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SIE PAUL CRATER'S CAREER AS A MASON
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buying rate Silver (per oz.)
Bar Silver in Hong
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gration, the Trust of the Chater Masonic Scholarship Fund are to be incorporated under the title of "The Chinese Sub. Coln.. 25% dis. Trustees of the Chater Masonic Scho- Hong Kong Sub. Coln Par. larship Fund."
When the late Sir Paul Chater, K., C.G., retired after serving mare, than 30 years as District Grand Mas ser, Hong Kong and China, Masonic lodges and chapters in the district con tributed towels the fend then creat rd to found a sedlarship at the Uni- versity of Hong Kong for the benefit of xons of deceased Freemasons and to perpetuate Sir Paul's name and ser vites to Freemasonry,
Proposed Bill
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HANDWRITING
A DEFINITE MEASURABLE
• SCIENCE.
ex-
(By Ethel Browning, M.D.) Like all phenomena which resta upon a basis of intuition, or upon A proposed Bill has been drawn and psychological processes not the Trustees intend at an early date plainable in material terms, the in- to apply to the Legislative Council for terpretation of handwriting has its enactment The Bill provides that been liable to exaggeration and ex- the Trustees shaile John Owen ploitation, and to ridicule and Hughes, George William Cade Burnett, denial. Yet the science of grapho- William Estard Leonard Shenton, Walter Kent, Charles William Jeffriergy is definite mensurablo and Cades Alfred Middleton Smith. science, of which experts can avail
Proposed Powers
themselves within narrow limits of
Indications
The powers of the Corporation will "exactitude. be to, acquire, accept leases 'pf, pur- chase, etc., Indie, buildings or tene- It is only necessary to giance at ments of any kind and also to invest the address of an envelope to con- oney on the purchase or mortgaga jure up a picture of the person who of any lande, Laildings, ute, or in any wrote it, and no two human beings other form.
have identical handwriting, any Sons of Masons
more than identical finger prints. The Scholarsnip Fund is to be used In spite of the general resemblance to provide a Slicership at Hong Kong to one another of handwritings be- University for the rors of Freemasons longing to a certain period of a cer without distinction of class or nation-tain nationality, and in spite of ality, who ate members of any of the Masenie bodies in the District of Heng differences obviously due to the Kong and South China, and sons of de mechanical media by which the ceased Freemasons who are eligible for writing is produced, there remain relief.
characteristics which are peculiar A Scholarship shall be granted to to the personality of the writer. the person selected by the Trustees These characteristics are constant for one year, caly, but renewable year-and permanent, and to some extent ly at the discretion of the Trustees.
an indication of character.
That this should be so is easily LOTTERY TICKETS understandable if it is remembered that writing is, after all, brain CHINESE HEAVILY FINED FOR writing rather than handwriting.
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MEASURES ULTRA-VIOLET RAY TREATMENTS
curative radiations sought.
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To show the various regions of the ultra-violet spectrum, and also China Lights (new)
to demonstrate the sensitivity of China Lights 1928 issue
his new cell to the invisible radia. H.K. Electrics (old) $3 b
ELIMINATION OF DANGER -
tions, Dr. Rentschler used HK Electrics, (new) »***
quartz mercury are and a quartz. Macao Electrica
The first announcement of a spectroscope (the "largest in the HK. Telephones
new-robot watchrann for the world), lohned by Dr. E. E. Free, China Buses
elimination of danger, from ultra- a former president of the society. Singapore Tractions
violet ray treatment; including a By focusing on
fluorescent Singapore Pref.
remarkably clear demonstration of spectroscope (the largest in the Sandakan Lta.
20/- the operation of this valuable world), loaned by Dr. E. E. Free, $234 "dosage meter," and also the first
a former president of the society. China Sugars
description of using the rare ele. By focusing on a fluorescent screen Malabon Sugars
95 cts. ment, uraniam, in photo-electric rather than a sheet of white paper,
Caldbeck Macgregor Pref. 310 b Rentschler, Director of Research Caldbeck Macgregor: Ord. .11 b
$27 cells, formed part of the introduc- a wide band of ultra-violet radia-
tory address of Dr.
H. C.tions not seen against the paper Canton Ices
were brought out on the crseen- Cements (comb.)...$9.90 b & aa pany, Bloomfeld; New Jersey; as sand conveyor,
$2% of the Westinghouse Lamp Com Setting up a toy automatic Cements (old)
Dr. Rentschler Cements (new)
$7% b. 7.90 sa he assumed the presidency of the showed how this would operato
$14 b 2 sa New York Electrical Society.
automatically, pouring sand from a H.K. Ropes (new) H.K.. Ropes (old) ...$7.70 b
"The danger lurking in the pre-hopper to a carrier of known- United Asbestos
sent concentrated treatments of capacity which took away the load, $5 bultra-violet rays, if given in ex discharged it, and Stores, &c. Dairy Farms Watsons
cessive doses, is rapidly coming .$20 b
to be recognised as well by the $11.90 general public as by professional .80 cts. men," said Dr. Rentschler, ex- 514plaining of his apparatus. "Too .218 b
Lane Crawfords Der A. Wings Mackintoshs Sinceros.... Wm. Powells
Miscellaneous H.K.. Amusements H.K. Constructions
$12 $14
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$1.40 Ind. G. Bonds......64%%
6% prem * Sales to Shanghal.
ILK. Govt. Loan
came back
for more thus allowing a calcula tion of the amount of sand in the hopper by the number of trips of the carrier. So, by subjecting the uranium cell to one region of the
much of this powerful radiation, normally visible radiations as A medicine dealer, his foki and its inclusion in complete words be-
while not felt at the time, canthown by the fluorescent screen, a married woman, all Chinese, ap-comes automatic, almost uncon-
create sharp nervous reactions, the electric current produced in the peared before Mr. T. S. Whyte-scious, it is the thought and inten
and even burns of such intensity cell Is passed into Smith at the Kowloon Magistracytion conceived in the mind of the
a condenser,, as to become serious. Other in- this morning charged with the writer which causes the movements
which stores the charge until a direct effects are also attributed given potential has been reached, following:-
of the muscles which directs the
to the invisible, rays; and the It then is made to discharge |(a) lat defendant: keeping the pen, and the method of their move-
greatest difficulty. with our pre- through a special form of argon ground floor of 600 Shanghal ment is determined by permanent
sent method of dosage is that glow tube (in the actual demon. Street as a
common gaming Psychological tendencies.
there is an unavoldable variation, stracion a neon tube, was used, house,
Left and Right (b) 2nd defendant: printing aer
It has been objected that the left thoughts are accustomed to move gistered through measurement ap- visibility, which gives a
ag In intonalty, which cannot be re- the red glow gives higher eral po piu lottery tickets. hand, writing differs from that of quickly, while slowness of compres paratus now in use; and yet which flash as
bluish (c) 2nd defendant: possession of the right-hand of the same man,
the discharge occurs. though the same personality directs movements of the muscles holding (or, for that matter, a too small tube allows a close calculation of overdose The number of flashes of the glow 14 po piu lottery tickets.. (d) 3rd defeadant: unlawfully de- both; but to an expert these the pen. The pressure with which dose) to be administered. the amount. of ultra-violet rays
claring the winner of the lot differences are purely mechanical the letters are formed may also be
"It is desirable to obtain the being given off by any lamp, car- tery.
a, measure of mental and superficial. When they are ac- All pleaded guilty to the charges. counted for by the different way of energy, since continuous pressure most exact dose possible in these bon are, mercury arc, or other type. His Worship Bined the first defen holding the pen, and by lack of
demands a sustained power of will.rays, especially in the
treatment for rickets. Results dant $100, the second $50 with the usage, the essential signs are found alternative of one month's jail, to be the same, and with practice
The width of the letters also is can be better gauged and mora and the third $50. Confiscation of the writing of the left hand comes significant; wide spacing shows effective, treatment given if the the paraphernalia was ordered.
to resemble more and more that of frankness and impetuosity, narrow, guesswork is eliminated. Loss of the right,
appetite, sleeplessness, and other common to
CHURCHES UNITE
RE-UNION SCENES AT EDINBURGH
London, Yesterday."
hension is often reflected in slow
taken as
On the Slant
self restraint and reserve.
A
The
cause an can actually
slant or angle of the writing haz nervous symptoms.
case of
83 YEARS DEAD
WELL-PRESERVED BODY FOUND IN GLACIER
RIP VAN WINKLE
It must be understood that it is only in spontaneous writing that
a psychological meaning not quite ultra-violet. overdose ranetions so obvious at first sight. In some and, of course, detrimental to the personality discloses itself com
countries the prevalent custom dic-Tickets. cure, can be guarded pletely; in cultivated and deliberate tates alanting writing, in others up against, and much more accurate After eighty-three years the Gra- writing, moulded according to a certain style, it is possible to alter right. In England, for instance, histories of various cases can be doz glacier in East Tyrol has deliver- The historic ceremonies at Edin- forger nearly always retains some seems to associate Itself with Dr. Hentschler outlined
the tell-tale marks. Yet even a upright writing is more or less the kept."
ed up one of its dead. The body of conventional style, and one which burgh, associated with the Scottish of his unconscious peculiarities, In-
A Laboratory Success the man, a gamokeeper called Mat Church Unles, opened most aus-visible to himself, but unconcealed reason rather than emotion, In various materials used in photo that of a dead Rip van Winkle, in the torahorn, was brought to light like piciously.
As the members of the two signs have been based upon the shows, even more than in a country in certain forms, being more seu pant of the body was well preserved, from the eye of the expert. These nounced slant contrary to tradition alkali metals, particularly caeslunt eighty-three years ago. The upper England, then, writing with a pro-electric cells at present the almost the state in, which life, left it Assemblies began a joint march to study of the handwritings of many where the slope la prevalent, lack sitive to the long wavelengths of the features were recognisable, the St. Giles Cathedral from their people whose outstanding charag of discipline, hastiness, Impatience the red and infra-red-lights, perlum sporting rifle of long obsolets pat- respective halls, a rainbow appear-teristics are well known. They are and excitability, ed in the sky. The Duke of York, subjest, of course, to misinterpreta Some special peculiarities of thorium, for. certain parts of the of the dead man were unimpaired. as Lord High Commissioner of the tion, but a study of the writings of
Setter for the blues and violets, and tern, the telescope and hunting knife re-united Church of Scotland, ad some of our well-known people do writing are unfailingly linked to ultra-violet spectrum. The pro His watch marked the very hour at dressing the groat assembly, bear out the workings of the theory peculiarities of character. One of hiem of constructing a cell sens- which it is recorded that he fell into conveyed the assurance of His of graphology as a whole thick, spread, writing produced by tions of the ultra-violet region
the most outstanding is the very tive only to the antirichitic radla-a deep crevasse, Majesty's love for the Church of The speed and pressure with Scotland. He said that the King which the letters are executed have holding the pen a long way from was solved by the speaker and his in East Tyrol, after its Journey of The body was laid to rest In Kals was most disappointed big health a definite relationship to points of the point.-T.P.'s Weekly. prevented his making an eagerly mentality. Writing which is ob
assistants in the laboratories of fourscore years to near, the melting contemplated vidit, on the occasion viously done-rapidly is offen
using the metal uranium one of man's great-grandson, who had for a the Westinghouse Lamp Company, point of the glacier, by the dead of such a significant event in the measure of the mental and physical
the rarer elements, which, when moment the uncanny experience of history of his beloved Scottish activity Business men usually
applled according to their looking on the features of his an people. Reuter.
write quickly because their
methods, will respond only to tho cestor.
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