THE MAN WHO GAVE GOOD ADVICE.
BY MAURIOS BARING, TUR
When he was a child his baby brother osme to him one day and said that their older brother, who was grown up, had got a beautiful small slúp in his room. Should he ask him for it The child who gave good advice said: "No if apsilt you ask him for it he will say you are a child; but go and play in his room with it before he gets up in the morning, and ho will give it you" The baby brother followed this advice, and sate enough two days afterwards he appeared triumphant in the nursery with the ship in his hauds, saying: "He said I might choose, the ship or picture-book. Now the picture-book Was & coloured edition. Baron Munchausen's adventurus; the buy who gave good advice had seen it and hankered for it. As his baby brother had refused it there could be no harm in asking for it, so the next time his elder brother sent him on an errand (it was to fetch a pin-lies.
hion from his room), judging the moment to be propitious, he said to him: May I have the picture-book that baby wouldn't Anve?" "I don't like little boys who ask." answered the big brother. And there the mat
ter endod.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22ND, 1909.
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SLUME IN SHIPPING.
HOPERETTEBET ZI
DEARZIC PROPOSALE.
Intern, whoan baginess it is, naturally enough, shipowners was to regard it as wholly to get as much trade as possible at the expense workable. But since then matters have gone of the tramp interest, nose hebat Mr. from bad to worse, until pay British ship- 7 The depression in the Ahipping industry, says Macarthy is primarily moving. This is the owners are disposed to age that there la the London Daily Telegraph, ha resched very diftulty which the Spaget under reason why thoirs should remain the nak business in the world which is practically unor point which has nearly exhausted the patience estimated when their plan apa forward. of owners. This is made clear from an intima. their case the proposal was, by the way, that gigisel. Here and thors. It is true, pa offert combination affecting a partion tibu inaped yesterday to the effect that meetings whipbuilders should be compensated for agreg been made to bring about an improvement of shipping men are shortly to be held in New to build no more vessels pst at present. Mr. of freight by n castle and ether principal ports, with a view of Macarthy's scheme would leave the shipbuilder lar trade, but the jone quantity of tonnage devising some means of overcoming the present to his fate, the view being that a strict regulation syailshis has always put the cards into other The feeling is apparently gaining of the tonngs available for particular trades would peoples hande, A really good combination her never been tried. How far it is possible to ground that, in face of the situation which con- give praers no excuse for ordering new vessels.
bring about a thoroughly comprehensive or- ganisation of British and foreign shipping in- fronts them, shipowners must combine in their on defence, and, incidentally, discourage further
forests in the cargo-carrying trade still romains ship-construction. According to one owner, there is at the present time laid up in the ports
to be soon, hut the gatherings which are to be of the United Kingdom something like a mil
told in the prindis ports tiny thanks to tile. lion and a quarter tons of skipping. This may
desperate position of the industry, perhaps bring be an over-cetimate, but it probably does not
into lins those who have hitherto secu no reason seriously exaggerate the position. Every day sees
for sterling haulder to shonlder. more ships meered to the buoys. The total on the Tyne alone is now pat at 120 vessels, mostly tratap steamers under the British flag, but a few liners are included. In the course of only a few days the Tyne figures have jamped from ninety
LAID-UF TONNAGE,
The boy want to a public school. He was a who gave good - adotos, having inherited some-- fag. His fag,master lind two legs. Opemorning money, stood for Parliament himself. He stood the other fog came to the boy who gare good as a Conservative at a General Election and advice and eajar "Clarke (he was the fag-spoko eloquently to enthusiastic meetings. The master) tolik me three days ago to clean his repullars prophacied an overwhelming major football boots. He's been staying out and ity, when shortly before, the pall, at one of his hasn't need them and I forget. He'll want last meetings, Le suddenly, declared himself to them to-day, and now there isn't time. I shall be an Independant, and made a speech violently pretend I did clean them."No, don't do in favour of Home Rule and conscription. The that," said the boy who gave good advice, result was that the Liberal Imperialist got in by because if you say you have cleaned them he huge majority, and the man who gave good will Rek you twice as much for having cleaned advice was palted with retten eggs. them badly you forget." The advice After this the men who gave good advice was takes. and the fag-master merely saidandoned polities and took to finance; in this Don't forget again." A little later the fag branch of human affairs he made the fortune of master hel fome friends to tes, and told the boy several of his friends, preventing some from who gave good savice te boil hin six eggs for putting their money in alluring South African not more than three minutes and a half. The boy sohemes, and advising others to risk theirs on who gave good price, while they were on the fire, events which seemed to him certain, such as the took part in a cag which was going on in the pas-election of a President or the short-lived nature sage: the result was that the eggs remained of a revolution; ereute which he foresaw with seven mimates in boiling water. They were hard intuition amounting to second sight. At the When the fag master pointed this out and asked same time he lost nearly all his own money by his fag what he meant by it, the boy who gave investing it in a company which professed to good advice persisted in his statement that they have discovered a manner-cheap and rapid of had been exactly three minutes and a half in the transforming copper into platinum. He made saucepan and that he had timed them by his the fortune of a publisher by insisting on the to 120. watch. So the feg-muster caned him for telling publication of a novel which six intelligent
men had declared to be unreadable. It It might be thought that the withdrawal of so The boy who gave good advice grow into a
The
nt Conscience was called
John much tonnage from the market would favourably man and went to the University. There he Digby, and when published it sold by thousands affect freights. But, as a matter of fact, it has made friends with a man called Crawley, who and tons of thousands Bat he lost the hand had no influence in that direction. The ships went to a neighbouring race meeting one day some reword he received for this service by that are not laid up are earning nothing, and, and lost two or three hundred pounds. "Imust publishing at his own expouse, on magnificent according to all accounts, would save money if raise the money from a money lender somehow, paper, an edition of Rabelais's works in their they ware idle. In these cirenmstances it is not sail Crawley to the man who gave good advice, original tongue. Ho frequently spotted winners surprising that drastio proposals should be put and on no account meet the Mastor hear of it for his friends and for himself, but any mousy forward. One which is to be formally considered or he would send me down; or write home, which that he was at a race meeting ha invariably lost is a scheme by Mr. Leonard Macarthy, a New "On the contrary," said the coming home in the train on the Three Card castle shipowner, who suggests the establish would bo worse."
ment of an international organisation of ship- man who gave good advies, "you must go Trick.
it.
owners for the purpose of restricting the supply. straight to the Master and tell him all about Nor did he lose touch with politicians, and this He will like you twice as much for ever after. words; he never minds poeple getting into brought about the final catastrophs. A great of tonnage to the various cargo trades. In a scrapes when lo happens to like them, and he friend of his, the eminent John Brooke, had the sense he proposes to provced apen the basis out- like you and believes you have a great career chance of becoming Prime Minister. Parties Bined by the Germans, who are apparently quite before you." Crawley went to the Master of his were at that time in a state of confusion. The badly hit as English shipowners by the voilage, and made a cleon breast of it. The question was. Should his friend ally himself or vuiling depression. But whereas Herz Ballin, Mastertold him he had been foolish very foolish sever himself forever from Mr. Cipar Missy, the whose interests are confined to Eners, anggested leader of the Liberal-Aristocrat Party, who that the older classes of passenger ships should bat he arranged the whole matter in such a manner that it navor came to the eats of seemed to have a huge following? His friend, be broken up, Mr. Massrthy does not contem- Crawley's extremely violent tempered and pari. John Brooke, gave a small dinner to his most plate proceeding to that extremity. His scheme A representative organisation would tanical father. The man who gave good advice intimate friends in order to talk over the mattor, is for strictly controlling the supply of cargo The man who gave good advice was so eloquent, got a "First" in Moda, and everyone felt con- fidant he would get a first in the great tripos;s cogent in his reasoning, so acute in his percophis contende, be able to decide exactly how he did brilliantly in nearly all his papers; but tion, that he persundel Krook to sever himself much tonnage should be allotted to a during the Latin unseen a temporary and sudden forever from Caps Missy. He persuaded all who articular branch of trade, in order that it were present, with the exception of Mr. Short-pay obtain remunerative freights, and every use of memory same over him and he forgot the sight, has pigheaded men, who reasoned ten in excess of the required quantity would, by English for "manubias," which the day before he had known quite well-means prize-money. In fact falsely. So annoyed did the man who gave good his plan, be laid up until things improved. This the word was written on the first page of his advice become with Short-Sight, and so exerted Faid-up tonunge would be selected pre rate. in his exution, that he finally lost his self-cording to the respective deets of cargo-bost notebook. The word was in his brain, but small slutter had closed on it for the moment control, and hit him as hard as he could on the owners. The scheme implies, of course, that and he could not recall it. He looked over his bead-after Short-Sight had repeated a ground-both British and foreign shipowners would be His neighbour had less assertion for the seventh time with the ready to place their interests in the hands of s neighbour's shoulder.
THE CARGO LINER. translated it booty." He copied the word poker. Short-Sight died, and the man who gave combination commanding their confidence. mechanically, knowing it was wrong. As he did good advice was convicted of wilful murder, He so he was detected and accused of cribbing. He gave admirable advice to his counsel; but threw denied the charge; the matter was investigated, away his own ease as soon as he entered the box the papers were compared, and the man who himself, which he insisted on doing. He was are good advice was disqualified. In all his hanged in gaol at Reading. Many people whom other papers he had done incomparably better he had benefited in various ways, visited him in prison, among others John Brouke, the Prime than anyone else.
Minister. It is said that he would certainly have been reprieved but for the intemperats and inexcusable letter he wrote to the Home Becretary from prison. "It's a great tragedy he was a clever man," said Brooke, after dinner when they were discussing the misfortate at Downing-street; "a very clover man, but he had no judgment." "No," said Snipe, whose private secretary the man who gave good advice had been. That's it. It's an awful thing but he had no judgment."Daily Telegraph.
The child who gave good advico wont to school. There was a rago for stog bootles at the school, the boys painted them and made them run races on a chessboard. They imagined -rightly or wrongly-that some stag heatles -were much faster than others. A little boy called Bell possessed the stap bootle which was the favourite for the coming races Another boy called Mason was consumel with longing for this stag bestin; and Bell had said he would give it him in exchange for Mason's entapult, which was famous in the school for the unique straightness of its two prongs, Mason went to the boy who gave good Advice and asked him for his opinion. Don't swop it for your catty."add the boy who gave good advice, "because Fall's stag beetle may not win after all; and even if it does stag bootles won't be the rage for very long but a catty is always a catty, and yours is the best in the school." Mason took the advice. When the races came off the stag beetles wero so erratic that
no prize was awarded, and they immediately cessed to be the rage. The rage for stag beetles was succeeded by a rage for secret alphahots, One boy invented a secret alphabet made of simple hieroglyhios, which was imported only to a select few, who spent their spare time in corro sponding with each other by these cryptic signa. The boy who gave good advise was not of those initiated into the mystory of the soypher, and he longed to be. He made several overtaus; but they were all rejected; the rouch being that boys of the second division could not linty third division squit" into their secrete. At last the boy who gure good advice offered to one of the When his left Oxford the man who gave good initiated the whole of his stamp collection in advine went into a Government afcs. He had retary for the secret of the alphabet. This offer not bean-in it long before he perceived that by wasscompted. The boy took the stamp collection, certain simple reform the work of the office could but the boy who gave good advice seised in be done twice as effectually and half as er retara not the true alphabet but a shin one pensively. He embodied these reforms in a especially manufactured for him. This he found memorandum and they were not long afterwards ont later; but recriminations were wachtalepted He became private secretary to Snipe, besides which the rage for secret alphabets soon a ring politician, and persuaded him to change diet out and was replaced by a rage for wjun his party and his politics. Ships, owing to this advice, Incatie's Cabinet Minister, and the man riums, newts, and natterjack toudu.
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boats.
This idea of laying up tonnage by agree ment among shipowners is by no means now, but it has usually been associated with a pro-
The danger has, how- posal tilit the owners of idle whine wall receive compensation from those which are permitted to trade. ever, always been that the owner of ships of a less modern type would be quite willing to date character were earning freight in which he see them lie idle while bosts of a more up-to- would share. Mr. Macarthy's proposal is to get over that difficulty by allowing no compensation whatever to lald-up shipping, and, where an wwner has only one vessel, to meet his case by reduction in the period of enforced idleness.
it is confessed that there will be still greater diffenlly in dealing with the case of the cargo
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