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Misquotations."
1915.
DAY BY DAY,
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
THE SINKING OF THE BVELYN.
THE OPERA SEASON.
Anether. Succata. Scored Last Night
FOOTBALL.
rrangements for This Weal
We perpetrated „a... scriptural misquotstion in this column on Saturday, writing “The devil tempted me" for "The serpent beguiled me." Sach slips are BETTER THING TO FIND THAN A A HAPPY MAN OR WOMAN IS A common enough, whether in or FIVE-POUND NOTE HE OR SHE IS dinery conversation or in newsA RADIATING FOCUS OF GOOD paper work; but as none of our A ROOM IS AS THOUGH ANOTHER WILL AND THEIR ENTRANCE INTO readers has oslled our attention CANDLE HAD BEEN LIGHTED. WE to the error we feel especially NEED NOT CARE WHETHER THEY
COULD PROVE virtuous in "owning up." SEVENTH PROPOSITION. THEY DO A
THE
FORTY the boys say. As a
matter BETTER THING THAN THAT: THEY The statement that the Ameri-
PRACTICALLY DEMONSTRATE THE of fact, the Bible" offers from GREAT, THEOREM OF THE LIVE Borkum by`s mine must be taken which has been given during the Ground, 4 p.m., refarce. Mieli gar steamer Evelyn was zunk off ABLENESS OF LIFE-Siavezson.
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mirquotation "every day of its life, where Britishers are concern. | ed--probably because they will not admit outright that, in a general
ay, they know but very little about it;it is quite likely that the correct the text: "The devil tempt average person, on being asked to
ed me and I did est," would be. sublimely unconscious that thera
for WASTA naccanity
Bay correction. W have, On
The Weather.
Lower level 8 8.m. Temp. 68; dull.
light fog.
At the Peak 8.3.m. Temp. 60
Count the Columas,
sundry occasions, heard clergy. Yesterday the Telegraph m wrongly
published 39 columns of solid when quota in the pulpit, but the queerest real 37 published-day, there thing we ever mat in that lins will be was from Salvation lasie,
prosching at á street corner. Wa will not aname that she did not know her Bible, but so carried Away was she by enthusiasm that, in the midst of her preaching, she screamed: "Let us may with the dying thief-I will arise and go to my father."
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SAYER-On February 22, at 11.5 a.m., at the Government Civil Hospital, after a long illness, Ernest Alfred Robert Sayer, marine engineer, aged 36 years, second son of Geo. J. B. Sayer.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1915.
ANOTHER REVIVALIST.
The pessimists and the prophets of avil found yesterday that they
had laboured in vain, for, in spite
The Malls."
American and Siberian Mails.-- Closed per se. Shinya Maru to-day at 11 a.mi. American and Siberian Mails.— Close per s.a. Monteagle 10-morrow at 11 a.m.
Up to the Minute-Share
Market News.
of war, hard times and absence Closing prices:-
Hongkong Tramway $5.15
The Dollar;·
The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is la 9.3-16d.
of Germans, a particularly success. fulday's racing has to be recorded. The weather was magnificent- which is more than can be said öf it last year and the year before- and if, of necessity, various fami liar faces were missing, the muster of Europeans yat seemed as big as | ever. The Chinese, too, turned up in fins force, for our own national
The Sanitary Board. holiday has, from force of habit, become theirs; and it is safe to
The Sanitary Board holds its asy that they derive as much fortnightly meeting on Thursday pleasure from the races as any this week, instead of to-day. Europeans could. A notable feature of the day was the marked success of Mr. Johnstone, who
rode in eleven races and won sOVEN
of them. And while on the sub
University Lecture, Professor A. G. Warren
is
the
ject of congratulations, we may lecturing on "Colour" at well draw attention to the state-University at 8.30 a'clock to ment in our issue of yesterdaynight. that this your îd Sir Paul Chater's fiftieth as a local racing man. Small Matters.
Kallan Output.
The Minnesota.
A Way of Reading Wer Telegrams,
not
The following are the footb matches for this wook :--
WednesdayNavy ▼. R.G.
Last night's « presentation... of Mignon by the Italian Opera Navy Ground, 4 p.m., refere Company was one of the daintiest Mr. F. W. Wright, and most delightful performances Baturday.-R.E. v. Navy. Na
at its face valas sa being a correct Company's season here. There W. Wright, RG.A. Olu statement of fact, for it in. was once again a crowded house, Military Ground, 4 p.m., refere conceivable that the Germans and everybody present enjoyed Mr. E. Tyler.
Teams representing the 2n however erratis their methode the opera. Mile. Vivoni had the may appear to be,-would sink a title
role, and she invested the Division of the League and t vessel bound to one of their own part with that grace and charm RE. mest in the semi-final of th ports with a valuable cargo of which we have now come to Shield Competition on March cotton, commodity of great ociate with all her work. The following eleven has bee use to any belligerent nation. Allo. Gonzalez was Filins, and she Provisionally selected to play fo treated, the audience to another the League: -Edwards (Queen Consequently it would seri that any international fios atody. Her singing was College); Cheung Wing ho crisis can possibly arise in this superb, especially in the beautiful (Lam Liong) and Bollard (S connection, and that America bas Polonaise in the second sot, A Joseph's College); W. H. Vivasa little prose for anything exps heard to very great advantage, Jollege); and Pang Kap-you (La
Count Lothario, M. Maugeri was (Diocesans); Johnson (St. Joseph' mild protest a request that the German anthorities should while the part of Wilhelm Meister Liong) Leung Wing-RE wes that the minas in their waters was entrusted to M. Dagradi, who Liong); R.A. Carvalbo (Lusitano ships from this most dreaded talented actor and singer. A word I. Goldenberg (St. Joseph's Col Lieut. Roupell (Victoria Rovers) are so placed as to free visiting once again showed himself a danger. If neutral vessels have to should also be added regarding lege); and Corres (St. Joseph carry on trade with Germany at the choral work, which was College), .... the risk which is made "plendid all through.
These will play a praction apparent in yesterday's tele
To-night the Company is stag-match on Thursday, Feb. 25, or
the Club Ground at 5 p.m. gram, the sooner they stop iting Verdi'n " Otello.”
Fort Bolchers. the better for them. The German
case may be that the mine wat laid by the British. It does not
matter if it were, for it is the SOME NEW "HOWLERS. obvious duty of any nation to see that its own water-ways are free
German.
from these implements of des How to Become a Naturalised trustion, whether laid by itsell for a combatent nation. These brief arguments lead to the con olusion that, after all, the sink- ing of the Evelyn is a matter for Germany alone to explain.
The king was not to order taxis without the consent of Parliament. Masonline; man; feminine; woman; neuter, corpam."
The Inquisitions were custome duties levied by James I.
The Philistines are islands in the Pacific.
"Boys to guide the plough and Pen" means boys to plough and look after the fowls.“
The Hon. Seo, of the Hongkong Football Ulab from 25th inst. will be Mr. H. 8. Rouse, Pablic Works Department.
Pending the League decision, match-Lusitano v. Lam Liong the points for lass Saturday's have been added to Lain Liong's record;
Club.
Division IL
CANTON TRADE REVIEW FOR 1914.
Business in Canton was very Togoladd belongs to Japan. prosewriter that ever lived wrote notes. In July conditions began Tennyson the greatest Roman to the low value of Kwangtung doll in the first part of 1914, owing the "Ilind "and" Paradise Lost," Lyons is a city noted for tea.
to brighten considerably, when Australis reads to England intention of redeeming these the Government announced its wine made from a bird named notes with Central Government Charles I. was going to marry almost every trade was paralysed paper. Bot act long after this by the great food calamities and, worst of all, the outbreak of the war in Europe.
Some choice examples of
F. W. L. D. FAP schoolboy "kowlers" are quoted. St. Joseph's The Daily Struggle.
|by the University Correspondent College...5 5 0 011 110 The most profitable way of Among them are the following: Lam Liong 6 5 1 011 610 reading war news is to take the Cecil Rhodes founded Boadicas. Queen y Press here and read them in con- could get drunk and gamble and Confuciaan...5 2 2 111 76 telegrams as they appear in the Charles II told the people they
College... 7:42 1115 9 action with the many human do what they liked. That was Victoria B...5 1.3 1.5.6.3 letters which are daily feature called the Restoration:
Diocesana......513 1 28-3 of the London journals. For the
University ...3 0 3 0 05:0 average layman, the military signi-
Lusitano 404 0.018 0 ficance of the telegrams with their almost “headline" statement of news at a juncture like this manns very little to him, but with the aid of the local colour that the wonderful epistles in the Home papers give, a better appreciation of the comparative minor suc, We might spin our соп-
cesses reported from day to day gratulations out to a good length
on be easily obtained. The re- where the varione contributors Mining Administration's mines points gained, with soireely any The total output of the Kailan ports of the last few days of maay towards yesterday's'aportare con- for the week ending February 6 perceptible advance of the line, cerned. The starting was far more amounted to. 54,620.64 tone and are fraught with huge signifiosnae punctual than in previous youre the salas during the period to when viewed in such a light. The Judging from the American papers to baad, Philadelphia has
and the arrangements for paying 52,846.98 tons. lately been in the grasp of a religious revival more forcible, and better than naual; but we cannot out pari-mainel money were
immense sacrifices that are being more widespread than anything that has yet sought to influence
made on the one hand to break the emu," the United that country where nothing surprises. The preacher who views on the everlasting subject praise the Jockey Clab for its
the opponents' line, and, on the has thus gripped this great city by the throst is a Mr. William of the dollar. We gather that,
other, to maintain it, do not ap the Infants of Spain. He went to Sunday. We know little of his antecedente, but inasmuch as the while many silver dollars were Minnesota, from Seattle, arrived Router, but, as was said by one never smiled again.
The Great Northern S.S Co's pear in the cold narrative of see her and Shakespeare says he North American has daily been giving whole pages of reports of his meetings we are soabled to get good insight into his methods. He paid out to winners, when the at Yokohama on 22nd inst. bhe officer writing Home, it is here a
Bombardier Walls is a great Chiness merchants dealing in appears to be one of those strong, inde chamoters with almost an possessors of those silver dollars will leave Yokohama, via usual clomp of trees to be taken, there writer about the future. inspired insight into human nature, a marvellous flow of language told that they must pay in paper! for Hongkong, where she is ex- where some slight ground of ad-wrote a hymn beginning Letter curiosities, have been complainin
came to re-invest them, they were Japan Ports and Manila, on 24th small farm-house and very- Milton when twelve years old goods, euch as silk,tés, em-
broidery, matting, ivory ands and power of spigram, and above all, a ready facility for appealing This to the sentiments of the public.
meant that some un-pected on or about 12th March.
vantage that is costing so many from a Gladstone mind bitterly. The trade in blackwood We could fill page with quotations from this remarkable man of silver but no notes, had fortunates, who bad pockets full
valuable lives for which the world There are three kinds of Downs furnituro, jade stones and silver- quotations that show the extreme nicety wherewith he has gauged to choose between hurrying off
will mourn when the glamour of North Downs, South Downs, ware, although notably decreased the human disposition and sympathies; but two or three will perhaps to
Death.
battlo in over. The scormulation and Elder Downs.^.
by lack of exporting, could yet auffice. "Some Christians are so mean that they sing through their losing the opportunity of further money-obanger'a and
will eventually mean the decision Henry VIII was very fat besides make up a portion of the loss by noves to save wear and tear on their false teeth.”. "At Peatocost,
We regret to record the death, of this phase of the wax; the boing a Nonconformist.
Magna Charta means the Queen of which there seemed to ba
the sale of supplies for weddingt, one sermon saved three thousand people. Now it takes three thot peculating. Another individual at the age of 36 years, of Mr. E. enemy's resistance will reach its Band to get one old buttermilk-eyed, red-nosed, whisky-soaked to whom, much as we should like. A. R. Sayer, son of Mr. sud Mrs. breaking point or maybe the had lost her garter; the French unusually large number 10 an blasphemer." "The Clay and Webater and Calhoun and Douglas felicitations is the gentleman who at the Government Civil Hospital with decisive results either way.
we feel unable to extend our 3. J. B. Bayer, which took place attack will overreach itself, ia koni soit qui mal y penss. and Lincoln, type of American citizen has been supplanted by the took away race card which a yesterday. The deceased had The awful similarity between this odour made there.
Cologne is famous for the paints, suger, flour and foreign Speculators on imported goods, good-for-nothing, God-forsaken, lick-spittle, peanut-headed, wears!-
To germinata is to become a because the prios have doubled paper, have made enormous profits eyed, whiskey soaked, rum-gazzling politicians of our day." One presumen had left for a moment suffered a long illness, following war and a sternly fought game of rom fer ryo, bear, graft, fraud, bat, it seems, no room for God."Rope this was done inadvertently; employment as a maripe engineer preliminary stages for position. A refugee keeps order at a since the war began, Tho daalers more. "We have no God in American politics. There's plenty of in the telephone box. Let un an accident in the course of his chess, with its struggle in the naturalised German. These will serve to show that Mr. Sunday has a fair notion of where the offender's abilities are thrown sympathy of many friends goes years comes to be written up,
if it was not, we can only say that some eleven years ago. The will, when the bistory of these football match. to hit some of his saditors. Bis meetings are described as over-away on such a small field se the out to Mr. and Mrs. Sayer and form the most interesting reading ences when they are ill.
People often loss their consci-licacies, to which the Chinese seem in piece goods and marine de flowing, as many as fifty thousand people attending. Next to attack-
family in their bereavement. The and mark a new epooh in military.
lately to have become quite indif ing the sins of the nation, he deals with those of conventional religion, Hongkong racecourse.
ferent, have been calling loudly and the various prenobers and olergy seem to have come in for some
funeral took place this morning. literature.
The Significance of the Russian the whole length of the line, have
for customers, especially at the rough treatment at his hands.
and of the year. Native cloth, In the darkness of the nowa
been trying for weeks to find hoes, caps and silk have all that has come from the Eastern localities where immense forces moved with some profit. The theatre, in that one "ray of silver could make some headway. This Canton people prefer to in the Statss. Many of our readers were in England at the time Uta-pao and the Perlis frontier. when the much-advertised Torry Mission went to London. It The distance is about 30 miles The special dinner and Cia in this coloumn on previous on Russiana in a manner. which convenient and conventional.
which has been commented apon has been met successfully by the native dress, considering it m attracted immense crowds, but, unfortunately, those who went were the earth work is already finished. Hongkong Hotel management for of the Russians when telling of on
only, and on the first 10 miles derello dance arranged by the casions, and that is the frankness reflects straight lives; and not the wastral type. The same thing was provand, and it may not be long of public patronage. Both the than the admission of the loss of with the same facility as the Ger- brokers and farriers di
the greatest credit Therefore the foreign clothes the respectable, charch-going element who were already leading The next ten miles is well in last night attracted a big share defeat. A more explicit statement whose inability to move foress Second hand clothiers
their commanders shops suffered heavily last year, ed, years ago, in condiotion with the Salvation Army, by Professor Dluxley and others; namely: that the average convert to it was not before work is in progress along grill rom and the dining rooms corps would be hard to find, mans, who had prepared their well. Restaurants did not a man who had ever at any time been a notorious, offender, but who the whole section.
were filled with diners, tables and it lands strongly to the con- ground years before, meant that much as provisions were? was merely a dissenter from some, other dissenting sect. How far From the Perlis frontier to having been long booked in ad-clusion, if anyone ever had any time was against them and would and hear this may be the case in Philadelphia we are not in a position to Alor Star, the distance is 42 miles. vance. There was a large naval doubt, that the Russians are ultimately come to the help of occasioned to the atate. The Americans are a more emotional people than the British, This is the backward section on and military element present, and playing the game by their Allies the Germans in exactly the fashion the high prices of and doctrines and sects which would be ignored or else laughed to the line. The line from Bakit the dance which followed dinner and are not colouring their re which it has... The conclusion to flour. Gold, ailver, and acorn in England are tolerated in their country. Such a man as Mertajam to Alor Star is rapidly was a most enjoyable little fano- ports any more than other hamens be drawn from this is that the stions, things not necessary for this. Mr. Sunday might get a bearing in London but doubtless it approaching completion, whilst tion. The band of the 74th are apt to do. It also gives Eastern theatre will always be daily use were almost without would only be from the chapel-going element which needs no salva-northwards of Uta pao, the rail- Panjabis, under Bandmaster ground for strengthening the be pretty much where it is now until parchasers, while liquor, rice, nat tion. The North American, in publishing a verbatim of his sermons, way is open for ordinary passen Christian, played during dinner lief that reports of former Rassian, the pressure on the western front oil, and firewood dealers had only is giving him a chance to reach a public that probably would never ger traffic to Tang Sawng (the and supplied the music for the victories have been as true as this assumes those proportions, which about sufficient business to keep "patronise his meetings: the grafter class; and it is within the bounds janotion with the Trang line) and dance in a manner which reflect-
their admission of of possibility that his wholesome plain speaking may do them good. I open for construction trains as the grestent credit on the back. The matter is not to be which will force the Germans to We are glad to learn that few
are earnestly being siriven for them golag.se Many of the sincerely religious persons who do go to hear him will far north as Bandon, some sixty instrumentalists. The Hotel man- viewed with any great degree of transfer reinforcement across of the big shops in Canton be revolted by much that he has to say; but if hit straight talking miles beyond Tung-Sawngagement is to be congratuled pessimism, for the Gorman, Germany they have already insolvent and many hayan ab uld have the effect of making some of the unoo guide little more charitable towards the winner, ho will not have prescked in vain.
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The Malay Peninsular Raliway,
We hear from Singora that good progress is being made on the
The question that one is naturally inclined to ask is: De sach meetings perform any permanent good? As regards London audiences we say unhesitatingly: No; but things may be different reotion of railway line between
Straits Echo,
Dinner and Dance.
on the functionalkom
Retreat.
a large sel-
failing to make an impression on done before,
or even in some instances trebled
ad to-day
w