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to have no difference with those Toleration-Being wise enough who differ from us.

Styla-To have a good style in writing, you should have none; na perfect, beauty of face consists in the absence of any predominant featuro,

lance; with Minister, a majorits: Argument-With fools, vio-

kings, the, a sound reason. with fanatics, denunciation; with

Extempore.-A impromptu.

premeditated

volence during the whole couS DE Of the briefer sayings to bøk of his pilgrimaga. The senti- found in this collection. ments of Christian are narrow following are some excellent or- the (By IF THERE'S ANYTHING WORSE

and liberal and his struggle | ampies: There has been so much said TRANƐKNOWING TOO LITTLE. IT

and exertions wholly selfish.” Speculation. A word which lately about the rubber situation. IS KNOWING TOO MUCH. EDUCA. KEEPING A COMMOERLAUS-BOOK. This is drasile sough. Smith some times begins with its secund

adds the following: - TION WILL BROADEN A NARROW

leiter. Even members of the Chinese so many schmea put forward for

MIND, BUT THERE'S NO KNOWN literoti, with whom memory-

In proof of the latter part of the protection of the industry CURE FOR A BIG HEAD-G. H. training is or long was proverbial,

this imputation, mark with | digs its own bed.

Fublic Opinion.--A rivar which against the anute depression Lorimer.

what a heartless indifference sionally moderate or quicken its We may ocoa- for the most affinient of Polmanists through which it is passing that

to everything but himself he course, but it is very difficult to bave need of a commonplaca- abandons bis wils and family, Į altar it. we do not propose to enter very Dae case of puerperal fever was book. In particular the journalist

"Now he had not run far from fully into all the pros and cons reported to the bealth authorities is beset by this need. Nowadays his own home, but his wife which could be discussed. But Yesterday. Otherwise, there wasļevants

pamerons and

and children, perceiving it, we were especially interested a clean bill of health.

varied, and succeed each othar began to ory after him to with such bewildering rapidity. yesterday in the news sent

return, but the man put two by our Singapore correspondent

The contractor engaged for the that a serbe, were he endowed

fingers into his ears and ran new road round Mount Davis with the memory of Woodfall on crying Life! Life! Eternal ship-relative to the suggested on reports the loss through theft of or a Macaulay, could not hope to

Life! So he looked not behind | day's rest in seven and the rea-a small roller from the road keep anything like a complete him, but led towards the mid- sons why the Council of the valued at $50:

mental record. The albums and

dle of the plain."

Luck-Good and bad, is but a Morny Federated Malay States turned

files of that admirable journal- Dunlop and Smith are un-instances, for good and bad judg- synonym, in the great majority of it down. It might be true that

ist "Clandius Clear Twenty-two destitute Chinese

(Sir sparing orities of Christian, it ment. Robertson Nicoll) are will be seen. The incident quoteì the pin prices has been inno on Fenang yesterday were farnous; and recently, on the calls for criticism, too; yet is not caused by under consumption ing from were occasion rather than by are: production seat up to the Secretariat for popolar M.P.'s wife, the world Sarely what Bunyan meant to of the decease of the author's point overlooked! and that when consumption be Chinese Affairs.

learned that the fascinations of convey was that the son comes comes normal again there will be

the commonplace-book grew on before even wife and children. inevitable rise in price, Mr. A. Bower BA. Cantab, has this lady to such a degree that bur the point see mis

The "Trumpet," it may be. tobean appointed an Assistant, ber collection totalled over two noted, bas a good deal to say on have been forgotten that Master at the Diocesan Boys' thousand volumes! That is the the score of criticism, which, it whilst under consumption con- Sebool and will arrive some time problem with the commonplace says, very often tinues there must be over produc-in October. There is now a full book: the trouble is not to fill it, measuring the learning and the consists in tion unless some cutting down Staff of seven English Masters bat to keep the contents down. wisdom of others, either by our takes place. The one relies upon and fire English Mistresses, at The number of useful excerpts to own ignorance, or by our little the other. Over production might t'e School.

a student of wide interests that technical and pedantic partial- be temporary, but it is over pro-

might be made from a single issue ities and prejudices Everyone duct on all the same. And theo, Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires the Goverment goes on to explain apparently, the remains of two leading London journal, is simply who objected to Shakespeare (it

To sace funeral

of a daily paper, especially has heard of the mathematician them to forward their names and addresses with communications its attitude towards the Sunday Chinese children were dumped appalling. From the start the used to be Homer), that his works addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an rest suggestion by saying that it yesterday, one on the Yaumati keeper of a commonplace-book" proved"

All communications intended for publication should te address-customs of the country, under Kowloon. When later discovered repression, else he will find bio-lawyer who, happening to catch is averse to interfering with the Breakwater and the other at mast school himself rigorously to laminaus was the remark of the nothing. Equally ed to the Editor.

which the Chinese coolies recog-by the Police the bodies were self lost in a flood. Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager. nise no seventh day's rest. They removed to the Mortuary.

the words "a deed without a Who was the first man to keep name," uttered by the witches in The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 would be a hardship to those who infer that to stop work on one day

a commonplace-book? The term "Macbeth" repeated: "A deed per annum. (Payable in Advance.)

itself is B broad one, haven't been used to it. We fail, A drowning fatality occurred

rang-without a name?-why, 'tis void." The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscripto see the force of the argument at the wharf of the Kwong from a simple paste-up of Smith duly records the story of tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for In most of our local Goverment Cheong Shipbuilding yard yester aewspaper-cuttings to original Waller's dictum po Paradise

volumes of extensive compass. Lost "-- that day, when a Chinese lad, a native such as diaries or collections of proviso # no work shall be done on Sua-of Tokowan Village, fall into the days, and the Hongkong Govern-water whilst fishing. His remains does not look for a completed essays. Gaterally, however, one ment is apparently, content to were subsequently recovered and let Chinese labourers

lose removed to the Kowloon Public work, but rather for the raw material original and collectad of its own Christian conscience. a day's pay in seven for the sake Mortuary.

such as personal impressions in The F. M. S. Government cannot Owing to the Typhoon warn and memoranda in the other. As the one case, excerpts, quotations have any similar Christian con-ings, the arrangements made for science, because it tells the plant-taking photograph of the mem- observes, the best way to keep a a writer in a London weekly ers, who are at their wits end to bers of the Harry Brettell Lodge, commonplace-book is one's own keep their estates Paning on a R. A. O. B. were postponed from way (presupposing a reasonable solvent basis, that the coolies Sunday last until Sunday next exercise of judgment) must have a chance to work on 31st instant. Members to meet elementary form it may be that every day of the week. It is at the Palace Hotel, Kowloon, at the commonplace book goes back interesting to view this difference 2.15 p.m. sharp.—Adr.

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 29; 1921.

THE IRISH NEGOTIATIONS.

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Of much ofour contemporary criticism, which consists rather in reviewing writers than writ- ings, we may find a fair type in the following passage from a letter of the celebrated Waller: The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, bath published a tedious possi on the fall of man; if its length be not coa- sidered as merit, it hath no other."

Between

the average commonplace-book This is above the reach of keeper, but whether as an in- formal exercise in composition, or as a storehouse of information- often profit may be derived from or a combination-pleasure and the commonplace-book. PEKING'S SEARCH FOR MONEY. domestic loan of $30,000,000, With reference to the proposed

bonds will bear interest at the Cabinet, it is stated that the which has been approved by the

rate of eight per cent., and that s fund for the payment of interest be established by drawing an and repayment of principal will nually from the Peking Octroi $1,200,000, from the general goods taxation on the Tientsin-Pukou Railway $1,400,000, from stamp taxes $1,000,000, from surplus. revenue of various departments under the Ministry of Commun. Service, $40,000. This fund will ications, including the Postal be under the control of the Special Bureau which is to be organized to supervise arrange meats for payment of interest, repayment of the loan, etc.-- Benter.

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter,

with the

in outlook. For our own part we :bink that in this matter. which In an attempt to escape from a systematic instance that I can bas become so vital to the rubber house in Temple Street whereio recall is that of Bacon, who, with industry, the talk about native he was surprised in the act of his penchant for the classics.. customs is mere "eye-wash." Is committing a felony, a Chinese gave the collection a Latin titia, Greeks are in fine fettle the now,

I see from Reuter that the army of ex-raisin raisers trging it not better to work six days in jumped over the vessodah and, } seven and keep going than to work falling into the street, severely the more ambitious kind one of Telegraph they've consolidated

Among commonplace-books of according to the night before last lads o' the erascent and the star. to come it over much wi' the seven days in seren and soon be injured his right leg. He was the best is "The Tin Trumpe." the Atankarabissar-Kutahia cbange. It's niab seventy years Let's be a wee historical for a forced to stop altogether? To subsequently taken by the Police by Horace Smith, joint author Eskeshehr-Biledjik line and the since Czar Nicholsa got out of drag in native custom showed to Ene Government Civil with his brother, James. of "The enemy troops have been cut off. his system a sentence which will that the Government had a rather

Rejected Addresses." This curions I should say so too. An army maybe make his name remember- weak case. Far better would it

and entertaining book appeared who can take places like that'll ed when everything else about bave been to object to the A concubine, living at No. 110 i 1835.

get onywhere. Between you and him is forgotten. "We have on our proposal na purely economic Wellington Street, has reported

The book consists of original me, I wouldna like to write out hands," said he, a sick man--- Like Lorit Birkenhead, we find ourselves at some loss grounds.

to the Police a snatching case remarks, paradoxes, and strong names like that often. It must be to comprehend precisely the meaning of the Marquis of

in which she was the victim. She opinions, lightened by endless very trying this muggy weather. great misfortune if one of these. a very sick man: it will be a Salisbury's assertion in the Upper Chamber:

We feel Rank Stupidity.

states that whilst walking at 1.15 quotations and stories. The sub-That's the worst o p.m. yesterday in Queen's Road jects upon which it treats

are effects are so far-reaching. It us before the necessary arrange- war: its days be should slip away from the great shame and humiliation involved in these (the

Central a thief came Irish) negotiations." The Lord Chancellor's uncertainty foki and the fortune teller yester hair a butterfly orgament studded sort

When we read the case of the behind and snatched from her lexicon. The book is indeed, amans were knocking the Russians he said to the British Ambas up from arranged alphabetically, as in aased to be awin' when the Ger- ments have been made." This had reference primarily to the pronoun. Apparently the day

of personal lexicon of silly in Galicia. Some o' yon sador at St. Petersburg, under the thought, with Puck. we grand seignior of Hatfield vouchsafed no enlightenment. Lord, what fools these mortals $200. The thief made his escape of a bold and wise Liberalism of and a choke that took only a

with small pearls, valued at reflection and anecdote. It is fall words, a cross between a sneeze mistaken impression that we thinking perhaps that he had been sufficiently indiscreet.be The gullability, stupidity TheWe presumably refers to that school of political believes a fortune teller capable Tennis Patrick 150 critic of the social conditions of used to cause a lot o bad feeling the breath was in his body. And

and rank ignorance of a man who

thought. Horace Smith was a man troubled wi' adenoids to get enter into a secret "pact to divide.. were quite ready and willing to Page forward-looking man, and a keen the hang of them-man, they the sick man's effects while yet irreconcilables dignified by the name of the "last ditchers." In certain circumstances the title would be one of the over which he has performed a Bridge on the French Concession, is always blown or the side of educated comps that gave notice

of doubling the value of money fine views of the new Victory his own time. The Tia Trumpet in this office. We had three the coffin no' ordered. highest honour, but this presupposes that valour is united littlejoss pidgin pises compreben- with reason. Mere obstinacy is not a virtue: often it is sian in these days when even the hacen, Canton group taken at the oppressed and on the side of all in one week. What the effect was the Crimean Wire hair The sequal to that little affair one of the most culpable of vices.

Lord Salisbury's pre-ample opportunity to learn a little

astives of this Colony have had John V. Eastern Scotia; Hong- Smith was hater of every kind never rightly able to judge, several Balkan wars, and finally the lawn bowls match, Lodge St. freedom of thought for Horace was on our readers we were came the Russo-Turkish War sent attitude bas a strong appearance of unreasoning better. By the of: occurrence of o American Baseball team of violence and cruelty. His complaints that nature no com- the World War, all monday antagonism. So far as the cabled message goes, his lord-cases in which women together with the Japanese team remarks under Angler have probing under the heading o' notis directly connected

part ship's meaning appears to be that the central Government with valuables while they go to photograph taken on the occasion popular with gentlemen of the that this newes: war doesns' last in Europe.

played last Saturday and group ably made his book very acable diseases. So here's hoping break-up of the Ottoman Empire incurs shame and bumiliation by negotiating with the Irish change a "roll of notes" for some of the visit of Archbishop Mannix rod and basket. An angler, he overlong. unless of course, it's leaders.

scoundrel or other who has given to the Maryknoll Procure. Ho says, is them but a parcel of brown paper

Thres times at least it appear- At this juncture such a declaration is, to say the least and cases like that referred to

going to put up a fish-batcher-a piscatory as-market in which case we're that Constantinople would pass the silver ed that the end had come at last; muntin, Kowloon. most imprudent. It would be easy to find a barsher term above. one can be forgiven for

sassin Jack Ketch (catcher prepared to suffer a lot more and into other hands, and the power for it. and the Lord Chancellor's action in responding questioning the much-advertised Works for oil fuel storage at of jack), an impaler of live no' let on.

worms, frogs and flieg a Nos, though Reuter-doesna out the

the Turk vaniab with some spirit will doubtless meet with the approbation of savryofthaereryday Chinese home and abroad ara being

torturer of trout, a killer of tell. I suppose the enemy now The last time there

Western Continent most people outside the last ditchers ranks. For months We have read of cases at Home steadily advanced. The Navy where children have been duped Estimates for this year include

carp. a great gudgeon who held on that alphabetical line doubt whatever that the hour of and months Ireland has been the scene of violence and of by the unscrupulous.

sacrifices the best of his life in will be the Tarks. That being so, doom bad struck. In new items for starting work at The devastation. On both sides, as we now know, dark deeds writer confesses that as a boy the Cape of Good Hope, Falkland

taking away the life of a little local editore want to be careful Allied country the conviction have been perpetrated. The saner spirits, seeking a way he was so victimised. He was Sierra Leone, Singapore and And he does not spare Izaak A special providence watch's over the Turk again. Constantinople

Islands, Rangoon. Grangemouth,! gudgeon.

before starting to prognosticate. prevailed that nothing could save out, found the task of negotiation beset with difficulty; and carrying a parcel (it contained a now that a truce has been effected and the parties have suit of clothes to be precise) Work is continuing at Gibraltar

curiously enough Pembroke. Walton. He

bairns and drunk men. That would have to go shown amenability to a peaceful solution the greatest him to oblige him by going into a when a well-dressed man asked

must have been a demure same watchful care has always strange torn Hong Kong Jamaica, Malta' hypocrite, or a blockhead. been shared by Turkey. I mind of

in the Course disservice that could be offered to the cause of Empire and nearby shop and make a small Port Said, the Clyde, Plymouth

Hark how tenderly the gentle fide early on in the war, bearing agreed

events Great of humanity is to reawaken animosity. There is still purchase, the excuse being that and Portland. The total estimated

rullian gives directions for bait Sir Charles Elliot lecturing on the capital should go to Russia, a

that the extremism enough in the ranks of Sinn Fein without the man was waiting for another expenditure on the six new depots

ing with a frog: "Put your Turk at the City Hall in this thing British person coming down the street is £996,000.

book through his mouth, and Colony. At this time, the guns of spent blood and treasure and two presenting material for fresh dissension.

statesmen bad whom he did not wish to miss. On grounds of ordinary logic Lord Salisbury's declara-The man verg obligingly offered

out at his gills, and then with a the Elizabeth and the like, were generations of diplomacy to An opium divan at the Peak

fine needle and silk, sow the supposed to be blowing about the prevent. tion is open to question. How do the negotiations reflect to hold the parcel while the errand was unearthed yesterday by a

"upper part of his leg, with only (sick man's property in a whole. discredit, much less shame and humiliation, upon England? of favour was being carried out. Revenue Officer following in-

one stitch, to the arming wire sale kind of fashion and the tion put an end to, destroyed, This policy the Russian revolu The Government obtained an undertaking for the cessation It all seemed trae and bonest formation received at Headquar

of the book, and in so doing use feeling was expressed pretty free and ters. The divan was located at

him as though you loved him."ly that Johnnis Turk was soon to wheel of chance went in the

another turn of strife, and they have given uo recognition to Dail enough, but the upsbot of it was Eireann per se (it is an implicit, if not an express, condition interview with a constable whom Mr. Knight of the P. and 0.

a lost suit, a most uncomfortable No. 13 the Peak, the residence of Tender-hearted Izaak-what have his sherbert and harems sick man's favour. No wo

would be bis treatment of an-taken away from him. Sir Char der that the Turk has learned to that no republic will be recognised). Mr. De Valera and the writer's parent called in to Company, the keeper being his

imals he did not love?

les though, wasna' so sure and regard the best-laid schemes of his colleagues are being received as the leaders of an report the matter to, and a none boy, who had established this

Indeed, Smith is very much an gave us quite a few reasons for the Western Powers wi' cynical extensive school of political thought. Does Lord Salisbury too gentle salutary leason from a surreptitious means of increasing iconoclast. His attack on Walion his way o' thinking. But we amusment. So long cynical mean that it would have been better for the strife to when one bears of grown men was carried out, a quantity of character of Christian in the wisdom of Winston above that of and miscalculations and indect justifiably angry father. But income. When the search is equalled by his remars on the took no notice. deaming the profited by their jealousies continue? Lovers of peace could have wished that we bad and women falling for such opium was found. The boy, who "Pilgrim's Progress." He quotes a mere Vice-Chancellor of the sion that he has come to have heard something definite by now, but it is easy to under-palpably monstrous stories as are was charged at the Police Court with approval Dunlop's "History Hongkong University. Of course, stand that the negotiations are of a delicate nature, and told by victims in the Hongkong this morning, was and $90. of Fiction." The hero of this how were we to know that the lack and when a nation once gets a strong belief in his own good the fact that they are continuing gives ground for hope. police courts, one is bound to have another Chinese, described as a popular and plus allegory to a whole thing was a disastrous it into its bead that Provides The last thing that any patriotic Britisher should indulge magistrates and she police in the Hotel, who was found bestowing one good quality to recommend

a little sympathy. with the bouseboy employed at the "Peak mere negative character, without gamble? in just now is language that might wreck the overtures for task they have of sifting true his patronage on the defendant, him. There is little or no display That's what makes one kind e But once bitten, twice shy. coneerd.

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