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Why Not.

"Slúe bows."

Lusilania' Navy,

An Appol

"Of all the World's Great Heroes,"

England Sober."

!! Fair Wafer:"

The Elixir of Life.

"A Little Knowledge"

Malica Afose bought..

The Last Post.

Meetings:-

Legislative Council.

United Singapore Rubber Estates, Ltd. 186 Star Ferry Co, Ltd. - The Yingises Insurance Association, Ld. Senawang Rubber Estates Co, Ld The Cathay Trusi, Ld.

Legal Intelligence

An Absent Plaintif

The Indo Watchman Murder. The Des Voeux Road Armed Robbey. Decoying A Child.

Police:-

The Kowloon Shooting Case.

Sa'sure of Arms.

Correspondence: --

Ao Appeal,

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-

Notes by the Way

Waglin Lighthouse.

Licensing Board,

The Rubber Bubble,

Parsing of King Edward,

Suppression of Upiom.

Botanic Gardens.".

Bu Asamanber Co..........

Kuala Selan or Rubber,..

· St. Joseph' Collega.

The King's Death,

"The O. S. K and the Pacific Conference

The Rubaiyat of the Futuro.

Marine Court Case,

Pokfulam Reservoir.

Fire at MacAO.

The Late King Edward VII,

Port of Chinwangtan

Hlicit Clandu,

Typhoon Warning,

Cantan Day by Day.

talley's Comet.

Bbangbal River Fatality.

Empire Diy.

Sir Chen Tung.

City of Changsha.

PROF. Gold Mining Co., Ltd.

Merlimau,

A Manchurian Assembly, “Some Cuiners Custome

Post Office Depatment.

The Shanghai Volunteers,

Kota Tinggi Rubber, Hongkong Prison, Bubber Kamits..

· Commercial :—

Weekly Share Report.

-- Freight Markét..

Yarn Market.

Hallina, Exchange.

Local and Genoral.

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On May 9, 1:15 at Shangbai, to the Res, and Mr. C. F. McRae, a sou (Cameron Farquhar} On May 10, 1910, at Shanghai, to Mr and Mrs. G. Burton Sayer, a daughter.

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recommend that whatever be done to him be done with a club. We rather-ic commend gentleness, and would even go further, and suggest that he be listened to with at least outward patience. It is a fact that even an officer administering a govern ment is a man, and therefore liable to err, and it is not unknown that "out of the mouth of babes and Bucklings" words of truth and wisdom have been heard. A story is told of the late Sir John Peter Grant, who, when Governor of Jamaica, had many difficult vexed questions to settle. He had beco suffering from fever, and is sequelae, and the doctor had enjoined strict regularity.in medicine, very little office work, and plenty of quiet and rest. Ideal proscription for a harassed Governori Yet ir John Peter Grant found it almost impossible in obey. The problem of the hour was beforodhim, and the vexed question: "What was to be done," was flanked by the usual hideous array of What was not to be done," and the like. In spite of the protesis of his entourage he was accessible to the many cooks, so called or self-called experts, and amateurs, who on sach occasions always come to help to make or spoil the pudding. One cruelly hot noon one of these was detailing at great length to 'the weary pallid Governor his views and What he would do." etc. Sir John's accre tary had repeatedly interrupted, hoping to bring the interview to an end, but in vain. At last in hopeless disgust he went to Lady Grant, pointing out with "winged words" that she and Her Majesty's faithful and loyal Colony of Jamaica preferred a dead Governor now was their chance, they had only to alio that variously adverbed wicked person in there to talk their poor.chief to death. Lady Grant intervened and with success, for she got rid of the tire some visitor and then inquired from Sir John why in the world he had listened with patient attention to the views of a fool on such a question. The Governor replied that it was because it was especially desirable to know what fools thought about that particular question. History tells no word of the fool's views afterwards, but we imagine that when the Governor had made up his mind and had taken action, or not taken action, ac-

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cordingly, the fool probably went about say. ing: "Why didn't he take my advice? Why didn't he do so and so and so and so?" Why not? Because that patient listener and very wise adesinistrator knew things, many things, which the fool did not. Because there, were other factors, unknown to the fool and even to many wise men, but all carefully consider. ed by the Governor. It is not only fools who cry Why not?" there are many wise men who, unaware of all the facts of a fase, are, of course, liable to make mistaken judgments, Starting from a wrong hypothesis, they proceed with perfectly trae reasoning triumphantly to arrive at a perfectly wrong conclusion. Had they only known these facts, they would have clearly understood why not." The vast majority of men are neither wholly wise nor fools They-we had better say we are of imagination all compact," we reason more or less imperfectly on data more or less sufficient, and more or less im. we must govern our reasoning and our ac top by certain general laws, mental, moral and social, such, for instance, as will restrain a Governur from Napoleonic arbitrariness, or a Minister from vigorously adopting the "" gunboat policy," or trying to partition China, or an editor from deserving imprison- ment for criminal libel All these great and important personages may do things far leri heinous, but which are productive of regrettable. consequences. An error of judgment commilled by an administration may cause trouble for years, The, careless, though not criminal, garrulity of a newspaper may cause needless pain to many, arouse ili-feeling to be afterwards allayed with difficulty. For what we say and what we write is as potent for human tribulation as what we do. "Why do you not remaik upon such a matter, or public man; why are

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the side-show. The mere fact that more cope with the evil, have done much to educate all the Instances of creditable and think. At first sight, the alluring conclusion people go rather to enjoy the side show than official opinion, and the present Provincial even splendid conduct on the part of all. probents itself that England is at Inst to be improved by the main show does not Authorities are not unwilling to establish a The third mate noticed a life-boat some getting sober, and that without any more make such expedients immoral or ridiculous. Provincial Asylum. While they, and their considerable distance away being badly marked interference with personal liberty thao Be we have become accustomed to under radical It is only when the main show is connected successors, and probably their successors' handled and evidently in distress. with something great, something above descendants are still considering the matter, jumped into the sea to swim to the under- Government. Spirits alone declined in con- even removing sumption by four million sight hundred thou ordinary expedients, that one is painfully an institution, unique in China, founded by officered boat without

This he must have pre-sand pounds. Now we know that this fall in the impressed by the adoption of auch mere that noble old man, the late Dr. John G. his boots. tricious means of attraction. One would Kerr, will continue to carry out his nest sently regretted, for he only reached amount of our drink bill is not due to say fall not care to see a Music Hall attached work, the crown of a laborious and useful his goal after a terrible struggle, in which he in price (which, human nature being what it. as a side-show to the British Museum, or life, the care of the insane at Canton in the pearly lost his life. But there appears to usis, might rather have operated the other "the Great Wheel" a part of the Bouse light of modern medical knowledge. The one most fine and admirable trait, though way) for, if anything, prices were higher in of Commons, or the Olympi kuing Rink Refuge for the insane at Canton receives indeed where all were fine and admirable, 1909 than in 1908. It is difficult to resist part of Westminster Abbey. Now there the strong support of the local Authorities, it seems invidious so specially to designate the conclusion that as a fact a smaller is nothing wrong in a Great Wheel, and and well it may. Dr. Selden, the Superin- even the ladies. What can be said of them quantity of alcohol was drunk. It is also very a skating-rink used to make "Olmypia" tendent, tells us that patients from places in that does not sound inadequate? Hurried plain thatthe average drink bill per head of the very attractive in by gone years. There is China as distant at Chinking and Tientsin, to the boats without being given time jo population has diminished by three stillings no harm in these things, but there is harm, not to speak of the Southern Coast Ports, most cases to collect evcu a change of and four pence farthing. We wish we had in incongruity. If a newspaper were to send patients to this, the one Lunatic clothing, nay, even a head-covering, they more figures and more facts provided us. For attempt to run a little Bethel as a sideshow, Asylum in China. Dr. Selden rightly la of set an example of stoical patience and instance it would be very useful to know, by We feel a glow of means of comparative tables whether con it might get the little Bedlapites as sub-opinion that "every Province ought to have implicit obedience. scribers, but it would lose all others, besides its own institution of this kind." No pride in the conduct of these people. victions for drunkenuces have proportionate Irritating all the rival Bethels We have doubt in time every Province will, but They behaved boonily, as indeed Australiantly decreased, as also all forme of crime be traced to liquor as the we have to think of the present. This Col- always seem to do. We have never been in which can before now expressed our admiration of that

CRUSO. We should also like to have bonny fighter and most able of organizers ony is in debt to Dr. Kerr's Asylum. Pauper that country, but the people there are our.

cwn.kinsfolk and sib; they are of the blood statistics from infirmaries" and hospitals · Sir R. S. Baden-Powell, and especially of lunatics are being constantly sent back, to

18 to diseases and deaths caused by his latest, and perhaps the most enduring Canton from Hongkong, which otherwise of our dear England, and prove it on such and noblest of all his achievements, the Boy would be saddled with numbers of them. occasions as these, Witness the generosity iriak during the years under notice. Scout movement. It is beyond all praise, Sometimes as many as ten lunatics arrive in and hospitality shown to these shipwrecked Valuable information could be given by The measure of our enthusiasm for boy. Canton at a time, déported from Hongkong, people by the country folk from all round various temperance societies, the Good scouting may then be taken as the measure The Colonial Government sends them, to the place where they landed.. At least in tale remplars, the League of the Cross, and others. Ve are not greatly concerned at the alleged of our sorrow and disappointment at finding Canton, care of His Majesty's Consul Empire ruled by George V. (whom. God them degraded in Hongkong to the level of General, who forwards them to the Chinese save), blood is thicker than water, and we tous to the revenue caused by the diminished a side-show of a side-church at Kowloon. Authorities with a note "Please receive ten feel ours glow with gratified pride when we consumption of alcohol in Great Britain. lunatics from Hongkong and kindly ack-read of the unselfishness of these gallant That three shillings and four pence far Can nothing be done?

nowledge receipt.". The Canton officials now Australians, We repeat, however, that the thing saved per head will bring a return 'to send on these unhappy beings to the Re- conduct of the women is the most pleasant the country in many ways. We object to fuge. Formerly their fate was too dreadful to think upon. Women are in many ways, committing robbery with violence upon the The Portuguese are a small nation, but for us to attempt to describe in these co of course, inferior to men, and there revenue. We object to force in this matter, lumns. In our edition of last Saturday we is nothing in this fact to pala any one it was Archbishop Magee who said he would rather see' England free than England they have an unforgettable history: The ear- liest of European mariners to brave the ter published an interesting memorandum by Dr. or to be contradicted by anyone except a tors of the African coast, they surpassed Selden, in which he gives us details of the decadent or a suffragette. But there are sober. And here it would seem we ought to explain what the pious and learned pre- Hanno the Carthaginian's explorations in work in progress and of present and qualities of mind and character in which

We must emphasize the woman is unquestionably fioer than man. Fate. meant, and what we mean when wo vessels less seaworthy probably than his, and future, needs. greatly daring, fey, rounded Cape Hope, usefulness of the Refuge by calling particu- We do not go so far as to believe the agree with him. The principle of freedom and were the first in discover the sea-lar attention to the fact that of 139 patients somewhat rueful declaration of a good old is that there can be no temperance in the Henry the Navigator admitted, as many as 97 were discharged parish priest in England who interested his true sense, except where a man is free to cured, or 40 per cent. No wonder the congregation by informing them that when drink and he deliberately refuses to do so. and Vasco da Gama had followers and suc

Until the days of steam and huge. docter describes the aim of this hospital as they, if any of them, got to Heaven, they Freedom is the power to do, not what censors. ironclad the Portuguese Navy was respect"a part of the love born work of God for would find hardly any men there, but nearly ulher people think right, but what they think wrong, and true love of liberty is shown ed for its power and efficiency, and now that man." We endorse this, for surely such all the blessed inhabitants would be women. we learn that with the thorough re-organiza- effort by man must be part of His work and There was a distinct shiver down the back by that attitude of mind which will permit tion of her modern Navy Portugal intends 10 wish. A sum of $30,000 is needed to put of many long black coats at this serious others to do that which one disapproves of establish an entirely new and up to-date the Refuge in position 10 meet the in- prospect. We are really of opinion, bow and has power to forbid. Mill, wrote long Fleet; we hear the news with nothing but creasing demands on it. The community ever, that in some of the higher powers go that the worth of a State in the long

At present the Portuguese of ongkong has always been generous in a

compared run is the worth of the individuali "compos fleet enjoys the prestige due to its glorious good cause, and we feel sure that the appeal with us purblind men, extraordinarily ing it. If as it seems England is getting past, and shortly is will have in addition that made by HB.M. Consul-General, Canton, gifted, and that there is no denying the fact sober of herself and if her people kiren by areal guns and mighty ironclads and supported. by the United States that wherever patient endurance, silent cour will only save her freedom from the She will not have as many Résuce or Consul General, will and a lavish answer age, and self-denial, as well as self-sacrificing socialistic Jacobins who are sailing it, Italy, but enough to not merely defend her here. Several showsand dollars are urgently usefulness even to death, are needed in awe shall have cause to rejoice indeed, shores, but make her flag respected and and immediately needed by the Refuge a good cause, women are unsurpassed. We for with freedom and sobriety and all the These small fleets are appears from Dr. Selden's memorandum need not search "far for historical examples. blessings they bring, we shall have no caure her Colonies secure. not to be despised. In time of collision he which, with H.B.M, Consul General's sp. All of us know by heart the stirring lale of so fear for Britain's future and that of her tween great Powers even one small fleet peal, we published on Saturday. Remit the heroines of the Mutiny, of the Crimea, children. But we must not begin to con might be used by the nation it belonged to tances may be sent to Dr. Selden, Superin- of Coomassie, of Peking, of a hundred ratulate ourselves too soon! Our freedom in in order to drive a profitable bargain with one tendent of the John G. Kerr Refuge for other places overshadowed by Death's still in grievous danger and in face of thes of the combatants, and in an hour of distress Insane Canton, or to H.B.M. Congul-Gen-wing, and racked with bumao pain, very insufficient statistics we are not at all. It might enforce it at the cannon's mouth.eral, who kindly expresses his willingness to There is a hardly a man who cannot call sure that Great Britain is really sober yet. Brazil, Argentina and Chile, have small hut give further particulars and reports to any who to mind some instance in his personal ex- very powerfil and efficient fleela, Time was desire them. Io considering this claim on perience. A story is told of a Hongkong. when even the proud United States hesitat

our practical sympathy we lay stress on two lady who was roused one very early morning ed to attack Chile on account of her fleet, facts-that the unfortunates deported from on a mail boat by an alarm of fire. She was We British look with something more than this Colony are sent to that Refuge, without old she had only a few minutes in which to criminals or allowed to perish in the streets and that in that Refuge not only are two hundred and fifty of Nature's step children humanely and even lovingly cared for, but that every year one hundred fellow human beings (last year it was ninety-seven) are brought back from the realms of miser able delusion, from agony peopled with dreams, and are restored to the sweetness of sunity and the kindly world of seasoning mich,

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of the soul, Women #re

On May 12, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs perfectly understood. That heing the case, complacency on the increase in size. and which they would be flung into a prison with get ready and to go on deck. Her cabin com.

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MARRIAGE.

On May 12, cio, ot Shanghai, Charles Garden Kirk to Phnene hincdonald, only daughter of A. G. E. Lappare of Shangbai, late of Yokohama.

DEATHS." Esmeralda Leopoldina, Ozmin Sequeira, saus Filhas, Limað. Genres e Cachados com progenie "magoa prticipani a tados eru parentes pessoas de suas reli ço: o falleci- mento do seu chorado esposo, pre,.irmeð, sogin B. cuchado. ERNESTO FEDRO SEQUEIRA, Occarside bostem, 8 de maio, pelas 9.30 horas

"de nolta em Shanghal."

At Shanghai, on May 7, 1910, Ralph Bourke, Sub-furpector, Shangbai Police Force, Aged 55 years.

At Shanghvi, at 3.40 pām, un May 10, 1920) M.W.Teiffenberg,

On the 13th May, at the Government Civil Hospital, Hangkorg, ANDREW CASRY, Of Motherwell, Scotland, late Master of the 1,^. Hing Zes. Aged 49.

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On May 11, 1910, at Shanghai, Eleanor Rogars, the beloved wife of James Shaw, Rogers, aged 33 years.

Accidentally drowned at Shanghai, on May 22, 1910, David Marshall Hay, aged so years, Master of the tug Gulsing.

efficiency of the argosick of our old friend and ally, lait Lusitania. We hope a rumour vague but persistent, that the already loved and wholly charming young king of a brave sailor poeple may become. still more nearly and dearly allied to us by the nearest and dearest of family ties, will prove trac.

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AN APPEAL, (16th May.)

panion rushed up in her night attire, but not so that lady from Hongkong, who in a twink ling dressed herself and appeared, jewel-case and letter case in hand, cool and ready for

ENGLAND SOBER"

THE ELIXIR OF LIBBE

His late Majesty, and that sweet and gracious Queen la whose mourning we all share so deeply, always showed a great solicitude for sose who suffer from incurable diseases, as- pecially can or. The sad fate of one whoʻls loomed to a lingering death through months years of pain deserves the enthusiasm with hich generations of physicians and surgeons

The average increase in the length of humo

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bergies in discovering radicat and infallible anything. The fire proved, like that on the are applied their intellects and devoted their Goeben last week, not to be dangerous specifics for westling and devonsing discalde, after all. When her scantily-clad cabiù com-uch as consumption, cancer, etc. The whole panion expressed wonder and admiration at world now is talking about Dr. Dayen, who the calmness of our Hongkong lady, the claims to bare catablished the fact that he has latter remarked simply that if she had to be really discovered a certain care for cancerous. drowned she preferred to be drowned tidily growths to all except their latest and fatal "All forms of human suffering call forth the

and decently, and properly dressed, in stages, and for several kinds of fevers and dia- "Ries of the respiratory organs. Indeed the a lot of latter klud of diseno together with all ailments mands our commiseration; insanity excites "OF ALL THE WORLD'S 'GREAT steady of undressed before

people! His present Majesty very shortly of the digestive organs are said to be certaid to compassion of the charitable; blindness.de- our shuddering pity. In recent years a great

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before his accession conveyed his-sympathy-disappear from amongst marking under thin advance has been made in the care and even

to the relatives of the late Miss Isla Stewart, new treatment, which, moreover, arrests all the cure of the mentally efflicted, and by We frequently hear that the race is Matron of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Hemicrobio sickness, luduenza, colds in the bend, no civilized Nation of Europe or America degenerating, and that the men and women said that, he had known Miss Stewart for etc., and indeed acts as a preventive for so many of the ills that flesh is beir to, that if tekna are such cruel and repulsive practices to- of to-day are deficient in the physical cour. lerated as flogging, starving and incarcerating age and self-control which distinguished the some years, and fully realized what a great in time it will arrest decay, and prolong life ta 'i hat indeed they a limit far beyond that at the ordinary span. in dark cells those whose minds have become heroes of the Crimea and the Mutiny, and power for good she was, you so chary of showing him up? We reply darkened, who are scourged with the phari- those who will be remembered in English His-are, she and her like. It is only a few years as gently as we may, that there are many

toms of diseased Imagination, are starving tory for ever as the men of the "Birkenhead Ro since a French nursing sister who had life were all buman beings to be treated by Dr..

nursed in military hospitals and tended the Doyen's "mycolysine," or "germ-dissolvent methods in journalism which may commend for kindness, and are imprisoned by bars drill." The soldiers and marines of that ship wounded soldiers of France in every war for would be from fifteen to twenty years. Of Singapore and Manila papara please copy: 'themselves to rougher and less civilized more awful for being cerebral and unseen. had indeed learned their drill. Obedient the past fifty years was decorated with the course i ndmidi-tered to a young and hea'thy subject it would reader him immune to almost In some half-civilized countries lunatics to the word of command they stood at their

Miss Florence Night toxicillotsss, and would put of degeneration communities. We think that to drag the arcana of a public man's personal life before when harmless are semi-contemptuously posts and bravely sank in silence, that all neile and all her su the gaze of the curious is not a public ser regarded as under Heaven's special guidance the women and children might be saved. ingale and all her successors under the Royal of tissue for so long that he might not woren- On May 17, 1910, at Shanghai, Mario Louise,

enormous age of one bundred and fifty or two vice. We are. controlled by one of those and, protection. When at all troublesome Wa rejoice in the stern test of discipline and Red Cross are deservedly honoured both in sonably be expected to attain the, in our eyes, hoodred years. With the medial aspect of beloved wife of the Rev. Walter Robbins, C.M.geffèral laws above referred to. So in re

they are looked upon as devil-possessed, manliness to which, not soldiers, but sailors peace and war...

this claim we are not competent to deal. We S., Nipgpo...

ferring to the past or present, the private, and are tortured with a view to the expul and civilians were put in the recent wreck of

can only consider it in the light of our limited hidden life of men in great place should not

sion of the demon. It is very hard to say the Pericles. Letters and papers from West

knowledge, bearing in mind our repeatedly be vulgarized, but remain private, as for as

on what principle our own forefathers used Australia tell us the whole story. It has, in

xcited hopes and repeated disappointments. (17th May,) may be hidden, and surely unspoken of the whip and the straw-strewn cell. Pro- it nothing of the agonizing tragedy of the

With regard to the latter we may admit at ouca This is peculiarly to be observed with rebably it was partly a survival of a demono Birkenhead disaster. It is a secord of com Statistics, they say, may be made to prove that they have given us canin to reject, not ference to the Rulers of Nations, for it is logical belief, partly ignorance, and partly piete success in saving life. But the success anything. With a little skilful juggling Mr. without comtempt, every big thing in medi written that we should not "speak evil of the brutality of the age. It is said that the was entirely due to the exercise of those B can make a table of figures prove or appear cips on first hearing, On the other hand, such Chinese are two hundred years behind us.in qualities which we so admire and respect to prove the exact opposite of what Mr. A promises fulfilled as Jonker's, and Pastacı's, certain of the casentials of civilization, such in those who gave their lives for others in makes them out to prove. Many facts are such triumphs as anti-toxin in the treatment of as altruism. If so, and we think it is so, the Birkenhead, and the slightest panic or needed to be known, understood and care- diphtberis, while not disarming our prejudice, all three of these causes would still operate shirking might have caused a dreadful loss fully considered with relation to each other is for these new inventions, or asertions of laventions, at least our altanilon, Such won- Many of us will remember the disgusted in China in maintaining needlessly harsh of life. The Pericles was apparently in and to the figures given before any conclu dersin medicine and surgery have been achieved disappointment with which when children and heartless treatment of the diseased in perfect safety. She was about six miles sion may justly be arrived at concerning the within the past thirty years that erns such an 20• we made the discovery that an ethibition or mind. Their condition is indeed in most away from Cape Leeuwia off the Southera real meaning of the past history and present nonocement as Dr. Doyen's may not miterly be some such affair to which we had been

cases appallog. Poverty has much to do coast of Western Australia. The weather and future effect of those figures. We have pooh-poobed. Though we have not forgotten taken was in reality intended for one's "im with this disease; it is frequently its cause, was fair, and though a heavy swell had heard a radical Cabinet Minister defend his the sorry fiasco of Dr. Koch's lymph for tub re provement" rather than entertainment. And and is always a ghostly aggravation of afflicted many passengers with sea-sickness, Government's starvation of the Nary by culosis, (not that the failure or the disappoint. lauraed physician) por the unfoläiment, so far, some will remember, 100, the ecstasy of the it. When a Chinese pauper becomes the ata was not rough, Very suddenly, at adducing statistica which according to him mert were due to any the until past, fa discovery that after all it wasn't a total sell, madman his lot is unspeakable. The kind-half past thres in the afternoon, the ship triumphantly proved that the British Navy of the amazing prophecies made at the time of the exhibition wasn't all machinery, and didly and charitable among the people and struck an uncharted submerged rock, and was three times stronger than it had any the discovery of the Rontgen or X rays, and not consist only of whirrjog wijecle and we beg our readers to understand that many though the captain headed her for shore business to be. Patriotic opponents of that the bogus miracles said to be worked by whizzing straps, but in odd rooms for an Chinese are most kind-hearted and pitiful to the hope of beaching her, she filled Minister would have liked to have him beradium, we think it possible that Dr. Doyen extra threepence one could see an Austrian others--do what they can for these unhappy rapidly. No wonder; her three holds in the headed on Tower Hill for bigh treason, for has got hold of something good" It is very on examination they alleged that they dis- unlike a real French man of science, though rather like the "stage" Frenchman of melo giant, or a conjurer, and outside there was a outcasts, but there are many reasons why forward part were torn right open. The very delectable switchback. As we grew this is bound to be very little. There is, engineers and every one in the engine room covered proof from those same figures that drama to coms before the public boasting of an older we realized that the plain fact is for one thing, the native dread of responsi and stoke-hold stayed at their posts and had the, British Navy was only one-third of infallible cura-sil er fils-prelonger. French that such exhibitions, intended primarily bility, which will make a man fear lest he be already made up their minds that they had its proper strength and about half that physicists and chemists of to-day pra for the improvement either of the pubile saddled with an additional encumbrance to to die, when, about twenty-five minutes after which even the radical admitted was neces- very grave and reticent men and are critical mind or of someone's or some town's private provide for. Individual effort therefore is the ship'e striking the rock, the Captain sary for safety. When therefore we rend purse or interest," could never be made to are in China in relieving the sufferinge of called them all up. He and they were only that during isst year the total expend pay without the assistance of the switchback this unhappy class. An insand member of just in time. Fourteen life-bosts full of ture on alcoholic liquors had decreased by or the Hungarian Bard, or the illuminated poor family is likely to endure every con people had to row in the quickly falling nearly five million ains hundred thousand gardens, etc.; in fact, without the side show. ceivable variety of human Ill. The native dunk to distant coast. It would be pounds as compared with rgos, we are of the liumrated sixpenny magician with the to in Rielf there is nothing to bo said against cliaritablo antociáileur of Canton, unable to tediou, if it were got superduque' to relato espiquely pucaled as to what we ought to Inventions

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Jongkong telegraph Dignities."

MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS,

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1910,

WHY NOT.

(14th May.)

How often we hear some well-meaning people cry: "Why don't they take action, vigorous action? If I were in their place I know what I'd do." He then proceeds to. relate in detail would he would up and all he would do if he held the position of, say, the Officer Administering the Government, of His Majesty's Minister la Peking, or the Viceroy of India or even the editor of a newspaper. With confident voice he lays down the law for judges, prescribes plans of action vigorous indeed, but of an arbitrari- news which would have staggered, or only Just not have staggered, Buonaparte, ho dictates articles of hair lifting outspoken ners which would surely land our poor editor in gaol. In dealing with him and others of his kind we do not

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"SIDE-SHOW!"

to the verge of cantankerousness. There is absolutely nothing bysterical of overkastily 'many wall-adva tising British and Americans sanguine about them. They do not, like too of to-day, rush on the wild bayral to the pag