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THE CHINA MAIL.

Thas these mischief makers are respects, the two paladins are equil always safe, because they rarely get sa regards the number of letters in found out by the nation at large.".. their names.

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of the Good Sorte Association) to the reader who sends me in the best anccdote about hard luck at cards.

Bir Henry May mod

• UNANIUDUS to allege that the local

papers do "hot" "walect. If the Fosk Hospital publio opinion. I have just found an old, the proprietors instante of what appear to be uns HOSPITAL. - will take an enormous animous reflection. If not that, what

Bas

BEYOND,

SATURDAY, JULY 15. 1922.

CORRESPONDENCE.

MORE ABOUT SNOBBERY.

[To the Editor of the " China MoÑ,")

SPILT WATER.

LEADS TO FATAL QUARBEL

MAN YELLED WITH BASEBALL BAT.

à quarrel over some water batwood

A

I notice that a corres THAT OLO pond:nt" in a contem NONSENSE 'porary revives that old nonsensical, con-

profit over the sum oan it bet andrum of what would happen if an originally paid for it. At least, I flipped from Wednesday's China

Sir-Your correspondent "Futuri- the occupiers of the ground, and irresistible force struck an immov- think I am right in so supposing. Yet | Mail:" Most ticklish part of the ty" shows a lamentable ignorance second foots of No. 10, Prays Ear able object. That would not be so the managing director of the hospital problem is the pipe across the not only of his fellow man but of the last night, maulted" in a fatal fight, bad, but he claims with an air of is reported as asking for a grant to harbone. We have been hoping that difference between being gentle and and two Chinese are now under arrest: seriousness that "opinions differ." pay the fares Home of the discharged this might eventually be simplified by speing gentility. If he would consort on a charge of manslaughter, We should like to examine come of nurses, Really, is that good enough? running two big schemes in conjuno with retail men and such small fry'

They were produced before. Mr. those "opinions." No senable man Let it come out of the profit on the tion, and providing a tunnel or brid he would learn much. He would learn, R. Lindell this morning and has ever arrived at any "opinion" sale, 2

ge which would in addition to solving for example, that amongst, there are

remanded for wook: in such a connection, seeing at a

The Book Club has had the Kowloon trafic problem, also men as well educated an and more rouble started over some water. The Inspector Blackman said the. glance the mutually exclosive nature

BOOK Very, successful year, in carry our precious water main." Y highly skilled specialiate than himself; of the premisses. If he admits at

CLUB. troducing several hundred Clipped from Thursday's Morning that among gentlemen the matter of two prisoners lived on the first floor immovable object he cannot admit

new books to the sequaint Post: "in view of the almost an unpaid bill would not be mentioned of the house, while the ground floor as irresistible force. If he admits sace of most of its members. It is prohibitive expense of the pipeline in a Club bar. (The gentility of one was occupied by a Japanese curioshop, irresistible force, he cannot admit a going right on to a new stock. The scheme, way we be permitted to who would contract a debt he coul The prisoners drew their water from. succesinily resisting object. If a man annual meeting will be held very soon wonder whether the Government not pay is doubtful. He would not the tap on the ground floor and were to quench an unquenchable now, when I believe announcements might not go farther and combine imprees these men, as a future giant bauled it up to their flat through the thirt with a barrel of beer that didn't of great lotereat are to be made. The with it the provision of a tunnel or but as su egotistical bora. His air well. The water was muddy, and exist, would be, or would he not, be present stock of books has been causeway for traffic across the harbour, presumption in instructing juniora in instead of pouring it down the drain, tipsy "Opinions differ."

bought up by various members, thus so often talked about."

mattere of which they probably know the prisoners tilted the buckets over: I offer a specia!" Order augmenting the fund for the purobare

I read that "s as much as himself is incredible. the air well.. The water, fell on a. of new books. Larger shelving accout- A BRIDGE of Adversaria" with

VOICES FROM certain gentleman It is regrettable that he has Chinese foki of the Japanese shop, ATORY my autograph (and fresmodation bas had to be arranged for..

suraswed Ha, in s mentioned the ladies in connection he was in the back yard, and drench perpetual membership

* Drop the

house in Bonham with snobbishness bat since he has it him. There was a row and the MORE RACIAL" Bensch, and accept Strand, has had a conversation with must be pointed out that where the prisoners accepted a challenge to go

PREJUDICE like a good Scots the spirit of the late Wu Ting-fang. house cleaning is left to the No. downstairs and fight it out,

"Iman," It is a

Are they are bis surname wasn't I Boy's discretion it is almost scuffle took place in the shop

the prisoners aud. Meanwhile, as an example, let me quotation from a chit from a dear Its-bai

invariably scamped, and that it between tell you what recently happened on a friend who lives on a mountain top, Not that I'm jeering, yon under some of these ladies were to enter two fokis of the shop and in the golfers' train from Fanling. They and who was trying to persuade me to stand, because I have myself attended their kitchen and Chinese quarters suuree of it both prisoners were injur made up a four, and our hero called go and bids with him, or the good of a seang, at the China Mail office they would get the surprise of their ed on the head. Then one of them picked up a baseball olab and deals. "Four No tramps." He had all four my health. I had already once re- where a gentleman named Smith, lives. acre, and a long string of one suit, fused. Do Sassenache 6s a race who lived at West Point, but has Let "Faturity" learn. that "Oas one of the shop fokir a beavy blow Ltd. making it an unbeatable and loola.cept or reject favours ungraciously? since left for Home, conducted a con- man is as good as another says and on the head with it. The man, who

proof call.

Just then one of the Surely not. There will be differences, vereation with the spirit of the late except when he thinks himself better" was severely injured was removed to ethere turned on the fan, and the as among all races. In this case I Emperor of Austria. The medium and that to be a gentleman is far bet the hospital where he did a few hours - first card our hero played blew out admit the benevolent intention, and I was the office boy, who doesn't know tor than and incompatible with apeing afterwards. The cause of death was of the window, and was for sver lost admit that the change would do me a word of German. I interpreted.

good—if I could stay up there.

gentility and there are still hopes that fracture of the skull. But Question: Where is your Majesty's | he may become one of the giants who A preacher at Tientsin who coming down each day to basiness soul now?

ahall lead this Colony from its narrow- MA16 publishes bis sermons is would undo it. After a Sunday and a

minded and prejudiced snobbishness. ou Shanghai, recently, included night up there, I would fret over Mon-

Yours etc. this bit of inspiration: day's drudgery and our city's tem "You can live and die quite happily perature. The contrast would be too without knowing anything about great. At present I am more or less science." Personally, I prefer the indarated. At present I can retreat older version, which say where into my tunnel-like cave, and sit stark ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be in a draft, what time I anoint my sores and pour medicine down my Monday's China Mail nock, and wait for better times. To had an article with taste the heaven offered, and to be these headlines: driven out of it six morninge a week No. I mash repeat the refusal, and if I seem ungrateful for the offer, I'm not.

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ADVERSARIA.

OUR TRADE

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MODESTY FCRBIDS.

UREATEST ENGLISHMAN,

WHO IS HE?

It is not for me to say; but I have friends who may not be afraid to speak up.

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"Our late immortal

writes correspondent in a

INCONSISTENT leader,"

The case of the seaman Shangbai VAGRANTS, SITested as a vagrant, late?

although he had four dollars in his pocket, illustrates how hard it is to get facts from news. papers.

IN A

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paper. It immortal, why

Answer: It is half past eleven. Question: Do you expect to reach Valhalla !

Answer: Cannot know yet. Question: What about German reparations 1

Answer: I'd rather not discuss such matters.

Question: How is the Kainer ? Answer: He has not yet left Holland.

The editor suddenly asked the late Karl what he thought of the Madeire newspaper. Quick sa the wind the medium murmured (in French) that the question was not polite.

The spirit then refused to answer any more.

[To the Editor of the

ONLOOKER

"China Mall,"

Dear Sir Lave been much interested in the recent controversy on snobbery which has been going on

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. C. E. Lynott is added to the Dental Register.

Mr. H. K. Holmes is appointed, Crown Solicitor.

Mr. C. P. Anderson is added to the list of authorized architects.

New parcele post rates are in

in your correspondents column, and I this week's Government Gazette. ask your kind permission to express my views. Suobbery is certainly For faking with flores on Friday much more rampant in Hongkong five fishermen were fined a fivar each. than anywhere else in the East. The Jate war is popularly supposed to have eliminated snobbery at home, appointed a member of the Board of through the masses shoring grief. Education. sorrow, and danger.

Mr. Teesdale Mackintosh is ze

Bo few of the Europeans in Hong- Lieut. J. H. Gordon has resigned kong tasted these thres, as so many his commission in the Volunteer preferred to stay here, to assisting the Defence Corps.

various lands of their birth.

by me, as present at the seance, and The above story is personally given

you all know the address, even if you An old, old friend of ours do not all know the house in Bonham FRIEND got into a temper on Strand. Is it not wonderful?

Wednesday morning. A

I expect to be bomtarded with Two Chinese 'died on the Blas- NAVAL TEMPER bad temper, an angry and

What was the main

statistice of those who "joined up," Fannel 8.8. "Proteselous" during the a destructive temper. So

CONSTRUCTION idea behind the pleasant she can be, as a rule. Smiling

so I will ask prematurely for these to voyage from Vanconver. Washington Con be omitted, and if any statistics are with a face bearing, only the necessary ference? Qr-wrinkles of mile, shining with peace, not an honest attempt to end actually fought. If more eligible men Dr. Wa Ting-long will be held at St.

Not a genuine love of,

necessary let them be of those who A memorial service to the late inviting kindache, looking (as we have war so much as a desire to ease the from Hongkong bad joined up to fight, Paul's Church, to-morrow at 3 said over and over again) wonderfully burden of armaments. It was (unless snobbery would have been as effectu in memory of the late Dr. Wa Ting- beautiful for her age, we have loved I am amazingly mistaken) a device to ally eliminated as at home, and fang. All friends of the late Dr. Wu, her and gone with her and kept com- save us from expenses we could no membership of the Easma club as are cordially invited to attend. pany, as the saying is, very happily, longer afford a device to avoid such mach sought after as that of THE

Monday's China Mail gave the wording "without money or visible mrens of support," and reported that the magistrate looked up the dinance and found "or"

a

young gentleman's delusion that be had been fin hie original reference to it)" trying to be unselfish." Unless

Tuesday's Daily Prest raid': lis paychological introspection is car- The Magistrate then referred to rected, he will grow up a Uriah Hesp. the ordinance on the subject and We all of us have the tendency to found that the words read "Being find noble motives for our doings. We vagrant or without any visible means Hell has no fury like discover them naually after the doings of support."

have bein did. In this case he a woman scorned, anys had read in the China oil an

Tuesday's Morning Post raid : a poet. May I ug article arguing that the Flower his Worship confirmed the Inspector's "After referring to the Ordinance gest that hell has no scarn like that of Market should retain its historic site assertion that it was "and" and one newspaper rival for another? It Hix first thought was to disagree dealt with the defendant in like man is perbaj s good (allowing for point of naturally. All newspapermen in- view of course) that the pen is not linctively disagree with what other ner as in the previous cases."

we papermen may say, especially if Now, there are three reports, and Jethally mightier than the sword. No they say it first. He then searched all differing about essential details. doubt it would be a happier world if for argumenta

The China fail had a leader about to support the the journalists did for each other as disagreement. He recalled that he it on Tuesday. No injustice wAS thecate did on the clothes line at Kil. had beca irritated once or twice done. It would have been unjust by inconsiderate women keeping their to commit the man on the police interpretation of the word "or"; but

our

I raman Sir,

Yours sincerely ELIGIBLE FOR BOTH. Hongkong, July 14, 1922.

She was in truth the life and soul of expenditure without imprudence club. Incidentally how many of the bathing piczica. Something Now what happens! Router tells us latter are eligible for the former, ruffled her on Wednesday morning, that we are spending eight million destroy the new reclamations at Praya (£16,000,000 in all) and scrapping and she grew angry and began to sterling apiece on two new battleships East. Yes, the sea was tearing away four existing battleships so as not large pieors of the new promontories to make our undertaking at Washing and peninsulas just made, and ton a "scrap of paper." In some of threatening to engulf the raila and Kipling's jingles I seem to remember waggone thereon. It was a high tide, a phrase the price of Admiralty,” and very squally.

This must be it.- "Dastardly re-

What a week of snob talk' JOURNALISTIO Yenge," wrote the

EXOBS, we have hadi It is evident- Mesars, Polishwella and Kotewall headline writer of

ly, a sore subject. Inotice report under date July 14:- a local newspaper,

this controversy, like so many others, Since our last report on the 12th

ADJECTIVES

THE YARN MARKET.

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p.m.

Her friends will regret to learn that Madame Lottie Gordon, who has been saffering from sunatroke for about ten days, has had a relapse, in addition to contracting a chill. She is under the- care of Dr. Staart-Taylor and her students are saked to note that for the present all lessons have had to fre suspended.

The Public Works, Committee in their labours anent improvements for Kowloon will be materially assisted by a large relief model of the Peninsula. made by the Public Works Depart- It shows the streets of the

kenny: Time was when I anused chairs standing while they bargained such cases as his are covered by the by way of describing the act of a produced the correspondent who wan-Jans by Str. "Sicilia", there has ment.

short Article so

AFFRONT TO

BUDDHISTS

that yo

minate person could have read Mon- excellent, o closely identified with Fon should do as I have done to dastardly? The dictionary says à turn more to literature for references from Yunnan has supported our

day's Morning Post without admiring the fruits of my influence. There is a man in Hongkong now going round boasting that he is full of rep and energy as the direct result of a hite by a centipede. So the y ung licos who roar through the editorial hea of the Morning Post roar the letter for my prodding. They should be grateful. and show it in the asnal way. Beer je mine.

my own views; en timely and so neces sary, that I have not the heart to trato him further. Indeed, I'm going to quote it with my most fervent amens. It says:

or could have said it.”.

ROLAND

OLIVER.

education.

myself, and incidentally you, by for flowers. It doesn't happen pointing out the more salient foolish often. but it does bappen

6th and 7th clauses of Ordinance No. man who dragged his enemy out oa dere into side tracks. He spoke of the been no material change in our Yarn town and outlying district and the Besses of my contemporaries. They"Unselfishness" would have re- 9 of 1897.

crowded shop into a crowded street word snob se army slang for the boot market as business with Canton and background of high hills. Looking at got sore, and I desisted. Meanwhile, cognized the injustice of penalizing a

At the tail end of a and there deliberately shot bim three mender. It is really the old and adjoining countries bus entirely stopp- the model it can easily be imagined they had somewhat amended their down flower fellers for the easily

sermon published on times. It was a wicked revenge. It reapretable English title for a journeyed owing to a continued state of war that Kowloon is being viewed from ways, I rejoiced that I had breo pri remediable faulta of a woman or two.

Tuesday the Rev. Mr. was a sinful revenge. It was a criminal man aboemaker, once commonly in those places. vileged to be directly instrumental in

some vantage point on the top of the A continued keen demand of 10s Peak. It's a clover piece of work. But right next to

Maconachie quoted: revenge. It was a good many differ-used. I am rather surprised that improving the local newspapers. They | · COMPENSATION this item

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"I have given you an example, ent kinds of revenge, but was it the local controversialists did not and 128 'Yarn in most known chope had needed it. I am enre no d scri

The education in the Malay destand is "one who meanly shrinks to the anobocracy. There is a wealth market which has maintained the schools says the Chief Secretary, And he added:

from danger; a base coward; a of anabography to draw on. prices and a good lot of 9000 bales F.M.S., in his report for 1921, is "No other teacher ever said that, poltroon; s sreak." This criminal Thackeray wrote a Book of Saobs. has changed bands at former rates, rapidly improving. Agricultural in-

(even allowing for the strange habit Trollope attempts definitions in this and the tendency at the close has struction and school, gardens bave- This addendom was gratuitous and of non-intervention by Chinese Way:

remained steady, as Foreign holders made onccessful start. The new unfortunate. The Lord Buddha said spectators) faced considerable danger. "A tuft hunter is a anob, a parasite ate holding out their stocks in anti Training College for Malay Tenoliers Mr. J. L. Garvin, the distinguish. (in effect); "I do not claim divinity. He was no poltreon. There was is a mob, the man who allows the cipation of higher prices on account is nearing completion, and when it is Editor of the London Observer bave ert an example. What I have nothing anenkith about bis methods: manhood within him to be awed by a of recent news of advancing rates in open next year, the Training Schools in denouncing Northcliffe's aati.

done you can do." (Tripitaka.). His crime was audacious, not dastard-coronet is a mob. The man who wor-India and the continued fluctuations at Halaces and Matang will be closed. Japanese campaign, pronounces it to

In the sime sermon Mr. 17. Are our local journalists too ships mere wealth is a acob," in Rupees exchange."

The young teachers, who will be the be petty and confused and another!

Bat there is no wholly true and

Unsold stocks 7000 Bales. Maconacbie made an proud to consult a dictionary Do

Houtput of this institution, will add satisfactory definition there. For me, example of irresponsibility applying

Hargain in Chiness Bands BC00 greatly to the efficiency of Malay AND cdd bloomer in con- they think they know enough to They refer to me itself to foreign policy. The evil of

neotion with the well-dispense with dictionaries? It is who drops a bone to snatch at Shanghai:-A large business in

I think a snob is on unhappy dog Bales. FLOWER STREKT 1 senile. Where this sort of campaign is that it creates

Known tit-for-tat saying. frequently and glaringly shown, that

local Mill Tarn is reported at such John Williams, second officer of reflection of one. respect the state of affaira which it bypocriti- "a Roland for an Over! He said: they think wrongly if they think that: their youth should pay my grey hairs, rally professes to be out to avoid. "Bad always tends to become

competitive rates that nothing of the sa. "Chenin" reports to the -Sometimes I get mad, the veneration they owe my tottering "Such and such a country is out for worse

importance has pased in Indian Yarn, police that while driving in a public CHINESE and want something gait, the sympathy they owe my bow. war. Watch her!" shriek the stun word by a letter than Oliver." It is

which has been almost neglected ricahs at 10.50 last night, he "fell. SNATCHERS with boiling oil in it". ed spine and aching joints? Not tists, knowing full well that if they only made so by inserting a letter

An experiment is now being con- throughout the whole interval.

sleep. When he awoke, he found there, not there, my child. Not (as shout long enough they will so alarm that has no business in it. Roland and criminals. When a scatcher rob Steamphip Company in converting a various changes in rates reported V.B.V., and four Chinese were stand ..fr our Chinese thieves ducted in New Zealand by the Union Japanme yain-In sympathy with the vehicle stopped outside the tha saying is) in those trousers. Not the said country with their virulence and Oliver were two of Charlemagne'e bed Miss Pitts, one of the best friends former hulk into a modern coal-handl. from Japan prices hers have con- ing around it.. to be quite unambiguous) in their that the militarists will find it very paladina, whose exploits and merite that the poor Chinese have got, I got ing machine at a cost of £100,000, in- tinually dustusted during the entire jumped off, whereupon all four men' Ho immediately para rap. Neverthelers I offer no easy to persuade the people to adopt wore so uqas that men regarded over my shock and annoyance by eluding £25,000 for the steel super interval and a moderate business has took to their heels. On searching his complaint. I am too pleased that a warlike policy in self-defence, on them as equivalente. What Roland reflecting that the thief probably structure which has been erected. In passed as under:-400 Balea Nagasaki pockets, Mr. Williams found that he tboy bave recanted: They repudiate the very reasonable assumption that did, Oliver matobed, and Vice Versa didn't know who she was. But the the event of the experiment proving a No. 205 $917, 400 Bales 3 Horses No. been robbed of 150 in notes. The any wish to have the wor stalls sach bitterness can only mean ons At last they met fe single combat, dirty curs who rob riceba coolies, antanceras, the work of similarly convert 161 $213, 400 Bales 3 Horees No. 20 ricabs coolis has been arrested and is Banished from Flower Street. They thing, viz., an attack on their ex- and fought for five consecutive days other poorer Chiness, know what they ing the barque "Shandon," at present $217, 100 Bales Yellow Joss No. 20s being detained. feven as you or I would hate to istence. If a war comes, of course, on su island in the Rhine, but neither are doing well enough. Robbery lying at Melbourne, will be com- $318, 400 Bites Betsa No. 10s $175, Tose them." That is satisfactory. They the stuntists will trinmy bantly shout could gain the least advantage. The always wie ed, but robbery from the menced. The converted hulk in New 400 Bales Betra No 20% $222,400 CAN YOU AFFORD THE RISK 2. romised (in this paragraph) to bay we told you so." They always do theory that counrots the saying with poor is especially devilish, and so is Zealand is capable of bunkoning Bales Blue Fish No, 20 $220 Were you ever sized with severe The biggest wreath in Flower Street They have done so in the past and General Monk and Oliver Cromwelt in robbery from friends. It will get so teamers at the rate of 120 tons per Raw cotton-There is no stook of attack of cramp cold or diarrhoes will for my funerai, and for a moment I will do it again. Somehow it never discredited by the fans that Shakspere bad presently that the authorities hour. A steel skeleton tower, 92 foot Bragal, white 100 amall bales of out a bottle of Chamberlain's Colle

as tempted by the chance to stick occurs to the "man in the siret uses the phrase in "Fence YI" and will be obliged to start a combing out in height, has them constructed above Chiters have been sold @$15 to $7 Them. But now I try to save them that much war would more often than twarly a hundred years before that of this Colony that will make that she deck, and from it there watends par pivni that expense, because they have liren not be avoided if our stantats would the phrase was used by Edward Hall, Chinese population it up and take over each side of the rossel a stoel arm #o amenable.

curb their thirst for tensationalism. the historiah. By equal in all other notice.

about 60 feet long.

ix the

Rowland is a longer

Quotations-Bergal, $32 to 85 per pical, Chinese $40 to 47 per pienl.

taks auch risks do e or two will cure

larrboen Remedy in the house 1. Do

Fox balora a tester could-pasalas called, and it never falis, even in most, sovera" and dangerous ouses For wife by all Chemists and btorekeepers.

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