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The stocks on August 28th woro 844 of Patna, 21 Benares, 1,2504 Malwn, and 829 J'ersian and Turkish. Trio exports during the interval to : Shangbai, leto), ⠀ were 220 Patna, 6 Malwa, and 21 Porsian and Turkish. The stocks of uncertified. Bengal opium on Angust 27th wore 116 Patna and 110 BenarON. No opium was boited by Government monoply and there were not exportations. In the Bongal market, business has been ut a standstill. Following. are quotations:--Patoa, New. $9,335, Old SD,200, V. Old 99,100. Benares, New, 80,050, 01 88,925, V. Old 98.825. Malwo marketHas ruled very dull and no business has transpired Quotations aro:-Now to 3 years drug 89,300 475 years. $8,400. Oldest #8.500.
EXPORTS.
There is no change to report in Feathers, and the condition of Ginger is muchangel, no business doing. The business, in Galangal and Cassia Oil retains paralysed on account of the wat. Ground Nuts are quoted at 88 per pical with shells and $10 per picul without shells, but there is no market for them Business in Wood Dil is stopperi, Human Hair is given at prices per picul Tob. Hongkong.. Reuter's under date of July 14th gives standard. tin, cash, 143/3 por ewt and three months › 144/9...per evt. The Yaman merchants are holding for higher prices for their bullion, but there is no market, and Smelters are firm at the
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Arrivals
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NATURE'S SUNSHADE,
Now it should be realized that there is nothing specially healthy about a
The Metebie. Benson By VINCENT MILLS- "tanned skin. Tan is merely Nature's
Maler, Jamioa; Stanley Pard & Co. sunshade against the ultra-violet rays. So soon as the skin is exposed to these there French parentage, is imbued with the land- Beuson, a young Leeds engineer, of Anglo- is developed in its superficial layers a film of brown pigment which acts ass a able ambition of making war impossible. To alter and shuts out the harmful influence.complish this end, he conceives the idea of The City man has a white face-that is and all those who are interested in the constricting an aeroplane of novel design, an untanned face-because the soot in the mechanics of Bying machines will and some city atmosphere effectually alters the thing to make them think in the technical sunlight and eliminates the ultra-violet details that are woven into a very human rays, When he goes to the country he story. It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the suffers at once. This suffering, however,
author has chosen to make the protagonist is by no means a healthy process in itself of Benson a German, also that he should and should certainly be avoided, or, at have introduced the German Emperor inta
process. The practice of exposing one's friends will be in any way offended by this face to direct sunlight in order to get not of lèse-majesté, if such it can be termed. sunburnt is both absurd and dangerous. The Emperor has been spending a holiday in The most obvious precaution is a big the Isle of Wight while the bureaucrats in sun hat. The colour of this should be Berlin have been fomenting a quarrel with light brown (Panama)-a hint furnished Great Britain, and on the ore of a declara. by nature, White is of little value. Intion of hostilities the Emperor's yacht is the case of women greens and (except in very hot weather) reds are quite untisfac tory. A blue parasol, on the other hand, is an invitation to sunburn. Most of the lined with Indian pith helmets are greens. This colour has the advantage that it keeps out both the ultra-violet and hot red rays. Face creams and other translucent preparations are, of course, of little value. Similarly s decorated in green is delightfully cool; irritating rays are absorbed, and also According to some investigators-flies are driven off. The house fly does certainly soem to object to the various shades of green.
AN ENGLISH SCHOOL in British has been done in east-duced the story, but we do not think our German
Territory favoured with a "magnificent | advanced · rates, The Saltpetro market is climate."
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there School house by the sea. Recreations-Ses values are daily advancing, but bathing, basting, cricket, football, etc.
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of schedules. As to the local market, with prices controlled by the Government and the steady export checked, prices remmin Stocks are 260,000 sacks and arrivals normal. Quotations are: Patents 31. $3.00-83.20 per
off's MORITA, CERTIFICATED bag, cat
M. $2.70-82.00 per bag straight 11. 39.60-82.80 per bag, seconds M. $2.30-$2.50 per bag,
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COLOUR AND HEAT. THE SCIENCE OF SUMMER LIVING.
Who
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shat
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has delighted in xhilarating influence of the morning sun these last few days can doubt that the effects of lights upon health are not 18 profound as they are immediate Sunlight is Nature's greatest drug. The term is used advisedly, since, just as in the case of a drug, abuse of the remedy may be followed by disastrous consequences. While we enjoy the brilliant days that
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LIGHT AS A MEDICINE. On the other hand, the ultra-violet rays, though harmful to the skin, are a power
ger killer. This is one of the reasons why the tops of mountains are so free from bacterial life the atmospheric filter being very thin" there-and why cities are such a breeding ground for it Glass is another filter for these rays, and therefore windows should be rigorously kept open and-except in case of great this way natural disinfection is encour- aged. Rooms into which the sun never shines are rightly auspected of being
steaming up the North Sea when Benson drives up alongside and drops on beard a he allows war to be declared his warships will letter in which he warns the Emperor that if be destroyed piecemeal by means of bombs dropped from the empyrean. The Emperor orders the yacht to be turned round and teams back to the Isle of Wight. There is a great deal more than this in the story. Thers is an attempt by German emissary to steal Benson's plans.. An attempt is made shoot him as he sets out an a fight across the Atlantic, and he is shot but not killed, on his landing in Madison Square, New York. He is made a baronet, wins the for- tate offered by an American for the first flight newss the Atlantic, receives a pensioa. from the British Government, and marries Lady Hermione Prendergast, the beautiful daughter of the scientist, Lard Netherby, The who is at first opposed to the union. story savours of Jules Verne that is to say, the introduction of the scientific idea suggests that prophetic writer of our youth. and wa mich has been already accomplished in the art of aviation since Blériot first few across the Straits of Dover that we are chary of asserting that the Atlantic flight is im- possible or improbable. There are so many hesitate to offer eriticism, so merely content ourselves by regretting the juvenility of its style,
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Crock of Galil. By JAMES STEPENH, London: Maemilian & Co., Ltd, A short time ago, we had the pleasure of The Char
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ing anywhere, but, of course we are best able de speak of those amongst whom we live and
•niove and have our daily intercourse. Now there is, every reason why we who live in a versity town should cultivate a Jors of dyond the science of wealth, the chi
of commercial intercourse. We ars
reading and commending woman's Daughter" by this writer. This is ut a sequel to that charming novel, but it has the same subtle witchery and grace, and
set in an intellectual environment; we are shows. Mr. Stephons to be thinker,
part" and "pärvet of a movement which is to idealist, a poet in prose a new literary force even a mighty Republic, a mighty people,
The Crock of Gold is not a novel,
which has taken the first step towards a Hew n philosophy of life-presented in novel guise.
éra of political progress and intellectual humanity; it reveals rather than analyses age in philosophical studies, this short innan emotions; it seeks to point the way; work will be most acceptable. It is so as all, good books have done since the world
summer may have in store, it is well to beat-curtains and blinds abolished. In attractive imaginings in the story that we It is instinct with humanity and the love of Jevelopment. To anyone who wishes to in-
realize that light contains dangerous as well as health-giving qualities and under stand how to use it to the best hygienic
advantage.
Sunlight is composed of various coloured rays, the most important of which are the red, the blue and the ultra violet. The red are the heat rays and have the effect of stimulating brain activity. Pansini, of Naples, refers to a case where workers in a room with red glass windows became after a time dan- gerously excited, and mentions that smallpox patients submitted to red-ray treatment developed, dreadful hallucina tions. The red rays are the probable cause of su. and heat strokes.
unhealthy.
Francescu. By Ceca A
London:
began, to the higher hope of human aspira-designed as to excite the curiosity of the tion. It is pure gold through and through student, be he young or old. It is extremely and as such should be acceptable to those of id, and, in passing, we would take the our readers who seek something fresh topportunity of congratulating the translator.
on the excellence of his share of the work. stimulate their thoughts, their imagination and their aspiration. The author has inter-Avoiding, as far as possible, the technical waren with his story something of the fairyArgon of the schools, M. Faguet gives a lore of Ireland, so much so that we unconstid sketch of the history of philosophy easly accept "the little people, the three from the tin of Tuiles down to the but century. The book is divided into threa Absolutes, Angus Og, sail the god Pan as real beings in whose sayings and doings our puin sections: Autiquity, In the Middle
Ages, and Modern Times. The reader is interest becomes absorbed. There is also a
when step by step through the various stages delightful Philosopher from whose lips fall
of philosophical development, for the author pearls of wisdom, not to be despised by a
brings mut, in a strikingly clear manner, the rude, reckless and unthinking generation, ruote of the teaching of each school and and there is much humour in the dialogue between the Philosopher and his wife, the the main lines of each great man's thought. Thin Woman of Inis Magrath, as, indeed, Here we have epitomised the teaching of there is humour throughout the whole book. Sterates, Mr. Stephens' latest production only serves to make us more clamorous for the sequel to
The Charwoman's Daughter.”
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES."]
Stanley Paul & Co. Here we have a clean healthy story free SIR-The author of the article on p. 5
from the sex problezas too freprently of The Times of May 18th on Colour and
introduced nowadays into Lovels by lady Heat has forgotten Benjamin Franklin's writers. Miss Adair has a charming grace famous experiments, to speak of no
of style as well as the power of investing her others, which, negative his dicta about
characters with personal charm and of creat colours of clothes. Every schoolboying an atmosphere for them, two qualities knows nowadays that the warmth of that appeal to us, even if she suggests the clothing of given thickness depends on manner of some of the mid-Victorian writers, The central figure is Francesca, the daughter the qualities of heat conduction and of heat absorption, and in no wise upon its of a young Englishman and a young Italian transmission of colours. In direct sun. lady of noble parentage, who have married shine black cloth absorbs practically all against the wishes of their respective the radiation that falls on it, and there familles. Francescn is only a few weeks old fore becomes bot. White cloth reflects when Chaud Rothwell is offered an appoint much of the radiation and does not itself mont ja tropical land which brings become so hot, and hence is cooler to wear.
the prospect of earning money and of hitaself |II the ·world. It is both incorrect in fact and fallacious rehabilitating
will not Tx separated from in argument to say that white, which is wife transmits all the rays of the sun, is hotter him, and it is impossible to take the Red light, in moderate amount, is a
the weakest partion of the story-to leave splendid whip to jaded nerves, and when than, say, black, which transmits none of baby with them. They decide and this is
A white fabric appears white them." the weather is not too hot red clothing because of its reflecting properties, audber at the gute of a convent, hoping to restarn to claim her from the Mother undoubtedly increases this effect and produces a inental influence of a beneficial a black fabric is black by reason of its Superior. But an English lady who has lost extravagant at times, sometimes farcical, but i
The obvious inference is that in hot summer weather red should not be adopted as a colour for hats, parasols, or clothes. Even white, which transmits all the rays of the sun, is hotter than, say, black which transmits none of them.
HED AS A NERVE TOXIC.
kind upon the wearer,
Blue light, on the other hand, is soothing-in big doses it is depressing. To place a melancholic in a room with blue blinds or under a blue parasol would be a mistake, Blue light baths are given
absorbing properties.
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her own child white visiting Vallombrosa and is anxious to conceal her loss from her husband-absent on a diplomatic mission calls at the convent to obtain a substitute for her own Frances, and thus becomes the
Of the alleged depressing, melancholie, stimulating, and soothing properties of coloured rays--which it appears can even develop dreadful hallucinations in small- pox patients I will merely observe that in cases of over-excitement, neuralgia, there is no evidence that these effects are and muscular rheumatise, and are often physical; they seem to belong to nervous very helpful. Blue, however, allows the Psychology. ultra-violet rays to pass through it, and hence is not suitable for hot weather wear. These uitra-violet rays are, with the remarkable physical phenomena known. The author of the article writes:-"The Thoy possess the power of destroying meaning which it was desired to convey animal tissues with great rapidity was not that the actual white fabric This may be proved in various ways. If became hotter than the black, which as a white man goes to the tropics and fails Professor. Thompson points out is not the then lovable, and none more so than Ilaria,
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fester-mother of Francesen. It is easy to foresee the complications that arise whet the son of her husband by a former roarriage Kon abandoned to his mother's people in South Carolina at the time of his birth and his mother's death-appears on the scene and falls in love with Francesen. Of course, a marriage between half-brother and half- sister is impossible, but Lady Hookwood con- fesses the imposture she has practised on her husband, without forfeiting his law, and the round. A great story ends in happiness many characters are introduced, most of
to exercise proper care the ultra-violet case, but that more light, passed through the second daughter of the Mothwells,
rays of the sun will soon produce an acute inflammation of his skin which may lay him up for several weeks. In England, where the sun's rays are much less power ful, sunburn is a small matter, and is usually regarded as the inevitable frst step towards a good healthy tan.”
the white fabric as in the case of a parasol and hence that it formed a less afficient sunshade; hence the use of the word transmits. Though the effect of coloured light is psychical or physical is a voxed one, those using coloured light batha testify to their value as indicated."
Francesca's sister, and young Garry Mon crieff, the son of the Master of Rookwood. apart from the artificiality of the plot, the story is excellent in construction; and main tzing the interest to the end, even though the happy ending can be foreseen at quite ́an early stage.:
By R. AspoŃ. London: Stanley Paul & Co.
Neighbours of fine..
The creator of Troddles scarcely needs an introduction. He is already firmly establish- ed as one of our leading English humorist, at all times obviously ont to make his readers
at him. On the present occasion, he has laugh. We always laugh with him; never chosen to hold up to ridicule some of the weaknesses of his suburban neighbours, and if at imes he gets away from reality, or even are not inclined to be cap- There are twenty- probability, we tious or hypercritical.
ja spasm of tin chapters. and each laughter, while the seventy illustrations by Gunnis give an added interest to R. Andom's characters and their experiences.
By EMIL Initiation into Philosophy.
FAGUET (of the French Academy) Translated from the French by Sir Home Gordon, Bart. London: Wiliams & Norgate,
Plato, Aristotle, Descrates, Spinuza, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Spencer, Cousin, Auguste Comte, Taine, and Repan, ked many others throughout the ages, and all in a style which makes it a pleasure for the more umu of the world to drink at the fountain of wisdom.
Week
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 1st to 7th September, 1914.
HIGH WATER
DAYA of
Tues,
Tod
Charu
Fri. 4
B'kong.
Mean
Time
ft.
Height
LOW WATER
H'kong.
Mena
Timis
ft: in
m6 29 7112 21 3
2m 7-80 75 m. 0.4)
9:16m 4-6-
248 472 35 a} :]· 3m 8 207 4
950 & 49
.1 38
3.6.
9 47 4 m 2.22
10 5 a 5 136
Satur. 5 m 9 44 172 m 3 3
šan,
6
We think we may safely say without in- readers that the average sulting our European living in Hongkong or the Treaty Ports of China is not addicted to the study with truth perhaps, of the average tan liv of Philosophy. The same might be said, non,
10 19 54
10-20 6 8 3
10:34 - 5 6 10.50
64;
50 5
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20 20 20 10 5 1 x & x ( mara --- Height,