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Millard's Review f AN DOOROUS Jan. 17 makes some COMPARISON. remarks that will not be popular in

the northern Settlement. It contrasts the very different attitude towards the Chinese of the Italian sette,nert- at Tientsin. Recognising this the Journal says quite openly that objections to the immediate

LOCAL AND GENERALS

Today's dollar is worth 5s. 24d.

BURN'S NICHT.

DINNER AT BONGKONG HOTEL

MONDAY, JANUARY

following lines by him to be sung to the tune of "Bonnie Dundee." In Mauchlin there.dwells six.proper

young Belles, The pride" of the place and its

neighbourhood ar

In London or Paris they'd gotten

it, a'

Misa Miller is fine, Miss Markland's

divine.

Miss Smith she has wit, and Miss

Betty is braw.

1921,

on", write ballads and preached sermons on it, and created the Scot tish. Kingship which we are all so proud to claim, on a diet chiefly com- pased of oatcakes and oatmeal por- ridgs. (Applause)

Local Scotsmen gathered in larga numbers at the Hongkong. Hotel on Saturday night, for a dimer in honour of the memory of the Scottish bard, Robert Burns. Mr. G. M, Young, President of St. Andrew's Today's return of communie Society, was in the chair the guests (af honour being H. E. Major General able disease shows a case of cerebro-Ventris, and the Hon. Mr. Claud spinal fever.

Severn, CM.G. The gathering was There will be "tea dance" at of a very enthusiastic nature, Scot

tish airs being played by the band Wiseman's, to-morrow,

of the Wiltshires, while wee bit skirls. on the pipes by Mr. Wilson stirred brought in by Mr. Soutar, preceded At about this time Robert became horn, Haen, yarn, lint, and tarry too."

V

There's beauty and fortune to be got

wi' Miss Morton: But Armour's the jewel for me a

them 2.3

Their carriage and dress, a stranger. On such frugal fare they subdued

would guess,

a hard and stubborn solt and made it yield its yearly toll of harvest: they took tribute of wool and mutton from the moorland and billside, and. of hide and beef from the fallow lea: they levied on loch and sea to sup rock and the reel, and the fring port their fisher folk and kept the

shuttle busy to clothe themselves homespun, so that the old Arbroath toast became a very epitome of the vocations of that primitive time: "The life o' man, the death o' fish the shuttle and the ploo," cara, by the piper. The duty of proposing financially embarrassed, somewhat Nay more, defying the rigours of the toast of "The Immortal Memory more than usual, and meditated an ungenial climate, they set them fell to Mr. T. F. Haugh, who in the emigrating to the West Indies. How selves, in their dour and stubborn ever the counsels of his friends way, to make flowers grow where course of a lengthy speech said:

Mr. President, your Excellency | prevailed and following their advice nature never intended such flowers to and gentlemen One of the pre he proceeded to Edinburgh in an be; and they became so cunning in

The Armour mentioned was Misa Jean Armour whain be afterwards

Consignees are reminded that granting of equal-citizen rights toalt goods per the s.5. Benarty" not the Scottish blood. The haggis was married. Chinese in concessions, are pras- matical rather than categorical." Ir cleared by to-morrow will te subject bits one of Shanghai's faults by to rent. mentioning that the prestige of 'Chinese residents in the Italian con- cession is already recognized by their being given the privilege of equal footing with foreigners."

We are reminded that THE POWER although the Shang hai Municipal Council sometimes behaves as if it were a govern-

AND THE GLORY.

ment, the

A chinese who was arrested on "On Lee," was this board the s.s. morning charged before Mr. word gith the unlawful possession

his belt at the back. He was fined $250 or, in default, three months hard labour.

the Italian public garden on an of a taels of prepared non. Govern. Inating idiosyncrasies of the endeavour to get assistance in the the mystery of Adam's art, that the ment oplum which was found tied to stish Race is the respect in which publication of a second edition of Scottish gardener took the place of are held the traditions they have his Poems, having failed to come to direction wherever, man laid out. inberited (applause) and we Scotsmen terms with the Kilmarnock pub-flower-beds, or built green houses. of Hongkong (using, the words of sher who had brought out the first throughout the civilized world

(Applause) the Motto of a celebrated Scottish issue.

Burns set out for Edinburgh in the Cavalry Regiment, the Scots Greys,)

In such simple lines of industry claim to be “second to None" in our month of November, 1786, arriving were laid the material greatness of adherence to this characteristic in there on the second day afterwards, Scotland, ita furnaces, its machine. giving effect to which we are having performed the journey on shops, its shipyards, its fax and jute gathered together to-night to honour foot. He was well received there mills, and all other form of productive the memory of one who has done and among his Patrons may be re energy that have placed this little more than any other individual to corded the names of Dr. Blacklock, country and its few millions of in our minds. keep Scottish Traditions ever present the Earl of Glencairn, and the prin people in the front rank of the cipal men of letters of that day, mechanical activity of the world. First seeing the light of day in Special mention may be made of (Applause). January 1759, our illustrious Bard, Lord Monboddo at whose table Burris The late Mr. Roosevelt once said Robert Burns, was therefore born was a frequent guest experiencing the that the State of New York Wiz just 163 years ago on a small farm kindness and condescension of his merely another name for the aggre about two miles out from the town Lordship's lovely and accomplished gate of the people in it, and I could of Ayr, the eldest of a family of daughter, Miss Burnett. In his net help thinking that there must be seven. And we may assume that

Address to Edinburgh" she is in the Dutch blood a certain' defi→ his early experiences were not different celebrated in the following couplet. ciency of imagination. from those of the contemporary youth Fair Burnett strikes th' adoring imagine a Scotsman, however matter of. his age and station

of fact and common place, offering for the most part carrying with

such a definition of his native land? The land of brown heath and shaggy it but slight relaxation from the

wood, land of the mountain and the dally round of strenuous farm work.

food, the land of our aires must In fact we are told that at the age of 15 he was doing man's This lovely woman died a few indeed be part of ourselves. We work and as he grew up whe years afterwards in the flower of know the feeling that - prompted ther at the Plough, Scythe or Reap-youth. Burns expressed his sensi Byron to say ---- hook he feared no competitor, he and bility on that occasion in verses his younger Brother Gilbert being addressed to her memory.

and

"

as.

I

in life

eye,

Heaven's beauties on my fancy

shine,

נז

I see the sire of love on high, And own his works indeed divine.

Can you

"When I see some talf rock lift has

head to the sky

A very successful Diocesan real governing organ af Synod of the Chinese Church was the Settlement is the Consular-Body, held at Canton last week under the composed of consular representatives presidency of the Bishop of Victoria of some eighteen different nations. This evening the Bishop starts for They make the laws: the municipal an up-country trip in order to hold council administers them. It con-Iconãrmations sists of six or seven British councillors Hok Shaa in the San-Wui district. He at Kangmoon and to two or three foreigners. Lately, is announced to preach twice next since the Germans and Russians Sunday Feb. 1 at Canton. ceased to count, the latter have been two "Americans and one Japanese. Millard's Review. refers to

One_month's hard labour, was the i

the sentence passed by Mr. N. L. typical Shanghai point of view "absolute opposition to any tendency Smith on a Chinese who was charged of the Chinese to have a voice in the with the theft of $100 worth of saus- International Settlement.

age akin from a shop in No. 24 general belief in the theory that Upper Lascar Road. The defendant China has not advanced ene jota alleged that the complainant was his since the country was first discovered brother, but this was stoutly denied by westerners and a further general by the complainant who said he did disbelief in China's possibilities evrnot know the defendant. The skin to develop along modern western was stolen during the complainant's lines" It goes on:

absence from the shop on Sunday morning. The defendant was arrested "The typical Shanghailander basin the street by a constable who lived in the city for a period of years suspected that he had not come by varying from ten to fifty; has seldom the skin honestly, and took him to been outside of the city limits; is the shop to make enquiries.

| the only help their father employed. It must have been about this time acquainted with the Chinese people.

We must take it however that he that our Bard composed the touching only to the extent of his compradore

had one great advantage over many Enes published under the title of and his servants; and looks upon all

of his young compatriots, the good

Highland Mary." Chinese as an ignorant, dirty" and

fortune of having been born to God- corrupt lot with very little hope for

fearing parents whose teachings in- improvement. To carry the point

spired his early compositions such still further, it might be said that

29 Poor Mailie's Elegy" on the Typical Shanghai" is interested in

death of his favourite ewe "Io al· China only to the extent of keeping In the Supreme Court, this morn-Mouse" on the destruction of its The Manuscript was feimd among it sufficiently quiet and comfortable ing, before the Chief Justice applica nest when ploughing, "On seeing a some papers after Burns' death; he for the foreigner until he can acquire tion was made for a summons to wounded hare that had been shot had dedicated them "To Mary in cbvious a basis in the stability of his fortune and get away. Typical set aside a judgment obtained at ""To a Mountain Daisy" (which Heaven."

We are what we are, gentlemen, things that the idea of a different Shanghai is not interested in on. December 8, 1919 in the his Plough had turned down) and The proceeds of the Edinburgh because the land of our birth is

Bonnie Scotland” as well as the dan

·GORDON-LEITH-On Jan. 24, social arrangement seemed but the missionary or uplift work, on the case in which Wong Lan Sang many others proving the strong feel publications placed Burns in funds and

at St. Joseph's Church, Alexin-wild dream of a wilder dreamer. But, contrary rather looks down on any and Chan Tso Hing,-shipowners of ings of sympathetic compassion which which enabled him to return to Ay" entered into our blood:

Cakes Its beauty has te dra Stopont Gordon, 3rd daughter with the growth of cities came ffort that tends to strengthen China Hongkong, claimed damages for a predominated in his mind. These marry Jean Armour and proceed plause.) Also, whence, think you

· (Apme o! A. G. Gordon, Esq., of Hong-/ books, and with books ideas. Manor. the Chinese in their aspirations | breach of contract" for the purchase effusions were produced prior to thence to Dumfries where he was came that affluence of melody kong. to Alister Cameron. Leith, began to hope that he might himself toward the development of a stable of a steamer called the "Kwong the year 1786, but that appointed to a small office in the which every strath and glen and

The Cottar's Excise enlightened Hing." by Fong Yeung Chau, mer beautiful Epic Poem son of the late Alexander Leith, remedy the is he had experienced, government and

chant of Hongkong and Swatow. Saturday night" was much earlier

corse of Scotland has, melody that Esq.. of Bedford.

Gentlemen, in my crude review. I auld wives crooned at their spinning The Hon Mr E. H. Sharp, KC, production. I would ask you to have endeavoured to touch upon wheel, lasses lilted at eve milking. Our contemporary then goes on to of the Industrial System added force ( point out that Americans have quite structed by Messrs.. Deacon, Locker, After describing the homecoming" of most phases of Burns' life but one before the dawn of day, fiddlers and Mr. C.. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., in follow me while I quote from it. to his efforts. He began to see that a different point of view, an argument Deacon and Harston,'appeared for the Family, the stowing away of their Point remains for one-to-draw your played at weddings and christenings, if he waited for the load to be lifted with which we are not immediately the applicant and Mr. Eldon Potter. Tools, and the frugal evening mest attention to, his intense patriotism.and pipers sent echoing among the from above, he would wait a long concerned. In the course of it, how-instructed by Mr. G. R, Hayward

EVENING GOWNS.

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Wm, POWELL Ltd.

Des Voeux Road.

MARRIAGE.

BIRTH.

SULLIVAN. On January 18,

Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. D. Sullivan, a son..

at

P.

DEATHS."

NOLAN-At Government Civil Hos- pital, Jan. 23, Nicholas George Nolan, aged. 44. DEACON.--Victor Hobart Deacon, at Weymouth, England, on 15th January, 1020. (By cable). KAPTEYN,—On January 16.

Shanghai. Barend Dirk Kapteyn (Manager, Holland-China Trad- ing Co.). LANNING: A Shanghai, in his 68th

year. George Lanning.

and the undoubted accentuation of people." these ills under the growing incubus

time. Through riots, agitations, erile and unfairness the workers climbed to their present organisation, and lasted for the first time the power they thus had won.

Man is very like an animal in some ways. Power creates the lust.

an

ever, it accuses the British majority of

འ bullheadedness,

secrecy, in- efficiency, and reaction."

But really, apart from RABBIZ." the pleasure of tread ing on the sensitive

"

"SUPREME COURT.

A SHIPPING CONTRACT.

he thus refers to his Father..

The Cheerful supper done, with

serious face.

They, round the ingle, from a circle

wide:

The size turns o'er with patriar-

chal grace.

big Hall-Bible, once his father's

pride

appeared-for the defendant. -

Mr. Sharp said that the defendant was applying-to set aside the judge. ment which, his Lordship would re- member, was obtained, a parte i against the defendant, in his absence, on December 8, 1919, and to The allow him to file bia statement of defence and to proceed with the action on its merits. Grounds. for the application and the circumstances would be shown in affidavits which Counsel would read later. The main Those strains that once did sweet its annual jog this weekend. If ever facts were that on October 31 in Zion glide,

His bonnet rev'rently is laid

Aside.

His lyart haffets wearing thin

and bare,

care,

*

for power, and so higher and higher toes of those Shanghai fellows, there rese the ambitions of the under dog. is no reason why we should discuss All the while the new system of this business. The Chinese claim is education had given him the con bound to succeed ultimately. We atsciousness of his own capacity, and can afford to leave the subject and the final touch was due to the Great turn to the timely topic of Robert War, when the workers of England Burns, whose immortal memory gets forged an army from a nation, and saw that it was good. "Into the there was a man whose memory last, a writ of summons was He wales a portion with judicious welter of war-time restrictions and should be treasured apart from his issue, claiming damages for industrial chaos came, the returned nationality, that man was the plough breach of a contract, dated And let us worship God" he says, soldi rs. What could be expected? man poet. We.. are sometimes | January 10, 1919, and an order was with solemn air. The obvious occurred-Labour de tempted to suspect that our Scottish made for service of the writ out of And we can well understand his manded and took a vast share in the friends honour bim more for being the jurisdiction of Hongkong, (in reference to his Mother whose house government of the State and the Scot than for being the world's Swatow). The defendant alleged that hold duties appear to have often MKRUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIO SERVICE." | mânagement of the industrial machi- best democratic poet, a teacher of no proper service was effected; kept her employed away from these

universal brotherhood and cosmopol- Counsel then proceeded to read family gatherings.

the affidavits." itanism.

The case is proceeding.

The China Mail.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, JAN. 98, 1890.

THE RAILWAY-MEN.

nery-tried her prentice hard on the congenial task of pulling the strings, and strove, bigh-handedly perhaps,

'Were Robert Burna to crush down opposition as she bad

BURNS THE living to-day he would crushed it before in workshop or

BOLSHEVIK. be called a 'Bolshevik. battlefield. This she tried to do in a

The average man country whose Press was at the teck who knows of his boozing and his It is unusual, we believe, for a and call of the rich, whose Govern amours does not realize the bard meat was rotten with bribery, and life, the toil and the poverty, which which had learned to depend on drove him to these courses for relief. Labour through years of peace. And Worse still, the average man, excep the reaping is not yet..

body of men to go mad with unanimity. There does not spring up suddenly a school of thought where "Black is White" is taken as one of the fundamental truisms. Therefore it is all the more necessary to try to understand the new attitude of the working man at home; to understand if not to endorse. For disagreement can only exist. the object of it is understood; we cannot 'disapprove of the Integral Calculus if we do not understand it, but can

only remark quite reasonably that we do not desire to understand it.

SHOWN

ADVERSARIA.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A CORRECTION.

But still the house affairs would draw her thence,

.. Which ever as she could with

haste despatch,

She'd come agato, and with a

greedy ear,

Devour up their discourse,

The Cottar's Saturday Night is tender and moral, it-in-solemn

Q Mary: Dear departed shade, Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend

his breast?

14.

Then I think of the hill that o'er

shadow Calbean.”

Why, the Scottish exile thinks that the sun tirns a kindlers faceĝto his native land than it does to` countries less favoured, like the one who

Bang

The sun rises bright is France ........ And fair sets be 10

But he's tint the blythe blink he

had

In my a'in countrie.

You will recognise that the period bills to inspire the march of the hare traversed was a very trou-warlike living, or sound a lament blous one in Europe, the climax of for the heroic dead? A long-line" which was the French Revolution, of nameless. Scottish minstrels lived and the authorities considered it and died generations before Barns, necessary to prepare for even and Ferguson, Tannabill, and Lady tualities by raising local levies Nairue, and all the rest of ore sweet possible. Burns of singers took the old tunes and gave wherever course threw himself heart and them a form and vesture as im soul into the movement becoming mortal as their own fame. Ap a prominent member of the corpa į plause).

Again it seems. but the other day styled "The Dumfries Gentlemen Volunteers which prompts us to that there was pointed out to the Highlanders the the conclusion that had his travall Black Watch upon this sphere been the present expediency of exchanging the garb instead of more than a century ago of old Gaal for the uniform we should bave found the author of of khaki; the one would be less öf those soul thrilling lines Scots a shining mark for the enemy than wba hae "in the lead, answering the the other, and its adoption would call to arms that recently went thro" probably result in saving many lives. our land and competing for pride of You know their decision. I place in the leap over the top to the think I hear them say"All this skirt of the Pibroch, doing his bit to- may well be true; but we stand by wards. laying the Proud Usurper of the kilt and the tartan." (Applause.). this day low, in honour of Scotland's That, a critical world may say, name and Scotland's Fame.

la magnificent but it is not war, Gentlemen, I ask you to join me

We say, magnificent or not it is in the Toast, To the memory of war, for the kilt and the tartan are our illustrious Bard, Robert Burns." inseparable from the sentiment that makes these men the redoubtable ~ The toast was duly honoured.

soldiers they are. Take these away THE LAND O'CAKES. ·

and you break their touch with m continuous tradition which trans- forms every man in the Regiment,

Mr. A. G. Gordon, said

and devotional and rises at length Mr. President, Members and Guests

into a strain of grandeur which of the St. Andrew's Society: 1 sup modern poetry has not surpassed.pose there are some in this Company

be he Scottish, English or Trish into

a Black Watch Fugländer with all

So fill the mountaincera, with the

fierce native daring.

Which instills the stirring ment- Memories of a thousand years

And Evan's Donald's Fame rings in each clasman's ears. AM May there never come a time

ting the Scots, is not as familiar (To the Editor of the China Mall" with the general tone and purport

His Brother Gilbert Burns, who who would find it hard to tell the the dash, vim and Bare devil courage. of the poet's works as he should be. SIE With reference to an article was his confidant at all times in difference between a bear bannock that centres round the name. The These not only excuse the poet but under the heading The Weeld's a letter written after the death and a pease scone. (Laughter): For Scottish blood in him helped Byron they present an attitude toward life Chat" in your edition of Saturday of our Bard states that the Epic the benefit of such, I may be permit to understand and express the potency Shanghai was taken by that is entitled to emulation. His January 24, I beg to inform you that, was first repeated to him when ted to say that there was no question of the Highland tradition SHANGHAI British troops in 1842, life and his work considered to as a member of a much despised they were taking a communal walk of Fancy Bread about the Cakes But with the breath that fills their

and opened to foreign gether afford a striking lesson for Police Force, I feel obliged to take one Sunday afternoon at which with which the came of Scotland mountain pipe for : UP.

trade the next year by us in these days, and it is exception to the remarks regarding he was highly electrified, Gentle has been associated, they were "a the Treaty of Nanking. easy to recognize the-justice Shut Eye" and "Squeeze which men do you wonder at its effect on very plain bread indeed and as According to the Encyclopedia Sinica, of his quotation of an old ballad, are totally incorrect. This belief Gilbert? I do not. We are told destitute of leaven as that which the intention was that the Settles that "Were na his heart light he about Policemen and "Squeeze" is that, as our Bard grew up some the children of Israel were con There has been a renewed cry for ment, acquired with British Blood, wad dee." From the unceasing far too prevalent and I would ask what to his Father's disapproval demned to eat in the wilderness, "more money" on the part of the money and labour, should be a British tail of a galley slave" as a lad in you to publish this letter in order to he cultivated the art of dancing (Laughter.) The only sweetening workers and, parallel with this, an Settlement. The American Consul, his teens, with a brief spell of plea- inform the Public that we are not at which he excelled, thereby they had, came from the fact that agitation for better conditions of however, later on hoisted his flag in sant recognition that did not carry quite as blacic as some folks would gaining much favour with the they were the fruit of honest toil when the mind of our race will be labour and leisure, and, above all, the Settlement in spite of British and financial success, his life progressed have them believe. for Control. Now the basis of all Chinese, protest, and the Settlement to the point where, as a dying man,

Ladies. Certain entanglements and hunger as you know is guid closed against such sentiment as this lies deeper than might be at first has ever since been International." be asked a cousin for the loan of

resulted; owing to that and his kitchen and together with the that! (Applause). Let us go on sight imagined. The England of In the old days the districe called £10. The man whose songs and

geniality of conduct which developed balesome parritch, chief of Scotia's doing our share resolutely, faithe the last century was the marvel Hongkew was known as "the Amerle! poems are now ung or quoted from

later be incurred from some quarters Food" formed the staff of life of a fully, conscientiously of the work of foreigners, Villagers paid acán Bettlement," but it was never pole to pole had little reward in his

adverse criticism; but, Gentlemen, people whose tastes were as simple of the world: let us keep well to

the front with the same success. defereace to the squire quite set up independently like the French life-time. A poet of passionate

in reviewing this phase of his event as their ideals were high incomprehensible to those who had Settlement, which is a French colony sincerity, of robust commonsense and

ful career we must not forget the We cultivate literature on a little that we have done of yore: but not lived among them, and con- and quite apart in all ways from magnificent charity, there is not the

Calvinistic Age in which he lived oatmeal was the motto proposed let us not forget that we owe the savatism of thought was reckoned International Shanghai. The solightest doubt that had he been

when his detractors would hardly be by Sidney Smith for the Edinburgh unconquerable spirit in us to our the first point in a man's favour, called American Settlement and the living and writing in these times he

expected to err on the side of Review, and focular as was the Auld Mither Scotland, that it is from THESE Tablets are intended especially leniency when arraigning him on any suggestion it touches the keynote of her breast there has been drawn the Then, the old reasonMy father so called British Settlement were would have been politically an for disordes of the stomach liver real or imaginary foibles. Indeed the Scottish character and history, for celestial Ichor which les nourished voted yellow and my grandfather formally united under one rule in popular, even among many of his horribus dos trobeson result of the serious affair of his what have we not done on a little gets the end that has made the before him, and please God Pilvole December 1863. The last census own countrymen It is the fate of they will do you goods. Fon and by all youth was to prove his constancy in oatmeal? Our Fathers fought on It. as to the hall, and that has made the "yellow" "---had for the English-80 (1915) showed a population of sach supremely great teachers to Chemists and Blorekeeper.

which connection I would quote the worked on its thought and studied (Ogulinaid from Page 8.)

HORACE."

Yours truly,

Central Police Station. Hongkong January 26, 1920.

CHAMBERLAIN'S TABLETS.

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