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STARK POVERTY During the week-end, Hong- kong has had some unpleasant reminders of the state of ex- treme poverty in which so many of its inhabitants live. The an nual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Children served to bring the issue once again to the fore, and the revels tions made by the Bishop of Vic- toria, in his sermon on Sunday, of what he saw in a tenement

A YANKEE at the

COURT of

KING

LAUGHTER

HUCKLEBERRY

MARK

M4 knew what he wanted to be. river he had to go some-out-in the random articles that world inughed-lectured and the

Nor was

ARK TWAIN never quite WHEN the Civil War closed the Some of the dirt he washed But even as he wrote and the | As written in an encyclopedia, where else. He couldn't join in punctuated his editorials-was audience roared, his mind was his life sounds like an orderly the war. His clear vision show- rare stuff. Here belongs his on other things. His desk wns and progressive triumph. In ed him that both sides were per- Camous "Siege of Paris Map" always crammed with manu- reality it wasn't. He was just feetly right as they are in all (the year was 1870), for which scripts, meant as the beginning moving round, thinking what to great wars.

he whittled out a block, with n of vast performances, huge do next. When at Inst he found

He enlisted in Home non- Jack-knife, in his office.

satires on creation, elemental de- out what he wanted to bo-a descript Confederate irregulars, These were the opening days nunciations of the Old Testa- £ passionate outery great social reformer-it was got someone, in his own words, of his married life with Mark ment, too late.

to hold his gun for a 'minute," trying hard to be respectable, to against the injustice of our Mark Twain was, in reality, and moved on. He went west forget how to swear, and to join human lot. "minstrel." He spent his life in because he couldn't go east, his beloved Livy in evening Most of it never got published, moving about from place to “roughing it" across the plaing prayer, But he couldn't "stick He couldn't bear to hurt the old- place, from occupation to occu- as secretary to the Secretary of it." He wasn't a journalist fashioned picty of his wife, the pation, from dream to dream.

Nevada-his brother.

not that kind, with a desk and austerity of his New England In his village home at Hanni-

Not liking official life, he quit a chair. And in any case he had friends. He couldn't bear to bal, Missouri, he learned the it to go into mining, and quit begun to discover that he didn't check the laughter of the public. Mark this all. trade of a printer; not for print- mining, when the first frenzy need to be; it began to took as ing's sake, but because If you was over, to go into journalism. if he was to be a "literary man." Twain, inspired with that hatred learn to print you don't have to This was Nevada journalism, all It was the English-the public of publishers which has dis- stay in Hannibal, Missouri. He localised, heedless of the outer and the critics who first told. figured the lives of so many wandered round for about five world living on quips and gags, him so, who first really discover- authors, determined to be a pub- years (1853-57) in the cities of the States, taking his job with punctuated with pistol shots, late ed Mark Twain. The "boys" in lisher himself. He floated n him, quitting it in one place and suppers and minor riots and California thought him "funny" company, made a fortune for his the professors in Boston thought dying friend General Grant and taking it up in another.

It suited young Clemens to the him cheap. It was the English his heirs and brought down Then he started for South

ground. There was in it just who first discovered that he was ruin on himself. because probably

The financial wreck made by . America —

publishing was completed by there was no printing there to that mixture of effort and idle- an author.

ness that was the effort of his he speak of. On the way "struck" New Orleans, stuck being. Sam Clemens he still THE English of that period-it what he thought "shrewd invest- was, but the "boys" were already was the middle nineteenth ment" (he saw that his real life- there, and then, attracted by the beginning to call him "Mark century-after despising every work should have been finance) float a new and wonderful Twain", after the nom de plume thing American, from George and by a desperate attempt to (taken from the pilot's jargon) Washington down, had made a one of its

sudden and cheerful discovery of machine that would set type for that he signed to his articles,

England printing. He foresaw that there In the Nevada journalism-in American

and gentle were millions and millions in it. the American journalism of the look day-nobody used his own name. Artemus Ward to its heart like There were; but not for him.

While his fortune was ebbing It wasn't good enough. They little child from far away. signed themselves "Dan De And when the little child grew out, Mark Twain. perpetually Quille." "Philander Q. Dees tired and died on English soil, going back and forth from. ticks." Artemus Ward and his friend Mark Twain fell heir America to England, was writ- ing his "Joan of Arc"-a book NOTES OF THE DAY Petroleum Naseby something to the inheritance.

Within a few years Mark that was the pride of his heart, with all the colour of the morn Twain became for them the but heavy as lead if it had not

his name to float it. American humorist-unrivalled, with a place all his own, not as at sixty years of age, a renewed Then came ruin; and with it, an artist, u

glamour of the Mississippi steamboat and by the call of the Great River to children, turned into a pilot, and navigated up and down the Father of Waters. Of literature (Both Played by Jack jackson's Orchestra). House in the city, vividly illushe never dreamed. It came by

trated the appalling conditions accident.

Squiba-Fox Trot (Film "Squibs"}

tumulis.

ing in it.

..

•

humour. the frall

with which the poorest of the poor have to put up. Bishop New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Hall's statement, which parallels fncts disclosed in the annual re- Did you ever have a fooling you're flying-Fox Trot

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In one cock-loft in a cubicle BACK TO SILVER? there were no fewer than seven Wo who try to follow the torlu- records by World Famous Artists.

families accommodated on separous paths of exchange, sometimes CHASED out of Nevada-by a a clown, but as ate bed-spaces, occupied by hoping, sometimes cast down, have duel "Mark" went to San genius. From then till the end access of his California energy: fifteen people. These bed-spaces wondered for some time just how Francisco-into real journalism, England never lost its apprecia. a trip around the world, lectur

ing and writing-in imitation of are all that the occupants can

what he once had been-and afford to rent, and they have to ment banks," proposed to control and couldn't stand it. From tion.

Once indeed, when he publish- do duty for the accommodation they intended to control it. We orders from anybody. There is ed "Connecticut Yankee in the nobly done at that.

Colony's dollar value; or if first to last he hated taking of the families day and night. have asked where we should not no interest in just doing what Court of King Arthur," there Of the fifteen occupants in these have asked, possibly but since you have to do. So he went back was a brief hurricane of anger. THE last ten years of his life were just an episode, a cramped and unhealthy sur- thero_is_no_oilleial_explanation of to mining, got sick of it again But it easily passed. After roundings it was discovered that the details of the Government's and took a wind-fall trip to the all, the book is funny, ronringly life-of-wandering with-only- four were children supporting | intentions, we have inquired in Sandwich Islands, which were funny; what does it maiter if it an empty home to

about vagaries their parents by what they could unofficial quarters. Opinions are then really islands,

is false as history, and ridiculous Science, attacks on missionaries, pick up; three were daughters to be had in pleaty. Exchango i

as social theory?. of a woman who was undergoing

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the Government, or the "Govern

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Christian

In all of this there was and speculators do not i

a voice lifted up against Im- perialism, American Expansion, a term of imprisonment for no hesitate to air their views, with the thought of a literary career, no forlorn hope, perhaps, that they background of education 01 more serious offence than that will get into print and influence college, none of that sedulons RUT all that came later. Mark and European Conquest.

Twain left Buffalo to live in But the world would not have of hawking without a licence! the market in the right direction. preparation for a career which Hartford, Connecticut, and turn it so. They took it as just the No-one with a spark of human-The exchange speculator has been is supposed to be the means of ed into an author-that is, a peovish talk of a beloved old ity in his or her make-up can greatly handicapped by the Govern- obtaining one. Mark Twain's man with no definite means of man, against whom one could rend facts like these without ment's action in sequestering silver life came by accident. No doubt support. There followed the not take offence. They still feeling that there is something and the banks' refusal to do forward

A college books which, after the first passed round the books with the sadly lacking in the social ser- business, or any business at all it was better so.

the "Innocent," picture on the cover of "Mark" vices of the Colony. The Se-without a large margin coverage. course would have stifled him. triumph of

name round the with his Missouri corn-cob pipe. ciety for the Protection of Chil- Exchange brokers are a little "fed His queer genius for what is spread his

and When he said he was a Chinese have called "humour" grew best by it world "Tom Sawyer" dren, and other bodies as well," However, they

views and shreds of their self, like the beautiful flowers "Roughing It,"

t," and "Huckle- "boxer" (and he meant it) they are doing what they can to hopes. One of these views, which for which the bulbs must first berry Finn"-the greatest book laughed and said, "Have you ameliorate the lot of these poor apparently enjoys considerable sprout in the dark..

ever written in America. Murk heard Mark's latest?" people, but, at best, their efforts popularity, is that the Government When Mark got back from the Twain found that to write a They gave him college degrees, only touch the fringe of a big is as much embarrassed by ita social problem. As Bishop Hall recently promulgated polley as the islands, he "wrote the island up" book he had only to recall his pretended that he was a doctor was at pains to point out, these brokers themselves. The Govern-a huge local success, and then Mississippi days or to look back of laws-and so, crowned with people are our fellow-citizens; ment took over the banks' silver, the "boys" put him up to give a to where the sunsets fell on the honours, he was gently escorted well might he ask what kind of paying a reasonable price for it, lecture on the islands in San Nevada mountains. training for future fatherhood we believe, with the intention of Francisco and all of a sudden a gold mine indeed. and motherhood is possible selling the metal on the London or crown of laurel fell on his head, under the conditions in which other markets, the unalielul story amid the roaring laughter of a these poverty-stricken people the sequestration of the silver a new life-work-to go all round goes. But within a few days of California audience. Here was exist.

It is no answer to the stocks, the silver market cracked, the world and "write it up" and problem to say that there are The

price fell away und laws against overcrowding, and the principal buyer, if not the lecture about it. A local news. ER that if these laws were strictly only buyer l any quantity, the paper put up the money and off NOTICED in yesterday's Tele- All the white squares are next tho black squares, and all the black graph that our old friend Doc. squares are next the white squares. enforced, such hovels would United States Treasury, refused to went Mark Twain as an "Inno-

The take more than a fraction of the cent Abrond" in 1867 and came Alekhine was defeated in the This is to keep them separate. automatically disappear.

of back to find he had exchanged a world's chess championship by rooks (not the kind you know) and Then you are given a handful of problem is an economic one, and offerings, The the dominant fact about it is Hongkong, having more silver than Californian notoriety for

Euwe. That's what comes of pawns, and kings, and queens, and that the people affected could not it knew what to do with, found International reputation.

bishops, and castles which you spread having names like that.

out on the board indiscriminately. possibly afford to rent better as any speculator, with the market

We did not play in the cham-You then go to sleep. The first to quarters-they would merely be going quite the wrong way. And HE lectured in New York pionships this year. We bad board, and then it is the other player's wake up moves something on the forced into the ranks of the this is the cllmax of the un- before he went, and in a lot enough trouble last year. street sleepers. Admittedly, oficial story-the

Government

itself in much the same position

Government's

come

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an

It was a out of life-not yet having start-

ed.

KELLY'S CHESS TROUBLE

And once you got a sanction on you

it's very hard to get off. We tried petrol and ammonia, and even sand- paper, but you can still seo signs of it on us now.

You see, it was this way? :

turn.

Well (stop shuffling your feet!).

we Kay, we pawned Dazle's queen with a elever, feint with the rook, and a right-cross with the king behind the touch-lines. Dazlo was furious, and said that if we did it again he was going home, and taking his board with him be cause it was his board, and he was only letting us play on it as a favour.

much of the slum property in dream of obtaining a substantial of places after he got back.

We were playing at Gongya and the Henceforth lecturing was wish this Colony is of a type which

ed by fate upon his life. But he upset the League of Nations to such continual brawling among, the players (Continued on Pago 4.) would not for one moment be

disliked it, as does everybody an extent that they applied sanctions tolerated in. England, where such houses are being compul- time, however, it has to be who can do it well. More than to us.

that, he didn't like the notion of sorily demolished, with no com- faced. The time may pensation paid to the owners. when the Government will be just being a "funny man"; like But to enforce demolition here, able to provide something in the so many of us, he despised his and be unable to provide alterna-nature of a poor law institution; own trade. tive accommodation within the until then, the task fails on such Still looking for a life-work, rent-paying capacity of the pre-[ organisations as the S.P.C., Mark Twain, with the "Inno- Our grandfather had Just beaton sent tenants, would not solve the eloquent appeals for the support cents" money, bought a share in the Yugoslavian welterweight, Katz-wo lent him two years ago, and ho question. Again we are thrust of which were made last night, the Buffalo Express, and eat at nito, and was standing behind our sald we'd never had a fishing rod.

fchair while wo played Upsa Dazie, tho Our grandfather in the meantime back to the economic aspect. In Wo cannot believe that these an editor's desk hour by hour Turkish Tiger. Wo led off using the had pinched Dazio's rook, and hid it the long run, when, standards of appeals will fall on deaf ears, and day by day, as enger at first Alsatian gambit, and pawned Daxie's behind the clock. Then someone tipped living are raised beyond the The responsibility is a communal as a Californian. miner washing queen in the first half-hour. the table over and we had to start all

Perhaps we'd better explain the over again. mere subsistence, level, the pro- one; it should be freely dis-out pay-dirt, and presently as game before we go any farther. Chess We were lucky to get out of the blem will solve itself. Mean-' charged.

disillusioned,

Is played on a black and white board. Įplace alive.

We said what about the fishing rod

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