1920-11-03 — Page 8

rmis

and

"Arrow

SHIRTS

For DINNER and TEBATRE WEAR

Our stock includes the newest styles in Plain, Pleated and Tucked Fronts of Linen or Peque.

DRESS COLLARS, TIES, SOCKS, SCARVES, PUMPS.

MACKINTOSH

& CO. LTD.

Men's Wear Specialists,

16, Des Voeux Road.

DEADWOOD DICK.

GLEAMS FROM A GOLDEN TWILIGHT OF YOUTH.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Children." What are these compared

with Deadwood Dick, donning his mask, and riding down the North Plate road in the golden twilight al youth?

A ROMANCE OF TWINS.

CURIOUS DRIMA.

IMPOSTURE TO SECURE A FORTUNE.

His' Rights into the hills were tre mendous. They, stoned a hundred- fold for the egg-like wënis upon our A curious drama, that would be arists delivered by a soulless mathem-almost incredible except in a cinema atical master for deficiencies in trigo, theatre, has just been brought to nometry. By the valour of Deadwood light in Paris by the arrest of three Dick I learnt how to take a licking women and x'man on charges arising from that callous teacher. It was, by out of the sale of two twin children the way, only a frature master, Iftor 500 francs, and the use of one of remember, who had any sympathy them to bolster up an attempt to secure with our affection for the Outlaw of an inheritance.

GOOD WORDS.

|

THE MODERN CHINESE

SOME CHARACTERISTICS.

IMPRESSIONS FROM HONGKONG,

Richard Oliver, writes to the Daily Mail from Hongkang:-

The Chinese are a most difficult people to understand because they seem to Europears to possess sa many: contradictory characteristi

Some of the earbest of scinti achievements originated in Chlos. The Great Wall, the Grand Canal,

the time of their completion, excelled anything in Europe.

the Black Hills. Finding us at our Last June, in consequence of vil-and the famous irrigation systems, at devotions, he used to tell us of bookstage gossip, the Mayor of Montlig that would delight more, seeing we non, a little place of 800 inhabitants, liked these, instead of robbing us of pear Paris, informed the police of the Printing and gunpowder were in- rwin vented in China. The first newS- them and chastising us for possessing suspicious disappearance - of

And them.

babies, the children of a man named paper was the Peking Garaiz. Carner and his wife. The latter, on yet, in the recent centuries, no great To return to Deadwood Dick: he being interrogated by the police, stated inventions have come from Chins, led me through the mountains, they that in February, 1918, they go into although is small details the Chinese drawing closer and widly dark. He communication with a Mme. de Leris, are still remarkably ingenious. turned aside from the wagon-road living in Paris, who wrote promising where a trail led off. The trail was to give their month-old twin baby boys fairly clear. Here and there, between a home. Soon after, de Leris and the tree-tops, was a glimpse of a moun- another woman, closely veiled, met eyes looked out splendidly. Over him tain wall beyond. Shafts of sunlight the Cornets at a wayside railway

swept down into these hushed "moun station, took charge of the babies taim fastnesses.” From that trail slipped notes for 500 Frames into the again he went on after stopping and mother's hand, and nanodiately dis- listating to the silence a moment, and appeared. breathing his horse. **Breathing his horse," "watering his horse"; what

was written:

Telephone 29.

DEADWOOD DICK.

(I should like the printer to put his name in the centre of the column) and underneath were the words:

THE OUTLAW OF THE BLACK HILLS.

**You can have it if you like," said my school-fellow. He told me parti of the story, but only enough to what

I won't tell it all: my interest. don't want to spoil the reading for you," said he.

THE SECRET TREASURE.

of the possible reason or collection of reasons-

est forest, on into a capon.

Every Briton who lives in the Far East seems to like the Chinese, and yet there still exists in the minds of the learned men of China traces of that intellectual arrogance which made them, only a century ago. refer to the British traders at Canton outer barbarians." They called the vessels of the old East India Company "devil's ships." Despite this intellectual arrogance, thousands are learning of young Chinese Western science today. But they sometimes seem to us to be con- ceted because of their sublime belief Inter-in the value of their knowledge. -

and write tomes, masterly and mand statement that the mother was a re- lin, on the deepest misery of his deep-fugee from the devastated regions, and

WEDNESDAY,

NEMBER

· 1920.

DAIRY FAM NEWS.

CHEE

New shipments just bei

GOUDA ""OLIMERI

EDAM CHEESE

AMERICAN CREAM CHEESE

Ďur own. MÄ-

PIONIC CHEESE CREAM CHEESE-

Scents per lb.

30

jar.

80

"..pat.

THE DAIRY FARM, IOE & COLD STORAG。., Ltd.

TRIBE OF TARZANS.

·AFE MEN IN THE CONGO.

BRAVE YET TIMID

A remarkable story of the dis- covery of a new race of ape-men, who

CHINESE SCE

S.~

FEATS OF MENC

INTERESTING CONTRAST,

-AMERICA.

Chinese schoolroom met are climb trees like monkeys, but whose interesting as showing the grast

At its height it caused even such form of bookishress. From the the late centre of the world war. (thelings, made use of the other to secure | waiting for him either to die or to The adults of the tribe average only / or more, after which the cupil retu

can" recite is fro

"SCHEMING EXTRAORDINARY. in the Frederick Niven writes

The police evermally ran down good phrases they are! No boy and de Laris at St. Germain through in London Nation :-

Richard Bullock, the original

no healthy man but should be moved quines made at the house of a mid- Deasood Dick," has died in a

at the sounds. I follow Dick through wife name Dorel, also known under the solitudes of tall timber awash with the sobriquet of The Fairy.) Californian sanatorium, at the age of 75. He was of Cornish birth.-Daily

the scene of balsam, ou into the thick-rogation of this woman elicited the The greatest ambition of any Paper.

a great word. It is one of the open whose real name is said to be Donker,son. But in no country is there such moral standard is so high that they between schools. in the hand

Canon is facts that over two years ago de Laris. Chinese man or woman is to have a Anatole France once said that he -paposed, to speak of hiraself apropos I have forgonen how it was that I sesames. The man who can't feel induced her aid in securing the rein a lack of forethought concerning neither lie nor steal, is related in a schools in this country, says ve

York Sun Many elderly pey will of Shakespeare, Racire. Pascal and knew I had to keep my possession better saying "canon" is. I should babies from the Comes couple for the posterity. While we of the West message received from a Central

recall the time when practice the Goethe. I would somewhat adapt the secret from adults; and it is scarcely think, done for; he might just as well purpose of an elaborate double fraad. devote our deepest thoughts to and News correspondent.

make great sacrifices for posterity, ph.ase and say that I here propose to worth while to fidget over a resude zo oßhand to Moscow or Petrograd The children were registered on the Chinese impress apos their child virgin forests of the Congo by Dr. had some of the Chinese thoros The discovery was made in the district schools of the Unitedates speak of Deadwood Dick spropos of

the duty of ancestor worship. is all. It will be a personal paper.

Catholic The possible reasons are

On my first Sunday in Hongkong Leonard Vandenbergh. " but my mail will surely serve for many obvious. I recall that now and then est ego, with windows closed, hunch-that they had been born in a railway a Chinese coolie fall down, under a missionary, who has reached New and dependence upon the memor pe So let me tell you:

I urgently desired to communicate the ed over a samovar ! If Spain had not train between Pays and St. Germain. blazing sun, in the road and lay hike York after a year's tour in Central The beginner takes his book the Thirty years ago there was a great stories for the benefit and delectation given as anything but "Don Quixote " One of them died, and Danker, who a log. A dozen companions dropped Africa. Photographs and films of his teacher, who hears him read a cole wave of objection to all save hard of those very adults who condemned that invention more real, even, than was then a party to divorce proceed their loads and calmly sat on a wall strange people have been taken. jects.

Robinson Crusoe" to be barred to brink of that self-exposure I retired, ex-German Emperor is as a myth alimony from her husband. Although pick up his burden again. They ft. in height, says Dr. Vandenbergh,

to his desk and repeats this less come bors. They had to plead that on such occasions, holding my peace beside him and the word canon, the latter was able to prove that it was would not touch kim. h was founded on Alexander Selkirk The only way to communicate, il com-Spain had not existed in vain.

impossible for the child to be his,

Despite the frantic expostulations and they are known to the other tribes aloud until he

as the Mambut. Their language memory. He then takes his book of File. before his bonfire on a rocky municate 1,must, was to say that a

THE LAND OF BOYHOOD. as his wife was known to have been of another Englishman and myself pnsists of monosyllables distinguish again to the teacher, "turns his back adge and his coloured parrot could be boy had told me the yarn! But such "Up this canon, then the stairs up serving 11 months' imprisonment for they remained stationary and theirs. The yearnings for picturesque a method led to complications, and to, and the corridor of the top at swindling immediately before the birth apparently callous. We carried the ed by intonation. They are entirely upon his master and recipes what he Fomance were responsible for many knew that silence was best.

leading to my bedroom. used to be the of the child, the Court gave a verdict insensible man into the shade, ad different from the pygmies discovered has learned. This is cslied" backing.

• young people's knowledge of Borrow's How I cherished my Deadwood canon) Deadwood Dick guided me. in favour of the wife.

ministered brandy, and tried to revive by Sir Harry Johnston near Lake With the Bible in Spain.' To the Dick.

Well do I remember the shop He went over a “divide" (at the top

At the same time the enterprising him. He died in a few minutes. Tanganyika and are smaller.

**They are very like ape-men in well-imex.oned elders the title was under the Caledonian Railway bridge of the stairs), and came down into a lady was carrying on an intrigue with Even then his companions would not the book's passport. To the young in Argyll Street, with a bright window pocker in the hills, a grassy little wealthy retired officer, whom she touch him, and Indian policemen had appearance and the males can move whole book to memory, and he is ex- cple, as they read, the tile seemed full of him and his fellows. But even valley (where the passage widened), succeeded in persuading that the child to be summoned in order to move with surprising agility through tree pected to learn it so thoroughly that 25 hat (during the war) we called in fiction his terrestrial life could not and there, having unsaddled, he left was his, and extracted from him a the poor dead body to the mertuary. branches. Although they are con-he can at any moment repeat the whole ** camouflage." Sometimes, indeed, last for ever; and his son ("Deadwood his horse free to graze. My rocking-promise to marry her after her divorce And yet if that coolie bas posterity pletely uncivilised they have certain of any passage the initial words of youth enjoyed it so obviously, pored Dick Junior" lacked some of his horse, which I had just grown beyond, on the understanding that he would and they could in any way manage simple virtues that mark them entirely which are mentioned to burn.

to pay for a funeral his children and apart from the other African tribes. over it as it simply could not pore sterling qualities, although bringing stood there, had not at that time, bequeath his fortune to their supposed his children's children will worship They neither lie nor steal, and wil

Just before the noonday recess the **Ministering Children," that other sterling qualities that the father passed to a, little relative. Deadwood child. Donker, the midwife, and the and pay deep homage at his grave.

only marry one wife. They will not teacher writes a senñment, a proverb suspicions were aroused. As for had lacked. "Dick jaior was a dette-Dick strode to some bushes and real parents of the child are now all

For all their seaming callousness, eat any meat but that" from animals or a proposition upon a slip of red Jules Verne, he was looked upon too tive, retrieving the family honour; the breasted into their midst. I strode to under arrest on various charges of the Chinese are often kind-hearted that they kill in the bant. They are paper and pastes it upon the "door. bften not as the great author of "The father having been a Hold-up Man. some bushes and breasted against it. fraud, including perjury and the manu and generous. They will allow men Secret of the Island" and "Abandon- Chacun a son idee. Mine was Dead-Thaving first turned the handle. The facture of a false birth certificatc. to die of starvation by the roadside.; extremely timid of other human beings / Each boy as he goes out reads the e4," but as I do not use the phrase wood Dick-senior. I have forgot-bushes whipped back into place and Donker has made a full confession. in any but the literal sense Darunten exactly how he robbed the stage-right ahead was a precipice and a cave ed Liar, But the world is not as ter-coach that ran from the Platte through for Dick.

D.CT

cut

I presume be kept his

:

the lesson."

In this way the papil commits the

but many of them, especially those and have been driven into the jungle lines, and in the afternoon renders to the teacher another line which will affected by the teachings of Buddha, by the more powerful mides.

We found them in the Kily district with the first, make a coupler. But will not kill even body-lice. although the great majority of of the Coago about two-hundred miles

In China all honours 'social, pecuni-

Library" and the Deadwood Dick into which he led me. I think, though ittle room) was my treasure-trove, unsightly, and nothing was done. So Tganisation of its kind in the world, brave. They do not hesitate to attack couraged. Among the ancients, as

IN A GLASGOW WINDOW.

THE CAMPS CAME,,TRUE.

rible as the pessimists would make the sandhuis of North Nebraska and itreasure-trove in the cave. but I have away with his tools on his shoulder-Chinese seem to be callous of human from the western shore of Lake Albert) ary and official, await the scholar, and succor a firm called The Aldine Press, wood. I have forgotten even if the What he gave me, to last for ever, not be repapered.

In those days there rase to our on into the Black Hills and Desc forgotten the details of his loot. leaving the hopeful that the wall woe life, the Tung Wah Hospital, a great Nyaliza. We lived with them for a the teacher has always at hand illus which published the "O'er Land and express messenger was killed by him was a horse, big timber, and silent were with me.. The slits in the paper. Hongkong, is probably the biggest

trious examples to hold up for the The good fates charity managed by the Chinese in week.. Sea Library." the Ching Ching! but I have never forgotten the country mountain" paths.

"In hunting, however, they are emulation of those who become dis- In my, cave my round that door were not, considered

"Library."

it is long since I have conned these derefully

In no part of the world is economy elephants and even the rhinoceros. among the modems, many who were *** cached **. in different 'tock my Deadwood-Dicks from under of material carried to such a fine They will stay on the trail of a single poor or stupid rose to eminence by classic volumes, that the descriptions places: and that crove was various the carpet, and climbed on a chair to pitch as in China. The people, how-elephant for a month at a time until sheer diligence and self-discipline. O a dun day in Glasgow thirty of the mining camps must have been numbers of the Aldine, and kindred, call others from the top of the ward- ever, seem almost incapable of they firally kill him. They attack him The teacher tells of So Chin, who, years ago. I espied a brighness among well done.

publications. There were one or two robe. Then, slipping that limle door economising time or labour. They from the trees with small darts and being afflicted with drowsiness when the schoolbooks of one of my fellows:

other heroes there. One I recall was open. I crawled in over the rafters originated wonderful structures, such arrows."

his nightly studies, thrust a needle, and the brightness there's the word I know that the first mining camps. Always on Hand, the Sportive Sport with a stump of candle. There kept as the Great Wall and the pagodas, used in its exact sense, perhaps) intri-I saw, when I went West at twenty, of the Foot-Hills." He was a won my library. There was my real cave; but they seldom or never repair tribe the Masai" which is gradu-keep him awake; and of the restless Dr. Vandenbergh told of another through his Besh so that pain might

gued me.

kept reminding me, in, the most in-derful fellow, for ever arriving in the the bedroom thereafter became the Machinery is allowed to smash and "What's that?" I inquired.

ally being exterminated by diseases. sistent way, of the covers of these nick of time. His Colt was very grassy pocket in front of it. There go to ruin for the waht of just a He said this tribe was composed against sitting at his books, and who He produced a slim brochure, which cherished booklets. When I was a heavy, and he rested the barrel on I kept my heaven-sent library, thence little knowledge or attention, and yet be handed to me. I held it; I gazed boy, and could travel only on the atlas, his left wrist, the hand being turned i educed such volumes as that the Chinese mechanic is perhaps of the bravest men he had ever met cured himself of a constant disposi spon it; I felt a wonderful--how shall Deadwood Dick took me up winding toward the people, whom he caused boy next door had not read. He pre- the most ingenious and industrious and that they were subject from boy- tion to rise and leave then by plac- hood to a rigorous training that was ing a pail of cold water where his feet I call it? something deeper, than roads between scattered bull-pines to leap round when he exclaimed:ferred Deadwood Dick Junior artisan in the world

would be immersed in it whenever be Thrill. That bibliophile, my grand into quick-rising hills. The trees" Haha!"; and on that palm was the Deadwood Dick (junior) at Galves

The Chinese the fighting and Spartan in its severity:

While with this tribe he took a stood up. "Father, William Walerson Niven, chief were very tall. The forest glades were word Always" printed.. But Dead-on," and the like. Why should he the first people to practise passive moving picture of a lion hunt in which

despise the soldier, but they were of the old Glasgow Public Library, very quiet, 1-sometimes wish I had wood Dick was, to my mind, more of not? There is room for us all. must surely have smiled down on me a complete set of the stories in "my" the goods." He was the touchstone. I was undone at last, as even a resistance and the boycott. They the members of the tribe attacked the of the unscrupulous Pang Kien, who... from Elysium. He would understand. library now, to turn to occasionally By him I measured Always on the great bold-up men seem eventually have often been conquered, but their king of beasts armed only with spears cut off the ends of straws that his On the cover of this, my first find in from the classics of the schools and Hand," Jack Herkaway, and the rest to be undone: The paper round the Victors have always been, absorbed and knives.

the realms of print, was a glamorous from the discoveries of the coteries

by the Chinese. THE MIRACULOUS PLUMBER. diminutive door began to show that picture of the head of a snan, He which are thrust at us with an intoler- I shall never forget my joy when the door was used. The sleuths had wore a big hat, and a mask was overance worse than that which accom- once the bell-pulls went wrong, and a clue; the stronghold was menaced. his forchead and cheek-bones. The panied the advocacy of Ministering a man came and felt along the walls I succumbed to some youthful illness

VING

64 Queen's Road Central.

Experien

HING

Telephone 1417." HIGH CLASS TAILOR & OUTFITTER Specially Seigfted Woollan Suitings Jlist. Arrived. Uplifters.

Perfect Fit Guaranteed.

of the attic rooms, then, with a ́look and probably babbled my secret. `At of satisfaction, bent down and made any rate, they were all discovered careful incisions into the wallpaper there--all that good company, Dead- with a per-knife, disclosing a littlewood Dick, "Always on Hand," Jack door, low in one of the walls, about Harkaway, the Young Stowaways, eighteen inches square, that led on to Ching Ching and they all went to the rafters under the caves. He the faggot. Do I repino? No, not crawled through and mended the undudy. They were, by then, all in wires, came out, and Vent humming my heart forever.

THE LITTLE BOY.

* Eis soul and body were so lean, And so loved wind and sunning, I have to think in fashioning him, God fashioned him for running, "His soul and body were so gay, And so loved games and leaping, I cannot think, in fashioning bita, God fashiored him for sleeping.”

Masai.

Sai Lin, whose active body revolted

A warning is given in the career

teacher told him to arrange evenly. "We had the lion trapped," he said, while the cared and honest Sung and it was only thirty yards from Pin separated a similar bundle and the camera when it charged on the laid the straws straight, one by one, and found that they were all of uni- One of the tribesmen threw his form length without cutting. The spear end missed. The second spear character thus manifested by the two- pierced the lion's forehead, went") showed their teacher which of his clean through the head, and entered pupils would best repay his efforts, the shoulder.

and his judgment was justified by the Before the injured los 'could re event, for Pang Kien came to no good. cover another native rushed upon it while Sung Pin wọn renown and caume and broke its backbone with a mighty wealth, and great honour blow with his spear."

through him to his preceptor.

PRIMO BEER

OBTAINABLE

EVERYWHERE

It is light

Wholesome

and

Refreshing.