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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Phat Diogenes lived The officer put him in charge of the nearest sentry, who happened FALLAOY, in a Tus.

He Arst to be a very small man. looked at the culprit and satd to. the officer:

Mr. C. E. Clark, 228, Mistakes We Make

Say, bous, does you-all expect me to look after this great big

against the Colony, but in a greater degree it is an attack against the British Empire and for what it standa. The Colony should press the Premier to take action in the matter of the en- quiry into the happenings at Shanghai which proved such an opening for action on the part of | P the self-styled Government at (c. 1897), refutes the story, and Cantor. The delay in this partiya It had no better origin than cular matter has had its own evil comment by his biographer, man?"

"Yes," said the officer and effect on minds already eviliy-Seneca, who was not born till mere disposed. As to Hongkong's posi- than three hundred years after the walked away.

The prisoner looked down at tion we have Mr. Holyoak'e wordsynic's death; "A man so crabbed !

the sentry and said: that it cannot be too clearly ought to have lived in a tub like a

"What is you going to do if I stated again that it is apparently dog." Brewer (Phrise and Fablerans away

live, accord- "Nuffin'," replied the sentry, so * still not realised that this is, no says, ", question of a 'strike' but of anjing to Seneca, in a tub." (Note it was perhaps for the sentry- organised and inspired attack the important difference between as well that the guard came along to take the prisoner before he the two statements i This is evi- made up his mind to carry out his upon British trade and interests in all our Treaty Ports and Con-dently one way in which historical intention." cessions and upon this Colony in inaruracies ariso.) The Harms. particular" This utterance can-cy. (1906) saya Story doubt not be questioned. It gives justiful." and refers to Zoller's Sooratos IDEALS IN Smith's BUSINESS. fication for the holding of a meet-and Socrati Schools.

Impossible the Hong- kong "practical" man will say. Business is war to the knife, the

But if there is

ing to enable the Colony to voice/Small Classical Dic., 1 103, soye, survival of the fattest, as the

its views and to dispel the apathy "ording to the common story. stout man said.

100k up his residence in a not much idealism in business in at Home. If it can do that it will

Hongkong, there are people in and does not re- : tub. undoubtedly bring matters to a

fute it.

The stories which are Anite views about what, they other parts of the world with de- head, and who knows?-save old of him are probably true; in should sell and how they should

the Chinese from themselves.

But it is apparent, that the

character.

any case they serve to illustrate sell it. Of more than ordinary the logical consistency of his significance is the fact that, in ac

quiring the Goodwin Department Chinese need to be saved from the

He innrad himself to Store, one of the largest in the . class of person who, almost with the vicissitudes of the weather by city of Montreal, the T. Eaton- out let or hindrance, constitutes living in a tub belonging to the Company, of Toronto, threw out himself a ruler-but not a leader

kumple Cybele."-Ency. Brit., 11th its stock of playing cards and -the class of person, who like a

, VIII, 289. But the writer public that such goods would no certain Duke of Plaza Toro, led of the article in the 9th ed. of longer be handled under the new his regiment from behind "De-ncy. Brit. is less credulous, for he management. The Eaton store cause he found it less exciting." saya: "That he took up his abode is not only the largest department in a cask belonging to the temple store in the British Empire but also, in spite of the comparative- of Cybele is a circumstance liable ly small size of the city in which

CHINA'S TROUBLES AND EDUCATION.

dice, with the notification to the

to suspicion, from being more fre-it is located, it is said to enjoy a

the biographers

of

In the course of discussion at quently alluded to by the satirists the meeting of the local Board of than by Education some weeks ago, Dr. Diogenes."

Tso gave expression to the doubts,

which in the light of recent

events, had arisen in his own

After

Olympic

larger turnover than that of an store in North America, with the exception of one in Chicago. The founder of this enterprise an nounced at the outset his inten- tion to refuse to handle liquor, the tobacco, or gambling implements, the and this policy has been rigidly was adhered to.

How about the

mind as to whether. Western NEGRO STORIES. Armistice education was good for the Chin" ese students in that it permitted, engaged in taking home American alleged lack of morals in "big" On one business-This is not an isolated

It is

eign missionary bodies in China

"Yes.'

if not encouraged, them "to talk troops from France. about freedomn And much

else voyage coloured soldiers formed example. In reaching the con- that they do not understand," the ship's complement and Cap-clusion to discontinue the sale of whereas in the old days they tain Hayes tells several stories firearms, Sears, Roebuck & Co., were kept to their studies and anent them in his recent book,

one of the large Chicago mail Once, after the ship had slowed order houses, has based its rea- were under discipline." probably as a result of similar down to take the paravanes insoning on the perfectly safe argu- doubts as to the effect of the ap-and then had resumed full speed, ment that, the moral side of all plication of the Cristian ethic to one of the soldiers said to the public questions being the right Chinese mentality which has led, officer of the watch:

side, it is good business to be on to conferences being held by for- "Did the ship stop then, boss?" that side. More and more clearly it is being demonstrated in busi- patience has been shown by Hong- to consider whether the time has "What for, boss-was it to take ness experience, not that "fortune Lis always on the side of the The China Mail tong, and that the plea for inter- not yet, arrived for the spiritual breff qu

and secular education of China to He evidently had been impress. largest battalions," but that it is vention by force if necessary-be left with the Chinese themed by her speed.

always on the side of those most nearly in line with what is right: holds in it a great amount of selves. "The Bulletin," an' Aus-

Dishonesty and tralian paper of considerable justification. It is for these and standing, in reviewing the China

son, but they have ne

questionable methods may flourish for a sen- other reasons that could, be ad- situation and considering the

substance in themselves. abiding vanced, that we trust some clear effects of the introduction of an and definite thought will be alien religion to China, uses words, which although referring behind the meeting; that its to things spiritual rather than resolutions will not be a collection secular may be compared in gen-

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DEATH.

of indignant words only, but that some plan of action will follow

them as a matter of course. It might be argued that in holding these meetings and letting loose the vials of wrath, we are treat-

More

pitching into a head sea, one of One day, when the Olympic was the "buddies" was very seasick. He was heard saying:

over, as James Russell Lowell "Good Lord, if you can't help wrote in "The Present Crisis" this poor nigger you might bring "Then to side with Truth is noble this sea to attention."

when we share her. wretched A big, hefty soldier was caught crust, ere her cause bring fame

eral principle to those used by Dr. by an officer smoking below decks, and profit, and its prosperous to Tan. The Oriental teaching is which was against regulations, be just " that the individual's sole religious | function is be provide in this world the means whereby his father and the myriads of his forefathers shall be kept in ease and plenty in the next. The mis-

CROSSING THE SUEZ DESERT IN 1779.

ing the "Government" at Canton sionary teaches that it is right for My dear Sister,

a little too seriously; that we show the son to leave his father, and

has, ere thin, been noticed.

The

but the motion of the camels and

vehicle is fastened to them, made

+

an absence of knowledge of the follow a higher master and any I resume my pen in order to give the uncouth manner in which the mentality of Chinese, whose member of an Asiatic family who you some account of our passing such a constant Tumbling sound methods in "ways that are dark" finds the pressure of this system the Desert, which being done by among my provisions us to be ex

irksome can always secure a re-method of travelling totally differ-ceedingly annoying. Once I was fuge in the Christian church. "utter ruin of trade to which Thus it comes about that the misent from ung ang in England, may saluted by a parcel of bard aggs Mr. Holyoak refers, may counter sionary is feared and hated by afford amusement, and even with breaking loose from their net, and this line of thought, and is prob every Eastern patriot for precise out the charm of novelty could not pelting me completely it was for

Innate that they were boiled, or I by the same reason as the early five of one so nearly and dearly to this may be added the frequent ful to interest you, as the narra should have been in a pretty trim: ably unanswerable. We can only Christian socialists were feared on suggest that when a settlement and hated by every Roman patri-

violent jerks, occasioned by one.or When a Caravan is about to de other of the poles slipping out of its.

HAZELL-At the European

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pital, Kuala Lumpur,

Hazell,

BRASS TACKS.

connected.

had

August 9, Peter, infant son does come, the fact of this almost cian." The obvious reply to part, large, ierits are pitched on the wretched fastening, so as to bring of Mr. and Mrs. Denis Hutter ruin" will come into the what may be considered a con- skirts of the City, whither all who one end of the litter to the ground;

demnation as a disintegrating settlement in no

uncertain force of the work of Christian propose joining it repair there they and you may judge how pleasing fashion: If mistakes are to be bodies in China, ia that their in-are drawn up in order, by the pes- this mode of travelling must be

Hons who undertake to convey them. Hongkong, Thursday, August 20, 1925 made by the other side: if they stitutions and those under British Strong bodies of Arabian soldiers At our first outset, the novelty are wilful acts of malice? so much Government supervision repre- guard the van and rear; others of the scene wrought an sent the only bulwark in China funk the sides; so that the agrarables chauge on my hurtssed the worse will the reckoning be against the creed of Bolshevism female passengers, and the mer fedling but when we Acts of war have already been which is surely the greatest chundiss, are completely, surround proceeded some distance on the Redeeming a promise he made committed; Shameen has been meance possible to Oriental ef, and, as one would hope, de Desert; what all traces of buman at Monday's public meeting to fired on: Chinese soldiers have the father is the guardian of his gentleman of our party had a bocas, every sign of cultivation dis- ethica. According to these latter fended in case of attack. Each habitation had vanished; when give the community an early op crossed the border: suppiles of family, the headman ju the and it is common to hire a camel appeared, and even vegetation was portunity to express its voice merchandise from Hongkong have father of the village, the magis between two with partnery to carry combined to a few low, straggling should. London's reply to Hong been looted; and crowning act of trate is the father of his province, their provisions, etc. pross the shrube when the immed

and the ruler who derives his innters, which are of wicker, sarable pini lay around me," a kong's representations prove all, British and Japanese steam power from heaven is the parent kind of mattress is thrown, whereon burning sun darted his herce rays. unfavourable, the Hon. Mr. P. Hers have been banned from Can of the lot and the right to wield they take it by turns to lie and from shove, and no asylum was Holyoak, who has become the ton and an embargo has been authority is based on the posses-court repoes during their journey visible vid front, my heart sunk Colony's mouthpiece, has duly imposed against Hongkong mind. As against this thead-pongo, are mors comfortably acom It is

sion of a "superior or educated Fendlea, who can uford to ex-with me. called another public meeting for Almost every known law recog-vocates of Bolshevism for China mounted these travel ut a kind struck

paisible not to be the exquisite beauty of Tuesday to protest against the nised by nations of standing has among the Chinese will and that of lifter called antaravan wat the

cloud- Home Government's apathy and been broken, without any attempt mob can be master of its fats, that camels, one bohind, Bolshevism is the doctrine that a two poler faten

two the lowest and most uninstructed: The lit

to express our views in a telegram at reprisal, and seemingly, with out any official remonstrance with the ception of that given over

to the Prime Minister in no. certain manner. By hol Fameating we

of the populace must seize the reins

rom their rulers and whilst there

heh in the days

ngchasty bit.

ing any-