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THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE.
mons.
SATURDAY MAY 3, 194
WORLD FLIGHT.
MAJOR MARTIN, STILL
MISSING...
Last Septem THE VENDETTA. ber the little, suave chemist sald his neighbour, who is a house decorator, a bad corn-pad. The unfortunate man put it on, made his corn into a bunion, and took it off again. Content to wait, but fixed as Fate, he stiled his hate unții recently. Then the chemist his cold-water tap was running sent round hurrladly to say that and unable to stop.
With a dramatic Ah!" the decorator removed it. mended it, charged Is.
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OTHERS TO PROCEED.
CHONIE, May 2 Despite search by all available been found, but it is hoped that he vessels, o truce, of Major bartin Han
has taken refuge in one of the numer ous coves along the desolate Alaskan ogast.-Reuter's American Service,
NEW YORK, May 2. Orders have been, telegraphed to to proceed on the world fight with three aeroplanes as soon as weather
its
Meanwhile the search for Major Martin confines Rewerie Ameri oan Service.
A message from Alapkit stated that anxiety was felt regarding the. whereabouts of Major Martin, the lendor of the United States Army world flight venture. He was de tained of Chignik by sovore, weather. and 400 lbs. of ice accumuinted on
BRITISH FLIGHT,
A mooring between local firing en was held this week to discuss mitable nrrangements for the yorep! flon nt Hongkong of the Bett | world-dier-Sonądren. Tiondir Vve. Iaren who is expected within the
They shall go, but one and all Leave their faces on the wall, Leave brave words of hope and next two or three works. Their in-
love.
Legendwide inscribed above.
--Robert Louis Stevenson.
WEATHER CALENDAR
1776.
MAY 3.
commendations will be el ene! gas sismoes to the " Asians 77 volum Co. who as aments for the Shell Com- dann mun meinte spizenecihly four fle The and dim. local arrangements. mally with souroul to mantlig Thư rn, commendations into precrises elust Hn to the road the AE.. hiểu ra. ceived no information from Tondon other than dirreligma” with command ba
are already here and they do not Jenome, if the prenosals would meet
with Maclaren's favour.
I am here these two days, the sunply of oil and potres) which
and smelling my lilac, listening to my nightingales, and leaving the wicked town to the young and healthy. Walpole.
a turn-coat, etc., etc." Positive John Masefield. It is not too What the next 20 years will bring arguments on the facts and needs much to say that Sir Ronald Ross forth can only be imagined; but cut the Panama Canal and made progress waiting on progress must of the case are ignored. But a third of the world habitable." bring us to a state of perfection inconsistency does not always
**This is the greatest probably only dreamt of by the mean double-dealing and two-thing done in our time by one early pioneers to whom all facedness; I often denotes the man.". Ronald Ross of course honour and praise.
never dug a spade of Panama courage to risc above falsehood earth. or went near the fever. and hide-bound traditions, and to stricken cities now made healthy, follow the changes in valuation which moved Masefield to write as in one's mind. Had Gladstone not he has. In plain word, Ronald Ross by his discover of the been for once in his life inconsist-
malarial parasite mde the
and tragic history than ent, had he with his feelings and Panama Canal possible, and the a pair of wooden gates to be set up ideals remained all his life a con-tropies lean of the horor they in the Palace of Beauty. They are
"It only wanted a now leather servative, his career would have undoubtedly, were. The story of copies of the sacred gates of the washer," he smiled. He had used Tjontonan). Smith all Dutch Harbour Ross' work of discoveryreads like Teheran Mosque, and were made the corn-pad at 1200 per cout. been one long hypocrisy, a series a page from a Smiles "elf Help. by a poor: Persian wood-carver, proft. Sequel the tab became of falsehoods to the true inner There are all the incidets of dis- who defied the decree that they disorderly on the following day, pulse beating so strongly within couragement; the intene applica-were not to be copied. Each day and in trying to mend it himself tion to a self-appointedtask over he made a pilgrimage to the mos- the chemist recognised the washer. many weary hours and the ulti- que, committed some detail to
He is now lying in walt for the Adaptation and change these mate success. Here is vignetta memory, and then went home and decorator. are the fundamental laws of for the dramatic finale the long wrought it in the wood. But his visits caused suspicion to fall upon growth and progress, of existence quest told in the discover's own him, he was watched, his secret
discovered, and, on the completion To-day's Poem. itself. We do not blame a man for worda:-
The dissection w/excellent, of his task, he was found murder- wearing woollen clothes in. winter
(The New House.) and I went careful through ed, and his work disappeared. Is the house not homely yet? the tissues, now 80, Amilar to Presently the gates came into the There let pleasant thoughts be set the machine. Fle left in the morning and cotton-staffs in summer; nor
me, searching eva micron hands of Persian dealers, who sold are we surprised at vegetarians of
with the, same passis and care at a sacrifice rather than keep With bright eyes and hurried feet, to join his comrades at Dutch Far the tropics turning into voraciona
as one would searchsome vast thein, and at length, they were There let severed friendships hour and nothing had been seen of
meet,
him since. It was feared the pre- flesh eaters when they migrate to
ruined palace for a Itle hidden recognised in a small. London
vailing stents might have forced colder regions.
treasure. Nothing. No, these curlo shop, and will be one of Thore let sorrow learn to smile, "new mosquitoes alsovere going Wembley's multitude of attractions. And sweet talk the nights beguile.him to make an isolated and provar-
lons landing.]: to be a failure: therewas some-
The Table of the Thus shall each, a friendly elf, thing wrong with te, theory. But the stontach time still re-
House of Com-Leave you something of himself," mained to be elamped-lying
divorce Something dear and kind and true, from which nay. That willatay and talk with you. there, empty and daid, before
according to Mr. me on the glas alie, a great Birrell, dry the fountains of the white expanse f dls like
eloquence of some ex-Ministers in large courtyard of flagstones, the new Parliament, has a place in each one of thic must be political history. It was Disraeli scrutinised - Elf an hour's
who. welcomed "that substantial labour at least. I was tired, and plece of furniture" as a shield be- what was the u? must have tween him and the ardour of examined the stomachs of a Gladstone opposite. It has been Adaptation and change--these are thousand moskitos by this described as the physical fulcrum the key-notes of wisdom and pro- time. But thAnjel of Fate beteen the two front benches for gress. An open mind is a great fortunately laihis hand on my the attacks of Opposition leaders head; and I a clear and and the replies of Ministers. At thing and stamps its possessor as
end, close to the almost perfecttirular outline Its narrow one apart from the unthinking
before me of aut 12 microns Speaker's chair, site the Clerk, in down, with his two narrow-minded multitudes that
in diameter. be iutline was wie and much too sh the cell too Assistant Clerks at his side. On crowd every civilised (?) corner of
the table lies the mace, and also small to bun ordinary the globe. One of the functions
those two solid brass-bound boxes stomach-cell mosquito. I
As was indicated recently in on which are the anvils of political of education is, or should be, to
looked a littlerther. Here
inthetisse in China Mail reverter had eloquence. wipe out stagnating prejudices, to
was, another and another
with a Government officigl. The land- exactly similall. The after-
in place most favoured at the meet- "burn all the jungle into whole-
noon was hot overcast; and
ing of local flying 'men was the some ash, heaps" and leave the
stretch of wote between Stonecut I remember hing the dia- mind fallow to all impressions-
phragm of thuh-stage con-
We are practising Communiststers Taland and Taichikok, where the Americans propose to land (and not indeed to accept all blindly
deneer of thhicroscope to
error, in the nursery.Mr. Alec Waugh, where there are four moering hues but to be blind to none; to weigh admit more at and then
Would to Heaven the House of place for the use of the Americans them in the balance, to put oneself changing the . In each of
Commons were in carnest. Mr. Mr. J. A. Shaw of The Stalent these cells thewas a cluster
Smillie, M.P.
Oil Company. Mr. Shaw lins indi- in sympathy with them; and then,
of small gran black as jet.
We believe Irrationally that caied his willingness to len them even though rejecting them, to admit that others may be
Thus, not onlyas the way to "Essays in Old French Forms," posterity will know what is what. at the disposal of the British flier
Mr. Desmond MacCarthy. aleo. If you want to construct a novel The Stonecutters-Taichikok area- impressed without incurring the opened at last ystematizing the ballades are invariably termed There is, for instance, reproach of ignorance and the best measurer combating ballads.
the carrying of rin by, this "The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme, the way to do it was not to go to has many advantages in addition o stupidity.
species of mosquitut scientists one of the finest ballades in the novelist for the plot, but to a thaf of the facility with which small existence. If the poet chose to policeman. Mr. Travers Hum-craft may be kept away. The open mice nocessary for the landing of This is the' attitude of ideal had the original se of the dis- misname his work there is little phrey. criticism in Literature. Science, ease traced for that time, the more to be said, but undoubtedy
Macaren's Amphibian is available and the spot is near the Cosmopolitan direct consequen being the the verse-form employed in these
Dorks and Bailey's shipyards where Art, and also Politics. What is facility for investing the wanted is sympathy and sincerity. insidious developm of malaria poems is the ballade, and not the
repairs can be effected. We want a soul that will be in its many and disguised "active, wind-beaten, but ascend-forms.
A curious controversy The unwitting.caf malarin
might be. founded on ing." And in the ascent it will
accounts for about hird of all
the suggestion made In happen that the mental horizon is attendances at hots in the
court the other day that the fact of a man being widened and enlarged; that things tropies, and generate-third of are seen in their true significance the entire populatiofers from able to play Bridge and keep his and perspective: that inherent it every year. The therefore score was a testimony to mental
no need further thtify the soundness. Would | prejudices are fung aside; that a cause of the Ronald Institute. accepted as an universal, guide? man sees he has been wrong and The facts of the majestify to Everyone who plays cards often of ng and must have met people of ap declares it: Then Lo! he is the wisdom
endowing such an ate and Parently low mental calibre who branded with the loathsome sin of
of the were at the same time good card- thereby honouring
players. There is such a thing as inconsistency. Not sin in our benefactors of the race. a card brain, and it happens very eyes! Honest inconsistency is the Hongkong is belug to take often that, in any four, the person of the with the best brain for the height of truth, for whereas it is a share in finding
£50,000 asked for, anuid feel ordinary purposes of life is the easy for a man to continue in a honoured in so doingr have worst player. HONGKONG CIGAR groove, yet to change when one's we not our Stanley to strate
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HIS WISH. He boy was taken the teath of a mocking world ever the Government will he lead
down to the country ›**** | lavish or “"gibes and flouts and in making a donation y the for the day. The sun was shining sncers," a man must have a real Colony. But it should top at brightly, spring was in the air, ♦♦♦s | courageous love of truth; and it that. The call is to, th vidual buds and bulbs were bursting with often requires a very high type who, as a result of Ross new life. He admired the beautiful finds residence in thestant scene for a long time, and then of courage for one in the public parts a very pleasant ti
sighed heavily: I wish I could live everywhere like God does, he lime-light to refute his past
whispered in an awed tone." activos und utterances-in other words to be inconsistent.
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INCONSISTENCY A VIRTUE
.
BALLAD, OR BALLADE?
The new Oxford edition of "The Complete Poetical Works of Austen
Dobson" contains ап frequently repeated, which ap- pears to have descended from earlier-editions of "Collected Poems" issued during the poet's lifetime. In the section devoted
ballad.
THE CALD SENSE.
:
this be
POINTS OF VIEW.
LANDING PLACP.;
The gift of rhetoric has been responsible for more bloodshed on this earth than all the guns and explosives that were ever invent-
A NIGHT LANDING? ed.—Mr. S. Baldwin, M.P.
In the event of the plane reaching Man, being reduced more and Hongkong after dark, necessitating w more by economic pressure, being night landing the suggestion has nothing but a money-making | been made to fix a searchlight loʻone' machine, only women have time to of the mooring buova or obtain the read. The French Ambassador. assistance of one of the police lawi-
chew fitted with a searchlight.
SHADOWS BEFORE. Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Theatre:
The question of securing suitable mets and views of the locality, on which the various landmarks can be clearly shown, was also discussed by the meeting. These will be obtain- od and sent off to the airmen in time to reach them at their last stepping place before coming on to Hong- kona
Ärangements will also be made for wireless the latest weather reports to Haiphong.
AEROPLANE STUNTS.
LOCAL AIRMAN'S TRIAL
TO-DAY,
Mr. H. W. Abbott, the during
May 3-Coronet Theatre; Lon Chaney in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
May 3-Star Theatre, Kowloon; Classical and Characteristic dances: also The Conquering Power." May
3-World Rin-tin-tin in "Where the North Begins."
May 3-Queen's Theatre; "The Hero."
May 3-7-Theatre Royal, Wil-airman who intends to startle the liam Heughan, renowned Scottish public to-morrow with his thrilling Basso-Baritone in an amazing re tricks on an aeroplane in mid-air pertoire of songs.
has been working with an army May At Helene May Institute, of assistants on his baby machine moving pictures of Hongkong taken for the past month. His preporn- for Empire Exhibition, 9.15 pm. tions neared completion during the past week and yesterday after- i
May 17-Dance at Peak Club, noon, the body of the 'plane was 030 p.m.
ready: The engine,, which he has May 31-Dance at Peak Club. overhauled entirely, responded 9.15 p.m.
with a roar in the Railway godown at Kowloon and all that remained was, to fit the renovated wings before the machine was ready for
SOCIAL.
closing
After the vessel Twenty Years After.
THE VOICE IN had drifted on THE BUSH, to the rocks and Thoughts are fixed on ghts
all hope of which daring aviators king saving it had been abandoned, the The Ross Institute.
A group of people in London to circumvent the glob the missionary lashed himself to want £50,000. At 2/- equalling agreed hope is that the man few spars and plunged into the the dollar that means $600,000. It of different countries weve sea. In a few hours he was
SPORTS, is an enormous gum and the things their object. They are era washed ashore and had crawled
May 8-R.HY.C.'s that could be done with it are and from their trials an les up the beach out of the reach of
erujno and ladies' day, 8 p.m. The Chinn Mail, almost limitless. This group of will emerge that experiech the angry billows.
He was on an unknown island,]: PUBLIC AUCTIONS. people-numbering amongst them will aid considerably the in
and, fearing what he might May 3-Lammert Bros., at H.K. flight. This has been done and some of the most wealthy, and the future will be to encounter in the way of unfriendly & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., Hung-preliminary to his exhibition to- most influential that Britain emulate the exmple et natives or even cannibals, hehom, a quantity of miscellaneous morrow afternoon, Mr. Abbott possessses are moved with one aim, them. Twenty years ago decided to wait until nightfall genr. etc., 11 am-----
intends to fly his machine on a May 6-Lammet Bros. ad Go-trial spin this afternoon. and idea in wishing to gather in thers Wright acheved test before venturing inland. When
The machine would not be re- £50,000. They desire to do honour flight in an engin driven it was dark he began his journey down No. 7 (Upper) B.K. & Kow- to one man, and in that way to than-air flying machine fraught with unknown perlls from loon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.,cognised as the one which crashed Kowloon, 706 sacks four, 11 am over Happy Valley some time ago. In those topsy-turvy days of make some of the places of the fight lasted less than teman-eating savages.
May 14-Lammert Bros., at Sales It has been repainted and British politics when the Coalition earth more anfe for mankind. but it showed the what
He had gone a distance of about
Rooms, leasehold property, thoroughly overhauled; it is fixed was followed by the short-lived
3 pm." extreme caution, t
and bolt has been neither replaced. KLYN-HARVEY.-On April Baldwin administration, which in to endow it so that the work of within the range(human and he crawled towards it with
June 11-Lammert Bros. at or cleaned and oiled, 26. 1924, at Shanghai, its turn gave way to the present tropical regions shall be carried have abundantly roved tod
He could make out the outline the premises of the H.K. Tramway Hans Klyhn to Daisy Harvey, Labour Government with its on regularly and permanently. Air Services to Contite of a rudely constructed hut, and Co., Ltd., Bowrington Canal Rd. both of Shanghai.
Beveral titled ministers, we heard And the name of this building is now a feature of Fropean he waited near it, listening
Presently he heard a voice say. East, steam driven electrio generat
ing plant, 8 p.m. a great deal about the incon-to be the Ronald Ross Institute plane is being us in mo
for Tropical Diseases. Thus in a exploration, whil in con "Why the blue blazes, didn't sistency of certain individuals. man's life-time is it proposed to do with defence, it becor you play your blinking ace of That word inconsistency has honour to him and to advance the problem that in ing the hearts,yuu dunder-headed old always been a favourite with cause of medical science in tropical of politicians. Tyty,shot
On hearing this the missionary paticians and journalists."Mr. X, regions. Striking things have separate us the
the
exclaimed a MEMA been said of Ronald Ross, and the fledgling-flight
Thank the Lord, who says this now, said that in most striking, because they are brothers, but airy how
Christiana at last!" fore he is inconsistent, the most simple, are those used by the science of avian prog
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