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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY: SEPTEMBER 2. 1922.

BETWEEN OURSELVES. prate about the liberty of the the Government want to keep

this

subject. The only real liberty a stiff upper lip about we possess which is personal and business and no' get panicked into fros is the exercise of our ony aleventh-hour concessions. Pontinued From Fuge 6J

Company have thoughts-always provided, of The

more lose tban Wa

bave vocalised and broadcasted to the course, we do not think too loud. to other tables it would certainly Liberty Gone Mad.

and what's more förbys, wa’võ save the cost of the band and

got at least another six years perhaps be nearly as irritating, Boiled down the more liberty ahead of us before we begin look- The man I used to sit wi' was awo exercise the less freedom we ing up the catalogues and calling fine table-mate for I can hardly have. That sounds worse than for tenders. I realise, of course, recall the occasion when heja paradox; it certainly looks un-that skparts or no experts, the agreed wi onything I ever said. commonly like a contradiction. Company is entitled to a fr This last week a new comer has But just hold on, Let's see if offar but we must see that the joined us who has shaped very we can disentangle ourselves figure we pick out will need a lot well up to now, mind ye, but is before they take us sway and of coming down to. We've got the inclined to be owar friendly to be fit us out wi'a nice tight strait-whip hand which just goes to entirely satisfactory. There's noljacket. Libarty in excess is show ye that a chose jugee is fun in arguing wis man that's anarchy and when a healthy, often a long way short of a fait torever slipping onto your side.

Now Joe, bring out strong-minded anarchist gets crumpli Our conversation? Well, as going good, other folk's freedom' your alter ego and see it ye can such it's so out of the way but is the least of his thoughts. Ye baat that!

liable to run to terrible extremes

canna" convince an ardent anar- at times. Many's the time I've chist anent the sanctity of free-. seen it start wi' the rotten state of dom. He doesna' care a cursa so the market at Canton and finish long as he gets his own way. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS wi' the best way to catch captious And ha can only get things cockrasches. I'll admit there's his own way by taking away nothing very wonderful in that. the liberty of others. The zest- So will you if you give the subject ful zealot who would

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A Glance at our Files.

(Aug. 23-Sept.4. 1897)

CENSUS JOKES.

upinteresting. bas its

a thought at all. What we talk all restrictions in the sacred name about doesna" much matter of Liberty would ultimately im- curse anyway. We're far better pass something far worse on him- punting in the time in discussing self, in other words, the excesses silkworms or infernal combustion of others would be harder to bear engines as trying to count the than the restraint of the majority. items on the manu the fellow nex: Liberty then has got to be re- The Census Report, which, table succeeds in lowering, out of stricted in order to be more from its nature, is essentially dry sight. Besides it's au so rude. widespread. But unless, restric-and Some folk make such terribletions or obligations confer bumorous side, showing up now heavy weather of their meats some directly traceable benetit on and again, in Day way. And I'd a lot sooner the community they are bad and amongst its hard stern facts and 'talk' Prohibition or Polygamy as should be resisted by public @gures. some of the weaknesses tell each other how wet it was opinion. The Registration Ordin-of human nature. It appears that this time last year which is about ance was a case in point, because no less than twenty-one members the high water mark in conversa-the eventual services to be render-of the British community, were! tion wi lots of folk. No. we bared were to be voluntary and there either unable or unwilling to the weather, unless, of course, was no need for compulsory reg-state their ages and, contrary to there's half a chance at all cistration.

laging the blame on the Gavern.

mest. Came to think of it, lots of Prospecting in Kowloon.

welcome relief.

expectation, twelve of these prove

to be males. Who these ancient yourg sparks who fear to publish

imaginations of our

folk in this Colony would bel 1 read wi interest what they their age may be, we must leave

the perpetually out of a subject 1 Reverend Maconachie had to say to to-morrow they bad Coastitu to the Government wit regard readers. tional Reform.

Thoughts on Liberty.

to the Caton Church Commit-l bee's hunt for a site on the Kowloon site. It would appear!

that

CUST OF PLAGUE

EPIDEMIC. According to the Report of the Of late, what wit the Registrato be perfecily obvious tion Bill and such like, much has whatever the Government has Secretary of the Sanitary Board ben sai I regarding "The Liberty in view wi' regard to future the plague epidemic of 1896 cost of the Subject. It has a tine town planning on the Peninsula, the Colony no less sum than ring that one. Next to "The the erection ot. a Church to 42.856,39. Of this amount, $10,- Sovereignty of the State" I know meet th- needs of A new 2261 was paid for cleansing and $3.358.43 of nothing finer to shut up the community is not included limewashing houses,

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these plans. It

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unthinking. But when we take in the question of personal liberty argued, of course, that a Church $4.45.65 to the police, while apart, like the toy watch, we find is just as much & prolic necessity special constables absorbed $1- it's mostly all glitter and no works as a fire station, a tennis court or 641.37 and watchmen $161.17. I've used the phrase often myself a public house. It all depends on The Sanitary Inspectors had an and I'll gamble I'll use it aplenty the point of view: just what our allowance made to them of $1,000. before I give up scribbling as a interests are. Some folk ger Disinfecting houses cost $1,335.65 hobby but on serious examins-through life fine it a judicious and $4,038.84 was tion, as often as not, absolute free-blending of the lot, I do not know disinfectants in the foria of fluid, Coffing & ad dom in most things is about as whether out Government can chlorinated lime. scarce as our tom-cat's kittens. afford the land petitioned for but deal boxes were apparently not! To bazi wil the law of the i do know that our Government used to any great as extent caly majority, which when translated cannot afford to lay itself open to $9540 was expended upon them. usually means a policeman, fer the charge of favouritism or thei

SALE OF A WIFE. bids us doing in public just what suspicion that ony odd bit off The fall in the dollar and the we like. I think it was John land, which it canna' hope to sell greatly enhanced price of rice Stuart Mill, or maybe in way at a good price, is good enough for somebody else, who said that the Church. Fortunately though appears to be affecting the Chio- liberty of the individual ceased preach. I'm no' a parson, but if Servants are asking for an in- when the liberty of the mass baI were I'd be terribly tempted to gan to be interfered with. And sermonise on the subject, taking that's about right, I imagine. for my text, St. Mark 14-versos 3 Nobody can prevent us from and 9. filling up when

we begin

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beer but Up-to-date Hongkong-

to take up

ese to a considerable

extent.

Was

Creuse of wages and the reason is always allo thing just now too muchee dear." This morning in Kowloon a Chinaman was even obliged to sell his wife owing, as he said, to the tightness of the more than our share of the pave- Reuter last week told us that meat on the way home, then we M. Sinturel, a French postal offi- money market. The lady

accordingly hawked round encroach on the liberty of others. cial, who headed the wireless the place followed by an admur- So we must discipline ourselves service at General Headquarters ing crowd of male and femsle not to take too much beer else during the War, has invented a onlookers and was eventually we offend our neighbours. We new apparatus by which he claims disposed of to a

gardener for Are a perfect liberty to buy that six, or even eight, telephone the moderate som of eighty. piano or an eight cylinder gramo conversations can be conducted Eve dollars. Query.-Will the phone and play to our heart's simultaneously on one wire.

gardener now ask for an increase! content but when the fellow's Siature! calls it the telemulti- of wages to support his costly head across the road begins to phone.

bride? Also, was this a perfectly ache EA immediately begini That's nothing. The Hongkong tegul transaction? -to trespats. Our Kowloon High-Telephone Company does that landers fought but what's the everyday. Only yesterday when ! SHARE GAMBLING. use of talking about them! When went to the 'phone I'll swear that We regret to hear that one of we fight for liberty we always a dozen folk wers talking at the Broking Fraternity has come restrict some one else ony way. | the

time same

the to grief over, the recent share same wire and in different settlements and has thought it languages too. Before I was well to leave the Colony for a The boy at school pines for finished I'll admit that my own while. We hope be will be able liberty only to lose more than he English wasna of the purest to arrange his affairs speedily found. The workman wishes he either. were the boss only to realise that

Illusory Freedom.

Ower

he has exchanged the pleasure A Moveable Phixture.

M.

and come back to us. Time bargains, regardless of the ra- quirements of Keswick's Or-

of dropping his work and all His many friends in Hongkong (dinance, are. we understand; at thought of it until next morning) will regret the departure of Mr.the bottom of the trouble. If ao. for added responsibility and more Parker Ness. It is not generally it is to be remembered that other often, sleepless nights. We sigh known, but of late the popular parties must be equally to blame. for the time when we can retire vice-president of our Telephone It takes two to make a contract but it's sometimes harder to play Company he been somewhat as it does to make a quarrel. for a living than to-work for sick, Buffering, it is said, from one. We cannot even do with some obscure toxic process not ourselves what

would unconnected with an overdose of If we take liberties wi' our phixation and the recent local out- like. stomach we get sick. "The wages break of "telephonethics

we

and

MY

September, 8th to 11th.

To the

STAR THEATRE

MR. BIRRELL ON THE BOOK HABIT.

YOUR NECK

is light compared with the weight of worry failing ere- sight will cause you.

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USES OF A LIBRARY.

Did Pressmen regard the library as an arsenal, simply stored with ammunition, or as a cellar whence Dr. Johnson's Way.

they sought inspiration from the wins of literature, or-end he "Whether you consider the hoped not merely a place where HOT WEATHER HEAD-library an armoury or an arsenal, they verified their quotations?

it will, at any rate, keep alive the Or perhaps it might be to cast ACHES.

necessity and wisdom of preserva furtive look over the last text-

bilioumess use

of sin is death." What we cau be much against his wishes, his) A frequent cause of hot-weathering to yourselves in old age the book on the law of libel free from, however, is the tyranny medical advisers have had to headaches is torpid liver. To habit of enjoying a good book as of "thioze." H. G. Wells in his recommend a change of climate. gently stimulate the liver, dispel a real blessing in itself." "Now Machiavelli" points out the We shall a' miss Mr. Parker constipation, sick headaches, or terrible restraints there are to] Ness very much. I feel sure you personal liberty in having to look will all join with me in wishing after such things as cabbages and him a speedy recovery, I trust, houses. Some folk are slaves to however, with this end in view, their hobbies, their homes, con- that he will notseek recuperation vention, society. I'm not trying in the keen, penetrating air of his to preach Baliberism, mind ye, ve hills and dales. For the dainty little laxatives which but it's a fact all the same. Many mplaint such as he is suffering neither gripe nor purge. Pinkettes

PINKETTES

Speaking of the need for their preserving a balance between out- This was Mr. Birrell's advice to put and input, Mr. Birrell said newspaper men at a luncheon Dr. Johnson refused to sit dawa given at the London Press Clab to dinner with Kelly, the drama- to Sir Charles Wakefield, in rectist, declaring, "I won't sit down ognition of Sir Charles's gift of a to dinner with a man who has bandsome oak bookcase to the written more than he has read." It would be a terrible thing if club. Professor A. E. Richardson,{ who designed the shelve was also Pressmen' wrote more than they

read. (Laughter.).

a house-wife has made her home from. I should imagine the soft promote daily regularity, clear present.

Mr. Birrell described himself as her early grave. The tyranny of and balmy atmosphere of the the skin, remove the causes of packing often robe a well-earned Riveris would in the long run be coated tongue and ill-smelling & humble reader of books and the holiday of its freedom. Most of likely to do us most good. breath. Of chemists, az poet free, author of half a dozen little book-

us are slaves to many things- You know he and I got on 50 cents the vial, from the Dr. lets which were not on the shelves mostly ourselves. And wi' it fine together. It's grand Williams' Medicine Co. 96 Sze--laughter) but that, he added,

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