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"FRIGHTENING AWAY THE CHOLERA DRatons. The Singapore Free Press of August, 28 reports unique and most interesting care. mony took place at the riokaba coolie depote in Ophir Road, off Queen Street, yesterday after noon. A number of cases of cholers have acourred in these depota lately, and aeroral cases in the immediate vicinity. The coolies and. towkays organised a grand festival for the purpose of fright wing away from Singapore the cholera demons. About 85,00 were collect. ed among the towkeys and coolies, and for the prat ten days, or so, quaiat ceremonies have | boon carried on On three nights, processions paraded the rations streets. The coolias were huay in the meantime bailding four model jake to carry away the cholera fonds.
then dashed back to the depot agało. Even- tually, the devils were persuaded to leave the dapot and the tender made five stormy trips. to and from the big jook suidst the willest excitement. The devile were represented by black, red, blue, green and yellow offigies ant they were all put on board at last. The tender then took up a position at the head of the procession and after maussavoring about wildly. for some time started off in the direction of Rochore Canal Road. The other vessels and the procession followed it with a raah, and a bugarnar went up from the assembled buu drets. After a short susd, yelling rush, a stop was Hundreds of bombs and crackers were let off made at a lauding stage at the Rochor river. and the gangs and drums wars banged madly- clothes and washed their faces. The head mank The men dressed as demons tore off their derfl
waved his sword in the direction of the river and exhorted the devils to depart. The fest were then at a fire one by one The tonder Was burned first and the biggest ship last The fmes roared and crackled and barus fiercely
} and the eremony was at an end, Oar ropre sonlatire, who was watching very carefully, did not see the animals and birde taken out of the big junk before she wwe sit alight and bɔliavas that they were burned to death. The tonky, however. assured him that they were removed they are afraid of enquiries by the police. before fire was pat to the vessels. Perhaps.
THE VOICE FROM THE COLUMN.
The celebrations were brought to a close. Tostarday afternoon amidst much excitement, and in view of several hundreds of Chinese. The clane participating in the clearing out of the devils were the Hockehows, Hookelias nad the Hlongwals. The ghost ships were made of bamboo and paper and were really works of art. They were cleverly made of various onered paper, and in shape wore oxaotly like Cainase junks. Two of the craft were about Altaon feet in length and one, the smartest of the let, was over twenty feet long and broad in proportion. The al ceremony commoncad The Lateşi GRAMOPHONES & RECORDS | at four o'clock. The three vessels were drawn.
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carried and the large one was drawn on wheals. The sails, made of selor paper, were then hoisfod. The leading rewel bad, as figure"] | Anniversary of the Battle of the Nile, Angn=t: |. 1798 had a dragon with a Aming wide open mouth. On tables placed naar the ships were candles, roast ducks, fowls, pigs, gosta, fruit and oakes. Numerous sheets of sacrificial
paper were burned and hundreds of crackers and bomba were let off. About two score rioks coolise were dressed na demons with grotesquely. faces. Sume of their faces were red, paiotel blue, black, green and yellow, and were streaked with white. Theg ware armed with spears and spiked clubs and many, bad horns fastened on to thoir Loads: They wore a fierce looking lot an tormed a holy guard for the flask, Ong pigantic. Cktoaman carried a huge wooden vord and apparently represented an excentioner Several monks in gay. robos were chanting prayers round the "Jose," inside the principal depot. to the accompaniment of Chinese masid. Frery few minutes they uttered long drawn
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oughs" in which they were joined by the demoniacal bodygaard while num rous other Chinese blew bamboo-korns, It was a weird spectacle.
Leaping on one of the “josa" tables is the roodway, was a stalwart coolie who appeared to hs in a tranICO. He was in state of frenzy and rolled his eyes fill only the whites were visible. It wis oxplained that he was pass saad of a spirit. god had entered inic him Ha gesticuled
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wildy and was believed to by communing with the spirits of the departed. Any one whose.
Thunder looms over the Thames: Warnings bava come by the scOTA, Omons to her wide shore, Light as the flicker of flames Or galle dome, up from the Nore But lethargy heavily dwells
river and dome and strand Cloud embanke the white pinnacles, Enthargy pals as of spells. Mounts the grey citadels
Muffling the drums and the bolls And leaving & nation unmannsi
we hace sentinels,
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Whors do the sentinels stand 'One I sòs watching alone, And he is a figure of stone.
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Does he so in this vaa of the storm, This clond-wrade Inrid and rivan, His old line of battleships forro, His own reat Victory, oven- Their spars with nos-dogs swarm Saluting as each goas by. Axma and faint voices upheavou Their opt da's all-dering eyek---- Ah he that watches alone Channel and Kentish strand Is a sentinel valy of stone
frisudy or relations had died could converse, that your stone would-emma- with them through him. Be was ertainly not shamming To the writer he appeared to he ad, na wedical gentlemen prosent said, in his opinion, the man was in a tranoa. ilo wout en ungeasingly and untiringly
The vessela ware loaded up with paper money, ends, crnokers, fruit ad rien. In the largest junk were placed a white pop, a gray kitten, a enak, a duck ́ad a couple of wbito pigeons. The monks then assembled in front of the largest chip and abanted prayers, while the hodyguard knelt down in the road. The head wonk picked up a skarp steel sword and fought
Ha worked him
and
a) with an unseen spicia the crowd of self into a state of frenzy, lookers stepped back in aws. The monk then -picked up a cock, and holding it in his left hand the word in his right danced about and gesticulated wildly. After some minatas ho put the weapon down and pricted the cook's rub with a foger nail. A drop of blood was tiken and was mixed with Chinese red ink. The fowl was then put under a joss table and after more incantations had hoon drored, the high priost mausted on a stool and dabbed this figuro head and other parts of the boat with the mix- ture: 1a then returned to the Joss table and exhorted the demons to depart in the vessels. The raon demons raised psudemoniam with their yells of "ongh," bamboo horns and banging of drams and clashing of oymbals. The spectators joined in the noise. The Chief Sanitary Inspector was present and soomed to be assisting in the devil hnuting. He expressed his desire of help.... ing in anything that would drive away the cholera.
Thess exhortations continued till six o'clock, and a fourth and much smaller vessel then made it appearance. It was apparently a tender to the bigger craft. The chief mock seized the small boat and curried it into the depot. The idea was to take the devils ont to the fleet, but this apparently did not most with Chair approval. The little vessel tossed and rooked, round the room, but the devils would not name cut to the bigger ships. One priest endeivour to cax the tiny ship out by means of bright papers on the end of pol while another priest tried to drive it out with & drawn sword. They sprang back when the boat larmed on them The eroitement was great, and the "oughs" were deafening. Several then the boat got as far as the entrance, but roturned again and careared wildly wound After fully twenty minutes of the room. pitching and tossing, the boat was driven and zoared out, -1t careerad round the fleet and
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At the post he will not quit Bound him the gunset ruun" Sulphurous, like smoke of gune As he stood when he was lit He stands, with empty sleave apkait And eye like a blinded vifte-pit Still on the barbours opposite The cold star on his bosom lit By the light of foundered anus.
IV.
Speak for the hour grows lat. Grant spirit that we have lost! What we you across the Strait Y our-squadrons so often crossed? Beyonder Battons chang Since the day of Trafalgar. They are not as we are; Each is a manful host
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A post for every man And every man tɔ his post.
They are not a wo re
They, accounting loss as paio, Are enrolled, trained, ready to die For the homeland, hill or plain, Whore frst they saw the sky; An honour which you, true Englishman, Evade, to sell and buy
Why should you, who are by proxy men.. Serve yourselves, when you can hire? When your London is a-loot. And your Westminster ou fire; When your insulted weak complain Huddled round this selamn's foot.
६ Yon, you will feel no stain. Eo are the nations chaugod Biace the day of Trafalgar: What wa-have baan, they are And (beat low, mutted dram 4) What ttoy wore, we have become
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„NAVAL, NOTES..
The Ulob of July 30th way:- longer Inspector of Target Practice, he con- Although Rear-Admiral Sir Percy Scott is no
na to take the liveliest interest in gnavery, as is shown by a return of the test of guolayers up to July 1 which has been placed on the antins boned of the Good Hopo," flagship of the First Cruiser Squadron. No were fitting inauguration could have been made by Sir Parcy Sontt of his command of the craiser divi ion of the Channel-Fleet than the preparation- of this tabulated statement, which means that gunnery interest is to be kept alive by stitis. tical comparisons, in addition to the annual return which is issued as a Bae-bank at the close of the your's practices When the present statement was compiled the order of morit of feats and aquadrons was as follows
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An instructive feature of the statement is a diagram showing the advance in ganary during the last ten years. In 1897 the percentage of bits to rounds was 31.86; in 18' it dropped to 31.1, after which an improvement commenced, sud was tandily maintained until in 1903 the percentage reached 46.04; 1905, it stood at 56.53; while this year, up to the middle of July, it bad risen. to 81.49. Taking the sauze period again, it is found that whereas in 1897 tho excess of mimes over hits was 2,337; the position is now reverted by an oxoom of hits or mise to the srtent of 3,300. This is tha
greatest tribute thst could be paid to the skit of neval gunners, and this reversal of the old order of || London, thing is made more remarkable by the fact that- io 1897 the number of shipa that Bred was 109, and the number of guns 816, compared with 60 ships and 742 guns up to July 14.
The muil to hand this week from, Chins analdes us supplement with some important details the above-mentioned retura. These additional particulars justify the expectation that when the year's resnila are complete the China Equadon will still hold the place of honour which it occupied when the half-yearly state- ment was compiled. The splendid example gat by the King Alfred, £ gship of VioAdmiral Sir A. W. Moore, in making 1 15 bits out of 19 rounds frers à 9.2-inch pun, has been well follow- ed up by હતુ by the Astraca" and Flora." The former of these, from her 6-inch and 4.7-inch guns feed 94 rounds and made 39 hits on the target, of which 47 were "bulla" the best scores being made with a pair of 6-inch guns, from which 15 rounde were fired, with 15 bite- 11 being balls. She' Flora," from two 6-inch guns, fired 16 rounds and made 16 hits, of which nine wore bulla; and from sight 4.7-inch weapons she got off 66 rounds, with 59 hita, 25 being bulls. Throughout the 82 rounds.fired, the Forsa" gunners only missed the target seven times. Judging from the excellent_ results already attained, there' in every expecta- tion that the firing for 1907 will show a still further improvement on the recorde made last year, with practically every type of gnu.
AN EXTRAVAGANT GIFT,
Hard as adamant is the diemond, indeed diamond is but a shortened form of adamant--s damao, the ansubdued, because nothing but the diamond can cut the diamond. A crystallised form of carbon, capable of conversion into a bit of charcoal, with which in composition it is identical, the diamond nevertheless has played a grant part in the pageant and criminal history of the world, particularly the larger specimens. When out a polished diamond of one carat (4 graina) is worth about C1 but the value facreases rapidly with the size. Up to 20 cavate, the value is roughly salessed by squaring the waight in carats and multiply: ing by 240, so that a fifteen ura diamond should be worth about 20,0M, Above 20 carats the value increases at a mal: mora rapid. rate. The Kob I-Nor (102 carata) is valued £300,000. The biggest diamond in the world, the Cullinan, which the Transvaal Government parebised and prosented to King Edward weighs 3,024 carats, or 12th, in the rough apoul and is about as big as a four 15 iron weight, diagram of the new diamond and the Koh-I-Nor shops the historic gem about as big as a walnut, and the Oullinsn as big a highborn lady's st. Or to descend to figures, 4 inches long, 2 inches high aud I§ inches in depth. As 16 19 free from defecte au interesting problem acises as to the up- proximate valan The only estimate we are Able to come across, in au American exper', M. Kunz, and he would'nt plice a value on the big diamond, but he did not dispate the value of a million sterling said to be placed upon it, So much depends on the colour and brilliancy. For inatures the Ipe Diamond is blue white, and it only weighs 4 graine, but has the price of £25.000 put on it. In these enormously Jargo diamonds, howeva", the market is limited, for
fer perpls can affed to lock up half. tion stelling in a gem that on by: easily stolen and coucaled. On the other haud big diamonds are always valuable, for they will ent up into many smaller gems, and Estok very nestly, their total value. That was the fate of the Syndicats diamond, found in Da Biers B few years ago, and weighing aneut 96) grains. All those monsters. Dat much in the entting The Koh-I Nor was whittled down from 700 carats when found to
186, and down from 23? and absequently to Begent want The Star of South Africa from 28% to 135. A big black diamond found in Brazil
3.0.32 weighed
orate, bat it was cut up and
this, the new
1022 carats. The
to 105
asad
for diemand driller than any other
Callinan
thres
titnog diamond yet disc rel... It might lose from 40 to 60 pur coat in weight in the process,
dapend ing on the shape of the stone, but the outlara would probably love its large as possiblà, so that" as large_as_n girl's Grat" will probably describe the new gem being alded to the Crow 1 Jowels of Eagland.—Singapore Free Proan.
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