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SOME CURIOSITIES OF WAR
INFLUENCE.
One of the curiosities of the war influence upon Spain was that Spanish shipowners charged inflated rates for carrying English coal to Spain, and comparative ly cheap rates for Spanish cargoes (on the return voyage) destined "For French and British ports.
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SEQUEL TO BURMA WAR LOAN SWEEP.
VILLAGERS CLAIM A BIG PRIZE
The
prosecution
that seven of these
LATE MR ANDREW
CARNEGIE
A CHARACTER STUDY.
opening of the Insitute in Pithe burg i 1907 he said, speaking of | his gifta sug LA
NESE IN SIBERIA:
AN EXTRAORDINARY
PROCLAMATION.
A Vladivostok message to the Amaka says that Liant-General Shiki has issued the following notification to the Russian in- habitants near Spaskara
It is true I gave some pieces of paper, but they do not represent anything in my mind, because I do not part with anything that I An overnight telegram reports could understand. It is true the death of Mr.Andrew Carnegie, that these hits of paper repré- The following character sketch of sented bonds, but I had never the famous millionaire, written seen these bonds. I cannot feel for the Daily News" some few that I own a mountain. I don't years ago by A.G.G." will be think any man can really feel he will pass gear Spaskaya to "Since the Japanese troops read with interest
owns a stretch of land. Let him morrow those Russians who Take that bright, beady-eyed walk over mountains or heather regard the Japanese as their little man, grey and pallid, with and say to himself These moun deadly enemies should fight them broad brow and a mouth that tains are mine," and he will not with shella, explosives, and what closes with the decision of a rat-be able to make himself under-not. On the other hand, those trap, vivacious as a boy, full of stand the meaning of the words who look upon the Japanese as jokes and moral maxims, as-So it is impossible to make one's their friends should welcome the sertive, combative, clear-headed, self understand that he owns a Japanese troops, with Russian masterful-what will be the great fortune. I don't miss the flags in their hands. No hostile ultimate judgment passed upon money I gave. So far as I know steps will be taken against him? For it is Andrew Carnegie, there are as many bonds in the those the worderful Rich Uncle who has safe deposit vault as there were emerged from the mephitic glooms before. of Fittsburg
and scattered This is the language of a plain largesse over all the earth. Seen and sincere mind. And it is through that dazzling rain of because; he has never become dollars he appears radiant and obsessed with wealth, but has
in their lots with the Bolsheviks who may have cast
before, provided that they DOW vow allegiance to the Japanese troops. The welcome of the Japanese troops by the women alone will not be tolerated. Those
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aureoled; seen through the smoke always remained its master that male inhabitants who do not at No. 29 Dock Terrace, Kowlooned junk T536H was seized by the
THE TWO ANDREWS.
the march." Carnegie, the Philanthropist, es says Mr. he scatters libraries for a smiling land, and in his study paints in gold letters his 'motto: well for all grows better."
All is
THE MAN..
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On view from Tuesday, the 19th Augual, 1919.
Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery.
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1919.
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of Pittsburg he is less radiant, and Andrew Carnegie has secured so come out to welcome the Japanese the aureole is dim. Your judg-unchallenged a place among the will be regarded as Bolsheviks ment of him will be governed by millionaires. The Pierpont Mor- and will be dealt with sccord A Quantity of Valuable House- lying off Salifah Lane, whether you take the rainy organs and the Rockefellers eingly." Madrid. -Condicing impres-
hold Furniture the smoky view, whether you simply gigantic shadows of men. sions appear to have been receiv- Recently the appeal of Nga Po think of him in terms of libraries unintelligible apart from their treat their own
The Japanese authorities often ed by English people on the Thin and yo Po Ngwe against and Universities, Peace Palaces millions. But this bright-eyed children, and it seems as though people like subject of Spain since 1914. The the judgment and decree of the and Hero Funds, or in the light little man at the table would be they show no racial discrimina truth of the matter is: (1) Sessions Judge of Myaungmya of the thousands of men working noticeable anywhere. He does tion in regard to the Russians." We were strictly neutral during was fixed for hearing before twelve hours a day and seven really own his millions and is not the actual war (2) we were con- Justice Maung Kin The suit days a week in the furnaces of owned by them "Millionaires who new observatory at Mount Wilson fronted from time to time by arose out of the sale of a number Pittsburg... In either case your laugh are rare" he says, but he political crises arising out of of tickets in the Barma War Loan judgment will probably be wrong. laughs always. He laughs the range of vision he was as brought 50,000 new worlds into industrial unrest due either to the Sweep in the village of Nyaung- cost of living or to propagandist chaung.
cause he has had the wisdom not pleased as if he had manufactured agitation by foreign agents: (3) to story is
to mistake riches for life.. "Hoge day we are quickly resuming our tickets were bought by the villag-you do not remember that there owners are concerned are as use negie yacht, the first ever built It will certainly be wrong if fortunes" he says "so far as their them at Pittsburg. One of his pleasures is to feel that the Car- ordinary life under astrong Central ers, The defence is that only six are
two Andrew Carnegies-at less as a Star or a Garter are to with bronze substituted for steel Government, with food becoming tickets were tought by the villag- least-and that without the one their possessors and cheaper for the masses of the ers and the seventh was bought we could not have the other. ornamental
so as not to deflect the magnetic people. To this I may add (a) by Po Hai and P Thin. The There is the business man."ruth-
needle, is going over all seas year that there were no German sub- seventh icket No. 104,709 won less, hard as his own pig-iron.
after year patting, the world ...marine bases in Spain: (b) corres-the 3rd price in the lottery sweep who is the maker of millions, and His habit of mind and point of right. That one service," he says, pondence was, however, dis - prize wor:E Rs. 50,000. there is the philanthropist, filled view elong to an earlier genera-will give ample dividends upon covered, on certain occasions, to According to the prosecution the with an abstract love of humanity, tion. He is not afraid of those the five millions-the five mil have been carried on by means of claim of the accused Po Thin to who is the spender of millions commonplaces which are the lions sterling, that is, that he has. submarines and the operations of this prize to rethe with FoHmi is Neither has any dealings with great truths of life and his talk given" to the Carnegie Institute fishing boats directed by German a false one. Theofence with which the other. Each has an atmos- and writings are garnished with at Washington. agente in Spanish territor,, writes the accused are charged is that of phere and a hemisphere of his well-worn maxims-"Virtue must Like the philanthropist general- commandant Pereira R.S.A., Chief forgery or of abetment of forgery, owa. Business is business, bring reward, vice punishment, ly. Mr. Carnegie would of the Spanish Military Mission the allegation being that they said Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the work to Great Britain, in the Pull Mall made alteration in the winning great
wages, sloth misery." survive the very searching ques at Ironmaster. when he Against tobacco he carries on an tion in Mr. Chesterton's ballad-A Gazette.
ticket in support of their claim, smashed the trade union at unceasing warfare and it was "But will you lend me half a Pomi made a statement to the Homestead and prepared the only after long hesitation that he crown?" He will not lend you
hold Furniture Deputy Commissioner to the effect way for the gigantic serfdom so far yielded to the necessities half a crown. If you ask him that the claim previously made by of the Steel Trust."Humanity of hospitality as to providea for an autygraf," says Mr. Dooley, ing Room Suite, Dining Room (including Upholstered Draw. him and Po Thin was false is on
smoking room for his friends at he'll send ye a free libry." That Furniture (by Wm. Powell Ld). and that the ticket was, as the
Skibo Castle. His politica are of is not quite true; but he would White Enamelled Bedroom and villagers said; their property,
the same pattern
his probably rather give you a free Nursery Furniture The Sessions Judge of Myaung
morals. He is aa- Indivi-library than half a crown. He is mya found Po Thin guilty of the
dualist of the most uncom-even said to avoid the perils of Food rose in price. Wheat cost offence of abetting the offence of a good deal in the first instance, forgery and sentenced him to one
promising kind. Like the self-indiscriminate giving by going in on re-sale the figure was year's rigorous imprisonment, between the two. There is that a career like his is open to
There is no conscious conflict made man generally, he sees in about with empty pockets.
his own triumph convincing proof much increased. At one moment Fo Thin's son in-law Po Ngwe conflict because they never meet. ahorse normally worth 1,500 was found guilty of the offence of Each comes into action at the everyone who deserves it. Virtue pesetas fetched 2.500 pesetas forgers, and sentenced to six word of command and vanishes is its own reward. Look at me. A little later the same animal months' rigorous imprisonment.. when his task is done. Business" No young man' ever lived who was practically unobtainable at
Mr. Dawson said that His and up springs the Ironmaster has not had a chance is a Gospel of Wealth," in which he any price. In Barcelona, which Honour, Mr. Justice Maung Kin, keen as a razor. "Humanity favourite saying of his. This says that the man who boards became the scene of apparent expressed a strong opinion in this and up springs the Philanthropist frame of mind naturally makes his wealth instead of administer discord and revolution, a political case when he ordered it to be bursting with benevolence. The bim intolerant of Socialism. But, ing it as a fund for the service of party was formed by a newly-committed to the Sessions. His phenomenon is familiar. It was
on the other hand, he sees that his fellows should die unwept, enriched class whose members Honour thought that M Dawson exhibited is its extremest form in
the State must break down unhonoured, and unsung.' secured control of the newspapers was right and that it would be the late Mr. Passmore Edwards,
If the
tyranny of the and spread doctrines of disorder. better to place it before another whose passion for economy, even cracy and
plato- Mr, Carnegie did indeed use the through taxation briefer and more emphatic say- Judge..
penuriousness, in business was at
effect a juster distribution ofing, be is in danger of dying dis- generosity to the public. least as remarkable as his splendid wealt by graduated income tax graced. For so far it is estimated and death duties. All wealth, he that he has made no serious breach The two motives are distinct. holds, is due to the operation of in his millions. He has given Mr. Carnegie does not differ from society, and is therefore justly away something like the ordinary millionaire in the subject to its laws according to millions sterling; but as fast forty object with which he pursued its ability to pay. wealth.
Moreover as he dispenses the balance He pursued behe approximates to the modern accumulates. Once, it is said, he Le liked the
of view
the functions pursuit,
of did seem to be shifting his golden he had the
the State in his advocacy of mountain: "but then came an pas- sion of the industrious apprentice Industrial Courts to control the appreciation in his Steel Trust THE POLITICAL SITUATION. to get on." It was only when Trusts by fixing the maximum securities and once more he was In commercial affairs Spain he had attained it that he parted prices in the interests of the con- foiled. It is a pitiful thing to be Hongkong. 7th July, 1919. the most important Mediter- to-day is occupying the attention company with the millionaire sumer. This hardly seems dis struggling all one's days to get a ́ranean ports were abruptly cut of American capitalists. When type. It was only then that the tinguishable from Socialism, little poorer and to struggle short by their arrest and deporta-peace is signed, foreign interests Friend of Humanity discovered though Mr. Carnegie
in the development of Spanish himself. No doubt the idealist probably not admit it.
would unar ilingly. I wonder what those thousands of Steel Trust King Alfonso is loved by his industries is likely to be very was always dormant in him; but people and
There is about him the not workers who earn 7d. an hour- respected by the great... Immense wealth is to be it was not the idealist who had successful man. He loves-like in America hink of it. Ther unpleasant vanity of the which is less than a living wage himself a derived from the mines alone, anything to do with making the John Burns, whom he resembles strugge is in quite an her direc-position, good knowledge of ship- Socialists. He is
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youth seeks immediate members of his highest nobility and a variety. They are all simple, frugal Scot with a swift in so many particulars to regard tion. are easy-going and democratic State-owned, but until recently eye for an opportunity and the himself as a bookish man, and Yes, on the whole, that seems office routine. A. 1, references. ping, stenography and general were leased by the Rothschilus. instinct for turning it to account. talks much of Shakespeare and to suggest the best way out for Apply box 222 c/o Hongkong Lead, iron, copper, silver,
It is this duality which should Robert Burns. And he loves, Mr. Carnegie. He has failed to Telegraph. coal, and mercury are among, be kept in mind in dealing with too, to win his game at golf or at get rid of bis fortune by building our minerals. In Roman times Mr. Carnegie. On the making billiards; it makes things more his fifteen hundred libraries and up of Clericals, the second of ultra we had gold mines also. The side he is no better Conservative elements, and the Rio Tinto Copper Mine has, by no
and comfortable if you lose. He his six thousand church organs BOTTLE WASBEE'S £20 A WEEK worse than the average
would rather be remembered and his palaces of peace and his third of Republicans, Radicals, the way, been worked since the millionaire.
At the Central Criminal Court and Socialists. To-day the Cen-period of the Phoenicians.
The fact that he as an author then as an iron-institutes, and by founding his recently, Charles John Young, 27, destroyed trade unionism by master, and be declares that if Scotch University schemes and was sentenced to nine months
THE KING AND THE ARMY. Strikes have occurred in Barce-
lons with some frequency. One are against his becoming ever the during the winter of last year carrier of a heavy knapsack. Our reached serious proportions-men are active and agile but they particularly as Bolshevism was scarcely form suitable material used to increased the trouble for asy regiments of heavy troops. but the situation has since clear- For these reasons our Ariny is not ed. There is no danger at pre-designed to resemble the Prussian cause
grave disturbance. Army nor, indeed, any of the other because sent of a The activities of some Russian Northern Armies. Bolsheviks, who had reached Barcelona, which is, of course,
tion.
in their mode of life.
There used to be three parties
the Right, the Centre Party, and the Left. The first was made
it
A FAMOUS SAYING. The famods saying attributed to him that "the man who dies rich dies disgraced." is really a paraphrase of a passage in his
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The Dividend will be payable on and after Thursday, the 28th- August, 1919, at the Offices of the Company, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
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tre Party has ceased to exist. All There is really nothing very the help of thousands of soldiers he had his life to live over again his Hero Funds in all countries. imprisonment with hard labour, WISEMAN'S
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the Conservative elements are in obscure in our political situation, gives him a bad eminence in the he would be a librarian." His Way should he not try another for bigamy. Detective Sergeant the Right party and all the although it is not always safe to mind of the industrial world. It enjoyment of life is unceasing method? Why, should he not Dennison said that the defendant, forecast what will happen in such is an achievement that will never thing more than mere play," he his resources in warring against earned from £15 to £20 a week at "I never found my business any spend the rest of his days and who had been a bottle washer; had and such a direction. At the be forgotten or forgiven though moment of the armistice last the sky rain libraries and temples paysGolf is the only serious the twelve-hour day and It offers support to the Throne of November the high cost of living of peace. It is true that Mr. Car-business of life. It's worth seven-day week of the Steel wages amounted to £24. Ho the Munition work. One week his a-most trustworthy character.
was exploited by the revolution- negie was touring in the British ten thousand dollars to make a most colossal monument that employed by an aviation company Tickets for 30 As Armies go nowadays, it is aary elements, but without sub-lales in the midst of that thrilling hundred thousand dollars is no- the Mammar of modern in on piece work. His wife was in Trust? That Trust is the was an acetylene welder and was small Army, consisting of only stantial gain, to the cause, drama and that he disclaims all 120,000 men, recruited on the of lawlessness. The republicans' responsibility for the shooting. thing to the sport of landing a dustry has conceived. obligatory service basis. It may have actually lost ground through But it was be who wrote the letter monster pickerel."I would capital of 1400,000,000 dollars is small sums of money. The defend
Its the workhouse and he had sent her be said that it is most efficient; the Socialists. The great majority declaring war on the union and give all the millions I own and half water. Upon that water ant and the woman he bigamohsly are very highly of the people throughout the it is he who for good or evil must all I could get credit for if I vast dividends are paid out of the married, who was also a munition Strained, almost too highly, at our country are without strong politi. bear the burden of all that could only be a boy again." It is excessive hours and underpay-worker, had both drawn out-of- military academies. The idea cal conviction of any kind. The, followed. The Steel Trust has the eager, vivations talk of a ment of thou ands of unhappy work pay. The Hecorder, address- that the Spanish Army is or great towns, Madrid and its heel on the neck of labour young man sette That cannot be a pleasant ing the prisoner, seld-You were His youthfee is shown also thought for Mr. Carnegie as he demoralised by the preposterous Inaccurate, inasmuch as our million inhabitants, Valencia, who placed it there.
the officers
iled on the Prussian model is Barcelona, each with nearly a and it was Mr Andrew Carnegie in his open-minded enthusiasm wakes to the sound of the bagpipes Wage you wars paid as a munition
are too supple, both in tem Taragona, and, Bilboa are the ament and physique, to endure natural centres of noise and HIS DOCTRINE OF WEALTH.
russian system, of drill and politics but their combined But though as a maker of wealth be Spaniard makes a populations, about 2,600,000 souls, he has the defects of his class, artilleryman, light are not so very large out of a steward of wealth he has light intantry total national populations of set a fare example. And he has
done it without any affection
for new subjects, especially sub at Skibo Castle. For it was he worker. jects which are looked at askance who broke the anion that gay by the conventional. thus he the serfs at least a fighting cha has thrown himselfi of-Speling Reform advocated it for
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