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Hotels in Japan & Manchuria
MEMBERS OF JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION.
Average Rates for Single Rooms (without Bath) including meals
Y10-12 in cities and some popular resorts. Y8-10 in country districts,
Chasenji (Nikko) — Kyoto —
'Takzride Hotel
•Kamakura
Kailin Hotel
Karuizawa
S Mikasa Hotel
Kobe
Oriental Eotal). To Hotel
IN CHOSEN
Keijo (Berl)
Chosen Hotel
Fran Station Hotel Shingisha
IN JAPAN PROPER
Shizug
Daitokwan Hotel
Imperial Hotel Tokyo Station Hotel „Trakiji: Beryoken Hote
Grand Hotel
Eroto Hotel
Nars Hotel Miyako Hotel Nikko's- Mateushima
Kanaya Kual Park Hotel Mikko Hotel 4
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Lysima Hotel Osaka Hotel Miyanoabita i Shimonoseli
Fujiya Hotel Ban-yo Hotel
IN TAIWAN (FORMOSA) Taikoku Taiwan Railway Hotel
IN MANCHURIA
Sbingiais Station Hotel
Changchun z
*Tamata Hotal Dairen s
Yamato Hotel
Hoshigazra zani AbYamato Hotel
Hotel (Makden)
-Yamato Hotel:
Brojan (Port Arthur)
Yamato Hotel
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SEORYTARY OF THE ABEGOTĀTION. Tracie Bureau, Gorezamant
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WOMEN OF NO IMPORTANCE.
WHERE MAN IS STILL THE MASTER:
Maurice Cowah weiter in the Daily
The historian of the future will call the | premedit - era....” The Woman Age". "Always" powerful in unobserved spheres, woman is now the obvious potent förca.
Yet there are still same corners of the sarth where woman is what she was age and agen Ago. Tangier is one of then.
Lase than three hours journey from Gibraltar our Civilisation. în scorned and. dorided.: In Tangier the thin European veneer is lost, in the ware of African bar- | barism. "Woman counts as naught. Me
The dazzling whiteness of the houses, the bing, blue sky, the Moorish, arches, the carions odours, the prostrate figures in every hole and at every corner, the black water carrier with a rag round his loins and a goat- skin of water on his back, a girl of seven with a child tied to her back and a hugs bundle of. charcoal on her head; faces noble and mean faces of sultans and serators, fices black,- yellow, brown and white -all this intrigued and attracted me, but there was no impres- mọn so deep, no emotion so strange as that when I first met a woman.
Down the street the glided like mapectre. Clad in a white sheet, only the eyes, part of the forehead, and the hand that shrouded the face were visible. As I approached she quickly covered the whole of her face, and shrinking, sought shelter in the shadow of the wall along which she edged.
SAD EYES.
Only once did I see's face unveiled. A“ woman stopped to raise a-burden, and I saw. a face that would have bought the soul of an artist, yet the eyes were very sad.” Only before her lord and master may a married woman unveil, and no face worth seeing, of girl past childhood remains unveiled for the public to gaze upon.
There were other women Seated on the ground in the midst of indescribable £lth and offal they sold bread; tomatoes, green- staffs, while myriada of fies and insects buzzed round them Innumerable donkeya were driven down the streeta, and no driver cared, if the animal tramped on a woman. "Urria," they shouted, urging the beast on but
if a man were in the way the cry was
* Balok," giving a warning.
"Why do no men sit on the ground sell
ing broad," I' saked an Arab."
A superior smile, and the word "Koran*
was the only reply. With the Koran they
can justify everything.
On one ocension "a paudemoniam at:
1990.
"MELACHRINO'
THE CIGARETTE ELECT OF ALL NATIONS.
We have made a reduction
on the following numbers
Old prices
Revised prices
No. 1
$4.75
$4.25
No. 4
3.75
3.50
No
3.25
2.75
No. 8
2.25
No. 9
2.25
To enjoy an excellent smoke use
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PERSONAL,"
H. TAREYTON”.
OR STROLLERS
(Navy Cut).
TOBACCO
Tabaqueria Filipina,
tractor me. The Street was lighter with 38-40, Queen's Road, Central.
torches, and down it came a procession, accompanied by music, yells, the braying of donkeys, the barking of dogs, and crowds of semi-naked children. In the centre of cha sething mol, was a large-box" borne un the of a donkey. The ride wat in the box After being taken round the town she. would be deposited at the house of her husland, whom she had never seen
He has two wives already said the guide, and several others" -by which he meant conenbings. This new one is fifteen-time she was married. What use will she be when her bloom-havanished pleasure to man, and she willow
hor freshness gune? Now she is a fow
year, but after that the Arabs gesture and face expressed eloquently enough the contempt and brutality that become the woman's lot. I remembered those women I had seen,, crouching in the door- ways dry as mummies, heaps of rags, yet young in years.
As the ureming sun threw broad shadows across the square of the snowwhite city the voice of the muezzin called the faith fal to prayers
What were the women praying for 1
CONJURING GERMAN
OFFICER.”
"THE VALUE OF A UNIFORM
The famous Captain von Köpenick has found an imitator in Richard Donnerback conjorer, who was sentenced · recently, to three years, imprisonment by the Southern District Court Dennerhack proved by his exploit that the years have made little difference in the gullibility of the German public and officials when it is a question of a uniform. pr
As becomes a conjurer, he based his method on the trick of disappearing at right time.
A
Donnerhack began by travelling from town to town as a German officer who fund
been interned in India When he bad raised considerable. Fans from patriotic and kindly persons, he would disappear. Having on this career threadbard, he changed his exploit. He descended upon Dortmund AS Agat of the German Govern- ments with fall power to evacuate the city of all men between 18 and 35 to other parts of Germany, as the town was to ber occupied by Entente troops. He was believed by the City authorities, but the alarming news ran through the town like wildfre occasioning great excitement mong the officials and public, with the result that the military, made inquiries at at Berlin before Donnerback could appear. They meanwhile locked him up in an apper room in his hotel. He at tempted to disappear by tying the sheets together, but was seen by his guards when still some distance from the ground. The
unhitched top sheet and Denner Buardar
hack fell the rest of the way, breaking an army and a leg. He spent, now, a few weeks in This hotel Daring his convalescence he began to give insprompta conjuring entertainments, which were greatly appreciated In the approved manner he borrowed the doctora gold watch for the disppearing trick in which both bat and the gold watch disap- peared
the
Babsequently Donnethack was found to have not up in Berlin as a marriage swindler" the method of this apparently well-recog- mired trade being to pretend that he was a German call his flance that he had been ta gov. himself engaged, to be married, ordered on a journey by Government, and beseech her to lend him the money for this, He would then disappear. On a recent oc- cssion, however, he did not disappear quickly. enough, and he is now to make up for it by die mearing for a longer time,
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Reduction in Prices
In conformity with our policy of main- taining the lowest retail prices in the United States, the prices of all Piece-goods, Clothing, Underwear, Shoes, Hoisery, etc., have been reduced 10% to 25%.
All orders received after Oct. 1st will receive benefit of the reduction.
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