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THE CHINA MAIL.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 11, 1920.
LOGÁL AND GENERAL.
LOCAL IND GENERIE
Four boat owners were fined $10
each at the Marine Court yesterday for obstructing the southern fairway.
The Tai Yat Fa Un or the "First Lieut. Commander A. E. John-"
earnest immaturity, this also is and snobbery rifled rose-leaf would seem to be true, opined magic, for old problems and pro-rebels. You get the thought" that it would come to nothing for positions restate themselves, and Happiness and the good green a long, long time, not until we have come from the shadows into life grass within reach, and Renter a "all passed on." Do you get the Pootung is "moving ahead." again, very vital issues indeed, reporter of blataus bravings. How idea? Jalousie de metier. Belisle Plans are being made to lay down things that truly matter. there avoid the epithet that Genesis xlix your competitor's *' acoop," It is an automobile track. where the low, troubled voice blends and 14 offers us? At its worst a pretty cheap and low-down and with the moaning of the sea's jolly world, sirs, awaiting your good does not tend to promote what marge, where the flicker of phos will to make it so. The beasts of some people call the dignity of the Public Garden" will be the most up- stone, of HMS "Cairo," has been phorescence recalls the glint in the the field do not lie awake at night Press, but we all do it. We all de to-date garden in Canton when it is elevated to the position of Com enquiring eye. What should he bemoaning their sins, neither doth it, even the metropolitan Press that completed.
mander, read? What should be read? the happy cockroach complain that is supposed to set the standard for There is so much, and so little it hath not the sycophantic privi- the rest. What a game! "What a The Chief Engineer of the S.S.;
Prince Carol, Heir Apparent to time, that age spills its plerophory. leges of the flea.
**sony trade !"
"Tean," Mr. A. Cumming, has been the Throne of Rumanis, has left hesitates, fumbles, Inses its chance,
If Eve had known that mankind appointed chief engineer of the ss. Japan. After a tour in Ameries the the bat-like fight of the young and
would be the result of conversing "Hanyang.”
Prince proceeds to England. greedy intellect has sent it swoop-
with the snake, she'd have hesit ing off upon another slant. The
ated. If she could have forescen
A saflor belonging to the French Captain Harding, master, cruiser magic of it.
that mankind would produce jour- "Kansu" has been transferred to visited Hongkong, while getting into Desaix," which recently nalists, she would have foresworn command the as Chinhua". Capta sampan at Shanghai fell into the apples. She was a good sort, who Harding is a member of the Merchant river and was drowned. meant well. -".
Service Club.
Vous pauvres, pleins d'envie; Vous rich, désireux ;- Vous, dont le cbar dévio · Après un conre heurens; Vous, qui perdrez peutêtre The lithe body is as quick as the Des titres éclataps, mind. A scamper along the bam- Eh! gai! prenez pour maitre boo pier. a poise, swallow `dive, The nearest bon vivant. and an explosion of pale blue flame Or shall we say Mark Tapley?] then the voice coines crying out Or the man in Tolstoi's fable of a of the darkness that is upon the dilemma? Or Omar? Any old face of the waters. Age, growing cheerful person will do but let us gross, pursy, follows from a lower cease buzzing among the rhododen- elevation, and cploys that most dmns of Trehúzond, let us chuck magical of all sensations, of power acting Issachar, let us bokl fast the and of being alive, moving and bone and ignore the reflection. floating in an accommodating medinm that is felt but not seen. The sea at night, and young com- panions.
THE TERMINOLOGICAL, INEXACTITUDINARIAN.
SPEED LIMIT.
Because of their inability to meet the increased cost of living, more than two hundred rattan furniture makers in Canton recently went on private practice will be allowed. strike for higher wages.
Colonies is advertising for a radio- The Secretary of State for the logist for the F. M. S. Salary will commence at $600 a month, and
The quidounes have not yet done talking about a motor accident, and drawing morals from it that the China Mail tried hard to inculcate The light cruiser "Astraea." long ago, apparently without much launched at Devonport on March 17, public interest or approval.
1893, is to be prepared for sale at They say that reasonable speed Chatham Dockyard. She was for a is exceeded on the round-the-island number of years on the China road. We say that it is still more station. exceeded in the city.
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The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for for the week ending July 24, 1920. amounted to 87,262 tons and the sales during the period, to 33,870 tons.
"
But how convey rhagic with mere words? They gan at best recall
Owing to the heavy rains and memories of experiences enjoyed, i Because fact is stranger than This accident happened. near The second engineer of the China typhoon last week, many rice fields to those who are able to reviem-fiction, Winston Churchill was the Aberden, where there are always Navigation s.s. "Wachang,” has been have been badly flooded, says the her. The essence of all such magie author of that famous phrase, people about, and people who were placed on reserve: Mr. Matthews Canton Times, Rice merchants, secing is indefinableness. Who can put terminological inexactitude." He not participating in the joy ride served during the war in vessels of their chance, bave begun to increase the night cries of wildfowl on a has changed it lately, to speak were bur
the company which were running to the price of rice. Ltd. moorland, and all the strange of a mere picturesque figure of We propose that there be no Mesopotamia.
emotions they evoke. into words; speech." He has not yet reached speed limit along certain sections that describe "them? We have to the stage of admitting that he is to be marked off, away from re- Shanghai papers to hand record fall back upun the device Cric- valgar liar, but he is approach-sidential parts, and including the the death of Mr. "A W. Brown, a kett's dedication to R.L.S. then. A short putt will get him more dangerous portions of the well-known resident, who was em well-beloved, and say this and that there. He told the House of Com-road. Here we invite the joy riders played at the Riverside Power did happen. “your heart remea mons who were debating his pro-to go like the familiar expletive. Station. The cause of death is bers. how."
posel return to red tunics for the and then perhaps the problem will understood to have been apoplexy.
BROWN. On July 31. 1920, at Shanghai, Andrew Brown, of the Shanghai Electricity Department, EIPPERT.-On June 17, 1920. a
Edinburgh, to the wife of W. SORGATO. On August 2, 1920, H. C. Weippert. Commissione, ! at Shanghai, Madeleine Meyer Chinese Customs Service, a
(Sorgato). daughter.
THINGS THAT DON'T GET
INTO THE PAPERS.--
1.
Sovereigns are enough in China,
Heat at Kanking, on some days near the 100 mark, caused two deaths among the foreign community, Mr. E. Butler of the Customs service on July 30 and Mr. G. T. Northcott, of the International Export Co., on August L.
Subject to the approval of the but every little while Indian Customs Secretary of State for the Colonies, of the gold coin shipped to India Weihaiwei has been pleased to authorities manage to seize quantities His Honour the Commissioner of
sovereigns were seized at Calcutta Junior District Officer and Magistrate from China. On July 10, 7,600 appoint Mr. Hardy Jowett to be on arrival of the str. "Chak Sang." in the territory.
1
the four boats being built for the The "Celestial," the second of Shipping Board was launched last week at Kiangnan Dockyard, the ceremony being performed by Mrs. M. A. Perry, wife of the Yokohama representative of the U.S.S.B.
"Koso
There is to be no compulsory service in the F.MS, for the present- at any rate for the Acting Chief Secretary stated in Federal Council that Government was prepared to call upon men in the F.MS. to volunteer for service in the reconsti- tuted M.S.V.R.
BURGLARS BUSY.
PESE RESIDENCE ROBBET
! Age collects, mentries with the soldiery that the orders had already solve itself, by the elimination of
aridity of a collector: youth, swim-been placed and the loonus start- the unfit.
Later on he tok! the House Haing in an dean of impressions, ed."
But where there are many people absorbs them unconsciously and that the War Otire was merely about, there should be a rigorously carelessly. Yet when these young using up cloth already in hand, for enfenced Speed Limit. If you can- men go forth from Hongkong the Ginards only, and that no or not see that it means that you have University to fight their profesders had been placed for more of shit your eyes tight and don't want sional battles in the various parts it. He explained, under pressure to see it. The number of pedes of chupire that maust be chosen, by that his first statement was a trians knocked down every month
Letters from Mrs. G. E. Marrison or for them, it is the hope of age, mere pluresque figure of speech, in Hongkong by motorcars is Too laddling in its correr and clutchIt was a terminological inexacti- Large, and stupid as they admitted-state that she is leaving for China ing miserly at these token images, tude. In other words, it was a lie.ly are, it is not all the pedestrians this month and should arrive by the "Empress of Japan" about September these notes on the Bank of Retro-Now we may admit that there is fault."
8. Mrs. Merrison is going to Peking spection, that at times there will thing insufferably immoral in the
When we were on this subject to wind up her late husband's affairs come to the vivid mind pictures of amusing lies of a Munchausen or before, a motorist told us that a Her children, meanwhile, are staying that night of magic, their gift to age, a le Rongement but the state car is under better control when it in Devonshire. whereupon they, though glad no gents of a politician, uttered to goes fast. So we chucked our hand
The TKK. steamer more. may wear a face of joy be-influence decisions in Parliament. in. What is the use of arguing
Maru," which ran aground on the cause they have been glad of yore."
Canton salt merchants are report-Serrana Bank on the Mexican Gulf, shoid approximate more closely to with people like that? The people ed to have made big profits in baying on June 28, was re-floated on August Which also is good magic. accuracy than Churchillian state who are mostly, hurt are only
ments seem to do. "Winston seems Chinese",
at auction confiscated salt at a low 1, arrived at Cristobal, on August 5 The fuss now price in the District Salt Inspectorate and sailed from there to Balboa for quite reckless, so long as the being made is due to the fact, quite of Kwangtang in the past. On Aug. repairs. The damage is not serious.. momentary score be made. It was clearly and patently due to the 6, however, the officers of the Salt only a short time before that he fact, that some important Euro- Inspectorate set the minimum price assured the House that swords peans have suffered
to be paid for salt. This will, no would not be made a compulsory Before leaving the subject in a doubt lesson the profits of the salt Have you ever heard a Padre, part of firing officers' equipments, quite natural disgust) we feel it is merchants. BUTLER-On July 30, 1920, -zt
Nanking, in his 25th year, Her-after coming from reciting the in- and on top of that, when asked if our duty once more to point out bert Butler of the Chinese Cus-pressive words of the burial service flying officers would be allowed on the utter wrongheadedness of ask- Tae s. s. "Loang Mow" which roms Service, son of Mrs. Butler, at a funeral, say Rather effective, ceremonial parade without swords. ing. after such an accident on arrived in Hankow on her way to that pause, what? Have you ever he supposed not.". The lies he such a road. for more widen-Shanghai, to be fitted with a new heard soldiers talking about kill has told about what was and what ings and carve easings. That bow is a sight worth seeing, says the ing? Have you ever heard a was not being done in and about only increases the trouble, as weC C. Post. The crash against the judge's private comments on a case Russia are uncountable, unless you have pointed cur before That road rocks had simply concertinaed the in which he has passed the death know the number of times he was will never be a safe road, whatever steel plates right up to the foot of sentence? Have you ever heard an on his feet, and multiply that by they do to it. No road is safe for bridge ladder, and it is a wonder
stress, coming off after an impas. tito.
How is it that the people sonic motorists. Bat you (and our how the steamer was kept afloat. stoned scene that moved, you to have not yet rid themselves of this P.W.D.) really must let this truth Her officers are much to be con tears, talk of it as it really was, habitually mendacious minister? soak in to the understanding, that gratulated. a mere stunt? This is one of How long are they going to stand the more dangerous a road is, the the disillusions of experience, to
him?
safer it is. In the interests of the Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Sevier of learn that all these people con-
fast drivers themselves, we would New York have arrived at Yokohama make sharp corners where there and are guests at the Grand Hotel. No. 150. The Peak, was entered by The residence of Mr. H. Hancock, stunts," instead of
O CONTRARY,
These compe! them to Mr. Sevier will make a general survey barglars on Sunday night during the being immersed in the feelings you may deem appropriate. Coming
slow up and take care. Rounding tions in Japan with special reference absence of the occupants. The in-' of the economic and political cordi. down the scale like a fireman down! EONGLONG, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11, 1920. his polished pole, fast and far, the Sunday to love bis enemies, and
They keep telling him every her rip.
them off encourages them to let to the expansion of American foreign Kuling, to Rev. and Mrs. W.
newspaper reporter is another illus when he gets an enemy to love as the Cheraufeur is as good Evening Post and a New York bank trade. He represents the New York Arthur Cornaby, a daughter.
tration of familiarity breeding con- and tries to oblige them they call advised, and, we will not have it SIX STUDENTS MAKE MAGIC.tempt. The Police Court, where him a Conchie and a coward. They said that he is the chief culprit.·
None of the servants who were in ing combination.
the outhouse appeared to have heard the liberties and most sacred rights tell him to be a man and a Briton, We have ridden with private drivers
anything out of the ordinary during of human beings are handled.of the breed that never, never shall and after a sickening experience/Commander-in-Chief of the British
Admiral Sir Alexander Duff, the night. Those University students are where the poignant drama of low be slavish, and when he starts out have yearned to strangle them. Squadron in China, waters, who had and enquiries are being made.
The police, have been informed, good company, even when the aura life is played," where "sob stuff" JONSSON-TREGILLUS.-On
qn that stunt they call him an we have ridden with the drivers of Marason" on July 18, after having Two residenta on the mainland were the of their youth, compels fresh and is comrion, where throbbing human agitator and a pestilent fellow.
come to Tientsin on "board the Kowloon burglars are still busy. 10th August. 1920. at St. An- poignant consciousness of age. interest ought to capture and en- They urge him to believe and com-ed by Mr. Lauritsen with the of Chihli, returned to Taku on the drew's, Church, Kowloon, by the Here is a mixed draught of com-thral him, is to the reporter just pel him to act as if he doesn't supreme need for taking care, and following day, and boarded the coat and $100 in money, while the
the Dragon garage, all impresz been entertained by the Civil Governor victimised during the week-end. Vicar G. R. Lindsay. M.A.. Carl panionship to quaff, intellect soused a daily stunt. He goes for salient They reinind him that the empire have enjoyed every bit of the trip. Flagship" Hawkins" The Admiral other had stolen from his house a set The first reports that he lost a rain Rudall Jorsson of the Harbour in the well of fearning, effervescing headlines, and cannot see wood for is his proud heritage, and refuse to Department. Canon, eldest son with the gas of youth, and ons, trees. of Mrs. Carolina Jonsson of ancnted with the froth of true terest 99 times out of a 100.
He misses the human in- let him go and have a look at it ago a European driver boasting of shortly', says a Tientsin paper.
We heard only a few eveninge is expected to sail for Weihaiwei of drawing instruments and a coat in Engelholm, Sweden. 10 Lillian humour. Hope announces itself knotty legal argument appeals out to him that principles should in some absurd number of minutes. Awithout a passport. They-point having done the Repulse Bay trip
the pocket of which was a fairly Winifred. only daughter of Mr. like the sound of a clear bell, and more to him, somehow, than a cry be his supreme masters, and urge We viewed him exactly as we would received, several places in Sainam invaded the bedroom, and carried out
large sum of money. and Mrs. E. C. Tregillus, of the earnestness and sincerity are in its of the heart. It cannot be help upon him the commonsense of a fool boasting of juggling with a and Samshui were badly flooded their, thefts without awakening the According to latest reports In both cases the midnight visitors C.M. Customs, Canton. (Shang reverberations. Imagine sitting ated, we suppose; but we wish it coorpromise. They tell him that stick of dynarnite. hai papers please copy.
dinner with young then who talk could. THOMAS JOPLING.--On April 10, learnedly of the psychology of
because of the heavy rain of the last sleeping occupants. democracy's the thing, that the Yesterday, in a batch of arrested voice of the people is the voice of anything acer forty miles an hour property, and the inhabitants there The Morning Post thinks that week. Great damage was done to 1920; at London, by special clothes, of obscure physiological hawkers, were three very little God, and that the majority must is dangerous. On that road? We are destitute. Several places in licence, W, A. H. Thomas, of facts discovered in the dissecting girls. It is true they were dis- rule, and then a minority pitchforks should think it was: But so long Koming were recently flooded: More Peking, to Mrs. Gwendoline Jop-room, of political principles, of charged, but they had been locked men like Winston Churchill into as they slow up at Pokfulum and than 200 houses collapsed and many ling, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Duty with a capital D. and who up in a cell all night. A police office to tell the majority that it is Aberdeen and Shankiwan and such of the inhabitants of these places W. A. Davidson, of Surbiton, laugh and burble throughout with man mentioned it, aloud. And not unfit to govern. They make educa-places, we hope they will go in for have been rendered homeless. Surrey.
that utter lack of self-consciousness reporter took a note. that characterises young animals at Three babies, the oldest about wage-slaves of the newspapers.gaits, and the sooner and oftener tion compulsory, and then make sixty, seventy, and even eighty mile MCBAIN CARTER. On June 5,
1920, at London, Neville Sjev Play. It is the beginning of a night nine, the youngest five, locked up They give their profiteers knight the better. So we shall be the days from August 1, the Peking Daily wright, fourth son of the fare of magic and of charm, in which in a cell-all night. Among hoods and their thinkers the cold sooner rid of the crazy fools.
MALCOLM.—On April 4, 1920, 41
Stroud, England, to Mr. and Mrs.
A. Malcolm, a daughter.
The China Maiksciously do Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A.UTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"
VELLING.—On July 31, 1920, at
C. Veling, a son.
CORNABY.Os August 3, 1920, at
KLRRIAGE.
George McBain, of Shanghai,
one reverses the time machine, and criminals. hears echoes. All bitterness of
and Mrs. McBain, of Grosvenor sophistication is cast off as a gar Gardens, London, to Saranne Marie Louise, only daughter of ment, and one, walks enchanted through fields of asphodel, as the
-
How are you? Calloué?
ISSACHARS.
are none.
Chinese
shoulder. They say blessed are the poor, and then worship wealth. And, as the Brooklyn Eagle vers CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES. neatly pots it; they cry aloud for a nds of vision and when they get ParICE BECRUITS PETITIO him they call him a visionary.
JALOUSIE DE METTER.
AN INCREASE GRANTED.
*
MID-NIGHT KOWLOON THEFTS,
truders ransacked the bedroom, and
one of the stole from a drawer jewellery to the
HONGKONG RICE,
AMERICAN BROKERS,
4
Suspending publication for nine
EXPORTERS PERTURBED,
News on July 31 announced, this was
A number of San Francisco firmis necessary because of the difficulties of brokers are about to open branches experienced by printers in getting in Hongkong. One of their-Messrs. home late at night. The risk was so wellish and Co has already estab Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Heary naked gods, walked in the happy
great, the comps, refused to work lished an office in the Colony, This the city. The paper bad either to American rice brokers are going to ucleas the plant was moved inside was predicted some time ago. These Carter, of Cricklewood,
beginning of things. Asinne BECKLEY-SEDDON -On June 2. asinum, fricat-the saying that Glooming are the Issachars, here
get a new staff, or to move, and it make a bid for the brokerage busi 1020, at Manchester, William started as a jeer becomes a comand abroad. For them the world
was expected they would have the ness, reports the Shanghai Gazette. Ewart, only son of Mr. and Mrs. pliment. These are young men, is out of joint, and instead of mak-
matter settled one way or the other There is a lot of money to be made 5. Beckley; of Sheffield, to Mone and in the gladness of their, youth ing the best of what they yet may
The result of the recent petition by August 9.,.
in rice brokerage and naturally Constance, only daughter of Mrs. we too are young again. They led spend, they sour the milk of their
The China Mail on Monday told Hongkong Police Force for a revision by the European recruits of the
enough the exporters of this cereal to and the late William Sele Sed- us down to the magical sea on this lives, with complaining thunders Government is negotiating, with the match it new scale of salary, has been Ningpo. From that port be le States in Hongkong, for it is certain Captain Moerman of the tug the United States are rather perturbed don, of Bowdon, Cheshire.
Friesland" has left Shanghai, for at the presence of brokers from the 'night of magic, and it was fitting In big things and in little, in the
made known. SPENCE-LEVIS-On July 31, that we should go in with thera. things that matter and in the many Military for the parade ground at
1920, a Weihaiwel, Herbert No moon appeared to make mys more that don't they voice dissp the foot of Garden Road so that per annum on the recently sanctioned dredger Shanghai was wrecked
They receive an increase of £20 Proceeding to the spot where the to be detrimental to their business." Marshall Spence, eldest son 61 tery familiar. A few faint stars pointment, disapproval, discontent; the Peak tramway may start more new scale of pay; namely, from £160 and now lies high and dry on the in the dovecotes of the exporting
There is, therefore, a mild futter" the late Joseph Shewell Spence showed in the intervals of passing having the strength of Issachar, conveniently from a station at the to £200, instead of £160 to £180 25 beach. If practicable a deep water arms, for the brokers who intend to of Hexhave Northumberland scud, a sky parable of the aspiring they use it not for their own van lowest level, and the Telegraph, originally fixed.
channel will be dog from the sea establish themselves in the Colony. England, to Ethelwyn Grostudent, yearning to know, baffled tuge, but crouch and gronet bewhich didn't have it on Tuesday From this it will be seen that there to the dredger and the latter, theshare: very good connections in the ley Lewis; second daughter of by clouds. To walk to and fro peath their burdens. Home Rulers described it as an old ides with is no immediate increase in the pay foated again. After being repaired United States and we are likely to the late Charles William Lewis, upon the sand, listening to the everywhere, constitutional reforia "nothing new In it, and while of a recruit. He starts as before on
the Shanghai," will then be brought see a good deal of fusiness passing esger religious speculations of ers here, labour, capital, swankery, grudgingly admitting that the news £160 per annum as a lance sergeant. to Shanghai.
of London, England,"
through their hands.