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England
were wont to quote
THURSDAY, MAY 21,
SHREDS
AND PATCHES.
In England As double daisy known to gardens as
gibst first a missionary was sent
and he was killed; then a soldiers and they were killed; and later an-army which conquered and occupied. The missionary inva sion of China has been peaceful. There have been acts on the part ASCENSION DAY, cension Dey the Tissington daisy, which ap of Chinese that have stamped
has been known pears almost peculiar to the place, their "half as old as time" civilisa- as "Bounds Thursday," from the letters of the texts and and is in much repute for forming tion as beneath contempt. We should be much surprised to hear beating the bounds of the parish, mottoes, with which the wells are that records can be shown indicat transferred by a corruption of adorned. The day is observed as ing payments made to British Rogation procession to this day-val attracts a considerable num
a complete holiday, and the festi- Missionary Societies in respect of One of the prettiest customs of ber af visitors from all the neigh acts resulting in death. It is the county of Derby is that of bouring towns good therefore to read that nearly
and villages: all the British missionaries and well-dressing on Holy Thursday the Church, and on its conclusion Divine Service is performed in societies in China have notified or Ascension Day at Tissington, the minister and congregation the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, near Dovedale. In the viallage join in procession and visit each Mr. Austin Chamberlain and the are five springs or wells, and well. A portion of Scripture is Chinese Minister that they have
resolved, not to apply for any these are decorated with flowers, read at each, and a psalm or ap share of the Boxer Indemnity and arranged in the most beautiful propriate hymn is sung. The not to accept any. grants, there-devices.
whole of the well being visited, Boards are cut into and a prayer, offered up, the from, except with the full per arches, pediments, pinnacles, and company separate and, from mission of the Chinese,-**?
CADUCEUS,
THE
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SOCIETY'S JOURNAL,
absence in public-houses in the village, spend the rest of the day same custom was observed at in temperate enjoyment. The Brewood and Bilbrook, in the County of Stafford.
Mr. M. Manuk, in a IDEAL letter to the members, of the Theosophical Society utters a the Hongkong Lodge of beautiful writes!-
thought when he
Remember that life without an ideal is empty, and the high- est ideal of all is love and self- sacrificer
WHERE TO RETIRE TO FROM THE
FAR EAST ?
other ornamental forms, and are covered with moist clay to the thickness of about half-an-inch: the flowers are cut off their stems and impressed into the clay as closely together as possible, ferm- ing mottoes, borders, and other devices; these are then placed over the wells, and it is impossible The May issue of the, Caduceus to conceive a more beautiful ap is termed a Conference number to pearance than they present, the the extent that papers read at the water gurgling from beneath recent Medical Conference by them, and overhung by the fine : members of the University foliage of the numerous ever- Medical Society are given. The greens and, forest trees by which detailed report of that particular they are surrounded. There is Conference is the privilege of the one particular, variety of the China Medical Journal and the Caduceus modestly recognises that privilege, The Journal, in addition to an interesting Editorial, reissues the papers submitted by Dr. Lim Boon Keng on Sir Patrick: Manson; the Leprosy Problem by Dr. Ernest Mair; and others by Professor both in serious and sarcastic vein, does "not offer a very alluring Disenssions are not uncommon, Retirement to the British Isles. Shellsbear, Professor Digby, Drs. concerning u land fit to retire to prospect to the man who can only H. G. Earle and J. Anderson. In and settle down in for the enjoy- all these, the lay as well as the ment of the leisured years after expect to enjoy a small income, Surely professional. mind will find some-strunuous service in the East, let us place it at £500 a year as
than passing observee Office how it is intended to utilise interest. The Caduceus is to be (Singapore).
Straits Times"
a fair average. To settle down in To many this ques- the services of such an eminent ser congratulated on having reached tion, is stáit oue of the distant Great Britain on such an income vint of the Crown on his departure volume 4 of its history. Its use- future; to others of the near future; must appear to him to be little from Hongkong. Why, then, thestrated and its longevity seems present. The latter more spe of real poverty. It is surprising. fulness has ere this been demon- and to still others of the immediate short of being committed to a life
ted to a li interminable delay in giving assured. publicity both as to Sir Edward Stubba's destinition and as to his successor bere? Why treat this Colony like a child that must no be told anything until mother chooses? What is to be gained by keeping the Colony in the dark? Why pursua tactics of this kind that so annoying to the overseas shareholders of British Empire, Unlimited? If the directors of the concern at Downing Street canbot", lake the shareholders into their oun- fidence, they deserve all the criticism they get. Indeed, they are inviting censure by their stupid policy of continuing in the ways that are dark, so very, very dark indeed.
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FAMOUS SOLDIER.
NEW PALESTINE HIGH COMMISSIONER.
Lord Plumer's Rise.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, May 21.
the
cially exercise their minds on the
lightly have these unfortunates best called the New, Poor." Yet to most the very thought of ultimate
of
solution of this, to them, most how short a distance such an in- serious problem. "Where shall I come can be made to go in these. settle when the time coines for me modern days, even with the most to retire from active work is careful economy and self-sacrifice. often heard on men's lips in these days of high cost of living, and it comes like a voice crying in the wilderness for help. The question to be decided concerns, Government urement to any other ind suveTM officials, military and naval officers, that of their forefathers represent professional and commercial me something utterly repugnant, and alike. All are confronted, in such complete reversal of their greater or lesser degrse, with the deals that tlioy cummot contem- task of solving the riddle. Wealthy plate it with any degree men of commerce, who have been equanimity; and there are still It is officially announced that able to tear themselves away from others who are under obligations, the King has approved the their businesses, do not stand so which cannot be sturked, to settle appointment of Lord Plumer as much in need of sympathy in this down in the homeland with re- High Commissioner and Comman- respect for they are happily in a latives. And it is these who r der-in-Chief of Palestine in place they have cherished and regardlessed purchasing power of their pen- position to fulfil whatever designs most concerned over the diminish- - of Sir Herbert Samuel whose tenure of office will expire at the of consideration of cost. They are sus and savings owing to the con- end of June..
indeed to be envied. But theditions now prevalent in the British. Sonie there are who solve. others, what of them? The greater Isles. majority bave been unable to place their difficulty by spending the re- WAYS THAT ARE DARK.
Field Marshal Lord Plomer is a themselves securely above the ap Binder of the day in the fouth Healing coonomic chaos of the pre of France, Italy, the Canary Diocesan Boys' School at Yaumatis joined the Army at, the age sent age, and at most can look Islands or elsewhere, as their If those who sit in the seats of to look out over the country on all of 19, and saw active ser- forward to an anxious old age modest income 'goes mich. Hurther the mighty at the Colonial Office of the Headmaster's enthusiasm, African Wars. During
sides: and to get but a faint touch vice in the Soudan and Southwhile endeavouring to make ends in such places than at home. The the meet on a comparatively modestoney is lost to the Etupire, and cannot be accused of resorting to is an experience to be remember European war he added to his fixed income; it is not everyone good citizens are squeezed out of tricks that are
vain, it may cared. People will tell you that the laurels as commander of the 2nd who will possess more than a few. Those people with small fixed
Bundred pounds a year. tainly be said that for ways that are Diocesan Boys' School is the best Army, B. E. F., in France.
These incomes are valuable assets to any dark they would ballic even Brot in the Colony; that it cannot be was General Officer Commanding of the Civil Service, the armed being driven out of the homeland are to be largely found in the ranks country, and increasingly they are
Hurte, It appears to be with them cipline; the class of boy it turns for five months and proved him forces; und" the lesser lights of the to seek relief from the burden of
"touched" in the matter of dis-the Italian Expeditionary Force
Hongkong, Thursday, May 21, 1925.
FA New School.
To stand on the site of the new:
former Governor of Malta.
He
one of the seven dewily sins to show out; and the results it obtains. self a tower of strength to the less conspicuously successful than living. It is a serious matter, and commercial world who have been high taxation and high-cost of their land-to disclose to those im- We are not partisans and little Allies. He was appointed Gover those whom we are pleased to call, demands a solution. We have re- mediately concerned overseas who good is achieved in indulging in nor of Malta in 1919. Made a jocularly perlupy, Merchant cently been placed in possession of is to be favoured with guberna- tions. But it can be said that the received a peerage with grant of blem to be faced by these facial now Empire Community Settle comparisons or vexatious conten Field-Marshal in July of 1919, he Princes in the East, The pro-a set of literature concerning the torial jilums, In this Colony Diocesan School deserves well of £30,000. speculation is still rife as to who is the community; that it has out-
ly less favoured individuals, many ment movement, and have perused. The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert of whom realise that the time of it with genuine interest and sym, to succeed Sir Edward Stubbe as grown its present, cramped quar Samuel is a former Home Secre-final retirement canot be muchi, pathy. There is much which com-
a
$1.00-ONE DOLLAR-$1.00 Governor and as to hove His Excel.ters, and that the new school tany: He oarned high praise by longer postponed, is: tot lightly inends itself in the general idea of
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lency will be his trunks offere something that should his conduct of the Children Bill in disposed of and must occasions them the movement, and the very fact London of Nigeria? He himself is believe that education should be ship. He was given a seat in the The well-earned years of leisure--are fostering the scheme makes no excite the interest of all who 1908, and won a Privy Councillor many, anxious hous of thought that the influential committee who being kept in the dark, or else he of the best, given in surroundings Cabinet as Chancellor of the the reward of a long period of appeal for money in support of its has the virtue inherent in every which are of the best, and in Duchy of Lancaster in 1909 and strenuous toil in an exacting climate project is a healthy sign. To en- good and loyal Civil Servant
buildings which, shall we say, "let appointed President of the Local-re treasures of which they wish sure its success, the movement in the air." Great schemes and Government Board 1914. On to make the very most; but how salts, not for money but active in- knowing how to keep a secret little minds go ill together. The the reconstruction of the Ministry This is especially an acute problem terest and moral, support. Briefly If the ways of the Colonial Office new Diocesan Boye School is a in May of 1915, he became Post-when retirement from active work stated it is a movement, aimed at are dark, they are likewise irritat- great scheme, fostered by great master-General, and then Home falls ne later in life. It is a real | facilitating co-operation along the ing. Why should it be left to the minds or a great mind. The Secretary. He was appointed hardship for those retiring in these large numbers of retired profes Press to guess, for example, who is community should feel honoured High Commissioner of Palestine, unsettled times that the period of monal classes and others who have to succeed Sir Hugh Chifford in its successful consumation. If it
at being invited to take a part in and knighted in July of 1920. Nigeria and who is to follow Sir believes in the future of its Edward Stubbs in Hongkong? Why university it should believe alen in should it be left to the London new institution..
the schools, which feed that papers to tell us that the name most frequently montiqued id connec with the Governorship of Nigeria that of our present Governor should the Press and te
be left
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Y'S SMILE.
curefreo retreat, which ought to winal" fixed incomes, and who find huve been their reward, should that living in Great Britain is very prove to be but an empty dreun, difficult, if not impossible, at the mockery of their just deserts, present time. For the first time, They have our most heartfelt a serious attempt is being made to sympathy, for they are indeed to mobilise these people on a graud be pitied. Those who are able to scale so that, within the Empire: count evanilmore years before if not if the British Tales, they can becoming due to retire lave, bot demand id obtain good and much to cause them teep concern, happy conditions for themselve for obnditions may and probably and their children which in Kwill junge much" for the Setter dividually they can never hope to belare their line, crrived. P ottain. The schema is not yet matij bit a strong committee is Bvicen voluntarily to ning which will be both practica, basis. hich Auld make
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