HOUSE-FIGHTING IN TIBET.
in Fleet Street the horror of it in exaggerated. | I fancy that the journalist eating his steak at The Cock looks at his neighbours when ho nurs the newsboy call Fire hundred Tibations killed," imagines a deep red gash beneath the neatly-partei bair, and sera horrible trickle on the white shirt-front. He makes the
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 6TH, 1905.
ETIQUETTE IN THE ORIENT.
extends from latitude 25 deg. to 34 deg. north AN AUSTRALIAN INVENTION. and from the coast to near the western part of
The Sydney correspondent of the Times of The Japan Chronicle's humorens chronicler, the province of Szechuan, including an aros of
over 750,000 square miles, or over 600 milos Tadia reports an invention of the first magni- who, like other bamourists, is sometimes quite north and south, and 1,250 miles east and west. Itade po less than the solution of the lou sensible, he just turned bin attention to While it grows as far north as 34 dog. and songa probiens, how to obtin a liquid fuel feruinixe etiquette in the Far East. He says:
I have heard from in these latitudes aro by an Australian, which said to have stood as much a science etymology, ethnology sheltered by mountain ranges on the north, so
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DISORDERS OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS.
HOW THEY CAN BE-CURED.
Just as the proper working of a bugo
Grantee that one began to wonder if it mistake of thinking that the Oriental objects Etiquette is, when yon come to analyse il, quito Perhaps farther, the trees growing in the places as a substitute for chas just been made smelting furnace depends upon the regular
Yefore the recsnt expedition to falsase, the Sikhim Campaign of 18 and the writings of Mt. Savage Lundor Juut left an impression that the Tibeton was a coward. It was not until we in een bombarded nearly a month at estimate of our inseratable neighbour might not Lo life lusty. And oren after the conclusion k
the harn treaty, there was omnch talk of-hatlues" that on wax apt to forget that the fighting round Gynntus was often as hat and dangerous as if we had been opped by Dervishes or Enlue.
The best part of the Tibet enimpaign, from the soldiers point of view, wahe hea fighting. In their warrens and bolt-huler the Tibetan fought deperately under conditions that cancelled much of the advantage we bad From our quickfiring rifles. For disparity of arms dons not count for much in dark cellars or winding alleys or gloomy temple chambers, where one may be covered from half-dozen slit windows at point-blank range. At Pella, the Gurkha aufjest, inen and their fox hacked at one another Homerically, and the Lets rained jingal bullets into the mile from their oli field-pieces in the Tang, cureless whether thoy hit friend or foe That was medieval No Maxin-tagging or long-rango firding with our horribly upuring modern mechanisms; but hut roses in the dark against steel und amazing oki blunderinssses, rocked at the fiat en round the corner. No subaltern werd be ashamnod of sack & baptism.
Looking back at three encounters, ono feols oneself being carried away in a tale by Harrison- Ainsworth Dumas. There was nothing modern or conventional about them. The Tibetere had been detached from progress for
bis
Dersom
to fighting as much as he does, and wells on death with an equal four. He translates atmosphere of the Afract with the policorous round the corner to where 11 Jook on long countries
a phenomcion, and roturas to his life as
scuto stuck of neurosis, offices with u
section be infecta a large
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that
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liquid fael has fer naval mon mattor being removed regularly. if there is is, and all the other ots" and etceteras that it is hardly probable that the tung the most acting Admiralty tests, and to do your of the clinkers sad.used-up routerial, so and it is a source of antisfaction to know that it would bear mats farther north in the Tovery thing that is required of it. The great) your health depends apon the body's waste day, you should assist Nature by the use of stadied far more scientifically and decorously States then Northorn Georgia or Alabama | attraction which coaling and etoking, and not a passago from the bawels once or twice in the Far East by those who ought to know unless ender favourable conditions. Some say the diffenity litherto has been to obtain a liquid Toan's Diner Pille: they can truly be called how to do it than it is in the hemelands. Why the tree will flourish in a climets 20 deg. above that would serve the purpose with at making Nature's own remedy, because they are made this should be, of course it is not for me to say zero and will not be injured after the first year, any smoke, for the vessel that can approach its from pure roots and borts that Nature intended but it is to, and of that there is no possible bat it will not bear nuts. Seods of the word-cil enemy unobserved has half the battle won.
Dona's Dinner Pilla will drive out the body's of the public tas next morning. Meanwhile, doubt, no persible doubt or, to rot un tron have been sent to Central California and bare This hitherto annatacentable difficuity hae at us a medicins for liver and stomach troubles.
the spot may be moved to probable shadow of doubt, no ponible dont grown well, but others planted at South Bend, last been ovorcoms by first mixing the oil with waste and poisonous matter, leaving the system whatever. A case io point o me to my know Ind., have not sprouted, possibly due to defective steam, the compound being converted into an awet and clear, and the diges iva organs pity as he thinks of the ad in their ledge a few days ago. A lady called upon seed. No degree of heat in this climate injures inflammable gas of tranin unha resting power unhampered by clogging impurities, so that garden of marigolds und hollyhocks, and re-
with
the
watch
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stones. But be knows that they have only lost in a greater game in which he also staked his life. But, apart from the ethics of rents and the slangster if fugitives, there was the house-tighting, a wswal of those medieval bouts where men saw one another's eyes us they gave a trok death. Men who have lived through the scenes and look back happily on them will, no doubt, survive the criticien of the prez who babble of battues, Edmund Candler. in the Outlook.
ENGLISH.
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AN APPEAL.
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members ut only an hour or two before they another lady, but the latter was out. The usual it. It is deciduous, sheeding in October and In foot, while searchin liquid the invon-they onu keep up with the great work which had been playing dies und dimitices with peachdainty pice of poate bonid was placed upon the Norember its?loavos, which are very large and tor kas stumbled on a neniem of uns. Among falls to their lot. This medicino does not gripe, try, and the fair visitor proceeded to the most cordate in shes. The tree blossoms in March, its other great advantages now fuel it said and it is thoroughly good and reliable in any place of call where the hostess and several the towers being red; white, or purple. to be at least twice a cp as coal The case of liver, stommels or howel trouble-cen "The frequent way of producing trees is a possibilities before it are immense. The sue etipation, indigestion, bilionsnes, headuche, Koband Kobsites. In course of conversation plant the seed in boxes or gordon bade. other ladies were taking ten and disenssing the new-comer mentioned that she had called the shoots are about a foot high they are trans. of the inventor is Frank Cotton, who is well sickness, staplesanost, bad taste in the mouth,
heavy, drowsy upon Mrs. Se-and-So, but that inde was not at planted, on a rule, in clayey or gravelly soil na
sensations, dicing rato complexion, chilly
in breathing, ate. Not at home!" said one of the porty some billside. along the edges of a read, in
caya af your home.
And, by taking reasonable cultivated land or pasture, or as abado trees on Why, I was there less than half an hour ago
At frst when transplanted the
health, you will keep wall aftor your curd by Bo was 1" rejoined another. "It is Mro. waste land.
Dinuer Pilk: they are a strengthening as well as a cleansing medicine. to grow, after which little attention is demanded. So-and-So's day, you know," Then it suddenly roots aro kept woist until they have well startest dawned upon the visitor, as it were, that she had called at the wrong hours. She explained the The tree is never budded or grafted. Ofe of bonge and told the number on the gate, where
informants says the sprout is grown, by Ob, проп
there was a general chorus. dear, how augal. Why, that's Mr. Wist's Her mulling er.cutting off the tree a twig, ihogorge and of which is curled ap and sat in any kind of sandy or clayey soil and surrounded by wheat caller's face Enshed crimson, not with sorrow, grain watered plentifully and let grow for a year. bas ir nuger, to think that he should have left The sheet is then cut off above the ground her card at the house of Mrs. What's Her and a large sprout springs out and grows Name. Next day, after a sleepless night, sho
rents and well pruned, it will grow ten feet for useful occupation; for pieces of cloth, avon called again at the house of Mrs. What's Her very rapidly, if kept constantly moist at the rent, especially the little ones. opportunity Name and domander of the affrighted amab in one reasea, and in Ary years will base of a square inch, can be stitched together and the return of her visiting card. The mail
grown to be a handsome shade tree. When notary protty pieces of work made out of cloth, that would otherwise be thrown away. These explained that she did not know where the card watered it grows more slowly. Other crops articles ars bought by charitable persone and THE Undersigned has a very large stock of was, but that she would oak her mastrees, who are not planted between rows of the trees, the Sisters are thus helped to keep up their IRON BEDSTEADS and AMERICAN was out, for the pasteboard immediately on her After beginning to bear they appear to stand
the .ms of friends and in a great measure by Sale at very moderate prives. returu. I don't know what the caller didn't the drenght of the het sommers without injury. very large establishment, which is waintained by STEAL WIRE MATTRESSES on hand for
The yield of nuts varies from twenty to
the earrings of the girls themselves, who lead threaten to do it dure. What's Her Name dared to retain the card. Anyhow, next day fifty pounds to the tres-The off yield of the by no means an idle lite within the convent 6" by 36" Steel Wire Mattress 85.50 each.
nut is about 40 per cent. This amount is given
6′ 2′′ by 4′ 6′′ walls. the caller received a brief note from Mr. What's Her Name, Baying that his wife had burned in a sumber of reports from widely separated
6'2" by 5' the visiting card, otherwise she would have been districts. I received from Rev. George J. Marshal, of Kanchan Klungsi province, a low smoke. And that, my friends, is Eligantto.
days since, a tow seeds of a wood-oil tree called in that locality the muh in. He states that the delighted to return it. And so it all ended in
natives consider the seed of this tree the best!
The following is a copy of an amusing petition received by an official of the Public Works Department from an applicant for hundreds of years, and so we were thrown backlogment, and printed in the Homeward
neil-
more than once into fighting them in their own way.
two
hidden
Scramble
and
1 1)
From Ramsing (Poorman) to Mr. P. W. When wo crossed their frontier we
Department. Meat Prosurved Sir. stepped into the Middle Ages, and some-
hurable mass and great family large sans andl how took it as a master of bours and daughters with magnited apetites, much often it was not until we had crossed the border have written to great notorious gentlemen Benin, on the way home, and wake-my-in civilization, that we realised we had sp at who have terribly-failed-in-goodness therefore your hoppar kindly will not be completely one year of our lives in the 16th century. The angered by me for because though not yet atmosphere was perfect, and we took and gave altogether dead for want of money, I am much Lord knocks. We fought in cobbled alleys, tenrued man and agamimonsly auxions for and crumbling age-won keeps and courtyard display of my talout it is great sheer pity for overgrown with Bottles, quite in the approved
nside. And Your honour I am the one man in Old chaia armour was scattero rundll my biseduentation is going horribly best style in heaps, and ergu slings and bows and arrows which the English Put calls Born, blooming My only regret was that the Tibetans so unseon, and your honour is the P. W. Depart- soldom wore these trappings But they did
meat which is great circulated Department not disappolat us in other ways. Imagine building big walls and beiges wal Dent them in a night attack creeping up to which fall down fue matter for thal) zanke tho our walls, thrusting their matchlocks through money much jutluses is with your honour in our own loopholes and bailing ox at dawn with this wide space of area one of P. W. Department a salvo. Then what delightful abandon and. disregard of the rules was shown in their habit your kind will pass ever this fussy of my great of discharging twenty cannon at any individual petomban. I am telling of my great troubles I experiments mach fearaing all things I put who left the enter of our besieged camp by much studies in lag deschauarries (which is dive daylight. And where else but in Tibet in this
6 days I did lost) and great talent in all things twentieth century mild a man get a dozen but this manifold family is much great expence sword cats in a day?
Let us follow young X for five minutes in and too much larger al the day-time long this family which I have gonerated God knows bow, his first experience of war. He has just been every year she does my wife make incramental knocked down a ladder by a cut across the succession to the ratification of this generelion heltoot, and is scrambling again when a
My age was of 19
yours when I did commence Silk Sabadar, enteuing his sleeve. p ints to to have children and now my age is 34 years the tip of a sword, a bare i projecting and only one child dead, and by the Lord there beyond the passage wall at the top. The will be no end to this mischief Your honour is
Pauso and whisper. Tho swordsman does not know he is observed. greatly kind and I plainly see all things and your honour will be much pleased with all the There is intense silence for a few soubada. works of my hard. I am learning in all things Then the Sikh creeps up a rung or two, and unch instructed in long notorious words holds out his rifle at arm's length and res long and terrific, of the great English language round the corner. The word falls clutched but it is much pity in my teart some rough hug by an inert hand. Thero ie behind, and the two leap on to the landing bus pezzled the books of my dershanaarig The passage is empty, savo for the one heap of matter for that so great is the power of my sne the four. Shooting is going on all round but prising memory. I am much knowing in autural saathematics saud Philcsofee and lows and mana X and his knot of men-for three more Bikhs. have run in to join him after the shot-have pulations such as the apple must come to the Proud" Isaac Newton and such like, Your their own immediate piece of work. A few honour I am a man of long noterious luferuat yards down the passage to the right is a door.
language and my great father had instructed me There may be twenty men behind it, or
in much policy and in the College I did learned three steps and whispers in all things and by mach experiments and only two
He takes off his helmet and car thoughfulness and am now man of much deep again. ries it in his left hand. At the sign the
ness and consideration, my father was much old Sikle doff their puggarees and follow him when he died expire at last and left much goods bare headed. Uncovering makes them look for the division of the nud my sister ruffianly. There is a self-rouscions shuffling of Your honour I was left pezzied of 5,100 rs. arxl fest nad iulf a helmet and four pugares are pusked toutatively on bayonets beyond the lintei mnch wicked sister (who is major to me Your Iborunr in. 10 years) is developing in great many of the door. There is su explosion from within, pleahnres no matter for that I was man of and much plaster falling from the wall opposite. thoughtfulness and decided on the matter of The Tibetans have tired their matchlocks and travels and experiments and much as my aya are shot down as they rash out with swords.
(for I hare only one eye your honour) gazel on X bans slight out on the wrist; Gurdit Singh and I am now mu of great benefit going hither hasa ricochet bullet in the calf; there is an ugly and thither with my great family and living on of my heap on the floor, and the house is taken. But strong things your honour by the power before leaving, some one notices the tee of a big education i have much sora gentleness an green and red woollen boot with ropo
talked ant talked and learned all things varied from a heap of grain
and ernstructed an terrific knowledge, and soles protad at: wfraid Gurit Sighs altogether because power of learning I have the evrulur. bhai uses his bayonet won X's luck is turned. In the courtys mots with Major, who always found verk of my hands vot still the money is plentiful divided by reasons of the lifts up a mangled left hand with the thumb Sindi Station which is much dear place in rico hanging loose and a top gash across the wrist and all matter and such difficult for work your His face is expanded in e brout mile, as he honor yet much beautiful in all things of light. drawls in an easing way len't this silly and anrely here the trees go hither and thither remark that rolces very common leeling in the blast of our days and rivers bubbling and when mon's pulses brat slower after a light.
all birds (black and yellow) and much colour This kind of house-tighting was an almost daily experinued with X for two or three goriving the atmosfear and mighty fareured in all things and the great Governor General months in Tibet; but he is a modest and
and council shine like lag stars of terrific inconspicuous boy, and his name does not pleshures, at roy soul is much is much sorry appear in despatches. To get into the
for want of money sad work, or I could much bouee, where we followed him, he had to
please in telling all things, Lat hunger is at the ran the gauntlet of a narrow street and an belly for the future and therefore your honnur of your open
tourtyard exposed to volleys on both
will kindly give me the help and work aidos from persistent, though it must be con honour will be much blessed in money fessed, not very expert marksmen. We lost and groat pleshure will come to your hour if a great many mies in this way, First of all,
your bonour will give the work and I will show there is the great outer gateway to be blown op with gun-cotton, and the Sapper oz Pioneer my talent in all things and your honour will be
rositers
consold. May almighty powers hold your pray your honours
and fight evermore I much children be safe overmore I am your honours bumble servant Ramsing (Foormsa)-Globe.
GAMBLING STEAMER TO DEFEAT
POLICE
Since gambling rooms and other similar antlishments in New York were closed by the authorities, the proprietors have been trying to devise some means of rosuming their business without the danger of police interference. Their latest project is a "floating Monte Carlo" A company has just purchased a farge ex Cursion steamer, equipped with telegraphic appartas and complete horse-racing paraphernaliu.
wireleas
who lays the fuse is often enough hit. Then honour securely and may your honour be safe beyond the court are more wails and more gates to be breached, and su on through the whole village or monastery, as the case may be. It is risky work, and one has to be as quick as a jumpy "spipe-shot, and shoot at a shadow, or the" battue" will be enjoyed by the Tibetans.
Every day while there was fighting in Tibet many unostentations deeds of gallantry were performed. Yet the only brave deed that has Leen generally chronicled was Grant's, who, alter being rolled down thirty feet by a stone, crawled into the breach of Gyantse Fort on the shoulders of one of his men, to meet, as it seemed, on almost certain death. He was the pain that was choren in a decisive move; he Justitied the cheioa and won the Victoria Cross. apart from this day, most of the fighting bas been characterised as "tattues And "butchery." Guru
and other Kangua affairs have been quoted often, and the "bags" exaggerated to make u porty sensation. And the hysteria of the Press bag been excited by the fact that large numbers of Tibetans have been killed when they were running away. As if it were possible to spare men who have been shooting at one all day and throw down their gans when overtaken with reprical
come back, and inight Woit there remember that you are my prisoner. Often pursuit was not pushed homo za severely as
The steamer vill bo sumptuously equipped, it might have been and if we had spured
did we should be and is expected to do an enormous business. fugitives more than we still.in Llusa or fighting our way there. She makes her first trip next Thursday. Tickets Pursuit is always ugly work, more separially will simply be sold for excursions, and gambling when one is armed with a magazine rife will ever be montioned except outside the
three-mile limit. against a La-made Martini. But I think
the
During the racing season the steamer will make daily trips three miles out to sea, beyond the jurisdiction of the local and Government authorities. A stution aahers will telegraph the racing returns direct from the track, and so enable betting to proceed in the same, manner
as ashore,
Roulette and other games of chance will also te-condueta Two. lawyers will accompany the steamer on each trip, prepared to hurl defiance atany Revenue officers or other officials who board the vessel or attempt to interfero,
THE WOOD OIL TREE OF CHINA.
The San Francisco (Faronicle says:-Tho o from the nuts of the tang shu tree (best known as wood oil or nut oil) his withid to foreigners the past six years becerays one of the chief articles of export from Hankan is the United States. Reference was made to its value and uses in the anual report of the Consul-General at Hankan und he was at once besieged with questions resit, which he answered in a recent report State Department, from which the follMe extracts were taken :
"The tung or wood od, tree has been styled. andly so, the national tree of China, beca if its stately appearance, with its green, ootar bark and spreading branches. which make it one of the Guest of shade trees. It has many local names throughout the provinces in which it gr but it is agreed į generally that it logs to the family of Euphorbiacne. Doctor Legge calls it El000- crcca disandra; Doctor Williams, in dictionary, speaks of it as Elngguoco sinensi
it tho Henry calls it the Peulotnin imperialis
Thunbery and Bretschneider call
Dryandra cordala; and Doctor Barchat says the oil is from the seeds of the Elaeococoa and Jatropha froes.
"The tung shu flourishes more or less in every province in the Yangtes valley. It
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raised in the United States on waste landa. The seeds of this tree are about two-fifths as
for oil asking and thinks it could be profitably
largous those of the tung shu tren"
Hongkong, 18th May, 1904.
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