| Show I II FUNNY NEWS SERVICE One night recently both the Tribune and the tho Herald l printed a dispatch of which the tho following Is the final paragraph para paragraph graph With th the tl flash o of ul lh the I pistol Sturgill s brains sp red the wall ant anti and he hc fell ell bac back bacic dead U the bullet having torn uw IY th the top tOJ of oC his head bead Tho missile struck him squarely in the tue forehead Owens who was instantly so sobered cre by bythe bythe bythe the shock of or the lie incident fell upon his friends friend's IJen s 's bo body and wept hysterically He lie j was taken tal-cen Into custody It was the thc sequel to a story of a aman aman man who thought ho lie could shoot as straight night as did William imam Tell an and amr who tried to shoot tho the hat from froni the head hend of his bis friend Good Interesting story Then along came the following which the Herald printed lator Later developments show that Sturgill Sturgill Slur Slur- gill was not nol killed A portion of ot his sk skull ull ullas as was shot a. a an away n bu but 1 he lie is e ex expected ex- ex to recover He lIe does docs not blamcO blame O Owens The Tribune didn't add that illuminating illum ilium- paragraph and left its to be horrified with the picture of or spattered brains and antl all that cheerful sort of thing That is the way war people do to lo fill Oil their papers when their news service ice cant can't g get gt t an any news An American consul at one of the Chinese ports reports to the department depart depart- el meat ment that there are fortunes awaiting men who will establish and conduct first class hotels in China and antl else- else w in the far East lie Tie says the prices now are from five to six dollars a da day in gold boltl and the service by no means satisfactory And Antl he adds An organized hotel company compau with buildings build build- I in jugs ings s at Shanghai Yokohama Kobe and possibly Nagasaki Nagasaki Naga Naga- saki Peking and Manila with good managers in each cach port and a general manager spending a portion of tho the year e r in each hotel run on modern American lines with all conveniences Rh 10 VC 11 t I D m. m n The Time question of or cost is not of great importance to the traveling public who bo are aro willing to pay m well for fUl t first first- class accommodations but at the time present time thue no traveler will sa say that there is a really first- first class hotel In Inthe Inthe inthe the far East |
