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"THE FLAME OF LIFE"
INSECT LIFE.
LECTURE BY COLONEL
DAVY.
At Helena May Institute last evening, Colonel Davy gave an interesting lecture on the "Fairy Land of Fabre. The Rev. J. Kirk
Maconachie was in the chair.
than purely scientific interest; some had a practical hearing on domestic problems. Fabre in- vestigated the habits of bluebottles and other flies which consign their egge to deceased animal matter and thereby purge the earth of death's impurities. He ascertained that the bluebottle always lays her eggs in the slit of the beak or in the eye between the eye and the eye ball-places which would give Fabre was born in a little village the grub easy access to the tissue, In the south of France in the year Fabre found that, if he merely 1823 so, in a small way, the assem-wrapped the head of a dead bird bly (Colonel Davy remaked) might in paper, the flies would not lay regard themselves as celebrating their eggs in the body at all. If the first centenary of his birth. He the body was completely protected seems early to have shown signs of by, say, a paper bag, the result was superior abilities coupled with a
not a putrid corpse but a dried in- thirst for knowledge. Gaining a
offensive mummy, bursary at Avignon he entered the scholastic profession and in early manhood found his true vocation as a naturalist. The successful publication of a number of text books on elementary science and natural history at last set him free from hum drum toll, giving him the means of escape to the fields where he realised the dream of his life. Fabre thus comments. on his freedom ::-
"For forty years I have strug gled against the sordid miseries of life. The wish is realised. It is a little late, my pretty insects! I greatly fear that the peach, is offered to me when I am beginning to have no
1eeth to eat it with."
"It is pleasant to reflect," com mented the lecturer, "that the teeth were spared, notwithstanding, for another 30 or 40 years to enjoy the Luscious fruits of study and observation, during which time ap peared those wonderful Souvenirs Entomologiques' on which Fabre's Fame is securely based.
..
A SKILFUL PEN. "Fabre's methods did not escope criticism from the old-fashioned school of naturalists. Here is an example of the pleasant, whimsical fashion in which he delivers his counter-attack :-
Come here, one and all of you... you the sting-bearers, and you the wing-cased armour clads take up my defence and bear witness in my favour. Tell
not
This was only another illustra- tion of infallible maternal instinct among the insects. It was reason, but instinct, which taught the bluebottle that if she laid her EES on the outside on the paper envelope, the feeble grubs, when hatched, would be quite unable to penetrate it and would perish miserably, though separated only by a thin sheet of paper from their natural larder. The careful house wife would lay the lesson to heart. The joint in the larder or the game sent by post could be completely protected from putrefaction by the simple device of wrapping it up in an old newspaper. Fabre proved
by his experiments that the ordi- dinary meat safe is a snare and a delusion. The flies merely dropped their eggs through the meshes, and the maggots in a few days would convert the succulent joint into a reeking mass of corruption.
By similar means clothes could be protected from the ravages of moths, but the newspaper must be really impervious, with the edges folded double and well pinned.
INSTINCT AND REASON. The actions of insects seemed to imply a marvellous degree of knowledge. That which instinct told the insect was marvellously like that which reason told the human being. But there was a re- verse side. The same insect which confounded us by its knowledge, and wisdom, also disconcerted us with its ignorance and stupidity in
of the intimate terms on which the face of eircumstances outside
live with you, of the patience with which I observe you; of the care with which I record your
actions,..
its range of knowledge. Fabre drew a very sharp line between instinct and the reasoning faculty And then, my dear and concluded that there was noth insects, if you cannot convince Ing in all his studies and investiga these good people, I in my turntions to convince him that the in- will say to them: You rip up sects had the slightest glimmering an animal, but I study it alive; of real intelligence. To him the you turn it into an object of phenomena of instinct remained a horror and pity, whereas I cause mystery, an inviolabla secret, and it to be loved. You labour in a he utterly refused to admit that the torture chamber and dissecting evolutionary theory of Darwin room; I make my observations could possibly explain it. under the blue sky, to the song of the cicadas... you pry into death: I pry into life.'"
"Can the Insect," he writes, "have acquired its skill gradually, from generation to generation, by a long series of casual experiments, or blind gropings? Can such order be born of chaos, such foresight of hazard, such wisdom of stupidity?
YOKOHAMA.
FIRMS IN BUSINESS...
The following consulates and frias have re-opened tommurary offices in Yokohama on their old Bite-
American Consulate. British Consulto. *Butterfield & Swire (Agents for
Bluo Funnel Line)."
Laffin & Co., Stevedores, and
Shinchandlers.
Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. International Banking Corpors
dict.
Yokohama Specie Bank., Chartered Bank of India, Austra
lia and China. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-
ing Corporation. Russo-Asiatic Bank.
Dai-Ichi Bank (one block Mitsui Busean' Kaisha.' W. S. Wiersum & Co.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ORIENT DREAM SPOT.
HONGKONG'S MANIFOLD.
CHARMS.
NAWAII PHULICITY MAN'S
IMPRESSIONS.
On the eve of big departure from Hongkong, Mr. George T. Armitage, Executive Secretary of the Hawaii Tourist Bureau, who is, making a official publicity trip through the Orient in the interest of travel to the Hawaiian Islands, was asked to give the China Mail a few observations on this Colony,
Such a commission is a rather delicate mattor to handle," he said "because I liave just had the plea sure of visiting the principal cities of New Zealand and Australia and west)..good friends down there to interpret I would not want any of our many
In addition to the above, the following are hooked together in a building opposite the British Con- |sulate-General ;—
Dodwell & Co., Shipping Depart-
ment.
Owston & Co., Shipping and
Landing Agents. Struthers & Barry. Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
The following in the Ishikawa Gum Building, near the Customs:- Sale & Frazar, Ltd., Shipping
Departinent.
Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. Captain Stevens, Sworn Weigher
und Measurer.
In the British Consulate Com- pound-
Cornea & Co.
Helin Brothers, Shipping &
Landing Agents.
In the Yokohama Silk Exporters' Temporary, Building :—
Villa Bros.
Madier Frères.. Pila & Co.
In the Customs Compound :- Messrs. Samuel Samuel & Co.
SHAKESPEARE THEORY.
BRITISH MUSEUM MS, SAID TO BE IN HIS HAND- WRITING.
The theory that three pages in the MS. In the British Museum of
The Booko of Sir Thomas More," a 16th century play by Anthony Munday, with additions by other writers, are in Shakespeare's hand writing is revived by the publica tion of "Shakespeare's Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More"" (Cambridge University Press; 109. net), edited by Professor A. W. Pollard, Keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum. The The object of the hook is to streng- then the evidence on the affirma- tive side of the theory,
pages were Shakespeare's own The suggestion that the three anything I might say about this part autograph composition was made of the world as a reflection upon first by Mr. Richard Simpson in theirs. As a matter of fact there are 1871, and supported by Mr. and others. few countries or cities in this world James Spedding that do not have sonicthing of which Its revival Was in part to be proud while some are no due to the discovery in the doubt mora gonerously blessed by Record Office of a new signature of nature then others. Every traveller Shakespeare's, and in part to the in the Pacific should take the persistency of Sir Edward Maunde triangular trip to Hawaii, the Thompson, director of the Museum Antipodes and the Orient, for then, from 1888-1909. and not until then, will he be able to appreciate what a really great ocean the Pacific is and what mar-
vellous countries it bounds."
Professor Pollard said: All the contributors to the book- Sir E. Maunde Thompson, Mr. Dover Wilson, Dr. Greg, and Mr. R. W. Chambers, share with vary- ing degrees of certainty the belief that the three pages are the auto- graph composition of Shakespeare. Personally, I cannot believe that they were written by anybody else. The strongest evidence to me is that the writing is the tone and temper of Shakespeare; and I do not know any other Elizabethan dramatist who could have written anything like it.
continue their trip to the Orient, and eventually to spend some time, and what in more to the paint, somo brand new dollars, in your midst.
"What impresseq me most about Hongkong is your cleanliness, your stability and your progressiveness. Your streets are clean and even your buildings appear to have been bath- ed, the physical'make-up of your business blocks, your residences, Mr. Armitage said that at the out carriers possess an air of careful your wharves aud your public At approach to general landing set it must be, distinctly understood pier
On the Bund, near the site of the Yokohama United Club :-----
Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
Osaka Shosen Kaisha. Toyo Kisen Kaisha.
Others include :--
Sulzor, Rudolph & Co., No. Main Street (Russo Asiatic Bank3. Caron & Co., 66, Main St.
Russo-Asiatic Bank:
51,
and
that be still considered Hawaii the planning and permanence; the ex- Paradise of the Pacife that her tension of your motor roads, streets varied charins, due to many favour-an the side of a mountain and the uble clination ratural conditions, construction of new buildings show were the most compelling, not only progress at a rapid rate. You have because it was his business to say which are the principal things that convenient hotels and golf courses,
belief and lived up to it by adopting adaya. Given those two and they so but because he sincerely hold that the travelling public demands now- the islands as a permaneat bome in preference to many attractive locali-
are generally satisfied; but in addi-
the Customs Pier
At No. 42 Yamishita-cho, near ties on the American mainland and tion to that you have all the novelty
Admiral Oriental Line.
The following are among those housed on board the Tai Hay Fong (old P. & O. Onental), lying at the Customs Pier, No. 12:-
Mr. R. Boulter, British Vice
&
Consul. 'Mr. Cowley, British Consulate. Mr. Hancock, Hongkang
Shanghai Bank. Mesere. Nairn, Thayer, and Lan-
you. of Butterfield & Swire. Mr. Wilson, Wenger & Co. Mr. Fairlie, Pacific Mail Co.. Messrs. Ownton, Loftus and
Hazeltine, Owston & Co.
of the Orient in shops, transporta- elsewhere,
tion and the like, and you are at the I visited Hongkong for only a hub of a wheel whose epokes aro few days about four years ago, besteamship and railway lines leading said on my way home from Siberia, and since that time I have to the principal ports of the Orient. seen many fascinating ports, but I Even though, I promised not to I have told you what you already have always remembered Hongkong know. I promise I will tell it more as a dream spot in the Oriont. times than once to sque who don't have made that statement any know it, and I also guarantee that times on my travels and away if you tell the same story often wanted to come back again. I am not stating this in an attempt to say enough and interestingly enough to something pretty or pleasant, but the travelling public that you will because it took a place in my ship companies do a great deal for wax wealthier thereby. The steam- momory that I could not forget, The great expanse of harbour, far you in their publicity and advertis reaching albeit intimate and close ing efforts but they should not be Any.com- at hand, as seen from your moun expected to do it all,
Mr. Bugbird, Jardins, Mathesontaine, is a tonic in itself. There are unity which wants visitors, and
& Co.
Insurance Co. of Canton..
&
many other great harlours in the we all do for it is one of the most Meeers. Hudson and Ivy, Union world, and possibly some more lucrative forms of industry in the beautiful, but I can truthfully, say world, should be willing to pay their Mr. Arthur, W. M. Strachan & that this one, with its maze of share for the same by some sort of
Co.
shipping spread with a picturesque co-operative advertising. Your Mr. Philipson, and Captains abandon over its entire face, defies Chamber of Commerce no doubt
Stone and Bundred, Cornes & competition."
does a great deal; the British Co.
The speaker said he might go on Empire Exhibition next year will Messrs. Macre, Carl Lewis, W. for an Iar raving about the been excellent opportunity for Styles, and Bennett, Sale & beautics of Hongkong and why he some good publicity efforts, but the Frazar.
liked it but, after all, it would not most effectiva kind is constant and consistent display advertising in the Representatives of Madier Frères, be nowe to us. Y
Sulzer Rudolph & Co., and We are often amused by visitors world marta. Tell the world what Siber, Hegner & Co. in Hawan who at some public mest-Hongkong has to offer, and they ing wästä kevel.minutes of an will come; prove it after they arrive, other. wise perfectly good speech and they will, retum again and telling us what a beautiful country again, banging and sending their we have, how charming our customs friends, and when you're doing it be are and how open our hospitality" sure to tell them to come by way of he says. "Perhaps it is putting it Honolulu so we can cheer them on a bit strong to say the time is wasted their way, and incidentally but what for naturally everyone is open to 18 more to the point, by what they complimente, especially when they see and do during the brief day's in this we know, all this. We steamers in our waters, whet their is lost in the mists of antiquity, Intelligence? The more I see and No other medicine is of such aid to know our Kilaues valcatio and its appetite for more of our delights, which represents the cicada in the more I observe, the more does mother in resping bor baby from birth fery lava is the most stupendous and induce them to return for a long winter, starving and destitute, beg- this Intelligence shine behind the the Canadian children's reed thing on earth; that our surf-riding holiday...
pleasant little Tablets are designed to is, simply ne plus, alien that our tú conclusion Mr. Armitage' suid- ging a few grains of wheat from mystery of things," the ants' granary. Fabre showed After showing a number of Ian-fashioned teething powders, and other been painted by an artist's brush; in his opinion it would be some jake the place of Gnato Oil, the old coloured fish look as if they had that if Hongkong needed anything, anything else: it only drinks. Itis tern slides, Colonel Davy mention naty and sometimes das erous mediales the ant which exploits the cleads. ed that on his departure from, the formerly used for the little ones, and that our sea and sky are a little bit public luncheon club such as Rotary Colonel Davy mentioned that the Colony, which is impending, he they are guaranteed absolutely safe and bluer than anywhere else; that our International: which has grown DO grubs which emerge from the eggs will present some volumes of Haby Own Tablets are spelmountains are always greet and, our rapidly all over the world in the last of the cicada wander for four loo Helena May Institute in the hope diarrhoea, vomiling, simple forer, crous about it? Bush people can do sugar clubs with their informal}] Fabre's translated works to the infantile indigestion, cosed poor climato perpetual spring. Why tell few years he says that Rotaryland years beneath the surface of the of further, promoting an interest olds and worms. They allay the pains us a far greater favour, as many of nondefinga", ondoa week aro ground, feeding on the sap of roots. At length the great day of final in the naturalist's work. Mrs of teathing almost as if by maglo, md our friends in Hongkong, who have invaluable as a stimulant to civie metamorphosis approaches. The Kemp, on behalf of the Committee, nickly bring calm restful sleep from vinted us are continually doing of pride and improvement, cordial which baby wakes up fresh and, reads. soknowledged-the-g$FI-a-brief -- adult grub has coisilluted for itself an Ingenious waiting room, a few speech of thanks.
LIFE OF THE CICADA. Selecting from "the small denizens of Fabre's chosen
country," Colonel Davy told the is the world subject to the fatalities HOW TO KEEP BABY WELL. take an original turn, but the point stop of the through trans-Pacifio
life-story of the cicada, pausing to explode a fable, the origin of which of evolution or is it ruled by an
that the cicada never eats wheat;or
* A PRESENTATION, -
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