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PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public

Auction on

WEDNESDAY, the 10th

September 1919, commencing at 2 30 p.m. at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street

SMILLIE

FANATIC OR PROPHET?

Alexander M. Thompson writes the Weekly Dispatch 5 follows —

"What kind of man is this Smillie? asked a physically and financially solid tradesman of Keswick to whom I had just been introduced, “Does he speak the King's English ?**

As well as can be expected." I assured him." of any pour crea who suffers the disadvantage of being Scottish."

"But you know what I mean," continued the questioner. Has he any idea of grammar?

"I doubt whether he ever learnt it," I answered, "but he speaks more correctly than some men who have been to college."

"The gentleman of Keswick snorted contemptuously and shifted his ground. "Do you be lieve, that the man honest?"

can

be

and

The Duke of Narth certainly showed more petulance and truculenos than he did.

Mr. Smiltis talked to him like a father. Some of your brothers," he seemed gently to suggest, time of it. They appear to think seem to be having a very hard

that you have secured a part of their birthright. Don't you think that we should be a happier family if we tried to pull together. a bit more "

The duke thinks the question was impertinent. I feel sure Mr. Smillie did not mean it so. There was no note of spite in 'his in- quiry. It was a wistful, almost pathetic appeal, rather than à re- buke or insult. The man simply, passionately, fanatically meant just what he said. The rasping asperities of the ducal cross- examinations wore monopolised by another member of the Com- mission.

Smillie is essentially bigs 1 think he is a fanatic, obsessed by one idea, which barns in him like a smouldering fire and bursts occassionally into angry jets of fame, throwing all other con siderations. into lamp-black shadow.

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"To be honest as this world goes." I replied, quoting the late Prince of Denmark, "is to be one in ten thousand, If to be honest

He has known the grinding implies absolute innocence of torment of poverty and endured guile, I should say that Mr. the hardships of the underground Smillie is about as innocent as-worker's life in its more cruel A Quantity of Valuable House.well, Marechal Foch."..

days, and nothing will ever purge As my Keswick acquaintance his soul of the bitterness of his hold Furniture

looked puzzled, and as the reader of this transcript of our talk may. share his bewilderment, it may be useful to expound. What meant to suggest was that finesse and bluff are indispensable con- ditions of war or diplomacy.

As Touchstone said of poetry,

comprising

Teak batstand with with bevel led mirror. Drawing room suites, Leather covered couch, armchairs and chairs, Lady's desks, Book- case, Electric ceiling fans and table lamps. Carpets, Pictures and ornaments

memories.

His deep-sunk eyes look out from under his shaggy eyebrows with the intensity that one has

seen in old

pictures of Spanish monks. His gaze is restless.. He has the vision

something far away.

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All claims must be presented within a moath of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.

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agitator.

He has the

were

could quite easily have been avoided if the driver of the motor had merely glanced at the switch points, and thus noticed that the tramway-car was about to swing across the road. Costly mistakes, moreover, are frequently made A motoring correspondent through pulling out smartly from writes in the Times That the behind a tramway-car without sadly deteriorated during the last is free or likely to be blocked standard of motor-car driving has knowing whether the road ahead few years is a fact which cannot with oncoming traffic. be denied. It is only necessary tion of any change of direction Indica-

to drive or walk along one of our of the motor-car should be given great motoring roads for a dist- for the benefit of any vehicle may be immediately ance of a few miles in order to which observe the danger that exists to behind. a road users from the type of motor driving prevalent to-day.

road appear to be things of the of men in a conflict of interests hollow cheeks and furrowed brow past, and the days when motorists upon judgment of speed in rele

tion to distance, and also upon Teak sideboard with bevelled can afford in every case to tell of the earnest thinker: the lean

one large clan—always!

etiquette, is that concerning mirror, teak dining tables and exactly what he means or all that and hungry look which under willing and pleased to help each

other when in need and when cutting in. The motorist who tyrannies marks the conspirator they remembered that others deliberately takes another man's chairs, Dinner waggons, Glass he means.

Besides, any enthusiast who and in democratic States the shared equal rights with them on chivalrous feelings, and must be road is beyond any appeal to cabinets, tea tables, Dinner and

and is possionately pregnant of his Dessert services, Glass

I understand that he is not a/the broad highway, seem to be left to the the police to deal with. cause is bound to exaggerate. He Cutlery ware

Double brass mounted iron instinctively and perhaps, un- ways east to work with bedsteads, teak bedsteads. Teak consciously emphasises his side In one

of his specches at wardrobes. Chects-of-drawers of the case and depreciates or Keswick Dressing table" with bevelled ignores the other.

pains to emphasise mirror. Marble top washstands

that the Miners' Federation is not a one-man show. and to Was Luther strictly fair, or represent himself as merely the road sense" so essential to good faulty judgment or a mistake at Every one is lable to make a A few pieces of Blackwood-Ignatius, or Cromwell, or Corio-humble instrument and servant

and safe driving laugs, or Gladstone? I myself. of his masters-the miners. The least obserbed rules, the disregard one time or another, but if the And

in the advocacy of my views, delegates present were too loyal of which is without doubt the golden rule of the road-** Drive 1 Grand Piano by John have sometimes said more than to the man who has done so

cause of the greatest number of as you would like other users of much to advance their interest to bad accidents, is that whereby which was seldom broken in the the highway to drive," a maxim Broadwood & Son"

The very worst way to study smile audibly, but I imagine that side roads are subservient to earlier days of motoring-were "W.

a good con-any opinion which is violently there must have been

opposed to our own is to begin by deal of secret and spiritual law-dependent in no way upon far fewer accidents. There are suspecting our opponent's good chuckling faith. It may be good tactics in law, when doubtful of your case, to vilify the own

But in ser other secoundrel." ious and sincere controversy that

merely darkens counsel and does not conduce to discovery of the truth. Besides, thet is so cheap and easy, and so extremely ineffectual. to brush Geo, P. LAMMERT, aside and awkward question by Auctioneer. pretending to believe that the man who poses. it is either a humbug or an ass.

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Goods not cleared by the 13th inst, will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed and dam- azed packages are to be left in the Godowns where they will be

MACKINTOSH'S.

Toffee de Luxe

THE Undersigned has received examined. Claims against the 50 cents per tin

instructions to sell by Public steamer must be presented with-

Auction on

SATURDAY the 13th Sept,

1919

commencing at II a.m. at No. 11 Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf

& Godown Co. Ltd. West Point (for account of the concerned)

3710 Bags Brown Sugar, Terms: Cash on delivery,

Geo. P. LAMMERT.

Auctioneer.

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"A HERO TO HIS VALET.”

I meant.

Way

There are, however, a number of drivers who err from sheer

is but another example of the

fading away, never to return.

From observation it would appear that many war-taught he was at some drivers are ignorant of the ignorance, and that this is a fact the fact primary rules of the road, and inadequacy of motor tuition as a imagination, or to acquire that whole in this country.

A THORN. IN THE SIDE.

have never learnt to use their

One of the

1;

borne in mind, there would be

main roads. Here is a definite

etiquette-yet it is neglected time after time by the new motorist, few abuses on the road more to the danger of himself and other dangerous than the one of cut- irritating, angentlemanly, and One gathers from signs and wayfarers. The high road posting-in at the expense of others, tokens that the food love ex-sesses the right of way in every which is fast becoming a habit pressed for Mr. Smilie in the case, and if a driver wishes speeches of Mr. Hodges and Mr. to enter it from a by-road it is for with the driver of to-day. Cutting- Twist does not invariably assume him to ascertain whether his in that is, overtaking a vehicle the form of a blind and mad in-passage is free or not, since he the opposite direction-is per- while another is approaching from fatuation on the part of the has no right to check any vehicle missible only when the car driver miners' members in Parliament. proceeding along the correct side who wishes to take the other Their relationships do not always of the more important road. A man's road temporarily is sure appear to be of the most cordial, motorist travelling along the main that fellow-travellers will not and one surmises that the eternal road should of course give proper have to reduce their speed or be conflict between the dreamer and warning of his approach, and if

inconvenienced in Mr. Smillie, clearly, is neither. the practical politician may oc- he is a good driver his imagina-

any way His achievement of the last few casionally assert itself even in tion will automatically keep him,

in consequence. months proves him to be a force- the bosom of the Federation. on the alert against anyone at-

JUDGMENT IN EMERGENCIES. · ful personality who, in the huge

Mr. Smillie, one guesses, must tempting to cross his path, al Should the motorist not possess., task of social reconstruction irits be something of a thorn in the though he is within his rights if, or have neglected to develop that before us, must be recognised by side of any authority.. If ever keeping to the left. he does not fine sense of judgment by which intelligent observers as one of the Labour Party come into elacken speed.

he knows in a flash what distance

the factors that count. He is one power one of the most awkward This rule in regard to main and he can cover at any given of the men of the time. He is a critics they will have to face will side roads is apparently not so moment in relation to the car widely known or realised as it speed at the time, and by which evidently not a fool.

probably be Mr. Smillie.

́ELEMENTARY RULES,

A man is not a hero, without

His deep-rooted sentimentalism should be, and since any accident he can also assess the reserve. cause, to his valet, nor to his is the secret of his amazing from its non-observance generally power at his disposal be must secretary. Mr. Hodges, the able attitude during the war. He is means a right-angled collision, realize that for the present he is young man who acts in the latter very indignant that the Duke of the results are correspondingly one of the negative drivers- capacity to Mr. Smillie, paid him Northumberland should accuse grave.

neither good nor necessarily bad a tribute of loving admiration at him of sedition, and I am

and must drive with the idea the Keswick Confruence, which quite sure that in inten- It is impracticable for the that assured safety is of primary was too fervent to be untrue; and tion he is utterly innocent of the motorist to reduce his speed to a importance.

A vehicle should he incidentally asserted that all charge. And if his speecbes and crawl on a long ran in order to never be overtaken on a corner classes of workers look on Mr.acts have sometimes tended that avoid covering the passer-by with the far side of which cannot be Smillie as representing the spirit way in efect, the reason is simply dust or mud, but greater politeness seen, and although this seems to which inspires and animates them. his constitutional inability to see in this matter could be shown than be very elementary advice, the

Another speaker, Mr. Harry more than one thing at a time, is very often the

Trst, frtainly not one of the ex

who is tremists in the tread of industrial evolution, invidiously described as "the movement"wentontodeclare, with unquestionable reason, that no Labour leader in this or any other country has so endeared himself to the hearts of the work- ing classes.

and to distinguish between ideals slowing down and passing on the

:

case, by rule is one which is often broken. In every case of emergency it and facts.

opposite side of the road when-is essential that all the human Like most of us, like all the ever this is possible. A led horse energy should be concentrated for people I know, he intensely hates should invariably be passed on the moment on the problem to be war; but he differs from the the side on which it is being led, solved," and it is the powers of majority of us in acting as if the and due consideration should be realisation, decision, and resul- desirability of a wish and hope paid to any horse driver who holds tant action that should be en- must necessarily bring it about. up his hand in caution. Many couraged and developed in the Like many other democrats, he motorists are not aware that in novice. Many a life has been dislikes our intervention in the latter case, should the warn saved or lost according to whether He added, what many readers Russia; but, unlike other de-ing be disregarded and an accid- the outcome of the thought has may regard as amazingly absurd, mocrats, he is prepared to use the ent occur, they are liable to be been effected a fraction of a that Mr. Smillie has not in his most undemocratic means to held responsible. This, as indeed second sooner or later. It is not nature one spark of enmity compel the democracy to his other examples given by us, is a enough to know what pedal to against the classes he is fighting, policy.

rule of the most elementary push or what lever to move in but quite fervently believes that

Like many of us, he believes nature as regards motor-car driv order to obtain an increase the co-operation of manual work-in the nationalisation of the ing, yet to-day on every side these or decrease of speed, but ere with the managerial captains mines; but, unlike those of us precepts appear to be disregarded, the finer senses of imagination, of industry, which he proposes to and of his own Federation who if not unknown, and no apology is observation, and

consideration substitute for the actual class are desperately anxious about the therefore needed for drawing at are required if the motorist. division and strife, would conduce country's industrial and financial tention to what should be as wishes to be a good, and safe to the greater happiness. and situation, he is ready to take familiar to motorists as the driver. There is little doubt that well-being of the entire nation.

any risk for the achievement of ordinary manners and customs of the general system of teaching is his desire..

every-day life.

at fault. Driving a motor-car Men like Mr. Smillië.are useful Tramway-cars are always a happens to be one of those things The Duke of Northumberland as prophets to point the way to source of danger, and the motorist which can be done, badly and very naturally finds this difficult distant and desirable ideals. But will be wise to give plenty of warn- dangerously by any fool," and to believe. But impartial specta- they are apt to prove dangerous ing of his coming, to govern his which yet requires a great deal tors at the Coal Commission's guides through the bogs of such speed so that the car can be of art to do well, since the really examination of the coal-owning road as that by which we have brought to a standstill if neces-good driver will not only be able magnates, will agree that Mr. to travel towards the nation's sary at a moment's notice, and to drive smoothly, fast, and with Smillie showed no trace of per-reconstruction.

to use his powers of observation absolute. saftely to himself and sonal ill-feeling in his treatment It is a fine thing to hitch one's and imagination. The writer others, but will study the im of them. His tone and manner wagon to a star, but in some has seen on more than one portent question of economy in were dispassionately judicial. omergencies it is not useful occasion a nasty (accjdont which" || driving..

THE WISTFUL NOTE