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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20т¤, 1910.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION. | to those that are sick nad in trouble, and the
THE KING AS PATRON.
It is announced that the King has graciously consented to become the Grand Patron of the Royal Masonic Institution for Beys, in sucers sion to the late King Edward. The honour thas conferred upon the craft by his Majesty will be appreciated by Freemasons throughout the world.
hand is that of a friend. Public benevolence is good, but that which is done in secret is bolbor still, and the outside world never knows, and never guosses, the innumerable-nots of kindness which are freely and willingly done in the name and under the sign of Masonry. Nor in the world so gonerous in the presence of suffering or failure that it can afford to dispense with one of its most potent stimulants of sympathetic impulse, For that reason we are glad that King George hae consented to act as Grand Patron to one of Masonry's most useful and meat obaracteristic institutions.
CHINCHOW-ALGUN RAILWAY.
REPORTED SECRET AGREEMENT. The Shefield Daily Telegraph on the 12th Thult. published the following:
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whole brotherhood of Freemasons throughout the British Empire will welcome the announcemont that the King has consenter! to become the Grand Patron of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys, King George thereby succeeds King Edvard, , and amoilur
link is added to the honourable chain which asso- disten the Crown with this great and successful harity. Now for nearly eighty years the miguing Sovereign has been
Grand Patron of he Masonic school, and the tradition is to well stablished that there is no reason why it should be broken. Nor could there be a stronger telimony than this-which, after all, is only ino of numerous marks of royal favour-both the excellence of the particular institution and to the abiding and flourishing virtues of the rstom of Freemasonry itself. In the British
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NOTES AND NEWS.
A DOCTOR'S ADVICE.
for them, will become a memory. Apart from the oflen! Port Offices, it is suggested that those machines will find a pleon at railway stations, hotels, clubs, and large business houses. look at your tongue I haven't seen mine for affixer is designed for large business houses. Of Avoid all introspection: Physically don't Another variety of the same automatio stamp yours); for it has been well said that whereas coarse, without the in childhood fougues should be seen and not meohaaien, it is claimed that the maobine will penny in the-slot" heard, with admits they should be heard and all ne fower than 4,000 stamps to envelopes or not seen. Do not inspect your face (I know Wrappers in an hour, at the sa a lady who always carries a glass about to seo automatically registering och stamp neod.
time if she looks ill, or take your temperature-s most pernicious habit. (I know a talented man who once found his tetoperature rose nearly a degroo after a meal and was miserable over afterwards)."---Dr. A. T. Schofield.
MANCHURIAN BEANS..
SOME IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND.
THROUGH CHINESE SPECTACLES.
HISTORY OF BEAN EXPORT TRADE. his stay 10
SPEAKER CANNON AND THE WAITER. "Uncle Joe" Cannon once had an amusing FROM THE "MANCHURIAN DAILY NEWS."] experience at the hotel where he dined daily during his stay in Washington. One day he glanced over the bill of fare, and, feeling too We are able to publish to-day a copy of the aride the mean and anid to the waiter, Bring at
tired to worry about selecting his dinner, tossed secret agrement entered into by the Chinese me a good dinner." With this he slippad Government with the group of American Buan-sabetantial tip into the waiter's palm in ad- ciors represented in Peking by Mr. Willard D. vando. The experiment Birsight, for the Ruancing and construction of that the Speaker adopted the same procedure the Chinchow. Aigun Railway,
on the following days, with a like result. To- wards the end of the terms, as he was learing the hotel one day, the waiter remarked in an sarnast confidential whisper, "I beg your pardou, air, but when you or say of your friends can't road come over here, just ask for Tom,"
The construction of this railway has been the source of considerable diplomatis diffeally for more than a year past.
Neither Russs nor Japan looked favourably on the scheme, bat Great Britain, beyond advising China to come to an understanding with these two Powers, has preserved as attitude of strict noutrality. Bir Edward Gray explained in the House of Commons in June that the
British Government
as
PRESIDENT TAFT'S GOOD GOING.
President Taft, says the Telegraph, has boon holiday making at Beverly, Mass., and being an ardent golfer has played a daily round on the
among
about that time as distributing centres for boss and other cereals, which circumstances go to show that the oxport of beans from the Liao Valley and the coast ports of Liastung
that
moment of a Chinese Legal Mission, headed by The presence in England at the present the Attorney General of Feking, the Hon. Chien Hail, to inquire into our criminal juris prodance is an event of considerable importance as indicating the progress of the modern mora- ment in China. A representatiro of the London Morning Post was favoured by Mr. Ch'ion Hei
with yesterday some news of the Mission and with his
of what he has seen during He speaksa little English, bat expresses himself with difficulty, and the conversation,
therefore, was carried on through an interpreter.
The Prior to the opening to the international trade Chinese fatal object of our mission," the
official Tientein, but actually in 1861, there remains take part in the International Prisons Congross, of the port of Newsawang nominally in 1858 to stato il gain in criedly to eromius into in terms of the Anglo-Chineso fronty concluded on our way to Washington, where we are to your prisons. My colleagues and I no authentic record as regards the export of which opens there on the 2nd of next month Manchurian beans, except that Mr. Gutzia, who travelled about Chinohor in 1931, kad left do not know whether I shall be called upon to or record the existence of trade zoiations deaf speak, but if so my address will be translated by ing in beans and maintained between the coast ton. French, I believe, will be the official a member of the Chinese Legation in Washing ports in the neighbouring waters of the present lang nago. My position in Poking is that of China purison the other, and also that ports on the Att
of Newchwang on one hand and South Jen southern coasts of the Peninsula, in particular,
Chal Jang, which
which way be translated Attorney-General,
I although sm aware that Takashan, were well knowo
does not quite accurately convey the idea of the Chinese
office to an English mind. In China overy Peking, on Locount of its importance as the provines bas its Attorney-General, as has also ospital of the Empire. The office is not, as in England, political. I am simply
a legal
CHINESE AND BRITISK PENAL CODES. "Since I have been hore I have visited your and also some of your courts of criminal pro. prisons at Wormwood Sarubs and elsewhere, sedure. I have also made zotes on many subjects more or less connected with the object of visit. It is rather difficult to tell you whother consider the Chinese penal code more severe of severe than yours. The circumstances of
and different, and offenure, nguinst the par in the two cases are also different. With regard to capital punishment in practice I understand that that is only inflicted in England for wilful murder. In Chins there are other offences that are punished in the same way, but then they are anch that they are almost a serious as murder. For instance, the law has to pat down fra hand a number of secret societies like the
with Arm Hung Hu Teze, consisting of bands of desperate rufians who commit burglaries and rošlories with violence. The members of such bands who break into houses for purposes of plunder are liable to death sentence on conviction. Otherwise I do not see any great difference between our penal laws and yours, and, as tatter of fact, we are even now remodelling remember that it is not so very many years ago our scale of punishments so as to make them far more lenient in most cases. You must that your penal code was much more severe than it is at the present time."
Fory jonious and effective guard did not take au active part in promoting the links of the Myopia Hunt Club. One of the Poninsala dates back at least 80 years from the fanotionery, a servant of the State."
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railway because of the agreement come to between Russia and ourselves in 1897, by which we were bound not to sak for any concessions in this particular region.
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KRUPP'S DEVELOPMENT.
countenatico
any
Empire along there are between three and fur thousand lodges, of varying sumbors portance and status, but all closely bound and the same organisation, practising the same eremonies, and inspired by the same senti- Freemasonry is a secret society-ne Juht by far the greatest and most widely: dread in the world at the present day and it maintains aver its, arcans.
But, after all, there is no
newspaper men, who had boon watching the present, secret whatever about the causes of its trium
President's movements at Baverly, describes
THE SMALL BEGINNING, phant spread, chief among which are that it
Mr. Taft's golf in a special article in the Newe appeals most powerfully to that love of
Such export trade, if it existed so far back York Independent. The President is said to at all, must have been of vory stall magnitude, aya.
Preliminary arrangements as recommended play golf with a baseball stroke"- that is, with fas, prior to about 1870, the colonization tory, and sonse of belonging to s compsay of the stret, which are inera licable in human nature, by a joint memorial were presented by the short swing. He is described as a good of waste-lands in Manchuria by immigrat anit also because it binits its members together Watsupa (Chinezo Foreign Office), the Yu- example of a type of payer "the railing farmers was deprecated by the Chinese by
chuppu, and the Tachipu, and sanctioned by misses & ball, and when he has given the late Government, which laboured then under the the most enduring of all tithe mon practice of the virtues of good fooling, friend.nedist dated January 20, 1910.
sraite and sent it sailing on its way, he is done. mistaken notion that the ship, conviviality, and
The memorial begins by pointing out that Ho makes no after poca charity British Froa
Ho pats such movement might mean the overrunning of masonry: must be
be judged by its own record; it Mr. Willard D. Straight last year entered into well, Ho covers the Myopia course (which is is not responsible for Masoury as it is practis orlain negotiations with the Director of 0,335 yards round) in something under two drasty of the past seat of the reigning Chins, by motley crowds of the edebowhore. The origins may be, and, no doubt. Foreign Affairs, at Mukden, concerning the bones. That means good going.
lowest elements, who would constitute themselves are the same, the ritual may be similar, or in construction of a railway from Chinchon certain cases identical. But there is no univer. to Aigua, In view of the Increasingly
in Lime a menace to the woal of the Manchus, sal organisation and common membership, and friendly relations between Mongolia
and who at the same tisis would cause no end of and the result happily in that Britishi Troemasonry churis such a railway would be of the atmost
complications with the Mongolians. - is entirely free from those obnoxious traits importance both for commercial and strategica! which are said, often with only too much jus. purposes as well as in the effect it would have tice, to spoil what is otherwise excellent in. upon the covet us policies of Russia and Japan Continental Freemasonry. Not Englishoun
in those *oms
regions.
it would intersect the For the ordinary to
Russian line at the most important point, while ms honoured it would act as an invaluable counterpoiss to the sce Freemasonry at hous with the patronage of the Crown, and with the South Manchuriau Railway-thus being a safe. exalted in the land acting as its chief guard against the ambitions of both Bassin and offers, wisile abroad it is condemned roet and the Roman Catholic Church, and branch by not infrequently looked at askance by the Statu. Against Freemasonry no fewer than five Poral
balls have been launched, on the ground that it oppose to true religion, and that its doctrines are subversive of all authority, both spiritual and temporal; nor is it denied that some of the foreign lodges are hotbeds of revolutionary enterprise. So, by one of those curious, but not aufamiliar, twiste of the whirligig of time, the Roman Church, which
stranger than to
most
seven articles:
Jepan in Manchialists therefore potition the Throne to sanction a preminary agreement
of the consisting of
following 1. The anunt of the loan shall not be speci. fied in the present agreement, but it is agreed that the sam shall not exceed what is really accessary for the construction of the line.
"The sum was
sun whe subsequently fixed approxi- mately at 850,000,000. The loan shall be issued at 95, with interest 5
per cent.
"2 The chief director of the railway shall
THE FIRST RELIABLE RECORD.
The first outry of reliablo record on this subject appears in the Returns of the New chwang Customs after 1872.
A special correspondent of the New Fork Herald gives an impression of the result of a visit paid by him to the Krapp works at Essen, and to the enormous power latent there. Ha says that they are progressing in all dictions, and that powerful plant is being installed everywbore to deal with the special spoely
The history of the Manchurian bear trade delivery of fittings and battleship. equipments since the opening of the port of Newchwang has Heavy stan presses and steel-cutting machinery passed through two epoch-maring events, first ara being put in, to that the
guns and fittings in the China-Japan War in 1894-1895, and next new battleships. No other required for the
may be ready in the Russia-Japan War in 1904-1905. works or arsenal in the world, he says, can compare with Kmpp's, for with their seventy thousand workmen they could cops with any rush of orders. He concludes by saying that the organization is absolutely unexampled.
the moment, the ships are
ACROSS THE ALPS BY AEROPLANE.
Before the Kassia-Japan War, the bean trade had been carried on almost exclusively through the port of Newchwang. A resume of the bean export from that port will, thorofore, give that of the course followed by the beaz
trade of Manchuria.
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BABY A MASS OF
ANGRY ERUPTION
Started Like Little Pimples and Soon Eczema Covered Head and Body -Condition was Really Pitiful- Parents Got No Rest with Her.
EASILY CURED BY
CUTICURA REMEDIES
"My little daughter broke out with aprazna, wing only about three weeks old. Her head and body were one mass of sores. I took her to chemist and Foć somn wintement for her but it did Ser no good. I was advised to take her te tip hospital but I did not ke the thought of ja so decided to send for a box of Gutsoura Olatment. After using it I saw such an Improvement that I denided to give the Gutleurs Hemedies a full trial. After abous three or four days' dressing with the Cuticura Soap and Cuteurs Diatami I could ans a wonderful Improvement with her and, after a treatement with the Cuticus Remedies for about six weeks, all the humour and hopes ware cleared away. I cannot speak Mighty nough of Curicors and I will do all in my power to regomrzend it to any par #an suffering with that terrible tion. I would not be without the int ment in the bouse I find it good for all kinds of more. Mr. H. Haynes, near Church, Crich, Derbyshire. Ergland, Nev. 10, 1000,"
In later letter, Mr. Heyns they describes her baby'n skin trouble:
never saw anything like it. It came like little pimples on her face, head and bands. Then matter formed and plecte of flesh came out, having small bolon l over her, and if I had not got the Cuticura Remedies I really believe her little finger nails would have come of.. I was afraid to bathe her from the way she used to scream. We got no rust at night with her. Now she is nine month old and her skin is as clear as et be. My friends wonder way it is and I tali them Cutura Soap and Ointment have done it."
Cutienra is the meat economical treat ment known for torturing, disfiguring affections of the skin, scalp and hair of infants, children and adulta. A singe tablet of Cuticura Soap and vox of Cul- ours Ointment are often sufficient to cure. Koll throughout the world Depota: Easton, 37, CharterhouÖN.; Park, 10, He de Соди
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Posi-tree, 32-page book, "How to Care the St
itself, in the early days of the Empiro be a Chinese appointed by the Chinese Govern. aviator, only twenty-three years of age, whg with the establishment of the Nowolwang Cus- the artioles stolen. Account is also taken, as it rant in the West End where it guros on the bill
ment. The chief engineer shall be an American, nominated by the American group.
13. The railway property and the Custom tax inland native Customs) shali be offered as security for the loan.
4. The railway abali start from Chinchow] complished wïlu ungired to have been no- | tipdër isejafanov. de may be indrad from the which is meted out to offenders to England, so far, make it so sirong that it has a bitter taste, and
and terminate at Aigns. The linesiskt
surveyed un an die
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construc-
was rigorously proscribed for two contaries or more, because it was a secret society, and, there tore, judged to be aiming at the overthrow of he existing order, now, in her turn, refuses to How any of her members to belong on any retext to the secret society of Frumasonry. to doubt, the choicer spirits of Continental Frommasonry could, if nailed upon to da so ator à very vigorgia dafence of case respective tion of all necessary branches should be unde my cosponsibility for the rank weeds which
the subject of further arrangemente ave sprang up in their garden. But the
5. Chinese and American materials shall be point which concerns ns is that hers in this used in exactly egunt proportions. In the event of country the weeds we have spokes of do not either country not being able to supply the from the Italian mouth of the Simplon Tunad, Manchuria was a subject of little interest out-lent time has not yet elapsed sines its his return to Peking he would have to present exist, and neither Church nor State has the requisite amount of material, the deficiency shall slightest ronson to look with suspicion or dis be made up by the other country, and in no in favour upon the rapid growth of Freemasonry. atauge shall suy material by obtained from a
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country.
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a cerlain section of the uninitiated
efficient and economical manner.
7.
A formal loan agreement shall be nego. tiated and concluded on the basis of the principles heroin set forth.
The agreement is signed by the Chinese Foreign Office, the Board of Posts and Com mications, and the Board of Finance and the
American Group,"
THE CHINAMAN'S OPIUM.
It is a fact, however, that I have bad bird's-nost for myself, I like your English food very much, soup since I have been in London. That is The first several years of the opening of the
because a Chinese friend of mine who invited me port of Referring to the traversal of the great moun-
CHINESE TREATMENT OF ROBBERS. Newchwang, owing mainly to active molestations from tho brigands, proved least
to dinner thought it would be a novel experiencs tain chain which separates Switzerland and Italy fruitful ones from the trade viewpoint until, ment is generally proportioned to the value of home, and congnguently he took me to a restau "In China, in cases of robbery, the punish to indulge in that national luxdry en far from by seroplane achieved by M. Chavez, a rady has remarkable achievements to his credit order began to be evolved out of the unsettled Thus, for instance, a prisoner who has been con-
altoms and also of the Tooted's Yamen in 1866, is here, of the prisoner's previous character. of fare. It was really the geunine article, or, of in the mattor of high
flying, the Times 'report says:-Unfortunately the descent was not. wi-fetain state of things which exposed victed three times is punished with much greater, we should not have eaten it. In fact we
to property thout untoward incident. The gliding process
constant
regular Chinese meal, with danger.
severity than one who has not. As regards the complete. One thing I must say I do not like sl chot sticks Still, the port of Newchwang was twaddling treatment of prisonere it in very much like that here, and that is your tea. To begin with, you from an immense height appears to
smashed. When M. Chavez Wati rooovered from the debris it was 1.325,873 piruls of bears, Taels 433,799, for augurating system like the Borstal system for cream and sugar. I believe it is difficult to gut
1872, to the amounts of Tadis 1,151.359 for Also it is important to note antes-and-a-www b
aaanu found that he had sustained fractures of both his 657,944 pleats of bean cake legs. M. Chavez started from Brigus at 1.29 en for 1644 plotie of an old, and Taels 154,502 the reclamation of prisoners. In some of our
prisoners. In some of our China tea, as much India tea is used; and then the afternoon of the 25rd Sortember and passed.
you do get China tea it may be of very The development of this trade for the subments expressly designed to make transgressors inferior quality. Connoisseurs of tea in Chins, over the summit of the Simplon Pass at 143. sequent 20 years was
was gradual and He descended at Domodossola, some ten miles nice, no manca so that the agricultural vory slow so the arror of their ways. The teaching is of whom there are many, pay a high price for a
produce of moral rather than religions. I cannot say what favourite blend."
Success has attended the experiment, because at 2.14.
side a small circle of tradesmer directly consulele
In conclusion, Mr. Ch'ion Hall said that on cerned, until about 1890-1961 the increase in inangaration. One institution I admire very report on the subject of his inquiries. much in London is your police force. Whether it would be made public be could not the rolamo of trade was quite remarkable.
EXPORT RETURNS FROM NEWCHWANG, speak of course as an outsider, having compar-say for certain, but he thought it very probable. Our contemporary publishes a large table of pufely lift on to lie to be a very time body of ment.
little knowledge of the subject, but your The matter would rest with the Chinese Govern
traffle in the busy London thoroughfares has particularly struck me. I confess that wo in China may derive valuable hints from year avorige police system. The earnestness and discipline ... 11,051,706 1,105,171 of your men are remarkable."
7,941,698 794,170
EBCAFE BEOM SERVANT PROBLEMS.
44
boen
condensation.
Bear Cake-
Total
173,059 522,877
Anrmal
17,306 52,288
THE BEFORM'MOVEMENT.
"Undoubtedly a strong tendency has set in of late in Chins towards cupying the methods of the Western nations on lines suited to our national ... 16,335,131 1,633,513
peculiarities, for of course wo should ... 14,782,597 1,478,260 institutions contrary to our labits and customs. not think of transplanting to our country
No one dreams of writing bocka and
46. An undertaking has been given by Pauling in England warning readers against the Free&Co, that if they be given the contract to con mason peril," as it is sometimes called on the Continent, or denouncing it as the social enemy. | strnot the line according to the conditions herein Hotel apartments which with complete service statistica, from which we make the following men. The easy with which they control the vast or finding in its ancient and elaborate ritual specified, they will carry out the work in an possibly as old as Hiram and Solomon, or pos. aibly the invention of medievalism consciously borrowing from a remote antiquity--traces of the cult of Lucifer. Whorever there are mystery and initiation, in sure to fancy that it can distinguish ugly shapes in the dark, but British, Freemasonry record, and it has Fire a
a long and honourable over meddled either with political or with religious strife. To fear God to honour the King, and to practise the duties of brotherhood in its best sense-noh has ever been, and still
the cardinal doctrine of British
Freemasonry. Masonry naturally takes its colour from its urroundings. That is inevitable with every nstitution. But it has always been the pride 1. British Freemasons to echo entanglement ith the passing controversies of the hour, and seof the best testimonies to their success in this ispect is the fact that in 1799, when an Act was ssed against seditions societies, the Masonic dgea were expressly exempted from its applies on, because by aniversal admission their non- terference in political matters was beyond spate. The doors of Masonry are tightly shut ainst the outsider, but once the initiate bas sed through, he finds himself among brother mbers who on all other subjects belong to a
MORPHIA, INJECTIONS AR SUBSTITUTES.
A house containing seventeen flats, each of which is to be rented at the sum of £5,000 a year, is the latest building scheme for New York. fetch £9,000 or £10,000 annually havo leng numbered among the laxuries available for familles of practically unlimited wealth, says the New York correspondent of the Daily Mail, but no New Yorker until now has been able to pay more than £4,000 a year for an unfurnished flat. The new "fat palace" is designed if not to solve at least to reduce the complexities of the servant problem, which afliota evon tle members of the highest plutocracy. It is being erected in Millionaires row,” in Fifth-avenue and Bist-street, which hitherto his been reserved for the private
mansions of excedingly wealthy men. Already Bre of the uncompleted flats have been leased for periods ranging from fire to nine years. The anti-opiam movement in China has not They each contain eighteen rooms, of which the yet deprived the Chizaman of his beautiful four principal-salon, dining and living rooms, dreams, remarks a London paper. The habit of and gallery-cover an area of 2,500ft, which narcotios has broken out in a new direction, for can be converted at will into one immense hall the British Consul at Swatow, in his report, for entertaining. The flate represent the tells us that missionaries mention the growing habit of morphia injection among the natives refrigerating plant, and incinerating apparatus
spotheosis of
luxury, each having its own lift, as taking the place of opium.
for the destruction of refuse, as well as vaonu It seems to be a fact, he says, that morphis cleaner and electric laundry and ironing can be purchased in the local shops more machinery. No fewer than 1,500 families amorg cheaply than it can be imported from Europe. the wealthier residents of New York are vacat- The other side of the story, however, is con- ing their own houses this autumn in order to tained in the general report on the foreign coupy flats where they will no longer be trade of China as detailed by Mr. W. P. Ker, helposs martyrs to the servant problem. Commercial Attaché at Peking. He points out There are to be found, of course, thousands that the fact that there was in iuerosso in the
MECHANICAL LETTER-STAMPING, persons to whom Freemasonry makes no import of Indian opium may surprise some who The sale of single penny and halfpenny stamps: on. They
They may say that they do not need have misunderstood the arrangement under across the Post Office counter may conceivably
the Indian Government Jelong to a scolety in order to practise the which the
agreed to effect fall under the kan of official prohibition in the Brotherhood, that all men are their an annual proportionate reduction in the amount ne future.
A new patent postage stamp ber, and that the world is their parieb. exported from India.
aflixing machine was to be installed for public so necessary, they may ask,
The reduction, which took effect from Jan-at Throgmorton-avenue Post-efflce last month on join a sact order to hacemos a true cosmopolitan ?
imports of the instractions of Mr. Herbert Samuel, Post- olitan ? mary, 1908, was based
re of different camps.
the average
I they learn an intricate and laborious Indian opium into Chins during the three years in order to help the widow and children 1901-05, namely, 51,000 chests a year, or about why has fallen by the way? Is it in three-fourths of the total average export during ent to pass through the three degrees the
the same period-via, 67,000 chests. ler to become truly proficient in the
The prae. f moral and social virtue? There is no lifaculty in finding an answer to such These processes may not be neces-
in
and
1872-1881.
Quantity picals).. Value (H. Taols) Boun Oil
Quantity (picu's)... Value (Hk, Taale). Berne
Quantity (picule)... Value (Hi. Taols)
- 1882"-1891, Bean Cake.
Quantity (picule).. Bears Oil
Value (H. Taels) Quantity (piculs)... Value (Hk. Tasis) Beans
Quantity (piouls) Valuo (H. Taola) Boan Cake-
Quantity (piouls)... Valte (Ik. Taels) Boau Oil
26,977 67.567
THE VERSATILE MR. JOHN BURNS.
Mr. Robert Blatchford, describing for the Daily Mail the army maneenvres, writes from Salisbury:---
Just after this mysterious and somewhat untoward battle we met the Right Hon. John Burns. Mr. Burns was on his blogole, dusty ond happy. I was not surprised to soo him. If I landed from a balloon on the Peak of Copernions in the moon 1 should ask the first Junatic I met what time Mr. Burns had passOÚ by. When the last shot is fired at Armageddon. I shall expect to see the People's John seated on map to the dead and wounded. Mr. Barns was in the beat of health and spirits, and said he was ont inspecting workhouses, He told us
28 all about the Canadians and the Special Reserve, portabio field kitchen, and offered to mend our and the motor transport wagons and the now motor-car and put us on a good thing for the St. Ledral and the mellow loveliness of the close, He discussed the architecture of the and the German artillery and the French zeroplanes, and the church of St. Etienne at Beauvais and the poetry of Homer, and the Andromeda nebula and the bensing question. With those fow remarks he vanished like a
In the near future you may expect to see a remarkable development is our Army and 19,967,569 1,996,757 Nary, which are undergoing a thorough reor a shattered tambril and reading the ordnance 15,259,166 1,525,917 ganisation. I hope and I believe that China before long will become a great military Power, 269,772
not that we have any aggressive intentione 675,674
whatever, for the Chinese have over beon a 25,107,077 2,510,708, de to be about 400 millions. peace-loving people. The population of China ... 23,759,566 2.375,957 Some think the estimate too high, but I 1892-1901...
should not be surprised to find, on the contrary, that it is too low. A denstus ... 29,949,921 2,994,992 is now in progress for the first time in the 38,632,950 3,863,265 history of the country, so that that long vexed question will be set at rest, but the work 1.181,570 118,157 involved is immense, and the results will prob- 6.458,104 645,810 ably not be published until three years hence.
But on the
you will see how vast a dis-
about one-tenth as large. The circumstances of China and
Quantity (picals)... Value (H. Tsels) Besos-
36,843,698 3,684,370 | is only 400 million that the population really meteor from our dazzled gazė,
... 63,682,536 6,368,254 ciplined Army China might one day put in the SHOOTING TRAGEDY AT WOOSUNG
Bold. The population of Japan is only about
1902-1905.
26,909,185 5,381,837
WEATHER REPORT.
THE LONDON CLIMATE.
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Quantity (picals)... Value (Hk. Taals)
Bean Cake-
Tho store-keoper and two other foreign mem Quantity (piculs)... 16,564,694 3,310,939 | Japan, I may mention, are essentially bers of the crew of the P, and O. steamer Value (Hk. Tosle) ... 28,208,128 5,641,626 | difi Japan is an island, or rather Assaye, lying at Woosing, landed at Pheasant Bean Oil
group of islands, and therefore, like England, Foint with the intention of bagging a fer phea Quantity (picula)...
587,786 117,557 needs rather a strong Navy than a strong army sants. Soon after the sportsmen landed, says master-General. It is an interesting automatic Value (Hk. Taels) 3,520,767 704153 China, on the other hand, has on its land the Mercury, a couple of natives, mininvited, contrivance which suggests that labour-saving Beau
frontiers powerful neighbours so that it joined the party, evidently with the intension of possibility. The latest ortension of the Quantity (picals)...
12,226,137 2,445,237 requires a powerful Army for national defence making a little money by picking up and car penny.in.the-slot" prisciple, it perhaps Valao (Hz. Tsels) srrangement is for three years, with a the most ingenious, Not only does the
rying any birds which might be shot. The Asked about his impressions of England, our foreigners were walking along under the river conditional extension to ten years, and each year insertion of the coin, acompanied by pressing
visitar was loud in praise of what he had seen bank, wis guns loaded, whilst the two Chinese the maximum amount allowed to be exported is a handle, rolesse stamp from the roll within
and of the unfailing courtesy that had been were keeping pace with them along the side of diminished by one-tenth of the amount assumed the machine, but it does away with the m
extended to him. He could not find it in his the bank, which to but they have assuredly been proved as China's former normal supply that is, by pleasant necessity of licking the stamp
was rather stoep, wet by ful to As we have said, there exists 5,100 chests
heart, he said, to attack even our climate, after
slip- ost of us & of the mysterions--a passion I
affixing it to the envelope. The virtase of the starting point from which the reduction invention go further. Whilst the machine the following report:-
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issned the many kindnesses he had received, and he pery, when one of the Chinese suddenly slipped
he and without any warning, fell right wished only to say, therefore, that the last two or of the symbolism, a very hamas tendency is effected is not 51,000 ohosts, but 67,000 confisestos motal dises of similar size
gan carried by one of the for orm ourselves into ieties on any pretext chests, so that the aggregate volume of exports as a penny, and that without even yielding
weight On the 19th at 11.55 a.m.-The barometer three days had been fine, and that he hoped that signors. In trying to save himself from t offers, But we want
A better justification of opian from India is limited to 61,900 chests stamp to the fraudulent, it returns foreign coins slightly on the E. cosst of China,
has risen moderately in Japan, and fallon the tales he had heard about the peculiarities falling the unfortunate native either touch- Froomasonry than that Besh Freemasons in 1903, 56,800 chests in 1909, and 51,700 and those
of our London winters were not true, or, at try out their vows of charity with a noble cheats in 1910. Thas the number of chesta of
the trigger with his hand or caught it smaller diameter than of
в решу.
events, that they were exaggerated Returning with his clothing, for A depression appears to be developing over Chat silonoos ir critics. Indian inded
therefore, no a
went generosity
off, clothing can exceed their devotion to be mani- returns to have been imported into Chins in are also returned. The honds of the Post Office over the Bea of day be expected over the then formerly. It was a mistake, however, to him almost instantly, while the other native
Indian opium shown by the Chinese customs codentally rate, an hostility of form, the Yangtze valley, and the high pressure ares to the subject of the reforma epirat in China the native receiving the full charge of ext
in Le said that the pigtail was far less worn now the side, inflicting a terrible wound and killing Uld calls of benevolence and friendship. They 1909 vix, 42.183 chests is well within the have shown keen interest in the invention.
Moderate monsoon may pend.
roughly speaking, a hundred thousand limit.
suppose, as many N. part of China Sen. Within three days of giving it a
in this country appeared received a few pellets in the face, and sounds a year out of their central funds on their
trial, Mr.
was only The slight increase over the import for 1903 Herbert Samuel offered on behalf of his
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending
to do, that any peculiar over attached lightly injured. We understand that the men Benevolent Institution, and the
depart.
to tho
he said, "at one from the desaye had told the natives that their Schools for Boys and Girl Ayal Masonic is easily accounted for by the increasing scarcity | ment to bear the enst of ing the machine in at 10 am. to-day, 0.03 inches.
of native opium due to the enforcement of the
pigtail Doubtlety time,
that not
not very long ago, if a services were not required, and had told them Chinose anti-opiun legislation.
Throgmorton-avonus office for a pallic
Chinaman did not wear a pigtail he was some
as well as
they were able to get and keep out of Inquiries have also been made The increase in the market price is shown by by Sir Matthew Nathan as to the
what of a curiosity because it was the general the way, but the natives appear to have persisted custom to have one, but such a Chinsman would in honging on and following them. Lator even then only be looked on it Peking as an the day the foreigners concerned, accompanied Englishman in London would be who wore his by the relatives of the deceased, with an inter- hair long, I am afraid a good many false ideas preter went to the yemen of the Paoshan ere prevalent here with regard to us Chinese."
Magistrate, to whom the accident was fully BIED'S NEST SOUP.
explained, and arrangements were made for a ***For instance, it is not a fact that all day long sum of money to be paid to the relatives of the we are pining for bird's-nest soup. Speaking deceased as a commiseration allowance.
experiment.
florin,
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon
"derate; fair.
thousand children are cared for, educated, and trained to become nseful eltizens: The particular charity of which the King has become Gened Patronity
is the fact that at Amoy the price of foreign opium of placing it inside the street bility to day is as follows more than a century old, and its growth in standy ross from 900 dollars a chest early in 1909 to That, it is stated, could be done quite easily, Hongkong & Neighbourhood devi, da mo and sure. And besides these special central in 1,600 dollars in Jane, and to 2,750 dollars in for the contrivance is only the size of stitutions, there is the unceasing and incalculable March, 1910. At Nanking during the last two typewriter. When every red pillar box salla Bouth coast of Chins betrees)
Same as No. 1. work of charity that is done by the local lodges, years, the price of foreign opium bas increased stampe, the annoyance arising from the xx-
Bams as No. 1. Masons are always helping one another with by nearly 60 per cent., whilst that of native perience of having letters to despatch after South coast of Chins between gaiss ae No. 1.
Hongkong and Lamooku. Jā out estentation or parade. They bold out a hand 'oplum has trabled during the same period, closing hours at the Post Office, and no stamps Hongkong and Hainan...)
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