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the supremacy of his principles ta fully and freely admitted. He may indeed be pronounced the divinest of men." Professor Giles calls him the Socrates of China, a very apt description. He taught virtue for its own sake, he

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

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1911.

14, Wed., Sir W. Harcourt born,

October, 1925. tells us, and the discourses fully A CALENDAR. 12, Mon.. Ernest bear this out. It may not be dif-

Renan died, 1892. ficult to understand the rover-

Chin 15, Tues., E. H. Pickersgill died, ence with which the. ese

their regard

ancient sage. He was one of themselves. He suffered as many humans do, from the wiles of those who knew not virtue, and his "like passions" were shown in a tendency to sadness. In the old days Confucius "became the idol

1827.

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16, Fri., Fletcher of Saltoun bern,

1653,

1771.

1831.

of the people." History is repeat-17, Sat.. Tobias Smällett died, ing itself. The intense feeling of. the present day, the source of 18, Sun.. Frederic Harrison born, much of it to be despised, is tend- ing to the making of idols. And

Sir Willam with this making there is a grave INVENTED DEATH H are our suspicion that the foundations are not always sure, not always

DUTIES.

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court was a Radicul, and Rosebery was looked on as more of a Whig a lively and Sir William was ready debater of a type that has If an pretty well disappeared. opponent "asked for it," he cer tainly, got it. Ferhaps his great. est rhetorical feat was to make Budget speeches funny!

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Hongkong, Wednesday, October 14, 1925,

CHINA'S GREAT SAGE.

Hongkong's streets are gay with bunting to-day. Flashing new colours among the multitude of Chinese signboards, flags known

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does not claim place among the Founders of religion. He claimed To be a transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients," and his interest lay not chiefly in religion but in correct conduct and statecraft.

no

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Two hundred speeches lasting nine hours were delivered at a recent convention,

Now some one will go and tell the Education Board.

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the motives leading to this chiefly as the author of the death idolatry are not quite of the duties, which the Conservatives purest. It has been said that if threatened at the time to repeal, Britain had been purely Christian, but which nobody would dream of or practised an absolute pure repealing now. Those whose form of Christianity, there would memories go back at genera- have been

greas war. tion will recall him as one of Glad- A London man who had been Can it be said that if stone's stoutest lieutenants. When missing a week has returned China had

home. practised impli- Lord Rosebery was selected as

Hongkong's trams are city the teaching of Con- Premier instead of Harcourt. slightly better than that. fucius, we should have witnessed when the G.Q.M. retired, it caused the disruption of the Chinese much bad feeling among the St. Andrew's practice dances, themselves, to say nothing at all Liberals. It was a phase of the we are told, are not entered into of political disturbances which old conflict between the two in the spirit as they should be.

sections of Liberalism, for Har- This is hardly refreshing.

JACOB SMILES.

"My lad, is a treasure, he is as good as gold," said Margaret.

"He is a treasure, he is nigh as own mother," said good as his Jacob, slyly. Eke an old fish-wife claiming yesterday's

fresh-caught this morning.

For

be artis-

have found an outlet in strike, boycott and indignity on those of other races? The Master's defini- tion of Charity was, to love one another: his definition of know- ledge to khow one another. Per- haps the danger-it applies to the idols" of other countries and those who pretend to revere them)

Betsy looked superior. Said she:- is in the mere acceptance of Confucius. without an under-i

"Why, Primrosy, just fancy. To be not knowing that un." standing of the man and his mes sage, and, which is worse, without

artistickle, she explained, was to the, practising of his precepts.

baddock be ke big Jake when he painted the name of The Comely Lass What seems to be needed through out the length and breadth of the

And in truth, during those on the wide of his boat. This lil · and is not that the name, as of earliest weeks the infant Jacey See at himlarning the shapes fella is a-going to be champion at cid, shall fly in songs through daily routine was Innocent their mouths," but that there enough. He May in blessed things all of by heart!"

Margaret looked joyful. shall be something less of lip ser- silence for long stretches, gazing Vice and the towing of the head, upward, intently considering a Bety pressed to give an opinion. and more of filial piety: respect particular spot of the key white saw no reason to believe it im- abond: earnestness:

truthful ceiling. Then, for similar longible for man to

tickle out in the country, ness: love to all.

stretches. the violet of his eyes vanished beneath those delicate But the picture of little Jake lids. as though fresh rose-pink grown bog and perpetundly daub- petals softly flattered there, caring painted letters along the bow THEY SAY THAT-

of a bout (on the gruss at Tarden-. ried by the midsummer wind that bad first wattered them. height faded soon enough, for We have to invent new wisdom When those eyes, duly re-opened, universe went on expanding. Ere the infant's conception of the a new age-Mr. J. M. Keynes. deigned to look into the face bentong it included not only the walls I used to be sunduint the fool of above them (instead of looking and ceilings, but the floors of The funds was sera into the Cluurch eircumstance), they turned away these latter while he was being right through it a commoner

every room in Tackleway Cottage, works of the anciems Confucius fiction.--Miss Rose Macaulay,

wow he or she seans to be sent into and gazed upward again, intently held on Margaret's shoulder and lovel were not primarily religious!

considering (by way of variety)gazing downward... Eventual I do hope I have not lived to the same white spot of ceiling. although regarded with religious seventysix to become a curmud Margaret and Jacob agreed osudying the coal scuttle in the ly, while in that posture, he took veneration. H own natobio-geon,-Sir Edmund Gosse,

that this was a habit to which the little parlour with the same char graphy he summarised as follows: If we all chose to live on potatoes,tributed, and they discussed, it that scuttle, with its shining highest significance might be at-acteristic earnestness. Indeed, At fifteen my mind was bent on suitable to a diet of potatoes, our with gravity on many, an occa-black diamonds, held him with in

and to lower wages to the level learning. At thirty I stood firmade would expand and our popula pant of the cradle extended his father xlow to take the oppor sicn. But gradually the occu- especial fascination, nor was his At forty I had no doubts. At fifty |tion would increase.--Dean Inge.. I could trust my ears. At seventy

field of survey, having realised tunity of cancelling all those pre- polish, have a certain disposition to consist merely of a cottage ceiling. tion of his own.

Londoners, while lacking in that the cosmic scheme did not vious prophecies by an interpreta- hive und let live," which is their There was the phenomenon of substitute for good manners-Mr. wall to be considered also. Itsee tree, Betsy, this young "See thee, Margret," said Jacob, Bernard Shaw.

rose upward, at either side and You need not say "as drank as ahead, beyond his toes, with shaver is a-going to be a lords with sufficient money to get on it, over and over again, as far

ford," for there are now very few goldfinches, building green meets Meanwhile big Jake, by a seri- I drunk with Mr. Registrar Friend, Milton's work is sprinkled with fine lines-Mr. Ravin Markham,

Competition muy be the life of commerce, but it is the ruin of the human mind.-Mr. W. B. Yeats.

Any part of London that has not been rebuilt within the last thirty years is ont of date. Mr: C. J.

The

I could follow my heart's desires without transgression.

Confucius died a disappointed man. Shortly before his death in his 73rd year in 479- B.C., he declared his life had been a failure. "My doctrines 'make no way. will get upon a raft and float about on the sea." On another occasion he exclaimed bitterly that in order to become truly great, he should have devoted himself to archery or charioteering. "Alas! There! is no one who knows me." When

pion coal-heaver.”

cham-

as infinity, and budding roses that ous effort of acrobatics, had peeped out alternatively with each managed to bring himself into. bird-nest, also as far as infinity; full view of the child's face, with- peeped out, moreover, upon a out disturbing that concentration human rosebud whose dimensions on the conl scuttle. And suddenly numbered only two.

the occasion became charged with tremendous importance, so that The joy of little Jake's parents Margaret and Betsy Burley at this momentous development in almost forgot they were laughing. that young career would surely at the picture of young Jacob have overwhelmed them had they grown up and a coal-henver, for not been able to find relief by the tear mists of happiness came sharing it with Glanmer (so readily. The tiny face had

death was near he remarked to ako. his attendant: "No intelligent I believe that the number of books Burley... He would be looking screwed up as Jacob peeped at it, monarch arises; there is not one that make nothing for anybody is away deliberately to those posies threatening a storm, threatening and unknown flutter in the breeze.in the empire that will make me enormously larger than it used to and birds, ignoring even his own a sneeze, threatening any mortal. Lanterns, traced with, strange his master. My time has come to e-Mr. W. B. Maxwell. Agures or splashed with arresting die." Seven days later he was hieroglyphics, hang from the shop fronts.. Colourful flower schemes, wrought with tireless patience, adorn tall buildings. Flung across busy streets, rise proud archways of human beings than those of any presenting miniature settings of other teachers

dead.

For more than 2,000 years now Confucius ethical teachings have been accepted by a larger number

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THE MAN AND HIS MESSAGE.

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mother.

upheaval whatsoever and that "Oh, Betsy," she would say, is another fact of the child's half a dozen times in a roorning at career which must be recorded in the very least...

these chronicles despite it being "What is it now, dear Prima performance characteristic of

all human babies: rasy?"

"Dear Betsy, surely it must Have summat to do with what he shall wish to be when he grows | big".

And Betsy, with head on one side and arms akimbo at the capacious walst-line, would beam

The storm passed over, the sneeze passed over, and the be settled into something that had wildering wrinkle gradually

infant's face. never been witnessed upon that

Young Jacob Golden smiled.

London, Oct. 13: agreement. Then followed a For the first time in his brief The Times Washington cor- delicious interlude for those two history, from a cause inscrutable, reepondent telegraphs that Our calendar laconically ex-

the mothers, in which, from an in- and without being himself aware The human appeal in the utter-United States Government is pre- fant's manner of making bubbles that he did so, the junior Jacob plains: "Birthday of Confucius."ances of Confucius is an all pared, if agreement upon concurrent at a bright bedroom wall-paper, smiled

Not a Chinese house in Hong- pervading one. It affects the sation of the most liberal kind cannot all the Justifiable possibilities An emphatic smile, vowed big kong this morning, palatial home foreigner just as much as it ho secured among the Powers at the would be extracted and all the Jacob;

affecta or ought to affect the Chins Customs Conference, to act

A cherubic smile, cried Betsy; hovel of humble coolie, failed to all the provinces will pay tribute the revision of its commercial treaty when he is growed to be a As for Margaret, she thought of wealthy merchant or squalid Chinese who, to-day, throughout independently and immediately in possibilities that were not to be

just fed.

f only she said "chubble. observe the religious ceremony to the great teacher's memory. The correspondent claims to have man, declared Margaret, look it a very beautiful smile" Ezompl

While reading the works af Confucius, says one who follow been informed on trustworthy ing resolute my lad is going to the copied this for analy ed him, "I have always fancied Tauthority that the Diplomatic Body be a gardener among real roses memory upon the senat could see the man as he was in Peking has been informed by the and and dandelion and things less tissue of her life. Many are the princes

Minister of the American That I do believe truly, Betsy heart. And thou istermination, if necesary, to stand Oh, how alad I shall be if he storm and the next and prophets that the world has Heen nta time) Klorious ind

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