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TELEGRAMS.
(TEROUGE KEUTER'S AGENCY.]
AMERICA'S RICHEST SPINSTER
MARRIED.
LONDON, January 23rd.
COMPANY
REPORT..
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
THE DIARY OF LI HUNG
UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD.
The report of this Company states:- The general managers have now the pleasure to submit their annual report and statement of the Company's accounts made up to 31st December, 1012.
The net profits for the year ended 31st December, 1918, after allowing for count. A New York telegram states that Missing committee and auditor's fees, amount,
to $53.877.48 Holen Gould, the richest spinster in
CHANG.
LINES TO THE LIBERTY BELL.
FAREWELL TO AMERICA.
VII.
[Wo resume Li Hung Chang's Diary with the jottings after his arrival Philadelphia):-
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24TH 1913.
naturo. Then I saw that everybody was looking at me, including the Honourable Mayor himself. He was laughing with the rest! Of course, I felt a little em barrassed. Then the speaker said, half to me and half to the immense audi-love.
"His Excellency does not like long speeches evidently, so I will cut mine short."
This being translated to me I asked my secretary to say to the Honourable Mayor that I did like long speeches, for during tlun I could have long sleeps. The dun ourable Mayor repented my words to his hearers and there was laughter and choor. ing for several minutes. Anyway, the to say quickly.
But was it not humorous that in all my travele, however tired and worn I might ho, I never went to sleep in public before
America, was married to Mr. Finlay payment of a dividend of 10 per cent., which a few days more I shall be commencing Honourable Mayor finished what he had
Shephard. Vice-President of the Miss
and Pacific Railway.
THE DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT
LONDON, January 3rd.
Her
A message from Montreal states that the Duches of Connaught has sufficiently recovered to leave the hospital. Royal Highness will remain in Montreal for the present.
MR. CHAPLIN'S ACCIDENT.
Lesbos, January 3rd. The Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, who was thrown while riding at a fence with the Pytchley Hounds on December 10th,
underwent a slight operation last week which has proved most successful.
WELSH BYE-ELECTION.
LONDON, January 23rd,
The by-election in Flint boroughs has resulted in the return of the Liberal candidate by a reduced majority, the majority at the General Election being
509. The figures were :—
Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love is called also the City of the Cradle of American Liberty. I want to The general tonnagers recommend the put down a few impressions now, for in will absorb 887,723.00, write off 925,607.35 the long journey across the United States from the value of the waterboats, $400.00 toward the Pacific Ocean and my beloved
home.
am getting homesick for China. for the value of pipes and staging, and although of late I have been sending
and rry forward a balance of 857.33 to the brief despatches or cable to the Court,
y account onsulting Committer-Since the last always with love and reverence for the meeting Mr. A. H-Skelton has resigned, illustrious Throne, I am as anxious to and Mr. Duncan Clark has joined the tell China about my triumphal journey in foreign lands as a first wife is to rolate the antien of her first-born boy.
committee.
Auditor. The accounts under review have been auditod by Mr. A. O'D. Gourdin.
DODWELL & Co., LTD.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 21st January, 1913.
BALANCE SHEET, 31ST DECEMBER. 1912.
Share capital.
ZJAUIFITIRA.
Authorised-
50,000 shares of 10
ench
Issued...
27,723 shares of 810
each fully paid Sundry creditors Unclaimed dividends Special repairs account Insuranco fund
500,000
Unused launch wator tickets.......
LI HUNG CHANG AS PORT.
NEXT MORNING.
LATE, BAME NIGHT. To-night I visited the Union League, and was served a delightful Chinese din ner, with wines and ten from Canton. It was the best that my stomach has received since leaving home. A great number of If New York is the noisiest, most-mind-minent, prople were there. I have a
complete list and will preserve it. distracting, and elbow-rubbing place I over saw, and Washington most beautiful
A PARTING INVITATION. and open-though I have no doubt my
General Hastings, the Governor of this French friends would not thank me for great State, called upon me this morning saying this, especially considering the to bid me adieu, and to present one or woods of Paris--Philadelphia is one of two young ladies and several members of the most smiling of big cities. I think his staff. I gave the Governor a press- the place well named City of Brotherlying invitation to visit me in China, and Love. But I am going to invent a new I told him that if he would come and title, which title I told the Mayor, and spend half a year in the quiet of my home he said he would write it down, and call in Canton I would make him so pleased it the Place of a Million Smiles. That is and comfortable that he would not ever $277,230.00 almost poetic, but it is proper, for I have want to return to the noise of Pennsy!
5,020.00 also written some lines on the Liberty vania. He thanked me cordially, and 1,005.50
Bell, which are yet to be re-written when said he would give the mattor careful 11,956.18 I return to China,
thought.
13,300.00 ,301.40
Profit and loss account, halance... 59,877,48
ABOMIN
Waterbants as per last
account ...... $225,697:15 20,000.00
Les amount written
off
J
Pipes, and staging as
per last account... Luss amount written
off
$382,450.86
-$205,697,15
88,418:04
$18.04
Purniture
Mr. Parry (L.)
2152
Mr. Roberts (U.)
1041
Sundry debtorn
Cash in bank and in hand Hongkong Bank fixed deposit Hongkong Government deposit
Majority
211
Proportion
unexpired licence.
Stack of hose, etc.
$,000.00 50.00 25,089.JU 115,000.00 500.00 7,026.16 123.19 361.32
$362,450,8G
BRITISH CONGRATULATIONS TO FRENCH PRESIDENT.
LONDON, January 3rd. The Right Hon. Sir Francis Bertie, the British Minister at Paris, has conveyed to M. Poincaré, the British Government's congratulations on the occasion of his election to the Presidency.
THE DISCOVERY OF FORGED MONEY AT HONGKONG.
PROFIT AND LOSH ACCOUNT. FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 1912.
Dr.
To consulting committee's fees... To auditor's fec To balance
600.00 100.00 53,877.48.
854,577.48
97.40
4,305.26 00.00
By balausn from last account ............. By interest
By transfer fees ......
By profit on trading for the year. 50,084.82 $54,677.48
DODWELL & Co., LTD,
General Managers.
A Tokyo paper reports that the forged currency discovered in Tokyo and Hong-in my opinion such balance sheet is pro kong was intended to be used by certain sections of the Chinese who are planning to start a second Revolution in Contral
China.
I report that I have audited the above balance sheet with the books and vouchers of the Company in Hongkong and that perly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the Com- pany's affairs at the 31st December, 1912, according to the best of my information and the explanations given, and as shown The Tokyo Asahi publishes an official by the books of the Company. I have telegram, dated the Eth instant, stating obtained all the information and explana that at Foochow a plot to start a secondtions I have required. Revolution has been brought to light, and the local Chinese authorities are now making inquiries with a view to tracing those responsible, The Governor-General there is guarded by troops from Hunan.
A. O'D. GOURDIN,
Auditor. Hongkong. st January, 1913.
THE FORGERY OF KWANTUNG CURRENCY.
Whather Li Hung Chang ever re-wrote
am sure that Governor Hastings is by his lines upon the Liberty Bell, composed for the handsomest man I have seen in all during his stay in Philadelphia, is not these Western countries, He ought to known. A careful search of his manu-hold the position of emperor or king, or scripts and notes fails to reveal any fur at least be duke of a duchy... It was a ther attempt to improve or revise the fow nity that he did not appear in uniform, original lines, although in several places for he is a born general-in-chief in ap in his memoirs of later date he refers to pearance, and of the most commanding the Liberty Boll and his visit to Philadel phia.
The poem to which he refers, and which has an excellent cadence and actre, au- cording to Chinese standards, is extremely difficult of translation into English if any attempt is made to follow the author's rathor involved thought. It may be rendered roughly as follows:
To my eyes they did point out the symbol
of Liberty,
And to my ears they did direct the sound. It was only a sound of ding-dong, And it came from an instrument of brass
made by man.
The bell did not ring to my ears: I could not hear the voice in my ears; But in my heart its tones took hold- And I learned that its brazen tongue Even in silence told of struggles against
wrong.
These good sons of America Call the Liberty Bell ancient; But I who came from the oldest of the
lauds,
A student of the philosophy of the ages, Know that what this bell speaks
Is of Heaven's wisdom;
Millions of centuries before the earth was
born.
It repeats the beart words of the gods; It repeats, only repents:
But let it do 50 to the end.]
In his prose regarding the Liberty Bell the Viceroy speaks again.of its age, but in a much lighter vein :-).
THE LIBERTY BELL.
They showed ma a beautifully shaped old bell, which is io Independence Hall. and is called the Bello Liberty; which means that at its ringing all men within sound of its voicu know they are free. But they do not ring it any more, because it is cracked. Is liberty cracked also?
When I was informed that it was con- sidered "old," in fact, called the Old Liberty Bell," I asked regarding its age, and some of the officials began looking quizzically one to another. The Governor of the State himself did not know its age, but finally some fellow with sharp eyes discerned a date on the symybol, whether inside or not I cannot say, and announced that it was some hundred or two liundred years old.
Ho a hundred or two hundred (1 for get which) years old! Ho! We would laugh in China if anyone should call any thing old at that age. It is simply ap infant, still suckling. I laughed at the mention, and I told the Governor. He
and said:
inked, Viceroy, all the nations are suckling infants compared to your vener able land."
With that I bowed and thanked him, and I liked him for his speech.
presence.
I had several delicious American drinks called cocktails, and I asked Salang to find out just what ingredients were used and how they were made. There was just enough spice and awcetness to them to suit my laste, and I do not think they would hurt me if taken not too frequently,
I feel that I will sleep most calmly to- night.
AFTER THREE DAYS ON THE TRAIN.
CHANGES OF FIFTY YEARS.
Again I must think of Tussia with its vast plains and heaven-reaching moun
taina.
But here the parallel of thought must end, for with Russia all the wild and newer country is far to the sast, while in the United States it is the West that is wide-spreading and new.
In this wonderful Western Empire of the American Union there is the same spirit of enterprise and business, with all modern progress, that there is along the, seaboard of the Atlantic. And to think that fifty years ago there was not a settlement of stationary people in the bundreds of miles we have been travelling since we left the great river of America, the Mississippi.
Can it be true? Can it be that all these changes have taken place since I took my examinations for the Hanlin ? It must be, for I have heard it from every one, and a whole nation cannot lie.
For hours and hours we travel, and see nothing but great ranches with cattle, or vast stretches of country without a living man or woman or fowl. Then there will be a small town, then another, then an other, until finally the train rushes through the outskirts of a big city and into a depot that makes one think again of New York, Chicago or London. And there are high buildings everywhere, so high that men look like children when seen from their roofs. Heaven help this country whenever an earthquake comes!
SKY-SCRAPERS,
I cannot see, in spite of the explana tions that have been made to me what is gained by having these structures built up so that they almost stop the clouds going by, Yes, I can see in New York. for New York is built upon an island, and the shippers and others do not want to go across rivers and bays to do their busi- The city becomes crowded, and ness. land is so valuable that those who own it send their edifices up into the air, which is free to use as high as they want to go.
Yes, I can understand New York's why the Western cities, with cheap land cloud-stoppers, but I cannot understand for hundreds of miles in all directions, will try to see how many great buildings the can crowd together in vue place. Still, I suppose if I should write a whole volume and make a present of it for eir- culation among the business men of these cities they would not even thank me for my meddling. Anyway it is none of m concern, and, besides, I do not export to
the places again.
"GIRL" WITH GOLDEN HAIR.
A FOREIGN VICTIM IN YOKOHAMA, MIDSHIPMAN'S TRICK ON JEALOUS Actress.
In conauction with the forgery by several The jealousy of a young actress was the Japanese of Chinese paper currency, the Japan Gazette of the 10th inst. says a cause of a highly amusing incident reYokohama foreigner is said to have been
victimized. cently at a restaurant in Lisbon,
He reported the mattor to For some time a naval officer had been the Kaga-cho Police Station, which is now the accepted suitor of the actress, but she communicating with various quarter, had broke off the engagement. The especially with the Police at Moji, where nasal officer, with a beautiful girl, on the informant was victimised. It appears tered the restaurant one evening and that the foreigner in question left The couple Hiranuma Station on October 20th for ordered dinner for two. sat at a small table and were observed Moji, where he arrived the following day, Boon Before proceeding to China he visited a talking together affectionately. afterwards the actress entered. As her Japanese exchange shop at Moji, where Chinese currency, eyes fell on the officer and the girl she he obtained some stopped short, but, regaining her self- among which was a five-yen note, which possession, procceded to a table and order was later discovered to be a forgery.
a building called Independence Hall. It ed dinner. She viewed with irritation Upon his return to Yokohama from China parently oblivious of her presence, were the matter the Kaga-cho Police. It is szd jealousy, the two opposite, who, ap. A day at two ago, the foreigner reported the Hall of Bucred Records at Canton, nor even of the Temple of the Great believed that the note referred to is engrossed in each other.
it was that the first Assembly of American At last, unable to restrain herself at of the currency forged by the Japaert Philosopher at the Forbidden City. Hert the sight of her rival's triumph, the actress now under arrest at Hongkong and
representatives met to declare war upon rushed at the girl as she rose to leave the Tokyo.
England and freedom from her heavy taxes. The English taxed everything the restaurant and seized her by her beautiful golden hair. To her intense astonishment
Americans used almost, excepting the air and the water.
hair came away in her hands, with hat and veil attached to it, and the face of a middy from the officer's ship was revealed, amid roars of laughter from all present.
FOREIGN BANKS IN JAPAN,
ATTITUDE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.
DEATH OF AN INDO-CHINA EXPLORER.
THE TEA TAX:
The great celebration for our party in place where the Liberty Bell is
guarded- this city was held principally about the
The worst tax of all was upon tea The Americans were grown in China. very fond of tea, and they wanted much of it. So England decided that she could raiso large revenues by taxing the tea the harbours, tax and all, and would Then the Americano threw the tea into drink nothing but milk and water, and whisky for a long time. Not much tea was drunk for eight years, when the war ended with England beaten. It was what she deserved. I would hate any man who deprived me of my sou-chong.
THE SLEEPY TOWN.
set
to
I care nothing for mere places unless dras and hold me. And no place affections.
There must be some human beause of itself can have a claim upon thy or ancestral association connected with a place if I am to think about it, or dream about it or write about it.
Moscow as Moscow is nothing to me, but as the place where I witnessed such overpowering ceremonials, where I saw the Tsaritsa, and where I presented to her the sacred ring sent by the illustrious and ever-virtuoos Empress Dowager, it is a place enshrined deep in my heart.
And so with Essen-I bale, its smoke Herr Krupp and admire Essen because of and heat, but I love Essen because of her cannons
And so with Hawarden.
HOME ACROSS THE SEA.
heeded them not, for my vary soul was reaching out to the souls of China. I saw the Throne and I bowed my knee to their illustrious Majesticas. I saw Tientsin and Hankow-all places I love and will ever
Returning to my apartments I had nothing more to say. I bave soon the world in those months. Now all I ask is the supreme joy of kissing the earth of my nativo land.
'THE YELLOW JACKET."
A CHINESE PLAY IN NEW YORK,
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The Food Question
The Times correspondent at Washing- ton writes:-
Americans are foud of saying that their "commercial "; yet stage is hopelessly there aro at least three plays now billed in New York which in England would not be reckoned in that class, One of these in The Yellow Jacket, by Messrs. Hazleton and Benrimo, at the Fulton Theatre, soon, it is said, destined to ap- pear in London. A play in the Chinese manner could hardly be reckoned a
Safe"
commercial venture. Its produc- tion must surely be almost without preca- dent at any metropolitan theatre. There has been, of course, Mr. Fermauld's grim little pieco The Cat and the Cherub, but, vivid as was the picture it gave, it was All disappear or are alleviated given in the European "manner dealt only with the Chinese of San Fran- by the gentle stimulus of a glass of cisco.
And what does the Chinese "manner" PEMRTIN'S CLUB SHERRY. easi It means, among other things, that the whole performance is dominated The delicious aroma, together with by the property man." to climb a mountain? The property man its inviting comfort, drives away advances with languid indifference, a cigarette between his lips, and piles a weariness and cheers on to further chair or twu upon a table, and there's the
efforts. mountain!
Is a blinding snowstorm re- quired? Again be steps forward, his boredom still quite manifest, this time to scatter a few grains of rice about the stage. Should a character extend his arm to mark a significant speech it is as likely as not that the property man will pick up his feather brush and meditatively One cannot dust the extended sleeve. even die without him; when the hero's Fida Achates is overcome by the blizzard the property man is at hand to cover the corpse with a white sheet, thoughtfully leaving the beard outside. Altogether Mr. Arthur Bhaw makes a delightful figure of this property man-a kind of decadent factotum whose charm is all the greater from his complete silence.
Has the boro
There is also the Chorus, and Bignor Perugini gets a vast deal out of this per- sonage. Not a moralizing Sophoclean Chorus this, nor yet a martial Shakey-
ས pearian Chorus, but a deliciously con- osited Chorus, reminiscent now of Peter. Quince and now of Eliza in Peter Pan. The production, the Chorus assures us. is wholly his; not that he wishes to
deprive of his brothers of the Pear Garden their meed of praise. We may even call them before the curtain at the end of the play if we like, "provided" wo "do not adulate them too much." conscious of their deficiencies; "should anything in the play." he says, "appeal to your sense of humour as strongly as. it does to mine I beg of you to honourably smile. I shall not deem it a discourtesy,
Not He is full of kindly instruction, too. only does bo
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say what the play treats on but he gives us many a hint as to our own attitude, telling us, for instance, the property is **for you quite
man quite in the style of Mr. Heary James, And yet, despite intensely invisible."
the ancestors' this naiveli, despite the primitive theolo geion, from which address their descendants on the stage, and by which the virtuous dead of the ENGLISH, AMERICAN play mount to their rest with business- like despatch; despite quaint sayings like "I am deserted by all, but my self-im- portance still remains," or "She died of GOLD her mother-in-law's accomplishments, Time as honourably paraved venerable way," the actors time and again contrive to get a good deal of tragic ent PNGLISH-MOUNTED CHINESE JADE......... tion across the footlights.
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To describe the whole plot would be un- fair to the London productions; but, very briefly, it tells how Wa Hoo dit is brought up by the farmer who has been told to murder him (one thinks of Cyrus ar
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throne, symbolized by the Yellow Jacket. Many scenes linger in the mind, such as that in which Che-Moo takes leave of her baby son, writing a farewell message in her blood apon his tiny Yellow Jacket, or to the death of the philosopher Git Hok Gar-comic hie laying-out Moreover, there is, every now and then, a suggestion of allegory which reminds us of the Shaving of Shagpat-the pilgrimage of Hoo Git ending with his attainmont of the Yellow Jacket is, Burely, half-intended to symbolize man's attainment of folicity by the sacrifice of self. Yet this hint of a serious meaning is not allowed to interfere with the enjoy
like Wu Hoo Git's mont of a good story with plenty of pis encounter with Loy Gong, the god of Aght with Kom Loi, the spider, or his thunder. Only it is just sufficiently sug- gaster to throw a kind of wistful charm over the whole play." Altogether, when the curtain is raised for the "call" it is STUDY hard to obey the chorus' command. not
adulate" his "brothers" too much.
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"KEYHOLD TENURE."
The death is announced at the age of eighty-three of M. Jean Dupuis, the
Thure is a strect of cottages at Crow- The discomfited actress burst into tears explorer, who was the pioneer of French and, covering her face with her bands, influence in Indo-China. fell back on a chair. Friends tried to after travelling for two years in Egypt,
tires belonged (and some of them still MD,
land, South Lincolnshire, which at one belong) to no one but the actual holder reconcile the actress and the officer, as the settled in 1860 as a merchant at Hankow.
of the key. Many ears ago a person masquerade had proved successfully that Anxious to discover a commercial route
And so with Philadelphia and Washing-named Brothway left certain lands in she still cared for her former suitor. through Southern China, he explored the Red River as far as the frontier of Annam, and proved that it was navigable.
ton arid Mount Vernon.
And so with home where our loved ones trust for the poor of Crowland, and as soon as a labourer had sufficient money aro 1. On his return to Franco he asked for a
to build a house, he applied for permis official mission to be sent to profit by his
sion, which was granted by the feoffees. discovery, but his request was refused.
That house was his because he built it, I must not forget the Mayor of He equipped at his own expense a flotilla
and because he held the keys that admitt- of cargo hoats and returned to Hanoi, Philadelphia, the Honourable Mr. War
ed him to it. After his death, if he left widow "in possession, the house was It is stated that no foreign bank will where he soon got into difficulties with rick, who was a jolly follow, wearing a
If the
without died owner in future be allowed to open an agency the Annamite anthorities. Hie Botilla silk hat and a pernetual smile. The smile suited his city. Mr. Honourable Mayor
To-day my friends took me far out hers. in Japan without permission from the was confiscated and he himself was com made one of the longest speeches I have toward the Golden Gate and gave me my relatives, the person who was fortunate
polled to leave Tonkin as the French heard on this trip, and fe put me to Tokyo Department of Finance,
first view of the broad Pacific from this enough to step in and take possession Excep
became the owner. The tenants in many tion to this rule will only be made in Government was unwilling to support sleep. Yes, I really fell into a deep doze
banks
I could not believe it was so many instances have now taken advantage of whose him. Eventually, however, these incidents during his oration, and it took roars of side of the world. of foreign Case
thousand miles across. For as I "TODEL existence has already been recognized by resulted in the French expedition to laughter to awaken me to the sense of the Department, and who desire to estab- Tonkin. As compensation for the loss of my position.
When I opened my eyes I saw thousands there upon those high cliffs at one side the laws of enfranchisement, by which, lish additional agencies. The agencies of his flotilla, M. Dupuis received from the foreign banka now in existence are to be French Government the concession of a of people laughing and clanning their of the narrow entrance to the great Bay for a small sum, they are enabled to take recognized by the authorities, but they coal mine in that Colony, but it proved hands, and at first I thought it must have of San Francisco I strained my tired out a deed; which shows the property to
1.he
ment of Finance business reports from in great poverty. He was the author of their next business year.-Japan Gazette. I several works on Indo-China.
of the speaker's that bad brought about such an extraordinary outburst of good
(The Viceroy wrote but little more of hie memoirs while on American soil. His last paragraphs, written at San Francisco the day before his sailing for China, are as follows:-
be their freehold. could see in the beautiful distance the Rome houses with no title deeds, and the holy mirage of my native lard, Those people living in them have only the about me talked and pointed, but I keyhold tenure."
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