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himself as a "follow" journalist of mine, and I assure him that my last week's notes were written in absolute unconsciousness of his existence. I also swear to him that I didn't rend bis article 'carelessty" because I never read it at all. Never saw it. Never heard of it.
BE IS
POLITICALLY
MINDED
Conceive then, the amusement with which I found him
J
вет
SATURDAY. JANUARY 2', 1922.
a fool for thinking he did, but for which can only be justified by further perilof mer ly philological "ovidence," They raised their offer, twice, and at quite other reasons. I think ba muat discoveries." Now Ray Lankester Herodotus having been misled by the the last were afering me $100 more have felt that my poem last week has a certain reputation through resemblance of * bzak" and " bekkos " a month to sign on."I was flattered, made it look foolish, and that rattled playing to the gallery in the Daily and Mr. Tse by the supposed identity and told 'em en I was pleased to him out of his scientific phlegm Telegraph. His is admittedly "science of "Shinur" and China." I hope I think I was worth that to them. And That's what poems are for. That is from an easy chair." Mr. Tso' have now said enough on this matter then suddenly I got mad, realizing the merit of really good poetry. reputation is also great,
and (see my previous works, read by that I had been worth that to them Will the reader bis appears
to be science from savants with approval) to leave me all along. I accused them of cheating please mark that an uneasy pew. Lankester asserts doubt that the garden of Eden was in me out of $150 a month for years "HABITUAL here are two mei the Mesopotamian origin of the race, U.S.A., and that I don't give Adam past, and they explained that this INACURACY", (or' a man and a Tse Asserta the Turkestanian what Mr. Tso says otherwise.
was business. That shut me up, be- Įpropriating
boy) both complain-hypothesis. Both are merely guess-
There was once an English cause I know I bave never understood "compliment " ba
that ing
I bave misquoted ing. I, who dug deeper for my facts,
diplomatist of this name
However my little re- loaging to another. I was reporting them? That hurts. That was at one time fascinated by the
who said a very wise thing other on the psychology of strikes. If miniscence may have some bearing or a sort of conversation, a conversation stings. I didn't misquote claims of Africa as the cradle of the
He said the only credit he that did actually take place. The the boy, because I didn't quote him rade, but the evidence accumulated claimed was that he had always it hasn't, forget it. What I mean to I said might make a good at all or refer to him or even read until it was plain that it was in resisted the temptation to do say is that in my care there was governor happens to bo A him. I didn't misquote Mr. Tse Taan central America, and nowhere else, something which always besets one no issue of right versus wrong at all. government official, and has a chance. Tai, as I hop to prove. To a charge that the first great anthropoid became when one is anxious ab at a matter." The directors were right, as business But the egregious youngster who of habitual inaccuracy" I would truly human. I am so certain of it Some of our Hongkong men might men, and I was within my rights imagines himself a tuil-blown journa-cheerfully plead guilty, if it did not that I am willing to bet on it, and
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TOTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIO SERVICE.'
Hos LONG. SATURDAY, JAN. 21, 1912
we
A
100 to me and 30 to him. I do
not
grasp just what
game thinks
are playing, with
lead like that I
he
AN
UDKA.
feel towards
LORD
LYONS
CHINESE
WALLS.
business.
Morality is the behaviour runs of the majority, and im- morality the behaviour of This is so always sud
The China Mail reporter who wrote up that visit to Shok Pik Wai is a guod Bat if Mr. Tse Tsan Tai
Jad, well-meaning, and LET ME has the proper scientific POT IT TO temperament, as I think tells the tale well enough, but he is HIM. he has, in spite of the clearly not a scientific observer. I
know that village myself. Its wails, the minurity, no sense he writes oc is a thing that accurately misleads casioasily, probably when preccoopied, distance from the sea, ate not built aro always mixing and changing, and in my opinion, remembering its Anywhere. Majorities and minorities wen. I accuracy of statement is I do not despair of getting him to wholesome because it gives the hearer listen to resson. Let me put it to (as he rays) of sea stones, though the student of history notices that minorities grow inte majorities, and chance, suggests the nigger in the him that the Stollar Mythos people like antooth stones from the brook" vice versa, so that the morality of
they look like that. They are more woodpil, and helps bim to emell the must have been either African or
one age becomes the immorality of
a
DID I TWISTY
wall.
BEADING
Here is a fragment from Havelock Ellis that ought to interest the
THANKS.
that worst:
peculiar local include gnotation. I always quote if I can sell my Banque Industrielles, paste that up on their deska. have given him
with meticulous care and accuracy. It it be soms bet. It's a very dead premature entry into the field of is the only kind of accuracy I respect. cert as they say at Cambridge. editorial ur personal writing (instead In all other matters I am deliberately, of being snubbed by sub editora and purposely, and joyously inaccurate. editors through the usual period of There is no such thing as accuracy in probation) announces to the world human affaire, apart from quoting a that the shot was a good one, man's words for criticism. Accuracy because I chance to have a political burn of mind." Wow I hope he will let the present, governor hold the jub until he can dispense with bit and tucker. I hope also that he will acquire a little modesty (more than rat and nip it in the bud. But as my central American-the latter as I which plashes and purls by the village the next. It is evidently a process, I've got ur need) before he climbs thoughts about accuracy are probably maintain. They could not have existed There are enough left to build another law, and it is therefore unwise of political heights. This should be a inaccurate, I'll abandon then.
under the cloudy skies of China. Hau lesson to him anyway, so that if
or for minorities to be too disrespect- majorities to be toosevere on minorities, Mr. Tse Tsan Tai complains he given sufficient consideration to someday be
gete રા job оп
that I “deliberately and the development of the supra-orbita!
fel to majorities. The social flux is A paper with B big circula-
persistently tw.st and ridges of Pithocanthropus Neander- full-size community misinterpret what he has written." thalensis? Or to what Gladstone Book Club. "It often strikes me." the trac unity and the dream of the majority (that it can coerce no he will not make himself ridiculous! Leg biza No longer said in 18751 Or to the well-known he says, "how different reading is
minority into conformity) is idle and by jumping to the conclusion that to think that. That would be foolish. argument from Artemidor us regarding when one has garnered in the greater vain. The
world went on just every time the cat sneezes it is His writings ace far too charming as the disposal of the Nilotic dead part of life's experiences from what it
B3 well with thc old pagan thinking about him.
they appear for me to dream of Then there are the functions was when one was still at the sed.
morality as with the subsequent It is Luman nature to feel changing them. They make life of the Pituitary Body. What time of life. When on, is very young. Christian morals, and it guca
In an ancient grave to read is as it were to pour a con- OB DOW да a little bit irritated by the brighter for mo, and sometimes I of them?
our which is in tinuous stream of water on a parched ethics are pseudo Christian. ть cheek and presumption catch myself hoping that I shall never yard in Tennessee with which not of these convert him from grues error to the America) from 75,000 to 100 000 and virginal plain. The soil seems to morale of to-day's civilization (so
SA bursting journalistic small-fry refer to really scientific truth as I have it. He era osteo-remains have been unearthed have an endless capacity to rink up called) remind me of Grest Artist like me. I suppose 180 pleasantly. Now here are his own from round cists in the thrice-bent" the stream, sometimes with prolonged haggie.
words carefully copied by me, B this whippersnapper
manner. What does that indicate perpetual rapture, sometimes with
I desire to express my rather as Mr. Tau Tsan Tai feels about touching the colour of Noah's three What does it very clearly and plainly impartial calm indifference, endlessly,
lively gratitude to one of me, he being a great and acknow-HOUS.
indicate? I am asking Mr. Tse that, unpausingly, with never a disturbing
my readers who sent me ledged Scientific Authority, and I
"The human race consists of three Because I would rather like to know. echo. But when one is no longer (for all he knows) a wretched newe-distinct colour divisions, viz. white,
We rea! scientists do young, to read is a very different in, on loan, two expensive looking One of them baffles me paper hack, as ignorant as newspaper brown, and black. All other colours
not take any notice matter. The parched plain has, be- books. hacks generally are,
But of course are merely blenda, Intellectually
of the Shem, Ham come a luxuriant forest with lakes at the moment, but he will see I'm ashamed of it as a weakness, and and morally, the black race cannot
and streams in the midet of it. Every that I have made a certain improper and Japhet story. betray it here chiefly in order to compare with the white and brown That is poetry. Science cannot waste image which enters it evokes ancient use of it. I shall grapple with it humiliate myself by way of spiritual races.... The existence of the time on poetry. Nor do we divide visions from the depth of its waters, seriously on Sunday, and return both discipline. I now feel grateful to the Black race, with its frizzled hair and the human race, as Mr. Toe does, into and every tone rustles among the during the werk, Post's young man for an idea he has calfless legs, is one of the inscrutable three divisions based on their skin given me. Some day when things mysteries of God. They are up-colours. Professor Sollas of Oxford are slack I'll pret:nd that some fine doubtedly Hamitic in descent....
and most anthropologists (excinding oration in Council was aimed at Me. Most of the black races... are myself) divide the humans by the and I'll tear it to bits.
still ravages and of poor mentality, hair as follows:
I haven't space left for it and it does not appear likely that.
(1) Those whose hair is straight
now, but I may give one as an gentleman MR. THE TSAN castigated me in a they will ever become the equals of
Those "haunting memories" come illustration. Human nature figures. (2) Those whose hair is kinky TAI AND I letter to the China their Shemitic and Japhetic brethren in
(3) Those whose hair is wavy,
to me now, with almost every new in all our daily business, even in an
Post Office.. Mail on Tuesday. intelligence and learning..
adopted that method at one time, book I try and besides, my eyes are institution like the He seems to think I am after his appears that Almighty God has given but if Mr. Tee will take a section of failing; and over anything very serious Whenever I am anxious that a letter droop and shall be safely delivered to the right scalp but that is not so. I have the Hamitic races their black pig the hair of all three, and examine and informative I am apt
The told him before, in these cluons, that mente, thick skull, and frizzled hair them in a microscope, he will know drowse. I experience a desire to re-party, I omit to stamp it. it is my devotion to scientific truth so as to keep them distinct front all the why I regard it as no longer valid. turn more and more to old favourites. kuman nature of the P.O., causes it that compels me to point out when- other races of the world. And no Let him compare a Chinese hair (in Concerning philosophy, as the new ones to take extra pains with that letter, ever I catch him propagating un-
doubt that is why intermarriage be-section) with a negro's wool, or a
come along, I find myself murtouring
as to collect the money it thinks it truths. It's my dooty. We sciencen blacks and whites is fraught European's wavy look, and then talk, that the more it changes the more it is being diddled out of. tists have to do it. I have no desire with such disastrous results. . . .
I will also tell him something about the same thing. This is a sure for his scalp, bald as I am; but I matter how you cruss blacks and skin pigments that he does not seem sign that the end is beginning, that want to stow bm the error of his whites, the reply black is always the to know. Mr. Orme was partly right your seer is sere, and that the hunter ways. Aut now he says I'm a fool.predominant colour. Black cun sever in speaking of variations due to is home from the hill, Alackaday. And me thinking all the time that be blended and changed into white climate. But the true basis of skin But there-'cheerfulness will keep cannon's "Pugs and Peacocks," that was a family secret that had been by marriage or climatic changes.” pigmentation is subjective psychosis breaking in.” car fully kept from the harsh and
That is partly what he said on the female side. Slee Angelo cruel world.
in the Daily Press. He now says, Mosso's latest work. No, no. I shall in the China Mail, that I maintal that the
· never feel it consistent with my duty "the descendants of Shem, Ham and
MAN
This
It
I
No
THREE DIVISIONS.
are
trees with a music so rich is haunting memories that one grows faint beneath their burden, So Low, when I open book, it often enough happens that I lay it down, satisfied, on the page at which I opened."
事
PRÁCTICAL BENEFITS.
many.
A RUDE REMARK.
I have not pointed out
nature.
tha practical benefits of studying homaz
They
are
The very rudest rémark
I have ever seen in a
novel must be one I've just found in Gilbert
A
POEM.
"M. K. J likes the metre of the following. verses, and asks "may I tempt you to try cut this. metre when next there arises & ́guir- able occasion ?"
which is a study of Conscientious. That you may watch Objectors in war time. One of the THE STRIKE human nature ram-characters says Before. he knows pant in connection where he is your ordinary man is ORIGIN OF human race originated Japhet gradually developed into the as a more or less humble servant with the seamen's strike goes without married to a clothes horse with a
in America, and I claim different white, brown and black of my self-respect as a scientist) to understanding the seamen fully, and
of trae knowledge (to say nothing saying. There are difficulties in stomach."" to have proved it by 18Cus
through intermarriage, remain silent, like dumb, driven cattle, the government officials are "dark scientific, logical, philological, Biblic'imalic changes, and physical sur-
as the poet so eloquently puts it, horses" whose "form" requires more but cal, poetical, anthropological, osteo-roundings, as clearly stated in my while such intolerable heresies
logical, paleological, geɩlogical, and letter" 1
study, but the Bosses and the General ought to win. What? Smaltecofact other incontrovertible evidences. Mr.
being put forward to mislead the Public are an open book.
The What has become of Almighty people who are too busy to study for General Public is the star turn in this he started mious and hasn't yet wiped T. T. T., as is well known to the off his points. He agrees, I think, scientific world, claima that the God's intention "to keep them themselves, by analysis and synthesis, show. I am mixing my metaphors that we all usually admire a book human race originated in Chinese distinct"? Intermarriage and climate, the true implications of all the in the most naughty way, but that that supports what we wish to believe. Asia, and he has argued for it in some he says, can never change the black, evidence available, which makes
can pass in these go-as-you-please At any rate he writes: "Then one six or seven pamphlets printed locally. God meant them to be kept distinct not China, as he wilfully persists in newspapers have struck the right note no matter how you cross it, because America the cradle of the race, and columns. In my opinion all the The fact that I may bave slaps caeself on the back and saye I do not know if he knows Dr. Albert that's in his first innings. In his eaying, after I have proved him to be this time, and behaved very sensibly Faid it before is no real bat a clever chap one must be, or, Churchward's stupendous work, NATURE reason why I should not it a bit more conceited, what a clever entitled "Origin and Evolution of the second he has black "gradually deve-in error. ray it again, that bulan chap X must be, seeing that we think Rumpau Race, but Dr. Chorchward, loping" among Noah's "white or bist hobby, more alike." That may follow, or it may MD, M.R.CP., F.G.S., etc, claims light brown" descendants "through interesting than any other, more pot, crreciously or unconsciously. that the human race originated in
intermarriage" usefully informative, and coets ke The gentleman winds up by offering Africa. So now there are three of us, week were as carefully copied, and I than fretwork or stamp collecting to split a drit k with me, and begorra all scientific men, pursuing truth for It comes at une, 100.
nced not repeat them. His r. pented
HUMAN
ADVERSARIA.
nature is the
His exact words that I quoted last
and fairly, which is so contrary to He should not let any what used to be their human nature HERODOTUS false shame prevent him that I take pleasure in thumping
admitting.
them on the back, 1 do not think it mistake. I never do. Quite able is ever their proper job, except in men are liable to err, especially in glaring cases of injustice, to decide
from
Just sit tight, that's the sort of human nature that its own sake, and I bope we shall all references to the well-known super scienco. Herodotus is regarded as a which side is right or wrong. The best! and keep roler, and human nature) I can read backwards. I'm with him keep our tempers I'm sure. But it is stition that Bam was the progenitor Very respectable historian. Ho tells way (so long as the Government does
performs before you all the time And what a performance! Never! Was & "revue to equal it, or a It a thrilling masque, or a circus. pageant.
NO CHANCE
FOR BOREDOM
tre moment he names his pub.
Another not
I have been given eyes Which are neither foolish nor wise, Seeing through joy or pain Beauty alone remain.
I have been given an ear Which catches nothing clear; But only along the day' A song stealing away. Nothing about it pleases mo, and certainly not the metre.
I have been given a month That is sensitive to drouth; It feels no longer queer When full of beer.
Hobbies are devices nalist, who begins his job as a tule whore. Before coming to the real ancestor, who was not black, if their problem now,eing that man certainly men will get the best. There may be why he boasts of two eyes and only.
one ear. I must also ask him what
Which nothing can explain Of why, whithar; or whencs; But words abould show some sers
really very annoying to have men
of the black races leaves him no a story which shows that he was nothing to protect us non-belligerents - claiming China and Africa as the
from escape THE YOUNG intercoting specimen location of an event in which one has
the position he interested in this very problem that who get pinched between the two now condemns as foolish. What is at issue between myself and Mr. armies) is to treat it as a business It is too easy. If the lines are JOURNALIST. of bum..nature is a personal interest, and which one
the juvenile jour knows for sure to have occurred else is the point of giving them a specific Tee-only I should not call it a deal, of which the smartest business M. K. J's own, I must ask bias against boredom, with "too much ego in his cosmos,
issue between us, however, I must blackness etc. gradually developed originated in America, and not in no right and wrong about it, in that
China as Mr. The go mistakenly case. I once worked some years for he means by a song, stealing away aren't they Ye and "swells wisibly" as he carries on. first remonstinte with Mr. Tee for lator 3
thinks. Herodotus asserts that the come newspaper of other, and in the, a man can grow They have one on the Morning Port, writing these Words "Only a fool I w will bet him anything he likes, eldeet people in the world (that is to middle of the fourth year I suggested along the days: bored with a bobby. I've sten stamp who astonished me on Tuesday morn could believe I wrote that Noah had up to the amount of my back balance, Albers once eagerly conned ebelveding with a column and a half that a white son, a'brown son, and a black which will not bust him, any Chinay, the fitat people) were Egyptians, to the directors that I would like fifty I have been given a brain
and he narrates how ope Panin-dollars & month more pay. I didn't and forgotten. I've known fritsaws referred to me. I was astonished for son." I shall show by his own words lawyer he nominates to be arbitrator metichus proved it. Two infants demound it, or make a firm stand for thrown into the attic. But I cannot the reason that he referred to me as that he did say something like that and stake holder, that I have not were kept carefully apart from humanit, because I have always been imagine a student of human nature his dear old adversary," and aconsed Meanwhile, I will get him why misquoted him and that I bave not
society, their attendants having their tender-hearted towards employers. ever getting bored. The interest is me of attacking him again concern he thinks it foolish, Noah might misrepresented the implications of tongue ont out so that they could I supposed that if I were worth it inexhaustible. Should you through ing something he wrote the other have done it. Those old timers his own words. He must either take no ultra word. One day, when and they could afford it, I'd get it.. socdent (sucli na goiting wrecked on day." I suppose he will not take my were wholesale maniers and had this bet or withdraw his accusation about two years old, the children They were sorry, but could not see
Pending instructions from the desert island) run short of specimens, word for it that I had not (and have autholio tastes, 3 kuer a Ceylonese that I twisted" his words. He came to their keepers, stretching out their way." concluded that I Secretary of State for the Colonies, you can always turn your own human not yel) so much as seen that come lady who married an English soldier needn't withdraw the suggestion that their hands and wolling Bokkus, wasn't worth it. This proyed on zay H.. the Governor has provisionally mature inside out and study it. You thing, let alone read it. Yet that's and had one very black son, and one 1 am's fool. I admit it: I also Bekkos for something to eat. New mind, and after two or three months recognised Mr. William J. McCafferty shouldn't wait for the desert island to fact. It my stuff last week had any voly white. Now if that soldier had think that two's a pair.
the susiont Egyptian word for food more I gave them simple notice to get as a Vice-Consul of the United States | bearing on something he wrote, that lost her, and come here, and married
tied, was beak," frota which pathaps Wo somebody else, as I now had enough of America in Hongkong.*** Last week I cat was pure coincidence. But at present again, he might have had a light when oy Tse Taan Tat or me get our word “bako," nnu Herquotus saved up to buy a steeragd ticket to slogued a bit of I must conclude that it is pure brown son, night bef. As a
a tofauti was misled by the aligus elimilarity of Elsewhoreland, a country that has human nature when swelled beadsiness that made him master of, fast, which I mention In
did not know (bounded always attracted me. They waited a Except with the permission in mbusy but bekkoslule to make surs, whether I was writing of the Colonial Veterinary Arteriodit Words which bluffing of hot, and then they offered Surgeon the removal of any dog from
zeven ma tub - extra Dity to stay on any one of the followille likely, linted to refuse thom, but I had made any other of melt alistrioti in
and planning means doing prohibited (1) The land of Bob
kong, (b) Kowloon and New Howleach
do that; but there you are...
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