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measure to a ralabow. Your love able essayist does precisely what Montaigne did, stringing odd thoughts in a garland of fancy, regardless of rules, naively revealing a delightful personality, with egotism but without vanity. Literary criticism that seeks to classify such writings, or to men. sure them by standard, overshoots the target, and bungles. When a
GERMAN TRADE.
The men who were called "pro- Germans" for using their common sense about trade with Germans after the war can now say "we told you so," if they so desire. The never agala" patriots, those who country with those flooded the
BRITISH SHIPMASTER
JAILED AT SAIGON.
OBSCURE CHARGE "OF CONTRABAND.
FRIDAY, JULY 11, - 919.
A LUCKY ESCAPE.
WHEN BOATING 19: DANGEROUS.
BURGLAR CAUGHT.
The burgling fraternity are stil busy. This morning they broke into the residence of Mrs. Babbage. manageress of the Alexandra Cafe Mrs. Babbage lives alone at. No. 7 Military Quarters, Kennedy Road,"
Last night the conditions being propitious a party of young people The British Officers of the Kung went to a bay inside the Lyemoon on the ground floor. Mr. Babbage
month.
is at Singapore.
Enquiries made by a China Mail
man says that he has read Montaigne, effective posters showing the Hun Yuen Co's (Hongkong) 3.3. "Lien-Pass for a moonlight bathing trip.
The party went in a launch with and enjoyed him. he has said all that changing his bayonet for the sample shing" particularly Captain Mair.
Form in liter rase, have had their innings. They had an unpleasant experience with which was a small boat just suffi- may safely be said. ature" may be a right thing, but in will now begin to have second the French officials at Saigon last cieatly large to hold a couple of reporter show that three men son- such protean work it is at once idle thoughts and claim that they thought
In the early hours of June 11, Mr. people. Most of the party decided templated burgling Mrs. Babbage's an open window in the bathroom. to look for it and foolish to deny it. so all along. They will say, now
Mutton preferred the little boat.
Apparently all was serene until it The other seems to have kept watch As Emerson says, we are dealing that other nations are arranging to Cullen, Chief Officer of the "Lienshing to bathe but Mr. Pomeroy and Miss residence. Two entered by way of was time for the homeward trip. The pair removed 'their shoes and with an entertaining shloquyrade with the Germans, that they was awakened by French Customs the words of which are "vascular hever meant to boycott them per Officers and told that contraband, and alive." If we like it we must manently, but only to exclude them three packages of aniline dyes, were The bathers were ready but there left them with a fan on the verandah
from personal relations for a while. found on a sampan close to the ship was no sign of the boaters. After a when the escape was made.
It like it much..
They will say they never said Mr. Cullen referred the officials to look round and sundry calls the when Mrs. Bibbage was awakened that trade with Germans should the second officer, Mr. Duguid, who party, knowing the absent par by her fox-terrier puppy growling. not be engaged in by patriots and in turn passed them on to Captain came to the conclusion 'they had to her surprise she saw a Chinese
Muit.
was just after 5
2.1.
neutrals. They will say, what com-
On arrival home the couple were situation for a lady alone would
standing alongside her bed. The officials wanted Captain Muir essayed to row home.
Such a monsense saw tong before. that you cannot eat your cake and have it, to visit the Sampan to see the seized
make the articles but the Captain refused to do reported "missing."
It now appears that the boat had have been enough to frighten many of the fair sex to helplessness. Mrs. and that if we want to
this..
drifted with a strong tide. The
Babbage showed commendable Germans pay we must allow them
They then warned him to appear occupants were unable to combat Meri- to earn the wherewithall. chester has a Chamber of Commerce at the court of instruction the same the tide and were ultimately carried courage. She at once jumped out of at Cologne now, falter giving the day but Captain Muir would not out through the Lyemoon Pass to French and the Belgians god accept a verbal order for this.
Later he received instructions start. The best excuse these fiere!
3. p.ra.
+
sea.
"O, TO THINK OF IT.""
Think of it! They are fishing the trout streams at Home now. While, we out here are doing what we are doing, they are standing where run ning water sings, aiming the hackle at the swirl below the missy boulder where the big one is suspected to
Several junks and sampans were lie.
Down the footpath through the patriots (who were so intolerant of through the ship's agent to attend at called on for assistance but all turned oak planting, by the millwheel, over commonsense during the war) can
Not being thoroughly aware of the a deaf ear, until between 2 and 3 am. when a sampan undertook to tow the weir, and up through lush give now for their change of frant ! meadows to where hazel bushes is one they might not think of for circumstances. Captain Muir attended the boat to Hongkong for a considera The thinking it was an enquiry. He was tion. To show how far they had fringe the stream, they west. Great themselves, so we help them elms spread their arms over it as if last proclamation by the King as promptly jumped on by the judge drifted it is mentioned that it took to bless it, and water veles watch nound that Ifis Meaty had made who resented the nonchalant attitude the sampan nearly 3 hours to tow there suspiciously. Yourer where peace with his creme, and called of the Captain. The latter was rather the boat back to Hongkong where the
officials alleged Lid the water hurries down a steep depan at subjects loyalty to observe surprised to find him that young people arrival before 6 this
it is fretted and shallow. Below it. They can therefore say, if they The
All's well that ends well but had a where the stream broadens it is like like, that they feel oblized to observe "Lienshing" had brought contraband.
The charge said that Customs strong squall sprung up during the a mirror, and quiet cows come down this in the spirit and in the letter officials saw a sampan alongside the ght the position of the pair would to picture themselves in it. Just You cannot he at peace with a man
"Lienshing" and an examination found here, where the big boulder makes a you a b Thus the dollars will little island in the middle of it, it is a begin coming, and virtue will be its three packages containing 198 bottles of anilide dyes. The Annamite in swirling torrent, carling over the own reward,
charge of the sampan affirmed that bows of the boulder as shavings
the packages were given him by two from a spokeshave, making blisters
of the Chinese crew of "Lienshing" to of froch that dance down like
be taken to Zam Chieu wharf to be children hastening to join a proces sica. later on to swim slow and
given to Chinese there. It was also alleged that the dyes were of German origin. The seized goods were sealed Customs appointed guardian of the and Mr. Fournier Commissioner of contraband,
CLASS FURNITURE.
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Mail. and professes a bad memory?" we may be sure his library was well pencil marked and tilled Emerson sees in him, "an impatience and fastidiousness at colour or pretence of any kind," and we too can see the expression of it; but literary abhorrence of humbug is no guarantee of its entire absence from the writer. The world's a stage, indeed, as Shakespeare says, and each man in his time plays many parts. He plays more than Shakes Peare dreamed of, for the literary temperament goes play-acting too, ags to faith roams and the writer struts before himself That will not answer as audience, in all the high sincerity
is the time to turn
is wonderful how of art. Here, for example, is a little poem by a young man killed in the prove to you
The literalist might call it lust a day as i
insincere, since such a poet could not that Saturday
have believed himself a fool. It is very different, a
the simple sincerity of it which con- dea comfort. gpe, for example, vinces us, and once more persuades mbrous, egotistic, us that anybody, we included, could Ah! But could of whose work it have written it.
we? We can feel it, hence our Say what Vol. of Montesquieu's, appreciation:
tht have written it common illusion Sital literature, that Atten it themselves, the author seems eir mind inside out, bag One has sald bt, of Voltaire's ning to play the thereto, has found it looks Montaigne's One little service. Jury has analysed him bills a flower to pieces. arriedly the while of ber, and pistil.
The
war.
"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree;
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing
breast.
A tree that looks at God all day; And lifts her leafy arms to pray: A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain, Who intimately lives with rain." Poenis are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.
THE SCUTTLED FLEET.
4
If the "Navel and Military Record" stately to the sluice barrier. Astern was right to say on May 28 that of the boulder, which seems to be "
pending the decision of the Peace tearing madly up stream if looked Conference, the ships at Scapa are at right, there is an eddy and a officially regarded as German pro- large hope. The new tall-fly neatly perts," may it rot be argued that dropped on the edge of it must fetch the German custodians had a right to do what they did? Local debat- ing societies have a chance here.
him......
Or perhaps they have flogged the stream this far, and are now resting, waiting till it is time to put on a willow fly. They have brought Walton in the creel, and tobacco, and are leaning back. "The trout is a fish highly valued," says Izaak, who comes in and goes out of season with the stag and buck," and it cer. tainly isn't his fault that "his name is of German ofspring."
The song of the river is low and sweet, an antiphony to Pan's Auting, and the air is athrill with the insects drowsy hum. Sa green, so green, so soothingly, richly green is the scene, and piled on the skyline beyond the river a vast cumulus, pearly and con- toured womanwise.
That's where they are, the lucky, lucky blighters, and we are here. Let's not think of it. It is too agonizing.
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have been highly dangerous..
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bed and demanded to know what the intruder was doing. He responded by bolting from the bedroom and out through the bathroom window,"
They went so hurriedly, His accomplice inside had already fitted. that they left their shoes and fam and did not steal anything.
Athis juncture Mrs. Babbage raised the alarm by the most piercing shriek
she could emit. As a result Quter-
2 who lives in the top flat fan down to: master Sergt. Talfourd of the R GA. see what was the mater. He saw the feeing burglars and gave chase. Being a first clase runner he over took
one and endeavoured to effect arrest.. The Chinese fought with desperation. and it was only after a good round of fisticuffs that Mr. Talourd was able to reduce the Chinese to a state of submission. By this time other occupants of the quarters in close proximity came to give a help- ing hand. The two others escaped. The captured gentleman was handed over to the Police and will be charged.
two
In August 1917 the Hongkong Government instituted free postage
Quartermaster Sergt. Talfaurd is to the service men in Hongkong. It As soon as Judge Marrice began was originally intended that this entitled to great credit for his prompt to interrogate Captain Muir there concession would cease on the sign. response to the call for assistanes. and his plucky capture as he did not. Captain trouble. The was without legal assistance and ing of peace.
This morning we learn that the know to what extent the burglars to ground On that
refused
Government has referred the question might be armed. While he was aniwer questions. The Judge
to the Secretary of state for the engaged in arresting the man, the were halfway down threatened to commit the Captain to Colonies. The local Government in other prison if he declined to answer the doing so said they wished to continue Murray Path and they stopped, ap- the privilege as long as possible and parently to consider returning to Captain Mair stuck to his position as they were not aware what other rescue their compatriot. Just them. and the Judge, who was now thor Colonies were doing would continue M. Talfourd called for help so they dughly angry, sent the accused to to give free postage to the troops scocted. Mrs Babbage showed a To-day's return shows one case jail under a guard of armed soldiers-pending other instructions from the coolness and resource quite praise
worthy. Captain Muir asked to see the British Secretary of State. of plague and one of enteric.
Consul General who later visited the Playing for, the Australian Head-captain in prison and was made quarters. A at Oxford of Mar 23 S. acquainted with the case.
The Judge notified he would libe Trumper made 155 and S. C.
rate Captain Muir on $2,000 bail Beveridge 107, both not cut.
which was difficult
obtain as the Treasury was closed at the time. Navigation The China
However somebody from the office Taming" (Captain Plunkett Cole of the ship's agents collected the arrived from Iloilo yesterday with $2,000 and the Captain was released. 2,300 tons of raw sugar for the Tai-after an hour in prison: koo Sugar Refinery.
$ 5:
The U. S. Shipping Board ss. !** West Munhan" atsived from Portland, Oregan, this morning. She brought 5.000 tons of hemp for other ports and 2,500 tons of scrap iron, iron, tobacco and paper for Hong. kong.
THE PIRATES.
Because they didn't kill. But only wounded, man said this morning that the pirates so smartly captured by our water police cannot be hang ed. He thought they would get off
Mr. W. R. McCallum, who has with two years apiece. It is under stood that this a not so. Piracy is been subagent of the Hongkong and a hanging matter, and if these men Shanghai Rank at Colombo for the are convicted, we hope there will be past five years, has retired and left no squeamishness to prevent them for Home. Prior to his departure, "Taking a ship ..the clerical staff of the Bank present dangling. within the jurisdiction of the Lorded him with a large brass tray on High Admiral from the possession or which a record of his, services to the control of those who are lawfully Corporation was engraved in a series entitled to it" is piracy, even if no of shields Mr. J D. Smart has suc- shot be fired. See A. G. for Hong-ceeded Mr. McCallum.
Kwok-a-sing 1873, L kong v.
The story as The Rev, A. T. W. Dowding, R. 3 P. C. 179. presented in yesterday's China Mail until recently the chaplain of St. showed an intolerable effrontery in Andrew's Church, Kowloon, has the fellows, and if after fair trial the gone to Java to carry on for a few jury finds that they were the men months the work vacated by the Rev. who did it, and that they did it so.1. W. Coleman, who has been com. thea they should be made an example peiled, through illness, to go home. of. The freedom of our harbour is It was authoritatively stated when a part of the freedom of the seas. Mr. Dowding left here that his re-
"CAN DO."
in one of the interesting articles
The following acknowledgements
200.00 200.00
100.00
This action of the Government is
generous. When this scheme was brought inte forcethetroops here were labouring under the injustice of a very high dollar exchange. This has since been righted by the grant of a 2s. dollar to the troops, and a smaller concession to the navy. Also the pay has been considerably augmented. It is therefore all the more generous of the Government to continue the free postage for so long.
Mrs. Babbage was the victim of a burglary 18 months ago when she had over $200 worth of jewellery: stoten. Fortunately this was all recovered.
OUT!
Street's action in the Sussex and From August 1917 to June 1919, Somerset match recently has brought reckoning the letters posted at their him into a prominence not shared by That incident has ordinary postal charge, the local any other umpire since Jim Phillips Government has foregone the sub-no-balled Mold. stantial amount of $20,626.78 in been worthily recorded in verse:
"No ball," said Phillips; "that
there Mold With
Two days later Captain Muir was again before the Judge at the Court of Instruction and further evidence was taken and the accused Captain Muir contended that the represented by a Freach lawyer.
and that they did not come off his posted free would have cost if Sods were not seized on his ship revenus, for that is what the letters ship. He said the sampan was three postage had been charged. yards off the side, which the customs. admitted. He further said it was his opinion that the dyes came from one of the two Japanese steamers at anchor at his ship's stern.
SHIPS IN HARBOUR.
List of
Finally the Judge permitted Cap tain Muir to leave for Hongkong with his ship. His word of honour morning. was required that he would appear British- at the court when the"Lienshing" was next at Saigon, as well as a security Taming of $2,009. The ship was attached Glenavy and a deposit of $8,000 was required Euryades
Wa Sun before the ship was released.
The "Lienshing" has since been to Shabonee Saigon and Captain Muir again Haihong appeared in court. The case was Patriot adjourned for further consideration. Hinsang
Prosper The deposits were retained pending Wollowra conclusion of the case,
Speaking to a China Mail reporter Lienshing Captain Muir said it was his opinion Loongsang that the dyes were made in Japan. Cardium Our navy has done more to suppress turn home was imperative owing to piracy even than it did to put down illness in his family. His stop-over The bottles were marked "Made in Chingchow Had these delicate fancies been slavery, and to have the horrid crime at Singapore, and this side-trip to Germany" but the pictures on the Hong Wan I Be scientific but the expressed in quaint but measured of our forte is an insult to it and to George Washington has 'em beaten.
reappearing almost under the guns Java, suggest that even in the Church bottles were of Japanese girls. He Telemachus
told the Judge it was unlikely that Amherst after five years of war that there: Colour and fragrance prose, and interlarded with apt the flag.
were quantities of real German Norwegian loyed, not dissected. quotations from the classics, we
aniline dyes in Hongkong. This no beauty to the rose. should have had a short essay in
R.A M.C. MEMORIAL FUND. contention the Judge dismissed with- Childar one essay on Montaigne Montaigne's best manner. As to his "invincible frankness," we have
out apparent consideration... imersonian but quite
Captain Muir thinks the treatment | American- Takes too much of already said that it is not to be taken It is true his motto too literally. There is something
circumstances. He left for Saigon Homestead Alic?" and that in his Shavian in it, akin to the immodesty he has been writing for The Times, are made, for subscriptions to the he received was drastic under the
not afraid to query of G. B. S., which shames many an- Professor Middleton Smith makes a R.A.M.C. War Memorial Fund, up to again .to-day and will appear again Tjisondari
before the French Court. He hopes Tancerville but like all such men, other man's modesty. He is not to little slip about pidjin English. He date:
NAME OF SUBSCRIBER. AMOUNT. sided. Faith marches be classed as a sceptic as Emerson says "can do" means "good enough."
his satisfaction. inconsistency is did, but on the other hand he is not It carries that sense in English, of The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak...$ 200.00 the case will be settled this time to
author of the the pious Catholic that the author of course, but not in pidjin English. The Hon. Mr. Ho Fook......
56 edition (in "The Gentle Life" would have him. It it did, its negative, "no can do," Sir Robert Ho Tung not good enough," Mr. Chan Kal Ming mpson Low notes that Had he been that, he would have would mean bat good essayists have been a Pascal, a writer of whom he instead of "impossible." There is a Mr. Li Po Kwai....... Stime," when idleness was assuredly the literary father, much stronger affirmation in "can Mr. Chau Tang Shang ...... ine, but does not seern though Pascal did not absorb his do" than the Professor supposes. It Mr. Lau Tak Po..... Dat such a man may liberalism. As for Montaigne's claim may be, true that good enough Mr. R. Kotewall... Forth and yet be to have written in good faith (c'est invariably means guesswork and not Mr. Ho Kwong
wrigs are never to icy un livre de bon foy) we do not scientific accuracy," but that is in Mr. Lau In Chung The hot of the letter, doubt it, but we repeat the warning professorial English, not in pidjin Captain H. E. Murray,
IMS..... the window that that it may be all that and yet English. Here in Hongkong the
"can do" are always Captain H.M.C. Macaulay,; ament perce" is never inexact. See the casay on cannibals. magic words
RAM.C...... a facts, but for When he confides that he is a good hearing. We cannot recall the
and the gambols of great lover of white wines, none pidjin equivalent for good enough" LL-Col. G.B. Crisp, R.A.M.£..
saying De Quincy fol- must
that if there is one) but it has the Major G. D. R. Black,
H.K.D.C., M.S 494Bura, regardless he confessed he was a drunkard. It maskee element whatever it is.
The readers, and so were as reasonable to call him a There is nothing of maskee in can A late patient alme has an essay Bolshevik Saintsbury denkes him do". The Professor on Engineering Dr. Graham Reynolds
can do," but ou pidjin English he The Hon.
on, Mr. S. H. Dodwell he says some true essay quality, which he defines bout the literary as the discussion of some special" no blong ploppa fashion." In fact
Total to date once the vogue, point, with permissible digressions. he seems to have dropped into the ous quoter himself, That sort of thing is to take a tape guesswork be deplores.
go
away
vessels in port this
Japanese
Nagata Maru Inaba Maru Mitsuki Maru Shisen Maru Kaijo Maru Unnan Maru
Chofu Maru Ryoyu Maru Nissin Maru Katori Maru
Manila Maru Chicago Maru
Kiyo Maru
Masayoshu Maru
Chinese--
Hui Hai
Tung Shing Shun Kong Asia
"Po Lee
Ha Tung
bowled."
doubtful
elbowaction
The crowd roared, "If he says
Mold shied,
The blooming umpire is cock-eyed" The same was done into Latin:
En glebus est nullus!'. dixit Mace
donius heros;
"Jactat Humus cubitu; nempe hume
roque jaçit!"
Rauca tamen clamat non uno mur- mure turba: "Certe oculo galli floridus ille videt!"**
There is a false quantity, such as Homer loved, in the first line. The o in "Macedonius" is really short. The verse very ably hints at the difficulty that Phillips would have had in indicating exactly in what way Mold's deliveries seemed unfair. The last line has been much plagiarised. More than one public school master has been known as "Aoridus ille"-Le, "that bloomer."
RIOTS IN THE STRAITS,
MANCHESTER RIGT. AT PENANG.
The recent riots in Malaya brought about martial law. One of the precautionary measures adopted by the Straits Settlements Government was the despatch of a detachment of the Wing 1st Garrison Ba. Manchester Regt. from Singapore to Fecang
The detachment embarked on the Besitang
"Klang" and on arrival-str Sultan van Koetel Fenang on Monday, June 30, were
quartered in the Drill Hall.
Tjibodas
Dutch
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DEMANDING MONEY BY MENACES.
French
Verdun
25.00
25.00
100.00
25.00 25.00
Four Chinese were charged on remand before Mr. G. N. Orme with 15.00 demanding a sum of $30 from some
Chinese women in Yaumati
10,00
HONGKONG AND SHANG- HAI BANK DIVIDEND.
We are officially informed that subject to deduction of Income Tax, an interim dividend of £2 5s. Od.
HER FACE.
"I seem to recognise your face" said Mr. G. N. Orme this morning when a Chinese woman was charged
Sergeant Murphy prosecuting, said 70.00 his witnesses from the house had not come. His Worship proposing to 100.00 grant a further remand, Mr. Lyson per share has been declared for the with hawking without a licence. A 500 of Messrs. Goldring and Lyson applied half year ended June 30, 1919, at police sergeant told his Worship that 25.00 for a reduction of bail in the case of exchange of 3s. 6d. to the dollar 100.00 his client (second accused). Bel was The dividend will be payable on reduced to $200 instead of $500 in and after August 11, at the Bank, $1,275.00 the case of the last three defendants, where shareholders are requested to
apply for warrants. Hearing was adjourned.
be was right. The woman had two previous convictions against her for the same offence.
Her face wasn't her fortunte. I cost her $5.