TWO-MINUTE TALKS ADaily Tonto
By ROBERT POWER
POOR MAN {"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
DAY BY DAY.
Falling from his bunk whilst asloop, Mak Ming, 38, a licensed. hawker, living at MacGregor Strest, fatally fractured his skull, and died at the Govornmonti Civil Hospital yostorday.
"Poor Man?" I heard the ex- the anxieties of great possessions clamation recently and my eyes had gravon many a wrinklo on followed the abjoot of this com- his brow. Of him it might woll Telographic information hos passion. I saw's halo and cheer- be sald, Poor "rich man 1" ladon been recolved hore to-day, that ful-looking old follow, ambling with riches but ompty of con-Mr. Ollordoseon will not be a along supported by a stout stick. tontmont, bowed down with It was true that his lothes wore earthly gains but boggared of the patched, but they were docent; his groatcst woaith of all--"a quiet boots were cortainly not the intest and contonted heart." fashion, but they wore well clean-
"You mean Old Bol. Yes, to is none too well off and really I wonder how he manager at all, for he has nothing but his old
Ago
Ho
member of the Shanghai Interport cricket toan, but that Mr. Evans and Mr. Leslie are coming in his place. The team sails from
It is with regret that we have to record the death of the Ravd. Dr. Donton Thompson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, which took place! on Sunday. Telegraphic informa- tion has been receiver by Mrs. G. R. Lindsay, of Kowloon Vicarage. who is a nieco of the deceased, will be felt. and with whom much sympathy
Shanghai on the 8th. It is a common thing to envy od. He was certainly not one of the rich and the great, and
It is understood that the two the rich or the great. "Poorman,
nothing so distompers the mind I sighed politely, I montioned my as to
men brought back by the Hong- cust longing oyos 'poor man" to a villager who
thoлe
kong Polico after the successful upon
who BORBOOK known everybody. "Oh," he said, wealth. But could wo pierce oxpedition against pirates at Lap the veil which covers the men Sap Mi Island, in which they we call "fortunate," how often rescued a local Chinoso schoolboy should wo find weariness, dis Who was being held for ransom. satisfaction, and sutlution.
will be deported to Canton: ho's ponsion. But
the is a lucky man' is often said of happiest man in the whole place. samo person ranked as rich. I havo nover known him believe that too often were our grumblo/**
judgment sound, wo should say What a lesson, i thought, on instead," Poor man!" Thero is judging from the more putward ap- nothing. more morable than the pearance. The threadbare clothes, spectacle of the man who is thedocent evidences of humble "rich" and yet truly "poor." stato," and the obviously humblo position of Old Bob called forth those who do not nood it, and I'ity is so often wasted on the exclamation of Pity. Pity is withhold where it is required. good; but Pity may be wasted. Poverty has its inconvenioncos, For often you will find that those hat also its blessings. The story the Pacific Mail 8.8. President wo call "poor" are indeed rich - rich in wealth not possessed by of many a roally grost man Wilson, which sails at midnight men of money and of high estate, digenco. If it had not boon for begins in a humble setting of in- I saw a millionaire some time the striving necessary to make ago whose wealth is a household ving, there would not have been word, throughout the world. I found future Success. Poverty did not need to be told that, in is the spur that leads men on to his case, riches had not bought
greater things. off carking care, nor had it pur- charod hoaith, His sunkou Pity is a virtue but don't let cheeks told its own tale, while it be wasted!
ARMED ROBBERY.
DISAPPOINTED THIEVES.
THE CINEMAS.
* Among those leaving aboard
Jones, Mr. John H. Botelho and to-night are, Sir Edgar and Lady wife, Mr. D. C. Scott. Mrs. H. d. Angeles Automobile man; Mr.. Groer and son, Jack Groer, Los A. H. Waller and Mrs. B. Harvey. Messrs. M. H. Bush, Carl Wash- man, A. Carpenter and C. S. Williams who have spent two years in the Far East on geologic- al research work for the Rich- mond Oil Co. are roturning to the States aboard the same boat.
SLEPT ON BOARD.
EXCUSE OF MAN FOUND
CURRENT ATTRACTIONS. World Theatro patrons who Before Mr. E. W. flamilton at
lato enjoyed "Behind that the Kowloon Magistracy yester Curtain"-last screening to-day day afternoon, Kwong Sing, an unemployed Chinese, was charged at 5.15 and 9.15 will be looking
ON EMPRESS LINER. with robbery at No. 19 Cheung forward to the great Mary Pick- Lok Street on the 17th October ford film which commences to-
A charge of stowing away on Mary Ain't board the s.s. Empress of Canada, morrow, entitled last, and
alternatively WHA
Guilty." sparkling with rost from Manila, was brought against charged with receiving three articles of clothing which were humour and threaded with a fine an unemployed Filipino, before
love story. "Koon
continuou Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kow- stolen from the promises. The charge of receiving the three until Thursday at the 2.30 and
Defendant pleaded that he was piocos of clothing was also pro-
The new Paramount picturo working on board, and fell asloop. ferred against another Chinose,
"The Passionato Pilgrim," said When he woke he found that the Inspector T. Murphy said that the woman, who was the victim,to be one of the best Cosmopolitan ship had left Manila, and he and her small son were the only, productions to date, which is immediately reported himself to being shown at tho Queon's the officers. Ha was ongaged in persons on the floor at the time.Theatre.
ін proving a great carrying passengers belongings The woman's husband left the
attraction. The picture- in on board. promisos about noon with the dramatic and thrilling. The Bum of $2,000 which he had kept heart interest nuvor lags, while of
Mr. M. Ross, unster-at-arms the Empress of Canada, ovor night in a rice jar. Two and
the narrativo
tensely suid that
ship left at
knocked at the door.
7.15 shows.
cast.
loon Magistracy this morning
a half hours later throw mon
Before Synipathetic, and it is interpreted 9 p.m. on Saturday, and at one being admitted to the floor they by all extremely well-salected o'clock the following day the dofondant was taken to him by said that they had come to 100| The Coronet's present feature, the storo-keeper. Accused told the floor which had boon ad-"The Face in the Fog," starring witness where be had slopt. vortised to let. They were shown Lionel Barrymore, has been one Witness described this place a8 4 all over the premi-os.
One of the men, alleged to be of the most popular scrooned by tunnol near the engine room, 60
tho
Tho
fret defondant. seized Woman by the nock
a popular housu. To-day is the foot below the deck. Defondant last opportunity of wooing it.had no right to be where he was. Commencing to-morrow. Thu Tho caso was adjourned until and pushed her into the Kid" will be the Coronot attrac-to-morrow.
A
only cubicle and after boing tion, and it suffices to say that bound and gagged, who was placed the stars
serugned.
aro Jackio Coogan
ot an iron bed. She saw a revolver and Charlie Chaplin to start the O-DAY'S MISCELLANY. and a dagger, but could not say rush. Full houses are obviously whether theso were in the the order while it is being possession of one man or two. Two jackets were thrown over; hor head and she saw nothing furthor. She was asked about hor money and jowollory, but the mon found neither. Thoy ran-
Every instrument known for The Coronet thoatro will show the
study of astronomy was
sacked the floor and stole a nu ber of articles of clothing and jowellery to the value of over $100.
Tho defondants wore arrested made. on information, recoivod. Tho
The attraction at the Star
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Armistice and following day, invatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, and a film of remarkable nature on employed at the Lowe. Obser kooping with the occasion at the Lick Observatory, Mount sight hours in advance of the month of August, while the planet screening that will take placo Hamilton, California, during the
Futura announcements will be distant from this earth, the closest initial showing in England. Mars was only 34,000,000 miles
for 100 yoars. The observ- A postcard that has boen in plonsant of experioncos. For the ation was concentrated upon the post for 21 years is to be the fact, as overy habitue of tho three articles of clothing wore Ashes of Vengeance," a fosture- Mars. Although Lowell reports authorities only learnt through steady rain in summer-time sets theatro to-day and to-morrow is discovering whether life exists on subject of an official inquiry. The country woll knows, is that warm discovered in the cookloft of a film in which Norma Talmadge favourably, the conditions matshed in Austin Road, where
is seen at hor bost. It is a story Lick Observatory have
at the newspapore of its tardy all oraation rojolcing-all, that is with thrills, and it grips the im- unfavourable. A full roport is told the story of its dispatch at much corn lying out. Whor one been travels, the Daily Chronicle having to say, all but the farmor with agination from the very best not likely to be forthcoming for Whitehills, near Banff, in 1903, bird would be singing in Sun-bu minute to the grand climax. several months, Swiss astronom and its recent delivery at Aber- shino, a dozen will be making tho Another grout attraction is pro- ors installed two giant telescopes deen, some 50 miles away. We dripping woodland glades and misod at the Star on Thursday near the summit of the Jungfrau, are calling for a report, and, until village gardens ring with muslo; when Tom Meighan will be seon which is 11,540 It. high to we got the notual particulare, we, and even the songsters long since figuring in "White and Un. absorve the planet. Nothing don't know what has happened,"muto will remember by-gone manymummus married, an arrosting play, in A SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION. which ho takes the role of a crook Came of all those elaborate said an official at the General times, and try a bar or two of
preparatione.
the second defendant was arrest
ed on the information of first dofondant.
.
After hearing of the ovidenco
tho caso was adjourned.
KOWLOON CONCERT.
in tho Parisian underworld,
The committee of the St. assisted by two beautiful women,, Andrew's Young Man's Club are [Thero is a strong love motif.
to bo congratulated on the success
of the concart held in the Church
Post Office to a Daily Chronicle the old glad strain. But, not in representative. There is monuy Hongkong!
surcharge. penny "Declared innocent after thirty involved-a years" in the heading to a story which can be
recovered on
Hall last night. The Club is still MARY PICKFORD Kikubi Kontaro, aged 57, of halfpenny stamp, correct at the with al) has inspired a Cornish-
in ito Infancy and dosorvas greatį prodit for the entertainment it provided the audience, which showed appreciation by the ap- - plause which grooted the rospec- | tive items. The programme was a variod ono and included vocal and instrumental itome, charactor impersonations, monologues and conjuring,
The arrangemonts wore in tho' hands of the President, the Rov. G. E. Arrowsmith, who also assisted, in making the concort the success it was.
The proceeds are for the Club'a fouds, to assist in the purchase of
piano.
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of
the deficiency—a penny...... theft
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