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THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE TERN “LIBERTY.”
HOT A BERIKE IN A COLLEGE MAT' ARISE.
A STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY DIFFERENT FROM OURS,
EBY A CORRESPONDENT, ]
There was a holiday that afternoon in s message to the Commander of the the College. A wedding was to take British gyaboat. This gentleman hap-) place in the chapel. The little Chiness pened to be on shore, and dressed only in bride was standing waiting in the cornutti He came along, as he was, and ridor. Some of the students began to alone. He brushed the pickets aside with
ag her, according to old Chinese custom. one arm. They melted away! Others took up the fun. They were get- ting too boisterous. The frightened girl ran for protection to the kindly wife of the Principal. This lady was annoyed, sad remarked, "What a shame!" The
students heard.
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Their feelings were deeply wounded; and crying, We've been insulted They ran to the Principal, who was busy in the quadrangle, and knew nothing of what had been gingy on They were all talking at once He waved his arm, saying "One at a time, please." His aleeve inadvertently brushed the persona of some of those pressing near hinn
A Cantonese gentleman, who speaks some English, noting the débárte Inst year (when a quarter of a million Chinese ded from Hongkong just because of a few idle threats) remarked, “Chinese very freighten!"
If we British find it hard to fathom the mentality of a race whose ideas of talintion mean that students must re- the the benefits of education, and the sick the gift of healing, we must be discouraged, for has not the Editor of the Chinese Recorder noted with jubila tion that China has found her soul! The principle moreover is not confined
A cry was raid "We've been assault-to the South. When the anti-Japanese ed! We've been assaulted!" A thrillboycott was on; the students in a northern of horror and indignation against the city instructed the populace not to buy British staff ran through the College.
from the Japanese and Chinese beggars not to beg from them!
The student bödy " struck." They would no longer learn, nor would they leave the premises. That was the last I heard.
There is much talk in the ancient city of Philadelphia about the word Liberty," and the meaning it bore 150 years ago. In these days the word has lost its face "value, especially in South
China.
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The Chinese As He Is.
An old yeteran American misaïonary, terms, men and women, when speaking in the South, used to inveigh against the about the Chinese. "There aren't any," he would say, They are all children!" Is he not wrong? There is a sense and simplicity about a child that promises progress and ability to learn. It is the self conscious adolescent who is the most
tiring. He is forever worrying over his appearance, opinions, and the impression he is making. For his own sake leave him hlane till he can realize where he falls down.
Pickets Curtailing Holidays. An American friend, badly needing rest and change, came down to the coast from the interior. After a few days, she was saying “good-bye." Why so soon?" I asked. She said, I promised the pickets I would not be absent more than a month, including coming and go- ing. They demanded, at first, I should be back within two weeks; but I explain-done by kindness. I hope they are mis-
ed that the whole time would then be wallowed up in the journey. As a great favour they extended the time limit to a month. I promised, and I must go back."
Outside one of the southern cities, the Bolshevik party from Canton seized some buildings; and turned them into
school for boys and girls. There was
There is an uneasy suspicion in Hong- kong that some of the Government are bouring under the illusion that it is al!
taken.
Be just, patient, firra: but, whatever you are, do not be "kind." It is an absolutely fatal policy in.these parts just
now.
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resident in a southern city, once remark- An English medical missionary long ed that if the inhabitants had any inkling of how much they owed him life would
no thought of any moral restraint berot be safe! Not only were there hun- tween the young men and women.
"Imperialism was no longer of any for him; but, on one occasion, his action dreds, living, who would have died but use to the rising generation.
Near by was an American missionaryhloodshed. He was popular because the had saved the city from fighting and family. A young husband and wife and three merry youngsters. The mother was expecting a fourth addition to the circle
in a month's time.
In the dark hours of one night a mob
Irom the school surrounded the house- The inmate, scantily clad, managed to escape, and hide in the rice fields, shiver ing and terrified, till morning, light en- abled them to find shelter elsewhere. Meanwhile the house was looted and wrecked.
The official informed them that even if their claim for damages was met, the innocent inhabitants of the locality would have to pay. Nothing could be done against the Soviet school."
Paid Agitators.
citizens did not Know; and trusted him because they thought his was purely a money-making venture, whereas Le often found it hard to make ends meet and was really poor.
It has been unwisely assumed that be cause a Chinese has been educated on Western lines, and speaks English fault lessly, and dresses in the latest London style, that he has changed. We do not expect an Englishman to change his John Bull nature by going abroad and cut ting down trees in the Bush and wear? ing a rough shirt I
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One of the agitators, emblazoned with a badge, shouted to him from the plat form Wait a minute, doctor! I'm going your way," Ha tan, down and joined my friend, and, putting a friend ly hand on him, said, I wanted to ask you about a relative in the hospital.
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18 yours. Don't grouse about others leaving you in the lurch to tackle your prob fem alone. Your are quite capable of doing it if you attack it with sense, justice and courage. The results wil surprise you if you follow them up. In one of the southern ports 'the Comm The other fellow has plenty of good. missioner of Customs waa rather annoy-points. He will learn to appreciate you. ed by the daily attentions of the He knows that some who approach him,
pickets." One day they invaded the with Battery and sentimentality, abuse! Custom House and became very threaten him behind his back far more than you ing in their manner. He therefore, seat;, have ever done.-N.U. Daily News.
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TIN GAMBLING.
WORLD PRICES FIXED BY 3 MEN. Tin is begining to climb in price again, and speculators anticipate new opportunities for making fortunes.
Thirty-five men, sitting in a circle of leather-cushioned mahogany benches, rule the metal price of the world.
ing, for the hours of opening are from 12 to 1.30 only. The time is subdivided; ten minutes for copper; a signal bell, then ten minutes for tin and an interval, | Copper and tin for ten minutes again in their turn, and after them spelter and lead, with a final five minutes each for copper and tin. A member would be fin- ed if he sold tin in a copper ten minutes Prices are shouted across the ring, and That figure of thirty-five, says the sales and deliveries booked in a babble Daily Express, is the average attendance of noise. Tin is a product over which of brokers and dealers "in the ring people try to make fortunes, because of the London Metal Exchange, the most there are such heavy fluctuations in price compact and expeditious machine for levels. Six years ago this metal went to business, money losing and money gain, 2418 a ton four years back it bad dived ing, in the whole of Britain No other to £129, and now it is climbing again commodity market place is quite like the towards £300. When the price may move Metal Exchange, set in its backwater, either way, £10 in a week a gambler in from traffic, in Whittington-avenue, beda margina makes (or more probably loses) bind the tail oficer of Leadenhall-streets substatial amount of money. Brokers For one thing the metal market never tate that they have all manner of people becomes slack, and never will while the pn their books, Grocers, clergymen, world is short of tia-the precious metal soldiers, doctors, and a variety of men of speculation.
"and women" Have been bitten with the For example, yesterday (August 23rd), tin gambling, fever. Fewer than 300 with tin at $20 a ton-only a month ago i principala and authorised clerks have the it was £20 less-the exchange was, hum- | right to' appear on the Metal Exchange, ming with work. Orders from every and about 100 heads of firma can sit with where in the raw metal lines have to be in the ring, where a place on the cushion- compressed into ninety minutes of deal-led mahogany is a prize.
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