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A GREAT PHILANTHROPIST. LORD SHAFTESBURY AND HIS ́
WORK.
MASTER OF ETON.]
nabas, stirred the frenzy of Exeter Hall FIRING ON SHIPS IN YANGTSZE against the Ritualista,
GORGES.
But it is an easy' and a' profitless task to hint at the weaknesses of great men, For more than four years, ays the and Shaftesbury, was a man who, o, C. Daily News, foreign vessele operat {BY TUN KEV, C. A BLINGTON, D.D., HEAD for as this country is concerned, richlying on the Yangtze above Hankow, but mprited his place among the Makers of between Ichang and Chungking, especial. the Nineteenth Century. No student have been subjected to all sorts of of the history of the century," no his insulta, abuses and indignities at the biographers remark, would omit him hands of the various military parties. fcom the gallery of those who helped to create or to destroy institutions, habits, beliefs, that were full of significance to that age and full of consequence to his successors."
It is a melancholy fact that the lives of good men are seldom na attractive to read as those, of scoundrels. No thinks ing person, it may be hoped, will readily accept Swinburne's antithesis between the illies and languors of virtue" and "the raptures and roses of vice" as affording an explanation. It is baly the very exceptional criminal whose caroor is rapturous and rosy, and what fatigues us in reading the careers of the virtuous is precisely their inability to be languor Qus. A man who is consumed with a desire to improve the world is fatiguing company, and his ceaseless energy, in whatever field it is shown, is a continual challenge and rebuke to the natural lazincas of the reader.
It might seem at first sight that there is more reason in the saying of the old Greck that while there are countless ways of being lad there is ultimately only one way of being good, but the monotony which this suggests is not to be found in real life, and the suggestion may be hazarded that the life of the average bad man presents less variety than that of his rival. Still, the fact remains that more people will pick up a book called than
"The Lives of Twelve Bad Men one called. The Lives of Twelve Good Men." They will probably be disap pointed, but their hopes of entertainment will be higher.
JOHN HOWARD.
The mastern of these vessels, navigating what undoubtedly is one of the three most dangerous stretches of water in the world, have more than enough to make them anxious in protecting their ships The names of their chapters suggest the from the incessant dangers of the river; variety and the uniformity of the causes but when, as is now coming to be the he championed the Factory Act, the Beruie rather than the exception, their form of the Minss, the Ten Hours Bill, ships are fired on, wantonly and without the Agricultural Labourer, the Lunacy the shadow of a justifiable pretext, their Lawa, Climbing Boys-the names suggest lot becomes more unenviable still. controversies in all of which Shaftesbury took a leading and an honourable part, for he was not one whose enthusiasm for a particular reform blinds him to the necessity of others. Wilberforce might concentrate on the slaves, or Bright, on Free Trade, and be not unjustly blamed for indifference to other good cause Shaftesbury was throughout his life the champion of the poor and the oppressed, whatever caused their poverty or whoever was guilty of their oppression.
In the last three months there has been a marked revival of this practice of every Tom, Dick and Harry in a military uniform considering himself justified in having a little target practice with the hull of a passing foreign steamship as the object, and only yesterday we had to report two glaring and uncalled-for cases of, a vessel of the Indo-Chins Steam Navigation Company heing fired on.
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We hear now that a few days ago a ship of another company was fired on without rhyme or reason. There were no REFORMS THAT LIVE.
Casualties, and the vessel continued on Some of the reforms which he brought her way without much damage having about are concerned with issues which been suffered. The next ship of the same are still alive; in some cases his success company that wished to pass the same was so complete that a later generation spot was however, stopped by the military is in danger of forgetting that the scan-authorities in control of that district, dal over existed. Climbing boys," for and a bill presented to the master for the instance, have ceased to be even a name except to readers of the "Water Babies" cost of the ammunition that had been used in, firing on the previous ship! If but there was no single achievement any of our renders can supply us with a more glaring incident of sheer effrontery, of Shaftesbury's more personal, more dramatic or more characteristic. The we should very much like to know of it. case of the unhappy children employed in sweeping chimneys had been before.the publio for a hundred years before it was Bnally dealt with, and no one can say how much longer the scandal might have endured but for his tireless energy,
If the term "good men" is limited for to philanthropists (a limitation which there is no real justification) the charge of monotony is easier to sustain. Anyone, for instance, who has had o casion to wade through the biography of the great Mr. John Howard (whose cen- tenary we celebrated this year) will find that his previous standard of dullness in Wo find a diflculty in believing that (The the fate which nearly befell Oliver Twist biography was miserably low. phrase, it may be mentioned in passing, was still a possible one in this country is a theft from Sir Francis Doyle, who fifty years ago, and was liable to befall was wont to say, in commenting on children as young se four and a half. Wordsworth's confession that he got The Act which came into force in 1842 drunk in honour of his first visit to the was largely disobeyed, and in 1853, after rooms Milton had occupied as an under-eavoral boys had been burat to death in graduate, "I am afraid that the poet's the process, it was still possible for & standard of intoxication was miserably noble lord (whose chimneys wore among the most unclimbable in the country) to low").
suggest that the Bill then introduced was
"EASE HER; STOP HER: GO ASTERN."
There has been quite a big busi ness recently in shipping motor-cars from Shanghai to Hankow. A few days. aga one car was sent up from Shanghai, The owner had neglected to empty the petrol tank and to shut off the petrol. He also left the gear in reverse. Conse came to move the car from the deck of quently, when the coolies at Hankow the vessel they found themselves con- fronted with unexpected difficulties. They swarmed over the car in their efforts to sea what was wrong, and ong To return to Mr. Howard: his life,
bright youth, evidently of a mechanical a pitiful cant of pseudo-philanthropy." bent, gave the self-starter a vigorous it is true, was consecrated to one pur- pose and contains few episodes, except The Lords were more casily convinced of puch with his foot. The car immediately a marriage with his elderly landlady, the scandal than the Commons, who removed; in fact it moved so strongly and other than those connected with his visits jected the proposal to forbid the employ so quickly that before anyone realized to prisons. But the pitiless fashion in meat of boya under sixteen, and for what was happening it had made its way norosa, the deck and over the side into which these are recorded by his admir twenty years more boys continued to en- ing biographer; the entire absence of any ter the profession at six (a nice details except the bare facts of his distrainable age"), to have their elbows and coveries; the way in which the hero is knees specially hardened by rubbing with described as our unwearied philanthro strong brine, to be bought and sold for the indefatigable traveller." the purpose (Nottingham boys being pist
the painstaking investigator," and the worth most to sell) and to be suffocated like, combine to break down the patience at frequent intervala. It was not till of the most hardened reader. Truly, the 1870. that an annual licence was made author, whose name I have forgotten, compulsory, just a hundred and two was one to whom Lowell's description of yours after the remedy had first been another biographer might be applied. suggested. "He tramples out the last spark of. geniality with the broad damp foot of a hippopotamus.
"A MAKER OF THE 19TH
CENTURY." -
Lord Shaftesbury, whese birthday was April 28th in the year 1801, has been more fortunate than Howard. His official blography, it is truc, is heavy reading, but he has been fortunate in his last bio graphers, Mr. and Mrs. Hammond, who wrote the volume describing him as one of Full particulars and Demonstration the Makers of the Nineteenth Century, "They have done for him something of what Mr. Coupland recently accomplish ed for William Wilberforce, and if their picture is not as attractive the fault lies in the main with their subject, and not with them. Shaftesbury had no sense of humour: his eyes can never have twink led as did those of his great predecessor nor had he any period of youth in any way comparable to those delightful years in which Wilberforce frolicked happily with the younger Pitt, before the latter hed developed into the Heaven-born
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There are some to whom this absence of humour will seem un absolute bar, to greatness. The suggestion is an attrac tive one, but reflection shows that it is at least as hard to draw up a list of men undeniably great who had a real senso of humour ns similar who lacked
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cap to men of action. Could Napolcon have afforded one? And even men of letters, who might be expected to need it more, have been enriously lacking in this direction. Shakespeare is an ex coption to this as to all rules, but it may be doubted whether any other great Eng fish poet except Chaucer and Browning
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In any case, to leave these high levels of speculations, there is no question that the gift of humour WILS one which Shaftesbury did not possess. It is not the characteristic grace of that section of the English Church of which he, was so illustrious member.. On the other hand the Evangelions of England have a noble record of care for the poor. It is far from being a monopoly, for most of the ritual troubles of Queen Victoria's reign arose from the devoted labours in the slums of extreme High Churchmen; the Modernists have, in fact, sometimes: been exhorted by their own prophets to emulate the self-sacrificing devotion of the other two great bodies of English Churchmen
Shaftesbury was what world toda bo called a Fundamentalist, and he 'di not waste on the views of other Chri tians the largs charity which he showed towards the poor. Everyone knows hisz characterisation of Ecce Homo
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from the jaws of hell," and a famoue apecch in which ho declared that he "would rather worship with Lydinky the river side than with a hundred sur pliced priests in the temple of St. Bar-
THE HARROW BOY.
It has only been possible to mention in detail one of the causes to which Shaftes bury devoted his life, but the specimen is as characteristic as it is honourable. The inscription on Harrow Hill, which talis how the shocking spectacle of a pauper's funeral stirred him as a boy to devote his life to the poor, records an important event in English history, and the day is worthy to be compared to that other day when Mr. John Howard moun- ted his horse and rode off into the neigh- bouring county to see whether there, was any real excuse for letting gaolers make profit out of their prisoners.
It is not unduly fanciful to say that Mr. Howard, the High Sheriff of Bed- fordshire, never returned from that ride, but continued it, as Howard the philan- thrapist, to, the day of his death, just as the Harrow boy of fourteen who was going down the Hill had changed in a moment into the great Lord Shaftesbury whose name will be remembered as long as London stands.--Evening Standard.
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Hongkong Observatory, June 14th,
Previous On DatejOn Data
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the turbid waters of the Yangtze. And Barometer the name of the vehicle that is able to Temperaturs do all of this of its own accord? Wild Haudity horses would not drag it from us-N.-C. Wind Diretion... Daily News.
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(STANDARD TIME OF THE 120TH MERIDIAN, EAST OF GREENWICH).
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE, From June 15th to 21st, 1928,
HIGH WATER.
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Tues.
Wed.
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Standard
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2 29 m 11 196 &
3 7 m
Noinferion High m 11 64 01 Thur, 17 Neinterior High
Fr.
0.3856
18 Noinferior High 0466 3-1
/ 7.08
12
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17th.
7.00
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77
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18th...
5.39 19
7.00
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7.09
20th.
..5.39
7.10
13
21st
..0.30
7.10 1.
22nd
5.39
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7.10
rd.
..5.40
7.10.
33
24th.
5:40
7.10
17
25th.
..B.40
7.11
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goth.
5.40
*7.11
Sun.
27th.
.5.41
7.11
28th.
1.3.4%
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goth.
..5.11
7.11. 7.11
Man 21 m 69
30th.
..8:41
7.11
Batur 19m 5:49
3 14 4 205-18 447
Height
h. m. ft. in.
454
7.89
nor Low Water
8 33 1 4
nor Low Water
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