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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22ND, 1906.
Li Ching-mai, the only surviving son of the 1 Two rumours wore currant in the city on TELEGRAMS.
appears a series of events whose astronomical | charneter is beyond question: at the dawn late Li Hong-chong, has been recalled from Saturday, or, to the effect that the river
of the Banqueting Court at Peking. of day, while the sky is yet red with the Vienna (where he is Misistor) to not as Director steamer Shux, Ler hat been burned at Kong- rays of the rising sun, takes place the great contest, and the new state arises amidst &
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Kobe and Qerka merchants have established a four milling company, to operate in milipu you, divided into twenty thousand shares.
A. S. WATSON & CO. Christian, the easier to accommodate the corruscation of spendour. But the myth Manchuria, with a ospital of one
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a sky-god he was able to see everything that went on; and the Twins, being assessors of the sky-gud shared his knowledge". When from reasone political as well as religious, the whole Roman Empire became fast batch of couverts a sort of compromise was made, and many of the old shrines were converted into chapels where the few converts were permitted to continue many of the old rise, provided that they addressed them to Christian saints. Gradually too, the enlendar was shifted about to that many
was already ancient. Some five thousand years ago three conspicuous store rose at the veral-equinox some two or three hours before the sun; these were the comparatively bright stars in the forefront of the constellation of Aries. In these days thore had been no calendar constructed, and the
The leading citizens of Fekutsk are reported to be changing their residences to other towns owing to the large number of convicts dataing | there sincs Southern Saghalies was ended to Japan.
The gambling in copper on the New York
rione crash. Copper was on October 10th
moon, while the other stated that the steamer
destroyed by fire was the Tu On. The safe arrival of both vessels in port yesterday dispelled the fore created by these fabrications.
- Another Japanese died at Shanghai ou October 10th us a result of injurios received in the affray with Gorman soldiers on the night of the 13th inst reported in our telegrams, In
CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT TO of the old festivals were taken up for the use husbandman to know when to put in his Exchungs is causing fears to be oxpressed of a for trial by cortinartial..
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Schedules recommended by the Recreation Grounds committees for the allotment of the Wongnoichaoug and Queen's recreation grounds have been confirmed by H.E. the, Governor,
are published in the current Chizette.
It is reported that there is a large number of
fegraed the foundation of many myths. To the people, who aftorwards settled in India and north-west Chica they were known as the Aevins or horadu, but trigically the word seems to have had an initial à, and mi they were known as the Barries or counterfeit cuts in circulation at Vladivostock A military "Poepers". They turned the starting point and the doganose Bank agency thero has lost Xen
107,000 by accepting soude of them. of the Indian Zodine, and although threserk has beer serested in connection with the in number are always spoken of as dual affair. fine, there is us, donist, wore the original "Twins". Somewhere about B.C. 2,200, owing to the precession of the equinox, they ceased to inifi! this function, and in Greece and Italy their names were trank. fened to the two principle stars in the constellation which came to be called the Twins, temini. With the chango many of their old functions were likewise transferred: herce
Dispatches from Teheran state that the Shin opened the Parliament with a speech from the Throne in which he proclaimed the Con stitution and promised to adhere to all progres sive efforts for Persia. Teheran was illuminated in the evening.
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FRENCH CABINET RESIGNS.
LONDON, October 31st. The French Cabinet hus resigned.
FRENCH NAVAL DISASTER.
LONDON, October 21st. The hatch and conningtower of the French submarine Zetin (which was
conenquence, ofter a brief inquest, the five milers from the German gunboat fir, aiready Tetuanded, were brought up at the German Consulate and again remanded, under arrest,
The captain of the Gurrasu slonmer Chalonia sunk of Bizerta, Tunis] were found Vladivostock, reported that an iron lighter was open. ̧ found drifting when about two hundred miles} from Moji. The steamer took the lighter in tow, but the frequent breaking of the cable necessitatetl its abandonment and it is now a danger to navigation,
The Central Gerermment at Poking has sent intructions to the Viceroys and Governors of the without delay a detailed statement to the num- various protinces of the Empire to send up ber of mow of land in each provian devoted to the cultivatim of the poppy. the names of districts where it is onltivated; the giantly and quality produced annually; the annual revenus obtained by onch provincial government in the shape of Customs daly and likin on raw opium, how much is conanmod locally and how much in experted to non-producing provincan.
of the Church. Christmas day, Enster, the sued was accustomed to be guided by the Tady days, and the feasts of the Two Saints apparition of these stars in the cast just quoted at 22 cents a pound, the highest figure which arrived at Maji on the 11th ins., from John were inade to mark the return of the before the dawn; naturally then these stars great natural divisions of the year: mid-acquired a world-wide reputation, wid winter and the opening of spring, as well as the two solstiers and the equinoxes. As the most popular divinities in the older cult the Twins who had been the ancient champions of Italy could Imrdly be left out, but they could not be brought in is their antique ascendency, us the actual rulers of the sky, consistently with any form of Christianity. Still the people had an affection for the old shrines, mid could not be cenzol to desert them; gradualy stories of old snitts, often in duplicate, the old surrounded
of mauy attributes of the twins, grew up around these old shrines, and gradually Loo, with the growing toleration of the age the priests of the new religion foulit safe to transfer the less objection. ablegof the old riles to the service of the
No district in the empire had"Twing cane to be associated with the Church teen mon faithful to the ol beliefs an arts of husbandry, the invention of the the plains of Lombardy, and where had theychurch miubered more partyrs; with the general conversion it was not difficult for the popular imagination to accommodate the old Twins with modern roartyrdoms One of these tales cratred in Saints CORE & Co. are prescribed by leading Gerrasins and Protasins, two brothers who Physicians all over the World.
had perished, so sail the story, in one of the persecutions. With the powerful aid of the two great dignitaries, Ambrose of A. S. WATSON & CO. Milin and Gregory of Taurs, afterwards to
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The extract of meteorological observations made at the Hongkong Observatory during September shows that the average maximum
· The Shaughni fro reported in a recent Duffy' Prees 16logram is attributed to the ignition of
workmen were away for a meal. The building part of the roof by a soldering store while the
we can see how it was that the lomperature for that mouth was 85.3 deg is insured for about Tls, 60,09 in Hongkong
plough, the general superintendence of the husband; and beame. Purces of fecundity and the healing art. Traces of this, lost elsewhere, are curiously preserved in China. One of the most pronounced of these was the second ballad of the fourth book of the Sino Ya, ferining the second part of the old Shi King, miscalled the Book of the Odes. Dr. Legge's version parodies this as follows :—
the minimam 77 dog. and the total rainfall 30.595 inches.
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The foreign trade of Great Britain during September was £45,063,557 in imports and £30,525,158 in exporte. The figures show decrease of 2664,091 in imports on those of the corresponding period of the previous year, and an inor of £1,174,653 in exporta on those of the same period,
SEVERE GALE IN SCOTLAND,
CLAND.
LONDON, October 21st, Enormous damage has been caused by a gale which swept Southern Scotland.
CENTRAL AMERICA STORM- SWEPT.
LONDON, October 21st. Central America has been visited by heavy storms.
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FRANCE.
"Loxbox, October 18th.
J
M. Sarrien has informed President and Capuuhagen companies. It is believed that with the exception of the attica and third food | Fallieres that he is going to resign on the building has suffered un structural damage, account of ill health; his decision however and that only those portions will have to be is not yet final.
LONDON, October 19th,,~~ rebuilt. No windows bad been put in so the wind plays have with the flames when naca the woodwork Lad caught, The Daily News comigate: This des would seem to paint to the danger of centralization of the cable lees there, for serious interruptions in the
offices been burst out,
The appointment of Lient. C, W. Beckwith, R., to act as Harbour Master, Marineservice would have susued had the whole of the Magistrate, Emigration and Customs Officer,
Superintendent of Ouupowder Depit, Collector of Light Dues and Superintendent of Imports Let the brilliant white salt Peesi on the young growth of my vegetable garden. and Exports, in secession to Mr. E. Jones, with effect from the 20th instant is published Tether it by the feat, tie it by the collar. To prong this morning?"
in the Gurette...
A more correct, and more literal transl. tion sheas it to have been a hymn to these
Stars:-
becine the great saints of the age, the cult of the new Twins, Gervais sad Protase, rapidly spread, -to France on the one side, and on the other as far as Poland, where we find them as two youths in shining
"Shine on ye glowing steeds of dany. Our meadows wide with light suffuse white garments appearing before a battle ta
talt in your course, your progress stay. Thirmorning's dawn, to end refiase." shequer and asuncing bor of aunege,
another widely, spre The allusion is t
10 Amongst the other attributes of the Twins Transferred to one or other of these saints dawn wyth found as far as Greece, but into were clarit racing and pugilistic which it is not necesenry now to enter. Myth encounters, s, as Dr. Pendel has it, if is, of course, not history, yet, as Las been St. Protist should have inherited from Polinx an interest in single combats, the the athletes would then have found their patron, or rather would not have lost him." No anonymously signed communications that have What it St. Gervais discharged a similar ulready appeared in other papers wilita inserted.
Cnders for extra coul of DIY Fuxas should be function for the cliatioteers ? Can we predict sal before 11 am, on day of publication for that frutar the supply is limited. Only supplied for Cash what he would develop iato: "In like Telegraphic Address: Pras, Codes: A.B.C.th Edwise the nue of Gervais became a popular
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HONGKONO, Coroner 228, 1906.
Now the list interesting feature of our present civilisation is the large extent to which prehistoric traditions, forgotten in the ordinary stress of our daily lives, still
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one for cab-deivers as well as their machines; all the race of Jarvises and Jarveys and Garvies in Eagland, Scotland and Ireland are named after the saint, and so is the carriage which they Strive, which is known in the later English literature "jarvey". When we consult the etymolu- gists, they do not know anything as to the
1% it
often remarked, it Tine oue incalculable advantage over history that it cannot lie, and bones supplies invaluable information as to dle early history of buuanity. This is the true utility of such apparently useless fritles as Dr. RENDEL HARRIS's brachur ou the long life of the myth of the Heavenly Twins, which throws an unexpected light on the conditions of the early days of Christianity in Europe.
Large property owners on the south side of Market St., Sen Francisco, have decided to test by judicial prae-odings the arbitrary casi cation for payment of insurance risks adopted by the Commercial, Union, the Palatine and other English companies represented in the city. The
M. Sarrien will resign to-day, officially.
THE CHINESE CUSTOMS.
LONDON, October 19th,
Sir Edward Grey, writing to the Newcastle Cleber of Commerce said, if it appeared that the change involved by the Chinese Customs edict, was not only one of form. but also of sul stance, the Governanent would take prompt action to consider the question,
The German Government, in the Budget for classification laid Town by these compuies has securing the co-operation of the other
the single merit of simplicity, but as ether. In Powers in representations to China.
the next fiscal year, will ask the Reichstag to vote expenditure for an expansion of the Germann Nazy, and the development of the cost
defence on the coasts of the Baltic and North Sea
It is said that the mode of providing the expenditure has already been decided up
robably the Customs tarif and the duties on spirits and t bacoo-will be increased,
groat
The Kobe Herald learns from Japanese papers that the Mitsui family are at present making arrangements to establish cotton spinning company at Shanghai, with a capital of twenty or thirty million yen, for the purpose of selling the products direct to China and Korea. It is believed that large profils can thus be secured, as the expense of importing the raw cotton from China and then exporting the finished_articlo will be saved.
At the request of thirty-eight abareholders in the Shanghai Dock Co., Ld., an extraordinary general mesting of sharabolders will be held on
The French Mail of the 15th Sept, was November let in order to consider a proposal delivered in London on the 19th inst.
Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Little have retarded to Shanghai. Mr. Little is now convalescent,
Poraistest rumours are in eirculation in the
a word, it is pundy geographical. If the properly was east of Eighth and south of
Market Street or in the wholesale or financial districts on the other side of Market Street ey
GUNNERY TRIALS OF H.M.S.
DREADNOUGHT."
LONDON, October 19th.
At the gunnery trials of H.31.8. Dread-
offer coats on the dollar. In other parts of the burned district. they offer 75 cons on the dollar. Either these companios are liable, or they are not. If they pay anything that is an nought in the Cbnane) near Portsmooth, admission of full liability. The earthquake" | each of the 12 inch gune was firert separately, clubs does not say they shall be liable for 50 after which they were red h pairs.; then jer o91; iu one part af town and for 75 per cent six; and fually eight, the latter constituting in another quartor, but that they shall be free
a broad side, were fired simultaneously, with from all liability where the fire was due to
a full service charge of 265 s. of eòrdite, earthquake conditions: The contention of the companies is that 50 per cent of the firs was due The structure of the vessel was wholly to earthquake in one quarter, while is another unisjurod by the inmense strain.
£5 per cent of the fire was due to that cause.
CANTON.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
October 1918.
NO EVIDENCE AGAINST CONMODULES
As no satisfactory evidence has been advanced is support of the charges of "squeeze" which canal Commodores Lin Cho-phuon and Kew
THE STANDARD OIL CO.
LONDON, Octuber 19th.
A jury of the State of Ohio, after deliberating for $2 buus, has found the Standard Oil Co. guilty of a conspiracy do restrain trade since 6th July, 1908. The law. ninkes pach day's business a separate
which has been made by them for the formation of a Wharf and Godowa Company to acquiro the Old Dock property and part of the property between the Cosmopolitan and International Dook. Particulars of such proposal and the Chi-fua to commit suicide, Expectant-Trotsi offence, punishable by a une not exceeding
caison d'etre of a Jarvey, whether man or bazaars along the Nile that a serious Egyptian resolations to be submitted at the meeting will | Yuen Sown-lo has been depnted to visit Hong- | 85,000:
machine, except that it is said that the rinine ven in honour of a celebrated brother of the craft who met bis death by hanging They do not disceru Gervais the martyr behind the condemned Jaryie”,
outbreak will take place in the New year.
The wife of Mr. G. W. Eres, chief resident engineer of the Kowloon Canton Railway gave birth to a child last week, which was unhappily, still born.
be sent to the shareholder,
kong to inspect the books of the Kwong Hip' Loong firm who were building six river hosts for the government.
as its business is concerned, the deccased [This local firm emphatically declares that on!
commodores were quite innocent-ED.]
CANTON WHAMPOA RAILWAY.
NEW RACE OF GIANTS.
POREC ST OF ENGLAND IN FIFTY YEARE
A race of giants will inhabit Fagland in 1950. The average stature of the inhabitants of the country will have increased fine, and the
will have increased
ten years, and vorage weight 11 lbs. The average lougth of life will love cost diseppcared.
The Shanghai Municipal Council bas felt it Chinese staff in consequence of the high pricer rocessary to make some allowance to its large
of rice. Every employ whose monthly wage in less than 815 is to receive temporarily an But the story is world-wide, and if we
additions! 31.50 and for those with wages
An immediate start is to be made with the can meet with it in old Greece, in the
between 315 and $27 the bonus is to be $1, Romilus and Remus of ancient Rome, in exist amongst us.
This step, which is estimated to cast about The construction of this line, under the direction of Cheng Peishi. Peking had previously orsierad 2,000 monthly while it lasts, is only one indiosita postponement, our account, it is understood, expressing some surprise at his cojapanion's the Jacob and Esau of the children, of prowess at omrbles asseverates it by the Ismael, in the story of Cain and Abel, in At the entrando eramication for clerkshipation of the extra burden which foreign residents, of British official representations that it might comirmatory exclamatión, " by jeming ", he the twin pillars before the Temple of in the Hongkong Civil Service Mesara, T. A directly or indirectly, must all bear as cheer.
the similar erections At Hack and Ng Tsan-ki ware encoxaful fully as they can till the present depression scheme, but Viceroy Shum appears determine conference at Blackpool. The address took the
The military authorities have published in the Gazette the days on and places at which gun practice will be carried out during this month and next.
Hittle thinks that thousands of generations Jerusalem, or of school-boys before him, and not--school before the great shrine of Melkarth in candidates boys only but grave and reverend signore Tyre, or in the still obter tale of the as well, have made the same appeal to the twin horsemru as a testimony, to the truth
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obstruct the more important Kowloon-Canton
to have the Whampoa lius started before bis departure. An American engineer arrived here on the 17th inet.
MORE PIRACY,
These were the predictions made by Mr. W. Stanfield, of Manchester, in a paper read at the concluding session of the sanitary inspectors'
forma of
imaginary review of quotations the sanitary achievements of the half century ending in IC50. It began with the statement in 1950 there would be a royal palace at Blackpool, and that a municipal flag bearing the motto "Let them all come would fly over the town hall.
that
Gemine Harana cigars are now at Babylonian Gilgamesh and Esbani, why siderable premium and arpected to become very should
incarce, as a result of the fighting and conse. despair of finding it we of their evidence. But why should Chin, whose old nythe and legends mayquent neglect of crops. TWINS in particular base anything to say well bear comparison with those of Greece. The list of countries to which postal orders to public faith? A small brok of some 160 itself As a fact we do, and the story loses can be forwarded from Hongkong or any increase of Yen 13,788,385 en the total income / pirates, in "dragen" boats. They took arch of the twentieth century dozens of disease were
Government Gazette.
ordered from The subscription griffins Cheo dynasty, Suddenly, all unannounced Shanghai for the text meeting of the Hong
and are dus u arrive here
Choysay to-morrow.
The annual Licensing sessious will be held
According to rotaras published by the Finance Department of the Japaness Govern ment, the national income for the prosont fiscal year up to Septembor 30 was Yon 106,284,069 from ordinary and Yen 2,053,451 from extraordinary sources. The total shows a for the corresponding period of last year. The ordinary national expenditure during the sma period amonated to Yeu 213,804,206 and the extraordinary to Yen 37,444,8.12, a total increase of You 97,542,037 over that for the correspond.
A jank was pirated between Fatskan and Shek Loong (near Ng Ab How on the evening of the 16th inst. There were about sixty of the cargo (mostly piece-goods) and money, as all the firearms they could find, the jet in all being worth about Ths. 1,000. No arresta have yet been made.
OPIUM MONOPOLY.
The review also commented on the progress made in the war on disesse. In the early part presalent which had since then disappeared. as woll Consumption was regarded as a fearful scourge, but in 1950 it was almost extinct. Cancer was dreadfully prevalent, but in 1950 an isolated czas was a rarity which attracted the stention of scientists all over the world.
Viceroy Bhum, having received copies of the regulations of the Formosan Opium funspoiy, Sir Claude and Lady Macdonald, on theitas decided to añopt them for a similar govern-
In the carly part of the century the public mind was greatly exercised over physical deterioration and the decling of the birth-rate. Public meetings were held to disons the
ware
proposed which in the light of 1950 only provoked a smile.
pages griently published by the Cambridge none of its instructiveness. The verest British Post Offices in China is published in the University Press The Calt of the
tyro in Chinese literature kuowa the Heavenly Twins", by J. RENDEL BARR legend of the foundation of the (so-called) M.A. D. LET. throws some light on the subject. "How", asks Dr. RENDEL HARRIR
the Prince of the West", whose naine,kong Jockey Clab were shipped by the sing period of last year. is one to make the commaction between the
Chang (the Resplendent) sufficiently
way home from Tokyo, were to be the guests ment enterprise here. Deputy Lan is vxpected situation and devise a rewody, and many plaus modern man who swears by Gemini and
at Shanghai of Mr.. Honry Koswick, The to be given charge of the department, which is those early forms of the ult which we have displays his character, appears on the horizon, and wards the wicked king that he brought to light?" It belongs, is the
Wednesday, November 14th, at 2.3 p.m., when gave them a farewell tiffin at Yokohama. Sir
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. answer, to the time when the Twins have has me to dispell the mists of darkness in the Justices room at the Magutrasy on newly formed British Association of Japan to be established at an early datos
applications for publicuns and adjunct licenses Clande said it was a very real pleasure to him which he has permitted to necninulate been recognised as children of the sky, and
The LG.M. str. Prin: Ludwig left Shanghai around him. It was not his fortune to
for the year 1906-07 will be considered. to push the interests of British trade and have become associated with the sky-god; perform the task, tmt he leaves two equally
To-morrow is the dey of the actual sale of commerce, and be assured his audience that if on Saturday, the 20th inst., at 11 .., and may or thunter god, or sun-god as his pawssors.brilliant sons, Fat, the Issuer', and Tan, And it is because of this connection that the Dawn', who both-appear as the Chen work that is arranged in aid of the C. M. gbe did not do his duty in this respect be would be expected here on or about Tursday, the 23rd
Baxter Mission Schools. The netice elsewhere soon bear from His Majesty's Government, inst., at 6 a.m. they became the guardians of public truth, kung, or Chinese Dioscuri, and under them gives the City Hall, from 3.30 to 6.30 The day had passed when it was considered on Friday, the 19th inst, at 10 p.m., and may be civilisation it seems inevitable that decadence Men swore by God and S. Foliootus because the work is completed and the now kingdom. p.m., as the place and time, and no one who infra dig for a Minister to concern himself with expected here on or about Monday morning, the and immorality should beco Le more pronounced, they had sworn by Jupiter and the Twins, of Cheo, the Daylight, founded. Then takes sympathetic intorcet in the work of this the advancement of British commercial
mission will require further invitation. and they swore by Jupiter because being
interests.
The Australian Line str. Willehad left Manila
2nd inst.
Sir James Crlobtou-Browne, in the concluding address, said that in his opinion feeding. was more important than education, and that to try to educate underfed children was worse than areless, Education on an empty stomach was a mookery, be said,
Step by step with the development of our
or rather that, baring opportunity of The F. & O. ste, Sumatra left Sugapore for becoming centralised in large cities, it should this port on the 19th inst, at 6 pm.
gather to itself the evil elements of the nation.