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other slums. The value of the phrase lies in the fact that it has nothing whatsoever to do with "any one class or person. An in- dividual living in a slum has not necessarily a slum mind. It is quite possible for those inhabiting spacious buildings to be the pos....

sessors of a slum mind, for out of i the heart of man, the Great | Preacher told the world, proceeds

all manner of evil. The stuma of i great cities will go when, and only when, the people who now live in- them insist on decent houses be- cause they need them and she worthy of them. Similarly with the slums of the mind. The great thing is to know a slum of the mind, and a greater, with the knowledge of it, to get out of it as soon as possible. Here then is al subject that concerns the in dividual as citizen in the broadesti sense of the word. What Miss T eats, becomes Miss. T. rightly, de

MEYER--BEARD. On Novem-clares a famous poet. What we ber 12, at the Rosary Church, allow to influence us without con- Kowloon, Joseph George sidering its moral worth or value, Meyer, youngest son of Mr. and the late Mrs. G. G. Meyer to Dorothy, youngest daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Beard,

Hongkong, Monday, November 16, 1925,

becomes in time ourselves. “It'a

all in the state of mind." There

WARS IN NORTH,

RAILWAY BRIDGE EXPLOSION..

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

November, 1925, made for it is legitimate. But it A CALENDAR. 16, Mon, Johm should be an accepted thing that Bright born, 1811. where programmes carry adver- Tues., George Grote, histisements their distribution should torlan, born, 1794.

be free. Wed., Robert Owen died, 1888, Thurs., Man in the Iron Mask

died; 1708.

18,

(Router's Service.)

Peking, Nov. 15, It is officially stated that Gen eral Li Ching-lin bagan withdraw-19, Ing his troops to-day from the Chihli-Honan border and from Lanfang.

Trafic on the Peking-Hankow Railway has been suspended since yesterday,

It is officially stated that this la

WATER DIVINING.

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Water-divining has. suddenly become, the Fage amongst the "bright young people"

20, Fri., Count Tolstol died, 1921 21, Sat., George Eliot born, 1819. 22, Sun., H. M. Hyndman died, of to-day, and for originality

1921.

it certainly transcenda the

A FREN TRADE

APOSTLE.

The nineteenth now century was rich sure

almost. defunct trea- hunt as A source of At a large twenty-

in orators, and amusement. the greatest of first Birthday house party, when

due to LI-Ching-lin's troops "re-them was John Bright, the tennis, golf, cross-word puzzles, moving mines, "one of which Quaker apostle of Free Trade, dancing, billiards, bridge, and exploded at Fenglochen, near The names of Cobden and Bright ever ping-pong had been exhaust- Chengtingfu, blowing up a bridge, are always associated with theed, someone suggested "water- Doubts are expressed, however, Corn Laws.

agitation for the repeal of the finding." As mystified as most, a guest was told to cut a forked as to whether the explosion was

V-shaped twig of whitethorn, or Becidental.

hazel, about 18 ins. long, which is The Cabinet Office this after For well over forty years he sat held tightly in both hands with noon gave out a telegram from in the House of Commons, and he the apex pointing downwards. Marahal Chang Tso-lin, informing was always in the van of Radical-The would-be water diviner then the Chief Executive (Tuan Chietism, Nothing that, belonged to walks across a field or along a Jul) that Chang Tso-lin had com- Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform pathor, road, and, if he be municated with the authorities of ever failed to find in him a vigor. Possessed of the gift for such it Shantung and Chihli, urging the ous champion. It was a great undoubtedly is the rod will cessation of hostilities pending blow when, at the end of his gradually rise in front of him im-- final settlement by the Central career, he left Gladstone and mediately he passes over a course Government, adding that he had opposed Home Rule. ordered the withdrawal of his own troops.

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of water. The sensation is very peculiar, for the harder the röd is gripped in the endeavour to press The Chief Executive has also E

it downwards, the quicker and received a telegram from LL There was a magic in his voice more forcibly it rises until the Ching-lin, stating that, in

and a beauty in his words.. com

To"diviner" is clear of the hidden pliance with the mandate of last this day men talk with reverent water. night, with a view to preventing Death speech during

admiration of his "Angel of misunderstanding between him-Crimean War, when he held the OUR. HUMAN - of

the

self and the Kuominchun (People's Army), he was with and reverent hush.

House of Commons in a solemn

drawing half his troops from the Peking-Hankow Railway and stationing them along the Tien- tsin-Pukow Railway,

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BANKS.

Does the exhibition labour-saving

devices, especially for those to be used in banks, mean that our familiar friend, the bank cashier, William will be supplied with something

Instead of

Chang Hsueh-tiang has inform- CONSIDERATION. Heughan like a cash register as used gen

management de- erally in shops? ed the Government, through the Minister of War, that the Mukden They ordained that press-men entering by hand the amount in serve at least one good word. initialling our counter-foil and Army has withdrawn to Chun- liangcheng, 50 to the eastward attending the Heughan concerts his book, he will just tap a few were not to be charged for their keys and we shall get a printed programmes. This paper's critic receipt whilst the entry is made. had to have it repeated to him on his sheet and the various totals. several times before he grasped carried froward at the same time? the fact that someone had realised Will our passbooks be deprived of a duty and paid a compliment. that refreshing clerkly writing Hats off to the Heughan manage and merely tell us with accuracy ment Thirty cents is thirty that must not be questioned the cents. When a press-man has actual balance of our accounts? paid for the upkeep of his stud of We must not lose the human touch Frace ponies at the Jockey Club; in our banks. We must not his petrol for his Rolls Royce, and change the present polite little in- the rent of his palace on the Peakstimation that our accounts are un- it can be understood he has little fortunately a little overdrawn (a left to be squandering, The mere $50 or so), for a loud-voiced Heughan programme by the way Robot who stands at the door carries none of the ordinary ad- droning "We have no overdrafts vertisements,, and the charge to-day."

Paris,

AN AMERICAN AT WINDSOR..

The following is taken. from an possible without the recessary of article in Harper's Magazine" enduring the tedium of a State

Dinner. antitled "General Grant and the

My mind was made up now. "It Queen, by Mr. Jesse R. Grant,would appear," I said, that I can the son of the General:

have all the honour by report, und

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We wind down by train and Sir avoid even the tedium of dining John Cowell, the Master of the with the Household by quickly leav~ Household, received us at the ing for London." I was getting etation. Explaining that Her out of my formal dress së I spoke, Rakovsky Majesty was out driving, he con- my feelings now more of relief than assume the ambas- ducted us to our quarters. Father resentment.

and mother were assigned a state "Not. Not cried Sir John in anter.

apartment reserved for prominent immediate panic. "If you leave guests. My single room was large now the newspapers will leam of and extremely elegant, with a cone it and a tremendous scandal will necting door to the room allotted to result."

NATIVE RIGHTS.

(Reuter a Service.)

Nov. 18.

the natives with additional land

H

General Badeau. I had been in": To Bir John Cowell the proceed. structed in the procedure and was ings at Windsor were of world in- dressing us be hour for my ap torest asured him that the poszance drew near, when Bir John newspapers would nover hour of the is no harm or objection in delv-Smithfield, Orange Free State,

Cowell again appeared. He in-occurrence from me; that the last quired solicitously na to my comfort,thing in the world I should mention ing into the stupid and the trashy,

and after some minutes of casual was the fact that I had been in- provided. there is the knowledge General Hertzog, in a speech, conversation he entered into a vited to dine with the Queen, and beforehand that such are so. It cutlined the Governments native portrayal of the personnel of the that upon my anival she had de programma as fratly to provide Household, announcing and dwell rided I was only At to eat with promised under the Act of 1913; ing upon the exaltad rank of the the help secondly, the native must be various members of the mensge. Sir John gasped. You do not trained in self-administration by Satisfied at length, I faticied, that understand The members of the the establishment of native coun. I was duly awed by my proximity Queen's Household are all of the cil: thirdly, native franchise in to mach an array of British nobility, nobility Cape Province will be entirely be reached the crux of his detailed taken away and replaced by rights and painstaking approach given to all and the natives I regret to say. Her Majesty is With an ejaculation of union will elect seven European indisposed," he began hesitatingly. rage and horror Sir John me representatives to the Legislative Lange gatherings, particularly at from this room Assembly in addition to the quota dinner, bring on a most distreang

General Badenu crossed the room "provided by the constitution. vertigo..." As a consequence of this į to my side.We'll have to mace

General Hertzog dwelt on the deplorable condition, it has been the best of it, Jesse, he anomaly of the present system of decided that only those who must You cannot leave now. witholding from the natives in bo present are to dine with Her Juet watch mo," I answered the farthern produzete anchise Vijay It has accordingly been and went on with my packing rits which they possessed in the

is this knowledge that suggests the absence of the slum mind and "SLUMS OF THE MIND.” the desire for better mansions of the mind. The subject ia vast in its possibilities. It can be treated Striking phrases serve ari

from all angles of life and con- admirable purpose. They arrest and hold attention when other-duct Something will have been wise the mind would pass on to accomplished if reference to this other things. Lord Reading tells striking phrase prompts a reader to enquire into the condition of his mind.

WEDDING,

... MARSHALL-BARRETTO.-

"Tand's what we call them in América," said T,

us that generosity becomes more. generous when generously re- sponded to," and at once the fact is conveyed in a manner that prompts admiration for the seeming cleverness of the play of

Cape. On the other hand grant diced that you and General As I had entertained, her son, words, and the truth they can

lng natives the right to vote with Badean are to dine with the House-Prince Arthur, in Washington some tain The Principal pof the The wedding took place at the

Whites for a Member of Parlia hold; where, by the way, you will months before, and was now there Birmingham University has coin-Roman Catholic Cathedral on ment would mean the ruin of have a much more enjoyable time by her unsolicited invitation, I felt

European civilisation. He point he concluded affably.

that her treatment of me was shabby ed a great phrase in which there Saturday afternoon of Mr. James ed out that within fifty years the Taid nothing. Encouraged by sad told him so, also, that I was

Gray Marshall, second son of the occur the words at the head of late Mr. J. G. Marshal, formerly native voters in the Cape would my apparent docality, Sir John's fully determined to return to Lou- this essay. He asks if it has employed at HM. Naval Yard to General Hertzog suggested an aing

outnumber the Whites,

conciliatory manner became patron don at once. begun to be realised in the great Miss Alice Bicarda Barretto, annual session of a native council

Well, I died with the Queen," congested urban centres that youngest daughter of the late Mr. of an advisory character, consist will have the honour

Immediately after nner you pay half a dozen Germani Princesen

eing pre and had the nondur of escorting there are alums of the mind and Barretto and the late Mr. F. D. lng of fifty members, of whom

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