CABLES.
(THROUGH AJUTER'S AGENCY. }
HOME FOOTBALL.
SCOTTISH CUP AND 'ENGLISH LEAGUE.
LONDON, February 10th. Tho draw for the third round proper
of the Scottish Football Association Cup (to be played on February 20th) is 2—
Dumbarton. Clyde.
Third Lanark n."Drechin Wanderers, Falkirk v. Rangers.
Morton Albion Rovers. Aberdeen . St. Johnstone..
Bathgate . Airdriecniaus,
Hearts v. Celtic.
St Mirren e. Partick Thistle.
REPLAYED GAMES..
Replays to-day of drawn gaines in the second round, resulted;-
Dumbarton, 4: Forfar Athletic, 1. Bathgate, 3; Bo'ness, 1.
Peebles Rovers 0; Albion Rovers. 4... Dundee, 0 Aberdeen, 3.
THE
#ASKING QUESTIONS.
THE QUESTIONAIRE."
[BG. A. BIRMINGHAM, THE FAMOUS HUMORIST.]
manage to
+
HONGKONG DAILY
PRESS.
without an inspector discovering the fact immediately. That answer was DO USE. The clerk, who kept his temper all the. time, took no notice of it, and went on sending me copies of the question until at last I gave him figures
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1970, 1926
THE BRITISH BOY OF TO-DAY.
BEST TYPE OF RAW MATERIAL
IN THE WORLD.”
In the bracing atmosphere of school But I did not give him, the figures headmasters are not wont to pay compli There is nothing easier, few things dimensions of the schoolroom. He ap read the address of the President of the had given him before I doubled the menta to the natural bay. He must pleasanter;- than denouncing other
peared to be perfectly satisfied. The next Association of Headmasters to discover people's vices: and there is always a year I doubled them again. He express what they really think of him. His sur
In prise will certainly be not less than his feeling in our minds that we somehowed neither surprise nor misgiving.
the course of five or six years that school delight at the judgment passed upon room became a great deal larger than St. him by this head of heads," Afr. Ewart Paul's It was really, according to the Clure that he is going to be a better figures I gave, an immense building, per-man than his father, and that he is the hape the largest in the world. Even a best type of raw material in the world" fourteen-year-old office boy would, we do not doubt that in the bottom of thought, be struck by the existence of his heart he has always believed this, as such a structure in a small village -
it is tight and expedient that he should, But the education authority remained but he no more expected to hear his placidly indifferent. Then I suddenly headmaster say so than to talk about it reduced the size of the room, giving himself. We fear that he will suspect measurements which would have been guile in Mr. M'Clure, a desire, for ex small for sentry-box. It would ample, to require from boys of auch have boon impossible to get three child high quality more strenuous labour and ren, without à teacher, into that school- more austere virtue. But the President room. The education authority mads nois, as he says himself, sworn to optimism. comment at all.
Compound for sins we are inclined to By damning those we have no mind to, I try, even in the pulpit where such re- ticence is particularly difficult, to avoid the fault condemned by the poet I have quoted. I think I may claim to be fairly successful, not because I am singularly virtuous, but because I am not. There is hardly a sin which I need refrain from denouncing, for there are very lewat the moment I can only think of one that "I have no mind to.'
Tet there is one. I have never in my life been tempted to issue a questionnaire, The fact that I am forced to use this ward-there being no English equivalent -proves that the thing itself is of foreign origin and that the rice is not native League matches played to-day result meaning among the French, torturer,'
with us. That the word has a secondary shows what they think of it
ect:-
LEAGUE MATCHES.
ENGLISH LEAGUE: DIVISION I
Everton, 1; Manchester City, 1.
DIVISION II.
Chelsea. 1: Clapton Orient, 3. Southampton, ; Derby, 1.
DIVISION III. (SOUTH). Crystal Palace, 4; Newport, 2.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE,
Kilmarnock, ; Celtic. Hearts, 4; Hamilton, Q. Morton, 2; Hibernians, 6. Raith Rovers, 2; St. Johnstone, 2. Rangers, 1; Airdrieonians, 2
The home Club is given first in the foregoing results. Į
(RKUTEY & AMERICAN SERVICE.] BRITAIN AND MEXICO. PROTEST AGAINST ANTLALIEN
LAWS
WASHINGTON, February 10th..
It is understood that Mr. Esmond Over, the British Minister to Mexico, has lodged a formal "protest with the Mexican
Foreign Ofice
against the anti-alien Land and Petroleum Laws.
The protest, it is reported, is substan tially in line with that made by the
United Stalea
INCOME TAX PRETENCE.
Often the sin is disgaised, covered up with an excuse of some sort so that it
11
WRESTLING WITH RETURNS.
We like to believe that he is right when Why was that question asked? Why he pronounces that one of the main was answer insisted upon t Clearly characteristics of the English boy is his use was ever made of the figures to lack of selfish ambition." That getting turned. There is to explanation of the
success is greatness--those doctriner have asking of such questions except the one on in the whole duty of man, that I have suggested. The man who ask them never been taught in English schools, nor are mentally-dafcient" They have does their public opinion in general en- I do not, I can say honestly, under. and this unhappy state by long in courage him whose aim in life is to out- stand the lure of this kind of wicked-dulgence in a seductive vice.
shine his fellows "The wise critic would rather blame us for our lack of favour to acas. I do not want to torment other people in this particular way. But many men do; and the vice is becoming more the law for protection from the persecu-M Clare very properly commends, has It is, I suppose, hopeless to appeal to original enterprise in youth. But the desire to excel in a team," which Mr. Prevalent. Every year, so it seems to me, tions which quiet and peaceable people dangers of which no doubt he is maro men fall victims to it, and once a endure at the hands of question askers, very well aware. Most schools and most man begins he cannot stop..
But something if life is not to become
schoolmasters have suffered at times intolerable, must be done. Year by year from the young athlete whose temper increases the number of these papers of questions and breeding make him "desire to Year by year more of our excel at all costs. Io the fields of time is wasted in writing answers Year by year the nervous irritation con- physical prowess so many boys are by mature hero-worshippers that to the ex- sequent on wrestling with returns gets plaits of the cricket of football blood">
done. I have, as I have already complied. This evil will always be with Yet it is difficult to ace what can be wholesome criticism is not always ap fessed, tried the plan of giving totally pelled with a pitchfork. But it is us till Nature is permanently 'ex- incorrect and even grotesque answers certainly diminished. The temper of That is no use, for the questioners would school-life is more rational and more 1st as soon have a wrong answer as a serious than in the last generation, and we may so far agree with Mr. M'Clure right one. I have tried the plan of saying, "See last year's return," when
as to allow that our sons have a good asked. For instance, for the inscription chance to make better men than their on a church bell which has remained un-
fathers. To ua remains the consolation, no use. The questioner could get at the marvellous performances. That they are inscription in that way. But it is not the best raw material in the world, as the inscription he wants
Mr. M'Chure saya, is obvious, for are they not our sons?-Daily Telegraph.
may not appear to be the hideous thing it is. The income-tax collector, for in- stance, who issues annually one of the most puzzling of all lists of questions, pretends that he is simply engaged, in collecting money. He does collect mone of course, and no doubt when he first began his work the collection of money was his sole object. He may even have wanted to collect it with the smallest amount of trouble and worry p:ssible. But of late years he has fallen & victim to the question asking habit and has
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[BY A WOMUS OF SIXTY]" There is something most comforting about being sixty.
"Don't you hate not being young?" was asked the other day.
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peremptory way. The ingenuity dis- played by the Inland Revenue officers in devising supplementary questions is a proof, it proof were needed, that these
I have tried putting the foolscap sheets men are the victims of a morbid craving; of questions straight into the waste paper I once held possession of two small basket and giving no answers at all fields and therefore became, in the eyes That is no use. The questioner pelts ige of the Inland Revenue authorities, a farmer. As a farmer I made a careful with fresh sheets of foolscap, which is return of my profits, which as a matter exhausting for the postman; takes to
And quite frankly I replied that I did A Washington cable of January 21st of fact were losses I set down every threatening me, which I do not in the
not. For there are all sorts of glorious. stated: Mr. F. B. Kellogg (Secretary of quart of milk given by the cows which least mind: changes his tone and says State); in 's formal statement, has said lived in the fields, every egg. laid by he is sorry for troubling me, which I
compensations. For instance, I can eat How completely the narrow distinc what I like without bothering about that the position of the United States the few hens which wandered about, and do not believe; finally defeats me by
an archdeacon toitions of class are disappearing in the my weight or my complexion. I don' with regard to the Merican land and everything else, down to the smallest getting a bishop or petroleum laws was that they contained details, about those fields. I congratulat appeal to my better nature, Then I give great industrial centres of the north
have to suffer agonies wondering whether casing His Majesty's Mails, will be despatch- provisions plainly retroactive and con-ed myself that my return was absolutely in, wishing very much that I had not well illustrated by an event in Dews my face wants powdering. I can have red in this Port. Noos, on TUESDAY,
got a better nature. facatory in their effect." He added that complete and question proof..
bury, the centre of the world's rag trade. red nose if I like. I can read Books the 16 FEBRUARY, 1926,
taking Cargo for Over a sitting of the County Beach without being confronted and put off the above Porta
Bin, and Valuable Cargo for Italy, France there presided an elderly working by my own personal problem. I don't wearer Miss M. A Dewa. Along with have to worry if I am not the best conveyed by this Steamer proceeding to Bom and London (under arrangement) will be her fellow-justices, ten in number, she dressed women in the room. I need not bay and there braashipped to the on-carrying heard a variety of important cases con- wear transparent stockings, when it's Steamer for Marseilles and London. sulted with the magistrates' clerks, and freezing. announced decisions
in the absence of a reply from the was over-confident. After a couple Mexican Government to the American of days of meditation the collector" asked representations on the subject delivered on January 9th, he was not disposed to comment further.]
BANKS OF SNOW. HEAVY TRAFFIC DELAYS IN NEW
TORK...
NEW YORK, February 10th. The city is nowhound," the snow being a foot deep in come places. A thin string of motor vehicles only is able to crawl at a snail's pace along the roads, whilst pedestrians are walking in single file along the pavements between banks of snow five foot high.
Many main roads outside the city are closed to traffic, and trains on, the Eastern States Railway are hours late. Gangs of nemployed are trying to clear the snow, which continues to fall
There is wild weather at sea, but only one wreck has so far been reported, a schooner being driven on the rocks on the Massachusetts const. Several of the crew were drowned.
FRANCO'S FLIGHT. GREAT ENTHUSIASM IN BUENOS
AIRES.
BUENOS AIRES, February 9th. The Spanish aviator, Captain Franco,
has arrived here from Monte Video.
He was officially welcomed on his arrival
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THE ONLY REMEDY,
The only remedy I can think of is to me to state how many tons of con! I had kill a few of the people who issue these
He knew, and he knew that I forms. But the difficulty is that we can dug up. knew, that no coal ever had been or ever not get at the right men to kill. To shoot could be dug up within a hundred miles the local income-tax collector, for in of my two fields. He had no hope, stance, would be unjust, and no good cannot have had any hope, of making cause is ever helped by injustice. The me pay a single peany on the profits poor fellow, whom we are greatly tempt of private coal mine. He askeded to slay, is not responsible for the the question simply because he was the forms he issues. They come from some- vitim of a morbid craving.
one who certainly ought to be killed but cannot be found. It would, for the same reason, be wrong to plunge a dagger into the heart of a rural dean. I have often stood with a long carving knife in my hand close behind the chair on which an unsuspecting rural dean was sitting, a man who, regardless of the laws of hospitality, had handed me a list of question, handed it to me in my own house just before luncheon. A sense of public duty, rendered acute by a con sciousness of private wrong has prompt
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Parcels will be received at the Office up to Then I can talk to a man without 5 mm on the day previous to Sailing, the Miss Dews has worked all her life for wondering if I'm attracting him. I contents and vaine of all packages must be her living. She is an employee of one of needn't worry about attracting him at declared. the world's leading cloth manufacturers, all I can be interested in him without For further Farticulars, Apply to— and when she was appointed to the people, saying," Ah-h!" I cannot be
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to discharge her judicial children in my grandchildren without all the trouble of bearing or rearing Miss Dews lives in a three-roomed them. cottage at Earisbeaton, a hillside suburb overlooking the town, and is well known and greatly respected in the district She has long been interested in working class politics.
Yes, it's simply splendid being sixty. I have no responsibilities. I can do. exactly what I like and say what I choose. Scandal can't touch me and I can't be compromised. I get the best chair, the warmest corner,
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I do not know that the clergy suffer more than other people from being treat ed as the raw material of statistics Doctors, I fancy, are in a worse case Schoolmasters and all who are connect. ed with the management of schools, suffer severely. I have heard complaints from business men. Hardly anyone excapes. I only use the sufferings of the clergy because I know more about them than I do of any others.
I was for 21 years subject to a bishon ed me to make an end of him then and the wife of the Rector of Thornhill (a entangle my husband. He's seventy-eight Goods are being kanded at their risk into the
there.
The magistrates who accompanied her on the Beach and eat under her presi haven't all the agony of wondering deney included the Mayor of the town, whether some vampire is trying to
member
of a well-known Midlanda now, and beyond temptation.
who asked me my name, on a printed I have never done the deed yet, and county family), a leading local trades- I'm out of the running, I know, but form, every May. There was some ex- do not think I ever shall. A feeling of man, two members of one of the leading then I don't run the risk of defeat I'm cuse for him the first time, though even then he could have found out what herity for the rural dean, often an amiable blanket manufacturing Arms in the on the shelf, but then I'm out of the and charming man with a wife and chil- world, Lieutenant-Colonel "Emil W. danger. I'm in a backwater, but then wanted to know if he really did want dren depending of him, makes me Pickering, D.SO.. ex-M.P. for Dews there no fears of collision." to know it, in any clerical directory hesitate. While I hesitate my resolution bury, a well-known West Riding sports- But as years went on he and I came to is sicklied wer with the thought that man, and rider to hounds, and Mr. Tom know each other well. I often enjoyed after all, it is not the rural dean's fault. Myers, ex-MP., for the Speu Valley. his hospitality, dining agreeably in bis He may even hate the questions as much house. He often dined in mine. We corresponded, and I signed every letter as I do.-Evening Standard,
I ever wrote to him. He was a genial and friendly man, in many things quite
by President Dealvenr. He had to be sensible. Yet for nearly a quarter of a protected by the Pobce from the enthu-century he went on saking mo to write masma of the throngs. The whole city was my name down for him once every year illuminated and decorated with flags.
MADRID'S CELEBRATION:
MADRID, February 11th." An amnesty for persons convicted of a wide range of minor offences has been proclaimed to celebrate Captain Franco's
arrival in Buenos Aires.
HYDRO-ELECTRICITY.
ENTERPRISES IN ITALY TO BE FINANCED
NEW YORK. February 10th It is understood that arrangements are virtually concluded with a group of American bankers for the issue of a loan of twenty million dollars to the Italian Credit Institute for the development of hydro-electrical enterprises in Italy. The bonds will probably bear interest at the
rate of seven per cent,
LEVERHULME COLLECTION. BRISK BIDDINGS AT NEW YORK
He did not want to know it."Ho made no pretence that he was going to embody it in a volume of statistics. He wis simply an unfortunate victim of the habit of asking questions. *.
I used to wonder sometimes what would happen if I wrote down that my name was Sanders Sanderson or John Smith Would he be surprised? Would he, with mild remonstrance, call my at tention to an inaccuracy in my return
I fancy not. In all probability he never or anything else.
MONEY FOR WIVES. MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS WANT TO BE INDEPENDENT.
Indignation at the dismissal of women teachers because they were married. was expressed at the conference of the National Union of Women Teachers at
im
Bristol.
A resolution was passed calling upon the Government to secure the right of married women to follow their chosen professions
“But," said 'my friend. "what about love!'
of
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"! Love my child? Love?" I asked be examined in the presence of Contignees her. What do you mean. Haven't I by Mor Goddard & Douglas, on the love of my busband and my children? Webruary, 1986 at 10 Las Olas against NEW MEDICAL THEORY.
My friends and my dogs! Don't I love the Steamer birds and flowers, and good wine and REMARKABLE CURES REPORTED.
fine books? If you mean all the didder duddering, the undignified capering after found effect upon the methods of treating heart being in my mouth when I hear A new theory which may have a pro- some wretched man-if you meat my large number of deadly diseases is an- the telephone, and in my boots when I nounced by M Bescredka successor of don't, then, my dear, I'm thankful to say Matchnikoff at the Pasteur Institute, I'm very glad of it. I wouldn't be that's one thing that I have lost, And the Paris correspondent of the London Laily Telegraph: The essence of the idea twenty again for anything. It's too
wearing that since the microbes which cause And I added triumphantly, disease usually attack only certain por- tons of the body they should be dealt with ever have to strap-hang now."-Daily
aful. locally. The bacilli of cholera dysentery, and typhoid fever, for instance, attack the
Prof Dawson, of London, said it was such ailments as septic pleurisy, bushan
of intestines, those of
FACE quite the thing among some local gitis, whitlow, pyorrhoe, and anthrax One does not, of course, play tricks of authorities to speak of married women make their attacks through, the skin that kind on bishopa. But I did try a as people who had married in order to Since a given organism will only attack similar experiment once on an Educa be kept. They should not tolerate that a certain locality, says M, Besredka, then tion Office D
sort of thing.”
the vaccination of that part alone is neces- Who shall say a man can maintain sary For the vaccination of the intesti
Wellington
XTRA BOUGH BROMIDE.
It wanted to know the measurements at a schoolroom The proper way of a wife and family !” she asked. "Anes he has prepared a vaccine, which is finding that out was to asks one of its woman may be married to a man who administered by mallowing after a small own inspectors who constantly visited becomes ill or unemployed or who turns dose of ox-bile has been given in order to the school and always wrote down its out a rogue. Unless wife can help make the intestinal lining more suscept dimensions in a notebook That, I sup her mate when he is in financial ible. Against bacilli, which attack by the pose, did not occur to the clerk who difficulties she has to be dragged down way of the skin he uses plasters, which sad the form of inquiry. He sent his to the lowest level I am longing for instead of the ordinary antiseptics con- question to me. I answered it. The the day when we can say that woman is tain a vaccino. Experiment has shown A SUPREMELY BEAUTIFUL PAPER next year he daked it again, and again economically independent for the sake that under this treatment auch serious I answered it. The third year the same of family happiness.nude of diseases as anthrax and puerperal fever question came to me. I was annoyed, Mrs Tidswell (London) said there was have been mastered within forty-eight and said that the room was the same siza no law to compel a man to give any hours. The principal advantage claimed as before. Raportion of hir earnings to his wife, and for this system of local vaccination is that This was a perfectly reasonable or until there was no public authority it does away with the need for spreading swer. Schoolrooms are not trees. They should have the right to say that a man. a vaccine throughout the whole body the famous William and Mary walnut do not grow, and nobody could have because he earned a certain amount of which often results in partial poisoning
-and sometimes sèrious shock, suite of oven pieces of a date about 1895. I added a foot or cut a yard off that room money, could keep a wife
AUCTION.
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