THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
HIS BIG STORY.
BY
EDWARD HUNGERFORD.
Adiat, the veteran manager of smoke-eaters and buffs alike the Banner, came into Stanwix's could make him toll, just in time office with the matrix of a half to catch an edition, his opinion of page advertisement in his land. the blaze, what caused it and the
"I've broken an office ale and like. taken a big ad with a promise to trade it out," said he.
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Those were certainly golden daye. Now, after Stanwix and
EXTRA
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1913, 1.30 P.M.
stopped, and he did not forget Cap'a Joe reached for his steer- it ne he entered the little depot ing-wheel to put hia.craft about. and got an additional wire from
"I waz a fool to leave my Stanwix telling him to hurry the details of the ship that was lying cabin 't all to-night," he mut helpless in the storm on Hog tered.
Island reef.
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Leavy was quiok as a cat, and be shot across the cockpit and caught the Cap'n's hand away from the tiny wheel,
But what eleo he meant to say Cap'n Joe never knew, for at that moment, he went sprawling on the clean, hard beach. The bayanan hurried to him with his lontera, as Leavy pulled himself to his feet and said:
"Stubbed my too on a piece of driftwood."
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SHORT SERMON
Anything Dr. Charles W. Eliot may say in public topics is sure to be interesting. Recently ho commented thus on the new religion.
SHANGHAI FOOTBALL
CLUB,
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The Annual Meeting.
members of the Shanghai Foot
The annual general meeting of ball Club, held at the Shanghai Rowing Club, on October 14, was wall attended. Mr A. E. Stewart (Vice-President) was iu the chair. Mr Gande (Acting Secrlary) having read the notice convening the meeting, the Chairman, in a brief speech, commented apon the satisfactory nature of the re
City Desk did not urge him on the institute had placed him get to take you across the bayon ger, slunk back into the stern of" Twill be a good night's work finds them all'inconsistent with a $281,22 at the close of the pre.............
"It's one of them liquor-cure safe but he felt himself to be squarely upon his feet, he was ads," be continued. "They've rigged up an institute in Harlem, and they'll take the wort and straighten him out just to show us what they can do. It's a good idea. You get the right man and send him up."
We
paid:
on our staif
"I'll see if I can find a man.'
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"It'll be a jako on the papers and the reporters of the lown."
But Stanwix did not look again, at Adait, and only repented
"I'll see if I can find a man.'
He kept his eyes on his desk
work, and Adsit "guessed it was getting "some warmer," murt- ured something about a waiting engagement, and hurried down tairs. When Stanwix heard the door slam behind him, he rang for Mulligan, the head office-boy.
"Get Mr. Leavy for me," he
́ordered of him.
Mulligan's face fell. He was plainly puzzled.
hour
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routine and simple work, and tried to forget a past that had ite achievements as well as its down falls. His craving for liquor was completely gone. Once, when he would step inside for a single tasted. But au unseen hard reach
ed down and held him back
as he stepped upon the threshold
flimay tissue in his hand that was
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in
Report and Accounts, as present-
ed be accepted and pasted:
The next business was the election of officers and committees for the coming season, and the elected
unanimously
fo
were
"You'd better arrange to stay horo for me to-night," Leavy re- marked casually to the operator,
"The new religion rejects ab. who was beinning to shut up
None of that monkey busi
solutely the conception that man shop. "There's a big fellow gonn ashore across the bay, and I'llness," he said, "You're only The lantern awung back and is an alien in the world, or that want to send to my office when I engineer on the Little Rufus to close to the sand with a suspicious God is alionated from the world, get back from there. They can't night, and I'm the commander. alertness. The reporter's eyes It rejects also the antire concep-
followed its feeble light. Then get muck at New York."
You'll take orders, Joe, and you'll he saw that he had stenabled over tion of man as a fallen being The operator came out of his take them quick. You stay back a small box. Joe was already on hopelessly wicked and tonding port. He pointed out that the office and laughed at him. of your cylinders."
hia knees, trying to open the downward by nature;, and it expenditure and decreased and แ You get details!" he said.
And the owner of the Little box
makes this emphatic rejection of the revenue had increased, with Who do you suppose you could Rufus, after a look at his passon- It's salvage." said long-accepted beliefs because it the result that they had the largo balance of $500. 13 as against. night like this?"
launch and busied himself with for me."
humance," civilized or worthy vious season. After referring to "Got to get some one, said his engine, silent gave for an "You'll have another night's idea of God.
the visit of the Hongkong Inter- only a mental shadow of his Leavy doggedly.
occasional steering direction work," the Banner man reminded
port team last year, and the Foot- former self. He drifted into
"If, now, man discovere God ball Chab's success and otherwise But "Stanwix had given Leavy which he shot to the man at the him, "getting me back to Heath- thick roll of bills from an em wheel. Leavy kept a careful look mere. We'll get the worst of through self-consciousness; or in the League and Cap competi ergency fund in the corner of his out, but he felt that such au
our run then."
other words, if it is the human tions the Chairman said that he desk, and money talked that thing was all but farcical. night at Ileathmere station. The out here, hardly half a mile from ever having made such a bargained, the race has come
For Cap'n Joe swore inwardly for soul through which God is roves. would be pleased to answer any
questions on the Report
and to the Accounts. operator finally said that he knew shore, the snow was rain again, to set his lantern down on the knowledge of God through know- only ono men who might he and formed a thick gray veil that bouch, and began to pry at the
There were no questions, and Stanwir looked at Adsit and drink, just to know again how it counted upon to make, the trip in made them in a world of their bidden treasure. Losvy hurried ledge of itself; and the bast it was proposed by the Chairman,"
a winter's gale.
own, a little sea world, darting on to where he saw a bright fire knowledge of tod comes through seconded by Mr Gande, and car- Crazy Joe Richards... that's forward like a blind man running blazing on the beach. The life-knowledge of the best of the race.
ried unanimously: That the If he doesn't te in the dark. I wavy had a landlub-savers had started the fire after of the place, and be suggered back your man. and on to a park bench across liquor lie won't be near so crazy ber's knowledge of navigation, and their two hours or so of work had Men have always attributed to the way, and cried like a little as he might be." The operator once in a while, when the wind brought most of the passengers man u spirit distant from his guild-cried because he could not did not notice the sign of pain blow lesssharply in its nasty gne uff the ship. These folk, soaked body, though imminent in it. be a man, be tempted and resist that crossed the reporter's face by fashion, he would unfold a to the skin, tried desperately to No one of us is willing to identify like a real man. When it was and he continued. Ile's got a chart of the bay and try to figure warm themselves by the fire, and. himself with his kily, but on the quite over, he slowly retraced his staunch little eight hore: power, out their course. Still, he felt while the men chattered in a
Sir E, D. H. Frasor (President), Blepe to the Banner office, and one of them automobile engines that be was the child and the jargon, the children and some of contrary, every one now believes, buried his head in his hands, stuck in a lanach, and I guess half-witted seafaring man the fo the women cried pitifully and all men have baliovad, that Messrs. E. O. Pearce and A. E. Stewart (Vice-Presidents), Merera thanking God for having stopped that it's worth my while to stay ther in this, expedition. Cap'n language that neede no translator. there is in a man an animating, him on that threebold,
here for you, if I have to stay ult Joe must have known pach point Some of the other women sat ruling characteristic essence, Treasurer), W, J. Grande, R. A. C. P. Lunt (Hon. Secretary and and nook and crauny of the bay, stolidly looking into the fire epirit, which is himself. This Good, A. C. Lightfoot, A. A... Stanwix saw him, ret saw him night."
even stealing about it in the night they had not fully appreciated not, for Stanwix had a bit of
The two put their heads to as they were for not once did what is all meant, this shipwreck spirit, dull or bright, pretty or Pieroy and G. A. Robinson, Com- gether, routed out Cap'n Joe, bo faltor, in his directions at the gateway of astrange lant grand, pure or foul, looks out of millee causing him more worry than whose Little Rufus was the tal
Mesara W. J. Brown and 0. W. Leavy ever had. It had chanced motor-boat within ten miles, and, "P'inther port. Thar's a wreok
some returning the eyes, sounds in the voice, and to be one of those nights when while Joe put his wonderful en of a sailin'schooner right under Americana in the ship's company appears in the bearing and man- Porter were elected, to act with "You fired him only half an one good story crowds upon the gine in readiness, Isave made a four keel now, an' if we was sis foot and it was from theas that Lonveners of ouch individual. It is the General Committee ago," he said. "He's gone." heels of another, and City Desk run to the depot for a last word to the west we might poke one slowly gathered his story-an something just as real as the body Busting Committee
and more characteristic:- Toevery immensely human story.
The Chairman asked if any o'her old a Bat City Desk did not care to had depleted his reserves at an from Stanwix.js
dapars into us. La r
influential person it gives for the member had suggestions to make, discuss office ethice or disciplino alarming rate. On top of it all
All those details were taking
Then Leavy would trim the There was something about the greater past of his power. It is and Mr G. F. Forshaw said that as the annual match between the with Mulligan, and he repeated: came the message from Hog le time and time is the biggest course of the Little Rufus neatly, big ship lying just there, behind what we call the personality.
"You'll have to find him; I land Light that was the culmina thing of an evening to a city and even it he had doubte as to the blanket of rain, that, struck
This spirit, or soul, is the C for the Engineer's Cup had Football Club and the Engineers" want him brought hero." tion of Stanwix's won. His eye paper like tho Banner. It was the absolute accuracy of Oap's the reporter as intensely, pathetic.
Mulligan, pulling on his coat, caught sight of Mulligan, and his after nine o'clock already, and Joe's bearings, he felt satisfied He remembered when the Tunic most effective purt of every human showed his disgust at tho errand. finger beckoned the boy.
they were not even started upon that the old man knew his basi. had made her maiden trip. It being, and be recognized as such, or dropped out of the annual Mulligan was a reader of charac "I want one of the old roen,"
the hard part of their asaigmentness quite as well as the reporter was in his cub days on the Ban- and always has been. It can use programme, he thought it would. ter, and be bad read nothing said Stanwix sharply. "I haves He ran back to the Little Kufts, knew his own. But did he know ner, and he had gone down with fine body more effectively than be a good idea to make use of. good in Leavy. Now it was his chase out into the night for him," which Cap'n Joe now had ready, his own? Even out here on the the other men from Ship's News it can a poor body, but it tun do some of the Football Club's sur- for competition at Chinese New daty to find him after his tenth-
Mulligan saw that there was a and only halted just before he Great South Bay, already battling to welcome the newest product of wonders through an inadequate plus lands to put up another Cup Ho suggested that one discharge from the Banner's tip of a big story in the offico, reached the stringpiece of the with an arm of the soo, with the the wonderful buillers of the body. In the crisis of a losing
damp salt air filling his lungs and Clyde. He had been much im.battle it is u human soul that match should be played only, and staff,
and his eye caught sight of wharl.
rallies the flying trċ ops. It looke
that should to between "the Malligan's instinct led him Leavy-poor old Leavy, who had
choking him, with the gray fog pressed with her at that time. He out of flashing eyes and speaks in There was a tiny saloon at the splashing into his very face, the had marveled at the completeness
Shanghai Football Club and some straight to the nearest saloon, handled the big stories in the pier, and its lights burned Little Rufun being tossed on the of the ship her bridge and ringing tunes, but its appeal is 10 other strong local Club. where Leavy was tightening the past, only to get the poor stuff in brightly through the wet, which waves like chips in a riwmill, le navigating-room, forward other souls and not, to other Vdebsuch that had already cost, the present,
The suggestion was received was beginning to change to heavy could not even begin to from his aloft, spick and span;
with favour, and it was left to him his palco upon the Danner.
snow. Leavy felt that he must story the story that was to mean 80 at the thining engines buried In the midst of terrible na-the incoming Committee to make Protesting and bewildered, be
have the whisky now, and it took so much to Stanwix, so much to deep in her heart, un intricate tural catastrophes earthquakes, the necessary arrangements as was hauled back to Stanwix, and
a good deal of the real man with the Banner, so very, very much to mass of levers and rods and storms, conflagrations, volcanic soom as possible. the upshot of the whole busincs
in him to withstand that tempta Laavy. Perhaps he was foolish wheels to a loadsman, who could eruptions when men's best works Suggestions were made as to was that Leavy's reincarnation
cover tion. He might even have prayed not to have stopped in at the little only dinly realize that they were are being destroyed and thousands replenishing gear and these were was the Banner's recompose for
a bit; be certainly did not risk grog-shop on the wharf. What capable of working incessantly, of lives are ceasing suddenly and duly noted by the Hon. Secretary. the flaming ad that adorned the
So it was that Mulligan nom- trying to cross that threshold to would a single drink have mat day and night, for a week at a horribly, it is not a few especially rear of the third section the inated Leavy and Lasvy was a 3 if a hand should again reach tered, with a big story in pros time, and pushing an inert ten good human bodies which ready following Sunday.
hurried in to Stanwix's desk. down from the wasten to stop ject? He began to wonder if a or twelve thousand tons of metal the survivors, maintain order and The institute kept its promise, "I've a big story hero, Mr. him.
great story in the Banner, the through the angry seas at express organize the forces of rescue and and in four weeks Leavy was Lenvy," said the City Deak, "and "Cut loose, Joe," he ordered, kind of thing that Stanwix would speed.
relief. If is a few superior souls. back at his old deak in the city I want it covered in a big way." and you haminer that old en shove to the front page and that The Tanic was no longer an "The leading men and women room, fit for work again, the crav- Hog Island Light reports that agine as you never hammered it would be talked about in Park inspiring sight, unless inspiring in any society, savage or civilized, ing for liquor gone from his soul. steamer has come ashore four store. There's enough in it for Row for a week-if the glory oily forlorn and pathetic. She was are the strongest personalities Cos circular, dated October 11. He could hardly believe that trus miles to the eas; as far as they of himself. Drink? Why, it had can see she is in a bad way. If you to buy you another Little such achievement would not be foundered on the North Atlantic. the personality being primarily
Rice-The Market is firmer been the curse of his life ever a wicked night down there and Rufus. What's the chart to the worth the price of his soil, a tiny. In a little while they would come spiritual, and only secondarily
outer reef, and how many miles?" flame that had almost been ex and take her rusty engines from bodily
awing to continued meagre since he could remember. Drink they can't give details,"
supplies from the Interior and to had stretched out its arm and
"I'll get down there after
Four an a fraction. Clean tinguished long ere this, and her tilent heart, and they would
which now burned only as a be worth only their weight in simple and obvious facts, the and Japan.
"Recognizing to the full these a better demand for Hongkong kept him from being a great re- them.".
sailin' just as soon as we're past candle-like fragment of its former junk metal. They w uld strip futuro religion will pay homage porter. When he was sober, and
"Easier said than done; but the clam-boat down at the end of
her of all her fine fittings, like to all righteous and loving per-1st. January to 8th. October
Statistics show that sometimes in the early days when
From the inlet thar." it's up to you,
Such a story might be worth like ghouls plundering the dead. Cap'n Jos was silent theil, for the price-a man's mind spilled They would leave the skeleton of sons who in the past have exemp-there were exported 717.232 tong gotter by instinct, a writer by catch a train for Heathwere from ho was pushing the tiny launch out in the hidden tragedy of its the ship to pound itself to pieces their contemporaries intrinsie Meal & Brokens) Private est lified and made intelligible to of Rice and Paddy (leaving aside gift, and in his head had been Flatbush Avenue."
free from the friendly embrace tumbling words and sentences on the beach. laid the foundations of brilliancy.
What a chance for a story! If goodness and ellaent good will. imales prognosticate that, after The reporter got a lift into his of the ice-coated piles of the dock, paragraphs.
only he could set the feeble, "It will be a sainte religion. covering existing sales, which ex- Then, just as he had begun to coat from Mulligan and hurried and was occupied, too, in spark-
Thep could not see the black ongines of his brain vibrating It will treasure up all tales of tend up to November December, build firmly upon these founda- down the stairs into the Deceming his engine. As soon as they
human excelloace and virtue. If there could hardly be got tiona, the old craving would come ber night to catch his train down were well under way, and the bulk of the Tunic from the sandy once more!
There was a way, and he knew will reverence the discovers, about 25,000 tons of Rice oat of upon him, and he would go the island. All the way to Heath-put-put came. in quick rhythm, beech of the outer reef she was
he spoke to the reporter.
close inshore; but they could the way.
teachers, martys and apostles of stocks of Paddy said to exist in down, down, down into the gut mere ho tried to plan his story.
catch some of the noises that came ter again.
But it did not seem to plan,
If he only had a drink,-two libony, purity and righteousness the Districts of Cochinching and "Are we carryin' alioker from her decks, men cursing, drinke at the most, how they It will respect and honor all Cambodia. Millers are experinc- Now he was back and hard at and he realized that his old talent cargo? be asked, "Whisky's freight already going overboard would loosen his thoughts, be strong and lovely human beings ing great diffialties in gelling it; but his mind had been ex- for phrasing, his skill and hap- a mighty good thing on a night in last efforts to sat her fies the motive power that should cometing in them in finite mea- adequate supplies for their pear- hausted by each onslaught, and piness in the sharp use of words, light this, an' there ain't a man again, and these sounds made pose what he vowed would be not sure qualities similar to those est requirements, on account of he realized that never again could was entirely gone from him. He long bere that would have been a low note that sounded above only the biggest story that he had which they adore in God. Cultivators holding back slocke he key himself to the brilliant tried to lay out his opening par- enough of a fool to have started the roar of the sea:
ever written, but the biggest
in view of better prices, àlac. tensions of the old days of the sgraph, his first sentence even; out in this nasty bay 'thout gaso
"To the wretched, sick and party to lack of lighters As She must have been sliding story that ticking wires and oar downtrodden of the earth religion regards Exports in 1813, we times when he was police "and but that failed him:
lene in his tank and s'mother
along near full speed," was the ried into the Banner office in has in the past held out hopes of estimate (leaving adide Meal and could beat the inspector at Mul- "If you had a drink within licker in a flask."
bayman's calculation. Pretty many and many a month. It future compensation. When pre-Brokeng) that the Crops of berry Street almost every time; you, you might turn the trick,"
But Leavy shook his hoad. risky business, that, with the fog would be an esey enough matter cious ties of affection have been Cochinchina and Cambodia will, of the stormy nights when the flashed a suggestion from his old fire chief had the departiment inner to his outer, soul. The "We're not lickering to-night, a-layin' low here till a couple to beg a drink on a raw night broken, religion has held out prin all, go as far as about
hours ago to the da
like this, with the wind and wot in hard with his irascible temper, more resolutely he tried to put Jop," he said. "Neither you nor
We don't and Leavy, of the Banner, could the suggestion out of his mind, I have any business monkeying
spots of immediate and eternal 825/850.000 Tons blessings for the departed and incinde in it New Grain which get him every time in the middle the more insistent it became. It with the fire-water when we're
has promised happy reunions in will be coming to market by of a "four alarm," cursing at was with him when the train in for serious business,”
another and a better world", small parcele during November,
Mr. Leavy's there, returned Mulligan.
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No one elee?
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gueAR Mr. Leavy can the story," said Mulligan.
he was a little drunk, be was a good reporter. He was a news You've got twenty-minutes to
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brillianoy.
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and
atill more
"They take risks on some of chilling aman, body and soul
alike. these bigger lines," said Leary;
they've got to,
(To ba Continues& Noz! Saturday.)
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The meeting closed with with Learty vote of thanks to the Chairman.
Saigon Market. Messrs William O. Hala &
stated:-
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