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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming. Ermts:
In The Mal
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Narimova in Salome ly Examiner, It has been said as yet do not reach the pedals,
SPORT.
cation between drivers meeting other cases the victims usually wake
Those things to play the piano' with all the from opposite directions.
up when it is too late, and thies METAMORPHOSIS. at which a aplomb, expression, Insight, and manjeste brilliance given to but few: His Travelling along such roads risha, money and valuables hayo all
gone.
Rumour has it that there have sometimes the curious trick repertoire consists of-no-fewer than involves considerable expense and are some young natives who make of becoming his subsequent stout-74 pieces, all played from memory. It was our privilege, the other day |-waste of time and the price of goods it their business to entice seafaring est faiths.
to listen to the youthful executant is na augmented by carriage dues as men out of their way at night by
**The art of being for the first time; to watch the chub- to ronder, in many cases, probibi- weird stories. Once in same dark
BEING STILL still is almost a by fingers almost race overthe keys, lans ar byway the stranger is set
lost art, says and to listen to music that "Jike November --Coronet Theatre ;: tive, export of domestic produce and upon and before he knows where he importation of outside goods. Timo is he has become a sadder and a J.C. Wright in the Friends Quarter Lincoln, is for the ages. His feet
November --Star Theatre:" is money, aven in China. Bnail wider man. It has been said con- that if every person would think and a contrivance has to be fixed Mary Pickford in “Little Lord pacing males and carts might have cerning these stories that the victims without speaking for five minutes to enable him to make use of these Fauntleroy"
ara sometimes reticent. Even if every day, the world would be a necessary aids to correct pianoforte November 9.-World Theatre; afforded a pleasant outing to they notify the police they are said better world."
playing. He improvises also. His Harold Lloyd In “Safety Last.” droway Hilpa and Shallum in the to bava a tendency to keep back We know the story of the memory is obviously outside the November 8-The Grand Theatrej days before the flood, but man's some of the details. or besitate to wealthy man who, when dying, ordinary, and his interest la music George Arliss in Darmoli,
November 9-Theatre Royal; mortal stretch is now sadly curtailed explain their presonce at the parti- called his profilgate son to him and stamps him as being born to the and the wide-awake officials and spot. Going further into the told him he would leave his money wonderful art of music. Lessons Forbes Russell Comedy Co seamy side of Hongkong might life, to him on one condition that he in harmony may mean the unearth-Bluebeard's Eighth Wife Instead mon of business of the present day old residents who profes to be in the should each day spend one houring of powers of composition which of "All of A Sudden Peggy," 9.15 demand to wasto as little time as know say that there are ricaba along. The son promised to obey, we hope shall be for the benefit of p.m.
And yet it was November 10.-Theatre Royal; possible while betaking themselves coolies who are in league with foot and became à renovated character. the whole world.
pads. They are supposed to be out Solitude for one hour out of twenty- but by a mere accident that the Forbes Russel! Comedy Co inherent talent was discovered-"Bought and Pald For, 9.15 p.m. from business centres to places of the look-out for men who appear to four made him think.
The need for mental stillness, the purchase of a toy piano and its production. Railways will
not be strangers under the influence of for poise and balance, is obvious, manipulation being the first dis suffice. There óra indeed, the great liquor and are alleged to make it we are apt to become one-sided covery of the young boy's aptitude.
November 10-13. - Hongkong arteries of communication, but veins their business to drive the victim and make mielattes because we do Hongkong will have an early Jockey Club's next Gymkhana.
November 12-First Tourna- and capillary vessels are necessary either to Happy Valley or some not wait long enough to see both opportunity of listening to his
West where he is robbed sides of a question."
prowess, and will certainly wishment of the. Hongkong Boxing to make trade circulate with speed From this it must not be con
that these early manifestations of Asscn, at the Theatre Royal, to and from those arteries. Villages cluded that the Police are idle in')
The English geulus will blossom forth into 19.12 p.m.
November 12-Football at Soo- and towns should be linked by not-thie respect. The organisation NICKNAMES.. equivalent of a something lasting. Who knows,
new nickname here may be another Chopin or a kumpoo, Navy v. Army, 4.15 p.m. works of such excellence as to muke in existence invariably traces the
November 15-Punce Hotel travelling and transportation, rapid, of them which use the various head, meaning one who is an
movements of a ricaha or a number they are using in Canton lu smooth Beethoven.
handicap billiards tournament com. mences. eney and cheap. It is all'important pitches. Time and again, large ooportunist. If it ever comes to that craftsmen and fishermen,sume of money and valuables have Hongkong we know quite a num To-day's Poem workers in pottery and workers in been recovered as the result of this ber of wigless gentlemen who are wood, farmers and raisers of stock detailed system, while the coolies likely to get angry!
also boast goma honest men wrong.
Commend us to the should find favourable markets for them who have voluntarily handed
as the their wares, produce, and animals. in packages left in their vehicles. BUSINESS. Chinese
greatest business Otherwise the rural market becomes
prople of all tinie. Even the little quickly congested and glatted; and
nippers have it pretty bad. Scene the supply is greater than the
Queen's Road near the barracks on the left-hand side coming into demand. Bad roads, are-a curse to
The spech of Sir John Jordan, as town. Small boy; very small; big rural workers, to dwellers in dis- Chairman of the China Association, basket; very blg; full of peanuts; tricta remote from large contres of will have been read with especial the side walk is wide-for that part distribution, because it is owing to interèst by those desirous of seeing of Queen's Road; the "merchant" stable government establiebed in squats down by the channel, makes inefficient means of communication China. Sir Jobs in qne of the few about a dozen tempting piles of that these producers are unable to foreign ex-diplomats who can speak nuts and awaits events. Comes one dispose of their goods.
with authority on things Chinese, of the inscrutables, sees the trap It does not require a profound and, when he becomes pessimistic, laid for him- hesitates and is lost. it is high time that China's ruters Bang goes one cash and disappears logical reasoning to show how good sat up and took notice. Sir Jolm inscrutables, more bangs, and less there one, pile of nuts, More roads would prove, in many ways, hints in no mistaken fashion that anuts. Thus do our wealthy com beneficial to the producer by bring- Chinese Mussolini is the only pradores lay their solid foundations. ing him in touch with a ready prospect for the salvation of China. Much
more satisfactory Reading between the lines of the snatching, although our purists will market. The farmer, stock-miser brief cabled message, one is inclined say they ought to be at school. But and craftsman would be encouraged to the belief that Sir John is of the by the new demand crested by easy opinion that Chang Teo-lin is the conveyance to increase their produc-man for the presidency. Many muy pick upon Marshal Wa Pei-fu as tions. Mare hands would be given the man indicated, but in view of to labourers and thus one great the fact that Wu's paper victory problem would he put fairly on its occurred within two years of Bir state of dilapidation as in many way towards solution. Not only John's departure, it is scarcely credible that Sir John has forgotten Mail. places, to offer rather an impedi ouild the staple products of the the and meas that Wu made at
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than
'Men must work and women
must sweep,
And if we're-to have rice We must others entice, And-Yes! We have no
peanuts."
"Come!"
(Dilemma.)
Shall I lose my hair
To the sun's good light Or brush and bind it
Bleek and tight?.
Shall I dance to music
Fast and sweet Or languid, sit
With quiet crossed feet?
Shall my first long skirt Be crisp and white Or a silken serpent
Black as night?
Shall my laughter be
As a bird that flies Or gathered close
In my dreaming eyes?
If one should say I love to me. Shall I wait for another,
Or two, or threo?
J
KATHLEEN COTTER-Gross.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
• NOVEMBER 9.
said a
1711.
SOCIAL
November 10.-Dancing fat Palace Hotel, Kowloon, 9.15 p.m.
November 11-Empress of Canada" Band Repulse Bay Hotel, from 4 to 7 p.m.
November 13, 20, 27-Hong- kong St. Andrew's Society Practice Dance...
· PUBLIC AUCTIONS.. November 10-Lammert Bros., a quantity of miscellaneous goods at Sales Rooms, If ain.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
An Extra Gymkhana' is an--' nounced for Saturday, December Ist, when there will be a special St Andrew's programme.
None but Government motor- cars are permitted to run at Canton after 7 p.m., while martial law is in force, except by special licence.
The Blue Funnel liner "Sarpe- don" left Singapore on the evening of the 7th inst, and is due to arrive: at Hongkong on Sunday afternoon (11th fast.),
I begin to have & firo now this Colony, has booked his pass- Mr. Tom Wright formerly of when the mornings are cold:
I have got some loase bricks ge to England He will not be. returning to the Sandwich Islands, at the back of my grate for as he says he cannot live without good husbandry. Fine wea- beer." ther.-Swift... My father returned from
High Cliffe yesterday, look-Mining Administration's mines The total output of the Kailan ing charmingly, and admires for the week ending October to find London in the same 27th amounted to 99,518 tons and fog he left it.-Lady Louisa the sales during the period to Stuart.
82,761 tons.
HELP.
ConfuciusWo- OPINIONS OF "man is the master
WOMEN. piece.
Herder: Woman is the crown of creation."
Voltaire: Women teach us re- pose, civility, and dignity, **
People may need help, but the John Quincy Adams: Ail that I self-respecting, shrink from pity. am my mother made me.
The cripple would rather you ignor Lessing: Nature meant to make ed his crutch and met hun on the woman its masterpiece.
level. Often the most tactful help Lamartine: There is a woman one can give is not seeing the need at the beginning of all great things. for any.
The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat - Co. ··Ltd, announce a 'Bank Holiday Excur sion to Macao on Monday next, leaving Hongkong at 9 am, and Macao at 3 pm
The silk shipped per the s.s. President Madison", which left this port on Sept. 19, 10.00 am., arrived in New York on October 7; 4.25 a.m., having been 22 Calendar Days and 35 Minutes in transit.
LA FEMME Bitter Sorrow to a
woman. ment and a danger than a facility, district be transported to other Loyaug when he seized the milway
"Wait but a moment," she an- Far from following in the points but canning factories would revenue on the Peking-Hankow swered, "until I find a face powder wake of the former great road spring up at central places when line and ordered the dismissal of that will make me took paler, and constructors and linking villago radiating roads would ensure a station-masters, if not the shooting, change my jade necklace for a
appointed by the Central Govern plain gold cross."
Now I am ready," she said, 1764. with village, town with town, the steady current of agricultural pro- ment when they demurred about reaching out her hand, and the two poor wearied officials and high duce. Farmers would no longer handing over the cash in their moved off together, the woman In the matter of raids where spirited people sat down on their limit their ambition to local supply charge. Sir John's advice is sound weeping deeply, in terrible, thick
in that he realizes that retaliation sobs. other countries have progressedoara and with flmy eyes watched but would furnish their quota from foreign men-of-war is the only Ching-how-roasted-For-material the work o their ancestors glide into toward the provisionment of our way to deal with sporadic anti-for- backsliding she is, a world apart. rain. The lofty ideals of Ancestral great cities and of remote districts ciga qutbursts. The prospects of a Although allusion to canals has no Worship would appear to exclude where supply is less than the Round Table Conferenes are hope Birect bearing upon our there, we material conceptions and to sever demand, and finally rise to the ful, but unless the Chinese Musso-
"swelling themo" of purveyors to would subrait, for analogy's sake, the spirit from practical work. that in England, in the 17th. cen- In the south of the province of the great world markets.
Further results, material to the ary, hardly a single navigable canal Kiangsu the canals and rivers aro had even beon projected. In Chim, the slow highways of communica- welfare of the nation, would flow on the contrary, as far back as the tion. The long sailed ribbons which from the possession of good ways of 6th century B.C. the Imperial Canal stretch away through the farms communication. Central China, has,
When a woman hears a a. begun and in 1285 a mighty permit but Indian file and the for many years, been swarming FACT. man railing at matrimony
Whittier: If woman lost us. she agrees with him first Eden such as she alone restores it. artificial river connected Tientsin jolting wheelbarrow. They are left with rubber bands which impose a
E. S. Barret: Woman is fast at with Hangchow. But mark the to the sport of the elements and are grievous toll. At present they come and marries him later. Directions of the change. One often covered with a weedy luxuri and go with fair impunity. Good
We all applaud the the cross and earliest at the grave. Richter: No man can either live
At the Repulse Bay Hotel on A.D.C. efforts of hundred and fifty years sufficed for fance. In the north of the province roads would heighten the activities
our local plously or die righteous without a No need to keep on suffering the Sunday afternoon, by the courtesy thesplans and wish wife. private enterprise to intersect Eng-in Suchow Fu, there are no canals of police and military and afford them well in their ambitious
terment and pain of rheumatism when of the Canadian Pacific Steamship, N. P. Willis: The sweetest Chamberlaine Pain Balm may be easily Ltd, the "Empress of Canada's land with waterwaye while in China and so carta are run over trails speedy advance to an attacked undertaking in producing RUR. thing in life is the unclouded obtained at a small cost. Bnb it on Band, of musicians, specially official neglect had allowed portions which are a disgrace to the intelli-village. Moreover enrolment in A reader who has had a ecuple of welcome of a wife..
**** vigorously. It is vory penetrating and selected for the round the world.
moothing and quickly scatters congestion at the Grand Canal to be so silted gence of the inhabitants. The these bands would no longer loam reading Leacock's." Over the Footmen are not worth the sentiment and recommended everywhere.
days of dengue and who bas been Voltaire All the reasonings of and the pressure that causes pain. 85k cruise on which this fius vessel is going this winter, will play from with mud ad to be no longer effec, whipped mules, dragging a loaded forth, to thousands of sturdy men, lights has suggested that a return of women
4 p.m. to 7p.m.. tive. Similarly, in England, even car sunk to the axles, welter their se the ono sregon to a comfortable to the old-style drenia would be: Leopold Schefer: But one thing toward the close of the 17th century, way through Bloughs of mire, or bob subsistence. Again, with an excel-Very welcome something after on earth is better than the gife-
the style of "The Girl who took the that is the mother the roada were in the most and wriggle, to shift a traveller's lent system of highways throughout wrong turning or a Girl's Cross-
Shakespeare: For where is any wrefabed ondition and travelling dreams, along the deep rule and the provinces, there would set in a Roads." Another suggests William author in the world teaches such was inauffembly slow. On the great cleave through the yielding alluvial, current towards a better mutual Archer's shocker The Green beauty as a woman's eyes? zonda, ruta ware many and deep, the Whilst the train is thus painfully understanding, towards a tightening uve? A reading of the play, now of man; not his repose only, hut Goddess "would prove very attrac- Michelet: Woman is the Sunday Rescants sleep, and the way ad and patiently struggling along of the ties of the country towards a London successf proves that it is his joy, the salt of his lifest poorly constructed as to be scarcely bandits, needy and greedy, swoop broader views of patriotiam, towards very actable, tremendously excit Margaret Fuller Ossoli: Woman distinguishable in the dusk, from from behind the tall sorghum canes there further corollaries which coming and can be done with le born for love, and it is impos
the minimum of scenery. the moor and fen through which and burry off with whatever is worth mon sense will deduce, more or less they ran: The motor cars, which the taking. In Kansa there are a immediately from these, and which,
sible to turn her from seeking it.". Louis Desnoyers : A woman The demolition, still may be ugly, ill-shaped, wicked.
This happened in a fruft LOVE, shop ---
now glide, with little jolt or jar from few roade crossing the province, but in no small measure, would contri TREES, continues, the latest ignorant, silly, and stupid, but one end of the country to the other Doyou'd thee, ways are so bad that bute to the opening up and exploitaban ka sacrifice being in hardly ever ridiculous. testify to the prent change which man must take the place of benste tion of China's buried resources, to Morrison Gap Road where quite a has been wrought. A few centuries of burden and must, trudge wearily the rebottoming, on saner modern sumber have gone the way of their
Garden Road friends. go twenty-one great highways, along, stooping under their lood. cinciples, of a building, ancient paved with stone and often bordered Indeed the chief reason for the indeed, but whose solid old timbers with trees, connected Peking with undeveloped condition of Kansu lies and beautiful old architecture are the remote regions of the empire. the difficulty, presented, to con- well worth the propping, are well Banning approximately in a straight eyance and communication. In worth the services of pile-driver and fins, cutting into the steep mountain weichow all transport has to be
done by carri or pack animals gides, and offen sttaining a width of
The fibe
of waterways in wenty and twenty-five yards, Jesve testimony of sonde gigs Bystem of labour and of s str enlcient executive. But these Ebéda are, in large mess that were. It would have dem
but
masot
fair communi-Rickaka Robberies
Läxist. Countless tales. seafaring than
robbed, whtigt in Hoshina
Two sportsmen were The Strawberry, which wha" fr RATHER relating some of their love, pinched the fruit next to i TALL adventures when one and blushingly said, You're
Bald Peach. This annoyed the Orange, Once I was out shooting when which said, "I've got the pip." Ohi saw a large umber of galahs don't get hour, whispered the sitting on the brances of an old, Lemon, Tm feeling a bit seddy leafless "free, I went, to; fige, butj
hitttered the Water Melon found, that my gun was not loaded,' and that I had used - allt mylber cartridges. However, packet of tacks, and down the barIBLE FISH-U
bit of
said the Gocio- Cocannt), you'
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Get Rid of the Torment of. :
bal Rheumatism.
MIDNIGHT ROSE.
In the twined silence of late May » The clouds wane on the shifting night. Wore thy sceat less in the day, Lost for the startled light, -
I would pray goodby The end of day, done Were now thy bloom less bright? (Though unseen) pray
The end of night.
POPPY DAY.
Pushin' up the daisies, Bill,
Shovin' up the blooms, "lis Terdin' poppies on a hilfi
From our peaceful tombs.
Mat mu? me was Tommies then,
Fightin' over there Smilla, Muc-a-jokin” when
Grim death was in the air.
Wonderin We'd jest bõe