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As the Saturday Review sees it: It is surprising that, in these days of crusades and propaganda, no one has taken up his parable against life. Not against Life as an Element, but against human life here below.

Telephone 29.

ECHO OF THE "EMDEN."

CHINESE WHO SUMMONED

TEI "SYDNEY.”

Some, further light is now vouch- safed, says a Home paper, respecting the attack by the German raider "Emden" on the cable station at Cocos-Keeling in the early days of the war. It is reported that a Chinese For all the arguments urged against was directly instrumental in sum alcohol by the Pussyfeet, against moning the Sydney. He was a "smoking by the Anti-Tobacco League, servant of the Cable Company, and against a modest fatter by the Anti- the landing party, meeting him, Gambling League, apply, with tenfold ordered hum to lead them to force, to life itself. Drink causes the station. Ee did Su, hr a crime and disease. Granted. But a circuitous .route, after quickly man must be alive to commit murder, telling a countryman to hurry there or to develop D. T. Tobacco disagrees, and give the alarm.

As a con with some, and is expensive to all. sequence, before the station was But a man must breathe before he dismantled the fateful message had can smoke Gambling is anti-social, already gone. The story goes that an endeavour to get minepence for the Chinese responsible now lives in fourpence. But no dead man craves honourable retirement in his native ninepence.

town in China, justly recompensed for the part he played in the war. During the fight some of the landing party, who had not been able to re-embark, made their escape in Mr. Ross's schooner the “Ayesha.” Last year the German Government pancti- liously presented Mr. Ross with a very neat craft in place of the one which was taken.

Byron, quoting Jeremiah"Why should a living man complain ?" says "I really don't know, unless because a dead man can't."

Life is in fault all, through.

With most people, life is a habit. Not necessarily a bad habit. Let us be charitable, and assume that the lives of twenty per cent. of humanity are a boon to themselves and to others. Not to be uncharitable, let us assume that the lives of only

twenty per cent. are hurtfel This DROWNED IN COAL MINE.

laves sixty per cent.. neither harm nor profit, chips in porridge. And they live, from habit,

The adoption of any habil is not ammixed joy. A good many men remember their first pipe with a shudder; many children bate the taste of wine or beer. Bat they don't wish to be singular: they stick to it. and come to like a pipe and a glass So, babies often rebel against life, and are quite difficult to keep alive. But the unhappy infants, coerced into drawing breath, grow accustomed to it, see other people living, suppose that they too must live, and foally live, and live, and seem to like to live."

Because it is first habit acquired, we set great store by it.

"For thy sake, Tobacco, I

Would do anything but die." Living was a habit of Charles Lamb's even more deeply engrained than smoking. No one, who knows: him, doubts that Lamb would have laid down his life for a friend. He

JAPANESE· DISASTER.

A sudden flow of water from an

adjoining old pit caused 13 men and 7 women to lose their lives in Pit No. 3 of the Oura coal mine owned by Takata Kogyosho, in the Kasuya district, Fuku-cka-ken. The water from the old pit, which was entirely fall, found its way into the pit which was being worked and poured in with such a rush that the lives of all the 260 workers who were at the time in Fit No. 3 were greatly endangered. The families of the workers assem bled at the mouth of the pit in great distress for at first it was thought that escape for anyone was impos sible. Due to the strenuous efforts of the mine people assisted by the Hakazaki police, all but 20 of the workers were saved.

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did so sacrifice much of his life. But would be more clean and comfortable

POLICE AND CAPTAIN.

CROSS-IXAMINATION UP TO DATE

HOW JAPANESE OFFICIALS WASTE TRĖ.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SECRETS OF

·FRIGHTFULNESS

ILLUSION OF SPEEDY VICTORY.

ed "include an account of the con-

INSANITY EVIL.

· LOAD OF LUNACY,"

The Timer writes editorially as follows

Sir James Crichton Browne, the distinguished alienist, called atten- tion to the load of Junacy under which the nation suffers. We

An Associated Press message from Berlin states:-Secret documents A British Captain writes to then the submarine waz now publish Japan Chronicle as follows-

On arrival at Wakamatsu I inference held at Pless on January 8 are not sure that the figures of terviewed the various officials Ces and 9, 1917, between Field Marsba! lunacy, Save as they are, need be toms, Police, Health Officers, &c., in voa Hindenburg, General Ludendorf taken to indicate an increase in quite a friendly manner. When my and Admiral von Holtzendorf and charterers (the Yamashita Mining other naval officers. Co.) came on board I expressed a wish to go into Shimonoseki the next day to interview the British Consul, and they arranged to come for me man Emperor and Chanceller vot affictions, increased skill in diagnosis,

Admiral von Holtzendorff advocat ed, unrestricted U-boat war, about which, however, he asserted the Ger Bethmann Hollweg seemed to be Japanese police officer came to my Hollweg wanted diplomatic prepara st 9.30 1.r. About 7.30 am. a lukewarm. He added that Bethmann door, accompanied by another man

tions, as a preliminary in order to in a kimono, whom I took to be a sampan man, but who was introduced keep the United States out of the to me as a detective, and the follow-ar, and that the opinion prevailed in the Foreign Office that if the

insanity. There is an idol of the statistician as well så of the market-

place: increase and decrease of per- centages require scrutiny before they should arouse catisfaction or dismay. With insanity, as with other human

for treatment discover cases that more thorough sifting of the popu- lation, and the provision of facilities. formerly passed unnoticed. Even at present, the school-attendance officer unearths the idiot child, and the

ing conversation (which I shall ge Haited States came in South America fool of the family is banded over to ļ

you in dialogue ferm) ensued-

Police Officer: You intend going to Shimonoseki to-day, Captain?

I: Yes. Why?

was bound to follow.

"In the course of the conversations von Holtzendorff said: "What shall P.O.: I am very sorry for you, but we do if the Chancellor refuses?" you cannot go there without a permYou Hindenburg That's what is from the Government, and it will be bothering me, too.” very difficult to get a permit for fo day, as the Government is 40 miles

away,

I thought you told me yesterday that I could go astiere without a permit.

P.O.: Yes, to Wakamatsu, but not to Moji or Shimonoseki; our rules are very strict

and pencil out of his pocket and He then sat down, pulled a book

commenced with

F.O.: How old are you? I: 57.

Ah! you look very young for your age.

I: Thanks; is there anything else you would like to know?

PO.; Yes. What nationality are you?

I: British

.P.Q. What town?

1: Aberdeen.

P.O. (after thinking a bite you write it down?

quiet

Von Holtzendorff--" Then you must become Chancellor."

But von Hindenburg repeatedly refused, saying he could not talk in Finally, the Field the Reichstag. Marshal said.

the county asylum. We may predict with assurance that when more psychiatric "clinics *re provided, the provision for out-patient treat- ment extended and the legal form. altes connected with certification are reformed, the first result will be! an apparent increase in the numbers of the insane. The process of prevention will reveal the extent of the evil. Every one will agree on the need of more facilities for the study and treatment of Insanity. Well, then, we will stick together. But alteration of the law regulating It must be. We reckon with war the certification of lunatics is sure with the United States and have to arouse suspicion. The patting not get worse. The war must be by means of a certificate has been made all preparations. Things can away of an inconvenient relative

shortened by every possible means.”

a favourite theme of playwrights Then von Hollzendorff said ---

and novelists, and an occasional case **His Majesty is not familiar within the Law Courts seems to justify the situation and the sentiments popular dread. Yet there is a strong among his own people.”

esse for alteration. The existing General Ludendorff agreed with Lunacy Act protects the liberty of this, and YOA Holtzendorff the subject, but does not provide continued:-

sufficent scope for treatment and cure. The early symptoms of mental disorder often occur before certifica- tion is possible. It is during these incipient stages that skilled attention is most successful and most difficult; to obtain. The Professor of Psychi atry in the University of Edinburgh recently stated in our culumos that Scotland in this respect is more hap pily placed than England. For more then fifty years mentally deranged persons in Scotland have been able to receive curative treatment in any house or home without being certified to be insane and without being sent- to an asylum. These powers have not been abused, and there is no reason to suspect that they would be abused in England. At the present time, indeed insane patients are often sent by physicians from Eng. land to Scotland to benefit by the more considerate laws, The Army

that authorities during the war arranged mentally-disordered saldiers is unprofitable should be received into military enough. We need the most ruth- mental hospitals without orders of less and energetic action, and there certificates, and did not send cases fore unrestricted U-beat war from to asylums until mental disability February 1 The war must end had lasted for nine months and was quickly,

We could hold on, but deemed incurable. Large numbers our Allies could not.”

of men were received in early stages General Ludendorff then further of mental disease and were cured. explained how unrestricted U-boat Authority and practical experience warfare would benefit the army, combine to recommend the reform which, he added, "must be spared of the Lunacy Law. another Somme battle."."

The people and army are crying out for unrestricted U-boat war.”

“That's right,” said Ludendorf, Admiral von Holzendorff went Willon: "Dr. Helfferich (former Vice Chancellor) said to me: Your road leads to catastrophe. I replied: You let us drift into catastrophe.” Another document gives an account of the conversation between Field Marshal von Hindenburg, General Ludendorff and Chancellor von Beth mann Hollweg at Pless on January 9, 1917, at which Bethmann Hollweg said:-

1: Oh! yes, anything for a life. (and down it went. Aberdeen Scotland).

P.O.. What is this other word? I: Scotland.

P.O.: Aha! I see, Scotland: that is the place where the zen wear short petticoats, and blow music out of a bag, isn't it? Ha, ha?

I: Yes, quite correct. Anything else?

P.O.: Is Aberdeen a town in Scotland?

1: Yes, yes: a city, the Granite City.

P.O. Oh! is that so? What street did you live in while there? time, so I told him to go to the devil, I was getting a bit mad by this and though he didn't go, he thought it best to change the subject. Shimonoseki?

P.O.. Why do you want to go to

ship's business.

I: To see the British Consul on

there?

P.Q: Where will you go from

business that doesn't concern you,

I: To the Wuria Shokai, also on

PO. Ah! I see, and after that where will you go?

I: To the Sanyo Hotel P.O.: What will you do there? I:. Get some tifin, I hope. I: What the devil has that got to P.O.: How much money have you?

do with you? Does your friend bere want to put somebody on my track to waylay me?

P.O.: Da! no; this is very

but you must have Y250 in your

he could not do so, even for his much-without life. For most men, by their private. Don't get angry. "Captain.

loved tobacco, because he had been reiterated complaints, have given pocket before you can get a permit alive before he smoked.

their case away. They, keep on

Few writers on Life have regarded croaking. "I am so miserable." Now to go.

it simply as a babit. There is the Pike County gentleman, who said:

"Wal, no! I can't tell you whar

he lives,

Because he don't live, you see; Leastways, he's got out of the

habit

Of livin' like you and me."

U-boat war is the last card. It is a very grave decision. If the military authorities regard it as indispensable I am not in a position to deny it"

Field Marshal von Hindenburg replied:

We are armed against all even Denmark, Holland and Switzerland. tualities--against the United States,

Cruiser

warfare

Von Bethmaza Hollweg-America's

aid, if she comes in, will consist of

foodstuffs. for England, financial ONE INSECT £40,000,000.

volunteer army. assistance, flying machines and a

Von Hindenburg-"We will fix them all right. The opportunities unrestricted: U-boat war are as fav. ourable now as they ever will be. We can and must carry it cut." results were likely to be as stated it The Chancellor agreed that if the

would be necessary to adopt the course advocated, but he ventured: And if Switzerland comes in, and

I That's easy enough got. You go and get the permit, because I'm going, whether I get it or not in an the French came through there?" hour and a half

to the Liquer Pussyfoot, the unans werable reply is, Sir, you have convinced me that I should be better without beer. Now, convince me that I don't like it, and I'll give it up," A man who is always declaring that he do you get drunk?

cannot abide the taste of beer is debar-

PO.: Do you visit tea-houses and

I: Now if you sit there asking me any more impertinent questions, red from this reply. He has to fall it go and see the Chief of Police. back on the weaker plea that beer and ask what it all means, so you

WEXVIL'S RAVAGES ON

COTTON PLANT.

The Empire Entomologists 25-

of the fight against insects injurious sembled in London discussed problems to plant, animal, and human life.

Froblems of cotton pests were placed before the conference by Mr. H. A. Ballau, of the Imperial Depart- To which von Hindenburg replied:ment of Agriculture for the West "That would not be favourable from Indies, who stated that cotton is a military point of view."

more liable to attack by Insect pests than any other crop.

specially mentioned the Mexican boil weevil

A GOLF STORY.

and the pink ball worm.

The former has extended its

And De Quincey admits that, if you has become necessary to him. So had better get out of this as quick Colonel Bogey is a little late with Tavages throughout the cotton belt

take too much laudanum, you must do that which is inconvenient to any iman of regular babits-viz, die." But few have laid much stress on the habitual side of life. That, of course, is because very few believe that life ends with this world. Most men believe that their life is a part of the Universal Life, and view it as a trust, or as an infliction.

with life.

Instead of preaching countries dry," Super Pussyfoot will preach them dead. Then presumably, he

will stand

"The last man left alive,

earth."

as possible.

this tale, but he says he has been of the United States with great losses in Japanese at the end of which

The two then had a long confab out of town. Ted Ray, of Oxley to the growers. In nine States in playing in the recent golf tourna 1918 more than 715,000,000 lbs. of F.O.: Captain. I tell you some ment at Gleneagles, lost a hole rather lint were destroyed. This lint was thing. If you go to Shimonoseki by curiously. He broke the rules of the seed in the same crop totalled worth nearly £36,000,000. Loss of steam launch you will not require a game by picking up an obstacle that 5,000,000, giving an aggregate loss. To have his own will of all the permit, but we shall telephone to the lay in front of his ball in a bunker through one insect in one year.

police at Shimonoseki and Moji to That any professional, should do so For, being a Super-Pussyfoot, he will look out for you, and if you get there seems remarkable. But the explana In 1917 the loss in the Egyptian

exceeding £40,000,000. But Super-Pussyfoot will not lack not be bound to give up living. Not you can come back by electric train tion is that the obstacle was a lady's cotton fields from the pink ball an audience. He will have all those every Pussyfoot abides by his own if you wish: we will not prevent you. gold wristlet watch that had evidently worm was estimated at more than who profess to believe that life does maxims. Why should he? It is only

(This I did, and no one even looked been dropped by a fair member of 100,000,000 lbs of lint, worth and with this world. A flock quite because he drinks and smokes and at me.)

the crowd upon the course, t easy, one would imagine, to convince gambles that he knows how wrong

£10,000,000. Perhaps it was meant as a gift,to of anything. Then he will have the it is.

I: Ah! It has come down that,

These tivo insects, Mr. Ballau has it? Well now, you can go. the doughly Ted. Did not Roman pointed out, are only two of an army

I told the story to the British ladies of fashion in the old days Consul and to our ageot, and they throw their jewels to famous of known pests of cotton. both said they never heard of such a gladiatore

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WHEN YOU EAT TOO MUCH.

grumblers, who complain that life is It is pity of Super-Pussyfoot, too. shart. Then the crowd who "dis He will be alive, but he will have to cover that life is a load, begin to be spout to empty benches. All the wery of being a toad." He ought world will bave taken his advice, and thing; the men had no right to inter- to fill the Albert Hall with fresh com- be unavoidably detained elsewhere: fere with me at all, knowing that I gregations, three times a day, for And a Pussyfoot is unhappy without am master of a British ship. It quite a long run.

an audience. It is possible to be too seems a bit ridiculous that after trad- seventeen years regularly, I should be berlan's Tablets. Try it the next tims And he ought to have an easy task persuasive in this world. That is ing to Japan for twenty-seven years put to an annoying cross-examine you eat more than you should. For sale persuading his audience that they another reason for getting out of it. more or less, and for the last tion of this sort,

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