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a thoroughfare would Immensely Improve the conditions of tho Jacalities through which it passed.

DAY BY DAY

ALTERNATE REST AND LABOUR LONG ENDURE.—Ovid.

In particular, means of trans-natRINCONASTE portation for merchandise and produce

focilitated, would whilst much of the mineral wealth with which Kwangtung abounds would find an outlet. 6 a.m. on Friday.

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A WORD TO THE SLEEPLESS.

By BEVERLEY NICHOLS.

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YOUNG man with desperate I still bellove that. Yet I believe

Ayes man out temporing there

ends came to see me the other day, ask you to think of it, as you lie in He wna only twenty-three but he your bed, and the world turns about could not sleep. Two or three hours you, and the allence la like a drawn

night was full ho dared hope for. sword.

He had been in the Navy. Ap You cannot draw down the cur-

the championship wore generously est since then. donated by Mr. Ho lu.

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in your

brain, but at least you can control the nétors who appear upon it. You a summon them or dismiss them bright, and set behind them that narvellous backcloth which hangs,

very man, the backcloth of me mory.

to say nothing of the prosperity

Two Chinese earth-carrying which would accrue to the regions affected and the added means of em.coolies are in hospital following &

fight during which they manage ployment which would be found for to inflict Horious injuries one on the people. Other factors would be the other with bricks. the frcer Intercourse between

A Chinese has been arrested on Kwangtung and Hongkong, and the a charge of conspiracy in connex- attractions which would be offered, lon with the armed robbery which to tourists by the magnificent motor cecurred on November 22 at Noparently the trouble bogan during tafn over the stage that

four-months cruise, There were 17. Queen Victoria Street..

dancea almost every night, often till trips which would be made possible.

lawn. He used to be terribly tired. From every standpoint, the scheme

Exhibition matches are to be but he carried on, somehow. At you please, light them dim or in one which should commend itself held at the Chinese YMCA on the end of the cruise the damage Saturday when Mr. Ho Iu will disas done. That was two years aco, to Canton and Hongkong alike.

tribute the prizes won in the Ping He has never had a real night'so often unused, in the mind of Since the time when Mr. Gold Pong League. All the prizen for smith went thoroughly into the question, various circumstances have combined to delay the project being put in hand, although we be Beve that the authorities both here and in Canton fully realise the value which the suggested highway would possess.

About a year ago, there was talk of the Nanking Gov- ernment sanding an official down to survey the suggested route, but we have no recollection of the matter having been taken any further The present time, however, when we are on the eve of other develop ments for bringing Canton and Hongkong closer together, would particularly appropriate in

scem

The hearing of the charg against a Chinese, Lam Chin, ac

jewellery from Messrs. Komor an cused of stealing a quantity o Komor was fixed by Mr. Willam at the Cental Magistracy thi morning for the afternoon of Mon diny, next.

A building contractor engage In renovating a house in Arbuth not Road was fined $25 by Mt Williams at the Central Magistrac this morning for falling to provid adequate protection to the publi by allowing debris to fall into th road way to the danger of passer: by.

Sentence of six weeks hard labour was imposed, by Mr. Lind sell at the Central Magistracy this morning on a Chinese who wa arrested in a vacant house 10 p.m. on Monday with intent to commit a felony. It was revealed that the defendant had picked the lock on the door.

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I don't know why he came to me. He had been to four or five specia- ists who had delivered charming Fittle speeches to him, at the rat

f three guineus a time. But they Hid not even give him a nightmare. le still lay awake, staring at the :eiling.

Then he decided to come to me. Perhaps one of my articles had at 1st closed his eyes in blassed re yose. In any case, he might have hosen a worse person, for, at least, le came to a fellow-aufferer.

I never realised how widespread vas insomula in the modern worl util, a little while ago, I confessed! a neighbour at dinner that I had ot had a decent night's rest fo: weral days. Instantly the entir jinner party appeared to be

Ther alvanised. Nobody slept. vas almost n competition In in omnia.

A pretty little woman complaince hat she had to content heraclf with 1 bare five hours. "A bare five ne!" anorted her neighbour." ! ours! That would be paradise to

three." Which hardly get

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Memary, sometimes think, i he puppet show devised by a merci. ul creator for the special consola- ton of the sleepless. You may tell ne that it is a doubtful gift, since here are memories that torture. lancing a

a dirge through the twlated hannels of your brain, causing you lie rigid in the dark, with droop ng mouth and fists tight clenched.

Heaven

knows I've sympathy ugh with you. if you are ลด Micted, but I would tell you, though ou may not believe it, that you can antrol your memories. You can ontrol them as effectively as you an control your muscles.

You will have to exercise your- alf, to submit to a rigid mental tscipline, often falling, often des- airing. But you will find, little y little, that you will succeed, that ou can banish from your little ecret stage the actors who hurt au, till they are only pale, foolish hosts, mouthing words that you Annot hear, making gestures whose ery meaning you have forgotten. ou will be your own mental stage- Junager.

Then slowly, with measured tread, with infinite variety, they will come

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which

to revive the scheme. It should not prove at all difficult to fuance Ruch an undertaking, and we have Hittle doubt that private in. terests in Hongkong would lend a hand in this direction. The first Yesterday's aerial trip to ten by Fly big Officer Harvey mark.necessity would appear to be for

the Hongkong and Cantum authori

An alleged assault by a distric!pped by two hours from ed a new era in the contact between ties to confer on the question, and watchman on a ticket collecter o

paic young man ody else, until vith quite evident sincerity. In this Colony and the capital of, we commend, to our own Govern- the Tai Ping Theatre was men

ormed us that on more necasion: you again, the memories that Kwangtung, since it was the first ment the desirability of initiating tioned before Mr. Williams at th

han he liked to remember he had save made your life. You will re- Central Police Court this morning

not troubled to go to bed at all. nember how once the moon froze occasion on which such a flight had the pourparlers.

when Я charge was brought

spray of white lac to allver, how been made. The fact that the

Everybody exaggerates their sut- against the officer. The hearing of

at he wind twisted its wild fingers The French Paradox.

hrough the grass in a distant the case was adjourned till nextferings from insomnia. But journey

accomplished WAR

France's success in keeping her Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 p.menst, at that party, there was

It was not exactly alley, and how sweet the bells points an hour

basis of truth.

ounded over the hill. You will re- sibilities of much value and im-unemployed figures down to a few

member tiny, ridicuous Jokes thousands while other countrica Last week's health return shows healthy.

They all had their pet cures. hoeo queer jewels of friendship portance. In these days, when perforee number them in millions seven cases of typhoid fever (two

deaths), two of cerebro-spina! There were two drugs which were that made one pair of lipe twist up Leo Reisman's Orch'. Įthousand-mile hops are of almost appears at first sight to be one of fever (both fatal), two non-fatal known to all of us. We had all used with a smile, though the rest of

dnity accurrence, there is nothing the most remarkable features of cases of diphtheris and one non them, at times, and we all hated the world did not understand.

worldwide depression. A fatal occurrence of paratyphoid doing so, teenise we were afraid outstamling in the actual light to the Canton; its interest lies in the fact study of the underlying causes, fover. There were also two deaths we should never be able to give when you were very young, and no

of this, however, reveals few prospects of from influenza, Monday's return them up. We

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an elaborato dict.. A fourth ggested a pillow of herbs. Oh-there was every sort of re edy. And I felt that it was al seless-that there was no curt at one was just born to sleep o at to nleep.

And gradually, as you lie there, ou will forget that the world in urning about you, forget that the lenee is like a drawn sword, that ou are tired and puzzled and alone, or your eyes will close, and the ind, and the lilac, and the valley vill drift away, over the hills and By away, and even memory will be . memory, and you will sleep.

You will remember yourself. preferred more

much nicer, and how your body was of natural remedles.

keen as a spear, and as delicately One man said that you should tempered, and how you would flash and serves to remind us that a reUnited States and Germany. The

During the hearing before Mr. ponk your hands in cold water for through a sunlight that was never alf an hour before going to bed.immed, careless whom you hurt. zular service will in due course be fundamental factor is one which Williams this morning of a number Festablished. Civil aviation in this throws out a challenge to all in of summonses taken out against draws the blood from the head,' e said. Another recommended a part of the world is at the moment dustrial and economic theories, or Chinese for firing crackers with

aw onion sandwich. A third Inic backward and undeveloped, but it rather proven that in a given set out permits, Mr. P. P. J. Wode house (Divistonal Superintender of circumstances they are easily of Police) mentioned that a we inevitable that before long we falsified. From a strict economan of 3. Hollywood Rend ha shall come into line with othermical standpoint, France is free of fired a big string which had di parts, and when that day arrives unemployment to-day because she is turbed the officers working we shall na.vel how we had hitherto ineficient. Mass production has Police Headquarters. The defer

dant was fined $10. been able to do without this wonder. made little or no inroad upon French industry. French etymo- ful aid to rapid communication.

This pointer of future tendencies logists have yet to discover tho necessity of coining a French must be welcomed because it will

equivalent of "rationalisation." provide another link bringing Hong- An extraordinary amount of work konx and Canton closer together. is still performed by hand which We are happy to feel that this is in most other countries would be the trend of the times. Soon we competitively impossible. This is are to enjoy the advantages of a mainly due to a very low wage direct telephone service between scale, which keep a large proper- the two centres, and here again the tion of the population secure, but. advantages are too obvious to need in comparative poverty, and the question naturally arises whether emphasising. It is gratifying to this is not more desirable than the note also that talk of a great trunk 'existence of millions of people highway between Hongkong and who would be absolutely destitute Canton is being revived. This is, but for "doles" and "bread-lines." in motion while we cloud Wh. L. The answer, when applied clse- sce pushed forward without delay, where, must, of course, be No. In since it would yet further serve to the long run the plain fact as Barts itself that the standard of strengthen the contact between living of British and American neighbours whose interests are workers is not so high that it can. Identical. Nearly a decade ago, not be much higher, and further there seemed every prospect of the that a downward tendoncy would itself. project being put in hand. One of he/tlisestrous.to Industry our P.W.D. officials. In the person France's position is not really of Mr. H. E. Goldsmith, to whom comparable. She represents to the Colony owes so much for its fine day the best natural balance be- twoon.industry and agriculture. Fonds, visited Canton for the pur-Industry has not progressed to pose of conferring with the authori-the extent of drawing her people ties there on the subject, and he away from the folde. She is not found them deeply interested and dependent like Britain.upon for- aympathetic. In a plan which he olga trade. She is not dependent drow up at that time, Mr. Gold-like the United States upon high industrial oficiency and turnover. amith demonstrated how feasiblo

Thus, with a certain amount of the undertaking was. The approx-bolstering domestically, such as in imate length of the highway from provided by the tremendous re- Kowloon Ferry was 172 miles, but construction work financed by re- roalat. wo believe that since those days [parations, and continued there has been considerable road jance to Amarlcanization, except development from the Canton end perhaps in the Montmartre dis trict of Paris, she can took an which would now make the project sympathetic but unconcerned, at 46 is oven easter still than ten years ago. such a commercial crisis Writing on the subject consequent now aflicting the rest of the ly, Mr. Goldsmith showed how auch world.

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