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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

A SENSE OF PROPORTION.

WHAT RUSSIA 13 DOING.

Striking Sermon by the Bishop of Victoria.

HE CAN NOT TEACH OTHERS SOME- THING.

NO MAN IS SO ILLITERATE THAT

It probably comes as news to many of us that Flight Commander Hewlett is a Bon of Maurice Hewlett. The great novelist has, himself, been keenly interested in aviation for some years paat, and Mrs. Hewlett was one of the first ladies if rot actually the first- to try "to fly. Readers of "The Forest Lovers" may well feel that there is something anomalous in its author's devoling himself to clear. so essentially modern an interest

as flying. It seems bat natural that Kipling and H. G. Wells,

round new scientific develop-

ments, should wish to pursue those developmente practically as well as in theory. But Hewlett is not

The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp: 58; clear.

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 48;

The Mails,

Manchuris to-day at noon.

Brilliantly Rolling Up Three Armies."

CRICKET.

Reserves Versus Scouts Coy,

The following will be the teame Preaching in .. St. John's for the above match on Saterday Cathedral on Sunday evening the 23rd January at 2 p.m., on the from the text," According to the Hongkong Cricket Club ground: proportion of the faith" (Rem The latest wires to hand show vii, 0), the Bishop of Victoria said (Captain), R. E. O. Bird, 0. W. Reserves Messre. 1. Hanocok that Russia is prosecaling ber a sense of proportion was a very Beswick, D. E. Donnelly, H. three-fuld task in a manner which important thing and was capable Griffin, H. Hancock, K. R. Mo cannot but call forth the utmost of a very wide and practical kill; G. E. Morley, J. H. Mead, much of whose fiction has hovered Siberian Mil-Closed per es, admiration. She is smashing the application. In the first place, the fion. Mr. C. Severn, and A..

Turkish armies to pieces, is mak as the Apostle told them, they all O. Brawn. Australian Mail.Closes to moring steady progress in the inva-needed a sense of proportion in Scouts Coy-Messrs. GR. row per se. Changsha at 9sion of German territory, and is their altention to Christian Siyer (Captain), R. N. Anderson, causing no little concern among doctrine. There was, said the R. T. Barton, A. L, Gacs, R. the Austrians. The plight of the Bishop, & danger lest they should Kennedy, M. M. Mans, E. J. R. Turks may be imagined from the unduly emphasise any favourite Mitchell, S. S. Moore, E. B. Roed. story which is told of the three aspect of the troth. Some ex- A R. Sutherland, and R. P. days' battle fought in a blinding ponents of the Prophecies had Thursfield. snowstorm, which has resulted in come to some extraordinary con a complete victory for the Rus-clusions by dwelling on isolated sians. Once the Cacoasian and passages.

They ought to Turkestan regiments and the Si- have their eyes opened that berian Cossacke got the enemy they might see the wondrous on the run they gave him norest. things in God's law in due pro His rearguard, we are told, han portion. boon shattered, and the remnants

an up to-date novelist; indeed has

far

he not proved himself as to being a failure, when handling twentieth century life, sa is possible with a really great writer of fiction?

Historical Novelists ·

out of their Element. It is nothing surprising that the men who can make us live, whether we will or no, in a period more than seven hundred

years before our time, sa Hewlett doet

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WHAT RUSSIA HAS DONE,

can completely blot out modern life for us for the whole while that we are perusing his pages, should so fail when he deals with present-day life; for, while he is conceiving and writing

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Philippine Constabulary.

Band left by the. 9., Manchuria The Philippine Constabulary to-day en route for the Panama Exposition.

a book, the author must needs live in another world himself; and the puzzle is that he can ever

To Consignees. drop down from the clouds of

Consignees of cargo by the a.s romance again. We should prob Montrose are reminded that goods ably search for a long while in remaining undelivered after to- the history of our country's morrow will be subject to rent. literature before finding many men who could write about his- torical and modern life with equal facility. Scott's “Antiquary," of course, is a good example of a

томапсе

Ricksha Coolie's Haul.

Central reports the absconding An accountant of Queen's Road in of a rickeha coolie with $300

which he had collected."

Grass Cutting,

writer's Baccess bandling contemporary life, and Thackeray's "Esmond" is as fair an instance the other way about -of B "modern" author's achieving magnificent results

the realm of historical Three women and a girl were romanes. But Scott was careful fined $3 each, at the Police Court, not to repsat his experiment, this morning, for grass cutting on while Thackeray felt that his Government property on Taipo own further attempt-in "The Road: Virginians was a failure. And,

in

IN

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Secondly, a sense of proportion

FOOTBALL MATTERS.

Meetings of the Association and League,

A meeting of the Football As

of the army, harassed on both was assded in the development of fisaks and in front, are now in character. It was impossible to precipitate flight. The nature of over-emphasize the importance of the rout may ba gauged from character, for by their characters the fact that in their fight the they would be judged. Bat it the heights, so keen were they on one side of their character that at the R. G. A. Thesire, when Turks threw their guns from was possible to over-emphasise coiation was held last evening showing a clean pair of heels to was, they might over-develop one there was a full attendance of the oncoming Rassiano, A flesing side and not develop the other delegates present. Mr. F. Browne army without guns need be taken enough. It was surprising how presided in the absence of Mr. R. no further account of, and it one sided character might be. Bancook. would appear that Tarkey on land Some of their devout sacestors is already hopelessly beaten,

Mr. FW. Eager stated that waw nothing wrong in owning slaves and selling them. We Lieutenant Rompell, R. G. A had Poor Austria.

know," said the Bishop, that accepted the post of a Courcillor to the Association and reported there are people in our own time that the fees of all the clubs had The Russians are also making who would be hurt if we said they been paid. In this connection be it pretty hot for both Germany were not Christians, yet they remarked on the help that bad and Austris. So long as the draw large dividends from been given him by the various Austro-German Army could unite sweated industries, insanitary elab secretaries, who had extend- there was always the possibility may over one front against the Russians

property, etc, Eren virtues. of checking, if not defeating, the tionately. There is the man oʻ

ed great aid to him and had be applied dispropor minimised any trouble this season, invasion. But Austris and Ger- kindness who does harm by his. many have for some time parted indiscriminate chority; the man the encroachment of spectatora on The question was raized as to company and have each been of justice who is in danger of the playing pitches during the consulting their own safety. Their losing sight of the aspect of progress of matoles, and it was friendship lasted so long as they mercy; the teetotal advocate of decided to instruct official referees held the enemy, but instincts of temperance who is in danger of to use their authority and suspend self-preservation have since caas losing his sense of proportion-play until the lines had been ed a rift. Austria has been the as has been said, he seems to sam oleared. bigger aufferer of the two, how up the whole of the Ten Com ever, since Germany played the mandments in a glass of water, which followed, presided over by At the meeting of the League as against all this, one could gnots When on July the thirty-first of last year, the Emperor William

little game of detaching certain The advocate of women's rights Mr. W. H. Viveash, a question icok upon himself to demand an explanation of Russia's mobilising, great historical novelists whose a dezen instances of great or semi-

Austrian troops to assist in is in very much danger of losing was raised as to the scarcity of most of us knew that he was acking for trouble; fer, in this twent-contemporary

The extradition case in which the defence of her own threat his sence of proportion. There available pitches. work is ieth-century world, bullying usually carries a man to the quarter in

Lai Mui is wanted by the Chinese eced frontiers. The Russiaos is the man of a very aggressive whore trouble is served out. Hectoring and bluff" were all very their stories

the same close with Government on

charge of have got the measure of both now type of piety who feels it his duty his opinion that the time was not The Hon. Secretary gave it as well handreds of years ago, but this old world has grown wise in Lytton, who succeeded in "The on Tuesday next.

of other days. murder has been fixed for hearing and with the invasion recent centuries and will move no faster for the man who rosra and Last Days of Pompeii" and

of to sing hymns on all occasions, suitable for dealing with the mat- Transylvania imminent, through being, as he says, instant in storms at it than for him who quite gently says "Please." The Harold" and failed in The

in the Carpathians, the Daal forbid that we should throw maiter until later. It was hoped the seizure of an important pass season and out of season. Goler and the Grounds Committee Kateor, so very up-to-date in many things, is in others quite medi-Caxtons," and Kingsley whose

had deferred consideration of the aeval; and mediaevaliam really does not pay nowadays. According" Hypatia

Monarchy must by this time beatones at him, but he is in danger that next season they would have to his Imperial notions, it was for him to give orders and demand world's big historical novels, yet Whitesway, Laidlaw and Co., has

stands among the

Mr. Mitchelmore, of Messrs. shaking in its shoes. Given a of lacking a sense of proportion. axplanations, and for Russia to show herself becomingly complaisant, who descended to the level of Sun- reported to the police the findings than this theatre of opera who says, I am not one of your nection with which they hoped to continuance of the Russian "There is the contrary type, sides those in the Valley, in con- two pitches at their disposal be How could she be anything else, he asked himself, seeing that the day-school-hook twaddle in Two of a quantity of banknotes in the tions, the time may not be for canting hypocrites. He talke word had gone forth that she was on the brink-if not already over Years Ago" the brink of a revolution that was to be ten degrees worse than not a great deal better in Alton left behind by customers.

and something ladies department, apparently will throw up the sponge and sue enough to save his soul. To such distant when Austria-Hungary & if not being a hypocrite was

secure a more suitable arrange tbst of France? Russ'a was, in bis view, as useless, ne decadent Locke" and "Yeast," will bath and as liule to be taken into account as France-er, for that matter serve as examples.

for separate peace.

I would say, remember that unless

Mr. W. H. Viveash was elected —as England.

you turn to God and love Him vice-president to fill the va with all your heart and soul the from the Colony of Mr. W. Moran. canoy caused by the departure So far as Germany la concerned, negative virtue of not being a her great trouble has been that hypocrite will pot afand you at Tae meeting had also before it the Russians' enormous resources the day of judgment. So I might the question of the postponed brought into play against her. At We all need fulness, balance and Joseph's Colleges, and, on being have been given time to be go on with innumerable instances. match between Queen's and St. the outbreak of the war, the harmony." German Foreign Secretary said

put to the vote, it was decided that Germany had the speed, on the need of a sense of pro- $2.50 upon the former club and His Lordship went on to tonoh by a majority to infliot a fine of Rassia the numbers. With war on portion San Francisco to-day with 864.33 for the occasion. Ragnia has been people who are for ever thinking

our estimate of the have the match played off on a The Tonyo Mara arrived from found her turn ofapsed insufficient remarking that there are "touchy" mittee.

two frontiers, however, Germany relative magnitude of things, date to be decided by the com- tons of cargo. She had fair weath steadily bringing up her numbers they have received some slight,

All this was five and a half months ago, however, and it is with

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The War and the Picture Play,

it

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Extradition.

Notes Left Behind.

Pony Shot.

L. S. Spiers yesterday shot the Pony belonging to Mr. Carpenter, accidentally run down by a tram of the P.W.D. The animal was had both its legs broken. car on the Shaukiwan Road and

The Tenyo.

Pressing Germany.

er throughout. Her passenger and she now appears to have some social call not returned, or

in the realm of possibilities that the Emperor has somewhat One of the side results of the modified his opinions since then, for the worke of his wax machino great war will soon be feltweit have been very rudely put out of order and by nobody more is not already being felt-in the thoroughly than by the despised Russians, who, the moment the assourcen from which the cinemato in the lion's skin brayed, were to kowtow and then slink away graph plays come. France, at terrorised. On the very day after Germany asked information as least for a while, had almost a the mobilising, she got her reply, for Rassia fired on one of her monopoly in the film- business, sacred frontier patrols, and, the day after that, the Cossacks, without through houses like Pathe and by your leave" or "with your leave," rode over the frontier into Gaumont, and pill quite a the Fatherland. For a month, Germany strained every nerve in her cently, the Italians, Belgians and to decant some of her western forees over to the east side--while which the most successful and fist included 37 saloon, 27 secondsufficient, men in the field of some person who has failed to body to drive back the invader; then, waxing disheartened, she began French were the nations from Rusia responded by breaking out in afresh place," most popular film actors and later, by converting Galicia into a Russian province. Not so bad, not long out of the arena, but it is this, for a costing and utterly disorganised nation! On September notorious that American films- 14, the decadents, in order further to impress the Austrians as well an

unless, possibly, those of the

Knocked Down by Train. the Germans, defeated an army of 90,000 of them, taking some 8,000 cowboy variety and those into Government Civil Hospital a There has been admitted to the prisoners; and, from that time onwards, Germany and Austria have which great deal of mountain Japanese suffering from injuries been receiving alternate slaps. And hes Turkey fared any batter, and river scenery is introduced alleged to have been caused by since she undertook her own downfall at the bidding of the Prus-ve not been popular among being knocked down by tramcar sians? The answer may be found in our varions telegrame as to British and Continental picture-No. 41, on the Fraya, near Spring progress in the Caucasus up to date..

house patrons. Then the Soand Garden Lane. inavian companies took a band in the game; but none of these could hope for much patronage whenever Mesara, Pathe set up s

defeating the Austrians and occupying Lemberg, and, only a week sotrossen were taken. America wa class and 128 Asiatic steerage for the tank before her. Germany, recognise them in the street. Manager of the F.M.S. railwaye,

passengers.

Cheque Fraud.

to

Arrives in February. Mr. P. A. Anthony, General indesd, has her attention mora Those people magnified such is expected to arrive at Singapore than occupied north and south, things by thinking about them by the Suwa Mira on or about while the main Russian Army is and even making them the subject February 3. still pushing forward in the centre of conversation.

In our disposal of our time and money we need a sense of proportion,

" said the Bishop.

On to Koenigsbarg. valed during the past few days Our papers are oriticising the people regard Missions as a fad

The most noteworthy fact re-

sians in East Prussia. The extent at football matches, and when which spend hundreds of pounds has been the success of the Rus people who spend their afternoons and others as an ordinary charity. Now that it is too late for the knowledge to do him much

There ara churches at Home material good, Kaiser Wilhelm has learned that sensible people do

of the progress here can be gaththey include those who spend not make the same mistake twice running. Rusain ander-valued the Max Linder, Wifles or Nick Chater and Mody has reported map. Tas Czar's forces have and gambling, no doubt the foot-

A abroff employed by Meara ered by taking a glance at the time and money on horse-racing bat give practically nothing to on their organs and paid singers Japanese, just on Britain under-stimated the power of the Boer Winter picture, one of their the Police that one of his fokis encountered and defeated the ballies will begin to eco the anion foere are some Christ- error again. Were the Germans to have a monopoly in foresight?

has absconded with the proceeds Germans at Loizon, which is some justice of what is said. In the inns who for every $100 they There are wise heads in Russia that, for many a year, have been things must necessarily be alter, and cashed on the complainant's frontier on the way to Koenigsberg, Christian does not set his face ten cents to missions. This is! considering Germany and her plans; heads that could be nei her cajoled nor brow-beaten. And if the politicians and diplomats of ed. The French and Belgian behalf.

With the enemy thus for over against recreation a such, bat entirely disproportionate. Our the country were alive and awake, so were the army chiefs, and she land, Germany and even I'aly actors are at the Front, and Eng. men under them, as all Europe now knows. The Germans no doubt

and well

Thorn, spend mérning inform

afternoon and the Gospel to every creature. The barga ed for a certain amount of resistance from Russian troops if have something I

else to think ever Way came about; but the resistance was to be that of a mere cinematograph paga which by the de. Manchurie, He was if they are to stay the further ad- well sa spending money and time might bear witness of the Christ

each paid: the penalty--but neither was going to fall into the asmeelaborate historionl plays or obeque for $700 which he twenty or thirty miles inside the matter of healthy recreations, the spend on tobacco hardly give

a dramatised novel. But now

about besides the

making of

seems to mean that Americ and not of ideas and words? are going to have the interes

and Denm Russia has been fighting, for five and a half months, not just Germany their own hands for but Austria also, and since the beginning of November has been We wonder what they giving the Tarks a side swish of her sword as well. Was this s'mation laund for the Kaiser to talk down to and to "demand" explanations of past make of it..

undisciplined rabble that would be powerless when faced by trained troops. But whose troops have proved the better-trained of the two, Norway Sweden and now that the question is one of blows and no

the boASINTAA there are men

and women

who faith tasohee us to go and presch

Left for Home, This morning the Hon. Mr. E, the Kaiser

have evening in golf, tennis or bridge reason that the Holy Spirit wou R. Hallifax left for Home on leave to

pull themselves together both Sundays and week-days, as given to the Church was that it

accorded a fine send-off, a large vance of the victorious Russians, on these things. This is number of Chinese frienda assam- Maybe they are relying on their ther failing in the Christian sone

APONARIA NORD chain of fortresses to save them, bling to bid him good-bye on

of proportion Blake Pier the launch left but the history of the war so far

RevLet me conglade by drawi

the pier, two long string a:11 has gone has shown ta?

Orthown that the your attention to the annou sirongest fortifications cannot ment that the collection":

and against modern Sund

orokers ware let off in his honon

to all mankind Let Banse of

portion. all our thoughts an touch-stone of Jes

us bridg

the