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[Special to the China Mail]

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 42 1919,

OUR LOCAL POETS.

AN ODE TO HAM AND EGGS.

China Mail readers camouflaged a little and foisted on UNIVERSITY Cannot have forgotten | 1163.. We haven't got rid of them all

STORY. the University scandal, yet E. S. P. Haynes" ("Decline of

when a gang of Liberty in England") says the decline naughty Chinese studentă bribed a of liberty began about 1870. It printer's servants and got advance

Let meaner themes my muse des- Falloped after 1890, like the Gadarene ooples of examination

pise: papers. swine, after the devilish spirit of the Tremendous care was taken to ensure

Of him and eggs I lain would sing; SHANGHAI, December 3. Prussian example infected our the socrecy of the next lot. A small

A dainty that would appetise "A monster parade of students yes- The jaded palate of a King oligarchs.

band of confidential werkers were terday made a bonfire of several And Pegasus with wing-ed legs. printed tiled in the Registrar's Office, and thousands of dollars worth of Japan-Shalf scar to heights, undreamed of

An Edison mimeograph.

ese goods belonging to Chinese shops The examination starts on December 8, and will last a thousand attended a mass meeting And porridge surfeits us no more,,

in the native city. Twenty-Are Where fancy toys with ham and eggs week. From the evidence we have

CLASS.

them

faith In the ability of "the ruling of the care that was taken, we would / and decided to strike for four days to

Many men are afraid THE RULING of Labour (which they call Bolshevism) and have a touching class." The mere words "Greek and Latin" seem to hypnotize them. If a man "knows Greek," they think be must make a good governor. It just happens that in applying for a good journalistic billet in these days it advisable to keep silent about any knowledge of Greek the applicant may have. The man who knows Greek well knows very little beside in work calling for alert brains and initiative he has been weighed and found wanting. As a fact of experi- ence, one usually finds that "the

REMEMBER IT.

It is to the good.

be prepared to guarantee absolute

develop the boycott. Plates and secrecy this time, but for one thing.

bannera

19 displayed. Fiery what was done with the pink dress speeches were delivered. Girls parti of the Professor's wife who in-

cipated. cautiously leaned over a table on DEMOCRATIC KOREAN PRINCE. which lay an inked copy? That one was visibly reproduced on the pink dress. If we are assured that the dress was not sent to a student lo clean, then all is safe,

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[Special to the China Mail],

THE ANYO MARU SÄTE.

[China Mail SPECIAL]

yore

Look and behold! ye lesser folks, Who fare on fish and other Iry. The silver whites and golden yolks Which our old speckled hens supply. Arising from the frying-pan, And Sni O. Sniff the fragrant smell

-LUCULLUS.

PERSEVERANCE.

Perseverance is the ladder of true

success.

Albeit deleat threatens to veil our stars With black mantle, that we may not

possess

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.

DONATIONS.

The Bazaar Committee of the So- ciety of St. Vincent de Paul have pleasure in acknowledging the follow- ing further donations and prizes för

the Bazaar to be held on the 7th

December

Sir Robert Ho Tung, $50.

Donhuil. $10.

Mrs. T. M. Pereira, $5.

Cheong Lee, 2 blackwood frames, #1 vase," | ash-tray.

The Pharmacy, 6 bottles of Eau de Cologne..

Ullmann & Co., 3 fancy clocks. Tak Cheong. 2 lady's purses and leather pocket-book.

Eastern Bazaar, 1 fancy sandalwood box.

Lock Hing. 2 blackwood frames. Miss E. Dixon, 2 silk purses, 2 silk work baskets, 1 pair slippers, 1 pin- cushion and vericus pieces of em broidery, I set of lacquered trays mid || 1 lacquered work box.

The ever enduring courage that defeat.

Mars,

But still, perseverance, will shine

Where dizzling rashers do foretell A dish to gladden any man! A Eg, for beef and venison. SHANGHAI, December 3. For capon, duck or pheasant-Nay The Shanghai Shipping The Korean prince has smuggled Scant hope have they of benison. PUNGENT. Gazette and Commercial a letter to Shanghai friends refuting At morning noon er close of day..

News of Nov. 25 refers the Japanese charge that the prince The man who feeds on ham and eggs ruling class," having passed the to our adversaria as "delightfully was kidnapped at Seoul for the pur- Enjoys a banquet such as they examinations for which they crampungent notes" Those notes were pose of forcibly removing him to Who crave for lordlier tare, i'fegs! med, have "dropped their classics," written before the last monthly Shanghai. The headquarters of. In vain endeavour to essay. and really know less than their dinner of the Onion Club, too.

the Korean provisional government degree promises. That, paradoxically i

Returning for apublishes a letter from the Imperial enough, is to the good.

POLICE PAY. moment to the local prince explaining his objects to his police trouble. here are countrymen and that he prefers WORSE WHEN THEY for this reason.se ñgures that make a telling com common citizenship in a free Korea Those of them parison. A Hongkong Police Constable to being a prince in the Tapanese who were im- is considered worth from £100 to empire and virtually a prisoner. pregnated with Greek ideas seem to £120 a year; at Home his pay would have the notion that wisdom died be $247. A focal Lance Sergeant is with the Greeks. It didn't. They priced at £130 to £145; at Home he would apply to the British, who are. can draw £155 to £175; at Home, would get £290. Here a Sergeant despite their faults, the most ad with an easier and less dangerous vanced democracy in the world's

SINGAPORE, December 3. history, the rotten ideas of those job, he takes £312. A Hongkong

The "Anyo Maru." has arrived ancient Greeks. If surgeons were to Inspector may work long hours, risk

She had be as sequacions after the writings his life, learn a hard language, and and gone on to Colombo of Aristotle as some of our states. bear some responsibility for from been in Vangro Bay for shelter. men are, surgery would be a scandal. £240 to £260; at Home for less he Anxiety had been fel: because the The corpses would betray the would earn from £325 to 380. We" Anyo" was several days overdue.] bungling. The corpse of a people's admit that this comparison does not freedom does not seem to shock so take into account the inestimable much. Lord Acton, in one of his privilege of living in Hongkong, splendid historical essays, says of among really nice people, and having

a good time.. Greek and Roman notions of govern- ment that "the passengers exist for the sake of the ship." If you say subjects" instead of "passengers," and "State" instead of "ship," you will be repeating what the ruling the owners' class and their thoughtless parrots are still repeating as an ideal. It is the Prussian ideal. Don't forget also that as a class they quite conscien- tiously echo the French ruler's claim:

The State? That's I."

"THE SHIPPING DEADLOCK

It is not considered at all likely that

AVIATOR EXPECTED.

[China Mail SPECIAL]

CHINESE TELEGRAMS,

anew

Like the luminence of some triumphant

planets

That will pierce through our mind and

will imbue

Our thoughts with success that per-

severance begers.

Miss M. Remedios. fancy bag, f pair of vases and various articles.

The Misses Xavier, 1 pair of socks, 2 doz. handkerchiefs, and various articles of embroidery.

Mrs. N. N. Rocha, 2 large parcele of toys.

Mrs. D. P. Lopes and Misses Lopes, i trarie, 1 bonle of perfume, baby's horret. I basket, 2 pictures, calendar, 4 serviette rings. Mrs. S. Pinna, 1 brass incense burner.

Mrs. G. F. dos Remedios Romano, large china bowl on blackwood stand."

Miss Helen Ya, I pair slippers (em- broidered). I lady's purse, 2 Chinese

tea cups.

Mrs. Fitz-Gibbon. 3 vases, 1. fancy work-box, 2 bandkerchiefs, pair of And so we see that in this world knitted silk socks. 2 pairs of baby's

there are

socks, 1 piece embroidery, i fancy Successful men whose cradle was blotter., 1 newspaper holder.

défcat,

Miss M. C.. does Santos, 1 baby's

But they have succeeded to grasp bonner

the star

Further donations and prizes will be

Of their ambition. Past memories gracefully received. Prizes should be

greet

sent to Mr. L. A. Barton, Messra. Dona- Self-made-men who persevere and Alves & Co., la Chater Road.

enhance;

tions may be sent to either the Hon. Yea, conquer defeat with persever-Treasurer Major F-Bowen-Peak

Hotel, or Mr. Barton.

SINGHAPORE, December 3. Captain Ross, Smith is flying here the Guild meeting tomorrow. He is staying at Singora to-night will accept ¦ to-day. argument that the regular pay does not represent all the income of the officers and engineers. If there are cumshas, squeezes, perquisiter, or bonuses from charter THE NEW CABINET MINISTERS. ers, the Guilds do not recognize them They are concerned only with Here is an item for the regular pay, and so far as THE VICIOUS our lady contributor/we can see, though we have no fg Cabinet passed by the Lower House. Yer goes and mucks 'em all abaht thei

to anticipate the result of to-night's to handle. Is it true meeting to consider the shipowners were all passed by the Senate yester that a woman gets answer, the probability is that the clothes to get a husband, and when officers and engineers of the com- panies affected will be called out. I

CIRCLE,

JAEGER DRESSING GOWNS. she gets Elm, gets him to get her

DAINTY BLOUSES & NECKWEAR.

FANCY HANDKERCHIEFS IN BOXES,

etc.,

etc., Jtc.

The Gita Mail.

MRUTE, JUSTICE, FORLIC SERVICE."

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, Dec. 4, 1912.

ADVERSARIA.

The Jardine, Matheson firm, is known to the Chinese as "Ewa" The

is having a princely building cted in Shanghai

Their old

its tenement of clay, shrieking in terror of what may well be a ̈friend,” Sometimes, in such a mood as we are to-day, we call Death the friend of the little ones he takes, and the defaulting debtor of the adults he neglects. These poor phrases represent a wealth of sympathy we would offer to Rosie's parents.

A regular and apprecia. DISCOURAG Éve reader of the China ING, Mail does not believe that the average man

clothes?

HAM AND

LOGAL AND GENERAL.

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SHANGHAI, December 3. The Seven ministers di the new

day.

THE FOOCHOW OUTRAGE.

In regard to the request for with- dawal of Japanese warships at Fukien, the Japanese minister has declared that all other matters must await consideration until the boycott movement has entirely stopped.

The Chinese students in all Japan have practically stopped their studies. on account of the Foochow Affair. To-day's dollar is worth 5s to-night at the Peking University for A preparatory meeting will be held

preparing a mass citizen meeting about the Foochow Affair.

the owners' estimate that some of Today's entry in the the officers are making $1,409 a ham-and-eggs pnem month be correct, it is easy to EGGS AGAIN. contest will be adjud. imagine that their loyalty to their

ged excellent, we Guilds will be greatly strained. think. It would not be fair to pro- nounce it the best, because "Lucul lus" has chosen an easier form than the sonnet. But it is very good, almost as good as the real thing."

In the disrespectful FOLSHEVISM remarke made above lid.

AT HOME. about the so-called

ruling class," one The Registrar of the University serious. omission was made. We for is lecturing on Sunday night at the got to call them Bolsheviks. They YMCA on Evolution. are that. The unemployment doles and bread subsidies and so "on that we hear of are Bolshevistic devices, bad for the country and bad for the recipients. Think it over.

A FEMININE woman. can

Diphtheria, and gastro-enteritis, one case of each. exhaust to-day's return of communicable disease.

mang

A smart Constable caught, a Sometimes even a number of Chinese gambling, on be the King Shan wharf, this morning ARGUMENT, logical. Look over and confiscated about 100 cash copy of the which be distributed amongst a and sends us on loan a very interest China Mail and you'll find a little a number of children. ing book to support his scepticism. Item headed "O! corsets true." The

will aver try to do his own thinking,

this

ng, erected about 1850-"the The political opinions of most men, story is much better than the head-

THE MONGOLIAN RESIDENT GENERAL.

General Chu Shu Tsang as resident The Cabinet has decided to appoint

General at Urga and General Chau Ni will be transferred to Peking. THE ITALIAN AMMUNITION AT

TIENTSIN.

3,000 cases of ammunition have landed at the Italian settlement at Tientsin. The Minister for Foreign Afairs asked the Italian minister for latter replied that he knew nothing about it but would enquire..

ance !

--ESANIP.

Hongkong. December 4.

SONNET

plice

An' cots 'em inter bits, termater-like: Wy don't yer stuff the blime lot in

yer fice.

An' chew em decently? The fuss

yer mike

Might be a Dook afeedin' orl a lark Or George the Fifth devourin" a dis-

Later:

Yer mikes me sick-wy Liza in

the dark

Feeds orf me dial she does, à dam

sight faster! Garn: Yer carnt eat an' keep yer

ear'oles clean:

1 goes to wash mine wen I does

me teel

The mornin after heggs the night

before;

Well, if yer ain't the first I h'ever

seen.

Wer used a knife to cut em

My

have

belie! 'S that yer don't deserve to

no more!

-KEITH WEST.

CANTON BILLIARDS."

VIGNETTES OF HONGKONG.

IV.

The sound of a cork met me at the door; and I knew that I had found him. Entering. I was greeted slowly and without apparent enthusiasm.

He was dressed in a costume re- sembling that of # Roman Emperor, and had a fiddle in his hand. From a corner a gramaphone reiterated end- lessly the one phrase "Rome is burn- ing in a high tenor. I gathered that he had made the record himself. Two arched doors in the further wall bore legends above them wrought in gold; the first, "To the Baths," was in the Neronic strain, while the second "Bar"! was in his own.

Let me show you a stroke-at-Bi liards," he said. We rose, nud 'in the room set apart for that game he expérimented, as I thought, for SET- eral minutes. Then; "I cannot quite do it to-night, but you see the idea," said he.

I felt rather oppressed by the heavy odour of some foreign scent, and was on the point of bidding him adieu when s tinkle of silvery laughter from the "Bath

door and the beckoning of a dainty hand through the curtain stop- ped me. He walked fast, treading on Bir, as a man in a dream, towards the Another very interesting game in the first round of the Canton Masonic, and passed through without

a word to me..

Picking up my bar, I left.

KEITH WEST.

first English says Mr. Graham Wallas in "Hutan line. The lady teacher sent a conMail SS. Co., leaves Hongkong for the reason and purpose of this." The Club Billiard Handicap was. played)

OUR MONEY,

The

between the Crown Agents and the know how to apportion the blame

Nile,"

THE SHANTUNG QUESTION,

OF CORSETS TRUE.

pair of corsets almost in tatters was A brown-paper parcel containing a recently addressed in a bold feminine hand to the Director of Education at Melbourne, says the Argus of that city. Pinned to the corsets was an unsigned note:

"This is the lingerie of an unfort- unate junior teacher, who has linger- ed long in the service at a miserable salary. Why not give her a rise in salary to enable her to live like a human being?".

THE BOYCOTT.

Mr. R. F. Fickett, of the China year in which the Appletree planted in Shanghai fruit Nature in Politics," are the result vincing argument to the Australian

on Tuesday evening, the contestants not of reasoning tested by exper: Director of Education.. Perhaps if San Francisco by the s.5. ed"-is being carted away brick by

being B. Christiansen 75 points behind Brick. When it was built the fine ience, but unconscious or half-con. our new policemen had thought of it, which is scheduled to leave here

"scratch," and W. CA. Prahl, 50 Shanghai Bund was a muddy towpath.scious inference fixed by habit. It is they might have contributed a pair of about December 20. He is severing

his connection with the company.

behind. In those days Jardines made money indeed mainly in the formation of holey socks or something of the

Christiansen, who was playing. a the opium trade, and land was tracts of thought that babit shows sort.

Aa-additional-gift-from-Manila-It-is-reported that the Japanese safe and steady game maintained the Worth only about $80 per mou. its power in politics."He shows cost them about how political "opintons" can be

Crown Agent of 3 cases pipe tobacco, presented by Government has recalled Baron lead with from 25 to 35 points in Their site would

It would appear that the boycoll, WASTING system is a rotten one Messrs Meerkarop & Co., has been Chinda to Japan with the intention hand, the scores about half way as far as Shanghai is "concerned, is $500. and it is said it couldn't be created by a constant repetition of and advertisements of

Some day, perhaps, we received by the War Charities Com to devise means to force China to through reading. Christiansen 142, growing weaker, although by compari- bought now for over a million posters sterling.

will get rid of it. It mittee for forwarding to London for settle the Shantung question by Prahl 110. It then became evident son Japanese imports are still lar The new building will be different kinds, and by newspaper

has wasted much of distribution among he wounded in direct negotiation between China and that Prahl intended making a deter below those of last May. But there on the average 80 feet high. The pontifications constantly repeated.

Japan.

mined effort to close up with his cpseems ground for thinking that the architects' drawing shows a very Well, it was that sort of influence our money in the past. We do not Hospitals.

They should we hoped to discredit. We can but

ponent, for with the help of two con high figures of that month were the tandsome building.

A Berlim despatch local government for this police Nichinichi, states that the repre

secutive double figure breaks, the result of "dumping" and do not re- carve upon its facade the motto: try.

to the

score read 153'fl. "Handsome is as handsome does."

Prahl's spurt present what for want of a better term We cannot help notic mess; but someone should get a sentatives of the Japanese capitalist SOME TRUTH ing the presence of a wigging for it. Whether the men syndicates, who arrived in Germany

his lead till the end of the game, the matches, more and more of all these Words are feckless

however, was only temporary and might be termed legitimate trade." Christiansen again gradually increased IN TT! mass of opinion DEATH OF A when the spark of

'As regards umbrellas, clothing and are sent Home or go Home, we have recently, have bought out most im CHILD. life goes from a child.

illegitimately derived imported them at considerable ex- The emotions of all and insecurely held. It is positively pense, we have fitted them with portant patent rights in Berlin and

final scores reading Christiansen 250 are being manufactured in China and and Prahl 217.

will, beyond doubt, continue to affect concerned are ton poignant for verbal painful, to hear some men talk, to uniform at more expense, and we shall have paid Y70,000,000 as security. expression; they are, moreover, in discover that they have brains and have to import others to replace them.

The best breaks were 14, 13 Japanese trade. The old style Chi- (twice), 12 and 11 by the winner and nese cap is again the most popular choate. They surge and ebb as the don't use them. Men who would be private firm which squandered The death took place recently

19, 13 and 10 by Prahl. wear second-hand money in that way for want of a at the French Hospital of Mr. Ching sea does. Time alone brings definity ashamed to

head-weart Chinese-made socks are to them, and perhaps conselation to clothes unblushingly wear second little ordinary foresight would hear Shai, a large stock holder in the

sold for $3 a dozen pairs, and quite smooth them over as beneath a hand thoughts, that don't fit.

A about it from the Head Office.

decent English-style felt hats can be, soothing hand. Little Rosie Tollan man's mind should be as well dressed

Chinese bought for from $3 to $1. was a sweet 'child, who was finally as his carcase. Yet there is a lot of

matches are coming more into use, removed from further possibility of slovenliness about; slovenly talk by

but the materials for making them are There was some speculation this imported to a great extent from Japan. sorrow or of suffering yesterday. In human gramophones. They some the minds of her mourning parents time worship the right thing without

morning when the men of H.M. ships This fact tends further interest to the and friends that thought may en-having the right reason. They often

"Hawkins" and "Carlisle" were recent report of a forest having been coinage resignation, but not yet, not dislike the wrong things for wrong

seen marching in the direction of the found in Kwangtung full of wond yet. Yet when we contemplate such reasons. Quite a lot of men hate

Happy Valley with full equipment specially suitable for the manufactur a child, and see in her or him all that and fear the Germans, which is just

including rifies, bayonets and Maxim of matches: N.C.D.N. life has taken from us like the thief but they don't hate them for the

guns. They were headed by the it is when we think of the slings

Band of the Hawkins" and this led and arrows and shocks awaiting that

many to believe that an inspection was A GERM DESTROYER. bright, unconscious creature then

being held. Enquiry at the Naval THERE is no danger whatever from we are not crazed by grief) we

war than they did while cutters Island job to Major Downing. The Kuangtung ́Arsenal bas

Yard however, elicit the fact that they Olaik jaw or blood rais a resulting -- FAULT. it was on. That was At first we thought Major Ardoin completed two machine-guns, in- THE BEST COUGH MEDICINE. | Were out on nothing more exciting from wound when Chamberlain's "ain is well; perhaps it is for the best. Death so loses his sting, and what we were going over to Germany to get that his business there was of an arsenal, and both machines have been in the world to-day because it does be far below that we used to get on, ands in hes without maturation 1 when our statesmen was taking over, but we now know vented by one of the officers of the the largest selling, cough medicine noticeable. The averago aze would tiptio ad destroys the gorms ▼hich, HAMBERLAIN'S Cough Remedy is than a route march. Their youth was Bim in promptly applied. It is an 'sy- scuss the edinounes. It, alas-cause m ace in the grave is death's defeat It hints how to govern us. From about other nature. Major Willett cannot delivered to the Military Governor exactly what cough medicine sup to this child, why not to. us? It is 1890 onwards they were importing call us unsporting, anyway, when we for trial. The arsenal officials claim

in one-third the limo required by thy this thought which in some makes all sorts of ideas from Germany, refrain from saying more than this, that the machine guns are as good

usual frestirent. For sale by all Chemist the frantic soul rave round many of them quite unsuited to a We only "rub it in" in bad cases; as any imported.

and Storekeepers

murrour to ourselves that perhens it

OUR

ENTER'.

China Mail S.S. Co. He was a large rice merchant of Honolulu and came Do you remember to the Colony in order to take his Jour' Hitle tilt with wife and family back to that port. MAJOR WILLETT. Major Willett? He

began it. He ac The University's first new pro used us of publishing false news, fesser has arrived. His name is which has since turned out to be true G. R. Byrne, and he is a B. Sc.. news, and lectured as, through one Manchester. He had four years of of our reporters, quite severely. The teaching experience in Catro and Major is very busy just now clearing another five years in Jamaica. We right reason, which is dangerous. up preparatory to going Home and hope be will, prefer Hongkong to

The Germans didus back to civil life, after "about three those places. more harm before the years here. He hands over the Stone-

THE REAL CERMAN

.

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was received from the Mabila Observatory at 9 am December 4.

Typhoon 123 Long. E. 11 Lat. N. moring WN.W.

JACK ÁSHORE.

posed to do. It stops coughs and colds this station. There wasn't a Beard speedily and effectually, For sale by amongst the lot. Nevertheless, they All Chaoists and Storekeepers.

"looked very nice.