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CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND HANDWRITING *SECRETS.

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EDUCATION.

HEALTH ANË THE MISSIONARY.

NOT AN INDICATION OF PERSON'S CHARACTER.

LITERARY PLANETS.

THE CHINA MAIL.`

..A GRIM HISTORY.

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HOW WALTER DE LA MARE DARK TALES OF ANCIENT

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Discovery of a literary planet" is one of the thrills which rarely come to an Editor.

Mr. St. Loe Strachey tells how he found" Walter de la Mare, while editing the Cornhill.

BURMA

Strange national characteristics are revealed by a recently publish ed history of Burma-a history which contains many dark and cruel pages. We fond

Le'is possible in tuli chructor from 4 person's handwriting? Alany ste Delegatus to the National Christ-hat the possibility is denied by Pro- ients of penmanslap claim that it is: ian Council preached in the Shangfessor Carvalho When 03 Popular hai churches on Sunday. Mr. T. Science, has probably examined T. Low spoke for the Community mare handwriting than an ex-writes, was always a pleasure, hut "The discovery of Bullen, he Church in the morning and the Union Pert in the world. Church in the alternoon. ' In, the "The only thing that handwriting still greater was my delight in the atmoch a number of the delegates can be count me to reveal is the discovery, of one who, I may now mat Museum Road, in a special writer's identity--this is the conch say without exaggeration, has sion of my tong experien." bars become one of the leading men off Professor Carvallo...

letters of our time. The author Monday was given over muiniy

be have had the pleasure, so to mean is Mr. Walterde la Mare, My k questions of business and medi- ; tional reports. Dr. E. W. Wallsen, of sending theusands of for friend, Mr. Ingpen, came to me, ted for the China Christians to prison, but through all my after I had been in office for about Batucational Association. The point andy their mans up i never three weeks, and asked

d it that great problems not an imponant thing about whether, as a personal favour, their characters. Sometimes you

would look at an article by a aunting te sudas war and caly somines, handwriting in relation of his called de la Mare, a dustry would really be settled in på

youth who had literary learnings Archiews I As the stalents today, little light up the nature of a sex will the 'hurch is in the fat man's mind it ver wells anything and was married to Mr. Ingpeir's worth while about his charecter, not sister. I told him that I should, of menuen his diss his his outron the constable terribly in the couse, be delighted, but that I had Diskeli said. "Hipdwriting is There are 17 Christian pliages and but a gesture of the thil Writing way of accepting M.S.S. I was 3500 stulents, all of whom Sometimes shows dos ennection be afraid, therefore, that, however potential (liristian bendes 1. CH des da alady Chostinating certain mental fruits, lod his brother-in-law's work, I

From the selinod, alow will com Chest el Pic headerskáp get the Church,

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- kgical Spence of the writer's

could give only one yerdict, There are fyn Gee 700 Loraduates customary thoughts: by such evi With a certain feeling of dread "Istuck the MS. in my pocket per year. The significance, there dence may be lacking when we most fore, of Claristian hengional work expect it. Napolon's signat, I took it, out on the following! that I might be forced to accept it, in the development of das Church all and jumbling gives de tiem of is evident. The school, is the avar | his clear and forceful thinking his I shall never-forget my delight Sunday: and began to read tre of training is the centreef-this-extraordinary mental power. But Christian problem in China. The the attractive, regular, Flear hand-

When I laid down Mr. repors of the Ca ́E.A, showed that | writing of Poe, with most oft say I fully realised that a new during the vapouaji, praToss pletives cursfully joint might be planet had swuns into my ken,

de la Mare's MS.' I am proud to has been made in conqandling her geaid to reveal his love of beauty and had had the good luck to be a tween gram-n gåde Christian die ek ar sad logical sequence of his literary astronomer first to re- eshtegtors. The outstanding instaner ps and tale. was the invitation on the past of the men les drunk to talk had another recruit. That is an cognise that the Host of Heaven Stark Association for He Ad still sign a pinewable signature, the saneener of Eduestion to Prof. Be get el inndwerg must ba ninly experience as thrilling as it is rare," L. Terms if Nanking to take the mechanical and automatic and. if a directorship of a national survey of nearly unconscious drunkard still re- en In this arvey Christians tains in his signature the peculiar and government scleral topiers are curacteristics of his handwriting. strešents a sergentier.

most of her lerreteristics, must be

Dr. Wale sissed the import ance of the resolution 1 the N... orging the alloration of the Rev. E. C. Falenstine as half-ome secretiy

WHAT IS LIGHT?

the result of spontaneous moremonts REVIVAL OF AN OBSOLETE "mide unensciously as á miUET OË OS%

blished habit,

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"Cantrelical by the mind and noi

of the Comcil on High Edug by the character, handwriting is, in tion. Ons of the reasons for that, tes, about 981 per cent, mehanical. target paciest is the desire to link man train is hand foform letters; www.mogely the higher Christian, with the t educational work with the develop-] ment of the Christian Church.

"Every person's handwriting a ways contains more or less of the letails that he inserts as the real

THEORY.

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Williams Bragg

At the lecture delivered by Sir Institition on the nature of X-rays,

the Royal an argument was revived that Newton, Sir William Bragg ern- dates back about 200 years, phasised, had believed Dr. P. J. Wampler reported a

existence of little bodies or cor- the Ponired on Helth Education, of acquired habit. These max puscles of light emitted by the He urged the necessity of perilical the obvious features, such as the source of light and received by playsical examination of students, slant, the general pattern of each let-the eye. He had been opposed teurlurs and Christian weders. As ter, the average lightness or havi- definitely by Huygheas, who was a case in teint fe reformed to the nest fact that while he had only given fineness or the corseness of the pan. The views of Huyghens had the lines, aside from th the protagonist of the wave theory onesfajith of his time to preventive de. Ife is well aware of the fanroved invaluable to workers on work he lived fleet, what he had tares, and he will alter them when X-rays, but he had been as un- dong in the one-fourthi time bad re

he tries to disguise his hand er infortunate as his opponent Newton, salted in the saving of mors lives inte the hand of another. But his because he had urged various than whet he had done in the other, writing also contains certain tiny, objections to three-fourths.

the characteristic distinctions that he is theory. He considered, for in

corpuscolar In the report of the China Meiras aware of, and that her o stance, that no material particles Missionary sedation in was indient. wy to disguise and never dées dis- could possibly travel as fast as ed that popteary to' thứ deleration Kuiso. of Commission 12 to the National

light, urging also that rays of light Christian Conference, (1922) more

could not pass through another attention rouls to be given to medi

without mutual injury, because the particles would collide. cal schools to be maintained by Tor- eign Torces.

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CRYPTIC MESSAGES.

MACHINE FOR TYPING CYPHERS.

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HONGKONG'S LAND OFFICE.

The nineteenth century had been) To this problem alke Medical Ast

exceptional at its close for ex- sociation had given considerable a-

planations of the various wave tention. Special study had also

phenomena of light. Newton had been made as to the health of mis

been vindicated by the Quantum Even E. A. Poe who had a theory, which showed soinaries and Chinese Christian work-positive genius. for deciphering quantum, or an atom of light, that a ers. He painted out the there is codes would have been baffled by was able to strike an electron and Too much laxity with regards to media new invention of German natu- rebound, just as one billiard ball eni examination of workers.

There was considerable discussion and decoding messages, which has

facture for automatically coding could rebound from another. on the question as to whether or not been exhibited at Prague. It is the National Christin Council driven by electricity and is in shold start a Christian Magazine appearance like a large typewriter. Considerable interest had been shown The point of the contrivance is

this pic. That each magazine is milled for had been in-it, the letter which appears on the that when a message is typed on dicated in other ways also. Those paper is different from that on the

A RECORD YEAR. expressing a desire for such a key which has been depressed. magazine seem to be about equallyMoreover, through a device which (Mr. Philip Jacks) for the year The Report of the Land Officer livided on the question as to whe keeps the alphabet ther or na 'ni Hwa or Wen changing, a

constantly

1923 states that the total money new letter appears consideration on sales, mortgages, should be used. The question was each time in place of the original raised as to whether the N.C.C.ose

surrenders, Thus,

and miscellaneous while money could run such a magazine. The might be typed as "sikit to begin documents registered during the matter was referred to the Business with, at a later point in the year 1923 was $223,828,607.85. Committee.

From the tables attached to the It was announced that the Mis message it would come out as Report 1923 was a record year for

say, aghtu" So great is the sions Building is to be ready for capacity, for variation that the the Land Office. The number of capaney on June 1. It is located on original "transliteration is not re-and the number of Crown leases Yuen Ming Ynen Rond. It is in-neated until after about a million issued was 209. In 19zz the re deeds registered in 1923 was 6,837, tended primarily as the home of the words have been typed. But the spective Sgures were 4.146 and N.C.C. Many other Christian or initial correspondence of "money" ganisations, however, will have their with "sjkit" is produced as a result 207. In 1914 the figures were 2,433 headquarters there, and in various of a certain key having been ways through this building, service chosen. As the number of keys Office last

The fees collected by the Land will be rendered to all Christian or itself runs into thousands it is clear $123.631 as compared with $75.640 year amounted to ganisations in China. A special vote that deciphering by mere analysis in 1922. The total was $46,094 of appreciation to the donors was of the message is out of the ques more than in any year on record. passed.

The total area of land sold and

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and 66.

The Business Committee reported All the recipient of the despatch granted during the year was on Dr. David Z. T. Yul's resigna- has to do is to set his own machlae little over 1,897 acres. tion from the chairmanship of the at the agreed key and type out the Council. It was advised that this message he has received. It resignation be not accepted but that appears on the paper as it was! Dr. Yui be thanked for his excellant before it was ciphered.. The whole service in the past and be urged to business takes only a minute or so. continuo as chairman. This regalu-i

tion was accepted,

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Washington, May 24-In a motion, closely following Colonel Pepper's, the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee has passed resolution endorsing United States adhesion to the Hague. Court of Sccator

It was reported that during the Moscow, May 25-The Council year $57,300 had been received for of the Peoples' Commissaries has the work of the Council. Of this decided to establish a so-called International Justice. 30,863 had come from American So- Electro Bank for the purpose of Lodge previously withdrew his cipties, 5,202.99 from British societ aancing electrical development: own world court scheme. Reuter's ies and 8,188.76 from Mr. George It is proposed to establish power American Service, Cadbury. In addition to this it was stations at Volkhoff and Nijninov, reported that there had been received | gotod.~Reuter, Home $8,000 from Chinese churches. This, it was hoped, would increase rapidly in the future.

Moscow, May 25.-The sonsa- tional trial has concluded of a London, May 24-According number of judges, examining to the Daily Express, the Soviet roaeistrates and members of the delegation in London has petition revolutionary tribunal hy the ed-the Home Office for permission supreme Court at Leningrad, on to remove to Moscow the body of charges of accepting bribes from Karl Mark, Interred in Highgate keepers of houses of illfame", "and" The boy who eats whatever, whonorer however, whether the Home Office illegal release of prisoners. The cemetery, London. It is doubtful, of blackmail and extortion and of and sa mach as he plan is sure has the power to grant the request, trial resulted in sentencing seven-

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Colio and Dishes Remedy. It stops since the grave is the property of teen to death, seven to periods of almost instantly agonising o'omach and Marx's descendants, the principal ten years' imprisonment, two to

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Bayin, granted an audience to THE Stonship

In 1583 the Burmese king, Nanda Gasparo Baibi, jeweller of Venice; and when he heard from him that

"NAGPORE" Venice was a republic he "began carrying His Majesty's "Mails will be to laugh so exceedingly that he despatched from this port at Noon was overcome of the cough." on WEDNESDAY, the 28th May, We may sure that the taking Cargo for the above Ports. courtiers followed the lead Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, of the merry monarch, and we France and London (under strange may conceive the joke suddenly ment) will be onoveyed by this Steamor penetrating Balbi and his explod proceeding to Eambay and thara tran. ing in a high cackle It is a first-shipped to the on-carrying Steamer for rate joke, for it sums up all past Marseilles and London. Burmese history. The autocrats seem to have no policy beyond taxation and devastation, We are, in judging them and their institu says the Times, reviewer, justified tions from their record as a whole, and we find it in these pages a succession of atrocities. They did.

the pleasure of it.

not kill only for the sake of foot or to make an end, but for We read

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CONSIGNEES.

From PORTLAND, ORE., JAPAN PORTS, etc.

"HANNAWA"

phants and of tortures schedul of tramplings by trained gle-i

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The killing of a prince with claims to the throne may be defen (Operating United States Government

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one gentleman of what was due to another; but mere extinction THE Steurship seldom sufficed as a punishment, We are not inclined to laugh with having arrived from above ports, Nanda Buyin by the time Balbi CONSIGNEES are requested to pre- has done with him. There were sent their Bills of Lading in exchange symptoms of restlessness among for Delivery Orders, and take Pegu:" Nanda Buyin had them steamer.

the Grandes of the Kingdome of immediate delivery from alongside arrested and burned. There were four thousand in this number that steamer by 20th May, 1924, will All cargo not taken delivery from were so burned, great and small, be landed into the hazardous and/or X for which execution were publike. non-hazardous godown of the Hong. all of the old and new Citie were Co., Ltd. i Guards placed by the King, and kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown consignees' risk, whence forced to assist them; also went delivery may be obtained. thither and saw it with great con- passion and griele, that little children without any fault should suffer such martyrdome.

with other authorities in painting MYSTERIOUS "MOTIFS." And yet the author is at one

thing, their capacity for 'innocent the Burmese as likeable. For one enjoyment is greater than that of any honest man's who is careful and troubled about many things They are not troubled, about any thing. As a nation they despise the Arakanese did not fake part | wealth as wealth. We read that in the sacking of wealthy Pegu, but were content that there should be reserved for them a white ele- plant and one of the King of Kings' daughters."

Sir George Scott describes the Burmese as self-confident without being supercilious and combative without being warlike.

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