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Our old Edinburgh that Mr. West's prose expresses it professor, Pringle better and more clearly than. Mr. UNWHOLESOME. Pattison, who was Squire's poetry. Under sufficient pro-
reputed to be as vocation we would go on to assert CAFT. ROSS SMITH MISSING, sound on metaphysics as any man that it expresses it quite as prettily. can be on such a crazy subject, says As to length, that needs no apology that mysticism is a sign of world from any point of view. You can weariness, by which we suppose him not have too much of a good thing." to mean what the Romans called It precludes mistakes, and above all tedium vitæ, something like what our it scares off the mystic. From the Hun brethren call weltschmerz, point of view of the penny-a-liner, i and what
soldier Iads length also has its merits. The des tersely describe as "fed-upness." criptive reporter may have chops and The normal, red-blooded person stout while the poet starves in his On meeting
mysticism calls garret.
Our
IF HE WERK AN EDITOR.
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FLIGHT.
[China Mail SPECIAL]
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 18 1919.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
A LIGHT CALENDAR.
1
ROBBERY RIFE HERE.
WORSE THAN YOU ENOW,
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The December Criminal Sessions The public is being deceived, aid opened this morning before the the China Mail cannot help it Fuisne Judge, there being only three unless members of the public come cases down for trial, consisting of to the rescue. How, will presently disobedience to an order of deportaj be explained. tion, bribery and murder. The last named, in which two men are charg- ed, will be heard by the Chief Justice
The ostrich has its head in the sand again. The policy of Hush is in operation.
SINGAPORE, Dec: 17. Capt. Ross Smith not having arrivon Monday. ed at Cloncurry en-route from Darwin) le to Melbourne, when expected, searence to an order of deportation, tell the reporters about robberies
Ip Yau was charged with disobedi-
The China Vail is informed that the police have instructions not br
dated May 1, 1919.
where no arrest or other overt evid- Mr. G. H. Wakeman, Crown Solience exists to put them on enquiry.
JESUIT MISSION-AT SHANGHArcitor, appeared to prosecute.
DESTROYED BY YIRE
[China Mail SPECIAL]
The Chind Mall is given to under- stand that robberies are far more numerous than the public is allowed to know. It is Chinese householders and shopkeepers who are mostly af fected.
it tommyrot. This, though unfair to the unspecified Tommy, is essenti
Since Richard ally just and sane. The "vapours."
Gallienne told us chers were sent out. of the early Georgian heroines were
what he would do if be no worse than the mental writhings,
were God, met nothing More: of the modern. mystic. In his case it | we — bare
Prisoner, pleading guilty, said be always fair to look for symptoms amusing than Mr. West's idea of
could not get food in the country so of syncopation in the rhythm what he would do if he were an
he came back to Hongkong. He was of the digestive processes, if for editor. He would, if you please, in-
a native of Swatow and could not nothing worse, such as a mind sist on each sentence or phrase in
speak the Cantonese dialect. It was the paper conveying at least two die
because of this that he was unable tinct ideaa
The China Mail suggests that then at least it'
SHANGHAI, Dec. 17 Pantagruelism (to would be certain to convey one.
to get food.. The Jesuit Mission at Sicenwei has
every householder who suffers in this PANTAGRUELISM. It be power) is Whence this certainty ? We can been destroyed by a disastrous fire. might be true that prisoner would Then the public generally would His Lordship remarked, that it way should notify the China Mail. healthier than "assure him he doesn't yet know the
The famous Arts and Crafts plant, End it impossible to maintain himself get mysticism. Indeed, somewhere in Hongkong newspaper reader. But Dormitories. Orphanage and collec in and around Canton.
to knew just bow the inexhaustible treasury of Master never mind that. Let us analyse histion of priceless Antiques have been said he was banished to a place the success or otherwise of its Prisoneratands; and be better able to judge of Rabelais there is a long passage (we idea. Journalism is war. [C.f. what lost, the total damage being estimated where he had no friends and could administration. regret being temporarily without a General Sherman said about war.] at a million Taels. The propertyget no work so he came back to
diseased or non-existent
copy) in which the suggestion is fairs. ly made that the only proper expres sior. of mysticism, of its purely sensu ous content, is the gesture and the grimace. It is then up to the normally sane person to repeat the famous repartee of the Duchess (a lady often quoted in military Messes) and so dismiss the matter from his mind, as an irrelevant interruption to the jolly, business of going on just living.
The Mission employed twelve hundred workers, including boys.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
had to steal. In each case he was Hongkong, and having no money
unfortunate enough to get caught.
The Crown Solicitor said the prac tice was to ask the man where he wanted to go. It was done in every
case.
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His Lordship: I have always To-day's dollar is worth 5. understood that to be the practice.
To-day's return of communicable disease shows two cases of diphtheria..
The Crown Solicitor mentioned that prisoner had been banished eight times and had returned seven times. He had gone to Canton every time at his own request.
We perceive that in the journalistic was not insured, war Mr. West would discard the rifled weapon of precision in favour of the smooth-bore blunderbuss. Is that not the very point we have been try Ing in our feeble way (ahem!) to score against the mystics? They prefer the scatter-gun, so that if they miss the rabbit they may peradventure hit the rate-collector. Keith West's 1d.. hesitation in the choice of weapons- These notes were or it was a rapier recently, it is a HAVE WE iginally embarked upon blunderbuss, to-day-shuts him out DISPROVED" with the intention to for ever and for ever from any pos- OUR OWN translate Mr. West's sible editorial horizon. Has he never
Dr. Walton Hubbard will deliver CASE? article into journalese, heard of the law of libel? His a free lecture at the Theatre Royal or into such simple double-barrelled sentence goes into on Monday next on Christian Science.. terms as even a Dundreary could court. He as editor says it means understand. The fact that so much only two things. The lawyer on the
In the Marine Court, this morn has been written without traversing other side, says it means still another ing. Chan Hing coxswain of the more than the first three paragraphs thing. The jury is like the ass" Taikoo Kuai," was fined $20 for of his article will probably tempt him between two bundles of hay, not unlawfully falling to observe of five years, remarked that it seemed to claim that his point is thereby quite sure, but it usually decides 'rule of the road." demonstrated. For such logical aber- that it meang damages. The rations, of course, we could not editor sacked, and takes tö accept responsibility. We all have drink. His wife and weans go brains. It his happen to be on the parish. The callous world symbolically green, while ours are rolls on. No, no. Mr. West really plain grey matter; We really must revise his mystical conception cannot be blamed for that. Let us of editorial wisdom, look a little further into his mental meanderings, if for no better pur pose than to be quite fair to him. The voice of the grasshopper may be a burden, as the Bible informs us, yet even the grasshopper has a right to be heard.
NOT MYSTICISM AT ALL.
we
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RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM.
THE GRAVAMEN,
That is story,
a
another
His Lordship: Ask him why he did not request to be sent to Swatow. To this prisoner replied that he made that request but he was sent to Canton which was quite a strange place to him. He had no money so he had to come back to Hongkong.
His Lordship, in passing sentence
extremely unlikely that the Police "For the convenience of Christ would have sent prisoner to Canton if he wished to go to Swatow. He mas Shoppers, Messrs. Lane, Craw could make representations to His ford & Co.'s establishment will re Excellency the Governor at the ex- main open until 5 p.m. on Saturday,piration of his term.
the 20th instant."
The Stall has many beautiful novel and useful articles just the things for Xmas gifts. Don't forget to come and buy-abaret, Tea, Tombola and Stalls, opening at 3 p.m. December 20,
There
The Crown Solicitor undertook to retify the Police of prisoner's wish.
BRETERY...
Lau Fat pleaded guilty to an indictment of bribery.
it
At present, in the face of what is
wave of crime, the Government is understood to be an unprecedented talking of seading about 12 policemen Home, because they adhere to their opinion that $80 a month is not good enough pay for the work and the risks.
And the risks.
So far the statistics of mortality among our police have not been worked out to a decimal, but the percentage must be high.
The Government wants to send a dozen Home.
The unofficial criminals seem to be "rending Home" about one or two a week..
Hushing it up will not cure crime. Keeping these things out of the papers does not facilitate police work; it hinders it,
police cooperate. The Press is a
At Home the papers, and the great help to the Police, when pre- perly used.
Here the authorities don't want the help of the papers. They don't like the papers. They discourage the papers. Why?
Because the papers publish thing". The papers, in the nature of thing, believe in Light, and bring it; or would do so, if allowed.
Why are Hongkong authorities so The Crown Solicitor prosecuted afraid of light? There is a passage and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by in the Bible which suggests the Mr. Potter, of Messrs. Johnson answer. Ask your clergyman. Stokes and Master, represented the defendant.
Solicitor mentioned that prisoner was In outlining the facts the Crown
a quarry-owar and was allowed' a certain quantity of dynamite în connection with his work. Inspector
CORRESPONDENCE.
A DISCLAIMER. LAIMER.
Earner was the Inspector of Dan- Berous goods and had to inspect the [To the Editor of the "China Mail,"】 work was being done in defendant's quarries. He noticed that not much quarry and told him he would
SIR-I shall be glad if you will report unfavourably on the re-refrain from scattering my name
Inspector's quarters with another to my knowledge; I don't intend to newal of his licence. On Octo- through your paper. I have never seen ber 23, defendant went to the either Mr. Adversaria or Keith West
man, also a quarry owner, and gave see them. I was not aware" until I bottles of whisky and a box of that the lines beneath mine were two children $40 in money, two read your reply to Keith West's letter. cigars. They took this to their intended to be other than vers libre. mother who informed the inspector A triolet they certainly are not. on his return. He at once com- I am sending my Aunt, with a dog municated with the Chief Detective whip to your office.
Yours Faithfully, Inspector and defendant was arrest man to offer money to an Inspector, ed." It was a very serious case for a
JEAN GRAHAM. Billiken Boxer. which was contrary to the laws of the Colony.
Hongkong. Dec. 18, 1919, Mr. F. C. Jenkin made a lengthy. speech on the matter of sentence asking his Lordship to inflict a fine. imprisonment and a fine of $500..
Maximum sentence was two years'
The defendant was 53 years of age, was married and was the father of an enviable number of children: For
ABOUT SATURDAY'S CABARET.
Entries are invited by December We respect 24, at the latest for a Novices* Com- fully beg to be expetition to be held on or about cused.
January 10 next under the auspices Whether it can fairly of the Hongkong Boxing Association. be defined as mys- We now perceive
ticism or not (we that he is really tial to any fair controversy. It is
think not) the gra- net yet settled that they are really
indulging in special yamen of Mr. West's essay, like the pleading against jour business end of a wasp, is at the aids to thought. If, as so often hap-
nalism and the hinder end. What he means by pens, a definition amount to no more Vulgate, and in favour of what we mysticism in relation to literary than a change of epithet and name, may (mystically) call caviare writing expression is that a certain under- it certainly does not help. Try to literature for the minctity of well current of thoughts" accompanying A Chinese who was charged define a kitchen poker, and see. If read people. That which is under a simple idea" ought not to be with the theft of some Chinese medi- you could discover a sentient being standed of the people" is inferior, overlooked or ignored. We agree. cine from a shop in Queen's Road who didn't know what you meant by must be inferior (so take That, however, is counsel proper for West, was this morning, sentenced kitchen poker, or by kitchen and him) to that which is nct, the writer, not for the reader. by Mr. Wood to 6 weeks hard labour poker separately, you would We
www obliged, owing to In going into battle, an officer and 4 hours' stocks. find it impossible to explain your the paucity of the language, to de- does.
lead not
simple thought, even mystically. In presenting to-day we may not agree with the sugges which, obviously, amounts to flat by an undercurrent of funk-hole sent the Hongkong F. C. 2nd Eleven
So far, scribe that as an attitude bf mind, squad accompanied, more or less,
The following team will repre- a brightly, writtention that the mystics were people tery. article on Mysticism looking single-mindedly for
Of bis example from the snatchers: He marshals 'em all, an poetry of J. C. Squire, he naively in-just-as-a writer-should-Away within a second division match versus EXPRESSION. and Expression, by adequate form of expression. We forms us that he is "indifferent" mystic subterfuges: Have nothing 20th on Navy Ground-MacKenzie; Club de Recreio at 2.30 p.m. Saturday suggest that the expression, rather whether the author would regard it to do with mental, undercurrents. w. Gerrard and Young; Chasselt, Keith West, it seems than the idea expressed, was their as mystic or symbolic. The suspi- We are here confronted with a Ireland and Piger; May, Zeverija, desirable to add a few words. Myg-objective. Intellectual laziness (if cion at once awakes that he was un- simple lesson in psychology, in the wayman, Boysen and Meffer.
mysterious subject. not despair) motived their indulgence able himself to classify it. Refrain mechanism of thought. The mind Evelyn. Underbill's work is for the in cloudy speech, in nebulous thinking from the tempting opportunity plays about a subject, somewhat s average man" almost unreadable. ing. in mental adumbrations rather to speculate how far the auctorial does The subject has its own jargon. than in precise, postulates.
searchlight." Thoughts a
arrived by the 5.4. indifference would have stood the throng" toward it. Only one at a "Teresias" yesterday, Mr. Ashton, Untrue things can be mystically true, but no mystic, as far as we are
The shorthand il test of this mishandling of his vivid time may occupy what is called "the who relieves Mr. Neighbour as secre aware, has ever appeased his hunger SHORTHAND, ustration is as fatal and simple statement of fact, we field of attention." That disposed tary and cashier of the naval dock by dining mystically. We know
as it was ingenious, point out that it amounts to of, the next takes its turn: The yard, Mr. Lowe, who relieves Mr. more about literary expression than We all know the shorthand student this, that Keith West is indifferent practised writer, who is also assum-Platt as naval stores officer and Mr. about mysticism, and though we who takes copious notes which he is whether A is regarded as Bed to be a thinker, contents himself Penman, who takes up the post of suspect we have more than once afterwards quite unable to read. A as C. That is mysticism, at first by making a list of them. He deputy naval stores officer, thus managed to grasp what Keith West syllogism may look difficult, much indeed. A teacher in a kindergarten then sorts them and ranges them in bringing the staff, up to pre-war might call mystic meanings, it was more laboured than it really is; but school would show more healthy rank. If there are any still left standard. the meaning we got, and not the as a medium for recording a thought prejudice: As we see it. Mr. Squire shadowyif, as Mr. West hints mysticism. The trouble seems to be it beats the symbol by miles, and meant no more than that he said: his own trouble is, some of them get There is to hand a booklet from that of the poet who wished he could makes of it a mere
Among the items of entertainment "also ran." the world is full of night, and the stage fright and evade focus by the Admiral Line giving statistics over thirty years he had held a offered at the Variety Entertainment utter the unutterable thoughts that The reader deserves some considera.oon reigns alone." He was addres- disappearing into the limo of things and information regarding the Port licence for Government quarries. In in connection with the Carat on arose within him. We may be tion. In art the palm branch sing people who know what a moon forgotten that is the fault of the of Seattle, taken from the Port of considering sentence the Court had Saturday afternoon are songs by Mr. wrong (we often are, and hope we is a symbol of victory. If you warm light night is like, and reawakening thinker's training, not of the English Seattle Annual for 1919. It gives to conceive the worst possible case R. A. Green. who has already created often will be) but we do not admit your reader that you are going to to a tired kitcher maid in London: mystical jargon to the Germans. for the year ending June 30, 1919, sentence could be applied and having lovers in Hongkong. The talented
their memory, just as one might' say language. Leave mysitism and the value of imports from Hongkong of bribery to which the maximum a deep impression among musi that unutterable thoughts" are talk in terms of art, he is ready for thoughts at all.
it-his mind is prepared and receptive the kitchen is full of dirty dishes and is a thought) that cannt beade Colony are placed at $11,850,226.
You know that sort of night when There isn't a possible thought (that as $7,390,901. and exports to the done that it had to consider how far Misses Young and Miss Winnie Law- There! We have he may get the intended meaning.
the present case receded from that son have also kindly consented to MYSTICISM just said something Put it forward in terms of common. the ticking of the alarm clock reigns quately expressed in god English
worst possible case. Then the cir- appear. mystically, without sense and plain English, and he may alone." It is an exact parallel, save prose such as you get, may we
Mrs. C. H. P. Hay wishes to cumstances of the prisoner had to bé The Management is particularly. meaning to do so, think you intend a reference to that ours isn't poetic. Neither is add, in these columns.
thank the following for their gifts to considered. In this case prisoner fortunate in receiving the kind offer It occurs to us that botany, to palmistry, to the birching mystical: both are mnemonie stimu gratia.
larts.
her "Everything Stall" at the Cabaret had held a licence for over thirty of the Misses Aileen & Doris Woods the parenthesis about hoping to of prisoners, or even (if your image
of December 20-Miss Square years and had never in that time to lead their services at both per be often wrong was mystical. Did is not, well made) to the edible pro-
Very Large Teddy Bear. Messrs. been convicted of bribery. Duringformances. They have consented by you think it only a facetious petties of a string of onions. How
Wm. Powells Delightful evening that time there was never a sugges special request to include the Doct stupidity? Behind it were a number many readers know or remember that of adumbrated reflections, such as the anchor is a symbol for hope? It
BONEST. Comments have been in CHINESE PROFESSOR FOR band bag. Kwong Tai Loy-Wheel- tion that he had attempted to get from "Tales of Hoffmann" in their barrows, Waste paper baskets &c. Inspector Earner or any other evening's repertoire and we can assure that men who are never wrong must probably suggests rest to a sailor recent personal quarrel with Mr. HONGKONG UNIVERSITY, Madame Amie Lovely hand dressed officer from the path of honesty, our readers that this alone is an item be very, inhuman persons, and that man.
West. They are based on
doll
He submitted that the facts of to have heard. we hoped to stay human, and so on.
It is perhaps indicative a sincere devotion to the duty of
this case were immeasurably removed The Pathe Freres who are kindly MYSTICISM. of such mental con ascertaining the truth in such mat
Dr. Wong Chung Yick has been Mies Marie Tempest, the well-from the worst case it was providing the Kinema entertainment reader must bring to what he reads West or ourselves, that we fail to see consideration of the po at rised so Hongkong University. Dr. Wong's shortly make her first and only emphasise that the bribe could have
fusion, either in Keithters, and they reflect our quite honest engaged as medical professor at the known English comedy actress, will possible to conceive.
have an excellent picture well worth Mr. Jenkin then proceeded to a visit. some knowledge. According to his the point of coupling Mystics and far as we are able to per elve them was the first name in the list appearance here. Miss Tempest has, no influence on the officer's conduct familiarity with connotations, so will Symbolists at all in this connection. Not being a mystic, we perhaps do of results of ao examination or many years, been one of the as the C. S. P., who was the supreme be the amount of meaning he After all, a Symbolist may be a very not speak the same language Mr. in London for the absorbs. To a reader who never clear-headed person; a Mystic, never. West. For instance, he speaks of professorship of the University theatre-goers in Hongkong may con
medical acknowie led leading actresses' and authority in the matter of granting six months' imprisonment and re-. His Lordship passed sentence of read Dickens or heard of him, the The very word is built up of two metaphors in the lines quoted, and which was advertised in the London fidently expect to see some brilliant the licences, had already refused a marked that the security of the word "Pickwickian " would mystic. It would not, however, be means to shut the eyes. Emotions is so backneyed that it has ceased to brother of Dr. C. H. Wong of Hong- here. With Mis Tempest will be not know this at the time.
be Greek words, one of which, mein, apart from the word "reigns," which papers: Dr. Wong is the younger acting during Miss Tempest's season licence to prisoner, although he did Colony depended on the integrity of what is understood by mysticism." and feelings are their concern; not be one, we can discover no metaphors kong. He will return from London Mr. Graham Browne, an actor of that prisoner started out with a box had responsible and important duties, the Police. In this case the brite Speaking on the facts, coucsel said. was substantial and Inspector Earner To read about mysticism with under thoughts, not concepts. When we therein. Thus we are unable to and take up his post in the University repute. It is under the direction of of cigars intended no doubt to curry. He was bound to take a serious view Latanding, we must first have rend begged for sonnets on ham and eggs, grant the Westian (or should we call in March next.
the Middle East Films, Ltd. that Miss favour with Inspector Earner In of the case. much else, much that was better we did so mystically. That picturesque it Western ?) interpretation of the worth the reading.
Marle Tempest is touring the East. breakfast dish imported for us in that poet's thought." He has charged the
Blamed with that pleasure which
After announcing the sentence Mysticism as related connection the joy of living and poet with more than is fair or reason
always accompanied the making of His Lordship remarked "I think he THOUGHT to expression or ex- emancipation from the morbid able. It is, as it were, an overcharge
a present, in the course of his journey is very lucky to get off with it pr position is, we are here erotomania of the poets, Yet Keith amounting to mystical profiteering."
he acquired two bottles of whisky and then in order to please the The case in which two men are Crooves. told, an attempt to get West described our choice as a syrap On the other hand, if the poet's
THE BEST COUGH MEDICINE. away from the habit of tom of eroticism. That was suff-thought was as represented in Mr.
children be gave them the money be charged with murder comes before thinking in grooves. Whether such clent to cure any inclination Mrs West has his whole the target selling cough weleeners Protection Association informed the point that the object of punish
West'a "pure narrative prose," then HAMBERLAIN'S Cough Remedy is bound up-in the Hongkong Shipow Counsel also addressed the Court on Monday
A gentleman whose interests are, bad with him, amounting to $40.
the Chief Justice at 10.30 a.m. on escape is possible, while at the same might have had towards-mysticism.
case away. * Sorry we have no Greek type. plete con tence that it is not the exactly what cough medicine is that he was of the opinion that the submitting that the position prisoner We submit with com-in the world today, because it does a China Mail reporter this morning ment, was the preyestion of crime, prose wh i fatally insufficient, pose to do. It stops ghs and colds typographical approach to but the poury. We claim, in short, pa-dily and effectually.For sale by wages question would eventually be found himself in was sufficient
All Chemists and Stereoopers.NA settled by arbitration.
WILL HAPPEN.
In that sense all but the simplest of statements are mystical, for every
IN
time achieving clarity of thought and concept, we have yet to consider: Dei
finitions, though habitually neglected by argumentative persons, are essen-
This is our nearest.possible
the word.
Please do not let it be
THIS IS supposed that these our
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