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The Philosopher's Stone.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
HE WHO IS ONE WITH HIMSELF 19 EVERYTHING,- Auertoacă.
To-day is being observed the Chinese festival of the Winter Solstice.
The quest of the Philosopher's Stone goes on. Alittle while ago a Japanese was reported to have discovered a process for trans muting base material into gold upon a wholesale scale. So far we have not heard that the "and"
were two cases of has exercised any adverse effect cerebrospinal fever and one case upon the bullion market. Fol-
of paratyphoid fever reported yes lowing this comes another report
terday. of like character, and this time it concerns ao less a magician than Mr. Edison, who. is represented
There
SHANGHAI NEWS.
Late Interesting Items, (From Our thin Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Dec. 23. A telegram has been recaived here from Kweilin which afficial- ly denies that Mrs. Sun Yat-sen has been kidnapped.
A Hazardous Trip.
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the "Hangkang Talegraph."
The Servicemen's Debate.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
British
Twenty-six pounds is a record price for a gander, and the egg from which it was hatched was indeed a golden one. Itis a Tou Sir. The use of the phrase in lousa bird for which this price has Monday's China Mail" the worst just been paid at Nunssion, and elements in Hongkong", in ref-this variety, which retains the erence to the meeting of ex-colouring of the "grey lag" from service men last Sunday was which it was developed, attains The sailing yacht Alobs of singularly unfortunate, as the on the whole to a greater tizs
the ali-white only two-hundred tons weight writer thereof cast"a alur not than
It has been The result of the Bogey Pool and 18 feet in length, has sailed only an all the gentlemen pres-Embden goose. as declaring that thanks to a played over the last week end from hare for Hongkong on the ant that occasion, but also bought for America to improve officers who fought and died so aprofitable investment. Geese, recent discovers, it will now be was as follows. U. Ireland arst stage of a round-the-world upon the gallant men and the local breed, and should prove bravely for his own and other however, do not yield the profit The Small Fox Epidemic.
fore, for the possible to make gold artificially." up, H. R. Buckland 1 down, trip
more citizens' safety during the years they did of Were the alchemists wiser than A. H. Ferguson 2 down, and
There have been two their critics, or are these reports G. M. Dodwell 2 down.
deaths among the foreign com-1914-1918, which I am sure could RSPCA. successfully prevent not have been the commeator's the continuance of the cruel cus- only the echo of an ever-recurring
muaity from small pox.
intention.
tom of plucking the living goose We have received from Messrs.official health report states that
five times a year for the sake of chimers? If Mr.
Ca A S. Moutris and
While the war was an there were 31 foreign cases during. attractive wall calendar
toolight Sonata. From Messrs. November, and fifteen last week the soldier was necessary to the the profit got from its feathers. There have been many Chinese arm-chair critic's comfort and Lane Crawford and Co we have deaths from casos not reported. welfare, nothing was too good. received a neat and useful desk calendar.
Any
Speed Cises put up to arler at moderate prices
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Edison or does other scientist bit upon the secret, it may be hoped that it will not prove such wash out" as that seothetic product of another kind which was found to cost more than the
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CERNING IRELAND. The new British Women's out of it:
ex-service man as much as it the better alternative after all, A shopkeeper. of No. 26 Con-Hostel was assured of success that the press is to abuse the
Peace for Ever." for a market flooded with goldnaught Rost Central, is now at the Town Hall Bazaar.
likes with impunity. Is not this Christmas Charity. would be apt to produce dis-bemoaning the loss of $1,000
attitude a very mean and dirty" The following wireless raport astrous results, as indicated in which was to have been paid to a Kelief organisations as well as way of returning all that the comes through from Naden via Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale of creditor. He sent a foki with the the Rotary Club are planning same ex-service men did and gave the Asiatic News Agency under
Ratles Haw."
money, and the man made the to give Christmas gifts to in the cause of humanity? If a date the 9th. One can only hope most of the opportunity by practically every poor family man is not man enough to give that the writer's optimism will
Thore in Shanghai.
13 abeconding with the sum
these ex-service man (who are prove well-founded:
BA Latest advices from London" Weather Samples.
unprecedented amount of poverty, the saine fellows in multi The Old Country has surely We are asked to remind our baudreds of Russians and Portu-in khaki) credit that used to be report that in spite of the opposi- thought their due, would it not be tion of Mr. de Valers FES- surpassed itself this year in readers that there will be a guese being destitute.
the BOW English-Irish its reputation for "samples" of Cinematograph
better if he merely held his is display
Suicide Verdict. for
Agreement, the Irish public opge?
opinion favours ire ntifica Please do not think that I am tion by the Dail Eireann sọ ES in any way antagonistic to the to giva internal peace and order writer of the comment in questo Ireland for ever. It is even tion, or that I overlook the fact anticipated that the new agree- ON THE WATERFRONT.that every man is entitled to hold ment will be passed by the Sion what views he pleases, but is it Fein Parliament with a heavy too much to suggest that in A majority on Tuesday and that case where a man does not feel the Duke of York will be appoint.
refrain from endearouting to do the Irish Free State. It is reported from public injury to a good cause, by authentically
Dublin that in the Dail Eireano, about one hundred members' are in favour of the ratification of the new convention and the outlook is, therefore, bright.
weather. After a sultry sum-children at the Helens May The Jury brought in a verdict The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is Bomer, during which the mercury Institute tomorrow afternoon of suicide in the case of the late per annum. (Payable in Advance)
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1921.
OUR LAWS.
England bas known so late in the
officially registered.
like:
Two
For the Lackadaisical.
It is interesting to compare the nostrums to which different sets
A
miciature
Camp is Murray on
not saying anything at all?
I am, etc.
J. E. OLLERTON. Hongkong, December 21st.
Between
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
She washed the
I had
fore the Magistrate this morning
Every Two Weeks With the sailing of the Pine three weeks after, the weather by Miss F.C. Wu, of St. Paul's was selling op & other kind ofGirl's College. The theft occurred record, for on November 10in Winglok Street, and led to the Trea State from Seattle and the one town recorded 21 deg. of swift arrest of the culprit. by trial trips of Bay State out of
Chinese detective.
Camden, New Jersey the Far frost, while at Greenwich the
East is assured of the operation glass stood at 16 deg. below i
A watchman, 32 years of age, from Seattle of five of the big Am-| freezing point, which sufficed to! mark the day as the coldest Nor. I was yesterday removed by motor erican 535-foot passenger and The Shipping amber 10 for more than half a ambulance to the Government freight boats.
dying state Board now operates three vessels, century. By now, with Christmas Civil Hospital in at band and thoughts inclining to from No. 27 Caine Road. He had the Keystone State, Silver State an overdose of opium, and Wenatchee on the shorter the Yule log, perhaps the elements taken have swung back to the summer apparently with the intention of northera route between Seattle committing suicide. The result and Hongkong. The assignment proved to be fatal, for he diedol these two new vessels will give
Christmas comes but once a though we were on holiday, i
Berrants shortly after his admission to the American passenger Bailing
the very game. Hospital.
for the Far East every two weeks year and it's maybe just as well. was
Our house has been a cross be- were awfu' hard to get but that The Shipping Board has.
tween a midden sod“ a pawnshop didna' seem to make ony odds to The Indian watchman, Yab authorised the Pacific Steam for nearly a week now. If it Janet. She found a maximum o' -of wasna' that the building is stuck joy in getting down on her knees of conditions give rise. In Eng-Mahomad, who said he was an ship Company, operators The case heard at the Magistracy yesterday in which fand the stress of unemployment old watchman of the P. and O. these tine boats, to increase into the ground and, over heary and scrubbing the kitchen floor. steerage accomodation to lift, I solemnly believe that my Cleaning the range every day wi
300 to 500 as the wife would have it shifted into the big black gloves on her hands was the Kwong Kwai photographic store was convicted of prompted a "Right to Work was this morning sentenced to the the selling a poisonous arti-le without authority threw inter-movement, and the Labour Party maximum penalty of one year's from esting light on the stack way in which the Ordinance under sought to have this principle hart labour on the charge that American service bas attracted roadway one forenoon and have part of her religion. She had the which the charge was brought has been administered. The meaning an obligation upon the had been brought against him ofjcapacity lists for the steerage the coolie set to and sweep and very cinders terrified to drop out wasing these additional vessels for animated cleanser. That would kitchen sink until the porcelain defendants did not seem to know that they could not sell late to provide employment-f being a trafficker in arms. It will Seattle shipping interests in urg-wash in below it. Janet, she's в of the grate.
embodied in legislation. In this be recalled that the case cyanide of potassium for photographic purposes, this was case we see work treated as some-the outcome of investigations the Seattle Hongkong run sent be nothing if she wasna to whole wore thin. Our sitting 100m was dant into the discovery of a German data to the Shipping Board show sale about it. She and I bavena like an operating theatre, no a
Mody's the three mails were despatched spoken a civil word to each other speck o' dust to be seen. the first ease of its kind ever brought under the Ordinance, thing to be parsued.
out of the Puget Sound gateway and I'm that mad that I darena' to do nearly all my smoking in although the Ordinance was brought in several years ago Rascar (to say nothing of other automatic pistol
for every one from California and trust myself to begin.
the garden for fear o' dropping and there was enough argument in Court to show that the places) it is treated as something Godowa on Praya East.
to be eraded. A section of the
If I Still the ease
Time was when I had the three- ash and burat match ends. now that the Japanese trans-Pacific are the most numer- law has been administered in a lax way.
natives
Parade shipping was concentrated a wish ides of the fairy tales. One laid a newspaper down for & had a value from the point of view of publicity and welous offenders, but apparently erected shall doubtless see a closer eve kept on these things some half-castes and Europeans Ground where the Wiltshires will Puget Sound because of the was to play the fiddle, another to minute it was grabbed, folded posion. take up their quarters on leaving shorter distance in comparison learn Greek and the third, if luck neatly and half-way to the rack beld out, to own a bull-dog. But before I realised what had Photographic stores now know where they stand.
Impartially the Governor-Murray Barracks to make room with southern ports.
The Shipping Board was urged that was long ago. Now, I'm happened and began to howl While we are on the question of the administrationeral as instituted an "Idle for the Liverpool Regiment which
of the satisfied to be Ieft meet competition
alone. about it of one Ordinance, we take opportunity to refer to the ness Tax" for the edification of is expected to arrive here aboard to
Ay, it was a test wee house, Colony's Ordinances generally and the almost hopeless males without fixed occupation. the transport Himalara on the Canadian Pacific, the Nippon Married life knocks a lot of bigh- task it is to look up a prist. Ignorance of the law is no His Excellency explains that the 13th, Instant Their duration in Yuson Keisha and the Osaka faluting ideas out of a man's head, garden nearly all round, and wi its front door and back door. ta Wiltshires are coder orders to Sound with fast passenger and Our boase is like a ranch Nobody ever used the front plea, but to know the laws of this Colony is beyond the measure is designed simply to camp will be very short as the Shosen Kaisha out of. Pages mind I'm selling re.
now, the cst having door though, If there was. interfere with the liberty of the embark aboard the Himalaya five freight steamers. Recent running just
unfortunate time as much
25 8 footprint es capabilities of the average man and often beyond the counteract capabilities of trained lawyers. The reason for this is individual. How people blessed. days after being relieved by the has found the vessels doing ex-chosen
kittens. that the Government has generally proceeded on the aflicted, with privates incomes Liverpools. The number of the cellent time and keeping well to o year to have another litter of the pristine redness o". you door.
What between them step there was schedule.
a row bearly as and the dog the place is like a big as a fight. Inside the house, principle of amending the law by reference instead of by are to be classified does
Why the Shortage?
wild-beast show. If ons kind there were newspapers laid ul entirely new enatment. Let any man try to look up a appear.
A young man, who was sent to Madagascar prir ciple is recognis
The China Navigation Com-hearted readers can offer a good over every floor and I got quite particular point and he will possibly find that the originaled at Home, where unearned Wanchai from Wyndham Street
steamer Chingchow home to a perfectly black kitten, expert at jumping from the one Ordinance has been amended by several succeeding Ordin-l increment pays income-tax at with a bundle of clothing, was pany's
deck pas- or two, they can have them for to the other. Eliza crossing the net at Queen's Road yesterday brought only 19 auces, all of which refer him back to the original and so double rate.
by two men who engaged him in sengers from Bangkok-16 Dothing and no questions asked. ice was like a hearse in com on. Our volumes of the Colony's Ordinances are full of foot
conversation, and eventually re- and three women. The usual
no I'll tell ye what I'll do. I'l All for what? Man, women are notes and references, asterisks: daggers, those curious little A Real Champion.
quested him to charge a bundle number carried by vessels from 20 per cent off for taking four-parison.
anything op to throw in & slightly soiled silly things o' habit after all, I wiggley things, double daggers, etc.. and to trace them all to:
In Mr. Edward Lewis, whom of what appeared to be notes for Bangkok is
that has hopes o' miad o' my aunt being ill and He complied but very 1,000 or even 1,200. Has the ap cockatoo, thern. their proper places is a task of no mean order. In fact, even sporting circles, with their pre-
together wi a cage that was When he came he said that she when one has finished that kind of thing and marked all deliction for elegant nomencla- 107 afterwards discovered that it proaching Chinese New Year off? Are the Bangkok When te returned to look for the ing the pages it is often impossible to trace the last word on a tore, have dubbed "Kid" Lewis, was only a bundle of waste paper. anything to do with the slacken- day being able to speak, having to send for the doctor.
That's fair enough.
straight away. But she couldn' given point. There ought to be some better method than the Union Jack surely use &
or do they propose to
Man, it's terrible. This morn do that. No, no, she'd a washing bumber of appeared with the bundle of there this, and it has been urged that the only satisfactory way redoubtable upholer to encour men he found that they had dis- Chinese aiming at celebrating it early new the year before last. would have to go to hospital
among age us
ing I couldna' get a shave which to see to the next day and had no Lewis disappointments.
first clown when had handed so delay their return to China until of keeping our laws up-to-date and keeping them in a
that kind. was maybe just as well for the time for Jaants o 13 security for the safe the Chinese New Year is due? came in to prominence by them concise form as well is to make any amendent by the
The Yokohama Maru.
wee yin must bave been playing And she didns" go either, wi' the simple expedient of repealing all existing Ordinances on a winning the Lonsdale b It for the return of the "motes".
championship,
Ma. G. 5. Dovey of the China at painting houses wi' the brush result that she had to be taken Mutual Trading Company, the day before. It was fair thick away in the hinder erd and a subject and introducing one complete new Ordinance. festher-weight
Shanghai, and Mrs. Dovey are wi' dust. I found the razor under housekeeper got io. Was it a This would undoubtedly entail extra work on the part of after which he made a long tour of Australia" and America, filling the Colony's law officers and would put out of date many out into a welter-weight (fight
Owing to the number of acci-passing through on the Yokohama my shirts and it was only then lesson? Not a bit of it. The first that Janet minded of putting it day she come back she began plan.
entertain
the Jame
laziness, 00%
not garrison is 880.
In this Jense the
COIN-THROWING FROM CHARABANCS.
practice.
AD
of the volumes which adorn the shelves of the Colony's middle-weight) in the process. 10 dents caused by passengers throw. Maru on their way to London
The Yokohama Maru carried there out of Jean's way for fear ning a cleaning campaigo and by legal men. But it would certainly simplify the task of all the States he had more than one ing coins to children, the Au-109 passengers, only two of these she'd cut herself. A woman the Hokey Fly, before the week. concerned with the law, its interpretation and adminis-stirring contest with Jack Britton tomobile Association has prepss-for Hongkong. Twenty-five were needs to have a good memory to was through, he'd everything
for the world's welter-weighted plates for attachment to tration.
was some trouble about my collar that she nearly laid herself up When it is remembered that every man is supposed to championship. Then, returning charabane seats warning the first-class and 18 second-class clean house for Christmas. There turned outside in wi' the result
to England, he beat Sgt. Barham, public againa the dangerous Passengers.
The vessel had 1,933 tons of studs as well and it was only again.
Janet's another o' the same know the law at least the criminal law the necessity of the British welter-weight cham
cargo for Hongkong, mainly pes after I'd got on my Sunday ones
that they were discovered inside kind and a perfect heart-break to having some simple means of reference is made obvious, pion, and subsequently defeated
nuts, tea and camphor.
the sewing machine drawer. Te every boy we've hired. It's the If we take the recent Rents' Ordinance, we find that the same opponent for the middle- title, Now, having|
In Wireless Communication. canna be ower careful where ye old story of minding things owET to McCormick, although it was passed only a few months ago there have weight
vanquished Bailor McCormick, & avoirdupois
The following vessels were in put things like that. They're again, wear sod tear o brawn been two further amending Ordinances brought in already cruisez-weight (light hesry- though, seeing that it was lately
and brain for nothing at all. But A case of three Ordinances instead of one. The point weight), Lewis repeats his last stated that Lewis ran still make wireless communication with the apt very to get lost otherwise.
at 2.30
But what's the use of talking t ̧ as I say, ye may as well never p.m. to-day: raised by such a proceeding is worthy of the most careful year's challenge te Carpentier, the welter-weight limit. This port attention of the Government, because it is on the ease and Like the Frenchman, Lesis has mesos that Georges would be Tjikanbang Nippon, City of I may just as well speak to the let on. Men folk are no suppose worked up through nearly all the receiving instead of conceding Glasgow, Hwak Ping, Bengloe, stones in the wall or the toweled to understand about those facility with which its laws can be consulted that an weight divisions. He must bare liberal poundage, as in most of his Atlas Maru, Porthos. Egremont rail for all the notice that's taken. things. Ay, it's a great pity but
Castle, City of Boston, Glenavy. Last year at Linkcumdoddie even apparently it canna be helped administration must very largely be judged.
been conceding a lump of contests,
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