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LOGAL AND GENERII.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1:20.
THE SALVING OF THE
"KAIFONG."
H. E. the Governor has con sested to distribute the prizes of the SMART WORK BY DIVER Two fatal cases of diphtheria Thursday January 22.
Peak School at the Peak Club on are reported today.
Professor Einstein may be a clever mathematician to discover before hand that a ray of star-light can be bent: let none say therefore that dreams can. be weighed in the balances and expressed in decimals. Away with all these scellions, these rampallians, these fustilarians Let's tickle their catastrophes. Here be life, and fum, dreams and guesses. Consignees are reminded that all goods per the ss." Fooksang" not great truths and Pantagrurliams,
cleared by to-morrow will be subject Behold, in a boiled egg there is nourishment, but in a paradox to rent.
1- The three Chinese, whose extra
authorities, on a charge of kidnap- dirinn was sought by the Canton ping a married woman, were dis- charged. by Mr. J. R Wood at the Magistracy, yesterday, as he did not believe the woman's story.
As a result of the moderate sum in France, the magistrates of the required for sending boys to study Namhoi, Poonyee, Shuntak, and
A ModaKTEY.
[Chine Mail SPRCIAL).
The steamer Kaifong lay stranded
THE OPERA.
"TogoL".
The presentation of Puccini's fifth opera. Tosca," which. next to Madame Butterfly, is by far the most popular of his works, by the Russian Opera Company at the Theatre Royal, last night, must be written down as
many other districts have reported and helpless near Haiphong. On Dec. an outstanding triumph in the musi there is more. There is 10.
that several students have, after ex-22 the powerful engines of the Taikoo cal history of Hongkong, The at- reason for believing in reason, Useful calendars have been amination, been selected to proceed tug began to chant that refrain,mosphere was far more congenial no belief in a reasoned belief. At received from the P.&O. Company to France. These students are to be Haiphong Kallong.Kalfong Haiphong last night than on former occasions the last we all come to the essence and the British American Tobacco sent to Canton to get a permit from She had her tugnacious pose pointed and the "sea and be seens of Heraclitus, the "scintilla stellaris," Company.
the Civil Governor, and a half of toward the wreck, and Mr. A. C. Bre gradually being weeded the compass without a card, the
their expenses will be paid by the McCarthy, that sturdy diver and old eat, the audience comprising pointing digit that belongs to ne
The annual open billiard cham- | Government.
sava man was aboard. In two days principally genuine lovers of opera. body, the heliotropic impulse that is pionship of the Colony, under the
(on Dec. 24) they reached her. Then At the conclusion of the performance indefinable but in whose directing au-oices of the Victoria Recreation
While a Chinese woman living exactly merry,
began a Christmas that wa not the players were accorded an ovation fore, nonsciously or unconsciously. Club, is to be held shortly.
which was in Taipo was engaged in doing some
thoroughly deserved. we all arquiesce.
cooking yesterday, she accidentally necessary gear aboard.
The first job was to get all the The opera was originally scared for We say 'yes' Dr. Sun Yabee's apparently has fell on the kitchen fire and was attempt was made to pump the water two baritones and two basses, but Then an seven principals, soprano, two tenorS. ARE THINGS REAL? to that, but in withdrawn from the Military Govern-badly burned. Neighbours
our heart of
Tt as his name does not now attracted by the woman's screams was such a heavy sea running that five principals only but so well did were out of the Kaifong. No good. There last night the piece was given with hearts, as the mystic saving is, we nogear in the documents issued by and rushing into the house, managed, the ship was flushed once more. The they acquit themselves that no are rerer really sure.. We do so long the Military Goveranñent.
between them, to extinguish the next job was to patch her, in readiness complaint can be made in that direc to be sure. On lonely hilltops, at
fire. The woman has been sent to for refloating her next tide. But the tion. The orchestration is very sea, ard in the midst of crowds of
the hospital. Her condition is not wind increased and the sea with it, beautiful and is typical of Puccini's bonzing men, we have pondered these things. Consider your own case. Da
considered serious.
and the job looked discouraging. predilection for the reeds and his About half past nine the first gift for adjusting instrumental and the steamer, when you saw the fying
A piracy is reported to have night, when Mr. McCarthy observed vocal effects to the story which is of fah, you called to Herlons
taken place on the steamship "Kwong the increasing seas, he ordered a highly dramatic character. Miss at the fiving fish." Why? Had you
Hung, which runs between Hong the ship to be flooded, a life raft to Gusieva, the dramatic soprano of the asked-but you ever do. You should
kong and Wuchow, The steamer be made, and oil got up to break the Company, undertook the title role. a always ask the "why" of everythina.
stopped at Samshui for the passen seas.
most exacting part, in a manner one Always Like a child, the wisest of mankind. Had you asked of the
Not till next day did the sea sub would hardly credit in this part of the Confirmation of the death ofers to embark as usual and the Mr. S. H. Wright has been received. Pirates, who were taken for passer side sufficiently to permit any real world. She has a voice of extraor secret of that desire for Her, to see
gers, went on board and commenced attempt to move her, and then dinary power, clear as a belt, never what you saw, perhaps the sentimen. Mr. Wright was for some years a talist's answer might have reached member of the editorial staff of the to loot. They then tande good their the tide was insufficient. There strained and produced altogether i you, that joys shared are doubled. Hongkong Telegraph and left for cape, taking away two of the pas was nothing to do but wait for manner which shows that she has That is only half true. It has Home in 1917 to take up a commis-sengers whom the pirates believed a better tide. The tur was crdered nothing to learn and no further gifts not been sufficiently thought out.sion in the Chinese Labour Corps has been reported to the Canton for water and provisions. She resible to speak in too glowing terms to be rich merchants. The matter to Hongay for coal, and to Haiphong to request of the gods. It is impos- The complete answer is that He was found dead in a dug out,
authorities who have dispatched a ported having taken 20 tons of coal of this gifted woman, her bel canto. nothing you experience
gunboat.
on, when she got back.
is superb. Mr. Chochloff, as Baron By means of a "Bloedia" from Scarpia, used his fine baritone with inst., fire broke out at No. 1 Kwai the Kaifeng for the salving crew, perfectly with the soprano, disclos
At about midnight on the 15th the reef provisions were put aboard artistic skill and in the duets he sang Heung Street, the ground floor of over the box of the wreck. This ing a wonderfully balanced com which was used as a grocer's shop, was done at low water, and is easier bination of front rack vocalists. Mr. Preobrajensky, in the tener and the two floors above sa dwelling to tell of than to do." places. The fire which originated Next day sand and cement was part was equally good and his
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in ubitably real to you as when you It is reported that Canton's know that someone else e periences present season's silk crop is the best it. In a book you come across some yield in the last ten years, and that inzinasoft felt, yet ne'er 30 the demand for raw silk from foreign Well expressed." That means that markets, is being developed. Many the duplication on your own experis orders have been placed by local nce has made yra aware of it. You and Hongkong exporters and silk- keow many things, but you are producers in the Shantak district are aware of few. Without awareness-getting good profits. what you call "realizing" it-there is alwavea shadow of doubt, of un-
your neighbour.
on the ground floor, was thought sent aboard in the same way, and acting, particularly in The last to have been started by a some timber. This was to patch the scene, was "perfect. The other The banding who occupied the through a crack in the floor, from catch
burning cigarette stamp falling wreck.
The tug, outside, tried to players acquitted themselves ad- reality. Is that harizen really purple? district city of Linshan are said to the flat above. Provisions to the with
the stern of the wreck mirably making the whole presenta- 2 tow rope, when the tion a triumph. Seeing is not believing. You as have left after looting all over the value of $500 were destroyed by fire, diver reported her patched and The scenery was a little better in You ask in the place and massacring several of the whilst it is estimated that the damage in good order for rafoating this opera and the costumes left form of a proposition. This explains staff and soldiers at the magistracy.done by water amounted to $100. The roaring and screaming of the little to be desired. There was the itch to convert people.pread Tronos from adjacent districts have All the property your opinions. The conversion cf been ordered to suppress the bandi's insurance to the extent of $1,200.
is covered by wind, the noises of the seas, and only one "leetle" defect and occasional shouting, made a wild that was the "Cardinal" who appear- another strengthens your own faith. | and have been threatened with punish-
scene of it so far. There was some ed to have endeavoured If ever there were meat if they do not succeed.
thing like a cheer as the ship came make himse. ok as rear like a off, in response to the heaving on the chimpanzee as possible in his "make" stern wire and tow rope. It was up." Had not the presentation been
FREE WILL
such things as damn-
able heresies fard as
The Fukienese in Canton have telegrams from Fakien Work has not been begun on received
to
for us we mislike e phrase and the opening of Wuchow as a port stating that the Yunnanese troopssboat midnight when the Kaiforg so powerful it might have been a
buman free will must belong to them. We are trees. We probe and push our way to the air, we throw out branches, bow is the breeze absorb the sunshine, and we sing of freedor when the provrant urge of the spirit bids us. We see clouds riding It is then we are and would rite
humbled, then that
authorities suggested. It is estimated that the construction of roads, shops and other buildings will cost more than three million dollars, and as the merchants take no interest in the scheme, it is likely to be abandoned.
and like Convention to its fate.
for quarreling with the prroise furiliy Waisman reproves man
The Intercourse Commissioner,
spreading over to his side. He is
borders.
THE S.S. "BRISBANE."
was
THREE ARMS CASES
that
Before Mr. N. L. Smith at the
who was arreste
under Fong Sing to's command in
A little Fukien, are again at logger-heads. with the Canton forces under the he cruel reefs to fair sea room. She more "flesh" sir, please!
To-night will be given command of Hung Siu lun, the De dropped her own, mud hook, and the the children of Hamelin to the
fence Commissioner of Cheongchow, came alongside, as a gallant favourite of favourites, "Faust" Korpoaberg: and though all the
owing to certain misunderstandings, policeman might to a stumbling lady.
Are you allright, Missus?" music-lovers in the Colony were
Fighting is expected at any moment.
The wire was transferred to the An Amoy message states tha: Chong to dry shame upon us, we would still
A meeting of the Canton Con- Chi-ping, a Fukienese leader, has proper end, and the Kaifong towed to them of the danger, and
we know Spinal Convention fixed for Tues-recently come to Amoy with a large a bay for shelter, where the diver went Burten tells of in his Anatomy or ourselves of the earth. Perhaps we day last, had to be postponed owing army and several hundred cases of down to examine her. The tide was ammunition. Chong is said to have very strong, and it lengthened that job Melancholy.
He says persons bitten complain, bewalling that we are irees to the absence of the minority mem
and at clowns. What foly Thebers who are demanding the dis- received instructions for the resump so that darkness came on before he Magistracy this morning, a Chinese,
satisfied.
(About 545 pm) wharf yesterday, was charged with the Hau Tak by the tarantula can be cured by Pelouds to are unfree, made by like misal of the Speaker of the Parlia. †tion of hostilities with the SoutherHe said the Kaifong should go ti music. We say persons sick of music should be cured by a tarantula, forces, fed with the same elements, ment. Many of the other M P., who troops, or to prevent the recen: another bay where the tide would the unlawful possession of a revolver Songs unheard are the bite. There are to be sure, many Finvoluntary slaves of
the same scent trouble, are preparing to leave troubles of the Southera troops from be less obstructive. This was done, and 5 rounds of ammunition.
Mr. C. F. Mason who appeared. ESOTERIC sweetest. Sme mysti poseurs and poseuses who are in no system. They too might murmur. Canton and leave the Constitutionaerefore sending more troops to the morning he went down and started for the defence, said that his client,
by towing, and about seven in the real danger, professing delight in with like to vishness cal pet said so. would be meaning those queer melo music that they do not feel, just as
repairing the
who had been living in America for bottom. This was dies of the extra sense, soundless there are charlatans in esotericism,
finished by evening. and the crew 14 years, was returning to his home runes that come unsought, feelings mouthing a strange jargon, living because it is not something else. acting upon the request of the
fall save the stand-by party) turned is the country, and as he did not For want of a better word) chat belong the while soulless and sordid lives. Our moral today is that man shouldItalian Consul, has requested the
in for the night. At 1230 the Chief know local regulations, he brought every human life and are known Imagination is a virgin bride: nor a pot quarrel with himself because he authorities to afford protection for
Engineer reported that he had only the contraband with him. its not something else. harlot to be fee'd. The spirit is a
the Italian Fying Corps which is
The Police said that when the Unose, obscure impressions as real of vivid as imaginary scents, con.
tender exoris; not a hardy annual of
The earth and the rea are expected to arrive in Canton within
With the excaption of a telegram were given to saw up wood sufficient defendant's trunk was searched on the market garden Music is not the scum esscs for which we have no
pareets, and like Isis the next few days. The Corps will received during the night (which to keep up steam, to heave up the wharf, the arms and ammunition. nam-and no explination, yet which
food of Inve; it batlens on love and
approach Canton from the direction throws no further light on the mat. ancher, and get back to the bay were found wrapped up in soine the E-yptiang they of the West River, passing over ter) the owners of the s.s. "Brisbane" originally occupied. The idea of
clothing. mase us a surdly 25 do amory
devours it Religion is for the secret
Nunning. Wacho, and Samshai have no further information. A my this was that in case the tug did pointed to the fact that there was no Mr. Mason submitted that that stima' One Bolved chord closet. not tor the market place. change as a grub changes into an
on the way.
sterious feature is the fact of cargo not get back, and necessity arose attempt to smuggle the contraband. af teal mu-ic can awaken them, Poetry is for loneliness, not for the insect, as a plant is changed; and to
corresponding with that carried on the Kaifong could be beached. The thatgated stage. this
Faith is for day. | star with we are pur indivi-val- but
A fee of $50 was.imposed. Since the formation of the anti-the "Brisbane" being washed ashore tug got back about half past one rear. As dreams and the brooding, heart, no communities. Yet that strance conrathling society by the Christians in the Chusan Archipelago young lady who by une phrase in for the rebaring school of logic. Aldrin of all our thinking which in Canton is noticed that business Erisbane left Shanghai on Decem
The with more coal.
Another Chinese who was charged arance is guid f into pleasen these things are for the twilight, n compels us m prate of Ego hides this
The Kaifong lifted anchor and with the unlawful possession to two day-dams will praise the book and
for the glaring day. It is in the
ath gambling hou es is rather per 29 for Vladivostock and the started for. Hongkong on Jan. 12.evolvers and 47 rounds of ammuni frame in, and we have the illusion of give credit me all that pleasure, gloan ng of the soul that truth, h continuing. The man says, "When quiet, the places being not so crowd-finding of wreckage so far south is after 19 days of real excitement and tion, pleaded that he did not know Wire hard work. She took a longer course local regulations. He returned from so is the auditor of the lost chord true truth unproveable and ons was a boy" as if any man coulded as they were before. The Chris deemed almost inexplicable
tans in "Faishan, Kongman and les messages have been sent out to than the usual one, so as to keep Sydney yesterday after an absence of disposed to attri ure his ematon to strable, plays Will-o-the-Wisp with ever be a hny. The boy dies and music aa whale ad as an art.
or wistful fancy, bringing us at the
The man is born. Philip drunk and the places are organising similar all ships in the vicinity to keep a look near the coast, and anchored in the many years. last over a winding way of achin Philip her are two people · Both
movement acains: gebling and are lot and everything is being dune ro Straits for the night. The N. £ desire to Nepenthe or to kao sledice are moved by tones anseen, untele, sending out members to preach the clear the matter up.
which? We know not unknown. We see of true and of evils that are caused by gambling.
not true, We thik more, and we speak of te aripity Let us think
It is probably music lovers"
DARKNESS.
a
We see, as through a gloss, dark Iv Let a child be ill eated by
we knew, there would be no hing
a man reeking tobacco. Some know time, years afterwards, the scent
of tobacco wild awaken in ROCKETS.
Thas child
i, uf foreboding.
A
sense Of Wil
an emotion related to the old troubl -
teungs the forgotten ce Such causes stretch back, jahnely tarthr than the individua' life. There is ar atavism of the soul that all mea kw With some
men it is
bola rare these the Thing we are after? Or is it the descending sick? Palestrina cannot tell us. Music cinnat int m £19. It only arousin us that vine curi spy that g ve edte an point and temper to living, and co ogis 1 fe
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devour their
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wn children. We
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CORRESPONDENTS,
HO'S HD.
toree tons of coal left, and orders
monsoon was busy, and the sea run- ning very high until St. Johns, where it moderated.
She reached Hongkong yesterday, and, is now at Taikoo.
The conditions of an agreement beween Mongolia and China have OUR DANGEROUS TOWN. ben prepared, and await the final decision of the head of the Mon- begolian State, the Hutokard, er Living
Buddha-Peking Telegram.
Who, who
The Directors of the Canton Each human morch s jagorna D'e kwung strings of man. Municipal Council are paying more a revently lit rocker, o | made tugi, hit by pening to the (attention to the building of new cylinder containmg fire.] ~ eration as the fluwer opens to sun-roads in the busy part of the city, as Suce spluttering a lile e'er it's arts Fieht. Prups
come it has been stipulated in the agree cimo. The brave roar of in, then y Phaps so we will be as
ment made with the Tramway Cont It will not know that tis offelurid wake of ir, and the grand pura prophets and as sers.
pany that these roads must be completed before July, for the con struction of the tramway, to crimmenced by that time. At a recent neering of residents in Tungshan, the European resort on the Eastern outskirts of the city, it was decided to widen the streets of the suburb Cor re-point."-Too much egg Tungshar temple.
and to create a park by razing the call primitive istinct. Just Su ver be known and wha', for all your beamers. Don't take it seri
It is suggested the grub proceeds with. Plity we know may be an illusion. Your Fely, Neste hat you now say you
that the fund required for the impro- business in the very way of the parent pre.ender or cul ere, of artistic appr
vements should be raised by a tax it never knew and fever saw, Lifelioréiation, is a common beast, as fre
levied on the adjacent properties. want of a better word) strikes the quent as the flet. Like the "ink keynote, and harmoniously throb fed old Nokomis" he means well, and the Helera May Institure When Attention has been drawn in ]." its strings. The music of the spheresis with the best of intentions. He you tell a lie, xick to it. Your arti-Parliamentary chicles to the decura. is vehced dumbly in the microscopid exn't know, He carves his own cle was mo e vivacious and amu-icio | Lions awarded by the Peking Govern- |
the hears of idol, and tels you it is god. Hr than your letter. Ofe went in. The ment to two of the M.Ps.. Cantor
Catch. with others wood with others again the sea, that awake
the inherited memory, wings W with the need to know who may
urse, and in unwotting men.
makes mountains of mulehills, swios
་
do like scenery, that-ynɑ krjow "Pick- wick" by he and that you attend. ed all the lectures on serature ar
doesn't. other
Sre?
To-day's
In a New Year mandate issued" by- "I was Iranking for o gese: and relt of rhyner rea Adversa says what you really the President Hsu Shi-chang, Cheong WANDERING mysel" said a ladyo, rule or check, breaks the com- wanted to say.
Shichiu, who is a member of the is the Hongkong mandagents and Pegasus's neck,
Canton Parliament and acts as Chief Hotel two days og, and the Benuis
Between Pyrrhon.
Secretary to the. Military Govern may have izughed. By at PYRRHONISM. in and gaping
men and is one of the Peace. Envoys Caposé, an insincerity, xa
credulity stretere
to Shanshat was given the Man Fut mere eccentricity of spenen. Not so a wide sea of speculation that offers CURE THAT COUGH. Arder second class); and Liu Yen, they who live senta ly. It is s pleasant voy ging There is no
hevestr blowmes a member of the Southern ay, one may say so danestyse in crucifying a mystery on a
test menn that you have Parliament was given the Man” Fu easy, in los- ungulan that way, to syllogism; there is less in swallowi gsumption or that you are going...) • Irder. (third class). These two wander aloof, and be lage to find the camel belonging to the gaper, have but in das man has 3 tir recipients of Northern honcurs are tine's way back to the crowd unhas. The Jubal of Genesis was the estimenes heatened, what it in ju being accused of working in the never l-ft. It is the bat piping able father of a respectable ribera Clemely hyfaterests of the Peking, Government,
well to be on the meride and ke ef hat soul masle that lies tricked let none pretend he was the Gencsei fate, Morwale by a Chyming and and drastic action against them is the ego as the Pied Piper led away Author. MË Let there be light."orekeepers..
proposed in the Canton Parliament.
Is the Hutukhtu,
And why did he not take more? They say he's a Búddba; a man
and a brudder This ruler who hold the Mon-
golian rudder, But is given to doings that make
people shudder,
"
And playfully revels in gore. This swarthy Mongolian
As the Buddha's a holy "un. But they say he's a regular
Eastern Napoleon, “ And bloodthirsty right to the
ITS FOOTPADS AND SUCH
Last night's ricsha coolie took a fare, to Wong Nei Chong Road, Coming home he was robbed.
The Police said that the contra- band was found concealed in cleverly constructed secret compartments in the defendant's trunk. It was a clear
case of smuggling.
A fine of $450 was imposed.
Charged with the unlawful posses- sion of 650 rounds of ammunition, an- other Chinese, also gave the excuse that he was ignorant of local regula tions.
After the Police fad deposed to finding the contraband. In a trunk 1 covered with saw duši, bis Worship. imposed a fine of $400
The arms and ammunition were in each case confiscated.
MORE DRINK ARRESTS- IN GLASGOW,
It happened about hilf past one this morning. Two men came down from the hill near Morrison Hill Gap and accosted him. "They demanded "rea money." He lied, and said he CHEAP US. & CANADIAN WHISKY had no money. They didn't believe him. They, assaulted him and took his purse containing $150.
SAID TO BE THE CAUSE.
Between 6 and 7 in the evenings A great increase in drunkenness to hat snatching from zicsha passengers Glasgow is reported by the police, still goes on in the Wanchal district who estimate that the number, of-ar-" near the timber yards. Several recent rests lately has increased by 400 per He's threatening China, the Hsses of $18 hats are reported. As cent.
Empire Celestial,
Core.
That one of these days, just by
way of a jest he'll Do something horrible, terrible,
bestial,
Unless she can manage a mien
that is cheerier,
already explained, it is next to im They believe that the larger 'allow- possible for the man in the resha toance of spirits has had less effect than catch them. They dart off up the the importation of whisky from aide streets,
Carada, and the United States. It is A plain clothes man or tw should described as worse than raw grain- be put on there, and the magistrate spirit, and it is alleged that American should be given a hint to rub in. rye is sold as imported, or blended Stocks are not too bad for these with a proportion of horis whisky. Irritating, criminals.
American rye costs about 95.-6. Armed robbers are resting just pallon against, 208, for native spirit, now. Doubtless the armed police and, despite the heavier duty, im- And I'm jolly glad he's not me patrols over ase, them for the time ported whisky is meeting with a ready
or you.-Dally Express.
Towards his proposals concern.
ing Siberia:
That's who
Ta the Hutakhtu,
being.