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THE - HONGKONG DAILY PERSĂ MEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1118)
CORRESPONDENCE.intermarriage resalta in beautiful spec MR. HARRY ORE'S FOURTH
MR. ORME'S RECENT LECTURE,
[TO THE EDITOR OF "THE HONGKONG DAILY PAISS."}
Bi-I was much interested to read Mr G N Orme's interesting lecture on The people of China appearing in your issue of the sth "inst. The following reitark by Mr. Orme contains the key to the unlocking of the problem of the great and ever-recurring, racial question:
We shall soon be much nearer together, nationaly and racially, than we have been."
If all thinking men will remember this, instead of stirring up race hatred by agitation and publishing dangerous books ad newspaper articles, we may yet hope for some world-stirring decisions by the Washington Conference, loading to a better understanding between the nations assembled together to-day.
We
mets of manhood and womanhood, as in provod throughout the wide world.
I am, therefore, of the strong belief that the original ancestors of the human race wäre either white or a light brown,
and I will now explain how I arrived at such a conclusion,
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RECITAL:
A-large and appreciative audience almost filled the rooms on Monday afternoon to hear Mr. Ore's interpretation of Chopin
CHINESE RESTAURANT PROPRIETORS FINED.
out as
OPEN DURING PROHIBITED HOURS. The "managers of three of the largest Chinese restaurants in Kennedy Towr, Liszt. The programme opened with a viz., the Kam Ling, Yick To To and the Polonaise which must, I think, have been Kang Wo, were fined $25 each, yesterday unferuiliar to most of those present; it morning as the Magistracy, by Mr. Lindsell for keeping their premises open Speaking from aa anthropological
certainly does pot appear in the Angener during prohibited hours. The offences stand-point, there are only thres great edition. Starting with movement were said to have taken place between
The coloured divisions of the human race, mimost in the familiar Nocturne form, and 3 a.m. on the 8th ult
defence, put forward by the defendants. iz., white, brown and black; and, with a superb choral passage in the solicitor. Mr. M. K. Lo, in the three strange to say, they coincide with the middle, it later. breaks out into the oases was similar. He contended that three racial branches of the descendents wildest phantasies, of a Polonaise. The the restaurants were not open for busi- of Sham, Hum and Japhet, the three unly other Chapin tein was the wellness when Sergeant Hallam made the call sons of Noah, as recorded in the Bible known Second Sogate, When John Keats The doors in each case were closed, but All other races are merely the off-shots confined his genus in the heroic couplets not locket. The lights had been switched of these thres great branches, and the of Endymion" he produced something off, and the staff of fokis dismissal for changes in colour and features have been which certainly would not of itself have the night. In each case a party of guests due to intornarriage, climatic changes, won him immortality, and the reader has were found on the premises, but Mr. As already a constant irk to get back to the real Los argument was that they were pres and physical surroundings. pointed out in my books and seven sup. Keats of the Odes, of which the mere paring to leave when the police visited plementary pamphlets (Meaars. Kally stilted composition contains the mere the establishments. Ho contended that ash, Lat) all human migrations can echo. So, too, I think with Chopin's these guests had been warned to leave They finished their meals be traced from the place of their common Sonatas They are in no way hide bound, before m origin, ., the locality between the Tien and, indeed, in the matter of formalism and then left. If a guest was ordered bar as follows:-" The most insuper. tains (Chinese Turkestad) of the, Centrai | Mazurkas on the Ballades (be even plays | then the ones should rest on the guest] Mr. Orme again refers to the colour Shan Mountains and the Äten Lun Moan- | they are considerably looser than the to leave." he said, “and did not dò 80, Asian Platean, so frequently mentioned pranks with the Scherzo, movement, and not on the proprietor. The pro stiff as a gavotte); but pristor was placed in an awkward posi able differenos is the colour bar.
in the ancient history of China, Persia, which should be. Teel, and partly acquire, a feeling of
and India.
one has the constant feeling of Chopinion. He could not eject the "man. contemp for people who are not so
In studying the origin and migrations deliberately setting aimself to compose Chinese of important official and social pleasantly bleached as we are ourselves.
standing visited these restaurants and With a view to making it easier If the human race, care should be taken something which shall qualify him for a
not to confuse the two migrations, merious place among the immortals. For when ordered to quit generally said in our recall you to to would like
believe that it is hard to example, (a) Ante-diluvial, and (6) Post-diluvial.
a tone of authority What do you mean to leave the place! ancestors. 1. won't take you to the Ice The Ante-diluvial migration started from Chopin would have put the "Funeral by ordering me Age because you will find it rather cold, but I will take you back to the the Taria River. Basin of Chinese March" where he did it Bestboven had] Leave it to me. I will take all respon-
Turkestan, that historic locality between not set the fashion.
sibility pleasant days when mankind rat found the Tiontain and Kuen Luti mountains, Chopin's greatness is largely due to Asked by the Magistrate where he -it-possible to subsist without getting into caves,-when Civilization began the lead of "The River with Four his complete mastery of what by his time we going to draw the line, Mr. Lo had become the very complicated and painted out that if the restaurants had to dawn. These days must have been heads," and the Eden of the Bible
Baore the great upheaval of Central delicate instrument known as the piano-been fully lit up and the proprietors had passed in some warm, tropical climate
Asia and the "subsidence of a vast con- forte. He was the first to realise its been attrneting business then an offence and, whether wo are alt one family or tinent in the Pacific Ocean, which caused immense possibilities as a medium of would have been committed. In this DOL, I think there was not very much chose between us in point of colour, the sudden change in the North Polar | expression, notibly in the matter of the cass they were closed to the public andi We were pretty well browned, if not Regiona, which suddenly Irozo Northern singing solo note and the chromatic run. they were getting the guesta blackened, by the sun. Subsistence be and removed the cold from North Mr. Ore's execution was, as usual, fault quickly as possible.
But supposing the guests were there," came dificult and we outsiders, be East America and Northern Europe, and less, every note is the most complicated
say at in the cause it appears that the negro is a produced the great Tidal Wave which runs standing out like dew on the mora queried Mr. Lindsell,
morning 1" rather higher type than ourselves had travelled round the World, and suddenlying grass. If one missed the rubato
destroyed and wiped out all ancient which Pachmann has popularized, strict
Mr. Lo: 1 would say the same in to begin moving north and south to a boides climate and we began to lose prehistorio civilizations thereby causing tempo is certainly an error in the right that care if the doors were closed. It thas delightful colour which we now the puzzling and inexplicable "gap" in direction and greatly to be preferred to wold be a question of degres. I think Associate naturally with the negro. the histories of all modern nations the the sentimental axaggeration which is too it is necessary that a ruling he given on We became that nasty bleached colour our tributaries of the Tarim River of often heard in the playing of Chopin," An infant prodigy, whose name I for- which we see among ourselves today, Chinese Turkestan wore connected with some who went north, like the Chinese the four great rivors Ganges, Indus, get, on being asked at the age of Bf the of the Hung Wo restaurant all 23 rooms! Also lost their black colour, but not Oxus and Jaxartes. These great physical narne of his favourite composer, answered 'nf the hotel had been occupied; 9% of going into misty climate, they chose the shanyes are verified by a careful study Listz." Whether they locked him up the rooms were vacated before 20. m. rather yellowish colour we see and not of the numerous ancient dried up water forthwith or he is still at large is not the dull white we acquired and are courses, and the mountains, and the known, but the pointless story is a true guests, was vacated by 2.30 a.m. Thore:
Central one.
Liszt was a pianist first and a was no point in keeping a large restaur Dow so proud of. If you are top geologial conditions of the dog' you can make anything you have Asian Plateau, which aft show signs of composer afterwards. His vice seems to an open for the sake of five guests in one got a subject for prida but it is not terrife volcanic action and upheaval.[ be a misapprehension of the limitations room, and in support of his argument;
To prove that all the ancient people. We must look for some more vizations were suddenly destroyed and consists of periodical spoils of sanity wiped out of existence by the Tidal Wave among a setting something like Brack's Pelid ground of superiority than mere The Deluge, it will be sufficient a Benefit; but "some people seem to enjoy recall and remember the mysterious and it Mr. Bowes-Smith played admirably It must be most delightful and ex hitherto inexplicable blank in the ancient the adapted accompaniment to the First Bilarating to Universal Peace workers to history of Egypt, Greece, Chaidea, New Concerts, and Mr. Ore played both it seo Mr. Orme expressing himself in this Mexico, Peru, Switzerland (Age of lake and (as an encore) the oferenth Khap
Mr. Lindsell in imposing the fine ad- strain, and let us hope that there will dwellings), and Ancient Britain (Age of sodio with his usual vervu and precision, mitted that Mr. Lo had a good case be plenty of others to follow in his foot triliths of Stonehenge, and the grave Talking of funeral marches, why is it and if the procedure as mentioned by The races of Russia and Southerntants and sentinestones of the that they are always in the form solemn Mr. Lo was carried out the defendants Orkney Islands). No written records of gay-salcmn1 Is the middle part a Europe are already thoroughly mixed and the history of these prehistoric nations glimpse of beaver, or merely a relief? were well within the law. blended, and you have colours ranging from dull white to brown and even the exist, and the present natives of the land Ferhaps the plot is what so siten hap police evidence adduced he was of the
are quite ignorant of the history and pens at real earthly funerals, namely opinion that the procedure was
were on the premises. The onus, thero- black of the negros and many bave the origin of these lost rachs. Another proot First Movement. So old is red, strictly followed, and that singing girls facial characteristics of the Mongolian of the universal destruction of life by Wall I am
sorry. What a dreadful
fore, "reated with the defendante. They, "He was a were not sufficiently careful in preserving Therefore, why discriminate the Diluvial Tidal Wave is the existance thing." Second Movement: In the interests of Universal Peace and of vast deposits of diluvial, loess, salt cheery sort, wasn't he? Remember those the law and a fine of $26 was imposed in
lakes, salt deposits, and deserts in the nights two years ago! And that time each case.
And he held four Kings? I wonder if he'll different continents of the world
am positively certain that if further get any poker where Third Move-
the Sphinx which excavations are made amidst the sand set Pyramids of Egypt, and the vast looar areas of China and other parts of the world, the spades of archaeologists and explorers will disclose relics, which will shed much light on the life and history of these prehistoric nations, which have been destroyed by the Deluge.
colour."
azepa
tartars! now. 1
the Brotherhood of Man. I think we should encourage this mixing and blend ing of the different races, as it is the only way to solve the difficult and dis tressing race and colour problems, which confront us to-day. If we believe in God the Creator, this is the proper course to pursue."
Regarding, the Chinese, I think it is a fallacy to call them the yellow race. You will find-in-North China to day many Chinese quite as white and with classical features equal to those of any The colout of the Chinese varies from
surrounds
What
Stearly on. One shouldn't joke and here. Poor old X. "I um Borry,
a dreadful thing."
ante-diluvian
European. The Post-diluvial migration started white to different shades of brown, but from the great loss plain of the Yellow Hiver Valley District of China, where
it is never yellow.
Musicus.
THE STRANDED "MANJI MARU."
VESSEL NOT IN DANGER.
this point.
Mr. Lo pointed out that in the case
and that the 3rd room, containing' five
dence.
The manager stated that the main object of the staff was to get the hotel cleared as as early as possible; by so doing much expense to the proprietors
was saved.
From the
not
DECEIVING THE POLICE. BOILING OPIUM UNDER THEIR NOSES.
How a flourishing opium business was carried on in a matshed under the eyes of the Police... was describ ed by Chief Preventive Officer-Watt to Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magis tracy, yesterday, when a Chinese was sent to prison for three months with..
In reality the human race consists of Noah and his descendents settled, after despatched-to the assistance of the M.B.Kbard-labour for boiling opium. He was
All other
three distinct colour divisions, white, brown and black colours are merely blends.
The Taikoo tug-boat, Taikoo, has beca the Deluge. It is evident that Noah's cargo steamer, dans-Maru, which went ark did not rest on the top of Mount ashore in the Hainan Straits on also fined $150 with the alternative of Ararat of Armenia, since it would have Year's Day. The Mikesan Maru, which 3 months' imprisonment for being in was sent to the rescue directly the news Possession of 4.7 taels of prepared opium. been scarcely possible for Noah and his
The defendant admitted the charge and I cannot agree with Mr. Orme that our family to have descended from such a of the stranding reached the port, haa
Chief Preventive Officer Watt, acting on original ancesters were black in colour, and that the negro is a higher type than Jaity precipitous creat in safety to the returned with a report that the vessel is said that he had nothing to say.
lower regions around them. This great in no danger and that her salvage by the
information received, visited the matshed, the whitish-browns. Intellectually a barron and solitary mountain, which tug should present no great difficulty.
situated a few yards distant from the Police Quarters in Caino Road. Peeping morally, the black race cannot compare with the white and brown races. But, of rises from the plain of the Arazce to a sublime alevation of 17,280 foot above the
through a narrow slit between door, and -sourse, there are rare exceptions.
sea-level, is a volcanic giant, covered The existence of the Black race, with with eternal snow! The place, where the able mountain systems of India, Tibet, door post Mr. Watt saw the defendant its frizzled hair and calf-less legs, is neark grounded, beyond all question, was Chinese, Turkestan, which acted as an busy preparing opium. There were two "exclusion wall for nearly two thou furnaces going, one for boiling water of the inscrutable mysteries of God. They
place from whence the act of leaving sand years, resulting in China being used in preparing the drug and the other In the living are undoubtedly Hamitic in descent, and
terra incognita to the West, until for boiling the opium does not the Bible teacht Cursed be the ark could be accomplished with ease and safety; and consequently, it was
B.C. 900, when the armies of the "Han"
room of the shed, which was very coin-} Canaan; servant of servants shall be, be not upon the summit of Mount Ararat of
Emperors of China reached the confines fortably furnished, a tin containing 4.7. bo anto his brethren
taels of prepared opium was found. The And, doon not the Bible. also teach Armenia. What is remarkable and in-
Having lost all trace of China (Shinar), man was carrying on a large trade with Bleseed, be the Lord God of. Shem; and teresting is the fact that balonging to of Pers11.. Canaan, shall be his servant, and also the Tiontaan system of mountains is a
God shall enlarge Japhet, and he shall range called the Naraz Mountains. The and being surrounded by vast oceane, the coolies engaged in the neighbourhood dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan Tidal Wave of the Deluge must have de diluvian inland sens, the frozen wilds in erecting buildings, including the new The opium used was of a very poor shall be his servant." And has not all posited Noah's ark on the Narat Moun of Siberia, and formidable mountain police quarters.
tains (Mountains of Ararat of Genesis chains, they mistook Mesopotamia and this come true to-day?
Most of the black racce (negros, of the Bible), and ancient Chinese his the surrounding country to be the whole quality and consequently its odour was negritos, dravidians, etc.) are still try mentions that. Noah lived in the worldy and this is why the ancient very pangent, and as the matshed was savages, and of poor mentality, and it vicinity of Tianshan alter the Deluge historians of the West crowded all quite close to the police station it u does not appear likely that they will and that he drained the plateau of its places, rivers, and mountains mentioned surprising that the man was not caught was noticeable at some distance from the ever become the equals of their Semitic food waters. And what is most import in Chapters I to XI of Genesis into sooner. The smell of the boiling opium ant to remember, the Central Asian this corner of Western Asia Could they and Japhetic brethren in intelligance Plateau is the original home of all our have made a greater mistake? And, it shed. and learning.
domestic animals, fowls, and birds; and is this mistake, which has confused and The descendents of Japhet (white rosos) are at present in occupation of North coording to the American batanist and confounded the Church and the think- horticulturist Frank: N Moyers of the ing World for close on four thousand
9.8. "CHINA.” and South America, and Australia (the Burusu of Plant Industry Department years. Having established the fact that A COOLIE'S FIND ON THE bents of Shem), but they should always of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Kansu Noak's descendents were uttered abroad
SOMETHING UP HIS SLEEVE. Yellow River Valley District of China, remember, the the Shemites are the province, is the original home of all our upon the face of the Earth. from the original owners of the land and that they fruit trees
it: ia reasonable to suppose that the should welcome and treat them as
It must now be clear to all thinking brothers. It appears, that Almighty God has given the Hamitic races their black men that it was from the Great Phun original color of these people wax white A Chinese was sent to prison for three pigments, this skull, and prizzled bafy of the Yellow River Valley: District of light brown, and not black as months by Mr. Lindell, at the Magis no as to keep the distinct from all the China that God scattered Noah' des supposed by Mr. Orme. And, it is trote trucy, yesterday, for being in unlawful other races of tao world. And, no doubt cendants Abroad upon the face of the worthy that in historical paintings and possession of a wallet containing three ancient Chinese are painted with white Canton and a pair of gold rimmed this is why intermarriage between black earth to repeople the whole world. Preserves of the Tang dynesty, the duplicate bank drafts on the Bank of and whites is fraught with such disis. Having, descended into the lowlands from faces. Their features, are noble and spectacles. The defendant said that bel
the highlands of the Central Asian troue results. It is impossible to have a Plateau later generations of Bleta; classical, and their long flowing rebes found the wallet and the spectacles graded blend of black and white, and Ham and Japhet's descendents lost ad Groxian in atrie. It is therefore, whilst working on the ax China. Sgt. to believe that these ancient Chinesa had Vincent stated that there was no pos He had sibility of tracing the owner. China (Shinay), the land of T6.00
black ancestors. exoes blacks and whites, the reply black their origin. Their descendents never Roping that Mr. Orme will bo pleased made enquiries at the Bank of Canton is always the predominant colour Black can pover be blended and changed into thought of returning to China (Shinr), to elucidate his theory in his coming and was informed that the drafts, valued at $700, had boca oaghed. The sportaces wezo found hidden up the defendant's. white by marriage or climatic changes, the land of their origin, as they must
sleeve,
̈pice versa. And no matter how you
TSE TEAN TAL as believed by Mr. Orme. It is the have been over-awed by the vast faraidctureYours truly,
(Coatineud at foot of seat coluinn.) Hongkong, January 7th, 1004- contrary with browns and whites and
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