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* PROTE, "JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.

HONGKONG, TUZYday, August 19, 1919.

70

"THE FOOL OF JOY."

Poetry is vastly more important than politics. Indeed, to paraphrase a well-worn tag about love, politics is of man's life a part, but poetry's his whole existence. Every new poet means something to a man. His work is eagerly examined to see whether that something be little or much. Sometimes it is much. Poems have influenced men, have consoled or encouraged them. Occasionally From they have taught them. "Thirty days hath September" on- wards, poems have woven them. selves into the fabric of our lives. If you happen to have met the poet, or if your circumstances seem to be Etted by the poem, (as by Tennyson's "In Memoriam") there is enhancement of value, such as we find in taking up "The Fool of Joy," by Tom MacInnes, the of the Canton the book Tramway Concession).

VALUE GUARANTEED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LOGAL AND GENERAL

Today's dollar is worth 38. 9 15/16d.

ing of pedagogues too regular," In attentively you will find that Adam his "Ballade of Virtues," his refrain and the apple tree and the prohibi

"we who are all in the mudtion all- antedated the creation of together," and the treatment suggests poor, dear Eve. It she knew of the that. alternatively, he hasn't read prohibition at all, of which there is Whitman, or doesn't agree with him.no evidence, she must have got it at

Mr. R. W. Lec-Jones, of Messrs. But as

a Fool of Joy he must second-hand through Adam. Man- agree. What men need in these like, he may easily have forgotten Shewan, Tomes and Co., Ltd., return namby-pamby days is a ballad to mention it to her. Evened to the Colony by the sis. "Gablonz“ of the rich clear med that God this. Tong. time after it is on Sunday. made. At times he seems to feel it.

our duty a gentlemen (and as O anxious saviours. of men and careful and accurate students) to At Shanghai on August 12, Mr.

such

break a lance in defence of the lady's good name. She wasn't the enter prising sinner. She was the victim of her own good nature, willing to oblige the brute..

Thanks for your help in our evil

plight!

But please don't save us all too

much!

When God woke up and called

for light

Ee set things turning from left

to right.

A good enough sign it seems to

me

That we shall turn thus without

you-quite:

Go your way and let folks be.. "All good fellows are friends of mine" is a ballad that pleases, as ike wise Bully for my big appetite." There's a li to his Chinatown Chant:

+

Hello, how do, come in, sit down! You my very good friend l "You come best place in China.

town,

You my very good friend! Too much cold and rain in street You look sick, me stand you

treat.

Fix up something good to eat For my very good friend. Yim poi-1 no care!

Yim poi-you no care!

TUESDAY

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT APLICHAU,

PRISONER. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

پست

AN ACCESSORY AFTER THE

FACT.

Mr. R. E. Lindselt concluded the F. W. Goldring was granted perhearing of the case in which an mission to practise before H. Mex-detective Sergeant of Aberdeen Supreme Court for China.

was charged with being concerned

AUGUST 19. -- 1919.

RATTAN WORKERS QUARREL.

ONE MAN KILLED ITVI INJURED,

REVOLVERS AND KNIVES USED.

NO ARRESTS YET.

4

A quarrel, which is wrapped up in in the murder at a compatriot on mystery at the present moment, Mr. W. H. Stanes, the "Child-July 12 at Aplichau.

but which the Police are endeavour. So far as that goes, we are mindedren's Missioner" of India leaves this A cook in a matshed at Deeping to unravel, has taken place to put a word in edgeways for Adam. afternoon for Manila. He gave a Water Bay deposed that he saw

between the members of two After all, blood is thicker than very helpful address at the Gospel defendant speaking to two others, water, and he was certainly a relation Hail on Sunday night.

rattan and later a engaged a sampan, Chinese

makers'

guilds, Witness engaged ope

from the and -has So faw culminated

of ours. We suspect that passage

she had died, that would have! satisfied him that it wasn't whole-

which represents him as meanly Senhor A. E.. A. T. De Souza-Government pier, and instructed in the killing of one man and, the accusing Eve of tempting him was mistranslated, as so many passages Barbosa, ex-Governor-of-Macao-and the boatman to take him to Chiring of five others. The attacks were. What we think him likely to Seahora Barbosa are leaving for Lah. On the way he heard shouts have said is this, that he ordered the Portugal by the "Empress of Japan." of "Ah Wong" and he saw on an were not confined to one locality but woman to raste the fruit so that he The new Governor, Senhor da Silva, adjacent boat, defendant and the spread over Hongkong and Kowloon other two smoking opium. Later on, Districts. They took place at night. he heard someone calling. "There From the figures given us by the could see if it were poisonous. It is expected shortly.

is L Kwan's boat," and for some Police it would appear that a large Senhor R. S. Vieira de Mattos,ime after that he heard a commotion. body of men are involved. Not only Sergeant E. J. Field deposed that have the labourers been injured. he found large pieces of stones, a The masters of the various rattan packet containing lime, a stick, and shops were not immune from the blood stains on some boards on the assailants' daggers or revolvers. Ivessel. On July 14, on instructions. .The first incident reported was

from C. D. L. Marison he detained the discovery of defendant.

6.30 а.л. this morning lying Sergeant Davis stated that he as the bottom of Ladder Street, found defendant, and one of the suffering from several stab-wounds witnesses with a third man who was inflicted by some person or persons

defendant what was the matter and to the Goverment Civil Hospital and the latter said "I don't know." He is lying in a seriousrendition.

The next case was that of a examined the other man and discover.

Had

preceded by his wife and family."

пад at

some diet. She took no hurt, that Harbour Master, Macao, and once act- he could see, so be partook himselffing Governor, arrived in Hongkong We arrive at this rendering intuitive yesterday with his wife and daughter ly. That is how we connect Adam They are leaving for Lisbon on the and Eve with Bolshevism.

"Empress of Japan." Russia shown. 110 symptoms of colic, we might have been Mr.. H. Ashworth Hope, head of tempted to try the fruit ourselves. If the firm of Mesers. Gibb and Hope, Eve had had spasms after eating, we solicitors, of Ipoh and Penang, ar- know what Adam would have done. Erived here yesterday en route for a He would have let it alone.

Some of us saw in DOR.A. and holiday at Home, where he has been leaning against a wall. He asked unknown. The man was removed Sometime good time alla time her relations all we ever want to see of the fruits of Socialism. But there maybe!

Mr. G. W. King, LL. B. (Lond.), are others, many others, who didn't Maybe, as he says in the Ballade see it, and cannot see it yet. "Russia who was called to the Bar at the win in the pains of Bolshevistic Middle Temple recently, was in of Comfortable Doctrine, some Jack colic would have been an instructive Hongkong yesterday on his way back Lantern gleams across the swamp sight to them. It is a pity that the to Shanghai. He is Registrar and of his. offence; maybe

Allies meddled. Their reason for Coroner of the Supreme Court,

Shanghai. high his heart esteems God's ultimate meeding was their lack of faith.. benevolence; but we don't think They were not sure that Bolshevism sa. It is as sound as it is com-would poison the tasters, so they forting In "Broken Days," as a tried to put a fence round the tree. proofreader in a newspaper office, This is not paradox. This is not the poet gives as pictures, true inversion for effect. It is the plain pictures, and ends on a high note on

commonsense of the matter expressed Beauty:

in a kindergarten way, over..

We no care-Tim poi

And still she comes to me, tho'

I be old!

Living in covered ways and

namelessly;

And still her fields of amaranth

await,

And glorious across the mani

fold

Dim valleys of the

exalt I see

dead

Her azure gardens gleaming.

and the great - Marble towers of morning tipt

with gold.

1/

Is that poem we get this passage:

To-ease my soul I laid upon a

heap

Of long unopened Calvinistic

the touch of 'John Masefield. Ic view of his outlook, as expressed coherently and consistently in the bulk of his work, MacInnes occasion ally invites the suspicion of insincer ity. He is for the most part the unrepentant, unashamed, reminiscent poetry. | bons viven the Adam Lindsay

Gordon type in part:

For gifts misspent, and resolu

tions vain

'Tis somewhat late to trouble;

this I know

If I had to live life over, I would

live the same again.

I think of my lovely

never can forget Floating-pagoda boat

Fen River. Across the mid-stream

waves rise;

Flate and drum keep time to 50and of the rowers' song: Amidst revel and feasting sad

thoughts come;

how sure.

books

The splendid contradiction of a That, in our judgment, is good

rose.

ADAM AND EVE AND

BOLSHEVISM..

congratulate ourselves on having a

a

*.

"We are not at present entering on

of

A PROTEST.

make the action

the

Amongst the passengers who arrived here on the Atsata Maru," yesterday, were Mr. W. T. Elson, of Messrs. Watson and Co., Ltd, and Mr. H. Summers, of the Taikoo Dock Think Co., Ltd. both of whom have been on

active service.

It does not the Police of

The Hongkong Tramway Com pany's traffic receipts for the week were $15,278, or $1,735 more than last year. The Aggregate Receipts for 33 weeks were $486,629, or $38.402 more than in the correspond ing period of 1918.

cases

cook employed by ed that he was dead. He ordered the Chinese male named Cheung Narz body to be removed, to the mortuary, aged 40, a

Mr. F. X. d'Almada, appearing for the Mang Ring Cheong Ration

No. 9, LI On Lane the defence, said that there was no shop, possible evidence against the man This man is suffering from three on the charge of murder. The evi-stab wounds on the right fore arm. dence given by Dr. Parker, stated one on the left side of the chest, and that the cause of the deceased's another on the back-all indicted death was rupture of the spleen, and with a pointed chopper or a knife. the evidence of a boat-girl his The wounds, although serious, are client, although present, had taken not considered fatal. From a state- part in the murder. The only ment made by the injured man is charge that could be preferred would appear that five men took against him was a breach of discip him unawares at Water Street and line as a police constable. The charge inflicted the wounds. These men of being an accessory after the belonged to a rattan-maker's guild. fact could not therefore be proved, and he asked his Wership to dis- charge defendant.

Another Chinese, aged 45, a basket maker was discovered wounded at No. 101 First Street and has been Mr. Leo Longinotto, for the Crown, sent to the Hospital. He too, is stated that defendant as a police suffering from a stab wound in the constable should at once have sent back inflicted with a sharp instrc- for assistance when the deceased was į ment by a man unknown when the brought to land, instead of which he injured man was walking along First advised that the deceased be brought Street about 9.30 p.m. on Monday. of back to Deep Water Bay.

The assailant came up from behind and stabbed the man in the back.

The manager of the Hing Fat Cheong Rattan shop of No. 31, Austin Road, Kowloon, was stabbed on the head and body by 5 or 6 mer who attacked him while he was walking along Shanghai street. His assailants ran away. When the Police discovered the manager they removed him to the Kung Wah Hospital but he died on the way.

Unlike the above cases where knives were used, is the report of a

being wounded

478- 22

Last week communicable disease was represented by two cholera, 15 of gastric enteritis (of

Mr. Lindsell said that on the which 11 were fatal) four of enteric charge of being accessory after the fever and two of cerebro-spinal fever. fact, he would commit defendant to The subsequent return shows two stand his trial at the next Criminal more cases of enteritis.

Sessions.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Criminal Sessions. fixed for yesterday have been postponed until September 1. It is hoped to terminate the big charter party case before Mr.

The s.s. "Suiyang" (Capt. Gibb) Eldon Potter leaves for Canada on left for Shanghai at noon to-day with September 4. He goes to bring his 800 tons of general cargo. wife and family back to the Colony.

ai lost.

}

The ss. "Toaan Maru" (Capt-man

I

The as." Atsuta Maru" (Capt. So far the Police have not made a Inadzu) which arrived from London | single arrest, Careful enquiries and Asia. Banking Corporation have pur brought 658 tons of general cargo the Police expect to lay their hands It is stated in Hankow that the and Singapore at 6.15 p.m., yesterday investigations are being made and chased, with the view to building, and 27 bags of mails. She carried on some of the culprits in a few the piece of ground immediately 60 behind the fine establishment which passengers. the International Bank is erecting co the corner of the Bund and Wha cheong Road and opposite to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

first

and

27 second class days' time.

Without commenting on the merits of a decision which we take to be still sub judice, without abating in the least our strong conviction that no sort of public servant should accept any sort of cumsha" from the public, without criticising either the conduct of the prosecution or the arguments in court, we desire to as sociate ourselves" in the most em phatic way with the protest made by Mr. Lo, the advocate defending. His client was discharged, and should have been allowed to walk cut a free man. His continued detention in the irregular manner described was an outrage upon the principles of British justice. They could, it is truc, have got him again under the convenient but iniquitous banishment process, by which a man, without a

We learn that a large number Yamamoto) which arrived yesterday Reclamation Street. This man, it specific charge or any definite witness of new appointments are to be made from Chunchow brought a cargo of appears, was sitting outside his appearing against him can be depart

rattan shop when two men, armett Once more we claim the right to mentally arrested and departed to the Hongkong University, includ-35 tons of rice for Hongkong:

with revolvers, came up to where he decision of the Executive Council ing Professors of Physics, Chemistry,

Pathology and Education. About a The ss. "Daitokz Maru No. 5" was sitting, and levelling the That is different to the pensive preacher, like the Rev. E. Martin which acts mechanically upon the dozen new members of the staff, it (Capt. R. Hirano) arrived from revolvers shot at him. One melancholy, the playing with sadness, amongst . Such moral courage reports of officers) but that does not is hoped, will have arrived in the Keelung at 2 p.m., yesterday with a bullet penetrated the left breast and of poets like Wu-ti

evidences, true faith and trust, and affect the principle.

Colony by September.

cargo of 1,644 tons of coal for Hong another the left leg. The assailants lady: Iin the end it must serve truth, any less high-handed and objection-

kong.

then made their escape. The injured. whereas equivocation or the policy able. The fact that the man con-

Messrs. Carmichael and Clarke's

man was removed to the Hospital. crosses of Hush does it disservice. One of cerned belongs to what we may dub given instructions to keep a sharp Reipenhausen) is due to sail for master of the E. Hock Rattan shop sceamer "Brisbane" which was The sa "Teresias" (Capt. The last case was that of the the worst sins in Buddhism is intelle

smaller fry" makes it all the whitectual sloth, a matter in which our worse. He was tried in open court look-out for any traces of the now Singapore at 4 pm, to-day. She who was found stabbed in the backe

own folk are slackers...

much overdue ss. "Hauroto," arrived carries 1,800 tons of general cargo by the Police at No. 8 Shanghai on a specific charge. He was ac

in harbour on Saturday. She brought and 35 European passengers for Street. Several men attacked him!

The wounda are not considered discussion of the Old Testament quitted by the magistrate. He was

detained." Under the British flag, o news whatever of the missing Singapore. on those lines, however. It is just by British officers. We are shocked. vessel, which must now be given up

I'serious. that in pondering his sermon

welf according to our British ideas a Youth's years how few! Age thought of an illustration that may man is innocent fand to be treated help some readers in another matteras innocent) until he is proved guilty. That is human enough, but it is Before the war we were all how much more consideration is the not the Fool of Joy. It is rather Socialista. The war has cured due cf a man whom the magistrate Verlaine or one of the other French some

us of it. We have who tries him declares to be inno-

That is why cent? Decadents. It is Ecclesiastes. It is seen it in action,

we are against interference in the folly of joy. But as we remarked in a preliminary note, the Fool of Russia. That is why we desired the Joy enjoy the joy of folly and stays Russian Bolskeviks to have a free young. He belongs to the Panta-hand. It would have been such a gruelian order. He is that man told splendid object lesson to our own of by Tolstoi, who, pursued by a Bolshevistically minded agitators. In

Dr. George E. Vincent, President bear, climbed a tree. The tree hung Hungary it has had a trial, and con-have perfected the means of spinning of the Rockefeller Foundation, and over a pit of venomous serpents. spicuously failed, but unfortunately ramie on ordinary cotton machinery. Mr. Roger S. Greene, Resident Direc The bear followed him, and he crept we haven't had sufficient details to If this be true it is a most important tor of the China Medical Board, are out upon a limb over the pit of "rub in" the lesson. The Hungarians development, but the real cbstacle to in Shanghai studying conditions rela snakes. The bear was stretching found the Soviet oligarchy more the more extended use of ramic is ting to the establishment of a medical Dabcevich) which left here for Vladi- out a paw, the serpents were hissing, intolerably tyrannical than anything the difficulty of treating the raw school in the Settlement. This pro- vostock at noon yesterday under the the branch was breaking, yet the man they had hitherto known. The result, material and dividing the filasse from ject has been under consideration by International flag, will be handed

A homicide was committed on noticed a drop of honey on a leaf. as we have seen, was a pronounced the gum. It has been authoritatively the Foundation since 1915, but was over to the Italian Government on He put out his tongue and licked it reaction. Here the Alles had not stated that hitherto no efficient sub postponed by the war.

the return trip. It is certain that Monday evening in Wang Hang up! As for MacInnes, he says actively interfered. They had talked, stitute for the Chinaman's finger-nail

she will continue to run between village, Sai Wan Ho, as the sequel While upon my legs I'm free but done nothing. So the people in working up the flasse has yet Mr. G. M. Jackson, who was here and Europe, under the Italian it is suggested, of a domestic Out in the sunlight I intend

difference. had a chance to prove by experience been found." It is undoubtedly a General Passenger Agent at Shanghai flag. The F. and 0. company were, To dine with God prodigiously that King Stork was worse than fact that there is no comparison Services until last April and is now "Gablonz" but it is understood that living together in a house at Saž for the Canadian Pacific Ocean until yesterday, the agents for the It appears that two men were Youth is a splendid thing to King Log. This is always a whatever between textiles made from.

spend..

valuable lesson. Even the frying the natural fibre and these made from the Manila agent of the Company, Messrs. Dodwell and Co., will take Wan Ho and were on the mostintimate For him the road of many pan is

the fire ramie that has been chemically has been appointed General Passenger over charge as agents for the Italian terms. One of the men was married directions for hins the rhyme of Had the Russians been similarly let treated for the extraction of the gum. Agent at New York. He will return Government on her return from and one day his wife reported to hime Land of far-flung fertile prairies, long romance for him the world of alone, instead of having a vast add Although the Germans have made to the United States next month on Vladivostock. The Gablonz" was that she had lost a quantity of jewel- Where the men are daring bat imperfections, full of adventure and fairly united fighting force which, progress with ramie, there is still the Empress of Asia." Mr. J. R. originally one of the fleet of the Tery. The husband at once associated

former C.P.O.S agent at Austrian Lloyd.

his friend with, the loss and asked multiple chance. He grows stale maugre Reuter, is still a long, long ample room for improvement. The Shaw,

him why he insisted upon bringing: with quietude on page 13 and brags way from defeat, we would have seen history of experiments with this fibre Hongkong, who returned from leave

Those who have not seen bad characters into his house. It of it on page 71; "thankful for safe the simple mujik making wry faces has been a long record of financial on the "Empress of Asia," will relieve obscurity." But these are moods, to over the change, and presently, disaster, but I spite of that the lure Mr. Jackson at Manila.

"Hinton's Double" in which Frederick was due to the bad. charact

that his lost jewellery doubt, eliminating the bejectionable features or too be of this most beautiful, yet strong. The members of the Consular Ward, the world famous actor takes the friend, majd best to this all y his mental attitude:

democracy. This would have been doubtless induce others to experiment body of Singapore attended at the last opportunity that is presented: quarrel ensued. The men grappled Now 25

for me, and as good for us. Experience may be the with it, and ultimately there can be Government House, Singapore, on Tomorrow at a matinee the Victoria with each other and the husband regards

best teacher, the burnt child may little doubt that the world will greatly August 12, to present an illuminat Theatre management is screening it. raising his friend in his hands threw The friend's The gain or loss from day to dread the fire; but it is cheaper, just benefit.

ed address to His Excellency the The play is remarkably acted, the him over the wall: Governor and the Lady Evelyn Young photography is good and the delinea-head struck a rock and he got con- day,

on the occasion of their departure.tion of the characters a surprise. cussion of the brain. Poilce whistles Mr. E. M. Gansanlus, American The picture drew good houses at the were blown and Inspector Angus and.. a posse of constables arrived. The in- Consular presed fall on the night performances and there is no Consular body, expressed felicitations doubt that there will be a packed one jured man wasremoved to the Hospital on behalf of himself and his colleagues to-morrow afternoon. The manage where he died. The assailant was and read the address, which was mentas far as they can, are hurrring arrested and produced before Mr. handed to the Governor enclosed in the screening of "The Bull's Eye, E. Lindsell, at the Magistracy this arms in gold at the corners.

silver casket, bearing the Singapore for at the matinee on Thursday, morning. The case was remanded,

episodes 9, 10 and 11 will be released till August 20.

an

is very nicely printed by McClelland. Goodchild, and Stewart, Ltd., of 215 Victoria Street, Toronto. As Long fellow might have said:

Should you question, should you

ask us,

Whence this book The Fool of Joy? Who on earth is Tom Macinnes? We should answer, we should

tell you. He is one of those Canadians, One of those eye-widened poets Who derive from far horizons Views of life as atmospheric.

From that land of lofty moun-

tains,

tlers

Frouting Fate and callous Nature.

Thus he sings the song of vision And his favourite form's the

ballad

With excursions villanellic With departures fragmentary But he sings to make you

bearken,

Make you understand and listen. J. W. Garvin accuses MacInnes of "living in the Celtic rather than in the English or Latin tradition." That's fudge. He lives in the natural, human tradition, with the added spaciousness of the large, new lands, He is of the red-blooded breed of poets, simple, direct, brutally candid with something (if we must des cend to odorous comparisons of

which all poets, as human; men, are

his

1 go detached; I mean to

ד'

better than

as effective, and für less uncomfort- able, to see some other child get, the blisters

JJ

RAMIE FIBRE.

American inventors are said to

Bayd

FOR A WEAK STOMACH.- That I live largely as. I Adam thought so, anyway. Careless && general rule all you need to en

se please

reading of that good old narrative A is to adopt a diet suited to your Whether it does or does not has led to a long series of libels on age and cocupation and to keep your woman: She has been accused of bowels xogular. When you feel that you or pay and

Among the inequalities." introducing slu, and has been have etten too much and when const

pated, take one of Chambariain's Tablets. Indeed, we can sympathise with humiliated and ill-treated ever since For sale By All Chemists and Store

disgust of the "damnable palaver on that score. If you read the story, sepers.

The ss. "Glenfalloch" (Captain

A. Mackenzie) which arrived from MANSLAUGHTER AT Penang and Singapore at 7.30 this

SHAUKIWAN

· morning brought 795 tons of general cargo and 6 bags of mails. She had on board 5 European and 16 Chinese MAN THROWN FROM A WALL. cabin passengers.

The 8.5. "Gablonz" (Capt. Marco

ALLEGED KILLER ARRESTED.: