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November 22ad.
SOCIAL PROBLEMS.
France is just now face to face with two very troublesome social problems, Sho appears more
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26TH, 1907.
Bort do Tarique, was suficient to ensure its sus-1 cess and fill the Odéon nightly. MM. Alexandre Bissen and Berr do Turique, who bare to their credit more than one success on the Paris stage, are likely to make themselves very unpopular with a certain class of alleged dramatic authors thong who strut about the Parle theatres wearing borrowed plamos-by the production
DAY OF DARKNESS.
LONDON'S ROOF OF JOG, London went to bed on November 19th and woke uaxt morning at night. It went to the wity by night, and walked out for luncheon at Cight, Ladies rode in Rotten-row at II a.m.
the dark, and shopped at 1000 by are The City pigeous, who had no watobes to tell
and more incapable of checking the alarming of the Intest collaboration, Les Plumes them when to get F, wore still rooting at 2) rob them of their wealth,
they sil want only rieb wire. To this, must taste, nontinue to prefer the stupidities of evening brought its breezes the patl was will die rather th Haugehow have land
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A London paper of November 2016 enys:-- The beautiful abbey of Welbeck has been keeping royal sale since the arrival of King Alf abo and Queen Victoria Eugenie last Mon.
to these festivities. No care and expense bad beed
to make it one of the most successful pared day, and the ball last night was the grand clim
functions of the Spanish monarob's visit.
The festivities of the orening began with à at which the twouts eight guests staying
ment. The Government wnnot force the lon through, but they despies na Anhai people as being a useless lot and have determined to take the Tangkasashan wining concession and the Anhui-itons railway and make a present of the undertakings to Britain. Now you think! If we agree to this, before long our Anhui. will be garrisoned with maltitudes of foreign soldiers. When these foreign soldiers aro in possesion they will oppress the people, in.
outrage their woman and dessorate their graves. My fathere decrease in the birth rate, while she cannot ass," (Peacock's Feathers). The story of
Although the fun
shone fully outside, and brethren! Can you bear to look on this? It does not matter how wealthy you are, you induce either men or women to marry. Few the new play is this: Heuri Claudel is a
pall over the streets of London. It hung all will not be able to resist them. And if then papers contain so many matrimonial advertise 200essful playwright, who has made money 7,000,000 sons of smoke-inden air hung liks a
ents as do the Paris newspapers at the present and become celebrated by writing vandevilles. Į day just over the chimney-pots bsonuse there you wake up your minds to oppose them, evou at the risk of your live, it will probably be too was no wind to dispel it.
late. If you do not believe me, make inquirica moment; however tempting the offers, they Ranal Prémort, his friend, is a serions nathor,
It was not a Lodos fog which prevented you
for years go are, is the majority of onses, not accepted. so deadly serious, in fact, that his plays have
some-mista in Maidens continue to complain that it is becom.always been abject failures. He is convinceding sard before your face. There was regarding the state of Formoss
places, but it was a blacket of and the present state of the three eastern Fro- that the fault is not his, but that it lies with
there? The ing more difficult to get husbands, because men
mande day blacker than ordinary night. batoho knew these things and therefore they people of Soochow and Hang- have become so hard to please, in other words, the public, who, in their ignorance and bad de abire which sbus out the sunlight and rice. What it the condition of the people but, if the bestilted the foot that many girls, despair Claudel to the szellent and edifying produc- gradually withdrawn.
Piémart is deeply
fog was a freakish one, and dappeared at people of Sucehow and times in patches,t noon & correspondent and wealth, here we in Anhui ne lauds and ing of Anding a commen rense husband, hare tions which he offers them.
wealth The people in Boochow and Hong ebw have their ancestral graves. Have we in „given up the searob, and either resolved to die in love with Troane, a pretty girl, who returned through New Oxford street, Holborn, and
Anhui no ancestral gravia? Thi DU of spinsters, or have ewigrated to the Colonies. bis affection, but her hard-hearted father, Chancery-lane, where it might have been six M. Bajulia, a prosaic brash soufacturer, o'clock on a winter's evening. Suddenly, within
Sochor and augehow are met. Are we wen where it is said wives are
of Anhui not men? The people of Boschow prospective busband plentiful and willing. will not hear of her marriage with a penniless few yards of Carey-street, night came to an end. To Fleet-stroot the air was light and clear,
and Hangcho dare to resist to the dentu. The number of girls who care to go as far and unsuccessful author. Claudel is married and overhead the sun was struggling to break
Shall we of Anhui not dare to resist? The to a woman who loves him to distraction, through the clouds. A few minutes later on he from-home-is-remarkably len ospecially-in-f-
rad Rungehow contribute to the fund to France, heuse, the present glut of spinsters, on but she is madly junious of the Thong ht that the Embankment, night had-again-superseded the beggars, rioska coolies and women of to show
day. well as of bachelors for both are as bad is this popular dramatic author many falla ristim 17 respect. Picking up a París journal a few days the irresistible attractions of the beautiful and ago, the writer was 'surprised to flud no fewer charming actresses with whom his profession than reveaty matrimoulal advertisoniente! This throws him in contact as continually. Finally it certainly a serious state of things. Only a things rench a climax, and Claudel, to put an end for year ago, very few Englishwomen would to his wife's perpetual scener, decides to take
and smarting ayer, and were too dispirited to have cherished, the ides of marrying Frenchmen; het on a long holiday, far away from the drowd to matindes or restaurant; managers Beferstimate losses at hundreds of pounds. Tela- avan to-day, this objection is still very strong, gerous proximity of the green room. owing to so many English and other Indica leaving Paris, however, he and Premart come to phone conversations were more than usually considering Frenolmen as fact, too fond of an arrangemant by which, while Clandel writes irritable. Guests at lunobson spoke but listie, and. onfé-life, or worse still, inclined to prove the plays and souda them to Premart, the latter weiter at an establishment usually
victimised by the fog
in reduced as was unfaithful. As regards the latter voice, certain- will sign the manuscripts and superintend their
Ove £1,000 was spent in electric light slour, ly, if we are to judge by Paris, domestic felicity production, receiving for his pains a quarter of Railways list long distance passengers, and fogmen and detonators. is not too common in this country. It in only the receipts, Prémart has little resson to regret apent £8,000, oxira ca. ht their promises | 39P the profits in our own hands, to save the curridor, hang with famous piotures of horses
In a few months it is hetho Shopkeepers had to the contract.
all day, and bad only half their usual
loss to
omuibuses, cats, serious author who is acclaimed as the most so takings. The
st 25,000; that in cessful randevilliste of the hour, when the brush and tubes is put merchant no longer hesitates to wooord him the delays to 2,000,000 travellers at £50,000. The commercial house, quoting an But Claudel head of a hand of his daughter Tronne. and his wife cannot remain away from Paris imate of £150,00 we the oust of the fog to London in day, declared that he would make for ever, and at the end of eighteen months they the total over £100,000 for November 27.
Claudel is returs. Then the trouble begins, somewhat annoyed i find that his plays, owing to the fact that they are signed by Pré-mart, have made the latter the hero of the theatrical world, while be, Claud, is almost forgotten. Promart has been promised the Legion of
as "cher Hanour, everyone addrosess him maitre," and the last straw arrives when an enthusiastio playgoer bequeaths" to the author" of the plays that have so vastly amused him a extantive splendid chates or castle, with
just to add that it is not always the fault of the husband. Mme. Jane Hading, the celebrated and charming stress, maintains that the ideal union was that of an Englishman and a Frenck woman or vice versa for the simple reason, that be considers that the domestic qualities, the attributes that go so far to the making of a happy home, are applied by the English temperament, while artilo tastes and gaiety of diaposition come from the Frenos side. Mdme. Jane Hading firmly believes that the idoni entente cordiale was that of a marriage union between French and English It is gratifying to note that such unions are becoming more frequent of late,
MATRIMONIAL,`CATCHRO.
The following represent a few of the some what amusing matrimonial advertisements
Morning trains crept cautiously City-ward, and irritable. The oppression of the fog was acco and their passengers arrived at the office late in depressed workers. An emplogor estimates the reduction of the output of office stafs at -20 per cent.
pose the railway loan, Is it possible that are not na good as the beggars, riesia e gentry, scholars soil people. of Aubui coolies nd women of Soochow Now avery. where in Anhui it has been decided to held
People complained of sore throats again. On the one hand we will protest.
davico
Sir Oliver Lodge looks la fog provention rather than fog cure, and for prevention to improved methods of combustion. For dispersal of natural fog be recommended discharging high-tension electricity into the air. Whether this would act on a suficiently large sole could only be decided by experimente, which he was willing to conduct if the funda were furnished. He doubted the efficiency, and certainly the desirability, of such methods ag firing cannon and explosives in the neighbour hood of tower.
Rabe mis.
the present policy of the Board of Affairs and, on the other, we will take tiger in and build railways, our selves. Wo in this plans are also Anhui people, If we sennot be before others da pot let us lag behind. I invite all
you good people to come to the meeting and let us plan a good It is our earnest expectation that you will call open your purses, contribute and bay sbaco. We shall then be able situation, and by and by business will flourish that we will have good returne Is this not killing two birds with one stone P In my opinion this is a better thing for you to do tan to buy houses or lands. Liston! Listen!"
Issued by the Association for the Conservation of Mines and Railways in Auhai..
ADMIRALTY'S APOLOGIST,
·MD. BORERTSON ON THE NAVY'S TROUBLES.
dinner,
in the house were present Immediately after dinner the procession forms and groom ded to the ballroom, Led by the King of Spain and the Duchess of For hand, followed by the Queen of Spain and the Duke of Portland, the mouse party made its way through the Titekfield library and the famous print gallery down a fight of blue-carpeted stairs to where & masire pear of oak foldinge opened lute the long
and lined with pots of apricot szaleas and and dogs, alternately with mounted staga' bearis
white filme.
At the end of the corridor lay the mirtellons ballroom, at the door of which the Duke and Duchess received their guests,
The ceiling of the ballroom, from which depends an enormous orystal oudelier, is Darved and panelled in white. The walls are
with old family portraits, and lighed buog
by smaller chandeliers, festooned with ropes of out glass, which glittered like diamonds.
One-belt of the room had been fitted for aiting-out and was carpeted in crimson, on which stood inlaid marble tables and gold breaded and gilt armohairs. The refreshment buffet occupied this end of the room, and the bondstand, on which were the twenty-five
A London journal engaMr. Robertson, the cficial apologist for the Admiralty, has been put up again to throw dust in the eyes of the public. He made a speech at Hundee fant month, in which be made the astonishing state- went that he was not aware of a zobiem i muzicians of Cassano's band, wis siment cou Japanese ohrysanthe Nars, and that officers of high rank bad not oled by giant palous and Jeps
mums in shades of fame and yellow. been set against one another.
Furthermore, Mr. Robertson, who, by the ready" promises of the Nore Divisions, which spends most of its time in deck under repairs, begs the Press to refrain from stirring up dissension in the service.
The royal doir was carpated in crims and upholstered in crimson brocade, on which sat the King and Queen of Spain.
The ballroom floor was polished until it resembled a sheet of ice, and reflected the brilliant colours of the crimeon and yid obry santhemums which were arranged round the room among palms and maidenhair ferns,
which figured in the Päris journals, tho style of | gronnde. Mme, Piémárt, poor, ansuspecting at reducing the amount of carbon that in Jim responsible for the ludicroue "instantly in the.oeutre stood the two large armoire, which is an every-day conurrence. The first on Htle woman, nggravatar the situation by loud. the list read as follows-Young man, ramarking her clever busbaud in the presence of able physique, very well educated, rieb, desires Claudel and his wife (who knows all), and in the marriage with very wealthy lady or young and there in a hosted scene, and the two friends woman, from 20 to 35 years of age." This is quarrel and heap represalies ou each other. followed by an announcement baring the words leadel departe in a high-state of indignation, "very serious,” “Geatleman foreigner, 31 yeare, dsolaring that in fature he will put his own well-educated, good health, very good family signature to his plays, while Prémart tells him established in Afrios, with 60,000 frauss in cash is glad to be rid of him wad that he and a position of 12,000 franca a year, would does not need bis collaboration, and that he' marry a young girl of very honourable family, quite apable of writing his own plays. So he is, but he cannot persuade the public to from 22 to 28 years of age, good hṣaltà, vory
AB devices in the way of smoke preven tion," said another well-known scientist, "aim allowed to escape but it is the sulphur, and not the carbon or soot, that causes the fogs. If all the carbon were consumed there would still be logs, though they would be of a lighter shade, Worse ill, they would have practically as Sulphur many irritating qualities as at present. which is finally oxidised to eulphuric acid, cannot be got rid of by any of the improved methods of while London daily burns its hundreds of tens combustion, and so fogs will always be present of coal in domestic fireplaces alone.
"it is the sulphuric acid in the fogs that has the irritating effect on the conjunctive of the redness, smarting, and eyer, causing the
In the same way it irritates the leaving it particularly open to attacks of catarrh and bronchitis. That this danger is n rost one the Registrar-General's weekly report frequently shows, for after a week of trae Leadon for the returns of deaths due to disessa
Will Mr. Robertson give orders to disa tblish the Admiralty inspiration burons ? That would and the troubles of which he complains.
In the meantime, the professions of duly well done would fall on more credalons ears if the Goverment were to announce the formation of a Commission of Inquiry into the administra- tion of the Navy.
Mr. Robertson said :----
The
The Admiralty Board is not a party board
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serious, sympathetic, nice, simple tastes, and accept them; and when he produces anaided: burn158embrane of the throat and lura not pelition that come before it are naval and
having reasonable dot. Give details, and if ponible, sead photo. Discretion and honour. No reply to letters unless signed with address, Agencies and intermediaries are invited to alistain." For those who do not mind marrying a widower, here is a proposal which may tempt them: Widower, very serious, 54, alone, ebildran married, good income, desires to marry
"L'ouvrier de la onzième heare," the result is disastrous failure. Finally, roconciliation take place and the two friends collaborate together as before. The termination of the play is weak: the noting is remarkably good.
DAINTY DISHES.
muoʊna
woro
The gorgeous dresses of the ladies and their wonderful jewels added the dishing touch to
Spain tão dassling soone. The Queen of
gown of sky bine satin heavily embroidered in silver. Her jewels were diamonds and pearls and she wore a megnißoent diamond orona. The Duchess of Portland had obosen white talle embroidered with diamonds and silver threads. Her sorsage glittered with gem, and on her dark hair rested a tiare in which is set the famous Portland diamond.
One of the most enthusinatio of the dancers was pretty Lady Victoria Cavendish-Bentinck, who made her début at the ball. She wore white over white satin, the talls skirt being A large pink rose was tucked in her bodice,
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of the respiratory organs have several times which is a zaval. question pure and simple, and heque! with satind her only ornament or merely to threaten with it, is not good, but
an honourable person, alcne, or, whosa ohildren Sunils of course. Frogs may follow. One thing blood, a correspondent puinta ent that in are not at home, age indifferent, up to 50, if Well-preservel, gond-tempered and of simple tastes, disposing of at least 15,900 franes in cash, and willing to stay in the country sad to purchase what my late wife possessed-for- niture, ground, vines, bringing in a revenue per annum of from 1,000 to 1,500 francs, of which I have the usufrust during my lifetima After my dessa bie would be doubled by the counterpart, of which I would pay the sucosasion duties,"
ben twice or three times the normal number." The French are very pleased to see that the In reply to a suggestion that for the Lou English have at last taken kindly to snails, edibledoner his own atmosphere is the best and int smokeledeni sir in spiondid food for langs and the aud CON- great but six weeks of 1879 during s tinanue tog the deaths for the six weeks were 1,730, 1,9), 2,200, 3,378, 2,495, and 216, those in the fourth weeks being nearly double those in the first. In the first three weeks of 1880, when London war is gely clear of fog the deaths fell thirty por cent. below the average, but at the end of January, when the fog again b came severe, till February 21, the deaths rose to forty-three per cent, above the syorage.
omicer from 85 to: 45,"
is certain, that were the British people to develop as greata liking for sanile as do the French, there would be fewer people out of work, as the profession of sanil cultivados, as will be seen, is one not to be despised. Escargots or snaile sell at from 12 fis. 59 contimes to 20 francs per thousand, sad with a capital of 2,000 francs, it is quite possible to do a turn-over the first year of 4,000 franes, and of 10,000 franos par annum. for several years in sapneasion. This is bolter than being out of work, at least thousands of French people think so, and are not ashamed to Jwn it.
DROPPED ANCHOR..
The report of the Registrar-General in February showed that dense fog and cold were more prejudicial to life than the cholera epidemion of 1849, 1854, and 1866.
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The shipbuilding programme is a political question pure and simple, but not a party question, sinos all parties are agreed that the two-Power standard should be maintained. Beside that question comes another question that is 1s that standard being maintained 1 have no hesitation is declaring that it is.
"I have no evidence that there is a fend among naval floors other than I read in the newspapers, and I beld that the newspapers are good deal to blame for stirring up something Ike that state of things. I believe the so-called Leud-if it in anything more than a newspaper feud is due to misconception of the position of ir Jola Fisher. I hope the Press will not foment or encourage a scheme which, if it
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was a diamond penat, presented to her by her father for the occasion
vil. It is in this light that money appears from the view point of plain common sense, Lady Cynthia Graham were yellow sails with Looked at from the Cbristian point of view, diamond tiars and flue orescent. Lady the matter is aloarer still, The-belo doctrine, Dusborough was dressed in white duchesse Ritin, the whole spirit of the gospel discourses of the trimmed with diamond embroidery. Her tiara folly of man's labours to sasure his worldly. was one of the most artistic in the room, being future; of the folly of the acquisition of wealth; made of diamond roses and leaves. Lady Charles of man's need to act not like the riob man in embroidered in
pearis, and diamonds and but more like Lazarus, the poor men. Cavendish-Bentinck's dress was white fulle the parable who stared his barns with grain, exists, will be dangerona.
I have no hesitation in giving the assurance appliquée in pala mauve istin. Kerjawals were that, to the beet of
tarquoises and diamonds. kuowledge, the British
Miss Ivy Bois trifamed with Gordon-Lennox wore a beautiful Navy was never in a more efficient condition
gown of white than at the present moment."
& id Greek embroidery Miss Dureen Milner bait selected a dazzling frock of epal and silvur embroidery, to which she is d added a striking splash of colour in the shape of ruby and diamond padant and brooch.
my
The same issue had this:-The gunnery trials which are to be carried out by the Channel Fleet against the old battleship Her, a sou be the weather conditions in the North Sea permit, will be the most important experiments which have ever been carried out aby the British Navy.
The programme had haen danced through belf its length when one of the most brilliant
"The Gospel says that happy are the poor and unhappy the rish; that man cannot sorre him that askoth and not take back which he has both God and mammon; that man must give to given and many other things in a similar son. Such is the general teaching of the
Christian doctrine.
But in conversation with the rich young man in the Gospel, the truth is expressed with such precision that it is impossible to misa derstand it Thore it is said: 'It then wilt be The Hero has been at Sheerness for some rights of the evening took pl band to the and follow Me. To justify disobediency of thin
perfect, sell all thon hast, and give to the
annual battle practice. The moorings for the Heto are about ten miles north of Margate.
A large number of officers from the Porta- mouth Gunnery School ant the Admiralty have arrived at Sheerness to witness the trials, which
ave been arranged in fire series.
Tho first two comprise the heavy gan trisks. The whole of the Channel Fleet will steam past the doomed ship at a distance of 800 yards or thereaboute, and the battleships Britsunis and Hibernia will open fire with all their boavy gaur, kees ing up the canonade for two minutes. According to the performances of those ships at batile, rastics, there should be discharged at the Her in two minutes the following weight of metal-
24 rounds of 12-im-20,400lbs. 24 rounds of 9.2-i 9,1201 ba. 20k ronda of 6-in.-20,000lbs.
Total
49,52018.
The King of Spain gavo bis
not of
the
The next advertisement has more sentiment
AN ANTI-FOREIGN POSTER. and less of the appearance of a business contract about it" Gentlemas, 33, 9,000 to 15,009
The N. C. Daily News is indebted to franes per annum, would marry a young lady,
correspondent for the following transistion of pretty and distinguished; of similar position
a poster which is being widely circul, ted days now, and the ofloials are still waiting for
the false interpretare enato, as at their who likes travelling. The dot doesn't matter
The last vayage of discovery of Leang Choi throughout the province of Anhui. It would the weather to modernte, sufficiently to easbly Destess of Portland, the Duke of Portland led
ba well, says our contemporary, if the Govern- much if her tastes are simple." To those must chi was accompliant on Thursday, and yestermout took steps to deal with the authors of this
them to moor her in the desired position. This out the Quess of Spain, and the most important teaching by these who call themselves the has been laid down on the Loagsands Range, guests followed and formed up for the royal last hope of safety, at the phrase, if thou wilt be added a State engineer, who has an income day he was docked in Victoria Jail where he doorment and with the heads of the association off the Kentish Knock, where the ships of the quadrille. The top of the room was ceoupied by the be perfect, and way that perfection of 7,000 francs a year and is looking for will remain for some months. Late on Thursday in whose name it is isuned. The Boxers were Home Fleet have recently carried out their King of Spain and the Duchess of Portland the this world. Bat those words of Christ were in Spanish Ambassador and the Duchess of Mamokas tended to mean, if then wouldst bo My disciple.
There is another attempt to justify the also a "patriotic" organization. -
ter, the Austrian Ambassador and Countess wife with 30,000 franes; a wholesale mercbart, night he ran alongside a seat, junk lying off report presented worping regarding the 40 years of ago, with 100,000 frames, who No Police Station, and thinking, he was un
Torby, and the Duke of Banto Manro and Lady non-observance of this doctrine ander mining concession in ungkuansion and the desires a companion with 20,000 francs. There observed out the anchor cable and remored the Antui-Hopan railway.
de Greg. They were faced by the Dako of pretext that it is cald, What is impossible to is also another engineer, 33 years of age, whoangber. Then he cast off from the junk and It's all ap! The calamity has come. The
Portland and the Queen of Spain, the Grand men is possible to Ged." This justification it Dake Michael and the Dacbers of San Carlos, no better founded than the other, for those word frankly admits that he wants a wife with 150,000 pulled for the shore. This, however, had been day for the death of all-u Anhal people is
the Marquis de Torrecilla and Mme. de Villa in no way mean that it is in God's power to save Graham. Urrutia, francs to set him up in business. On the other witnessed by a wakeful member of the junk's not for oft. Don't you yet koow it? Thone
and Lord de Grey and Lady Cynthia the rich, also, but that the impossibility of abandoning bis richer bocomes a possibility to hand, quite a number of ladies are anxious to crew, who silently awoke others on board. A boat foreigners long ago thought of dividing up
The sides were formed by the Duke of Lim in whom the divine spirit is reawakened. Monteleone and Lady Scarbrough, the Dake "I feel really ashamed to give expression to enter the matrimonial state-Widów, 43 was quickly lowered and, the seamen started in our Chine, but because they could not agres on an even partition Japan and Bassin came
postponed
of Alba and Lady Victoria Bentinck, Lord platitudes and to prove what is an axiom to any Looky 36, domesticated and of amiable character, parauit of the thief. When about 100 yards to blows and so the event had to be Erba gentille, with a dot of 15,000 france and separated the two boate the man in the latter Now they give all their attention to opening
Hersebell and Lady Charles Bentinck, Lord sincerely religious men, whether he believen or Desborough and Lady Savile, Lord Savile and not in the divine nature of the Carpet." our country. rentus 1,500, wishes to marry an infantry damped the anchor over board, and gaining the mines and making railway some of theirs
Why is this? This is "Barones", "widow, Prays was about to dash off with his shoes under
for destroying other peoples' countries. When
Lady Manters, Lord Hugh Cecil and Lady Desborough, and Eight Hon. J. Balfour and Miss Gordon-Langor, and Lord Scarbrough with large income, tall distinguished large. bis arm when a lakong detained aim. The they have the right to upen nines, then they
and the Duchess of Monteleone. hearted, gentle, and of simple taster, wishes people from the junk were sahore shortly after can easily, get one money and destroy our to marry a man of the world, between 50 and him, and when they told their story Lean was live. When they have railways, then they
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued GO, who is making from 6,000 to 10,000 francs taken to the station. There when questioned, oa eeally step by step garrison the country
the following report:- with foreign soldiers. In the ninth woen Young lady, orphan, 25, in a good he was unable to give a satisfactory account of of the present year the Board of Foreign
On the 27th at 11.55 m. The barometer claimed that sitaation, with a dot of 500,000 francs, sloce, how be came by, the dinghy, the result being Afeirs, with an utter disregard of conscience. It is laid the is varied out at a target
has fallen very rapidly in E. Japan owing to would marry a gentleman with an income of that ho was charged before Mr. F. A Headlandrew one million Eve hundred thousand 90ft. long and 39t; high, is something more
Le Matin publishes a latter from Count the depression which is uieving Eastwards over in order to get the promised two per cent,
Tolstoi suswering a question which it is alleged Hokkaido, about 4,000 francs.” Another funny advertise at the Polios Curt posterday with stealing. an aels giving the Sooohow-Haugehow railway as than 75, ond therefore the Uere, which in 270ft.
John D. Rockefeller asked in a letter to Tolstoi. Pressure has inoressed over China, parti- ment reads as follow:-" Widowed mother, anchor and being is unlawfni possession of a ourity, The people of Soochow and Haugchow long, should roosive at least that proportion of desires to marry her daughter, 24, distinguished, dinghy. Both charges were proved and his fused to somept the arrangement aas fought the shells discharged at her, or 188 in all. If Rockefeller asked Tolstoi bis view on the best cularly in the North. It is highest over pretty, musical, with a dot of 500,000 franos, Worship sentenced the defendant to three to the death against it. Two resolute scholars, battle practice standard is maintained, she way to employ wealth for the greatest good of Central China,
Wakang end Tangon, died wo
"The question you address to me is to know the harder against Sea in less than half a minute. Even if this
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending it, holding meetings everywhere and delivering does not sour, so much wood has been left is in what messure wealth is compatible with the Foracea Channel and the Chios Sos, speeches against the loan. Everyone is Soo Low ber that there is a good chance of her catching Christian doctrine which you profess, I make at 30 a.m. to-day, 0.41 inches and Hangview, whether wen or women, knows 61a,
"Apart a that this affair converts their own lives; there is It there is any of the ship loft after this.
plaiv common sense tells us that wealth today is as follows:- not one whe Even the beggarn haré coflected more than five brought to bear against her, and aimed prin- Iteelf is incompatible with an absolutely good hundred dollars, and richs coulies and women cipally against her mast, which has been fitted life. I think I have madea that sufficiently Hongkong & Neighbourhood hold meetings and collect subscriptions, being with a modern control top. Gannery offers clear in my books. The honey I keep in my Formoss Channel
willing to agree to this affair. The British, regard it as at least curious that these small guns pocket or in bank constitutes without the lost Bouth coast of China between Hongkong and Lamecka, eeing that the people of Sooohor and Hang are not brought into action frst, as they will doubt a sort of weapon against the man who show are so determined na this, are at a lost probably have very little to fire at after tho has none-the poor man. Now to possess such South coast of Chins between
wespon and to was it when opportunity arises Hongkong and Hainan.. } what to do and have appealed to the Govern; heavy guns have done their work.
a year."
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TOLSTOI'S ADVICE TO ROCKEFELLER.
WEATHER REPORT,
aud expectations of 400,000 francs, "to~a gentl❘ weeks' hard labour and six hours” stooks on the late men then fought all Ppse it. 0.her sho ld bo technically at the bottom of the North humanity and Tolstoi's answer is as followeFrest monsoon may be expected in
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mas in a similar situation." "One can always | fire, and 14 days on the second charge enjoy a free hearty laugh over reading these daily advertisements. Unfortunately for both parties "things are not always what they seem," and bitter disappointments are frequently the
A SUCCESSTUL PLAY,-- The fact that "Les Plames da Paon", was L
pay written by those two brilliant and experi woed playwrights, MM. Alexandre Bisson and
this
snswer:
the
Forgivoress" (Loudon: MacMillan and Co.), in nawilling to rush to the front, bombardment, the smaller respons will be Gospel together from the teaching of the The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon
Hoi Nouchette Carey has scored another access in her latest production, The Angel of The charm of the book is in its simplicity. There is no deep laid plot and the villain's mervices are dispensed with, It is a domestic story of every day life, written in plain an varnished language, but withal so well told that interest never flags.
N.E. winds, Same as No.1. Baimena No. 1.
gimit ng No. 1.
fresh; rainy.