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CREW OF JAPANESE WIECK SAVED BY THE C. N. S. "HUPEN" IN HEAVY
WEATHER
THE TRAVELS OF TIADATHA
(BY OWEN RUTTER.}
Author of "The Song of Tiadatha." Tiadatba, demobilised and back
THE CHINA MAIL.
DEAN INGE ON SUNDAY
AMUSEMENTS.
HEOREATION AND WHAT THE LEIBURED CLASSES MIGHT DO.
THROUGH BEDROOM WINDOW.
HOW WIFE'S: UNFAITHFULNESS WAS DISCOVERED.
FOR HONGKONG'S
PRENDERGASTS.
MIXED SOCIETY.
committee and a man who will have Prendergast, one of the tennis elab his finger in every pio, called to see Algernon one evening, and I was prn-
sent at their conversation.
"I ace," said Prendergast, "that you'vo proposed a certain Bellamy for the club. Can you tell me who ho is?”
Alg.inon said that ho seemed amo t decent fellow and that his people had taken that tense with a pink garage on the lower road.
What a neighbour saw through a Dean Inge last month wrote the bedroom window led to an action for following article on Sunday amuse divorce by a husband, Mr. Levi ments in a London evening paper:Bartlett, of the Brandway, London A certain Dean in the South of Fields, Hackney, who charged his England-one of the Deans who are wife, Irene, with misconduct with a invested by their cathedral statutes man anknown. She did not deny it. with independent power, unlike the Mr. Bartlett said he was in the older foundation, such as St. Paul's Army at the time of his marriage in -bas recently given leave to the August 1916, and lived with his wife cathedral choristers to play games on at Lowdon-road, Horne Hill, where Bunday between the services. Most they had a flat. When demobilised people approve of his action; some, in June 1919. he remained with his however think he was wrong. Those wife until he discovered what she had "I know that," said Prendergast, who approve are the large class whe been doing during his absence in the "but who is he? What are they !" think that innocent enjoyment should Army, and then left har.
Algernot rather flippantly, said he always be encouraged, and the After these proceedings were com-didn't know whether they cameover
the Romanising faction in the Church of menced. wile wrote to her with the Conqueror or not, but they England, who admire the Contine: tai busband's solicitor a letter in which looked like people who paid their Sunday. Those who condemn the she said: Dean are those who value the old } As the man with whom I committed Purilor tradition.
a misconduct is now deceased, I regret I am usable to give you his ns no.
Sidney Rousby, who lived in a flat below Mrs Bartlett, described how one evening in August 1919, on look Bartlett in bed with at officer.
taxes.
"Are you aware." said Prendergaat sternly, "that it's the Bellamy!"
Algernon said he might fairly be called that. He had got through two rounds of the singles at the Northern Tournament, and when he did get his
"Pahan!" eaid Prendergast. What's his father?"
The officers and crew of the C.N.S in London, finds that life is changed seven days? If the ancients had had ng through the window e saw Mrs. first serve over nobody could take it.
"Hupeh," which arrived at Shanghai on August 9, from Dairen, bad an exciting and strenuous day's work on August 8 in effecting a gallant rescue of the officers and crew of the Ja "Shinyei Maru,” which in the early hours of the mor- uing they discovered to be aground on a sandbank on the south side of the North Channci entrants to the Yangtze
panese steamer
and that he is restless. Finally, after a quarrel with Phyllis, he takes leave of Woggs, his soldier servant, and Gladiator, his bull terrier, and leaves England intending to visit his friend, Percy, in North Borneo, and thence to travel on round the world, Written in the rhythm of the familiar Hiawatha," readers of "The Song Hapah" left Dairen at noon of Tindatha" will welcome bis further on August 4, with a cargo of coal for adventures. Shanghai, and on August 6, without There are some who know by instinct having actually oncountered the full How to dominate o tes fight, strength of the typhoon, it was. Some who know by intuition, deemed necessary for sal-ty to find a How to mend a broken engine; safr elchorage, the steamer therefore There are some who take to travelling eutering the North Chanel and drop. As a fiapper takes to fox trots, ping anchor west of Drinkwater Point Know the little things to see to at 4 pm. The "Hupeh" remained at Know the little things for comfort, anchor there until Auguet 8. and after Know the palms to grease and tickle, making one attempt to face the storm That the journey may run emoothly again resumed her journey to Share That the voyage may be untroubled; hoi. Shortly after 5 s.m. she righter Such a one was Tiadatha. a Japanese steamer, lying come wiles 8 he hied him to his cabio, to the southward and flying signals of Soon disposed his goods and chattels distress. The "Hupen" get as close to To the very best advantage, the Japanare verrel as her own safety Took his share of draw. rs and cup permitted, but could get no nearer than within two miles, as the stranded steamer was on the sands in shallow
water.
A FIRST ATTEMPT TO RESCUE.
boards
Ere his cabin-mate could pinch them Found and tipped his cabin steward,
Promised like remuneration It he did his job with credit, One of the "Hupeh's" lifeboate was Tracked the barbor to his sanctum, then launched, and with Mr. Robert Made a daily date for shaving, Harper, chiel officer, in command, Bade the deck-steward find a corner, sccompanied by the second officer and Choose & qui t, sheltered corner, a crew of five Chinese cailore, made For the chair that he had rented, over for the strausted ship. The ap. Then he sought the bathroom stoward, proach was io shallow water and surf Put kie panelowa for eight-thirty, on a sandy bottom and it was found Ere the list was choked with others, impossible to get near enough to the Bad a word with the chief steward, ship to effect i rerene without risking And arranged a place at table,
Far away from missionaries, the destruction of the lifeboat, By this time the "Shinyei Maru's etern Got acquainted with the pureer, posta and rudder had been broken Handed cash and valued trifles, and had disappeared in the sand, and To the keeping of the parser. she had lost her anchors; she was Ran to earth his cabin-fellow, also rolling considerably and there Hoping he was not & bounder, was a danger of her breaking up at
any time.
Found him quite a cherry sportsman.
Found that he had been a yeoman, Acd was making for Malacca, The "Hapeh's" lifeboat then put Had a dry Martivi with him away into deeper water, and in the meantime the Japarere st amer laun Asked which bank he'd like to sleep ched a flat bottomed boat of the Played a band of poker for it "scow" type, with the chief officer Won and said he'd take the upper, in command and four Japanese mem-Feeling life was not so dusty.
⚫ bara of the crow. A consultation
was held between Mr. Harper and the Japanese officer, who was taken on board the lifeboat, the latter stating that he could show a channel
Para sa ma
THE KIND WORD,
I
The question depends so much on bistory that a bief account of the ori- gis of Sunday may be interesting.
What is the origin of the week of telescopes and had discovered Unanus and Neptune wo might have had a
Conce, Mr. Tyndale: Had you week of nine days; thungh as they been asked to keep watch -Witness: could not have failed to find out that No; but I was suspicious. I lived in that the earth is one, the number the officer take off his brots; then the sun and moon are not planeta and he fat below Mrs. Bartlett, I heard might have been again reduced to got a pair of steps, and getting sight. The Babylonians introduced on them saw through the window the the week, dedicating the days to the officer and Mrs. Bartlett in bed Venus, Mercury, the sun and the saven placets" Faura, Jupiter, Mars, together. moon. From them it spread to Egypt, Westera Asia, and Eastern Europe. The Israelites probably took it over from the Amorites, but the emphasia on the Sabbath was their own.
Had you seen the man before — Yes, he had stayed there for a fort night before.
A decree nisi was granted.
Alge ron said he believed that he
was some kind of provision merchant.
*Pr. vision merchant" said Pren-
derrast bitterly. He turned to me. "Do you know who he is? Ho's the multiple tripe-shop man."
I tried not to look startled, deter mined as I was to be loyal to Alger. non, to fullow his lead. "He remained calm Tripe is it?" he said. "1 don't take it myself. I couldn't face it. And yet I've wondered sometimes if I'm missing something. Men at Oxford speak of it with enthusiasm. You see it comes into the movement. plicity and hat kind of thing. D'you The return to nature, you know ; cim-
Ber any barm in-la
Prendergat guached his teeth slightly. Even if this young n
The Greeks in classical times knew the Times to say that he hoped that Romans, as early as the reign of tinued, since it was "as disploasis g to nothing of our week; but the the practice would now be discon-
Augustus, were quite familiar with it, myself as vice chancellor and the and many superstitions pagans ob other beads of oulleges as it has now served the Sabbath, as several been proved to be to Almighty God tries to escape from a bare by pleading writers of the period tostily. Horace and all other right thinking persons." were prea-ntable," he said, that "it is the thirtieth Sabbath." and that he does not want to insult the Jews by exerting himself on that Folemn day.
a
"Are
failed, and Sunday travelling is firmly be kept out? And they probably eat The campaign of the Evangelicals about his parents? How could they
established. One by one, all the taboos peus with a knife, fell into discredit. Bioycling, water "What" said Algernon, parties, golf, and tennis became more you poing to start lunches at the THE PURITANS' ATTEMPT. and more common, though cricket club? No! Well, I never heard of In the early days the Church was has hitherto been contided to wee' pess to afternoon tea. That's a new obliged to find religious roles for days, and few who call themselves, ides to me." regulations were gratuaily made more theatre on Sunday. Picture gal- aspect that Algernon was not taking Sunday, continues the dean, these Christians would play cards or go to I could see from Prendergast's
stringent, and the Fourth Command lesies and museum have gradually the conciliatory line, and I thought it well to intervene. "Come, come, ment began to be appealed to as opened their doors. deciding how Sunday should be spent. Meanwhile the working class which Prendergast" I said, “this is a Thomas Aquinas, in the thirteenth as I have said, was mainly responsible democratic age. There notions of ours century, makes himself responsible in the early centuries for the establish- | (I thought this was fastful) are a bit for the unfortunate statement that meat of the Christian Sunday, began antiquated. Aud to the philosophic the Christians have taraferred the to insist on their weekly day of rest. mind, you know, this distinction be observance of the seventh day to the During the Great War Bunday work tween wholesale and retail trade is first day of the week. But this could not be avoided; but even the pot sound." I struck a genial note, rigorous interpretation да not. employers were glad to go back to but Prendergast was sulky. "I may observed, at any rate by the large the old rule, and it is very luclikely be old-fashioned," he said, “but I, majority, until the Reformation that shops and factories will ever be think gentlemen should consort with Sunday travelling way not forbidden. open on Sunday in this country. gentlemen." nor any amusements except the theatre and dancing, and it sarme that even this prohibition was frequently disregarded,
-A FEW, CONCLUSIONS,
From this lasty, survey a few con- clusions may be drawn -
"Bat Bellamy's quite a nice obap," said Alg rnon.
Would you introduce him to Miss 1. Sanday is a man-made instirn-Morton-the Honourable Miss It is quite a mistake to suppose that tion. The Fourth Commandmen Morton ? ''
the early Protestants were strict Sab- has no direct bearing on Christian batarians. On the contrary, Sunday practice.
was in danger of being practically abo- 2. The experience of two thousand io,lished on the Continent. Work was years has shown that it is wine and done as on week days; amusement beneficial to set apart one day in wre indulged in without stint. Even seven as a day of rest. in Scotland John Knox played bowls on Sunday and James I. tried by pro damation to put down bear baiting, boll-balting, "common plays," and other "disordered pastimes" on "the Sabbath day."
seen that the Japanese stramer's The waitress leaned over and *seow," with our men atili on board, whispered, 'Don't eat the eggs.""__ wat in difficulties, so the lifeboat u eut The Star.
to be assistance and took off her
*crew An a tempt to tow her was
found impossible and she had to be
by
3. The day should be sp at quietly and some time should be given, not only for public worship, but for such reading or meditation a' are conducive to the health of our souls.
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shops must be fifty times as bad was "I would't" said Algernon. "Why, the Hou, Miss Morten was reported abeurd. The excitement grew when she can't get a ball over the wet." i "Your standarde nie not mine," said Prendergast.
"Bellamy " I said thoughtfully. "I should ral! it an aristocratic nome."
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In 1919 Hinchcliffe obtained an
Ong her he wrote from Mexico
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to have said that she had once tasted tripe and that it was rather nice.
A man whose affections changed Tripe'cuppers were initiated by thei lult wing, and even tho's who after he had been engaged for mina equirmed at the succulent dish felt years was ordered to pay £500 "I don't know about that," AL that it should be given a fair chance damages for breach of promise at gernon said. "You know the stary Frendergast, in an impossible position, Manchester Assizes
no good abcut the pastrycook in Rosebery's tried to maintain that
Mies Gl dye Edith Howarth, of ever came out of mixed societies. Bilton Field lane, Middleton, Lan 4. The day is specially sacred to
Prendergass did not know the story, told him the story of King Edward cashire, said in February 1912 she When the Puritans came into power family life Husbands, wives, aud "Oh, it's nothing." Algernon said. and bis tailor who they met at became engaged to John Hinchcliffe, by which the ship could he more "An American. newly arrived they made a determined attempt to children should spend it together as "Of course you've heard the le end Homburg. The tailor remarked that who then ruided in Lodge street, nearly approached. For upwards of went into a London teachop, took his enforce strict Sabbatarianism, after much as possible. half an hour an attempt was made ear, and waited. Presently a bright the Jewish model, upon the whole
about Pitt'a la t words: 'My country!, the Homburg acciety was very mixed. Middleton 5 Although nobody wants to restore Oh my country!""
and King Edward said: But damn it, to navigate this channel, but the eyed waitress approached him and nation. They put down bear bit the gours of the Puritan Sunday, They are part of the heritage of man, we can't all be tailors." Will it up intment in Mexico at a salary of strength of the tide made it futile, asked:
be b lieved that Prendergast was 60 £10 a week., and it was decided to return to the Can I take your order Yes. 10. as Macaulay says, not because it very many persons would be morally an Englishman" Prendergast said.
gave pain to the bear, but because it benefited by a stricter observance "Yes, but there's evidence it steins. touchy that he couldn't see the joke? "Hupeh" and wait for the wea-Two boiled eggs and a kind word. '
And then Algernon played the read: "Trast in me, for you will be "The waitress brought the egg
gave pleasure, to the pectators. ther to moderate, and in the mean
of the day. To abstain from those that his last words really were! I time to ask the advice of the and was moving on when the Ameri-old licence; bat publicpinion was week days is a good rule. The Romas po k pies.
The Royalicta tried to restore the amusements which are open to us on think I could eat one of Bellamy's trump card which at first he didn't comforted in doing ap. You have kuow was in his band. He noiset it never known is to fail you at any captain of the latter steamer. On the can said: 'Say What about the against them, and a ra dified Puritan Catholics have always und rstood the "I do not believe," said Prendergast, abroad that Bellomy'e had a holrau time. I am straight in all my dings way back to the "Hupek," it was kind word?!
In Scotland the rigour of the Cuven- is no rational justifiention. They are Rosebery's it.'** Sunday b-cams establised in England. valas of a few taboos for which there that there is anything of the kind in le department. Prendergast, neeing and have played the man and interd
that all was lost, had the affrontary to ds so." anters survived; nd even now it is a test whether men and women are
In another letter by wrote, "You "I bet you five pounds there is," to say that that made all the.
differance. He said he was always have my promise and I shall not до means extinct in the willing to reader any obedience to the said Algernor, Highlands. Max O'Reil, an amusing thure where matters of conscience
yo I felt that that must not go on. "An ready to compromise. I told him the fail Freach writer on English customs, are rot involved
In February 1921. Mise Howarth ausing story," I said. "These young story of the man and his wife who Frince Bismarck
letter which cont quotes
6. Recrition is one of the objects people are not brought us in the compromised. The man explained received
your photo, for the centre of thechar pel to enable The tide had now risen and there describing his first visit to London of Sunday. The form of it should be traditions of reverence as you and I that the question was which room"Enclosed please find
they should sleep in. He wanted the which I return to you. It will be a greater depth of water. The great man was whistling on a determined by the nature of our work were, Prendergast. the "Hupeh to pick her up. And her. There were still 29 people on board Sunday when a bystander remos on weekdays. The townsman should time-
brown room and his wife the blue better for you to forget me and not officers, crew and the rsened Japan the "Shinyei Maru," and these strated with him. "I was so i bresthe country aif; the man who Prendergast interrupted: "Suoh a room; so they had to compromise write to me any more, for my mind is About 9 m atter having drifted included the captain's wife and dignant that I took the first train to cannot play any games on week daya story shows the Bolshevic tendencies" But how did you comprazies to alected th t I shall never love you
said his friend.. "We compromited." | ogaia " northwards ab ut eight miles from the daughter (aged three years). The Edinburgh" "Poor M. de Bismarck!" is quite joatiüird in playing them on of the age."
At Easter 1981 Hinchcliffe returned "Hupehe" boat took off the lady and remarks the Frenchmat; "what on Sundays. In the middle oges Sunday I am sorry to say that Algernon's paid the man, "on the blue rum." serne of the wreck. The Hupeh put her child, as well as 10 others, and inspiration! He has never boasted was the regular day for archery comment was "Oh, tot!".
Poor Frendor considered the story to Bagland and dies Howarth saw him. the lifeboat to lea to enable its the Japaness lifeboat, successfully of his success at Edinburgh, comme practice.
We parted coldly, and it was under-indelicate. He says too, that all my He told her he had flnished, with her ocupants to get on board, and immediately afterwards the boat was took away the remaining people, with eilleur au jour de Sabbat"
7. The right to rest on one day in stood that if Bellamy was put up he stories are chestnuts. I have to ex-altogether,
The Lord Chief Justico described smashed up by the heavy seas that the result that both boats were pick- In the Roman Catholio countries seven belongs to everybody. It is very would be blackballed. Now the plain that wit is merely opportune.
Hinchcliffe's condust as "beartless up about 5.30 p.m. At 6.15 pm. the the Saints' Days eclipsed Sunday, selfish and unreasonable to imp se un- Bellamys had a good grams court, and chestnutiam. "Hopeh hove up anchor and which was not much observed, even necessary w rk on sorvanta and others Algernon took to playing there. More. However, he grasped his u-ttle and and cruel. For nine of the best proceeded to Shanghai, where abo ar. as a day of rest, except in Spain, on Sunday, and this selfishness is most than that, he seduced Twemlow and suggested that he should second young years of her life. be said, Hinchcliffo The "Hupák" got back to her rived at 8 mm. on the 9th August. where it was and is, consecrated to unamiable when it is shown by per Wilton from the clab, and with Bell-Bellamy's nomination himself. B bad led the girl to believe they were original position-about two miles The "Siyei Maru," a vessel of bull fights. The priests try to induce sons who have their fill of enjoyment amy they made a four which went far Bellamy was much obliged and didn's to be married and had then thrown from the Shinyei Maru"-abou: 11 about 1.000 tons register. was bound their flocks to attend Mars on Sunday, all the week. The leisured class to satisfy their needs. The club was think he would bother with it now, as her over, a.m., and put up eignals for the Japa from Tientsih to Shanghai with a and not interfere with them for the would show good taste by becoming left desolate of its best men, and the the summer was so far over. Great nese steamier to send her lifeboats off cargo of coal and went aground on rest of the day.
young ladies began to grumble. The disentisfaction was expressed with the with on many passengers as possible, the south side of the North Chan el.
8. I do not think that the decay spirit of rosult was abroad, and it Prendergast regime, and it was even and with a pai. of new trouters ont About 1 pm siter considerable southeast of Drinkwater Point and The Evangelical revival in the pine- of church-going is a sign of national began to be apparent that Prender eaid openly that the committee should Bedlamy na goodnatured and con- drifong, the Japanese lifeboat was southwest of Bhaweishau, on a sand- teenth century concentrated itself depravity. Our sermons are no gest and bis Die-bards were in a resign, Probdergaat ate his humble sented to join te club. He was well picked up and, ber 11 occupants re-ba.kabout 4.40 p.m. on Bunday upon Sabbath-day observance." doubt, very dull. But I think most minority After all, what was the pin with an air of bonhomie. He put receiv.dand will make his way, but must: At 1:30 pm the Hupeh ger When Betrecem on Tuesday evening. Great attempts were made to stop people are the better for going to harm in aulling tripsi son it te Belioms at Peponal favore o continue to bashy of the position. out her second lifeboat manned it was thought by her captain and Sunday travelling, and when a church once on Sunday. It is, or did it in sufficient quantities to himself. Algernon suggested the trade. A perfectly simple attitude. by the ship's crap, and secam chief officer that she would probably railway accident occorrod on Sunday, ought to be, a reminder that our Mr. Prendergast's contention that, condition that Frendergast should towards tripe is imposible pamici" by the Japanese ohiof officer break up during the night,
a certain bead of a college wrote to membership in the Church is a reality. one shop being. bad. Gfty walk on his knees rout d a tennis court · in M'Ukester Guardian,
cut adrift. The lifebost then made proceeded to the scene of the wreck,
csere evintually takea on board
were running,.
A BECOND SUCCESSFUL ATTEMIT,
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BUNDAY TRAVELLING.
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AB
moderate Babbaterions.
At the same
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