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THE CHINA MAIL.
I met them Since which day
the world in arms
Strikes at my life with ungers
SATURDAY, APRIL 1920
BROWNE HEAT TEST.
The many hundreds to maintain in daily mood the high RIVETERS of riveters in Hong-level of his mental fe, any more ADESong, could tie up than you can expect all preachers Those noble lines might have been if provoked into unanimity of also is life, to be inconsistent, and Browns Heat Test, Lar. Wood Oil,
Hongkong completely to practise what they preach. Thia Written by an bonest Englishman, action. At the moment of writing to laugh about it. If it rainshaken from the report of the General The following description of the
(and glarms,"
An act of worth, which haply
her sight Who was my mistress should
recorded be
""
AT THE CLCs.
WOOD OIL."
GOVERNMENT APPOINT- MENTS.
His Excellency the Governor has
Under section 19 of the Public
but they happened to be the work [Thursday night) we still await all bang it, les na hope it won't. But Committee of Exporters and Dealers been pleased to appoint Major of an Irish
rebel. Wilfrid Blunt, the facts, knowing that what has if it does, there will be other holio Hongkong for the year ended Christopher Willson, O.BE, to act who also achieved this characteris-been published was a farrago of days. tic piece:
ignorance, prejudice, and syco-
December 31. 1919, copies of which as Assistant Superintendent, Frison! At the Club, as they were distributed to members at the Department, during the absence, on I thought to do a deed of phoney. Any government "inter
often do, they were Annual Meeting held on the 30th of chivalry
vention would be most carefully in considered.
talking about the China March, 1920, is quoted for the beneßt leave of Mr. John William Franks or There are no paid
Matt, more or less heat-of our readers :—-- agitators here, and our workers edly. "That Adversarian chap's THE HEAT TEST FOR CHINESE
until further notice, with effect from do not aques! before they are hurt. an awful crank," said one.
"He's
the 26th March, 1920. Doubtless the Government is aware always wanting reform of some- And of the nations. And, when what some employing firms, which thing or other. He wants constitu- From the Chemical News of July 12,
thus the fight
may have described the demands tional reform, army reform, labour Faltered and men once bold withthey were really petitions) as a reform, business reform, moral rev
surd and impossible, have lately form.
By Frank Browne, F.1.C. "And chloroform," done in the way of dividends, added the clean shaven one that we
"Government Analyst, Hongkong.
"Test Tubes for containing the oil bonuses, and cumshaw shares. once walloped. Doubtless the public is unaware of
are 16 cm. by 15 mm, with a mark the ridienkonsly small number of|
The London Lancet closed by
near the bottom to indicate 3 cc, and cents per day, paid to these essen-
says the progeny of glass rod 3 mm in diameter can move
cork so perforated that tal toilers in return for their
a single fly during freely Every-
the summer often
faces white.
Turned this and that way in
excuse to flee;
·
I only stood, and by the foeman's
might Was overborne and mangled
cruelly.
Then crawled I to her feet, in highly productive work.
whose dear cause
hold," I said,
How I am wounded for thee in
these wary."
But she, Poor cripple, would'st
thou I should wed
A Limbless trunk? and laughing
turned from me.
Yet she was fair, and her name
Liberty..
body knows that the cost of living.
LIFE,
The China Mail. Croker and Lover were humorous We are in the same way opposed of vision is wiser than that of the
"TRUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1990.
THE IRISH.
་་
ANOTHER IMPROTER JOKE.
LOGNE AND GRUEBAL.
น
COR-
A meeting will be held on Turs.
Stokes and Master's office, Ice House
granted licences to trade under the The following firms have been Non-Ferrous Metal Industry Ordin- ance, 1919, Ordinance No. 1 of 1919: of Government Notification No 156 dated the 19th March, 1920. Tak Yuen Bee Kee, Wing Tung Cheong, Yee Cheong Loong. Mee Kee.
1912.
***Thermometer-The graduations should be verified by comparison with a standard instrument. In the experi- ments the thermometer is placed so as to be 1.5 cm from the bottom of the bath: lo ascertaining the tempera tares of the bath, due attendon is given to the cool column of the mer- ury, so that corrected temperatures ace recorded.
"Method of Procedure.When the bath temperature is 293deg. C. (550deg. F.) and very slowly rising at this point, the tube comaining 5
Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, Lanca Sergeant 122 C. Dorrington to be s Sanitary Inspector for Stanley, with effect from the 17th March, 1920.
Mr. Philip Jacks to act as Crown duties, during the absence, on leave, Solicitor, in addition to his other
of Mr. George Herbert Wakeman or the 29th March, 1920, until further notice, with effect from
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
Orden for Cadet Company by Lent. A. 0. Brawn.
STRENGTE:
Drummer, E. Jordan is permitted
TRANSFER.
PARADES, Church Parade on Easter Sunday.
N.CO.Instruction Classes will be resumed on Monday, 12th April 3020.
GRE RAPSON, MAJOR Adjutant, HK Volunteer Defence
Corps.
Hongkong, April, 1st 1920
difficulty in obtaining results which do through which passes a glass rod 3
Bath-This-ta & copper: beaker, I made this venture, and Be-and especially of their staple food On which an American contemporer, Elled with caton-seed oil to a amounts to 1,427,604 height 12 cm Invernal diameter 6 rice, bas gone up. This is no time ary makes the comment: Jast sup-height of 7.5 cm. for such sycophantic claptrap and pose it got married. misrepresentation as was put forth in the capitalist organ. To be quite lair, to the employers, we do not be- lieve that they authorized any such arguments, and the event shows that they must have turned a much more reasonable ear to the peti Another heart-breaking Indeed that same strumpet (for them as doing.
tions than their toady represented undrum: If the flat in the flat above, whom we English have spent cor-
| you persists in singing flatly, should selves) bas
Beauty is in the eye of you flatter or fatten him? Just the lives and agonies of many noble if sometimes
the beholder." This is a mistaken toen. Let ns recognize more than aesthetic judgments. stalement that applies to the driving force of the infatuation Happiness or the reverse is sub-day next (6thinst.jat Messrs. Johnson,c.c. of the oil to be tested is fixed into reign on leaving the Colony, with she occasions, and he more merci jective, and the Buddhists bold a ful in our judgments than we have been. If the Trishmen have deter great truth when they assert that Street, at 5.30 p.m. to discuss the so that the bottom of the tube is level effect from 7th April, 1920.
a man is what he thinks. mined to die rather than surrender, ing is right or wrong but think Poultry Show on May 1 next.
Noth advisability of holding a Dog and with the lowest part of the bulb of is that not something we English-ing makes it so. An adventure
the termometer. The time is noted, men should be able to understand?
and the source of heat is removed for^~ C. 5. M. Frost is transferred to the Are we also not possessed of that or an occasion for a joke-it op
clapsed the temperature of the bath may be an unpleasant experience
about forty-five seconds and then re Volunteer Defence Company. applied. Before two minutes have esoteric and unconquerable some to the adventurer, and largely de-
will have fallen to 282deg C thing that makes men men? If pends upon the adventurer's liver.
(540deg. F.) at which point it should Assemble at Headquarters at 3.10 p.m. we are at war, and must bludgeon He was no mere jester who said
be kept as steady as possible. Wher Uniform Caps and Belts. Band with the foe, let us at least refrain from that life depends upon the liver.
the wood oil has been in the bath instruments, calling brave men hat names, as Who'd pride himself on intellect,
about nine minutes, the glass rod is is the vulgar fashion. A German whose use Depends so much upon spy who died in the Tower said to the gastric juice? All this ap-
raised at intervals of half a minute a British officer who had been kiad plies to your outlook on life. Are to him, I suppose you will not you a realist a pessimist, a roman
and when the rod is firmly set the care to shake hands with a Germantic, an idealist, or what? Life four merchant's shop, No. 269 Des
Han Ching Po, manager of a jellying takes places within a few time is again noted. As setting of Spy."
No," said the officer, (whatever it be) remains what it Voeux Road, Central, 2nd Floor,mination is afforded. The specimen gravely. I will not shake hands is; you people see it differently reports that six men armed with is at once removed, the bath is again seconds of fluidity a good end deter- with a German spy, but I will with and for each of you it is what it daggers and revolvers entered the heated to 293deg. C., and the ex- a brave man And he did. That seems to be: For heaven's sake shop on the Thursday evening and periment is repeated with another is nobler and more manly than the do not read this paragraph thought-after terrorizing the fokis, they bound portion of the sample. There is no fined with a cork having me hole vituperative shrieks of noncombat-lessly. It is a compact of practical and gagged them, and then ransacked ants and onlockers.
thinking that is of moment for you, the premises, stealing nearly $700 Philosophically, we are opposed On the eve of a holiday, we grow in money. Everyone of the robbers differ by more than halfriedhameled the rod passing very to Irish nationalism, or to any introspective, and ask why we are got away, and no arrests have been No stirrer is used in the besh loosely through the bote in the cork. thing which can foster it because feeling so jolly Why, after all, is made, although the Police are in screen round the bach enables the The beaker is filled, to a helgen of we believe in cosmopolitaniem life so swest? Is it that our angle eatigating the affair?
temperature to be more easily reach exactly 7.5 en..with cottonseed oil. ed. When the cotton-seed oil has To make the test, the bath is to English Lutionalism Scottish men who have throughout the day comedy. They gave us the comictive device that stands in the way good wishes for a happy holiday? the No. 1 boy of the Club, who is by hall filing the rebes with strong rising. The test tube is then lowered bécome ́tarry, and viseid, it should be heated by a burner until the temp. writers, and could see little but nationalism, or any other separa- responded so dully to our exuberant Kowloon, reported to the Police that regular The jelly may be removed posure) is 293deg and still slowly! The secretary of Club de Recreio, renewed, otherwise heating may be of the bath (corrected for stem ex squiréen, and burlesque pea-of the recognition, of the comment Why are santry, good reading indeed, bat human brotherhood under the com-gloomy. Are they getting as much safe, had absconded with $400, the place for a few hours....
we merry, and they entrusted with the key of the Club'a sulphuric acid, and placing in a warm into the bath and adjusted so that the wrong. as portraiture. Carleton, men fatherhood of God which is out of life as we are? If not, why property of the Club. No other facts himself a peasant, gives us a more the big central fact of all the reli- not?
bottom of the tube is exactly 1.5 faithful picture of the soul of ginne. But so long as nationalism unless they are willing to be help with such meagre clue, the Police exceed thirteen minutes."
Can we help them? Not are at present known, and working scribed the period of setting must not gauged by a pre-determined mark org When tested in the manner de- from the bottom of the beaker, ast Ireland, that intensely brooding, and patriotism are regarded as virsed. We have after long search and are naturally at a great handicap. The following specification for Chiat the same time. Murder is always wrong, retail comical, very earnest soul that due. They are intensely national evolved our own eclectic credo, and wharf and at the railway station, tion of the apparatus and methods the tube is introduced and the burner
passionate, sentimental,
tragies, we must give the Trish their meditation and mach experience Men have been posted on every nese Wood Oil and detailed descrip. The temperature rapidly falls as the rod, and a stop-watch is: started or wholesale, whatever the motive suffers so very much more than is and patriotic-even unto the death-trained-and-habituated our mind but up to the time of writing, the used in making the Browne Heat Test is removed for 45 seconds and then The instinct to kill however, is ever really necessary to those of Politically, we would give them all (call it autobypnosis, if you like) fugitive had not yet been captured, were submitted over the signature of turned down and replaced, the flane still universal, and we are not us who are not handicapped with they ask, because we owe them a to a certain outlook on life. WeIt is believed he is in hiding in Kow-Mr. E R. Bovey, Government being adjusted so that, the tip is just going the right way to eradicate it. the Keltic temperament. Feeble men and people who them. Stephens and W. B. Yeats and danger of a separated Ireland is ren, unimportant, humanly-on-
James great deal in reparation. selves would never have the cour other more recent artists have theoretical. The danger of a dignified playing childish games in
The look on men and women as child-loon City
Analyst, Hongkong, under date of sufficient to keep the tempera age to kill applaud killings, wirk
December 19, 1918 at them, or desire them. Stories unfortunately, the number of their real. Even if we can always con- garten of the All-Father. Nothing Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900, Oil, these Standards to be adopted by has been in the bath for nine minutes,
taught nis more trathfully, but coerced Ireland, held by arma, the wonderful nursery or kinder-
ture of the height 292deg. C. it About six years ago we were ask which it is kept as accurately as pos and plays and kinema picture's readers has not been large enough tinue it successfully, we do not matters more thou do the naughti.isance No. 10 of 1900, that he the Association of Exporters and the fluidity of the wood oil is tested Under section 6 to the Crowned to fix Standards for Chinese Woodsible during the test. After the rube courage this instinct. emotion evoked by the villain accurate appreciation of the Irish.
The to bring about a generally more believe that we car get any good of nesses and trivial griefs of infancy determine the amount of compensa Dealers of Hongkong, and the de- by raising the rod once," every-15
Board of Arbitrators appointed to of the piece demands that he shall The Irishman will tell lies. So candle, and the rewards of wrong to fear, not even lessons. It is (and
it. The game is not worth the Life is great fun. There is nothing tion to be paid in respect of the finition laid down was very similar to seconds, and the time when congeal- timely die. Even ladies and child will any other man. There is no turn ever to ashes in the month. this is important) also well worth resumption of Lot No 2551 in Survey that of the New York Produce Ex-ing. takes place noted. ren feel that way. Civilization,
cofen that is not also a race If the world's tears have power to while. We despise the point of His Hondur Mr. Justice: Wood, Chinese Wood Oil shall be pale ner, jellying takes place within a few of liars. The Irishman will per-touch us at all, we will modify our view that belittles God's certain Pulsne Judge,
District 17 is constituted as follows: change, viz is still far removed from us. Wepetrate bulls." have horror of murders such as
So will other chauvinistic points of view, and gift as a vale of tears and a pro- Arnold Hackney Hollingsworth, production) merchantably free from sults agree to the nearest minute. They are common in all abate our vast intolerances, and bationary preface to a problematical nominated by His Excellency the loots, dirts, and moisture. The socal The correction for stem exposure some of those in Ireland we have debates. and
Mrn colour (according to the season's seconds of perfect fluidity, and re- lately read of, but our horror de Irishman is superstitious. So are human clan.
newspapers. The learn to substitute love for the future. Is that not a clear case Governor Mr Lawrence Gibbs, impurities shall not exceed I per cent. usually amounts to about 10deg. C. mands the killing of the murderer all other peoples, including those who has shocked us.
of the dog and the bone and the nominated by the Chairman on behalf but unless otherwise provided for, im- so that 272deg, and 283deg, as shown In some who are most careful to deny it. cases this blood-inst seems to de- There
reflection thereof? "Ah! Take of the ewaer. The Chairman appoints purities not plainly, adulterations up to by the thermometer may be taken aire the slaying of all his kindred. harunt-scarum Irish, as full of fun are giddy, irresponsible.
the cash, and let the credit go. Monday, the 12th day of April, 1920, 5 per cent shall not justify rejection instead of 282deg, and 293deg. given The murder of a Sinn Fein mayor as a dog of fless. What other race.
Thankful without disparaging cri- at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon, at but allowance shall be made by the above. and the promiscuous shootings by is, without such? Do we monopol-
sicis for aunshine and the sea, the Paisae Judge's Chambers, Courts sellers for such impurities in excess incensed soldiers in Ireland do not ize patriotism? We do not. The
we jot down these notes on the of Justice, Hongkong, as the time per cent.
Although from the description evoke in some breasts the killing Irishman also is a patriot, and
Leve of the boliday, so that we need and place for the Board to commence
given, the test may appear complic- The law should not return to the office on Saturite sittings.
The Refractive Index of such oilated, in practice it is very simple. It rage that is inspired by such an sometimes more intensely so than
COOLIES be respected, but day but be uninterruptedly free
at 20deg C shall not be less than has the great advantage over the outrage is that of the murder of we. So we might go on, attribute
CARRYING BIG We should also and recreative from Thursday night
1.5184 and if determined at any other Worstall Test that all the conditions the Magistrate Bell. Why is that?after attribute, in a rain attempt to
WEIGHTS. .have a "beart." Because we take sides. The Gezdispel the vulgar illusion that the observed our panting coolies carry-
till Monday morning. Hooray!
temperature shall be corrected by the of heating and dimensions of the Those who have
factor 0.0004 for every ideg. Cessential parts of the apparatus are man use of poison gse made us very Irish are peculiar, sui generis,ing marvellously heavy loads will
"The Specific Gravity at 15deg. C. constant R angry. We applauded our own something apart from the normally be amazed that a Police Inspector
shall not be less than 0.9400.
The jelly may be removed from. -reprisals.
That is the worst of human; but what's the use?
opaque, yellow water, Everest Ellepsen, who was some Test, the of shall soddity in not more with concentrated Sulphuric acid and "When tested by Browne's Heat the tubes by half filling the tubes murder. One leads to another, as Here are a couple of sonnets by Thursday) a coolie to carry two remarkable depth. The impulse Hutchison to a fine of $5 or seven The examination of wood oil in hours, t
should expect (as reported on our fishing line showed a pool of ten days ago sentenced by Mr. RO. than 13 minutes, in the foolish feuda and vendettas an Irishman whom Mr Balfour heavy blocks of granite all the way to strip and dive and explore was days hard labour, and served the this Labratory is based on the above With regard to the Iodine Value We read about. There is no end to sent to prison in the bad old days from the VEC wharf to the natural and inevitable. So it is seven days because he had no money specification. Usually, determinations for wood. oils, tas value for genuine keeping in a warm place for several it. The merders by Irish patriots of his coercive regime, although, to Cathedral compound, without put with life. There is nothing more to pay the fine, does not seem to of the Specific Gravity and Rehactive oils should be between 168 and 172. Are making otherwise reasonable be sure, those days were no worse ting them down. The method of thrilling to us than to plunge into have mended his bad ways. Index are made and the oil tested by This test requires a very strict adher people decide against the Irish on and no better than now, the political ineve. Although con-
one coolie carrying them a certain strange and especially foreign He went and got drunk almost im Browne's Test. If the above results chce to a standard procedure il cous- nected with it, they are really.
distance, and there leaving them community where we know no soul, mediately after his discharge from throw doubt as to the genuiness of the parable results are to be obtained irrelevant. Yet it is quite natural.
for another to carry on system and to explore it. Mystery and prison. He was seen driving in a and human to be influenced by such emotions, especially after years of aniszepresentation, and misunder- standing of the Irish The reason able-man objects to such a govern- ment of force and repression or the Trish have bad but be does not get angry at the excesses of an infuri ated soldiery. Those are unfortu nate bot quite human incidente of violent emotion. There is no valid excuse for killing on either side buff the reasonable man desired Cepens in mitigaton of guilt, he ild surely clan that the op
sed may be less guilty than the prensor says he 16
•
and its ideal of the sanctity of life,
fairly we must correct
by the
wen.
God knows, was not with a
fore-reasoned plan I left the easeful dwellings of my
peace,
And Bought this combat with
ungodly Man
And ceaseless still through years
that do not cease.
Principalities..
Have warred with Powers and
ADVERSARIA.
Once, in a Queensland DIVING, river, that was full of
Chairman
UNREPENTANT.
of
Carried out in the above man
of relays is a good one; and we adventure are involved. The call ricsha, very drunk, and faken to oil, the lodine value is determined by As performed here, 0.09 pm to 0.15 don't believe it takes longer than of the unknown in clamant. So if No. 2 Police Station, where he was the Wip Process.gm, or about three drops of the oil, direct carriage would. We are con is with all new experiences. For kept one night This morning he
"Browne's Heat Test; which our accurately weighed, is dissolved in vinced that it saves time, besides better or worse, they are interest was brought before Mr. N. L experience is very much superior to 2000, per carbon tetrachloride in offering more frequent spells of reing. From prosperity to cortitions Smith, and again pleaded for the Werstall Tests conducted as 800cc, stoppered boxle, 300. Dec lief to the workers. We think it less pleasant, so long as those conchance. He said he had very follows ----- possible that a continuous proces ditions are fresh and unfamiliar, is good British papers, but he could not The apparatus used consists of an stopper scaled with a few drops of normal Wijs Solution added, and the My natural soul, ere yet these be a more real obstruction to traffic feet, to experience that is all the last chance, he would work his sheet from cylinder, 9 by 19 cm, and At the end of that time, the esting aion of burdened coolies might even in reality gain. To know, to get a job here because his rame had iron stand with tyo vertical roda, 20 per cent. potassium iodide soln been badly spoiled. If he won given Supported between the rods is a tion. The time allowed is three hours. strites began, Was as a sister diligent to please ed. They should, of course, be and that italf is all that a wide and to Hongkong again.
cylinder supports a copper beaker 6 Hongkong is to be congratulated or than the stones teniporarily dump true largesse that life has to offer passage to Shanghai, and never come pierged with two rows of holes. The tion is fished in the usual way,**** And loving all, and moat the dumped on the side of the road, full and complete life is
Worship said he had had too cm diameter and 12 cm. high, by having had in its service officials, of God knows it. And He knows was rightly fined. With regard to BUT IF I well, placidly re-promised not to get drunk again, A clamp on one red supports the test and Dovey, whose capabilities are
human clan. Create ad no they were not, the foreman
That'a all very many chances already. He had often means of a Banged-ing at the top such high calibre as Mesers, Brownd how the world's tears using the Prava near the VB.C Touched me And He is witness for the deposit of such stuff unland-
RAINE Barks asme com but he never kept the promise. tube containing the oil while one on recognized, not only in the Orient of my wrath,
ed from junks, we are under the anced
hal Defendant. It was not my fault the other red holds a thermometer, but in Europe and America as well. How it was kindled against mur impressin that the PWD has
those who this time. I took liquor because of the latter adjusted so that the bulb is pu frequently done it within the last lu, and how no 19 month with
tion: How
bent
You can
the weakness. I had been in there for hstaff. it seven days, ende did not eat mit different. I hope you will give me a chance,
osopher410 or seven dayi.
beaker. The test tube has a mark or exactly 23 cm from the bétam ue the
of the wood
ou is placed in the the, which is ben
aro being, built-
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