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THE MAN WITH 40 PUTTERS.

VARIATION OF PATIENCE."""

(By anone w GREENWOOD.]

COTTONS IN CHINA.

The extreme depression into which business in betons for China has fallen is all the more notable owing to the fact that supplies on hand in the principal atres 1 khow, that you regard me as mons what of a golf manige, but it is just as far of quite negligible amount, The Int- well to live up to such a reputation, and at mail advices disclose a state of things so I am going to ask your favour. 1hich is almost without precedent, Of En- played the other day against a Arjan gray shirtings there were in veck who is top man for the-Golf Club, and in Shanghai," for instaner, on Jay 14th," he bent me by one eighth of an inch at, just 39,3-5 pikets, and of European white the last hole. 1 was very much struck shirtings. 13,80 pieces Before the wara with his putter, which, Inderstand, is stock of a million pies of grey and two n of Frank Jolinson's. The professional; million pieces of white shirtings was cons" told me that it was all ordinary bentocek-sidered a moderate holling, and since the patter, Accurate pattern, but it was cer-war sonsthing not far removed from these minty a very formidable weapon, and it quantities often been recorded at the decars to me that you may know the pre-middle of July last year for instance, sent address of Frank Johnson, unless, of there were in Shanghai over 100.000 pieces, nurse, he has departd this life, al then, of white shiring. The Board of Trade of conëse, you won't know). If he is in retains give the total cloth exports to the land of the living may buy a Chium, including, Hongkong, during July, similar putter from him, which will make us 18,331,000 square yarıls: This quantity something like my forty-eighth er forsy is well over that of my previous month this year, but it really represents only a trifling among of business. Our normal export of pivee gonds to China before the war totalleil 50.000,000 yards, on the aver age, monthly. In view of the presen remarkable that even

Rinth.

REFUGEES FROM JAPAN,

CHUNGKING TO HAIPHONG..

HONGKONG RELIEF COMMITTEE A BRITISIL.CONSUL'S INTERESTING

ASSISTS PASSENGERS.

ON DONGOLA."--

JOURNEY.

Notes an Overland Journey from information reached the Hongkong | Chungking to Haiphong" by Mr. B. G. Relief Committer, through the courtesy | Tours. C.M:O, which appear in the of Mr. J. A. Plummer, that a number of Bulletin of the Royal Geographical Europeans from Yokohama au board the Society," contain mich that is new and ws. Boayıda were not too well provided. with necessaries, and the Chairman, ruteresting The journey was undertaken G. T. Kalking immediately put in hand in 1917, as a visit of inspection of the measures for their assistance. A dozen provinces of Kweichow and Eastern or more. Yokohama, residents were found Emma, in accordance with the Angio- on battl, some of then sufering from Chinese Opin Agreement of 101. Mr. injuries which had prevented their going Tours describes his notes as "by- ashore at Kobe and Shanghai where they product containing matters of general would in the ordinary course have reinterest apart from the special opinn journey." Leaving Chungking on March ceived quantities of second-hand clathing questions which were the object of the and other necessaries.".

The passengers were full of praise for 31st, 1917. Mr. Tours 4,000 miles of jour ney, by foot, pony, chair, boat anil steam- the work done by the Belief Degasister, took him 115 days. At Chentzekai. tions in Kobe and Shanghai and said that

Province, the writer visiter some iron- of the workers there were severely pressed the road to the horder of Kweichow

smelting works having a daily output in dealing with the reazeless stream of

4400 s. of rough iron plates, the ore refugees passing through:

It appeared that seme of the passen being taken front the surrounding, hills." quare certainly be necessary before their jourKweichow border, and was met by Chi-

nese delegates from Kweiyang. On this. tests betaren them, which are sometimes dould have baru bunghe, uns exper

the parts. It Norwegian Indy bound for "Norway stage of the journey, he says, "cach vil- quite critical and exciting. It is a varia-sod; but much of this must be intended ney's end, especially in the case of a

for consumption tion of the game of patience, but it has

"I know it seem rather mad, last I can sure you that I obtain a very great deal of pleasure by having so many of these

different puitters, because I arrange van. chaotic state of China it is perhaps gers had no travelling ruis, which would ; Ch April 3th he crossed the Szechwan

this advantage--it is played out of doors.prnetically impossible to distribute cortens also appeared that mug of the passen: lage aml town through which we passed

and it involves gentle exercise and walking, as, of course, the putts vary from a few feet to forty or fifty yards. Being a law ver, I am thankful to say that have an imjurtin mind, and do not favour ang Du particular pater, that I never end of the evening,"

Forty-nine putters and the man is still

or any goals from the parts to the in-

was bellagged and decorated with arches terior, for he main routes are infested by gera had little more clothing than they hands of wildiers-brigauds, who are bent dit stood up in, and one laudy was in urgent of evergreen, with inscriptions of welcome plunder, Manchester strongly supports the need of a perambulator, having to carry and of prospective joy at the abolition of

mand for intervention by the Powers

spiam, with the chject of storing calor, Semea child several months' ohl in her arms,

Mr. Bridger, of Messrs. Lane, Crawford, agrion sill have to be taken commer

Western nations,-Timra

nition forthwith and muertook to deliver Lanything required" before the Bougil, sailed at midnight. Miss Webster in MAILS TO BE ACCELERATED. charge of the ladies" departinent, "under

know which patter is going to win at the sial intercourse is to continue between Ltd., put his efficient, organisation in Tours, offering hini a bottle of Florida

at large Until I thought of the matter

Seemned incredible that so many putting implements should be

of

truce. But I have since counted up to the task because genty, and only

gesuch

Ing.

China and the Trade Supplement

FL

ex.

At Sangkang the delegates feasted Mr.« Water, and another of Crosse and Black- well's vinegar, as foreign wines,' Plaining that they themselves had tried. them it were not connoissegira of foreign liquor. It is noted, in spite of the gen cral height of the country in the north are excellent for agriculture." The notch centro. of Kweichow, the soil and climate speak of the scenic nature of Kweichow at this part, and describe ita inhabitants. among when are included a number of the Miao tribes. In the Tsunyi district Mr Tours interested himself in the methods used in producing raw silk, the staple product, and he be also something

By the end of this year, says the Times took to send an assistant with a selection there seemed to reamable end, so it. Bet Crylan, Ceylon should have a malf-élethes, shoes and stockings in order sides, in the sort of weather the recount. eive comparable with that of pre-war day that the passengers' necessities might, he The P. and O. and Orient Companies have Photter served. It should be mentioned ranses Schnect arranged to newlerate their services to Cosmick"Aluminium." Bow-legged" is likely to cause mental save two days on both the outward aud that the second-hand clothing collected in fatigue, condition which one wishes par homeward journeys between Colombo and Hongkong had just been hailed up in ticularly to avoid, However, 1 think it London, with the result that before the cases for despatch to Japan so, as time only fair should place on record the fnet end of the year tails from England should was of the essence of the contract. (as the bo received in this island regularly on lawyers say), it was necessary to obtain that I do not consider my correspondent a | Saturdays or Sundays in every week, while | a certain amount of new clothing to sup. to say of the woven cloth into which it "golf manine" because he happens to own

the Homeward I

Socialist, who like the 22111 passion. outwaally raves at the millionaire, but in wardly is prepared to sell his soul to be in

il course, we were thankful in Kobe to get a progressing and stocks of mercury the other fellow's shows. But I un credi in the case of the P. and O. Company of them made the same remark: "Of bly informed that even millionaires five being brought it by omitting "nightmare existences, and I am perfectly at Bombay This Company Australian anything, but you can't think how de-accumulating. The company did not in- satisfied that men who own, forests of pni vesels will in all probability begin to rua lightful it is to be wearing clothes that tend to put any quicksilver on the mar

to the new time-tables almost immediately no one she has worn." taj

Most of these victims of the earthyuke trusts the provinces of Kweichow and ters must sometimes be in a state borger. | 14 is xpected that the Hekurit. had been able to get some financial hel Yunnan, whilst he gives much information. ing on lunary.

Just imagine it, arriving in a fiver of

to be from their bankers an certifying what regarding the people, the scenery. the excitement at the club on Metal Day, and

forty-ne putters. Rather do I coret his instead of, as at pris bar on Tuesdar Ely urgent requirements.

mails being out

It may be added that the ladies were afterncons, they will leave on Wednesday full of gratitude for the clothes and many night or Thursday. The saving 'tigza

ur་་

the Jaldern, due to

bat,

<if

the enll

on Thursday,

wore made.

is made. At Laumachang he saw a quick- silver mine run by a Chinese company.

Five shalts had beer' sunk, and, although

the machinery was primitive, the work

ket for overal years. Mr. Tours con-

ally due from Austra

4th, will be the first case, they believed to be roughly the amount industries, faunu, and other matters, relat having to choose from forty-nine palters! 7. But on the now schet for Lomicu on of their bank balance, bet a few were ing to the country, through which ho Like the girl in the novelette, brought face overber 1st, is practically errain to cis- very short of funds and to these grants passed. He says to face with the story-hearted villain, farm, the new practice, Later in the

boni shrick with dismay. And if der make a choice, how burr.bly taulaliing it must be when halfway round to discover that you have chosen the wrong que after all. The ardal must be as painful as picking the wrong card in the the card trick. No doubt my correspondent, a plu

if you please, must have bee riously angry when he lost his half- crown by so more than an eighth of an inch on the last green. Serve him right!' said ether forty-eight putters sulking in the rarar pf the lecker,

ear, the P. and O. Company hope to make the same change with the malaty frem China, the first of the Ching beat to cut out the call at Banbay being

November, th bobly the Walu on

"It is quite plear," Vardeax says, that the right and makes the stroka " therefore the left wrist should be held more loosely than the right Is this re pee he is in agreement with many other patters, including Jack White, Mr. Har

Hilton, and Willie Park Tustead ring the right thumb round the shaft, as in driving, Vardon places it no of E500 for the man who could holo thiry. the ton of the shaft and pointing down it,

Vardon recommends hipting

ting the bull

THE ART OF PUTTING. This leals me to a little dissertation on the art of putting. The chief reason that animated Lord Riddell in offering a prize

A

of

Ajouracy through Kweichow and Yun- All the passcogers had distressing au brings conspicuously before the stories to tell of their experiences from traveller the poorness of communications the effects of which they were obviously and explains in a great measure the still suffering. They all agreed in not absence of development of resources, the desiring a trip ashore, saying that they sparseness of the population, and the were still afraid to set foot on land, and general poverty of the provinces. The felt much safer on the ship. One lady future of Kweichow probably lies chiefly : was sitting in a motor enr outside a shop in minerals, with one agriculture. The in Yokohanm when the earthquake occur altitude of the Kweichow plateau renders red. A considerable block of masonry the climate temperate and suitable to fell eross the car so that she could not trops: I saw rape planita 7 or 8 ft, high, Eastern Yunan is not so favourably eir

The greater altitude, the move and yet, strange to any, she was extriented unbruised. Subsequently, incumstance. scrambling through the wreckage, pur-poorer suil, the violent winds, all combine sued by the advancing fires, she broke to restrict agriculture, Systematic affure her ankle in two different places letation might improve matters. they had to stand is that condition up

to her neck in water for boven hours,

six putts of varying distapers was that This, he declarés, makes for acuracy ducking every few moments to lessen the

putting was a essential part of the game, to which, strangely enough, insthetent the middle the club, whereas Park effects of the beat, which was sufficient Nikko whence a party of 28 startcil on attention was devoted. A golfer will cou-always hits the bell off this tos of the club

Baki we did well enough, but reaching upon covering 5C and drug the ball into the hole from the to. seorth the paint on the Tongole, a Wednesday for Kobe. As far as Yukn

inile away from the Bund. centrate feverishly yards in two shots, but he cannot be bother right-hand side of it. I infinitely prefeThere was on bound a lady aged 75, there in seven hours we found further

ive Varden's method, because it is The formerly well-to-do, who has lived in yards pult. And it is on the gre; where track ed to develop the accurate hitting of a live straightforward and less like a conjuring | Yokohan continuously since the early Progress out of the nestion that day. matches are won and last. There is ittle us in smiting prodigious distances rí, as Mitchell has been prone to do of late, you take more strokes on the green than you took to reach it."

WHAT RAY THINKS.

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nineties of last century, but is now bowed for London' where, although she has no friends, she has a little inoney your lady in charge of three orphan children whose only surviving relatives are poor. was advised by the relief workers to pet

The scene was absolutely indescribable. thousands upon thousands of homeless, refugees crowding the great platforms. arriving by every train and carried on as best the railway could.

The

Ray of the "lvet-tough,”; designates the art of putting a profound mystery, So it is, and that is why golfer buy forty

"We spent the night on the floor of" Many golfers lose sight of the all-imine putters in the attempt to solve the

a waiting rooni and left next morning carriago ponant, fact that almost as many that He digress entirely with the in touch with the administrators of the are played on the putting green as ar American prarties of the mutter, suspended Mansion House Fund on arrival in Lan- at six o'clock: our reserved taken to get there. Take, for instance, a from the wrists, swinging backwards and don, with a view to securing the future was rushed at the platform by a mass

forward along a straight lise like the

than occupied. more Bonce was first-clna professional who goes round is

"lucky" because an average of 72 strokes. If you trouble dulum of a cloak. It can't be dete, he care of her young charges. One lady of distressed creatures till overy inch ot lost everything she journey does not bear thinking about. zonished to find that thirr-six of these Evans, Mr. Bob Gardner, and Hagen, to though he had band very his vel but by the time this place was reachedf

his figures you will probably be Bat Mr. Frucis Ouimet, Chick" spoke of herself as

A young man, who (20 miles in six hours) the unanimous strokes gre devoted to the task of knock a large extent, perform the movement, hoed was secure, ing the ball into the hole from mewh

ewhere alone but the wilfully blind would say on the gre. Ask a famous golfer. unex that they can't putt. Ray utiers another has been travelling the world for some opinion was that to attempt further pro- months collecting commercial data lost areas would be maduess. Had we gone. peatedly defeated, to what he attributes latring thing. He says that practice in whole of it, with all his belongings, on many more hours many of us would his dowafall. He will invariably whine: puttig, save that obtained in competition; in a Tekohatan hotel. He hind what he undoubtedly have been hospital cases, ... "Oh, the putting heat 1 took three is a waste of putty on nearly every kron

to

The case of Mr. Walter Travis provides

22

Wine in

Bore

though comfortable enough and hoping then we are, imprisoned and helpless our friends, fu Hongkong are not in anxiety on car account. We are in. straits for clothing all our baggage

"The Fushi centiuues without cessa- as Euclid says for have m the Ameri- stood up in and small change.

tion, every train taking some 1.200 to The passengers stated that they are cam proved that practice is the key to prchciency? However, Bay

supplies amongst the first Europeans from Yoko 1,500 poor greatures, packed as tight as a first-rate illustration of how a mun er uful tip when he says that most pulled hama to leave Kobe and in their opinion can be, engine, tender and roofs of car ing the fifties, who putts o

Dults are due by the fact that the player a large number of others will pass ringgos hearing their quota. basis, won the British Amateur ship, notwithstanding that most of this has attempted to take the pater hack in through Hongkong in the next few weeks

straight line from the ball. opponents could outdrive him by the

Jack White says the great

put THE REV. J. KIRK MACONACHIE'S length of a street. Sinall in size and frating is to find the fine

thing

and not the

EXPERIENCES. came to learn that the bitting of the ball, as most people think. in build, Travis crises in, matches occurred on the green: Duncan's soverrigt specific sounds invol. That relief work in Japan is being car baying been checked through to Kohe. and it was there that he delivered thos

ved, but really

He says Enried out receives testimony in The Templetons fear theirs must have I in ved, morial blown. I reint mber at Sandwich or sum that the miteer hend gets away first a private letters received, in the Colony been burnt at Kukohatan. But we BTG

with the hands following jt. That is all

the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachio, Minis- thankful for dear life, and feel our in-: produces a Writing from Karuizawa on September and grief of myriads." of the left wist at

and th. Mr. Blueonachio Bass "Ambulance

It is indicative of the way the earth- Thera and Relief Corps are working well, feed. quake has overshadowed every other: Whit to act. partieniai Mangerous 119 Dun-

have often feand and we saw, well cultucted Red Cross human concern that Mr. Macondobie dis suki wo a misses a postserint his experiences hutter-head going Station, and at every stop water, rice, at sea in a typhoon. He writes: "P.S.- time putting the etc was brought round. Further ex-

I suppose you beard we went right. through the typhoon on the Ruskin

Blackwell, one of the world's

drivers, by holing putts from almost any- the platters. It in

where with his Schnectady puiter.

longest that

Hunts

we all raced to the professionals, shops to purchase one of those magical implemente,

geten, the hands and ter of the Union Church, kong. conveniences petty irideed beside the ruin

is smothe bait heut can

Nofel of strength is required to karels cas's statement that

Th

a ball into a hole from | looking at raugo along a beautiful pices of turf as back and at the smooth as a billard

& matter short ones well.

the

of skill and precision, whe

ego work in perfect

IVARand and

It may be argued that it

attention to what a man any o

that

Mr. John Lor, one of the Inst putters tracts from Mr. Maconachie's letter will that ever lived, reparkslas putting

bo

if pos work of the Augers

doubtless be of interest He writes

Failing to get rooms there on land-

fright at putts of yard while the very tips of the fingers, where the ing we went on to Nikks and were up He is in direct conflict at Chuzenji when the palamity, befell, wasbulbs he Nevertheless, I intend note Fardon,

to quote

cause it is not so very long ago that hath most of the distinguished golfers The shock was not very severe there, but en he observes that the left hand in the so prolonged that I feared disaster near

was a magnificent putter. Besides, respect should be paid to a man, who knows how

a thing should be done, but from, abre

mysterious cause cannob perform the act himself

(Continued at foot of next column)

HONGKONG RELIEF FUND

Among the latest, contributors to the Fund are:test, contri

Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co.,

ter hand in putting. And Mr. Low the coast. Still, nothing so had has been Ltd., $1.000: China Light and Power els shatters the accepted teaching felt in the Nikko region, nor here, within Co. (1918), Ltd. $1,000; Showin; Tomes playing for the back of the

living memory and many were much & Co., $500; China Provident Loan Bot rule of putting he declare it to be alarmed. We joined the Templetons at Mortgage Co., Ltd., 100t alf-crown-destroying here Daily (Canlinued at foot of next column.) The total now amounts to $350,625.45.