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THE CHINA MAIL.
If Conan Doyle and Copley Moyle Jover the idea of “a jucy steak ent but nonsense. What you think Agree with Aristotle.
from Adversarins. ** But I'd be of it? We might get the new Then why should I attempt deny horribly tongh, and I'd be sure to Bishop as Vice-president. I. af The Genit in the Bottle? disagree with him, as I ani and as course, like my old friend Pick
I was very ill ob do now.
wick, would be Perpetual Presi CULTCHAW. Thursday, suffering
Let the Government deat, P.P.A.C. There needn't be from alcoholic poi
recruit more police at a Secretary, as we should keep GAMBLE once, and put one on minutes. We would keep late soning, and I sent for a doctor. He chatted with me awhile, after
every tramcar, if they hours instead. Enjoy the hours he had overhauled me and pre-want the gambling onlinance to be and the minutes will take care of scribed, and said some things that respected. A new gamble is in full themselves.
NEW
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1920
CHILDREN'S CORNER.
ANOTHER WRITING
COMPETITION.
My dear Children.-I daresay you all think that it is time that we had
NEW PRESIDENT.
REPUBLICAN VICTORY,
•
LATEST WIRELESS NEWS.
Further wireless reports from the United States, received within the another competition, and so do L
past few hours by the vessels This time I want you to write a of the United States letter to a friend in England, (real or feet which arrived in Hongkong this Asístic **Learning tames imaginary) and tell him (or her) what morning, show that not only has Hongkong a like and what you do, Senator Harding been elected Pre- or anything that you think would be sident, but the Republicans have of interest.
secured control of both houses of It may be a long or a short letter. Congress by large majorities.
The returns indicate that compas- Are your age and address at the end of lition of the new Senate will be as -
followsRepublicans. 55; Demo- heard from.
A BIT FROM and dilutes a man; HUDBARD. he grows to rever- ence authorities and
I think worth quaing. We were swing, which, for all I know, may talking about the Dunsany plays be reining the handsome young men and stories, and this man of science who take part in it. It began in- spoke somewhat as follows: That nocently enough by a group of sort of thing. Adversarins, is liked friends drawing lots to see who things that are dead, and so he by that sort of people who imagine should pay the car fans. The gradually loses his own God-given just as you like and remember to pat editure is something they can buy drawer of the ticket bearing the heritage of: I-reliance.
are.
it.
Letters.
(1) Write a letter to a friend about
Hongkong.
The exact number of electoral votes received by Senator Harding was uncertais, but the latest message Lestimates it as very near 400. Gov- iernor Cam, the defeated Democratic
at a store in a ready-made-ap pack-lowest number was to pay. The former must of a necessity be inore This time there will be "two prizes rats 37; with one State still to be
They are, especially here, og ingenious villain discovered for bys ignorant. In fact, the finest conscious of their need of it; but that the immoral game of poker mobility is only possible in a man of silver pencils for the two best
The membership of the House of they do not know that culture can-ould be played with tram tickets. who has never had a teacher-who
I hope that I shall hear front all Representatives, so far as knows, will not be anquired in such a way. Noughts were to be jokers, so that acknowledges no authority but the is a by-product-of-preparation la nan who drew, say. No. 6160. God within. As a general proposiy old friends and ever so many new he as follows Republicans, 286;
ones as well. There are just these Democrats, 139: Socialist, 1; Ia-` is likk idd-age, it has to be lived would be reckoned to hold thres tion, ignorance and isolation are three things that I want you to dependent Prohibitionist, 1; with for. Sometimes impatient adolesixes. On one occasion a man held both necessary in the equipment of:
eight States still to report. scents express longings for age and 6745, and claimed to win with af the supremely great who are to the privileges they suppe it to straight," A logician in the mould the minds of men and break bring, and these culture hunters.party pointed out that it was alup the firm ankylosis of social imated straight, one cant short, but habit, fixed thought and ossified many of them quite in earnest.
Yet when.. infeustom. remind me of those children." Annas over-ruled.
Learning hesitates and intelligent doctor, wasn't he? anther game, he held 8910, and defers, but morance is bold. Bernard claimed a straight of eight, nine,Originality is not a thing that is Reading Show's play Pygant ten. they wouldn't pay him. Afostered by the schoolsa state-
Now this is ment that reqnites no proof.” malion this werk, fierce quarrel zeuse.
This moruing's and of course the not right. Let the police see to it. Talking about sin, H.
telegrain aboar a inanxduction. I
bert Hubbard defines
REMINISCENCE, Lynching in Flori- struck by the very evident fact
"
** misdirected
da had a special that he erexits the science of phone-
People, he says, are not interest for me, because I was fish- ths with far greater powers than energy,
G.B.S. ON PILANETICS,
customary
Was
OF SIN.
hen
Ltd.it base far gained, and greater punished than it is likely to gain. He tells plaints that he has knowlehre
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The China Mail.
One of the thing Mail EGOTISM. Iralier - writers
bad
of two systet of shorthand. "nall
as
A PERDIDA.
for their sins, but bying there a few years ago. I sav jadvertised in a local paper at what The same writer has seemed, a very cheap price a little a fine essay on the farm of half a dozen acres, said to Song of Songs, hexateil in one of the prettiest pointing out that villages, in Florida, between two to things lakes." I got the editor to run me
THE sos OP Soxes,
I am wondering if he hasn't that little Knowledge which is proverbi-{ July dangenme. He quotes 3 per contains no reference
at the Pitman System of Phone-other-worldly. The author doubt-tout in his automobile, and found it graphy as the Pitfall system." less belonged to the fleshly school was a village of negro shacks, with 1 roval that dear old Mark Twain. of pets le mentions that no one white neighbour. I didn't
enthusiastic
Theodber king ago guessed it to buy, and I'm gla:l of it, for I don't Jalways un
Inishy- rider, wrote an essay in praise of what Professor Garstang ulike lynchings
I have been in the Pittain phonography, and by since proved it to be. Theloret three riots, and I don't like men his examples shaved that he hadn't was a bishop of Cymbus, an in-when they are worked up into roob ge half way towards understand-portant theological author, born in passions. They are ugly animals
Hubbard does then. ing its real merits. Shaw sects Antioch about 354.
We were telling stories to think that every possible voted not care either way: he insists that
CHILI of children at a jolly Sound cont he written down in a beautiful thing, and that that One can agree" with
STORS. little dinner party last solme system so that it could bejis rough.
So he says, let us It might be that.
night. One was about reperited exactly.
a little girl who had been corrected possible, but I doubt it. The idra view the statue simply as a statue," fot a girl like Liza with a good car and proceeds to write an eloquent by her father, and resented it. earning to talk like sorteone else!delem of Sex, which I am sure That evening, as she saw him ar E quite feasible, and as Slaw says, four editor would not permit me toproaching the house, she called out. is ufter done: but it wasn't done quote, he respecting the Lady Mother, here comes that husband ja he says it must be do, scienti-Grundy more than I do. I regard of cones."
WANTS
SENT IN DE
A READER.
queenphone.
The book of Hub- bard's essays Was
sent in by a China) Mail reader, after
We also heard of a
WWLS
An American asking questions INTERIORT about the interport STORL ericket at which some of the Clab
fically. It was acquired orally. It her as an old cow, and sho Hongkong boy of six who makes is pure miniers. All the phonetics her out of my path. He declares tiffin appointments for his daddy and phonography in the world could sir is still a powerful nut teach it. If I am to estimate)Maybe he's right. Shaw's phonography by his at- tempts at phonetic spelling. I shall rate it pretty low. After all, a man cannot excel in everything ever when his name is Shaw, "the editorial note on Thanday fellows were rude enough to laugh. some notes on apote ***TETTA, JUSTICE, PELIC SERVICE”
A merchant writes evening appeared: and he will go The American took it good hum- ist on Thursday which showed a
in to Dear Mr. doubt want to know how far this ouredly. He said he guessed he HONGLONG, SATURDAY. Nov. 6 1986 'errtain amount of cradle thinking. **NERGATOR. Adversarins." How particular essay modifies the view appeared to them very much the
bat the development of the thesis |
does he know that therein imparted. Not at all. It same as an Englishman at a hase-: was inherent and incomplete.I'm na à Mrs. ? He asks me, for is not remarkable that Hubbard, bail game, who asked when the tea The who has very exidently not seen interval was to be. When they told ¡The writer deliberately and grigi, the adultess of "Mercator."
tously digged me in as an exam only Mercator I know is the planithe literal translation from the him there would be no interval be Not one of the papers pl. cupled with that pretentious sphere, and map man, Gerhard libst copy, should have reached a said. "Then what's the idea of the ANCIENT that I have seen has ass Bead Shaw, so I grenier, formerly of Flanders. It kindred conclusion, as Theodoret gate anyway?”
an to tril a story of his boyhood to get appears that the Mercator" my did. because the internal evidence LIGHTS. "discussed that
AD. WRITING cient lights case at eien. His father went to the nur-merchant is after writes in one of is strong enough, unce the clue is
The remarkable thing a 1.TRICKY Shanghai with any approximate sery and found his little brother and the other papers, and that the gatten.
FUS. intelligence. I have read five separ. sister playing the story of the various rire merchants have failed that. having the clue. Hubbar
should have written: I think I ate shots at it: One Shanghai temptation in Fden, while he huto falfil his prophecies of the past
Knowing six months." per said the division might be self stood in a corner.
"ADVERSARIA.
BUSINESS.
made- And they wowwy and they mope And they put their highest hope
vel.'
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REAL
fo the price, pejhups, of soup, NEWSPAPERS. copies of the Cal Don't you know?
gary Eye Openér,
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We have on our staf a lad who thinks he knows how to write ad- rertisements. He
(2) Put your name, age and ad-†
dress at the end of it. (3)
Send in the letter before next Thursday (the 11th.) to "Peter Pau, o The Editor. The China Mail Office.
Your loving,
PETER PAY
all road
letter goes Hongkong?
What
C (sea).
MY DREAM HOUSE,
I know a little tiny house
Beside a rippling stream.
candidate, it was said, was certain of
136 electoral vates, from the south- em states of Georgia. "Louisiana, Arkansas. Florida, Mississipot; North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, with one or two others.
The surprise of the election was the strength of the Republican. vote in the southern states of Tennessee, Oklahoma, Mimouri, and Louisiana. These states forming. part of what is called "the solid | south "—" saEd” from a Democratic
Where one could sit the whole long sense--have always been considered
Jay
impregnable.
And dream and dream and dream.
The stream is like a silver thread, 'Tis shallow, cool and clear,
And minnows dart from pool to
pool
And water babies dear.
So shy these little fairy things You'll sit there a whole week, And never catch a sight of one Or hear the faintest squeak.
Now when the evening comes
alorg
And all is growing dark
I hear the watch-dog at the house Give one sharp noisy bark.
I know he's asking me to come Into that little house,
Só up I get and creep along As quiet as a mouse.
I see the windows of the house
All lighted up with lamps,
And underneath in letters large, "THIS HOUSE IS MEANT FOR
TRAMPS."
And though by day I'm only just An ordinary child.
At night I tramp the world around And risit countries wiki. ・・ And so I know this little house. Is meant for such as me And, if I enter, other tramps · Just like myself I'll see.
It was said that the women voters contributed largely to the beary Republican vote throughout, the country..
One of the features of the election was the defeat of Chamo Clark Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, who has served in the House since 1897..
A leading topic of discussion in the United States is the probable make-up of the new President's cabinet. Amone those considered as possibilities for Secretary of State are Serator Lodge, Elihu Roor. Philander C. Knox, and Charles E Hughes. Former Senator-Weeks is mentioned for Secretary of the Treasury: Herbert Hoover for Secretary of Commerce or Secretary of the In terior; and Former Senator Sather- land for Secretary of the Navy.
President Wilson is quoted as say- ing. "I am disappointed, and depress- ed." Secretary of State Colby also has expressed his disappointment.
In his first speech since his election Senator Harding wid, that the Ver. sailles League of Nations is now deceased; but the administration intends to see that the nation plays its part in a new international associa-" tion founded on peace and justice.
The latest report from California · indicates that the anti-alen land amendment received a large majority The night dog stands beside the in that state. The veto for adoption
was 1.333,473; against, 41,166. door,
He's old and very kind,
So nobody to pass him by Could ever ever mind.
And on the threshold sits the cat Whom little children love,
In Washington it was said that this vote would not affect the con- tinuance of the negotiations there between Japan and the United States concerning Japanese · immigration. The treaty, it was said, may reach
Whose tail they pull and ears they the Senate this winter.
twist,
She's gentle as a dove.
The door is open very wide,
How
No need to ring or knock,
I'm not just like a visitor
Dressed up in Sunday frock.
My exercantile coral safe in saying the remarks in went to Friend Taggart the other rice. the poem addressed to third per day, and said he had a good idea but it wasn't justice, and fail this lay the writer of the leader) respondent says While
are merely monologue and to boom Repulse Bay as a honey- to get within hailing distance to be very egotistical, he wonder metal, and many other merchants s
exclamations, day-moon resort. Fine said Tag- the point. The judge had toed why he had allowed his juniors appear, according to him, to be on interjectory
What is it?" - pply Chinese law, which does not the star parts of Adam and Eve, the brink of disaster, it seems a dreams" and love musings, in which art. seem to recognize such an issue, while a skipping rope hanging over pity he does not put them in the young men and maidens ever re-about a slogan like this: Take There were other persuns the dearest woman on earth to the Chinese builders do not bother chair back was a realistic serpent way of retrieving their fortunes by much about light and air, so we can The mystery was soon solved. The securing them some of those Mexi-present, at what seems to have been dearest spot on earth Dear- gasped T. understand that. The point is that youngster standing in the corner.can dollars which are on offer at equivalent to a wedding breakfast. est spot on earth.” ander British law the judgment with folded arms and frowning face. 13 per cent, discount. Surely ther Moreover, in place of the first Get out."
They tell us that: might well have been the same. had cast himself for the part of would allow him a share of the verse, there was a document very
pleasures are like All depends on what right the Deity!
per cent. profit in sight. Of course like a rooder playbill, mentioning
PERMANENT Poppies.
**You Bible Society Litigants had, on bow
A local serpon re it may be that he prefers to keep not only the names of the players,
PLEASURE. pluck the flower, long they bad those windows, on
ANCESTOR ported in the Press the source of supply dark, and at even supers, such as "eunuchs, I would
its bloom is sbed.** whether they were, as a fact, an- WORSHIP. Shove us a man who waiting till he can nobble the bath attendants, etc.'
believes, not only in current coin at the future ratelike before passing on to other Br" according to the late Andrew cient lights. Our law of ancient ] ·
things to thank this very obliging Lang, there is one pleasure that lights is devised a inch in the praying for the dead, but that the of 20 per cent. dis."
never palls. interests of the pany who objects head watch our careers and pras
Now if you ask me reader, and to notify him that is permanent, and to the windows as of the party who for us and perhaps help us in
what all that is about particularly enjoyed the essay on What's that? The pleasure of not as them. "An act of 1532 has been ways we do not know. This is
I cannot tell you, in Ecclesiastes. One of these days I going to church. We fear our new.
At Bishop will be shocked by the num much misunderstal, many people very interesting, and reminds spite of the fact that I don't know. hope to discuss that book, too.
present I had better not, because ber of Hongkong men who indulge thinking that wars enjoyment once again that practically all the For me,
not all readers are interested in in this pleasure, who toil at gowf, Business is a howwid trade- કર્મ સ
overlooking another religions involve, some such belief light a man's property, gives a perpetual in relations, hetween the quick and Somethin lost or somethin such things, and I mustn't overdo and excuse themselves by saying that they break the Sabbath only any one department of interest. right: but all depends. The the dead. Renan acquits the Seni
Another
reader once a week. owner of the land rest door may tie nomads of it, but we doubt his
The subject of this, para- sends in prevent such lights being set up, authority. The Chinese and Japan.
some
D graph has slipped my Lut he may be abroad, awi so un-ese share this belief, our interview-
memary I forget what aware of the trespass. There is no jer ́s negative results with the local |
it was to be about. It absolute or indeffasible right even proletariat notwithstanding. It is I used to wonder why they talk in the hope that these real news. after the 20 years of went generally impossible to get suched so much about tea-teas here (a papers may interest and inspire" wasn't beer, or politics; or religion, have expired, the other parts, when people to confess their faith, where dratsen place, ma laddies) thinking Adversarius." Isn't it sweet of these challenged, having to prove his they bave reason to expect ridicule they meant teatotallers. When a lads to try to help me out in this right at common law. Incidentor to suspect that the truth would man said to me that he thought way? Now that the Onion Club ally, no one bas poupted at that not please the enquirer." The the Government could recoup its has gone phutt, I am wondering if the Bible Society's reason for exist. Romans had their manes, closely lost opium revenue by putting a we couldn't have an Adversaria eace is to circulate a book which akin to the Chinese. So have the stamp duty on tea-teas. I wonder- Club, on the lines of the Pickwick
A fire broke out in Hoipa village, -expressly forbids such tigation Hindoos. So also more barbaroused where they'd put the stamps.Club. I wouldn't expect the mem-
Further incidentally, and as to the peoples. F. C. Conybeare tells on When he went on to say that the bers to wear bottle-green coats with Chinwan, yesterday in a matshed justice of it. I should say that in interesting story of a barbarian tea-tea turnover here is enormous, special buttons, or anything like where a farmer had stored dried congested urban areas like Hong chief who, having been denverted that it is mostly gambling, and that that; but if we got together more, tras. Damage to the extent of $80 kong and Shanglui the fighting of and being about to receive Chris-a tax on it would not interfere with it seems to me we might wake up was done to property. any building should be frans and tian baptism, parsed as he was legitimate trade, I began to inkledear old somnolent Hongkong in a
While the 1.30 p.m. Star ferry. back; and that sidelights, except stepping down into the font, and that he meant something different literary and Pickwickian sense where casement has been paid for, asked the priests if in the heaven from what I thought. I asked him By the way, the lad who sends in beat yesterday afternoon was going are a mean attempt to over-reach to which their rites admitted him straightly what he meant by a tea these Canadian newspapers is a alongside at Kowloon, it bumped the the neighbouring owners. A man he would 10cet and converse with tea, and he said "A telegraphic re-incarnation of Sam Weller. The wharf, and a Chinese child, on the who tries to establish ancient tis pagan ancestors. On being transfer, of course." And I can rules of the Adversaria Club would lower deck fell overboard. Chinese lights
over the property of an assured that he would nut, be step not tell you what that means, be drafted by its members, but I employees of the ferryboat.company rescued the child without difficulty, other, in such circumstances, be-ped out again and declined to go either; but. I pass on the man's suggest for a start: haves like the hog who in a rail- any further with the ceremony. suggestion to the Government, on way carriage puts his feet on the Aristotle characterizes disbelief in the chance that it knows." opposite seat and refuses to remove the continuing, friendly interest of them when that seat is wanted. our dead ancestors as lion haphiton He has paid for only one seat. (extremely adoring. In this the Personally, I shall by way of pro old Greek anticipated Conan Doyle. test reduce my annual subscription 3 am tempted like Silan West,, to { to the Bible Society
offer you a little rhyme.
(1) No day without ite laugh. (2) Down with Humbug.
Bolshevism. Maskee. There's enough without it.
'LOCAL AND GENERAL.
--The masters of a number of pas. senger and fishing boats were fined W. H. sends in a We could have a Secret Sign, such yesterday, by Commander C. W. Beck- CANNIBALIS31 gruesome article to as a gesture representing the lift-with, RN, for being inside the prove that we are ing of a pot of beer, by which mem-Causeway Bay typhoon shelter with all animated meat.jbers would know each other. And out the permission of the Harbour He sees no objec à monthly dinner at which no one Master. Some were fined $1 each; cannibalism, and gloats would be allowed to talk anything one $5, two $4 each, and one $10.
IN QUE
MIDET.
I know this house is very nice
(I've been before you see)
I fact at night this little house Belongs I think to me.
My favourite broken toys are there That Nursie threw away,
If I can have them all at night I go without by day.
My precious doll I lost one day When going in the train,
Has found her way to this strall
And turned up once again.
house
•
And Dobbin without any legs, (I broke them one by one) Has tome along on his four stumps, And oh we have such fun! And if I want my other friends I wish that they were here, Before I've finished wishing that They all of them appear,
Of course they've all been tramping
too
And p'raps were far away, In Africa, America, ··
Or even far Malay.
They bring queer birds and animals And butterflies all bright,.. The sort of things' you never see. Excepting in the night. Sometimes they bring big cocoanuts And oranges of gold. And juicy things with funny nanies Almost too big to hold.
And then we sit down on the door. It's much the nicest séat.
And share the nuts and juicy things And eat and eat and eat.. And afterwards we have such
And play until we've lost our breath Of tag and hide and seek,
And cannot run or speak.
. Now after that we fall asleep
And dream of comfy beds, i Where we can snuggle down and
Our tired little beadi
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.”
INTERPORT
CRICKET
LEAGUE.
DANCE AT THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
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9.30 PM, SATURDAY, 12th Nov.
DANCE has been arranged in honour of the Interport Cricket teams to be held at the Repulse Bay Hotel, at 9.30 p.m. on SATURUAY, November 13th.” A`limited number of · tickets, each including the cost of supper, can be obtained from the Hong- Long Hotel at $5 per head.
Subscribers must provide their own transport. Special terms for the hire of Motor Cars are offered by the Hong- Long Hotel, for a limited number of persons only, and application for these should be made as early as possible at the Hotel's Hongkong Office,
INTERPORT CRICKET ENTER. TAINMENT COMMITTEE.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
ENTERTAINMENT TO INTERPORT CRICKET AND TENNIS TEAMS:
SATURDAY, 13th November, 1820;
THE Management beg to announce that the BEPULSE BAY HOTEL accommodation is booked to its fullest. capacity for the Ball sad Supper to the Interport Cricket and Tennis Teams, in connection with which an advertise mest appears in this issue. Ticket Holders only will be admitted on the evening in question.
"Dinners will not be served to other than residents at Repulse Bay..
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And fairies lead us gently home And tock us warmly up, And in the morning Mother says,-
Now sleepy head, wake up!”
PETER PAN