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We hate to see it mishandled. What much the same way as a sponge is man seeing a grubby child playing saturated with water. If we take a with a priceless Stradivarius would piece of soft balding stone and not wish to retrieve it? What decent place it in a basto of water, it man seeing a caged lark does not will fill itself in course of time desire to set it free? Our English with the water and we can remove tongue is a caged lark, a sweet-toned it in a saturated condition. Speaking Serad in the hands of clumsy urchins; very broadly, the water held in the and alas! there is nothing that can stone shows just how oil is stored in be done to help it, save once in a. the earth. while a protest in this vein. That we might, by happy chance persuade one journalist here or there to take our tongue up tenderly, and touch it with care, makes the thing worth while
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running away or from evaporating The oil has been prevented from by means of a cover of very hard rock, which keeps the saturated rock below it safe and sound for millions of years. Then one day the people' who are drilling for oil send their tools through the hard cover, the pressure within the oil rock finds an outlet, and if the pressure is very great the oil is forced up rapidly to the surface, sometines throwing up a column 100 ft. high or more.
The Derbyshire drill is 3,083 feat deep, and cost much more than American wells do, owing to inex
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
any's S/S
The Pacific Steamship Com. here from Portland Oreger, THIS Coaxet" will arrive VERG. She will sail from this port # SEPTEMBRA 18 instead of October 8 as stated in the advertise thent..
Sako) cleared for Canton at 10 am.. The ss."Kashima Maru," (Capt. to-day with a cargo of coal.
The s.5. Chusan," (Capt. Davis) cleared for Bangkok at 11 am, to day with 100 tons of general cargo,
!cargo,
暗示
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. BIO,
LOCAL FOOTBALL.
THE COMING SEASON.
U.S. CONSULAR CHANGES
FORMER HONGKONG VIO - CONSUL GOES TO AMOY
The coming football season which is due to open about the middle of next month or early in November, The American Consul General bas does not hold such a bright prospect received information to the effect as is the belief of many enthusiasts, that Mr. C. F. Gauss, American This is particularly the case with Consul at Amoy, has been trans the First Division of the Hongkong ferred to the Consulate at Tainanfu, League. Although with the arrival Shantung. Province, and that he will of the new war ships and the be succeeded by Mr. A. F. Carleton additions to, our garrison. football may once more attain its United States at Hongkong, at local for many years. Vice Consul of the pre-war standard, this state wil present Consul at Medan, Sumatra. not be reached until towards the close of the season. 'As far as
DINNER TO AMERICAN ADMIRAL
The 5.3. Chilli (Capt. Me Garity) cleared. for Shanghal at 11the immediate future is concerned am today with 70 tons of general every branch of the Services is. worse off than last year. The most fortunate Service team appears to be stripped of their last season's eleven, the Nary who although practically out of which eight have already giving a dinner m Vice Admiral W The Americans of Hongkong are
Wasai) arrived from Wakamatsu The 3.5. Toyoski Maru." (Capt.
of coal.
first man," he says, "who made aperience, so that the present yield, yesterday with a cargo of 2,420 tons left for Home and demobilization, L. Rodgers at the Hongkong Hotel
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
Today's dollar is worth 4/1
coveres near Nikolaevsk, Siberia. A ner coalfield has been
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Fugihara) arrived from Karatsu at The s8. "Kasuga Maru," (Capt. noon yesterday with a cargo of 1,600 tons of coal..
Cornelinsen) cleared for Haiphong The Juha "Jade," (Capt at 11:30 am, to-day with 300 tons of general cargo.
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(Capt. Anderson) cleared for Tourane The 9.9. "Yangtzekiang," at 7 a.m., to-day with 100 tons of general cargo..
The only European passenger who sailed for Shanghai on the ss. dis-"Wosang," this morning, was Mr.
J.CH.L. Smith
Ind
are still able to retain the services
of Crocker, Neal and Travis. The on Wednesday evening which will Alled without much dificulty by men British guests as well. It has be other eight men's places, could be embrace not only members of the from the
American community but many Carlisle," and when all is said and done, the team can be arranged that reservations of tables:
made by its predecessors. The relied upon to give a good account of can be made at the Hongkong Hotel itself and uphold the reputation between 2 and 4 o'clock Wednesday R.G.A. and R.E. are both in a rather those attending will take such seats afternoon after which .time badly crippled condition and was may be available though it is have to reorganise their teams, culty in caring for the diners.
expected that there will be no diffi- exception of Smith have returned to all their last year's men with thei Blighty. The difficulty of these sides
is best illustrated when it is known FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS. that the RG.A taking all three The s.s. "Chihli. (Capt. Mc-companies together number Garity) arrived from Hongay at 670 men, and while they might be only a.m., today with 2,300 tons of coal able to pick out eleven men to replace shortly: Mr. Robert Gray, of The following weddings will take for Hongkong.
present all three units in the First Taikoo Dock to Miss Sigrid Linde of Division, it is certain that they would 127 The Peak; Mr. A. J. C. da Silva, of stand no chance whatever, and if they Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Cow to decide to enter a first team at all, Miss Clara Beatriz dos Passos of 23 the decision can safely be said to be Caine Road, and Mr. A. 5. Hocking prompted by the spirit of sportman-of Shanghai to Miss Emily Carroli. ship and nothing else. While the ex Muira) arrived from Keelung at
route from The 9.3"Kau Maru." (Capt. RE. are practically to the same boat Australia.
Adelaide South 10a.m., yesterday with a cargo ofed up by the fact that the new draft for the present, their hopes are buoy 1,539 tons of coal.
is expected to arrive soon, but it is-they would be able to hold their doubtful if they will be here in time own against all comers. It is really for the opening of the season. The no flattery to say that they are
things about football.
Dr. R. W. Mac Kenna, R.AM C. bas written a pretty book of his life in a tent. He calls it "Through a Tent Door," and the burden of it is a sentimental elaboration of the gypsy distaste for houses. "The house door was an enemy of his if it continue, will take a long time kind. He shut himself in, but he to return a profit.. The natural shut the world out. Those who pressure sufficient to move a colamn shelter themselves behind barred of ofl 3,083 feet high is a fair promise doors never hear the harmony of the of a continuous supply, and other night." And so on. It is an excus-bores surrounding the present one able exaggeration, but it is an exagseem called for. The various Ameri geration. No one who has slept out can fields are producing altogether. in intimate relations with the myriad over a million barrels of oil a day. voices that speak between the onset and if the English oil beds are of darkness and the coming of the efficiently located and tapped, and dawn will want to quarrel with the Lord Fisher's ideas about the future point he seeks to score. An open of internal combustion machinery a verandah gives are right, it may well be that the to these nocturnal United Kingdom will gain a new harmonies, which, in 2 place source of wealth. like Hongkong, aswam with burglars and armed robbers, can be enjoyed all the better with the con- sciousness of a well-barred door. The first man who made a house. door made it of fire, and was so far from being an enemy of his kind 3/16d. that if he hadn't done so we might. never have had the pleasure of following Dr. MacKenna's medita tions. The first way of "sporting the oak" was to set fire to it. Our
Opium ancestor got into his cave, and lir a morphine making in England was
for medicin fire at the entrance, and among the imported from Turkey and Persia vocal harmonies of his night were before the war. Steps are now being the howls of the sabre-toothed tiger-taken to get it from India. Still, apart from such niceness of hypercriticism, we find ourselves in
The ss. "Yangtsekiang." (Capt.R.G.A. have also got visions of a full sympathy with Dr. MacKenna's The Japanese Premier had a. Fletcher) arrived from Tomane at 6 strong team about the end of the year superior to, and can even teach some joy in the company of the stars. signed article in Australasian papers P.in., on Sunday with 720 tons of when their reinforcements arrive but of their heavier opponents one or two Those who have slept in the very inviting visitors to Japan from New general cargo. hot weather on a long chair Zealand and Australia, and assuring
how to keep pace with other teams on the verandah of the V.R.C. them of a hospitable reception.
a problem which is hard to solve. for the intervening two months is and who have seen the miracle
THE SECOND DIVISION.
of
The Second Division Competition dawn
The other two teams in the Firat will be very interesting and it is over Lyemu will
League-the Hongkong FC. and hoped that this season a trophy be able to appreciate his dis covery that civilization has its price,
South China-have a brilliant season may be given to the runners-up. and that its comforts cost too much if
in front of them, especially the Club St. Joseph's College (last year's they mean divorce rom such revela-
who are able to augment their last winners), were rather uncertain at tions. It deprives us of thir gs greater
year's team by the inclusion of the first as to their chances of repeating that it gives. The man who has not limping, straggling crowd of beggars, couched in
By the kindness and courtesy of
Robinson and Rodger, all old men thought that Moosdeen, Sepher and Four Ra" namely, Railton, Ralston, their last season's record as it was the heather under a Admiral WL. Rodgers U.S. Navy, instead of gallant troops or dancing harvest moon, the man who has the Band of the US. Cruiser maidens. It is true that beggars too
bers of the team who have just re- the Omar Brothers would play for never known the magic of a night Brooklyn" will play on the Hong
turned from the war. If anything, the I.R.C., but they have now decided is the thing, but there is no thought the man who has never looked 6 30 p.m. are human, and perhaps the thought on a coral beach in the South Pacific, kong Cricket Club ground from 5 to Arakeda) cleared for Calcutta to-day this year and should not find much team. The team is practically the The s.s. "Yetorožu Maru." (Capt. the Club is considerably stronger to throw in their lot with the old so poor that it cannot afford good from a tent opening upon the instant.
on Thursday the 18th and is due to sail at 11 am. to less the Services turn out excep of E. P. Hyndman, their clever left- tailoring. This is perhaps journa-fox slinking home to his earth, and
difficulty in winning the trophy un- same as last year with the exception Hisa's greatest crime, for truth is a the banny English birds beginning
morrow with 200 tons of general tionally strong sides at the close back, who has been forced, on but taste is a vital habit that may man who has not slept on deck
amass at the expense of the Tommies F, Dixon, both well known players yva lable quantity and relative at best, the business of a summer day, the
of the season. But even then medical grounds, to give up th well be second nature. It is pitiful sea, such a man would wonder at
in the first round of the league. who have figured in the Shang- on the points which they will surely being filled by either A. Urquhart or they should be comfortably ahead game. There is a talk of his place to mark the sort of newspaper that some sort of people will read regular- Dr. MacKenna says: ly without disgust, since the absence
While it is absurd to entertain the hai League. Dixon was until last of it is sure proof that their taste is
suggestion put forward by some to year playing for St. Xavier's abandon the First League for this Institution, the Shanghai branch, of The ss. "Pakwo," (Capt. Camp season and enter every team in the the brothers' school, while Urquhart beli) arrived from Shanghai at 1.25 second division and we feel sure has just returned from the bigger p., yesterday with 1,372 tons of the Club team would not dream of game of war. terist is taking steps to remove from Ferral cargo of which 795 tons.were robbing the younger teams of their The Kowloon team was a thorn in
The Belgian Minister of the In- Belgian territory the Chinese coolies who have been brought to the devas-
sport by butting in and bossing the the side of the champions last year, tated regions, where they are said to Arakeds) arrived from Kobe at Division until the middle of Novem- Kaight, Taylor and Hamilton, all of show it would not be a bad idea to and is stronger this year having have committed many crimes. Villa- 6.50 a.m., to-day with 4,374 tons of ber by which time the Services will whom did well for the Club last year The ss. "Yetorofu Maru." (Capt.postpone the opening of the First amongst their number Rasmussen, gers who are living in wooden huts general cargo of which 374 tons were be able to start on a more or less and are throwing in their lot with near their former homes have been for Hongkong. She ako brought 29 equal standing with the Club. If on the Junior team this season. If they robbed and shot by Annamites and bags of mails. Chinese, and have petitioned the
the other hand, it is thought inadvis and St. Joseph's remain in the 2nd Government to secure their removal.
able to defer the opening of the First Division, the championship lies bet- 14 The s.s.
Division League, St. Joseph's College ween the two teams, but it would The Nippon Yusen Kaisha were 5.30 am.. today with 170 tons of should be invited to join the First only for the sake of galning to commence their four weekly west general cargo of which 120 tons Division in the interests of sport. experience, suci a step would be of the Second Division they both joined the Senior Leaguek
HATS
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VELOURS.
TWEEDIE-STODANT. On Sept. 10, at Shanghai, the wife of L.. Tweedie-Stonn, pt a daughter CANCE-On August 30, at Wen-
haw, the wife of Mr. Charle Cance, of the British-American Tolicen Co., Li, of a soa. KENNETTO August 31, at Auckhun. A... to Mr. and
M. H. W. B. Rennett, a daughter.
DEATH,
FORD-On Jaký 1. at Stockton, Newcastle, N.S. Wales, Horah, agel 72 yeuns, widow of the hue
Theras Ford, for may yes the service of the S. co.
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HONGKONG, TU.SDAY, SEPT. 16, 1919.
OF THE MUSIC OF WORDS.
and there is no good reason why The dictionary is the poet's lute, even the scorned writer for news papers should not appeal to the ear
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The stars are the friends of all tent dwellers. It was the skin-clad as vitiated as the musical ear of dwellers of the Eastern plains who that European who can listen to first sought to discover their secret. Chinese music" unperturbed is They looked through the doors of corrupt. So. dulled is the average their teats, as I do of a night, up to newspaper reader to the true values the marvellous arch of the sky, of words and the sense of them that sparkling with an inaumerable host he will pass absurdities unseeing, as of lights. There was wonder in he will pass dissonances unmarked. their hearts, for the mystery awed Professor Walter Raleigh of Oxford them, as they asked themselves what playfully calls attention to this these lights might be, where they sentence in a newspaper.
were, and how they came to hang It cannot be doubted that Fear above the earth like pendant is, to a great extent, the mother of jewels.. Man's little to-day Cruelty,"
is the ancient history of the stars: and in the light of the stars man becomes a very little thing."
He wittily observes that "these tempered and conditional truths are not in nature, which decrees, with
Yea, little is he and helpless; but uncompromising dogmatism, that also is he great, for upon the emo-
The Directors of the Chartered Bank of I. A. and China have declar- ed an interim Dividend for the past half year at the rate of 14 per cent. per annum free of Income Tax.
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The ss..."Wasun," (Capt. Sum- inerville) arrived from K. C. Wan yesterday with 85 tens of general cargo for Hongkong.
The ss. "Shungcheong," (Capt. Cordova) cleared for K. C. Wan to-day and is due to sail at 7 to merrow with 20 tons of general cargo,
cargo.
3.m.,
Head Office, New York, advising that" Satanta (Capt. Trott) arrived is in receipt of information from the The Asia Banking Corporation.
the State Banking Department had from San Francisco yesterday with
The Standard Oil Ca's 9.5
approved an increase of their Capita from G$2,000,000. surplus G$500,000, cargo of 6,100 tons of petroleum for and that the capital is now increased to G$4,000,000, surplus G$1,100,000, Hongkong.
accordingly.
for Hongkong.
a
Shuncheong." (Capt. Cordova) arrived from K. C. Wan at and Kowloon, the two strongest be more to the interests of sport if
teamna
either a woman is one's mother, ortion of his insignificance comes quick.coast cargo service from Glasgow were for Hongkong. She also brought Two players who will be missed from justified. It is certain that neither she is not." She cannot be one's ly the feeling that he is one with it and Liverpool to Straits, China and bag of mails. instances, could be multiplied to as he is, and easy crushed by the will ultimately be maintained by up. mother "to a great extent" Such all, and strong in its strength. Frail Japan with the e.s. "Kawachi Maru
end of August loading. The service satiery, from almost any bundle of tremendous forces of nature, by to-date cargo steamers of their "T newspapers, and it is not right. It virtue of his consciousness he feels class, total deadweight about 10,500
ments.
Speaking at the China Society of
engers.
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Booker) arrived from Manila at 3.20 after numerous years of valuable
the Club's ranks will be the full team will be tacks Black and McCubbin who they can be relied upon to give very exterminated" and The ss. "Loongsang (Capt. have retired from the game for good good accounts of themselves. P-m- yesterday with 1202 tons of service.
The R.G.A. are putting in only general cargo and 10 bags of mais.: While the Club have the advantage while the other teams the Staffs one team this year instead of three team, their chances of winning the China will all be represented in the trophy, although great, depend on league. The three new teams to, how soon the Navy will be able to be enter the league are the RE, LR.C reinforced by the men from H.M.S. and the United F.C., and from the services of four good men from the add to the interest of the competition. Hawkins." They are sure of the accounts we hear of them, they will Carlisie" which is expected here and thus justify their inclusion. It from Vladivostock before the season is really a pity that the University is commences, but there are still five unable to raise a team this year-
as well to the eye It is possible looks like wanton crime. It is due superior even to that which crushes tons. Other ports on the west coast she also brought 14 first class pass of starting the season with a strong and Depts, the Navy and South. to word the plain tale from the to a mechanical method of writing him. Every human soul has the will be served according to require Magistracy in such wise that the which were far better not done at right to greatness and may be great;, sentences those of the reporter, nrt all. Instead of laboriously and it is only the very stupid who sell of the magistrate may delight the lovingly acquiring a wealthy voca- their birthright for a mess. The ear while losing none of their appeal bulary, using and handling each stupid shelter behind more doors;
The s.s. "Tjibodas," (Capt. van to sense. The journalistic slacker word as a miser his gold pieces, than one. It is the door of the spirit America, many members of which Branchele cleared for Miike at pleads that the haste with which all choosing and fitting each into its which this pleasant writer would un-are Arrericans, Chien Hsu, the Chinese general cargo of which 1,500 tons noon to-day with 4,300 tons of His work must be done precludes apt place in 3 mosaic, these latch, and throw wide. what is called "style" It is to be clumsy performers upon an instr
Minister of Justice, and a member of was through cargo. She also takes the Peace Commission, said. You 3 European passengers.. feared that this is mere excuse that ment they neither love nor learn holds no, truth. The musician who vamp chords that may harmonise
brought us into the war, and now, knows and loves his job will play at but do not suit the theine. Like a speed, when the tempo requires it very young child with a
taste.
jigsaw
'OLL
you are apparently going to desert us. What we want are deeds, not
period of 1918.
without loss of charm. The skilled puzzle, they snatch the first block article written in view of the Derby. but there is another Germany in the were $15,050, or $503 less than last" Hawkins" whose ship company loss to know what to do. It is The Daily Mail has a well-informed words. Germany has been crushed, i pany's traffic receipts for the week supply these until the arrival of the the other two companies are at a The Hongkong Tramway Com. other gaps to be filled and the Lieut:Jones, R.G.A.is trying his best to Carlisle is also expected to get together an 88th Co., XI., while artist paints quickly, because his they see and place it where it does shire pit well's behaviour. That Far East, and there may be another gear. The Aggregate Receipts for will permit the indifferent performer to them. With dozens of ways of say delivering 385 gallons a day, or complete the victory of Right ever more than in the corresponding hand is sure. No wealth of time not belong, because it means nothing particular strike" at Hardstoff was war in the near future if you do not moves were $544,520, or on to produce good art. It must be ing a thing, they will hit on the least nearly £10 worth. A China Mail Might." confessed that besides his carelessness euphonious. With millions of things writer who has visited the Texas towards the truth, his pandering to to say that need saying or are worth oilfields is able to confirm the state It seems as if the lottery scheme. prejudice, of which yesterday we saying, they will say nothing at ment that there are many wells there put forward by Signor Luzatti, the that poured in on Chas. Chaplin and The fond of telegrams and lettera spoke, the journalist most also be inordinate length. Our siralle of the yielding less per day which neverthe Kalian financier, is likely to material. Mildred Harris Chaplin after the blamed for lowering, or for keeping lg-saw (and we regret and deplore less are commercially profitable. The ise in spite of its daring extent and arrival of their son and her changed ow, the public standard of literary the word jig-saw as an un-English bores in some places there are sunk huge prizes. The scheme, saya a in tone from congratulations to ex Intruder) was a half-conscious echo as closely together as trees in a pine Faris wire of July 23, is being pressions of sympathy and com. In the mind of the reader to whom of a thought of Stevenson's. the ordered words of the writer are spoke of words as those nursery is curious that one will tap the and other members of the French was born on July 7, died at 4 p.m. He planting before the thinning, and it seriously considered. by M. Labruedolence. The Chaplin baby, which to make appeal there must be a great blocks with which children build, vil whe company of experiences, memories, arbitrary and harsh shapes of wood. has failed to yield. In other to issue tickets of 20 francs each to life of only seventy-two hours.
another close by Chamber of Deputies. It is proposed on the following Thursday after a associations, Impressions, as it were RLS. may have been right to com cases à huddle of perhaps a dozen a total of 30 milliards of franci a sleeping town, and the marching plain of the finite and rigid quality drills will all flow together, until the (£1,200,000,000) and then distribute sentences must arouse and awake of words who are we to differ with supply falls. It is a natural error to one fifth of the total in prizes. them. The right word is the kiss a Master-but it is not so we ses suppose that the oil comes from re. Drawings would be as for other that stirs to life the sleeping princess them. Rather for some of us are they servoirs cr "pockets" under the roof loans, once a month for five years, of thought or emotion. The cadenced, flowers id a parterre, or blades of of rock which is pierced, but this is and It is suggested that at each sentence is the trumpet that brings grass and leaves of trefoil in what not so. As the Daily Mail writer drawing 100 prizes of £4,000 each of the senses to their chamber windows should be a smooth, a green and explains it, practically all the oil got should be the principal attraction, They have cause for just complaint, pleasant fawn. For indeed our love for throughout the world comes from though a scale going right down to children. For sale By All Chemists and surely if the march past be but a our mother tongue is deep and real rocks which are soaked with it in 4 is being considered.
Storekespers
includes some first rate footballers, hoped that they will either foinz Graydon, a name which is associated together scratch teams for the start the chief amongst them being forces with the 89th Corpur Buzz with good football at Home. It is of the League, as it is certain that Jackies look upon him as one of the The Staff and Department team is for a good Plymouth team, and the to keep things going for them! claimed for him that he had played the new drafts will arrive in time surprises they will spring upon the expected to be strong and may football fans before the cese of the prove a surprise. The Chinese have new season.
position in last year's League table of putting in, for the first time, a two additions and although their last year. The Club has a chance one or two additions but their side South China have also got one or will not be appreciably stranger than.
was not too good, it must be admitted that they are the bese combination second division team, but unless they as far as real good and scientific join other teams. Some of these buck up, the available players gill
TREATMENT FOR DIBENTER They have wed by Luer successes recruits for the club's first t
footer is concerned, their only draw. you other
HAMBERLAIN'S Colie and Disc at the Olymp Games in Manila, the A meeting of the League and the castor oil, will effectually curs the this disadvantage is removed and the Football Association was held at the
rhoea Remedy followed by a dove soundness of the contention that if stubborn mass of dyes dartha balance of weight properly divided, Penny Hill, yesterday, and a report R.G.A. Headquarters, Seven and Six astarsof aftans which of course, is uns of the proceedings appears in another attainable in at least the First Division
part of this issue.
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