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THURSDAY DECEMBER, 20. 1923

The Rev. E. Lees added that he knew of an instance of two church- goers betting on whether he would preach from the Old or from the New Testament. He preached on the revision of the Prayer Book. One of the backers said that he won, but he did not get paid.

This confirms us somewhat in our}

The efforts of the A.D.C.| presided, reproved the Rev. E. Lees interest of matal right it in doing party after a abort time disoovered

it appears to us are not for saying “damn." its duty not merely to itself, but to that this would be so unpopular that

appreciated

they The Rev. E. Lees then declared the proposed level of exemption has China as well..

now been mised to £5,000. After should be. If they produce a come-that if he had to live in a back street the exemption limit has been passed dy, a carping one will suggest that in Cannington he would bet, there is to be a graduated scale be it might well have been a Galswor because of the dullness of church ginning at 6 per cent, and rising thy or a Bernard Shaw effort. Duns and church life. The Church should

For example, on

pro-any is too modern, whilst Capek's try to make use of everything, from rapidly.

and RUR-well It isn't quite a nice the racecourse to the pulpit. perties between £15,000 The settlement of the "Tangier cent, it rises to as much as 60 per play that is going to please every- $20,000 the scale would be 26 per play now, is it? When we get a body, the Theatre won't be worth Tangle" after

of cent. 11 decade wrangling. in ascribed

ሲ The principal argument urged in going to, whilst just at the moment it is the most promising institution triumph of British diplomacy. favour of this lovy used to be that we possess. When we begin to Ilow and in what way is not made it was essential in the public inter-read plays as we do fiction, we olear, but it is satisfaction enough ent to reduce the National Debt as shall soon see that just as there are to know that one of the stormpidly as possible, so as to reduce bad novels, there are bad plays

taxation. That argument has since plays that it is difficult own opinion. "Gambling is a damn centres of the world is now likely to to some extent been abandoned, for and in many instances impossible folly, but only when you lose.

produce. R. U. R. baffles be u haven of peace and that as the advocates of the levy now urge to

by its unusual theme,

There is a story of a result trade-und British trade in that the money obtained should very most

largely be used for what are called by the fact that maay people do HATING, young housemaid who | particular is likely to find an avenue

"social purpos

not want a theme, or not being pos-

did not appear at for its far-reaching maws.

There

Aging for the sake of urgusessed of a desire to be prodded prayers. The housekeeper asked have of recent youre been more mont all theeo purposes to be with a thought deride and jeer her the reason why. She replied jealousies, envies and quarrolų about worthy objects for national expendi- Shanghai has its own ADC. that she did not like his Lordship Tangier than about any other town ture, it still remains for the advo- troubles. There the Club has been always praying "at" her. in Europe or Africa. The place has cates of the levy to explain why the giving Madam Sherry" which almost caused several wars and in money could not be raised by ordinhas not pleased everybody and ary methods of taxation rather than evoked a correspondence that has done no good but left anger and its own way in fomenting ranoqurs by a capital levy.

annoyance in its train. We between France and Germany, con-

reiterate a suggestion we made a tributed in the work of making

few years ago for a season of re-

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Over a million dollars WELL? were spent by the

public to see the

Poor Althorp is obliged to beat for a book in Nöbottle Wood; he is not able to hunt. Poor I can't take my daily airing on the Northampton road, said roud being ane sheet of ice, and poor every body is creeping about from Are to fire, wopped up in shawls and shivering and chattering away deplorably. Four inches, twice as long as my finger, bave been hanging since Sunday, glittering in the powerless gun, from the sash of the library window. ...... For all this we are vastly comfortable. The house is so well proved and fired it is. quite delightful temperature. Lady Lyttleton, Althorpe.

MILTON.

Milton almost requires a solema: When his Lordship read out, "O, service of music to be played before Lord, who hatest nothing thou hast you enter upon him. But he brings made," she thought he said, "O, his music, to which, who listena, Lord, who hatest nothing but the had need bring docile thoughts, and housemaid."

purged cars.

A firm of Publishers GENTLE assure us they received the following from Kimberley.

Sir,

ART.

Will you be good enough and supply me these couple of books, and I am prepared to pay you the all amount at the local post office on delivery.

Midwifery with

The Best picture completed.

Story of Noah's Ark, Great Moghul The business and employment corres ponding, all purposeful, etc.

best letter writer for

The British International Foot- ball Association Referee's Chart, with full plan and diagrams, one with new laws.

Winter evenings-the world shut ont-with less af varemony the gentle Shakespeare enters. At auch 6088on the Tempest, or his own. Winter's Tale.

CHARLES LAMB.

SHADOWS BEFORE. Coming Events Advertised la The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

December 20.-Coronet Theatro p Ben Turpin in "A Small Town Idol."

December 2C.-Star Theatre; Anita Stewart in "The Yellow Typhoon."

"Moon Madness."

December 20-World Theatre

Grand December 20.--The Theatre; Herbert Rawlinson in

In the current year the estimated revenue-excluding sales of war hostilities which stores and the like-is £812,000,000 pertory in which the spectacular | Apart from the comparatively small shall be sacrificed in favour of son muised by death duties the acting plays. It is not impossible. whole of this huge revenue is There are scores of plays from the of Tangier, whilst France, through obtained out of current incomes by curtain-raiser to the three decker its influence over the Sultan, who is means of an income tax, by taxes that need no elaborate settings and un various forms of expenditure, that would have a wide, appeal, still nominally the sovereign in this and by payments for public services. We recognise we are suggesting encinyo, as well as in the French According to the calculations of the something that is likely to tax the zone of Morocco, sought to obtain, spokesmen of Labour a capital levy strength of those interested whose would yield some £3,000,000. This responsibilities are far from if not undivided control, at least a capital sum, after allowing for the light, but an equal distribution of

That sug-losa of revenue that would result the work of selection and produc predominant position. gents a piquant position. It was from scizing capital, is estimated to tion might possibly achieve things. so when England improve the finances of the Stute Our amateur productions should Binde more

not be, confined to one a year. We Ly £70,000,000 a year. became concerned, as was natural,

That is the whole financial gain should at least have three separate about equal opportunities for con- that the levy, according to the esti-productions. merce and snterprise, and could not mates of its own advocates, would Ye: three years ago we possibly disinterest itself in a town yield.

.........(Signed) This shows a catholicity of taste which faced Gibraltar across the obtained by ordinary methods of taxation no less than £1,138,000,000, narrow channel which opens theor 0,000,000 a year more than World Series baseball games in and a courage in the face of the trade route of supreme importance we are now raising. Therefore, if America this year. A half a million vastness of knowledge that is fu

In spite of its it be desirable to increase public dollars were spent to see the Pap of promise for future Imperial Fools and Riches." to the British.

December 20.-Theatre Royal; inexpenditure, the means are already yrus race. Twelve millions dollars relations. unfortunato experiences

Italian Grand Opera in "Madam to hand in our existing system of have been spent in New York this

Common sense Butterfly." year to see prize-fights, great and Marocco, Spain could not resist taxation.

small. the feeling that Tangier, "To add to that system an entirely

geoisie. Non- December 23.-Special Medal which forins th little wedge new form of taxation is financially couple without children, nothing senge is the privilege of the Round for men on Old Golf course,

The dangers in Spanish Morocco, should be a quite unnecessary.

involved are very grave. The wein. Spanish port, whilst other powers,bers of the Labour Party seem to including Italy were always alert imagine that capital is a form of when the problein of Tangier we's personal luxury which nobody is discussed. Tangier constitutes, in entitled to enjoy. Capital is not a and in personal luxury; it is an industrial the enormous disorder

Without capital our for policemen and physicians. necessity. security of the Spanish zone, a city industries would be brought to a consisted in routing out of their of refuge, a sanctuary. Practically standstill and our people would be beds some 1500 individuals early one Sunday morning in an area unprotected, it is never attacked by starving.

roped off by the police and declared to be underquarantine by the rebels who, Irom time to time,

out a lifetime under the one lot of Crown Land, 3 pan.

AUCTION.. the doctors, because the latter had cruel brand of an undergraduate inflict the most serious,reverses oa

December 21-Lammert Bros. claimed to discover a certain casc jibe. This must be the couplet the. Spanish forces. The French

A news item says the and wanted in consequence to which rhymed with his name and property, machinery plant and HOLY. French have occupied vaccinate everybody in sight. described him

tanning chemicals of the Hong- would probably be glad if some day

the railway stations at And they were to a great extent purzon." These jibes are not un at Sales Rooms, 3 p.m.

"Superior kong Hide and Leather Co., Ltda. the Spunish zoug fell into thair lap Wickede and Assein, because four successful in their efforts, it would common! Several men in the December 22.-Lammert Bros., like a ripe fruit; in the meantime drunk French soldiers

were appear, for over 500 persons allow Colony, if they only knew it, have they are coment to develop their thrashed by the population. The ed themselves to be thus "treated," jibes tacked on to then-seme vergat Sales Rooms, a choice lot of

French reprisals are called the medical inspector of the Board truthful and apposite and hitting liqueurs, noon. own zodę and to leave the Spaniarde

'sanctions" (Derivation: Latin, of Health supervising the entire them off to a T. We knew a chap to their difficulties and disillusions. sanctus, boly.) It seems that the French have been anxious to obtain the chief control

of Tangier. By tresty, Tangier was

SPEECH.

Here is a sermonette by a man of 85: "We pass this way We cannot retrace our

to receive, a special régime, and in but once. fact, just before the war a atatute steps to any preceding milestone.

And, like the ten-year married!

to show for it.

THE GAME

OF

COMMON SENSE is for the bour

Fanling.

aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. A Section of Meanwhile the elect may amuse Philadelphia was and divert itself with gipsy recently the scene philosophies and wheezeful VACCINATION. of a wonderfully metaphysics, Only the cultivated, fascinating game the well-to-do and the secure are

p.m.- safe and free to indulge themselves: in holidays from acumen.

affair.

This, let it be said, is the greatest democratic federation of the world, The Hongkong Chinese have no grouse after this.

CHARGE ANSWERED.

Who said there's no economy in the Post Office?

Lord Curzon admits that | JIBES. he has groaned through-

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БРОВТ.

SOCIAL

December 20.-At City Hall, MC.L. Fancy Dress Ball, 9.30 p.m. The Dansant at Repulse Bay, 4.30-630

December 22-Special

January 24-Fancy Dress Ball at Peak Club, 9.15 p.m.

December 24-At P.W.D. offices,

LAND BALB.

OTHER MEETINGS. December 21.-Annual general. at home who was dubbed "Soapy Sam" the simple reason being that meeting of Royal H.K. Golf Club, he was continually rubbing his at Jardine Matheson's, 5,15 p.m.

December 21-Annual general: hands with an invisible lather. He

meeting of V.R.G. 5.30 p.m. got out of it by sarying that at any

January 3.AnQual

general rate his hands were clean.

meeting of the Royal Hongkong. Golf Club (Ladies' Section), at Helena May Institute, II a.m.

Suburban letter carriers in Ade-To-day's Poem, laide have to return their indelible

(Echo's Reply.)

pencils when they have got down I sit and ponder o'er Earth's tur- to the last inch, in order that the mailed state, lead may be used for making ink. And a mixed vision of buoyancy and

gloouf.

How many, we Comes hovering 'neath my mind's DEATH. wander, ever outspreading wings,

decide what kind Till, tired of my ill, I think of

The Doom.

LOGAL AND GENERAL..

Lighting up time to-day is ar 5.43 p.m..

Notes on the Wembley Empire: Exhibition will be found in this

of internationalisation was elabora- Every time the clock strikes it is ed but left pasigned. The diplomatic both the announcement of the hour upon which we are entering and corpa installed in the town have the knell of the one which is gone. done their best, but when not the Each night memory balances the amaliest work could be undertaken books, and we know before we

Customs we have expressed a desire the various authorities always failed account. general question of the Canton without provoking opposition, when sleep whether the result is on the right or on the wrong side of the i

for an authoritative reply to Dr.

to agree, the development of Tangier "The older we grow the more Horuxo THURSDAY, Dec. 2, 1993. Sun's contention that on

every moral ground the surplus of the became impossible. These undia we realize that life is worth the of death they would like.

living. We think too little of the Customs revenues in the Kwangputed facts make the unravelling of fan there is in it. We are too thought is prompted by the news Afar off, midst the myriad twink-fasue of the China Mail, tung Province, after allowing for the tangis, and the smoothing of parsimonious of laughter. We do of the death of Dr. Joha Clifford difficulties ono of interest and a not appreciate as we ought the man who died at a meeting almost im- the interest nominally due by the

or the woman who can make us medrately after he had made a Dr. Sun Yat-san's manifesto "To Provines au foreign loans, should be matter of heartfelt congratulation get while we are amused. We speech. Truly this can be describ- It has taken a long time and we my friends the American people" handed over to "My Government,”

cannot help the past, and that man ed as dying in harness, for the which we published yesterday is to ostensibly for the purpose of resist. may be thankful that the tristoph is a fool who lives in it. To-day veteran Docter was if nothing else

i ascribed of it

to British better day than yesterday.

"The secrets of happiness and

cherish and cultivate cheerful,

DR. SUN'S APPEAL.

nations.

is

ling lighte

There rune the constant hum of

human ocean,

Loud shriek the horns of motors

passing by, speedy motion. Threading their way along with

The ricksha' coolies have ap- pealed to the Government regardw

ing the cancelation of licences.

The China Mail, acknowledges: attractive 1924. receipt of an calendar from Messrs. Graca and

a preacher and a speaker and' a doughty exponent of militant Non- conformity. We can remember I nak: "Is life worth living after Co.

A all ?!

___ZAMIR.'

WEATHER CALENDAR.

DECEMBER 20.

Sugar, rice and flour quotations. will be found in this issue of the China Mail under Commercial. Notes.

A series of notes in connection with the British Empire Exhibition will be found in this issue of the China Mail

In connection with to-night's 1808. We are enjoying now in all Ball, permission has been granted ite glory the genuine long for motor cars to run beyond the frost belonging to Christmas. scheduled time.

say the least a moving documenting the effects of the Government diplomacy, which, like the Navy is It in addressed to the people of one at Pakking which is-st the moment "silent," and, socks in a mysterious longevity in my judgment, are to well how often his name appeared ] Nation and is therefore probably not tits one recognised by the Powers-way its wonders to perform. For hopeful and buoyant spirits. in the papers at the time protests And Echo answers: "Shame This

were being made at the passing

world's a banquet-ball the concern of others except so far The Manifesto which has directed too long have we had it that Great you haven't them create them, and working of the Education Act as any statement in the manifesto our thoughts anew to the situation Britain had become a mere cypher. Enjoy things as they are.

and the refusal of many people to Concerna the actions of

the at Cantan loses some of its majestic Mr. Asquith's latest utterance is tons Turkish peasant standing in were levied and put to auction, the

The raggedest person I ever saw pay Education rates. Their goods in the Yellow Dragon, accredited representatives of other force when it anggeste as it does that affect. It must be a matter of the field, clothed in bits of old auction sale being made the occa

that the American war boots are We make no apology for this obsessed with the "wish to shoot opinion, but such settlemente ne the carpet. He was laughing bilarious- sion of a meeting. From being combination of colour and humour finally dubbed Submisive Protes reference to Dr. Sun's compelling us. We have to remind Dr. Sun Tangier one, give us hope. It ly at our well clothed party. The called Passiver Resisters they wore uttarace. It has attracted us by that, as he must well know, the may be best for us all-and in these made him a thing of beauty, if not tors. reason of its simplicity but grandeur wish to shoot does not lie at the matters the long view must be a joy forever,

"Let us never lose our faith in of utterance, and by the note of looma of the American abips, nor for taken-that settlement without sincerity and feeling which to us is that matter with those who at the requrse to force is preferable, even human nature, no matter how often its prevailing note. We may be moment represent their different if it take years to perform. The we are deceived. Do not let decep

tions destroy confidence is the mistaken of course, and this may governments. In speaking so rashly or means loss of lives and a waste real, honest goodness, generosity, after all bo bat another to be added and in this way weakening to a of money. The other simply means humanity and friendship that exist to the many which have gone considerable degree so that a loss of trade which means money. In the world. They are overwhelm before, and which apparently have many desire to sympathise with he Asgaming that lives are more valu-agly in the majority." fallen on stony ground. We prefer leaves himself opon to the taunt ablo than money, let us be grateful La believe that Dr. Sun is sincere that he himself possessed that wish for what the ways of diplomacy and in curmeet and that the sight of to shoot and exercised it in no have accomplished. -American warships it his very door unostain manner. It remains to ready for action moves him to this be seen what response if any is pur of rebuke and appeal.

HARD LUCK. of

a

"This is a

service, grumbled the pas- senger to the conductor after leaving the tram. "Didn't you get

Sure, a seat?" asked Fares. retorted the grouch, "but me wife had ter stand all the way."

What is the dif One scandal grows į BETTING. ference between a man who puts some- SENTENCED out of another.

When-serious cor- thing on a horse, and another who. ruption at the Yawata (Japan) iron telephones to his broker to put -worke-was--disclosed two or three $500 into oil shares, with exactly years ago, the accused entrusted a the same object? asked the Ray. -made by my friends the American-It-Necessary?-

lawyer named koma Takehiko E. Lees at the Diocesan Conference At the mame time, whilst we people. It we judge the American

In the original scheme put-for- with Y60.000. The lawyer-boltou at Southend. Many church- readily recognise this grader of Government on ite European record, ward by the Taumur Party for with it, and, his whereabouts being wardens and church officers are utterance and simple sincerity, it on ita, known sympathy with the Capildid Levy lewis, proposed that unknown, has been sentenced to doing this thing in ogn form or an- Gambling is not a sin, it is' dâmn docs not blind us to the weakness, Chinese people, its outward array of all persons found to be awning five yours' imprisonment. He is other the Rev. E.Less continued.

more than one thousand pounds not likely to return.. No wonder,

Notice the"(name:"

ake and folly.. and, we regret to say it, certion force at Canton is there because it worth of capital should be liable to

The Bishop of Chelmsford, insociacies in the appeal. On the inoerely believes that in the the layy Bit Tekdemen of the then (If hilb.

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POINCARE'S POUND OF FLESH.

"Monsieur poincare is, so they say, A legal man with alegal way; A logical man with logical views, Which he neatly states in French reviews. He clearly shows which facts are facts, Which debts are debts, and which pacts-pacte, As he placidly wearon his legal mesh And laye his darn o "far" "pound ut deske "When the dead men rise on Judgment Day, From the Arras chalk and the Flanders clay, Who fought and died to gain redress That the world-ml ht be freed from frightfulness. "Will he answer his God with a legal look

And a Sunday speech and a Yellow Book?"

IN THE NATION.-A. N, H