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THE CHINA MAIL.

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dicussion about

Kare

SATURDAY. APRIL 1, 1922

She took her notebook and drifted

Association must come, and possibly

The British Cansul at

This is the first time in One thing to be gained by unjust At that very moment, Mrs. Bilger a Wantsai Lodgers' Guild. There is

FLORIDA Jacksonville, Florida,

THE PEAK BY · Bla-and moet concession to fear should be freedom was approaching the counter of the talk of an association for Resident

has been issuing war

MEETING unexpected, assure from fear, jodging prims facie; but I Forestgate Post Office. She asked for Ladies, too. They only want armat to

you--that I find myself needn't go into thes. I take the a penny stamp. The countess took look like the Irish Free State nings against some of the real estate in agreement with censors of the Fressjournalists point, which is that those no notice of her request, but went on Wednesday's sellers in that state. It seems that The morning papers were in their of us who prefer to work for peace telling the ductras about the previous China Mail some ex-officers, demobbed, have clamsy way ircnfc about the manner here are conceding. As the strikers night's whist drive..

been hadly "amek" with farming in which their reports of an indi creed more than is just because we are described a

·TY. letter, that propositions there. I agree that each discussion were cut up, and the Die afraid of something.

I would hard Daily Press stamped its foot and

Mr. Bilger gently, bat, firmly, in- had appeared the day before as the warnings are necessary.

That has been known to sisted that the letter he had dictated most foolish that had ever appeared in have been had myself; but lackily I said it wouldn't play any more.. I print. This shows that it had over- went to look see before parting with was at the meeting myself, and I

Don happen. There is no need must not be altered in any way. Not TOOLS." to be ashamed of it. It is one word. "Ton women do not under- looked one by "" appearing on ny money. There is quite a lot of say that the Wednesday morning. This gentleman good and there, of course, but it is our domestic servants was betten If I am afraid of the inconvenience need guidance.. If you were married, a matter of expediency. stand these things." he said. "You professes to be shocked by the depot advertized for sale. The proper left unreported. Not that some wise and disturbance of mind that the lay-iss Ogg, would you rather your pravity of persons willing to accept ties

the glowing speeches were not made. There were ing of an employee is going to cost me, bustand come home to you 8: 2 a.m. payment for work not done. I could advertisements are generally sands, two or three that backed me up im- and I purchase immunity from that drunk or at 1,50 am. saber?" mention a few prominent Hangkong through which tons of fertilizer mensely, as I was beginning to names in this connection that would disappear without doing any good, think that sill the Europeans here had by paying him a litle more that I Miss Oge looked at her employer aggravate his shock and maybe make and the only thing that grows well got a hysterical St on. This impulse my affair. All insurance business is

honestly think he is worth that is dumbly. She said nothing.

"You see," he growled, beginning him drop his false teeth, so I won't on 'em is the palmetto pest. I found towards generalization is our chistan unjust concession to fear. If I to pity her a little, and hating himself. In my opinion he is the sort of a pathetic bunch of settlers there weakness. We are all liable to it. I

not afraid of leaving my for doing so. homunculus who trumps his partner's some years ago, all anxious to sell stamble myself sometimes" in my dependents unprovided for, I wou'd

out and quit. I described the con- haste" like the Biblical gentleman not help to make Mr. Montague Bdr drarily to her own desk, in the outer try as I found it a swampy peninsula who called as all Hars. One gentle a rich man. There was a rattling inhabited chiefly by mosquizes and man at the meeting (in a position to not labour the point. What Istarted letter-copy-press were, and a red- Bat here again I need five, where the typewriter and the *DANGEROUS good leader in Minswbers. THOUGHTS. Wednesday's Daily there, and any other mug they canalled one of these most mischievous Lloyd George's remark reeds very name was Efrid, His father was a They skin alligators know what he was talking about) out to say was that here in Hongkong checked be twork this latter. His Press, one of the catch The particular property I best newspaper articles I have read in went after was de pagaral zations that has been fostered little paraphrasing to make it fit like policeman. a long while. It indicated what is exceedingly, well-written advertise recent troubles were anti-Europear, is notorious that here in Hongkong uniform, was watching Mrs. Blger by the Daily Press, namely, that ours glore, and be quite, quite true. It At that moment tis father, in fault happening as a result of the Japanese ment as "situated between two lakes, and that we must therefore cofear of further demands has caused coming out of te post-office. The Government's vain attempts to in one of the prettiest Villages in operate in an anti Chinese peeve refusal of just demands. clude the various sociological ideas Florida." The lakes were said to be He pointed out that the Chinese here actually used as one of the main

It was countess had relented. now troubling the world. Pers:cution swarming with fish. The scenery and can be divided into two sectio:s arguments in defence of the sip- helps to perpetuate and spread such sunshine were cracked up in a way to misled bunch directed by bad and owners in the late strike! "If we This time there really was something Less than a week had elapsed. things, besides sanoying and in make a body's month water. I was inimical counsels from Canton, and s conveniencing people who are not tempted to telegraph-it looked sooEd bunch of good and law-abidine | give in to them now, they will come in the morning papers. The evening « interested in 'em. I put it to you good to me. It was fiat, depressing citizens who admire cur British George's words should be:

again."

So in that case Lord papers had given it the night before. Haven't these crazy and disturbing country, with melambcly pines. The institutions and our British justice cause of justice does not gain by had stopped. The streets were dry. The I was Friday morning. The rain Ltd. ideas spread more sicce the retakes" were not what we call lakes and are very anxious to get unjust concessions to fear of possible The policeman ou point duty got establishment of censors and passports The prettiest village" consisted of well with us if we will let them future injustice." Then indeed it has a grain of dust in bis eye. The pro- and heresy hanta generally? Before | a shabby the War Rusris was about the only cabins, all the inhabitants being should avoid conduct calculated to TOW of seven negro The point of that is that wt

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The China Mail. Ada, what was her Surname."

I worked it out on the Devanka on I was seeing Langridge of. That is to say, worked it out as far as I could. There is a missing factor. What kind of cloth was it?.

*TEZZA, ¿DENCE, PUBLIC SYSVICE," Wednesday, while

FONDEUNG, SATURDAY, 'AP21: 1 1912..

ADVERSABIA.

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really why the lid blew off the Russian boiler Countries that kept the lot sir valve open e.caped it. I don't be. lieve the anti-Muitai agitators would where they have real sunshine and

seen in central China. I cannot speak

sowe I've into the camp of malcontents.

for the fish, as I failed to catch one! Before beating it back to a state

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prietor of the banana shop watched The fiction writers are so had just chimed tea. Elfrid was not him struggling to arrest in Big Bea POTIED clever nowadays that they NOVEL make my head sche, and

JANE OGG

in the cuter ofics, nor was Miss

eleva.

Another gentleman (an official) told the meet-

I have so ront cat old E. The inquest bai been fixed for ing what I have been philosophical and scientific favourites

Mrs. Bilger, chewing the end of the I have got any farther to-day than they real oranges I went down to the hotel trying to tell you all along about the when I want a bit of light, agreeable forefinger of her gloe,"was to be a were in 1850, if there hadn't been an plazar, he tortion to the hate ramourists. I could have stood him reading theold idea of telling a story witness. She sat waiting, among the oppressive attempt to shut 'em up. If about the size of Homurtin. severe the meeting certain sensational gone west, and we now get this sort looked a little hard, almost defiant

s drink for it. One ass bad mentioned to interest and amuse seems to has others. Her eyes were tearless. They the Constitutional Reforma Party eight miles away from my farm). really wants to get ahead, I suggest It was a clap-board hotel, that badly rumours as facts. They made a grest of thing: they force the Government to make nested paint. A number of citizens impression, until this official got up martyrs of their leaders. I daresay in shirt sleeves, chewing tooth picks, He said it seemed to be the deplorable and said there was no truth in them. Ca thright would be game enough to were in the habit of sitting along the fact that such rumours were originated go to jail for the Cause. Why, even edge of the piazza. They were, there the China Mail did better when they that morning. I put my red together, that they did a lot of mischief. I and circulated by Europeans, and were trying to intimidate us into swished it, and barangued them.

The streets were wet, after rain. silence. It I could only announce :hat "Geats," I said, “I have been enticed preached right through the crisis the conscious words, but at the back of/Jane Ogg, with a heart too fall

Mr. Bilger regretted, without someone had come to the office and to your cute little home town by that vience; and was told that I rather his mind, as he left the pavement to

recrssity for evidence, evidence,

A Study in Feminine Psychology.

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The coroner bustled in. A stout Little man, a life löng Conservative,. fond of olives. That sort of man. He treated Miss Ogg kindly, sym- pathetically. Her eyes were red. Her DOS pink.

The reporters crsaed their cecks.

for words, very nervous, yet found

brutally assaulted me, because of slick New Yorker who is boosting depopularized the China Mail by mount the bas going west, teathe herself wondering if all reporters had would go much better. It is the load strayed sections of the Sahara o intimidation until I was shown some Bilge: had looked at the clock, and

suckers from the West. I hear him

Call Elif

not told her

to sit.

business.!

at

***Call Elfrid Igby" said the coronez, ancient wisdom, embodied in the saying about "forbidden fruit."

no malice, for I have had a most is evidence (very late, and when it was all out of the window, and at him as he and the policemen called Elfrid. He over) and I am still speculating as to ate his egg, and suggested it, and did not answer. He had been in A journalis talking at the teresting trip and met some real goods much of the intimidation that preoccupied with what he saw in the timidated. Jane Ogg was permitted szor Authors' Club last month folks. But I fed I cannot stop, and

spoke of his job as "keeping I'm starting on my 3000 mile trip talk of it before there was any. If a

was actually done was inspired by the newspaper, he had

She wore a fichu of dove coloured mind her his finger upor

suede with baby ribbon appliquéd en the pulse of back home as soon as the flirver

So his Epats were } humanity,' That's the worst of comes to switchback me to your Dewspaper were to repeat often

the passementerie. It did not become. Nasturtium Villa, and the streets her. metaphor. You never know where it deepo. It seems I am as bum at Ash-enough that there have been attempts

wet. It had been raining. Moreover, Mrs. Bilgers was moving her lips as il And the rain had started again. is liable to lead you. 4 dector does ing as at other things, and I want to to burn down the Prince's Pavilion, of town, now that he was here, were not feel the pulse of a plague patient sell this rod and tackle, which was the some lunatic or crank would be sure the municipal" watercari had passed arcuring to herself.

to attempt the arson. However, in order to catch the germs and pas best I could buy in San Francisco. I em on to others; and that is what will not tell you what it cost because tough of that now. For God's sake good, successful journalists do. you would not believe me, bet yon conquer that itch to pass on "inside People's paises are only fingered when can look at it. Heft it. It isn't information" that you baven't really and unsympathetic. His face wore they are sick, and I have always held this rod's fault that your fish get, and cultivate the scientific no smile. He had masney in a

attitude towards rumours. that a journalist-doctor who feels the wouldn't bite. Will any gent make a public pulse should prescribe for it bid for it?” when he finds sickness. When the

They looked at each other, and i

rewarded for it.

SAME

than the

ต

"I bave half a dollar bid for this

It's

I was asked cot to THE CHAIRMAN mention names if 1

commented on the.

AGAIN

that way.

The conductor's voice was bareb

Bottomless Bond Club. He handed Mr. Bilger back bis penny. "No good. French."

"

Not to be continued.)

You know. Not cheerful stuff at

all. I would as soon contemplate old Mother Hubbard retreating from the empty cupboard as study these de- pressing people in these clever mod in stories that Dever seem to get any- Mr. Bilger had not another. He had here. Come to think of it, that's what they do. They have as much plot as that he had a shilling, he thought, Mother Hubbard. They describe the remembering what he had read in the paper that morning.

capboard and the rest of the furniture and the state of the weather outside. What had he seen in the paper to They deserite, Mother Hubbard's depress him to? Nothing

The bas rumbled onward.

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clothes and her ancestry and her psycho analysis and her dreams and the way her adenoids rattle wien the--

LOGAL AND GENERAL.

publ c gets delirious, as it sometimes went on chewing. No one spoke Peak mesting, and I agree there to change a shilling. It was fortunate does, I have known journalists to I'm not jothing" I said. This are good reasons for not mentioning echo its delirious ravings, and be is businesa. I positively knock some. But I

really must insist it down to the highest bidder, apo naming the chairman, Mr. I see that Bob Donald (as whatever bis offer may be, Gompertz, as a model of what Mr. Robinson spent 6- more than

we used to call him when I do not want to tote it a chairman should be. Meetings are AGAIN. he was the Chronicle's that way, and have my fellow pai-often handled here very badly, owing Mrs. Evans who spent only about a ELSON-At Singapore, on March quarter of what Mrs. Jones did, while talk feast that when newspaper and tempt me to lie."

chief) said at the same sergers ask me embarrassing questions to an astounding ignorance of correct 30, of beart failure. Wiliam Mrs. Smith spent most of all

procedure. This one was handled became dit died very soon 0,1

Jane Ogg was urpinning her hat jazzes. They have a parenthesis on. Mrs. Brown bought 21 yards more what a wicked crammer! But perhaps ed in's husky voice that he would know the rules, and who keeps a level a very efficient and satisfactory typist, cover the intestinal sumblings of the

One fell., blushing visitly, guess beautifully by a Thomas Elson (of A. S. Watson

man who does when he entered the "fice. She was bozes, and some word painting to &Co. Ltd.) aged 35 years.-Bethan did Bessie, one of the girls, while!

a lot of the papers are dead without bid two bits" (That is, if I re-head when those about him are be, reflected. of the other girls Anne bought 16 knowing it? I know some that are member rightly, fifty cents.)

She had bobbed disappointed dog, and they take leave. yards more than Mary sad spent less lively reading

manifestly losing theirs.

hair. He never

knew ""what of you (if you accompany them so £3.0.8, more than Emily.

The tombstones in Happy Valley Some fine rod. Any advance. Don't be

China colcar, it was. The other Gis's Christian name was

Sometimes it far) with a picture of the rain dripping. CENERALIZATIONS Mail, in its was оде thing tells me they have been dead a shy. Going Going Gone.

thing. sometimes from the butcher's cart shed at tee long time, and that they are edited by yours, Sir," I said, "and I congra-

excellent leader another. On this particular morning far end of the slum. The Russians" undertakess. Bat I may not give talate you on what is perhaps the on Wednesday evening, omitted to back of Mr. Bilger's subconsciousness sedulous imitators. A book like that on the subject it was another. "Somewhere at the are frivolous folk compared, with their debit where debit is due, because I've best bargain you ever got." ankind word about anybody, and I promised George Lever to say another

point out a bad generalization that he felt a vague, gnawing resentment. would be as useful as an onion at the He searched both his pockets, for was being made by those who wanted All that he had seen in the paper, funeral of a man who had died owing he had only two, and announced that concerted action in the matter of which he had crumpled up and left on you money. won't-natil circumstances compel he had no money!

strike pay. Even the servants cannot the top of the bus, in the rain, came My tig for regattas hase to do it ·

be generalized. Some worked till the back to his mind. And Miss Ogg "Then, of course", shouted I, I see in the papers theThere is no sale. Obviously my order, and proving a sincere desire REGATTA usually been flannel bags,

last possible moment, putting all in hung up her hat. REGALJA a sweater (bought in a

some beef left in the terms must be cash. I put it up to minimize our inconvenience. They Bilger was looking out of the window Kingdom has been granted to Major

At home, in Nasturtium Villa, Mrs. Southampton slop shop, INSTANCE Arctic regions by the again. Will someone with money also buried back st soon as they She was a faded, colourless woman, HG. Bagnall, D.S.Ö., R.G:A. All the grod jokes are with White Star" arrows the chest)

Parry expedition it CUIDANCE Chestoot, and there an oid alouch hat and a pipe. To-day's 1825-97 years

start the bidding?"" ago-has been

dard. Others left the place as secretly in love with a policeman. are people who like regatta is at Repaise Bay, and there's recovered, and when sampled at Hull

An old man at the jar end edged antidy as they could, and took their Should she, or should she not, leave a cbestaats. The wail for qui ance" to be a tea dance and a dinner dance, was declared "sweet and good." 1 up and offered me four times, reaching time in coming back. How could note for Mr. Bilger, on the billiard Manils a place where an infections The local order proclaiming. in the matter of paying or cot paying I can set a spinnaker but I cannot had a piece of it yesterday. (as I infer out for the rod. "I take that as they all be justly treated alike? servants for the time they were out jazz, and I'd be scared to death of all from circumstantial evidence, and 1a bid of 40 cents", 3 eaid. "Any

table where he did bis fretwork, and disease prevailed has been rescinded. defined “prisciple" as something to may sail by in the offing and dip Why did Hull export it to Hongkong, Micawbers got the price up to $1.20,

am considerably would be sure to find it! She sighed. on atrike (by those curious prople who that skirt. Consequently, though I cannot corcar in the Hall opinion body bd more." A voice said fifty,

TEAR and in tea cent bids those cautioni

amused by the mental the read outside was wet. The Mr. Harold K Holmes has been he decided for them by a majority respectfully to

processes of a local municipal watercart, number 4, green appointed Crown Solicitor during the our beloved Com anyway, if it was so good? vote) reminded me of a chestant. A modore, I shall not be thah, Bot 1

at which point I saw my car coming,

JUSTICE journalist who nu-painted, drawn by a Futurist horse, absence on leave of Mr. G. H. lady calling on her pastor was receivhave the consolation of knowing that|

The latest number of and knocked it down."

earthed a Idoyd George had just passed. ed by the minister's little son my absence will be less felt and less

INFORMED Truth to hand defors As we drove off I could hear a heat- aphorism, and demanded of us; Where is your father, dear?" she remarked than the Curate's.

Jaze Ogg poised her pencil, opened buted discussion on the piazza, but what Hongkong?" The remark was: The office clock sanounced 9.33. Has this remark any application in her month, and looked at Mr. Bilger. asked. "He has had a call to an-

vague journalistic it was about I can only guess... other ministry, st a higher salary, and SPLTTING have a decent funeral phrase," the best-informed circles"

"Nothing can be gained by unjust The air was tense with expectation is in his arady praying for guidance,"

A leader in Truth concession 14. feur," UP Bum the works of the 8-regions where "all kinds

Wax Mr. Bilger began to dictate answered, the child. "And your

immortal Robert. Expung believe that Truth has found a gre.t

nonsense is hourly cackled." I IS TEIR TRUY Bays it is hardly too fore of those typical ambiguities mother?" "She's upstairs packing the wo d love from your mendacions

: monch to say that of the Premier which he ingeniously

Last month 4.80 inches of rain: ike trunks"

At 9.42 Jane Ogg burst into tears, were recorded at the Botanic Gardens dictionaries. It is evident that man

every university in the three kingdoms produces to score a point when neces truth this time.

and This one is sent in is a centrifugal and not a centripetal

is in a state of semi-bankruptcy.sary,

any interpretation and dropped her notebook Mr. On 26th, 1.05 inch fell and on the There is a yarn that J. FROBLEM. OR by a Naval chap animal.

Without heavy subsidied from the whereof that he may subsequently Bilger smiled. This was just what he 27th. 1.80. No rain fell on 18 days. Not only is our glorious

SPENDZE A Spender left the State none of them could carry on. dislike he

had expected. A saccessful business CLA Vigorously deny. OONUNDRUM? known 03 The empire conspicuously a group of

Westminster Gazelle Even the anciently

must not be ignorant of endowed I never said he wasn't a great states- man

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Five ladies, accompanied each by red do a show the tendency to split would, unless he has changed since I and Dublin have had to pocket their Bhodes, I consider him so great that ance Company's calendar on the wall Bonham Road, on Sunday April 2 at clashing interests, but even its little rather than write from dictation. He Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, men. As Mark Twain said of Cecil psychology. He looked at the Insur- held in the Rhenish Mision Chutch, her daughter, bought cloth at the up and scatter. Hongkong has its met him twenty-two y ars ago. pride and beg for help out of the when he dies I shall buy A & N. Stores. Each of the 10 bought Koricon Residents' Association and Truth says he had been a very taxes." If they are getting such the rope for a keepsake. Of course

a piece of and waited for Miss Ogg to speak. 4. p.m.; the preacher will be the as many feet of cloth as

"It is too cruel," she wailed, and E-gistrar of the University, Mr. N.. she raid lar its Fesk. He idents' things per loot.

Association valuable asset to his paper-somshelf, the governing geng must have this remarie of his has application in hunted vainly for a candkerchief: Teesdale Mackintosh, MA... who is already, both to worry the Govern people seem to think its only asset.pocketed its honesty for such Hongkong, or anywherche. It is for She was not looking her best while taking for his subject "My-Darling- Each Mother sport 8/5 more than ment from different angles. It is That verges on the unkind, does it institutions, run as they are, should instance, true in Hongkong, or it is unfling, but, he reflected, better.in." The public are cordially, in- her datghter.

inevitable that a Low Level Rasidents' not

not be subsidized from public money untrue in Hongkong. It all depends than Mrs. Bilger.

vited to attend this fervice.

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