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MRS, HASLEWOOD'S CHINA CHINESE FOOTBALL TOUR.

PIONIC.

[To the Editor of the" China

Under the title of "A Picnic on the Chins Coast" Mrs. C. R. L. Haslewood writes in the Defly

News:-

seives.

Maul."]

Sir,-As an old reader of your paper, and an older player of soccer here and at home, I should

like to be allowed to command

what you have written under this heading. I hope that every mem- ber of the Chinese Football team about to visit Australia will take to heart what you have said

SMILES OF OTHER DAYS,

LORD MEATH'S AMUSING

REMINISCENCES.

The late Dr. Thorold, Bishop of Rochester, used to superintend personally the preparation of young men who proposed to take clerical orders within his diocese.

}:

THE CHINA MAIL.

DRUG CHARGE.

STORY OF SCENE IN

"A FLAT.

LADY ROSE WEIGALL.

VIVID PICTURES OF

VANISHED WORLD.

The charge of unlawful posSQE~|

Miss Rachel Weigali's momcir sion of morphia tablets which was of her mother, based on her cor adjourned because the woman respondence and the recollections and two men accused were in a of friends, and published under the state of collapse, was again before title of "Lady Rose. Weigall" On une occasion he went loto M Mead at Marlborough-street. Murray, 128.), is an altogether the library and lay down, pretend- The accused were George Hope charming book. Lady Rose was a Ing to be dying, having given in-Johnstone, 43, Jullan Piader, 31, daughter of the 11th Earl of structions that the pupils were to both of formyn-street, W., and Westmorland and a favourite great- come in one by one and administer Marjorie Hatton, 29, of Oak Lodge, niece of the famous Duke of the consolations of religion.

Hockley, Essex.

Wellington. Born in 1834, she Johnstone and Hatton pleaded died in 1920. In these pages is a not guilty, and Pinder guilty.

vivid picture of a stately and splendid age, a world which has vanished irrevocably, for she was one of the last of the great Victorians.

When the Bishop had retired, the young men began to discuss who among them would be brave enough to bell the cat." At length a young Irishman who seemed to be without fear, was picked out He said he was ready to face the Bishop, whose Christian name was Anthony and who was a strict tectotaller.

He threw open the door and strode into the library. Seeing the Blsop lying on a sofa, covered head turned to the wall, the Irishman and foot by a rug, with his head threw up his hands in horror, and called out: "Oh, Anthony, Anthony; is it the drink again?

HIS AWAKENING. The above is told by the Earl of Meath in "Memories of the Nine teenth Century" (John Murray) Here are more stories from the book,' the first of which also con- cers Dr. Thorold.

The Bishop had received a letter from a clergyman in his diocese, asking for advice in regard to the offer to his church of an altar car tain by a rich and jafluential woman in his parish. He did not want to hang the curtain, but, on the other hand, he did not wish to annoy his parishioner. What was he to do?

Mr. Muskett, for the police, said the appearance of the three indic- ated that they were all saturated with drugs and in a hopeless state, he should think, of moml and phy- sical decay.

***

On May 25 the police entered a

top flat at 109, Jermyn-street and saw Pinder, Johnstone, and Hatton in a room. The woman sat near an open window, with the two men Patterson pulled away her left arm, standing beside her. Sergeant which was inside her blouse, and found in her hard a partly filled syringe containing liquid. In her other hand she had a small syringe, and a tabe containing 13 tablets of morphine and atropine.

Mr. Mead: What is the hame of the second dug ?

Mr. Muskett: Atropine. It is an alkaloid from what is known as deadly nightshade," or bella- donna.

Mr. Muskett added that there might be charges against other people arising out of the case.

Detective-Sergeant Lewis said Pinder said to him: "They are innocent; I obtained it, and we were just giving her some."

In the fat were found a tube containing tablets marked on phine sulphate, 24 empty morphine sulphate and atropine sulphate tubes, and some broken hypoder

She remembered the duke sa Someone extraordinarily kind and indulgent, always ready to play with them, who gave her de licious thrills. by carrying her shoulder-high so that she could look down on the lighted lamps. never entered the children's minds. The idea of being afraid of him

She herself, as a girl, had spoken to a little old lady in a bath chair," who was no other than Miss Mary Berry, "who had been a friend of Horace Walpole." The early years of Lady Rose's life were largely passed at for eign Courts, in the days when society abroad and in London was one big family and everybody knew everybody else. She there made the acquaintance of many of the great figures of the Napoleonic age. Metternich she met at Vienn

and recalled him, as

A very mild old gentleman wha talked a great deal in a measured, gentle voice, and about whom there was something, with his white hair, scrupulous neatness, his stars and ribbons, and, above all, the extreme deference and respect. shown him by everyone, with my great-uncle, the Duke of Wellington. No bitter or angry

We were having a picnic on the const of Ching; ubt so daring as it sounda, for we were on British terri- tory, on the mainland opposite I know of no other game Hongkong, and, secure in this played by man, or boy, or thought, we settled ourselves in a youth, which either can make or mar a man, which, has so much in sheltered cove on the bot, firm it, that, if grasped in the true sport- sands, with our feet almost in the ing fashion, can make a fellow sea, and opening up our pienic emerge from the most strenuous basket we prepared to enjoy our-game, feeling it has done him good, not physically, but, shall I say, morally. I know what it is to play Suddenly, "We are being watch before an unsympathetic crowd, a crowd, out for its own amusement, ed," said my husband and vague starting by being ironic, infuriated thoughts of pintos and land rob-by a possibly mistaken decision on The Bishop thought this was a bers, who are by no means myth the part of the referee, revolving trivial matter, so he left the letter in China, passed through my mind. itself into a biased partisan unanswered. The clergyman, not "Look," he said, and a few yards crowd of yells and yawps. It taking the hint, wrote again with-

would seem that Australian crowds out reply, and then again and again. mic syringes from us, sprang, as it seemned, from are no different to any other At last the Bishop sent a postcard. In a room at Oak Lodge, Hock-word ever came from his lips.

containing three words. "Hangley (Hatton's address), in a ward- She knew, too, and liked the min habitation, there stoo! I am referring to, does well to perched on & rock above us a tali emphasise what

our Chinese dence ceased.

said he found a number of hypo- late Francis Joseph, Emperor of Chinese coolie girl. She was clac | friends may expect. They have a In his old age, Lord Strathnaira dermic needles and thin wires and Austria:

He was extremely · fond of in the usual dark coat and trousers, glorious opportunity of being the (Sir. Hugh Rose), of Indian fame, a phial containing five tablets of

dancing, and it was one of his few and wore the large "all-weather" right kind of Ambassador for occasionally fell asleep for a few atropine sulphate.-

The three were remanded in relaxations. Always grave and hat, protecting equally from sun and their

distressed seconds when dining out. Being If they country.

dignified in mander, and even shy; rain, upon her head.

ashamed of this woakness, he custody.

he chose his partners from among On her face was an expression of back from their tour with the words would, on waking, pull himself

the best dancers. deepest interest, mingled with the their ears, they will have achieved conversation in an attempt to prove These are sportsmen" ringing in together, and then rush into the acutest concern. She appeared much. I write as one who having that he had been awake all the transfixed at the sight of what was, played against the South China time. I suppose, the first English picnic Club in its early days and always she had ever attendet. For it was impressed with the quality of the English! We had bous, bananas, play and players, desires to. reim and meat pies. Thinking to re- press the wise words of your assure our new-found, friend (for writer. from the first I had instinctively folt her to be that); I offered her a bun. She sprang from the rock to take it, and standing at our side she took a bite.

nowhere, for we were far from any crowds, and the writer of the article the curtain!" and the correspon-frobe cup-board, Sergeant. Lowis | Archduchess Sophie, mother of the i

"Ho," she said, giving me an appreciative glance. Now "He" is Chinese for "Good," so that was Batisfactory, and my husband, on- couraged by my success, stured his meat pie with her.

"She seems worried about some thing," he observed, for the look of anxiety bad never left her face.

"It's not the pie," I replied, "but I am sure she thinks wo'ro drown, ing slowly, and is longing to move us. She may think we're doing it from choice, and that this is our Jast meal together.” *

"Well, anyhow, she's going to shift us now," he said. And he was right. Finding that gesticulations left as cold, she bore down upon us, seized the picnic basket, gathered up our belongings, and kindly but firmly removed them and, ns to an. other place farther from the on-com-

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own much

can

come

Yours etc.,

FULL BACK. Hongkong, July 17,

EX-EMPEROR'S RAGE.

DISMISSES TWO THOUSAND EUNUCHS.

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Of these Lady Rose was one. seriously as well as danced. But Victorian women studied

of Clarendon, Gibbon, and Carlyle During those years the historier were read: also the "Essays". of Macaulay, Froude, and Ruskin, Smith's

small shop, and stay there nearly The conversation at a certain Once he called at a house where all day helping him to mend them. dinner table had been on the sub-he-was expected at ten o'clock ject of Cochin China fowl when he Just before ten the bell rang, and fell asleep; when he awoke it had the butler, going to the door, found changed to the beauty of the four a man wearing well-patched boots poetry both English and German, "Wealth of Nations," lovely daughters of the Marquess of and an overcoat graen with ago, and many religious works Abercorn, who was Lord Lieuten The butler told the man it was The ant of Ireland in 1867.

quite, impossible for him to see the Austria was among her friends, Empress Elizabeth of lady of the house as she had a and she afterwards wrote of a visit special appointment. with the Earl which she paid to Vienna in 1860: of Lauderdale.

The Empress was in the height

And do you mean to tell me," said Lord Strathnairn, "that they are feathered all the way down the leg?"

One of the most unconventional members of the peerage was the late Earl of Lauderdale, father-in- law of the Earl of Meath. Many stories are told about him.

THE JOLLY ADMIRAL.

•

Imagine the astonishment of theof her beauty, but she was delicate butler when the seedy-looking in and had been ordered to Madeira dividual handed him los card, for the winter. We saw the chil which bore the name of Lord dren that evening, and the Em Lauderdale.

peror went on his knees to play Perhaps the best story told, of with the little Crown Prince Lord Lauderdale concernsTM an Rudolph. They seemed so happy, occasion when the Queen and one little thought what the end- Parliament went in State to St. would be.. Paul's. Lord Lauderdale, notwith- The Empress and the Crown standing the urgent entreaties of Prince were to die violent deaths; his family, had declined to make the Emperor was to lead his aby improvement in his ordinary country to ruin. dress, except to exchange a very old frock coat for the usual green- with age one. His hat, which pre- bably would have been discarded

to replace with a new one. even by a Jew purchaser of old clothes, nothing would induce him

› Mr. Gladstone, in 1862. **

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MORE FLOUR DEALS,

HUSBAND ACCUSED.

DAILY DOSES OF LEAD ACETATE,

At Billericay, Essex, John Heary Taylor, a carrier, was charged..

woman.

PEKING, July 15.

lieved to he due to incendiarism in The recent fire was widely be order to cover up the theft and He was a regular old "sea-dog," disappearance of priceless having been an Admiral. After he treasures, and yesterday it was retired he became well known by discovered that many valuable many of his humbler neighbours ornaments were missing.

It is reported that prices of four with administering to his wife around Lancaster Gate, who had no

"futures" have moved up slightly acetate of lead, with intent to The ex-Emperor was so incensed idea of his rank. at this intelligence that he ordered On one occasion, seeing a rope

in sympathy with the advance in injure her. the arrest and punishment of two not properly fastened on a scaffold-

Sat by me at dinner yesterday, spot goods." When the upward Mr. George Peavor, for the eunuchs, named Chung and Hua ing, he went up the ladder in true

and I thought him excessively tendency commenced about a week Director of Public Prosecutions, Kunge These eunuchs, however, sailor fashion and asked leave to

agreeable. He has the most en-ago, the latter went up a few cents married 30 years ago and had a said Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were were under the protection of two fasten it properly. Emperors Kuang Hsu and Tung for many years discovered one day

chanting voice I ever heard, and a bag every day while the to family of Eve. Two years ago Imperial concubines of the former One man who had known him

it is singular that, though it is arrive quotations remained station- differences occurred through Tay always low and soft, it is so clear Chin, who refused to permit their that he was Lord Lauderdale. His dependents to be punished.

MADE THE CROWD LAUGH. lordship used to bring him very

and ringing that I could hear what Bry "Sperry's XXX" a well. lor going to the house of another The ex-Emperor, feeling power old boots to repair at a cheap rate, crowd closed in around it. The the library in the evening. His flour is now being quoted at $9.69 cook up a cup of tea to his wife less in his own household, quitted and the man had thought him utmost reverence for the solemnity countenance is not what I should for epot. "White Greens was sold every morning. On February 12

he was saying at the other end of known brand of Patent Anterican When his carriage stopped, the

Taylor, who slept downstairs, "She then washed our cups for us, to his father's palace near the

the Imperial Palace and proceeded pauper!

call a good countenance.. of the occasion-a National Thanks- and started us on our next and final Drum Tower, accompanied by his Alde-de-Camp to Queen Victoria, giving Service for the recovery of and Lady Rose's correspondence on Saturday it was stated that the tea and afterwards noticed ir

When appointed Principal Naval

There are many good stories,

ies, this moning at $8.04 against $2.06 Mrs. Taylor did not at once drink course, dessert,

two wives. This step has caused a the Earl proceeded to Buckingham King Edward VIL, from a serious Duchess of Baden and the Prus were for export to neighbouring having It analysed. "She seems to love us,"

the Prince of Wales, afterwards during the war with the Grand most of the purchases of this brand ance. Her son-in-law advised I re- great deal of agitation as it is Palace without making the smallest illness was shown by the vast sian Admiral Eisendecher is of

had a curious smell and appear marked, for she has never once feared the ex-Emperor might leave alteration in his dress, which was asked us for 'cumshaw.'

Peking, which would be awkward by no means of the smartest, in At that moment she was engage- considering the present state of order to obtain information regard

great political interest. But it is ports. Chinese dealers are now There was dead silence, when for its many sidelights on the willing to buy for September ship- other mornings in succession was The tea of that morning and three in packing up the basket, and Peking politics.

ing his duties. He presented his one- .man, Was washing everything that she

addressing The two Dowagers despatched card to a gorgeously-attired atten-Lauderdale in a voice which could so valuable and attractive.

Lord Victorian age that the memoir is ment at $2.05 against $2.91 laat bottled and sent to the public could ny her hands on in the sea: delegates to persuade the ex-dant at the Palace, and said that he heard by all around him, said,

Saturday."Dayton" brand was and in case she should try to wash Emperor to return but he declined Lord Lauderdale would be greatly Well, I do think as 'ow you might us also we inade trucks for the unless the eunuchs were dismissed. obliged if he could see the official a got yerself a new at for this

sold on the market at $2.98 but the Harley-Davidson.

Early this morning the ex-whose duty it was to give the in- occasion!"

volume of business was small,” But in an instant she was at my monarch issued an order dismis formation. The servant looked at Lord Lauderdale was not in the side. With a most sweet and landly They left the Forbidden City this dale, and said, "What sort of man moved his hat, looked at it, began,

METALS TRADE. stils, she gently took the sunshade morning, presenting a curious sight is your master?"

ing sca.

she stood with her hand to her eyes, watching us ont of sight, "

a

multitude.

SCROOGE OUT-SCROOGED

After a seach lasting since the

Flood the meanest man has been sing two thousand eunuchs. the card, and then at Lord Lauder-least perturbed, but slowly re-

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reported that in. 26oz of made tea analyst, Dr. Bernard Dyer, who there was 61 gratus of lead acetate, equal to one-seventh of an ounces of sugar of lead. ⠀⠀

Taylor kept a horse, said Mr. Peavor, and sugar of lead was used I was holding from my hand, and as they scattered about the city.

as he always did, to brush it with discovered, and a tin medal, beat-booked this morning for indents of sugar of lead had been in his in the treatment of horses. There held it over my head as I got into After ordering this dismissal the fellow, but rather grumpy."

Oh, he is not a bad sort of a his coat-sleeve in the wrong direc-ing the beautiful inscription, He Nos. 18 to 17 gauges, three to fivo possession. The amount found by Galvanised Wire-Orders were was no evidence, however, thatany the sidecar, and until we were ox-Emperor returned to the Palace,

tion, and then said, "Well, I think borrows money to save up has months arrival, at $11.00 per pical, the analyst in the tea would not actually on our way; ond even then,

Soon an answer came from you are about right, my man; Many of the euchs have no the official upstairs that Lord Roars of laughter broke out, and he been despatched to him in an un- coil. Noe. 18 to 22 gauges were have killed, but if lead wers taken where to go. They intend making Lauderdale might come in as soon instantly became a favourite of the stamped evelope. It was on the evening of that day, ex-Emperor's father-if they are

an appeal to Prince Tsai Feng-the as he liked. He began to mount crowd.

The story of the action which also done on the same terms at continuously it would undermine the Feast of All Saints, 1919, that not allowed to return to the Palace, came from the attendant. "Oh, the stairs, when a horrified cry

earned for him this handsome re- $15.50,

the constitution. we heard in Hongkong the terrified They hope the ex-Emperor will, are you Lord Lauderdale? I beg

cognition is as follows; An

Steel Bara-Round, Square aud

In Her evidence, Mrs. Taylor: cries of the little slave-girl, the in-make an allowance for their sup-y lordship's pardon a thousand somewhat vague at times, the who were very happy in their little on indent, business at $6.60 per pical tion. After the examination of the Of Mrs. Gladstone, who was

He heard of a poor old couple Flat were all offered by importers said she had not been well for z years, but put it down to indigès- cident which confirmed us in one port-Reuter.

times. I had no ideal was speak author tells a story. He received cottage, so he decided to purchase this morning but no bookings have tea she accused her husband Ing to your lordship!"

from her an invitation to dinner,the property, and eject them. been reported. Quotations by deal of trying to poison her, and he In due course, he secured theers for spot goods in godowns are de said it was a good job if there was written on a half-sheet of paper. Od THE BUTLER SURPRISED

turning it over he found it was a deeds, and went round to have them. follows:-Round, $5.40 por picul poison in the tea. He left her in When he was staying at Thirle tradesman's bill, across which, in ejected.... stane Castle, his place in Berwick red ink, were written the words: however, he saw the poor, grey for immediate clearance ex-godown,

ex-godown, Square, 86.70, and Flat March and had not returned As he approached the cottage, $8.80. Small sales were recorded Count: Munster, when German haired old couple toitering into if she had any old pots and pans Ambassador in London, had a their home with several rolls of for creed, and which time itself will In one of the vernacular paper's carry them into the town of Lauder, for many years with successive Aba exclaimed the meanest

to be mended. He would then butler, a German, who had lived new wallpapers not destroy.

account of the wounding of the call upon a tinker who owned a ambassadors. He had forgotten man on earth New wallpaper! I

resolution to probe the evil systern

to the uttermost, and which has re

Saulted in its abolition..

That gentle Chinese girl, perhaps

kind loving service, In doing so

ACCURACY!

!

HER MISTAKE.

a slave herself, had showered on 18 CHINESE DESCRIPTION OF Shire, Lord Lauderdale would go This is the tenth application."

The forged a spiritual link between

ne, stronger than any barrier of rice

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SHOOTING,

Superintendent of the Chinese Telegraph Administration yester day, the writer, in attempting...to describe where the bullet entered the body used words to the effect that Mr. Shum was wounded in the same place as was Mr. Chán Wing- hsia when the latter. was shot (in Glenealy) some time ago.

into the kitchen and use the cook

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much of his native tongue, and had wait a week P

acquired an equal knowledge-pf English

One day Count Munster hing his bell, and the German Butler, answering the call safe Excellent gobellt? whic lated means, bu Has your Ex- cellency barked like a dog

Flyosam

WANTED TO KNOW.

A wealthy Irish farmer, intending to send his son to college, recently. wrote a letter to the Head Master. of Oxford University, in which he sald, Pleasa say what are your terms for a year; and will it, cost anything extra if my son learns to write a good hand and spell proper, as well as to row a boat?"

that the symptoms of Mrs, Tayin's Evidence was given by Dr. Wells iliness were consistent with mild lead poisoning.

Taylor, who pleaded not guilty, was committed for trial at the Essex Asaires. Ball was allowed.

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