Capt. Gundersen charged a former house-boy of his with stealing bed-doties, etc., of the value of £5), from No, 105, Chapoo Road.
The prosecutor said ho had bean away for acmic time, leaving the defendant in charge of the house. On his return he did hot novice that anything was missing, but when his wife returned she found that pone Havkets and "roll of sik: hal dis-
Inspector Boorko said the hoy war arrested at the hous of a in Bub-Wel Road, Pawn ticks ts the s'oten articles were fi Lin his roweesaion, and when arrested he admitted the theft.
'The defendant was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, Capt. Gunlersen having stated that the' boy bad been three yours in his employ and he bad act po viously been dishonest.
A River "Fence" Sentenced. native hawker and a boatwoman were ch with being concerned together in jeoriving stolen property from wharves and Yeats on the river Huangpu.
River Police-constable raid that he was on duty on the 22nd instant from 6 to 9 p.m. -Ab.ut 830 n, m. he saw the defend-'a boat alongside Muckenzie and Ca godown. The male defendant was a hawker of buticd rice, supplying the clews of native hosts, but witness knew that " lot boa's of this description made a practice receiving stolen property from river thieves and disposing of it in the French Conce-sion. He therefore approaches! the boat with the intention of enquiring rheic business, As became near, the tale defend-apt was sven to throwa quantity of eld frou What a pleasant thing is folly! Only those who know very little, or (better still) nothing at all, appear entirely happy. or whereas a fool sincerely believes that he knows everything, a wise man is by constant proofs reminded that lo knows very Hittle. But stay! There is something wrong here Th's philosophy won't do. Is ignorance, Alter all, redly happiness? True, old proverb assures us that "tis fo wis2," but, Like most proverbs, we suspect that this one must not he taken too liter: A-certain miser when young buried! a hea of gold in a secret blue, intending to d'g for uso when he grow old; but his miserly spirit prevented him from ever believing that he was sufficiently old to need it, though he lived to a great age. As a matter of fact, the miser was observed burying his gold by a man who dug it up and made off with it the very next day; but the miser never knew this. Here, now, was case of ignorance being bliss. But for every once that " ignorance is bliss" it spells ruinous disaster 2 thousand times. piping taes of peace and prosperity the foolish jog along joyfully; bat warfare, whether military or commercial, sorts into two camps the foolish and the wise. Sickness Coes the same thing with even g exiciitude. Most of us have beea sick in the coarse of our lives, and all of us mast be. But, unfortunately, not all of us nave the good fortune to be told—as Mr. David Brown, of, 29, Albany Street, Fest London, Cape Colony, wes—what is best to do at such a time.
Said Mr. Brown on 23rd May, 1904: the lust six years I have suffered from kidney trouble. Itappeared first wh at Los Anzelos, Culiforni 4 five of these years I was attended by several dce'ors, but never terested much for all their treatment. But better things were in store for me when I left Los Angelos to take up a position in East London, S. While staying at a boarding house here, a diseuss'on took place among the boarders on the subject of different complaints and the best means of curing them. One of the boarders recommended me to try Mother Se'gel's Curative Syrup. 'It is a sure remedy for your complaint,' he said. Messrs. A. J. White (Colonial. Ltd., coraer of Princes and Diesel Streets, vert Elizaba'h, Cape Oolong, <r its proper-e'ors in this country, bat you can obtain it almost anywhere."
"My chance companion proved a friend indeed. I acted upon his advice, with the result that to-day I am a sound, healthy man, I had nob taken the Syrup long Deere the kidney trouble began to abate.
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