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WEDNESDAY, MARGH-14rt -- 1928
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CASE. A BACKWATER OF PROGRESS.
"JUDGE ON "PRAYER.
At the Lincolnshire Assizes, où February 1st, George Anderson, aged 29, a málster, was indicted for the manslaughter of his! daughter, aged radaths, and in the alternativo for neglecting or ill-treating her so as to cause unnecessary suffering
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LIFE IN A CHINESE COUNTRY TOWN."
QUAINT SUPERSTITIONS. "
MACAO NOTES.
[TROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
A MEDICAL COLLEGE,
The new Governor of Macao, who has given proof of an earnest desire to promote the well being af Macao is now contemplating the establishment of School of Medicine in Macao,
THE EXPENDITURE COMMISSION.
THE INTERPORT REGATTA.
HINTS. ON ROWING.
WUCHANG, February 24th. I have been spending the Chinese New Year holiday in an old walled city not so very far from Haskow. The old A verdict of Not guilty was returned, country towns are veritable backwaters and the accused was discharged.
in the stream of progress. Life seems to The prosecating counsel, Mr. Gaflop, go on very much as it have dono said the necused was a Christian Scien- for centuries and centuries-ever since the expenditure of the Civil Departments tist. Two or three years ago he became the Golden Age of Yao and Hsuer, and in acne, has requested the Government acquainted with a Miss Conant; of Oak before that, of Hoang Ti. Except for or an extension of time in which to remember, there, the water is more buoyant
by thirty days.
ham, and her secretary, Miss Fry, as
The Canmission which is inquiring into
the cigareties which may be bought on its port
MACAO TELEPHONES.
"E.B.S.," old Hongkong and Japan car who has rowed and sculled with some success, gives the following ad vice to the Shanghai rowing team which incoming down for the interport events at the R.H.Y.C. Regatta on Saturday:-- The Hongkong course now is from Wanchai to Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, practically tidèless, smooth water as this. time of the year, unless p north-east wind is blowing, then there is a little lop bat right ahead or a little on port bow. Ren and your boat light, you want to us all Jour watermanship, 50 watch your balancing of beat and swing straight not rowing out of the boat or screwing, and do not look at the other Boats unless they are dead astern of you.
Christian Scientists.. On November 9th,
streets, and the big ugly modera adver 1922, Miss Conant and Miss Fry were at tisements for oil which decorate its an- The Macno Government announces that the Andersms' house and gave Christina cient wall, the influence of the West seems it is open to receive, tenders for the ex- Science treatment to twò of the children hardly to have penetrated.
clusive privilege of providing and work- who wern
unwell. Christian Scieng It is interesting to find how each playing a telephone service on commercial treatment might be eiler absen" or in his its own local practices and supersti lines, similar to the services at Hongkong here and heard the call of the car or the presence of the sufferer," Tix two tions.
נגי
"
The
I have not seen this crew on the water but I have watched many men rowing, a
coach hold your slide," but never a Here, it is the custom at New and Canton.
hint how to do so. It is easy to show children recovered. On the 14th Miss Your to throw sand in front of the three-
A CAŠINO PROJECT, ***
how, bas hard to describe. The general Conant went to the house again, and bold No one seems" to be quite sure ef Anderson chen said that Kathleen had the the origin or meaning of this custom, but
The Government of Macao has officially tendancy of Shanghai rowers is to row with knees together which is cruelly measles. Miss Conant did nothing then, every one does it. Some say it is for the argouneed that it is prepared to receive wrong, remember the old Eton Boat- but on the 18th, 18th, 17th, and eth she sake of cleanliness. Others that it is to proposals for granting of exclusive con- ing Song Jolly boating weather. gave." absent " treatment, that was to keep away demons. Esidently, the demans session for the conduct of a "hoto pull pull gether with your stomach between your knees true then as now. say, she prayed.
Opou, your legs as you come forward and do not like sand, though nobody' is quite casino" upo Government land, On November 20th she called and saw clear why. In any case, the custom is a hotel is to contain not less than 200 keep open, holding on to your side, then the child, who had spots. Sho gave fur, ther treatment on November 21st, and on prehtahle one for the ecclies, who carry rooms and must be it operation before the catch, holding on to your foot board by trying to pull yourself up to it by your the 2nd Miss Fry called and Anderson the sand, from the river and receive 40 year 1020.
toc against the strap, put your", back said the child had gone black in the face cash for each load: Seving there are some
into it and when passing the perpendicu. and he had sent for a doctor. She was 2,500 households, the amount of money Dr. Rodrigo "Podrigues, Governor of lar, still holding slide, bring knees nursing the child when it died.
together and then kick home, not before. Miss Amy Louisa Emily Ceannt said which thus changes hands must be con- Macao, contemplates making arrange Seuling shows this action to perfectiion. ments for the return of the Franciscan I have easily. belt good sellers other- she was a Christian Seicace practitioner siderable. and gave mental treatment to wo other Other superstitions are probably held Nuns to Macao. Dr. Rodrigues deplores wise, who rowed kuce together, whils children Anderson's, aged five and in much the same form as in all other the neglected education of girls ir Muene I rowed getting forward with my knees
The treatment was the action of
under my armpits, and just threw my the Divine mind on the human mind, regions of China." How far there may be and believes that the uuns will be able to self back not sliding at all, until I induced by prayer. She made a charge local peculiarities in the following obser- conduct a suitable college, as they did thought it time to go ahead and leave
vations, the writer is ignorant.. in the days before they were expelled him asteru,
from Macao when the Republic was estab lished. This act of the Governor weets with universal commendation in Macao.
Seven
for the treatment.
Mr. Justice Sankey: Do you mean you charge for prayer?-The witness said she did.
ness:
A HADLY TREATED" GOD.
THE FRẦNCISCAN NEN.
HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT.
The tug Zuyder Zer of the Netherland Harbour Works 26, arrived in Macno on the 9th inst,, for employment in connec tion with, the construction of the artificial
Ench house has its own God of the What did you charge - Does it depend Hearth, represented by a little image on on the length of the prayer -The wit the family altar. These gods are not so
No, on the circumstances of the case. In this case tho charge was 25 (much guardian angels as detective spirits, for absent treatment. The charge shewhose duty it is to report annually on thought, was 2. a week. She said the all the misderds that have been done in prayers to herself, not aloud.
the house during the pear. Consequently, In further reply to the Judge, the wit- ress said the treatment was based on the it is customary to plaster the eyes of the harbour. absent treatment by Jesus Christ of per-image with clay in order that he may not. suns at a distance. She believed that what is being done. At New Year, an prayer could benefit people at a distance extra chunk of mud is stuck over his She had once treated twenty persons in a
day, and it took her seven or eight mouth, so that, even if he has managed, hours.
1 to spy on one or two" occasions, he will Mr. Kingsbury, in defence, said the still be unable to report. father had always shown every solicitudo
for the child; and he asked the jury to The oven itself, built of bricks, is also looked upon as a deity. At New Year it
VOLCANIC ERUPTION
AT SEA
and
Catch together, watch swing balance, and do hold your slide and the greatest of these three is slide; do'nt, worry so much about such towing technicalities as "parting your hair on the.
amidship, port or starboard side theas niceties are for sculling a "tooth. pick" on placid waters.
Dr
Think what you are doing during the
Anoars-man race and keep cool.
born not mado.
PILOT SHIP TRAGEDY.
A SIAMESE HORROR,
in
A Bangkok report anys:-News, has A SMOKE GEYSER
reached town of a terrible tragedy enacted on the "pilot ship that swings acquit him of any wilful intent.
This The Singapore Free Press of the 8th to and fro just outside the bar. The Judge, in summing up, said he reis cleaned like the rest of the house, and inst, contains the following details of ship is stationed there so that a pila who gretted that counsel for the defence had rebuilt, necessary. The housewife her this occurrance which was reported at for ore coming in, instead of having to takes a steamer out enn board it to wait thought it necessary to quote passagen kou-tors before it 50 or 60 times, the time by cable:- relating to miracles performed by Christ,
make the long trip back to Bangkok
Than this world dreams of."
doctor had been called in sooner.
accused..
A CHINESE AGED 162.
THE HARDESED OFFICIALS.
:
It was one thing to believe that He or even several hundred times, apologiz- A subterranean volcanic eruption in the 16th inst. Capt. Sigggins had could work miracles, and another to being for every time the kettle has been reported to have occurred at a distance, taken a steamer across the bar, and ap- liero that an ordinary man or woman. could do so. The jury must be on their pet, spilling water upon the oven, and of about 350 miles from Singapore. The proached the pilot ship in order to wait guard against trenting the case as a for every brick that has come loose and first news received of the occurrence was the arrival of an incoming steamer.
a wireless message sent by the N.Y.K. He climbed up into the pilot ship and religious one. It was distasteful to him, been dislodged. and he was sure it was to them also, to
Smali-pox is about, and the people are steamer Wakusa Haru, on her way down when he boarded hor he was aware of criticize the actions of a man which were.
bero from Hongkong,
an oppressive silence." Everything was dictated by hia conscience. He would be very scared. In one village I saw a
The Jukasa Maru, arrived in Singa- quiet aboard, and although he shouted no response. the last to doubt the efficiency of prayer. little girl with a strange collection, of pore yesterday morning, and a repert" of repeatedly ho received
A great English poet honoured in that articles hanging from a string down her the eruption was made by Capt. K. Then he noticed the figure of a little city and county had said:
back These consisted of a little mirror, Horikawa, ia command of the vessel boy, who ran in a frightened way for More things are wrought by prayer cook embroidered on cloth and stuffed The Captain's statements are backed by shelter, Capt. Siggins was accompanied some remarkable photographs which he by Siamese sailors,, and he instructed one a" dark cloud of smoke of them to approach the Jad and enquire The duty of prayer was not disputed, and like a pin-cushion, and a little string took, showing
He learned a story there was no question of the accused hav- of half-a-dozen millet-seeds. It appeared rising perpendicularly from the surface what was wrong. ing broken a Divine law, but a human law that another child in the game house had of a sea as calm as a mill pond, with that for sheer horror and callousness The pilot ship which was not in conflict with it. The jury had only to consider whether the small-pox, and the object of these charms a dense volume of steam floating away would be hard to beat,
at a lower height.
was in the hunds of a serang and was Prisoner had broken one of the laws of was to avert the dread disease. The Tho Captain's version of the eruption, manned by a Siamese crow. This serang the country. They had not to consider if demon of small-pox, soeking a fresh as told to our representative, is a fol. had on board his wife and two children, Christian Scientists were right or wrong victim, will haply be attracted by sight lows. Just before half past three on one of the latter being a son and the It was alleged that the child's life might of the mirror, and sticking the spots upon Friday afternoon last, he was informed other a acphew. Two days previously have been prolonged, if not saved, "if a the face hi ees there, he will in reality by the chief officer who was on duty on while the sorang was asleep the crew af- be decorating his own countenance, the bridge, that a dense column of smoke tucked him. They first approached the The jury, as stated, acquitted the Verily, these demons are more stupid had been sighted on the port bow. The tonn stealthily, and with a long sharp.
than those that imagine them!
Capt. wont" on the bridge and at once pointed file stabbed him to the brain in altered the course of the yousel to a both eyes. Then they seized the wniam The little boy who was in- While gross superstition thus holds the point which would bring them closer to and the two children and flung them THE OLDEST LIVING BEING.masses, the official classes soem to disre the smoke. He thought that the smoke overboard.
gard any form of religion whatever. was possibly the result of a ship on fire terrogated awam under the ship and The ancient Confucian temple is laft in a most probably an oil tanker in distress olung to a rope at the other side, but A He steered to within a few miles, about the woman and the other child were state of utter neglect and disrepair. The Manchuria Daily News says that few years ago, it was used as soldiers threo, of the smoke, and discovered that drowned. The boy clung desperately for a Chinese of the name Yuan Kuo-ohang barracks, and even the tablete have been it was coming direct from the sea. at Tepicgahae in Kuantien Prefecture is taken away. Only a few weeks ago, the was about 4.45 when the steamer neared when perhaps the oldest human being alive in newly appointed official, looking around the spot. The smoke was being amitted sheer pluck this would take a lot of the world. He is in his 182nd year, and for some public offices, fixed on an old with a series of explosions, and the beating, and the thing is all the more Briddhist temple as being both commod height varied according to the force of remarkable when it is stated that the ious and conveniently situated. All the the explosion. He obtained his road boy cannot be more than woven years of clay idols were broken-up and thrown out photograph during one of the biggest age. Capt. Siggins informed the police in the fields for fertiliter. I can vouch explosions witnessed by him. The and took the boy ashore, where he is for the truth of this fact, for I had it column of smoke, mingled with ashes and being looked after. There is no alus no witaces who had noticed the steam, on this occasion, reached a height to the whereabouts of the perpetrators broken images lying in a field before he which he thought to be wall over a thou of this dastardly deed, and it must ba knew how they came there.
sand feet above the level of the sea admitted, that considering they bad, nearly Robbery Another story of roal though mistaken The column at its lowest was not under two days start, the task set the police-in devotion shows where the old religions 300 feet. The pawongers were in a state tracing them is a difficult one. means better health and better results still maintain their hold. There is a man of great excitement and as many of seems to have been the motive, as much from your werk, and if your eyes require ago was unfortunate enough te kies them who had cameras attempted to ob of the gear of the ship had been removed.
tain photographs of the rænarkable glasice you have careful and expers other in a fray at a river-crossing. Boing
sman of wealth, he sought to atone for sight. As the ship proceeded on its way, examination in fitting the proper corres his crime by building thres Buddhist and the scene of the eruption was left
temples in places near the city, and he behind, a distinct rumbling sound tion. Eye comfort require also just an himself became a monk. His conscience, hourd, even when the vessel was 50000 expert care in the manufacture and however, still troubled him, until at last miles from the spot,
he found a further way to expiale his sin.
The
eruption is stated to have taken find it worth while to consult reliable He had himself, built into a room, and place in the vicinity of Round Island firm, derated exclusively to optical work; vowed not to come out of it for 10 years and the La Paix, rock, about 20 mile
A carious case of armed robbery nad During this period he may neither bathe
kidnapping on a fishing boat, near Tai 0, over ten years experience in the Colony, his body, change his clothes, nor cut his ath of Pulo Cocira de Mer.
hair Food is passed into him through The Wakasa Haru is a ship of 3,787 was reported to the police yesterday. The incident occurred during the late You will find no better equipment any a little hole in the wall of his prison, but nett, and her present line is from Japan hours of the 12th inst, when five or six ha has no comunication with anybody.to. Bombay. The alteration in her courme
stijl is halo and hearty,
Marsha! Chang Tooling, on hearing of the old-man, has arranged to allow him an annuity of 2009 yen out of the local
taxes.
COMFORT EYE
from
in this neighbourhood who several years
It life until he saw the murderers row on,
be climbod
board.
For
SERIOUS KIDNAPPING CASE NEAR TAI O.
SIX FISHER FOLK KIDNAPPED BY ARMED ROBBERS.
where than in the olios and factory of Naturally, the news of this meritorious did not take her very far out of her armed men boarded fishing boat No- 1600(A), of Cheung Huk Tau, near Sai The Hongkong Optical Co., successors to deed has made quite a stir in the coun- way.
Ah Chau Island. They held up the crew tryside. Crowds have come from far and A test was made of the temperature of ad, after stealing a number of articles Clark & Co., Manufacturing and Renoar to see this holy man, and many the sea when the vessel was close to the from the boat, including some money adjustment of your gladæn. Your will rotivo tablets and other offerings hava
been left outaide his cell by those who eruption, and the water was found to and a quantity of salt fish, kidnapped The sea was also very three men, two women and one boy Thes fracting Opticians, located in 53, Queen's would sook to gain some benefit as it were be quite warm.
from the reflected glory of his virtue calm at the time, and the sky overhead robbers sailed away in a westerly direo Road Central--ADTL
tion and so far have not been traced. gulco clear [2010 Daily News correspondent.
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