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an interesting subject in which the Llange mass of people who lay no claim to being scientists ar gifted with minda given to clear thinking are entitled to some direct and clear guidance as the part of those whose adopted mission in life is to teach and gaide the people whom they profess to believe bave been com- mitted to their care. So far as wo know it that guidance bas been deplorably-licking-although the "formula" zemain.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 1923
SANDAKAN
WEDDINGS,.
(From Our Own Correspondant,).
SANDAKAN, November 1, wedding, the first one of its kind, A very pretty and interesting was solemnised at the St. Michael
at
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised-
In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
November 13-Comnet Theatre; November 13-Star. Theatrd "Bich Men's Wives."
5.30 p.m. Human Hearts; 9.15. p.m. "Secrets.
Wanda Hawley in "Bobbed Hair.
November 13World Theatre ;
November 13-The Grand Theatre; Max Linder in "The Three Must Get Theres.fi/
December I.---Next Tourna ment of the Hongkong Boxing Assch. at the Theatre Royal. Club's extra gymkhana.
December 1.-Hongkong Jockey
SOCIAL
November 13, 20, 27-Hong- kong St. Andrew's Society Practice Dance
world. They want to get back to title you placarded all over the town "January 28, 1601.-Weut to first-hand knowledge. Now they and decent sized audience attend Mr. Crewe's, and thence to the BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. od, many, to be disappointed for theatre, where I saw again The have formulae." We confess it the subject of the lecture had Lost Lady, which do not please me INTERESTING
appeared to their astigmatic mind better than before; and here I. as "Noodles and what to do with sitting behind in a dark place, a them
lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not accing me; but after There is no charity seeing her to be a very pretty lady, CHARITY. equal to the charity I was not troubled at it at all."
that is charitable to June 6, 1661.Sir W. Pon and the uncharitable.
I went out with Sir R. Slingaby to | bowles in his ally, and there had and All Angels Church Doubtices the or good part took my flagealette, Sandakan, when Mr. Albert Koh, Trganisation of the and played upon the leads in the the 6th son of the late Kch Kim CBUKONE Armistico celebrations garden, where Sir W. Pon come out hin, Captain China was married to around the Cenotaph in bis shirt into his leads, and there Miss May 2nd daughter of Me. Lai was as perfect as it was possible to we staid talking and singing and Fook, of Cooketown, North 'make it, but a observer makes it drinking great draughts of claret, Queensland, Australia. There was
БРОКТ. the point that quite a number and eating botargo and broad-and-a large assembly of friends present November 15-Palace Hotel of those who wore entitled to prior butter till twelve at night, it being including Д few. European bandicap billiards tournament come consideration and treatment were moonshine; and so to bed, very near ladies and gentlemen, officials mences. Speaches,
totally ignored. It is represented to fuddled."
and non-officials; the church was "Down goes a dinner and up
us that members of families who "April 17, 1669 (Lord's Day).- tastefully decorated. The service comes a speech was the way in have lost near and dear ones in the Up, and I put on my best cloth was conducted by the Reverend which famous aftor dinner speaker siderate time before they could lay with my wife in her best laced suit Fenton, Asst: Superintendent of war were kept waiting an incon- black suit and my velvet cloak, and T. C. Alexander and Mr. G, G. wax introduced. "Down goes s' speech and up comes a dinner was their tributes of memary at the foot to Church, where we have not been Post & Telegraphs presided at the the reply of the famous one in refer of the Cenotaph, and were not con- these nine or ten weeks. A young organ: The bride was given away Slept by her father. She wore char ring this introducer. This latter idered in the matter of socommoda- simple fellow did preach.
Our Parming dress of embroidered cream dietats could not apply in the case tion which was already alloted to soundly all the sermon.
ailk, with a pink silk train and of the speeches macht ut the those whose panies are always nison, Mr. Mülls, his own mistake in tulle veil with orange blossom. Male Voice Choir, Cathedral Hall; MASALA's Armistice dinner anonspicions feature of local gather reading of the service was very The bridegroom' two little Saturday. True they varied-varied inge, and whose memory may not markable--that instead of sayin, nieces acting as bridesmaids. from the nervous speaker, to thebe se poignant as those referred to. We beseech thee to preserve to mir
The reception was held at the In matters of organisation it is not use the kindly fruits of the earth, bridegroom's houses 9 and 10 the apologetie; the cultured with a
A BAD SAMARITAN. SUNDINOUTONIC||||||||||qm| delivery and a diction that it was a possible to think of everything or be cries, Preserve to our use our Praya and was largely attended.
delight to listen to, to the manly everybody. Perhaps next year a gracious Queen Catherine."
Proposing the health of the bride FINDING IS NOT KEEPING straight from the shoulder, redolent thought may be given in the direc But Pepys is capable of fine feel- and bridegroon; the Hon, the ing and dignified expression. The Resident of Sandakan, Mr. of the sea type, to the witty and totion we bave indicated.
An admission that he had picked the point delivery of the Chairman,
words with which he concludes bis Bunbury, in 2 short speech, up a gold wrist-watch from the to the speech which outstayed its
It will be remen-disry, on growing too blind further wished then long life and hap ground at Happy Valley when he welcome and brought upon itself The MAN bered that on to continue it, are pathetic in the piness: The bridegroom suitably assisted a Japanese who was the interruptions that were excruciat HE KILLED. vertain Christmas extreme.
responded.
worse for liquor, into a riesha, was ingly to the point and added vot a
day the
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Koh are to made by the second of two Chinese men in "And so I'batake myself to that little to the humour of the procced-opponite trenches fraternised for acouse which is almost as much as spend their honeyptoon at Hong-defendants who were charged with ings. This business of speech-time. A wonderful tribute to the to see myself go into my grave; for kong und Shanghai.
unlawful possessión of the article making, for a business most would brotherhood of man and the desire which, and all the discomforts that Another marriage.
before Mr. J. R. Wood this morning. be speakers make of it, is a most of all men to be understood. will accompany my being blind, the lomnised at the Hokkien Club
Defendants were arrested when when Mr. Tan Sang Yin of attempting to dispose of the watch interesting thing. Few there be Thomas Harly sums up the thought good God prepare mo!"
Zamboanga, P.L, was married to at a pawnshop. The first une said: who would not givo anything to be that must have been in many men's abie to speak lucidly, perhaps minda during the course of the
The recent classical Miss Lau Yam Chi, oldest daughter that the other man had given him PAVLOVA, dances have whetted of Mr. Lau Tal Woon, a merchant the watch to pawn and the other humorously, to numbers of people. warring years.
our appetites for more of Jolo, P.I. This wedding was stated that it dropped out of the Yet what do we find, Men who, in
and we believe our young friends quite in contrast with the previous Japanese man's pocket with a hand- ordinary conversation most
aud their capable instructors have one, in as much as the ceremony Lerchief and he had kept it. eloquent-at any rate able to hold? their own, once on their feet are We should have sat us down to wet been much encouraged in their fashion, excepting that the music and the second was fined $10 with was performed in full Chinese First defendant was discharged atrangely hesitant, and at a loss for
praiseworthy efforts to reveal to us was foreign, the right word. To them the advice would be-write your words andį repeat them from manuscript.
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Then there, in the individual whose apology is that be does not profess. to have that command of language which gives him, the right to siy much, when all the time the truth is that he hae that command ant that right, but chooses not to see it and to take the trouble to endea vour to say something that shall. 6t in with the toast given him either to propose or speak to, and to realise that ho has a duty to his hearers as well. When it is realised that speechifying is after all but talking alond-ban it is also realised that there is a cliche in speaking to he avoided just as there is in writing such as "the honour, which has been thrust upon me," "the way you have received this toast," etc.. etc., then we may expect our bud- ding oratora or after-dinner speakers in their verbal offerings to be an ail a believer in fairies--he has pro-to good digestion and to make an duced photographs of them in addi- evening pass very pleasantly tiat to the spirits of soldiers, taken Martin Luther's advice to would-be at the London Cenotaph, Sir Arthur Peakara is very apt. It is:-
Stand up, speak up, shut up.' is not unknown, and as no-one doubts his sincerity or sanity, lis utterances need to be considered with due 'defarence and not be dis
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"I shot him dend because Because be was any foe, Just so: my fos of course he was; That's clear enough; although
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the true. poetry of motion-which During the marriage ceremony is what good dancing really is. the B.N. Borneo Brass Band dis- Just now Pavlova is entrancing coursed some lively music.Afterthe London audiences with her indom-reception at the Hokkien Club, the private houses. Each hoisting was parable act, and it is likely, we pray happy pair left for what is known greeted with a salvo of crackers. fervently that it may be an, that she at Sandakan as the "Brick House" About noon the Chinese school will undertake another Far Eastern kindly lent by the bride's uncles children, boys and girls, promenad- tqur. Pavlova is to dancing what where the honeymoon is being ed the streets each carrying a small Max Beerbobim is to lettere spent before leaving for the Republican Flag in their hands. inimitable. A home writer put it bridegroom's home at Zamboanga, At the Chinese Chamber of very simply, but very tellingly when P.L
Commerce the drawing of the he said that when Pavlova was off t
lottery GOVERNOR'S VISIT.
for raising a fund the stage you instinctively waited!
the His Excellency the Governor, af¦ for
Chinese schools in for her return. So true. So very North Borneo, Major General Sir Sandakan took place in the new true. And, because it has pathing William Rycroft KC.B., KC. MG wing of the Chamber. The st at all to do with the subject, has with Lady Rycroft, accompanied prize went to Jesselton and the not all the end trouble in Russia by Miss Gardner and Mr. Summer 2nd to Tawao, although San- done que good service-revealed to field, Private Secretary, arrived at dakanites bought most of the us the wonderful art of the, Russina Sandakan from Jesselton by the tickets sold. rolensed to the world singer, actors, vanite and a guard of honour Secretary of the Chinese Chamber people in numerous matters, and S. Kinabalu" and H E. was received with the usual ceremony dancers, writers, etc., the know- ledge of whom, night have been on landing. His Excellency will of Commerce, from the Hou. the Government Secretary saying Our reference to withald from us for many years to stay here for six months. EXAMINATIONS the questions set come.
By the 6. s. Kajang " (on.3-10-23) that His Excellency the Governor QUESTIONS. at the Kowloon
thers returned from Singapore Dr. would be glad to meet a deputa- Dingle, P.C.MO, and ---Dr-tion from the Chamber, to meet at.. British School
Conyngham, who went as Borneo a certain time in the Council Room representatives for the, Medical, Fat the Secretariat to discuss matters Conference at Singapore. By the in connection with the general boat also arrived from welfare of the Chinese community, Jesselton the Hon. the Government and to the terms approved by the Secretary and the Secretariat staff Court of Directors about future for a six months" stay.
lease of land etc. The deputa- `REPUBLICAN (ANNIVERSARY. tion consisting of eight merchants The Ist day of the 9th moon and traders went up at the appoint». (10-1923) being the anniversary ed hour and they were greatly dis of the Republic of
“Yes; quaint and curious war You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is.
Or help to half-s-crown.'
(Pagan.)
Men with mournful faces Preach that joy is ain While through chapel windows
Sunlight dances in.
has set a reader wondering at what To-day's Poon, may be considered the inost peculiar questions set at an examination. He can remember the questions sat by a Chinese master in a scripture | examination, which he considera at least interesting. There were two and they followed each other in succession. The first one was
On what did the Israelites sub sist in the wilderness?"
The second-
"Describe Manna."
Life's a doubtful journey,
Joy is hard to find Drifting on the siplight,
Whispering in the wind.
All the mournful hymn-tunos
Of misguided good Will not change the thrushes
In the shadowed wood.
All the shouted dogmas Still leave misery→→ And the clear streams singing
Onward to the sea.
In Flanders Field.
The love of poetry we are inclined So far as the singing of a hymn missed of the meanderings of a to think is instinctive and deep seance rooted in the minds of most of us. in concerned, the ceremony at the manic. His work in
In many cases however it probably Cenotaph may be said to have been demonstrations and the facts he has been killed in early youth by of a semi-religious character and deduces from them are also matter the manner in which it has been Sir Arthur presented to us at school. To many doubtless in keeping with the senti. of public property.
A man, having been Rense of
NOAH. drowned, reached the ments of those who arranged the refutes the contention that scier of course the lack of o
imagination is against an apprecia-
next world full of excite- ceremony and those who gathered in tists are sceptical of the truth oftion of rhyming lines and those meat and importance. To the first memory of departed relatives nad spiritualism. There are some re-which do not rhyme but which are individual ho met be began to tell friends. In our private capacity wemarkable names to the contrary, still poetry. Added to this is the the particulars. How it had rained need no ceremonies to remind us of The men who do not believe are the lines which for the time being serve how the river overflowed, and the sickening ropetition given to certain unceasingly for a day and a night; those whose life-work is ended. The men who bave not examined. If their purpose, but which by this water reached his house; how years ease the burden of sorrow, and a man of science bus not examined repetition hide from us equally and gradually The listener con.
the evidence, his opinion is worth probably more enduring lines. cealed a yawn and strolled away. memory, but do not altogether
Thua "In Flanders Fieldelosen ite obliterate them. A Borrow's Crown Dore than that of a tu con- charm by the Tipperary-like repeti-complained the new arrival to some. Not very good behaviour,' of Saxow the are reminded, is in ductor. The scientists who believe tious which the hous of the press as near. I was telling him about remembering happier things, and are the men who have applied continue to make each November, the downpour we had; with rain
scientific methods, those who for a time, have shared
They have The first and last verses are by now falling for a day and a night, bnt 1710, stated the grounds for the conclu- obsolete and not true in fact. The he didn't show the slightest our joya and our sorrows. The war
scound is beautiful in the extreme, interest.. may be said to have revivified the, on to which they have come and true to fact. Perhaps ere. the
"That's Noah said the other." -The next Armistice anniversary. comes subject of spiritualism and famed These are the real exparts,
When one gets tired of Purrs reading books that were, written for the world to'
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WEATHER CALENDAR.
NOVEMBER 18..
I must only add, that after a long fit of rainy weather, it has been fair two or three days, and is this day grown cold and fronty; so that you | must give poor little Presto leave to have a fire in his chamber morning and even- ing too, and he'll do as much
· for you. —Swift.
SUNDAY
it into a flame that the ridicule of other deory, the now thing, which round our writers will remember that Colmel McGraw, wrate other axolfers and the doubts of un- they have not tested. It was the lines than In Flanders Field" believers has failed to extinguish, same with the Darwinian theory, whilst there is a whole host of rend had think about and one gets Books like 'Raymond" by one of Huxley and a few others stuck up poetical lines worthy the widest that way sometimes then it is time
just publicity that can be given to this, to teach down from the shelf some England's foremost scientists, can or if at first against the crowd,
there not threa not be dismissed as a joke, whilst the as Crookes and Lodge and Wallace copies of McCrae's poems in the thing which was not written with such a purpose, which is personal: investigations, utterances and writ-have for the truth of spiritualisin, Colony or writers with the and diffuse. What better than the
The history of menerima tells the imagination and energy necessary to discy of foolish, wise old Bamuel In a highly complicated civilised ings of Bid Arthur Conan Doyle, consistent, enthusiastic and sincere, same tale. For seventy years it was unearth the beauties that exist for Fopys? The amazing candour, the oumamity where you have tole have served to keep the subject condemned, by, experts sa ridiculous the king,
of spiritualism, well before the rubbish. The name was changed to public.. Hir Arthur has arrived at hypnotism, and as bypnotion it the stage of prophesya very holds its ane place. Medical men delicato stage, and he states that the it is said are extremely conservative Church which takes up spiritualism and spiritualism for them is said Will sweep the earth", "thyrn they refuen 'to nccept the messago, Christianity will be daad in s comple of centurias. Ha works to estab
ggestion th
conceit, the entire self-revelation of phones, gas, and railway trains, it the man, make him the most de- better, for the bodies and for the lightful of companions, for half-an- souls of those who have souls, or hour or so Nothing is too paltry think they have; to have a little bit Why is it that men who or ridiculous to be bet down. He of Sunday every day. Have a little WHY? have nothin
writes that, having received some work, a little recreation, and a little insist on tak
"Taka "little bit of Sunday venison which was tainted, he sent
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him at all
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A letter was received by the
China, appointed. Instead of shaving a all Chineseshops after their debate as they thought, they were morning sales were closed forced (as some of them informad for business for the day. Pune-me afterwards) to listen to a sort of tually at 8 am. up went the lecture from H. E. the Governor, Chinese Republican flag at all "as if they were a pack of school leading shops, Clubs and othe, boys."
SALOME
St. John had made a few remarks. About Herodias
That even hardened Tetrarchs. Could not allow to pass. Her little flapper daughter Deplored his lack of taste, Determined on his slaughter "For Ma," she said, "is chaste. Now Herod, who'd been drinking, Had asked her for a dance; She stood a moment thinking, Then realised her chance. ***If you will give me, Father,
Whatever I request,
*I will, although I'd rather "Not do as you suggest.” Unthinkingly, he swore an oath To give her anything; w
The moon was blood above them both, The dancer and the king":
As in the river grasses
An argent Illy pales,
So lice a poem passes
The Dance of Seven Vellä.
She ceased, and, bosom beaving. *Please, Po she sweetly said,”
Although its past believing, "!!! "T'd like Jokaznan's head."... They brought the bleeding napper Upon a allver dishy is
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