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150 YEARS. THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN
1745.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
SOLK KENTAIN SELINGKONGI
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,
and from ALL WINS MERCHANTS,
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Enware of`limitations V
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LADIES
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48-3
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES TOYO KISEN KAISHA
KHI HONG NG DAILY TRUE FEDESDAY HAY Ora 1918
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. THES.SUCHIYO MARU," stranded on Tamkaz Island on the 31st Marcia, 1918, having, with all cargo on board, become a total loss, the consignes que hereby notified to produce at the Local Office of the Com pany full set of Bills of Lading for certifica tion of loss and countersignature, zat (SL) K. DOI,
Acting Agent.
(669
WEATHER REPORT.
Ứn the 9th at 11:50 am.-No retu̸ as from Japanens stations,
NAVY'S SHORT WAY WITH
THE SUN:
PERMISSION TO SET BY ADMIRALTY'S ORDERS,
A grand feel chaplain gives a delight
The Anti-cyclone having mored en twardj Pressure has decreased considerably to moter ately al ug e as coast of Caint. It has incres of sightly in southern districts,
Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours endingful account in the Westminster of the 10a.m., to-day, 0.00 inahar
Navy's Short Way with the Sun. He thus describes the ritual of sunset
The forconat for the 24 hours ending at Noon to day is as follows:-
DISTRICT
FORECAST
E
or variable:
Hongkong, 6th May, 1015. INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION |Hongkong & Neighbourhood; wiede, mudurate
COMPANY, LIMITED.
Lio light; Hus
The mne · AS
•No. 1.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEER..
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORIT
THE Súmanship
"KUMSANG"
Formosa Chainal
SouthCast of Okina be woen · The magking and Lamosko, į
Name: as
No. L.
South coast of China between Tremme s
Hongkong ann Hailan..
having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by bar are hereby informed that all Groods are being landed at their risk into the CHINA Eazardous and/or extra bassedom Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and. Godown Co, Ltd, waenos and/or from the wharver delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the will be subject to rent
by the 13 May.
All broken, shafed and damaged prokages are to be left in the Glow, where they will b sxamined. Claims against tan Steamnar must bo presented with 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be one
will be effected
by us ir
say ones whataver, countersignal by
Bills of Lading will be
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
General Managers.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
Hongkong, 8th Mag, 1916
HE P&O S, N. Co.'s Steamer
"KOVARA,"
·Next on
COAST
A JEANNE OF THE FORGE.
THE BREASTPLATE SHE MADE
FOR SAM.
AN ECHO OF THE MIDDLE ÄGES.
A very charming stay of an English forge is told under the familiar initials of "J. E. G. de M." in the Contemporary feriew
HOW I AM SAVING.
[BY AN OFFICER'S WIFE)
When war broke out my husband left a well-paid post in civil life and joined his regiment. We the children and I moved into a house smaller than the womy old place we land rented and loved for years, and set about reorganising our under the sam on which we had enjoyed existence on an income just 75 per cent a chearful but by no means a spend thrift life. We never cherished any illusions Tho
It tells of that never ending forge. the top of Black Hill," which has never about the duration of the war. ceased to serve men for hundreds of years. cheery people who talked of peace be Taday as yesterday you hear its welcomo fore Christmas" seemed to us uncon sound, the ringing, clear-cut musical querable optimists, not founding on fact. note of the blacksmith's hammer which
Possibly three years, not less," said my recalls the beginnings of modern man, husband; and, make no mistake, there the clarion of the Iron Age, we may call are stiff times coming. If you cán, save it."
--but there, of course, you can't
To begin at the beginning, the correct tino is made by wireless from Greenwich each day, and with this to aid him the navigator of the flagship works out the exact moment at which the sun is due to set. This is calculated at the mean solar time, not the apparent time, so that the ceremonies are frequently ob served while a part of the sun is still able to watch what is being done in his honour. The idea is that if he hasn't set he ought to have and it is by this The forge is older, far older, than the obstinate habit of looking at things as
No. 1.
they ought to be rather than as they are that (well, anybody that likes can com plete this sentence; 1, personally, am METEOROLOGICAL not convinced that the moral of it is
REGISTER.
9TH MAY, AM.
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Arrived Hongkong on 9th May, 1918, FROM BOMBAY COLOMBO ARE
A STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the shove usmed rosol are hereby informed that their goods am being landed and placed AT TAME RISK in Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowcest Kowloon, where each Consignment will be sorted on Mark by Edwar and delivery can be obtained so the Goods are Lander
This vessel brings on. Cargo
From
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From Persian Gulf, or an. B. LS. N and B. & P. S. N. Cole Steamoan zigg Optional Goods will be lauded here unless instructions are given to the nontrary withir bhoris,
Goods not cleared within 8 days includin data'of arrival will be suujast to rentia
No Fire Insure will be effected by m
in any one whaterer be left in the Go
Damaged packages mu
must
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Changaba Sbangun
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downs for examinacion by the Consignota, and Pakhos the Company's Surveyors, earn GODDARD DOUGLAS, at 10 Aca BioNDATE End AMERIPATS. All Olsima mest be presented pe within on day at the camera arrival-herb after which date they chunɔt be recognised, No Claims will be admitted after the Goods baro left the Godownia.
E. V. D. PARS, Actine duperintendent. Hoogkang 9th May 19-6
|H NGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
BEGISTER
Hongkong Observatory, May 9th,
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Day
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29.98
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Temperature.
51,37,98 64 | 96
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Wacther,
Fores
T. F. CLAASON, Director.
1, BARONETER, reduced to 32-degrees-Fabron Theit, on ta zavel o: the sea tu inches, tentar,
bad nundredttms.
2. TEMPERATURE, in the shade, in degre Fabrombeit
3. Howsory, in percentage of maturation, the umidity of air susursted with moisture being -100,---
4. Deraction of Warp, to two points,
5. FONCE OF WI, according to Heinfort Scale 8. STATE OF WRATHER, b blas aty, a detached cloud, d drizzling rain, f fog, y gloomy, h sil, E lightning, a overcast, p prasing showera, q aquşi, imin, snow, t thunder, v visibulity, w daw (wet)
7. Kan in Juches, tenths and handredths.
HONGLONG TIDE TABL
From 10th to 18th May, 1918 HIOR WATER
Hoog
Bright
Low WATER.
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Fright
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dia.
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manor house older perhaps than even the yor which saw the house a-building- It is, if all tradition be faithful, a mamo rial of the earliest Iron Age. It was on this spot that the first smith made plough industry. shares and swords, weapons of war and
I too thought I could not. When you are suddenly faced with making five shillings do the work of a sovereign, there does not seem much room for putting by against a day even rainier than the pre- cent. In those first weeks, when 1-hover- Then, five minutes before the time,
ed over accounts and bit my pencil until prudence warned me that it was wearing preparative flag is hoisted in the flag-
out, to make both ends meet seemed an. Aaite such as this gives the mind and achievement; there was surely no pós- ship, and certain repeating ships do the same for the benefit of auch vessels the heart some idea of the continuity of sibility of overlapping. Then, as the babit ne are not in sight of the flag. A soon life in England, not in the great ancient of spending little grew, avenues of as this is hoisted, there is intense agita towns which trace their lives back to economy opened, and there came pride in tion up on the signal bridge, every Roman and even pre Roman days, but in doing my job as well as posible
eye glued on this the wild countryside. signalman having
At the same time one of
The big expenses came first: house-rant, On this highest point of the main education, servants. The four boys must preparative." their number reports the matter to the road the southern sky-line la stained with not be interfered with, if possible; their Officer-of-the Watch, who in turn report the slight smoke of a considerabic cathe school was not among the very costly, but
!
down. Then sound the two sharp notes of the Carry-on and sunset is over.
THE ETERNAL JOEN SHITE.
gen-
to the captain, with the formula five winutes to sunset, sir, the captain re-dral town, the spire of the cathedral it was a thoroughly good one. The girls plying, Carry on, please thus giving on the very verge of the horizon, That school was really no better from the showing in all clear weather like a needle
were different; their smart boarding- the sun the official permission to set building is associated with all the thought standpoint of education than the day order of the Admiralty
The five minutes pass. Saddenly the and action; which has dominated this re school in my now suburb, and they wer
gion since the thirteenth century. flagship hauls down the repeating walls bear records of many wars and war training from me at home. The servants, The speedily transfererd to it, receiving extra the fleet an excited signalman bowlriors, of saints and statesmen, poots and no longer a necessity in my smaller house, ships do likewise, and in every ship of
lawyers, knights and dames who have as Officer-of-the-Watch- fondly to the Picar of the W the Still left the impress of their lives, their hopes left, and I found a little mainte Everyone on dock drops his work or his and fears, upon many generations. And had my bodily strength permitted. Dress recreation, and stands strictly to atten- all of these, sturdy men and pillioned makers and milliners bills vanished; All officers women, bave passed this way often enough superfluous groceries were cut down; I tion, facing the colours. raist their hand to the salute. The as- and have heard the ring of the hammer, discovered in the butchers shops pos- sembled buglers sound a long call, weird early and late, deepening into clangour sibilities other than "bost cats"; amuse- and plaintive, a lament for the dying as they drew rain in sight of the blazing ments were elirainated. Not one item of day, and the White Ensign comes slowly fire and called for the smith and his aid expenditure was disregarded; not on
shilling spent without reflection. For he was an armourer onco, was So far, we have lived plainly but not John Smith, and the temper of his swords meanly, and we have saved with “hard was the measure of his fume. From here scratching, it is true, yet the saving is the eye can detect in the hilly, wooded there, and it has gone into War Loan. distances, many a seat, sites of castles of Even the children's birthday tips bought. old; and to-day there is no one of these no new clothes, and I have dressed my old houses but has old weapons in store daughters in my old frocks altered by my that, once upon a time, were welded by self. We have not, since the war, enter- John Smith on Black Hill Twas his ed a thentro or a kinema. We eat what hammer, too, that wrought the gates and the butcher patronisingly calls “pieces," other laced iron work in the cathedral. sheep's heads, cheap cuts We never 500 His fron-work is in every church. No & joint. We use stale bread, cheap tea, mean artificer was this son of Tubal, and margarine, and other untempting money- it was always John Smith who wrought savers. Plenty of good milk, soup, and *No doubt he died from age to age, vegetables keep un fit and well, and the for such is the fashion of men, bat so far children show no signs of privation. I as the world cared it was the same Joha think they enjoy my cookery as much as Smith who went on working in the glow- they enjoyed the more generous fare of ing metal contury after century. 'other days..." At any rate, being deter- No doubt the outward fashion of the mined to play the game," they say they man changed somewhat, the trine of beard, the home-going doublet or coat, the cut time teatables, where margarined scones When I meet my friends at the war of leathern apron. No doubt his tongs have taken the place of iced cakes, the and shovels and his hammers, his great talk that was once of bridge, of theatres, hammers, and his little hammers for the of fashions, has taken a new turn; we delicate flower work that we look at to discuss our economies and look with re day and ery, it is Florentine in execu
And when during the summer 1 Northern latitudes the sun takes up the ridiculous attitude of refusing to set till midnight, if at all, the Navy has a short way with its recalcitrant god, like tose West Africans who beat the image of their deity when he refuses to send rain: the order is issued, Sunset will be at such-and-such a time and if the siin will not fall in with the Navy's idens, well, that is his lookout! Like many another servant of the Navy, he is told to retire at a time when bo feels he has a lot more work in him. But he continues to shine on the ship all the same, just as many a man retired for ege is now digging out as hard as ever for the good of the service.
Banset is just about to sound off as I write let me go on deck and once more see that sight which never loses its in-. Tressiveness, and pray while bugle peals Fatih its sad notes that the sun may never get upon our Banner of the Cross the White Ensign,
WHOLESALE · DENIAL OF THEIR
VERY EXISTENCE.
TIUSBANDS WHO HULE WIVES. tion, no doubt these changed in shape as spectful envy on her who bas discovered did the bellows and the method of driv new way of cooking scrag of mutton-or- ing the blessed wind under the ashes when fore last. None of us is unhappy, if it of remodelling the hat of the winter he- the sexcoal grew.common. No doubt the. coming of coal was a great matter, for the Fure not for the gnawing anxiety for our dearth of wood had troubled John Smith husbands in the trenches and the hover- for several generations, and in that time ing spectre of fresh taxation. We do not You really ought to be able to manage he hand, so used to smelting the iron regard ourselves as hevole, or as mar your own wife,
Said Mr. Fordham,ors with wood and then fashioning iron simply doing our bit in a big thing for magistrate at West London Police Court, with the glowing charcoal, had lost some the sake of the men who fight for us and to a man secking his advice for his art of its cunning. But the tradition never the children they have left us. We are tal troubles
The Applicant: I can't do anything with her.
died.
LAKTEN'S DAUGHTER
Mr. Fordham: I can only advise you You; the sky and the stone circle and to rule your own wife Every raan the Hint workshop, and perhaps a tree ought to rule his own wife by kindness.
or two, are older than the forge. It is
tyrs, or even as praiseworthy; we are
only a few among many thousands of women who are doing the same.
Don'te shout-at-me, Mr. Milford, I cannot do anything for you. old, indeed, and yet its hammer is ring said the blacksmith's maid defiantly. If The publication of this dialogue in the ing with the swift clarity of youth in you do it again I will marry your Sam Zatly Mail sent a number of indignant he days when the world was young. and get the 'lowance for 1. hasbands to their writing desks. One "It is a pleasant sight this forge in
"The farm-hand smiled grimly, He correspondent, who signs himself Four-war time, for the bellows are handled by would have asked nothing better, but teen Years' Defeat, says: "I once read A girl us fresh as the morning, and a Mrs. Laxter stood in the way, that iron of Mr. Fordham that he owns a coun horse is being led to the forge by a little woman of whom Mr. Laztor once re- try estate, and is an expert in bus maiden of determined mien who has marked, There be times when there's vo bandry. If he really meant what he scarcely seen twelve summers. The queen room for two in the house, and then I said to the married man who asked his or the zephyrs is Mr. Laxter's daughter, come to the forge. aivice he is no expert in the other sort and shu dous credit to the family, as
of husbandry.'
sturdy-of-arm as uny smith's boy, and
1 cannot rule any own wife, and twice as resourceful. She can hold the
other:
A BREASTPLATE
But all talk was ended by the roar
of work that seemed to occupy their atten tion and interest us no other work could The fire was kept constantly going; little thrashing something of unfamiliar size unfamiliar hammers were conselessly and shape,
am waiting to meet the man who rules shoe, as it is shaped and pierced, she can of the bellows and the busy business of his wife. There are a few men who think help in all ways needful, and in the inter-shoeing. they rule their wives, and a good many vals of labour, with hands on hips, can in the next slack time Laxter and the So the morning wore on, but men who boast that they rule their wives; reflect on the demerits of fathers and maid started on a new mysterious piece bat that is another matter. Those who sons. beast usually first look round the room, railway carriage, office, bar, or
I did see old Billy road-mending last premises to make sure no one is there felice John Smith) looked
night, father. He be owd fool." who repeats things.
"Of all futile suggestions for the keenly at her as he released a hoot well ling of a wife," says a third husband, finished from his apron. Why be Billy commend me to kindness. All wo men, wives especially, have an instinctive cil in the evening to pay for the dear- owd fool? He be working for the Coun- suspicion of kindness. Whenever I make ness o' food these times, terrible dearness, any extra efforts in that fatal-direction:
"Once Marion cried, 'Sam, must have one as well." despite intimations of much war work At last, despite many interruptions, from the neighbouring camp the ham mering was ended, and Marion was
my own wife at once suspects me of so molher asys having, done something she has forbidden "He be ord fool, said the girl. His me to do. She is generally accurate in paster, Farmer Jenkins, is a mean miser, polishing and handling the finished pro the diagnosis; and many a misguided giving no war bonners just now when duct. It was ch! shoes of the Middle little gift or honeyed word has proved his mouldy hav. Od Fills should strike for the smith's scund son coming that Government is paying righty prices for Ages and knightly days-a breastplate my undoing own part 1 gave up trying like this. And Mistress Marion Laxter very night home on short leave. He
For my own part I gave up trying took the great sledge hammer and ears with him sad news and relics for to rule my wife within about ten minutes brought it down on the anvil with a hol- the Manor House, but brings gladness to of the wedding ceremony. To that low crash t prompt acceptance of the counsel of my murder,' said Laxter, admir of the elder brother and other friends. the Laster's home and smithy, with pena own father I owe a more placid marriedingly, would crack hes head. Billy He is almost due, and the maid stands career than most of my fellows. My wife better keep on cracking stones for the at the door of the smithy waiting for IR. So pleased with my frequently exprer road those fine evenings and him:
ed admission that she rules ren that I constantly get my
thinks
that she is getting her way. This is commone
enough experience of wives it is a unique experience for a husband
As perhaps the only husband in Eng land who really rules his wife, I say to all husbands, when you want to do any thing that your wife does not want you, to do pursue the tactics of Daniel Lenn, who when, he was courting at the house of the Japanese lady whose father had a nasty sword walked backwards to make believe that he was going the other way!
"Billy be the father of three fine boys, "She faces the westering
all at the front," said Marion medits the read that he suffolioun shining iyelv, an' all onmarried. Why be not donned in a fight of fancy the breast Billy dependent on them and got a good plate, and it flashes back the sun as she warlowance "kwaits like a goddess of old time, or a Because, said a loud angry voice, warrior from the Parthenon Fricze, or Billy be not dependent, on no man, and Jeanne d'Arct leastwies on striplings as is fighting and dying for God and England.
**Marion - turned and new the fool leading one of Farmer Jenkins' horses for immediate shoeing.
(Continued on next Column.)
The ages of chivalry are come agaru, and the armourer stunda bebind her 23 owd he stood on that very spot five hundresă
years ago.
There be he, said the, and Sam ba with him,
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