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Y H. HULAENY.]
The future of thegreat Fur Fast and the supply of the commercial nerds of those countless millions of people is of more mediate importance to the cotton grewors su manufacturers of America thum scene to be generally recognized.
MITSU BISHI COSHI KWAISHA The son of this magazine may perhaps
he interested in some observations 1 have
(MITSU BISK 00.)
made during twenty-one years of coxidence in Kore
It is natural to supposo COAL DEPARTMENT that people as part as the Korean, |though they enjoy | very resportable degree
af comfort, would be able to consume comparatively stall mount of cotton but such a complasen would the far from thei truth.
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The per a people is the more cotion they use, provided they live in a country! where clothing is actually required. The elimate of Koren isthe same as that hotweet | New York and Georgia in this country, and good warm clothing is required in the win
tur.
Cotton being the cheapest falis in the market, the Konan people use it almost exclusively, mut one can hardly refrain from wonder when it is shown how much of this commodity the Korem is capable of ergoutaing in a pour's time. In the first he is thoughly clothed: even
• plow, the coolin do not go at like the Japanese quodia with only a brunch-cloth
but him but is always supplied with enat and trousers. And what trousers They not only ever the lower portion of the atan-
tory, but you roud stow awny a small bale of lay in the sleek of them. The waist line, which is budel in bựa mogul, is anywhere from nine to twelve fo long. Why they are biết xe chinh hinh về thoát material an opy has ever boet nliku to leami Thir hat barine v lach geed to be two and one i half fout bread, re now maly a Font, su
Yet ben no shrinkage in the i Men, wespen wel children all
thon has wat and
wenye blume armorino Leonspys. Try there is the waist and also made of antton. Over this the rim was long, thening conts renebing to the kine The wide sleeves
and Mowing winte now so long that if they were not always tucked up in a wad wider the waist cord they greni would drag two feet on the ground. They soon to be designed for nothing else but to cousmine anarasured yards of cotton, But besides the ali Koreans wear high socks made of coton ul heavily wadded with cotton batting. The leggings, also, reaching from base to ankle, and covering the lower part of the trousers and the up- per part of the stockings arv muude of entton. The Ing wristlets which protect the lewer name in the long sleeves are minde of the sana huferial. In place of a travelling bing or market lankel the Koran carries a ¦ lange Tng of cotton open at wwwchand and in i this way he can carry a variety of things at uner, making a knot in the lag between each article. All hedding is made of cotton and an enormous amount is used in | wadding the winter coats. These are often | half an inch thick. These are unly a fes ¡ of the uses on which cotton is put, from which it is apparent that this article
Rosenstock's Directory.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1907.
Intimations.
The canvass of the Hongkong Section for Volume 12 of Rosenstock's Hongkong. Manila, Shanghai Directory is now being made. This issue of the Directory will contain a com- plote Alphabetical and Classlied Directory of Hongkong, Manila, Shanghai, Canton and Macao.
VOLUME 12 OF
ROSENSTOCK'S DIRECTORY
WILL BE ON SALE IN
JANUARY,
1908.
All names of firms not appearing in the present issue of the Directory may be insert- ed free of any cost with their class of busi- ness and Staff, by sending same to the local office not inter than November 15, 1907.
Names should be sent to the Local Office at once.
ADDRESS ALL LETTERS TO
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Sold by Chemists everywhere in Bottles at 1/11 cach, with full directions.
No Resident in Tropleaf Countries should be without this invaluable Medicine, the timely use of which has saved thousands of fives.
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is by far the most important in the TELEGRAMS: “CARMIOBAIL, HONGYONG. Karour home. So true is this that for a thousand years cotton cloth was used as money and passed as legal tender in the whole country, taxes being payable in belts of cotton. Up to within thirty yours prices were as often quoted in terms of { cotton ns of actual money. "What will you take for that horse 7" "Oh, ten bolts will de' such was the common talk of the people.
Saching the case, one is not sur- prised to learn that the consumption per capila is resSRIOUS. I asked a ent- to mo in Atlata to guess how unich the Korean consired a year, and he said two pounds. If he had said twelve pounds. he would have prolebly been self within! the unrk f corse much of this is im ported
in fact about four-fifths of all Koran imperts are of cotton gewis, if potroleum be escrpted.
But the Koran laga to import only
INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAR & EXPRESS TRAINS
COMPANY.
(THE GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN ROUTE TO EUROPE).
the aleve Company, we shall be HAVING been appointed AGENTS for pleased to give any information as to rates of passage, etc., in connection with above,
SHEWAN, TOMES & 70.,
Agents.
1283 Hongkong, August 7, 1907.
HOMOGENEOUS
within the last twenty-five years. Before NATURAL
that time they grow and manufactured ali
MILK.
their own cotton. They have pro- REMARKABLE PROGRESS IN THE ART OF
duced at the very lowest estimate 200,000
bales a year. This indientes clearly that the
country is capable of producing a large
PRESERVING MILK.
anotant expecially when we remember that PURE NATURAL COWS MILK
at the very time when this amount was
produéel, probably Fom-fifths of the PREACHTIS IN GOOD TASIE IN ANY ÜLIMATE, drable hand was given up to the rais ing of rice af benn. Thero neo over! 30,000 unto miles in Korea fit for the growth of cotton. Most of this is disintered granite which forms a sandy wil that is well lapted for its culture. il is to this and that
Hair Dressers, Wig Makers is king to secure the raw ma
and Perfumers.
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st the Shop, or cleewhere by
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special
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terial for her great, cotton mills which!
have the ambition to drive England aud | America out of the cotton trade of the Far East-ospecially China. But there are one
or two things which stand in the way of the accomplishing of this plan. Koren contains upward of 1,000,000 people, and all this arable land is occupial by them, and is required for food production. Maui fostly sonic way must be found to get this land into Japanes funds. That the Japan cse intend to do this is shown by the exten TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. sive experiments they have been making in Southern Kores with American imported SPECIAL THROUGE SERVICE seed. The Korans look upon this with: DARCELS, PACKAGES and CASES conveyed some distaay but, of course, the Japanes
at SPRCIAL RATES, bcluding Denwill have what they want and we may lock VELK, CHLEAVES TUAN PARCIS POST, WITH forward to the time when Korea will OFT LIMIT TO WEHE...
compete with our own South in supplying the Japanese with me cotton.
CHINA EXPRESS
CO.,
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But there is one other obstacle to over come. If Korean cotton Ims to pay customs duties into Jam there are grave doubts (Continued on Frege 8.)
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FOR SALE.
INLAND LOT No. 1706.
WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received at the Hear QUAUTEL OFFICES until 12 o'clock NOON, on TUESDAY, the 18th of Novel. ber, 1907, for the Supply of
GENERAL SUPPLIES, 'A' (except Milk) including Indian food-stuff's for this period from 18th November, 1907, to 31st March, 1909.
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TOTAL FUNDS AT 33 ar Dyomokk, 1905.
217,837,118. I-Authorized Capital £8,000,000 Subscribed Capital £2,750,000
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