1918-12-20 — Page 8

HONOURS AND REWARDS.

THE WORLD'S MOST UNHAPPY MAN

-the most unbe

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the world today: la the Pope," writer Torquemada fn the New Europes

There is no secret about the exist- ence of an Adriatin batzuge on th Elis political entrerno Enttarin

45 miles of the Straite of Cranto, the the war between Ceapotlams and though of course atrice stances come free peoples despotisms are cracking maintained about its design and and dissolving; and, if the Allies realiad gansation. The international unata the power of thele arme, despotion will co-operating Inchide Italian destroy disappear

as poslo!

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ders who had fallen ho

ake, the place to beautiful;

DEATH OF SINGAPORE MAN PROFESSOR.

In our usual slipshod way we araʻin "the babit of regarding Honoura, and Rewards ne practically the same thing.

But a moment's consideration shows them to be birds of very different order. without soy undue stretch one might arth ran them to Birds Living and Bieda Dead An Eonont may be likened to a bird on the wing which the keen eye and steady hand brings down at

en and anti-uhmarine craft of many first shot or, at all events, at second

16. is the misfortune of the Pope to kinds the British war vessels und almost automatically, because if you

the armed fahing dect of several The death took place at Kinner hire inherited a body of political hundreds of wawlers and drifters, the mit, Turriff, on the had tietober, af happen to be a sportsman, it is the pro por thing to do. But the Reward is the teaching in virtue of which the Paper grunt majority Scottistes the Ameri Dr. Robert Donald Keith late Frin dead bird which may chance to fall at is the most beaute and rigid of the can fast submarine clame and dipal of the Medical School: Singa cone chad's feet to be promptly mediaval despotisma that still scouts: the French destrogens and Dr. Keith graduated M4. antiered and added to his bag. et survives. At one time in its history it patio craft; and the Japanese and Aberdeen University in 1999, and

Greeks bave unte nos very far away, D. with honours in 1904 The kimile is open to criticism. almost succeeded in tablishing itself as of late the barrage has become no acknowledge, for men do not ass ralo political overlord of the world. When copplete and effective that the Cen- do great deeds for sake of honoura or it very existence was threatened by or has lifted the seil, and allowed. Do rewards, despite Nelson's "Peerage For Westminster Abbey Nelson bad bis the Reformation, it tempered home of is to see some of the barrage unite

at their mu

own codes of bonour. We would put up/its pretensions and became at once the work. To Scrittish readers, the most.

·

photogoms but, dangerous with similar codes to obtain like re-partner, and the tool of the secular interesting count is by Mr. James despotisms that helped it in the counter Bone, of the well-known West Coun. In nine cares out of ten the man who Reformation. The Papacy has lost its try, fimuly, who ret only writes for does the great thing at the right moment temporal possessions, but it professes cibly but bus an intimate practical doss it without preceditation-imply to teach authoritatively the principles knowledge, of the man who go down because it is the thing to be done that must govern the social structures the sea in ships

of My first view of the Scottish drift There is his duty to be done-and be of all Staten. Its theory of society; of" does it without any ulterior motive the State of the relations of States to crock in an island famed for loveliness. es,he way was at evening, at s whatever. There is a position to be baton, or held-a chans to be carried in the Papacy, has ant changed in any and luxury. Two familiar hard-lined

essential particular since the Middle little ships carne puffing in,

at anycost.

The emergency is of the moment. Ages. That which is then in a man tells. If

his instincts are true, and his training right, all that is in him rise to the occa siún, and hadows heroic work and sony get his dos reward--but most likely

his head. He probably thinks connect edly of nothing whatever, except bow best to accomplish what he is at.. He

“,,,,!

sing

ports

On

TO JOHN TURK,

vanerat British Cdz tense were the feelings of them both. that they imtinetly fell into each fother's arms

Colonel prone to

conden

much tos interested in the On the evening of the same day, is going to do to give much tho after the brilliant reception at the the impression ber makes on

anywhere. But he has personality, Continental, distinguished members many of his countrymem have attempted of the British and French cons to pat on paper the impression ho makes munity, Including Mir. Sarraut, Mr. og strangers. . For example, Maspero, Governor of Cochin China,

A slender, middleaged man, with a

you remember. John, how you and other prominent personalities grey close-croped moustache

were wont

To rain down abells, from

Baba steepek, kiemą us who, bivouachest

Hellespont

Sought fainly there to taste the

joys of sleep 2.

Fin or sink

Dock:

SHUNGBONG, Chis, 15h Soups

· Konang Taheon-Wan, Cap Hing 5, B.Co

KATONG Brit 587 tons, from?

Swabo & Capt. Cogan, Is and

KWEICHOWA Bds Tientsin, Capt. Cole

AMAKURA MARU from “Bwstow, Ca (com Yip wharfe

GLENFALLOC Froga "Bings pare Boon

FUKUKAKWARD,

mid-from-Keeking Capt. MNO

FORMALIST PIPPH

met at the residence of John Ken- dressed, calm looking Achi

nedy, the popular and hospitable He was not pass footi

ly in, with an accent on the

for Manager of the Hongkong Hank in or gliding in, but

Saigon. The Governor-General in a firmly, he walked spirited speech, lengthily celebrated to the desk, and asked the the glorious part played in the waring a question, in a quiet by Great Britain, notre Alliée de la o hiss the deation, nor première heure. He met with his answer he bowed courteously and SEIWA MARU. Jap, $35 scos, from

sert | walked quietly, to the elevator, which Takao, Capt. Makamark, Carroll the majestic figure of Lord Kitchener catching the infection, shes out of sight whose great patriotic spirit had

Do you recall the shrapnel that you

poured

Úr ration parties by Bomano's

Well- Do you recall the aeroplanes that Gising our men to put mildly-

scared,

hell

sobbed

black trails of snake into the glen wir How often one bad seen these It still claims the right to depose boats grinding out of the File kings and governments, to free peoples or lying of the Forth, of bucketing Do your remember how your bullets from their allegiance, to delimit the into Grimsby. Here, in the golden sphere of action of avery secular Gov scene they lookid vary alien.AB About us as we, sole at heart and ornment. It donies the right of civil we came nearer two tow beaded mea The funnel, stared listlessly at our bout

weary

universal applause when he sal

le feu suor in his countrymen

it be asked is quinály, and

without precedent in the United States These are not very adegusta descrip Home of the man who, holde a position

BILLETON, Dutch, & 723 Chinwantao, Capt. Maseren

CLEARANCE

HUICHOW Brit, B. & 8. Doon yesterday for Talag Foo and Welisiwei, TAMBA MABU, Jap., N.I.K., Doon SUITING, Brit, R. & S., noon roster

won't. But thought of that never enters | States to legislate in certain questions in their shirt sleeves, sitting by the Dodging the pipsqueaks" from your as the one of a true son of England. Sime shat he was in Europe he went se graterday, for Kobe

scos red and does white deeds. And

reward.

too often the goodly doing is its own Never before, I suppose, has there been such wholesale distribution of rewards, not such indiscriminate Testowal of honours, nor such lack of honest judg. went and right discrimination in making

them.

You can hardly speak to a man in the Force but he can tell you of honour ractived for nothing and of great deeds left entirely unrecognised of red-tabbed Staff officers beribboned as though they hand shop lifted Selfridge's er Whiteley ribbonequnters, and yet who have never even been to the front-or if they have dared the dangers of the Channel have managed to get cushy jobs at the rear. **They get bonours and rewards beyond their deserts, while their militant fellows, with ten times the experience, whose lives at times are not worth a moment's purchase, get nothing, and in due course pass on and up to whers no great deed

is left in noticed.

And in many cases the illegitimate promotion of these favoured individuals at home blocks the legitimate promotion

of those on active service, which is very depth of Injustice.

of political and social policy. syllabus of Pius IX, which is part of the dogmatis teaching of the church, and the wonderful scene before them, anathematises those principles of liberty and spat into the water and yawned and freedom on which every Allied The little boats, the weary men. with State rests, and, for the extension of all the signs that a Scot could read of which the Allies are fighting Accord Scotsinen and their ships, seemned ing to the political toaching of the Pope, unutterly lonely and recopilahly the American republic, the Friach re-allen in this brilliant setting. public and modern Italy were conceived We had beard much from high a sin, and are merely tolerated because naval authorities of the remarkable the Papacy has not the political power endurance and courge of these men to destroy them.

in their long three years service in "These claims sound preposterous, the Aegean and the Adriatic seas. but they are the current teaching in Their fives have been exceptionally every Catholic ecclesiastical seminary hat, even as things go in this wur. and nothwithstanding that they bave We heard many stories how they long since been rejected or ignored by rose to the moments when their the majority of Catholic laymen in the Allied countries, they represent the vigils were relieved by the appear convictions of the ecclesiastical organicance of the enemy. Ar incident not tion and determined the papal attitude hitherto recorded was told me of the towards the war."

One of

mortars lobbed,

Thod the sad vale of the Betoves

Dere?

Do you remember? How can you These were the days when times

forget t

for us were bard

Now are the tables turned a new

scene set,

And you are hoist, Joha, with your

own petand

and whose deep foresight bad grasped to-day. The fact is that Colonel Hous the character of that war as one of is a discouraging person to make much long duration and had everything fuss about. He is worker, and des- organized in that row: His death is the intimate paragraph. The last wrapped as he was in the blue waves the head of the American War Mission on which Britannia rules. Mr. Sar raut happily concluded saying that be, an old Republican, was pleased to call out with all his heart: Vive is Rot George!

Th's speech, delivered with that special authoritative persuasion given him by the fact of baving served for two years at the front was received with a thunder of appinuse by the British and French alike who trane let us, then, gloat o'er this your latetically ovated the young brilliant Governor for so beautifully express, ing the sentiments of unalterable friendship uniting the two nations.

reverse,

And chuckle when we heard your

Sorry go

At Hells it was our affair to curse,

Now we get back a little of our own.

G. R. B., in Glasgow News.

THE KIRKS AND THE COAD SHORTAGE.

THE CHINESE AND THE

TROMBONES,

MATSUYAN MARU, JD, M. YK, the Mission then was to meet the Allied in November, 1917. Part of the work of day, for Shanghai representatives at the Inter-llied Warpm. yesterday," for Zokpha Conference in Paris.

Colonel Hogee's own statement of his objection to spechos made for the sake

speaking runs

SBUN CHEUNG, CLL, Wa Hing, - to-day for Kouang Tonein Was via Macao, C

KAIPING Frenon, Bing Kesa.m. today for Haiphong via Pakhed

ASIA Chi Tung Hing, 6:45 am.

tender, for Haiphong- BELLW HUING, CLE, 5pm. yesterdays, for Imiren.

BUNG ON, French, Kai to-day, for Haiphong,

The more I see of life, the more IamFUKAKAT MARU, Jap, M.BE impressed that the great handicap on so him to day for Tabac, many statemen is their love of talking for affect. They like to say something that will attract the attention of the crowd, and then, sit idlo. for a week and read over their aposch complacently. When I can, I do sway with that sort of thing. It means lost motion, wasted effort, and frequently foolish statements which are hard to live down

This is what Colonel House has to my sboat himself as a public man give parently, yet difficult to

People ask what I get out of it. auswer is that the only work fis An officer tells this tale of the worth while, the only, work that brings Chinese cooles that have been em taustaction, is the work that la unselfish- ployed in his district. They had ray this without desiring to be ostenta- some sports, mostly composed of tious Examine yourself, and strange

ceremonial dances with

you

General Goethals or Charles W. Eliot

sent down to perform for them! We could not understand why all their magine the wonderful ensure the plaudits went reserved for the trom beart warming satisfaction Goetha boses, two of which were included in gained from building the Panama Canal

neer officer

House bas

President is the But in tins again his character He is trumbled about the tion, not because it is an insult to

bolt

himself, but because it is an inrols to the President

wald of the Goëben last year from the The German, the Austrian, the Turk Dardanelles. When she was fring and the Bulgar, as they have shown on the British monitor, which she themselves in this war, are not the unk, there were two drifters lyin natural allies of the head of a great between the combatants. spiritual church. But they are the only these hoate opened fire with her The Scottub churches are discuss possible allies of the political teaching 3-pounder, and steamel towards the ing various proposals for the economy of the Pope- and his ecclesiastics: Goeben; while the other, not want of coal in many districts there will organisation. The Central Powers in ing to be out of the fur, endeavoured be only one Sunday service, and political theory are acceptable to the to make a smoke street. The Coe others a joint service by churches of wooden weapons. A brass band wand it to be true. Consider men. Ikd Vatican, for the Central Powers fight ben pail no attention to the little different denominations. The de for the continuance of despotism. The bouts. The log of the first drifter, intes rothing is ever done in Scot Vatican is opposed to the Allied Powers, 6ght for freedom and free institu- after briefly describing the atlair, hind without a debate recalls the tions Catholics who fight on the side bushed with this entry The time, hot very far distant, when acti- of the Allier in this war are not enemy having disappeared; and ficial heating was first introduced the band. Their players were euron his mengre salary of an faisal vory unfair, of course. It is political followers of the Pope, but are having no further orders, l'continued into our kirke. One stunly Spartanourded and separated from the rest of the regular army. Or the estisfaction jwhen stove was, proposed, said that of the band by a crowd of shouting, Dr. Eliot must have derived during the bia political opponents. The turn off to patrol the nois."

years he devoted to Harvard Un all very British. And if Right that the tide has enme.

The men come from all purts of what they really wanted was that the laughing Chinks. T

I know people say I have the faculty Fundamental and essential Right for

the Scottish coust, but chiefly from unister ebould put more fire into his The puzzle was explained to us Take a man like Earriman I bave of always greeing with the Freedent. which we are fighting-prevailed, these

Aberdeen and Fifeshire and the Eye sermons. Another objector said that by an interpreter The cooles awaya thought that he was not guided They so I find out what he wants things would not be....

mouth district. There are men from the pipe of the stove was like the pipe thought that it was a first class consolely by persuasi ambition in his career and then by it to The overlooked deserving ones de sot

Lewes and Skye, and Campbeltown, of an organ, and he would have juring trick, and that each time the Underneath all his achievements was gramble much, nor do outsiders. They

and Thurso, and Shetland, and all nothing savouring of Popery in the performer pulled in his hands he the desire to do thing, and his gratiica smile sardonically at times at Eo-and-80's

down the East Coast. There are, Kirk of Scotland.

swallowed the disappearing part of

tion in accomplishment would have been new reward-which one knows better

Gaelic-speaking hands. The charac Burnsians will call to mind the his instrument.

much greater if he had not bad to acquires fortune along with than 80-and-So himself ought by rights

That is an unusual burst of candour to have gone to someone else.

for Colonel House-forced fr simost cortainly by the pressure of HY waste words and advertising public curiosity, hardly legitimate, per WHY

space in describing the many points of merit in Chamberksin's Congh haps, Lat difficult to resist. Curiosity ally than I It is An engagement is announced, be- Remedy The most fastidious are satis about his relations with President that a man of the or better. Public opinion in the boat tween A Bertram Henry Gladstone, and when we state that it cures colds Wilson, on the other hand, in for would tolerate an can express itself against "Wullie te Leutenant in the Black Watch and coughs frou." ARY. Cause, "and that legitimate. They are s

it contains abaniutely no sarcotics or the skipper as well as against Rob Joungest son of Mir, Samuel Henry injurious substatives For sale by all Thoy met, when Colonol

Gladstone of Darley Ash, Bovingdon, Chemists and Storekeepers.

But it in all a vast pity, for it discounts the value of every inch of ribbon on

every coat you moot

How to improve on this state of things it is not easy to say. Bo long sising goes by favoUT=-68

When this war is over, unless he ante bis house in order, the Pepe will And himself the only despot remaining, faced by a democratic world that her come into being in spite of his lawn, his intrigues and his anathemas, and spring ing largely from the blood of his spiri tual children..

Two courses are open to him in the fature, either to run the risk of being Pops without a feak or to become again the democratic head of a great spiritual

church."

It always has dope-the man who in our checks as we listen to their makes himself personally attractive boastings.

to his superior will too often reap on-

Let us have Bonours by all means

ter of the trawlers and the drifters peet's lines shows un interesting difference. The As could a wind as ever blew drifters as a rule are families or A caulder kirk, and in 't but few groups of fishermen from the same a caukler preacher, never spak-- place, who own the drifter and work Ye'sen be het ere I come back, is on a partnership bass. Discipline ENGAGEMENT. on these bouts is not of a uaval char- acter, but the effect is the same

deserved rewarda; and the man who but let them at all events be honestly the boy. Some of these drifters he Herts, and Ena Mary Christie,

awarded.

an almost patriarchal character. And, by the way; are all the Crimean Queer stories were told me of some younger daughter of Mr. Alexander

of these old men and their astound. Moir, of Broughty Ferry.

A marriage has been arranged be-; medals bestowed yet I only ask for ing memories. One officer in charge information.

of a unit told me of an old skipper tween Captain Henry Godfrey Fow

cares more for daty than for toadying will too often get left out in the cold.

Virtue la, proverbially, its own reward. The men of old noticed it just as we do All the same, the door of deeds cannot I wonder if any of the Allied Govern who worked his ship back through ler Argyll and Sutter and High- but feel somewhat chagrined when the meats is compiling black list of those difficult channel through which helanders, only son of Captain W reward due to him and known by his German commanders and others, from had only once before passed. Some Fowler, late of the same regiment, fallows to be due to him-goes eltowhere the Kaiser and Crown Prince down thing aroused the curiosity of the and Hilda Morier, younger daughter It has been my unhappy lot at times wards, who have been guilty of those officer, and he discovered that the old of the late Mr. Bovert Gillespie Greig to distribute prizes at schools in which black deeds which have sickened and man could not read or write, and had and Mrs. Greig, Cardross, Fort of I have been interested. And I have addened the hearts of bumanity at The commander of another unit told

only pretended to study the chart, onteith, Ferthamire

An interesting engagement is that always endos voured to make it clear to, or who have permitted, even if me that the skipper of his ship, of A. A Esgart-Spiers of Elderslie to my unfortunate heaven that the prize they have not actually instigated, them ninong other earacter at es, began. Mary Henrietta Elias both is not by any roam the greatest thing The Iron Cress black cross, by the to sing whenever the wind rose daughter of the late Henry Darley of nil; and that the: only thing that really matters is the strenuous endeavour --has been showered on the The worse is blew the more he sang Livingstone, of Beldare

which results in the formation of char

acter, and, incidentally, in the acquire, ment of a certain amount of knowledge And I have pointed dot that it is in- finitely more to boya credit to have

done bis very bety whether he gained a prize or not, them to have won a docen

..

prizes without any exertin MAR! Unfortunately, the world deems most prizes properly awarded to the most deserying, and prizes in the

rder into

the same with the and Navy

only

malefactors by the tub-full. Any man byums, said this officer, himself a Mr. Hagart-Spiel, whose seat who has done a particularly infamous well-known Clyde yachsman, Houston House, Renfrewalling, by the

soldiers all the time as he bang on one of the famous, Virginia men action has been promptly decorated by it blew it was Onwand, Christian representative of Alexand the All-Highest

of Glasgow in the 18th to the wheel, with his hair flying i When the Day of Reckoning comes the wind. But there was no pasin in to be hoped most fervantly that everinging when there was a calm man on those lists. if he has not already THE SHIPBUILDERS gone tow higher and still —vill receive his

usus, sponge, with whic

wa

so réndy, cannot right

ross these things.

wrong not making

ENDLE,

has been to bring the Fahall not be done

The trouble with the s

on the Clyde came to

the frat display of Government It had timated that the

workers wƠN

credited Glasgos

be boug

Birdships of CH and bully there Elderslie

farion

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