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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH, 1903.
THE TEA CONTROVERSY AT HOME,
CHINA TEAS TS, INDIANS AND CEYLONS.
*B0IENTIFIC OPINION.
The controversy about tea, which has been going on in a desultory way in various papers the supporters of the Chins les trade to advertise for some time, is affording a fine opportunity to the testimoniale thas receive from the medical profession. The China Tea Association is naturally anxious to show on every possible occasion that Chinese tea is not only the real thing, but, that it is the only test worth drinking by those consumers who study their health and their taste. Whenever a chatice bevare the secretary of the China Tea Association sends a etter trotting out all the points he can make, and he naturally endeavours to score when he can. If China bea importers do not improve the shining hour they are but poor tnoticians. They may now quote the Lancet, which has been taking a hand in the controversy, and the comments it makes should enable the retailers of Chinese tea to add to their stook of plausible advertisements. In the course of its remarks the Lancet gives us the old story
"The argument in favour Iteaja of Chius tes on the ground that in general it is far less astringent than is Indian tes reals on & scientific basis, and there we are content to leave the controversy. Itie idle and impossible for the advocates of Indian tes to deny that their favourite commodity contains and yields when infused a much larger amount of tannin Chan in for the most part do China teas. The Inter, East, sltogether more delicate in character, and certainly more suited to the req iirements of persons with delicate digestive-apparatai. Ifa dyspeptic is permitted to drink tes at all that tea should be China tes, because as a rule it is much less stringent and therefore lass likely to derauge a delicata, digestive Bystem.
Analysis has proved this again and again, and it is a confidence which has no reason behind it which asserts anything to the contrary. There on ba little doubt that if it were not for the habit of adding milk to tes, which in the oircumstances is a perfectly correct physiological, though perhaps not resthetic, proceeding, the produce Infasion of a powerful Indian ten would JAR
AP PUG, Black and White, well bred, infinitely more harm than it does. On the other hand, China ton, owing to its delicacy, is Shapely, $85.
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Laval and Storage of water in Reservoirs on besides smaller quantities to alberthe 1st September City and Hill District Water million switie are being imported each year into Bingapore, nearly a hundred thousand into Fouang, and over a hundred thousand isto food, or in some other way disposed of, thers Malacca, Unless the skins of these are used as Tytan appears to be an opening in this Settlement for Tytam Bywaak... a tannery. The question is deserving of serious consideration, and even in these times of depression, if a scheme, cannot be brought to inmediate maturity, the suggestion is one that might be borne in mind for putting into effect
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THE HEAD HUNTERS IN FORMOSA. The Tainan correspondent of the Japan good deal about the Chronicle writes:
Lately we have hósed a military constantly fighting with the high hill savages There have been strange rumours about extermination being the only method by which they can be civilised. Mountain villages, it is asid, were encircled by Wires pharged with electricity and hundreds of these poor wretchen were electroasted. This we know was one of the devices adopted by the Russians in Port Arthur and generally in South Manchuria, surrounding the forts by electric wires to protest themselves from the Japaness attack.
It is pleasant to turn from the doubt fal method of warfare to the report that a few weeks ago, the Governor-General had appointed a considerable number of doctors to
go among the sarages and heal their sicknesses-certainly a much more humane method of conquering them. If this method, along with the earlier plan of setting ap Government schools, be parsevered in, there can be no doubt that in a comparatively short time those wild head-hunting savages will be smenable to civilisation.
In the old Chinese days there was practically no attempt to bring to the savages the benefits. of oiviisation. All along their boundary that is, at the foot of the high hills-the savages and the Chitoes oarried on a constant guerilla warfare. Whenever the Chinese got a chance they killed the savaget, and wherever the savages got an opportunity they killed and bebended the Chinese. Th
They
decorated their lute with these skalls. Scores of skulle have huta be seen ornamenting the hat of a savage; and the more trophies in the shape of skulle that, avage could show, the deeper the respect in which he was held by his fet lows:
It is said that a yeaug savage was not allowed to marry until he could decorate bia hut for his bride with a certain number of human heads.
The Lancet also chliges by something new in the endeavour to show that there is nothing in the argument that India and Caylon taus are prepared suder more favourable conditions than Chinn tene. It says: "The parties interested in the sale of Indian and Ceylon teas declare that China tes is objectionable bioause the leaf is prepared under an wholesome conditions, that it eastalos in fact contamination owing to its manipulation by hand, wherans Indian and Ceylon teas are immaculate in this
They were usually on the war path, but not respool beesus nothing is concerned in their manufacture and production for the market always. Sometimes through sheer necessity they had to make a peace. Away in the moun but machinery. To this view many tea con- Boissents reply that the esthetic gulites of tain fastnesses they had most of the necessarios the tes laat are injured considerably by the of life, They cultivated the hillsides with mechanied means adopted: The disparaging in millet, sweet potatoes, tobices, & They was.. statements in regard to China tos, which are surrounded with dear, wild pig, goats, and game based on the fact that it is prepared by hand, of all sorts. But one thing they lacked-one may, we think, be disregarded, for it la Lardly thing without which they could not live-and conceivable that any serious contamination.canthat.voa salt. In order to secure a supply of
Chinese arise, and if it did any diseased orgauisins that salt, they were forced at times to conslade a villages: sarrived the process would be destroyed in the peace with one or more of the teapot. It is well known that, apart from at the base of the mountains
The method by which an armistice was oon- boiling, an infusion of tea is antagonistic to the life and development of micro-organisms, and summated, as told to ma by some of the Chinese this appears to be specially the case in regard who had taken part in it, was somewhat a to the tpyboid organiem. The objection to the follows. The savages are in need of salt, gun: manipulation of tos by band instead of by powder, gloth, &à. machinery bas about the same logic on its side they approach outskirts of a Chiness village. At as has the obj ation to the grape being trodden and set up a stone about three foot high and under foot before the wine is produced. No one broad. The Chinese sea the stone and one giver much thought to this fact when onde recognise it as a signal from the savogos drinking a favourite claret, The fact is that that they desire a traps. After a time the the tendongy of a formmtative process is to Chinese villagers arrange themselves about two exclude adrentitious impar ties, and forment-hundred yards on the one side of the stone, and No. 27, Dos Voeux Road; opposite the P. & O'sation is essential to the production of both tea
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After this shot to the score of China the Lancet kindly admits that: "There is, after all, very little to be said against the stranger teas so long as they are prepared under the simple precaution which exolds the greater of the astringent substances from the passing into the infusion-namely, by allowing the tes 1021 to brew for only a few minutes." But it adds is not delicately. That pressation, however, 80 400ussary, when China tea is obosan,"
We do not suppose that the option of the Lancet on the ten question will have any immediate effect on the consumer, but they will no doubt be echoed by the medical men who read the Lancet, and we, therefore, refer to the views put forward in order that tea planters in Inalis and Corlon may know and be able to rekon-with-tia forces arrayed against them.
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As an example of the way in which the mad loal opidions about Chinese tea are made to do advertisement duty we give an instance. Last weak we gasted some comments from the Westminster Gazte abou: India and Calas tea. This gave an opening to the secretary of the China Tes Association, who wrote to the Westminster Gaselle as follows: It may be true that there is ample room in India to increase their crop of las, but recent experienes of the way prices have heen beated down in the world's markets owing to the mendacious statements of delers that the best tes in the world can be bought for Is 4d, alb, is certainly not encouraging to planters in India or elsewhere to cultivate more tes. Besides, there are such things as bad seasons, and the futility of arrogating a monopoly of the world's supply has lately been amply demonstrated. As for British-grown teas being sapperior to the China article, this is a matter of taste or want of taste. A great authority on dietetics, Dr. C. W. Baleeby, tersely put it: No one with any palatial delicacy eat question the superiority of China tea over the infusion of aaain that is usually offered under the pseudonym of a cup of Fles." ~H & C. Mail, August 14h..
SINGAPORE AND THE LARD TRADE..
Under cover of darkness
the savages gather togather about two hundred- yards distant on the other side of the stone. Both sides send forward representatives who hold a long palaver over the top of the stone, At the closs of the colloquy the Chinese invari ably invite the savages into their villaga, where for several days they celebrate and seal the peace in a drunken debauch.
things
This temporary peace may last for two, three or perhaps as long as ir mouths où end- Whilst the stone of pace renasios ataoding the garages coun freely into the Chinese villages end, the Chinese go with comparative esfoly into the villages of the savages. Daring such an armistice I myself have been in some of the savage villages, and out of the same wicker liks. bowl bava anteu millet with the load of the village. Whilst this peace lasts the vagas bring down out of the bill all sorts of who the Chinamen prize, such as the skins of doar, bear, and leopards. But the most galasble articles which they bring down for sale are deer's horns and bear's gall. A pair of young horns with the hairy skin still on them, the. Chiama van all-for-X-40 to 60 They sta used for medicine. Bat an article even more valuable than tho young, horns of the deer is the bar's gall This also the Chiasman as a medicine, and oue gall is valued at about YIC
The paragas Bring these and other things down from their high monotsine and barter them to the Chicase for salt, gunpowder, gaus, knives and oleth. A Cuinaman is always ready to earn an "honest" panny, though he knows perfectly well that that same gunpowder, and those same guns and knives, may ore long be Thy used for skull-decorating purposes,
merrily with mataat bartering goes on advantage.
After a for months of this, and a good supply of salt has been stored, it may bo has had a specially that some good opportunity to separa a skull, or it may by that a young stage is anxious to get marrried hat does not got possess the requisite pumber of heads to procurs a bride. dome early morning or late evening be 8888 woman, perhaps with a child strapped to her hack, working in a potato field; abe isall stone with no me tight for her; a quick thrust of his spear, and soon he hurries home with her hand and also that of the child. A-head, be it old or yeing, always conuts,
He is an arrant coward. He would never
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