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in it I cultivated little plots of catage for its denizens. If Mahomet thought me mad. it would not be because of the tilling I did; but other things. For instance, he would come and
nne,
· MY
SIN.
BATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1921.
SPECIAL CABLE.
INTERFORT CRICKET.
SHANGHAI PLAYS HANKOW,
[China MeR SPECIAL.]
SHANGHAI, Sept. 23.
OUR ELECTRIC SUPPLY.
COMPLETE NEW DISTRIBUTING
SYSTEM.
they want and grant it without I judge by their newspapers that weighing a man's character. I think
more ado.
Aything short of this the Hongkong journalists do not think he has ventured this attack upon me,
In my hypothetical case is a travesty self-determina-enough. partly to draw me, and partly
they would take sides, some earnestly tion.'" because he reckors on my indulgence
No such case can be found in saying everything that came into knaning that I regard him as one of the only three editors in the Orient tell me that Cook wanted a chicken the China Ma discussion. The their heads as favourable to the Sis who happen to have any brains. It for my dinner, and though I had by "case" was, entely apart from the Fein soldier, and others (though this And 1 bet Tou he had a moral conscience to match this time peshape neared fire, mapy Irish Question, pd from how the would be rare) pleading the merits of his intellectual powers, he would be a of them plump, I would not give parties should neptiste, that a cer- the goolie's case.
but bade himtain Cabinet argment as Rentered drinks round that, having read these first-class man. He is one of those hin peculiar men who would rather be buy one in the market. They were was a glaring intance of how they dialectic frills" of mine," Roderick I a, no obliged to Random" would represent them as so friendly, I could not think of kill-should not.
In the ärst interport cricket match happy than right, and his
Shanghai versus Hankow at Hankow, idea of being perfectly happy is ing and eating then I built, also teach a man w to catch fish, pro-coolie special pleading, or some-
Grabbing at the first Hankow was all out in the first innings being perfectly Respectable. If with my own hands, out of odds and merely because Imention in passing thing like that. were to drag his past to light, ends of Inmber on the place, a bouse that it is useless peat the worm and
thought that comes for 69. Shanghai made 122. Hankow notably the periods
when for them. I do not think the Build-put the cork on thook. One would
BESETTING isn't thinking, any in the second innings made 21 Hor he backed the wrong horse for the ing Authority admired the plans, but gather from Berick" that, the
more than bolting a two wickets. The navy match was Respectability Stakes. I believe it suficed.. I can the more readily China Mail had been prattling of as a prin-
mouthful is eating. | abandoned owing to the rain. could punish him appropriately in the forgive my Fenang confrere for raking self determinston Gilbertian sense for this liberty that he up the insanity of my past, because ciple. It didn't it merely quar-Both mean dyspepsia. I may not Lloyd George's appear to pay much attention to bas taken. But I happen to like him in so doing he has revived some of its relled with
I am positively foolish argument (echoed by the what folk say to me in conversation: -I always did. I got him his job, great happiness. and taught hin his business, and I sure and certain that whenever and nuthinking Daily fress writer, quite 1 shrink from conventional replies may even have leat him a dollar. So while I stayed in that garden. God possibly the samene now writing as and small talk, as better men shrink man. Living Roderick") the "the consent of from coarse language. But I'm are I can feel magnanimous, and excuse loved me. I was a good him. It is news to me that my friend naturally, and thinking only clean, the governed" en he subjected to turning over in my mind the things limitation. Later, the China Mail they say, and sometimes surprise my and servant Mahoort deemed me wholesome thoughts
Af the tail end, of showed very clealy that it did not friends by continuing where they left mad. but I can quite believe it. Fer-
the little essay in care a bit for the consent of the off, after they have forgotten their haps that is why, after begging ine to |
which he did this governed." Italy wanted the own remark. In addition to them take him with the to London, and
-for me, he writes: wander," be
governors to be le hypocritical and that fatter, telling me what a bard "wherever I might changed his mind in Cerloa. after "Even as we write this we fancy we illogical. The (ina Mail "case" worker I am, and what a fine writer,
there. months
and got can see the whiteman mentioned was that you canot eat your, cake etc, I have candid friends. Your main thoroughfares would thank you mar seem last might be very clever or subtle or for telling him that the Hongkong him back to above, whose unconventionality and have i hat wend
has furnished us with the theme dialectical fills to a writer unable wise," one says, "but it is not what Electric Company has an improve- Malaya. I haven't had a personal have attendant ince. that
of this disquisition wagging his to reason; onnot help that. your admirem expect. Adversaris ment scheme in hand--trenches along. thought so much of.
head in protest. He is not one I can give him idas-I cannot give should be short and crisp, like the streets and large drums of cable to be deluded by the transparent him brains,mebody else says Saratoga chips." Maybe they should, at corners make the information realised just how dishonesty of words and our somewhere. It", he observes, in but you'll e'en take what I give you, superfinous-but it is not perhaps logical faculty, we remember, he a highly convetical paragraph about or go without. It's not so easy as generally took nearly three patient rents newspaper manners, including (of you think. Another one, and he's great is the improvement planned. to discover and in the end miser course) the Extanrill Gazette and the the one I must cultivate, said to me The irritable pedestrian, thinking ably failed Human nature." with poor crease the ether side last Monday, over a piat of beer: only of his personal comfort, views we hear him saying "is very story. "superluus to, call yourYou're a tremendous humbug. You the operations of the Company with much the same the world over. opponent a fod ifyou can prove him pretend to be a Tacifist, yet you are impatience, intolerant of the fact that The differences are not essential; one". Very well. I have submitted constantly inviting somebody to tread much careful thought has been they are merely exaggerations of my proofs, with the Files as evidence. on the tail of your coat." traits that are common to all.”. True, Sir. But you will admi that the dislike to manual labour is in the East indefinitely deeper seated and more general than in Western countries.
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to
THE CAP
FITS.
-NOT TY THE MOOD TO ARGUE.
This is the hit that ste the makes me Straits Echo means me, though it does not men-
! tion the name of Adverarius.
"Some years ago there was a white man in Penang who loved a garden and who loved it so much that he was not ashamed to be seen digging in it with a changkel. Be- cause of this he was held to be gilah by his servant a really generous disparagement when one considers that for a man to do menial work. when he can afford to hire others to do it for him, is to an Oriental in- explicable."
I will admit almost anything except Barring that I used a good his fancy that I am wagging my head
ain protest. Ah! No! Let him fancy I English spade.
large me leaning back, with eyes closed,
changkol,
and rever which is
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SIGHT AND MORNING.
came
SAVVY.
A LITTLE
EXAMPLE
HIG IMPROVEMENT SCHEME.
No local resident who uses ont
to the
with more
We had devoted to making the work as Seely it is all fun any. left the canteen. and were on the simple as possible, and oblivious of E WANT
wa, for our readers tram, when I said: So that's how it the great benefits that will accrue OPPONENTS fir, and afterwards (if seems to you? I'll let you into a from the scheme in the immediate WITH MORE We are sensible men) secret. My begetting sin is arrogance. future. Realising that Hongkong has forus who take part Intellectually I appreciate the virtue outgrown the present system and iat. I assume that of humility, and would cultivate it. looking to the future, the Company these other flors are not taking In the absence of sufficient really has decided to instal a complete new themselves any more seriously than candid friends like yourself, it pays distributing system. As this entails do myself and own writings. If to provoke others to tell one home laying a new network of cables, the I'm wrong, and they do take them- truths. It helps one to adjust one's present work in our main streets,
sometimes appear and heavy boe, and a lazy man's tool, faint smile lurking in the midst of my selves seriously, god Lord, that's the point of view, and get a better focus haphazard and disjointed though it that bit fits me. I do not know, and whiskers, tenderly conning over my biggest scream all. By the way, on the Worm one may have been may
worshiping. The quinine of criticism uninitiated, is really an essential part I do not suppose, that any other white memories of that garden: and dream-one of the lads (a I guess "Relim" man in Penang ever did such things, ing of the days to came when (free of to have been,sad something about is a prophylactic against the fever of of a carefully planned and exhaustive or was so much talked about because this horrid and useless trade) I may my only parpoje being to "show off swalled-head. I guess we all need scheme. Apparent delay in keeping of them, not by Orientals so much as have another such, in which to potter my own brilling It is not the it; certainly all who cater to public some of the trenches open is ex lain- by white men, who are terribly round and be happy again. Dignity first time they late used that word. appetites, writers, and preschers, and ed by technical reasons. It is natur- conventional, and visibly shocked by Manual labour? Well, maybe from Has someone been kidding them that actors, and musicians, and such, need ally desirable that there should be as anything that isn't done" by their one point of view they have sorae I am a briliant water, an exceptional to be taken down a peg" at whiles, few joints as possible in the cables as
"box. Consequently own species. But what the Siraits connection with such a garden; but I
normally intelligent chap, exercising taking himself too seriously, and Echo editor seems unable to realize is think caly of the pure joy of it. It man? It is it so. I am just a Real humilits prevents a man from every joint requires a disconnecting Here my candid friend interrupted, than one cable to be laid in some my brains insead of letting 'em this, that it never once occurred to was a place to maske poems in.
It eventide, when rust. They guld think as well, with a guffaw that made all the tram trenches-notably Ice House Street it is obviously impossible to refil me that there was anything to be:
passengers turn and look His wording suggests
that was penned, and if only they would try ashamed of.
"Blessed if you are not the limit," a trench until all the cables have been the state of beatitude that my love of gardening was strong
Chere was a case this he cried. "You do not realize it, laid.. endured for a season.
The Company's present cable laying enough to overcome my presumably
week of breach of the but you are actually getting to the I fed and watered my nstural dislike of being seen doing
peace by a foreign point of boasting-to me of your activity is the first visible sign of a scheme of extension and improve- things that other people consider animals, dined. read a little while a
IN THINKING Jailer and a ricshe humility." boolie. Apparently the undignified. As a very close student godly book, bathed and went to bed,
Now that is where I wasn't really ment on which the Directors decided with all men. peace of human nature, I knew. of course. feeling at
the morning, and police did not ee the beginning of it, thinking and he was. On reflection to embark some time ago. the sentiments with which they Then would view my performance, but with it my Daily Press, and but when they ordered the parties to I saw that he had made a sound, it has never occurred to me since the provocation of "Rodenck Rar-desist the saior peaceably walked psychological analysis. I came as siderable extension of generating plant feeling humble I'm at North Point and the laying of a Pope wants complete new distributing system in my self-conscious adolescence-that dem," an evil man that at infrequent away, but the richs coolie had nearly
In one word. "The Hongkong proper, and subsequently he opinions or sentiments of such intervals writeth evil things therein. another what at him. The police ever likely to do, people are worth a moment's con- This time of me. I sauffed over my thought, and the magistrate evidently amending sideration, in that sense. I regard morning haron like the old war horse agreed, that the coolie was the hardest study of mankind is man." the closing down of the old Wanchai them as a naturalist regards the little that scenteth the battle and sayeth Daughtier of the two. He was fined Probably. The subconscious mind is Station which has done good service creatures under his microscope, in Ahs. It seems that they will compel and bound ovr, the other only bound an elusive rascal, worse than the pes for many year idilowed by com- teresting as a study, but out of the me to argue, even when I would be at over. Now, first of all, the police of the thimble-rigger. Now you seem plete change from the old 100 volt to At the end of this year the Direc- telling the world that it considers us picture where sanctions are concerned, ease, and indifferent to all such and the magitrate may have thought to see it, and yet you don't. We all the new 200 volt distributing system.
aright. The Chino Mail headline scorn the fellow who pretends to Small Investors. In many cases this wear clothes, not because of what matters. Well, here goes.
Once in a while one writer, who haded the case "Truculent know women. What shall we say of tors hope to have completed at North RIBEIRO.-At Macao. LAURIANO must be Locllons. It is not true of the policeman would think of me if
"RODERICK of the other papers coolie," if he did any thinking about the man who pretends to know Point the installation of two new FAUSTINO VIEIRA RIBEIRO. Fame, for instance, for, there is I didn't, but because of what he
But there would do, and of the power I know he RANDOM." discloses what it supit, also share their conclusion. Well himself? neral will take place in Hongkong nothing small about me.
-poses to be the shock now. Let s, for discretion's sake, to-day. the cortege leaving Macao Ores to it than that. Inside has to interfere with my liberties. Steamboat Co.'s Wing Lo Street the envelope in still bigger type they You may say that public opinion has ing fact that on employer of the so as to inre nobody, discuss a Wharf on arrival of the s..ni Allow us to advise you how to certain powers, and so it has. But China Mail pretends to be several hypotheticalcase of similar features,
The new distributing system.com- An“ at 5 p.m. direct for the invest your money." That is as good the penalties its powers erbrace are writers. If one man really can pro-in which the parties are a Chinese as telling us that we are common not penal unless you so regard them. duce an output equal in bulk to that coolie, and isy) a Sinn Fein soldier.
sists of a number of sub-stations in which the transforming machinery suckers. These Shanghai share touts It can "eut you dead," but if you of several men, and vary its quality Here also the police do not see the
will be housed. Six thousand volt are wasting their stationery, their prefer to be so treated (except when so as to give it the appearance of beginning and we have to guess. I
current from North Point will be fed postage, and their time, for many armed with your microscope) the several men's work, most people would reas this way.
Something happened to provoke The China Mail. Hongkong men are sending in these penalty becomes à reward, and its
Apparently dogs may be taken into these sub-stations (at present six As a matter of simple fact however transparent. What is the Chinese colies suggests that it is from one part of the Colony to an number in various stages of con- be distributed therefrom to the con- GREAT that garden was great editorial "we" but another. These unusual of them to offer fight to a other now, without let. The regula-struction) and 200 volt current will
fun, and I was really too simple people, arrested by the daring white man but that when grossly tion of April 21st is repealed.
one man posing provoked, ind r.nkling under a sense engrossed and happy in it originality of in the annoyance. Meanwhile, if we
This strangement differs from the **Chipehing, 15 of injustice, they go Berzerk, have any small investors here, Ito think of anything else whatever. 28 several, never advise them to take their money to a I had a hundred dollar's worth of think of the equal fraud of and lose 11 fear of restraining an- cleared for Tientsin yesterday had to present system of street transformers: local broker, who can do for them wire netting round it, sunk eighteen several men posing as one, because thority. All my experience of Sinn put back into harbour last night and s considerable amount of work whatever these Shanghai anglers can. inches in the ground, and standing that is more usual. "Roderick Fein solders on the other hand, is owing, it is stated, to bad coul.
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- PROTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SENIOR."
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if Messza. Douglas Fleming and W. N. Wells Henderson of Shanghai persist
FUN.
ADVERSARIA.
:
ROTTEN
TO LIGHT.
would a more power to him. But let ne concede that it is a fraud, the first blow. All my experience of
much
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
23
Capt. C. M. Bygate, 2-22nd Punjabis, proceeded on leave absence to England yesterday.
The 8.8.
of
"1 which
Briefly the scheme comprises a co-
5,000 Kilowatt generators thus bring- ing the capacity of that station up to- 13,000 Kilowatts or more than double- the output of the two existing stations.
sumers.
will be involved changing over from
and system to the other. The old
Hongkong passengers from Macao last San-
The Rraits Echo,publish about five feet six above it. I put Random" is not one man, but several. that "ther fists, are ever ready fort
The annual Aquatic Sporte system, good enough in its day, is now BEGAVIUC day evening speak DRACCINO ed in Penang, which is it all up with my own hands, as That column is contributed to by knockdown blow." I have no evid
MY PAST with 'ndignation of on
an island paradise lying prelimina to dreams that were to people not on the Daily Press stafi, ence as to the really important end Meeting of the Lasitano Recreation incapable of supplying the growing between Sumatra and come true, and did. I went round as well as by regular employees This of the fght except that of the two Club take place in the V. R. C. bath demand for electricity. The Directors incident that occurred just us the
ed to install the most up to date British Malaya, where Chinatown and bought all the rabbits, explains its patent inequalities. Some-accused The coolie says the Sinn this afternoon commencing at 3 of the Company have therefore decid steamer was casting, off from the
system in existence, Macao wharf. A Chinese man came every prospect but that of the town I could find, seven white ones with times one has the pleasure of reading Feuer misunderstood a gesture of o'clock sharp.
It is estimated that the complete A general meeting of members of running up the pier. He threw his is pleasing, and only two per cent. of pink eyes. I turned them out in the a really humorous paragraph, & clever refusal and beat him. The other
The the local branch of the Society for the change from one system to another Luggage on to the steamer, and was the men are vile, where is to be found enclosure, and they made burrows argument, or even a well expounded says the coolie struck him because he climbing quite safely aboard himself, the most enchanting bathing club in all under the coco-palms, and multiplied. idea. At other times one meets a refused to hire the coolie! when two Marso policemen seized the world, and the whitest American I put in about 30 chickens and 17 paragraph or two written in undis- policeman comes and orders them to Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will will take two or three years. A start, most be pefcefal, and they behave differ be held at the Helena May Institute however, will be made as soon as the Hg and pulled him back. They had dentist that ever happened, and some ducks, three turkeys, two geese, two tinguished English,-the
use and then all new installations and idly watching, without saying a fait fishing if you know how to go Malayan deer (pelandok) one baby hackneyed journalcse-containing the ently. Which can best afford (in on September 29 at 5.30 p.m., to pass new network or part of it is ready for such old installations as will pass the word to birth, while he put his luggage about it, there, then, as I was saying, wild pig, and one male cavy or most banal comments, and betraying mente comfort to consider the the rules and report progress.
rats the authorship of a mind quite un- matter at an end 1 Obviously, the
The North Point bathing beach required test will be connected up to aboard. In pulling him away they the Straits Echo has been dragging my Gaines pig (which kept the
ed his roughly, coffing bim, and post to light, in the most impudent away). With my own hands I dag's furnished and unpractised, incapable aggressor. The one who cannot
The Company when changing twisting bis atras in a torturing way. way, putting it tipon protted record pond, lined it with day, planted lemon of anything like thought. This time let. it and there, who is so will be closed on the 20th inst, the new system.... They are a bad and eruel type of that in those days ta servant grass on the mounds of earth that I refer to two paragraphs of that sort, aggieved that he persists in the Deeply regretted. As a solatium, a Lullying Bunble, those. It would be deed me insane, and remarking came out of it, and ran water into it one of which has the additional presence of the usually dreaded police-launch runs to and from Pottinger installations from the old to the new aplesant thing to hear their squeals, editorially that this was a really from the yard tap, along pipes that I emerit of being untruthful. man in conduct that is forbidden, is Street, 4.45, leaving Stonecutters 6.15, aystem will supply a complete set of the humanly speaking the one likely to return fare only 20 cents. All public 200 volt lamps and rewind fans etc. free of charge to the consumers, tut If someone someday should treat generous disparagement." Many is the made from the split and pithed stems. It falsely presents
as the maintenance of the internat Them as they treated this inofensive newspapet fellow that has gone of areca palins. Your pet monkeys effect of 3fcétiainwritings have been least in fault. Were I beaches close on October 15,
A Chinese yesterday afternoon wiring of consumer premises" is no Chinese
for me bat. I notice that they that I had running loose round in the China Mail ideas that in na magistrate, however, I would treat
committed suicide by jumping from cart of the Company's hability and it Can nothing be done to generally wait (after the first few the bungalow went in without way resemble those of the China Maw them equally, for however unequally
and help'd me It even gives the wrong subject of the aggrieved both broke the law. protect us from: the rash experiments) until I have remy help,
It is all quite easy and simple, you the roof of No 4, Bentam. Strand is feared that many of these are in 1. insults at a Shanghai moved some six or seven days' travel to collect the eggs, the rasca. When discursion This is the passage 1.
see, but in my hypothetical case West. He suffered terrible injuries to dangerous condition, the Company de company which bomberds away. I dare say the editor of the I went into that gachneure, eventigs, complain-of-
Bhord of its dialectical frills, the police and the magistrate and the his head, and wa, killed instantane not expect to be able to make the us through the post with its adveris. Straits Echo is à bold. fellow, who is the animals us to gather round fall
the China Mail's case, apparently, headliner do not think, but adopt what ously. The man, who was 40 years complete change as quickly as origin ing inatter? In large print on its afraid of nothing but danger. I forget except the
is that the proper way for the Goy eps the obvions conclusion,my of age, had been ill for some time, y anticipated and consequently, for Envelopes it calls itself The Small whether he drinks beer by the pint ansociable
emment to negotiate with the coalie is sure to get the bad end of and lately he had been a little peculiar, sometime to come the old distributing
detwork will be kept a service. in his manner. Invertors Company. Below that it or by the glass, which macas, of Happy
Sinn Femers is to ask them what the banapa. writes our awe and addresses, plamly coure, a tremendous differencs fe uf die bigbon of an sort
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