REVIEWS.
The Prime Minister Becret. By W. HOLT
WHITE, London: T. Fisher Unwin.
It is, we take it, the aim of fiction, in over land and in every language, to approach sa nearly as possible to the realities of life. In so fares this aim is schloved a novel is a anco Romance is allowed some latitude, however, and he would be a severe critic indeed who sought to deprive it of this privilege. But even then there is a limit, and if that limit is overstepped the romance becomes an extravaganza and comes no longer within that branch of English litera turs known as “fiction" in its highest sense. Art in fletion is permitted to gild the corimon-place, present human nature under abnormal condi- tions. Hat the novelist must ever work within the range of human probability, and we fear that Mr. Holt-White in The Prime Minister's Secret," as in " The Men who stole the Earth," has gone ontside all limits set by the conventions of art. His latest effort is a farrage of improb- abilities. Nowhere does it approximate human natare. Nowhere does it approach the verge of
THE RAILWAY STRUGGLE IN CHINA
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, APRIL 7TH, 1910.
Some surprise may be caused in this country by Mr. Bobiff's attack on British policy among those who have not followed the obscure struggle over the Manchurian and Mongolian railways, The train which fired the charge in Washington has, however, been laid a long while, and the wholequestion possesses great future importance Coming events cast their shadows before in the same sense that the low-lying can makes a small abjest east a gigantic shadow. The recent con- thevery pro now in to Far East way taom
over railway construction between tiny matter,
bnt viewed in proper perspectivo it stretches for along the track of our future Eastern policy. Nor can it be said tint the Fereign Office is showing much zeal, prevision, or judgment.
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A TIBETAN IN BURUPE.
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NOTES AND NEWS,
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Dentis Tapple, a hopeless cripple, of Savan- ab, The eked out an existence by making key
is now in Washington for a black rose that he grou seeking a potent of fifteen years' experiments. Colonel Lawton,
has asked Congressman Edwards to take charge of the matter before the Patent Office, showing that a responsible man believes that the long- sought discovery has really been made. Tapple
en the day that it is protected by patent, but he is awaiting further bide.
The position of Japan in Southern Manchuria is regulated by separate Agreements with Eng land and Barsin, which may be summed up by the statement that she pledges herself not to do: anything to break up the integrity and inde pendence of the Chinese Empire" and not to obstt ict "any general measures common to all countries which China may take for the develop ment of the commerce and industry of Man- There is general view that these churis, probability. It is one wild welter of senseless engagementa have been to some extent shirked, | against her. We are the sponsors of Japan in made a noise like thunder, and from time to visa-President of the Central Georgia Railway,
but at least the British and Russian Govern episodea, told in ungrazematical English-mente have treated Japan with the greatest crudely ponosived plot told in a form that is forbearance and stretched the terms of the positively offensive to anyone possessed of the agreement to the fullest extent. How has the foreign traders been repaid The Chinese have regrettable that sucks a crude effort should be been showing a most laudable deairs to open included in Unwin's Colonial Library, for it is up their native resources, by railway extension, almost an insult to the intelligonos of Colonial In prstance of this idon an arrangement was entered into with British contractors to readera,
extend the North China Railway from Hain Min-ton to Fakamen, The Japanese objected on the ground that a private agreement with Chins was made in 1995, without the concurrence of any other Power, that no railway should be built near to and parallel to the South Manchurian Railway. The object of this agreement was clear; it was to real foar of profit to the original line by building another which would tap the same country. So It was, far it was a perfectly natural one. however, clear boyond contradiction that a live separated from Mukden by 40 miles nud by the a unbridged Liso River from Mukden, would the profits of the South Manchurian Railway.
ENGLAND AND THE "OPEN DOOR At any rate, there is now a complete block on the diplomatie line and the whole saherae in ink
Of late vairs Á unmber of imminent-risk- of falling through. - England
QUANG MUNANE ZIÍROAT. adventurous
The Stock Exchango boom has boss respon- and Japan, and, to a lesser degree, Buday are Europeans have given as the benefit of their opposed to China and the United States. And experiences In Tibet but the converse antible, among other things, for complaint on what, point P. Whether China shall be allow insight into the working of the mind of a known in Throgmorton-street rubber ed to develop, hsc own province of Mongolia in Tibetan who comes, for the first time, into throat. It has seated many members of the her own way. England is in fact encouraging contact with Western civilisation-is norel. Stock Exchange and their authorised olarki. Japan to disregard her solemn engagements and isolations and his note of life sea so The symptom boazsonces caused by to trample on the principle of the Open, Door widely different from ours that he enables us be incessant shouting of the latest quotations.
Is it 190 curselves in a light that is altogether un- BADA DANGEROUS PRESENTS, and equal commercial opportunities surprising that there in thunder-and-lightning at famill The Bulletin de l'Asie is privileged *F. A.," writing in Country Life, saya :- Washington, and that Mr. Secretary Knoz and to pablish the first article in which moh im Two accidents that scarred at a house where I aguiled, British policy, and are nocuting her ofis end Adjeb Gurbo, the guide andinterpreter worn well worth stonding to. In one case was staying sfer Obristmas soom to point a Sohift, the groot banker, are on the warpath pressions are given to the world; and the author intriguing with Japan against the United States! of the French explorer, f. Jacquea Brost, who the lady of the house had given her maid as In plain words, we are picking the chestnuts out sets as his translator. of the fire for Japan, encourging her to sak for When M, Buest returned recently from Tibet seasonable gift a toilet-case. The girl had beba admiring hor new acquisition scandle, more than her share, and making both curselves and the Himalayas Adjoub came with him, when the comb took fire to close to an endle and our ally deservedly unpopular with all on after much hesitation, when, on his arrival at been made of parada oil. The girl suremmed uaighbours. The whole proceeting is suicidal the Indian frontier, it was borne in upon him and, luckily, the thing was extinguished before and unnecessary.
that "the men were different, the language any harm was done; but ous cannot help re If Sir Edward Grey had gone to Japan and was different-everything was different," For pointed out to her that while the Powers were two days his hesitation lasted; but then, when fecting how extremely dangerous snok presents
world willing to give her the fullest scope in South he had observed that in this strange Manchuria she herself must play the game too, people went about sested in carriages, on silizen and cons from a polior of grab in Mongolia, ions; that they had good things to eat and backed by threats to Chins, his recommenda that elephants and ivory wore plentiful, his tions would almost certainly hasa stailed, foarn vanished. He came down the Irrawaddy Japan could not risk having all threo Powers in vessel that went faster than the wind, international affairs, and have a right to give time screamed so loudly that it could have been her advice for her own
From Indis Adjoub went to Europe in a rejected. our support if that dried and jo withdraw heart at a distance of three days' march. the pariloular point in the case, the Chirchow Fossel in which there were many English, who had to converse with him by movements of slightest knowledge of English Hilerature. It in courtesy extended to Japan at the expense of Algun Railway, our advice should certainly the hands and feet," and who thus made him says he has been offered. £20,000 for the secret
have been to allow Japan adderate punderstand that he should have his accustomed ticipation but to ask her to withdraw three meals a day indeed of the more lunch and
nover accept Japan claims China could would then either have agreed, or, failing that, dinner that the ship provided, but that he must we should have backed" Chinn and the railway wash himself, "for the Tibetans are dirty, and would have gone through in Japan's despite the English clean." To this he agreed and As it is, we are acting to the detriment of China, after some orparience of the great wind that British commerce, and the United States, and makes men ill," he arrived at Marseilles. There H. Hacot took him to church, where High in the teeth of our own solemn agreements.
was being sung ; and convinced Further, we are helping our slly to quarrel with Mass America, which country, as Mr. Schiff pointed that this was a service of thanksgiving for his out yesterday, can make things very unpleasant to arrival, he beat low before the alter, and his heart "Alled with lightness" He visited for Tokyo in financial concerns. prevent a
On the browder issues of policy it will be a bad another church, in the higher part of the town, day for the Empire if the Anglo-Japanese Alli by means of a lift by sitting in a littlo house ance leads her into any real dependence on Japan. that was lifted to the height of a mountain The withdrawal or weakening of our China before he could say the Tibetan equivalent for Squadron has not improved our prestige in Asia Jack Robinson, And, altogether, Marsoilies at a time when prestige is worth much. Nor seemed to him wonderful. He found there "as han it strengthened our consention with Aus- many people as in three Tibetan provincer. All to be added to these past evils the situation Tibet would not build a single house in that In le hotel he was amazed to The inter-relation of city." will become serious, diplomatic influence and naval power is a truism, find his bod draped with silk that had and the moment that the Japaneso Nacy becomes ho avunmulation of dirt on it. Every the real guamates of the security of the British ideal was a sumptavas banquet; and before Dominions in the East our influenos will fall ench it was the custom to wash the hande. what dikemes to guard against. It takes time
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The Education of Uncle Paul. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. London: Macmillan & Co, Limited.
Satiated by the modern novel with its so called "Sex problem," the resurring intrigas of
two man and a woma or two women and a mat, tired of the novel of more incident and its avoidance of the development of character, ono turns to this beautiful story with a sense of pleasurable anticipation and lays it down with
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ABDUL'S BEARD...
The director of a Braila (Roumanis) bank, having to visit Constantinople a few days ago, found on arriving there that the authorities insisted that he should shave off his beard, says & Daily Mail correspondent, Expostulating, he was informed that his board was of axsotly the same shape as that of Abdul Hamid, the ox Sultan, and that since many supporters of the old regime wear their boards thus he might be taken for a reactionery and expelled from Con- stantinopla Thas it was for his own good that the authorities wished to shave him. On this explanation the banker consented to the sacrifice,
LOOK UP YOUR PEDIGREE,
nonse of satisfaction and gratification. Story it merely open up new ground and not impinge o tralia. If & quarrel with the United States is are rich, there are no poor. All the wealth of Family" to the girl students at Bedford College, |
is not in the ordinary acceptation of the word Mr. Blackwood pronchos a philosophy through the development of Uncle Paul, who lives in a realm of phantasy and childlike purity, and conducts his readers, in the most natural way, into a wonderland of imagination and where one would wish to dwell forever,
ia
JAPANESE ACTIÓN CRITICISED.
nothing to those that awaited him in Paris. There he found that on the threshold of each house was a woven carpet on which he was actually encouraged to wipe his boots, and
Mrs. Whetham, speaking on Heredity in the said, Dig out all your family skeletons. Your rointivas will probably be annoyed, but dig them out and fee them. Make out your pedigree. this By t tracing your family back to your great-grand- means you can learn what traites to avoid and parents and their brothers and sisters.
of one's family, but it is worth it. Two mori may seem the same, yet one man may hand down disease and orimé to his descendants, while the other may hand down only those qualities that are good."
A GOLVING HINT
Many beginners, whoascribe their misfortunes
SORE HANDS KEPT MAN IDLE A YEAR
Skin Came Off from Finger Ends to Elbows Treated for, Months by Skin Specialists Who Could Do Nothing for this Distressing Case.
FOUND PERFECT CURE
"AT LAST IN CUTICURA
"I had blood poison in both my hands. My doctor got the blood polson
out all sight but, with the treatment he gave me, all the skin came off my hands from my Enger ends up¡to my elbow. They were us raw as beef. I was un- able to do any work for about twelve months swing to this accident. The doctor kept me under hle care all theee months. He tried every- thing in his power and it was not much better in the end. So at last he told me be could do no more for me and I felt very down-hearted as I thought I was not going to get better. The doctor advised me to go to a skla specialist, and so I did. When he looked at my banda bá saki it was a very bad case, AGLIATA under his care for a few months, but I was no better with all his treatment. I gave it up. for a. bad job, and I told my doctor I was getting no better: He recommended me to the
Infirmary to another skin specialist ride treatment for three months but found no benefit from it at all. Six years ago I thought I was not going to get a cure. One day I saw the Cathara Remedies advertised and said Ishould like to give them a trial, I sent for Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. After I tried them and saw that my hands were coming on Bret class I persevered till I got a cure. Now my hands are all right and I am at my usual work. I am never without Cutigura Soap and Oint- ment and shall praise them wherever I go. Mr. William Roberts, 9. Top Row, Flasbenion, nr. Ruabon, North Wales, Eng., Nov. 12, 1907, and Jan. 28, 1008.
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THE BRITISH SECTION.
In opposing this development Japan showed, possibly from politinal considerations, a dog-in the-manger frame of mind which violated the whole spirit and latter of her Manchurias agreements The British Government more poetry, and boen no party to the private clause
It was pledged to maintain equal commercial possessions will soon follow it. No Empiro can Uncle Paul has led a solitary life in the opportunities in Manchurin, but to encourage afford to begin hiring the barbarded without barbarians" nor can forests of Canada. He returns to England Japan's political aspirations of predemin-
ance at the expense of British trade. The the reality, An Alliance of equal terms is one vaguely to retire from active life at the age of railway materiale would have come from thing; a masked subservience is another. Yet 45 years, yet not satisfied that his sual has England and given employment to British British diplomacy is suggesting to the world. attained its own ambitions. He is received by workers. In spite of all this the Foreign that we cannot afford to do anything but the his recently-widowed sister, and at onrò adopted Office exhibited such complaisance towards bidding of our ally. From this broader point by her children; introduced to their pets, and an as to interrone against its own people of view the struggle over the Mongolian rail within a little room that would carry him "with upon the fee to anything and everything except mimicking azimals. The difculty, one gathers, and against the wishes of the Chinese Govern ways is a matter of critical importance, and its the speed of a ory" even to the highest floors. the salient fact that they have lost their balance, will be for either partner to look graceful while initiated as Recording Secretary into their mont. In this case the incredible is an upshot may define our position in the Pacific for "In every room were little wheels, that on boing would, I am certain, writes Mr. Frank Burrow the man beats the air with his arms limbe and Secret Society, whose marvellous" aventures" fortunately true. This strange notion had the many years to come. Let us hope that wiser turned, distributed water or light, or heat-in Black and White, find their game vastly the lady, scrapes the floor with the too of hur
How this improved by trying to keep their foot still as shoe. it is his chief duty to record. Nixis, his further result of irritating the Chinese by counsels will yet prevail in Downing Stress everything that was wanted."
was done he could not imagine, but he noticed long as possible. Let them try, and see. It is inflicting on them an unpleasant diplomatic Daily Telegraph. der niece, a daringly imaginative rebuff, and instilling into their minds the
that in the lower portion of aach house there not, however, necessary to be as enthusinatic as child and the principal factor in Paul's deadly belief (which bere fruit lator) that the THE TENDENCY TO CORRUPTION,
was day and night, a great fire, and water in a very confirmed "jumper" and "heaver" to THE VIENNA SPORTS EXHIBITION abundance; and that the water came from the whom propounted this theory ones, who education. She it is that enables him to find British Government could always be trusted
adopted this drastic method, to curs bimself,
of expression for the great thoughts and poetic bocame, therefore, more willing to turn to Tes, that the Municipality of Singapore ap
not to support its own subjoots. They It may be worthy of remark, says the Straits earth, while the fire had to be kindled.
He was taken to the Louvre, and in pur. having a pair of implements resembling old. imaginings that well up in his inner being. She other nations and stronger Governments in pears to be on the eve of some rather sousstional chasing some cloth thers ho produced his fashioned croquet-hoops made, with which he
in changes. The Commission appointed by Hil
Chiness balance for the purpose of weighing clamped himself to the ground, with excellent it is that propures him for the share he is to their attempt to develop their country Droellency the Governor a few months ago ifit, but was assured that this was quite uneces- rasnits in every way kaye forn slight excoriation
Ho of the instep!" take in the care of the neglected and unhappy face of Japanese opposition. Lost Children of the World; and when she There is, be it observed, nothing in the Agree-drawing towards the end of its labours, and it sary, as the merchants were trustworthy.
ments about Mongolia, which, being an ordinary has not wasted its time. If a few of our public was covinced that the Parisians must be faba- dies, it is her spirit that remains his inspira province of the Chinese Empire, is in its servante plead that the climate of Singapore bas lonely rioh, because they wear so many tion. It has been objected by one critic that southern parts entirely under Chineas control cenand to agree with their health, there will be clothes, and they must have a profound Nixie is the one unreal character in the book: It is a vast district rich in potential resources no need to banquet them enthusiastically when admiration for woman-kind. because they apoak to them with smiling faces, and that she is too good, too' wise, to pathotic, and both of an agricultural and industrial character, they depart for other climes, and if the fortunes in roises full of swaetncas::
and its development would be a source of great of some businesses, seem to have gone down vague idea, however, that the ladies wetO that she dies, too soon. With this we cannot profit both to China and the world,
while the tendency of trade has been up.' not all of them quite admirable. He was agree, Nixie is there because she is what she is. Having failed, then, to overcome Japanese wards, there should be consolation in the fact Her death is a necessary, from an artistic resistance in Manchuria, the Chinese Govern that a salutary lesson has been given. For the troubled especially with regard to a woman cook, stand point, as is the death of Little Nell.ment suturally tuned to Mongolia. A railway moment, we need not indicate more plainly who fed him Kire a dog, and, obviously, did not to be constructed on the engineering side by what has occurred, but we fear that if the report fear Ged; and his comments on morals are to the Uncle Paul's quest is for Reality and God Messrs. Fauling & Co., of London, and financed of the Commission is published in extens it will point, and not altogether unjustified. It may seem to some that ho attains both by British capital, was to be built from confirm a few of the strange rumours that were not for this," he eye in summing up. This after a cariously fantastic sojourn in the Chinchow, on the Gulf of Pechili, 150 miles from and are in circulation about the manner in would be as the Land of the South, which is realms of unreality. But when one lays en. This line was to run up for, roughly which public work has been given out, and also the Tibetan name for Paradise.
300 miles to Laonnnfu, in the Interior of about the way that public servants have been aside the book, one feels that not too heavy a Mongoli Thence it was to be cried on, first tempted to increase their legitimate earnings, tar has been laid upon the powers of credulity to Taitaipars to join the Eastern Chinese A cloud hangs over the Municipality, and it that is assuming, as the author and his presently, a distance of another 300 miles, and so must break before the atmosphere is wholly critic is prepared to assume, that the reader is north for another 150 to Aigan, the Chinese cleansed."
town on the other bank of the Amur to possessed of any degree of rootie temperament
and gifted with some measure of imagination.
Mr. Blackwood's latest book may be recom.
mended without reservo, for it is our experience that whatever may be the ruling passion of men and women they still retain a love for the pure and unselfish, for Nature and simplicity,
UNITED STATES AND BRITISH POLICY.
(Washington) that an attempt has been made to
Blagoveschenk. Three points may be noted about this proposal; -
(1) There was nothing in the way of a monopoly or concession about it-it was an ordinary engineering contract;
it
Ho bad
"Were
THE LETHARGIC LONDONER.
To a "mere provincial,” this is thoroughly
"to
pull themselves together, before rising attend to his wants; shop assistants calmly wind up a desultory conversation with a friend who has "dropped in" before turning woardly to a would-be purchaser,
DHA SWISE YELLOWSTONE FARK,
Some particulars have been published of a pace for the formation of a Swiss national park, on the lines of the American Yellowstone Park, in the Lower Engadine, for the protection and preservation of the flora and fauna of the country. A publio-spirited commune has offered to let Innd for the purpose at a nominal rant, and the only question is whether the experiment will work out satisfactorily in the face of the curiosity which it may be expected to arouse in the minds of multitudinous trippers. The centre chosen, where the Swiss, Tyroloss, and Italian frontiera meet, is, indeed, at present unspoiled and unfrequented. The peaks overlooking it Nuna, Quatervals, Liechanna, and: Neir-are daly mentioned in the smallest type in the guide-books.
· MR, BOCKEFELLER'S SUPBESTITION;
The committee of the British section of the Bret International Shooting and Field Sports Exhibition, which is about to take place iu Vienna, will consist of Lord Desborough (chair- man, Lord Lonsdale, Mr. C. E. Fagan, secretary of the British Mussain (Natural History), and Mr.Theodore Cook; with Mr. T. L. Fairholme (British Commissioner for the Exhibition in Vienna) and Mr. V. F. Wintour (director of the Exhibitions Department of the Board of Trade), ez oficio. The Emperor of Austria will open the sxhibition on May 2. Both the Emperor and King Edward are taking real personal interest in the exhibition, which will be held in the Rotunda and the surrounding park of the Imporial Prater and will remain open until the end of October.
The Britain section will contain, in the msin a collection of bi game trophies as representa tive as possible of the British Empire. With o view to making it complete many of the leading sportainer of this octuntry have been approached Even stel a hard-headed business man as Mr. and have promised to send their finest speci. Rockefeller is compelled, seye M., to mons. There are 165 species of big game in plead guilty to a pet superstition. For years it not all, will be represented of Vienna. The the British Empire, and it is hoped that most, he be carried an eagle stons in his pocket. This is a kind of hollow stone, containing in its cavity facilities for the raception or collection at the Trustes of the British Museum have granted some concretions which rattle on shaking the stone. It is of a brownish tint, and is often Natural History Museum of these sporting tro- carried by the eagle to its nest. Superstition phies, and have promised the assistance, in other
scribe wonderial virtue to these stones when ways, of some of the effcors of the Museum, actually found in the bird's nest. They are a charm against disaster, shipwreck, and other calamities. A ribbon passed through this per foration of the stons is said to poesors even more
Rockefeller wishes to confer s upon someone he gives him a small plece of
this ribbon.CAT
DRITISH - QUEUES.
Subsidiary to the big game trophies will be collections of pictures and relics illustrating In addition to the skeleton of Persimmon, horse racing, most popular sport in Austria. which, as already announced in The Times, will be lont by King Edward, the committes kope to obtain the loen of the skeletons of Helipas, ko
most famous of all thoroughbreds, and of Her mit, the winner the of sensational Derby ran in the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and a snowstorm. The former is in the custody of the latter in that of the Royal Veterinary College.
Among those who have promised to loud big game tropides aYO ---
Lord Lamington, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Lonsdale, Lord Hinillip, Lord Tohester, the Dowager Lady Denimore, Colonel Bir David Bruce, Sir Richard Glyn, Sir Clement Hill, General Sir Bindon Blood, Six H. Rawlinson, Colonel W. E Fairhome, Major C. Camberland, Mr. J. F. B. Buxton, Mr. H. A. Bryden, Mr. J. Talbot Clifton, Majer Powell Cotton, Mr. St. Georgs Littledale, and Mr. J. G. Millais.
Why there should be an excessive tandenry typient of London. Everything in the capital to corruption out here, it is hard to say of the empire" in Ifauroly, slow moving lot Deficiencles of method and slackness of super gio. The orowds on the footways lounge vision pra contributory cruses. There is the mstlamly along, straying aimlessly from side to lenging among some people to get Home ride, and stopping every now and again to again, and the consequent haste to stow sway uminate; the trama-where there are tramy (2) The line never approached nearer than enough money for the purpose. The high cost sannter with solemn dignity; the heaviest and 150 miles of the South Manchurian Railway of living, especially for those who have to gand most cumbersome lorries take the riddle of the and could not have damaged it in any way their children Home for education, becomes a road and block the way in the most important (3) The money and materials would have temptation, and we are inclined to think that streets; passengers potter on and of omnibuszes some from England. -
the slack treatment of offences, and the comand anderground trains, lingering on the Yet the Japanese Government have not only parative certainty of being allowed to go Home footboards for last "go-longs," Hit-men sway blocked the scheme in every way, but have quietly after a disclosure of methods whief are idly against their gates as they chat ponies than the stone loself, and when Mr. actually had the backing of the Foreign Office not strictly in scordance with the best ideale, derously with the repair gang; the newsboy It is evident from despatches received hore in doing so this however, the Chinese has something with also. A good many up
Government, warned by past experience of our poople are constitutionally unmoral, but latean look to ressatfully from their rending it creste the impression in England that there is a weakness, had provided themselves with another Bensitive to the opinion of their relatives ware of anti-British feeling sweeping over the potential partner, and at once turned to the and friends. Out here few of us have rela-
It is odd to think Trafalgar was fought by United States because of resenhasut felt against American Government and garo the finance of tives, and zaost of our fripads are merely no- British diplomaoy in the Far East
the scheme to American houses. The United quaintances. The consequences of lapsing from
sailors in "tails"; and Mr. G. W. E. Russell This is pure sensationalism. Not the most States at once used her influence to secure the the straight path, therefore, do not seem so
tells us of a dispute at a dinner party as to rabid Anglophobe would discover an anti-British ratification of the scheme. Oar Foreign Office likely to shatter our whole social world as they Clarks in city offices move as if weighed down whether the Blues wore them at. Waterloo. ware or even a zipple; for the fact is that, at thus found itself auged against America in would at Home, which means that the Foreve by all the cares of Jupiter, and make a practice Ons old gentlemaan averred that as a boy at the present time, Far Eastern politics are a cult Japan's supposed interests.
keeping men in the right path are less powerful of keeping a caller waiting a while before asking Eton, he had seen the regiment wearing pigtails of the sporialist and the ordinary man does not The Japanese, while avoiding a direct veto, And yet, for the firm or for the individual we his business telephone operatora never reply to before its departare from Windsor, another anderstand them, snil is able to see what have now endeavoured to block the scheme by still think that in the long run it pays best-not the first or second ring, and never switch who was a midshipman in the ship which con bearing they knro on his own immediate on-demanding terms of participation, which they necessarily in E. ad exclusively to run the through until after a reminder or two; veyed the men, was equally positive that they cerns. The sensational papers, publish at well know China cannot grant. The fatal straight course. A firm which corrupts for the waitresses in the popular cafes ere the were close-cropped. The explaostion was found periodic intervals Japanoseconâdential plans clauses ic these demanda are (1) the sake of securing business never got the best fresh arrival suspicionsly, and leave him to be that the regiment passed through the of invasion, but they attract no attention from nomination of Japanese engineers; (2) the con- kind of service, and a sorvant, publio or severely alone for ten minutes or so; atten- barbers' hands before embarking at Dover, no sarions-thinking persons.
struction of link 160 miles long con- privato, who follows crooked ways munet have dants in the post offto quietly continue doubt for the same reason which has weighed The New York Sun thinks that there has been nerting the new
line with the South a really happy life, and probably missan good elaborate treatises or vast actuarial calculations with the Chinese authorities-that the pigtail o much exaitement over the "Open Door" in Manchurian Railway. Apart from the loss to many chances of promotion that would come his before looking up to wait on miserable is "a hopelessly namilitary appendage." Prob Manchuria. The volume of trade, it says, is England and America involved in the other way if he kept himself free from that atmosphere taxpayer; everything, everyone is alow, de-ably, says the Girardic, the last person to wear measured by a fewmillion dollars, and ander any
Japanese conditions à birge part of it will go to Chins and claims, Chins dare not produce a new which gathers round even the most brazen-faced liberate, preoccupied. No one seems to have a quena in England was an oll gentleman who Korean question by introducing Japanese work practitioner of allicit aggrandissment. Weere anything much to do or to be in my hurry to
harry to died at Chester in 1853, Japan. The Sun thinks that there is more pro- men and camp followers into Mongolia to settle not putting the cass on bigh moral grounds at de It, and no one seems to
FARMYARD DANCE FOR BALLROOMS, fitable trade far Americans in Canada and South all slong the line. The result, then, of the all, but just treating it as a matter of practical inconvenience.
An outcome of the "Chantecler" is the The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued America than in the Far East.
dog-in-the-manger attitude of Tokyo is that wisdom. As far as the community is concerned, Here in London you begin your business creation of a new dance to be called "Chan the following raport The Washington Star does not agree with the China is not to be allowed to develop its own pro- it has a right to denund that its officials shall be day in a city office at 9.30 or even 10 AM, and teclairette," which consists of five different
On the fia st 1205 pm-The depression view expressed in att article published in the vinces except on imposible conditions. It had ton of probity. Bat the public service is often quit work again at 5 or so in the afternoon, sein" as follows: walk for
lying over N., Japan yesterday is moving Morning Post that Great Britain is being used not at first cocurred to Russia to delay any & reflex of the public character. Bribes are and probably there is an hour off for lunch. 1. A cook and a ten walk slowly round the sway over the Pacific by Japan. Things are going well enough, the objection to the original Imperial Edist generally offered before they are accepted, and Well we find 9 am to 6 pm all too short s room, slightly nodding. At intervals short and The barometer has risen generally, partien. Star says, both between Great Britain and the autherising the construction of the line, but we have to contand against's coarseness of type day to get through our work, and ten minutes quick sys should be introduced, with the best-larly over N. China and the Sea of Japan. United States and Japan, and the United the delay and diplomatic irritation caused in which contaminates all with whom it comes in at Liverpool, Limited, or Anderson's or ing of wings. The idea of the step is a solemn and pressure a platively low in the South
The anti-cyolonic area remotos over. N. China, States, and it will take more than “injudicious daved her at last to intervene and demand contact.
Saintsbury's ta the most a man of any promenade. and unauthorised big Nary' talk seriously to participation for bor own subjects, Russia
importance can allow himself for food...
2. Cock struts round hen with short, quick Strong N.E. winds may be expected in the disturb them.
suddenly discovered that the new line mensced
LEAVING GLASGOW.
Horn in London if you want to see any step, beating his wings. This is an imitation Formosa Channel and the N. part of the China The New York Times in a long leading article, her futerests bath in a commercial and military repeats its charges of Japanese discrimination sensa. The projected railway would, she said, There has been a remarkable increase in the day to it, and write andou would best give up of cook waking a bon up at daybreaks,**
I make an appointinent
the 24 hours ending 3. Cook and hen dance together with short
Hongkong rainfall for the against American commerce in Manchuria, and divert through freights at Taitsihar from Vindi. number of emigrants from Great Britain 3.500 beforehand and mark it in your diary. If you steps, seraging the fl
the floor. This is an initation at 10 am. to-day, 0.00 inches. closes by saying that our chief desire is to vastoland Daing, and bring them to Chinchow: Jusve sailed from Glargit, mostly for Canada do not you might as well hope to see the Pope of the hen, who, on swakening, copies the sock i know whether in their international dealings also it would be necessary to fortify Blagoves The forthcoming sailings are of the heaviest himself. You will be shown--if you n
tare luckym movements. ------- the Great Powers who now have the substantial okenk lost the Chinese Government should train and a record year is kuilvipated
into an anto-room, where you will be cross- 4. Hon scrapes
rapes the floor with claws; cock
cockrans control in Manchuria intend to keep faith with troops to Aigun. There may be something in
examined by a cleric, who will twiddle a bit of after her. She escapes, he pursues, and us and the other nations.
this secand contention, though the contingency
How to by. BeautiFat-Keet your pom paper in thought for some minuter, and then 5. Final pursuit and capture, with very long Extracts from the article in the Morning is a very remote ene. The commercial objec plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crème Charigants, Lait stroll away, picking his teeth. In ten minutes stepa nad much heating of winga. Post on the Far Eastern situation and Mr. tion is an absurd one. There is practically no Charmant and Special Skin Tuaic and Poudre or à quarter of an kent he will return and sey N.B-In this dance the arms should be either Schiff's recent New York speech are published through freight to be diverted, and the new Charmant will enablà, rón tu dot Her Ah-er-ah! You've got no appointment? held behind the back; to imitate a bird's tail, or prominently by many of the leading newspapers,line ought to help local traile on the Eastern Specialities for the skin are the study of a Oh, well, I'm afraid he can't see you, then."--A placed skinsbe, the hands being against the and form the text for further editorial discussion | Chinese Railway.
lifetime, A. §. Watson & Co., Ltd., Bola Agents. ↑ Lavimolitan in the Expressi
ched, to copy the beating of wings. of the Far Eastern political situation.
too:
- furortant public official
WEATHER REPORT,
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows
NE winds, Hongkong & Neighbourhood
strong fair. Formosa Channel Mud flame as No. L Bouth coast of Chins between Same as No. 1.
Hongkong and Lacoks. Bouth coast of Chins between Hongkong and Hainan...
Same as No. 1