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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH.

SHORT STORY,

THE PILGRIM.

BY

FRANCIS HILL.

mute encouragement. In the rear, the mouse coloured intule pony, crouching with ramp to the storm, waited till they had got a few left alone. Then, with u shrill fest abead; till he felt himself whinny of distress, he would trot forward, head down and eyes closed to a mere slit, to resume the old position nearer at hand..

EXTRA

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1913, 4.30 P.M.

of

me at once?

SHAKING UP THE

BITISHER

"An Australian Suggestion for Building a Race of Stalwarts.

Some extremely interesting

WORLD STUDENT MOVEMENT.

Mr. Bryce and Dr. Mott on Missions.

...

The feelings which animated the King in giving the dinner are expressed in the following lettor, which was read by the Hon. Sir Derek Korpel, Master of the Household, who presided at tho representative of bis Ma- jesly

York Cottage, Sandringham. It is a great pleasure to me

Star-Star?" cried the girl. on. And ever fiercer and faster also seathed the singing blizzard.

Star, spelled Davy. Only, now its power to annoy

Notwith She all but caught him by the him was on the wave.

"Ob, please hurry! want atanding the supreme physical arm. exertion, his blood gradually to be taken to him at once!" obilled, a wonderful, delicious Davy swayed back and forth

Mr. Bryce presided on Novem apathy crept softly over him. He on his widespread, hugely brog-

Cannon-atrees Hotel in honour of this, with sheep on every side. out toward the foot-hills-that physical training in English Dr. John R. Mott general that you who, under Mossra. Lea was in the midst of the rout by aned feet. It's thirty-odd miles suggestions as to the extension of ber 4, at a luncheon given at the But still be persevered, even there camp," he observed. He schools will be found in the view, secretary of the World's Student lie and Co., have worked together while his drowsy eyelids met and blinked up at the sky. "An' two would not again drag open. o'clock in the afternoon, an of Lieutenant-Colonel O. B. Christian Federation, who is on a well and cheerfully during the past three months should be as Petersen which are given below. visit to this country.

Mr. Bryce described Dr. Mott sembled here this evening to Then came the moment when mebbe threatenin' snow."

as one of the few people who were celebrate the successful complet he could no longer heave up a "I must go to him!" "insisted Colonel Petersen is the director

I must! I've been of physical training in the Aus prophets in their own country, on of your labourd.

I congratulate you upon an On the dull londeu murning sheep. Futile but unconquered, the gizi, the ninth of January, he started he dropped to his kucas and hunting him for six months." tralian military forces. He is a His work was valued from the his sheep out as usual, letting pressed against the wethers with She fastened on Davy with en-keen apostle of the benefits of Atlantic to the Pacific in North achievement remarkable both in

testing eyes. "Is it a matter of

in the Eastern as well as the execution. You have raised what them drift a little in southeast is numb bands....

That was truly an extraordinary money?" She showed him her physical culture, having been America, but all over the world, handicraft and in rapidity of of clotit arched low unt gray and year in western-central Montana. head-bag, with bank notes in it convinced of them by the practic-Western hemisphere, there was is acknowledged to be a distinct erly dietion. "Opaque, banke heavy to the air horizon. But In Figeye Basin, practically no and a check-book. I can pay." al experience of Australia. He no nome which would so soon architectural improvement in "It ain't a matter of money," Dow visiting European open the bearts and command the London, and a worthy addition to the pilgrim bad so often seen rain fell all spring and summer. the threaten thus before, and The wild bay failed absolutely, asid Davy.

countries and America to study confidence of Christian workers the Empire's memorial to Queen noluing come of it, that he did

baked and split open. the runge

"I knew it wasn't!" she de- the methods of training in vogue and students as that of Dr. Mott. Victoria.

Dr. Mot, speaking an "Moral There is ono sad thought that not hesitate. Nothing, he had under the hot eye of the sun.

clared brightly. "Then you'll send there, and the account which he

gives of the Australian system and Religions Forces in Modern sannot escape us this evening The show burned like white

Bow long come to believe, would

And if no rain fell in spring!

and his references to the state of Student Life," declared that more namely, the absence of a comrade hot barbs, the wind swirled by..

Davy ruminated, measuring affairs in England contain valu studeals in Russia committed who unfortunately lost his life, heavy as a mill-race. In the be-ever Lappen in the work again.

He had no thought left of either and summer, neither did the snow come with the advent of winter.

Have you able material for those who are suicide thin in all the rest of the in the discharge of his duties. ginning the pilgrim was not so

hope or fear..

On the eighth day of January, her up and down. much troubled by the cold as by

Ea, giving the sheep to his dog, not a flake had yet drifted down. got any idea at all, raise," he in fighting an uphill battle for the universiti a in the world. There the drowning EODse of suffcoation,

in English tion--stndents without a formally though always, of course, the cold and flinging himself down on the The for-Eastota owners of the quired, "that this here rangin' better recognition of the value of was a tragedy in the whole situ

expressed religion, tough pro- had its terrible and inescaphie bare ground, he opened his "ob Pigars Basin Sheep Company about by yourself over the sht 3p physical culture sting. But, even for an instant, eud began, as always, wrote Davy Jones optimistic let-country might perhaps be the schools.

"When the Federation of the foundly interested in religion. he steadfastly refused to tag bis to read. Notwithstanding that be ters. Knowing he had no bay, least tills dangerous?"

"I've risked everything to find Australian States was completed," Happily the federation ba latarted we felt their movement in Russia, and bead. The collie, finding some knew the book halt by beurt, he they teepught him to remember protection under the sheep, read intently, only throwing out the grid and appropriate axiom him," simply replied the girl. said Cok nel Petergen,

And now I know he's here." that it was an excellent oppor- would do anything they were tions and our history aaye,

Dr. Mett went instinctively kept well in. For on cocasional quick, Besping of the wind and the shorn lamb.

She had a certain air of powertunity to advance the cause of permitted to lo man and horse and sheep there glance-over the wand, which led On receipt of each one of these was no protection, and a thick is quietly below him on a bench. hopeful letters, Davy, whoes thick and importance, and Davy resent-of physical training, as the on to say that he was confidently because she is fundamentally In regard to the church, the Presently, becoming deeply en-brown hair was graying with fully began to feel a new breath Defence Department could ad- expecting some of the federation's religious." grossed in his hero a patient shifts worry, would rage and curse past of responsibility on his own ac-vocate a universal system for the best work would be done in the

An agreement was Turkish Empire within the next institutional agent of our relig and series, he did not look up human belief. If he couldn': count. I reckon you're not bis States.

eventually arrived at by which few years, if Christians not only ious life, we are fairly wall agreed ravid up hay somewhere Lafore sister?" he grunted.

"I'm his fances-his sweet the State Educational Depart- saw the opportunity but seized it, that under varied forms and ex teach a The opportunity was now greater pressions we are to live together the snow flow, either with money ar Winchesters!and so on, in!

in the with mutual tolerance. And we heart-his girl. "We were engagmente undertook to so on.

ed to be married; I broke the egrriculum prescribed by the than before the war On the eighth day of January ngagement" She waved her Commonwealth Defence Depart Balkans, and the work must be ato beginning to learn to be more "And mert on condition that we sent largely done by Anglo-Saxons than tolerant; damely, to recog- perhaps the most extraordinary and toward the horizon.

were fully competent to teach the one of the thres best educated expressed in any one form or in briskly oil before a vigorous, kesu thing of all occurred. No nowe left-like this. It was my men to the various States who As regards the Far East, Japan,aize that the whole truth is not teachers. It became my duty nations of the world, was leading the keeping of any one body; windwich culle strive). But, at the home ranch, | fault."

His LOUS. a lady did a marvellously young Davy ruminated and awayed. then to select these man and to the Orient; bat was it leading it that we must move toward one in the nuithwest.

uiffing and queasy, stood pickel-tanuliful and delicate-mannered

Well, as it happens," he pro give them a course of training into pathe of materialism and maili-another, not only tolerantly, but Iu snother two lady; each a crea ure is gross duced at last, "my reg'lar camp. Sixteen men, were selected, all tariem, or should pure Christian sympatheticayed that

We are agreed if this od uour by. bounds he was in the raddle, and sheep-smelling Pigere could jerking up the picker pia as be never even have dreamed of tender is an old man. He's here, Army officers ranging from lieul-ity be brought to bear on the

veneer soon made them one with

the whitening earth. The boy's straggled silky board became in crusted as with steel. But always for some minutes--not till he felt he strove violently and unhead slash of icy particles of snow in ingly on, with a strength; lure face.

That effectually roused him which ho bad Lever afore

With a bound lie was on his fcat, dreamed.

watching his wethers moving

Suddenly he paused for a second, peared ahead into the snow. Look-why, what was this? Had not the band turned inward on itself? Were coftheso the leaders, stolidly and obstinate ly boating their way rearward, rails to the storm? What what? But no, it couldnt be! Why, Ian. only for the dorsoness of the storm, the correl where they had folded for even weary months lay plain in view! They must be able to smell it! And yet, would not the unnatural, stupid bites

battle u little on?

As first he could not be sure,

blur.

Buow,

A

pro-

ku' I reckon I could sure-trust

enough, so far as that goes."

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an' it's comin' strong."

"I'm from New England," smiled the girl. "I've seen enow before."

"

Training The Cadets.

SHORT SERMON.

A keen student of our institu

"Britain has done great things.

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That menne not only every

Au eseu en badShe ravished the whole maneh by him to take you out, all"safe chants to majors, and they were future lenders of that nation spirit of religion is to remain sent to Melbourne University for with such wisdom and nil vital and fit us for great thinga, stezed un instant to wave Alec un her mere s'im, girlsh presence

training in anatomy, physiology, equacy that the leadership would we must neither express nor give far ahead. But by the time he on the place.

“Then what is it ?" demanded chemistry, physics, psychology, be changed into pesce and gond-heed to vile slanders aboat one "I'm looking for a young man,"

the girl.

pedagogics, and hygiene Instead will? It rested with the Christian another. In this respect, we are and the colle had gut the abeop

ale frankly told Davy Jones rounded up, with their reluctant

"It's snow, miss-that's what of being merely military men tudent move.annt in Japan more just now striving against one noves pointed toward the coral, I've been trying to find him a

answer that question. Nineteen the middle ages, and, unfortun the air was a slant of faying lung im ever so long. It's it is." Again the Pigeye fore they thus broame educations than with any other agency to another with the gross spirit of out of every 20 studenta in Japan ately, we have been put in a were in Government colleges, and position where we cannot cast wind-driven needios of te un grown to spem terribly hopeless man sourly consulted the heavens. export

But something I heard a few days" This hore snow can't hold off

it was from those collegea that the first stone.

At the present time, under the for the head and tail of a sheep! The boy's twitching face still-ago made me believe be might be much longer. It can't! It comin',

"The men then went to the the future leaders of the country.

of Protestantism, vile were all as one in that portentous ed, and a curious, alcoost gay, here."

Davy, round-eyed (and his eyes But a minute later, when emile lighted it. Here at last was

ing courses for Stato sabool teachi-conatry on which they must rivet sheets aro circulated which are they began to surge against his something to do; something big were mostly narrowed Downlays),

various States to conduct train- would come. China was another guise

gence and our Christian spirit as Uttering a

action. lege, he knew.

"I tell you now," suddenly and ers, and ready about 2,000 of their attention and practical an insult as much to our intelli-

these have gone through the pre-

Mr. Bryce referred to Dr. Mott's they are an insult to the church hearse, mufled yell of rage, he and stirring and vital and defin-swept off his bat, pulled himself

ite; something to ease the tension together.

"What for & young man would decisively concluded Davy Jones, scribed course for junior cedet

"I tell you threw down the unavailing rore, of mind and nerve. The blizzard

what. I'll bring that

address at the close. Ile said the against which these attacks are and, picking up single sheep, was blowing directly off the

band in. You camp right down training.

We are also realizing that this "The junior co eta whom these speaker bad made them feel they directed.

lived in an age of unprecedented bodily in his arms, cast them as corral: be must drive his sheer le ba like, now, mir?" he

here in my quarters an' wait, or far as he could-1efore him intento the very teeth of it. How. pounded.

Ile was about gayly to add. else drive bank to town.. I'll send teachers are thus qualified to train opportunity. The world was spirit of religios, to fit us for

are boys from twelve to fourteen the storm. In the half-demented

ever, he had aboyed. Davy's in-

out for the kid.".

it would be a misfortune and a deathlessness, must encircle both -blaze-of-athletic wrath, he had

junction as to ipstance literally.would be-Mr. Jones-do. But,

I'd rather be going toward years of age. All must undergo changing in their own time, and great things and endue as with

a two-years' course, whether in

neglected duty not to take ad-spheres, heaven, and earth; that briefly cleared a fair gap before there the corral stood, opon, with her straightforward blue eyes

"We got all bim," she protested:

public or private school, anlese himself in their ranks

hardly more than a quarter of a on him, he somehow couldn't It is said that men who deli-mile away. Throughout the full quite manage.

Days shook himself irritably exempted by a medical officer. vantage of these changes of the the central thought of our prayers berately court death have, at the length of his ride, the odd smile kinds" he continued, instead.

"He's sensitive and poetic and Lokee here, miss," he said. They have at least fifteen minutes more open minds which they saw, must be, "Thy kingdom come,

which those ů crucial moment, last Hamlet-like' held the corners of his mouth

"You"you don't savvy how plumb bad physical training every day, and and of the greater facilities for on earth as it is ja heaven."

things is. If we wasn't takin' once a week for at least an hour evangelization impulses of questioning and This severe trial of his manhood unasual," said the girl. alarm. There was nothing of beckoned to him as quite the couldn't mistake bim."

The ranch boss scratched his the craziest chances in the world, one of the following five special changes had brought about. The child in the Sunday school, bat this sort with the lal on the sweetest thing in life.

Christions or not, felt the same our young women, but the preach Pigere. summer range. Perhaps

Leaping from his pony, be burst trouble burdened head, of the un-that there boy an' his band would subjects has to be done:-Swim thoughtful, earnest, and patriotic every child out of the factory ho did even deliberately courti

into the death. The incredible atraining into the sheep rampantly; whip-kemptrees of which he was at have been in two months ago... Iming, organised games, first aid, men in China and Japan, whether not only the preaching of virtue to

through those countries, that bring working men Imechanism of his muscles absorb ping with the detached coil of pic-this moment pr. foundly ashamed got the ewe binds to protect, an' marobing and running, miniature trath which forced itself upon the ing of a living wage to our ed him entirely. Overwrought ket rope; kicking with the sides "Could you mebbe give me a I'm keepin' them hardy young rifle shooting. Of these

"The cost of the work is about what China and Japan wanted church, but how to bring the now in the period of transition spirit of the Carpenter into every and distempered as his brain of bis sakles; giving again and kind of a line on his name?" he wethers out there because there subjects two have to be done attention of all who travelled captitalists; not only how to was, he must still have been able again, with all his lungs, the sharp binted. "Not that that there's ain't a pound of hay anywhere I every year.

Dow ketches us, ro they can't £40,000 annually, and it is she disappearance of the old workshop. That means not only to reason out that one man could sheep-cry which, under ordinary any dead certain sure trail, neith-can spare to give 'em. If a big

"flis name is John Walford rustle for themselves, they're popular and successful that there and the slowness of the emergen the Holy Land of Holy Men, but not carry four thousand sheep circumstances, was a wing to his er," he made haste' to explain.

they were passing was a moral States. Not only the working for four hundred yards thus. But band's feet. Between whiles Le such feeble rationalizing power must also, now and then, catch a Corvington," stated the girl. gone. But I'll bring 'em in now, is nat.much fear of this amountco of the new-through which the Holy Earth-a holy United From fourteen to eighteen basis and foundation for their the new Jerusalem, but a working multon an' the polta. You'll sce ny he now had, he did not attempt breath to about cheerful words of Davy Fagan to shake his head, we'll anyway be sure o' the being reduced.

your lad then, all right, an' you years of age the boys become life. Some might have dime to for a new London or Hongkong won't be goin' off an gettin' hung senior cadets, and their training, believe that that basis was to be and the bringing down of the to apply. Rather, he seemed encouragement to Alea, Togot-But I know he worldn't be us- "Not on Pigeye, undoubted,'

up in the Goally to have achieved that for her they worked, swiftly, fren- ing that out here."

snow, an' bein' on my which is still compulsory, pro- found in Christianity; others holy city from heaven, decked as Техав Davy Jones hands too.

ceeds more on military lines, but which the past months had been ziedly; and at length the huddleu

was to be found but all folt one monstrous, unintermittent sheep began to yield slightly be

He stopped and chewed his The girl brooded a moment, twenty minutes of sach, drill is might not be satisfied where it a bride for her bridegroom.

beard. "But now then looked awiftly up "I'm devoted to physical culture. that it was wanted. struggle. His tightened, aching fore them.

By dint of such training effort, grizzled muscles eeemed at last to have brought him complete abeyance the first hundred yards of the I come to study on it, there is a sorry," she murmured, but it's From the age of eighteen to distance was slowly covered. etray, wild-eyed boy like you bean too long. If you can't send twenty-five years they become

Toitizen soldiers. "I'll send you," says Davy "The Australian system On and on and on he toiled, Then the great storm seemed to might be talkin' about out with me-I must go myself."

Message from his Majesty. If we remain religious and always with the same frantic, open out with an eager and sena band on the summer range.

race of healthy boys and healthy anguided resolution. The cold tient fory. The sleely snow came We never call him anything but He swung on his heel, shouting: building up a fine and stalwart

grow into its full spirit; if wo pinched his flesh like a vice, whirling across the bench in vast, the kid cr the pilgrim. Ite:"Hey, Rink!"

From a near-by doorway the men. Our aim has been not to

The King entertained at dinner venture upon the truths of our gnawed his bones like crunching, solid sheets which choked and kon he did give me a name,

in the set time merely as an ob- on October 31, at the Hol-faith; if we fight with the sword is it ? wolfish teeth. The collie came blinded like sand. The lad could thongh. Wait till I take a squint cook shoved out his head. Wot make the boya do the exercises

"Pat up there daya' chuck for jectionable lesson, but to make born Restaurant the workmen of the spirit and do not fight ono if to him, whining and lifting up no longer shout in the rush of it,ut my book."

He got out his foreman's greasy

commanded them real desciples of physical who have been engaged in the another with carnal weapons;

refacing of the Mall frontage of wo bridge heaven and earth by ita paws. But if he desisted But, to make up for that, he pueh- fighting for an instant, he lo ed and plunged and lay about and dog-eared volume; the com- two in a basket,

him the livelier with his rope.bination ledger, journal, coah- Davy. Make it the best you culture throughout life.

"This, I think you would do Buckingham Palace. It was a daily prayer and daily endeavour, ground.

At length he began to lose Alec, tos, continued gallantly to book, time-hook, and record of got, sn have it ready in twenty

Death, where is thy sting! Oh ground anyway. Combat sao bite and worry at the sheep's events and correspondence which minutes. He turned back to well to bear in mind in England, gracious thought, and the tact we may as a church and as

oh as desperately as he would; hoc's though his tail drooped covered the entire area of his deal the girl. "Now come, miss. I have been very depressed to and hospitality with which nation cry out defiantly, "Oh,

children so greatly in need of the delight and enjoyment of the Grave, where is thy victory!" the wethers gained on him. Posi- low in the murderous blust, and linge with the remote directorate We'll go find George at the see in London so many sad-faced was carried through onbancad

"Kid Star,” he read aloud To be Continued next Saturday) physical training. aton after position--a fost or two he rash moment required more of the Pigeye Basin Sheep com corral." for a time time so they flowed and more of the herder's now pany.

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KING'S DINNER TO WORKMEN.

So long as we as a nation be lieve in democracy, in politics, in industry, in education, in religion; so long as the best of its rich spirit can flow through the whole of its body, so long we shall re- main virilo and strong.