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LETTERS.

The following interesting letters appear in a recent issue of the Times Literary Supplement

THE STORY OF LORD JIM

LTD.

That was how he

ROAD TRAFFIC PROBLEMS.

"A SIX-WHEELED OMNIBUS,"

THE CHINA MAIL.

COOL GIRL AND INTRUDER.

WATER BOTTLE AND FINGER PRINTS.

FARM BOY TO M. P.

SEVEN SHILLINGS KEPT

6IX PEOPLE.

Although the wages of farm labourers are low enough to-day, Sir Sam Fay, the president, was

An unusual story of a polite they would have been reguded as in the chair at the concluding session of the Institute of Trans-burglar holding a conversation with very high by the land workers of w of Mr. Georga port conference at Sheffield when a young woman in her bedroom was generation or s bezic

The father told to the Pontypridd magistrates Mr. A Dryland, county surveyor of when Ernest Francis Pitman; Edwands, (.B.E., who represented com-colliery labourer, of Porth, was South Norfolk in Parliament up til! Middlesex, spoke on some

charged with burglary in the re- the last election, was an agricultural than parisons of British and American silence of Mr. Hopkin Morgan, abourer, earning no more methods in road construction and local magistrate.

even shillings a week.

th this gre pittance he was maintenance.

six persons-himself, wite, and four posed to lovil, clothe word house

children.

Miss Phyllis Morgan said she In the discussion Sir Sam Fay was disturbed in the early hours of said he thought a very uren the morning by the creaking of her crease in road trafic might be look-bedroom door. She noticed a mant ed for. That, he believed, would be at the foot of the bed The intrader a great advantage to the public.ashed a torch in her face and, three in the His own experience was that a good cogunarding her not to make a deal of traffic was taken by the rail-noise as there were way companies which, did not pay house all armed," he sat for a time them a cent and which it would be on the bed, asking about money to the benefit of the companies if and jewellery, and made certain

suggestions. they never saw,

On his sixth birthday the boy George went to work. His job was to scire the crows from the growing carn. His wage was one shilling a werk. His hóms from daylight fili dusk, Sunday included. If, worn out with the long hours, he fell Saying he had riven her a shock, asleep at his post, he received a Miss Morgan asked him to get her sound thrashing from his employer' some water and he handed her and had two-pence delected from water-bottle, which he atterwards his wages. placed on the floor, and, warning her not to give the alarm, he left the house,

.

At twenty-two he married. He was then unable to, rend or write, having lad o schooling whatever. His wife, however, possessed both these accomplishments, and during her husband's seanty leisure she taught him rend with the help of ahyom-hook.

Once he had mastered the ari 61

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Mr. Shrapnell-Smith, British Automobile Union, alluding to potholes : reads, described them as the disease of the highways. He had often wondered why road sur veyors did not organise something in the nature of a flying squad like,

The polite were informed, and, Scotland Yard possessed, equipped with a small outfit to deal with the taking possession of the bottle, notholes and repair them. Mr. E. S. which bore finger prints, they sent Rayner, general manager to Hullit to Scotland Yard.

A reply was received that the Chy Tramways, in a paper on tram i ways from a traffic point of view finger prints were those of Pitman, under existing conditions, raised who was then in custod at reading, there exure the desire for the whole question of road trans. Caerphilly. He was idened there. But he had so many to buy port difficulties. It was, he said, aby Miss Morgan.

Pitman was committed for trialny. So he gave up smoking, his fallacy to think that danger and congestion only arose from fast at the assizes on this and on anotherly solace, and by this means in soy funds. The story of his strug moving vehicles. The slow, halting charge of breaking and entering course of time he seemed the neces

Pontypridd Workhouse. man of lorry was the prime cause

Miss Morgan was highly comples is told by Mr. Gauge Edwards for the overtaking and passing of vehicles and the consequent complimented by the Bench on her his autobiography, "From traw

Searing to Westminster." coolness and courage. "In my gestion in our streets. opinion." he added, "the time is coming, if it has not already arrived in some of our cities, when a definite speed will have to he maintained in certain streets and only vehicles capable of attaining that speed allowed to use them, at any rate at certain times of the day, and the overtaking and pas sing of vehicles prohibited." If were overtaking and passing climinated the long-distance tra- fie in either direction and traffic that had to cross the road and turn

DOMESTIC LITERATURE.

The knowledge thus gained en abled him to realise fully for the first time the terrible conditions of the life led by his class; and he set to work to try to better them,

As a start be founded the present A contentporary declares that it is up to our novelists to help in the Agricultural Labourers' Union, the solution of the servant problem by first offices of which were in a back emphasising the romantic possibili- | bedroom of his cottage.

We He was defeated in his first ties of domestic service. accordingly hasten to give a few attempt to enter Parliament, but specimen preliminary notices of screwlel at the second attempt. In 1999 he was awarded the 0.B.E., future novels.

In "Cora's Career" Mr. Gushing- land in 1921 he was commanded to f appear before the King, at whose!

to the right would keep to the centon Geyser makes a new departure, tre, and traffic which intended turning to the left would keep to the outside benth."

WHO WON?

Mr. Rayner pointed out that the some officers on board, got the crew and pilgrims to the pumps, speed of the London County cleared the water, lighted the fires Council tramways was 9 29 miles and navigated the "Jeddah" into per hr, as compared with eight Aden, where an inquiry was held and a half miles per hour of metro by the harbour authorities. Sub-politan omnibuses.

Mr Sharpnell-Smith said he sequemly a longer inquiry was held in Singapore, and in the course of believed that in the future there inic I read these voluminous re- would be six-wheeled omnibuses. cords. The master got away out of, Sir, I have been an admirer jurisdiction, but "Ja," the hero of the story, was taken to Singapore of Mr. Conrad ever since, on its where he found work in a ship Mr. T. P. chandler's store, grew fat and first appearance, O'Connor made "Almayer's Folly" prospered. the "Book of the week." Your really worked out his salvation." When pilgrims from Malaya and correspondent's account, in the Archipelago used to start for the Times Literary Supplement of Heniz it was recognized that the August 30, of the history of MrChances of falling by the way-at Conrad's books attracted my im- mediate attention, especially what he says about the origin of the carly books which deal, or to deal, with people and places An the Far

East, and notably "Malaya and the Dutch indies; and with your permission I should like to say something in regard to two statements. Writing of "Lord Jim," he says, "The Patusan, where he worked out his salvation, was assumed to lie on the south

seem

coast of north-west Sumatra, and Stein's villa was outside some town of northern Java," The italics are mine. Summing up his article your correspondent writes, "It is this sense of contact with life that gives to his pages the feeling that that things happened so and not otherwise."

I am far from any means of re- ference to books or documents, and in what follows I am trasting to my memory, but the facts are easy to verify.

Was

A

or crossing the desert from

I do hate people who always ask you, "Who wou?" whenever you come back from a game of tennis, What does it matter who won One play: for the sport of the thing. Recently, when returned from the courts, my brother accosted me with the inevitable question.

"Hallo! Who won?" "George did," I answered. "He's playing awfully well," said my brother.

Jeddah to Mecca and hack again were so great that it was the custom for every pilgrim to provide him- self with a winding sheet in which to be buried, should be meet with death. In reading the evidence given to the harbour authorities it was stated that when the pilgrims found they had been abandoned by the master of the s.s." Jeddah" and all the officers except Jim, and when they realized their desperate

"Oh, well, never mind," she said. situation, they all left the decks for I didn't mind. Why should a while and then reappeared cloth-1? The next person I bumped into ed in their winding sheets. Out of was Uncle Bill.

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Then my mother came into the room.

"Been playing tennis, dear?" she asked shrewdly seeing my racket in my hand." Who won

George," I replied.

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the hundreds of pages of evidence Saw you slashing tennis balls that fact seized my imagination: a as I motored past the courts," he waterlogged ship, pitching and roll- announced. "Who were you play ing in a heavy sea, the passengers ing against?" deserted by all those responsible | George," I said, and began to for their safety-except Jin-and go. But he was too quick for me. then silently the decks covered by

"George, eh? D'ye mean young "And did 000 figures, wrapped in white grave Poulton?" I nodded. clothes, waiting for their doon.

you beat him?” felt sure, too, that if Mr. Conrad had known of this incident he would not have omitted to mention it. The point, however, is the "salvation" of Jim.

Yours faithfully,

FRANK SWETTENHAM,

THE WHEELWRIGHT'S SHOP.

No. He beat me." I escaped to my room, and found my young nephew washing his face.

Qu

won

"

to overcome them.

no character in the book enjoying quest he told in sletail the full a higher social rank than second story of his early struggles and cousin to an O.B.E. But it can privations, and the means he took safely be said that in Cord, the cook-general, he has created the most fascinating of his long list of heroines. The chapter in which the long-lost son of the house, she recognises in the piano-tuner whose portrait she had lovingly dusted so often, will move even the most hardoned reader, and her decision to continue het profession after their marriage is bound to be largely quoted in all future dis- cussions of the vexed question of wives in business.

A DOG'S WARNING.

GAS EXPLOSION HAVOC.

Mr. George Pirrie, of 14, Grey- place, Greenock, was awakened about 4 o'clock by his dog jumping into his bed. He found that the animal was ill, and at the sanie time he smelt gas. He paid little attention to the gas fumes, but the dog's alarm had disturbed hist sleep, and shortly afterwards, as the fumes seemed to have become stronger, he got up and turned off the gas at the meter and threw the

The day has long gone past when any heroine would swoon at sight of a burglar, but even to-day not many maidens could handle one se efficiently as does Mr. T. Quill Driver's Mary in the opening pages of "Honourable Service." This story of the reforming effect of a sweet woman's influence is certain

Mrs. Pirrie, his mother, who was to be popular, and few readers will be able to put it down before the also aroused; heard heavy breath-i last chapter, in which Marying in the rooms occupied by her, receives as a wedding present son Robert and her daughter from her grateful employers the Fanny. On entering she found Carpet beater with which the reform them in a condition bordering on

collapse as a result of the fumes. was effected,

No lover of a stirring detective

windows oper..

They were carried out of the story can afford to miss "The house in a dazed condition, and, Mystery of the Cupboard Under after being attended by a doctor, the Sink." The way in which quickly recovered. Theresa, the tweeny-maid, without

Some time afterwards there was

in any way neglecting her other a loud explosion in the street, and duties, solves the probleni that has parts of the pavement were thrown baffled the entire strength of Scot-high into the air. Three shop land Yard, Pinkerton's Agency and windows were broken and part of the junior reporter of the Liffie the debris was picked up hundreds Sapley Sentinel makes up as en- of yards away. thralling a narrative as we have author's read since the same "Blood-stained Bootboy" appeared in serial form a few years back,

LORD DUNEDIN.

WEDDING IN PRIMATE'S TINY CHAPEL.

In was discovered that an escape from a gas main had found an out- iet in the top floor occupied by the Piries after passing up through plaster walls.

Scott's Desk in America.

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E are shortly removing to the Old Post Office Building (opposite the Hong- kong 'Hotel) corner of Queen's Road and Pedder Street,

SENNETT FRERES

Hongkong Hotel Building,

Queen's Road.

"When in the late sugamer Mr. J. Horace Harding deprived Scot- land of Raeburn's memorable Sorry" he piped, "but some- I assume that your readers know

portrait of Sir Walter Scott he also the story of "Lord Jim." It inter-

one's in the bathroom."

All serene," I said.

bought and recently exhibited with ested me greatly because I knew

"Been playing tennis? "he piped

from the facts and was in the East

The marre of Lord, Dunedin, it in New York a brass-bound when they occurred. The tale-

Keeper of the Great Seal of Scot- mahogany table, desk "Yes. Hurry along, there. had, and Miss Jean Emslie. Abbotsford," says the Glasgow far from pretty-was very briefly

The desk, sold

at FOOT COMFORT IN HOT be gently rubbed with a little vaseline or olive oil. Another this. An Arab in Singapore,

want to change."

Findley, Director of Scottish Sav- Herald.

good plan is to apply witch hazel to WEATHER. named Seyyid

"All right. Half a jiff. Who ng under the Treasury, will take Sotheby's in August, 1922, for Muhammad

the skin that looks red.. If a blister Alsagoff, a rich man, was the prin cipal owner of a pilgrim steamer

"George did,” I said, and kicked place in the private chapel of the £32, has on the brass border Sir, In your issue of June 14, a

Archbishop of Canterbury, in of the lid two inscriptions. The first reads: Walter Scott

By attention to a few shall points comes up during a country, walk a piece of a cabbage or dock leat Lambeth Palace. named, I believe, the "Jeddah." She correspondent refers to the surviv-hirn out..

second carried pilgrims from Singaporeal in Italy of the old method of I changed to plus fours, and over

The chapel, which is only occa of Abbotsford'; the and the Dutch Islands to Jeddah marking a plank for sawing. It tea à visitor asked me if I'd been sionally used for the purpose, is This box belonged to Walter it is possible to secure foot comfort placed on the part will sometimes and back. She WLS old, may interest him and possibly playing golf.

not licensed for marriages, and a Scott, Esq., and contained during even in very warm weather. It is give great relief.

excellent plan to change "No," I answered, triumphantly special licence, costing £25, has to their progress, to press the "Lay an

twice a shoes heavily insured, and the master others to know that the Chinese

walking of the Last Minstrel," "Marmion," the "But surely you've not been in-

avoid wearing owner. She left carpenter of to-day still uses the part Singapore

day, and. with about

It is very small, and only fa- and "The Lady of the Lake." And samentethed. (I cannot pretend to doors all this glorious afternoon be obtained from the Primate. pilgrims, and when in the Arabian

Why should I have been? Ieyed timate friends of the bride and it was on this box also that these Sea, in heavy weather, the master say for how many thousands of

years he has done the same.) They, him warily,

bridegroom, will be able to gain poems were written. John Ballan- the same pair of stackings two "The days running. Incidentally this "No," I replied. "Of course not."

tyne, Edinburgh 1812 and all the officers except one, I

however, do not use chalk and bowl

"Lawa tennis is his game," said think the second mate, abandoned of red pigment; the string is wound)

Lord Dunedin is one of the most vendor's name was not made public, frequent changing lengthens the. her in the darkness of night and left the pilgrims to their fate. The inches in length, and drawn off it playing

on a reel fixed in a box some eight my ridiculous sister. You were distinguished judges in Scotland, but the desk is believed to have life of hosiery. The feet of the after walking loosen the straps or this afternoon, dear, He is 73, while his bride is 36. He been given by Thomas Winstar-stockings should be dusted inside laces while resting. It is a mis- be some difficulty in putting the one officer left behind-Lord Jim through cotton waste soaked in weren't you?"

met Miss Findley while she was ley, auctioneer, Liverpool, from with boracic powder, which will take, however, to remove tight of Mr. Conrad's story-was so left black ink. When the wood has been Inodded miserably.

shoes on again, because ho was not quick enough marked, the string is rewound on

And who won ?" asked my sis-working in the Scottish Savings whom Scott bought some armour check the unpleasant effects of footwear altogether, as there will

in 1814, to his granddaughter. perspiration. Department.

This lady married the vendor." to get into the boat or boats with to the reel by a handle at the side, ter and the visitor together. the other deserters. They pulled I give these details to show that in

*George did," Inuttered. away and reached. Aden where this the Chinese (as so often) were

Tleft the room. I changed back they reported that the steamer had

and asked him to play me again. gone down with all the pilgrims. A once ahead of their European at my whites. I sought Garge, He consented. An hour later, I returned home with a happy smile. on my face...

ship belonging to the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, commonly called the Blue Funnel Line lighted the "Jeddah" wallowing

brethren.

FRANK L. NORRIS,

(Bishop.) Church of England Mission,

in the trough of the sen, sent Peking, North China.

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And not a blessed person asked me a blessed question!

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