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DAY BY DAY.
THE HARDY COUNTRY,
THE WISE MAN IS NEVER BATISLANDMARKS IN THE WESSEX, FIED THAT HE KNOWS, BUT THE FOOL KNOWS THAT IS SATISFIED.-W. C. Prideaux.
Among the passengers who left to-day by the s.8. Changte were Mr. L. M. Whyte and Mr. R. J. Birbeck."
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It will be seen that, whop wo come to analyse matters, Socialism is not the force which some of the extremiats. would have us bellopo. Indeed, according to Mr. Shaw
The P. and O. as. Kashmir, Desmond, the author and fourn from Singapore, is due here at alist, there are fewer Socialists in 6 am. on the 17th instant. England to-day than there were Afty years ago. So far as the masses are concerned, the ma- jority cannot have any real con ceptions of what Boclallam Is, whilst as for our Labour leaders, increased responsibility has, as it always does, brought moderation In outlook, Regarding the futuro, the Labourites and the so-called Socialists muy eventually unite In a sort of constitutional democratie party; whose aim wil
"under dog.""But wo nede hard-lantic. ly have any fear that the out-and- ent Socialist or revolutionist will play any vital part in the polities
FICTIONS.
The Very Idea!
Dauvit had been "unlucky wi his weemun folk.""""These "" were, his own words after he had buriad" his fifth wife,
Some short time after, a former
Dauvit was embarrassed a little before he made the reply:-"Well, to tell the truth, Mr. Simpson I'm oot q'n wife the noo!"
The capital of the Hardy Coun- try is Dorchester, where the au- life. In the stories and poems minister of the parish came back |thor lived for a great part of his
Dorchester is:Castorbridge, and to proach In his old church,,and- the area covered in their pages is medting Dauvit, began to ask him styled Wessex. Although ar-about his family affairs...
"And how is your wife keeping, bitrarily delimited by the play of
Imagination, this David? asked the minister. the writer's Wessor of fiction synchronisés more or less with the Wogsox. of history. Dorset is its core, and it embraces besides five (or parts of five) countles-Borks, Wilte, Somerest, Hants, and Devon. Bounded by the Channel on the south, is furthest outpoat on the The seismographic station at west is Exeter, on the north Ox Toledo has recorded a very vio-ford, and on the cast Winchester, lent earthquake with its epicentre known to Hardy readers as re- the occan bed in the Easterntor, and Wintoncester. 4,600 miles distant, probably on spectively Exonbury, Christmins-
2 ergue, the French President, that Mr. Hardy was born in Upper he never allowed any one else Bockhampton, a little way out-stockings. This conversation took to mend his wife's and daughter'a '
The tourist ships Belgenland and Empress of Australia left Hong kong yesterday, the former at 5 p.m. and the latter. at 10 p.m.
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Hussein All Khan, the new Persian Minister in Paris, has a curious hobby. He always carries containing with him a needles, scissors, and thread, and spends his spare time sewing. The Minister informed M. Doum
A' Chinese case of typhoid was group of hamlets, Stinsford the place says the London "Daily Ex- reported from Victoria yesterday. chief of them, which approximate correspondent, after he had pre- press," quoting a Central News in the course of the week endedly compose the Mellstock of many sented his credentials to the Pre- Feb. 11, two cases of diphtheria of the novels. It is specially sident on taking up his new oftica. (one fatal) were reported, and through "Under the Greenwood M. Doumergue, and the Minister Treo," entitled alas "The Mell-later retired for a quiet talk. The four non-fatal cases of typhold
stock Quire." Upper Mallstock, Minister took a cigar, and the (one British, one Indian and two where Duck Dewy lived, has been President was about to light it for Chinese).
surely identifled with Upper Bock him when his match fell, and In To an already long list of gener-
hampton; and Mellstock Church trying to catch it the Minister with Stinsford Church, on their tore the silk threads of his head- ous Chinese benefactors in the
way to which the girls were ear-dress. The President apologised, cause of educational progress in
ried through the water by Clare and suid he would send für a Hongkong, must be added the names
in "Teas of the D'Urbervilles." servant to pair the damaged active Dorchester cant be reached from head-dress, but the Minister took of Mr. Kwok Siu-lau and Mr. Wu last night on the hillside of Shan-Upper Bockhampton by the public out his case, and during the coa- Hay-tong. It was announced yes.kiwan and succeeded in removing pathways, trodden frequently inversation repaired the rent.
Mr. Hardy's pages, from which
Further thefts of telephone wire were reported by Mr. A. N. Braude, of the Hongkong Tele- morning Thieves were phone Company, to the pollee this
Hongkong Eelegraph. Lerday that Mr. Kwok has prosent a length of wire valued at $20.
Ghosts in Casterbridge.
In 'u fint.
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Schoolboy "howlera:**
Lord Macaulay was a great statesman who suffered very much from gout, and wrote all his poems in jamble feet.
The best way to light a room
is to have gos with an Indecent mantle of the perverted kind.
can be got a glimpse of Kingston Question at North London Court: ed a cheque for $50,000 to the
A wireless message was reeely- Maurward House, the Knapwater Do you wish to give evidence on Hongkong University to be aped at the Water Police Station House of "Desperate Remedies. eath? Man accused of drunker- plied to such purposes as may be this morning, to the effect that a
But before, exploring the Dornass: Oh, no, not particularly, I TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1928 best interests, this munificent Chau, at about midnight."
deened to be in the institution's matshed was on fire at Cheung chester or Casterbridge scene, one don't wish to waste the time of the
The must note that Mr. Hardy's birth- court. donation following closely upon
Man when asked to identify a police and the villagers put out place was on the fringe of Egdon the gift of $100,000 by Mr. W the fire. Two boys, living in the Heath, that imposing landmark prisoner at Highgate; It la dif- DECLINE OF SOCIALISM. Hay-tong for educational purmuished, were reported burned to in the Hardy Country impressed cult, for he has washed his faço
poses, the only condition attaching death
marvellously on the mind and since I last saw him. to the contribution being that the
Imagination in "The Return of Nottinghamshire reveller: I men fund shall be devoted to scholar-
the Native." It is associated, too, a teetotaler, because I am an ex ships. Public-spirited Chinese Nine men were charged before with another masterpiece. for soldier! The recent resignation of Mr. have always set a splendid ex Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Centrál somewhere on Ita southern border Man in the Bow County Court: Philin Snowden from the Chair-ample in tangible admiration and Police Court this morning, with lay Talbothays dairy, in the Froom His name is F. Sharp, and he Ilves manship of the Independent. La encouragement of learning, and being in possession of a bomb. Valley, which Tess, born to the
the selflessness of such benefac. The defendants were arrested in a North, at Marnhull ("Marlott". Plaistow woman: Of course my · bour Party has led to the questions is manifest in the freedom recent police raid at No. 2; Per-contrasted with her native Black-husband swears, but, after all, tion being raised at Home as to granted to the responsible authori- cival Street, Wanchai. They were moor Vale. She did so, it will be language is just as you take it how many, if any, of Britain's ties regarding the manner of remanded on an application from remembered, when she looked out
their dispensation. In a latter the Captain Superintendent of on it from near Puddictown, from an orator, who at a sports The Istost "Spoonorism" comes so-called Socialist lendef are thanking Mr. Kwok Siu-lau, E. Police.
which is the original of Weather-banquet deatribed a football piny- renBy Socialists at heart. One the Governor, in his double capa-.
hury in Far from the Maddinger as "flat of feet" Instead of "nest, well-known welter, who has been city as Governor of Hongkong and
Lon Chaney's remarkable film, Crowd," and even now is rich in of foot." Chancellor of the University, ex-te Who: Get's Slapped, will he memories of the novels.' giving his views on the subject, presses the hope that the gener the movie attraction at the Star cites the case of Mr. Snowden na oua donation will encourage others Theatre to-day and to-morrow. being only one example of former to help the University to overcome Besides presenting Lon Chaney The novelist's personal associa
Ita financial difficulties and to Socialist leaders who no longer widen its sphere of usefulness, a
in one of his greatest roles as the tlong with the country of his cllag to the faith, and in support wish which will be heartily en tragic clown, this picture is not-fictions centre in Dorchester. He of that statement he quotes the dorsed by all who have the better able for the fine acting of John went to the Grammar School in ment. of Hongkong's educational Gilbert and Norma Shearer at the South-street, like Francis Troy in political actions of the Labour is at least. The good head of a brilliant supporting cast. Far from the Madding Crowd." Among his early recollections | éx-Chancellor of the Exchequer, work done by the University has
was the hiring fair as it would be including his strong opposition been threatened by serious de
Among the passengere passing seen by Gabriel Oak in that novel. ficiency in monetary resources, through Hongkong on board the But It is, of course, in "The not only to what is known คน
but the fear that it will de- M. M. 9.8. D'Artagnan are Mr. and Mayor of Casterbridge" that we "direct action," but also to the generate into a super-college will Mrs. E. Sigaut, Mr. Sigaut la mem- find recovered most completely In going up a mountain Wo strike idea generally,
disappear if Mr. Kwok's splendid ber of the French Municipal Coun- the Dorchester which has been should feel warmer It must be remembered. that example is followed. Than the ell in Shanghal, Agent General of Mr. Hardy's home practically all hut air rises to the top and the
Chinese there is no race which sets the Far East for the Messageries his life. The arrival of Eliza cold air goes to the bottom, Socialium in its original, and, a greater store by learning and Maritimes and Managing Director beth Jane and her mother in the indeed, only sonso, and as taught knowledge, and it is the Hone of the Spelete Kiousin. Alao.on town, it may be noted, gave them
Chinese who are largely to be board passing through by the I. L. P., means the supre.thanked for such achievement as Fiori, Chief of the French Police ford Hill, one familiar to every
is Mr. their first view of it from Stins- tant.
A Conservative isa sort of macy of Internationalism over has been accomplished by the in Shanghai,
Bockhampton boy. Henchard's green-house where you look at the nationalism, the abolition of the Hongkong University. The Colony
house ban benn Identified with one moon. "Two Arabian Knights" is being in principle of private property, and is deeply grateful for the onnor-
South-street, and Lucetta'a The Saven Great Powers of tune gifts recently recorded, and screened at the Queen's Theatre with Colllton House, with its door Europe are gravity, electricity, the ultimate disbandment of the the donors will need no assurance. Army and Navy. Indirectly, it that their wishes such as are ex- for the last time this evening, the keystone of the arch of which steam, gas, fly wheel, motors and
The atory deals with the escapades was a mask. The great Roman King George. Implies the break-up of the British pressed will be faithfully
of two soldiers who escape from amphitheatre, Maumbury Rings, spected.
prison camp, and after many adjust outside the South Western The Court at Léibunizi, Austra, Empire. Bearing those points in
venturca, ultimately arrive in Railway station, is where the was recently unable to use the mind, can it be said that our
Arabia. The leading players are Mayor secretly met his wife. His telephone. The judge was unable Labour Leaders at Home are
William Boyd, popular screen star, merry-making was at Poundbury, to obtain the money from the Socialists? When the Labour
Louis Wolhelm, the original "Cap-r Pommery, the vast entrench- proper Authorities to pay a bill of Government was in power, it was
tain Flagg" of the stage play, ment just outside the town on its $4 and the telephone administration "What Price Glory?" and Mary west side. Farfrae's rival enter thereon, cut the connection, certainly made clear to India that
Astor, leading lady for Douglas tainment, again, was on the West 12 Fairbanks in "Don Q and for fragment of old Roman wall feed the conductor. "Why, how old
Walks, as the boulevard on the there was to be no break-up of the Paris
"Half-fare for that boy ?" shout- Génevs Empire; whilst when the real Berlin
John Barrymore In "Beng Brum.
now called.
Is he?" crisis of the Great War was reach Osló
"He's five, Helsingfors ed we cannot recall our Labour
mother. Athens leaders placing internationalism Buenos Aires above nationalism. Even Mr. II. Yokohama New York
EXCHANGE RATES.
G. Wells his, in his recent book, Ambsterdam "William Clissold," declared that Stockholm
Vienna
"Socialism has become no more Madrid ... than a memory, a used label, in Bucharest
Bombay my own life" When we come to Brussels the Trade Unions, it is a well-Milan
Copenhagen known fact that only about ten per
Pragao cent of the members usually at- Lisbon tend the branch meetings, and of Rio...
Shanghai
London, Feb. 13.
rc-
4.87 13/32. .12.10%
this percentage it is doubtful | Silver (spot and forward) whether any considerable number
British Wireless. ara convinced Socialists. The I.
Further Afield.
names
A pagoda is a chair on wheels used for carrying people about.
Ammonia is used as an epide- mie.
because tho
Queen Elizabeth was tail and thin, but she was a stout Protes-
in the novels. On the sen, not far off, is Weymouth, the Rudmouth In
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307 The following is an extract from ,47%
Look now further afield in the "Five?" said the a letter received by the Southern fictitious Wessex of which Caster-"Why, he looks sixteen Judgin 1/11.1/2 Irish Loyalists Relief Associa-bridge Is the capital: In Dorset from the face."
tlan, 12,, Palmer-street, S.W. alone there
are some seventy "I can't help It. If he worries," 18.18 from a correspondent in the West places that have been broadly said the mother. 1 34.626 of Ireland: "I have had some identified under assumed 28.705 desperate cases to deal with late 92ly, as, for instance, a family who
1/6 exist in a miserable hovel outside of "The Trumpet Major," and, of Dorest town, which in Mr. Hardy's a word, this very modern. ....86 the town. The father is dying course, one of the scenes in "The phrase about Casterbridge, "an- .02.05, and the mother has just been con- Dynasts." Further west on the nounces old Rome In every street, .18.20 fined. There aro already six const Bridport, near which (as .1841
young children, practically naked
alley, and raalnet.” announces .2.19/04
Port Bredy) Tess came in her them also the personages of his .6.16/16 and starving, their only food bowanderings, is the background of
2/0% ing raw turnips and salt. "Your one of the "Wessex Tales Fol-tales. Dia nos Jude the Obscure work on the ashlaring of the 264 help and the blankets have been low Townsmen." Eastwards
the saving of this family,"
County Museum, wherein one can' again, Wareham is the Anglebury Inspect mantraps such as the which occurs frequently in the novelist somewhere describes? Two trustees from the Secialist fictions, notably "The Hand of Soveral of his characters have Party and two from the Co-Ethelberta;" and the Sandbourne looked out from the same spacious Movement two men of that fiction, and, of course; of bow-window of the King's Arms ship to-day is only half what it dell's jewellery from her residence and two women (all under 50) Tess's story is clearly Bourne which gives the visitor still s in Meyer Road, Singapore, recently have been appointed by the mouth, just outside the shire's was some years ago, and, even so, was echoed in the Second Court trustees as administrators of the borders. And inland, everywhere prospect of many imaginary scenes In the fictions-Bath- (Warborne) the Party is hopelessly divided last week, when the house coolie Dyke Acland Travelling Scholar- from Wimborne
sheba's Corn Exchange, for into conflicting groups. Then, and "boy" were charged with the ships. A bequest of $10,000 under round to Beaminster (Emminster)ample, and St. Peter's Church, theft. In opposing ball, Court In the will of the late Bir Arthur at Bere Reala (King's Bere. In what about the Communist Party? spector Meeten said that the actual Dyke Acland was ear-marked for the Vale of Blackmoor, with Mar- and, in the other direction, the According to figures recently dis- cost of the jewellery was about travelling scholarships to enable lott, and Sherton Abbas (Sher street lending forth to the whole Weatherbury aceno, the "White closed, it numbers, at the most, $10,000. Mrs. Braddell left the young men and women between borne), and the Hintocks (the Hart," the "Phoenix," and a house in charge of, the accused the ages of 20 and 30 to do reWoodlandera" country), and as Ave thousand members out of when she went out on Saturday. scorch work on labour and co-acore or two towns and hamlets modern substitute for the "Three country of forty-five million, and evening, and on her return later operative problems in foreign have been, identifled and their fil- Mariners still recalling various recalled. Mr. Hardy's Casterbridge groups, And further 'It must not be overlooked that the same day she discovered that lands. It has been decided, for gures
The the time being, to restrict the works are compact of Dorset, and down it still are the two bridges Socialists, and Communists are her jewellery was missing. by no means the same; they stand case was postponed for further en operation of Acland students to it is their leading presence and ab particularly pictured in the
Major's story.;. quirica
L. P. has..been described as "the brain of Labour," but its member.
The theft of Mrs. Roland Brad-operative
Europe.
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character.