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LOGAL AND GENERAL.

A party of Bostonians are to sat pet in August to retrace the foot- steps of St. Paul To make the thing three of the wooden ships that Ad- realistic they should borrow two or miral Benson wants to get rid of, and wreck them at the proper places. Kokusai quotes Mr. Hayashi,

enfazed in an illicit

deal

believe a remarkably as displeasing to the gods the spices of Ind or the clean and fragrant would be placed on the activities of

1 A

quite a yorug whale. The supersti want me to grovel and complain that Club with forty members and lots is handicapped. His chief handicap tious pagan population gathered by I am less wise or something than he more coming in. It may become a (overlooking, if you please, the fact huadrals that day sad the next is? And so to minister to his bell-Big Thing. It will represent Hong that he may not always be a Dr. around the dead monster, declaring satisfaction. His friend who thus hong culture, and be responsible Johnson) is hyper-consciousness of Mears. Whiteaway, Laidlaw and New millinery is advertised by ̈ it was a spirit of the sea and shooting betrayed him to me quoted the opinion for the cherishing of any reputed the existence of his audience. (But Co. Ltd. whose advertisement has against the missionary who had killed with a laugh, that might or might talent passing through. It

will shouldn't there be a word like "Ject been changed with this issue. it.

not mean disagreement with it. I feed celebrities and force them ence") His audience or lectience is From morning to noon what hastened to say then, and I here to talk to Hongkong for Hongkang's hydrabeaded, and its real likes and * pleasantly Christian pastime ! readily repeat, that the young gentle good. Meanwhile it brings together dislikes can only be guessed at by Cruelty to Animals has been formed A Society for the Prevention at Perhaps the superstitions pagans man was quite right. I am self-satis- those in Hongkong who love books. him. It must he tickled, amused, at Hongkong. Has this anything to were Buddhists, who have ideasfied. I am so satisfied with myself There was previously no such agency. intrigued, interested, but not shocked.de with the slave girl question? asks about the treatment of animals, that the opinions of me or mine. They all loved in secret and alone That last is hearsay: 1 think shock the Japan Chronicle. ideas more enlightered than this held by such as he, do not occur to before. When the new books arrive, tactics might be beneficial all round. Christian sportsinan seems to have. me as things that matter, Were, it and the slackers see them under our If he cannot please it, he must not Or is it, can it be, that this priest not that I saw it would furnish aosters, and ask what they must do displease it. Too much in the daily has a spite against whales, because basis for a paragram, I should have to become members of such a desirable journalists thoughts is the thought one of them once swallowed a pro-forgotten it a moment after heating organization, one of us is going to that his lactience must on no account phet! If Jonah had happened it. This young man does not know tell em things. It is the first step be bored. Hence sensationalism," to be inside this one. well, he would it, but he is beginning a stage of that cost and Hongkong people and stunts." Part of the hydra- have been a Jonah, wouldn't he? mom and other judgments that have an enormous capacity for headed beast has more savvy than Now will someone please take Maglio's left a score years ago. As he thinks waiting till some other body takes it. the other, the presumably larger gun away from him?

He ought now, I thought then, and as I and That they can ever be cured of this part. Part of it likes intelle tual manager, of the Imperial Hotel, not to have one.

other men of my age think now, so pernicious inertia is, as the Babu honesty and terry austerity. Tokyo, as stating that visitors to A cheerful broad he will think by and by. This young in the story said. impregnably in- Part of it prefers its own habitual Japan are steadily decreasing in minded young lady of man does not know that all men are conceivable."

level of conversation, both for sub-number owing to the inadequacy of noble parentage."

re very much alike, their resemblances

The hostess jects and dieties. Then again the hotel accommodation and the ex sident in Shanghai, ad- | greater than their differences, because OF THE IMPROPRIETY hersell was wretched journalist is conscious all tremely high prices. He also men vertises in the China youth loves to fancy itself unique,

tions intensity of feeling in the going to drop the time of an archipelago of pre-United States against the Japanese Press for a gentleman | sui generis, a rura opis. It is not.

a lump of ice judices through which he must steer as in some part the cause of the to correspond with. He must be merely self-satisfied, it is rainglorious, in ny beer, and I raised a protestant his frail craft. So he backs and fills, diminution of visiters,

of 33 to 48, refined intelligent, Age and disillusionment bring the palm. Her husband (a whisky gybes, takes sudden short tarka. aristocratic in temperameat. whose self-satisfaction which is really truer drinker) said: Woman! You must The metaphor is not good, The

The story from our correspondent views of life and aspirations are on humility than any dreamed of by try to remember that in the best yachtsman enjoys dificulties; the to Peking of the seizure by the higher plane than the average foreign this censorious youth, since it means beer swilling circles that is not done.journalist feels himself a useless American Consul at Changsha of er's in the East,' What a pity I am that ambition has gone, and the and what is more, never was, even in parasite, a contemptible worm, when opium worth between $300,000 over S, and married. The rest of patient is satisfied to be merely the most ancient tites. Passing he is not allowed to steer a straight and $400,000, and about ane ton in the description fits me so closely himself one of the herd and no over, as too well known to require course. Letters have always weight, draws attention to the daring that I suspect she has henni ef me.langer paxes as something greater. quotation, the passage in the 2nd chart that the public writings of of these engaged in the traffic and Ltd. Alas! Box 1008, it cannot be. My Get ready to be imitated, you whom chapter of the 1st Book of Jedediah, their authors lack. Writing to some the value of the drug, which, it is to old woman would be sure to protest. self-satisfaction imitates, for I am grobibiting the admixture of water, well known and trusted friend, with somed, is the native product

A cruel fate.

self-satisfied by conviction. I am which is ite in another form, I recall the perfect lova that casteth cut says the N. C. Daily News. That a satisfied that I can never be better the, well known lines in the Greck fear, the writer's thoughts are not nuther of Chinese should be or worse than I am, and as for you of Agaraphon, bk. ii, which I may clogged with rear thoughts, they involving so much money is the best al, be irritate and be what pro- translate freely, for the sake of your flow like a pure stream, and naturally possible indication of the magnitude bably comes to the same thing, for womanly ignorance of the classics, assume a decent garb. But "the the opium trade in the interior. I do not care a dam what you think into "Though a woman melt in tears, grocer when he groces "--the literary Mr. Adams, the US. Consul, is to be That you have won my heart. I ought to be, the sort o man I arr, ice must never melt in beers." More- grocer which a journalist is must warmly congratulated on the de "Of noble parentage (orphan)., that sort of man is Me.

over those excellent Latins, Corcus the handle treacle as well as tobacco, cis:ve action he took in the matter, How thoughtful. Lest their mobility

He's 2. migat promise to be too oppressive,

good Lad Younger, and Tigillians the Physician, greasy and vulgar and personally and if every foreign official was as they are, by one word in parenthesis,

GOOD LAD. Cough. In fact. I have pasages strongly condemning unpleasant things as well as the careful of his country's honour in Euch cases a very decided damper pushed out of the way, and the road

good lad. High-souled, and all that, proposition that beer made clear for refined and intelligent remember well meeting him at in that wise cooled. The latter would have panned out"

may be teas of Cathay. How D:. Johnson

some of the confraternity engaged aristocrats to rush at the prize. I dinner. Perhaps meaning to

in the trade. be indeed. in his famous work so full modern journalist, facing all its infi. trust the police will regulate the polite, he steered the talk to the of curious and useful pieces of in-midations, restrictions, and other traffic.

Press. its noble mission. its great formation concenig all quarters of temptations to insincerity, is an in- or rather that section of it between The Peking-Shanghai Air mail, Some time ago. I opportunity for good, etc.-the sort the then known globe, as that the teresting speculation. came across a note of thing you may hear at the annual people of Ethiopia were accustomed

Tsinan and the capital, came into The game is not operation on July 1 and the service in a book or maga-conference of the Institute of Journal-not less than six days a week to walk SCURBILITY? being played. has been maintained without a bitch zine article aboutists. Maybe I'm after having a on two legs, and that the Megalocians,

How can I be of any kind. Col. F. V. Holt, the the singing of the missel-thrush, and little politeness in me own shtuma strange folk, wore hats upon their expected to carry on unless someone foreign advisor to the Aeronautic- in my impetuous fashion at once in mach, for I headed him off by saying heads, and would eat leeks if persuad-accuses me of scurrility or something al Department, was a passenger on the this column called the writer an ass, that the oinking of newspapers was ed to it by necessity, records a case once in a while? The beast in the first postal piane to leave Peking. because, as I said, the raissel-thrush & trade like any other. that it had in which grievous bodily harm was cage roars only when you prod it. Letters sent from Shanghai to northe does not and cannot sing. That was its tricks, that most of us were quite the fate of a wife that dropt ice in If it be not stirred up, why shenid it een towns and Peking have been found a considerable time ago, and I don't unfit to teach or improve our readers, beer, her thirsty mate happening to do other than sleep This is dull to arrive 10 hours sooner than those suppose it was in the mind of a and that anyway the people did not find the axe convenient to his hand in for the spectators who have paid the air section from Feking to the sen: by the ordinary mails, while reader who sent me a copy of the want that they wanted to be tickled the first paroxysm of his displeasure, to come into the tent. Where are present destination of the service is Clarion this week, in which Blatch and amased, and that I; hopeless and another in which a carpenter the prodders? Perhaps discouraged covered by the fast Vickers-Vimy ford answers a Scotsman who reproved of doing them good, was content to that had drunken many pots of beer by the placard that some busybody machines in under two and a balt him for writing about the song of the give them what innocent amusement so treated became a rebel to the has hung up: "Keep away. This hours. Neither in Tsinan or Shang- missel-thrush. Scotsman told him I could.. His hair, four inches long. State. Moreover, coming to that beast is dangerous." Pooh! A hai is the Chinese Post Office's ven- that the missel-thrush has less music stood on end. His eyes Bashed. rare and carious work in medieval caged animal cannot do were than ture receiving the support which is in him than a duck. Blatchford His voice thrilled. ""Tis," he said, Italian in which a certain Venetian roar If things in the circus ita due. People in Shanghai, stated triumphingly cites Gilbert White of the most damnable confession that that drank of beer for a wager Selborne, who says that in Hampshire ever I heard." After that I ceased to Here my hostess interrupted, re- blame the animals.

seem very quiet just now, don't an official at the Post Office in Sze- chuen Road, bave apparently and Sussex the missel-bird sing listen to him or to anybody else, marking Hoots, ma laddie. That

When I read early on forgotten that the service has been early in the year, even in bad weather, going off into one of my trances, may be a' scholarship or a havers: DETECTIVE

in a detective story

in full swing for a week.'" and is named the "stom obck" where people cannot follow me, so but if it means that your friend STORIES of the coroner at an in consequence. Now I am an en- I heard no more. There wasn't disna want ice in his beer, I kenned

inquest patting on

Some highly coloured picture. thusiastic reader of White. and I any beer, and not enough whisky, so that syne he lifted his haand the the black-cap and sentencing the Postcards of bis Imperial Highness missed that. Blatchford cites other

way he did." Hamour, of sorts, hero to be hanged, I know that may already appeared in the Japanese the Crown Frince in England bave writers of whom I know nothing.

You know that may be wasted on the female sex. other equally remarkable things will shops, which shows ccosiderable Yet the bird we in the north know as

Though they bad happen before said bero dies. The enterprise on their part. the missel-thrush I have always

way Hongkong THE WISHES.. often and often seen motive of the murder was the "i- enough, they are exhibited with a believed not to sing. It is, owing

people - bare, when

that retrievable rain" of the hero's sweet-piece of paper pasted over the face.. to its harsh voice, sometimes called using the street cars? The first in particular table at the restaurant, heart's father, in a financial specula- After we have heard so much about tons, he convinced me that the length the shrike, sometimes the shrill-cock sits down in the seat nearest the and though it bore a card which said tion. The poor old gentleman was the extremely democratic way in (Cumbrian variant, "shilary-cock," entrance, and forces all followers to Engaged" in two languages, and reduced to a beggarly £1000 a year, which the Crown Prince and the with long a.) It takes its name from squeeze by him. Man did that to my chair was tilted (a recognized apart from the heroine's £500 from Prince of Wales went abou, this is my statement to my mother, the statement he had called a lie. In

Wright, me this week. I trod on his toes sign among real Christians) that her mother's jointure, Naturally, as the mere striking, says the Japan and Mrs. Kenneth E. Greig a the secret recesses of my soul I have quoted in the E.B., gives the Anglo- He said something. We were the bunch of Pentecostal missionaries he would desire to save his sweet-be surprised to hear that the young Chronicle. People in England would Saxoo name scric (compare" screech") only people in that seat. I asked jumped my claim, and I had to go heart and her father from each ruin, Prince who stood among them, so. as meaning one of the Turdida. him if he would mind answering & elsewhere for tifhn. Consequently, the hero is suspected of scragging the freely, chatting and smiling amicably a Scots bor is likely to confuse the question. "I am," I said, "deeply when some unknown miscreant placed multimillionaire at the other end of could not even be pictorially repre song thrush (throstla or mavis) with interested in psychology. I want in my hands & Shanghai tract entitled the speculation. In stories of this sented in Japan in a similarly public the larger bird. If as Blatchford to and out why people like you sit Christian Literature A quarterly order, all business contracts are cal-way. The custom would appear the of year ago No, the string bays, the suissel-thrush is the finer down at the entrance, instead of Link with cur Friends," I felt in-celled, and losses automatically re- more strange from the ancient tradi makes it not quite fifty, I see. singer of the two, it is curious that moving inward so as to let those tuitivey that it could not really be stored, by the death of one of the tion in Europe of covering a portrait. 80 years. The funeral will pass but I know that what I told wished as the song thrush. Readers would be in your own interests. (&cse it was signed by a man named the way the head of the C.I.D. is shali probably see little more of this

the inferior singer should be disting following get in. Seems to me it meant for me. But I read it, be- parties. What I like about them is to indicate some disgrace mother that day was a Truth, and who know anything about it are You force people to walk over your MacGillivray, and I used to go with always at his desk, at any hour of curious custom. It is stated that the I think now that she knew it was invited to communicate. True, that my kite had more to it than string, and

feet. You suffer. They don't. You a lassie of that name, who had yellow night or day. If the murder happen- cinema films of the rince's visit are that it did go

Here's a bit from get them again if they leave the tram hair, and the softest hands, and a ed in Hongkong, and I wanted to save can hardly cover the face in those

to be shown in due course, and they out of sight in the blue, “like a lark.”

a recent book by before you. Again you are the real bonnie laugh. And then I turned the hero by bursting into the office I had watched it do it, and my visual

Ford Madox sufferer; not they. Now why do you to page 2 and met these words: of the Super Detective to men- recollection was intense and vivid

Huefier, which do it?" He met my eyes squarely. Dubtless many who discuss tion that I had heard a ricahs The Governor of Hongkong, in- and clear. I was a budding poet

looks as if it ought "You are." he said, "deeply interested Christianity in the magazines are coolie say that he carried a mysterious taking up the subject of rarkreating, that day, and my father's unhappy to be underlined or at least ticked in psychology. I'm pleased to meet themselves living immoral lives. fare from the spot half an hour after has shown interest in a problem that passion for science tuned me out of off in the margin.

you. So am I. Before I answer Arguments against Christianity are the innocent here was proved to be has bore hardly upon the inhabit- the flowery fath onto the macadam Let the unpractised reader try your question, let me ask you another,most welcome to such persons."

elsewhere-that's the way they do it, In a place where expansion is inf- aats of the Colony ter many years. or tarmac highway of analytic to wite merely a short not to a You have pointed out that by sitting Wirereapon, naturally, I bethought you know the kindly, shrewd, white possible and where people do not journalism. Ichabod..

tradesman, and he will find that the 39 I did, and forcing you to walk me of the mishes who so rudely took haired chief sleuth would not take wish to settle down all their Irves, My respectfu com- phraseology he, employs is that o- over me, I was the sufferer, not you, my chair, and of the missionary who out a gold pencil and invite me to the bouse problem is always a serious MA-LIO AND pliments to C.M.K., dead-and-gone generations fof note and that should you get out first, once stole my deck chair, and of take a chair and tell it in my own one, and for many years not only in THE WHALE, who very properly writers. Let him go a little further, must suffer again. Well, as aanother who stola bot e o whisky, words." No. In the first place he Hongkong but in other British Eastern wrote to the Press and try to write an exposition of paychologist, can you tell me why and of one in Hongkong who was a would not be in, and the Chinese ports the profiteer has fattened on jury. I had been out flying my that it was wrong of a priest called some moral truth, or an acrount of that worries you?" I thought of notorious liar and hypocrite, and I clerk would not be able to tell me the income of the householder. The ret kite, and was excited about it. Maglio to shoot a whale in the way some mental adventure, and he will plenty good answers later-less spree prepared to say unkind thugs about when he would. When calling on evil of the house agent is one with I think that some of the blue lift, described in the B.C. propagandist find, after he has written it, that he desk slly air, as a Banque Indus missionar es gane al y, and especially any Hongkong public official on tapas Chronicle. In 1918 the the

which Kobe is familar, azys he creamy send, the sylvan wildness, magazine called 'he Heck. Magho has employed phrases from Addison's trielle clerk, would say but at the about this one who writ s such untrue; public business it is better to phone fara hronicle. In 1918 the i» ruisce ad got into my blood while flying is in the Hoitung Mission District, Spectator, cadences from Dr. Johnson's moment I was nonpinssed A the uncharitable, and machistian things first and find out if you'll find agency which had gne thousands of mykite. That is the great good of and carries a sporting gua. The Lives of the Fonts, and the vocabulary, same, the space between the seats of magazine water. But I repeated him in.

That would never do houses into its hands and was cone- tite flying, that it must be done in whale eram into an inlet at Swabue, sgain let us say, of one of the editors being so narrow, the local practic of my inten io. I thought it over, in a detective story. Besidestinpally putting up th

lein air and the free wind, with open and on hearing of it the priest of almost any dignified journal of of sitting tight in the first sest you and decided not to do it. After all, whch

But what's the use? the house agent is in him elf a very rents. Yet yes and distended lungs, and the of love, rushed there and to-day. There will be nothing of arrive at is a bad one, and should I reflected, i. is just as well to support A realistic detective story, correct useful member of society so long as soul, by consequence, a sponge for began at once to fire at the whale, the writer's self."

be stopped somehow. I would like the missionaries, because they are as to procedure in detail, would pro- he does not become a me non list, and auty. So I was excited and babbled Maddened with pain, the whale dived With phraseology" substitute a couple of hundred heavy weights the type of men whx, unsupported, bably be condemned by popular run amok. A litle healthy compat my mother of the marvellons hape and surged and moved about in a for "vocabulary," I would endorse to join my contemplated new secret would almost inevitably lead liver taste. The people who buy 'em and sion in the house problem bas, been at the day, how that my kite had gone great rage, all the while reddening every word of that. Few people society of Tramcar Manners Reform of crime.

read 'em are like the curate who took needed for many years in many in and up and up, till it was a dot the water with its blood, but could write as they speak Many speak, each one vowed to step firmly

e a lark, and then went clean out not succeed in again finding the well and write ill

Dr. Johnson is des breakfast with the bishop, and when countries, and since the war it has him and his scat. Slogan: Move

DR. JOUNGOs. cribed by M. A. B. asked about the eggs, said he really become more necessary than ever. It is reported to me up; here comes one of the Elephants. Books) a

Mainly About Preferred them bad. that a young gentle-

a rather truculent disliken my

At last I have and dominating old bear," and

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ADVERSABIA.

À PARABLE

- STRING.

When I was

very little boy, my father, who was a scientific genius, did me a great

a

o string I possessed did not support

hated string ever sincs, although I

cannot evacuate the poison he put

in my mind that day, nor cut the

habit of measuring the string to every

kite men fy. That was thousands

f eight. My father shocked me entrance to the inlet. Fr. Maglio

y telling me I mustn't tell lies. kept on firing at every chance from remember the shock. I denied moming till noon, when the whale "You said your kite went clean began to show signs of exhaustion.

the mistletoe. Thomas

WRITING

SHOULD BE INDIVIDUAL.

2x

BELY. BATISITED.

I came away early, anyway.

CATCHING A idiotic and imitating

TARTAR.

on every foot interposed between

me occupy

Curicusly

But we

The

of sight, didn't you?" "Yes, and strange to say, 'succeeded at last they have such a self satisfied tone.

It was attached to string, in finding the way out. However, Why should selfsatisfied tonesome Agestiononenally live. He also suggest the answer, It: not "Yes, father, it had only strength to swim across irritate, unless it be that his dis- thrown out in this column by your that he was honest and courageous wing the string Letna melents the bay and die on the ends of the action with me indicates his elderly buttoon has been taken up enough to be himself. This suggests to time to send far it after the at yours and is just what its name implie No doubt with the best in shore of the town of Swabue. It was satisfaction with himself! Does he seriously, and Hongkong has a Book the thought that the daily journalist and Stooper by alberoista ole by Il Chemists and Ste

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