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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12,

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A MAN I

1921.

If Dr. Rodgers, arch- deacon of Detroit WOULD SPIT cathedral, really did as reported say that "the bine nundred

UPON.

make Lo the poor Indian do It is an order. But I take not the It is generally held that a Labour 'O.Y.C..and its jetty, but what they all your ways, and put the Law into tableaux vivants beside it, pointing least interest in pressed ducks. I Government would make a mess of are for I haven't learned. The Club the background. If we do not restrict his index finger steadily at the latters don't even know where the market is, our foreign policy. I suspect myself seems to be used as the contractor's the police to police work, and the on it? Of course we all understand I loathe dead ducks. And I know that it would not be likely to turn office. Timber from the dispossessed CS.P. to purely police organization, quite well that this was a naval that in any case the government will out despatches of that sort, or to timber yards way taken away by this thing (as the China Mail said ou officer, simple as a yokel from the not reform. The extent of my cable 'em to places Hike Hongkong, junks. Presumably the tenants have Monday) is going to grow intolemble. country, who cannot be expected to ignorance of the duck trade begins to where they matter less than the found yards elsewhere. "Ah King will At present Mr. Wolfo

know his way about, but all the loom larger before me. The filthy transit of Venus or the Aurora be moving shortly to a good site at (n) makes traffic, laws

same, il I'd been the magistrate I'd dusty reference hòpka, full of silver borealis,

the Shaukiwan side of the typhoon have said "Quite so. Very ingenious, worm" and other reptiles, are not up

Civil servant stopped refuge, opposite the far end of the Ten dollara." What I meanter say to date in re dueka. All I've got

N'IMPORTE me about a misstate polo field, He has just launched four is, what notice of an inanimate notice to go on is that the people are

ment in my last week's tidy little yachts, of a nice model, bourd is likely to be taken by a annoyed about something connected rigmarolery. It was spiritually true, The Sanitary Board, by the way, motorist who ignores a somi-animate with the duck regulations. I'm what I said; that is to say it reflected looks like entering & pair for the hawpoliceman gesticulating on a wooden expected to be caustic and pointed the truth of the general position, so I yacht races. The green painted broad

crepidoma ?

and eloquent, and the very word duck necdn't rake it up again to explain in beamed sailing vessels riding opposite When I knew that makes me yawn. It is an awful fool- detail. I said,." Why do you take the dump look as if lined up for the and a lot of other things 1 cannot

-the British Legion ing. I take up my pen, feeling horribly me so seriously? I don't take you starting gun. They are sailing barges recall just now. Was it not be who

here--ostensibly a bored, and I begin. One must always seriously." Here are some lines that to carry extra lapsap, and cost nearly was driving us pedestrians off our

means of reuniting give the drum a little bang before the may do him good. They've already 30000 the pair. They would make own roads a little while age the lads who did their bis-was to show starts, to gain attention. It done me good, which is why I'm an very comfortable craisers, with their squealed then, and luckily the CJ be run by the Brasshats or Red Tabs was geese that saved Rome, (I write) reckless this week, throwing my cap holds fitted up as cabins. The CY.C. happered to be a fellow sufferer, so or whatever you call the Pukka and it is ducks that will damn Hong over the windmill, and chucking away slip has now been removed; they say that little tyranny was stopped, Since Sowlja, I felt it in my bones that they kong." That's the drum. The in- the receipt for the rent, so to speak. it will be re-assembled and laid down- then I verily believe he was about to would snarl it and tear it. They had portance to the mental and moral

Don't get the bug inside your head it the Royal Y. C. Good sized snapper Here stop the selling of newspapers on a cabaret dance last week, and the uplift of this Colony.

that you'll be missed when you are were plentiful, and many caught, at, Sundays (without an Ordinance) and invitation cards stipulated dinner the telephone rings at my elbow. A dead. Of course your friends will the entrance to the typhoon refuge that enquiries by me caused the denial jackets." I don't know it as a fact, person gabbling indistinctly

drop a tear and sigh a bit beside your near Jardine's wall. Beachcombers (and as I think the withdrawal) of the but I assume that some of the lads, matters that do not interest me, bier; but when you have been laid please note that I will welcome newa intention. I will do my best to respect like me, have not got dinner jackets. even when I guess at their nature, away they'll all forget you, as I say. from the beach at any time. their laws, for law is law, but I'm Sixty or seventy dollars for one detains me a while, so that I forget Far greater men than you have quit, against too many official "regula-garment to be worn only on rare what I was going to say about and were not missed a little bit. It goes tions. I daresay it is not altogether occasions is too much. Was it the the importance of Hongkong's to show life is a race; that someone his fault, but that of the Government, dinner jacket stipulation that turned mortality and morals I relight the waits to take your place, and just as which is always too ready to shove this Legion party into practically, a old pipe, and make a fresh start. soon as you've revoked all claim to extra work on a willing servant. But Peakuliar Hop, with guests out- "When a cadet whose previous ex-earthly life and croaked, another millions of Asiatics are still in a also I know that the habit of power numbering the members prosent by perience has impinged on postal takes the place you had and things barbarous cond tion, and ungrateful is a habit that strengthens its grip four or five to one? Dinner jacke a business, palice duty, and land office once more are gay and glad. You are to God... If the people of Asia re- Ltd. even on a de ent inan. Why, can were not compulsory for the little routine, is suddenly pitchforked into

even feel it in myself; as Adversarius party that was given in 1914, you a department that is so wrdded to the half as great, by jink, nor so im main obdurate and refuse to adopt

portant as you think!

Christianity, we should oven resort to (the de facto governor of this colony) know. Why, in those days even we vie intime of this community as is

From 23 Hop war for converting them into our I sometimes fear that I tend to be civvies and slaskers and conchies that of the Pressed Duck Market Re-

NAMES, PROPER, Long Alley, faith," or if he said anything like too much of a bully. If Mr. Wolfe who kept the home fires burning gulations Bureau, it is not to be ex-

Now what is MEN, FOR THE USE OF, Hongkong, that, he is not a nice person. The struggles against it as I do, no great cut out she special dinner dress. and pected that".

comes thie: Asian Revicio quotes the speech harin will ensue; but how dure I be even some part of the dinner. Tempora it? A messenger tendering a chit

from a Nichi Nichi despatch. Dear Mr. Adversarius. sure that he does? It is not my liber mutantur, if you know what that and a chit book, demands a bolt. I initial the book, and tear open the

Much interested in your remarks ties that are threatened, but yours, я0 means.

What's in a name? Agree with chit. A reader competing for the on: I bave not the right to trust, him.

The soldier, remarks

O A., with a jest that cannot qualify. you that there is a lot of social pro- I register my protest:

the poet Kipling, may Heavens Jests, and I have this judice for or against. Like all pre- HANDWRITING ngainst handwrit

forget his sword, the damned duck argument to finish.judice most of it is stupid and without ing experts."

sailorman the sea the mason may Where was I?. That goes on foundation. Don't you think that the Bongkong's military contribution, is thought they had forget the Word, and the priest his for several hours. It there be any sound, and only the sound should money and land together, must be been laughed out of Court long ago litany; the maid may forget both human interest in a genuine heart determine the list of names in ordinary between three and a half to five and that the animals were extinct; jewel and gem, and the bride ber but I see that is one of our courts this wedding dr ss--but the Jew shah ory, this should fetch you. I feel that use, and the choice of them. There million dollars, and even then it is s of poverty. week Mr. E. R. Dovey, Government forget Jerusalem

I know just how the hettra feel, when are among drugs for instance, and. fcabite beside that analyst, anid he had made a study of the Press. Because (he goes on) the

we forget cheerful idiots come to them as clients, patent medicines, some lovely names striken India, whose military expendi

and ther handwriting for a number of years" newspaperman has sold his heart to

are tired, and would which should be given to women, ture has gone up from nineteen and Test. It isn't only pressed having reference merely to the tone a half millions in 1919 to 58 millions and had given evidence as an "expert" the old Black Art we call the daily ducks, of course. It isn't even them. value, and not allowing ourselves to pounds sterling) in 1919-20, and before. I wouldn't drown a kitten Press. Who once hath dealt in the It is most of the silly politics be influenced by any association of stands at over 44 millions sterling in on such evidence." I have studied widest game that all of a man can over which men fume and fret, with ideas connected with a tonic or a

the 1921-22 budget, according to s handwriting for damn nearly 50 years play, no later love, no larger fame out ever getting any forrader, A pudding. For instance, to my ear, contemporary. India has a naval and I would not swear to more than will inre bim long away. As the war-little of my irritation at the crass similarities. and dissimilarities that horse smelloth' the battle afar, the wasto and folly of it all splashes over language is Vanili, and a fiue name these figures, which (by the way} prove nothing.

entered soul, no less, he saith Ha-lia.

on to the unfortunate, cadet who is it would make for a really sweet girl, deserve to be mentioned at the Wash- These little niceties where the trumpets are and the head of the Duck Department, and he The v and 1 sounds are the most ington Conference, probably escape the thunders of the Press." It does loch

sees in ma a vindictive personal musical in our language, or that can JOURNALISM. general publio. a little less bad when typed out this enemy, and wonders where and when be in any language for that matter,

Wednesday's Morn-way--but not much; *:

he managed to offend me. This it is Another well-sounding ing Post solemnly reproved the Sani.

The Pope may launch his interdict, to be a journalist, a mouthpiece for a

What difference that the tary Board for not reassuring the

The Union its decree,

community, a hireling kicker against name was fist given to a peor cock- public that there was no need for a

the pricks, or (as the demented patient tail disguising itself in prohibition (that he sent a certain message to leprosy scaro, although the M.O.H. in the China Mail the

sometimes prefers to be called) "lands as a tonic to be taken before The Times) our journalistio peer must had done so

fearless, independent, and trenchant meals. And a good name for è certain have the reasoning powers of a previous day. The Post: ays it is not

critic and public champion." Public type of smart girls would be Clove. very young child. That the mess- sufficient that he should tell any

champion, of reform in the Duck Vastly better than the honoured male age has not and will not appear in one newspaper." But we asked him;

Department! Bah How arious name of Clive. What you say about The Times does not prove" that it the Post didn't. The Post speaks of

It could have been have to be about ducks, squashed Bill being common makes me think was not sent. 0 very pronounced nervousness,"

duks, dead and damned 'dreka! How there must be some psychology in cancelled by cable. The editor could thereby suggesting that there is Is the Press the Press the Press, vebement and virtuous and sarcastic spelling. Because I once had a have cancelled it off his own bat. public anxiety. Now that anony-

Some of our girls and argumentative and logical and Moslem friend who spelt his name at All sorts of things could have nous letter was sent to all four

nught to carry a "Wet impassioned! And all the while, as I least the first two parts of it) Bil Ali. happened to it. Now it appears he papers, word for word alike, so the PASSING Paint" sign.

think I've told you before, my person-Now you see spelling Bill with only did cause that message to be sent, nervousness was one man's. The pihtje would not notice this, but the (which is surely a misprint for Josher) me

It is written in the Book of Jasheral interest in ducks is cil. Believe one I makes Bil quite distinguished that it wasn't popularly appreciated experto crede, and ex cathedra, looking. At to all you say about in Japan, that its unpopularity made China Mail was the only one of the that on one unique day (there was there in much more point in what the Thomas I quite agree. What in pra- his lordship uncomfortable, and that four. papers that did not print the wasn't uutis 8p.m, abou. an hour from letter. It bore internal evidence of Do day like that before it or a'ter 't") ducks theniselves sav. than in half asin But Old Tom Gin-ah, that is the tension. Howe'e it be ita seems to

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THE

ADVERSARIA,

that one would have balled 'em

It

EXPERTISM.

LEPROUS

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ed a paragraph stating the point of it,

What

The Post is in

THE PRESS

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But the bubble is blown und the

bubble is pricked By us and such as we, Remember the battle and stand

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While Thrones and Powers confess That King over all the children of

pride

REMARKS IN

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SOLDIERING COMES

DEAR.

Apart from its not being nice or a worthy job for decent

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men, soldiering cer tainly comes dear.

one of the loveliest names in the contribution also, not included in

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If the Tokyo tele- gram to hangbai NORTHCLIFFE exretly reported the terms of Lord Nurthcliffe's denial

DENIAL

tion could the e possibly be in Thomas he thereupon told a crane to ease - the Lord "hearkened unto the voice dozen leaders.” „Quack! the 1 me he was 14 spil, and when all being the sort of letter that should not of a nap," and held the sus still for

This was written on a Monday that another affair. And the porms of me the strong man from Carmelite be rublished. The China Mail print-out a whole day. passengers and cargo were aboard,

followed a Sund with heart's-blod, Tom Moore and Tom Hood--no men Hous does not conie cut strong in that the rolice sprung this merry

One fellow that borres my Lools and fears adu'teraling the ink. It may on red them right he thinks of this matter. In my opinion ke towers jest on Capt Woolacott. The police and then elicited the reassuring sine and doesn't return in is a fairly need revision and pruning here and them as written by a Thomas. As about as high using copper cente officer went to the shipper's rooment from the M.O.H. The Post regular church ge. I try to imagine there, but I'm too tired, tired, tired to you say: Tom is a vulzar dog whom

I read in L'Breil sad said, "Captain. I am going to itself real zed that there was no reason the fervour with which he joins in Iok at it twice. You ghouls, who any boozy rip may slap on the back LE PERE ROBERT) Economique that Loid your ship up by withdrawing fra scac. Then why this censure? singing" A charge to keep I have." must have

"tout le mondo bus peeved

your island nights and become disgustingly familiar the Post? the guards." And he did.. Wouldn't

At Listowel, Canada, recently, entertainments in printers' ink, and with. Eut only to the vulgar. Been Extreme-Orient & entendu parler' take the money owing; that had to \ {\rough not being a square Post, Good. Let me see. The new-papers, adve-Baria, try and realize what you / we have. As you probably knów Tau personnifie

a hole now, William Damm was manied to Leva your Sunday morning orgie of cause Tom is the most solénin name du bon Francais qui a Hongkong,

si noblement be paid into the Treasury. Obviously. and they have since adiuitted it, the The most un square thing it did in usually start tere announcements are getting for your ten rents, and was the surred word of the lost Atiation." police wanted to give the ship's

this connection was to publish (also with the surnames bridegrooms frat. show a little shame. Is it fair that luntean civilizations: It survives Mais, moi, que vors dit, je ne pense· owners a shaking up. They emptied. on Wednesday) a transparently wick Su this one would look Damm--Good, for ten cents you should command perhaps as Tau, the Egyptian form of pas. the baby with the bath, as the letter over the pen name "Pre But how can, wi en Leva crasea to be such soul agonies in arau who would the huly crusa, and re tainly as Tin

When the gun went Germans say. They burut the city caution." This was probably written Good, and when asked her name says he innocently and happily fishing at our alphabet. And maybe the Tau THE SILENCE at eleven yesterday, to abol sh the slums. In aduition to by som? wretched Portuguese who Damm? She gets Bilt Damm, and Castle Peak; if you'd let him?-A] of Lau Tze was ar maant memory

I took ont my watch giving the neglectful owners a pointed knew no better; the guilt for i's her husband must par the Damm

The Government from Atlantis. Well, as to Om, the fand did my bit towards obliging the warning they did all these things, Publication is the Post ector's. It Bill. Cm the other hand-hut work "CONFIDENTIAL" Gozette seems to sacred word of the Aryans; it is not King in his fancy for two minutes of inter alia. They

Suggested that the Cantones were out the decimals for yourselves, (1) madis mutineers of the Guard | deliberately sending lepers to Macau | ani Hongkong, “as, reprisals against

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Hui Sang" story

(2) Belittled the Master's authority. the Portuguese, Barishes me, for one, **HOI'SANG " Sad I'm not the only (3) Gave the ship a bad name

STORY.

(4) Bottled the Harbour Office the Portugue " one, that the time has come tis repeal toat

idintic ordinance (probably jussel in

punic) which stipuates that all Can tau and West River steambunte imust take a Gilberton aimed guard with then, of lunay deck ouanente with popgana, who are inch is the queer "numaly of panic legislation) "eim- ultaneously policemen and suitors, They are, this is t say, the art éles and rubject to the authority of the Captain, no on the police pay roll, and subject to the orders of Cho C. 5. P. Thus it seeme, 14.me that

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clearance

(6) Delayed the cargo

(6) le nvenienced the passengers

(7). Mane the ordinanco a laughing.

stock

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(8) Find (unlawfully), the owners

hi least $1000

(9) Annoyed the captin (10) Autoved Mo

(11) Clitubed one more rang of the

Julder of Police Tyranty

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to do harm to

A case where the Carlor mutto is most apt.

juste," or the word just right.

News FROM THE DAH

Although so me of the Chinese papers have Boid tha the Praye East reclamution

notre

of the noises I could hear, namely,

The brattle of saffolding poles.

A hawker crying Ronat duck" Some boys cheering

A beggar whining'

Trowel tapping by a bricklayer Someone practising rorrat.e Human voices di tant and indistinct A gas engine throbbing Footsteps running by outside. A launch touting

me to have com- Decessary to say anything. But there impressive silence. But while I stood One of Bud Fisher smitted a serious faux, pas, which is you are the combination of the two at attention, with my eyes on the THE ElOUT 'distoverics is a mathe- | coprinental for loomer, To has sacred sounds minkes Tom. I don't watch, and. tried to feel solemn I NQUE DAY matical one, and pro published a confential despatch from know what Cuthbert means to you could not help making a mentál ja

yes that people who Ant. Püp, of the Esthenian Fore gn but iny naine s

CUTHBERT suppose themselves to work eight Ministry, to our own superior person "Sing, me Jails, sing "It is hours a day are really unoccupied. ¦ Curzon, the text ruhning to over nine And mine's Tom, ao we are aquare, Yis the Nivy. the British Nivy, Might from 24 is 18. 365 times 16 ty words of the mouten Rey reitnud you get the "mot

that bluffs 'em every ime. (the number of hours they don't wo k) diplomaev, touch marked anite ONE. On alio, or motor bike, 'his is 5810 hours or 244 days which p'airly Baltic States and Finland an artful tyke, and wins, leave but 121 working days. Ther» Corfidential,” | Forool 'eau was it got orange 'e's got audacity muhlime," are still 53 Sundays'twconceff which, only of briach of confidence, but of This churiús by Conan, Rudyard or makes it 09 days Don't larg t that printere ink and tespayer money, Ella Wheeler Tureaud or one of tham th Saturday atriucona wake 20.tha i pasy o'soCurren's r ply, which classic poets is brought to my mind dye, leaving 13 quly 165 lunch was alwest word for word the same going to take item years it doesn' by the case of the unnamed naval hours make 10 mere days to come Nt to make a myately, of it, and look like it, I think they'll finiel (12) Failed to do what they have officer who with his motorbike took off, leaving 28 Legal holidays aenu that the Goole has already within schedule time. There's

the wrong turning at the foot of deduct of that, leaving 14 and it split. I divulge it bereg

hustle on Pive of the lumber yerde (13) Showed a must offensive Garden Road und d'oregarded the you allow for a week's al niye and' a “It being the desire of our respec-engineering shops eto, that lined the ★his con'd have happened on the 3rd

troflo policeman who stands and week's vacation you will find that tive Governments to place on record besh be ween the Sanitary Bourd' inst, when the potio ordered the (14) Invidiou dy selected these emopherra upon his little wooden under the eight hour day system you that the notes exchanged on the 20th dump and Al King's havis bern guards to quit the "Ilot Bang" bo owners for their experiment island there. Bummoned to court, never work at all, and probably owe July 1020 were not intended in any demolished this week-in a couple ni Commencing on Monday, Mowers. cause her owns had not paid the (15) and wasted time in which they he told the magistrate that the the boss money, E

way to override any international days, yo fight say. Two more were Lammert Bros. will auction fears. Suolith's charges, for these guards, might have been going after the armed island is so far to the port

Being mouthpiece to a conventions by which either party half down yesterday. There's a new Komor and Komore entire stuck of Their captain could fave (aid I wish | robbers now terrorizing our town. If side that anyone coming, down hill

grousing rublic is Jiko might be bound. I have the honour fire statish up in the mildet thereof Japanese and Chinese art goods, hhad, just for the fun of it) ordered. I think of any more counteto and wishing to go east, would ney r VEELINGS, a late season batho, to inform you that His Majtaly's Gov. alteady with even the interior fix ancient and modern. Cheti to retain. They would then add to the indictment, I'll let you dream of passing it on the port side.

Once in me suims, ernment do not wgard the exchange tures nearly completed. It has shrunk co have been liable either to prosecution know later on. Meanwhile, you There really night to be a board up, and though it may, be parky, one gets of notes above mentioned as con- pilaed everybody that the dovernment ́ ́ The Bank of Taiwan, · Ltd., to! for mutinously duphrying the lawful apathetic, Ing suffering, idiotically your Washup with keep to the little fun and glow out of it. It is ferting any riht de imposing any should finish a nest job so quickly moved it London office to how and unders of their captain, who had his patient people may thank your lucky left on it. The Cadi was impressed, the beginning of the would brink obligation which might conflict with Morrison Hill has been pretty well palatial premises at Gresham House, arance papers, and with desertion, stars you've got a China Mail to fight and dismissed the charge Now shivering that I loathe.Write any general internationak convention denuded of trees, etc., and Fielded 20, Old Broadstreet, on Sept 20. The or for disobeying orders a policemicus. thu vil that is growing. But for it, what, in Heligoland in the seabout (the gross management of to which wither His Majesty's Coven much good firewood. A fair piece of Bank first, established an office id Our magistrates sein equal to all you'd probably sooner or later wake mapholing pointsman fort Will the government epaitment that ment or the Eat bonian Government is is already in the hon. Brisk build London in October, 1914, at 09 Old Pork of fudioint problemus, but surely up to find yourselves enslaved, by a they now put board up, and supervises the pressed duck market." or hereafter may be a party.

ings are going up between the old Broad-streak.

* now.arringed to do but no

Barbi ruryLess

AWFUL

and à sustained, und niiliahle vihra- on which may or may not have been Lurd Northcaffe's pouscience anoring in is sleep,