Yesterday's Municipal Gazette contained a well-deserved note of the regret felt by the Council at the enforced retirement of Mr. V. G. Lyman. He has occupied a seat on the Council for six years past and, says the Gazette, "has brought to bear a high ice. Te general regret that he has been unable to stand for election for pressing the relation of cipal Year, the Council for the.
rendered them, Denaif of the community, as St fis opccdy"™ wevioration" te" good fs, epcodyrentorato oer Everyone who knows Mr. Lyman will warmly endorse these sentiments. He has always been equally popular among both foreigners and Chinese and, though he was never one to push himself forward, he has always been thought of as one whose help could be relied upon and whose opinions were to be respected. One hopes that it will not be long before Br. Lyman is about again in his usual health, The Shadows Before Provision of a suitable perch for the' Dove of Peace has been an ambition of many men, of many nationalities, for matly "years, Especially while the memory of the horrors of the Great War remained fresh and vivid were sincere and earnest efforts made to widen the' scope of arbitration and, consequently, to limit the opportunities for submission to the arbitrament of arms. Even yesterday this genuine desire. to. bring enduring peace to earth was the reason for a service of intercession at St. Paul's Cathedral,. and in other sacred buildings all over the world, But, while these efforts deserve the fullest sympathy of all, it would Se unwise to be blind to the fact that conditions have little is ample opportunity in Shanghai, for this picturesque, if not striking ly utilitarian occupation. The ur to be supreme in something oF another seems to be inherent in th human, and it is hardly stron that at times it ows in strange channels. Here is an extract from a Tokyo paper:
Mr. Kintaro Yamamoto was again the first man to vote yester any' (Pebrunry).
1D. years this tan, a. 47 ry goods. eater of "Azabu, has 6 Batt at 'AL previous about 3 otlock in the morning, he suid, in'erder to. beat' the other voters, but time he wan foreed to change his vent, tothe polls we previous night. "He. did th Toecaute of rumour he' had heard it. in a. public bath house that atr. Yaicht ThezaWa, a barber, also. of Aztbu, was ming to compete with Kim for the Wednesday. night he wont to the ward fice of Azabu and stood against. the losed gate for B hours. At T ovcloce when the gate was opened, he jumped Into the office and was the first to vote.
chief election' ofeial" ho said, "olveay he frst man to vols the empty ballot box to, prove that empty. After the lid is put on, ceagt the Beat Ay the ballot drops it maken a de-ound and) Tam. always 5 elt always, are, of course, dud Yamamoto for having bested the barber, and having Jeontinued to find the bubble reputation at the mouth of the ballot box.
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