TWO-MINUTE
HELPING
TALKS A Daily Tonic
BY ROBERT POWER
OR › HINDERING ?
The Magistrato's Court is a voller who admits, with a shooplah mirror of life. All sorts and con- grin, that he "had a celebration." ditions of man and women como Old men and young, the middle thero. Some to stand in the aged and precocious youths who dock. Others to testify for or have grown up into orimo-all against the prisoners. There are are dealt with by the Magistrate. advocates to plead and others to His soarching cyo scans each prosecuto. And always you will face, diagnones oach case, swiftly find the fringe of loafers, who discorning between the callous pass away the time by listening and the novico in crime. to the stories of crime and minor infractions of the law.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
HOCKEY.
TO MORROW'S PRACTICE
GAME, AN
There will be a practice game for members of the Hongkong Hookoy Club to-morrow, Wodnesday, al tho Marina Ground, Kowloon. The bully off will be at 6.15 p.m., and the teams solected are follows:
Wbitos.-I. W. F. Mills,- Hugben, G. H. Piercy, E. J. R. Mitoboli, E. L. Martin, H. G. Gardner, J. A. H. Plummer, D. A. Oreen, W, Hyde, It. J. Armstrong, 3. C. Faors.
Colours.-A. Bower, H. C. Mue- His Justloc is tempored with namara, L. A. H. Duncan, W. H. mory. "What can you say on Look, Rev. T. . Powell. I' The Magistrato himself repro- behalf of this prisonarŸ' is R. Blacking, D. H. F. Mac. sants the Inw. He understands the constant inquiry of the master, H. "Glanville, W. Wood- legal loro, for he is not an honor- Magistrato. Ho is not thinking ward, A. C., 1. Bowker, B. D. ary justice, but, has given up so much of a past record of law-Evans.
judicial practice to devote himself breaking, but whother any good ontirely to adjudicating upon word can be advanced in mitiga-
those who are brought before tion of punishmont,
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him. It is required of him that "I beliovo he is trying to go TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY, ho bo strictly impartial, for he straight" said a detective a short has taken an oath to administer time ago, referring to a prisonor the King's justice. But he may who was awaiting sentence. tomper morcy with striotnou. There followed a story of a He listens to the plea of the youth who lapsed into erima prisoner just as readily as to the through bad companions, and words of the police officer who time after time had gone in and relatos all he knows of the person out of prison. Then be had mot in the dock. A good Magistrate a good woman, concealed his evenly holds the scales between past, marri id hor, and bravely iriod to redeem the days of The dock is a place wherein wrong-doing. But a small slip you may sed every divome type had brought him up against the drawn from the ranks of human Law again. boings. The hardened offonder, "If he is trying to go straight
hin' who has an impudent smile on his I shall help
said the The affonder was faco, jokes with the gaolor; the Magistrate. prisoner who has never before bound over and loft the dock boon caught in the moshes of the with tours of gratitude in life polico not stands overwhelmed oyas.
the Law and Humanity.
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with shame and hangs his head. Ho was helped. That is what The ragged tramp, whoso able he needed. Justice is glorified offence is that he has boon found by mercy. If you know anyone slooping out and has "no visible who is trying to go straight, do means of subsistence" gives place you help or do you hinder
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URGA MYSTERY.
Onco moro a movement is on roul foot for the creation of a bull-ring in Paris, in which bull fighting may be exhibited by some of the most colobrated Spanish toreros and matadores. Bull fight- popular in the Southern districts of Franco, particularly at Aries and other Provincial centres, and are A feature of tho prevent! season at Vichy and other sum- Soveral attempts mor resorts. have been made during racont; years to import this Spanish form of entertainmont into the region. of Paris, but hitherto without
success.
...
Forty years ago, and ovon moro recently, the Twelfth of August was inevitably heralded in the daily press by articles on grouse-shooting written by ill informed journalists, whoso mistakes formed the subject of loud laughter in shooting-lodges: and club smoking-rooms. Amongst them was the hardy annual about the crack of the rifle being heard.on the moors. American Explorer Involved?
It is not generally known, how- ever, that the classic instance of MORE TALK OF A STRIKE.
Peking, Sept. 12. What has happened at Urga? this mistake in to be found in an Another strike of Canton or Considerabio mystery surrounds essay of Hoary James, who, in Portraits of Flacos," describ- is contemplated as a result of Dr. Sun's rofusal redont events in that city, some
sensational reports stating that ing a partridge-drive, writes of!
chants
to
off
CANTON ARMS QUESTION.
is now well.
roloase tho consignment all foreign residents have been the birds fluttoring about the of arms for the import of made prisoner, while others allay hedges while the crack of the which the merchants took out alarm by reporting that a big rifle resounded on all sides. legal permits but which Dr. Sun, blizzard swept the district but all seized in August. Dr. Sun has! bach kooping the
About 10,000,000 people had morchiants The only real news item, to visited the Empire Exhibition at waiting for the last 40 days reach Tientsin, says a recoat moss-Wombloy up to last month, but with his never-redeamable pro-ago, has come by way of Moscow the total casualties "dealt with mise to return thom, patting and Berlin, and it states that
at the ambulance station were overy arrangemtont for
there has been a revolution, pr only 11,000. Three hundred of thoir rolvalo by new DXCUнOS
sumably ongineered by the or now conditions which the Bolsheviks. Foreign residents
those 0280 bave been trivial, Two workinon have died ono merchants are asked to full.
wore made prisoner, but for what from heart failure and the other Notwithstanding the many dis-
reason is not clear. advantages, merchants have
as the rosult of an accident. There AP. and T. Times representa have been 12 casos of fracturo, fulfilled most of the conditions, tivo, as reported on Thursday, but none occarred in the Amuso. but their forbozranco seems to was told by an Urga merchantmont Park, with all ite thrills. have hardened instead of softened that what really happened was
over roplotion the heart of Dr. Sun to do the
that a blizzard had interrupted: right thing. Dr. Sun is in favour
communication, and that the mong charabane and other ex- of the Volunteer Corps, but not alarmist reporis àroso from the Cursionists have caused soverall fact that no toiegrams had boun slight wounds caused by irritatad cases of abominal colic, and received. Another foreigner who animals in the meuagorie. Tho has just roturned to Tiontain from most curious feature noted is the Urga said yesterday that he bus number of cases of fatigue auto- received tulogiame from Urgin-toxication"
clderly dated September 8, 9 and 10, and folk and children following long that there is no mention of any journeys. These are frequently made at night without proper
trouble.
General
among
with the exception of the Chap-bou unsuitable and irregular,
The only foreigners in Urga, rest or sleep, and moals have nior- man Androws expedition, are the
all the year round residents, and
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a third statuette has since boon display. The outcome of the visit presented by Mr. Waltor Roa was the establishment of the Fire
in favour of a Corps which may not listen to his orders to mobilise for political and not for purely soff-defensive purf seS.
The Kuomintang Government in Canton is denying that it has already divided the arme impor- ed by the merchants among Wu echon, Chu Pei-teh, Hsu Sung- chi, and other loadors of the Red Army. The Yunnaneso conaries are now looking into the quantity of the arms still un they play no part in local politics In a letter to the Church from the collection of his father, Brigade Union between English divided, insisting that they should
and would not be likely to be af Times, Bishop Gore says:-Sonic the late Right Hon. Russell Roa. and French firamen. He has bavo a share, it is siated,
is British, American, and Japanose Gonorai Hsu Sung-chi, of the focted by any revolution. "Thero of the papers have been announc. Mr. Ros bought it in 1910 in entertained efficere and man of Red Army in Canton, ie con- small local trouble batwoon the have been denying "the rosurree.similar to that prosented by warships at Gravesend, and inl
might easily have been someling in startling headlines that I Bollaggio. centrating in Canton for reasons Young Mongol party," said this tion of the body at a meeting in Colodol Morrison-Bell, but is in 1011 he was decorated with the still unannounced. It is foured informant, but I do not think favour of cremation, and, as my with the cans that King Charles a mark of the Japanese Einperor's s bettor state of preservation, Order of the Saorod Treasure as that the Yunnanose, Kwangai-thore is any reason to bellovo in correspondence shows, causing
The li-oxtended to the officers and men combine against this Red force.blizzard, an unusually early one, alarm. Will you allow me to say
wearing both intact. One of the dotachments of the Rad Army in the Sze Yap din-
was accompanied by snow, and that, in fact, I affirmed in the brarian of the House of Commons of the Ikoma. was during the last week in strongest language the resurrac- now endeavouring to trace the armed a battalion of Kwangsi-August. The wires are now clear, tion of the body (and by "body
history of the statuetton and the itas led by Major Li Iloy-won, Aave had telograme from must be meant a material organ), name of the artist.
'The
statuotte
ites, and other mercenaries will theso sonsational reports. The thoroby Home porplexity and is carrying and the sword he is recognition of the hospitality
and tho Kwangel-itos are now demanding retribution.
WHERE ARE THE ARM8?
GUARD BABY'S HEALTH IN THE HEAT: The hot months are the most our representatives thore." but donlod that this doctrine
The Peking Government has carried with it the idea of the The oldest Mayor in England, dangerous to children. The com Day of Alderman H. E. Davis, of Grave-plaints of this season, which are requested the Tutung of Chaharro-collection at the to investigate the reported deten- Jndgmont of the material send, received numerous messages cholora infantum, colis, diarrhoes tion of foreigners in Urga.
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has. beon six times Mayor of Whampoa Military Collogo have while Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews Sir William Bull has prosented Gravesend. In addition to his aid before the mother realizes ho guard to prevent those troubles," been distributed to various troops, and several other Americans are to the House of Commons an public duties ha is associated with is ill. The mother must be on her and that in view of this fact and thought to be there, there is ivory statuette of Oliver Crom-Bir Oswald Stoll-lo music halls or if they do cotne on suddenly to the constant altering of the con-nothing definito on which to bo-wall, carved by an Italian artist and ploture, palacos. In the cure them. No other medicine is late in the 17th century. The sixties Alderman Davis joined the of such aid to mothers during hot ditions, they have decided to lieve that they are in danger.
statuotte opens and reveals a City of London Rifle Brigade and weather as is Baby's Tablets, the issue aniroular telegram staíjug
high rollor picture of the Battle afterwards the Hoyal Buoka Canadian children's remedy. that Chan Lim-pak's declaration is withdrawn and that a general King Edward's Hospital Fund of Naseby. There are said to bo Hussam, sorving for several years They regulate the stomach and strike will be declared, 2
mado a grant of £14,650 and the six statuettos of this kind in under the honorary Colonelcy of bowels, ouro, indigestion, and Hospital Sunday Fund £8,500, oxistence. Another of them was King Edward. In his youth constipation, relieve colis, check HOSPITAL WITH AN INCOME. Payments by or on behalf of given to Parliament by Colonel he was boxer, and swimmer, diarrhoea, allay teething pains, The income of the London patients amounted to £38,705, and ve Morrison-Bell in 1921. In He has always taken a great in dispel oolda croup, banish worms, Hospital last year was £301,445, payments by public authorities this case the figure is Charles 1,terest in the Fire Brigade, and in and are absolutely safe. Bold by An anonymous friend doubled all £18.777 The expenditure was and the interior picture shows 1878 was elected vice-president medleme dealers or by mail at 60 dissolving Fatlia- of the Fire Brigados Association, cante the vial, post free from Dr. gifts up to £80,000, and Sir H. M. £289,786. Nearly 18,000 inpatients Cromwell Mallahy Deely doubled all giftato, were treated. The number of bodemont. Sir William Bull offered In, that year he took a detach Williams Medicine Co., Mother'
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