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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1915.

Vulgarity in the Pulpit.

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DAY BY DAY

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS

JOTTINGS BY THE

WAY

DACIA.

ANY MAN CAN BE IN GOOD THE CAPTURE OF THE SPIRITS WHEN

18 WELL DRESSED, THERE AIN'T MUCH CREDIT IN THAT. IF I WAS VERY RAGGED AND VERY JOLLY, THEN BHOULD BEGIN TO FEEL I HAD GAINED A POINT.-Dlokens.

"Billy" Sunday, the revivalist whose eccentricities we referred to in a recent leading article, may be interested to know that his fame has reached London, and that the Globe has bad a few re. marks to make about his methods. |""About" · · twelve eighteen months ago be enddenly decided that he bad got religion, and imported into the pulpit all the brasen lang-power of baseball, and the appalling slang in which the game is reported." As we clear. hare already hinted, it is quite easy to do Mr. Sunday an clear. injusties in criticising his

method mind the fact that

unless we continually

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offer to take up the cudgels for

The Weather.

Lower level 8 am. Temp. 60;

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 51;

Count the Columns.

The Mails. mountebankism in the pulpit, and Siberian Mail. -Dao per we are as far as any of our readers

Linan to-day imported into the serious affairs of

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Significance of the Dardanelles

Bombardment.

Where have you been?"a-ked

THE RACES.

FULL ANALYSIS FOR THE MEETING.

a languid nobleman from Kow loon of an acquaintince who was How Owners, Jockeys and Pont »

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crossing by the samo ferry. "I've been asid the other, and a valgar young men he evidently was-"to the cinematograph, to see the war pictures, Where Mr. John Peel have you been ?" "Oh-playing The captare of the steamer Dacia bridge at Government House, Sir Paul...

Mr. Ests by the French raises come interest said the aristocratio one with Dr. Forsyth... ing questions of international law, careless juutiness. He failed to Me. Shellim... and doubtless a good deal will be add, however, that somewhere Mr. John Johnstono heard of the matter before the about a hundred other people had r. Ellis Kadcore... 1 incident finally closes. It will be been doing the same thing.

Mr. Tierce recalled that the loading of this

Mesers. Ehellim and vessel with cotton at Galveston Thursday not being a race day,

Gilpin was suspended come six weeke the F.W.De tar boiler decided to Mr. Medico

A S. WATSON & Co, Ltd. can be from wishing to see slang American and U. K. Maile gustanto an uninterrupted within reach of the amnts. Mr. Moontakéi CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT TO H. E. THE GOVERNOR.life. At the same time we would

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one man's meat is another's On Saturday the Telegraph poison, and that the words which published 45 columns of solid will nauseate one person will go a reading matter. To-day there ago when the controversy about provide sport on its own account Mr. Cunningham 1.10 long way towards saving the soul will be 33 published.

her transfer to the American flag by taking one or two canters up Mr. Namazee arose, and subsequently the U. S. and down. Quson's road on that Mr. Horsford State Department was notified by day to the enthusiaglio delight Mr. Gilpin ... the British Ambassador that the of ladies who were out shopping Mr. Trio British Government' would not and of men who were tiffining |Mr. Billiarde' Close per se. Persia to passage for the ship on her voy- morrow at 11 am.

age to Rotterdam, the port to! We read in the Indian: papers| Mr. Brutton... which she was consigned. That that the people of Baroda are Mr. Harvey ..... intimation was based broadly on agitating in favour of having a Mr. Apear... a reluctance to create a precadent Sanitary Board. They're welcome Mr. D. M. Rosn which, it was felt, would be fol- to ours, Da'il kens. lowed by many similar purchases of German ships in America, and efforts to operate them on former German trade routes.

submit that "vulgarity".e. something pertaining to the common people is a much misup- derstood term. Obrist himself ased the language of the common people in His parables; St. Jerome trans- lated the Scriptures into that) language; and the great pre-

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1915,

«DEMOCRATISING THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.

Up to the Minute-Share

Market News.

Closing prices:

$1211,

Cantons.$356, bayers. Steamboate.-824, sellers. Indo-Chinse.-$76. Obica Bagare $100. Hongkong Hotels. buyers ex div. Central Estates.---.

-$95. Ewos. Tla, 135. Loou Kurg Hows:-Tla.

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Pontes.

From the Times list of Willa Mr, J., Johnstone and Bequests: "Mr. of Liver. Mr. Vida pool,loft £6,000 and his Mr. Borkill gramophone recorda

to his Mr. Kuoll the early Protestants (notably

Britain, of course, has no wish faithful friend, Misa-." One Mr. H. Setb... Latimer in his "Sermon of the

to assert a right to interfere with feels that a mere six thousand Mr. Esra Plough") and our old friend John

ships purchased and transferred pounds is but a poor set-off Mr. Heard 84, to the American flag in a legitim- against being saddled with the Mr. K. Pope... Banyan, all used a form of speech

ate way. The objection to the that would appeal forcefully to the most ignorant. We have for

Mr. Adams... transfer of the Dacis was that it custody of a batch of gramophone Mr. Mollor

recorde.

Mr. Hickman was not genuine, the British Am. less quarrel with Mr. Sunday on

bassador intimating that Britain

Mr. McGilliewie account of his language than on

believed that the American pur-two to one is cot, altogether the Mr. Sedgwick

Palling off a five-dollar bet at the score that he whose "convers

ohaser was 1eally noting for Ger same thing as drawing a winner Mr. Forbes ion" is a year or so old should be

man principale. This cage in not in a thirteen handred-dollar cash laying down the law to persons who have been unobtrusively

Lorenzo Alleged Attempted Suicide. without its special features, since sweep. Unfortunately for the peace A woman who has been ad the Dacia was carrying a cargo of mind of one of our readers bis President following practical Christianity lor forty or fifty years.

mitted to the Government Civil which, admittedly, is not subject wife thoughi is was and it took Ampfield Hospital is alleged to have ea- to seizure. At the time of de him all the evening to prove to Bleck Gem What Boys Read.

Another interesting question deavoured to commit suicide by livery of the British objection it her that, in handing ber her ten recently raised by the Globe is as jumping from a cook-house win. was inferred that if the ownere of dollars, he was not keeping back Liberty Dablis to the story books which the dow to the ground, a distance of the cotton did not make other the odd twelve hundred and Perfection Dahlia modern British boy delights in. 25 feet. She was unconscious arrangements for its shipment ninety sa commission on the deal. Sailor The Chief Inspector of Reforma- when picked up. tory and Industrial Schools bas! contributed his opinion, which is

The bar-boy at Mount Davis well worth listening to. It seems that the boys with whom his work has reported to the police that brings him in contact do not care some-one bas broken into the for "Tom Brown," for Dickens or matshed and stolen $50 in for Scott, though some of the older money. boys read. Merriman, Mason and Stanley Weyman. Some, 100, read Stevenson, but the Inspector is careful to point out that while

gross,

Bar-boy's Complaint.

Junkmaster's Story.

were worth

FOR THE FRONT.

"Full List of Yolunteers Who

Have Left Hongkong.

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Thief to Germany, and the vessel put to sea, the cargo would either

Colonel Cornwallie West's col- Triumphant Dahlia,., be unloaded in an English porticitore indignantly contradict the Tinker and placed at the disposal of the report that their client has been Lucky Gem owners to forward to Germany shot as a spy... Seeing that this Majestic Dahlia by a neutral ship proper, Or appropriated by the British Got report was in all the American Coronet ernment upon payment to the papers, we should have thought thas sufficient and the contradic owners of ita face value,..

tion of the Colonel's solicitora quite superfluctie.

Taking a Chance. Now, however, the vessel has been seized by the Frencb, not

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The master of fishing junk No. 9634 bas reported to the Folice that on February 27, when the British, and further develop- We understand that it was only But for the war in Europe, which is naturally uppermost in the "The Black Arrow" is intensely Waglan lighthouse, the 8. mints in the case will be awaited quite the best people who stayed Moffat public mind, much more would have been heard of the report of popular, Treasure Island" can the Royal Commission on the staffing of the Foreign Office than bas scarcely find readere; and his Sur Tai collided with and sank with interest. The owner of the away from the Italian Opera Com- been the case. Important as the question is, especially at the present explanation of the latter fact is bis junk. The ship stopped but abip was no doutt informed of pany's performances during the

sssistance to the the British attitude on the matter, past fortnight. mcmtnt, it has been made no mention of in the telegrams from that the hero is tco natural and rendered no Home, and for information on the subject we have to turn to the does not perform the extra juuk's crew, which was picked and in spite of it he appears to We further understand that Neptune Home papers. And, strange to say, very few of these comment at ordinary and impossible deeds up by another fishing boat. No have taken his chance. There

there was much disappointment Mascotte... any length on the Report. A year or so ago there was something which a boy expects from the lives were lost and no-one hurt. can be small doubt that, in the

The junk and

in certain theatre-going circles peculiar circumstances, the seizure of an outery in democratic ciroles in favour of democratie control hero of the book he is reading."

whenit we learned that, although Aldwych of foreign policy, and this fact alone would have seemed to warrant There can be no doubt as to the

about $2,600. away

is justified, and it is nct with the exigencies of the drama re theres that when the conclusions of the Commission dealing with accuracy of this gentleman's I- The Prize Coart at Alexandria matter was under discussion some lackened onntenance, he did not

The Derffllager as a Prize. out significance that when the

quired Oibello to appear with the Diplomatic Corps were made public there would have been a revi-planatior; nor can it heargued that has condemned as a lawful prize weeks ago, American press opin- val of interest in the subject. Had the European crisis not broken in the boys whom he has observed the Norddeutscher-Lloyd slesmer ion as almost entirely found propceo to play either the bones and taken men's thoughts off this and similar matters, no doubt the are no criterion for boys, se a Der finger The ship, which pat supporting, the contention that or the tambourine. Report would have received greater attention and consideration whole, for his remark about then it has. All the same, one would have thought that, inasmuch Treasure Island" applies not in at Port Said, homeward bound, Britain would be well within her From a mall boy a letter to his at the beginning of the war, was rights if she intercepted the ves father in Hongkong: "For about as the present conflict is generally regarded as a struggle between only to boys in general but to en a convertible "cruiser, fitted with

sal at sea. demcornoy and militarism, the occasion would have been taken by alarming number of adult readers

the last month. I've been able to A Pitiable Alliance. the Press to give some prominence to the findings of the Commission as well. Why is "Pendennis" ga mountings and wireless in.

"Nicholas stallation: The Deflinger is a The destruction and, especially as the recommendations of the Commissioners, if less popular than

on of the Dar whistle with my fingers in my steel twin-scrow steamer, built at danelles forte by the Anglo-mouth, and I can now do it with carried into effect, would tend to make the service a little more de- Nickleby" ? Because, in the first, mocratic than it is at present, to reflect on the effect of the proposed men speak and act pretty much Danzig in 1907, and of 9,144 tons French Fleet is, without doubt, say two or three, fingers. changes on foreign policy in general."

se they do in real life, while, in

one of the most important events may Allah help the neighbours! It has been recorded that in the early part of the nineteenth the latter, they say and do things

yet recorded during the war. It century the post of an attache was generally filled by young men of that no mortai man ever said or

is a blow not so much against family and fortans who desired to pass a few months agreeably did yet.

Turkey as it is the smash- abroad. And it might be added, without etraining the trath, that “Briton" or "Britisher."

ing up of the whole German

[The opinions expressed by the the state of affairs has not greatly charged in a hundred years. Once again, in the Home press,

plans for the furtherance of That is not altogether to be marvelled at when we reflect that, it is we find exception taken to the

which the Kaiser made an sorrespondents are not necess required of a candidate, umong other things, that he must possess term "Britisher"; and one irate

ally of the Sultan. The whole arily those of the "Hongkong

Telegraph."] £400 a year of his own, that he must be nominated by the Foreign letter-writer, in speaking of a

objectiva of Germany's alliance Scoretary, that he must satisfy a Board of Selection consisting gentleman who has made use of exclusively of diplomats and Foreign Office officials, and that the obnoxious word, says: who have volunteered from Hong- tion by Allied warahips, and gow after his appointment he is paid nothing whatever for "May 1 ask what his own nation- kong and district for service at all efforts in this direction have Bir, Your inquiring Heretic" |

Roman Chief two years and is for

Grayling long period afterwards never ality is, that be thus abuses the front, and who have passed failed. The extent of German is. I think, rather wasting his Topsz paid a salary commensurate with his position and the the King's English? Surely we the authorities and left for Home: collusion with Turkey is striking time in trying to open up sub Borneo Chief expenses attached thereto. If the Commissionera have their most of us prefer the term A. F. Brigge. G. 0. Jirge, way, these things will be greatly changed, for they advocate the Briton"" This is just what E. W. Evers, E. Viotor, C. A ly shown by the fact that one of jects, which after all, are a little The Shirker

the forts was found to be manned too specialised to gain much at- abolition of the private-income qualification, the enlargement of the most of us" (a good phrase, by J. Wilkie, R. Hielgera, A. N. Board of Selection by the introduction of a non-official element, the the way, for one who sits in judg-Joseland, B. Forster, R. Lapsley, has been in vain, and with the munity such as Hongkong.

entirely by Germane. But all tention in a commercial com- abolition of the Foreign Secretary's nomination, the generalisation meat on the English of others) G. W. Rogers, A. Hall, G. D. m of the qualifying examination, salary dating from appointment withs do not prefer. We are not going Procter, E. H. Coleman, the Porte must rue the day however, in the Colony, which I There in one, orying need,j way now open to Constantinople, general, increase in the rate thereof, and the creation of a clerk clase, to set out to defend "Britisher" Lobel, — Baleman, E. L. Brage, when she allowed herself to be should like to see him torn bis While it will be generally conceded that birth and apbringing etymologically (though perhaps it W. Wilson, D. Blenkiron, made the dupe of Germany. The pen to, viz: Why should not the should be given dae weight in the selection of candidates, it must might be excused as a Germanic W G. Golding. M. Cirih, whole alliance has been a pitiable community of Alongkong oleot. The wedding took place this also be admitted that the doors should be opened wider to permitof the importation), but since custom G. Hermitage, H. J. May, venture from beginning to end.

one or more members to sit upon afternoon, at St. John's Cathedral, entry of those whodonetspring from the wealthy aristocratic class but and precedent play auch an Mooney, J. Soares, A. H. Hynd-

the Legislative Council? It would of Miss Veronique Walker, who, if given the opportunity, would prove their suitability on more enormous part in our national man; G. E. Gumprecht, R.

serve to impart a touch of in- daughter of Dr. and Mrs. T. M. essential grounds for a diplomatic career. Fowers of observation and life and in all that pertains to it. Hesselt, A. P. Wilson, R. Goods,

terest and life into our political Walker, of Waymouth, Dorset, readiness to take responsibility are of greater consequence than irre- we see no reason to make a coil P. Shenalt, P. V. Dean, A. Patti-

Copenhagen, January. *7.—A stagnation, and might, possibly, England and Lieut. Villiers proachable table manners, end these qualities are the monoply of no about the use of this particular son, A. P. Storrie, L. O Colline, message from Berlin reports that eventually lead to that gutter Gordon Smyth, son of Col, O. §. one particular class. The young diplomat to-day too often has a word. "We most of us" vory C. R. Milling, McLean, RN. the winter season in Switzerland outside the theatre being covered Smyth, D. 8. O., and Mrs, Smyth, narrow and circumscribed outlook on life He is hemmed in by the strongly object to using "Briton Barton, J. Wit G. Hadson, B. O is so bad this year that scarcely over. Perhaps also some of of Bedford, England. official orust, he olane together with those who think and talk as he except poetically or rhetorically, Ryder, J. B. Cooke, R. Beattie, any hotels are kept open. There your more thoughtful and col. The service was conducted by bimself doer, and all too seldom does he get close to the r.al national bacansa osch healthy Britisher J. T. Robertson, N. O. Chunyat, are a few German guests at St. inted readers could be induced the Rev. Onoper-Hum, with Mr. consciousness of the country in which be sojourns. By democratis (we have every intention of H. J. White, W. Ladd, R. H. Moritz, but still fewer English to express their views on the Denman Fuller at the organ, s ang the Diplomatic Corps, and by encouraging the entry of men of ticking to the word) has feel Fairley, W. M. Stevens OEM or Americans, and hardly any subject.

E E. Major-General F. H wide outlook and imagination, not only will the Empire be better ing that "Briton" emacks of the Ollive, O. West, H. G, D zey, A. French or Rossians, This means.

Belly, O.B., gave the bride away, sarved, but the new atmosphers created in the chancelleries of, say, melodramatic. the which be can- D. Sheman, W. B. Quashena, G.K. very serious economic. loss to

and Lt. F.L.L.F. Boupell, R.G.A Europe would assuredly have consequences of which it would be not abide.

Chatham, G. Powell.

Switzerland.

as the best men. difficult to foresee the ultimate effect in the history of the nations.

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Below we give a full list of men

with Turkey was the preservation of the Dardanelles from a visita-

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Bad Season In Switzerland,

A CRYING NBED.

Yours eta.

DEMOURAT.

Hongrong Feb, 27, 1915,

MILITARY WEDDING.

Lleat. V. Q. Smyth Miss V. Walker.