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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 102, 1911.
HAMBURG LETTER.
(WRITTEN SPRCIALLY FOR THE "HONOLONG DAILY PREKS"]
December 9th.
THE COST OF LIVING.
The steady rise in the value of most articles of consumption in this county, notably of meat continues to onure widespread discontent and serious apprehensions for the future, and has led to the government being questioned in the Reichatag as to the steps it intends taking to check the movement by relaxing the strictness of the laws concerning the importation of foreign cattle and ment, and by lowering the import duties on cereal and feeding tatts generally. Both the Secretary of Trade, Dr. Delbrük, and the Prussian Minister of Agricul ture, Freiherr von Schorlomer, whilst minimizing the effects of the increasing deasnews of living, have declined to take up the matter, the latter adding, by way of consolation, that animal food was not a necomary of life, there being other articles of food just as nutritions, a reply whisk gave rise to some merriment,
Tyrien government have shown greater wpathy with the wants of the population and have succeeded in obtaining the sanction of the Federal Council for the Introduction
of cattle from France, although failing to gain any concession with regard to the importation of pigs from Austris and the grant ing of greater facilities for that of live cattle and
ment from Denmark; ita zequest for at least
a
temporary suspension of the duties on Indian corn and other foreign foodstuffs having been likewise refused.
AGE OF INVISIBLE HANDS. INAPIER JOHNSTONES'
SOME MATTERS WE TAKE TOO MUCH FOR GRANTED,
{ BY MARCUS WOODWARD. ]
Prefacing a witty remark I was about to make with the words, "I am taking it for granted," my speech was interrupted by the Philosopher: "It is a bad habit," quoth ho, and entered straightway on this discourse ---
The age is come when a man may know noth ing, yet hold in his hands the key to all wisdom. What a poet said once to one individual It is the age of the glorification of stupidity, philosopher may say now to all men.
| Hamburg and not in Berlin, as contemplated by the authorities"-led to a spirited debate. The only advantage the ospital offered was stated to be the greater number of judges employed at the various courts thro, mány of] | whom might be available for service in the colonial court when not otherwise ongaged, but it was held that the new tribunal war of sufficient importance to warrant the appoint ment of special functionaries. The argument that Berlin, being the capital of the empire, where the central offices of most of, the judicial and administrativa departments were located, was met by the remark that it had been derde
*Powers will work for theo, air, earth, and advisable at the time to establish the Supreme Court of Judicaturs at Leipzig and not in skies-there's note breathing of the common Berlin. in order to secure greater independence, wind that will forget theo: thou hast great allies. ¡ Man's unconquerable mind is at the service of all, for it: Hamburg, it was further assorted, as the The stupid person is no longer left alone in chief maritimo port of the empire, had a special his stupidity, but a thousand alerer minds claim to be considered, owing to its extensive ministor to him. Invisible banda support every foreign trade, its olose relations with the coloules man's burden. And everything is taken for
granted." and other countries overses, its practical expert-. Thus, Britons are taking the British Empire excs of consular and foreign jurisdiction and for granted. It is no longer their epstoin to of the law and customs obtaining everywhere; trouble their heads to any degree on matters besider, most of the cases coming before the imperial. Travelling is expensive, traval booke are clap and pleutitel-if anything should court would probably arise out of export transac happen in Canada, New Zealand, or India, the tions, and nowhere on the Continent was this newspapers will know all about it. Why should branch of trade so widely developed and mar trouble to find out anything about his
Empire for himself? affaiently organized as in this city.
Another argament advanced in favour of Hamburg was the rapid progress made by the newly-founded Colonial Institute, which now possessed a teaching staff of 16 regular professors appointed by the State, and 46 lecturers, the
number of students having sucreased from 102
in 1908 to 336 in the present year. Its co-opera- tion might in many instances prove valuable.
Judging from articles in the colonial and foreign Press abroad it was urged there seemned to be a consensus of opinion in favour of this eity, in fact it would be difficult to find a dis
Lentient voice.
The molation was finally passed almost anonimonsly.
A GREAT FIRE,
A few figures taken from an article in the Zukunft illustrate the precarious state of the food supply of the empire, the annual increase inite population of 900,000 rendering a propor flouate increase in the supply necessary. This has been roughly calculated to amount to 50,000 tons of meat and the milk of 50,000 emme. It would only be reasonable under the circumstances The fire in Neuengamme has at last been to expect the adoption of means for promoting extinguished by the Hamborg Are trigade, a the rearing of cattle, such as the removal of the heavy block of load of over a ton in weight has dution on foreign feeding stuffs, instead of which, been securely fastened over the opening. It in however, the duty on Indian coru has been rais. | enloufsted that as much gas has been consumed ed about 100 percent, since 1906 and now stands there as would have supplied the whole of at M.3 per 100 kilos. Imports have in con.Hamburg for four months if not mora. A sequence fallen off from 1,150,000 tons to thorough investigation will now be made, includ. 650,000 and although owing to a reductioning borings in the neighbourhood of the in the duty on feeding barley from M, 24 to original outbreak. M.130 imports of the latter have increased from 1,900,000 tons to 2,500,000, this is no equivalent, barley being but a pogr mbstitute for Indian
cora.
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LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONING.
The habit grows of taking things for granted -and intellectual indolence and decay is brad thersby, Why should we travel when others travel for us, and bring home, soloüred and living pictures of the sights to be seen! Why wear out expensive leather in walking when a half-penny will buy a ticket for a long, swift,
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The Triton pate a coin into a mater, and light comes whence, why or how, he little cares, so long as light does come. Ho pays a rate, and water flows to his taps-ho takes it for granted that the water is pure he may know, if a Londoner, that four thousand man work to supply him with pure water, but the knowledgeMITSU HISHI GOSHI KWAISHA.
only makes him more thankful that he fetch and carry it himself. Invisible hands- stretch out to his aid wherever he goes.
He pays soldiers and sailors, and takes if for arly guarded. What is the plague to him? granted that bis life and property will be prop Science can deal with rate, hospitals can treat the plague-stricken. If a crime is committed. he takes it for granted that the criminal will be caught-therefore no onlooker need bestir him. self to chase the villain.
The realities of life he takes for granted. He seldom comes inte touch with them. Io sticks a cigaretis batwoen his lips; does be conjure a vision of Virginian planta tions, negroes toiling for him, ships laden with bales of his tobacco, fair young girls in factories packing boxes, miners working for the metal that shall make him a caso, factories for paper, factories for matches, shops in all streets for supply, hundreds of people taking terrible risks so that he may smoke his cigarsile without thought of the thing it is? All this ke takes for granted,
a
During the first nine months of the present year the imports of meat amounted to 19,000 tons, or 500 tons less than during the same period in 1909, those of fresh beef from Denmark and the Netherlands showing a slight increase more than counterbalanced, however, by a decided falling off in those of pork from other quarters. 719 The returns from forty of the prinsipal markets of the empire report an increase of about 83 per cent in the number of cattle, sheep and unit of length had been submitted to the duty, be knows, and will make good aport for |
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pigs offered for sale, and a total supply for the first six months of 1,298,000 tons, or 23,000 more than in the first half of 1909: of this, however, 16,532 tons of horseffosh (against 16,342 tons last year) have to be dednoted as not generally recognized as a fit artiole of food, thus leaving a surplus of only 6,160 tona compared with the first half of last year, whereas 25,000 tons more would be required to meet the wants of the increased population during the six months. The imports as shown aboye having been 500 tons lefor the first nine months, or, say, 300 for the first siz, the surplas is reduced to at most 5,000 tons, leaving a dodciency of 19,000 tons. The advance in prices is therefors by Do made surprising and admittel on all sides. The statistical office în Dresden states that the average price of most
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He goes out shooting. In the olden times they-tracked down their game, and our fathere walked up their birds. Now the sportsman is CHINKIANG: Mesars, GHARING & Co, driven to his butt or his stand, and sits on a stool until the birds are driven to him. He goes hunting, and takes it for granted thas a fox will be found invisible hands will have done their
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KONSULAT.
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Canton, 15, Dezember, 1910,
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"In the course of an address on the subject of the transmission of telephonie speech over long distances Major W. A. J. O'Meara described at meeting of the Institution of Electrical Engineers the stepe taken in connection with the. decision to provide four additional circuits by one of two new cables between England and Francs, each country providing and laying on Two varieties of cable with which it was proposed to obtain tecreased officency in transmission hy the employment of larger amount of copper per engineering department of the General Fest Office and been very carefully considered. In
FOOLS AND THEIR FLLY both designs provision had been made for the copper and the gutta perchs, but so gladly he surrenders his own flesh and blood to Invisible hands take control of his children--- the intrinotion of layers of paper between cording to pferent experience paper appested his unknown allies. In every town ani villare to be a somewhat unsuitable material to employ the schoolmasters are willing and eager to in the manner proposed on seraunt of its relieve parents of all parantal responsibility. So masture from the gutta perch, apart from the open their eyes to life, warn them of pitfal's, or |kygroscopic qualities which caused it to absorb | fathers seldom trouble to tell boys the truth. probable high cost of maintenance that a calde ret up before them the high ideale We an in which paper was used might involve. Efforts mothers rising to be material: and the satirist were being made new to discover some effective of to-day is able to draw selling picture of the means of erercoming the Fractical difficulties rich mother looking in at a children's party. had been encountered owing to the moir- demanding to be told, Which of these is my are exuding from the gutta perchu. Naturally little girl?" the problem was one in which compèrcial con- In ti old days, if we were inclined to study, siderations were paramount and the desire of we saved our pennies and went tramping the the telephone engineer was to have ready schemes streets to search out the hook we needed at the. for extending the range of communication second-hand bookstalls. We went to work n in order to anticipate the demands of the small children, and if inclined for knowledge publio in this direction. (Hear hear) The attended night classes. A good book on employment of 8001b, sopper aerial conductor, flowers, let us say, was a possession incur young
IE Bekanntmachungen aus dem hiesigen distance trunk circuits in this country, would ries wore built up by years of diligent search render it posible for very mllefactory converso- | Now we may bay a hundred books on everything vergeschriebene Veroeffentlichungen werden im tiens to take place from call boxes between cen- for rext to nothing.
Jahre 1911 duròh.
added distances from the ends of the cable did deep mines and caves. We have ceased to buy tras in England and on the Continet when the No longer does the truth lie bid in partain den not read, 1,700 miles that is to say, with wisdom by experience. It was the most costly und land lines of this description well-maintained way. We have found a cheaper and an easier. conversations between London and Astrakhan That which is better than rabies we now any at erfolgen. on the Caspian Ses would be possible. At the every street corner. In the old days, said the same time, though grest improvement in speech philosophers, culture was knowledge of the best transmisnon ihad resulted from the latest type that had heas said and thought in the world. The works for an improved communication by of cable, yet the new Anglo-French cable could Now it is all in the books, and our shelves groen water between Berlin and the import of Stettin not be rogarded by any means an the last word beneath the weight of them, and we take it for are nearing their completion and an extensive an submarine telephone cables. As in the past granted. harbour calculated to afford accommodation to 77 the co-operation of the mathematician, physicist, anal hoats of 6CD tons each or 123 barges of 225 engineer, and manufacture was still finnded if an announcement were to be made twenty years
The day is coming when men will say, tans is now in course of construction on the Plat-hose that the progress in the art of telephony Everything wise has been thought; all is known, senses; the length of its quay wall will be 2,750 had resulted in an increase of efficiency common not trouble to team anythinen in the mairas. Of the 25 million Marke voted by the Ing the past twenty year. The lecture, which municipality of Berlin for the purpose, 51millions was illustrated with lantern slides and diagrams, will go towards the erection of three eight-storey was followed by a technical discussion. Mr. 8. warehouses, one for general merchandise, one for Z. de Ferrani presided and there was a large
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search for enrics there is small for because erfolgen. mercenary dealers save the searcher his trouble and the invisible hands of their agents are ran seeking the odd corners of the whole world. As to fáme, no man need seek it, for the palm is now offered by invisible bands to all willing to bear it. In these days a'man ríses, and invítib'e hands make his bed, Invisible handa bear him to his business, and there carry out his bahests
IMPERIAL EXHIBITION, 1915.
The Advisory Committee of this Exhibition. invisible banda send invisible waves to carry consisting of Led Strathcona (president), his commands. Invisible hands rather the Captain Hir Pieter C. Van H. Stewart-Bath
hos beau concluded between the town and the almost drowned in a well of English por world's news for kit it may be he does fobairman), Lord Blyth (e-chairman), Lord...
three sheds are to be built eesting 14 Million. whilst of a million has been allotted to the laying of railway sidings. A preliminary agreement government for the incorporation of the district of Plötzenses with a view to the extension of the works should it become necessary in the course
of time.
THE COLONIAL ASSOCIATION,
and undefiled. He dared to use the phrases
#
(Héra I ventured to put in a word.)
"Back up." Judge Willis said it was valgar; he not trouble to read it is it not all in the papere, Hill, Mr. R. A. Cooper, M.F. wil the hon. will-it nat ell be history? He takes it for secretaries (Mr. A. O Back, M.P., and Mr. P. had never heard it in respectable society; it was shocking Conscions that merely destructive rated. When to hid he gone, invisible buman J. Hannon), have now definitely decided to hold criticism is poor stuff, he proceeded to recon.harda join hands onvolio in guarding his dat the Exhibition in 1915. Temporary offices have stract the phrase. "Why doesn't a person say, 'bers. For the rest he asked, "I hope you are prospering "" The
"I take it for granted," said I At a meeting of the Kolonial Gesellschaft question is magnificently pertinent Why, in- (Colonial Association) at Elberfeld on the first stead of classing a men as an "outsider," don't wa say his person is so that people of instent, presided over by Duke Johan Albrecht perspicacity, lofty morala, and exquisite Mecklenburg, the creation of a colonial propriety would prefer him to remain limits of their acquaint- high court of justice, planned by the imperial beyond the
been taken at 62, London-wall, where all inforina- tion may be obtained Among those who have joined the committee are Lord Plymouth, Sir Heary Pollett Lleutenant General Sir Edward Hatton, Sir J. H. Yoxall M.P., and the Agents. General for Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. This committes zow von- The committee appointed by the Provisionalists of considerably over 100 gentlemen of all
PORTUGAL'S NAVAL PROGRAMME.
gorernment, was one of the subjects brought Why, rather than roil one lips with Government to study the reorganisation of the political views.
that horrid world rotten"
don't we say that a Portuguese Naty has made a report. They No further meetings of the Advisory Com thing is so fundamentally unsound that nothing advocate the acquisition of three, battleships of mittes or the Exsontire will be held until the beme can be expected of it but immediate and complete 19,000 ions, with a speed of 1 knots and an end of January. In the meantime the s dylsory
destruction?-or that it is so inherently defeo-
up for discussion. The first resolution, thanking the government for the
and expressing a hope that members of the tive that prolonged gristenca can by vo prdoemament of ten guns of 305 millimetres and Committee are making all arrangemente about
On Bale at the “HONGKONG Daily Passa il of independance of judgment a grouted to we profer to Bosh the explicit stałoment 3,000 tóns, with a speed of 22 knots; and 12 promised to guarantee £5,000 as soon as an ad- now court would receive the same guarantees of optimia be predicted for it? Why don't some others of smaller calibre: three ornisers of the guaratiboos. One prominent Imperialist has
destroyers of 690 tons, with a speed of 30 knots OFFICE, or Agents in all the Ports of the judges generally by German law, was passed that our interlocutor's remark onerosos sad six submarines. Far East.
the limits of sbaundity P. Why why don't re The Book will be sent by Registered Fort without mugh comment, the next one, however, empler this decent kind of English Simply defolt-ly resolved upon ile programme com As soon as the Provisional Government her (free) to any part of the World unrepresented moyed by the associations of Lubeak, Nurnberg, because slang saves us from the crnel lafe by Agents on receipt of Mopy Orde
"Hack That the Court be stablished in Pall Mall Garette.
munications will be wait to British naval con structors,
committee will be formed to decide on the ditional amount of £10,000 has been gauranteed.
Advisory Committee will be End to redeve site and make all financial arrangements,The
ay suggestions or communications from those interested.