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discourse about the vicarage terested efforts to save the lives of

THE BAGY MARKET,

THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.

Baimbledon has not yet died out in been only three regimental courts ACHEE & CO. tions of Fleet Street leader-writers

fed on the Gonore Convention, nur the land. At a recent nleeting of martial for drunkenness in this long tured on the Hague Conference. It the Sanitary Board a man was re. period of thirteen months, and the any would be a war to the death. There fused permission to place iron rail greater proportion of the trials table between services. The mills of thousands of famine-stricken people would be no white dags, no cunning lings about his verandah for no other occurred in the weeks immediately God grind just as surely on Sunday in Kuangsi, have done their best to armistices, no courteous exchanges reason than that it was against 20 had had time to settle down.

succeeding arrival, before the men ai on Wednesday and Saturday, the interfere with the colony's food sup- of medicine and messages of con-

De world revolves as steadily, men are ply he stopping the export of cattle ordinance. The Medes and Pèrsians dolence. There would be no squeamish abstinence from the de- justified the immutability of their "pite these facts, despite the inno-born and men die just as certainly as from that province.

cent bearing of the men, the drunken upon the week days. The newspaper struction of the enemy's property, laws by their justice. The Sanitary maundering of a tipsy sailor was has its function upon the first day of

It may not be generally known. no long lines of prisoners to bring a Board has not yet given evidence of considered sufficient to justify the the week as upon the last. blush to the check of the third and its infallibility in the conduct of arrest of a corporal and a private Hore in the East we have no

that while this suminer cattle and- fourth generation, no fit compensa-affairs for the health of the colony, Last Sunday night. Later, when weekly newspaper. The journale buffaloes were not for sale, women tion for damage done in the one-

charged before the Police Magis-masquerading as such are but mail and children were! A man might paign. It would be real war.

trate, it was proved that the money editions of the dailies. It is the duty sell his children into slavery, and his womon folk into what lady novel. Nations, like

men, are chary of

in their possession was of a different of the newspaper proprietor, as it is angering their lives upim a policy

denomination from that they had the aim of the newspaper editor, to its call "worso"; but a paternal- And it is a policy that is at stake

heen accused of stealing. Despite provide something more comprehen-Government, solicitous for his wel- H.in Northern China.

that; and despite the condition of sive, more permanent, more leisurely fare, would on no account pernst the accuser, the case was not sum-in its conception than the daily sheet. hiru to sell his cow! I shall never marily dismissed, but adjourned. Such a journal if honourably con- forget watching from the steamer's Virtue pay bo its own reward, but caived, judiciously constructed, and deck one morning, a man and a it should be something more.

It prudently controlled should oarn the woman in a sampán olose by "dress- should be a safeguard against respect and the support of the best ing" five small, plump babies for drunken accusations. In the pre-classes in a community.

the morning's market. As the waali- sent case and the accidental differ: The modern newspaper has takening and scraping, and stuffing with. ence in the coins not been citablo, the place of the old-time ambassador rice, of encla inite was completed, it the good record of the battalion, and The cynic has said the ambassador is was tied up until the time came for the gooil conduct of the mea, would sent abroad to lie for the good of his the men to take it to the steamboat have availed them nothing. A judge country. The newspaper is sent wharf, and, if lucky, sell it to a pas may be ignorant of the identity of abroad to tell the truth for the good senger. And, again, I swil always Miss Connie Gilchrist, he may even of humanity. Whereas the ambas-remember an afternoon Inst summer be excused for a lack of knowledge sador, by means of weary months of when, walking just outside the city, of the business principles of new negotiation, may make or prevent I met a man and a young wouu, enterprises, but he should know the reputation of bodies of troops with in his jurisdiction.

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Mr. Alleyne Ireland is a curious beggar whom Fate and the Times" placed upon horseback. He has chosen to ride roughshod ovor of cials in this colony. Our colonial Men who write leaders have pre-

system admittedly is bad. It was sumed that Japan was preparing to

conceived in ignorance, has been go to war with Russia to vindicate

administered in pettiness, but the a principle. The London Times"

men appointed to its excention are bas said, "Despite the presence of

hard working, and WAREHOUSEMEN (circumstances calculated to infame good men,

the patriotic and warlike spirit to

The regulations of the PHOTOGRAPHIC the post, Japat bas preserved an Colonial Office work as much to admirable calm, conscions of the their personal disadvantage as to GOODS DEALERS.

increased power and prestige the injury of the public. What Sir afforded her by her alliance with William Des Voeux execrated as thic Great Britain. She has confronted policy of keeping things quiet" is her great rival with patience and the curse of the colonial service. self-possession, and she will As- For that silence individual and sub- SANITARY BOARD,

suredly exhaust no possibility of

ordinate officinus are Parely respon Hereby safeguarding her reasonable claims LJOUSEHOLDERS are H

sible. REQUESTED to Make aby peaceful menne." Time wa Spesial fort during the Winter when the Times was owned and Months to DESTROY RATS, and to

Typhoons are not 41f man's. Fill up Rat Holes with Couent. edited by Britons, it might affect to

making, but the warmings arc. speak of the "power and prestige of Great Britain. The Times" no There is an centricity about these longer, voices the sentiment of Great that disturbs the equanimity of the BritLin. Its word to-day is the bystander almost as much as the word of the Times. Simply that, tearing winds do his physical equi and nothing more.

poise. Nor are these warnings in The fact in that neither Russia nor exponsive luxuries. Each one costs Japan is agitating for principle. the colony some eighteen thousands WE have this day authorised Ench nation is bent, per vein of dollars. One gazes at the ominous Messrs. E. O.K. VOLLBRECHT aggrandisement. In this they are in barrel across a smiling sea of green, and C. C. C. STOCKHAUSEN to sign keeping with the spirit of a commer-

pspor, cotitled the 'Chias Moming still more will be required of it in the sell their cow! “in order to protect our firm per procuration.

jand remembers the cry of "Wolf, cial age. Belfishness is the ruling F. BLACKHEAD & Co.

passion with nations as with indivi-wolf!" which irritated the villagers Post, and a weekly journal of the peace and calm of the Sabbath agricultural interests." Hongkong. 31st October, 1903.

same naine. Mr. Story goes to Where this power is realised, and of a bygone age into activity. In duals. Four Episcopalian bishops

The other this responsibility accepted, the recently wrote a joint letter to the 1900 the wolf did descend upon the Shanghai via Siberia. "Times" donouncing the condition colony. Unfortunately, the public, members of the staff of this, the community has little cause to dread the appearance of a Sunday journal of affairs in Macedonia as a disgrace and not the alamist, suffered in first American, newspaper in the Far It is strange how East are already on their way by sen to civilisation, and calling upon consequence. Great Britain to interfere in the irrational is the working of fables in It is Mr. Story's purpose to study interests of humanity. Not Great real life. Britain, or Geriaany, or Austria, or

Rat Traps and Bird Lime may be btained from the Secretary to the [Board Free of Cost. By order,

G. A. WOODCOCK,

Secretary, Sanitary Board Room,

26th October, 1903,

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war newspaper, by mesas of a who stopped me, and, in langunge few trenchant articles, so he that which I rather comprehended than they have truth behind them, will understood, offered the young lady Youse a public to resont aggression, for sale, she being, his gesturea The Novoe Wremia" of August t› reform abusos, to mould the policy clearly said--all things considered--

The August. 26-contained the fol of governments. Such is the power a bargain at twenty dollars!

of the modern newspaper. Pro-girl, a well-grown, pleasant-looking lowing paragraph:—

"The American journalist, Mr. perly directed, it may effect more for country weach, semed disappointed

the benefit of mankind, for the when I refused the tempting offer.. Douglas Story, formerly editor ind

advancement of civilisati), for the Neither of them betrayed any sense chief of Munsey's Magazine,' has

vindication of the truth, than the of shame at the proceeding.

This arrived in St. Petersburg.

He is pulpit or the magisterial rostrum. girl was, doubtless, selling herself to travelling to Hongkong, where he If a newspaper justify this power in save her family from starvation, the will conduct an important daily nows the rush and whirl of the week day, magistrate having forbidden them to

conditions in Russia, and to become

with personally acquainted

the people of affairs hore.”

The "Osaka Asahi" of October 19

published a version of this innocent

"It is reported from Russia that a

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THE WEST RIVER.

· THE PORT OF MANY COLDURS.

All day long in this busy port native craft of all shapes and sizes come and go, steam launches arrive towing passenger boats, while in and out among the shipping fit. the gaudily-painted likin sampans in search of proy, what time the Cus- · ̧ toma gigs, in a more dignified manner, keep a friendly eye on the foreign steamera At night the By a Suffering Resident,

[jaunesne dorce of the city betake WUCHOW, October 27:

themselves to the flower boats and Five years ago the West River gambling saloons, whore, amid a

A Land of Promise.

France, or the United States of Nothing is so despicable in a America, or Russia, or Japan. Las community as snobbery. It saps felt called upon to answer that the manliness out of mon. It sucks appeal for the vindication of a prin- the womanliness out of women. It paragraph AMATEUR ciple. Men and women have been denies to mau his God-given right to

slaughtered wholesale in the dis- look his neighbour in the face. It newspaper is about to be started in although its opening to foreign trade blaze of lights and aroma of cook- tricts of Macedonia, women and children have been wounded by the generates flunkeyism, toadyism, and Hongkong with the assistance of the was in great measure due to the in- ing, to the accompaniment of bany- Turkish soldiery, teachers have been the whole ugly brood of reptilian Bussian Government, under the title telligent agitation of the mercantile ing gongs and squeaking fiddles, The community-was for the Hongkong they squander away their own, and pent up for months in foetid cellars, uncharitableness in humanity. Class of the China Morning Post." but no civilised nation has inter-ism is a necessity, and discipline a American, Mr. Douglas Story, having resident a "terra incognita. Can often other people's, money, vened to stay the hand of the but-good; but before God man is but visited St. Petersburg for that purton he knew of a place beyond the cher. When hope was dead in the Man on the Peak, or Man on the pose, and his purpose being fulfilled, Kapsimoon Pass, where globe trot ters were wont to resort to gather hearts of the wretched people Wanchai Read He has no higher returned via the

materials for & hook on China by winter came, and in its still, small attribute than manhood. In sport railway."

visit to the execution ground and voice was the only comfort they had all mon are equal. His Excellency Mr. Douglas Story is not an flower boats. heard for months.

to American. The newspaper is not But the West River loomed be shown a

shoulder with the grocer and the the "China Morning Post." These yond as an Ultima Thule-A tourne sympathy with her suffering children vendor of wine. He enjoys no han are the misapprehensions of the whence over and again a daring fra than any nation in the four quarters

veller returned, bringing atrange tales of midnight piracies, of stolen wrecks, even of murder by in

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The Morning Post.

Nature has quicker and a surer

the Governor shoots shoulder

trans-Siberian

The South China Morning Fost "

of the globe. As it is in the Near dicap from position. So it is that Russians, East, so is it in the Far. Principle one deteste the term "second class " is the empty catchword of diplomacy. applied to the cricket clubs within is not started "with the assistance obrinted steamer captains. In those Self-aggrandisement is the very in the Hongkong Cricket League. Not of the Buenian Government.” That merry days it might well have been spiration of practical politics. War in the Hongkong Cricket Club, or is the misconstruction of the written above the Shuiling Gorge, is a two-edged tool, disliked of the on the Peak, or in Government Japanese.

selfish nation. Neither Russia ner House is the seat of all the virtues. The "South China Morning Post" Japan has aught of desire to use it. There is as good cricket played each is an independent British Journal, Each will gain her end without re- Saturday in Happy Valley as ever free from party or political control. course to it. Meanwhile, the news upon the ground of the HK.C.C. It is the purpose of the newspaper

Leave razors, store, clothes, all the marks of civilisation behind, with the exception of the revolver and the whisky bottle!"

Here and there along the river

front are desirable mansions where missionaries and Custome officials rost from their labours; and some what inconveniently perched on su inaccessible hill top is a British Consulate, of warlike exterior and alleged-deep political import. Some distance below the city is the foreign gunboat anchorage, where, in close proximity to the clab and- recreation ground, be warships of various nations keep watch and wa ward over the interests of their countrymen.

THE VIVID WRITER,

Lest, however, the march of civili sation in these materialistic days should altogether sweep away the Tel. Address: Postscript, Hongkong,"

But the old order changeth, giving old-time romance from the Wost A.B.C. Code, sih. Ed. “

addressed to the General Manager. - dations of the cables; the competing

Canton for Wuchow almost any ordained that the Own Correspon- Dr. Ayres, continues to give Subscription to the South China Morning nations puff themselves out with colony that talent should be utilised without prejudice and without morning in the week on a well-dents of the Hongkong and Shang-

Post," per Month.

for the good of the representative much satisfaction to those who [Subscription to the "South China Weekly self-glorification; and poor,

hai Press should, by their writings In its columns Russia and appointed saloon steamer, fitted sick,

team. Then, and then only, would use it.

moribund China pays for all. It is the term "second class be justified Japan will receive absolutely equal with electric light, baths, and every and latest intelligence, continue to a grim comedy---but it is a comedy,

of its application.

treatment-s treatment dictated by modern convenience. The captains surround with a veil of mystery the

common occurrences of our every the circumstances of the care,

no longer shoot Chinese as of They write books about them in day life. Bad things are always dear, but

stead. One passes through really few bad things are so dear as the gas in Hongkong.

Prepared from a recipe of the late All Business Communications should be papers fluster and fret over the elucFor the greater triumph of the to survey the Far Eastern situation place to now. One may now leave River and its people, it has been

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The young man said in his heart, fact that there is no immediate pros.

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white and clean. We recommend

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It may be that the 1st Sherwood Foresters have reason to feel satis- SUNDAY JOURNALISM. admirable scenery once the grey

fied with the remarks made by Mr. T. Sercombe Smith in dismissing.a charge against two men of the regi ment, but they have every reason to

A Justification.

The South Chins Weekly Post

Especially would I offer my con- gratulations to one Canton corre monotony of the delta is left behind, spondent on his refreshingly original and one arrives at Wuchow on the and entertaining communications following day to find the crew of dent, jaded by the summer heat, pos- from Kuungai. To the Wuchow resi British gunboat leather-hunting for tered by the ubiquitous mosquito, the local cricket team, and the vill parched with dry heat owing to the non-arrival of the ice-to such a one

care. His

In the early days of the Colony Japan. No sane man ever thought Winston Churchill is now, sorry he feal dissatisfied with the circum-published the following leading the public used no other. Liquid there was "War is no small mater spoke. Mr. Chamberlain's regret is stances which brought that magis article in its first issue on Sunday Age elders playing billiards in the

to be lightly entered upon. As a not nearly so deep that he spoke for terial testimonial into being. The It were an affectation to assume alubl ̈

a perusal of the " News of the Rebel- political gument it is futile. It is Mr. Churchill during his candidature battalion holds a record unparalleled that a newspaper published on Son- Here you are in full swing the hon in Kuangui” comes as a tonic the most ancient, the most crude, for Oldham. Generosity and ingra- by any of its predecessors. It has day will altogether escape criticism every-day life of a busy Chinese and a welcome relief from the most barbaric means of settling titude have each in their own way bocn in the colony thirteen months, in such a colony as Hongkong: Con- port. Huge boats laden with the pulse quickens as he reads of the a dispute known to man. True, it their own reward.

having arrived here cu October 8,ventional Sabbatarianism is abred scented produce of the Wild West taking of Nanning, the imminent de- 1902. The battalion came direct in the British bone. It is of a part coming noisily to anchor; ocean struction of Wuchow, the slaughter from Capetown, after three years on with our Protestantism and our alle steamers of quaint construction put the cutting off of innumerable c thousands of Imperial troops, and Paragraph 123 of His Majesty's active service. The men had been giance to the crown. bedged about with rules, and the cations states:-"Officers and almost five weeks on board ship at black clothes on Sunday for no other and taking in all manner of native One does not, of course, expect

piling slavish accuracy in the reports for- * tabooed as he would be on the polo communicate to the Press any infor and were laden with money. In larly, men eschew a Sunday journal high their decks with quacking warded by correspondents, nor # ground or on the football field.mation, without special. authority, spite of these obstacles to strict dis-for uo other reason than that it is a ducks and chicke

while the (ind and monotonous devotion to War, to effect anything, must be either directly or indirectly." This cipline, the battalion has been re- Sunday journal. They forget that patient cattle, all unconscious of the facts, but a certain degree of proba real, must be earnest. Such would regulation was suspended during the sponsible for only, seven district God may be worshipped just as sin-bones of contention they have reLility and a slight acquaintance with be a war waged between Russia and occupancy of Stonecutter's Island courts-martial-two of these for de-cerely in flannels as in broadcloth contly provided, gaze placidly into the subject in band would, I venture Japan. Consequently, it would be by the Hongkong Volunteer Artil section of men who sought to avoid They shut their eyes to the fact that space from the 'tween decks. Every to think, do little to lesson the value far removed from the timid imagina-lery.

service in North China. There have a newspaper is but conversation pur body knows how

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