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God" as to be propogated and fought for no matter by what means so long as that truth was driven bame. What Carlyle wishes to emphasise is the golden results of! that great silence and its production of a great man, a sincere man, who altered the history and destiny of countless millions of people in his endeavour to turn them from the wership of the falso to the worship ofthe true.

THE CHINA MAIL

(Trece.)

Ladies at a ball

Are not so fine as thega Richly brocaded troca That decorate the fall.

They stand against a wall

Of crisp October sky, Thoir plumed beads hold bigh Liko ladica at a ball.

-JEAN STARR ÜNTERMEYEN.

exceed the number of deaths for a To-day's Poem. similar period before the Volstead Act came into effect. The estimate is based on reports from the enforce ment officiale in the various states. The estimates, it is claimed, only include deaths directly caused by There are believed to be thousands the consumption of impure liquor. of ather deaths to which "bootleg whiskey contributed. It in small wonder that these figures are being favour modification of the Prohibi- used openly by politicians who tion Law. These politicians einim that if a certain percentage of tho community are bound to drink them. selves to death, "they would pass calor if they drank pure liquor." When a prohibition country recom. mends that stepe be taken to miar. anteo that pure liquor should be a sine qua non, it is high tio that countries outside the "dry bell" sat up and took notice. Throughout the "Far East," the amount of faked whiskey and brandy con

In dealing with the Hero as Poet, Carlyle taken for his examples Dante and Shakespeare. Two men wider apart in temperment it would be difficult to find; but they had this in common the elevation of mankind. Like Mahomet they were well advanced in years before they stepped on to the first quag of the ladder of greatness. They were masters of speech. In the Divine med sanually togst be enormous. "Osaka whiskey" finds a ready Comedy," and in the works of market, but it is seldom that we Shakespeare we have the outward hear of steps being taken by the! utterances of an inward thought. proper authorities to bring the pur The great function" of silence is veyors to book.

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silonce is given to all of us in a greater or lesser degree. So, fur as! man can think for himself, slupe new ideas, and give practical demonstration of them to his fellow. men so far is he & hero, a great

As Carlyle says:-

102,

R.U.R.

Domain :-"Nothing is more unlike a man than a Robot."

DEFINITION

Scotsman One who belives that there is no place like home, and so leaves his own home at the Icast possible

"The measure of a man's great opportunity. An Editor. A critic. A play-wright: A Millionaire. ness is his ability and readiness: Harry Lauder. to take command.''

STRAIGHT BALL.

Cricket is an old institution with Now Forest folk, but the game is not played in the game narrow, techini- cal spirit as at Lord's or the Oval.

"Two brothern were ardent, cricketers. One happened to be batting with me when his brother was umpiring. The bateraan inter- posed a stout leg between a straight iball and the wicket.

How's that?”

This can be carried further, and it' might be said that the measure of a man's greatness is his ability, according to bis degree, to influence and help his fellowmen to a higher conception of what constitutes truth and to recognise the false; what is good and what is evil. This is the lesson Carlyle drives home for us. Dante with his Beatrice as the source of his inspiration, strives to visualise for us.

What is true and what is real in this life and that "Ah, well, he's allers been a very. which is to come. His ideas are good brather to me. Darrow and his conceptions are at once terrible and beautiful, but they have great height and great depth. There the belief of a man emerge in earnest striving by word of mouth

** 'Not out.'

"When the innings was over I said to the umpire: Your brother roas out.

When no sign is prefixed to a term of endearment the sign of subtraction is always understood.

In algebra we denote things by symbols, such as engagement and wedding rings, to which we may assign any value we please..

The symbol "V" is used to denote the operation of division as Beatem v. Beater (In divorce),

WEATHER CALENDAR.

1808.

NOVEMBER 24..

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1923.

OUR LITERARY LOBBY.

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LOGAL AND GENERAL.

A Court Martial is to be held

GOSSIP FOR BOOKY PEOPLE. on Tuesday next.

Bread in the Garrison is to be

The following are amples of 24d per lb. American Book Criticism.

Basil Thomson's "My Experi.

The Grand Italian Opera Co.,

ences at Scotland Yard" comes open at the Star Theatre on Decem a cropper. Like all detectives, ber 1. Thomas is a great boaster, and

full of dark hiate about his The orchestral selections at..... professional sagacity. But his Wiseman's Cafe yesterday includ- own evidence, shows that most of ed Godard's "Serenade." the spies he took during the war

The

The Hongkong male Voice Choir's Concert on Tuesday at St.. John's Cathedral should not be missed on any account.

A special review of Mr. Wil-

The Greon..

were obviously feeble-minded The—A-Gourt-of-Enqury is to be held. sanó ones apparently got away; the on monday to enquire into the death really shrewd and effective ones bo of Gunner W. Woodhouse. does not mention, and probably The French are at Valladolid, never heard of. In justice to him. and Blake's army is out to however, it should be said that he is piccea. Such is the dismal by no means the illiterate ass that news, to make this day more ha American colleagues are. diamal if possible. A dirty latter, when they try to write books blanket hang up before the at all, have to hire newspaper re- window would look just like portare to do it for them." During the fog......Finished at half the war they arrested and jailed liam Archer's play past four, sitting with candles thousands of persons, and yet Goddess," by Mr. K. W. Lane will. at my writing-table in the achieved the almost incredible re- be found on our Book Page. painted room, Window cord of not taking single actual "Be Your Own Decor- shutters open, view dismal Py

"There were 8,721 people vac...... beyond

by Emily Burbank, is cinated yesterday. "Have you been expression--Lady; tar,"

a mixture of platitude, vague done?" So reads Lyttleton. 1890. Our weather continues to nees and vary dubious advice, English and Chinese outside the

blow warm from the south. I with the last, parhops, predominat- Central Market have a large bunch of roses ing. Certainly some of the rooms from the Lodge.-M. S. that Miss Burbank shows in her Holland.

FEW

Few are they who, either in trade, or letters, take it for their aim to supply the market, not with the worst they can sell, but with the best they can produce.

--W. E. GLADSTONE.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

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Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

SPORT.

2 notice a:

The officeal rate for all pay-- plates are anything but beautiful.ments fixed in sterling which have There is, indeed, a frightful 'ugli-to be made in Hongkong and on ness in the willow furniture she the China Station, during Decem shows in Plate XVII, and an ber will be 2/34. ugliness scarcely less in her lamps

in Plate XX. Her discussion of Motor car No. 630, of the World furniture periods is as superficial Garage, is reported as having par and uninforming as that of a high-ticipated in an accident at Queen's school

baranguing a Road West, near Centre Street women's club. Comments are yesterday, when a Chinese male. made in the American Press on the was knocked down. great shipments of old books which

them

teacher

Wor

are there and then placed in second- To-day's leading articles in band shops. The supply seems to clude: "Silence-Sincerity " (Car

inexhaustible beautifullylyle's "Heroes and Hero

Liquor." bound in old calf, morocco and ship") and "Impure levant thero arrive volumes of Special features are the China. Gibbon, Hume, Keats, Shelley, Mail's commissioner's report, on Waverley, Thackeray, Rogera Sunday Labour and an article on. Italy, The Microcosm of London, a General Election. and eo forth. This bears out the

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SOCIAL AND "PERSONAL.

view expressed by Lord Curzon at There will be a Lantern Lec-- the annual meeting of the London ture at the Helena May Institute on November 24-Comnet Theatre Library as to the country house Monday, November 25 at 5.30 am. Viola Dagain "Cinderella's Twin." library in England being a thing of given by Dr. J. L. Shellshear D.S.O. November 24--Star Theatre; the past. Are these libraries then Subject: "The Tombs of the Hoot Gibson in "Dead Game."

November 24-World Theatre; being transported to the homes of Egyptian King's." All are wel Pauline Frederick in "The Lure of the Commercial Kings in America? come. (The lantern used on this A mviewer in the West- occasion will be the Pathe' Univer- Any wo-Jade."

November 24-The Grandminster Gazette considers the sky' kindly lent by the Patha FEMININE ALGEBRA, man with

the sign, Theatre; Harold Lloyd in "Dr. Baring-Gould Reminiscences to bo Orient Co.)

Jack"

a wonderful link with the past. He

The China Mail is Informed. 'Mrs.," prefixed or understood is a

November 27-Hongkong male writes: "When Mr. Baring-Gould, positive quantity.

Voice Choir Concert at St. John's at the age of thirteen, went, in that as the St. Vincent de Paul Anything that is axiomatic nay Hall.

1847, with his parents to St. Malo, Society's Foto has been postponed to lift man to a higher plane.be expressed graphically and at

December 3-Theatre Royal; we took our carriage, but not our to the 16th December, the motor Shakespeare is much

broader-length.

Piano Recital by Mr. Harry Ore, horses, from Plymouth. That one car draw will take place on that. minded, mans universal. He is not

9.15 p.m.

fact exhibita the gulf between the date, and not as already an- December 8 to a cathole, like Dante. He has no

15.-Theatre Europe and England of which the nounced, on the 2nd December. Tickets will be on sale at the Hongkong Amateur volume gives so fascinating an Hongkong Hotel Company's creed, because he comprehends all

Royal, Dramatic Club presents the famous account and our Europe of to-day; Motor Show rooms, and at various. croeds. Neither Shakespeare nor

Robot Play the "R.U.R." 9.15 p.m. No living sathor has so mixed and clubs, etc., until the 10th Decem- Dante propogated their ideas by

entertaining experiences to fall back

ber. as, and few living men have, we physical force as did Mabommet and

December 1.--Next Tourna fancy, & livelier memory. It is ——| Luther, but relied entirely on the

mest of the Hongkong Boxing incredible that this fresh, human. matter for wonder that they spoken and written ward; and whe

Assen. at the Theatre Royal. critical and individual book should shall say that their influence is less

December 1-Hongkong Jockey be from the pen of a man who is symbolised these evidences of a

within six months of his ninetieth

master

controlling

Club's extra gymkhana. mizsel

the great and lead lasting?

December 2-The "Jasper birthday, We have had recently dinner. It is not necessary to go on with

Clark" challenge cup to be played the recollections and the last words

Capt. R. Neville, A.D.C. to His HONGKORD SATURDAY, ROY, 24, 1913. univerge. As there were great and

When two names bracketed

at Fanling.

of two other veteimne, the late Mr. Excellcency the Govemor, re beneficent gods in the universe, so the rest of the wonderful gallery of

together have the negative sign

December 9-The Royal Hong-Frederic Harrison and the late Mr. turned from Saigon by the French there were bad and evil ones too, Heroes. Sufficient has been said to prefixed the brackets may be rekong Golf Club St. Andrew's v. Oscar Browning, but neither will mail steamer Chambord "yes" often at war with the good. These show what was Carlyle's idea of a moved by substituting the marriage St George's match. people, therefore, set up ideals or great man. The parents of a great The doctrine Carlyle has express-images of these gods and worship man were "ailence" and "sin- ed in "Heroes und Hero Worshipped them as the representatives of cerity" that silence which engen may be summed up in the two the gods. Ignorant though this ders great thoughts, and whatsoever fallowing texts: Speech is may seen to the educated people of a man is sincere about is truo to silvern, sience is golden," and "Heto-day it's important feature was its him and to numberless other who only, is great who is sincere." Our shucerity. So long as the people come within reach of his voice. first task is a well known one, and were sincere, so long were they a

It may not be amige bare to my A man cannot find by Inspection one that is often on the tongues of

of inspiration to them. a few words about Carlyle's idea the value of the clothes a woman mankind, but the meaning aecribed When, the wooden images became that the great men produce the age, to it,' is a very different one from the gods, and the real goda were and that herein lies one source of

An excuse is a husband's attempt that intended by its author. It is forgotten, then did the people their greatness. It is a paint often

to simplify his wife's expression.

Xpense is always the unknown quoted as expressing the ability to become false.

contested. But surely it is a mis-quantity.

The China Mail.

السيل

SILENCE SINCERITY.

source

The work of subtraction is often conveniently arranged aftera good

or engagement signs inside the bracket.

An engagement differs from a marriage, in that an engagement consists entirely of like terms.

-When the name of a man and the name of a woman are bracketed together, the result is an expression of opinion.

wears.

SOCIAL

November 24, Dancing at a Palace Hotel, Kowloon 9.15 pan,

November 26-Lantern Lecture at Helena May Institute by Dr. J.L. Shellshear, D.S.O. at 5.30 p.m.

November 27-Hongkong St. Andrew's Society Practice Dance.

BAZAAR.

LAND SALE.

AUCTION.

Mr. Andrew Forbes, formerly of Messrs. Harry Wicking & Co, is on a visit to the Colony.

compare for vivacity with Mr. terday. Baring-Gould's memoirs; and they

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also take us into a past far stranger Mr. "Tam" Pearce, who re- more remote than that known turned to the Colony yesterday,. to the, other two. Even to-day was an interested spectator" on Devon and Cornwall are not altogethe rulla" during training at Happy: sions, and in Mr. Baring-Gould's ther accessible to modern impres Valley race-course this morning.

Mr. N. L. Smith has been apm. childhood the West was still almost Elizabethan in character. Twenty pointed District Officer, South, and years. befors his birth, the gallows Mr. E. W. Hamilton becomes was standing, and not empty, on second Magistrate. Dr. B. H. "as the women Mellon fs gazatted as Port Health Broadbury, and November 24 to 25.-Italian

Officer and Inspector of Emigrants. came from market every Saturday Convent Bazaar, from 10 am, each they were want to throw up to him day,

The following promotions and. December 8-Hongkong Wo a bunch of tallow dips for him to men's Guild and M. C. L's Grand eat, and they generally succeeded appointments in the Volunteer know when to speak and when not Mahommet is another of Carlyle's

If the expenses of a wife, on one Fête and sale of work in the in getting the candles to catch in his Defence Corps have been gazet-- M.B.B, to be Captain, Second. to speak. This interpretation Heroes. Brought up in the Arabic conception to suppose that Carlyle

in the week-packed by birds-the Teut. H.B.L, Dewbiggin to be as the earnings of a 2.p.m. renders both speech and silence of form of religion it was not until he really thinks so. The whole tone of side, are increased in the same pro grounds of Government House, chains. As the tallow disappeared tee Lieut. R Melville Smith women concluded that Wilrend had Lieutenant, Second Lieut. S. J. hushand on the other, the product

actually fed on them. If that recalls Jordain M.C. to be Lieutenant. equal value. They are indeed the was forty years of age that he die big "Haroca" goes to prove that he portion pures; gold when used at the right covered that the life he had been believes what is the real truth, that of his toil will remain unaltered.

November 26.--At P.W.D. Offices; the Europe of Villon, it is a politer time, but they are also the basest living was entirely false; that the which produces the other; that no When his affection is less than

read that in 1846, when he was at fasl evening, at the lecture hall of metal when used at the wrong time. ideals he worshipped were but wood great man is produced until the hers the other woman is the un-one lot Crown Land at Shamshiupo age which comes back when we There was a large gathering, school at Warwick, young Baring the Union Church to welcome the Could, being delicate, was taken to Rey, J. H. Johnston, the newly This is not the interpretation and stone. It was during the month hood of him arices, and that no age known quantity. This is simple 3p.m,

His silence of Ramadan when all good Arabe arrived and given expression to that tion are both miqus quantities there at Sales Rooms, stationer's goods, chair.

is produced until the great man bas equation.

When his affection and her affec- intended by Carlyle.

November 26-Lammert Bros, his dancing-classes in a sedan appointed assistant pastor. Felici- The Log of the Ark, tious speeches were mads by the was not the abstinence from speeckr. retire into loneliness and "think" which the now aga requires. The are two unknown quantities. This 11 am.

the authentic story of life on the Rev. J, Kirk Maronachle and Mr. but the function of thought, this that Mohamunet discovered this. In man who, can see and dares to say is a simultaneous equation.

November 27-Lammert Bros Ark and the troubles of Noah's McPherson. The Rev. Johnston outcome of which was speech. Thus loudly communion with his thoughts, whate in xaquited is at once the If a husband's night out be re- at Room No. 2, Astor House Hotel, varied shipload, in the diverting cordially thanked those present was born, the sincere man, or rather he understood sa by an inspiration product of an age that requires that presented by X, after he reaches marble statues, etc., by well-known title of a book published by Con- for the hearty welcome extended.

stable Ca. It is described as for the sinoore great men. All Carlyle's that there was a real god to be "eing, and the producer of home-it is expressed in the form X Italian, Sculptor, 230 p.m.

plus why.co

November 27-Lammert Bros., children from 5 to 96, and is H. the Governor has appoint haroen, ware sincere men. No worshipped. To him so a light from now age which take up and learns A girl has three admirers, A., B., a collection of Postage stamps dedicated to "The Very Olded the following gentlemen to be matter what their religion was from heaven, was revealed the utter the leans he promulgates for the and C. She goes out with A. B. 55 RETI

Tortoise at the Zoo. pagan, Mohammedan, Catholicism; falseneng of his life hitherto. "There hement of themselves and their and C. hear of it. The result is B.

MEETING, whether of the narrow type of is na God but God." During his

squared + squared if she has the November 28-Hongkong En- postarity.

right answer. WE PRES Dante, or the universal type of mouth of silence he meditated

gineering and Construction Co., The amount of housekeeping Ltd, first ordinary yently meeting Shakespeare, or any of the multi-within himself: fortified himself

money left over each week in a at Hongkong Hotel, Noon. Istious other "lems, they were all with payer; Bought for and found impure Liquor,

negative quantityma Mak WW November 20--Annual General great met. To deal with his first strength in that great silence. He The efforts of Pussyfoot Jalmusón

Any woman may be transposed. Meetings of the Hongkong Hero Ba a Divinity. Carlyle went into it an ordinary Arab of no and his satellites, to make the world from one side of an argument to Society for the Prevention of "dry" by legislation, are mooting another by changing the positive Cruelty to Animals at Messrs. emphasises the fact that the importen He emerged from it all absurda Proton in this Undead or negative tiga

Tande believera in Odin, the worshippers new man, a great mat, a sincere Fishes if any credence can be plaod

5.30DD of the sun, the moon and the stars, man, ready to commence his mole in official figures, We learn from wone in earnest about the mattor scary work. Up to that time he United Press

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