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PRACTICAL JOKING:

BY A BHANGHAI ORICKETER'S" "BOY, " He may have been slated at the success of the Shanghai players in the interport tennis match as he wended his way to Shoktontiul early yes terday morning, for certainly Tapi Mo was in a jolly hamour. He was brought from Shanghai

PRINCE ITO'S DINNER.

TO MEST SIE FRANCIS FIGGOTT. The Scout Press of Nov. 19th says:--

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22xD, 1907.

On Monday evening Frinos Ito gave a dinner in honour of Sir Francis Taylor Piggott, the Chief Justice of Hongkong. Besides the guest | of honour there were present Viscount General Hasegawa, Viscount Sone, Mr. Yi Wanyong Prime Minister, Mr. Ko Yongki, Minister of Finance, Mr. Yi Chaikon, Minister of Educa

“THE EMPRESS OF CHINA,”.

ONG. VERSION OF THE VÄNCOUVER ACCIDENT.

A message front Vancouver to San Francisco, dated October 2ård, says:

The Canadian Pacido Railway Company's Oriental liner. 'Empress of Chine' sank this evening alongside her dock in this port

The big stormer's main deck on the port side is awash with several feet of water. She Bank and heeled over on her port side, so that the main desk is now at an angle of about forty-five degrees. Her engines and dreamos are completely under water. he is resting ons mad buttom, but the problem in eaving her will be that of righting the vessel and preventing her from completely turning turtle stoward noticed that the water was coming u "Just after six o'clock this evening the over a lower deck. All day the liner had boon loading flour, five or six bradrad tons of which is now being slowly turned into paste in the watery hole. Instantly the steward gave the alarm. Officers at dinner hurried to their stations as the big vessel began to list All bands manned the pumps, but it was tor late to save her from sinking, and toon every person was ordered

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!{ CLAIMANT TO THE PAGE MILLIONS.

SYDNEY BYNDICATE,

Qur Fremantle correspondent (ys the Times of Ceylon ") writes, under date Öotcber 22nd, as follows *-*

by one of the cricketers to attend him in Hong tion, Mr. Im Bonchun, Mr. Song Pyongohan Her seacooks must have been opened, but Británnís ' to take the night off. On his way in the kong, and on Wednesday evening got permission Minister of Agriculture, Commerca and Inda bow, no one can explain. Chinese pleasure banute he procured an Imita Lion police whistle, and after dining at one of the hotels strolled leisurely up and down the busy thoroughfares until the night was far spent. Then bo "got to business." Standing outside of the hotels he would blow shrilly en als whistle, the usual crowd would assemble, and then the police, but no cause for the sounding of the constable's call could be discovered, and after a time the crowd would again dispersé, only to rally at another point where the whistle again blow loudly. Tsui kept this practice up for some considerable time, and apparently it amused him immousely. Eventually, however, he was captured by one of the lakongs who had been responding to duty's call and trying to find the cuiler. He was removed te No. 7 Station, and yesterday morning appeared before Mr. C.D. Melbourns at the Polios Conrt on charge of disorderly behaviour. He had to pay

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THE UNITED STATES AND THE

PHILIPPINES.

THE

Mr. Taft, the United States Secretary for War, yesterday opened the Philippine Assembly in Manils, with a speech upon the relations between the United States and the Philippine Islands which reiterated his well-known opinions on thist enbject. It is one which Mr. Taft has ROBINSON PIANO made his own, his various speeches forming s fairly comprehensive literature of

the oanquest

guest had not been formed accidentally, but as freight sheds. Just before S o'clock the enginestate and valuing it at £15 000,000. The story subsequent treaiment of the islands. The

try, Mr. Cho Chungwang, Minister of Justice, Lieutenant-General Yi Fyongmu, Minister of War, Mr. Yi Bunpong, Minister of the Imperial Househski, Mr. D. W. Stevens, Mr. Henry Cockbaro, the Right Reverend Bishop Tarner, Mr. O. R. Contes, Mr. 8. Teurubara, Mejor General Murata, Major-General Mute Mr. M. Komiya, Mr. & Ishizuka, Mr. K. N-boshims, Wajor-General Akashi, Mr. Ko Hanikorn, Mr. H. Furaya Capt. Naite, Baron Eatake, Mr. N. Nabeshing, Mr. Tsugaru and Mr. M. Zumoto. Princeto in propasing the health of the guest at honour, said that it was a great pleasure to him to have as his guest an old friend like Sir Francis Piggott. It was now about twenty years since be bad had the pleasure of mankig his distinguished guest's acquaintance. It was while he was encaged on the task of drafting the constitution of Japan, tht Sir Francis com out as his legal adviser and it gave him excoad- ing pleasure to have Sir Francis as his guest after such a long period. His pleasure was all the greater because bis friendship with his valued the result of labouring together upon a work of the greatest importance to Japan, England, His Excellency contioned to say, was his second boma. It was forty-four or forty-fire years ago that he had gone to England for the first time. In thon days he knew something about China and other countries of the Far East, but he had no knowledge at all of the countries of the Wost. On arrival in England, he was, therefore, simply astounded by what he saw there; be had not been prepared for such marvellous progress in arts and civilisation. It was then that his eyes were opened; it was a though he had been born anew. He come hozan a new A Mr. Kong Sew-chiu presided over the ficst, man, and he had a task to convert his couser- and a Mr. Wong Chew-ping over the other.vative friends to his point of view, but of his Two thousand people, more or lese, were pro- experience in that respect he did not think it necessary for him to speak, se it had nothing testing against the Waiwapa giring the to do with his guest of the evening. He English power to cruise about the West River was sure he had said songh to show that he route."

had reason for calling England kis secund home. For these reasons he was particularly gratifled to greet the Chiaf Justice of Hong-

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fine of $5.

CANTONESE "PATRIOTS:"

ENGLISH GUNBOATS ON THE WEST RIVER,

SELLING CHINA TO FOREIGNERS.

A Canton correspodent writes that on the 19th lust, there were two indignation meetings hold there, one by the gentry and students, the other by the merchants.

Even though our own forces ba inadequate to to cope with pirates and robbers, in effect ssid

Long

one speaker, we cannot tolerate the actire | other guests Finally be thanked. the

presence of foreign troops. Wa must try the Waiwupu and the Viceroy Brst. Then if these fail to meet our wishes, we must combine in azother boycott. (This speaker's name is given ma Chan Cheong-po. We must establish a 'calf governing sosioly for our protection,"

Another speaker said the "Bainam piracy was being, anod as a pretext to encroach on Chinese jurisdiction, and that the whole of Kwangtung was in danger. Was the Waiwupu selling China to the foreigners, as some Eaid? Let them take a million dollars from the Customs and equip Chinese gunboats to extirpats the pirates. They did not used

foreign help to do that,

their courtesy his dinner, and asked them to join. in drinking the health of Sir Francis Piggott.

Sir Francis Piggott, in reply, said it was Iwenty years almost to the month and day since he had set out from England to take up his

*She continued "To and sink, and by o'clock her stern was resting on the bottom of the herbour. The tops of her musets, leaning over the wharf, xland to the gables of the bg ears in charge of the dynamos left their posts and ceme sabore. She sank at nearly high tide and the starboard side of the main deck is stili about ten feet above the water.

The steamer is valued at approximately $1,000,000. Her faraishings are magnifuent and bar machinery, in excellent shape. She was booked to sit neit Thursday for the Orient and would have carried the British mail for Hongkong, for which the line received a large subsidy from the Imperial Government At 9 o'clock a diver was sent down to locate the open seacock City Are-engines are at the wharf to assist in pumping her clear of water, but whether she can be righted on an even keel is the question that is agitating the officials of the company. She is 495 fest in length, and was built in 1891 in England. Captain Ar obibald was absent from the ship the night the accident occurred.”

LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM,

The journalist (who knows nothing about literature) gnes ont and sees life, writes F. day long and avery day, and in the middle Gibbs in the London Tribune. He sees it all of the night He sees Avery phase of it from top to bottom, and it is not his fault if he is not dressed for the oscsajos. I, for instance

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new post under the Japanese Government. By al journalist who writes), went down to a Hydo Park by Southall, Aolon and Notting sofar refaxed to gront political independence, and

a carinus coincidenca, the almanac in the

shipwreck once on the coast of Cornwall in top-bat and frook-cost. I frightened the sea- gulle (and spoilt my tophat), but I did not abook literary gentleman, for there was no one there they do not cars for life and I saw the shipwreck. I saw the splendid steamer crushel like an eggshell on the jagged rooks, aut the captain standing on the cliff above, in the brilliant

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quarters that he occupied now happened to show, when he arrived hero, the date of November 19, which ws the day on which he had left England twenty years ago. This be regarded as a happy augary for his sojourn in Seoul, Indeed in coming here be felt that he had some not among strangers bat among friends. It was twenty years ago that he had first heard the wall from the Bast; sad in the life of the East be found on thom early days and which treat joy invesgal with oyes in which there was a world of the termini of Enston, Kings Cross and St to the commercial injustice favoured by their whose general ideas he agrees, just as his

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Or he

The next interesting pawonger on board the is Mr. G. Horton-Morris, of Katoombs, N.8.W., who is with his wife and daughter and Mr. A. Johnson, his private secretary. Mr. Horton Morris is heir-at-law to the Page millions. He told me this morning that he is a landowner, and has been out in Australia since 1879, and lived in Sydney for 25 years. He now resides at Katoonile, where he has considerable properties. Ho had known of the London and Middlesex estates all his life. His mother was Fago and niece of Hoary Page, the inat holder of the satate, who died 30. 1829, intestate, the whole estate being placed by the Court of Chancery in the hands of trustees iz that since which time it has been

administered trastes. A syndicate bes been formed in Bydney with a capital of £10,000 in £1 shares to finance Mr. Morre in the prossention of his claim, and on October last an agreement www signed between the solicitors for the claimant and the syndicate. There was a great rush for the shares, and another 5,000 shares could easily have been scoured. He is quite confident that he will be..ble to recover the title. The British Government is claiming the

stated hir, Horton Morris, tad much in com mon with some of the old chancery suite, which whole question is of considerable interest to this swallowed many fortunes in law expenses and country, because the problem to be solved by the ruined claimants. He believes the present United States in the Philippines is similar to, matter will have a different termination. The though in many respects more simple than, Page etatas, be tolle me, date back to the days that which confronts this nation in India and of

Heory

VILI.

bout 1535, the King elsewhere, and to water other people struggling suppressed the monasteries in England, and

with a situation like our own, especially when Mr. Page, A Commissioner, was given the they are people of kindred blood and idear, tonde Kilborn Priory, of which he took possension

to give as a clearer conception of our own upon the expulsion of the nuts. This was the position. The contral problem in the Philippines Is whether the people are to be governed by the fenndation of the wonderful fortune that an effort is to be made to recover, Since the United States or by themselves; and, if it be death of Henry Pags in 1829, the Pags admitted that in the long run they ought to millions have accumulated nod the estates govern themselves, how soon that responsibility

A yield an income of £200,000 per annum ought to be thrown npon them. secondary The claim Mr. Horton Morris is making he problem is what attitude the governing nation Vest interests and fabuloas soms will be involved towards the nation governed, during whatever ragards as noique in the history of property ought to tako in economic and commercial matters if the case comes to an issue The Page ostatos

pupi'nge may be regarded as necessary. bas an area- 60 square milsa, stretching North What makes the matter peculiarly difficult that 25 PER CENT DISCOUNT and West From the Marble Arch. It comprises political liberality and commercial liberality by about one third of the county of Middlesex, no means go hand in hand. Boause people clamour for giving political independence to the whole suburbs of London, and some rural pieces of Hertfordshire. Harrow is the natural Filipinos, it does not follow that they are ready centre of this huge and mormonely valuable to give commercial and economic fair play in line from the Marble Arch up the Edgware their sturdy champion against the selfishness of tract, and its extent may ba guaged by drawing the meantime. Conversely, one who stoutly as

serta their unfitness for self-government may ba road, through Hondon to Elstree sta ios, across the skirts of Rickmansworth, thence to point those who favour immediate independence. This few miles south of Uxbridge and back to is in frot, the position of Mr. Taft. Congress bas Hill. The whole of the land within there Mr. Taft is convinced that Congress is right. the boundaries, with certain insignificant excep- But Congress has also passed lave affecting tions, is comprised in the Page estate. It Filipinos which Mr. Taft denounces as selfiek contains some of the Guest residential districts and unjust as treating the islands for one in the west end and an extra subn-ban aren purpose a part of the United States, and for

197 which will be enormously developed within the another purpose, equally selfish, as a foreign next few years, in addition to the several bistacio country. From this contradiction both parties Middlesex manors and rural tracts towards the draw sa argument. Those who say that it is other people, whose views he may datest and borders of Bucks and Herts where the scil cruel to saddie people with responsibin govern whose commands may be aborsi yearly yields a heavy toll. In the state sre

ment when they are obviously unfit for it point may be governed by a number of people with inspiration which was a goures of

continued to wee. influence him in tropical climates and now in

I saw and spoke with ladies who through Paneras, Many of the present occupants of opponente, as showing that these opt ononte are forefathers were in general agreement with aaight of terror, had linked arms while their the property are quits innocent as $2 the wosk

not actuated by real regard for Philippine the ideas of some personal ruler. But the one Hongkong, the centre of British civilization in feet were washed by the cold waters, and had nees of their titles. There is little doubt that interests. On the other hand, the advocates of thing certain in that he will not govern East Asia. When be had come to Japan twenty sang merry little songs to keep their curage up such claimants will have their titles con-

immediate independence point to selfish legisla bimself.-The Times, years ago. it was his grout fortune to have I saw and spoke with fishermen and cousignards-firmed when they appear before the select tion, which, they say, siveys occurs in such carved under so great a master as his illustrious men who had sprung from their beds at the Committee of the House of Commons, which oases, as proof that one people cannot govern to host. For him from the first he entertained signal of distress and in twenty minutes had is shortly to consider the nation's claim to another justly, and therefore ought not The scores inde during the month of October regard, but that regard moon ripened futo (forty of them) dragged & heavy gua-arriago the Fage estate. A considerable portion of governments are da hominem, sud as

friendship, and the friendship remained un-

Both with the rocket apparatus to the top of the estate, despite the aburdant buying and impaired ever since. How deep was his friend. the high alif, through mad and slimy obalk. selling of the last 86 years, is still in the hands trustworthy as such arguments nenally prove. ship toward Prinos Ito might be seen from I

of the trustees, and in the case of escheat that For one thing, the aetishpens is not all on one the fact, probably known to most of those andke with a niggerman, with chattering t th

a smile that would not come off in spite of premmably would at one fall to the Crown site, but is found in interested classes-arched present, that one of his sons born in Tokyo, cold and langer, who under his arm carried 80 ft 5 interesting to note that the leases for the growers of sugar and tobacco who tre divided was called after His Excellency, It

Iandsome mansions fronting on Maido Val injustice is more apparent than real, because the who gained much prominenge at the recent

on political

Mr. E. Bisland, the German big game hunter, questions, For another thing, the 665 therofurn, with great pride that he came on the ugly baboon-baby, for which he bad risked his

(hey were built on 50 years leser) will soon fall present occasion 38. His Excellency's guests life. It was not literature, of course, but it

was a little glimpse of life.

in--a clroumstance which would give the Crown Filipinos would not get any better terms if they elephant kraal, has returned to Colombo- pride which was the greater as he was the

would probably after, a month's shooting in the Hambantota Frince's

immediate presession. Among the many in- were jadependent, and, mercially. In the district. guest in a country where the crowning

teresting and bistone properties, the titles of be more hardly, treated tsak of the great stateau's remarkable life

which will be sifted by Mr. Horton Morris Pastration of the fact that in the purest of ative of the Times of Ceylon" was shown in

political

of the case Mr. Taft is an Espect

Ho seapred a capital bag, which a represent- was going to take place. He did not feel at

claims are Harrow Rectory, the playing fields all like a traveller, he was among old friends,

at Harrow School, Twyford Abbey, Wembley of political good develop the same views about includes two elephants, two buffaloas, two. demos soles strong men with clear perceptions Messrs. Freudenberg'a mils at Holtsdorf. It He had been invited es an old friend and ea

Park, Sudbury Priory and Oxley Woods. Mr. such he had accepted the invitation. He

Burton-Morris is a preminent Freemason and government that are sometimes supposed to be arccodiles, me leopard, one bar, and some wished to thank bis fellow guests of the even

peculiar to men bred in aristocratic conditions. nukes. One of the elephants was a regne and ing for the kind manner in which they had

belongs to the Grand Lodge of N.S.W.

They think that the best thing that can happen a tremendous bate, the measurement of its fore received his tcast so cordially proposed by

to men s to be governed wisely, and that they fest going to show, according to Rowland His Excellency. He also thanked them for

are much better off under rulers who know more Ward's standard hook on big game, to be seen their kindness in conspiring with Prince. Ito

of the art of wise government than themselves in the Museum, that the animal was the second to make his stay in Secal pleasant and agree

than they can ever be under the rule of their in size for the world's record and considerably able. He asked them to join bim in drinking

own ignorance. Mr. Taft is quite convinced the biggest shot in Ceylor. the health of the noble host.

that the Filipinos, of who only some eight per There is a skull in the Museum which is short elephant may have cent nine years ago knew Spanish, the only slightly bigger, but

venue they had to knowledge, are not fit, and a very big head, and the proper criterion as to cannot become fit for at least a generation, te height is had to be the circumference of the govern themselves. Therefore be holds very front foot. The elephant shot by Mr. Hisland strongly, while giving them full credit for all was nine feet high, and the measurements taken their

good "A point of interest to journalists as well as

of all that goes to make up govern as follows:- Castolders of the Oriental Hotel Co., Ltd, and probably longer, by a people which is B sadth of skull Chairman at the annual meeting of the ment, they ought to be governed for a generation, Height of skull Kobe, ou Wednesday, in reference to the certainly several generations ahead of them. Breadth of trank publication by the newspapers of statistics of He remarks, however, that, though his views are Circumference of foot infectious disease prevalent in the country. acted upon at present, the whole matter is in the Mr. Groom is apparently of opinion that the bands of Congress, and perhaps, in view of the the foot was taken after drying and before criticisms freely showered upon him at home, as being stuffed. Mr. Hidland claims that when Press would be rendering service to hotel proprietors and business mon if they suppressed, persist for a generation or two in the policy he taking it as 35 inches it comes second in the

bas no very lively confidence that Congress will stuffed with and it will be 58 inches; but. or at any rate made light of, these statistics,

list of Rowland Ward's records, which is as as such publication is likely to create a bad thinks the right one. The view opposed

posed to Mr. Taft'e, and very follows:- impression among the touring public, who as

1.614 inches elephant killed in India by E. 19th & 18th cher-Dr. Evan Jones 65 + 63 Insan interview heirs is departure de laps his eared, cracked, wad too much flogged of it turally in rich cases would give Japan a wide teman bolag bas the right to govern himself,

20th October Resident-General in Kores he declared careless Fate. Perhaps reading

in their travels. From the of view being

Fortune. 26th & 27th October Mr. R. Baker 58 + 4×69 willingness to work with British missionaries inclines him to be a possimist, for he learns too of hotel director Mr. Groom's remarks may that, having the right, be is bound to exercise 2. 04 inches elephant killed in Somaliland by

for building up a new Keren, and then he added much of its vanity and ignoranes and aruelly have some weight, but journalists, in consider. it, and that it is far better for him to be gover. Colonel Ashby. thie pregnant sentence:The thinking people The interview that the reporter jots down in

3. 53) inches elephant killed in South Africa, 4584 biches elephant killed in Ceylon by governed by another, however well. It is of the world approve of Japan's course. What his notabook, or better st114021 leg such matters, have a duty to perform toned by himself, however badly, than to anbuit does it matter about the colour of my skin or for the note book is the sign of a lad

the general public who look to the Press for to be

and

H. Storey. for cthere, that this view did zot become. generally accompanied by my religious belief it I am working for the journalist), is

It was barely light, Mr. Hisland says, and endorse the remarks of Mr. Young in dissenting good of humanity?'

marginal notes which do not appear in prist from the Chairman's statement, If such dominant in time to prevent the undertaking of owing to the comparative darknew he had than this. Englishmen and mericans, to name to say, in order to conceal whist should be said, lightly, such attitude would tand

4 Barely there never was a mere bitter iro-y And while the great person is telling him what statistics were exppressed or even regarded responsibilities which it now threatens to make to go up quite close to the animel, before it impossible for the country to discharge, and shooting, sad as it was he was not able to get no others, have had fifteen centuries of Christian the reporter sees the lie trembling upon bis

which it is equally impossible to disavow without good sim. The first shot, however, was fatal, of diffdance amo civilisation behind them, and they cannot live lipe, and the secret staring him in the ages, and pitary donate, sporous publication of dishonour, and even disaster. This democratic but not instantaneously so and the elephant

to this: ideni yat., Bo far from working with With his seyes open the journalist sees a thou-

He stopped the brute's progress. every one misken them alert and anxious quintessence of wisdom has come upon us after we charged

—which the world has to admit has been highly over dead. There worn about a dozen healed people's bruses to get at the life epidemic. It is the duty of the Press to keep

it formed of the general health successful to ameliorate the condition of vast ballet wounds in him. Mr. Hisland has excellent conditions. that is a great training in the school of life, where rage from time to time, and if, in govexument than they could over have supplied in the jangla with himself and his shikari and where no man may ever shut his louson-book face of this information, toatis's visit the country for themselves, and by giving them peace, which, tankers standing by. In one photo a tad is and say all is learnt. I like others of my the responsibility rests with them alone. Hotal if our authority were withdrawn, would spoedily sitting on the body and hiding behind the ear oraft, have had mary strange interriss

proprietors and business 218 caunot expect be replaced by the internecine, wars which we of the animal. In another the animal, lying on with Dakes and Field-Marshals and Lord journalists to suppress such information; rather have suppressed. It is apparently too much to its side is as high as the shikari. A the Chief Justicer, and other great Pomporifier, should they look to the Municipal authorities to hope that any regard will be paid to the ascom- elephant kraal the biggest tame elephant in

Reference was also made to Chinese-owned Jannahes flying foreign Hags. HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVE

ASSOCIATION.

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·GOVFKNOR'S, AND CHATER'S DUP.

Dr. Evan Jones

Mr.

A. Jenkins

Mr. L. G. Bird

Mr. J. H Pidgeon..

Mr. W. J. Saunders

Mr. G. Gibson Mr. E. Abraham

Mr. J. Lemm... Mr. J. C. Gow Mr. E. S. Carruthers

Mr. R. Baker...

Mr. H. W. Bird.

Mr. A. Blawey

Mr. A. Mackenzie...

Mr. E. F. Mackay..

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38 + 2048 Mr. W. G. Humphreya... 37 20 --- 57 Mr. W. J. J. Gast.

47 + 855 Mr. E. W, Terrey... 48 10 63 The number of members who competed during the month was 18, and there were 60 entries,

BERKLEY CUP.

Mr. J. C. Gow

Mr. R. Baker...

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Mr. J.-H. Pidgeon...

Mr. W. Daniel

Mr. H. W.-Bird......

Mr. W. G. Humphreye.. Mr. J. Lemm.........

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PRINCE ITO AND "THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN."

A LONDON JOURNAL'S VIEW 8.

He does not write all he sees, of course. If he did newspapers would be as long as family Bibles on the breakfast table Father, they would not be published at all, because the law of lib 1 is very severe. It may be admitted, indeed, that the journalist writes abiefy the un- interesting things and leaves most of the interesting things unwritten.

In his daily work he often sees behind the scenes; and although he is paid to write about the scenes themselves, for that is what the pablie wants, the things that go on behind are the things that really matter in life. Skeletons are kept in the cupboards, aching hearts are generally clothed decently in thick waisterats or fucked away behind ladies' stays. The dramas of life are generally played In back-room The secrets of life must not be revealed even by the journalist ... who has conscience and would sell his grandmother for sixpence (if, sa aforesaid, anyone would buy her, which is improbable) Tut he is the man who sees most the Muses at his elbow. The journalist who gres out on a story, as he calls it in bia slang, gener- ally brings back two, and he writes only one of them. The other he keeps to himself or tellz it over the little table in a Fleet-trest restaurant where the Italian waiters do not understand. -

The journalist (who is not a literary man) has may opporinilies. of studying the human heart, which is one of the best of books, though sometimes rather battered, ill-bound, and dog's-

INFECTIOUS DISEASE REPORTS.'

Commenting upon an objection recently raised in Kobe against the prominent publica. tion in the Press of statistics showing the number of cases of infectious disease in the port, the Japan Herald says:—

it at all.

RECORD ELEPHANT.

BHOT IN CEYLON BY GERMAN HUNTER.

The London Star hada obaracteristic leading of these things, not the literary gentleman with to business mad in Japan was raised by the ignorancetier, that, owing to their sheer at the Colombo Maseum and certified there are

Eight members shot, and there were 24 entries article on the interview which. Prines fto had with Renter's Tokyo correspondent, as printed ju our có`amus a fow days ago. It read in part Ne follows:--

**In all this turmoil of racial and religious hairode, this call for white Australia, these brutal lynchings of negroes in the Southern States, it is a littla qonint that the world should have to wait for Prince Ito, the Japanese slatesman, to strike the required note.

19 +10 29

Mr. A. W. J. Walt Mr. 1. W. Terrey... Nine members shot, and there were 33 entries.

· POOLS.

Pools were won by members us follows:- 5th & 6th October Mr. L. G. Bird 6 + 1-18

THE DALLAS-BANDMANN COMBINATION.

According to the Caloutta "Asian" the recent fend between the Dalias and Bandmas interests has now been composed, and everything in the hostus dramaticus is benceforth lovely. This is what the Azion remarks:-

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It is only fair to say that the measurement of

The little rift in the Dallas-Banduaan lute which at one time threatened to make the musicloured man for the good of humanity, the and things that tell a story though he does not do everything possible to stamp out the had irrevocably committed ourselves to the effort with a bullet on the knee rad then he rolled mata, kas now boen mended and after so recently being & l'éne

De L'épée nue the two brothron most advanced sentiment is that of the site it down. It is his mission in life to p bare сеявед

for pistols for two and coffee for one! Mr. Dallas has, in fact so to speak, come in under the old проак,

I umbrella" and now to be Mr. Bandmans's leading comedian fo his Musical Comedy Company vice the plethorio Mr. Harry Cole, who is going to give India's shiny shore a rest for a season. Mr. Tandmann

open in Miss

Pharisaicul voraes of

of Kipling

Take up the White Man's Buıdan,

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The savage wars of peace,

ркоровся to ope Miss Hook of Holland, over

which people in London went s

many other

ander

Fill full the mouth of Famine,

And bid the sickness cono.

.: And when your goal is nearest,

The end for others sought,

Watch Sloth and heather Folly Bring all your hope to uought,

stories of strangare while the clock ticks. And there in

any country, espacially regions br giving their inhabitants much better photographs of the mammoth elephant, taken

with famous authors anxious for advertise

the

up-to-date sanitary messures and taking every of unlimited democracy.

A general stink and as Mr. Hieland's elephant way over nize

in the nature of government, no matter whet tame elephants in Ceylon will have some con- the circumstances or conditions which does ception of his size.

* orezy when it The Ruino-Japanese' war has perhape ment, and anxious to avoid it, with ex-7 courage the tourlat traffic by the adoption of 1 plished fact by persons full of the new wisdom Coylon was said to be just under nine fest, first produced, and he announces Bovelties and cariocities as beit g concealed in partially awakened the complacency of this sert plorers and adventurers, with rstcatchers and Bible top to stamp out such diseases, and in appears to be in progress upon everything fief, those who have sosa some of the hugo bis Pandora's casket! The Girls of Gottenburg of prophet; indeed, we do not seem to rememt er revolutionaries, and roguse of all degrees, and I thie the vigilent attine of the Press is likely is one of them, and there are also, of course, that Mr. Kipling has yet found words to carry in what I am pleased to call my brain

not rest upon a general election by manhood One of the buffaloes is a very big one and many old favourites, which, so it is said, Mr. Gebrate that triumph of Sloth and heathen memory of many queer conversations of which to be of some service." Bandmann i

Folly over the soldiers of the Cress. The produce

fen Lik pledged to

only a

suffrage. The British Empire will not stand stands thirty-ninth in Rowland Ward's list stray words have pensed into print, contrect with Mr. George Edwardes. This way hestben in his blindness that the success of of things, and literature, as it is made to-day, white man has so long looked down upon the So it is that the journalist gets in the mid la

2001 then a very limited application of this of arni buffaloes (bubulus sroi) shot, there being there rights are granted is, we believe, we are

doctrine, but that circumstance does not count thirteen below it in the list of record shots HOW TO BE BRAUTIFUL Keep your com for mob with the modern school" correct in saying, conditionally on the pieces in Japan in the arts, in trade, and in war las boon takes a second place in his esteem, for ho

The really given. Mir. Hielard also captured several live raal soul-awakener to him. He has discovered demoralised by life. Hist appetite grows with plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crème Charmante, Lait pathetic thing is that, when the Empire is buffaloes by means of mocke suspended from respect of which they are granted being ployed that he is not the overlord of all the earth; and what it feeds on, and he is over eager to Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Pondre shattered and the democratic doctrine in full trees and across their path. He is sending rosper for this is, of course, so that the lessor we hope Prince Ito's noble Words will bring industriously road now pages of the book of Charmant will enable you to do it. Hur swing everywhere: nobody will govern himself theas to Germany. He is going back to Ham- aspecifle bumber of times by the leser. The should be guaranteed a certain fixed sum in some response (however shamefaced) from the life, which is not literature, There in one Specialities for the Skin are the study of any more than under the old order of things. bantota district after a rogue elephant and to royalties in addition to the sum paid by the professore of faith, hope, and charity is sentence are a mized metaphor med split Bistime., A. §. Wetson& Co., Ltd., Sole Azents Every man will be governed by a nümler of nouse more buffaloes, Jesseer for the rights.

European arsenals and churches.

infinitivo,... But I write në a journalist.

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