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LOCAL'AND GENERAL,
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Confucian form of the Golden Rule, to link the name of that sang and do not seem to observe what happens brother sportsmens his heart was se and 1871, and largely determined or "Not to do to any other that you sober lady with those of Bellos and under their noses, and that some who empty, of love for them as his boat you by what you have done and would rather he did not do to you." Corelli. I cannot say I know much observe do not seem to reflect on the was of duck. Bo this sort of thing thought and been during the inter- That is a much superior version, much of her work, but I have considerable cases observed. I have known fairly happenedes de
vening years. The romantic plays more practical and helpful, then the respect for her well-known lines intoll gent msn discussing the con Have you got gon licences 1 often depend on an idea that is eloso vorzion which says "Do unto others Drink, and thy world drinks with dust of some neighbour, dismiss What ling that to do with you ?.......... | skin to the notion of New Year Re as yo would that they should do unto your
roma precious demonstration of the Do you hot know who I ara solutions. The hero, coming out of you." Because, you see, you are Borze, and you booze alone, complex human soul with some am assietant supt. of polion in Funlun. great tribulation, is going out to one novor in doubt about what you object
How do we know that? You of the Colonios, to "make a fresh How Our friends in Manila such remark as “Qucer chap that."' to, but you cannot easily decide what
UNEASY are boosting their forth-zeer? We are all the qucerest of might tell in you were the governor start. No man can, and none did, make a frosh - start. you desire. Very often all you want
coming, carnival in a queer bundles of queer thoughts and of Funlun? However, we have ever is to be let alone.
Wherever he goes be must take most energetic manager, motives. To be on intimate torms licences, and here they are. For instance, I cannot Glanc ng, through a mass of notes with any thien man is to have more But those birds. Give me those his past with him, and the
of many...
effects 'atill do to others what I issued by them, I saw & reference fascinating material for psychological birds. You had no right to shoot causes would they should to slideshow man who study than is to be found between all that kind of bird.
to be discovered are cupboarded in You demand them as a police the past. Even an infant one day old": do to me. I want some claims to have performed before the the covers of Balzac, Dickens, Wells. very rich man to adopt me. I crowned heads of the world." These Walpole Conrad, etc. But instead of officer? Very well. Let mo. first is not permitted to make a fresh, start. It must carry into its career- would that be would do that uute unesay lies about heads that war taking the trouble to make a ground mark them, as a precaution.
all the influences of heredity and me. How the devil can I do it unto erowas have been with me from work of study that will enable them: You shall not mark them.
So? Then you shall not take probably some pre-natal predisposi him? How adopt him? Very like my youth up. I once had, the to have knowledge of the humga
tions. A fresh start" is an accent ly he does not want to be adopted impression that "the crowned heads nature manifesting itself all about them... Some of theso rich men have queer of "Europe" could havo no other them, men cling to a set of rade and
Eventually, the birds were given dream, as idle as the expectation of prejudices. Then again. I want the business than that of attending shows, arbitráty conventional categories into identification marks under the wings, grapes from thistles. Not only what Boss to double my Bonus this year. I Nowadays I am moru scept cal about which they fling their specimens, and It all happened very long ago, and. I ye have sown, but what others. would that he would do that unto the truth of the showman. Anyway, so have more fancy than knowledge, may have got some details wrong, but have sown for you or in you, that me. How can I do unto him what I since the war these latter really ought more beliefs than facts. My con I seem to remember that a lawyer in shall ye also reap. Still, if you are would that he should do unto me?to vary the boast. There are so contemporary was on the right track to Funlun on, bebalf of the Amorese game to try, now's your time. Let Seems sile cimpossible. But the Comparatively few crowned heads left that this extent, that his remarks served to sportsmen proposed to charge me know how you get on. fucion version works eavily and the beast seems to indicate too small romind me that the man who has the policeman with armed robbery, most self-boowledge is probably aor something, that he wrote smoothly and surely. I don't want a business, the Boss to sak me for more than he
I followed the crowd better and shrewder judge of human demanding the return of the birds gete from me at present, and there.
on Christmas morning. nature than the man who has less. A and that the Furtun policeman replied fore I must not ask him for more than
CHRISTMAS. It led into what was common delusion, among the younger that he had discovered that the birds And all that you wish and all that The gave me last January. And I
ofice the compound of men at least, has first to be cured, the were of a variety that cou'd lawfully you do, Turn out for the best in '22. won't. I'll make it my resolution' not,
the Naval Yard, but delusion that the sufferer is somehow be shot, and that be therefore, and May you have success with the to. Of course, it will be no fault of which
different to other men, almost su magnanimously, did not propose to woman you woo. May you never feel -Wis (I Dow saw} mine if he should happen to read the site of an enormous dome. generis, "There, but for the grace of take further proceedings. I did not a nail in your shoe, or hear your these notes and take the hint.
God, go I," was a sounder estimate, hear whether the Governor of enemies' hullaballo. May you never Just a lome. The crowd came to a It will be a great thing stand under the dome. It included especially if the pious ambiguity be Furlan, who was a v ry just man resolve what you'll have to rue. May SERIOUSLY if a great many readers all sorts of people. All the church changed for a set of influences and ordered the officer to pay for the coal your Boss make a point of raising agree to give this Con- congregations were mixed up in it. The determinants more in accordance with that the police launch on the river your screw. All this good hap-be BRIEFLY, fucian rule of social con- governor himself was in the crowd, science.
buroed for his sport; but I daresay you Gentile or Jew-be yours in duct a fair trial this as an ordinary citizen. Music began.
I was intending to be did, Before acting, merely ask if It was as if the organist, had gone,
however,
Some fuas bas bo o CURES FOR suggest,
adults you'd like the action done to you.' and the great organ was thinking to RHEUMATISM that most
LOOK AT IT made during the week Before making a remark, would you itself. That kind of music. Then
must know more of IMPARTIALLY, about an adventure like a similar remark made to your from various paints in the crowd human nature than they think they
of two local gentlemen
The China Mail's New Year self? Before a neglect or omission-human voices began to ring out. One know, just as they know far less of who went to Lappa, in China, from would you like such neglect or amis high tenor sang Why are we all some subjects about which they fancy Macao, without passport or per Resolution is to re-appear as vigorous sion if you were in his shoes and coine here together ?The crowd themselves to bave knowledge. Imission. They were arrested by as ever on Tuesday the 3rd. in yours?
shouted, "Because it is Christmas have met umpteen men in the last soldiers, detained a few minutes in the
Ladies are requested to send Among the London law Day." A basso Bang, "Why do we few weeks who all think they have a guard-room, and then politely escorted. reports reprinted in the honour this day?" The crowd cried: sure cure for my rheumatism, Most back to their sampan. One, being a in their names and addresses for China Mail I noticed a "It is the day of peace and good of them assure me. I am tanked up lawyer, will know better than I do free inclusion in the Dollar SOLDIER paternity case appealed,
will among men." It all sounded very with uric acid, whatever that may be what might have happened to them in Directory. in which the judges made true and impressive, and if I hadn't Their certain remedies ranged from some other places. Even in Hongkong, awaked when I did, I.might have the juice of limes to thermal baths, I've got a vagne idea that the con- ⚫ themselves very merry
various patent salts to systematic sequences of landing without a pass and facetious, led, of course, by that spent quite a jolly Christmas. arch humourist Judge Darling. One'
Just reading Bertrand dieting. One man told me to get six port would be more serious than any of them, however, said a very foolishi
Russell's Analysis of ounces of Epsom salts and one ounce they suffered. The queerest thing to thing Point had been made that the IMAGE, Mind" So far as I've of magnesia and dissolve it all in a my mind 's that business mon, having appellant, when asked to look at the
got, I'm so impressed quart of water and drink a wineglas asked a ship's officer and a hotel clerk baby, did so, and did not deny that with it. Crammed with bank. But ful every morning. I got out a pencil if it were "sale" thus to outrage he was the father, although he had here's a sentence I like: "Travelling, and said, "just give me that prescrip- China's dignity, should seem peeved repeatedly denied it before seeing the whether in the mental or the physical tion again. I want to be sure I get with those people for answering as child. "He needn't have looked at world, is a joy, and it is good to know it right". This time he substituted they did. I would as soon ask the the baby," said one sapient Bencher that, in the mental world at least, carbonate of soda for magnesia. Isecond officer of the Macao steamer across the road to-day to their new
tra Building. "Why should be look at it if not its there are vast countries still very daresay if I pretend I've lost the what next week's dollar will do as a premises in the Alexandra father?" I don't know what the imperfectly explored."
paper and ask him to repeat the pres- question like that. Used to all sorts
There will be a Watch Light cription next week he will recommend of landlubberly questions, I suppose experience of you fellows bàs been,
To make the pointrinitololuol and carbolic, in a he politely answered as he thought Service, with hymns, at St. John's but in my own case-Gee! If I had to be papa to all the babies I have
others largely what bucket. Just now I am lashing up they desired to be answered, much as Cathedral on Saturday evening at accepted invitations to look-see. I'd
wo are ourselves on a costly stuff the zanie of which we assure a party going out fishing 11.30 p.m.. he considered a very busy man. How
another", and that's what I say Low And, according to the reporter, they You're that we think it promises to be fine. sounds something like can a good-natured. man refuse to look at the little darlings, when order
to those who ask me what I'm taking think he should be "more carcfel"! reminded in an advertisement that a for it. ed to do so? Yet for safety's sake
I hope everybody general meeting is to be held at the --- NOT· A- I don't know any cures
is now satisfied that Helena may Institute on January 7. there will have to be refusals, if that judicial dictum is to stand. It's going "esteemed" used the illustration of DIAGNOSIS for anything, thank UNIVERSITY the dishonest youth was not a University to be embarrassing, too.
goodness; and I respect **What is the apparent Ligness of the moon when your objection to looking at my seen low down, near the horizon. He very much the doctor who said to me, student. Two contradictions in each baby?" some indignant young mertioned the fairly popular explan when I asked him which of all these of the four papere should outweigh mother is going to ask. You cannotation that this magnification is due remedies is the best, "Look here, the original mistaken assertion. If not.vite their men friends."- say "Because I had nothing to do to the greater thickness of atmosphere Adversarios. Don't you suppose that take my word for it. I offer the ninth with it," or anything like that. Con-through which the orb is then viewed, if I knew of a really afficient medicine contradiction, thus; he was not a found those judges! They threaten This seems to be one of those false for rheumatiem I would take it myself? University student. It should be to make lile too complicated, if not beliefs our leader-writer was, hinting The bost thing I know is to go away obvious to the meanest intelligence no University at yesterday. Ray Lankeater has somewhere, where they have baths that
could
possibly My letter bag includes shown in cre of his "Easy Chair" I was so pleased with him that I student. a screed from a good essays that it is not magnification decided to make him a present of aa thief, no thief can be a University. as you say, my friend objected, "the
fellow who objects to but illusion, and probably due to the secret in diagnosis that I discovered student, Hongkong University, of Friends for their kind expressions of object is being achieved just the same, my front name, Hilaire. Why You'd Dearness of terrestrial objects or out-peell. I made sure that no one course, being understood. The same forthcoming Bills. One is to provide:
Why worry?"
That was 80, of Dever guess, seeing that he is óné of lines by which the eye computes size. else was listening, and said: "Look cannot be said of other universities for the enforcement in Hongkong of
I guess you shore Oxford is full of crime. I learned all courte, and I was silenced. Yet did I the good fellows. He objects because Photographs of the rising moon, here, Doe. continue to muse on the matter it happens to be Bellon's Christian showing its continuous track upwards that superstition about uric acid. About Oxford in a book called Zuleika colonies. The other is to amend the wondering whether this contrariness name, and because Belloc's book, toward the zenith, show that the seen That's all fudge. I have discovered Dobson, by Max Beerbohm, which is
constant. If the the true cause of what we call rheum not as alias or pen-name. As for for resumptions of crown lands. The were due to pigheadedness among
"Europe and the Faith," has dis diameter Guild waiters (asserting their man gusted him as it must disgust every thicker atmosphere magnified it atism. It is a large and horny Cambridge, I passed through Can-objects and ressona" will be found hood by this defiance) or whether good fellow who has an eye in his for the eye, it would magnify it also centipede which eats its way in be-bridge myself many years ago. On per hance they had merely made a head and can see what's what socio- for the camera. It would be a pity bind the shoulder blades, and then foot. And I cannot honestly go bail mistake in the doors, owing to the logically. But why ask me to change to spoil a neat illustration if the tries to chew up the bores. Mine is for its good behaviour. The road to Filipinos foregathered in the City words not being repeated in Chineas my name? He should demand that moral had been good; but I cannot now cleven inches lorg, and when it Ely bas seen strange doings. Educat Hall last night at a concert held in pass his moral, for personal reasons: grows another inch I'm going to die." ed myself at Heidelberg and the celebration of what is known as idiographs and were really conscien-of Bellou, who is disgracing it.
If my psychology, for example, bosHo laughed, but that, of course, was Sorbonne, as all good adversarians Rizal Day "the anniversary of the: tiously obeying what they understood
Incidentally, my to be burdened with all the faults I professional jealousy. These doctors must be, I never learned to steal, and death of Dr. Jose Rizal, a Filipi o correspondent is see and point out in other men, what will never admit that any cutsider consequently have missed some per-revolutionary who was killed by the careful to deny that a wretch I must be! His point applies knows any thing about their job. I fectly good chances. This lad, Spaniards in 1896. There was he bought that book, to extreme types like Mark Tapley sent my discovery to both the Lancet described as a university student splendid musical programme and dur of 1800, who sunoyed an official He writes: "I buy a good many and Mrs. Gummidge perhaps; but and the B.M.J. (both edited by merely because he lived in a university ing an interval in it the Hon. Mr. L. left after endowing by insisting on entering a door- books, but I draw the line at Ella not to scientific social observers and medicos) and they didn't put it in hostel, never attended a University Osorio, a prominent politician who is
"SORTIE," under Wheeler, Wilcox, Hilaire Belloc, and analysts, or to teachera of preach-That just shows you. der morally educational institutione,
lecture, yet he nearly got away with on a visit here from the Phillipines, the impression, as 1-learned when Marie Corelli.. I borrowed it from aers, or to policemen
goods. Sometimes The small British colony of the
native delivered an address in Spanish. AFTER Funfun, where. I spent intelligence is stronger than ac DUCKS some happy years, lies on ademtio instruction. I think I can
the edge of the great Re-understand the emphasis which the will be interested to hear that Mrs.
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ADVERSARIA
Wouldn't it be nice
ENDOWMENT if Borne rich man,
WANTED.
having a little change
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my
sure, only to have his well-laid scheme frustrated by scullions. "But if it is
to be the order. Perhaps they were
as law-abiding at heart as was the
London clerk at the Paris Exposition
way marked
ohecked.
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MY NAME.
LIBRARIAN'S
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THE HORIZON.
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that we seo in
an unsafe generalization for police men, parsons, and newspaper critica, who need not have faults in order to see them a contemporary of mine whom I can honestly describe as
is
Suppose
I stepped forward to explain, lending library to which I belong. a policeman sees almost every that it was a side show of some sort. From each book a severe printed man as a potential
1
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since
All fire and marine insurancê
offices are to be closed on Monday,
The Gazette gives the new., regulations regarding police pensions.
Mackintosh and Co., moved
Ladies interested in golf. are
“There' will be a Tea Dance at the Helend May Institute on Thursday January 12th at 6.30 p.m. for men bera of the Institute only who inay
Soffering from injuries to the head, received through a fall while attempting to alight from, a moving...... tram car in Des Voeux Road Central,
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a Chinese was taken to the hospital
The Gazette gives the text of two
maintenance orders made in other
arrangements regarding compensation
in another column,
Our readers, says Church Notes,
that £100 was cleared for the funds Talking of New year of the V.D.A. If other Hongkong folk CAUBATION. Resolutions, let's not who have settled at home would overlook the nonsenso show a similor keenness in helping tilo
criminal. It is He said he didn't want to miss any of notice frowns out: No new work of his job, and not abnormal criminal the side-showe, and he guessed his to fiction shall be retained for more than tondracies in his own character, that public of Ruritania. On the same Registrar put on the statement that Stedman, who showed such energy in I was diving in the new
be "something military:" Then at Seven days; no other work for more account for this. Until the 1ogue edge, not far away, the Amorese have this thief has not been attending various good works when in the IN AND grill room. the other last with the coffee came enlighten than Fourteen days. After eight comes forward with an adidavit to a small colony, and the two acts of any University lectures Careless Colony, has been working hard for ment. Ass! (said I to mysel). How days I received a notice (for which I the contrary, I shall refuse to believe colonials get much mixed. One readers might otherwise begin to the V.D.A. at home in England: Sho night, near the corner where the service doors often must you overlook the import had to pay twenty cents) stating that that he constantly suspecte rognery Christmas holiday, long, long ago now, think that Professor Fagin hud joined was in charge of o atall at a missionary They interfered with 31ce of Point of View? A man who the time limit for Europe and the in others I fancy that the rogue an avistant superintendent of police the lecturing staff. Well, anyway, enle in Kensington Town Hall and joyment of the really excellent Eces in at the "Out" door is going Faith had expired. It was fiction, thinks the others ard tonest, in Funlun journeyed to the river that once more nud finally, and don't you subsequently had a sale of articles bad, for I noticed that whereas out of the dining room, isn't het And then, after all. I had not guessed That liars do not suspect runs between Ruritania and Funtui, dare to forget it--the convicted lad left over frem Kensington at her own Phone two doors were plataly labelled, when he comes out of the door mark before that the librarians read the prevalence of lying seems to with intent to shoot wild duck. He was not a student at the University house in Weybridge, with the result
bras placques, IN and OUT, the edin," he is coming in, is he not? books they classify. Pat. fiction be indicated by the fact that liars are did not wear uniform, of course, be Never, Waiters habitually went in at the Perhaps that is what the artificer a mild and inefficient classification for among the most credulous of men, cause he was there to shoot duck, and 10T door and, came out by the IN intended all along. Having got this Europa and the Faith something and most easily deprived. What do it was holiday, time. When he got or. The entree and the tour and far, I realized with a pang that I much stronger is needed. I should my readers think? This is a debate there the river was bare so far as
fiah were eaton while this we could not remember clearly all that I love to read a review of it by you, if in which they could take part, both duck were concerned, and his feelings of it. Men note how seldom thess VDA. the work of evangelising the Mattained to be a rule. Subsequent
had eaten.
you could get it past the Editor."
as teachers and learners, for surely by could be correctly guessed in two or resolutions are kept, or for how short vast masses of the population of the urses were rather ignored because I
To-morrow the usual That's the trouble. He knows that this time they should know something three trice. There was a police patrol a time, but not usually the right diocese would make good progades. - watching for the possible GOOD pavement of good the mob regards all anti-superstition of human nature, 4 launch there, which he used to tow reason for the failure. They put it
There wasn't one. Always RESOLUTIONS TOsolutions will be ne anti-religion, and--he is a business
I expect every adult to his duck-boats down river and up down to weakness of will-power, and All firms clubs, oto, who went in at the door marked
" laid down. I have man. But I have already said my KNOWLEDGE be able to contribute again. There were also two Amorese they have à pathetic belief in the have not yet returned particulars and all came out ly the door resolved to malto no more resolutions. say about the queer game that Bellec AND to our knowledge of youths in another duck-boat, who had will power-of other men. There is for insertion in the Dolar
Tremarked to my com- If on the Firet you don't succeed, why and Chesterton me playing or triing
YANÇA human Nature not been after duck but found none. They nd will power that can defy the law Directory are requested to do as it was a shame that a try again? Those who do believe in to play. Before turning to something
second hand from bad bhot a bruse of plover iku bits of cause and effect. If you are fifty immediately to No. 5. Wyndham use bis Brains, to devian thus making the beginning of a new Iso, may I roptonch my con capon novelists, but first-hand from ex at the mouth of the river. The Brit years of age (you who read) the things Street Farticulars of now firma dent for his disrespectful treatment of patience. And yet I don't know fish cficial beheld thers, and though you will do and the thing you will to will be gladly received for Ella Wheeler Wilcox i It was unkind heeltate. I reflect that so many men it was Christmas time, and they were be in 1022 were partly settled in 1870 Free inclusion in' the Directory,
of avoiding collisions, yeat may be casting about for one; the survice speedy and and I would recommend to such the