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TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.”

HONGKONA, MONDAY, JUNE 20,, 1910.

PEACE.

They have signed. The arrogant enemy, conscious of superiority in both culture and power, which dropped the reat bone of progress to

Voeux Road

THE

CHINA MAIL.

OFFICER.

FOUND SHOT AT STONE- CUTTERS ISLAND.

MONDAY, JUNE, 30 · 1919.

CORRESPONDENCE.

JOHN KESTREL BLUTFING.

To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL."]}

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SERI Follity was a disease, it. must be the most.contagious; it la f

"THE FOLLIES."

AN INCIDENTAL ESSAY ON TET HYGIENE OF LAUGHTER.

GEORGE ROSS'S COMPANY SCORES A HIT.

It

machine. The operator starts one policeman's dog, which watched to SUICIDE OF ARMY rolling. It bonds and rebounds see whether its master pat on official from pin ta pin, and is final god tunic or iufti, and behaved accord- depends upon the strength of the ingly, was exercising reason Initial impetus and the number of empirically without knowing it, just pins it encounters in its progress. as the worthy MJourdain in the Alf such talk as that of Henley, French play talked prose without about being master of his fate and knowing it. Many a youngater on captain of his soul, is arrogant first encountering the formal logic nonsense. Henley certainly wasn't of the schools has exclaimed, "why, those things. No man is. Heredity I knew what syllogism was all the etarts him going. Pre-natal inf-time, but didn't know it by name.""

Great consternation prevailed hard to argue with a jolly opponent ences affect the line of his route All-mind (that is to say, all the was

yesterday afternoon when it without catching something of his The miles or environment of his intellect of all the races) must at one.

discovered that Lieutenant merriment. The "light tap" on my

If this be folly, folly let it be. childhood inclines him one way.

Beardsworth, His time have been pre-logical, and if Mr of the 67th Company had committed just as well leave it alone.

R. G. Anose drew no blood, and so I may did us no harm. "education" inclines him another John Kestrel were to argue that this suicide by blowing out his brains

It could not From pin to pin he travels, as help is all he meant, that certain races are with a revolver shot.

The left hook under the right prurient of prudes could have sat possibly do us any harm. The most less, really, as the little nickel ball still in the pre logical stage of the

ear," has more effect, so I will take out the show on Saturday night the "automatic" machine. He can evolution of mind, we should have,easter by profession and some are very cheap. I wonder if you And it gave us surcease from brain- Llect. Beardsworth is a School. it into account. Words, Mr. Editor,without finding excuse for censure. "will" something, to be sure, but not to agree with him, but to argue months ago had the opportunity of would walk along the street arm-in work.. It forced us to laughter, and something must first have willed his differently. Assuming the existence going Home to resume his pre-war rm with a coolie though you con kept us laughing. The medicine will to it. There is no efference of such a race, we should still doubt occupation. He elected to remain sider him your equal. Out of bravado of laughter is. without afference. Christ's prayer the justice of dubbing it should have been (and perhaps way) A man in a train who laughs at

inferior." in the Army of Occupation.

you may, but in your sane moments, moral as well as physical. Laughter good medicine, "Father forgive them, for they know another who has just missed it may commission from the

The deceased officer obtained his do not think you would. You say depends mechanically upon gusty not why they do these things" We be superior in the point of punctuality. December 1916, being promoted to trol when struck by a bully is our pneumas, why there you are. From the ranks in that "the coolie who shows self-con-exhalations, and if the soul be say in some cases, "He is old enough Here the element of choice entered. Lieutenant in May 1917. to know what he is doing." which A man can choose to be punctual,

superior" is it out of irony that you soul are expelled by the bursts and may be humanly true, but we have but he cannot choose his race nor his noon at the Protestant Cemetary

The funeral takes place this after printed the news item "Abusive ricsha puffs and anorts of laughter its ex- no right to say of any man that he place in evolution. We. recall that

Coolie," just under my third letter?cretions, secretions, and accretions of knows why he does anything. Even the first cccasion on which John

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Let me tell you. Sír, an open secret: perverse bumours, as a crumb is dis- introspection does not help us, for Kestrel contradicted us was when we

every coolie is abusive when the lodged from the windpipe, or foul air we cannot keep track of all the pre had said that for certain studies the through the head. He had previously opportunity presents itself. When from the lung. Laugh and grow fat, disposing causes of our conduct, nor mind needs preparatory training. shut himself in his quarters Last about the coolie who showed self-avoid the anaemia caused by worry the man in the moon" told you they say, meaning that thereby you of the obscure motives that impel us This correspondent then set up the night Captain H. C. Macaulay-control when struck by a bully, he and anxious care. Laugh and be to it. The study of history is large claim that any ordinarily educated RAMC visited Stonecutters to see forgot to tell you that the self-contro sane, says the China Mail, meaning ly a study of hysteria. The signing mind (his own presuntably included) the body on of the document which was the occa could grasp such propositions. Ap through to the Military Hospital.him was a burly European. I quite could never be ridiculous, though he the report coming was forced, for the person who struck and knowing that Chomme qui rit sion of these thoughts and observa-parently he has abandoned that Death must have been instantaneous. admit that the argument was about may have looked it. Just imagine tions may be likened unto the strac position new, and believes that the The Military Authorities are unnatural capacity for education. Well, if, five years ago, the world. fastend ping of the "strait waistcoat" upon race with

foreheads able to give any reason for the sui-Individualism will admit your natural of going to war with the crazy sloping a violent patient. May God keep the requires cenerations. of training cide. In accord with King's Regula. I capable coolie as our equal as soep Kaiser, had unanimously burst into rest of us sane,

before it can be the equal mentally tions a military Court of Inquiry will as he attains to the same level of a roar of laughter at his absurdly of his own. Nay more, he doubts be held. if it can be trained at all. The

education. Now let me fence your pompous pretensions. It would have The body was removed to the straight punch. You ask me to quote defeated him. Instead of glooming evidence so far as we have it Public Mortuary last night..

QUARTS OF PHILOSOPHY FOR PINT POTS,

ance,

LATER Lieat. Beardsworth shot himself

ITALIAN CIRCUS.

MORE SENSATIONS.

on the show's opening programme.

3D. all-round improvement to do with our argument.

curse

Duckworth on "craniometry as an and strutting in exile, still taking is. in front of the equality of dens regards natural capacity.

index to mental capacity" 1 refer you. himself very seriously as a sort of There are greater differences between

Sir, to the Encyclopedia Britannica unfortunate Napoleon, he would individuals of a race than between BOSTOCK'S ROYAL

on "Craniometry" which was writ-have shrivelled under the blast We are tridimensional thinkers. race and race, and the exceptionally

ten by Duckworth. I refer you to of laughter, and bave crawled into Everything we are capable of per-able men of "inferior "races are not

this work, though I noticed that the nearest drain-pipe ceiving must have the three dimen- proofs of exceptional cere ral endow

you found it tripping many

to hide ahis abashed face. Human glory and sions, length, breadth, and thickness. ment so much as they are proofs of

time. If you can deduce nothing human dignity can be tied to a great It is truc we can entertain the exceptional application, training,

from this article, well-ahem. deal of human foolishness, hut your abstract notion of a plane., which and opportunity for development.

Were it not that my second was never saw a laugher look ridiculous. is Bidimensional But the Fourth It is

ready with the sponge, the last blow It is true that the maker of scriptural equality in the latter Dimension faddist mnvites us to con matter

would have knocked me out, for you proverbs has said that the laughter that socialists (and ceive of a plane as a sentien: inther) consider desirable.

Saturday saw-the first change of appealed to my sentiments. The of fools, is like the crackling of thoms We dividuality. That, he says, would have heard the remark about Japan Italian Circus, The large crowds poet. Mr. Editor: it is from Long that he wasn't some solemn and programme by Bostock's Royal line. I quoted was not from a female under a pot, but how do we know be a bidimensional thinker, and con ese being "copiers, not criginators" which attended both the matinee and fellow. Do not now tell me in your irritable oracle, offended because his sequently incapable of conceiving the from scores of White Men who never the night performances was enthu old tricky way, that Longfellow neighbours found him a bore and possibility of the third dimension originated anything in their lives, not siastic about the entertainment offered parroted from some old female poet. wouldn't listen to him? Note that depth. In the same way he asks. is even that criticism. Fhilosophers, and many voted that it was decided But after all, sentiments have nothing he says it not possible that there is a Fourth confidence men, and showmen like

of fools." Unless he spoke Dimension, of which we tridusen. Barnum have a poor opinion of the

in the Pickwicklan sense, he was sional thinkers are incapable of average mental endowment of the There were three big sensations"I do not see why we should not fools is tragic and depressing, and Now for Mr. Ceylonese. He says wrong, because the laughter of real conceiving? It is ingenious, but it superior" races. As Barnum pat thrown into Saturday's programme, regard the coole as an equal" It cannot possibly sound so cheerful to takes us nowhere. The assumption it, "there's a sucker born every they alone being worth the gate appears to me that Mr. Ceylonese a decent fellow as does the brave of the two-dimensional intelligence minute" As we would paraphrase money. Besides Maximo with his does now and again ride in a chair?noise of thorns crackling under a was too much to start with. But as it there's some sucker prating every marvellous feats on the wire, a turn | Shame on you. Because you happen pot. Round every such pot there is an illustration it may serve

to hour of every day On somewhich one never tires of, there was to have ten cents more than your always laughter, you may depend. illumine the possibilities of some subject he has not taken the the remarkable controversial tangles that men ge: trouble to comprehend In other performed by one of the Vardel them beasts-of-burden. But this is the

whirl of death" their professors were some of the

equals," you are ready to make of and God send the contents of world's finest brains..

into from time to time. It would words, the average mind-the Brothers and a

pot be The collecsuit John Kestrel's purpose, for inst- mob intellect, even in Europe is down a rope from a height of 60 feet, sense would treat his equal in that audible mirth as bad form is a slide for life," their business, your say? No man of awful social convention which debars worth it. The #ivist" psychologists must be right in asserting that there are factors of hands and ask what is the use of the pre-logical stage. The intellectual several rounds of much deserved

He could throw up. his still in what the psychologists call by Giro. This performance brought way

tremendous mistake. God's mental life which appear only in the trying to pour a quart of liquor output of Europe comes from a applause. Spuds and his associate the present attitude adopted against for robust laughter is the salvation As regards the Germans. I think must be on them that originated it, social mass, factors that are bred into a pint pot? He believes in minority, not from the "average, clowns were as funny as ever, while them is not very fair. It must be of society. Without it. society will and conditioned thereby. and that override the individual judgement. believes, as

the existence" of pint pots. He and the average man who points to the new tricks performed by the dogs admitted that they were educated talk evilly in whispers, or boringly in The German professors knew this. that Nature intended some heads to as foolish as the nigger boy in

we understand him, it in proof of his own superiority is and the ponies must be honourably until driven to excesses by some dignified banalities, or ridiculously They knew the difference between hold quarts and some only pints, Alabama who thought he could lick

frantic maniacs. They have shown in oracular orations, or mischievously a "socialised individual self" (a philo-and shaped them accordingly. Even everybody else because Jack Johnson

that they are still capable of falling in political propaganda. That is sophical anarchist, Socialist, or Bois-

below the required standard, so we why mea go to the smoke room 37 nevist) and an "individualised social mentally undeveloped race) so does of the world,"

as he looks upon the negro (or other had won the pugilistic championship

Individualists, refuse to acknowledge eagerly. They can laugh there, and self" (the collective

them our equals until they redeem instinct (more truly divine guidance themselves. Now, Mr. Ceylonese, than conscience tells them they you who maintain that all men are need the tonic of unrestrained mirth. To-day's dollar is worth 3s. 6 equal, how is that that you are Mark Twain noted our English habit 3/16d.

refusing to admit the Germans as of reading humorous publications equals?

with a solemn face. It is true, Yours etc. though it must be confessed that JOHN KESTREL. some of our Humorous publications seem to call for that. But we do (JOHN KESTREL BLUFFING.)

take our pleasures sadly, and the reason is that rotten convention of It would be better for John Kestrel, decorum. No man in the middle of who apologises for catching some an outburst thing of our merriment, if he would quarrelled with his wife or bullied

of laughter

ever catch some of controversial his child. No man ever murdered candcurs. His reference to the another while laughing. None ever Craniometry in the told a fie la lie that mattered) with Encyclopedia Britannica is a daring a laugh. Judas betrayed with a kiss. bit of bluff. We challenge him to He couldn't possibly have done it quote one line or one word from with a laugh. Let it go at that article in support of his argu- that, that laughing is good. George ment. He cannot do it, because it Ross is a laugh breeder. So is isn't there

Duckworth happens to James Kent. So is the little ballerina, of Camper's, and was misled into human legs. however clever, ever, be more up-to-date than John Kestrel, Dot Fay, who comes who looked at those pretty diagrams laughing with her Icga as thinking they were "scientific facts," could. So is the lady, band-

sense,

the impatient schoolmaster some

snatch at the shadow of world or, as they themselves expressed it, times look upon the small boy. The

domination, has endorsed the formal acknowledgement that its dream was vain. It has signed the chit for its

orgy.

the

kultur gone mad, in schevarmere kultur.) They had ever. a word for They demonstrated the truth of their

THE DAY.

mentioned.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

incapable." his natural capacity is boy is inferior," he i mentally

too small for the lesson. Time proves the schoolmaster wrong, as it has proved the critic of races to be wrong.

Today's return shows two more The helpful Whitaker reminds us cases of plague. With regard to the African, for that on the 28th of June 1914 the instance, capable observers have sug-Austrian Archduke was murdered by Sub.-Lieut. C. R.Woodhall is ward he is degenerate. What he has initial spark for the conflagration Yangtse river service. gested that instead of being back-a Servian, an incident that served as appointed to H.M.S. Gnat" on the been once he can be again. The which raged for over four years, and become a clever man. backward schoolboy may or may not whose last smoulder we suppose to Captain H. Brewster and Lieu! There is no have been extinguished by the act of H. Tor, R. G. A. leave for Home by The clever man besotted can be the first event. sufficing reason why he should not. Saturday-the fifth anniversary of the s.s. "Idomeneus" to-morrow. clever once more. Like some of the Peace was signed at four o'clock earlier antropoingiste, Mr. John on Saturday afternoon.

Sub.-Lieut. T. B. R. Woodroffe, Kestrel would say, "this aboriginal

R.N. has beer, appointed to HMS. The decision to might be accurate to say he does the efforts and votes of the class car count no higher than ten It be as well to note, was secured by river service.

sigo, it may "Scarab" which is on the Yangtse

count no higher than ten." There which has lately been suspected of is an important difference. It seems Bolshevistic tendencies.

All the RN.R. Wireless officers clear enough that a brain capable of

and Years of hard work, heavy taxa Stonecutters installation are being warrant officers at the conceiving the quantity ten can con- tion, and national humiliation, now relieved from Naval service. ecise of one extra. Eleven is he ahead of the German people. If 1 short Way of saying only they learn the obvious lesson eleven, he has only to repeat the by so much as the addition of a plague, one of diphtheria, one of The week's return of communi- one more. Given from it, they will be the gainers, and cable disease shows 15 cases of one more process to count a dozen, leveheaded race the world will then enteric, one of smallpox, and four inability in any aborigine to do that. the document signed on Saturday We should hesitate to assert the be the gainer. The other parties to of cs. fever. When we were teaching English in are in the position of the punishing

only

ten and

article. On

our

as near

own thesis. Even their thinkers seem to have been infected by the old Men laugh and frolic till the feast fusion, unless we admit. (as we

is o'er

should) that they may have been Then comes the reckoning, and over-awed by the intolerance of

they laugh no more.

public opinion" and sought safety Strange that

man collectively in silence or in camouflage, bowing should show the same carelessness of down in the house of Rimmon for a history that Individual man should mere living. The old religious custom betray in the face of experience. All of drawing apart, by eremites and the world conquerors have come to other thinkers, must have been based bad ends, meeting disappointment on some intuitive perception of its and humiliation. It true that the necessity. It is the only way to British Empire is bigger than the unlearn prejudices, the only way to Roman, bigger than Alexander's, avoid the evil communications that bigger than Napoleon's at the top of corrupt pure thinking. Gilbert was his run of luck. But though large not scientifically exact when he told "geographically, it does not represent us that every little boy or gal who a result of large conquests. Most comes into this world alive, is either of it stands as the fruit of peaceful a little Liberal, or else a Conserva- adventure, of geographical discovery tive; but be approximated a truth of and colonization. It holds crowd psychology. Society is some together by lightness of thing more than an aggregate of its bonds. Except perhaps India, individuals. It is an agglomeration

Kestrel, which it doesn't, what then? feeling that it would be nice to laugh as he would call them, Even. did some and with a cultured voice, Duckworth's article support. John called Dorothy Sutton. One has the there is no constituent country which of mind, a hodgepodge of thought, looks at its rulers as the representa- with as distinctive a character of its

The Encyclopedia has an article on our way through life with her, she tives of a conqueror, as the early own as a haggis has. Any extra

Phrenology as well as on Cran-taughs so nicely. While the show Britons beheld the Romans, the ingredient added must partake of the

tometry. La phrenology not scientiis designed with laughter and pro- Persians the Greeks, the Italians and favour of the rest. A child added Japan, our pupils (young men parent who says to the berding Wingfield, J. E. Cafin, and M. R. T. remark he makes is a thoughtless music besides. Edyth' Hvland bas a "Germans the French, the Koreans to a nation. is like "a new cell in

Lieuts. C. H. Champness, B. fically discarded? Almost every ceeds with laughter, it has other the Japanese, as the Belgians the the social tissue," as Leslie Stephen then to pronounce the letter"1" as much as it will hurt you." Even H.M.S." Colombo" which is due to cheap". They are not. A vocabulary could fill a theatre twice as big. It

claimed that it was impossible for culprit, "This is going to hurt me Knight, R.N, have been appointed to "Parrots he says Germans. Ireland pretends to but phrased it in his "Science of Ethics." which does not occur in their for France, who has relief, from a join the China Squadron."

words are wonderful, wonderful voice, that that is political comouflage. The In the development of the tissue, the language. For "dy German Empire, if the German am-cell itself is differentiated. Robinson

costs years of study. They are cheap is a pity she should insist on calling they said menace and perhaps from an itch bitions had been realized, would have Crusoe on his island, and Robinson

"riri," and insisted that this was as for

to John, because he uses them with a smile a "smoil." for its a blemish revanche, there would not been very different, could not pos Crusoe in a crowd, is and cannot help

near as they could ever get to it be the mood to say of Saturday, in of Honour, and Croix de Guerre, has shouldn't we walk along the street formance.

Lt. Col A. Richings, M.C., Legion

out understanding them. Why on a charming personality and per- sibly have become like it. The British being two different persons, like

We asked them if they could curl the words of the Marseillaise, le returned to his former position as a

There is some truly Empire accreted when the distribu- Philip drunk and Philip sober. Every

their tongue up so that the tip jour de gloire est arrive."

arm in arm with a coolie, even with amazing juggling, by M. Berde and. touched the palate. They could. with a black eye is too diluted to police constable at Cardiff, and is brave? The censure or scort of him show worth going to see.

Glory tion of peoples was such as to make pebble on the beach must be some-

out bravado". What would we Hal Benson, which aloce makes a it possible. In а new country, what rounded, so long as it stays tongues in that position, if they British Empire's various peoples, we We then asked them, keeping their sing about. As for ourselves, the!

training recruits to the force.

and his like? Does that really matter?"Beauty Chorus" is a "fetching” squatters' rights and land grabbing there. On the national "beach men

could say "riri." They said they

We thought John a bit of a philoso group of young ladies who len are possible. In England, say, since have names for this moulding process. could, but they found they could saint as yet strike a balance of to-morrow the characteristic of the pher, and find him common clay. We their job. The China Mail seriously

Mariners are notified that from the last common was enclosed by the In society" unconscious mimicry or

not. Everyone said "lily".

Our commercial Fog Bell at Collinson Reach Barrier jast thieving peer, the idea would Imiration works, as well as ideas like brain is like the tongue. You must the effect of the removal of a trade During fox or thick weather a ball he knows that for a fact (it seems the order of good ones.

are sorry. He says every coolle is and honestly recommends this Em The classes, who may be speculating on Light Station will be as follows abusive when he can be so safely. If pire Revue company as belonging to Ecem ridiculous. It was so with the obedience, discipline, loyalty, conven. world, which was "newer," less tins, "good form", and the like.

know how to use it. In controvers- competitor, should "ca canny and will be struck every six seconds. densely occupied, less easily acces- Real (or nearly real) individualities, races, we note a queer obtuseress the fable of King Log.

ies with people of the superior" think of the adage of the frysan and

sweeping assertion) we must take his aible, than it is now. Logically, called strong personalities, cranks, sometimes which leads us to conclude

word for it. But what bas, it got to with the the Germans were right in 'sup contradictious persons,

naturally slackers,

"Ring out the old, ring in the posing that a German Empire on and,

that there is an inhibition against new should be the slogan for

inferior mental capacity of the negro 90 on, are like which the sun should not set was persons in a queue or railway cor.

those thinking rather than an inability to last

with the sloping forehead? We can Saturday, The signatures CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM.show John a few coolies with upright as feasible as the British. Why not? ridor who stop to count their change thought. Prejudice may be so liquidation.

think. Tradition hinders logical were attached to a document of

At Kowloon yesterday G. W. foreheads.... Individualism, says Avenall and A. W. E. Davidson play- Practically, they were too late, just or for some other reason. as Don Quixote was too late to prac next them push thera on, often

Those strong that the man simply cannot tempted to suppose it was a comis, Chamberlain's Palu Balı drive & coolie when he has attained John's The match of 18 holes ended in a Militarism may be touch of rheumatism, cr a twinge John, will admit the equality of the ed the semi-final of the "Hind" Cup.

of neuralgia, whatever the trouble tise, convincingly, the arts of chivalry. unlovingly, for no better reason than approach the logical exercise. Comte position with its creditors, and pro- the pain at ones and cares the complaint level of education. Really? How win for Avenali by 3 up and 4 to England dug up its tree while the that they themselves are being push development into thres epochs; the The signatures

roughly parcelled mental pose a fresh start in the old business. quickly. First application gives ralief magnanimous. Socialism (the So play. tree was portable. Germany arrived ed by those behind. The war fever theological period, during which however, not only to a liquida the pain of burns sad scalds may be of that education.

were attached, When a bottle of it is kept in the house cialists say) will give him the chance too late.

The giant of the foceat in Germany was something like a cannot be transplanted.

Individualism thought was pre-logical and childishly tion, but to a pledge for the future. Promptly relieved, sata and bruiser withholds it, and denies his natural knock-out. The reason is that we panic in a public hall. It certainly animistic; and. metaphysical (inter If the League of Nations does not dead. I let, for the household ils equality... The Germans might have ioreseen had similar results,

quickly healed and swellings promptly

The pugilistic met thought he was a pugilit and find all this. They were

Social (or mediate or John Kestrel stage) and function efficiently, Saturday's docu- intellectual national) man is like unto those balls enough, and studious enough. Among in the public-house) "automatic"

the scientific. There is thought (or ment will prove to be one more reason) in speechless animais. The: scrap of paper"

loss.

GOLF.

'+

The

tis just such su embrocation us very aphor has served us well. It perrals he is only a punching bag. No ma family should be provided with. For this remark We. admit that we ever succeeded in knocking out sale By All Chemists and Storekceporu. haven't succeeded in giving John the punching bag?)

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