The Archive · 1926

A Tribute to Dr. Greig

Wien, sine three four 34 oan 'Rissa ebeee Seyi et esta sages Chin tne same neve ches come' Raft NiTateane ae Gra at Rin wh mate aunt Tel eon te Leeee Hal "oral hand lite ate of acting ter thre wax appointed the League's delega and the grasp of the subject which Aehowel dntog sues te Shana Bed Satcher noted tow wel was qualified to advise on the Prob ace "isto a haw reid he atten Uan'at tht commonty from perla made wilh De Ge Paine pon at's Penacy bie Fmt coots ore Mew China, and there has been a fear] mit one tat te Lao Matte ha aeon had he re pont Aerie the flowing letter written to the President of oar of thes Masten cre and veritas RIND Hecytean Mana Healy Sh Bowed wh ner ces seams ro rae sen Dear ater Roza poet spite of itself, by that delightful follows:—the Finance Bill, which I who teieve in democratic cone exempts from duty "antiques over} cicational cavernment end. oppose the a century old except wines and, estractive policy of revolutionary conte spirits."

One see that the clause cell onder are wath. sou was passed without a division in your som" the most dyed-in-the-wool If speech was given us to conceal trader would hardly object to our thoughts, no one has ever yet the Chancellor making" what he could out of wines and spirits been able to explain how one set of written words rings with sin-'a century old.

One does not imagine that he will make very much, ferity and trath, while another, not ostensibly different, carries only a One does not see any very. large, quantity of this commodity being sense of artificiality. Politicians eer creatures moving by lights hurried on England's shore in anticipation of the tax, invisible to ordinary men, and their The present writer once tasted rum, speeches and questions in the which there was documentary, parliaments of the world cause much wwidence that it had been laid down unnecessary friction between peo-in the ye of Nelson's death: it ples. A welcome antidote to these was then just a century old and found in General Lee Bullard' its rarity was only. equalled by simple direct_message, which con what the writer was erode enough veys a feeling that we are sure hi to think its nastiness.

We have countrymen widely share. English-heard of a Tokay, which practically men will not forget it, nobody but the Emperor of Austria and his guests were allowed to Life's Crowded Moments rink, which we think was. said to date from the 18th century. But} Some people perhaps are born wrt from the possibility -of this under an unlucky star, but it would being a fable, no wines, we believe, seem that a man has fair grounds would keep for over a century. for a protest when he declares that Even "47 port, when one could get within an hour the following event it, was be ning to go off before were crowded into his life histor King Edward came to the throne, He was walking a pony from the Liqueurs Race Club compound on to. the which was served as course and, rounding the bend pf endure.

Anybody who wishes to the corner stand, he narrowly ¢s-drink, should certainly be made to caped being thrown when some pay for it. The Chancellor of small Chinese playing pitch-and-toss the Exchequer is to be commended in the middle of the pathway darted for his caution.

Let the plutocrats under his pony''s nose. He took pay, hang em, the pony round for some moderate exercise and intended to finish with sharp last quarter, In front were Peking's Melancholy State two very small Chinese actually on It is a melancholy tale that Mr,' the mud course, playing with Rodney Gilbert has to tell of the tennis ball: he shouted a warning, Jast phases of fighting round Peking. but they did not heed it, and the and the after effects.

In so far as. ball was thrown from one to the the fighting was trivial and the other across the course " scarcely casualties small, one may rejoice.' live feet from the galloping, pony's But there are horrid reports of the head. The vide finished, the man maltreatment of the unhappy farm-started to walk across the inner ers outside Peking, particularly grounds and, failing to notice two vy the Fengtien White

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