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DEATH AT AN EARLY AGE IN beautiful and noble thoughts, are occupƒTM REV. H COPLEY MOYLE'S SERMON,
SHANGHAI. ing it with great subjects, are we flling. The Rev. H. Copley Moyle, preaching it with unselfish, deeds). Or are we frit- at St. John's Cathedral on Sunday even-tering away our powers on things which ing, took for his text "The memory of the give us no real, ground for lasting joy, Municipal Wireless Station, died ด the Praya East; was charged with stealing
just is blessed........... and said:-
(Proverbs x..7.)
Among the powers of
our mind the central and most important place is occupied by Memory. Every hour, we might almost say every moment. of our lives, we exercise our Mentory. When we
thIT GOWERCKIE: Is day by day being built walk, when we eat, when we drink, we up by the words we speak, and the acts are exercising memory. We are perform. Quand the thoughts we think, and, ing acts which our memory leads us to memory plays a part whose importance
Character-uuild an lost procesa perform. It was no doubt this fact that it would de sard to exaggerate— fed the old clasical writers to speak of ur goods still traver with us from Mnemosyne, the Goddess of Memory, as theAnd what we have been makes us what Mother of the Muses, for all the arts and we are."
far
A. Max Frederic Brolemann, Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, Medaille Mili- taire, who was Director of the French
Chinese youth, employed as an apprentice
the Magistracy, yesterday, at a Japanesë tailoring establishment, on
yen 285, belonging to his master.
De
Mr. Irving sentenced defendant to receive six strokes with the cane.
filling the treasure-house of our memory March Jud. with useless things which will give users, was one of those men who should M. Brolemann, says the 3.-C. Daily no pleasure to recall them in a few years have been among the best known in the brother was foreman of the establishment Sergeant Cocklo stated that defendant's time and which we shall regret when we community, to which he had rendered in- look back on them from the changed atmos calculable service, but it is a fact that and took defendant in as an apprentice. phere of the life beyond the grave ? -
outside the French residents his name A few days ago the defendant broke into evan could not be said to be familiar. Yet the master's living-room, though how he by his death Shanghai loses one of its most remarkable residents, one who has was able to do it the Police could not done more probably than any other here understand as the lock was a strong one into touch with the rest of the world. The money was stolen and when the theft in recent years to bring this part of China and did not appear to have been forced. is no exaggeration to state that he was a remarkable genius, and the science of was discovered-complaint was made to the wireless .telegraphy loses one of its most distinguished exponents in the Far East. Police. Defendant's house was searched M. Brolemaan had spent 21 years in the and it was found that the money had been alf science are feanded on Memory, I inThe memory of the just is blessed." Colonial Army in Indo-China, and studi changes into Hongkong currency Memory that has the chief part in assur What memory shall we leave bening used wireless telegraph under Major Peryfendant had purchased a new pair of When we leave this Colony, or when we who is in charge of military telegraph boots, a gold ring and a sewing machine ing us of our personal identity. Your make the greater move from this worlu there. The erection of the great wireless and had 360 with him at the time of his memory goes back to the years when you to the next? Is it a memory which will stations at Haavi and elsewhere in Tong rat. The master was not willing to were a child, a boy or girl, a young man be a nelp and an encouragement to others, king were largely due to 3. Brolemann's
press the charge. or young woman, and because your memory which will live on in other lives initiative, in 1914 ha came to Shanghai, memory has an inside knowledge of the as a help and an inspiration
and in-May of that year the station at being who then bore your name, you identify yourself to-day with that being of
There is no better legacy thay a parent Koukaza was established. At the time no past years But if you could remember can leave to a child than the memory of apparatus was available from France, 80 Ecthing of the past you would not be abla & good, just, upright, God-fearing life. the deceased, with the assistance of 83 to identify yourself. Sometimes wet is a legacy, when the child never Chinese mechanics, personally constructed
the entire receiving apparatus. read of a person who for some canse haasose and will never squander. lost his memory, and cannot recall his leave your cailuren legacy of muco own name or anything about himself. money, it may make them iddo, luxurious," Having seen the station established, M. What a wonderful store-house is the extravagant, and may prove to be their Brolemans proceeded to plan improve memory of a well-educated person who ruin, but if you leave them the legacyments, and his untiring efforts, backed by has travelled much! How innumerable of the memory of a Christian lite well his great genius, culminated in the inter are the scenes, the faces, the facts that are lived, it will be of lasting benefit to them. ception, in September, 1918, of an in- stored op in his memory. Where then in::
Is it better for mothers to gain every portant message from Nauen. Then a few this wonderful store house? Where is our keur of pleasure they can, for themselves, days later a message from Lyons was Mr. Leo Longinotto, Assistant Crown memory situated? Where can Modern physiologists aro. agreed that it while they squander their health and reivable that this should have been done. Crown would prove that prisoner wha one
find
picked up. At first it seemed hardly con Solicitor, prosecuting, stated that the gaiety, leaving their children to the the limitations of the station had pre- of the persons who escaped; that he was care of ads, or to impress themselves vicusly been so patent, and above all the in gaol before the murder and was not on their children's lives when they are receiving apparatus was an improvised there after the deed had been committed. young and plastic and to give them the out. But there was the fact, & huge per brought against him would be that he was The only new evidence which would be priceless heritage of the memory of a sonal triumph for M. Brolemann. goud and devoted mother t
No time was lost in profting by this, seen out of bis cell when the act was cor
mitted: He, with other prisoners, attempt Those who have had much to do with and the first French ofheial communique ed an adventure and all were equally the fallen, the drunkard, and the criminal to the Far East, despatched from Lyons guilty. The Crown concluded that pri- have come across cases when they have on the evening of September 25th, was soper was the person who made the tools, tried to arouse the inner to a better received instantaneously on the morning as he was the only one who had access to life by the appeal, so often an effective of September 26th at Koukaza. Since the furnace. The other facts-were-the
If you
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is love. Remember His sufferings. Remember His glory, Remember that you have an immortal spirit whom He wishes to share His glory. Live as men and women created in the image of God and then your memory will, indeed, be blessed.
"RESIGNATION OF MR. 'DONALD.
HIS. GREAT TRIUMPH.
TRADE AT THE SOUTHERN
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THEVICTORIA GAOL TRAGEDY
ANOTHER MAN BEFORE THE
MAGISTRATE.” -
A man named Mok Bing, who was re- cently arrested in Canton was charged at the Magistracy, resterday, with the mur der of Warder J. L. Epced at Victoria Gaol.
CHINESE SNATCHES 820.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, a Russian scaman, azmed Semenoff, charged a Chinese with snatching 320 from him.
him and went to a shop to purchase some Semenoff stated that he had. $25 with
He placed 30 in his breast-cost pocket milk, Ha tendered 85 and receiving the change, he put it into his trouser pocket. and was leaving the shop when he was surrounded by a number of Chinese. De- fendant matched the $20 and ran away but was followed and arrested. The money, however, was not found in his comrade possession. He probably passed it to a The man bad also stolen bin
passport, but this was found.
Defendant stated that he was falsely sccused.
Mr. Smith sentenced defendant to six weeks' hard labour.
is situated somewhere in the brain but they cannot tell us exactly where. They tell us that the general appearance of the brain is that of soft gray matter folded upon itself. Beneath this gray matter there lies a great white mash of nerve Ebres connected to the gray matter like a great array of telephone wires leading to the exchange. Physiologists can tell just exactly what part of the brain controls our speech, they can tell what part of the brain receives messages through our eyes, and what part receives messages through one, What would your mother think?" then, with occasional interruptions due same as were related in the previous case our ears. They tell us that on a little And when they have met with the reply to atmospheric conditions, Koukaza and and he, therefore, did not intend to mass of gray matter no larger than My mother would never think of Lyons have been in daily communication, repeat them. bazel nut are registered all the words
The bearing was adjourned till this we know, but they are not at present anyone but herself", they have felt that and the transmission of European news
by this medium has been a regular fen- afterncon. able to agree on fixing any particular the case was indeed a desperate one. spot as tho region of memory. Some
"The memory of the just is blessed ture. Previous to this M. Brolemann had think that the memory of anything If we wish that to be true of us we scored a previous triumph in the service registered in just that portion of the must fill our mind now with thoughts of of the Allies, and had received the special RUSSIAN SEAMAN VICTIMIZED brain which receives the impression of God as He is revealed to us in Our Lord. thanks of the British naval authorities at that thing but others do not think so. There can be no greater power for good Shanghai for the valuable services ren- I suppose we have all been surprised in our lives than the continued memory British Fleet during the siege of Tsingtao. dered by the Kongaza Station to the sbmetimes at the vivid way in which some of God's presence with us How often long forgotten scene has been suddenly do you think of God during the day?
M. Brolemaan was a comparatively recalled to our mind by acmething we How often do you make some act of faith young man, being only years of age. have seen or heard or smelt or tasted and love to Him? Do you ever say in it is to be regretted that great suffering Luberoniosis was the cause of death, and remember when going to Yamoto, above your heart, my God, I believe in Nikko, in Japan some years ago, as we Thee, I trust Thee, I love Thee" This preceded his demise. turned a corner by a wood the heavy sme season of Lent is a time for gaining now M.. Reau, acting French Consul-General. The funeral oration was delivered by from the sulphur springs was wafted to habits of devotion and for trying to ua, and it brought vividly to my mind the remembrance of the first parish in remember Christ more often. Remember which I worked as a curate nearly twenty years before-a chemical manufacturing town, named Runcorn, where the same smell was always with us. Some sudden stimulus of this kind will often bring before us scenes and facts long forgotten, We hear sometimes of a drowning person or a person in great peril from some other cause suddenly recalling scenes long for gotten. It is clear, therefore, that there" FAR EASTERN REVIEW." are many scenes and facts which we have forgotten still recorded in our memory and capable of recall if a suficient stimulus is applice. But further than this it has been discovered in modern times that there is within us a membry of certain things which have never been within the field of ordinary consciousness. This memory has been called the sub conscious mind.
The late Professor William James said that be regarded the discovery of the sub-conscious mind, first made in A.D. 1886, as one of the most important steps in psychology. It discovery bas explained many things which were pro viously difficult to understand Not a few of the supposed revelations of modern spiritualism can be traced to the know? ledgo possessed by the subconscious mind of one of the parties taking part in the seance. Here in Hongkong we often bear people complaining that their memory is not so good as it was, and it is often spoken of as an inevitable con- sequence of being here. That always seceme to me to be a mistake. If there be any cause why a person's memory should deteriorate here, it would be reacted between Messrs. Donald and Res sonable to suppose that the cause would lies in their attitude towards China's re operate in the case of the natives, but it lations with foreign Powers. Mr. Donald does not, for it is notorious that the has never hesitated to praise or condemn In-connection with the arrival of the Chineso
have splendid memories. The the attitude of foreign Powers whether as Antilochus, with some 1.200 Serbians badness of the so-called Hongkong eastern or western towards China it be from Vladivostock, in Hongkong, and the memory is, I believe, entirely due to the thought such action inimical to the in outbreak of small-pox and typhus on fact that the hot weather is apt to made terest of this Republic. In taking this board which will necessitate the clothing us too tired to make an effort of memory, line he has had occasion to criticize some
meeting so we let things slide. We do not make of the Japanese loans that have been made of the American Red Cross was held At the Magistracy, yesterday, sufficient effort to remember them, Wo to China criticista by no means anti- yesterday, in response to an appeal for Chinese was charged with selling sweets are constantly suggesting to ourselves Japanese, rather pro-Chincoc. Mr. Bea's help from Capt. G. K Houghton, the to the pupils of St. Mary's School, becomes bad y le getting bad and so it polity referred to in Mr. Donald's master of the Antilochus, to take charge without a licence
Defendant stated that he had a licence, of the collection of clothing and the pur- Momory can be a very great blessing nouncement, levours a rapprochment be chasing of supplice, especially for the 58 but the Police had taken it away. or a great curse. There are, in most lives tween China and Japan that Mr. Donald women and 84 children, among the re things which we would rather forget, appears to think is not to the best interfugees, most of whom are very poorly received several letters from the parents Sergeant Aris stated that he had but the memory of which is constantly cets of the former countryak
clothed and shod, potp forcing itself upon us. In the parable. It is expected that Mr. Ren, who is now The following committee was appoint getting ill by eating sweets sold by of pupils stating that their children were of the rich man and Lazarus, Abraham in America, will be shortly returning to ed:-Mr. Geo Anderson (Chairman), hawkers, and asking the Police to take. Rave to the soul of the rich man in Bades China, when he may assume the editorship Mrs. D. M. Biggar. Mrs. W. M. Routh. steps to prevent the nuisance. Defendant "Ban remember,” Remember your of the Far Eastern Review himself. Mr. Mrs J. J. Cunningham and Mrs P. We had been fined on three cocassions and his luxurious and selfish life, remember your Donald has returned to Peking. opportunities of doing good your wealth
liccace was cancelled; yet he persisted in gave you and you neglected. How ter- rible is the memory of opportunities
carrying his trade. neglected.
The poet has sung that Borrow's
HUSBAND LOVES ANOTHER
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H.M. Commercial Secretary at Hong kong recently paid a visit to the ports of Swatow, Amoy and Focchow, and he has embodied his conclusions in a report | published in the Board of Trade Journal. The net result of his survey of these areas is that trade bas to a certain extent been disturbed by the confused political situa An announcement which will be read tion in the interior. So far as foreign WOMAN SEEKS MAINTENANCE with extreme regret, both by readers of merchants are concerned, interference with the Far Eastern Review and those who trade is shown rather in the decreased are acquainted with its recent editor Mr. demand for imported goods, and in the W. H. Donald, is an editorial notice unwillingness of native merchants to risk announcing Mr. Donald's withdrawal more of their capital than is absolutely from the editorship in the following necessary in replenishing their stock, than summoned her husband and his concubine Beveral weeks ago a Chinese woman in any direct attacks on foreign goods in for assault. The woman was so severely "The complete reversal of the policy transit through the country districts. injured that she was in Hospital for some of the Far Eastern Review effected by Illegal seizures, however, of goods belong time. When the its publisher, Mr. Gex Bronson Rea, ining to foreign firms have been compara Magistrate ordered the husband to pay casc was beard the the course of recent months compelled tively rare, and the exactions of likin its Editor the undersigned (in the and other tax stations are hardly more woman attended the Magistracy, and as compensation. Yesterday, the February issue)-to disclaim responsibi-onerous than usual. It is obvious, how summoned her husband for maintenance. lity for views expressed by writers of over, that the absence of any responsible Mr. A. E. Hall, for the defence, stated signed articles. The receipt of further civil authority in the greater part of these that his client bad gone to Canton and similar articles which the undersigned Provinces must react disastrously on all he had instructed the concubine to writa cannot endorse causes him to withdraw trade, domestic and foreign, and there can to him and ask him to attend Court. For from his position as Editor of the Far be no hope of any greater commercial this purpose he wished for a remand.
development in this part of China until order has been restored.
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Eastern Review.
**W.H. DONALD."
It is no secret, (says the NC. Daily era) that the divergence of views indi.
THE FOOL.
REFUGEES IN QUARANTINE IN,
HONGKONG,
of the refugees being destroyed,
Parker
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The wife entreated the Magistrate to do all in his power to secure maintenance for her." "The hearing was adjourned till Thurs
day.
HOW SCHOOL-CHILDREN BECOME ILL. HAWKER FINED $15.
Mr. Irving fined defendant 815.
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Mr. Hicking, of Queen Mary's Needle Work Guild, and Mrs, Moorehead, of the Benevolent Society have consented to nasist in this work and it is hoped that crown of Sorrow is remembering happier When a Chinese was charged at the societies & large amount of old clothing BAGS OF SUGAR COLLAPSE.
through the co-operation of these three days and that is certainly true if we Magistracy, yesterday. with beating a can be assembled in the next few days at have by our own conduct and by our sin rong in a prolibited area, Police the American Consulate roots, The TWO MEN SERIOUSLY INJURED banished these happier days. There is no Sargeant said: The fool does not know people in Kowloon who desire to contri- more terrible feeling than remorse for the that when he makes ruch a noise he is buts but find it inconvenient to send their forward them to either Mrs. D. M. Biggar,
Chatham Road, or to Mrs. W. M. bags of sugar falling on top of them. Routh, 7, Torres, Building. At it will be The accident occurred the groint necessary to buy a certain amount of new floor of No. 21. Wing Lot Street, ed sentable and these may be sent to Mr up 300 baza of anger, when, for wante supplies. donations in cach will be very as a godown. The men were busy piling R. E. Dortout, Tronairer of the American unexplained reason, the has colle Red Cross, ofo The American Express Co. The two men were remored to hoss
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