THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.
BETWEEN OURSELVES. some ating house at Shek Tong Sui instead of an office in the Contral District He then pro- ceeds to throw a fit and the
M'ontinued from Puge 6J Gaol No Deterrent.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
perfectly innocent operator A Glance at Our Files.
all sorts,
The Language Dificulty.
(Sept. 4-10, 1897),
Aye, I've often said it, and I'll
OLD BUILDINGS, say it again that the system is no
Does the Inspector of Build- so much to blame as the service mad a lot of that bad service is of ings over visit Yanmali, we won- the subscriber's own making. der? Some of the houses there, Wi some of the big firms the not a bundred miles from the service is all right and that is Police Station, are very old and A proper-dilapidated and in several casam because they have
on the sub-the walls appear to be in a very old-tralasi girl ୫୧୫
exchange board. In lots of other shaky and crumbling condition offices, though, the individual or badly bulged. The only won- be passing der is that they manage to hold who happens to
There's one way in which we can do lots to help the police and. in this connection. I'm minded about the ploture we used to have in our house at Liakcumdoddie. Most probably it Wan rome Christmas Number oleograph raised to the dignity of a frame but the lesson it carried was none the worse for that It depicted a nice. fashioned hamlet after a 600W storm wit an old man in the fore ground, a shorel in his hand telling the rosy-cheeked youngster by his side:
If each before his own door swept.
4
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is the one that answers, maskee up at all even in fine weather, and if he's the boss or the office boy's should a typhoon happen to come wee brother. Then the "Wais" our way we very much fear that and the "Ab Pingos" commence a repetition of the recent Queen's and continue until the man at the Road disaster will be the resalt. The village would be clean." Now, I havena' any foolish other end doesna' know whether Of course it will be highly satis he's connected wi' an orphanage factors to know that the accident "every man his own paliceman
after ten was the result of the bad state idea in my head but I'm strongle or a boiler factory. of the opinion that if our kitchen minutes of that sort o' thing he into which the houser had been and servants quarters harboured usually comes to the conclusion allowed to fall, but could not the none but who had a right to be that the operator did it for spite, accident be prevented entirely by Then again in the giving of a little common sense on the part there of a night, the village would be lots cleaper and freer of numbers I don't wonder that the of the P.W.D.?
RECLAMATION SCHEME. serious crime. Weranna expect girl sometimes makes mistakas.
I've heard an Englishman go to It really appears as though the our policemen to see through lath and plaster and if folk will the phone and say something authorities intended completing allow their servants to act the that sounded a cross between as the section of the reclamation
Ice Edison Bell record and a creaky between
House Lane Good Samaritan without It
the Market within or hindrance they must expect door. Just you imagine such an and the scallywags to glean in individual saying “O' 'ow I ite few months. The section which im" and you get some faint idea has hitherto presented the spec- formation, and, at the right
of how difficult it must be for altacle of an odoriferous mud time. have a handy
road
foreiga girl at Exchange to inter swamp, is now & scan of great activity. To-day the steam crana was at work moving the huge concrete blocks which had been
to the silver cabinet. If we pret. Some day this language paid more attention to our difficulty will be overcome but servant's olo flens, burglary wouldna be quite the easy thing that will only be when there are
it is in the Colony to-day. Ayone but Scotsuren allowed to use piled upon the foundations of the Until then let har Pedder's Wharf stones for I'm rather inclined towards the the telephone. prevention of crime though I'm us make the best of a bad job the construction of the sea wall. quite willing to allow that punish. An efficient service can only be were being landed, filling in was ment of a kind coves in bands attained when there is closer co-proceeding rapidly from a fleet of as a deterrent. Sinting a Chin- operation between the Subscri-earth boats and a gang of coolies
bers and the Company.
were engaged in removing the ese burglar to gaol, though, is no
So much indicated to Mac, old Praya wall piecemeal. Be- punishment: so how can it be a
for I was mail. His insicuation sides all these two or three minor. deterrent A couple of months wi regular fold, & comfortable that Mr. Parker Ness had offered jobs connected with the reclama. on the hed and next: · no work and to the me a block of cumebs shares in rion were in progress average Chinese, gaol has no ter the new Coinpany didna" improve block, and for once in a way, the
matter either. I'm no to be coolies all looked really busy. rors. It's merely a change of eist beibed but fairs, fair. Ye can be
The stocks as a and habitat. deterrent were no use. I've seen how pay without nec criminals in the stocks outside essarily being so darned ec porte our docks and places where ther! employ a lot of labour and that never prevented men from steal- ing who were employed in these places for teens of years. All
to
lase.
he
ALL STARK MAD
TOGETHER."
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The Blindness of Dean Inge.speculation was indulged in ship-
by
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stea ber
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ping circles as to which would A correspondent writes a make the best time. The first that the wearer of the-stacks needed was a downcast mein and follows to the Ties in reference vessel was the M. M. liner Syd- bound for Marsailles, thick skin. A man that had no to a recent sermon by Dean Inge:nes. ***face"
should I have been waiting for a pen which left at 1.01 sad she was worry. The only way to burt a more eloquent than mine to com-followed 4 minutes later Chinaman
bimment on the amazing sermon the C. P. R. Co.'s Empress to IN
hurt where
is preached by the Dean of St. Paul's of Chins for Vancouver. Twelve hurting ite good. During the Iste strike to the delegates to the Inter-minutes later the Pacific Mail The liner City of Peking left for the intimidators didna' throw out national Peace Conference.
The duration of stop- hints that there who blacklegged people of this country are not like Frisco. would lose 'face." No, physically to attach undue importance to pages at by-ports, of course, pre- violence was to be their share if, the utterances of the Dean when cludes anything like accuracy they didea to the line. And toe he turns to political questions. being obtained as said stoppages It may be it they did proving that they have But it would be lamentable if the often vary in length.
know wholesome respect for a broken. He is reported to have said that interesting, however. to skin. So let's hurt them physically they need not now apportion the the time each vessel was on her
now it seemed forage. The French liner got | and just in case there should be guilt and tha! something in the theory of losing to most people that the nations home on July 8th. ber schedule were time. doing the passage in 29 "face", let's hurt them publicly. which engaged in the war What's more forbre, a man that's all stark mad together." What is days. The big white Empress In the undisputed boat reached Vancouver OC teen flogged doesna need his the truth? finger prints taken-he carries records of official documents, schedule time, too. June 30th., bis record about wit him for life. Germany has been convicted in at
the eyes of sil unbiased men, of occupying not quite 21 days.| Our Talking Machines. the guilt for the origin of the war The Peking was two days ba
The worst MacPherson, he's and ali the efforts of her bind the time table, being due age harping on the death of the politicians and professors have at the Golden Gate on July 6th: He failed to shake the verdict. Hasand not reaching port till the 8th, late, lamented Queen Anne. began the other night about the the Dean never heard of the her passage occupying 20 days.
N.T.K. new Telephone service as if he had tortuous diplomacy of the German The discovered something. That's Foreign Office, or indeed, of the Kanagawa Maru also left on the the same date for London at 4. p.m. the worst o depending on the scrap of paper? Did
bestialities of the Germans in Bel-In addition to the usual by- Club for a read of the paper.
So when he began to lam off gium and France made no imports she called at Penang and about the shortcomings of some pression on his mind? Has he Singapore and resched London poor, half-demented female at forgotten the murder of women on July 26th.. after a creditable Exchange. instead of shutting and children on the high seas, passage of 46 days. In these him up I tried to get at, the the sinking of hospital ships with matters of course the weather bottom of the matter. And their helpless victims, and the has to be taken very largely into
vessels did. It was just as I thought bombardments of open towns from consideration. Instead of, in the first place. see and air? Is he still so blind tracks taking them at once into going to the phone himself and that he fails to see that the war was favouring winds and sess while calling op the firm he wanted. an inevitable struggle between others again have nothing but he asked on half-glaiked office two conflicting systems of life?
opposing elements to contend coolic of his to get him on It would be kinder, perhaps, to
against. First. And so he did but An pass over the deplorable taste of
IMPORTED MEAT. before he
the sub his reference to one of a pair of
Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. exchange and started monkeying gambler who has wor," but it is wi the works. In fairness to the permissible to remind him of the it would seem. are determined in Telephone Company I think they constant and deliberate evasions making an effort to solve the meat get the blame for an awfu' lot by the Germans since the Pesce supply difficulty. By the E &A. they know nothing about. Take of the penalties imposed upon steamer Guthrie toon due here a sub-exchange for instance. If them for their wrong doing.
your bag, for they every Ab Chow and Pedro da The whole sermon, indeed, is receiving a shipment of 20 car-to make a living by sleight of sure to put a vial of Pinkettes to little short of an insult to the cases of frozen mutton for the hand was dealt with at Singapore excellent travelling companions.
Pinkettes help to keep This is the first last month. Silva Tobasco is allowed wander to the sub-exchange and gallant youth of this country and local market.
the constipation there ongage in conversation it of the Allied countries who died move of the kind made so far as Tanjong Pagar District
Hongkong is concerned, and Mr. seven or eight $10 bills. He-sickness and trainsickness, naturally follows that he cuts off for an ideal.
the whole all other talk from the outside. All that they had they gave-Crawford to-day told a Telegraph would enter a shop and ask for dispel
reporter that it was purely a small change for
amount. When he received the The frantic caller at the other
experiment. end just naturally refuses to be-
change, he would slip $10 some-l lieve that everyone he calls up in
NEW GOVERNOR WANTED. where about his person undetect
The Report of the Insanitary sad say that the change was common when travelling, keep the that office is "engaged. So
Dwellings Commission may be short. He was caught on Sunday liver active, and prevent the ill another black mark goes down
expected soon. Meanwhile Hisrying this trick at a shop in effects of strange or badly cooked azainst the Telepbore Company. There
Excellency the Governor "does alexander Road and when he food. is far too
not know that there is such a was being taken to the station be comabs use of the office tele-
Chemists sell Pinkettes, or post We they redeemed denied their thing as insanitary dwelling in was identified by another shopfree, 60 cents the vial, from Dr. phone, onyway. Again, it's bad
the Colony" and when he does enough to operates telephone wi'rblood. the Chinese language butting in And mocked the gains it won. know he will do nothing." He keeper a few doors away, whom Williams Medicine Co., 96 Sze-
he bad cheated in a similar wayichnen Road, Shanghai. If they were all stark mad won't "bike" along the Jubilee the day before. He was found every now and then but it's ten times harder when the speaker is together" the Dean can surely Road before he leaves us. Sani- guilty on both charges of cheating some Hakka coolie permitted to thank God for the madness which tary Boards and Sanitary Dwell- and remanded for sentence. The answer the phone. Naturally saved him and his kin from the ings and Jubilee Roads await, accused had just came from Java
Dough the European at the other moral cataclysm and material with good many other things, and had no work.
the coming of's new Governor." end thinks he's got plugged in on servitude of a German victory.
went to
they gave
In sure and single faith. There can no knowledge reach their graVS
To make them grudge their death. Save only if they understood macb
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some
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