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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12456, 4 February 1909, Page 3

f ■ Aj German canvasser- took -the fifty storey elevator of a Western wholes sale house in New" York and walked ■ into the office, -where one of the proprietors were busy at h'isi desk. The canyassr/ was told s - that v - theV house , needed nothing 'in his line, but lie persisted in opening- the sample, hag and ; making himself the cause of much distress, /until- finally, the en'-. ragkd; proprietor, kicked Kim_.:> .down the •first . flight- . of stairs. ■An employee, observing" - the mode\ of descrat, repeated: the . dose' with lileiTeffeqt, "and it was j dittoeduntil /the v unfortunS,te German found; himself ; on the curbstoned' highway. Shaking himself, he looked back; over; the;. course. of evefits'and ejaculated "Yell^.dot is a great' establishment. I don't know deir particular line of peesness, but, my [Vat system, vat system!" , By' her/special request, 'Mrs Fred T. Jane, ]' wife;; . of the well-known naval writer/ "was" buried" at Southsea ; the other ■ day Cwithqut any '■■ token 1 of inourjiing. Bright : ahd ; cheerful colours .were- use'd for- the ■and; friends': in the Japanese ' Navy sent" one composed of> scarletwgeran•ium's.; ■•■ The coffin was encased, in a purpleSclothj- and festooned with pink silk. V