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KUNG YEE,

The Kwong Tung Kung Yee is # medical collage, hospice and waining school for nurses, established in Car- "The New Power for the Newton and is report for the years 1918 Age" is the title of a pregnant essay and 1919 has just been issued. The by E. Bailstord (Epworth Press. Dem of the College describes the ts.). He looks forward with con- | two years as marking a period of dia- Adence to the coming days..

THE NEW ERA..

tinct progress and mentions that the "Now we are turning our faces Government has granted the institu- forward to the new erù; we are watch- rion $2.000 a year to be used as ing the coming of events which arrive | scholarships for four students, This with every opening day.. It is as i sam will be sufficient to see the stud- the advancing age had been preparents through the five years of the ing a rest revelation, carving a statue course. Negotiations have been car- under a screen in the midst of the ried on with a view to afliation with market-place, as the Florentine sculp- the Canton Hospital and this, it effect rors did, and is now unveiling it be-ed, will respit in a larger, and there- Jore us, limb after limb, festure after fare more specialised, teaching suf Feature. For indeed the old order is. A scheme of affiliation has been giving place to new,

worked out. Twelve men and three women were graduated in July 1918. "We are being aroused to its sud-and twenty-two men and two women der apparition. We are startled out in October 1919. lof our seil-complacency. Our anxiety

now is to read its meaning and understand its message. We are taking stock of pur resources, to us certain our capacity to meet its de Bad lock has attended the last two mands; we are resting our strength.

the examining our machinery, and endea- A missed writin' the ye last week.steamers from Singapore. says

On youring to adjust it in readiness for es A was over busy, what wi che bad B.M. B. Herald of February 2 weather an Chinese New Year an' a' January 10, the steamer Suddha. the asks which this new day is lay-parient visits. the rest of it. Am verra suray the tell ye A didna, ger rae the Races on the Seturday afternoon, as A'd been tellin' ye. A was already tae gaun. A'd even gotten a hat vot, an, the Amah was givin' me a brush doon, when Wulte cam bane w his den rinnin', an' sneezin' somethin' awfu What ails ye. Wellie?" A spered. Aw. Mag. A've just gotten an awful cauld comin' owe the Hairbour, un

INTERCEPTED LETTERS.

Ma dear Kirstie.

MISHAPS TO STEAMERS.

The hospital report shows that! 2,368 patients were admitted during the year 1919 as compared with .738 in 1918 and 1.356 in 1917. Vigits of patients show a falling off there being 0.441 in 1917, 5,550 in 1913, and 3.405 in 1999. There is also a decrease in the number of out The hospital wards have shown an increasingly large Fitroen number of typhoid cases. years ago typhoid cases were seldom of Kúder. Her signals of distress and will be fashioning the leanres of seen in Canton hospitals but in 1919 were ner heard er seen in Huda, anca generation which will differ from S cases were treated in the institu

This new tion with 18 deaths, A Victor Uni- a letter from Mrs. Elton to the "Resi- any that has ever been. dent informing him that a steamer world has arisen in our twentieth cen-versal X-ray outfit costing over $3,000 was in distress near her house was tury with the silence and swifmess (gold) is being immediately installed. the first intimation that was received, of an exhalation, but it is no inet:be: TheKinabali" was in. port and stantia! pageant. It is a body politic. stood by all night. Early next morn-made up of living souls.

bon her way from Sandakan :oing at our doors. Kudar, went ashore on a coral reel

"The young men and women, the near Mrs. Elton's estate, a little north children and those yet to be born, are

It is

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Mr. Brailsford draws from Nature

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gin A dinna get a drink o yere hering the 20th the Kajang arrived stretching but its hands, stating its toddy, an A guid mustard bath,' ye'll and after a few hours pulling, she claims, and uttering its appeal." hae a deid mon in the house sure managed to get the Suddhadik " of So we a ran roon-the Amah for the coral with, as far as can be ascer-confidence in our power to put forth Then on the new energy needed for the new the mustard, me fur the whusky, an' tained, very little damage. the Boy did the rust, an" in twenty- the 23rd news came through that the asks, and he points hia argument with five meenites, we had Wall in bed, "Kajang, also on her way from apt illustration,

"The evolution of insects as they sweatin sac muckle that we had rae Sandakan, to Kudat, had gone ashore change his blankets in a half hour or at Teganac Island, 20 miles from San-move from their original home in the less. An av course, there A was, dakan. She was successfully refoured car or water into the air through stuck in the house. Av course. it and put back to Sandaken for repairs, their different transformations, is an diena maitter efter A saw the rain but we are sorry to hear that she has Thomson in The Wonder of Life

everyday example. Professor A. comin' door like a shower bath, an' been so seriously damaged that she

furnishes many illustrations. puir Wullie wantin' me te bide, at will not be ready for sea for over him, an' as he had some money on week.

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CRIME AT HOME.

A special London cable of January 27 says: The wave of crime all over the country is exciting notice and some

uneasiness.

The Times devoted an

editorial to the many causes, disregard

of the sacredness of human life due to the war, to the mischievous effects of some kinems films and post war un- employment.

will suffice. The transfiguration of Two

the dragon-By brem its chrysalis stage to is full-fledged splendour is giver as a notable instance, and Tennyson is allowed to describe it:

To-day I saw the dragon-fly

Come from the wells where he did

lie.

An immer impulse rent the veil. Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire

mail.

He died his wings; like gauze

they grew:

Thro' crafts and pastures wet with

dew Üthers suggest the waning regard for moral laws. The statistics of the London police show

The Secretary of the Sailing Ship refe- Association of Cocanada has graphed to Madras that the Indian 3. Cocanada. sailing ship owners

Musalipatam and Jagoa, own about 100 vessels averaging 200 tons bur then. Large sums were invested in shipbuilding, relying on the encour- 1gement assured by the Munitions Board communique of July, 1918. Construction of new vessels continues. ed by with-holding from them licenses An alarming situation has been creat-

for export of padi rice from Akyah to Ceylon Pors. Rangoon timber mer chants refuse to charter or sell timber for loading in sailing vessels owing to alleged arrangements with Steamship Companies. The recent cyclone caused heavy loss, to Indian ship-

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Competition with steamers is insignificant since all the 'available sitting vessels can carry 1,000 Des in wo trips which one steamer does in six months. The Association has solicited the Indian Government's immediate intervention, directing the grant of export licenses to sailing ships during fair weather seasons; otherwise heavy loss to owners is inevitable. The Association trusts Government will give impartial consideration and save the owners from avoidable ruír.

the races. a phoned yin o' the chiels, į who phoned me the results, an' tehti me which horses got in, an A'mi gled me say, we won sixteen dollars, but at the same time it was na hauf! what we had pir on. Hooever, wel! dae better anither time, as shair as Am Maggie Mackay. Wullie's a richt again noo, a is ready for ony- thing that comes along, but, mind ye. he was awfu' bad, an' A'm huc in cae.gie im Bovril afore he guns ower, an' he hae's anither on the way tae the Ferry when he's comin' hane, The bairns were awiu' guid; they were gaun fur a wee run on their bikes, wi yin o' oor freens who they ca Uncle MacTavish, an they didna get that serious crimes and arrests in 1913 marrated the life-history of a cigale in owin the the rain. So they mist have risen from 1.007 and 354 to terms equally poetical it not equally brocht in their bits o' toys, an played 1.149 and 389 in 1918, while the lyrical:

**For four years in the darkness on the fair till tea time, and then their statistics for 1919 are proportionately Uncle MacTavish came in tue tak then much worse. The Times points out he has worn a dirty parchment over- roon' tae see his Alcbies' Magic Lan. that there are about 25.000 habituals all; for four years he has mined the tern that his Auntie Flo had gotter in Britain whereal 4,000 who are dan sail with his talors; and now the mud Gamages the send oot for the New gerous are now liberated from the stained sapper is suddenly clad in the Year. Ma woerd, but Mrs. Mac-ay. The murder in the Lewes finest raiment and provided with wings Tavish tells me its an awiu' guid vin. train of a lady passenger has especially that rival the bird's; moreover, he is As a made in Britain. When the impressed the public. The constant drunken with heat and flooded with bairns went oot. A sated nasel sside small pitched battles in Ireland with light, the supreme terrestrial joy.telling, then, how much truth there is the fire an' A got a fine bit o ma new the police show that there is also His cymbals will never scffice 10 cele- jumper done.

while puir Wullig gewing lawlessness,

saivelled an' speezed in his sleep.

A living flash of light he flew."

Fabre, the French naturalist, has

It was clear brate such felicity."

that the penalties must be increased, We had an awfu' fine Chinese New Possibly also the police, Year. It was just fine, for Wullie

had seeven dividends at play wi an'

we went the the Chinese Fair. Yet she's no paid her last month's bill

SOME CHANGED MEN,

"But this power to put forth some new organ or new energy is also seen in the evolution of human character.

The pages of biography record in stance after instance. The spirit of

HE ETERNAL TRIANGLE.

Sunday supplements only set out to amuse and sometimes give a very free There is ro translation of the truth.

in a recent syndicated supplement which describes the "Maeterlinck triangle. According to this account it was the first Mrs. Maeterlinck who seeing how her husband's eye follow- ed the juvenile impersonator of Tylry}; hastened to get a divorce and said Bless you, my children," Macter-

back as she is still wedded to Maeter

be awfu surprised when. A tell ye that at the store. That's what happens the divine Jahn-one of the Boa-linck being 58 and Tylty! 19, Now on yin o' the food stalls A saw a whale out here. Its an awfu' peety, fur lot e' roasted beetles (they lookit verra A'm shair that we've gotten some fineerges in the beginning of his career after the honeymoon she has gone like beetles if they werena) aboot twa female brains oot here that are get hospitable villagers--emerges from its

calling down fire on the heads of in-linck, intellectually. The law, which inches long. but we didna buy ony,tin a clogged up' an rusted. There were yin' or twa fine bits of The men's Marathon cam of a ring of fame before he dies, and brass but an awful lot of the new joht; an' they a' had a guid time. breathes nothing but love and benedic.

The best sight of the lot was The Indians (we've got an awfu' crood

"Before Hugh Latimer srood

stuff.

tions.

was always a mass," recognises none of these distinctions, and`only

45 regards the contract

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Well _one.

if the Arst

the street whaur they were sellini o' them here) got in wi a guid major amongst the faggots exhorting his Mrs. Maeterlinck does not mind it |

the Almond Blossoms, an' Rooers. My, it was a sight worth seein, un

ity of five, an then the man we

tope he's mair successful.

..

is nane of anybody else's business. thought wad win, yin o' oor ain Tom- fellow martyr Ridley to be of 200 But it is not very flattering to Tykyl. mies cam in sixth, an' next year A cheer and to play the man, he had There was one of Mr. Maeterlinck's written him a letter confessing that There's been nae mails in fraehe so feared the ordeal that he couldn Ollendorfitan plays in which the creep into a mousehole, Faraday, Younger woman in a triangle of this sort got so fed up with being the whose temper was 83 serene and

if there had been sic à crood o folks an' it the weather had been mair like. A wad ha'e talen ma pents an me sketch buik an' done a wee pictur hame for mony a day, an' A'm fair' o' it food, an' knives an' spectacles, an' is better, thank guidness, things, an' a míchty lot of curios o'

There were stalls wi claes, an' sick o' it, but ony wey, the west sunny as a summer sea, had attained Physical and not the intellectual wife | Am gled tac say oor rent has na thar calm alter years that were bable that she ended by jumping over a clift or some Such out-of-hand solu-

a' sorrts, wee Baddals, an' lacquer gaun up ony further, an noo that to sudden bursts of volcanic rage:

jars ar beads. An' the crackers. A business is beginnin' tae pay Am No one who knew William Palestin of the difficulty. The supplement was fair deafened wi the noise, an' feelin' weel pleased wi life. when first an indolent under-graduate tells us the happy family is conting in Cambridge could ever have predict to America.. Probably the American

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the smoke got intae Jean's 'en an micht get ower tac Canada fur the she made hersel' worse through greet-simmer yet. in' because her e'en were şair.

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ed that he would become a preben-hotelkeepers' minds have been broad-

A wish we could get a fresh herrin dary of St. Paul's and publish Aened by the war, or the Maeterlincks

**If we can regard the Anglo-Saxon Ination"as an organism, its expansion

View of the Evidences of Christian- might find themselves as coldly There's an awfu' amcont o scandal or twa in this place. A'd gie try ity: Still more novel developments treated as were the Gorkys. One gaun roond, for mair than there is thing the hae a dozen or twa. Anither noo, an' the gossips are worrkin' over thing A canna Bnd eny Marmalade in disposition and energy of character wonders, what would happen if, say, Jack Johnson acted like Mr. Maeter are occurring in common life. time as it is, an' wimmen srina the Oranges here, an' seein' the sugar is

Binck-fapan Chronicle. only yins. No. A had a 'maisi inter- to restricted A wad luv the mak a restin' man gossip tae see us last few s Marmalade. Naebuddy and unfolding of fresh features is week, an' A ken mair aboor Hong seems tas dac ony o' the auld" hame kong, an' the folks here than they cookin' work here, an verra lew before Alfred's days, England was ment. She is beyond all other organe strikingly apparent.. Once, indeed, will be denied this law of develop- ad imagine. Is somethin' aw the folks wad remember the hae pan-bound in by the triumphant, sca. isms a body with its limbs and senses hoo ye're affairs get talkir shoot, an' cakes a week past Tuesday. Easter Afterwards her ships began to trade and separate functions bound together: A'm shair that A get ma shair o' ither will be here sune, an' A'm puitin with foreign lands, and she became by an invisible common life. She has folks tongues at ither tables than's on ma new goon fur Eastern Sunday

meritime. Subsequently, by her all the attributes of an organic ́per-

ma due, for A dinha botlier mony that A had copied here frae a French manufactures, supplying every contin- sonality, fully alive. She can speak folks here. A wad like some if they| Model. hadna sic' long tongues, but 'A sup An' noo A'm goun the "Hongkong with goods, she became the centre and declare the good news of salva- pose they a like the soord of their tac buy so thing fur Bella's birth

Love "Lac a' at home.

ain voices ower weel. If they'd talk | dayinha aboot ither things than Hongkong, an' the folks that bice here; it we be One even if they had a debaic or theShantung Question or "What's going to happen next in Russia" di ever the Auld Kaiser" it wad he faur faur mair tae their credit thon comin

'Ye're 'treen, MAGGIE MACKAY P.S.-There's a braw feelino Spring in the air!

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of the world's commerce and, as Napo tion. She hears the voice of God

leon saw her from the shores of above the raging of the "storm, and

LEAP YEAR WOOINGS.

LAW AND LEGEND OF THE

." LADY'S PRIVILEGEN.

There are things you hear about but never see done--such as saying "Rice pudding, please," when some one says Will you have Burgundy or rice pudding?"—and a proposal by a woman in leap year comes into the list. Everyone knows that a year which divided by four leaves nothing. over if you are exceptionally quick and accurate at arithmetic-is: a year in which woman may propose: marriage. But has anyone ever

·known a woman to confess that she "was the wooer, or a man that he was the wooed? asks E.R. in the Zally Chronicle Like having sensible pockets, women dream of it but never do it.

The stack of books over which I should have to climb if I were sum-

moned to the Palace to be knighted tomorrow represents a little effort to track down the origin of the custom, It takes one far back into the dim past. Do listen to this one :—

St. Patrick was one day walking. beside Lough Neagh when he met St. Bridget in tears, and was told that a mutiny bad broken out in the nunnery over which she presided, the ladies--who, one presumes, had not taken vows of celibacy-claiming the right to "pop the question.", St. Patrick said he would concede the right every seventh year, but St. Bridget besought him to make it one year in four. "I will," replied St. Patrick, "and I'll give ye leap year; the longest of the lot."

Unfortunately the late Mr. Brewer, to whom I am indebted for this, adds. as a footnote: "The story told above is of no historical value." But we are on. Surer ground in considering Scot land's claim, for in 1288 a law was there enacted that "during the rein of his maist bussi: Megeste, for ik yere known as lepe yeare, ilk may.

den ladye shall hac liberte to bespeke ye man she likes. Gif he refuses to tark hir to be his lawful wyfe, he shall be mulcted in ye sum ane pun- dis or less, except he can mak it appears that he is betrothit to anither woman. He shall then be free."

This would make the permission appear to be a compliment to Mar«, garet, the Fair Mald of Norway, grand-daughter of Alexander II, of, Scotland, who only nominally reign. ed. as she died on her passage to Scotland in 1290."

A similar law was passed in France some years later, and in the fifteenth century the custom was legalised in Genoa and Florence. so. It was evi dently taken very seriously at one time. But that only brings us back to the original question-Does any- one take it seriously to day?

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