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SATURDAY NOVEMBER

1921.

"Yes, I know." said he. "It's

By the way, talling of out, so they stopped to get a night of tastes quite wrongly, gals peered by written later by Mister Harry in his nothing. Seel The cloud has panË EINSTEIN Einstein, I have lately him. They had waited half an hour other papers doing what it thinks copybook, from his own recollections over. Come and have a cold one." I AND THE met in my reading, by on the sidewalk, freesing with the would not pay itself to do, and but it supplemented by those of; Tommy) went and had two, and dreams and

an anonymous writer, a crowd, but were disappointed at comes with a Chadhandish leader ob may be accepted as having formed poetry fled, and I felt like writing a

most ingenious bit of last-the Prince had changed his jacting to publicity for divorce cases,authentic parts of the discourse which, good deal of The N.G, Daily News has just sug-ss we shall see, was the memorable vituperative paragraph about Llord logic. To avoid offence (he means to mind. I said, with a Churchill, or Winston George. But mitigate it) he refers to omnipotent surprise; "Is it possible that you two gested that the Shanghai Court should occasion of a permanent interruption first I had to jot down these notes of poner simply as Logos. What shape have lived in Londen all your lives exercise its power to hear all sach to these studies, and of the dissolation an experience, besanse, you know, is logos? According to Einstein, all and have never seen the Prince of cases privately. This would be of the association of master and you never know, don't you know? measurements depend on the relative Wales!" Apparently it was their unjust and anwise, the N.C. Daily pupils. In other words, Mr. Certain, Extraordinary things velocities of ourselves and the object turn to be surprised, for they exclaim-Ness is only one paper among many senior, having had sufficient curicsity The logos must have ed, "What an idea! Why, we have contrary views will be held by to and his soc's copybook, formed that some people immeasured. A POLNE

seen him hundreds of times" They numerous others. If this encourages the opinion that his confidence in Mr. CONTORTIONIST Agine suitable for this relority becau36--

column-you've no prion the Logce has energy. had seen him hundreds of times, yet my contemporary to think itself more Barlow as a tutor for his son had been ides. A policeman, reporting to me Energy is a property of matter: All they had waited half an hour in the respectable and decent than the rest, grierously misplaced, and summarily that Esau had taken may advice, and matter is moving as nearly as possible gloom and the bitter cold, in the I don't mind that. Its main argu- dismissed him with angry reproaches. "The bridegroom and the bride in rejoined, getting Kelly to plead pre-in a straight line. The Logos there midst of a jam of patients from the ment, if you please, is that the foreign vious good conduct in mitigation. and fore is moving with some velocity or same asylum, on the chance of seeing Courts in Shanghai deal with such such cases do not meet and become so forth, said "Oh, by the way. This other. But even to obtain a relative him again. It was a stupefying state cases in camera, and that our more acquainted with each other before give one British marriage, as is our superior custom,” might he suitable for Adversaria," measurement we must be able to see ment, but one is obliged to believe the open methods and told me a long long-winded story what we are measuring. Now we English, even when they say a thing community a bad name! It is a bum observed Mr. Barlow. "They are. about a policeman in hospital who cannot see the Logos any more than like that. I fumbled around for a argument, and it sounds dishonest. paired in accordance with the wishes same argument would hold of their parents, through the agency told the nurse that he wasn't a con we can see the ether. Even if we remark, and got out this oce: "I The tortionist, to which there was positive-could see it we could only obtain a can't understand it at all. If I had against having such cases tried out of professional matchmakers. This ly no point. Because, as I told him. faise and distorted measurement. never seen General Grant I doubt if here at all. We have only quite custom is eugenically wrong, and nurses are not interested in the But if we could see it and knew its I would do that even to get a sight of recently get this long overdue instal-prevents the physical improvement

ment of justice.

of the race wich follows natural avocations of patients, but only in velocity we could fix its shape accord him."

But have we got it? This selection.” their physical condition, poor fellows, ing to Einstein's system of absolute Their blank faces showed that they

DOMICILE Shanghai case of Stinger "I perceive, Sir", berspat and if this bloke had told her that he measurement. A priori again the wondered where the parallel came in.

or Slinger was not in Master Manford, that I have was a contortionist, but too ill to Logos is abiquitous and surrounds the Then they said blankly: Of course follow his trade, then her womanly world like the ether. We cannot not. He is only a President." It is heard until after a long argument been entertaining an erroneous con- of the doubtless a fact that a prince is a about domicile, from which I gather-ception of the meaning of eugenics, sympathies might have been aroused." measure the velocity and all that, and we should have earth as compared to the ether permanent interest, an interest noted that those of us who regard the as I gathered from reading, more than learned what she said to that. But

any velocity at subject to deterioration. The general old country as Home, and intend from your former discourses, that the to tell her that he wasn't-well, just

Neither then can we tell who was never defeated, the general some day to go back, are barred from advocates of eugenics favour the use your coramonsense, and ask your if the Logos moves with us or who never held a council of war, the local relief, and must go to London guidance of the choice of young self what you supposing you were we are rushing through it with incredi- only general who ever commanded a for it. That, you know, may be people contemplating marriage by nurse, would think if a patient told he speed. Logos velocity therefore connected battle-front twelve hundred good for the lawyers, bat it is a hope older and wiser persons, such as cur Tommy's error is shared by many Ltd. you, not what he was, but something cannot be known. neither can the miles long, the smith who welded lessly wrong way of considering the parents invariably are."

that he want. Why, I myself could Logos be seen. The Logos therefore together the broken parts of a great needs of the public. I say that go to hospital (though what the China is not to be measured. The question repablic and re-established it where wherever there are facilities provided older and no wiser than he," remarked Mail would do if I did goodness only of wright too is beyond us. Weight it is quite likely to outlast all the for marrying, there also should be. Farlow. The science of eugenics knows) and I could tell the nurse that is the same as energy. There are two monarchies present and to come, was provided facilities for unmarrying. A is too often confused with the science person of no serious British subject should be able to get of cattle breeding. It would be im I am not a brass polisher, or a muffin forms of energy in the universe. One really baker, or a Licensed Inspector of is the disintegration of matter, the consequence to these people. To full British justice wherever he hap possible to regulate human mating by their training. my pens to be so long as his flag flies in legislation and undesirable and Presbyterian Amahs, or a trainer of other is gravitation or centrifugal them, with unicorns, or a centipede catcher, or force. Both increase directly with General was only a man, after all, that place. Personally, I shall not unfortunate in its results if it were any one of the amp sateen ways in the mass of the matter, and are indeed while their Frince was clearly mach divorce any of my wives, bad as they possible. Nature herself is the most which men who are not journalists only another way of expressing the more than that-a being of a wholly mostly are, nntil I can get a divorce eugenically se. Marriages of con- and con- as conveniently and as cheaply as Ivenience, marriages arranged with earn their living, and what could I mass. If there were no mass there unsimilar construction

B view to wealth ar social expect her to say, except "Lie down would be no force. Therefore if the stitution, and a being of no more can get a postal order.

Subsequent to the writing position, sy produce satisfactory and try to sleep. You'll feel better Logos is heavier than the matter blood and kinship with man that are in the morning?"

of the paragram higher up, offspring, by the accident of the After all, as Watt in the universe, it would be stronger the serene eternal lights of the

SPOTS. about British Columbia, parties being mutually agreeable, but says, saune isn't a fool Why tell than it. The Logos is therefore at firmament with the poor dull tallow

the editor handed me a the results depend on pure chance, her what she can see for herself? any rate heavier than all the matter candles of commerce that sputter and

Discussing the. In- in the universe put together. Now as die and leave nothing behind but a letter from Sun Cheong of 221 Pender and cannot be calculated. Frequently

Street. Vancouver. He finds faalt ceterioration is a visible sequel. In NOT AT ALL dian rebel Mahamo position: the universe is a curved pinch of ashes and a stink."

Cur Thursday leader with a delightful little story that an-deed, if I were a eugenist, I would be mad Ali a Doily Nobody and finite, but, owing to the writer says he is a curvature, matter moving through it,

writer got in ahead other Vancouver man sent me, about logical and point out that marriage of me, first milking me an old Chinese wit-who advised itself is engenically undesirable, for Oxford graduate, who failed to get such as the earth or light or wireless

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Triolets are almost TRIOLETS. bound to be im- promptu. If you do

into the Indian Civil Service. It is waves, cannot possibly reach outside for ideas, about that attack on our Court Sheriff, bawling the name of a parents capable of producing one good Bless you, man who had died, to try the Ouija child in the beydey of their romance curious," says the writer, "that notit. On the other hand the curvature Hongkong architecture.

Apparently Sun Cheong may later become incompatible, and a few of the prominent Indian agit takes them and they get beut round he didn't know what a crepidoma was, board. ators are men who are disappointed before they reach the circumference. sad when he thanked Providence for thinks I am not sufficiently respectful should they continue to reproduce, as at their failure to get into the I. C.S." Force therefore cannot operate outside eradition he resily meant for the to the Chinese. If he could see dis often happens, inferior offspring must Quite a reasonable provocation, the universe. The Lagos therefore is in office dictionary, which is a big, fat, respect to the Chinese in that story, or be expected. Popular experience. think, seeing that the Raj promised the universe and in consequence is heavy one, that hiss felled many an if he could find it in any line I have has learned to couple with what obstrepulous caller in its time. Now ever written in my life in, any it calls a "love child” the no racial discrimination, and that it! is notorious how the racial bar ex- There was a lot more of it, proving if the dictionary be right in defining paper, he must have eyes of idea and rapectation of beauty and clades from both civil and army in like manner. that the logos is a crepidoma as a foundation platform, extra special, double-action, multo ftaess. The conservation of the best Courts building most magnifying power. It is rather sypes of the human race, and the static, and a magma, and etheric; our

lots of people possibility of the evolution of better The Mission to Kent but that bit is enough for you to certainly has one, though not a high comical, since hop pickers has issued digest at one real.

one. It was the criticism that lacked are willing to testify that if I had not types, would seem better served by

say's THEREFOR? its report. It

a crepidoms. The D. P. editor is & been so pig-headedly pro-Chinese as I what is called "Free Love," and the 'outward indiference to

Ever notice that there lucky man if the great army of am, I would be financially much better State or community regarding itself: WHAT'S IN is 8 ior of social pre-authorized architects Eere do not go of. I still think the Chinese the most at in loco parratis to all the children religion has become more manifest

YAME? judice. in a name? after his scalp..

highly civilized race in the world, and Io its rare. Certain politicians and year after year. In the same report

Nearly every man now-i

There is an army of was engairing how to get naturalized theorists called Socialists do include it says that the behaviour of the

inspectors who pester as a Chinese subject, when they start this in their scheme for a wiser social hop-pickers is now exemplary. The adays smiles despisingly at an Alger- suggestion of cause and effect is as non, rather pities a Reginald, and

and annoy tram pased soldiering again, and discouraged system, and if there be any reason sengers in order to me. Now I am the only really civilized for eugenics at all, then they would enescapable as it is tragic. After suspects & Percy. John he always

prevent cheating by the person in the world, I think, and it appear to be the true eugenists. fifty years of mission work Las it thinks of as "honest," while every

vulgar dog, whom any fare collectors, or by the public, or is a mighty lonesome feeling. I am

It was this monstrous teaching that come to this, that exemplary conditet Tom is a has to be admitted in the case of boozy tip may slap on the back and by both; and one would think some not introducing these personal ex caused Mr. Certain, Senior, most be disgustingly familiar with. Thomas, could be spared to attempt some planations to convince Sun Cheong. people manifestly indifferent?

Our garrison in Palestine on the contrary, is a smag hypocrite, regalation of the present disorderly for he seems to be a pup, anyway. If properly, to put an end to the

educational career of Mr. Barlow. is costing us £500 per probably a profiteer, and sure to be arrangement whereby second-class all Chinese were as stupid and cheekyNot to be continued. I'm tired of man, or two and a half & chrat. Harry is a good fellow. So passengers pouring through the sliding as he, I would be tempted to support him if you are not. I think my way and can fly is going to find spiritual

is James, in a pions, steadygoing door, inwards and outwards, impede the Asiatic Exclusion party.

of getting rid of him rather, a neat sustenance in the food of an age that

Before the sense; but your popular hero is Jim, the first-class passengers. I was one

Before they had their idea, don't you. The next book I thought thunder was God speaking?

own dah, a few of our attempt to parody will have to be Man's done with it. It means nothing politicians made us a Mandatory, every time, and when it becomes of several held up on the ladder of

police used to favour a better known. I find, to my horror, to hima; it gives nothing to him. He cruel fate first made us taxpayers. Jimmie you may say that greater the tram recently while a stream of

Bill is common, people came through that sliding door HISTORIES. certain hotel. Boniface that very few people know "The His- turns all that's in him to get all he This may or may not be the last of love bath no man.

thus had "friends at wants out of this world and let the the Crusades; it certainly looks like and liable to be either liked or dis- to alight, and adither conductor or

the most expensive. My congregation liked; but Alf, while a good man to driver took any notice. That sliding court, and when he needed police tary of Sandford and Berton." My next go rip."-

As I stood waiting for may now sing the hymn (if they have drink with, must on no account be door is for the fare collector, and not belp used to ask for it informally, in generation was "brought up on it,"

a friendly way. One night his new the street car on Monday the heart) entitled "Beautiful Zion." lent moces. Robert is a bit of a for passengers but it is becoming

I see that one of our rascal, but harmless when known as thoroughfare. Occasionally, owing hat was taken from the bar. Some waiters got Bob. As for Samuel, a wise man to the way our est soinetimes run one had pitched the policeman's, so mixed up this week will shoot him at sight. Charles, or tail first, a poor Chinese gets on the he took the best one in sight, in lieu recognize that their first A few spots of rain fell, and noting the among the bristling "facts" of the Charles, is a good friend in trouble.first-class end by mistake, and it is of it. Boniface, not knowing this, not get the catch right in the first get the effect. The following rhymes. duty is to telephone the Daily Press little pits they made in the dust of Shantung problem. I can sympathise George is respectability personified. only fair, and it is safer, to let complained of the theft of his hat to start off, it is practically impossible to

The study of moden Cuthbert-but I needn't remind you him or her go to the proper place, by the officer who had got it. reporter all about it. He was very the street, I remembered. The faint with him.

that short cut. I am not alluding to The officer said he would make en-are nothing like a triolet, but they are stern about this on Monday, when re- and because of its associations history is not easy. Yor not only what that name means to you.

An old soldier put his head such cases, but to the regular habit quiries. Every day Boniface asked related by marriage, as it were:

Did you notice that Ham porting how a car had fallen forty agreable odour was the smell of road have the fact of what did happen in

FIRST in at a local bar, and said which is growing. At the Post Office if he had found out anything, and st

Ilton's broke out again feet," and then been spirited away in dust that has lain in warm sunshine, Paris, you have two or three versions

Am. "Gents, there's a woman (where it is desirable that people last he said teasingly that he had

With a sort of grand slam A few hours. He did not tell us how, and is disturbed by rain. I thought of it, and you have Mr. Lloyd

fainted just outside. Any should not stand about) I have seen a clue. This made Boniface more evrn piecemeal, it had been so quickly of country roads at Home, carrying a George's two subsequent statements

What a pity that Ham retrieved from a diamed pit 10 or thick layer of dust that silences the that the reason for it happening body spare a little whisky or brandy?" first class passengers waiting to get eager, and he never seemed able to. In the triolet vein ?

Can't be made to explain footfall, and of how they had just this proves that it didn't and couldn't have A glase was at once handed to him, aboard while second-class passengers forget his confounded hat. He was

Why he wastes such a dam 1 extremely smell, when a shower fell. I was a happened. Sir Maurice Hankey is and he thrust it to his month and came pouring out of that sliding-door always asking about it. One day the

Lot of labour in vain. anxions that the little sad. Nay, ask me not why, for one of our historians. He tells bow drank it of, remarking, as he handed exit at the foot of the ladders. The officer forgot, and went to that very Thanks. It traffic manager should start a series bar wearing that very hat. Boniface Government should I do not know, Does one ever? Here the Chinese representative at a meet the tumbler back:

Bat you Hongkong not be suspected ofis bine sky, and a sense of well-being. ing of the council of Premiers men- always did upset me to see a woman of lectures to tram conductors, on the pounced on it.

lines of the Commission's Report on police are wonderful," he cried. EXPLANATIONS anything so unfair Here is such last for life that one tioned "the 21 demands," and bow faint"

"A prince," wrote Dr. Child Labour, "explaining the bear had almost abandoned hope, but you, as catering for the longs to live several lives at once, to this little conversation then fol

Clemens, "is not to ing that intellect has on manual you stick to the scent, and at long well-to-do few first and the general know what it feels like to baa sampan lowed:-

Mr. Lloyd George asked what SEE. us what he is to a work."

last you recover him. It is admirable, public afterwards. Specifically, I hope woman, a tram conductor, a police-

nltimatum he referred to..

European, of course,

Quite a number of old What will you take?" The officer MR. HARRY ORE'S POPULAR no one will suppose that they are man, a sparrow on the pantiles. One

President Wilson asked if Mr. We have not been taught to regard

Hongkong peopleseem quenched his thirst, and went home

SERIES: holding up the Wanchai Gap tramway wants to know far, far more than onë

Lloyd George had never heard of him as a god, and so one good look at

to have settled in bareheaded this time. scheme while carrying on with the feels to be possi le while caged up

the Twenty-One Points.

The clash and clang of... him is likely to so nearly appease our

British Columbia, and road to the Garden City for Taipans in this ons mind. You see? The

"Mr. Lloyd George said he had curiosity as to make him an object of they all seem (to judge by my mail). HISTORY OF Cymbals, the whining The second of Mr. Harry Ore's eight at Shek 0, and for this resor I hope illusion of a soul within the soul, they will promptly use expantions complaining like

no greater interest the next time. We to read the Overland China Mail. MAXFORD AND and keening of Chia recitals illustrating the historical So whether Britain agreed, to snp- want a fresh one. But it is not so They send notes, suggestions, and that will make such wicked suspicions in Sterne Then, in a moment, in a impossible There seems to be no twinkling, in the blink of an eyela, port Jajan's Shantang claims in ex-with the European. I am quite clippings to Mr. Adversariu," and

Cx. m old sometimes help me usefully. But will limit to the evil that some people are sadness; and a still, small voice from change for Japan withdrawing her sure of it. The willing to impute to our excellent and the core of self whispering and hinting objection to China declaring war one will sawer; he never tales, the one who bombards me with clip- always impartial government officials, that there it's something, sje-ne sais against Germany, or as Mr. Lloyd Eighteen years ago. I was in London pings about the anti-Asiatic campaign Mr. Barlow to conduct their footsteps who I am happy to be able to assure quoi, swarting, a suspicion of re George zaid at Paris that he promised and I called at an Englishman's house that the Vancouver World is conduct in the direction of the noise. This resemble the Deity in that they prosch that we nor he or it should support to get Japan's help against on a bleak and foggy and dismaling please note that I cannot make the little party presently found them It respecters of persons.

know the nature of this obscure, un-submarines, or whether China agreed December afterngon to visit his wife use of them? I would sooner have a selves spectators of some of the er The hero of A.8.M., Hatchin- appeasable longing, this hanger for with exceptions, or excepted without and married daughter by appoint letter of his own personal experiences tecul features of an old style Chinese ZETT Bon's remarkable new novel, something unknowable, this conscions gracing, I don't believe any man ment., I waited half an hour and and views. On the other hand, I like wedding, and many were the ques GELST, I Winter Comes, is ness that the Then should be somehow knows, for they afs all transparent then they arrived, freten. They "The Buzzer." What a useful little tions volleyed at their obliging tutor by the eager boys. Pursuing his well | attempting to voice the Trase cancelled, and the imposable future liars, those diplomata, and it is hope explained that they had been delayed paper it must be

Every once in a considered custom, the good Mr. Spirit. Among other things he says he present. It is practically im- less to expect relable evidence on by an unlooked for circumstance

We want a new revelation in terms possible to express it in words which a body can form a judgment to while passing in the neighbourhood of CHADBATTERY while some news-Bazox maintained silence until the paper that keeps ertherance of their corosity abated, of the new world's understanding. Heaven knows what my waders will stand by. I would as coon believe Marlborough Hords they saw a crowd We want light, light! Do you make of this. But there was one with Einstem as any political news I'see gathering and were told that the to eyes on the requirements of and then coramenced barangue of Prince of Wales was about to dive supporters, and yet sizes on them which the following passages (neatly suppose an ore that knows wireless the who volunteered ni interpreter in the papers,

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