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Everybody else speaks with an ac cent. Scotsman declare that English- men speak English with an English CHINESE VIEWS.
accent, and Englishmen declare the The editor of the "Chong Hua
Scotsmen don't. Certain Englishmen Members of the Royal Hongkong Sing in the following article, de accent becoming people of culture, and Matheson and Co.'s board room last are apt to say that they speak with the Golf Club met at Messrs. Jardine, nounces the choice of Shanghai a certain Scotsmen say that they speak the site for the proposed South with no accent at all, Western University. We read-
And so they go evening to consider proposals for im- The Southern Military Govern. After all, it is not a question of proving the financial position of the ment has decided to found the South- some does, and some doesn't," but Club. Mr. G. M. Young, presided. western University in Shanghal must honestly admit that in the Some people disapprove of the site matter of accent "Everybody's doing-That the monthly subscription! and Mr. Chen Tu-shiu is one of them. it." We have all got accents, just as I am rather in favour of Mr. Cher's we have all got poor relations; but argument.
the truth is that some people's are A FUGITIVE ASYLUM.
poorer than others. And just as some People always consider Shanghai people try to hide the fact of their as the centre of civilization and the having poor relations, so do others hub of public opinion. We deny spend the better part of a life-time inf this absolutely. The value of Shang- attempting to velt that accent which hai lies in the fact that it is a place they ought to be proud to interitz As of commerce and an asylum for I used to be sold on those cocasions fugitive officials and capitalists, Ex-when I was about to be beaten with cept for this, it has nothing to re-rods for the heinous offence of smok commend it. As to the foreigning brown paper and tea-leaves, it was Settlements, they are convenient not the mere fact of smoking tea-leaves resorts for drinking and flirting and and paper that constinted the offenco, men who live within these Settle but the axempt so hide it with pepper- ments are liable to become demorali min and prevarication. In the same that it was essential to have a bunga zed. The Settlements offer no poli-
It was pointed out by the Chalman: tical freedom to the Chinese residents, way one may say that it is not the low for the steward of the Club if the "EUROPE DISGORGING..
and nothing except all sorts of vices that offends the ear of the man of cure bungalow, at present used, could accent of the man from Lancashire place was to be looked after properly, Americans are the champion
our opinion, Shanghai is the most tre from Leeds or Glasgow, but the be purchased at a reasonable figure. and evil temptations. According to stamp collectors of the world. There is at present a larger demand un
unsuitable place for education. appalling result of his attempt to sss The only possible way to do that and the London stamp market from the
Although Shanghai is provided with over the plain oak of his Manchester meet the other expenditure was by United States than from any other
and has many schouls, the records of ton-cam-Kermington. It never pays. The monthly subscriptions should be good facilities for communications with a very amateur coat of Kersing increasing the subscriptions all-round. "country. The biggest and most
the schools are not as good as those Manchester doesn't take either oil or raised from $5 to $7. Absent mem- valuable collections still are mostly European, but as with other desirable may solve the problem that has of the schools in Tientsin and Peking. varnish. I have known more than one bers subscriptions should be raised! possessions. the tide sets steadily perplexed historians and archaeolo. It is because Shanghai society is too man from Lancashire try for the better From $2 to $5; ron-playing members'.
gists for centuries as to the true immoral
part of a hite-time to produce a really subscriptions should be raised from in pre-war days Germany ranked origin of the Mexico nation. These
smooth and glossy surface one which $3 to $4, that the monthly lee for next in collecting enthusiasm: now authorities to be Chinese, thus tend free and independent; and these con- Skeat who once said that he had dis- to $3 and that lady members of whom
strange, carvings are said by, some
Furthermore, education must be might have deceived even Professor subscribers should be raised from $2 some of her best stamps, being thing ing to bear out the old tradition that ditions are unobtainable in the Settle covered throughout England at least there were 145 (48 absent) should so easily portable and concealable, in the dit past wandering tribea meats. We should know that the one hundred different ways of pro- pay a subscription of $3 a month. are finding their way out of the from China crossed to a new con-Chinese people only enjoy country by clandestine means stamp tinent, settled within the present political freedom in Shanghai. Even when they came to the corners. "Can increase the revenue approximately by nonnouncing the latter A-but all failed By that means they would be able to smuggling is a fact. Legitimate per boundaries of Mexico and became to day, no Chinese is admitted to the the Ednopian change his skin or the $:7,000 per annum. The Chairman chases by foreigners, paid for in depreciated marks, are helping the the progenitors of the race which Shanghai-Public Gardens. Can our leopard his spots:" sang the Hebrew also stated that the present room ac depletion of her stores. A flood of now dominates this Republic
people study in such a place and poet; and had he lived in these larter commodation should be enlarged and old German stamps is finding its way
CHINESE CHARCTERS RECOGNISED. speak of the independence of educadays he might well have added, even he was of the opinion that the veran- to London and Paris, and eventually
So interesting are the recent distion? to New York, and will be quickly overies that the Bureau of An-
at the expense of breaking his metre, dahs should be carried into the corners absorbed by collectors.
thropology has been instructed to
The chiel studies of the Southwes G's?" I can't be done. If then rol should extend right round, so that or the Lancashire man his final at the Club-house and that a sloping- conduct a vigorous research and intern University are the courses of these few lines should meet the eye it could be closed and made into a resolutions adopted by various posts Cockle of No. 2 Police Station, Charge d'Affaires of the Chinese of no use to study ideals and philossal any young man (or woman) who has winter garden, if necessary. this connection, Fong. Teiang Kuang, letters and the sciences. It would be
New York, Jan. 31. reply to before Mr. R. O. Hutchison, Sergt. At the Magistracy this morning, most collectors were to be found in Legation in Mexico, visiting, the phy and our own national civilization lately come out from Lancashire of thought the necessity for increased the fact that he was sox in unilora named Everest Ellispsen, the holder He of the American Legion, referring to charged a Norwegian ship's officer supreme in the stamps of its own pyramids, stated that the hiero- under the government of foreign though they had lived somewhere, letit must be considered either now or Dempsey, champion heavyweight, has and disorderly in Wanchai yesterday, anywhere else where people talk as accommodation was so apparent that during the war with Germany, Jack of a British ticker, with being drunk empires. But the taste for stamps respects to certain symbols now in opinion, that the students be in touch them be to him for her) a serious at some near date. The Chairman telegraphed to the Army, Navy, and
glyphics were similar in many Powers. It is necessary, in our is now world wide and by no means use by the Chinese. He declared with Chinese society, before they warning against the danger of under further mentioned that the overdraft Civilian Board of Boxing Control in and ask to be given a chance, pro- confined to the white face. It is that the words "Sun," "City and can know the Chinese conditions making the impossible. ahared by Hindus and Japanese in
The defendant admitted the charge, particular and is rapidly extending anthropologists who have interested can develop their own their own main Scotsmen, though some find it a financial year. About $6,000 of that were on.
"Eye" were clearly depicted. Mexican of the country and before they Most Scotsmen are content to re- $10,852 since the end of the last gation of his activities while hostilities
at the bank had increased by about this city asking for a complete investi-mising to go straight in the future. among them.
declined to pass final judgment until society, an laternational market, and East, especially on Sundays. Still, new course. themselves in the discovery have thoughts. Shanghai is a special hard task at first when they come out sum had been spent in laying out the
Sergt. Cockle said he saw the de- further excavations are made, and students residing within this territory the greater part of those whose early
fendant fighting with a Chinese yes- Dempsey in his telegram denies terday afternoon, but as he had some more evidence obtained.
can have no now ideas of their own days were spent in that land where good deal of criticism. It was point to establish that claẩm.
The proposals were subjected to a the draft, and offers to furnish proof take the defendant, into custody. that he made any attempt to dodge to attend to at the time, he did not other work of greater importance. except ideas reflected from transla- treacle is not allowed on porridge do ed out that the fee paid by subscribers The little village of San Juan tions. Although Peking is a very somehow or other manage to go on before the war was $5, and that dur the whereabouts of Anjouan, Benadir Teotihuacan which in the Aztec dul place, it is, nevertheless, a good being bewrayed by their speech until ing the war it was reduced to $2. No received in New York last night, and in the cell. He was arrested by Pc. When he returned to the station in Djibouti, or Elober. Annobon and
The telegram from Dempsey was the evening, he found the defendant Carisco? That last magnificent language meant "City of the Gods Elebey, Annobon and Corisco re- was in the early days of Aztec history living in this part of the country must admire them for it, even if some it was now only to be raised to $3. Board of Control will decide at an and incapable outside a private place for education, because students the end of the chapter. And one explanation was forthcoming as to why the Arbitration, Committee of the Woods who found him lying drank minds one of a Surrey sigapost the scene of extraordinary religious are in close touch with Chinese of them cannot very well help it. The The difficulty of hallotting for lady early date whether or not it should house. "To Margery, Cheaseley Town and dedicated for The Sun and the other sorts of constant political stimulus admirable trait in the character of the members who were wives or daughters comply with Dempsey's suggestion
The two pyramids, one political society, and receive.. all Mogador," it has the same magic ring to its termination, What music to the Moon, are known to have been and oppression which will enable Scot in this respect is not that he does of the members was urged, and ot-that an investigation of his war record known about this man?
His Worship: Is there anything great Milton would have made of the tombe in which hundreds of them to develop independent thoughst not succeed in varnishing himself, but jection was raised to meeting capital be held. the names in the modern album tribal dignitaries were buried and and moral character;
Sergt. Cockle: Yes, your Worship, that he so rarely tries. He goes on expenditure entirely out of revenue. whereas in
The telegram follows:
this is the third time he has been anyone knows who is familiar with excavators have exhumed wrought Shanghai, the students only chrain through life exactly as his mother in-
Eventually an amendment was car- stone containing human bones, ob- superficial education and translated ended that he should, with a good ried postponing the discussion of the President Army, Navy, and Civilian but pleaded for a chance, and the "Major Anthony J., Drexel Biale, chai once before, for being drunk, in trouble. He was arrested in Wan- bread faces and flat noses, fragments are only fit for translation work for bewrayed, but his bewrayal seems to bers have been supplied with balance son Avenue, New York, N.Y. Of Adiabene, Mecia, and the of rare pottery and great number of life and cannet do great things of say "Dom.it, mon; I'm a Scotsman. sheets detailing the accounts of the South..
arrow-heads. One of the most im consequence.
It's no mi accent.. 'I've got nae ac Club for the last three years; the pre-boxer's license, No.
"East June you gave to.
ago, he was arrested by Insp. portant discoveries was
me a Wait, and charged with obtaining a jadeite In saying this, we do not want cent. Mon! It's mi character!!
which certified goods by false pretences from Messrs NO LONGER A SCHOOLBOY GAME. mask of some past monarch with purposely to discredit all the good Then there is the Cockney. The of what is wanted to be done and the and honourable record as a boxer.
sent Financial position; and a synopsis on the face of it that I had a clean Cassum Ahined. and Co., Indian silk Time was when collecting was the brow covered with the diadem points of the Shanghai schools. But glosss theory does not apply to him estimated expenditure on the same. mainly confined to schoolboys. They known to early Mexican history. in view of the decision of the South for her). It couldn't if it tried.
merchants. He attributed the offence "Since that time a few posts of to drink, and asked for a chance, pro were fortunate who held on to the Pyramid to the Sun measures 761 x ern Military Government to establish There never was, and I doubt it there
the American Legion, which are not mising to give up drink and to find stamps. Values have increased out 21 feet at the base and is 216 feet the South-western University here ever will be a Cockney who succeed-
in any way familiar with my record a ship. He never kept that promise, of all recognition. Now the hobby 426 feet at the base and is 151 feet on which the establishment of a single drop of varrish of any descrip- don't know how many thousands of high, the one to the Moon is 511 x we cannot but declare the grounds ed or will succeed in persuading a
replied the hopeless one,
adopted resolutions condemning me is and had been on the booze for the is patronized by people in every rank of life-King George is well known high. The both. contain numerous University in Shanghai is absolutely ton to set hard upon the oily surface
a man of some distinction, getting indictment wholly unsupported by of Chief
draft dodger in the late war, an last six months. He lost his post.. to bave one of the finest collections chambers and their several stories undersirable. It we are to make any of his (or her) speech. Many have rupees a month and driving a car about
Officer on a ship in existence and actually paid the are complete temples in themselves concession from our position, we tried, but without a single exception, the length of a cricket pifch; but he follow implicity the instructions Sailors' Home, and got him a ship, on account of drink. The Harbour "What I have done has been to Master put highest price on record for a single but connected by winding stairs.
would only concede to the extent they have failed. It nature and your
him up at escription having Chinese that the courses of commerce and mother intended you to ssy the Cock, which is nothing but an accent and that time was, follow the govern He is destitute now, and has not got stamp. This was $7,250 for a 2d.
still, says biling-plot ↑ " "Post Office" Mauritius stamp from
characteristics
discovered industry may be conducted in Shang ney for "Oh well, you will go
Then there is the chee-chee given to me by the representatives but he did not keep that job long. through excavating in the ruins of hai, but the course of Letters and on saying it however many rupees a
of the Government. The slogan at Then he was found to be a hopeless It was recognized by a friend of the what has generally been known as Lathe Sciences, never! We wish the month you (or in the case of a loay, { you immbibe into your system (ther's me as to every other citizen in the a cent.
case, and was turned from the Home. as some maintain, a dire disease. It's ment's instruction. That applied to Ciudadela (The Citadel), but which, organizers of the University, to con-
a terrible thing, all the same.. Once according to recent reports, of insider our words carefully. vestigators, is what is left of a py-
United States, and I was carrying out,
A WORLD-WIDE HOBBY.
After America and Germany, the
Britain and France, each easily.
Stamp collecting is a hobby that makes for intelligence and education Who that is not strangely well up in geography, or the owner of a recent album, can answer offhand in asked
his lines.
THE TWO FYRAMIDS.
ceremonies.
UNDER POREIGN POWERS.
DEMPSEY APPEALS TO BOXING BOARD.
"REPENTANCE OFT HE SWORE."
From Adropatia and the neight.sidian knives. terra-cotta heads with ideas. The latter kind of students Scots tongue in his head. He is oft Committee's proposals until the mem- Board of Boxing Control, 340 Madi Police released him. About a month-
bouring plains.
Of Susiana to Calsara's Haven.
a long forgotten schoolbey collection,
owner and put up to auction with no idea that it would reach such a high figure.
FEW TREASURES IN SCHOCLEGY 'ALBUMS.
But all stamps are not rare and
the schoolboy alburn that yields a treasure is very much the exception.
SELL BY THE FOUND.
were
ramid larger and perhaps older than the two pyramids to the Sun and the Moon-Reuter.
her husband) may be drawing. Any-
documentary evidence of several men
in saying coming' and singing
alter the manner
He is now
&
facts.
1
Al
the
Defendant: I have no nicney, your Worship, but I haves big trunk
thing else is quite out of the ques. the best word I can think of the their orders and abiding-by their in of clothing at the Astor House, tion. There is, I believe, definite fonation-germ of this dire discordant.structions, and I was not a draft and if your Worship will give me
symphony, this Representation of NAVY ASKS FOR $2,700,000 fraan Lancashire who have succeeded guistic chaos, spoken of by the have declared and who base their de faithfully to go back to the hotel and dodger' as these few Legion posts just one more chance, I promise you FOR SECOND AIRSHIP.
prophet-I forget his name, you can cision on false evidence, through per tidy up and look for a job. I will quite nicely, just as though, they had never sing the sweet music of your sons who are trying to put them over keep away from drink, and you will The vast majority of stamps never are to those who spend a few dollars will be rarities. Most stamps are for pleasure and pront combined.
been really well brought up. All mother-speech again as your mother issued by milliers and worth only a Stampe seldont depreciate over a super-dirigibles, the largest in the weary struggle, and they conquered Moti!' of this strange chromatic med. Am. I to be crucified and condemned
Washington, February 11.-Two honour to them, theirs was a long and sang it it ever you hear a single further their own selfish interests, not see me here again. few cents a pound as "packet fillers." number of years and advantage is world, are planned by the Navy, and by enduring hardness even to the end. ley which threatens to cling to you because 1 followed the orders given your chance already, and, you have His Worship: But you have had Wholesale dealers purchase cheap enthusiastic recruits is constantly in England will attempt a transatlantic will, you will not and any reliable re D'Amour, or the 5-4 movement in body of thorough and honourable more chance, your Worship. I have
taken of this fact. The number of one of them now being built in But search where and how long you and haunt you morn, noon, and might, me by the Government?
not succeeded in keeping straight. "This is an appeal to you as stamps by weight, 50 cents a pound creasing and with the growth and distore naval, Captain Craven, cord of a Cockney who ever managed the Fathetic symphony, or Yip-l-Addy sportsmen whose aim has always been never been in jail before. I have no
OL the Salut
Defendant: Lask you for just one and up, and they are delivered in spread of prosperity will increase director of naval aviation, today told to say "Oh as they do in Inverness, go home at once and count imaginary justice and lairness and a square deal money to pay a fine. but I have quite sizeable säcka. Very different with still greater rapidity. The sup the House Naval Committee. Ameri-and Dublin; and New York and Mel is the treatment accorded rarities, ply of stamps may seem farge, but can naval officers and enlisted mea bourne and other great literary centres sheep passing through an imaginary for all, to investigate this, matter thor knocked out three gold teeth from secluded singly or in strips in special the demand is more then equal to it. who will fly the British-built ship to where English is spoken as she ought gap until all goes bine. Don't give oughly, and if I am innocent of the my mouth, and I think I can get!. envelopes," never directly fingered, OLD ENVELOPES" AT $50 EACH. America are in England training for to be spoke. I once had a friend way to it; If you do, you are done, publicly before the world, and if I am Sergt. Cockle said the defendant but held up for close examination by Non collectors at times are com.the flight.
charge of draft dodger, clear me some money for them. a pair of tongs manipulated with re- pletely ignorant of the value of odd
whose mother intended that he should you are undone, you are done for. In asking $2,700,000 for the corsay "bile" when other people said Think just for a moment, my dear guilty, condemn me. stamps the have herded from the struction of a second super-dirigible, boil", We were at school, and at markable skill.
knocked out the teeth in the cell last Age, alo, is no indication of value. days of childhood or youth, as when Captain Craven said this vessel would that age when spades are not generativEast to make a name for yourself, and board, or submit to you, upon tele- Defendant: I have a Brush ticket,
young man,you who have just come)
"I will either present myself per-aut
night to raise money to bail himself Some extremely rare stamps have a doctor was asked by a lady patient be fifty feet longer than the British known as shovels. The unfortimare money enough to pay your passage graphic request, a complète state
sonally for examination by your been issued in the last five years. advanced in years if he would like to built craft, which is fed feet in length boy was at once known; sometimes, as imagine what your dear father would ment of my request, a complete seer your ticket, but you will never Some of the cheapest stamps were see some old envelopes and he San Francisco Chronicle:",
bck home after Bve years. Try, to
and I can easily find a job. issued fty years ago.
Sergt. Cockle: I know, I have recognized them at sight to be
Bile and at others és Beans, the con- adorned with "Sydney Views" worth.
nection being obvious in those days.think and say if he heard you exclaim, statement of my activities during the get a billet until you leave off the $50 aplece...
For the space of six years the poor then! And you, my dear young matter, as to be misjudged without money to pay the fine, there is no
How now tuin!
war-in. affidavit form; and, I agree to drink. Why now abide by your final decision in the lellow in disobedience to both lather
ils Worship: If you have no and mother laboured hard in order that lady.you who have just come out
Prices running to over $5,000 for one stamp are exceptional and are a tribute to the rareness of issues of British Guiana and Mauritius and
A
-A DEADLY COCKTAIL
PUTS TWENTY-FIVE"-
RUB IT IN
every time.C
Sergt. Cockle suggest that it would da the defendant good if he went to the Jall hospital, S
The number of different stampe issued in computed at over two the competition for them, but the hundred thousand and in constantly
he might say boiling point, on chem three in a cabin to this golden city of chance to prove my innocence is cruel, other alternative but to go to jail. value of collections may be very many being added to Poland already has
PERSONS 14 HOSPITAL
istry days at any rate. He never did. chits and cheats, of silks and stinks will at least see that justice will be can't expect to be given a chance And I feel that your honourable board You have had your chance, and you thousands, indeed. One of the finest, marketed over four hundred. A good said to be worth 12 million dollars, average collection must run into
He couldn't. But one day it sudden- as a bride or a bride-x-be. Imagine was made by the late Phillipe von thousands and it is plain that upect the maker of a kind of coroner's of fact he never had said biling-pint, think and say if she heard you ex-
Chicago Police are searching for ly dawned upon him that as a matter what your dear mamma at home would done to me.-Cablenéws American." Ferray in Paris, Jeft in his will alization, from chance or choice, is cocktail," more deadly in its effect bus that the whole thing was a case of claim" Why How now then! to the Postal Museum at Vienna but often advisible, Sitmoor has lasted than wood alcohol now in the possession of the French only a few stamps, yet there exists
leg-strain and he shouted triumphant. Quick, quick! Oh My Twenty-five victims of the drink ly. You rotten rotters. What rot Terrible Isn't it? government.
a collection running into thousands are in hospitals in a serious condition, you are milking! 1, never did say Many collectors think nothing of based on the slight differences in the and one has already died. USA spending $250 or $500 in an almost printing of stamps, according to An analysis of the home made leg the whole time Well, what Biling-pint. You've been pulling my casual visit to a dealer in rare their position on the one plate, differ liquor showed the ingredients to be did your say inquired one of his "stamps "But the bulk of the salatences caused by minutes flows, nitro-benzol and grain alcohol-
"I said biling-pint"
persec
MILES
VALLA-VALLA" LAUNCHES
bone No: 3516,
Defendant: I hope you will giya, me a chance,
Agood may people think houmatism cannot he cared without taking nausus medicida. Chamberlain's Pain Mr: Smith The sentence will do Balm massaged thoroughly into the skin you a lot of good. It will help you to rolle galokor. For sale by all Chemists The defendant left the Court ap has'oured far more rheumatism than any internal remedy in existenos and yes, go straight. $10 fine, or seven daya.
parently on the verge of tears.
and torekeepers.