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SOME WONDERS OF SINGAPORE,
A little more then two years ago, when Jamies T. Du Bois, our Consul General at Singapore. received word that President Taft had him sinted for the job, a lot of Job's comforters tried. to tell him that he was bound for the jumping off place of the world. Ono kind friend reminded Mir Du-Bols that Congress had appropriated $5,000 to bring homo consular remains, anıl suggested that Mr. Un Bois was right in lino lo teenie a past of the appropriation. Then an insurance agent came along to: that the com
to May pany he represented was the only one that would insure a man bound for Singapore, Mr. Du Bois got back to New York the other day on his way to his hoido in Pennsylvania on a vacation. He weighs two pounds more than when he started for Singapore and appropriations for the care of contuler remains don't interest him at all.
hereabout know so little about thesepeulb port.
Peniuain, which, Mr Du Bola says, is the best rubber country in the world. Ail the same when he got his orders to go there and had dodgod the last of the friends who wanted to sympathize with him, he confes es he rent home and began to search the map for Sing apore Ho found it all right, but couldn't learn ninch about the country from the books,
And yet
ARE MARRIED WOMEN EXTRAVAGANT?
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26TH, 1911.
This is the question which is agitating Ceylon in the dog days. Last reason, if our recollection servos us well, the great problem under discus- sion there was, "Why young men don't marry After glansing through some of the letters now being published we conclude il at dyspepsia must be very common silment in the senior Crown Colony. We produce a few of the Tolters:
[1] FIR-believe it is getting more generally recognized that our ladies in the East becomes more extingent after marriage then they were before. It has be admitted that many
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THE OVER-INSURANCEOF SHIPS.
THE NEED FOR A REMEDY.
*(BY A LONDON UNDERWRITER.)
The recent judgment of the House of Lords in the case of the steamship Gunford, to which notice ng already been drawn on more than
prevent the placing of insurances giving the HONGKONG full and complete indemnity that every owner ought to be able to ̈öbfafa if ho wiskes lo do so.
Probably the members of the insurance market will
appreciate the necessity of putting its houso in order, and that quickly, leat & werke thing befalt them--Phe Timer.
SHARE
MARKET.
Mosers. Vernon and Smyth in their weekly share report dated August 25th state-
ono occasion in the columns of The Timen, sousLITICS FOR TEA PARTIES. unchanged, and with little business to report,
to demand a review of the system of insurance in vogue for the bulls of vessels, which in those days, practically means the hulls and the wachinery of steun vesela...
When the
of the world bogen carrying trado from sail to steam, and the number of steamers increased, the fasurance of this
of
became extremely important, class
Easter, sine, and uniuos increased
to g
And as the
A SOCIALIST VIEW OF THE LIBERAL PARTY.
[BY THE COUNTERS OF WARWICK.] This very resplendent, vory brave, and quietly unaseming Liberal Uovernment of ours la con- tinually sonopacing in gentle, maidouly whis-
A fair volume of Ircal business has been pul through during the past week, and rates genor- elly have leon well maintained. Rubbers are hut the tendency in London is towards higher rates at the close, Fins Hard Para Rubber is today noted at 410 por b. with huyers prevailing. The Bank of England rate of discount remains at 3 per cost, but there is a further advance in the market rate, which
is now quoted at 22 por cent. Bar Silver is quoted at 246-per oz. grief and Sterling T. T. at 194. Shanghai 1. T. cocoa at 751
BANKY Hongkong and Shangh is have
of cur single young ladies are charming in the the business gradually became, from the pers that it is the moct up-to-date political roled quiet with probable sellors at 28875 ox Mr Du Dk is thinks it's a pity that people simplicity of their dress, but after they have brokomge point of view, the most important institution that this unhappy world has ever dividend, tho-London quotation being unchanged |
ing off pluc in very fur from then.
to Mr. Bu Bois.
J.LA
money from the same extorted from the ns- suspecting boslard? After all, it was in her home that he formed his opinion of her capabilities BR a wife.
instances eaten
summer'tun. They wise
and
at £85 10s, ex dividend,
MARINE INSURANCES-Unions are fra at $810,
Ellera of with buyers. There aro North Chinas at Tls, 1674 and of Cantons ut. $210, sales of the latter being reported at $205 BIR INSURANCE Hongkonga Putinued in request at $350 and
of the latter at quotations at $124 after sales SHIFTING.-Hongkong, Canton and Motos havo teen the medium of
a large busines at $28 with small sales at $284, th market elesing with buyers at the latter rate. Indo-Chinas are bo offer at 867 and China and Mauilas at XIO. There are buyers of Douglares at $20 and of Star Farrys (old) at 8564 and
led a mere man to the alter the white washable part of the insurance business, and the premiums scen. Really, during those last for weeks of London acorching weather one has begun to see that kits and blouses dipp car, to-to replaced by Faid to the underwriting community in
edostonim of the worki and the gateway to the Malay the moro expensive afternoon gowns a la mode, for these insurances mutat how be the DEA there may be samething in th
Further, tis honsebold accounts are expentel than one-half of the entire premiums paid in the For, indeed, these Radical Ministers aro 50 very tyrt to be fun on for 2301 extravagant lines market. Whilst this businose was thas de ap-le-data that they provide us with political than who was geenst med te, in her own home, veloping the rates of premium on carge busi. te it bire in the Eart or at Home. Can it be ness became lower and lower, owing to the font ideas which are just suitable for this sweltering. Unt they must admit saving additional dress, that the cargees gradually consed to be carried drink which we can political food and $200.
without discomfort as we can play with lemon squashes through
of a strawberry. ies with a spoon. These Liberals know we are straw or wander round the edge feeling the heat ro they are telling us thoughts about the Constitution and reform (sud all that Bort of thing), thoughts which have the inspir- ing rigour of cold tea! Now cold tea is a very healthy and valuable companion when on
if Mr. Asquith and. his companions imagine more intellectal in cooling drinks when we go into politics, the sooner he and they are dis. illusioned the letter. It is quite is ident, after tho ate election in North West Iam, that thi mess of the people are content to tko politiet slope instead of intelligent thinking, but surely there must be some remnant of poople who will make a stand against the dragging down of politics to the level of the conversation at a ballroom supper.
ju according the first place 28,000 easels onfer the port orary year on the United States alons send out 7,000 dourists, who have to stop over there a day or two, sincs Singapore is the ball way station of the world. Through it passes the slay Pe ninenio's export of tia, amonating to 75 por cut of the world's trade in tin, of which the United States take from $10,000,000 to $14,000,000 worth a year, returning about Bech,000 worth in the shape of tin goods,
in sailing vessels, where rates rated high, and business, for which very low rates are pail, that the oarge business became a steam carge and upon which the broke enge to do enract would like to knew the views of other by the brokers and the premiums collected by
in
таму married men as to their experience of this the underwriters aro incre? ing extravagance on the part up by the ever-increasing working expensos. In married wonen, for to my mind it behorra these the car's days and for many years afterwards on the proper values of the respective sessels. effected. and no other ipsurances except for freight were
ladies fo remedy their ways, if only to give their these hull insurances were placed on the market has gone bay-inking hat wo want nothing now) at $163.-Sholl-Transports are offering
unmarried sixers a chance, for no mai can be treated in the manner that so many Bourdicts of his bachelor friends falling into the rauto trap rb without raining his voice to prevent morn za lo binself has done.-Youre, &
DISGUSTED BENEDICT. Fort, August 2ail.
But the future of the penituin, and for that. matter of the Philippine Archipelago south of latitude 10 degrees, Mr. Du Pois belieres, isas a rubber producing country. On the penin. ula are growing 15,000,000 rubber trees that will be ready to tan in 1915 and the planters expect to get at least $100,000,000 for the pro- dset if rubber holds up to $1.50 a round. Only
small part t of the peninsula is under cultiva- cren Lion and Mr. Thu Bois rays there's a Bee chance there for American money and antorprise. Rubber was introduced into the peninsula in
I think he is
Me-
VARLY “918BURSEMENT" POLICIES, It soon became evident that in case of loss the insurance of the natuni value of the vessel itself was in many cases inmiflcient in giro the owner the full and completo indemnity that he, as a business man, required, for before any SIR, ad with disgust that letter frota
was Disgusted Benedict." If his wife does do as he freight was duo de carned the owner says, all I can say is he must be a first-class fol frequently called upon to disburse various sums
The political thought at North West Ham not to put a stop to it. But I do not think this of Honey in connection with the vessel which is so
was mainly in the hands of a very typical ex- zy, good-for-nothing might not be recoverable if the vessel were lost. creature, and thinks of nothing but self, and The system of insuring there disbursements was ample of this tabby Liberalism which is corrupt. married for the sake of baring a wife who he then introduced, and of it was frequently incon ing the tone of English politics. thought would wait on him hand and foot. I venient to have to prove the interest in the Masterman, a member of the Ministry, who had or to attend to them voyageby voyage been ejected from Parliament by a decision of won't call them menasis would be degrading the en told there are a few "blokes like this the system of covering au umount for 12 the courts of law, is one of those persons who
-of-interest(P.-Lapparently believa better than to do that, he picke holes in her. I became practically expect we shall soon bear of their separation.! and a lucky thing for "D. B.'s poor wife. I should have thought it would invo beon the pride of every man to see his wifo well turned out and smart. I hope mine will always be so. Your..&c..
:
3.
from London at
791.
REFINERIES.-China Sugars have weakened under profit taking operations, and at the close can be obtained at $140. Lmaons aftor variable changes close with probable sellers at $ 32.
MINING, Roubs have advanced to 824 with buyers, but otherwise quotations are changed.
DOCKS, WEARVER AND GODOWNS.-Hong kong and Whampoa Docks have been bonked z $51ex dividend, closing firm. Kowloon Wharves remain steady at $49 buyers and sellers at 1-$50.
LANDE, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS-Hong,
kong Lands clude steady with buyers at 310!
are firm with buyers at $274. West Points have are more a 3200. Wowden Lands ben done at f45 and mors shness are wanted, Hengkong Hotels base sellers at $116 and 870 tively. There are buyers of Humphrey's Estates
-1882, but it was much later before the plauters to that sex. Now he finds that the wife knows months policy Persal. Nobctly ever ob tako the place that sentiment can dividend for the old-and-new issues Trapeci
took up the work in carnest.
Mr. Du Bois, mid that Singapory was us healthy a place to live in as ang if a man was a bit careful of what bo nie and drank especially what he drank. The mercury in Singapore thermometers moves between 80,de groes and 48 degrees during the four. It is on The boundary line of the seasons, and for 365 days the rising and the setting of the sun do not noticeshly
vary.
The British who rule Singapore, keeping perfect order with a handful of whites among forty-one diferent races, 200,070 of whom are Chinese, are spending $20,000,000 on the port and will construct there the biggest dry derk in the world. Mr. Da Bois says that they in tend to make it the great naval bas of the fu ture for England of the East.
Mr. Du Bois say that the Chinese on the Mainy Peninsula offer a fine example of wint the race is capable of when they have fair
and equal chance with the men of other nations." They get this chanes under the square dual which Mr. Lit Bois says the English give thir colonies without talking about it, and they do the business of the peninsula. He come to know the principal Chinese merchants and found that they had is very sincero admiration for America and all things American. Mr. Du Bois thinks very highly of Chinese, and he says that -in-be. Eastwho know most about Oriental affairs thick
that the most states ulike work the United States has ever done was its part in the Eour Power ioan to China, which he says has secured the safety and stability of that country.
Late
L4
ENGAGED BACHELOR. Up-country. Angust 5th.
SIR.What does Disgusted Benedict" think girls marry for, unless to dress in a more costly manner and chuck money about generally Has he lived with his eyes shut? Will "Oki Married Lady" kindly tell us where the girls who muke sensible young wives are to be found
Yours, &c.; -
Misoar sist.
Low-country, August 6th.
Sia,--A motta for Disgusted Benedict Leave them alone and they'll come home, &c," Women for the most part sro self-b, vain, war- row-minded and spiteful, and the least cas has to do with them the belter for one's peace of mint and general comfort. "Misogynist is just about right when he says women get married to be able to pat m frills, but whether th woman be married or not (cortainly if the former). if a man is fool enough to get into her rclutches she will not rest till she has made his life unbenenble. Their first and last thought is "Felf." A man who gives way is chivalrons and he who has strungth of mind to resist is į cad," no doubt, "Well, well, so be it-Yours,
LONELY BACHELOR, ¿
Wu Ting Tang, the former Chinus Ambas, sador to the United States, visited Mr. Du
Bois Singapore: and was attracted by the always present a
ent smile on a small Chinese boy. in the Consul's sortien. Wu tried to talk to the but the servant and Ambassador came from different provinces and conldn't understand each other. They found that their only com mon speech was English, and as they chatted Mr. Du Bois seized the opporignity to remark: This is proof, your Excellency, that, the English language is the commercial salvation of
Up-country, August 9th.
WAY MEN DON'T MAN.
hard thinking in politic- jected to these reasonable arrangements; nobody at life. Not long ng Mr. Masterman was proindiced, and the systems brought a cur-wrote a book entities The Condition of fain amount of good business into the market to England," and in the preface he said:" 1 the benfit of both underwriters and brokers. zhould like, in a word, to think that no onỷ the Brokers, however, like underwriters, compete wanld be able to certain maraly from among themselves, and some brokers having following pages whether their author was been struck with the idea that an owner might advocate of Free Trado or Protection, Socialist insure a little more than was necessary on diser Individualist, Fagan or Christian. The bursements at the low" total loss' rate, and a little less on the crdinary policy, which is con- siderably more costly, thus sacuring an economy on the who's insurance, efected insurances on thers lines and were na'urally followed by other brokers who had to meet this form of competi: tion. At the commencement the sams thus dealt with were of moderate diniusions, but year by year the suns jasured on the "F.P.L" policies were increased, and the amoun's covered by the urdinary policies were redused.
Everybody conversant with insurance matters of course understand that the underwriters who accept the ordinary insurances on those very low value have to pay a much bigger proportion of all claints, except total loss claime, than they would have to pay if the values wore higher. If, however, the underwriters accept these risks and agree to the low values, having all the facts before them, they (the underwriters) bave only themselves to blame if they do not charge a sufficiently high premiuua to cover the a proportion of Flaims falling upon their policies. THE TRUE VALUE OF A VESSEL.
author's wish was amply fulfilled. If one remembers aright ho carried the essentials of the invertebrates into the House of Commons with him. One, seems to remember that he vated with the Socialists for the Right to Work Bill one day, then rossired a Government post: and voted against the same measure which he bad just approved.
|
$7,
at $73 after sales daring the interval at $6., and COTTON MILIM-No business is reported locally.
MISCELLANEOUS-China Boxanos we wanted at 592, China Provident at SB. Dairy Farina at $22. Powells at 24, and Stom Fisheries at 61 There are sellers of loan of $175 er diy, Re at 518 and Watsons at 86.
RUBIERS, ETC.- The following are closing quotations (middle price) received from London fo-day
Ledburys
I onion Asiatics Loudon Ventures United Serdang# Allagers Batu Tigas ngs Saporga.....
Mr. Masterman, in this book, wrote innumer- able pretty sentiments about the sorrows of the poor and the evils of therich-all very true-but
Rubber Truss
60-
10%-
1/6
gr.
3'3
71:3
-2216
39/6
16/3
all these picus expressions will not set things Linggis right. Instenil of gelling to business and putting-Anglo Malays our society on a better basis, Mr. Masterman Easteru and International Trusts 6/3 discount and his political associates are blowing trumpets avainst enemies who were dead soesral centurias Indo-Chinas (L.&.D. combined)_115}, ago. If the electors of North-West Ham had Tronoh Tin Mines possessed & Crap of intelligence they would have said to the Liberal candidate: We don't want to know what you are going to do with the House of Lords: tell us what you have done for us in the House of Commons.
a very Tho Liberals wont havo had unaway time in bewering that question. Mr.
Lloyd George's divinely inspirod Badget is now in oporation has it done anything in relief of the poverty of North Weat Haus Hus, the Small Holdings Act done much to raise the position of the country dweller? It was not only passed by the Liberals: it is also being administered by them. Surely, if there is any virtue in it, it should be showing by this
One of the facts which ought to be before in underwriter is the true value of the vessel Now it must be granted that it is very difficult thing to say what the exact value of any vessel may be, but it is much easier for the owner to arrive at the probable trus value of a vessel, Sin A well-dressed woman is man's best than the underwriter, and so long as the owner advertisement."-Yours, K.,
tries to arrive at and place before the under time. CHEME DE LA CREME
writer a fair figaro as the value, no complaint Up-country, August 9th. -
can be made. Unfortunately owners and Apropov of this subject the following exirnet brokers have got into the habit of deliberately ignoring as far as possible the true value of this from a fume paper may be added:-
ressal to be insured, and of bargaining as to what value shall be insured in the insurans The decronse in births per family among the policy. This in itself is a bad method of doing Wa wouldn't commit hiivalf on that poist, sounder stock of the race is dus largely to late busiuos. Further, in many cases in addition to but urged Mr. Du Bois to stop cating meat and marriuges: It is not necessarily caused by deli, this the owners and brokers theu cover a very said that if Lo won! he could quality to is aberate limitation of families. This occurs inst
I rge sum on P.PI" policies, without dis- guest at a dinner which Wa said he ant Le frequently among those who simply cannot closing the fact to the nuderwriters in the The cause of the late marriages vessel, and this concustment is under certain Five in 1959 to President Taft. Col. Roosevelt afford families. aud oflers of his friends, providing that they is very curious and simple. People custom circumstances likely to vitiate the whole quit went enting and so lived long enough to themselves to a standard of life which they can- insurance; as it did in the Gerford case.
present.
not afford. Young men, especially, are apt to As to whether concealment is aaterial or not mix in
is, of
course, question for the Courts to decide, yet iffords their READ?,
elanoo of ณ meeting their equals intellectually. Artists, that the fact that an owner stands to make a writers, and usicians, gor erally men large profit by the less of his vessel will not
your country."
On his way home Mr. Du Bois stopped uff in the Philippines and visited this Governsent stock farms, experiment stations and the various bureaux. He says that not
charge of colonial work.
8bell" Bearers"
Hongkong Electric Trams...
8/- prom.
81,3 THI 2/9
VISCOUNT HALDANE ON WIDER EDUCATION.
OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS.
Viscount Haldane attended the Foundation Dry proceedings at Mill Hill School recently, and, after inspecting the school contingent of the Offers Training Corps, which paraded 140- strong, he presented the prizes in the big School.
the
INTIMATIONS
INTENSE PAIN FROM ECZEMA FOR 3 YEARS
Terrible Itching and Burning from Knee Down. Skin Very Swolferrand" Inflamed. Covered with Scalos.
Tried All Kinds of Remedies to
No Avail. "Cuticura" Cured Him.
"Previous to using Cutleurs I suffered in- Sense but for three years from réžecos on my **
ATE, DI The KHER CON, It began from a small spat he, Sin of a penny. God broke in a watery way over the ankles. E sporic raphtly to tho Knee, 1-Jokes flere Dagup-linky, the skin osi aval intment and covered Wian coading of scales, The bg brcame very wollen, with a terrie itching an Irakty sen- sation. In Ok way i maf- tapeal for the tired fails,
I assure you I havo ku all kinds of tag- dies and consulted several medical men. In fact I tried almost every kind of treatment- pre coubl mention, but ali to no avail. My disease was as bad or wors than ever midli tried Cuuhura. After a few opplications I felt Teie ira & continued until "cured,
Now thanks to Catieom, 1 can walk about with ease and comfort, the itching is gone and my Teg is It oral sing
I Toomperioaded the Cutleurs treatment fo a friend who had cuffs from eczema twenty BOUGIL MINUTA, ile has rentiented the usa int Cetrelies used is, repkily getting curent," (signed) Richard Barrett, Mission to Phy men laufante. Ruherra St Newport Mon., England, Nov, 21, 1950.
Colours Beardlies affuel theonest-Pennai- "Heal freifment kunwn, toe affecting at klie skin and scalp, Suhl throughout the world. Depots: Loudon, 27, Chanteclause 50 Paris, 10, Hà de la Change d'ântin; Australia, R. Towns & Co., Sydfeg; India, B. K. Brand, Calmut Bo Afrjes, Lennon, Lada Cano Town, U. S. A., Potter Drig & Co. -Burger Hot Propes, Huston, Benel for fired
puge datgen a Ponk of the speedy treatTR-TE örkktuste même divares,
Chas. J. Gaupp
& Co.
Bav Just Received 猛 New
Selection of Goods from
MAPPIN & WEBB,
LONDON,
Comprising
SILVER CUPS.
PRESENTATION PLATE.
&e.
PRINCES PLATE,
TEA SERVICES.
TABLE WARE.
CUTLERY
PISH KNIVES
DRESSING CASES with
SILVER FITTINGS,
FOBKS.
LEATHER HAND BAGS,
and WALLETS,
RAZORS.
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When these sentimental Liberals are not Viscount Haldane said we had been very striking heroic nititudes about the House of backward in understanding education in this Lurds, then they are flowishing to great In- country. Wo bad divided it as though samace Bill bender. Unfortunately the pretty elementary stage stood by itself in a walorlight, colours of that banner are rapidly fading nader compartment, as thongh the secondary school the powerful sunlight of criticism. In short, and public school did another quito-separate the advanced reformers ure everyday more suation of the work, with the University convinced that the Insurance Bill is just on the top. and as if the education of life was another example of the gas which escapes again quite detached from the rest. That way from the mighty Liberal gasometer. It not true. Life was not a thing to cut into bits: is being blown into the air so completely by it was one continuous curve. To-day we were
A those who are best qualified to judge of its ro getting a wider view of oddealing. good હૈ dat forming merits: there is no need to add details bed been learned from the Contingut and a good here. Many of its clauses are grously unfair to deal from hard experience. As Chairman of the women; it will do almost nothing for the worst Royal Commission on University Education in aar echcels did to perfection was to train in that London he bad learned two things-first that kind of character essential for the loadership of cases of poverty; a mothod of collecting the mature makes it lose the advantage of being an that vary great advances were being made; and selves and not merely to depend upon the encouragement of thrift; ita slook ideas on secondly, that these advances had come none logs
was a ci aracteristic of the British school, which made up for many things they had on the They're all able follows," he said, "and Two things confront them, ither they must owner would take, zid it must also be clear that ether example of loose Literal thinking. It selves. We had now come to realise that Continent in which they might excel us. In they could work wonders if they had a free wait until sou nieasure of fome comes to them, the underwriter in estimating, the rate at which North West Ifam is stupid enough to bear it education was one and indivisible: that in that this thing they could not even tonch
(Cheers) Here, again, we were getting away hand. He seemed to think that the develop er the young people must engage in a desperate he would be willing to accept a risk, or whether for five years it will be absolutely convinced it elementary stage we gave all our citizens, or ment of the Philippines-was-being greatly battle with relatives. This may be a very
ought to give them, the indispensable minimum; from superstition about education and widosing our view. For himself, he did not take up the Finklers by a too talkativo-native-legislature |- absurd ex; laustion, but it gives the key would care to accept the risk at all, must be has been fenled once more.
greatly influenced by the sum which the owner But it sadly looks as thongh it will require a in the secondary stage we taught them fo which garn much energy to wrds and little to
foundation of the Officers' Training Corps for a inte marriage between people who
political earthquake before the working classes he lieutenants and leaders, although the wichs work," N. Y. Sun,"
ly Physically
case of loss. have the more conventional professional man.
The Canford decision has brought home to these so-called Liberal "reforms." who seldom marries till he reaches his maximam many owners and brokers the fact that a very If the working mon of North West Ham had period, and in the stage of the University the quite different objret of extending education great lesson of the bigh or leadership was taught into a field where it had not extended. Ho income. Seeing that he does not begin practica large number of insurances have been placed rejected Mr. Masterman's candidate by a sab- Schooltoasters, who were important servants of wanted to see that great quality, character till Le is past twenty-five, this stage will not be where material concealment could be sucessfully stantial majority they would have given these the State (hear, hear-could not simply take developed in the schools, and he had discover- "reached until the age of forty-five.
planded, and stops are being taken to regularize, amateur politicians & shock which would have their rules and standards from what traditioned that the Officers Training Corps was a
rather
One of the great qual high school for a form of whitewash these imperfeet been wonderfully bracing for their nerves. All had assigned to them.
It would transactions, and it goes without that earnest, real vaformers will hope, now that Mr. this is being deront the cost of the underwriters, Masterman stands again as a parliament-
erra, numbering
a society which is abore then it must be clear to any fair-minded man. money is ridiculair wasteful. Its compulsory the nation had wakened up about education, and men: The boys were faught to govern flom-
e incruves du noi exeend. £500 a year, find only prevent him taking the same care au pre Administration take away its possible advantages soon, because other nations had also beauthority of a master, however distinguishod.... ovon England has a better set of oficers_in_whose paged in..hopeless attachments. cautions that an uninsured or partly-insured bureaucratic measure. It is, in short, an- progressing, sometimes more quickly than our
THE FUTURE OF THE RACE.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WIFE. "One child is enough for the twentieth century family" says Olive Schreiner in her new book." Woman and Labour."
The woman who ducen't earn her own living is therefore a parasite, except for that small portion of her time whon sbo'is engaged in.
the species, but for that time abe propagating should te puid.
Wberover in the history of a nation great numbers of its womon have besme parasitio that ustion is on the road to downfall and decay. America is, therefore, on the road to degeneration, unless its women of leisure can be allowed or induced to exchange their rani. thes for hard labour.
ductive
and
uro the very best. Then **** will 50 able to collect under all his policies in poi country are aroused to the vanity of training of leadership could not ls given in that the purpose of promoting militarism, but for the
ON EARLY RISING
פאי
We
от
to
fies of Mill B School, full of energy and our boys were specially gifted in which Suye the abe :—We doubt whether there is who are calmly requested to agree to overlook gry candidate, that he will be soundly modern spirit, hed bon that is bad broken away play its pert if we were in trouble, but, apari
anything more entirely a matter of habit than this matter of early rising. When necessity ensures that a man shall get out of bed at an early hour ho gets ured to it easily enough. And what is more, everybody agrees that there
OBJECTIONS TO THE PRESENT SYSTEM.
It will lia seen from what has already been gradually become extremely unfair to the noder Watts, writers, that it often produces
is virtue in early rising. The sluggard, indeed, stated that the system of insuring hulls has dem crate and Liberals. They are really which made up for any imperfectiors 260,000 peor was being seger.
bas no defendere. If there was any attempt of wild to justify the sluggard's hat. Doctor Part
it.
by,
insect world, thoroughly squashed such an easy means to the doing of ill-deeds trath if they were called the "wenk tea to-day that there stralies gave. Ho did not washing boys could have was mind and harve
your
A NAVAL APPRECIATION.
frem such a contingency, the c from tradition. It had concentrated on modern
as it did between 23,000 and 24.000 in the soun all delinquencies of onere and brokers, and beaten. The superstitions of Liberalism are the language as hardly any other school had done. this without on a promise that thear gentle, main block in the pathway of reform. I canner He brijeved, it was profoundly true that moderate are thrt in the course of the toyed inporte
a new feature of very high educational enthusiasm about the lungu ges, in the sense of meaning the study of men will behave themselves in the fature.
roase myself to
the greatest modern literature, not only of this anco The War Office was said to the exceeding. sholition of the Lords and a single 'Chamber if that single Chamber is to be made up of shoe country, bat of Germany and Francs and other ly careful about its expenditure of the public. fforded, perhaps not the perfection of funde, but it was not niggardly in the watter of more dangerous than real autocrats and Tories,
one could get from the classics, but the Officers' Training Corps, upon which already
There The Liberals have got the reputation for being of doubtful socurity, and also that, if has ofered the temperance tty it would be nearer tho
the corer confect with the problems of higher things than the making of money ho
The working
aking af mind and character. The think that in this conservative country they beat
in which had ever realised what splendid opportunities fer-mind with all if sides, the side in for cultate in the highest sense were to le touched the highest as well as the practical found in modern literature. They did not affairs of life; and character, which would teach them to speak the truth and assert themselves want all schors to be alike. They wanted Universities like Oxford and Cambridge 20 on the side of what was right and for member also like the Irish and Scotch and provincial above all that they were pot isolated individuals Universities. If that was markedly true of the who could live selfially regardless of respousi- Univinities, it ras
best towards some 1articular form of culture, and it was right that there should be institutions where a boy ould be sent knowing that his particular aptitude was likely to be developed there more perfectly than elsewhere.
HICH SCHOOL OF CHARACTER. It used to be a
tradition that our great secndary schools were very much behind thero of the Cuntorat fo-they-were-in-wey respects, but behind, rather in the acquisitic of karping than an schools. A seheels of rbarecter, he did not believe the English public cools were to be beaten. (Heer, Leur.) What
erapies of
of the You never hear a late-riser saying a good that nobody doubts that ill-deeds have been party anty Emprees. The human female, parasite," the book siates word for himself. But then what inte-riser ever
ever done.
Probably the fight that certain owners further," whether ju nodorn Paris or New York, admitted that he was one. No, it is and their financial friends have received may or in ancient Greeer, Rome or Assyria, is the
Tato-river who is always insisting upon bring about a desired reform, but the reforma eroman w relieved of manual labour by the
entirely thể upon
russket from the beauty of sonries and the joy of working way be forret prosperity of her class or nation, or by the in. before breakfast. In theory every late-riser is different quarter.
The Bocki Shimbun, in the course of a long vention of labour saving machinery, will trade
Anybody who roads regularly the reports of series of articles on the subject of the Japanese on her ursel
potentialities of motherhood contemporary of the more punctual of the for her support. Unless she can or will eater inrks; in many cases we believe that he really the Board of Trade' inquiries into the loss of navy, arrives at the conclusion that two duly deceives himself, and has an idea that he does vessels must have been struck with the evidence the industrial field or some other line of pro- not breakfast more often at olovou, but saluter, as to the, Kross over-izsprance that has been among the first class Occidental Powers are in a position to send their whole deets to Eastern. on the livity she has no right to live Foliv-dressed, the reay hues of the incipient placed before the Court, and also to the eaters waters. Those Powers are Germany and the of the male, except in the print. damu. Fat ou Coronation Day make-beliore remarks made by some of the magistrates, who United States of America. Acco dingly var dive or decimated nations, where the duties of was changed into reality; and numbers of people bure had a large experience in this class of motherhood extend over a greater period than
statement of the super-Dreadnought joined, the half dozen years now necessary out of her risers, and, we suppose, glaried in the fact that Government officis, who have been enspected fleets of these two States compared with Japan's for the first time, the ranks of the early inquiry. All these reports come before certain following at prute in tabular form the threo score years and ten.
The woman of leisure To-day," she says, they began the day before six o'clock. Whether of lessings towards legislation that will prevent forces
they will become habitual early-risera remains over-insurance. Over-insurance does not like that hothouse specimen so notorious be to be seen. Personally, however, if the
thing
ing either.
the respostable owners or the under- fore the downfull of Rome, who seeks madlysumes 1 competitive muppet, we oog to be writers, and although some brokerage may be pursuit of pleasure to fill the void left by the reckoned a non-starter. We have proved what earned by the effecting of large insurances, the lack of honours le activity, would be far happier
wo on dǝ once; but, for the future, we honestly respectate brokers would also probably depre Germany if she had plenty of hard work to do, and the confers that we shall get up as lots as the cateovor-insurance, but one and all would rightly United States of America-10- race would be correspondingly healthier and
exigencies of this office permit
protest against any legislation which would Japan ...... more efficient."
kait
Power
D'splace-
ment. tous.. 262,500
Number of
Ships,
12
-249,600
0
149,600
Each man had a rain, true of the velocis.: kility to their fellow.mon. (Cheers.)
SHIPPING CONFERENCES.
The Singapore Free Prees understands that all the shippers outside the Secret Rebete have rd- 'dissed the Begreteries of the New York Cou
ference, asking them to name the terms on' which they are prepared to enter into su agree. met frike carriage of their cargo after the end of this year. If no satisfactory arsure. mert has been arrived at by September let the hippers will make their ownarrangements for the carriage of the cargo.