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suffering of these consequences. They cannot expect sympathy. They cannot be raised to the status of martyrs. Law and order must prevail even in China when the lives and the interests of foreigners are menaced.
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TUESDAY, JUNE
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The additions covering, ordinary vehicles are renne. “A licensed driver is not to allow his vehicle to be driven by one who is un- licensed; whilst public motor vehicles are to carry. spare wheel and a serviceable kit of
That tobacco is a emulation between. these wardens.ge tpois to the satisfaction of the A FALLACY. good thing with who, by his graciousness in gathers head of the police. There should;
which to stop bleed Ing and good husbandry in ex- it appears to us, be some rule ing. covering those roads where there.
ponding, can best advance the The plan of trying to stop churche's profit. is either no sidewalk for pedes- bleeding with tobacco. must never noighbour parishes at those times Besides, the trians, or one of parrow dimen-be used, as there is great. danger lovingly visit each one another sions making it almost impossible of the patient becoming poison-, and this way frankly spend their for it to be used." In this class of ed"-First Aid to the Injured, by money together. The afternooners thoroughfare the pedestrian is in Dr. Peter Shepherd, and revised are consumed in such exercises as extreme danger of injury. Aby Robt. Bruce, M.R.C.S...
olde and yong folke (having word of caution to drivers should "When a small blood vessel is elare) des accustomabley weare not be out of place.
wounded the hemorrhage may be out the time withall. When the arrested by the coagulationIn their account to the parishioners, feast is ended, the wardens yeeld. (clotting) of the blood alone. The cloth occludes the wound and the and such money as exceedeth the Even a
disbursement is layd up in stora, open mouth of the cut vessel.to defray any vessel may become occluded part. Imposed on them for the good of
moderate "sized blood
extraordinary ly by the clotting of the blood and the country or the prince's service, charges arising in the parish or partly by the contraction and re- neither of which commonly gripe traction of the walls of the artery. so much, but that somewhat still Coagulation of the blood may be remayneth to cover the purse's accelerated by (a) cold, in the bottom." form either of a stream of ice-cold lato desnetude, if it be not already This, custom is falling water, of lint or pads of cotton discontinued wool soaked in the water, or of pieces of ice applied to the bleed- ing point, (b) hot water at a temperature of 115deg. F. applied as a stream or in pads on the part,"
How to Control Oplum,
M.M., F.R.C.S in the British Sir James Cantlie, Red Cross Society's First Aid Manual, p. 84.
CORNWALL.
་༔
TRUE. lected her
A lady estate owner col❤..
own rents in She found one of her tenants in a order to save expense.
began conversation with a com discontented frame of mind, and plaint of her own."
"Your kitchen, Mrs. Brown," she said. "is in a very bad state.
. But it was the tenant who- scored.
"
One suggestion for the control of opium emanates from America. The physician attached to the Tombs Prison, New York, who has thousands of addicts under his care, proposes that the United States should solve the opium problem by prohibiting the importation of opium altogether, growing in the U. S. all the poppies necessary for the manu- facture of poppies for medicinal purposes, and keeping the manu facture under Government control He indicates, where, in America, the poppies could be grown. The suggestion is a practical one. It is that of the putting your own house in order type, and on this ground alone commends itself. It has to be remembered that the Westerner has quickly come to the of what may be termed oriental drugs and narcotics. Rightly of the young people going in used and under qualified medical droves into the country to partake control the moderate use of such of milk and cream. Carew in his for medicinal purposes is in order. Survey of Cornwall (p. 68), speak. It is the abuse that is causing 30 ing of the church ale, says that much harm-moral and physical ["two young men of the parish are
in those who have become yerely chosen by their last fore- THE GOLD STANDARD, er at one addicts Adopt this eminently goers to be wardens, who, dividing shops at Home. handed over sound, simple and sane question the task, make collection among sovereign in payment for goods: of the big amongst Western nations, and the parishioners of whatsoever The young woman who took it those who are primarily provision it pleaseth them. responsible for the growth of the voluntarily to bestow. This they scanned it with curiosity. She poppy will have profitable channels employ in brewing, baking, and was not old enough to remember closed to them. It will enable other acates (provisions) against the "quid pro quo," so she took it those in real earnest in Eastern Whitsuntide; upon which holy.to the buyer. He knew it to be a countries the better to grapple days the neighbours meet at the with an evil which has done feed on their owne victuals, con
church-house, and there merrily much to sap the moral, and tributing some petty portion to the physical fibre of great peoples.
stock, which, by many smalls, groweth to a meetly greatness; for there is entertayned a kind 'ot
China's Chaos,
Whitsuntide Is observed at Pol perro by a custom
"and you would look the same, if "Yes, ma'am, it is." she agreed, you hadn't had any paint on you for five years.
A custom-
&
"thick'un," but he was suspicious. cashier, who, desiring to be on the So he, in turn, took it to the safe side, sent it across, the street to the Midland Bank to establish its genuine character. It was a real sovereign!
HONGKONG AND THE CHATER COLLECTION.
dimly
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Straws show which way the wind blows. A "Times" leader also shows which way thought is trending in Europe regarding things Chinese. This great paper pleada that Britain takes the lead It matters not at this distance in devising a plan for delivering from the scene of conflict whether China from the incubus of Civil tion: A Catalogue of Pictures Beist-paintings, water-colours, etchings, Reviewing the Chater Collec-of Hongkong consists of 430 oil the riots originated in the killing Any nation that takes such a lead Macio, 1655-1800, with descrip library of 54 books. In these
War. Easier said than done.ing to China, Hongkong, and and engravings, together with of a Chinese workman by a is bound to become unpopular and tive letterpress by James Orange pictures we see the pioneers of Japanese during the recent-cotton misunderstood. But that must be (Thornton Butterworth. £7 78.), British commerce in the Far East, strike, or whether the, primary risked where a great gain is likely Mr. J. O. P. Bland writes as follows living their curious life of opulent cause was a desire on the part of that the question of China has Of the many benefits conferred by humiliations, trading profitably birt to ensue. It seems remarkable in the "Sunday Times," (London): luxury tempered by incessant Chinese students to escape not, so far engaged the attention Sir Paul Chater on his fellow-on aufferance, strictly confine t examinations and get promotion of the League of Nations. Those citizens of the Crown Colony of within the narrow spice of the without them. What does mat- of China's leaders who profess a Flongkong, assuredly none will rank factories' compounds ut Cantor. ter, and matter very much, is the wish for the country's release higher in times to some than bis under the kindly but watchful fact that the rioters have shown no hesitation in letting such an books descriptive of the early days and threatened continually with
from all her troubles, should have gift of this collection of pictures and authority of the Hong merchants, their hands by the inflammatory impartial tribunal as the League of the Colony and commemorative the active hostility of mandarins, posters they have issued broad- of Nations attempt to devise some of the events which led, and the metropolitan and privincial. During cast over the city denouncing
plan of salvation before disruption en who contributed, to its the eighteently century their trade, takes place, or armed interference making Imperialism and foreigners. That becomes an absolute necessity, with its eighteen plates in colour rivals, stendily increased, but as it This handsome volume, and with it that of beir American is proof positive that they have There seems no immediate pros- very fitting and felicitous monn- unjustifiable-fears of the Chinese and 243 in half-tone, constitutes a grew so did the instinctive and not only been waiting for the flimiest péct of peace plans coming from ment, not only to the public Court and mandarinate, excuse to break out of bounds and those who profess and call them-spirited munificence of Sir Paul, foment what really is tantamount to follow the example of Sir hearted mariners, pro-Consals, and outer barbarions.
selves leaders. There is no one but to the memory of the stout- the commercial advances of the aware of the forces that lay behind RUSHBROOKE.-On May 23, to an anti-foreign rebellion. That Robert Ho Tung-not even from merchant adventurers of England 1925, at Malts, to Catherine is both a stupid and a dangerous the safe vantage ground of Hong-who, against heavy odds, opened up (née Maitland), the wife of Lieut.-Commander Jarmyn polley to pursue. It must recoil kong and the situation, all over new and great highways of com-
EVÒLETION OF THE CLIPPEN STUP. Rushbrooke, R.N., a son. on the heads of the Chinese them the country goes daily from bad merce in the Far East. It contains, ing by W. Alexander (draughtsman The series of paintings and draw. moreover, much more than the cus-attached tomary catalogue of an art collec- Embassy, 1793), by Chinnery, A. to Lord Macartney's tion, for Mr. Orange has done bis Borget, T. Allom, and other artists, work as editor and commentator beautifully reproduced in with a though knowledge and volumo, conveys a very clear im- this
scholarly enjoyment of his subject and much pression of the times and scenes in discrimination, The which these venturesome exciles rangement of the work, in appro-lived, moved, and had their being. priate sections provided with ex-up to the end of the period of con- haustive indices, should make it of fiet" in 1880. real and permanent value to they tell is admirably annotated by The story which students, while the numerous quota well-chosen quotations from Ellis's Sous from contemporary authors, Journal of Lord Aniherst's. which accompany each section, en embassy," Bernard's Vosages of very vivid and accumte impression cantile able the casual reader to form a the Nemesis, Chatterton's Aer- of the events and scenes they Voyage in H.M.S. Aleeste," Marine," McLeod's describe.
William Hickey's "Memoirs," and the writings of Fortune, Hunter, It is a wonderful pageant of stir and other authors. One of the ring days and captains courageous most interesting sections of the which these pictures present, begin work is that which describes the ning with the earliest attempta of evolution of the ton and opium the Portuguese Spaniards, British, clipper-ships, tlungs of beauty that and Dutch in the sixteenth and moved in an atmosphere of peotry seventeenth centuries to secura a and romance, now lost to our footing for trade, on the conste of machine-driven world.
Their brief
(By cable).
selves and on the Chinese as a MACGREGOR,-On Tuesday, nation.
May 26, 1926, at "The Dial House," Cornwall Gardens, London, to Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. Macgregor, a son
Hongkong,. Tuesday, June 2, 1925.
STUPID AND DANGEROUS.
To-day's news from Shanghai ls only reassuring to the extent that it emphasises the determination of the Police and the Municipal authorities to subdue the disturb ances at all costs. Within a few hours the vapourings of a few students of Communist tendencies have been responsible for the creation of an international crisis which may drift along a course diametrically opposite to that in tended by the first few demon strations.
to worse.
THEY SAY THAT-
been practical-Mr. B. G. Holmes. No woman has ever yet really
Golfers are people.-Mr. Walter Hagen.
usually temperate
Pay me you go and don't pawn the future is the proper way-Sir Stiwirt Samuel.
If those who have the authority and the influence do not step into the breach and assist the Municipal authorities and the Police in Shanghai in the speedy restoration of order, they will assuredly regret it. There must be no weak-kneed measures or sentiment. The riots must be
Courtliness has entirely vanished, quelled and the originators and Frances Balfour.
except with the very old-Lady And if that is not done within a age of criticism rather than crea- participants severely punished. reasonable space of time the duty tion Mr. W. B. Watson,
An. age of candour is usually an
of the British and the other for eigners whose in
interests menaced is obvious,
Motor Traffle.
are
The growing amount of motor traffic is revealed by the amend ment of traffic regulations pub- Government Gazette Seldom, lished in the last number of the
If ever, does one see a truck in Not even the best friend of charge of a number of screech- China would desire a replica of wisely initiated or encouraged
ing men The Government has the Boxer Riots and of the systems of motor haulage in keep humiliation, that these eventuallying with modern conditions, brought in their wake for China, is all to the
But hot-beaded youth,
sources that know
ord
Wyndham Bi.
stop
ald
In all right-minded men there is a hatred of order and a lobe of mess.
Father Ronald Knox.
TO-DAY'S "SMILE.
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS.
southern Chine, and to penetrate history of forty years was, "15 beyond the barriers of the Celestial Chatterton says, "the golden age of Empire's splendid solation. After the Mercantile Marine, a period the entry upon the scène of the when it rose to mich a standard of stately argosien of the Honourable comanchip as was never, esen be- East India Company, at the begin fore: nor will ever be witnessed ning of the seventeenth century, again." It is very fitting that this the European figure, in the pageunt, graceful monument to their memory. become conspicuously British. This should and its home in s. Crown: : was to be expected, for, from 1878 | Colony which, largely as the result onwards, when the Company, of their traffics and discoveries, has established its direct and regular grown within the memory of living:
Canton," Amoy, and men from a barran island of " the (inter) Chosary, the long and often Ladrones, to become one of the est senports of the world. VIŁ Chorld not be left to Horses Club of New York
Koply, "represente tiyo :
velations bet
sting to