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THE CHINA MAIL.

TAINTED

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

1922.

alons

Easily the most embar- OF BEING rassing men in Hong- kong aro those singular fow who habitually tell

XIALED,

the truth.

the truth!

:

As we cannot believe

DIFFERENCE OF alike, the abare- OPINION MAKES MARKETS.

*

If we all thought

brokera Would

have a thin time of it, wouldn't

DELIBERATE

IN SPEKOK

We have a young fellow in our office

they?

I feel as if to find out what it was all about. butterflies fluttering by. If they be sood boxes, grouped in a room, chat. "DISENDHANTMENT" I would like Such an one, after wading through the what they seem, then what am It Is tering politics. They are weatherwise, to buy three creare vorbings of the Ansbasis of intellect so precious a possesion, and they have that wastherwise look thousand copies of C. E Montague's Xenophon, was apt to nek, surprised: Focussed from the range of that that old sailors have. Is there a bookDisenchantment", sud "dis-Boi Is that the sort of thing you have procession? The gorgeous things an- tribute then gratis. Tho' E.A.SM.A been raving over?" Tha scholar would consciously were giving Reasons why spirituality that comes out of the them we are constantly being misled soil as it comes out of the sea,,to men by them. Why can't they lle like the fellows ought to have a copy in their smile tolerantly, and say, "Ah!, I should rise, and go on living.

"Wot is this 'ore tainted that linger over it and contemplate rest, and give us a chance to guess library, because they should b st But what did you expect of

money they talke it? Towa men put brick- briek,

upon understand and appreciate it. It is a translation? You should read

MONEY About!" asked Bill. caddening book for Englishmen to it in the original." As if, reading

so that houses grow under their hands, "Donnber know," said read; but at the same timo should do it in the original, he did not him- good. It is beautifully writt a. self have to translate it, mentally. Arry. Taint mine. Taint yourD: Boit's but that is all there is in it. They It is often earnestly No langusger doad or alive, can do tainted money, see?" That was one laugh over their work, and tell each A GROUse, declared by people here, more than express ideas and (at bect) guess which my readers are not likely other smutty stories, and quit at

that they didn't come do it musically. Ang translation to endorse. Ignoring rumours of for their bealth." Just as well, if they that is a translation must expose the tainted money in Hongkong, let me knocking off time, and have no sense neant that literally. But you know ideas for what they are; and no call attention to the report that the of the miraculous. At least I think

who talks so slowly what they mean.

They came to language is naturally more musical Bishop of Singapore has refused to not. The gardener does things with

that every time ho make and are on it. One wonders if than another. The alocationist makes accept money derived from horse bie bande also, but that they have ever really done any serious music with any. Now, if Leacock the racing that was offered to help bis doon not escure garden growth. God starts to make a remark about the Statieli, humorist annoyed them, I wonder work. It is an old, old problem, aut made man of earth, they say, but weather, the weather changes before. figuring about it. percentages, and that sort of thing. I how they survived the abook of D. long ago a distinguished Roman, they are careful to add that Hete gets it over. Not, mind you, that am no good at figures myself, but a Charles A. Mercier's Principles of bolding a pess of talated money to breathed into the thing He faskingad he isn't a charming follow, one of the just Rational Education." He exposes his nose, declared that it had no the breath of life. It seems to ms best. After all, it is maybe better informed me of the awful fact that the secret of the pro-classiciste in the meil. ("Non olet.") But perhaps the that the gardener in his turn must do than my own style of conversation, beat contribution to the discussion is some breathing in, to got the results which is modelled on the poet's incok. whereas at Home an employee gate following "fable."

"Imagine England at this present that to be found in Lish You he doss. When I reflect that he cares Besides, in one of the other awepaper over 14 per cent. of pay days, we here

time to be divested by some immense (398 B.C.) as translated by Prof. Giles something less than twenty dollars a ofices there is a fellow who was born get only a little over three per cent.

month, I go into a corner of the gar on April 1st. It is well known to catastrophe of the whole of her litera in "Taoist Teachings." It runs:

"In the east of China there was a den, a long way off from where he is that Hongkong

ture. Imagine her cut off from the practically worships its literature of the rest of the world. man named Yuan Ching Mu, who sat bending over his work, and I wonder to be for off on a journey but was overcome by why these things should be as they number one citizen, Sir Paul Chater; Imagine all science

arts but the most hunger on the way. A certain robber ate. I do not suggest that he should but I had no ides he had already been gotten, all

to be nonexistent, from Ha-fu of the Chiu, saw him be paid more, for that would be canonized until I saw him referred primitive

Telegraph, Wednesday's

which eagerness to know and to do. rice gruel in order to feed him. After I merely wonder, that is all, which is very proper thing indeed to do in a

that impertinently auggests Imagine this state of affairs, and then swallowing three mouthfuls Yuan

I Hoogkong has a long imagine that by a strange chance the Ching Mu opered his eyes and mur garden, say what you like.

"imagine" it is only the Chinese who Wind and rain are dis

stulo. I said nothing that could CRUELTY TO Way to go yet in the literature of ancient Chins or of mured, "Who are you?" "I am s

WIND AND liked by the general. convey such an impression to a direc ion af protest Sanscrit were suddenly to become native of Hu fu, and my name is "Oh misery," aried Yuan

George Borrow may logical mind. ing what friend Me known amongst us Judged even by Chiu."

care the In any rejoice (or pretend to paragraphiat errs iu thinking Whirter prottile calls the "young our present standard these literatures Ching Ma. "are you not the robber

De wa yuloed by & Scottish yins." Ever Engla-d has a long are meritorious, and in some parts Chin? What are you feeding me for? rejoice) in "the wind on the hestb,

The Scot mcd way to go, in spite of its S.P.C.C., and admirable; but what would they not I am an honest man and cannot eat brother," but brother as a rule guards fisherman. its presumably enlightened publio be to such a nation as I have your food." So saying, he clutched against it with an overcoat. The a straight oar ("sculling") whereas a peculiar and opinion. Miss Clemence Dane shows sketched! They would be seized the ground with both hands, and vulgar humorist who has to be cat the palo" bas that there must still be something upon with the same avidity, they began retching and coughing in order in the rain says it is for weather for very important elbow" in it. The wrong with the laws (or their admin would be studied with the sans to bring it up again. Not succeeding, ducks, meaning that he is cut a duck. mounting is also different. If my a siduity, their merits would be however, he fell flat on his face and There have even bern men who eaid contemporary desires to take part istration) by contrasting penaltirs as

they liked the fresh feel of rain in such an argument, he should first in the following lists of cases tak nexalted with the same hyperbolica) | expired.

Now the man from Hu-fu was a their faces, and enjoyed being out in make himself acquainted with the at random from newspapers.

laudation as the Greek literature was

robber, no doubt, but the fool be it. Peculiar people, all these; and elementary facts. brought was not affected thereby. their veracity not always taken on Because a man is a robber, to refuse trust by common meu. If we all to eat the food he offers you on the went naked, as some races do, it ground that it is tainted with crime, is possible that wind and rain would is to have lost all power of discriminat-worry us less. A bathing party, in ing between the nominal and the real." bathing dress. laughs at rain. It is

PROMOTION me

V.

The nice little sporting YULO frument I tried to start last week was vigorously OARS threshed out in Japan years.

Here the ago.

only

to in the Daily Press recently as St. and yet the people to retain theic lying there, and fatched a bowl of impolitic and possibly even unpopulur.response seems to bз a paragraph is

Paul,

OHU,DREN.

ECLIPSES.

RAIN.

THE

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SEQ

44

A correspondent in Thursday's Morning Past caltends that an clipse is invariably followed by an earth.

"For a tempted assault on a child at the time of the Recaitsince. A of fenr. Bond over on account of knowledge of Chinese or of Sanscrit would be acquired by every man who previous goo? character.

made any pretence to be educated "For assault on child of seven Sentence: six months,

and since, where elucation is expen "For stealing leather from em-sive and is held in high estimation, it ployers (same case). Sentence: six becomes the mark of the leisured and

Wednesday's Uhina wet clothes that ara uncomfortable, quake, somewhere, within ten days. months.

wealthy, a knowledge of Chinese or Santcrit would soon become the

Afail gave us a learned Getting one's feet wet is an anxious It is not impossible that there might appanage of the leisured and wealthy.

leader on eclipsen. It matter, when one wears boots and be a connection, but bis facts do not Now appose that the knowledge of is useful to know about eclipers a cocks. A bare footed man would establish it. Within seven days of science and the practice of art as they the "Yankee at the Court of King think nothing of it. To go through every earthquake there is a Taulay, but that proves nothing. If we have exist to day were gradually restored Arthur" proved. A dozen other main to the office, and there sit in to the nation, and suppose that in the travellers bad used eclipses to save wer things, ie really dangerous. Toy) two eclipses a year, and 52 course of a few generations such a their lives in similar ways before him, go naked to the office, provided they earthquakes, it is more than likely magnificent vernacular literature as Columbus did it, and Munchausen, kept a clean towel there, which that one of the 52 will follow, within we now possess were to be pro and Mandeville, and Lord Northcliffe, printing offices never do, would ten days, cither one of the twa. duced, this soience, this art, and and 1 don't know how many more be

For assault on baby of foar. Sentence: £2 fior.

"For_semalting_sed iffecing s child of seven Sentence: twelve

months.

For assaulting and infecting a child

of seven. Bound over,

lark.

1. cannot

I'M AN

EXCEPTION

A most enterprising local firm has sent. me through the post a number of beatly

"For assaulting (on the same day) two little girls. Bound over.

-"For Asault on three small children-av'dence unfit for publica- this literature would be cultiratIf I had known in time last year that think of any more to say about wind tion. Sentence: £5 fine.

ed; they would be studied; but in Lord Astor's Craig an Eran was due and rain-except that we had much would simplify matters for them, just For assault on child of twelve the meantime the Chinese would have to win the Eclipse Stakes I could of both on Wednesday. Perhaps it is

printed catalogues of musical in as they thought the various "white" (it previons convictions for the same secured the monopoly in the schools have made money. I kept a young just as well.

straments and accessories. That's Rusisos would settle the "rade."offence). Sentence: three months. of the wealthy and the leisured. Aeolar eclipse in a butch at the bottom

Advertising pava. Why we should do all the police work "And so on-and so on-and so caste of teachers of Chinese would of the garden when I was a boy, but

" TO THE If you should ever business, and enterprise that deserves have become established and would a neighbour'e cst got it before it ANT" doubt this, consider succes. But when they say (to of the world I cannot see. I know we cannot afford it.

guard their monopoly with sedulous grew up, so that I never really had

the fine reputation me)Some day you will own a vixileace As the volume and ex

discover how they the ant has got for pradence, industry, gramophone. When that day comes, cellence of modern science and of develop. As far as I remember it and intelligence, simply by iteration you will realize why there is no other was an affectionately disposed little of advertisement, Real naturalists nstrument which bring so much real thing, with not much of an appetite. know that it is a stupid, fussy crea-pleasure to so many people at so little

no.

"And now read this second list of Talking of passpurts offences against property also picked PASSPORTS (since we must talk of at random from newspapers, in the

stupid things) did last two monthe --- ever tell you about the last time I

"For overcharge on drinks, of 24d. mas coming to Hongkong? The Con-Sentence: 50 guiucas,

was said: sul at the place where

For borglary and receiving stolen

earvitude.

"But mee

I

"For robbery. Sentence:

!

months and twelve strokes of the cat.

"For obtaining goods on fales pretences. Sentence: five years.

"For aslling short-weight bread. Sentence: £150 fine.

vera calar literature increased, the number of those who purane them would increase, and the Chinese literature and science would become coutinually less and less important, mora and more neglectable by com. parison. What would be the obvious course for the caste of teachers of

冉 chance to

POSTAL

enclose.

HUMAN RACE

BANK

race was in Chica

to grant the motion.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I went into the Passport Office this week ter a

Quite a while ago now Iture that wastes a tremendous lot of cost"-they are out of luck in the Pas port. Ididn't really

spoke of the post-office energy; and any Hongkong housewife prophetic line. I am as likely to own want one, but somebody had persuad." This passport was issued in London, goods, Sentence: seven years' penal

STORIES, requirement that in will tell you that its bonesty is more a gramophone as I am to keep centi- ed me it would be a handy thing to and I see you came here from Sydney.

sured letters must be than doubtful where eugar is concer- Prdes and scorpions as pets. There is have. I was told that the officials I cannot endorse it for Hongkong, "For not displaying wine price list would be so glad to see me that they but I will endorse it an that you can in restaurant. Sentence: £?) fine and

sealed with a private seal. My point ued. That any grasshopper ever no nos in the world I dislike more was that as few people have private really went begging to the ants is one than the noise of a gramophone, I pre- Chinese, to do in the circumstances? would throw a heap of passports in go back to Sydney, or to Loa loo.. 7 guineas costs.

times drives me Learly crazy. When the Grasshoppers do not front of me and urge me to help my.whichever you prefer,"

"For attering forged Treasury The teaching of Chinese is the only sale now that she post-office ought of those superstitions storias only fit fer the Chinesaddle," and that some-

itself to do the sealing. It daren't for children. self. "Take half a dozen. We can alive", I said, "my job's in Hong- note. Sentence: thres yram. thing they can do; it is their mono-

long list of bad language I have used, Those who pretend recommend this one to the North Pole, kong. What's the use of my going to

"For betting in a grecar's shop. paly, and it is a lucrative monopoly. That would expies it to accusations cat the sort of stuff that ants collast Recording Angel is reading over the by crooked people. For instance, an

I am going to move that ninety per or this one to Inferno." But it didn't London or Sydany? If I cannot go to Sentence: £100 fire.

They dominate the schools and us.

CRADLE OF THE to believe that the cent of the record be expunged, ou "For stealing motors and jewel-iversities, and it is to their interest Indian in a Dutch colony posted a

cradle of the human the ground that it was due to work that way at all. The good look-Hongkong, where they want me, it ing young man in charge looked me will be no use my going anywhere." lary, also fraad. Sentence: five years that Chinese should continue to be registered letter to an Indian in Hong- over with a cold eye, and said "You Don't ask me what his idea way, for penal servitude.

taught as a matter of secessity in kong, purporting to contain thres ten are not a resident, are you?" "No," do not know. Eventually, after get

three the schools and the aniversities. It guilder notes and one five. It con- forget that Eve ate the apple. Had gramophones. And the Court is going I replied meekly. "I suppose not. tin? telegraphic advices from Hong-

therefors they have any rudiment of tained, when opened, only the five Eve been Chiness she would have guilder note. Had the post office eaten the serpent and there would I haven't actually lived here more kong, he relented. Sometimes I wish

the instinct of self-preservation, they done the sealing, they would have have been far less trouble about it. will secure that there shall be no than eight years. But" (I put in be hadn't. When I landed in Aus

been accused of abstracting the thirty

I am asked to contradict hopefully) if you mention my name tralis no one asked me for my pass

entrance into a university of any

A...A. the rumour that the com-

Visitors from Formoss report to His Excellency, or to the Colonial port, so I kept it in my pocket,

student who has not already been guilders, whereas it was proved that

mittes of the Hongkong that continuous earthquakea bave Secretary, or to the Director of Public naturally. I spent over a year in

tangat Chinese at school. They will the thirty guilders had never been

enclosed.

Fost office officials have Society for the Prevention of Cruelty taken place in the Taiwan Islands Miss. Dane adds this comment: axtol the wonders of the Chinese numeroas little histories to show how to Animals has decided to request Works, or to anybody who is any. Australia, travelling extensively, and

*Which, on the ovidenos of its own literature and science and philosophy. body, you may observe a little gleam then, when up in Queensland, I decid- of interest in their eyes if you watched to go to Fiji. Itimed my arrive! police courte, of its own criminal and lest anyons bat themselves should common it is for people to pretend local Sunday Schoola to omit the during the past fortnight, but no seri- closely. One of them may admit in Sydusy to be just two days abend code, does Mother England rate more read Chinese for himself and discover to enclose things that they do not story of Daniel in the lions den on a damage has been done.

the ground that teasing lions with an having heard of me."

Lieut. Walter Higby, Hongkong That's tho of the sailing of the boat I had book- highly-ber sons and daughter or her how inferior it is to modern literature

The more I watch the anestable prophet was cruelty.

Volunteer Defence Corps, has bean worst of being connected with news-ed by. When I went to the passport goods and chattela? Isn't it a shame and science and philosophy, they will

THE CHINESE Chinese gardener at

I was hoping we had papers. It gives one swelled head. I official in Sydney and bauded him and a mark of shame upon us that we teach it in auch a way as to make it

GARDENER, work, the more am I

heard the last of snob-promoted to the honorary rank of foolishly under the impression my passport for view, he said: give a man the same punishment for so disgusting to the scholar that,

impressed with a sense

SHOBBERY bery for a while; but s captain, with permission to wear the uniform of that rank when he retires. that-well, that nobody would doubt"What are you doing with this 1" ruining a child's body and mind as once he has left the school or

constant reader writes my claims to be a resident. I might I said I didn't understand. He for stealing a piece of leather-that university, he will never open a book of inferiority, of mysterious powers have known better, because there was said:

right we fine bim £50 for over-charging on Chinese again; and lest this should and escteric knowledge far beyond in to mention that he does not intend the postmail, too tired to climb my to be in possession of this passport." Dustomers, 2 guineas for assault be inefficacious, they will teach it in my kenning. If only I could to eat sprats that pretend to be par brother, the late Sit. Rors Switt,

to him in hio Owndines. stairs, who used to return my letters Nonsense," said I, with heat. It's that we give a woman three years for such a way that after ted years of talk to the wonders, endorsed "not known." mine, I bought it and pail for it." shop lifting and a baby-farmer (three such teaching the scholar shall not be language, not merely fluently (like And yet and Tet-if ever there was "It ought to have been given up of whose purse children have died), able to understand it at all; that his government official) but ingratiating. a man "well-known to the police," when you landed in Australia" he six months for the slow starvation mind with respect to that and every.ly, as man to mau. I might, since all that man was I.

said. "How was I to know that?" (in anprintable circumstances) of two thing else shall be empty; that when things are possible, learn how be a death and only a little paragraph to this country. I confers that I am a I said, "when no one asked for it. chiren of under a year,”-

he leaves school he shall know manages to make a sunflower bloom, (if that) about a birth! They are

bloom handsomely, at B bum politician. High" Well, you cannot go by that boat,'';

Stephen Leacock is nothing. This, I say, is the natural and

merely opposite ends of the same

The Hon. Mr. E. V. D. Parc har politics are not in my he said. "It must go to Melbourne."

LATIN AND said to have grievous course that self-preservation and reasonable height from the ground. thing.

bren appointed a member of the Re- line. That doesn't preBat that will delay me a full

GREEK :ly offended the ulas the prezervation of their monopoly with a sturdy stem, while all my

Make it a role never. to creation Grounds Committee as a the "I cannot help vent me from curling my lip when mouth," I said.

tical pedants with his would diotate to teachers imported seeds attenuate like fo.b'e

UREFUL land money between the representative of the Royal Hong- they talk of British diplomacy. It that," he said. And he didn't. I essay entitled 'Homer and Humbug." of Chinose under the cireumat-vinsa, and bend and fall and rot.

hours of five a.. and Yong Golf Club during the absence was British diplomacy that drove spent a month in Sydney while my He says it is all a lie to say that the ances

have Turkey and Bulgaria into the arms of passport did the trip to Melboutae classics possess a grandeur and

Sitting one day

H. Holyoak. than I am. Does he love flowers and those hours to do so. our eBeanies, instead of, keeping 'om and back. There are worse places charm which is lost in translation. He

They are 1utting beneath a shady all growing things as I do? I think It was British than Sydney to spend a month in; says he told the same lies himself, at at least neutral,

Mr. J. F. Patrick, formerly chief IMPROVEMENTS. ferro-concrete tree, diplomacy that

was largely in- but was that fair or reasonable? It Brat from vanity, then from habit, and

The maat. That patience of his, that

verandahs on our officer on the R M 8. "Empress of Suffering some pain,esiduous watchfulness and cars, is strumental in making the strange might have been a very serious later because his lassical knowledge He nts which have brought about this matter if I had been a business man. was all that he had to boast of.

inclined to something apart from and foreign to office, but the staff does not seem Asia, has been transferred to the melancholy, Trade Union principles." The idea unduly paffed up about it. Even "Empress of Canado," to the same Tarko Greek war, which is now drage. Now you know (partly) why I love concluded that "the classics are only ing in our own war weary Tommies as pasporte so much. I was a great primitive literature. They belong to I pondered life and death, and did a of this dumb creature loving gl.17 has its drawbacks, and coolies position. All the officers on the. well on lade from the Dominions traveller before the war, but never the same class as primitive machinery sum. To see if it were worth what anything but money seeus ludicrous carrying water or msosdam past "Aria have been moved up one With such big and bigoted saw a passport nor needed one till and primitive musle and primitive was to come. So much of sickness, to some of us, but how man's desk while he is at work do not step. Chief Officer Moallem of Mahamedan community in our that came. I thought that after the medicine." It is certainly easy to inache, and anxious strife--Pleasures so explain away the visible fraite of materially assist the flow of inspira- the Canad" has been transferred empire, it is not good that our War WAS over we would go back to the for the bar of the lie about the clis fugitive in human life-How must the loret De Chinese gardeners have a ton. I wish I could be as eloquent back to his regular service on the attitude towards the Turks should be old freedom. But I suppose they keep alos being untranslatable. Something balance weigh if sight computed 1.1 Guild 1 I shall be surprised to hear on the new verandaks as Juliet on Atlantic. He was only on what it is. Our diplomats seem to it up for the sake of the revenue it had to be done to. setile the bash of began depreciative ories and then that they have. I cannot think of her balcony but there it fa-you"Canada" for the voyage out anıl have thought that the Gresk aims bringi tu. Oh well!

the inquisitive people who read Bohn was muted, By sight of amorons them away from their flower pots and know u much about it as I do,

ASIA

MINOR

** You have

20

1

RIPROOF ON TOR WING

Sir Keith Smith, who with his

few from England to Australia by Why do the

aeroplane. is abortly coming to DISPROPORTIONATE papers print a China. He was expected to arrive column about in Singapore recently a his way.

+

supposed," without the first sign of bourgeoning.

Like Gunga Din, he is a better man midnight. It is dangerous during from the Colony of the Iener. P.

| the fres round trip.

the