WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER (26).(1928; ·
FISH & FIGURES
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WHERE A YOUNG MAN" FOUND POETRY
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unce more the accountant in Edgar| SHADOWS BEFORE Ferguson" came to the surface.
What valuation did she carry on the COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED books of the company ? He went Ho the vault and began a search for
re-Water."
IN THE "MAL“
a "plant ledger." This was not To-day-Queen's Theatre; "Hula." In the day's programme, but theToday World Theatre; "The As he sauntered through the desire to discover the age of "Mary Botter "Ole."""
To-day-Star Theatre; "Hot narrow crooked streets of the little Ann" was too strong to resist..
He thumbed the well-worn New England seaboard town, on
Dec. 27-29-Queen's Theatre; his way to the offices of the Mccord till he came to a section headed. Intyre Fish Corporation, Edgar "Vessels owned and operated by the The Divine Woman."
This was followed by
Dec. 27-29-World Theatre; Ferguson was at peace with all the company."
account with each separato "Seventh Heaven." world. After seven atrenuous an
Dec. 27-29-Star Theatre; "Paris months in New York, working with boat, showing the purchase cost, the
a sonlor who had no more imagina-subsequent charges for repairs and At Midnight." tion than a comptometer, he had additions, and the amount of de- at last obtained his chance to handle preciation charged off each year.
Sports
To-day-Christmas Golf meeting
To-day-R.H.K. Yacht Club Race.
a job alone. Better still, it was an impatiently he turned the folios at Fanling. out-of-town assignment; and best until he found the account for the of all, it was by the sea.
To-day-Sunday Herald" Cup: Portugal v. Scotland, Club ground,
Dec. 28 H.K.Y.M.C.A. Hockey, 2nd XI. vs. H. K. Club "A.", 6 p.m.
All day
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"Mary Ann." Built In 1903. So to Macao. He welcomed the brine-impregnat-she had been in the service of the `twenty-five years. ed breezes; examined with keen company for interest the dim interiors of ship But that was five years longer than chandlers' stores, the lofts of anil-the accepted rate of depreciation on type. She didn't
Miscellaneous. makers, and the netted expanse of ships of her
She had
To-day-H.K. Y.M.C.A. the fish-curing yards. He inhaled, even figure as an asset !
outlived her allotted span: Ramble to Talmoshan. with evident relish, the conglomer- ate oflours of fish, tar, hulks, and pensioner, perhaps, or kept on for charity 7 Naver ! There she the indefinable smell of sea-washed piles. moes green and. decaying.as, proudly taking her place with lesser craft-craft, which atill New York, with its hard glare, its
carried an asset valuation on the restless clevators, and surging books of the corporation. human masses, seemed very far away. Here, one was in contact
ad.
IN SHANSI
NO LONGER MODEL PROVINCE
His ruminations were interrupted Peking. The "model province" of with elemental things, and age old an ancient of rubicund coun China, Shansi, is no longer a model pursuits. He passed a hole in the tenance, who wore a peaked anilor's for anybody, according to authen- all askew. Ferguson had tiented reports from the province wall, in which, sat a cobbler, an- cap, elent. and bowed. An old grand-heard him referred to, and lang ruled by Marshal Yeu Hai- father clock solemnly ticked away dressed as "Cap'n," and he appear-shan.
Since the hours in a dark remote corner. ed to be some sort of official-at-
the "model governor," Marshal Yen, became good Though Edgar Ferguson had large about the docks.
"Hello, young feller! You're Nationalist in 1926, chosen accountancy as a means of
the province earning a livelihood, and thoroughly interested in the boats, I see " has gone steadily downhill, until Ferguson smiled genially at his to-day it is rated with eight other enjoyed his work, there was a streak in his mental make-up which cheery visitor. "You're right districts as the worst-off in China's demanded that his professional There's something about this whole 19. The reason, according to ab. activities should be linked up with business that gets me. Look at the servers, is that Marshal Yen's atten- the realities of the business to "Mary Ann" there; according to the tion has been diverted from his own which those activities were related. books of the company, she isn't province to national affairs, with In other words, he wanted to see worth a cent, and yet. I wouldn't unfortunate results for Shansi. pictures as a background for his mind hazarding that the old boat's analysis of costs and sales. assets as good as any of the others lying and liabilities. His previous as-alongside of the wharf at this signment had been auditing the minute."
Shonsi Regrets Decision Newspaper and magazine articles have written for years about Shansi, the model province." Since
books of a cotton mill with head "You're right she is, boy. the revolution which overthrew the offices in New York: But from the know 'em all. When the company Manchus in 1912, Marshal Yen has eighteenth floor of a skyscraper took me off the boats"-he gave a ruled the province thoroughly and what can one are of cotton feldsgrunt of protest "they made me well. He has been praised time like snow in October, and southern sup'tendent of the wharves. It's and again as the one warlord in Negroes crooning their plaintive a good job all right, an' I'm not China who did not "bite off more aonge, or exchanging native wit? kicking, but give me the sea,, boy! than he could chew." He was satis- But here was something entirely However, I was goin' to tell yer fied, from 1912 to 1926, to adminis- satisfying to nature that yearns for about the "Mary Ann." poetry while probing for errors, me one day in '25 when
I mind ter his own province, and to do that
it wus good-sized job better than anybody
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Shanghai Chinese papers to hand say that Senhor Joao de Bianchi, the Portuguese Minister, will leave Nanking for Shanghai,
The engagement is announced of Zeala, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wakeford Cox, Shanghal, to Major M. Limbery, M.C.
and looks for aesthetic emotions blowin' like everything an' the snow else in China. when analyzing assets. To audit was drivin' so's y' couldn't see a But the Nationalist movement the books of a fish company at the ship's length ahead of yer. An' cold? grew stronger through the years, very sent of operations was to work Boy, I seldom seen worse. Mac and Marshal Yen. had pressure The Shanghai Jewish Amateur In an atmosphere and environment Millan couldn't have had it colder.brought upon him to join forces Players are at present rehearsing which would give vitality and inter- Well, some of the boats wus out with the Nationalist leaders. He an amusing comedy in Yiddish ent to every individual. expense ne-but one by one they come creepin' was naturally sympathetic with any entitled "Mishke and Molshke" by count, and endow every income ac- into dock. But the "Mary Ann" movement for the betterment of Joseph Latiner, which is to be count with an aura of romance. wasn't one' of 'em. Pretty soon we China, but still did not care to join presented early in January.
The Shanghai Chinese press has Take the account "Maintenance got anxious. She hadn't no radia in the interminable civil wars 'which { ́
published a report to the effect that and Repairs to Wharves," for in in them days, so we jes' 'ad to alt had caused so much suffering in The wedding of Mr. Patrick J. three obsolete gunboats have been
the San Pel stance: "Well, there they are, tight an' wait, an' hope for the other provinces. But in 1920, some Foley, of Scarboro Estate, Penang, purchased by just across the narrow slip of water best.
argument prevailed upon Marshal and Miss Emma Evelyn McNamara Co. from the Ministry of Navy that separated the wharves from "When night came the storm was Yen to throw in his lot with the daughter of the late Mr. Robert and that they will soon be trans- the plant and offices. The harbour worse, un' we thought uv the poor Nationalists-he signalized His McNamara and Mrs. McNamara, of formed into merchant vessels. waters Inp their drooling piles, and men on the railroad. But some of entry into China's civil wars by Auburnvillaa, Limerick, took place the noise of busy activity is Wafted the boys began to shake their heads surprise attack upon Chang Tsp at the Parish Church Adare, on АСТОЗА the water. And here, on an' sed, 'God help the poor old in's armies, then firmly entrenched Nov. 28. this side, is the skeleton of a wharf "Mary Ann!" But bless yer in Peking.
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Loses Control
S.N.
Sir Ronald Ross, who announced recently that he had been com pelled to offer his malaria research archives for sale, stated that Lady
the repairs to the Yellow River
Bridge, Tientsin-Pukow Railway,
A denial is published Mr. Hu Han-ming of the reports that the National Government has consepted to assume responsibility for the Nishihara loans. Mr. Hu· saya that all countries will be given equal
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that once was: gaping holes and heart, son, the next day about noon, Shansi's millions are still 10. A small exhibition of water yawning crevices are plainly visible an' it wus still as cold as ever, who greiting that decision. From colour sketches by members of the Houston, the widow of the shipping in her rotting planks. Weather should we see a-come crawling into that day to this, the province has Singapore Sketch Club was held magnate, had bought them for worn and sea-washed piles, with harbour but the "Mary Ann." The been supporting an ever-increas at the Y.M.C.A., Orchard-road, re- £2,000, the price he named. nothing to support, stick out of the of sun wus doin' his best to make ing army, which had fought large-cently.. No charge was made for water at rakish angles, or, defeated up for the dirty weather of the day ly outside the province, and has admission. The secretary of the Work was to begin on Decem- because of the Jack of that unity before, an' the al' boat looked like brought no particular benefit in club is Mr. H. IM. Cole, of H.M.ber 15, said the Chinese press. on which means strength to withstand nothin' that ever was. Her stirouds return for the steadily mounting Naval Base, Selatar. the insistent pressure of eternal were sheeted with ice, àn' y' couldn't taxes, tides, lie waterlogged amid the have told the colour of her paint on
A largely attended dinner was which was dynamited, by the Shan wreckage of lumber with which the one blessed square inch of her hull; And since June of this year, given at the Sheffield Hotel in tung forces under Marshal Chang shore is strewn. To the artist, she wus covered with ice eight Shansi has also been deprived of Upper Museum-road, Singapore, by Chungchang during their retreat this, derelict wharf would be a inches thick!, An' you should have the benefits of Marshal Yen Hsi- the staff of the Topographical Sur-some months ago." picture worthy of brush
of dry seen the boys that come off her I shan's benevolent supervision. The vey Department, FMS. and S.S., paint; but since it has, somehow, But boy, she had a haul of fish'? Nanking Government persuaded to bid their chief, Mr. J. N. Sheffield escaped the regenerating ministra, "She certainly wus a sight for Marshal Yen to come to Peking Assistant Surveyor-General, F.M.S. tion as represented by the "Main my eyes; with the sun on her sho and bring his most able subordin and S.S., farewell on the eve of his tenance and Repairs to Wharves" was all the colours of the rainbow.ate with him.. He was promised retirement from the service, account, it is no longer an active She'd lost two of her boats, and a control of the Peking-Tientsin unit in the plant of the McIntyre lot of tackle; an' we couldn't touch area, but that promise has been Miss Chan tells me that she is not Fish Corporation. Nevertheless, her for three days. Ain't worth partly kept. Marshal Yen has unwilling to be married to the youth treatment and no special privileges many times during the day, Edgar anythin' Why boy, the ol' "Mary had to share military control with chosen by her foster-father. Mr.will be accorded the Japanese. Ferguson's gazo wandered away to Ann" saved the reputation of the General Pel Chung-hai, the fiery Chan, delighted to have his dream the old ruined wharf.
company that day f "Repairs to the Mary Ann"-the
A far-away dreamy look was in Kiwangsi, and civilian control has the light that he can hardly object reported by the Chinese papers at item jumped out of the voucher the eyes of the young auditor. No, been taken completely out of his to the choice of; the "man who last to have formed a committed to register the following day as he accounts don't tell the whole story, hands by the district Kuomintang, brought up his daughter for him; undertake the work of the Hual was methodically checking the soup-after all. There are some credits He has not even keen permitted even though he, as the real father, River conservancy. This water- porting vouchers, verifying charges, which can never be put on the to discipline unruly labour 'agit- had no say in the matter. and ticking off the distribution to books, and some intangible assets atora and students. expense accounts. Clustered which can never be reflected in the Marshal Yen is a very short News, has been received around the wharves or the other balance sheet. The "Mary Ann" man, with a wistful face like that Shanghai of the success of Mrs.
a poet. side of the slip was a tangled bunch had put to sea, and her crew being of
He has become Margaret Corneck in examination of trawlers, schooners and Guinea made of the stuff that history and steadily more wistful as the days under the auspices of the Phone- Now that he has received orders boats. The Mary Ann that was a poetry have immortalized for those in Peking have passed, and he has tic Institute in England. Mrs. not to appropriate any part of the good old-fashioned name, rominis "that go down to the sea ships," seen his dreams evaporating. And Corneck, who was, formerly a horse racing taxes (contributed by cent of the days of our grand-had gone a fishing in the teeth of in the meantime, reports reaching pupil of the Thomas Hanbury the International Recreation Clubs mothers. Would she, by any the wildest fury. From the wild him from Shans have shown that School and has taught shorthand and the Chinese Jockey Club to chance, be tied up thero at the seas that swept her decks and the "model province" is now very in Shanghai for 20 years, has been the Municipality of Greater Shang- wharves 7 He couldn't resist the carried away her gear, she dragged, much like the rest of China.
awardell Pitman's shorthand theory hal) the Gendarmerie Commis temptation to find out. Suddenly trawls of fish, and added another
certificate, and 80, 90 and 100 aloner, Gen. Hatung. Haf-hui,. aaya, his eyes kindled with a new light: profitable item to the "marchandise" Shansi is suffering now from words speed certificate, besides re- that he requires money to keep bis "There she is " Yes, the Mary account..
one of the worst famines in his-celying Pitman's shorthand teach troops and so he has telegraphed to Ann; broad of beam, and with a But she made port with more tory. This is partly due to fer's; diploma.
Nanking asking Gon, Chiang Kai- long tapering, prow, lay alongside than fish; she bore in her battered drought this, Autumn, but foreign-||||
shele to make the necessary arrange- one of the wharves. She looked hull the scars of battle, and the ers who live there declare the A tablet in mentory of Dr. John | monts in this connection. a trim, sturdy little vessel. Her very ice that enshrouded her turned primary cause is depredations by B. Fearn was unveiled. In the Com- . d) sails were reefed, but she carried to crystal, glory in the noon sun, bandits and soldiers. The hand-munity Church Shanghal, last Friends of Dr. Arthur de Car- her masts with pride.
-A.J.P. in the "Christian Science its became active soon after Sunday morning.、 Mr. R. Caldor valho will be interested, to know A mass of tangled cordage made Monitor."
Marshal Yen had moved more than Marshall was the speaker. The that he has been invited to exhibit cabalistic pattern against the clear,
half of his standing army out of the inscription on the tablet reads an sky: Somewhere within was The marriage took place last province, There was no-one to follows: motor, of course, but this, she hid month at Princes-raw. Register curb their activities.
John Burrus Fearn discrectly, as if ashamed of the In-Office, Westminster, of Mrs. Rosa Maishal Yen is still attempting
-1671-1928 dignity imposed upon her because mund Nina Runciman, formerly the to work with the. Nanking Govern- Physician, Missionary, Admíníetra- modern Industry demands more than wife of Mr. Walter Leslie Runciment, but Chinese close to him tor
Mohammedan war-lord from made true, views the betrothal in The Nationalist Government is
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the old of norwesters and sou" man, and Mr Wogan Phillipe, a report that he is very sorrowful A lover. of children, westers to drive her ships across the nephew of Lord Kylaant
deep. To all appearances she was
these days. He recalls the 14 An friend of the poor years during which millions blessed! An honoured citizen
way is considered to be one of the most important in Anhul and north Kiangsu, as it is the outlet of the waters of the flood districts.,
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oll paintings in one of the lending.
art galleries fa Europe, and he is Bow, working on some typically Chinese pictures which will be cont to Paris,for the spring exhibition. It may be remembered that Dr. de Carvalho's work was shown at the recent exhbition of the Shanghal Art Chab and created a favourable
the same "Mary Ann" that had slid Mr. A. H. F. Edwardes, Officiat his name, and in contrast the last His devotion to this church is an impression not only upon lọcal con- down the greased slips of the shiping Inspector-General of Customs, two years, with their bitter'dis- builder's dock-how many years left Shanghai for Peking a few appointmente, amack of failure.— ngo 7* Ahí that was an idea, and days ago!-
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