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ROBERT BURNS.
AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
SATURDAY MARCH
years.
1919.
( over hare started to tell the Chin- ese how to run their Government,
(laughter), but he was going to tall them one thing as it appear ed to the man from outside, that Poking, March 10.-Mr. J. J. the greatest constructive force
VISITING PEKING.
picture postcards), and, having observed, it was the obvious one AMERICAN CAPITAL FOR CHINA, that every American who came been accommodated with a "seat He further informed me that it in the ingle-neuk, looked on would be "released "early in the admiringly, as Bonnie Jean deftly spring, and would be shown first MR ABBOTT'S OBJECT IN so he was not going to do it manipulated a mass of dough on in the "States," and, if access- the baking board, conversing at ful, would be followed by "Tam After a somewhat arduous day times on the subject of my visit, o' Shanter." I had ensconced myself in a big bat ever keeping a watchful eye Meantime, he had a lot of work easy chair in my digs; a bright
on a girdle of scones which were to do in preparation for a world- Abbott, representative of the that the world ever knew was fire was crackling merrily in the deliciously browning over the lecture tour which would entail American Banka, addressing the being brought into operation in grate; my pips, filled with a fire. I gleaned from her that an absence of at leas particularly fragrant brand of the honour which had been con-
two inaugural meeting of the Interna-Paris, the fabric into which the tional Press Club at Peking, builded was being shaped, and nations of the world were to be tobacco, was drawing delightful-ferred on her husband had come ly; whilst outable in the darkness in the nature of a surprise, and had much to say on the part to China. In August of last year hoped that she would get out of Touching on the world-war, he explained the object of his visit because they loved China they she WAN not altogether sure As I listened to the elements
that Robert #37
great conflict, and waxed eloquent the American Bankers expressed, that Conference in Paris all that contending outside I thanked my
about i. ap stars 1 was safely under cover, and time would maybe change his on the splendid achievements of a desire to form a group inahe was entitled to,
He America for financing in China the "gallant Fifty-first." arned with renewed interest toa,
SIE F. AGLES'S SPEECH, views. As for "herself, "it! volume of Barns's poetical works
and they formed that group Sir Francis Aglen, who follow- of Nations, proposed League which lay on my kuse. The wadaae mak'a bawbee's worth opported with great warmth the difference. She had ower muckla
with the approval of the ed with a few remarks said that genial warmth of the fire, com-wark tae get through tas hae quoting to that and from his own
Back in during the past few weeks the bined with the unusual fatigue I
time tae think about it; but it "A man's a man for a American Government: had undergone, must have
that, the lines, "When main to 1912 there was a group of four leaders of Chinese finance whom
he had met had continually ask. “ institutions, but the present coming.
raged a storm of wind and rain.
821
Hooever,
Scotland's sous had taken in the
gradually overcome me, for was nice to feel that her guidmauman, the world ower, shall brith- Amarican Banks, all New Yorked him when was Mr. Abbott
room.
was me weel thocht o`.
I turned to the window as the whir-r-r of a motor cycle became loader and louder, suddenly coming to a mop in front of the cottage, when a tall figure alight ed, attired in a wide-brimmed soft black felt and a large fawn raincoat reaching to the feet The door opened, and Sir Robert entered.
thas
BEAL, AMERICAN GROUP,
100 FORT.
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Aa he rose ers be, for a thai." apparently dosed off in sleep.
from his chair to declaim the when suddenly Birr-r-r" want the telephone, and a strange voice
pasenge with greater freedom, I stop was much more represents. He was afraid that some of informed me that the news editor
was impressed with the postictive than that one. It included them had visions of Mr. Abbott wished to speak with me in his
fire which appeared to animate the four banks of the original entering the Chienmen with his whole being as with outgroup: J. P. Morgan, Kuhn large As I entered ho heal out to me
stretched arms and head well Loeb, National City Bank and the American gold dollars which to sare the financial a cutting from a morning paper,
back, he rolled off the familiar first National Bank of New York: were
also such banks as the Guarantee situation. However he did his which gave the King's birthday
lines. list of honoars. "There's a nice
From the war to reconstruction Trust Chase Bank, the National best to assure them that Mr. Abbott was a business man, who little trip for you," he said, with
was a natural sequence, and the Bank and others. |a amile; "if you run your eya
There was no mistaking that unrest and threatened strikes in
while willing to do busines would do it in a strictly businesE. It was a real American Group fashion, so that the rosy visions down that list you'll observe that face. Naesymth and Skirring the Labour world did not receive Barna, the Ayrshire poet and have both immortalised it, and much sympathy from him. In in another sense. It included of these financiers were perhaps agriculturist, has been made a as I gazed on his features his opinion, the tremendous ha-
banks all the way from the the Skirving man sacrifices made in the recent atlantic to the Pacific, from the Francis aid that he regarded Proceeding, Sir Knight Commander of the Order decided of the British Empire."
portrait was the better likeness war by all classes completely Great Lakes in the north to the the coming of Mr. Abbott, as a For a second or so I was in The large, liquid eyes; the dwarfed iate insignificance the a doubt as to whom he referred to delicately-chiselled mouth; the petty grievances of a class which, Gulf of Mexico in the south. I good augury for the future of 38 representative of the China. It was extremely desir "Buras? Burns?" I exclaimed; dome-shaped head; with its taking into consideration the in-
American capital do you mean Robert Burns?" masses of closely carling copper-fated scale of wages paid to them territory of America as well able that
be attracted "Certainly," he replied; "and tinted hair; the war raddy throughout that time, had little representative of banking should pray don't forget that he is Sir brown complexion-bow familiar cause for complaint. The call interests which were interested China and it was incumbent upon in Chinese business. China China to make it attractive for Robert now. You might take a it all seemed! Bonnie Jean had for a six hours day he brushed
WHA about twelve thousand American capital to "come here. run through there--I see he is in gone to the door to help him caside with a contemptuous amile.
York, So much was waiting in China to residence again at Alloway-sod | with his coat, and had explained "It would hardly answer on a try to get kis views ou questions to him my mission. As he came farm," he commented sarcastic but that did not measure its close be done which would not be done
ness or its remoteness.
China, unless foreign capital were of the moment-the Labour forward with extended hand to ally.
W38 very close b
America.brought in, and he hoped that the aureat, the League of Nations, welcome me I observed that he
The hour having passed, I rose Wherever one went one was sure Chinese would do their best to- which, and, er-anything that suggests was wearing clothes
to go; and while taking farewell to find a very cordial sympathy wards securing the financial as itself to you. Take the camera, though of quite modern cut, of Sir Robert and his good lady, on the part of Americans for the sistance that was so surgently need- were yet strangely reminiscent I persuaded them to pose jusi Chinese. They liked them. ed. He trusted that American in colour of the portraits
outside the cottage door. They They believed in them. That capital would come here and mentioned above.
I was deeply impressed with smilingly consented and Sir. made America close to China.would eventually take a share tobart, with a twinkle in his eye, | There was another point of in the development of China, the America was money lent to Chins being appli- passed his arm around the waist view in which clicked my camer I said to my that
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the cordiality of his welcome and the rich, musical cadence of his voice as he apologised for his absence from horne on my arrival; and after I had offered congrata lations, on his new honour, and stated again my errand, he drew forth a gold banting watch, and,
I turned to nuke for the station; they were more than ten thousand but the weather had suddenly miles apart. It was because in- formed me that he could grant blowing, casting face and hands that this group of bankers had me only an hour, 33 he had like a knife. 1 pressed onwards asked him to come to China and pressing business to attend to. until a more than usually nippy make a study of the conditions. thanked him, and on his invitation blast suddenly awoke me, and IIt was a very big job, and he was followed him to his stady discovered I had fallen asleep not going to get away with it in with the volume of Burns on my five ininutes, nor would he get newly built annaxe to the cottage,
likewise away with it at all noless those and standing in a little plot of kace. The fire was out,
my pipe.St. Clair in the Edin people present wished to help ground at the back.
bargh Evening Dispatch.
I get local colour her, and, of course, as you are aware, this is my native place." Then we settled down for a comfortable chat over cigars.
him.
CHANGES AS, RESULT OF WAR.
The inaugural meeting of the International Press Club was very
usefulness which ought to attract
Londred who have already even more members than the
ined.-N.C. Daily News.
LONDON'S LOW BIRTH-RATE_
It was stated recently, by Dr. Saleeby, on the authority of an- pablished figures sent him by That in brief was what hehe Registrar-General, that for came here to do. Because he had the whole of England and Wales MOTHER OF PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION. tried to be brief there might be last year the death-rate would Melchora Aquino, one of the some points which were not clear probably be found to be higher most venerable figures of the to them. If anyone wished to than the birth-rate. The young Philippine Eerolation, died at 38k questions be would answer population of the country was her hamble home at Novaliches, them if he could.
markedly declining, and last Proceeding, be referred to the year was the worst on record. In I inquired if we might look Caloocan on February 19. The forward shortly to any fresh poetic body was taken to Salazar's great change which had been London, for which the figures. effort of his. "Well," he replied, Faneral Parlours on Calle Ongpin effected in America by the war. were known, the birth-rate was "I have just completed a patriotic to await plans of the Society of Prior to its outbreak the people 15.8 per 1,000, and the death-rate song at the request of the Ameri- the Veterans of the Revolution had been almost entirely engrose 18.7. The smallness of the birth- can Government, which is still which will take charge of the ad in their own pursuits, allowing rate figure was unprecedented in in the proof stage, but which, arrangement the funeral the Government to take care of our history. These statementá
"Here," he explained. "I find and the door, which had quite I can work better than in the city. recently been painted, bore a There's too much to distract one Besides," "he neat and brightly polished brass in a big town. plate, with the words Robert added, Burns, Poet," in neatly engraved letters. An electric push button invited me to press, and the door was opened by a preposs- essing damsel of eighteen or thereabouts, who looked as if she had stepped out of a canvas by Wilkie. Atired in short gown and petticoat, with neatly braid e l'hair, and a pretty apron, she smilingly asked my business.
of
of
The
I proffered my card, and in- may say, has been very favour services. Tandang Sora, as she itself more or less, but when the were made at a meeting called by quired if Sir Robert was at home. ably received by the critics. was called by the Filipino revolu-war came it was impossible to find the National Council for the and Ber She was sorry to say that he had Apart from that, I have been tionists, was the one who sided an individual who was not will Unmarried Mother
which Sir Charles: gone out about an hour ago, and fully occupied supervising the the Father of the Filipino Revola ing to do everything and to give Child, at she was not sure when he would filming of one of my earlier tion, Bonifacio, in the pro- everything to support the Govern- Wakefield, said 37,000 children ous of wedlock return; but if I would wait & works, entitled 'The Cottar's secution of the war against ment in the conduct of the were born
One and all were ready each year in this country laughed at bis rage. Then the minute she would ask Mreer, Saturday Night. Perhaps you Spain. Through her financial war. Director bethought himself of Lady Burns. After a moment's may have heard of it?" help, Bonifacio Was able to make the greatest sacrifices. alone. The death-rate among Major-General Tiage, Manag- his Major-General's uniform. delay Bounie Jean for I recognis I smilingly acknowledged my to give the first ery for arms at This metamorphosis was them was 205 per 1,000, against 1,000 for those ing Director of the L'eking-Hau-When he reappeared in all the
ed her at once from the many acquaintance with the classic Balintawak. Being a rich woman due to the realisation of the 102 per
marriage. kow Railway, returned to Peking splendour of gold lace the soldiers
engravings I had seen) appeared mentioned, and touched on the and living at a place near Balin- injustice and the wanton brutality born from Hankow a few days ago by stampeded and the restaurant
Birmingham said in the doorway, and invited me pleasures it would bring to his towak where the first cry for of that beast over in Germany. Bishop of train, reports the Peking and cat was frea of them for the
to enter, explaining that Sir many admirers to see it on the revolution was given, Tandang It was a realisation that if that in forcing marriage between Tientsin Times. In the course of rest of the trip. The Ad Robers had just gone into Ayr to screen." He thereupon detailed Sors gave to Bonifacio all the beast was not smashed there two people they might do a lot the journey, being desirous of ministration of
harm than good, and Peking wire replies to the numerous the costliness of the production financial help that she could, rend- would be no America. The efforts, more getting something to eat, he Hankow Railway has recently telegrams of congratulation he and the labour involved in fiad-ering herself penniless in serving of the Allies produced in America he had himself in cases pressed went into the restaurant been the subject of much criticism had received that morning, and ing suitable models and costumes her country. Tandang Sora de-a great spiritual awakening, a for marriage and regretted that car and found it fall
of owing to its inability to manage to post some proofs of his work true to the period. He confessed; livered to Bonifacio all her cows, realisation that i was incumbent he had done so. In the attempt Chinese soldiers sprawling about these swarms of soldiers who in-
to the publishers; but if I would rather awkwardly, I thought, that carabass and money. The name on Americans to do something to to do what was moral the sim on all the chairs and even on the fest its trains and stations but if sit down for a little she was gura under coin punction he had figured of this woman is not only revered help the world. That feeling per moral might be done. It was mere utilitarianism, but tables. As he was only in a Managing Director is defied to he would return shortly, as he in the title-role, but I hastened to by the revolutionists but also by meated America from one end to not civilian dress these coolie braves his face, what chance has a simple was very busy.
assure him that, in my humble all those who called her the the other. The most beautiful Christianity to engage in the paid not the slightest attention Station Master or train conductor
He work of helping the unmarried entered the kitchen (so opinion, no better choice could mother of the Philippine Revolu- spirit pervaded the land. to his requests or threats and of carrying out his duty.
had been told the other day mother. familar, through the medium of have been made. In fact, as I tion.
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