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ANCIENT CHINESE
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WONDERFUL COLLECTION AT
BRITISH MUSEUM, "
OCTOBER 71a,' 1919.
BEGGARS DAY IN COURT.
"I CARRY MY WARDROBE."
Monday has come to be regarded by the bogga in the Colding as their day in
In a show case in the King's Library | Court, when the Magistracy orders them a week's melusion at Government's ex there Are now on view a number "of
Because of this practice, many a Chinese documents of remarkable anti-er, quity. He will be reubered that in gar who has been seat away from the 1907 Sir Aurel Stein, in the coarse of an Colong returns on Saturday morning and barchæologient expedition through the de pesters people under the eyes of the
Pulica sortatif Eastern Turkistan, came upon a very large hand of Buddhist and other amallscripts as the cave temples of the Thousandh Hudhas, 22'' Tunhuang which is situated on the extreme north
It appears western frontier, of Kansa that this library had been walled up as ad inside the dock and found the beggar
Stretched full tength m cha hisand en measure of precaution when the country
joying a sista. The souper Axis rudely was overrun by the armies of Hef Hainest and made to stand up, but, in
or Taugut, in the years tw-87, and its
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"ONLY A
SCHOOLBOY'S
SCRAP.
TWO PORTUGUESE, YOUTHS BOUND OVER.
At the Magistracy, yesterday.' Jesse Gomes, of 192, Queen's Road East, su moned Ricardo Pereira, of 171 Morrison Hill Road, and F.. X. Sousa," of the Pacific Mait Co., for assunting bin on September Sist.
Miss Carmelita Gonsales summoned Yesterday, al oli, etuseiareblunking | Pereira for using insulting language patur, in rattured rags,, was placed in [ towards her in connection with the pre- the dock on a charge of begging. Before sous incident, but subsonuentle with many minutes had elapsed the man was heard storing. The Cure menstable prep
F Mason. M.', prosecuted, ard Mr. Leo, d'Almadi appeared for the
Mr. Lindsell (to the beggar: Do you
you.
always carry your wardrole abour with "Yes, ainags replied the beggar, *You see I have ne fixgal abode. My bed is the rund.”
exiature seems subsequently to have been fear of facing the Magistrate, he faced furgotten. Only in the early years of the the spectators and sawed. Turn and face the Magistrate." said the constable. present century was the cell, accidentally !
Alright." replied the man, whether discovered by a Taoist priest, when clear.
I see him or not, it is all the same." ing away the nuisses of sand that had
pector Macdonald." known to the aceumilated at the entrance. The manu beggars as their best friend told the scripts are in a wonderfully goud state | Magistrate that the beggar had a bundle of preservation, thanks to the extrunder his arm. E had been sent to dryness of the atmosphere; in fffat remote Caaton' hit had returned on Saturday. region, on the fringe, of the desert of Gobi; many of them, indeed, look almost as if they had come straight from the pen- brush of winodern scribe. Str Aurel Stein was successful in acquiring a large por. tion of this ancient library, amounting to several thousand rolls, which two years later were safgiy deposited in the British Museum. Since the examination of the texts has shown that, while the majority are sutras and other works forming part of the Buddhist canoti, there are also a very considerable number of classical tràguents, scraps of general literature and miscellaneous dornments of il very varied description. Many bear dates. ranging from about 100 to 1000 A.D
The bundle is clean why do you not wear this pair of trousers Lindsell.
naked Mr.
Ob ulied the beggar smiling proudly. "I am wearing a pair of pongee silk trousers. They are clean I jumped into the sen when they were dirty; now they are clean. L'only changed two days ao. It is very, expensisp
Mr. Lindsel!urdered his detention for fourteen days.
OFFING HIS HAT WAS A HABIT.
Another begge was soen soliciting alors in Queen's Road He doffed his bat to pusers-by:.
again.
come
drow the sanURONA
Mr. C.
defendants.
Mr. Mason stated that Sousa held his client while Pereira assaulted him
brutally, A European, who was pessing,
the Pombatants. Miss Gonsales and another lady who were living in the same house as complainant rated the boys, tall- ing them it was a shame, to see Porte- guese boys fighting in the street. It was then that Pereira said: Who are you to interfere and used the must dis gusting lat gitage towards her.
out of his motor can and separated
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Mr. Smith asked how the row started. and Mr. Mason replied that he did not know the motive, but imagined there Was Thus, a girl at the bottom of the truuble. however, did not justify the defendants assaulting his client as they had done..
Jose Gomes, complainant. stated that en September 1st he was returning from ass when Pereira came up from behind and said What do you miran by calling me a bastard?" Witness did not know what he meant, and, before he could reply: Pereira assaulted him. Witness was unable to do anything, as Sousa held his hands behind his back. Witness and Pereira had been on friendly tertus for n long while bat Pereira had got angry about nine months ago, since which time they had on merely seqüantanges. A European gentleman, who was passing in a car at the time separated them.
S. Maria Santos gave corroborative vidence
the The selected specimens shown in King's Library include several magas
Defendant stated that doffing his Two of ficent examples of eatigraphy.
har was a habit with him. He respect. tarse have coluphous with dates cartes
ed people. He was waiting for his wife. ponding from 0 to 513 A.. Another a
Mr. Lindsell You only came out of
Miss Gonsales said she knew Gomes but beautiful copy of the Mañaparinirvana-
was not un friendly terms with him Sousa seized Gomes's hands while Peruira sutra, chapter 29-though not dated, is a few days ago, and were seat to probably about century older still, Canton!
Yes, but I au back assaulted him. She interfered, picked up The gar judging from the archaic character of the
Gomes's hat. which had faller on the script. In the Colophon' to the Avalokites
Why did you
ground, and told the boys they ought to be ashamed of themselves. vara sutra, copied out as an act of her. Air, Landet! : by the Buddhist disciple Yin-ser
Tht beggar: "have got a good job A.D., the Chinese scholar will notion there have also got my wife and peculiar form of certain characters.
ehildren, decree ordaining that these characters should always be so written was issued by the eccentric Empress Wa, who surped the throne from 054 to 704, and altered the name of the dynasty" trong Tang to Chow. These capricious changes, how, ever, did not survive, her fall from power, The different varieting of paper used sce often useful En determining the approxi mate date of a manuscript; thus, one rull
We are friend, and hit each other for containing part of the Saddharina | andarikasutra is composed of a rich fun." said two Chinese when charged at
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CIGARETTES giden ye law paper perfect in texture
Mr. "Lindsell. Your work is begging. "Bofendant: I wa, never a beggar,
Mr Lindwl: 810 or 14 days....
HITTING EACH OTHER FOR
FUN
in the public street The two men were
Ricardo Pereira stated that he asked complainant what he meant by calling him a bastard. Gomes then adopted a pugilistic attitude, hit him on the chest and kicked him. Witness then punched him. Sonsh had nothing to do with the master
He tried to separate the fighters. No gentleman got down from a motor-car.
Smith chserved that both parties were lying"
Mr. d'Almada stated that it was only a school boys' scrap," and suggested that the parties be bound over.
Mr. Smith remarked that the evidence was conflicting. He did not know what He bound the two defendants over in bonds of $100 each to by of good behaviour for six months.
and quality; it lungs, like most of the the Magistracy, yesterday, with fighting the row" was about. rolls in the Museum, to the seventh cen ndulging in an "exhibition of the astic tury, or early Tang period. Tanist literature is represented by a long fragart, and, when a cunstable interfered, one ment of the Tan Te Ching, or Sayings of of the men complained that his opponent The Real Burley Cigarette Lao Tzu, apocryphal sayings of the amend him 70 cents. As he refused to pay. the creditor took a fountain pen and the philosopher, and two other treaties. hitherto unknown, of the later Taoist rest was strife.
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Mr. Swith bound both defendants over in bonds of 350 each to keep the peace fur six months.
¿A DARING OATH... CHINESE IMPRISONED FOR LAM SAULTING "A CONSTABLE.
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At the Magistracy, yesterday. Chinese hawker was charged with assauls. ing a constable and wounding him in the on-hand with a knife.
Complainant stated that be noticed the hawker selling Vegetables and arrest- ed him. On the way to the Police station the defendant attempted to escape und,
In the struggle, cut him with a knife,
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ST. RAPHAEL'S BOCIETY. An entirely. New principle in about half the Book of Filial Piets. The eighth annual report of the
There are some curions notes on fruits mittee was presented to the members and and other articles of diet, apparently forming part of an extensive work, which subscribers at the annual general meet- may be the forerunner of the well-known ing of the St. Raphael's Society, held on
Anyone entering the Dancing Pet. Ta'no, or Herbal, still extant; a trag | Sunday morning in the School Room ad- ment of a miscellany, which is interesting joining St. Francis Church, For the Witness, though bleeding profusely, held Room whether they wish to dance us a prototype of the later encyclopædis, | year ending 31st December, 191, the total on to the hawker and took him to the so popular among the Chinese; a series receipts from all sources--andfunk sub- - station.
or not, MUST purchase a dance" of agricultural maximg which strongly scriptions, donations from subscribers, ha hawker stated that he was carrying ferall the style of Hesiod's Works and entrance fees from new members, funeral a basket of vegetables along the public ticket. Days"; a calendar for the year 278, with fees and interest, including the balance street, with no intention of selling, when neatly executed drawings of a Star-God brought forward from last year-amount the constable came up to him and nake! and other lesser deities; a tattered fraged to $1,378.61 and, after deducting all him for some money. Witness refused, Tables for DINNER may be ment of a Chinese book of divination, once well thumbed no doubt by eager dependiture, there remains a balance of whereupon the custable assaulted bila,
17.78 to be carried forward to a new threw him on the ground, and sat on top booked. Our dancing room may vote; a priest's diploma, and a list of Lecourt. During the past year, the of him. The constable next placed his sacrificial offerings for the soul of a de- Society conducted 108 burials. At present hand in the basket and held the blade of be hired for. private Dances, ceased lady. One of the exhibits which there are on our register life members the knife so firmly that he cut his own does show unmistakable signs of age, and 'and 70 ordinary members.
hand. The constable took 1.60 from his Masonic Banquets, Evening parties had had to be strengthened with gauzė, This year's work shows a substantial in pockets, and bore him a grudge beaune
small roll containing part of un crease over that of previous years, having defendant had refused to give him some "any other Social Function. official census of the families living in the undertaken 105 funerals, of which 12 were | gruel to drink some time ago, Ele would prefecture of Tunhuang. This is actually free. The average number of funerals for wear on jors-sticks and candles, in ny Apply to the Manager for terms." dated 410 AD. It is startling to reflect the last seven years was 38 per year. The temple and at any time that he always that when this document was written Society's labours have become extensively spoke the truth. He was not a liar.. Rome was still mistress of the Western known and the public have freely availed Mr. Smith said it was a serious matter world, and neither Angle nor Saxon had themselves of its economical service. The · for a man to resist arrest. „He sentenced jet set foot on the shores of Britain. Committee are very rauch hampered by not defendant to three months' hard labour.
Besides the manuscript rolls, two fine being able to replenish the stock of orna- specimens of block-printing are shown,ments and accessories required for the aleo from the cave-library." One of these coffins made locally, An indent bent in is a complete copy of the popular Die middle of March, 1910, has not yet been mond Sutra, which, according to the colo-executed, and the Committee are still phon, mus respectfully made for uni-without advice of shipment from London: vernal distribution by Wang Chich oc After the great Racecourse disaster, at behalf of his two parents un the 15th, day the urgent request of the Sanitary De- of the 4th, moon of the 9th. year of fien partment, the Society loaned ita whole tung. a date which works out as May stock of pine coffins (43) to sepulchre the 11th., 888. As frontispiece to the text remains of the victims of the fire. The there is quite an elaborate wood-engrav stock of oak coffing was very low at the end ing of Buddha, who is seen sitting in of the year under report, and was entirely state amid numerous attendants and inexhausted in 1818. The inability to get structing his disciple Subhuti.. The work fresh coffins and supplies from England of the block-cutter has been executed with during the war accounts for the "large" technical skill of a high order. Before balance of cash in hand.
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A well-dressed Chinese, just returned | citimated frout Honolulu, was charged at the Magistracy, yesterday, with being in ux- lawful possession of a dagger,
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