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BY AN ORDINARY MAN An incident at the sinking of the Cressy seems to have given some scandal to the German mind, writes An Ordinary Man in the Lanchester Guardian. The Hamburger Fremulenblatt notes that "as a sailor on the Cressy sank beneath the waves of the North Sea he was singing Tipperary. On this the German journalist reflects severely

What a difference between the German heroes of the is, who went down to the tune of their National Anthem, and the British sailor who in the face of death sang a music-hall melody

Tipperary" is & frivolous thing, very different from our "Gloria, Victoria, with Hand and Heart for Fatherland," which expresses the willingness of the German soldier to sacrifice himself. Also we have the old war-song "Die Wacht am Rhein," and the French have the Marseillaise,” Only the English soldier comes to battle with a music-hall song on his lips which does not ever come from his own country but was made in America.

In a recent book on the war, by Dr. Dillon, occurs the following passage, referring to German diplomatic repre sentation at Petrograd: In Russia there was the titular Ambassador, Count Tourtales, over whose head [war] the Military Ambassador, a German officer who had access to the Tsar and was kept posted about everything that was going on in Russia. A few lines further on this Military Ambassador is described as a Aide-de-Camp to the Tsar. According to the National Review (Sherylai) the references are to Rear-Admiral von Heintze, the new German Minister to Peking, whose career has been most interesting one. Seventeen years ago, when a Lieutenant in the Gorman Nary, the new Minister came to the Far East as Aide-de-Camp to Prince Henry of Prussia, when his Royal Highness visited China. On the completion of Prince Hoary's mission Lieutenant von Heintre returned to Germany and was preparing himself by special studies for entering the None of us need be vexed in the slightest diplomatic service, when the Boxer out degree, on reading this passage. Indeed, break led to his return to China and he we have cause to be glad. For it might was detailed as special accretary of be still harder work to defeat an enemy Admiral von Bendemann, to whom he who could understand us than it is to rendered very signal service for which defeat one who cannot. Want of insight he received special recognition when again into the working of other people's feelings he returned to Berlin is ous form of weakness. And the more Then came his appointment to Petro weaknesses the Germans have at present, grad. By an old custom the Tsar and the better. Let them misunderstand with the Kaiser have each for a long time all their right. They misunderstood our appointed to the Court of the other a private soldiers, and thought that because military attaché, whose duties and they were willing men, and not conscripts appointment were quite independent of they would not light well. For that mis the ordinary diplomatic staff These understanding the Germans paid at the mutually exchanged attaches have always Marne. They misunderstood the Irish the and thought that either the Ulstermen or been in personal attendance on monarchs, in the capacity of special Aides the rest, or both would rise in revolt, de-Camp. It is significant of the high They misunderstood the Boers, and appreciation of Captain von Heintte's thought that De Wet and not Botha would They misunderstood the capacity, that, though a caval man by lead them, profession and training, he was appointed Indians, and thought they would turn to a post that had always hitherto been against us in a new and irresistible held by a military officer. He remained Mutiny. They misunderstood our officers, as special military Aide-de-Camp to the and thought they were frivolous amateurs Tsar from 1902 to 1911, when he was incapable of scientific warfare. They Amisunderstood our men of business and appointed Minister to Mexico,

thought them so wholly absorbed in mak- ing money that when a war came thay would never hold out against the painful expense of carrying it on For all those misunderstandings the Germans have paid, are paying now, or will pay, And though wo way pray, in time of peace, for the opening of all men's eyes to the truth, in time of war we are bound to hope that to some truths, at least, cur enemies' minds may remain stoneblind; blind not only to the disposition of our artillery but also to the artillery of our disposition the precise nature and amount and dis tribution of the forces opposed to them by our special temperament, so alien from theirs.

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a quality or emotion-courage, or love, or kindness, or what notis not merely expressed in eloquent and fitting words, but spends itself in them; that lyrical fervours and raptures are not really tri- butes to that which they hymn but deduc fions from it, disbursements out of a treasure which should be boarded and hidden. The other attitude is one of eagerness and expansion, and rests on the feeling that no emotion can ever be quite its full self can over become all that: it has it in itself to be until it finds perfect expression in words. It looks at first like a total contrast between these two factions. But there is a concord under the discord. For both have got hold of the truth that an emotion and its expression in words IMPERIAL MINERAL WATER Co. are not two absolutely separable, distinct things, like a man and his overecat, but parts of the same thing and parts of each other. Both factions see, at least dimly, that no feeling ever does remain just the same when it has been expressed, as it was before. The most elementary feeling is changed a little by the very lack of it of Japan. Officially Recommended by the

A quite simple and issuing in a cry. common feeling in the mind of Burns must Medical Colleges of The Imperial Universition have grown into one of extraordinary of Tokyo and Kyoto, beauty, intensity, poignancy, and balance. by the act of expressing it in "Auld Lang Byne. The over-expressors and under expressers alike have found out that you cannot express a feeling and at the same time leave it where you found it. And so the under-expressers take care to do it as little harm as they can, and the over expressers want to do it as much good as they can. The British instinct is to guard

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Nor is it only between different nations. that these two instincts are sometimes divided. Francis Thompson, the poet believed that among young people, in love, you could trace a similar contrast between the man

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and the girl who, in the same moments of exaltation, talks instinctively of trivialities, irrelevances, little, happy. far off things." Of course they are both quite right. Both instincts are sound.

239," There is no universal and absolute and exclusive rightness either about the habit of taking care, above all, not to or the habit of trying always to do ample justice to an occasion for eloquence. We are not scandalized because German sailors sing their National Anthem and nothing less, when they are face to face Only, let nobody make the with death. mistake of supposing that a les passionato patriotism or a less devoted

courage animates our own sailors when they sing Tipperary" in the same extremity.

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OLD CHINESE PORCELAINS, BRONZES, copia came into foros, and the standards Englishmen, Trishmen, Hindus, Boers, on the basis of encouraging domestic

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On January 1st a new British Pharma and formule that have been official for the last 18 years have been superseded. Over 180 drugs have been discarded, and

The Nicht Nicht reports that Japan's Customs Tarif will "ab some future dat

rather a vague statement--be modified industries and developing the country's foreign trade. As a result of the European war, it is inevitable that the countries in the West and East will under-

On the death of Herr von liaxthausen, Bear-Admiral von Heintze was appointed Minister to Peking. The outbreak of the war pecurred before he had left his post in Mexico, and as an officer in the German navy practically every route to Peking was closed to him so he took the extra- ordinary step of chartering the Chris tian Bors and travelling by that steamer in a nominal capacity to China, thereby escaping arrest or detention by the fleets of any of the Powers with whom Germany is at war.

A NOR That some such procedure was necessary is evident from the fact that the Japanese have detained at least one gentleman entering Japanese waters on & Pacific

Happily, we need be under no fear of passenger boat on suspicion of his boing the new German Minister to China, and giving any secret of this kind away to 13 a naval officer, a person it was desirable the Germans by publishing it here in this to arrest. However, Rear Admiral von large print. The official German mind is Heintze reached Shanghai in safety, speni armed in triple proof against the entrance A week in Shanghai meeting his nationals of information about our minds and and conferring with the local German hearts, Anything that wo say of our officials, and has now proceeded to Pekingselves is rejected by it as worthless. We where he has been teartily received by the have to maintain a Press cen or here to German Legation staff and the German keep ous military secrets from finding their way to Berlin. But we need take. community.

no trouble like that to guard our psychological secrets, Germany herself will ree to that. We have only to shout them into her ears and she will take care that they do not arrive at the brain She has settled already all possible questions about the working of human emotions in

Parthians, Medea, and Elamites. Any thing clashing with his mass of pigeon holed wisdom will count in her eyes as an safely dilate on the fact that in those Most of the discarded drugs are little hookshotten isles of Albion," as another known and little used, but a few of them superior foreign observer called them, we are still popular, such as sarsaparilla, have an inveterate habit of not expressing gamboge, musk, and dandelion extract ourselves in the proper full, round swell and notwithstanding that they cease to be of relevant eloquenco at the times when official doctors of the old school will, no we are most stirred. There never was a doubt, continue to prescribe them, any set of nations so averse from striking the of the drugs to which the General Medical appropriate attitude, with a will, on Council by whose authority the Pharma great occasions. Every attempt for copeia is produced has given official instance, to naturalise the funeral oration, sanction have been commonly prescribed on a grand scale, has failed utterly here for years, but their inclusion in the new A whole public school will become uncom volume will make them conformable to fortable with a kind of angry shame if a tests of purity to which unofficial drugs lecturer grows a little rhetorical about the are not subject. The best known of these Union Jack, Boartly flag-flipper" is the

new drugs are acetyl salicylic acid (which has hitherto been best known under austere verdict of our youth all of which is in the O.T.C. and burning for the real the German trade-mark of aspirin) thing. And there is a universal thrill of diethyl-barbituric acid (which has been admiration for Wellington's habit of not known ander the German trade-mark rising to his opportunities in the verbal name of veronal, but for which the short line. His account of the Battle of Water- pharmacopeial name is now bar loo, I tell you, sir, it was a damned bitone'), adrenalin, resorem, and sent near-run thing, is more deeply treasured pods. Senna leaves have, of course, been in the British heart than Nelson's official for a long time, but of late years

prerage to Westminster Abbey" utter- senna pods have come into favour, and

ance, which is felt to be dangerously in order to provide for their purity they tainted with effectiveness. If there is one have been included in the official book word of which the English-speaking, racos of medicines.

are shy it is the world "glory, used to indicate a natural object of human desire. The way that many Frenchman, at all last year is estimated by the Liverpool times, have spoken of To gloire was one Underwriters Association to have been For instance, tincture of strophanthus is of the preliminary obstacles which the twice as heavy as the loss in either of the now four times the old strength, a fact Entente Cordiale had to surmount and two preceding years. Reckoning only which prescribers and dispensers will the Gloria, Vigoria" which the Ham-loses amounting to £10,000 and upwards,

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go a remarkable change. In order to meet Hongkong Jockey Club. the possible situation, the Japanese Day of the Tramp Steamer. authorities bave already started investi- Telegrams. gations for the purpose of modifying the Local Sport. tariff now in force, but it is understood The Loss of the " Asame." that it will be some time before the Collision in Shimonoseki Straits.

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(1) To reduce or totally abolish the tariff on certain kinds of goods, in order to encourage the export trade

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cost of the principal losses at sea within cough mixtures, it is important that the public should be made aware of the We have no word but of admiration for the past five years is estimated to have increase in strength. Its sale will be the German sailors who went down sing been £38,291,854, caused by the destruction subject to greater restrictions. Bome of ing their National Anthem. To sneer at of 899 vessels the potent tinctures, on the other hand, are weaker, as, for instance, tincture of nux vomica, which is half the old strength In the directions to pharmacists the metric system of weights and measures alore is employed; and every pharmacist in the country will be obliged to keep complete rete of weights and measures secording to this system. Another in portant feature is the firing of limits to the proportion of lead and arsenic per missibly present as impurities in some ed drugs, so that the pharmaceutical sub stances of the future will have to conform to stricter tests them they have in the

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courage, even in an enemy, is blasphemy The number of total losses of vessels of and we all honour the gallant enemies who sank with the Iltis as we honour the 500 tons and upwards in 1914 is placed at B English English handsmen who went down playing 323, of which 105 vessels were sunk by Nearer, my God, to Thee" on the warships or mines, the war risk proving

All we would say is that the the most cerious cauro of loss during the SHOT. From No. 10 to SSBG. at 16, 17 and tane bluejacket from the Cressy was no whit year. The next most important case was

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attitudes towards eloquence, and cach of Of the 32 veisels totally lost 141 were them is right in him who feels it. One of foreign steamers and 115 wore British them is an attitude of precaution and steamers, 56 were foreign sailing ships self-restraint. It rests on a feeling that and only 11 were British sailing ships.

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