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anywhere about. In the same way we men have small firing for flappers, when there's anything better about: Watch us when there is a nice widlow
is tempted to suppose that it wouldn't hurt much, bat would be like giving the man a week's holiday, which is
BATURDAY, MAY 14 "192.
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
bound to ask. At first sight, one agree with him that the paper has Too much slaves toolo cüstanı”
done wrong,
And they seem rather to despise us. The idea occurred to me that the well We are asked to remind out known lowering of temperature by readers that there will be a Musicale melting ice with salt, ought to be at the Helena May Institute on Thurs-
in the room. Lad's love is exactly certainly beyond the annoying lel
towarda cake and candy. A mature be a
TOPICAL
Meeting the word isotegie" in my
Newy,
DERIVATIONS.
Mr. R. A. C. North is gazetted a magistrate.
A
Mr.. T. M. Hazlerigy acts
Hon. Mr.S. B. C. Rostis gazetted: O. BE Messrs. de Marin and de Rome are M. B.E
the same as a small boy's attitude low's deserts. That, however, would reading this week (a chemical term) useful in my ice-box, perhaps | day May 19, at 5.35 p.m. -
superficial-and. erroneous fait occurred to me how few people, save ice, "and" keep my butter} lover treats a woman as a connoisseur
cluding journalists, realize treats a work of art, as a musician a that the kubek, being the incident of of the words topic or topical. We the members of my household that I Stradivarius, a yachtsman his racht, a moment, would put the man into speak of general topics," which is almost a contradiction in terms.
wanted the ice-box sorked, and the ' or a pious old woman her bible. the middle of next week while leaving The boy's is all sighs and tears and the knocker in this. Very well for topical is derived from the Greek ice packed with salt. They looked at me pityingly. but obeyed. E! wishes, the man's all faith and service, The state of the knocker being normal. tapos place, and means place or local fortunately, the better to observe the Assistant Land Officer during the knowledge, observance, competence.and of the knockee abnormal. it
results of this curious innovation, leave of Mr. Jacks, Lad's love is Salvation Army corr-follows that this week's normality
they left the hd open, saw the ice hanties; man's the dignified art of would carry on. The victim would A good illustration of how original rapidly decompose into brine, and the old Church ritual "The bart starve to death, being out of reach of meanings get lost is afforded by the concluded (perhaps correctly, but on and ridicule of every boy with hair," this week's food. He would not be volume of Dalrymple's charts, known wrong grounds) that I was an a indeed The lady poet evidently able to eat next week's meals, because as The English Waggoner." some My little experiment failed, for lack studied my pictures and supposed me the chicken for next Wednesday's times referred to as the Quarter Wag af sympathetic service. a senile thing Aht-If-only--Mes. lunch is still living and in this week goner-Baron von Waggenaer pub Adversarius were not so suspicions, the eggs for next week's breakfasts lished an early series of charts, and how soon I could make the poet like are not laid red (though some will from his name we have derived the me better than her boy. And that by query this) and next week's fish are misleading allusion to country carts no wiles ihatever--but just by innate not yet caught. There are other while "quarter" is a corruption of superiority. The boy is lemonade. differences between this and next quarto. I am Fizz
week which it mar amuse the render' to work oas. for himself. It can be, done by mathematics. 。
GOVERNOR AND CONCESSION
HUSTERS.
I don't agree with our Colonial
Secretary when he says that some
A MEAN TRICK.
HEADGEAR.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE.
Messrs. Y. G. Staten and H. St. FMiller are now recognized as American vice-consuls,
Mt. T. W. Ainsworth takes the
You can see for yourselves bow close the analogs between Chinese duties of Assistant Colonial Treasurer servants and public servants. They and Assistant Assessor of Ratcs. both mean well, but they have no real respect for us,
Fat the purpose
13
Mr. R. AC Neath will act as-
I required half a dozen fower pots ton takes short leave to Shanghai of experimenting with certain seeds, D. O. Santh while Mr. E. W. Hamil and asked my bor to bay them.
•
I have been appealed to in the hope that I may be able to settle an argument about bats. What is the In a reat dispute at Kowloon, it wisest headwear for Hongkong hot interest, and meant well, but I'd Guthrie has been posted to the river realize that he used his brains in my Surgeon-Lieutenant H. A L statements are so transparently. false turns out that a mean person has weather, hat, topee, terai, cap, off rather he had listened more attentive-steamer "Rotib," China Station.
gone to the landlord of certain straw? I can answer right off, and that no sensible person would pay any premises and bid Sio a month more honestly, that I don't know. Likely to my wishes. He bought pots This officer was recently serving on attention to them. He does not know the public as I do. It will than the present tenant para. There most other men, I have experimented with palms in 'em, and explained that the "Hedla, torpedo depot ship, swallow almost anything, and I was has been a great deal of abuse of and have more or less settled down palms are better than the plants Chatham. gisd to see in Tuesday's China Mail profiteering landlords, some of it to the double terai, with wide brim wanted to grow, because long time
can look see." My household constant- Major Chapman, Staff for RE Ltd. so emphatic an official contradiction deserved: but let us net overlook the I do think we need extra protection
of the mischievous and damaging dirty dogs who thus tempt them to report (emanating from and repeated do it. However argently one needs in Canton) that our Govenor was a bouse, it is not playing the game trying to get the Peking Government to overbid an existing tenant. to ratify the Cassel coal concessions
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May 13 Francisco Xavier de
A CANTUN INNTENDO,
against the sun, and the fact that thwarts me in this way. They are Services, and Lieut. C. E. Dodd, some men take no care at all. and doing what they consider the best for RE, left Home on the 29th April wear what they would wear at Home, my interests, and they will not allow by the s.s. "Delta," for duty with the proves nothing more than that skulle any real say," Just so with local garrison. Major Chapman i
nur official majority. are different. Some men would not get sunstroke if they went bareheaded. Others get it easily and quickly “touch” myself, and now
THE MUNICIPALITY IDEA.
Mr. Pollock mentioned the existence
relieving Major Walmsley, who i leaving for Home about the middl of June,
I
The War Office announces that
in Kwangtung The British Minister
The Canton Times this week had was credited with the same thing, butį
a note saying that its reporter "i've had that's different. Hongkong's Gover following in the footsteps of Adver- I take care. But no helmet is an of people who would rather have a owing to a sudden rise the Tigris las ror is independent of the interests, satis much to its editor's regret. absolute protection. You can get Municipality than ab unofficia burst its banks sweeping away the and es in an orbit far higher than This is clearly one of those cases (well it through the back, or through the majority on the Council. The argu- railway between Kut and Bagldad the concession bunters. It is desir-known to reporters) where the editor eyes. If a toper be your choice, defy ment that our Legislative Council is at four places and necessitating able that this should he made clear is an ass and the reporter a man of fashion and save money by wearing practically nothing more than a closing for repairs, for some lays. to the Chinese, and even to a few discerument. The Canton reporter one of the very thick, light pith ones glorified municipal Council is good. Nevertheless the transport of troops- Europears.
is said to have had a "full load on.
of native make. A heavy topee is as and very true; but the sound, argu- to India is proceedin, smoothly. Load of what?
bad as supstroke. A great deal ment against having a Municipal
MISSIONARY MORTALITY.
THINGS, NOT GENERALLY KNOWN, That would make a good headline
depends too, on how much you are Council is the corruption it would The Hongkong Chinese lawn''- for a newspaper column. but unfor An American missionary at Peking out of doors during the middle of invite. I need not go into details tennis players who are representing tunately newspapers do not asually W.G.Lennox, has written a book about the day. It is unnecessary for a about Municipal corruption at Home. China in the Far Eastern Olympaid know enough of the things not gen- the health of missionary families man who is not out for hours under All who have taken any real interest in Games in Shanghai fext month, will-.. erally known to fill it. For instance, ask in China. He reports an excessive the vertical sunrays to bother about public affairs know how it works. leave for the Northern Settlement your neighbour at the dinner table loss of life among both children and it. Any sort of hat should be right or need I call attention to municipal by the sa Wenatchee The team whs: he or she understands when adults, and observes that, as a rule for him, except-a-silk-bat. Even corruption in other crown colonies will include the Colony's singles Ophelia tells the Queer she may the lower the inissionary's salary, the the stock brokers don't wear those You only need to think it over to champion, Ng Sze Kwong, and W. wear her rue "with a difference." larger the number of deaths in his except when getting married, and see that an elected municipal council Lek Wei, M. W. Lo and C. Choa Difference is a term in heraldry, family. At first I was shocked, then only for joss, otherwise a mark of cadency," thinking he was suggesting infanti- indicating family branches. Ophelia eide, but then I saw his explanation,
EASY WITH THE BUTTER.
The Times Trade Supplement
here, discharging municipal functions, would invite more corruption than exists at Home. With an unofficial
tioning under the eye of the Governor
was the betrothed of the prince, and that the lower paid men get, fewer for March 26 rather gives the majority, publicly elected. but fune aut at the London Branch of the.
SOME. BENTS
RAIN GUAGES.
KOBODY CARES: “
Mr. W. M. Blackie, known to- many Eastern residents as the account-
Charles Addis, the London manager. Hongkong and Shanghai Bark, has recently retired. On March 31 Sir
presented to Mr. Blackie in the name- of the London staff, a souvenir in the- form of a cheque to which all bads
subscribed. Mr. A. Moncur succeeds
to the vacancy created by Mrs. N
Blackie's retirement.
The Filipinos have very sensibly -
по
so in the direct line: the queea as holidays, and attempt to live on butter game away. The Common- and officials, we would be safer and wife to Claudius wore the difference Chinese food." What's the matter wealth Dairy Produce Pool Committee, better off. of the cadet branch. The herb rue, with Chinese food? I consider it in conference with the Government, by the way, was called the "herb of the best in the world, and there are has decided to carry on until Septem grace" because used for sprinkling very few countries whose diet I have bar 30. controlling" butter. The holy water on penitents. It has been
not tried.
basic wholesale price for first quality Having said all I can think of at discovered that mosquitoes will breed
butter in the producing State from the moment, on the serious political in holy water.
The recent heavy rain brought to April 1 ia la 9d. per ft. Oversea side, let me remind you once more export, except to the East, is under the why I am hopeless, or "inclined to my mind the contention of some direction of the Committee. Why lose heart," in this connection. Our vetoed the Marathon event at the Blocks of city property changing meteorologists that ordinary räin hands lead to eceer dicoveries te guages catch and measure too little are we, who pay nearly three times local trouble, due to the pecnEar Shanghal Olympic. There is garding rents. Shops in Des Voeux rainfall, because the wind carries that price for it, excepted? It conditions of the place, is that there excitement in watching weary wen are not enough people who really home at the end of a twenty-five- road now paying $300 a month rent away drops that would otherwise fall makes us darkly suspicions..
care. Most people do not regard mile race, and the competitors only are asked to pay $1500, an increase into them." This has always puzzled
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORSL
Hongkong as a permanent domicile. get a strained beart for their trouble. of $1200 per month! I proffered theme, ever since I came
RCTOSS it.
Why is Constitutional Reform like Sooner or later they intend to leave, There is just as much sport in shorter suggestion that this was obviously Wouldn't the same wind, that blows the hippopotamus in Hongkong so they cannot really care. Many of contests where the utmost effort can s way of getting the tenants to go, some drops away from the guage. Museum? Because it is staffed and those to whom Hongkong is a home be put forth without the contestants "Marathon" the new purchasers requiring the blow others into it that otherwise dead: because it is prominent in the town are too well off under existing injuring themselves. premises for their own use: but was would not have reached it? window but never goes anywhere conditions to care. They have no was rather an ill-amened name to because it is of an inferior species personal grievances or hardships, so original Marathon runner, fell dead have at all, for Pheidippides, the told that this wasn't so. They say that the Banks pay rents like that,
anyway, badly taxidermised, and we'd they do not care. The majority of as he arrived in Athens, and while and that the new landlord knows be
rather have an elephant with tusks the people who do care are those for his end was glorious and provided can get a bank to take the premises.
because it is periodically dusted; but whom the C.R.A. has no use, and Browning with a subject for a fine whom it does not wish to be enfranchis-ballad, there is nothing romantic in of speech. Sydney Smith tells however quite clein.
That's for the frivolous, who are ed. So there we are, and what's cardiac valves which do not function at Sidmouth in 1824 there was a great The beavy rains, according to the storm, causing a high tide that always with us. Now for a few plain the use of taking the matter too properly, and dying at the post in an reporters, flooded new Government threatened the houses, Dame. Par ideas, none the less serions because seriously, or getting hot about it? athletic contest is mere foolishness. a homely way. Reading I think this represents the feeling of It is said that the Shanghai committer quarters and caused landslides attington, whose house was on the put in various points. None of them roti-beach, was seen at her door with a some of the speeches at the C.R.A. many residents. When, as now,we is devising a short Marathon.
would be better to drup the name and”. have a grievance which touches prac- ced, what I did on Tuesday morning, mop and pattens, trying to sweep meeting, I was moved to quote. that the water in the harbour had back the Atlantic Ocean. "The At
“Sick am I of idle words past tically all of us, in the housing and call it a Tram Strike race, says the
Japan Chronicle. all reconciling.
rent question, and we see our un- risen three or four feet. Three or lattic was roused; Mrs. Partington's four feet, and the Observatory spirit was up, but I need not tell you
Wards that weary and perples oficials, some of them champions of constitutional reform, let the extra that the contest was unequal The and pander and conceal people talk of inches
Atlantic beat Mrs. Partington. She The China Mail leader yesterday house tax pass without protest, while. was excellent at a slop or puddle was plain enough on one or two points, kicking up a fuss about fairer duties Tuesday's China Mail mentioned but should never have meddled with a but it did not attempt to cover all that affect only sectional interests, the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
we (the common people) are bound to feel sceptical about the C., R. A Or take their wires if they abroad A. Morris, and said what nice people tempest." I thought of this when the ground
reading Mr. Thomas Partington's they were, etc. I daresay they are, lecture before the Royal Colonial
Until suspicion takes a moment's
sleep. Boldness is answered by a fellow-wink
Figueiredo eldest son of Mr. and / Adventure by a view of life rose-There must be money in banking.
Mrs. Eduardo J. de Figueiredo, cf, Messrs. Hughes and Bouth,
ased .15 Hongkong,
Fears. Deeply regretted. (By cable)
The China Mail.
"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE, “
Hovezano, SATERDAY, MAY 14, 1891.
ADVERSARIA.
I AM SUBDUED.
Sat. fellows! The next time I try
pink:
His laugh at folly is reserved for
friends
Until the whiskered salyr wins. his
ends.
Sometimes he takes cold wisdom
HEAWATER
Or finds Diana tangled in his enares: His greatest hart to fall in his own
spare
The butt and ridicule of every bay
with hair. Bald-headed, whiskered 'men should
stay at home
would roam
HEAVY PAISs.
SILVER WEDDING.
PARTINGTON.
Mr. Partington in English litera ture was an old lady of amusing affectations and ridiculous blanders
C. É. A. TACTICS.
programme. One of their arguments was that
to get gar with a lady poet, renand Love is for youth; let age give youth but I know of one unkind thing they Institute, and could not but conclude we must not ask for too much, lest
me to take an umbrella or an armour-
its treasure.
did. They invited a friend of mine that the Colonial Institute is only el car or something. I am feeling as And smile indulgence; it has had to dinner, and he, hitherto a happy her puddle where valuable or we get nothing. That by way of
theek as a July icecream left on the
its pleasure!
TOO ROUGH ON ME.
kitchen stove or a Persian cat in this week's rain. Breaking the news
That is the very first time I have gently to a lady poet last week that a poem zabmitted was not quite suitable, been called a whiskered satyr." I got a bit fresh and requested her and it burts like being asked to lend money. I may suffer chronic whis
THE ELPROVING POEM.
Bald-headed, whiskered men are very
BUT SIGN THE PETITION.
WHY.
IS THE DEVIL CALLED "OLD NICK?"
It
The Lord "Nick," so often applied" to His Satanic Majesty, comes to us. Nevertheless, sign that petition. from the Anglo-Saxon Nicor," the camouflaging their own compromise and contented bachelor, having their useful knowledge of China is .con- with evil, which alienated some who Encourage all or any agitation likely water spirit, a name which is fold happiness thus flaunted in his face cemed. Mr. Partington's paper was would otherwise have supported them, to awaken those at Home to the fact in asimilar form in Germatt, Swedish,
sloppy..
that things are not right here. If it Danish and Icelandic. Its prevalence Events have proved them does nothing more, it will make ship of the water deity was formerly They asked for less than we wanted,
is now unhappy and discontented. That is as bad as when a sceptic dis turbs & believer's faith.
RENT PROFITEERING.
+
shows the extent to which the wor-
for
ALTRUISK ON BUNËUM. It amounted to this, that Mr. and they got nothing, unless a flat bureaucracy more considerate of us carried seas, rivers, and lakes alike Partington told the Colonial Society and reasonless refusal is something more heedful of our needs and wishes, being worshipped by all Aryan to ter her hand at a poem explaining keritis, but where ladies are concerned. I have been shown a letter from that the Pagoda tree, heavily laden Having reached that stage, the and the time must come when con nations.
OF stitutional reform-real reform-will
Jale years the respect why but the best lovers. Biff I'm no satys. I am and ever have the landlord of a house newly acquired with silver frukt, was waiting to be should now give the whole hoggers become inevitable. The Time Spirit
bakl-headed sad bewhiskered
the Devil apppears to Did you ever step on a garden rake? been their most devoted and obedient. by him, which informs the tenant that shaken. He gave the impression chance. It is just as sound an
„have wased materially, and especially in ancient times, the powers of evil Well, that's what I got. This poem am by habit Quixotic where Dulowing in the increased house tax, the of 3 China, choked with silver argument, as an argument, to copy and the World Ghost are with us.
were treated with a great degree of following caught me night on the cines is concerned. I'll admit that rent will be ten dollars more a mouth hungry for British goods. As his the Chinese bargainer, and ask for
reverence. Thus the Greek Furies. thin, and but for the protective hair, I do not admire Diana, and if I ever The tax does not apply till July. The presumed right to speak at all would more than we want in order to get
night have broken my ankle.
the avenging deities, were named found her tangled in my sare" higher rent was charged for June. The be his commercial experience in Hong- what we want. That works in prac I'd have to think up some way of tax increase in that case amounts to Long, one wonders why he should be tice. The C.. R. A. argument failed.
Eumenides, or the "Well Wishing A serious unrest prevails among Ones, and in the Book of Jude, in the avenging poor dear Orion, whose only six dollars. Nett profit to land there, wasting time in talk, urging in the result, So let us demand a only fault was that he could not help lord for June and July, $14. Is that others to come and gather what he big unofficial majority in order to 35,000 workmen of the naval arsenal Bible, we read that: "Michael" the loving her. Ladies were meant to profiteering or is it not? The Govern- might be bere uthering himself get a little one, and the fullest of at Kure, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, archangel, when contending with the be loved, and good lovers should not ment should hurry up with its Bent It looks like a case of remarkable franchises in order to get a fair one. in consequence of the proposed re-devil, he disputed about the body of trenchment of the naval expenditure Moses, durst not bring against him for the next fiscal year; says the Asahi, a railing accusation, but said,The "There is a sense of unreality" The paper reports also that, the Lord rebake thee" A homely and I think this lady poet must be very, One man getting angry with another Observing diplomatically that the about debates, subject to an official officials of the arsenal are considering rather amusing instance of the desire very young and inexperienced, to threatened to knock him to China Mail is known throughout the majority. Sure thing. It is like the abolition of the monthly bonus to stand well with the powers of darkness is-given-rin Conway's sumplaid be. soothes with imagine that in the courts of Cupid the middle of rat week Apart East as a clean and hard bitter," this. The official majority con- for the workmen. Practical measures personalogy where the story is virtuous talk
boys are better than men. "Love from the question of prac- man in Penang writes asking for an aists of public servants pins an In- of the retrenchment of naval expenses told of a Bamosbire mother who Till she behaves he loves life's name is for youth, she says, but that'nticability would it be a kid Adversaria paragraph about a griev- terest or two It occurs to me that were to be put before the conference of asked a friend if she made her
wakk
calf love Larve is for maturity, and thing to do? How would it affect the ance be ha pesmet a newspaper public servants are very like private naval arsenals which was to be held on children bow when they mentioned The wily maid's beset by wiles more the wise woman does not bother with man-so knocked? These are goes there. In the first place, it it servants a vé khow them out here May 2 at the office of the Navy the Devil's name, adding solemnly
Li dan-Ethink it's saferi. not study our that enough anaw apprentice it then a 3 migger tour ye, not Being in a temper, me | my best," and the second I don
bad:
Simplicity and hinir rests with the
hd
Though he's no art to cover his bald
pate,
Yet every other art it hears as freight.
be shot with aruNÝ.
BEARDLESS BOYS.
Restriction, Ordinance
"QUESTIONS FOR LISSTEIN,
altruism. Or bunkum
OIF-HY BEATS,
WASTED EFFORTS,
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