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It will be 'romem- bered that we gave it as official that the
make the necessary credits. Onco established the sound of the mill and the factory will once again befO.B.E. takes precedence of the beard continuously in the land, the D.S.O. But holders of the O.B.E. number of unemployed considerably are asked not to be too puffed up decroasoil, and a step forward to on this account. The order is itself preceded by the Masters in stato of normalcy gained. Why, Lunacy! if these simple facts are admitted,
"What is the does not recognition take place?
RHINOCEROS." plural of Are the past sins" of Ruesinif
rhinoceros?" It such they bo, to be retained on the cannot be "rkinoceri." The last national alato?; is the present state "o" Is long, and the plural is of the country deemed unsatis- [nctory --What is it? Perhaps the repudiation by the present Govern ment of its predecessors loans and lebts may have something to do with it. That we admit is a pore matter. We like not these repudin- tion of national debts. We are at least fred from that taint, and have a right to expect others to be the But evidently no umount, of arguing is, at the momeat, going to alter opinions, in this respect. No harm can be done by some sort of recognition that would make a partial trade opening possible. Desperate needs demand, desperate
same.
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rhinocerotes," according to our knowledge of ancient Greek, the last "e"being short: Butas Greek has now been given up in nearly cannot expect all schools you English speakers to be purists about such points, and we think the correct plural is rhinoceroses."- The case of
hippopotamus" .
"u' somewhat different, as the stands for short 'o" in Greek. Thus "hippopotami" is the neatest plural, although "hippopotamuses" is just a good English.
Arising out of all this "two ignorami felt their bosoms stirred searching their vade meca for a word
"Questions like this deserve their
quieti,
It's one of manifold non-posúmi, Yes seel the streets are full of
omnibi,
And tropics surely breed rhino-
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WEDNESDAL DECEMBER (19 JAKS
CANTON CUSTOMS.
DR. SUN YAT-SEN'S LATEST MANIFESTO.
SEEKING AMERICAN SYMPATHY.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, has issued (the following appeal to the American people
TO MY FRIENDS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
America was an inspiration and an example when we started our Revolution to abolish autocracy and corruption in high places and establish a Republic in China. We might have well expected an American Lafayette to fight at our side In this good cause.
In this twelfth year of our struggle for liberty, comas not a Lafayette but American Admiral Rawlinson with more ships of war than any other nation in our waters to join those who wish to crush us so that the Republic in China shall perish.
Has the country of Washington and Lincoln forsworn its high faith in freedom and turn from a liberator to an oppressor of a people struggling to be free? We cannot believe it, and we want the officers and men of your fleet-though their guns are already trained on this unfortified City of, Canton-to ponder this question before they shoot us.
And why do they wish to shoot us? Because we rightly claim the Customs revenues collected within the territory of my Government after deducting our proper share of the funds required for the service of foreign debts charged on the Cus- tome reverues of the whole of China: That is a right conceded to every ather Government: It must be conceded to my Gov- emment if only because those revenues belong to us by every right known, to God and man.
We must stop that money going to the enemy to buy arms to kill us, just as your forefathers stopped taxation going into English coffers by throwing English tea into Baston harbour.
Your present rulers may be within their right to withhold from the cause of liberty in China the rich assistance that is lavishly bestowed elsewhere in the cause of human freedom. Bat it would be a crime and an undying shame if the naval power of America should be used for the forcible collection of Customs revenues within the territory of my Government so that traitors and millitarists might flourish in Peking.
SUN YAT-SEN.
Canton, December 17, 1923.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
seems to be the lenst desperate of
Someone else has said. For the many kinds of "medicines" suggested. Protection Free Trade, years I have been tossed on the horns of a similiar dilemma over Socialism. Capital Levy-may be sheep. I always avoid speaking of excellent in themselves, but where these harmless bucolic animals ex- trade is stagnant, and the supply of cept in the singular. When I fancy commoditics is arrested and trade sheep's head for dinner I distinctly. tell the butcher that I want the succumbs. of no use to any one. head of a sheep. I never order sheep's head." For although it Open up Central Europo to
may look all right in print, we have. namfactures insist on it, regno satisractory oral means of in- legal advice, he must first display nise Russia, and doles will go and dicting the apostrophe between a notice to that effect. Next day trade revive.... Better a nation the p and the s. I cannot afford af shop-keepers than one of slop more than one head of a sheep for saw the following notice stuck up In a conspicuous position opposite keepers.
Smith's fowl-run:-" Ducks alle- The boarders pro same hens. You trespass on this 1662, KOWLOON tested against the
old bloke" having plopity, steel tlap cutee you, plurry first use of the paper every morn head light off! S'pose steel tlap no ing. As one boarder put it to the catchee, you catee seed allesame landlady: "The ol' beggar is 60 plurry poison. You savvy, welly
shortsighted that by the time he has finished with the paper a man good; you no savvy, by cli!” can't read it-he smudges all the print with his nose."
Blind.
dinner."
JAPANESE
There is no greater misfortune than to indulge one's sel- Queen Victoria's SCHOOL'S IN husband was a fish desires, and there is no greater than to slander great singer, so wickedness they called him the Prince Concert. another.
The Pilgrim Fathers were great Bravery often
Το the gardeners. They discovered the cowardice.
nothing tastes unpleasant. WAS In the first glass man drinks wine, in the second wine drinks wine and in the third wine drinks
man.
resembles hungry .
"The ocean is not troubled by dust.
Things that do not profit us in changing it is best not to change at all.
There are various paths leading to the attainment of happiness. When we find ourselves upon the
DECEMBER 19.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised la The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
December 19:-Coronet Theatre; Norma Talmadge in "Eternal Flame."
December 19.-Star Theatro; Herbert Rawlinson in "Fools and Riches."
December 19-World Theatro; Wanda Hawley in "The Truthful | Liar."
Deramber 19.--The. Grand Theatre; "Trimmed in Scarlet."
December 19-Theatre Royal; Italian Grand Opera in "Carien."
December 20-Theatre Royal; Italian Grand Opera in Madam Butterfly."
SPORT.
December 23.-Special Medal Round for men on Old Golf course, Fanling.
SOCIAL
December 22.-Special Thé Dansant at Repulse Bay, 4.30-6.30-
p.m.
January 24-Fancy Dress Ball at Peak Club, 9.15 p.m.
AUCTION.
December 20.-Lammert Bros., at Sales Rooms, a selection of toys, 2.30 p.m.
December 21,-Lammert Bros., property, machinery plant and tanning chemicals of the Hong- kong Hide and Leather Co., Ltd, at Sales Rooms, 3 p.m.
COMPANY MEETINGS. December 20.-Fifth ordinary meeting of the China Light Power Co. (1918) Ltd., at St. George's |Building, Chater Road, 11 a.m.
OTHER MEETINGS. December 21.-Annual general meeting of Royal H.K. Golf Club, at Jardine Matheson's, 5.45 p.m.
December 21-Annual general meeting of V.R.C. 5.30p.m.
January 3-Annual general It being cold, Mr. Lee and I meeting of the Royal Hongkong. did sit all the day till three Golf Club (Ladies' Section), at. o'clock by the tre in the Helena May Institute, II a.m. Governor's house I reading a
play at Fletcher's, being A Wife for a Mouth-Pepys.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Lighting up time to-day is at
Exchange on London is 2/271⁄2 on Shanghai 694.
1359. Such a fall of snow as there
hag been in the night! Four 5.43 p.m. or five inches, good, and all the gentlemen are helping Prince of Wales to make a I on the lawn. never saw anything more lovely than the trees loaded with snow-Hon. E. Stan- ley. Osborne.
SHOWIDAN
WISDOM.
Knowledge is always descriptive, and never fundamental. We can describe the appearance and condi- tions of a proces, but not the way of it.
True religion means betting one's
"From the cheerful ways of men cut off" Milton phrased it, and that is what blindness amounts to. The seoing person is able to discriminate and decide; the evil he can "cut aff the beauteous is ever open to him. Nol so the blind to whom "God everything is sbut out. tempers the wind to the shorn lamb" that is unquestionably true. We seem to see in the faces of some blind people a radiance that we ennnot cuteb, that we some times envy. It bespeaks somehow May Flower. sceing mind: a mind that bas The French Revolution acquired something that is worth when everyone cut each other's having. That may be platitudinous heads off. and sinug und should not blind our Cardinal Wolsey was noted for minds to the seeming awfulness of his red underwear.
At one time, such was the power blindness. The "tempering of the wind" probably comes naturally to of Parliament that the king died the one born without sight, or who of a surfeit of speeches.
Achilles was dipped in the River has been deprived of it in early years; but when it has come when Styx and was made invulnerable. life is still unfolding itself to us, He died, however, of corns on his
heels. the awfulness of the disaster is
A dilemma is akind of wild apalling. When it is caused by the bull. hands of others in a cause which may be worthy or unworthy, the awfulness is not for words to describe. Those who labour in hehalf of the blind deserve some. thing more than the kind things that can he said of them they deserve the something which is practical. And
those of St.
We Dunstan's deserve both. applaud H.E. the Governor's per- mission for the use of Government House for the meeting on Friday. No better use could be made of the seemingly but the disease is official residence. We feel sure tit the Governor and Lady aggravated and our unemployed this H.E. KINNAIRD MCMILLANA winter are expected to approach in Stubbs will feel well rewarded if Homer," and in the vestry after When I was a young lad
Union Church, Kennedy Road,
the room is fall to overflowing, and wards the clergyman who had per A-longing to be free, on 19th inst, by the Rev. J. K. number to 2,000,000. Protection as that as a result a fresh interest in formed the baptismal service was I wished for to sail and enil Maconachio, Jahn Daniel & pances has, on the surface at any St. Dunstan's will be kindied that making the usual entries. When Over the sea; Fleming, Greenock, to Anna-rate, been rejected, and those who will not die with the meeting. he came to the second name he Up all the rivers bella Jamieson,
youngest pretend to govern trust find some Don't let it be said that Siegfrod paused thoughtfully, for the parents And down all the streams,
were working-class people. daughter of the late Jumes
other neaus. It is declared that Sassoon's lines zing true :-- McMillan, Greenock.
"Strange, he thought, as he Snug in a tilted caravel:- And such were my dreams, M. Poincare by a policy that seeme
Greek poet, "a queer name for the Aad I bud all my wishen recalled the original Homer, the to be beyond the wit of man reasonably to understand, has closed
son of a navvy."
Then he turned to the proud As a young lad may,
So be dream his heart qut By night and by day.
An alibi is an animal with white wrong one it is our duty to quit it. life that there is a God.
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N. LAZARUS.
MARRIAGE.
Hongkong's Only European Optician.
The China Mail, the markets of Central Europe to
those of Great Britain, and our one time trade with that part of the Horozorg WeorkSDAY, Dec. 19, 1993. glabe has ceased to be, and until a
WORK.
Wo in Hongkong are so far
removed from the Homeland that
the question of unemployment dose
policy is evolved which will mobilise the world against one who is described as a "wrecker of its pesce : find prosperity Central Europe on profitable trading ground will There remming
rezain
closed.
Russia with on established govern-
Does it matter?-losing your
sight?. There's such splendid work for
the blind;
And people will always be kind, As you sit on the terrace remem-
bering
eyes.
POINTS OF RESEMBLANCE
The new born
baby is
Toothless,
Hairless,
Spineless,
Helpless,
Senseless.
The dead image
of his father.
After the rain the ground hard- ens. After a quarrel friendship becomes deeper.
Its immediate fraits are courage, calin, unselfishness, Let your darling boy travel; for stability, nothing opens his eyes like travel-friendship, generosity, humility,
and hope.
ling
Even the streams that pour unto the great sea have passed under leaves and mountains for a while.
The Christian names To-day's Poem. HOMER. of the baby to be Christened Alfred
father.
"Your favourite poet, Mr. Binks?" he asked, pointing to the name.
"Poet, sir? repeated the man And turning your face to the with a surprised look. Poet?
Lor, no; I keep pigeons!"
light.
Do they matter?--those dreams
from the pit?......... You can drink and forget and he
glad
And people won't say you're
mad;
For they'll know that you've fought for your country,
And no one will worry a bit.
(Wander Warning.)
I sighted Madagascar And sailed by Timbuctoo And on to Portland, Oregon :- For, all I could do.
If there are any For all I could do, alis," GRATITUDE. who have felt for I journeyed wearily; any reason what Tired of my caravel, ever that the Japanese did not Tired of the sea. fully appreciate the aid given I tarried not, but sailed and sailed them during their recent time of And sailed with tears becausá great need, such a sense must I'd clean forgot to wish for: speedily be dissipated by a letter To be where I was.
T. MORRIS LONGSTRETIL recently received from a less woman" of Japan." It reads in part:
not came to us with that stabbing ment at any rate, and a population of 180,000,000, which has something sensation of dismay and hopeless- nees that would be the case if we have to give. She has the onormous to offer in exchange for what we could see some of the thousands riches of her helds, forests and
How we all Japanese thank who walk the street, and note the mines with which to pay for the
you for your great, kindness in' Two things struck
this time. You gave us all. You look of despair on the faces of those things Great Britain can supply her.
THE PHIL us very forcibly at sent us much necessary things win in their own brave way, the Russian ia famine-stricken for such
the Secrety's Con
and you all are very kind to us. women, face the situation as best things as steel rails, steam engines, that to judge from the names on We all will never forget them Our thanks are beyond measure. cert last night. The first one is they.com.
hereafter. I must write Armistice day appeals, looma, spindleg everything we pro- the programme the soclety knows and the news in the Home papers duce. And yet the avenues of no bounds. This is splendid. you this, even with auch a broken word, as I could not keep as to the prevalence of distress normal trade are closed and whilst Music is not the perquisite of the occasioned by unemployment, re-que would open them the other with a little enthusiasm on the part Heartfelt gratitude like this does
favoured few. The other is that — secrst my thanks.
lieved in part by GRVernment and refuses to acquicoco. All that 16 of someony, there appears to be the more to cementations together charitable dolce brings the matter to needed is the recognition of a nucleus of an orchestra that shall than political agreements by the notice, but there it ends, auit.com Government of the other to restore be representative of the Colony. score.
The thing is possible. It only only do so, for there are those who the ordinary operations of exchange needs someone willing to do what are in charge and whom wo expect and credit to hearten and encour pleases us to call "donkey to find a way out sa best they can,nge znanufacturers and traders, and work." Won't someone think over
It? They have had plenty of time to give confidence, to financiers to
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Fong Lee, fed up with FOWL the depredations of his neighbours poultry, des cided to lay
According to
ORIENTAL
Eleven fresh cases of small- Pox were reported yesterday.
Home Notes on Freemasonry will be found in this issue of the China Mail,
Rice, flour and sugar quotations will be found in this issue of the
China Mail under Commercial
Notes.
The China Mail is indebted to Messrs. Lane Crawford and Co. for a number of very neat and useful desk calendars.
The Bogey Pool Competition, played at Fanling on 15th, 16th and 17th inst. was won by Mr. B. D. Evans, all square.
The Italian Opera Co. per- form "Carmen" this evening' at
The true wisdom is that it is not 9.15 p.m. prompt. Patrons are re quested to be in their seats what a man does, or has,, or saya:
promptly. that matters; but what he is.
A meeting of the Legislativo- This must be the aim of practical Council is called for to-morrow; philosophy--to make man be when the second reading of the seven Bills introduced last week will be taken.
somewhat.
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It is no good trying to fathom "things" to the bottom; they have nat gat one.
Agnosticism is a fundamental fact. It is the starting-point of the wise man who has discovered that it needs eternity, to study infinity.
The Hon. the Captain Super- intendent of Police was observed yesterday clearing some of the human obstructions at the foot of Wyndham Street.
On Monday, the 6.8. "Halvdan”- returned to port a few hours after sailing as a Chinese fireman had Agnosticism, however, is no ex-been seriously injured through cuse for indolence. Because we being struck on the head by a fall- cannot know all, we need not there- ing ash bucket, when the ship was fore be totally ignorant.
off Waglan.
From Mr. F. Ralphs (in charge: The true wisdom is that in which of the St. John's Ambulance all knowledge is subordinate to Brigade in the Colony) the China practical aims, and blended into a fail learn that members of the working philosophy of life.
Stops Croup
It stops croup. That's why mothers, koop. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house. It contains no marcoties and is best for the children. For sale every. 1- where.
HARBOUR.
All the ships of the world come here,;
Ships from every billow's form; Fruiter and oiller, drear,
Liner and lugger and tramp a-roam. Some are scented of palm and pine.
(Some are fain, for the Polo's far clime), Some are scented of soy and senna,
Some-ah melare scented of home. All the ships of the world come hers, 10. Day and night there is sound of bells,
Seeking the port they calmly steer,
Clearing the port they ring farewells. Under the sun or under the stars
• Under the light of swaying spars), Under the moon or under morning.
Murmur they, as the tide swells.
CALE YOUNG RICE.
Brigade have during the present campaign vaccinated 10,908 persons. Vaccination is still go ing on..
The case in which a man and were Indicted at the 4 Woman Criminal Sessions on five counts of unlawfully having in their possese sion certain papers and machinery for the purpose of making forged banknotes was concluded yester day afternoon. Both were found "guilty" by the jury, the man belag sentenced to a total of five years imprisonment with hard labour and the woman, to six months' imprisonment.
Wanda Hawley's new Restart star picture, The Truthful Liar"- proved to be eminently convincing to a large audience that witnessed its presentation at the World Theatre yesterday-The story is dramatic and the situations are of the gripping kind which motion picturepatrons enjoy, Misač Hawley is finely supported by. Edward Hearn, leading man, and A thoroughly competent cast of players.