum together with the important groups of mammals and birds of the Arctic waters, which the party secured dur- ing their exploration, OLD HERMIT DIES IN REACH OF MILLIONS ---- Atlantic City, Dec 11--The police yesterday found the lifeless body of James T. Cowden, 78 years old, re- puted millionaire, In a dingy tep- floor bedroom in a rooming-house here, and within reach was wealth totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars, The man hed died from natural causes three days ago. Seven worn and mouldy pocket books, bulging with silver and gold, musty paper packages containing valuable stocks and bonds, and nu- merous property deeds and trans- fers and bank books were discover- ed by the police in a search of the room, in which they tore up car- pets, emptied old shoes and tore pasted pictures from the wall, One of the bank books had been balanced within the past week, and showed a net cash balance of more than $37,000 in a local bank, Cowden, said to be a pioneer re- sident of Atlantic City, and the owner of parcels of land and other properties valued at more than $1, 000,000, is said by the police to have led the life of a hermit for the past twenty years. CHILDREN PAMPERED London Ont. Dec. 12--"Children nowadays have too much spending money and they are becoming sat- inated with expensive amusements," Do You Own Your Owu Home Jai. A Money to loan at 6% per cent. first mortgages. J. H. R. LUKE Phones: »71 931; 687W. sald E, BE. Giggs, for 30 years a London public schools, now com- pleting his 26th year as principal of Chesley Avenue School, in an in- terview here, "When my scholars marched away last summer to at- tend the annual school picnic we made a rough census in each class- room and found they had about $300 in their pockets, We all like prosperity and are glad of it, but should children be educated to easy spending when in after life money may be harder to get? Then may come disappointment and disaatis- faction," If Mr. Gibbs' calculation school picnic was correct the school children of the whole city that day spent $6,000 to $7,000 on amuse- ment, Some claim the figure- was nearer $10,000 MAYOR IS ENGINE DRIVER London, Eng., Dec. 12,--Walter Griffiths, an engine-driver on the member of the teaching staff of of the spending money at the last |' PHONE 7163 W. J. SULLEY. Auctionee: Loans, Insurance Collection and Real Estate ., 846 Simcoe St, 8, Oshawa mms ara REAL ESTATE, " INSURANCE 'utler & Preston ~/ 84 King St West Telephones 572 228 Night Calls 510, 1560, LETT, NICHOLLS AND HALLITT Real Estate Insurance and Loans Phone 8254 11 King St. East, Oshawa LPIONE .C. YOUNG 4% Prince St. Oshawa, Ont. Great Western Railway, the newly elected Mayor of Newport, hai the gratification at his inaugural ban- | quet of welcoming Sir. 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