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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
land boom has come to an end IN BONDAGE. people who rall at towards the avenue. Suddenly a
He.redoubles his pace.. "Let us fly1.
me 母
Under colour of
Those Hongkong steps of the porch, and rushes Proporty owners ary sloud för help
and about their a doorway opens behind us and a and join their voices with those of servants may take comfort from volce barka Chinese morchants. It is the Chin-the bondage in which the late "Sir! where are you going, es princpially who cry aloud for Anatole France was in to his sir?”· help making the situation mon difficult. If there is anything to be servanta Frenchwoman named said in favour of those Chinese Josephine. She ruled him like a making appeal for help, it is that rod of iron; and his soul-Anatole the Government has, in the main was, the Shreds man believes, a tuking care of me that wench derived a large measure of its in- Rationalist, so had 'no soul-was makes
laughing-stock. come hectly from Chinese sources. not his own. She could never Recently in the presence of ten The proportion of Chiness to comprehend why it was folk persons,,she wanted me to change foreigners who Invo operated on came a-bothering for bits of the my pants! Vanity-all her zeal is the share market is so larga sa to Master's handwriting. "It's a vanity. She brandishes my shirt justify the assertion that thousands scrawl,"ahe would say. "He's so or my vest, as it wore a flag in a of dollars in stamp duties must clumsy. Why, he spends all his demonstration. She wants to have been paid by Chinese. Hong-time scratching out and begin show every one that she is AB kong boing pretically a free port, ning again. Ah. yeat What's vigilant as I am ingenious. the Chinose merchant class have the muddle he makes worth com- great danger threatens me. probably contributed little to thepared to my poor boy's letters: often long to throttle. her. Ah, if Government's revenuo-at say rate you shall see. And to think there, we could only find a cabl""
are people who come to ask him for his handwriting."""
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in the way of taxation. Bayors of land and ownora of property bulk largely in the books of the Colony. "Dawn is the great friend of In view of this, but also in of the the muses" was the motto Anatole fuct that our broubles are of Chinese France. once impressed on his making, can it be said that any of young secretary, at the same these classes are entitled to con-time bidding him to be on hand sideration and practical support? for work carly next morning. At Is there a moral right involved? 7 a.m., M. Brousson is knock The question is a big and momentousing at the door of the Villa Said. one. The Government has already Presently it been instrumental in arranging A Josephine.
la opened by loan of a considerable sum to Ubin-
"Hush! He's still asleep," she css bauks. - Has that sum been paid. to the foreign banks who leaned it says as she puts a aly finger on
her lips. Foreign banks have been criticised
"The Master?"- for holding tight to their cash.
The word "Master" puts the We do not remember, roading any clear arguments against their line maid in a fury.
"Master! of action, and doubtless they have
Master! What's good reasons to hack up their Wrong with them all, to call him attitude. Although there is silence Master Master of what, if you on this grout question it is to be please? Of his soup when he's assumed that the Govermont euten. it. Supposing he keeps it Encave its own mind; has taken the down, too! A fine Master, in advice to be bad at its doors, "and deed! If I weren't there, he knows what it intends to do. wouldn't be capable of so much, ns None the less we should welcome changing, his pants," same nunouncement on the subject. Such is greatness!
THEY SAY THAT—
It is not only mental, but eve physical, health which is nt sluke; economy in aducation is very ible to be conomy in the light und girth of the children of Hila
meration and the men and wom of the xt. Det waste' hy, ill out of the habit of regarding ex- meun, be avoided, but we misle det :
CONTINUED.
Anatoly France, says his late Secre- tary in bis amusing book, taken his place at the massive oak table in the great adjustable arm chair. He tinkies
little church Josephine, in a flurry.
bell. Enter
"Bring in the sack." The servant returns dragging, a sort of mattress after her. "Leave it on the carpet.
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Despite her age, Josephine has legs like a stag. Anatole France has stopped, out of breath.
We were already at the gate amid a crowd of idlers when the im- perious maid-servant seized the Immortal by the tails of his coat. She drags him back like a goat to the Villa Said calling the passers- by to witness
"Wanted to slip off, did he, without changing his shirt? And it's I who get the blame from Madame."
* + *
Antole France aays nothing, but lifts his eyes to heaven. He makes a gesture of some fakir re fusing to fight against destiny.
We are back in the bedroom. and start the toilet afresh. Each article of clothing serves as the pretext for fresh reproaches.
"Why have you got on those boots? You should wear your patent leather ones to-day? "And these striped trousers? That waistcoat won't do at all."
At last he is dressed. His tie is neatly tied. Josephine feels pockets big and small, one by one.
"Have you got money? Your pocketbook? Your watch? Your keys? Your handkercief? Ab and your spectacles? Where are your spectacles?"
It is a really Do LARGE-HEARTED. large-hearted man who ad-
you know what that is, my young
dictated by the view either that (a) stock transactions carried on successfully without the medium of an exchange; (b) penditure on education is of one friend? That is the manuscript vertises conceding the desirability of stocky with expenditure on arme of Joan of Are. There must be Column:- exchanges, the withholding of menta; the latter may be an insuf- well over a hundred-weight of it.
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Hongkong. Thursday, Sept. 17, 1924,
LOCAL SHARES.
Burn it, tear it to pieces, blue-
of the inexorable working of the "Aial it is an investment in what pencil it. I don't want to look at
-THE BUSHOP OF MANCHESTER.
MRS, JH. RIDDELL.
in the Personal
Many HAPPY RETURNS of this day to all the BROWNES in the World. ONE OF THEM WHOSE NATAL DAY IT IS.
This morning he (Antole France) is full of youthful en- thusiasm. He dashes through his
The idea suggest immense pos- toilet, abbreviates his ablutions.ibilities. The Browns (without buttons his boots himself.
'an 'e) should follow suit and the He is ready. We descend the Jones' also. It somehow auffuses staircase on tiptoe. He opens the warmth and dispels the sombre door with the precaution of a figure of loneliness, Think of a lover or a burglar.
Brown at the North Pole or ting in her basement.""
"Don't wake the harpy, squat-Timbuctoo realising that there are uthers of his name still alive He strides in haste down the and feeling kindly towards him.
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CROSSING THE EUPHRATES.
| law of the survival of the fittest,is at once the best of all teams of it. This Maid is too much for
to a more stable stock exchange and ability of its citizens and is
a nation's capital-the character me."
community; (e) the presentals one that bus fruit not only in The Newspaper terprise, d. situation would be best met by the earthly kingdean, but in the
the granting of a loan or sub- Kingdom of God," sidy. The adoption of (a) would be to act contrary to economic law and practice which has establish-
The ghosts of long ago-laid und ed that a stock exchange benefits baried, as you fancied, years and industry by encouraging people your sine they are travelling to invest who would otherwise be with you still, a ghostly company. unable or unwilling to do so, and along life's smoothest roads, to pace, While you drive in your carriage by cubling the banks to keep part focisors and weary, over the flinty of their resources in an easilyby-juth of existence, push events realisable form. The adoption sipping on beside you, mocking of a policy in conformity with delusion.
jeering at your profound self- Shall fleet stecris leave (b); again, would lead to the in-thom behind 7 Shall liveried ser. definite postponement
Ever since we left Aintab the bare-legged Kurda hove in sight of the keep them at bay? Nay, in opening of the share market, con-me hiy; voiceless, they shall yet towards paple-hollow, far ses were biddon follow half a mile up visible now, they simil be visible path had been falling insensibly labouring at a rope's end, and we tinuance of the present restric-find tongues; despised; they shall in the cast. Beyond it interminable stream. The boat was a primitive tion of credit and (now that the rear their heads and hiss at you; for brown uplands rolled to the horizon craft, nearly flat-bottomed and very One thing has become increas. scheme for protection has been more strength thau at their first scrub. Through this we rode hour in the Beam, her planks
gotten, they shall reappear will and all about us stretched stony ingly plain since the series of turned down) hardship in in-birth.
after hour at that weary, foot pace work, abhorrent of any symmetry nailed clinkerwise on a spare frume. events culminating in the closing dividual cases where carriers of
which travellers in suth regions of sluipe or disposition. Square low kuow only too well. Auxiously bows admitted of the embarkation of the local share market, namely shares (whether banks of in-
looked for u glint of water to left of horace, and the stern anded in s that a very large majority of dividuals) Loreclose on such
or right or before, for between usi buyers could not meet their shares, sell at present rates and cannot bear the pinks of fashion-fourth river of Parulise; but up to tail. far into the stream. No in- There is a set of poople when I mnd those brown slopes run the high poop and antediluvian rudder, liabilities should the market behold their clients responsible for able propriety, whose every word is midday and for two hours after struments of propulsion were visible
which projected ita monstrous fro opened at present without assist- a difference which in the present precies, and whose every movement upon the arid monotony continued ance. If any further proof is state of the share market few versed in all the categories of polite ve ceased to fall and even to be purposes of punting in so deep n is uuexceptionable; but who, thongh unrelieved. The track stemed to excopt two poles, assuredly not for needed, one has only to consider could make good. Finally, there behaviour, lave not a particle of sout taking an mpisard cast again, when Our horses had never seen the "sacrifice" prices realised for is the possibility of granting a or cordiality about them. We allow to the table-hand broke abrupt, ge
about, but being fortunately tena their scrip by those who have subsidy, and in this connection it at their mouners may be abundant if cut with a giant's latchet; a did. muginative than the leads, of been under the necessity of selling is reported that the Government in every gesture, sad gracefulness thousand feet below us-Euphrates fortnight on the hard hitti rond,
ly correct. There may be elegance ing are of brown water gleamed to outward impressionsler.
Europe, and somewhat irresponsive at whatever price they can realise has already been approached for a in every position; not a smile out of at Inat,
in fact the depreciation on the very considerable sum. The place, and not a step that would not As we acrumbled down the cliff a much ado, sad wed
they, camo in over the bar without value of shares since June 22 argument which most naturally scrutiny That is all very fine; bat The great river was in spate, sweep-As the tub took in how t
beur the measurement of the closest mighty roar rose up to meet 18. head to tail with a stout amounts (we have it on very arises in connection with such a what I want is the heart and gaiety ing round a majestic curve from the began to leak ominously, but the good authority) to over a hun possibility is "why should aid be of social intercourse the frukness north and vanishing on a contrary crew made little of da dred million dollars. The ques granted to one section of the com around it. That is what I conceive Rhine. I rushed six miles an hour of a turban-cloth, so spied us that spreada enen and animation curve to the south; a fuller, broader seen here and there the end tion thus arises as to (1) the munity only and not be made to be the virtue of the text, and not between towering banks which had to stand a high so we could. No desirability of outside assistance, general? There is a certain the sickening formality of thees who weathered to fantastic pinnacles, we are ready Two: hien sorse the and (2) what form, if at all, amount of force in the counter. Walk alo. such assistance should take. argument, advanced by the broker Entire repudiation of contracts (an interview with whom sppeara the Government rightly regarded in our news columns) that assist great superiority of intellect that son, and least of all when the poor Boross and across the horseshoots. There is a certain charm about no child's play to cross it it any me down stream, the leakage aviskink as undesirable and now the Cham anco Hae alreatly been given winds to deep affections which are coming down but crosat we The Bowmen Ing frantically at their ber of Commerce has turned down native barks and piecegoods much more constant and even must if we were to go north, for our bladsless poles, ming them as s a scheme, which it is known the dealers. But this still leaves ability of manera in lesser mon the right bank we should counter and obviously, with effect; the mons often fails to reach Genius makes prosently a great tribulary, unford at the rudder work its tail from side vernment favoured, for pro wondering why brokers and many oncinies, but it makes mare able, and, without ferry or bridge. to sido like & stern-cor, yelling
carriers of shares from buyers should be added to the friends-friends who forgiva museli, “A single bost of strange build was the while above the acresne of the
favoured fow any more thin any arbo endure long who exact little moored to the bank opposite beneath stallions Rand comes the filler other eoction of the business com-they patike of the character of dis- the gardens of little white town"down duck our munity
than the fia:
rates
CHALMERS
and displayed a hundred meter poles and twá more the tiller, the breadth of turbid flood, boiling shoreman pays out the rope, every mid-stream over sunken rocks. It is body abouts, and away we swing
cipla as well, as frionda There built terrace whee up the precimoe. Jiangulantor
strong inclination to look upwardewarely rustered. The host. to revern, this inclination ber the was moaned oored of, and whirl source of religion?" "of loya
slso of the
with want
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