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...cannot bear to see such ill-mated tenderfeet wandering loose among the lions, thirst and loneliness. He turns in his steamer ticket from Mombasa to England, takes command for and of the Rawleys, gets the safari past the usual vile German agent and as far as a highland camp, three weeks from nowhere. Here fever, whiskey, manslaughter, flies and love descend upon them. Rawley indulges in the first three and then loses his unpleasant self in the ample countryside. Janet and Antrim stagger home, black-lipped and full of British guilt. After the decent British interval, they marry. A ghostly...
Died. Marie Corelli, 60, at Stratford-on-Avon; author of best sellers for 40 years: The Sorrows of Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...
...meeting of the Christian Association, the following men were elected officers for the coming year: president, Marion Adolphus Cheek Jr. '26 of Brookline; vice-president, Sterling Dow '25 of Kennebunk, Me.; secretary, William Henry Gratwick Jr. '25 of Linwood, N. Y.; treasurer, Donald LeBosquet Sweeney '26 of Newton Highland. The retiring officers read their reports and the new board will go into office on April...
...South African War, Sir Auckland was a lieutenant in the third Highland Light Infantry Regiment; he rejoined the Army quite early in the Great War, was badly gassed. In 1916 he was made Director of Recruiting; during the next four years he held a number of posts and in 1920 was appointed British Ambassador...
...fleets are beginning to be a regular feature of those harbors in the United States which have a dense enough hinterland to make bootlegging and liquor running highly lucrative. Scranton, Philadelphia, and Trenton are supplied by the fleet which lies off Highland, New Jersey. New York is fed from the sea by a fleet anchored off Sandy Hook and in the neighboring waters. San Francisco gets its Mexican, Canadian, and Japanese liquors from the armada plying outside the Golden Gate. Boston and the lesser New England ports are infested with smugglers from the Bahamas and the West Indies...