•ON BEING “HOMESICK.
RAT DESTRUCTION.
A-NOVÍK TRAP,
THE HONGKONG DA'LY PRESS, SATURDAY OCTOBER 17TH, 1908.
ously in answer to the warlike rhythm dwelling in his thoughts. This last phase of the story he himself told me." This letter, which I have given in detail, has all the appearance of being: trathful.
AMERICA'S COLLEGE ATHLETICS.
Among the interesting features in the Wind sor Magazine is an article by Waltor Camp, the American author athlete, under the title He says: In all branches, and at all "What Ameries Spends on College Athletics."
time at
Feritinal time. The Colony and Protectorate bhad not recovered from the effects of the last Ashanti War, for, although King Prempeh and the wicked old Queen Mother had been had Bomesickness, unlike charity, ought not to
Far Cathay writes in the London “Dally deported to the Seychelles, and the rising begia at homo, but invariably does to. It is
been effectively quelled by that distinguished when one is about to go away that the delights Telegraph "-
Will you allow me to describe to your readers soldier. Sir James Willoooks, there was muck of home appeal with unwonted charm to the imagination and to the memory; when one has trap I have seen used by Chinese in rio smouldering discontent among the flere and warlike Ashantis. It was Sie Matthew actually gone away, the worst is over, A fixed godowns? despair overaloads the mind soon to be dispelled
Take a larga cack or hogshead. It must be Nathan's task to finally convert the Ashantis by new interests and by new parasite. From watertight. In the sentry of the bottom of the into peaceful and law-abiding subjects of the time to time relapse will occur, and all the osak place a brick on ord. Put in saffolent Crown, and he effectively achieved it. Almost world seems bine and miserable. But this water, so that the end of the brick ferme a small immediately after his arrival at Acore Ela falling away
WAY. will not last, and, at any rate, it is island in the water. Cover the top of the caskropilenoy paid a visit to Kamasi. The present colleges, athletics begia in a small way, Long a more nothing as compared with the original with parchment or strong paper tied tightly writer was among those who were invited to disease. Le contemplation of martyrdom is like the cover of a put of jam. Fer about a chote haari with His Excellency on the marking before the formation of regular colege and always worse than the actual martyrdom itself,
a few eulbusiasts in each institution. In 1813 week or ten days place nightly an abundant of his departure and it was interesting to note inter collegiate tasms, contests were held among and the pain of parting harder to boar than the supply of food which rate appreciate. From the Governor's, placid demeanour smid the and st approximately the saINŲ -
the top of the cask to the ground several old excitement of his staff, the Hanses soldiery, and Harvard), Towing was inaugurated at Yale by accomplished severance,
mission Some people, they say, do not know what is rails, giving an easy cases to the top, will the hundreds of native carriers. His
was completely successful, and, as a result, that even men who owned their own bost. The enable the rats to reach their larder,
cost to each man was £1 10%, for the year.. meant by being. homesick. It may well be so,
When the food has been freely taken, on which was only a Protecterate is now a but I have never met ench men, and, if I did, I should not care to number them amongst my given night eat a star in the parchment, thus of the Colony, and befors Sir Matthew Races ware held between-the-olasses and indivi
forming four flaps,
Supply
departure was linked-up with the coset by a rail-dual undergraduates, and become so popular that by 1962, when intercollegiate rowing friends. They must sither be what the rench
Now for the trap in action. A rat goes for way. In Hongkong he was equally success began, taitoon boats had been purchased and call "perverss" or also the "strong silent men," a beluved of the woman writer who has his evening meal, and slips down one of the ful, and his cool courage in cocomsuding were owned by the different clubs,
"Football has been played at one or two of borrowed the type from sither Mr. Kipling or flaps into the wa'er beneath. As he cannot get operations for the salvage of life and property doring a terrible typhoon won for him the
it Mr. Mason. There is nothing so healthy or so
ont le swime to the island and equate these admiration and special theaks of the Chinese na our colleges for more than a century, though Ha is secur followed by othere, and a fight normal es homesickness, and he mast be a du commences for the possession of the seat. Well as the European population. During his was not until 1849 that the first regular gamer were held. These took place between the unimaginative block, indeed, who does not at
administration of Hongkong he had times give way to its deprossion. The love acompanied by vociferons squealing. Nothing honour of entertaining the Dake and Duchess of one's home is nature's birthgift. What is a large number burry up the rail to see of Connaught, and he is persons geata with the what is up. all falling in and increasing the King, beving been on more than one occasion tumult. When the trap has been carefully the guest of His Majesty at Saudelagban. engineered the "bag" is sometimes incredible, Sir Matthew Nathan is nomarried. It also soonis. to have a moral effect on the survivor, who, soared by the mysterious dis appearance of so many of their companions, leave the premiser, sed it often happens that not srat is to be seen for a long period afterwards.
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meant by tome" may differ with the individual. To some it may mean one particular spot, or one particular circle, littin valued while accessible, sorely missed when once it has has passed out of reach. Others may have no such particular memory to recall; "home" them may mean nothing more than England, English eights and English sounds, Yet their Jonging for these will often be as strong as that
The trap is always more effective when of a man who mourns the death of some one placed in a warehouse recently emptied. As near and dear. Whose pulse does not quickan at the arrival of the Boglish mafi! Is ever say above, it should be carefully dons; also the latter written which does not recall to the axila rate should be disturbed as little as possible some familiar face, or scene? The dullest of during the time when the food is given them, correspondents is made welcome, as an aid to ing in seeing to all these small details.
A Chinese, as in everything else, is very conn- the pictures woven by the memory, The sight' of a home-hand on the envelope alone is
DRIVEN ON CORAL REEF AT MIDNIGHT,
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE
VOLWZETA"
At the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin, mid- way between Saigon and Hongkong, and in the direct line of shipping to and from Sings pore and Chinas ports, are the notorions Parasol Inlande
Many a steamer, says the Straits Times, has come to grief on the treacherous coral reefs that around, and tales that could be told of ships
Sophomores and Freshmen each year, and were little more than glass rushes. The Sophomores Eroieque custumes, and their faces were painted
were in the babit of appearing in the most
in many colours. The ball was round, and was described as 'bladder ball, enclosed in leathern same. The expense was practically ail, the uniforms being old olothes that could be morificed, and the grounds free, or rather taken from the town. Little organisation existed, and the contest was one of individual strength. This form of game was played until intercollegiate (oams were established in 1872. Betall at the colleges had a similar ernie begining about 1858. For several years little Interest was taken in the sport, largely on account of the difficultier in the way of procuring suitable hats and balls. But for of these were obtainable, and they were of poor quality. The athletics did not some into existence
The earliest obtainable official records of
sufficient to secure for the writer, be he SIR MATTHEW NATHAN, K.O.M.Gstretch for wrecked on the Macclesfield 75ent was inferior, and it cost little.
athletic expenses are these of football and base- bell at Harvard in 1975. The report of the treasurer of the football association for that year shows expenses to have been £172, and the receipta B141, giving a definit of £31. The expenditures are not enumerated, but of the money received, about three-fourths came from subsriptions, and the remainder from paid carried on at a loss at Harvard, sings by a ruling admisions. In the same your baseball was of the faculty no admisalon charges were allowed. In single game, therefore, the association went into debt to the amount of £16. atthough £10 was received in subscriptions. In the following year the baseball alub onded its year's expenses had been but £92 odd! It waB season with lose of about £17, though the of necessity and not by choice that athletics coat little in those days, for when a tosin going through a season could take in no more then 32, a policy of costly training would have The comparatively large. me rained by antuaription indioste the barten which athletics imposed on the students before a general interest had been aroused. In 1877, Harvard baseball cost. 219, and £102 in 1878, while football was more sxpensive, costing about £200 in 1878, and £150 la 1879.
never, so prosaic, the gratitude of the recipien
And yet although we all mirs England, how
The "Iraparial Review," of September 15th Bank, or the Bombay Shoal, would furnish until after 1870
The ustrian Lloyd many of we would be willing to go back to the contains an admirable portrait of Sir Matthew national reading. life there are we not all gone through the Nathan and the following article We Are Reamer Vorwerts, under the command of Capt. distal experience of realising that either home told that there were raters in Ternel, but it is not Bednar, has had an experience in those dan- or we cursolves have changed? Everything often given to an Israelite to rate over an Anglo.gerous water that those aboard are not likely
forget. seems alteret stow. The weather has taken Saxon community. Lord Beaconsfield, that She cleared from Hongkong on September a turn for the worse. All the old people are brilliant Jow, as a contemporary statesman 25, with oarge for Triests and intermediate very kind, of courts, and glad to see one, but styled him, rose to the highest place in the porta. All went well for abent two days ont thers in a difference. The old warmth and the counsels of bis Sovereign, but he wen not a when the barometer was soon to be fall new to you and have their own interests. You was never a victim of the religious disabilities weather from a typhoon. The lines kept ex her old cordiality bas gone. They are strangers professing member of the Hebrew faith anding, and there was a likelihood of dirty
cannot pick up the threads where you laid
which at one time prevented a Jow from taking course, but the passing of the typhoon, on them down: Some dog bat broken into his place in Parliament. Since the removal of September 28, est up a parrant that draw her on the room, and disorganised the whole web those diesbilities we have seen a number of dia to the coral of Bombay Shoal It was just after of your former life. It is done with and tinguished some of Israel sitting in the House of midnight, and the Europeau passagers were beyond recall, You are a foreigner in a Commons, and a few have attained the House of in spite of everything it will only require Jewish officers in the Army, but we can only must be lost, as underbelly she would have been foreign land, You become aware of this, but Lords. Of course, there have been distinguished quickly out of their banks and prepared for any emergency. At fleat, it was thought the ship your return to the land of exile to make you recall one who since the time of 8. Paul has had the wind veered & basty examination was feel homesick-bopelessly, irrationally and in-zisen to pre-Coneuler rank, sad he is the subject made of the holds, into which water was found ourably homesick for the thousand and first of the present memoir-Bir Matthew Nath to be pouring. The pampe were set in motion,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Natal, and cargo was removed from £32 There really in something terrible in the The house of Nathan, like that of Cohen, belongs star was leaking, bila mahip where the contemplation of the abandonment of your old to the aristocracy of the race, and Sir Matthew she floated off into deep water, and continued life, and the assumption of an entirely now has shed additional lustre upon it. Born in 186 her voyage to Bingapore and arrived here, with order of things. When I was young-in the be entered the Royal Engineers at the age of pumps still working, late at night on September days when they still wore eriuclines and eighteen, and like his brother, Sir Frederics 30. At present she is in dry dock at Tanjong remembered D'Orsay and Lady Blessington Louis Nathan, now Superintendent of the Pagar, baing patched up to render her seaworthy, I remember quite well being in a terribly Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey, and it is hoped that, by saturday, she may be digmal frame of mind before I left for became a soientifla se'tier, Hia Exaltenor able to get away to Calcutta, via Penang and Burma. I wazed. wildly sentimental on however, saw plenty of service, taking part in
I envied even the crossing the Nile Expedition of 1855, and the Lashsi where the mooocaats repsis will be effecteurope sweeper for his good fortune in remaining at Expedition of 1889, for which he received the necessary home in a civilised country, where influenza medal and clasp. He was Secretary of the Colo.. and a simple little thing like pneumonia were nisl Defence Committee from-1885 to 1900, 1 the only disenses to be feared. Besides I hated. 1808 he went to Bierra Leone as Colonial Secret
ary, and the following year was Acting Governor the thought of leaving my home where I had the Colony, In 1990 he was appointed over Rouget de Lisle wrote the Marsaïlisize," I suits tried by one university, and special designs quarreled and fought with the rost of the family for so many long and happy years.
time.
the theme.
Of course, I get over my depression, and, on
to
of
THE MARSEILLAISE."
In regard to the social conditions under which nor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast gite them, says T. P. in Pis Weekly, as they Colony, which post be held for three years, are related in a letter addressed to M. Poisla. to the important Dengranges by Mme Voist, in whose house
when he wAY
disastrous
From the fret, managere have found various difficulties in the way of keeping down expenses. Eron the personal characteristics of the men enter into the sponat. The coaches sometimes led by the feeling that no money consideration should stand in the way of victory, advocated expensive experimente. The leather football
of boats by another, are examples of this.
That there is extravagance, both is devotion
to sport and slio in the money expended, there can be no doubt but these abuses are steadily being corrected of late years, and the interest various taken by the faculties of the
weight to the colleges is adding its
the directions pressure for reform in whore eatb extravagance is known to exist. But money is spent in large sums in sums that might appal the manager of tweets
In any one years ago, or even the last end eight or ten:
-- the whole, I have been quite comfortable, and
| Governorship of Hero after four year Rouget de Lisle died: "Your version of the cannot complain of life more than is customary of successful administration he zoosired the story," she writes, "is the true one. I have Bull, I often think that my early homesickness Horsesorship of Natal, where his position has heard Rouget himaal tell it at least twenty was wok more natural than my mature
scarcely been a bed of roses, as he has bad to times. On the first occasion it was at a supper, contentment. What right has a
serve as buffer between the Colonial Office when it was suggested that a war song to begin his life all over again at the age of twenty,
and the Government of a Colony in a state of celebrate the approaching departure of the two or thereabouts? And yet this is what all considerable political disturbance and effort army to encounter the Austrians would be men do who leave England to try their fortunes escence. Thanks to his tact and sound judgment, sppropriate, Dietrick, addressing Bonget de in Brems. It is much mora proper and fitting much has been done to allay ill feeling and Liste, said: 'Come now, Rouget' you are to his content with the birth given to one by
of our large universities a clear away misunderstandings and be is now a poet; write and compose is something nature. We ought not to banker after a second about to sat sa host to the member of worth singing, Yas, yeal' exclaimed the
thon and pounds (to put it in English money) babyhood of our own making. These things the important Conferencs on the Unification assembled guests; write »
war-song which would not more than cover the athletic expense
colama. as Mandeville would say, "be against kind.”. of South Africa, which is to be held at we shall all sing, and with a to-day costs at least several thousand pounds, A well-appointed gymnasium of
Doubtless there are no prospects for a young | Pietermatilsburg,
influencing and exciting him they filled his man in England, but, it he fails, he will lie in s Sir Matthew Nathan is a fine type of glass repeatedly with champagne. He left the and the stands alone for spectators at one of our gutter that is English the gattor that naturo vigorous manhood and a keen sportsman, The supper-room deeply impressed by the bellicose big football matches are not built for less, whils
the stadiums at Harvard and Syracuse cont has expressly provided for his reception. It is fact that he rides some for teen stone dora not speeches he had listened to. impious and unnatural of him to have passed it prevent him from playing a good game of pile, euoumbared with caissons and goss and other fortune. It should be remembered, however, by for the comfortable imp-of alien luxury and he is a first-rate shot. But it is as su paraphernalia of war, which highly enhanood that the stadiums are permanent invest Bangoon Guzette.
administrator that we have to regard him, his feeling of enthusiasm. On reaching his ments, and in the long ran are more economical. and in this capacity he has done fde service lodging he seized his violin (ssisit apo violon) than stands whose life is short and upon which for the Empire. As Governor of the Gold and while he played he hummed the musical repsírsare a continuous and continually inoress- Const he took over the administration at a phrasing, the words coming to bini spontaneing expense.
MUSIC HALL SALARIES.
*The announcent is mads that Mr. Harry Lander, the music-hall humorist, is to roosite £20,000 for a twenty weeke" season in the United State The Igure, as regards miney, kowever; in thewhat oxaggerated. Mr. Lander is to receive a salary of £500 per week, but he will cost his managers at the least £20,000, becauas, they have to compensate Mesari, Howard and Wyndham (Limited), to whom Mr. Lander was engaged for pantomime at Christ- mas, for releasing him.
It is interesting to note in this connection how the popular favourites of the day stand on the salary list, The late Mr. Dan Leno was credited, five years ago, with drawing the bighest salary over paid to a music-hall artist. At that time be obtained £200 per work. Since then there have been members of the music-hall world who hays surpassed Mr. Leno's record, Mira Mario Tempest, for instance, ressivod £300 per week whilat she wis at the Palace Theatre: Mr. Hayden Coffin, Mr. Lionel Brough, Miss Ads Reeve, and others have made brief appearances ou tãe music hall; slage and have received." fabulona" salaries. Early post year Mr. Seymour Hicks is expected to best all records in money making,_when Miss Ellaline Terriss and he appear at a West- end hall. Meanwhile, it may be stated on, the authority of Mr. Lionel Wallace, of Black. more's Agency, and of Mr. Frank Gerald, the general necrotary of the Artists Protection League, that, year-in-year-old, Mr. Burry Lauder revives Ap average salary of £220 a week. He is by far the most. highly paid artist in the world, and there is a heavy drop before his nearest rivals appear. These are three in number-Mr George Robey, Mr. Albert Chevalier, and Mr. R., G. Knowies each of whom is prepared, should his engago- ments permit, to smuss one for fifteen minutes every night at a weekly remuneration of £160. High up in the list comes Mia Mario Lloyd, whose lowest weakly fee is £100, a similar sa being claimed by Mr. Georgs Lashwood.
Mr. Arthur Prince and Mr. Harry Eandall, Fcan always get £80 a week for their work, but below that such comparatively low miaries as £75 or £50 per week are paid to the humbler members of tho prođenicit
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