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Shad all be extrested
Superior people are he GILBERT litting Gilbert and AND Ballivan, doubtles be SULLIVAN, CADse more joyous sou
You're a credit to your calling and to all 12- your native ·Land". -
May your luck boneyer falling, may your
get bo'ever true: "Vit God bless you, Tamamy, Atkins, here's your
country's love to you. Y
This was the inspiration. Within two days came the music from Bir Arthur Sullivan. The song was first sung at the Palace Theatre by the well-known tenor, Mr. John Coates, who was the
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the rhythm, the metre would none Di them ingreat sn idea to him. Every That argument said the judge, is! By terrifled amateurs, very well pat. Following, it logically.aren this is inadequate, utterly phrase he had tried he had discarded. Teratenes.the defendant's arm to one inadequate for the man whose rotor Kennely Jones naked him why ha year's imprisonment, Ile can soarra car, hooting stupidly insistently didn't attempt something on the same pany it or not, he shoots. The bid-maly wakes a whole neighbour-line s Private Tommy, Atkins, and defendant smiled, and with his hood before daylight in order to at his request hammed the chorus to lawyez's assik tazón unscrewed his cork attract the attention of one parou.. him
Chi Tammy Tommy Atkins, you're a good. arm and, leaving it in the dock, walk Unless this naisen stops in one ed out."
qustior, reprisals will follow in the art and hand The J. O Willisinon Combast Trish manner, too THIRST pany's performance of
FOB.
The Yeomen of the BLOOD. Guard" during the week raise the borting question
arenow revelling in the once more-Who killed Jack Point? Gilbert leaves the famous jeater in delights these two happy, autiste sensible at the close of the play created. Aping one leading crito,
¿A cold wave had been experienced throughest the country except in insensible but not dead. Who then they are saying that Sullivan's music killed him!The answer is now is not the best in the world or the composer's choice, and the composer Florida, Terrifio gales on the East and West costs have now abated. The inevitable-the audience! Ask any most inexhaustible in interest; thas conducted. Very soon The Absent British steamer "Tuscan Prince" was damaged beyond salvage at Beattle ons present in the Theatre Royal for Gilbert, meanly satirizing the old, Minded Beggar" had become the rage but the orew are safe. The Italian steamer Menosnisia" is reported to be "The Yeomen of the Guard, and lanked finer feeling and often wrote and every barrel organ ground out sinking off cape Henry (Virginia). The wooden ship Niks was burned to mark his answer. Almost certainly atrocious" lines, Admittedly many the tune. Finally; M Kipling the water's edge at Seattle and $4 persons were taken off. A sixty mile hour ho will tell you that Jack dios, for composers have produced finer declared that if it were not saialde he galè ab Pittsburg blow off the third storey of a house and overturned son alter gotten seemingly in the general relief male lies than Balliran. Nobody would gladly shoot, the man who residences.
NORFOLK (VIRGINIA), Föbruarý 16. following the discovery that so many denies that. But, as J. C. Squire has
Just one mors Glibert The destroyer. ** Farquhar **. was rammed by a battle- whose fate was hanging in the balance putit. Sullivan was moving on anciller
and Bollivan story ship during battle practice uff the Panama and. in reported to be under escape scot free. But poor Jack at plane; the point is, ke was supreme an
Iolanthe " staged here convoy in a sinking condition. kast does not die by the hand of the that plane. Likewise Gilbert, though
Friday, suggests it. On librettiat, like countless other charas be certainly did frequently show al
one occasion George ters who nest unmerited death lack of fite feeling and had bad simply because long operatio custom artistio lapase, proved himself so Grosmith forgot the words of a song will brook no demur. Just recall intelligent and skilful a librettist as he bad been singing for a year: It the recent Italian opera season to be in a world by himself," was the Lord Chancellor's song in "Rigoletto," "Il Trovatore," "Lucia Apirt from the amizing ingenuity "Iolanthe," There were two verses di Lammermoor" and other equally of his plots, the remarkable skill.ofesily alike, and this is always a tick- tragic works. The influence of there his versifying, and the boundless In task for any singer. My Ltd masterpieces is too strong for the wealth of his bamour, Gilbert often prompter was not there, and I broke average audience with the result that revealed his gift of J. O. Squires down. I did not lose my temper,
I the only character whose fate Gilbert words ags - Dresden Chias pretti though the situation, was trying. leavea in doubt they kill, promptly, new." Sometimes Gilbert glanced said to the audience. I have been
When the future fiscal policy of India came up for debate in the Assembly eagerly-almost cheerfully.
into the depths. When be did the singing this song three hundred times, How much hap result was rarely disappointing. and it is so long since. I learned it Mr. Jamaadas Dwarkades, a member, the Fiscal Commission, moved a re THUS AND TRUG. pier the world Gilbert a nature may have been that I have forgotten the words. salation in favour of adoption of s policy of protection, its application to be
would be if peoplo neither exceptionally noble for This was received with roams of
Mr. Innes moved an amendment in terms of the earlier memago and remark. Urging Congress to ratify capable of great moments. Illustrat broke off onos more at the said that the Government must retain in its own hands the selection of o would only withhold the, unnecessary sensitive, but he was undoubtedly faughter, and I commenced again, and regulated by the Government and Legislature, the British debt agreement, President ing this finer feeling I quote below place. The people were very mach Harding most needs allude exeeringly some linea I discovered the other day amused, and I said: If you don't Tariff Board of three members with investigatery and advisory powers. He Several speakers said that the now policy would weigh heavily upon to the widespread clamour for the while, rammaging among forgotten mind waiting for a moment. I will urged the atmost cantion in adopting a new principle.
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fancied but fallacious contribution To a garden fall of posies towards peace." Assuradly America Com-th one to gather flowers, was entitled to every cent we owed her. The money was spent in America and the loan consequently: amonnta to a bill for goods. Maskee that these grads were mostly for par allies. We contracted the debt and we must pay it in the same way that we would pay any other debt for goods-oad compradom, bill, for
And he wanders through its bowers Toying with the wanton roses,
Who, uprising from their beds. Hold on bigh their shameless beads with their pesity lips a posting, Never dbting-never doubting
Yet might fall upon her petals.
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go and see it there is such a thing as a prompter. And so I went off, found the book in the side wing, refreshed my memory by a glance and returned to render the song." The whole thing. was such a success that Mr. Grossmith often said he would do it again. But he was really much distressed at the hard.
DEAL
IN CURIOS.
́INDIA'S FISGAL'PUTURE:
POLICY OF "DISCRIMINATING PROTECTION."
DELI, February 16. ·
In the Legislative Assembly Mr. Innes the member for commerce on the Governor-Generals Council, announced that the Government had accepted the Fiscal Commission recommendation for a policy of discriminating pro
tection for India.
THE UNDERTAIN MÄɩEK.
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It.in stated on good authority that the recovery of the mark was not time, the bent-for collecting Chinesemetely the result of the Reichibank unloading foreign currencies but of far-reaching stabilisation scheme initiated by the Government in conjunc- pottery and porcelain, tion with banker and industrialists. It is intended to parist in the plan many people cannot enjoy the subtle bargaining delights until, if possible, a parity of 15,000 to the dollar has been resched. The
Government is using money originally intended for reparations Mr. H. W. Kent described in bis
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That for Cytherean pories He would gather aught but roses. instance. But all this does not alter In a nest of seeds and nétties, one iota the fact thas plding an Lay a violet, half hidden, romantic ecoromio-law-and ordinaryHoping that his glance unbidden commonsense demanded that this debt should be cancelled along with the other gigantio burdens the war has left The debt should have been cancelled in the interests of all concerned, and doubtless would have been bat for the men who have just written, what the New York Journal
What would Sailvian several months in the dealer's back of Commerce calle "this strange
COMPOSER have done in music if he yard; chap things, but frequently
A fire which started yesterday in the Armour packing plant is still barn- chapter in American economie AND had not met W. 8 Flessing withal, Bacoumbing to the history." Then why should President LIBRETTIST, Gilbert The answer soothing flattery which imputes dis- ing. Three nine storey buildings have already been destroyed, Harding make the quite unneces
to this question lice in cerument above the average--"you that the debt the fate the composer's "Haddon saves what thing blong god, b'long The China Mail accuracy. would frequently demand but, there! now
expressions openly shocking. Uttered agreement has been almost finalised, Hall" and "The Rose of Fersin" both No 1" have rail $4 for a vaso, in the genteel drawing room, I too am failing to withhold the comparative failures and both long pretty enough bat supplied wholesale the word blondy can bare very strong unnecessary remark. Thus are since passed completely out of the re-learned later) for $4 the soore. pychological interest. Bas the Daks vicious circles mada.
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pertory of Savoy operas. Anything You ano, I was but newly some.
The agreement for settlement of the Anglo American debt has led to. Really, people should like an exhaustive list of operettas, The astute dealer evidently perceived not linger over that last charming musically, that have been this, for. he produced this twenty THEATRE liqueur when they have rained by a poor libretto would, we cont vase from an imposing brass-questions whether the Government proposes to enter similar negotiatione The Premier stated that he presented at the Paris conferenos scheme JOYS, booked half the front are assured, makes melancholy bound chest and handled it with with the Allied powers in respect of their debts to Britain
row of the dress trading. Find me a "Gilbert," said the utmost care and reverence. Who wouldn't turn circle. If Hongkong's united traffic Landon Bonald the other day, and Still, the hour spent in his and the Govemment retained sa entirely fris haud to reopen the question. an honest penny resources-motor cats, ferries, rieshas, I will undertake to find plenty of shop was fully worth $4. The New Ha added that there was no debt das from Belgium excepting the recon- Witares, then, the buses, chairs, steam ladies, motos composers. Just how important the Year fair represente, of course, the struction credit of £9,000,000 on which interest was being paid, Chinees youngster at boats--if Hongkong's united trait lines often are in auggesting musical aria dealer's most lucrative season Happy Valley every resources are insufficient to get them themes to the composer is shown by a and many are the tales told of Saturday afternoon. Behold Haze, to the Theatre Royal in time they Ballivan anodote related by the late wondrous bargains and pricelesa to her husband. She brought it be when crowds are thronging the ropes should stay away. "They never Mr. Kennedy Jones, who founded the treasures. But even the knowing
A Chinese who is a native of Hongkong was sentenced to four months”. self bersizes she wished to insure the for the big soccer matches, producing waald be missed.” - contents, a few trinkets, for a friend in Neth China. Now mark what innumerable trestles for the outer "Of that there is no manner of Having decided to open fund for Chino Mal man, wandering jail at Westhamn for importing half a pound of raw opium.
South African War needy, the paper through the crowded streets, follows, Bho asked the clerk how fringe to stand upon and thus scoure doubt
looked a clear view. What the charge in. I No probable possible shadow wrote to Mr. Kipling and asked him if was attracted by some pictures.
odo that -much this would cost. Quite do not know, but here is an example doubt
ho would write a poem on the subject, He priced serionsly and solemnly nothing of buying op the opportunity." No possible doubt whatever." offering him £250.4" Only two year good. The gentleman in sharge asked suggesting boar you note quite Another, "business dodge" adopted"
Mr. Arthur Porritt tells before, just after Queen Victoria's $100 and jeered when offered $10. At seriously and solemnly he inquired by these enterprising, youngsters is the value in france You to offer packets of Wrigley's to
JUST good story of Dr. Andrew Diamond Jubilee, he had stirred the culio" atsil-all modem rabbish-
Fairbairn, first Principal of heart of the nation with his magni- our man was takendown a peg. Trying picture the lady's surprise and can players bound for the dressing room. fusion, suddenly confronted tha Which suggests that profitable trade
ZE, Mansfield College, Oxford, ficent, Rossional, and we looked to to maintain in a small the true who on one occasion ad- trosiva a companion poem. Imagine spirit of the ocasion, he asked the with this startling mystery. I perceive awaits the first to open a fairly, large aressed a mixed audience of Aberdeen our dismay on reading the script of price of s, squat pat-bellied genties stated is would be possible to open up a vast tract in Central Biberis you too, my dear Watson, refreshment place about the centes nf resten Universities men and the Absent Minded Beggar, with man cast in shining. brass, for the amazed. “France 1" you are saking the m in Happy Valley pathway. The women: Es drew a vivid picture its jingling chorn, possession of which he certainly felt merchandise from which belonging to the Russian Gɔvarnmont and Youmdf, Why, franca" The lucky one will satisfy my claims win of the hardships of the Scottish, under Paks's son, cook's sonson of handied 40 real desire. Four dollars" said selimated as two millions sterling had already come to England.
answer is simple, and you shall have
it in the clerk's own words-disguised ma broker, bowler hat complete, I later, overbeard him nes them to another unsuspecting victim. When you have found out to day's ex- chango for franca I can tell you how
a seat on the Board of Directors..
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we Talking to an American graduates at Aberdeen, in his young
magazine editor, W. W days, spoke of their Spartan oatmeal. Jacoba is reported to dist and their dreary bare: lodgings have said that it war Against this austere background, he MAN only, the warprises that painted a vivid ward picture of the made his stories take sybaritic luxuriousness of the Oxford
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kings (Milly thousand horse and foot the stall-holder Bidiculous” he going to Table Bay 1) pudged, laughed. How much you give{" Kaabot an dong his course work and the Chinees countered. The tradition
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Pair the hat for your credit'a ako and on the European's side was to offer
[pay-pay-pay196
half, at which the Chinese was fine to. Directly Mr. Kipling had agreed om "But the latter didn't play the write poem we had
game. When the European fild two Bir Arthur Hallivin
dollars," he calmly replied can and proceeded to wrap it op prestige demanded that the ahoold stand to his bid found himself the owner
for
script, it was nothing that sojad on Bit Ari after reading through the the week went by, ten
wad no moors. soite only answer.
much the insurance will cost You This avowal is interesting because 0. undergradsste. Look at him, he wee foreign post offices have been Henry, the great American short story said as he sprawls in his sumptuously, musio abolished in Chine. You note that writer whose vogue in Britain is prospholilbred study chair, with his lege
foreign post offices abolished bably greater to-day than it has ever stretched soross another chair guineas: (Both poet francs Yce, an interesting been bilare, took Jacobs for his cushion, under his head, another paid their free to the case,k very interesting case talena, model, and spart from his intense cushion under his feet, and third diamsy was great on gottin Bat-typically Hongkong, à'm
(armpathy for all his fellow prestares Cashion under his (then he
bered his mired audienos- Coutors are incorrigible. O. Henry's lame lies in his sdrait us
*his gupitincumbent mas MAODY. Like the oft quoted of surprise, leading the reader to
Bourbon they learn suspect our conclusion and then sabone gasped then they obe
clever toorvery out of nothing and forget nothing Lutenstituting another, even in the he "I have no fixed rules for liqasing sentence. This tick of technique it play said the Duke of Atholl (who neatly illustrated in the story Urs, kas jnab ratized from the post of Lord Jacobs is reported to have, told the Chamberlain) The word bloody in American editor. He said that a law. able when it is puttin yer, defending a man accused of hours": of a work man. It is per breaking, spoke like this I subpit eat however when spoken that my client did pol break into the **kudta honse at all. He found the window Pas, to the open and merely inserted his right word bloody and fremoved – few triflig art
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[PINKETTES
BUSHIAN TRADE.
APPROACH TO NORMALITY.
LONDON, Febuary 15,
At a meeting of the Bussan section of the London Chamber of Com ditions were approaching normality. Boganding the Kirasës trade roate eroe Mt. Jrass Lied who returned recently from M300 Bld trade con-
UNEMPLOYMENT AT HOME,
ANGRY ALTERCATION IN COMMONS.
LONDON, February 18.
In the House of Commons unemployment; was the burden of the dobata the Labourite amoninim the address moved by Mt. Olynes condem
the Peace Treaty niging aangellation of war debta and greater use Exception was taken to the statement of Sir Government's measures to alleviate tin- Lacassion, was practically monopolted by the Tisbour- iteration between the Communist Newbold
ebu Iätters onliraguer physically
sting
Tausa has adjourned.
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