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CHILDREN'S CORNER.
THE WALKING STICK.
Harry's father had a stick of which he was very fond. It was quite a plain stick of ash wood but very strong and when he went for long walks in the country be always took
"I never thought dear father that
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hard and did pod wake up till the son was rising and, as they went back home that day, he never knew whether or not the walking stick had visited his family once more.
PETER PAN.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPOND- ENTS.
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Arthur White-Thank you for your letter. I should have liked to have heard you' saying that piece of poetry.
Elsa Batalha.—I was glad to hear from you and hope that you will be lucky with your pen another time.
I should see you again, or you my brothers and sisters after all these'
Which English word of three years. (And at this some of the syllables contains all the letter branches stretched out and patted it Alpřabet gently on the head and the aged tree trunk creaked and groaned). It does! seem a long time since I left you," it went on, "And you may like to hear
Peter Pan has received the follow. irg delightful letters from youthful readers
Dear Peter Pan.-Thank you very
·HAINAN - NEWS.
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INCREASES
(From-Our Oum Correspondant.)
STRANGE DEATH.
JAPANESE GIRL WHO READ
TRAGIC NOVELS.
it with him and he told Harry that what has been happening to me. I much for the pretty per you so kindly Condemning Christianity in about the red cloth; this was tied io front. The
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Mr. R. E. Lindsell, as Coroner, assisted by Mr. Kuga, the Japanese Krurocrow, May-8.-- Vice-Consul, held an enquiry yester- A rather outstanding and deroga day aftemoon into the dreamstances tory commentary on the presens ad attending the death of a 14-year old ministrstion of the island is the mark Japanese gizl asibed Hurako ed increase of highway robbery and Ishayama, whose body was recovered markat looting between this place and from the harbour by the Water Police Koshek and in the Van Sio district in the vicinity of the Royal Hongkong Olize White-1 am glad that you to the east. A large and well Yacht Club, North Point, on May 5,
liked your prize. I hope that onanised gang seems to be oper- The first witas called was Dr. J. you will have lots of mating within ten or fifteen miles to T. Smalley, the Government Medical bathing.
the south and east of this prefectural | Officer in Kowloon, who said that on city, Lim Ko district city is also May 5 he held a post-mories examin- said to be in a disturbed condition ation on the body of the deceased at The head Van Sio robber has sent the Kowloon mortuary. "The girl's letter to the military oficial, General body, he said, was bound up in a Teng Van In inviting him to vacate peculiar way. She was fully dressed his ramen, so that the robber chief, but round her thighs a piece of cloth can be the main authority.
was tightly bound, whilst another piece ANTI-CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT. was wound round her outer Bar THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.
The much talked of Anti Christian menta between the hips and the Society has made its sppearance in shoulders. Another piece, was tied the government schools of this city round the girl's legs about seven The Provincial Middle School formed irces above the knees. Round her a society first and issued a band-bill neck, in a doable turn, was a piece of same terms as did the students of body showed signs of having been in Peking. Then the Normal Middle the water. Death was due to School and the District Middle School drowning and not to strangulation. it took it up and a second paper was In his opinion the girl had attempted issued. This accused the American to commit suicide by tying herself up missionaries of having undue in and finding that this failed, threw fuence with the natives and of herself into the water.
Mr. Tiku Taro Lhivama; the con-piring to sell Haiuza to the Japanese. The shopkeepers of Hoihow proprietor of the Trobo Hotel, Hoi- have little sympathy with this fong Lane, was then called. He last morement because of the resentment ear her alive shortly after 6 p.m., on stirred up by the Students Union May 4 when she went out to post a boycott of Japanese goods....
letter. As she failed to return at 7pm, he weat out so search for her. Mr. T. Nelson of Canton has recent Unsuccessful, he sent his brother-in- Dear Peter Pan-I am so sorry Ily arrived as Commissioner of Customs law, Mr. Hakeika Irene, to report the I thank you ever so much for the who has been transferred to Hang lowing day he received. a tele nice silver pen. It is so nice to think a Five new foreign tide-waiters phone message from the Japanese JES the result of which It must think then that England I can take a silver pen bome to are due to take up their duties here. Co sul
The Custom's staff is to build exter- he Weat to
e Kowloon
muttered Harry to himself:)
of poetry at Wanchia Sanday School
dead body of the girl. The witness chap do." Aniversary called "What can a little house is to be constructed.
Ca
The Hainan members of the National could not suggest ny reason why the Christian Conference which is now giri should have commited vicide. meeting in Shanghai consists ofShe had been in the habit of ling the Rev. J. F. Steiner of Nodos, Miss Levels unfit for young people,” he KL Schaefer of Kachek, Mr. added. Feng Oang Sin of Kachek and Mr. Chen Tseng 5 of Hoihow.
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will be nice for the summer. I hope you got my letter that I sent about fortnight since. I should love to sex you dear Peter Pan. Lots of love
Fr your little friend
OLIVE WHITE. No. 6, Government Quarters, Happy Valley.
te had had it for some years.
One summer they all went to stay i
have a kind master who never forgets sent me. It was very kind of you and st Coaway in North Wales, Harry to take me with him and never once shall be able to write to my dear or and his mother and father and of has he lost me or left me behind granny and grandma with it. W course the walking stick as well anywhere. He loves me dearly, and have started our bathing trips and They had rooms in a little grey stone we all go round the world together." Welsh house on the banks of a big river and every day whenever it was (At this the branches shook as if they fine they took their tea and sometimes did not believe him) but it continued, dinner too and visited all the beauti-"Yes I have been everywhere, right ful places around.
"This is where Daddy and I came up to the north of Scotland, in Corn- some years ago just after we were wall and Sussex and Norfolk and in married Harry," bis mother told him, the very middle of England in a place "And it was here that he bought the called the Black Country where walking stick of which be is so fond." everything is grimy and the towns are
"Was I there too?" asked Harry fall of tactories and smoking chimneys have not written to thank you before in Hohow, succeeding M Tichan, matter to the police. On the fol
and there were very few nice walks where we could go."
but she answered that he had not
even been thought of then,
One day they went by train to s place called Carnarvon where there
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# a wonderful old castle and when i and Scotland are the whole world," England. I am going to say a piece give new quarters and a new Customos mortuary and there identified thei
they came back in the evening Harry was very tired and he had his supper quickly and jumped into bed and was soon fast asleep.
The house was still when he awoke -----some time later and it was dark, only - a streak of moonlight shone between
the Venetian blinds on to his bed.
"I wonder what made me wake ap." said Harry to himself and then, as he sat up in bed, he heard a faint bamp, hump all along the passage
underneath his mom.
He sprang out of bed and ran quickly downstairs in his bare feet, when a strange sight met his eyes- The front door was open and his father's favourite walking stick, which was leaping and bounding along, WAS just going out.
I must see where it is going mattered Harry, who could hardly believe his eyes and, still in his un- slippered feet and sleeping suit, he crept after it, shutting the door gently behind him.
There was no sign of bie in the village street and the walking stick kept to the middle of the road, tap! ping its way along.
"I had such an adventure once," said the stick, "We were walking acrose a lonely common, my master and I. He was looking at the sunset and saying to himself some stafi which he calls poetry which ha, rends to newspapers and so gets money for
himself and his family. Suddenly a tramp sprang up from behind a gorse
Yours Sincerely
ASTHUR WHITE.
No. 6 Goverment Quarters. Happy Valley.
severe
Dear Peter Pan-For not thanking bush and seized my master's gold you earlier, I received We fallowed quickly and as my that I had no manners, and that you watch and chain and ran off quickly.drabbing from mother. She said
master can run like a hare we soon would be much annoyed · st
my
Dr. Mary Niles, well known missionary worker of Canton (School for the blind) arrived per s... "Lok friends Dr. and Ma. I M. M Sang" on May 4 for a visit with her;
Candles, of Hoihow.
caught him up. Then I gave the behaviour. I am sincerly repentant. Mrs. J. T. Steiner, and two children
': robber such a crack on his arm that
The
The Coroner enquired if the girl were like any other girls of her age, and the witness replied that she "talked like an old woman witness added that to his knowledge the girl did not have any love affair.
Replying to the Vice-Consal, the witness said that, the gin was his adopted daughter and had been in his household for five or six years.
Mr. Hakeila Irane, the girl's uncle said that he searched for her until 2 steamer just out from England. It is or 3 in the morning. wel sapplied with cabins which are equipped with electric lights, heat and fan. Such things are innovations indeed among most of the vessels touching at Hoihow.
The pen I am using to write For departed for Hongkong per s. he dropped the watch and chain and this letter is the same silver pen youKing Yuan" on May 4. The King made of. We did not follow him as gave me as a consolation prize for my Yoan is a Lew China Navigation my master does not like having to funny drawing. I shall keep it send people to prison and is not as carefully so that in future when you father and brothers," it went on, can use it to bring me luck again. hard as I sm. Do you not wish dear offer prizes for another competition
That you could go out and see the
I remain,
Your loving, world as I do!”
ELSA BATALEA,
And at this the branches waved op and down wildly as though nodding their heads and the hoary trank gave several loud cracks.
"And now I must go back again," continued the walking stick, "We have gone many miles to-day and to- morrow I hear we are off again for a whole day picnic so I must rest a bit. Good-bye my dear family, I will come
"It weis to know where it in going," thought Harry as he watched it turn one corner then another, until at last it came to a path across a field which led to a wood, where old ash and see you again," and it waved to and oak trees grew side by side. the ash tre vigorously and then Straight into the wood it plunged hopped off once more.
and now it was going so fast that| Harry scrambled after it through Harry found it difficult to keep the bushes and along the path over n with it. And then he was running the field, down the village street and so quickly that he did not look where in at the front door, which opened to he was going and he fell over the root them as if by magic. of a tree. When he sat up again tae walking stick had disappeared but he could hear someone on the other side of the tree talking loudly. He got up and peeped round the big tree trunk and there he saw it standing by an old ash tree talking rapidly and all the branches of the ash tree were bending down to hear it.
The knob of the stick certainly looked like a best and there was a knot in the wood which appeared to be its mouth which opened and shut with a snap like a dry twig cracking That is what it was saying ———
The walking stick with a tired sign leapt into its corner in the hat etsad and did not even notice Harry as he crept by and up to bed.
The next night Harry meant to go into the wood again but he slept too
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The Coccer: Supposing the gitl had committed suicide, car you give by reason why she should have done so!
The witness: As I think, I told, the Water Police, she was too fond of reading tragic novels, which made her hysterical
The Coroner: What do you mean by hysterical?-She was very fond of going to the hillside to read and would come back crying.
But that does not account for her action in committing saic de 3-She said she was very tired of the world.
In consequence of the alarming Oh! did sheat that age; were increase in the number of robberies your sister and her husband good to from bank and other.messengers her? Yes. carrying large rums of money in After a short adjournment, the New York City, permission was Coroner said to the Japanese inter- granted to the Title Guarantee and preter: Tell the deceased's father Trust Company, a large banking that the Japanese Consul and I are house to install a revolver range on satisfied that it is a case of suicide Responses arial; Venite, No. 9; the premises, in which the staff can whilst in a fit of temporary insanity, Faims: 128, 199 130 131; Te Deambe trained in revolver shooting. and I will record a verdict to that
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