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way into the bones it is almost impossible to effect ils expulsion so long at the patient remains in Hongkong. Now what we should. like to know is whether this state of affairs could not be remedied? It must be heart renting to those on the spot to watch their companions striving vainly day after day to
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immoral--it is evident that we Orientals msy, without presumption, send a message of amenity and civilisation to your young bar, pages barians of the West, of whom if has been
to the disease without apparently any ad ditional remedial measures being adopted. The matter in one that reqlaires the serious attention of the Government,
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CONVERT ENGLAND,
Considerable interest has apparently been aroused in England in connection with a protest wade by a number of ladies against the practice of hunting hares in March,
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aggravates the streching of the stomach," which is a rather beat way of expressing that volgar operation known to sufferers of mal d war, "The result of these various indiscre, tions of the Americas people is permanently to distend the stomach, stretch it so that it gets out of place, and by reason of being stretched, cannot properly contract and assist in digesting the food," which is extremely learned.
WASHES, from the following Cele. combat the disease and only giving in when which appears to be one of the "sports" fol the missionary to lead the way, preparing to order that the common or gaiden reader
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will hang about them until they are removedly made, and which will necessitate his asking ed innay Chinare school as utterly wicked and cramble for high place. In the United States to another climate. There is supposed to for money to undo the work which he has
are also found to be man of great weight, bui be a coltage hospital at Shatin or somewhere just completed, the officers concerned will be
is not "gus" another name for that delightful In that vicinity for the use of the railway hardly, human if friction does not result."
American product, known a "hoi sir"? Ac employés, but if all accounts are to be trust. We do not, of course, suggest the the cold by a welbknown writer that "they begin ding to an American writer, there are two of massive ed nobody gots near it, least of all the gineers engaged in constructing the Kow their education is brutality when they ought ways of winning renown as a man afflicted workmen. At all events, when the loon-Canton railway have left undone any to don learning to say their prayers. I feel build one is to bolt your food as if Grabiel'a Buropeans are so seriously lil with malaria thing that would conduce to the health of content, Sit, that you yourself, as a followhore was about to be sounded and the other is that they are scarcely fit to stand--and a the employés, because as laymen the vegetarian, whose personal tastes, if I may say to gorge yourself at any old banquet that comes temperature of 104 is not at all uncommon subject is outside our province, but it so, are much more akin to those of Chinamen along. "In America" wa are fold, "when the among men who are trying to fight the dis certainly does seem to us that there is some than of Etonians, will welcome this Mission stomach is filled to more than overflowing, case in the tunnel-they are packed off bag thing wrong somewhere when so many work which I hope shortly to introduce. My open when the walls of the 'biead basket are
ing address will be entitled "The Sine of and baggage to the Government Civil Hosman, European and native alike, fall victims Cruelty, a Sermon preacted to Christian Eton stretched almost to the bursting point, then the pital, which appears to be the only-place
very proper thing is to do something that pear- where they can be certain of being relieved
by Heathen from Cheotu," I remala, etc,
ly jars the back tenth into the resophagus, and and temporarily patched up. We say tem-
What with Scotch Buddhists endeavouring porarily, because when the fever has found
to gain converts in London and Chinese reformers preaching the gospel of humanity it would appear that the "yellow peril" has arrived, but not in the guise expected. Still, it is a noteworthy feature of modern life and the result of this propaganda work may be more far-reaching than people imagine: Has it not been the usual course of events for
the path for the trader, who ultimately calls to his assistance the military forces of his may understand the position thoroughly the country? To put it another way; the Bible following illustration may be useful: “Oo just goes first, then follows the rum, and finally the same principle as a piece of rubber, stret the flag is hoisted. If the Orientals are ched once, will spring back into place, but adopting similar tactics they are only follow-stretched repeatedly and kept distended, will ing the lead given by the Christian nations lose its elastichy-juzi as does the stomach of the Occident. Cortes conquered Mexico refuse in time to jump back into place." That will be necessary to give the gist of the pro-in the name of His Most Christian Majesty is the whole matter in a nutshell. The cause the King of Spain, and Pizarro never started of all indigestion is believed by many physici on a trail in Peru without the presence-of-ar to be due to the shifting of the stomach a goodly assortment of pricals. When from its normal position, so that the food is Britain at heaven's command arose
seither properly digested nor readily assimilat- from out the rzure main she did not
ed. By taking a number of stitches and despise the services of the clergy, and
shortening the ligaments to which the organ is there is many a nook and corner in the British Empire which would never have been coloured red on the map if it had not been for the self-sacrificing labours of the pioneer
the land in those days-and the turbulent times with the most gratifying success, both to
ani agents in spreading malaria and filaria. In youth of our nation; but to hunt the female tion. It seems lapossible, then, to gainsay it is so pleasant, and the sensation is so delicious the course of his article, Dr. Watson remarks: hare at a time when she is handicapped by the fact that the Oriental invasion of Great --"In connection with this subject, but the the burden which nature imposes on her, Britain has begun along the lines which remark is equally applicable to all engineer would seem to be not merely contrary to the have proved most successful when applied
sickness attributed in a vague,way to the demoralising and degrading to all who con of a Mission formed to propagate the bless opening up of a new country and the dis-sciously participate in it." The appeal to the inga of humanity and civilisation among the turbance of soil is due to the mosquito headmaster to withdraw his countenance from young barbarians at home has a ludicrous breeding, places created by these works, this cruel and demoralising practice is em aspect but there may be more in it than While the works are in progress, it would in phasised to the following terms: "Wit were meets the eye. many instances be easy to avoid the crea proposed by the Education Committee of tion of these, but once the labour is gone one of the County Councils to afford op it is a more troublesome, and, expensive portunites for the boys attending itsschools affair. Not an inconsiderable amount of to hunt hates in March, can it be doubted the money spent at Klang and Port Swet that there would be a general outcry against tenham on anti-malarial works would have such a suggestion, and is it altogether reas been saved had some attention been given sonable that in this particular respect the to these small but important points. It morals of Elon boys so many of whom, by: Hongkong, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1908. will take some time before the new ideas are their... position in life, are destined in later years to afford conspicuous examples for good or evil-should be regarded as of less account to themselves and the community than the morals of the boys of lowlier station, who attend the ordinary elementary schools?" Three days after that protest appeared in the press, the headmaster of liton wrote to the Times to announce an
tired nature refuses any longer to offer op-lowed by the promising youths attending brated Houses-Atkinson, Piver, position. As we have said, several good ton. The subject is not one likely to be Roger and Gallet, Rigaud, Houbi-English lives have been lost already owing come a burning question in the Far East to malarial fever-whose characteristica diay and if it were not for the fact that a Chinese .gant, &c.
have taken an exaggerated form through the reformer, who is a humanitarian at heart, weakened state of the frame, the result of has seen fit to intervene in the discussion dissipation perhaps and there is little doubt we should not be incliued to devole much that the humbler class of workmen, the attentiostoit. To understand the position, it Indians and Chinese, have also been great sufferers. In these circumstances it is sure-test which is signed by a score of ladies, in ly high time that some steps should be taken cluding countcsses, viscounteases, and a by the Government to preserve the health whole host of titled dames, including, as of the workmen against the microbe which may weil be imagined, a suffragette or two. seems to work its will on those engaged in The protest, which was addressed, to the the construction of the railway. Dr. Malcolm headmaster of Eton, and has been extensive Watson asserts that it is the engineers, who ly quoted in the newspapers, says: "To are primarily responsible for the existence many of those who are advocates of field of malaria, where malaria was previously a sports in general, it seems that the hunting negligible quantity. He contends that of a creature so timorous ar defenceless as
tion of roads and public works, by producing foster those qualities of manliness and cour
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HONGKONG'S REPRESENTATIVE.
MR. CECIL CLEMENTI NOMINATED.
In accordance with instructions from, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, His Ex- callency the Governor has been pleased to nominate Mr. Cecii Ciamenti as representative of Hongkong to assist the British Imperial Delegates at the forthcoming Into rational Conference on Opium at Shanghai.
Mr. Clementi, who is the author of the now
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NEW ORDINANCES,
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Hit Excellency the Governor has given. his assent, in the same and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Or finances pasted by the Legislative Council An Ordinance to amend The Fire Insurance Companies Ordinance 1908; an Ordinance to amend The Interpretation Ordinance 1897 and the same; and an Ordinance to amand The to remove an ambiguity in the construction of Companies Ordinance 1965.
Original Genuino Eau de Culogne, engineers ought to realise that the construc- the hare, is at best but little calculated to missionaries-who did not live on the fat of reported, has been performed no less than ten with Chine, says the Japan Chronicle, Japanesa arnuto, breeding places for mosquitoes, are import] age which it is so desirable to develop in the traders who were always in acel of protec-the operator and the party operated on. In fact, ry observes that the low price of silver
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THE DECLINK OF SILVER,
EFFECT OF DECLINE ON TRADE The decline in silver, which was quoted yes- terday (3rd inst.) st aid per os, according to London advices, is seriously affecting the trade mercbasis engaged in the trade are becoming seriously alarmed. A vernacular contempora= has caused a congestion of goods on the market in Chins, and Chinese merchants in Kobe are hesitating to purch.se stocks, business being almost at a standstill. At the present period of the year to China,
and the new year is rapidly approaching, unles of goods usually increase, but with silver at its present vale, the shipment of fapnoeso goods shows na profit, so that she trade with China is almost at a standstil
LAVENDER WATER ing works (railways included), much of the spirit of true sportsmanship, but positively by Westerners. A Chinamas at the head eight or ten stitches that have been taken in when labourers are returning from the North
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Hongkong. ith December, 1908
he Hongkong Celegraph
MALARIA AMONG KOWLOON RAILWAY WORKMEN,
and invigorating that it is likely to become the fad of the season, and you will be voted "bad form unless you can point with pride to the
your stomach. It is improbablo, however, that Hongkong surgeons will benefit to any great "extent by the incoming fashion. People bare are so buny thicking of the wherewithal to fill up empty gaps in their stomach and in the sunpimally absorbent stomachs of the rising generation that they have no necessity as à rule to indulge in stitches. Indeed they prefer a good "luck" in their stomach to half a dozen tucks outside
· "LOCAL AND GENERAL, THE English mail of the 14th November was delivered in London on the 11th inst. THE superintendent of the Great Northeria. Telegraph Co., Ltd., advise that the Yoko hams and Kobe lines are interrupted. Tokio lice is working slowly.
THE German Government has decided to dis band the so-called "Eastern Asiatic detach. ment," which hitherto garrisoned Kian-chow, replacing it by a marine detachment formed
from the 3rd Battalion of Marine.
closing quotations on the Osaka Yard Exa The yara market has further declined. Tha
change on the 1st instant as compared with the closing rates on the 28th ultimo, wote ka follows:
December delivery.. January
Dec. 1. Nov. 28,
Y104:45 Y106.60 **105.00 106.93
→ February The above are the lowest figures reached for : some time part.
In the Marine Court, this morning, before the HoD. Commander Basil R. H. Taylor, RN, Harbour Master, PC, Edward Bond charged. Woog Mui, & boatwoman, with carrying cargo
in
her passenger boat other than passengers' bag-
gage yesterday, P.C. Bond stated that at 11:30 z,m, yesterday, he saw defendant's boat in the Central Fairway piled up with cargo, including kerosine oil, on her way ashore. She had po' passengers on board at the time. Defendant's
"STITCH, $114CH, STITCH,"
Medical science, is a wonderful thing in these days. By its means an individual may have the organs of his body removed, appareatly, and yet be a bitter man physically that his it. There is no limit to the surgeon's reflected in engineering practice. To hasten
experiments, and what a knife and a piece of this time, and to diminish-the amount that
bee hair cannot achieve is beyond boman will ultimately have to be undone, it will be
understanding. America is the land of simple necessary to impress on the engineering
remedies and daring experiments and it is "It will take years for the new ideas on mind that work which without excuse leaves
from America that the latest marvel'in surgical malaria to take a place in the consideration a trail of malaria behind it is bad engineer
skill.comes. Everybody knows what is meant of the engineer when designing or carrying ing. I would suggest that Government in
by "Aldermanic proportions" it is exicily the same idea which is conveyed by the term out new works," writes Dr. Malcolm Watson, form the engineering department that the of the Federated Molay Slates, in the latest responsible engineer may, during the proton Mission to Chids, and Old-Etoniani opiiful corporation and in ladies in number of the Journal of Tropical Medicine gress, and shall, on the completion of all were invited to join in giving China
toned down, to the mild lendency to embom- and Hygiene Corroboration of what might, works, be required to certify that as far as "an opportunity of the test educa point," Now, there are some cross-grained
tion and of learning. Christianity." The from a layman's point of view,...seem to be practicabile no unnecessary pools have been flumanitarian, which holds the principife aldermen who take serious objection to the somewhat rash assertion is found to a certain created, and drainage has not been interfered extent, in the great number of Europeans eng with." Further, a clause requiring atten- that it is iniquitous to inflict avoidable in effect which numeresa plates of turtle aged in tuonelling on the Kowloon-Canton tion to similar details should be insert. suffering on any sentient being," lakes up soup and cepions draughts of old port are ap railway who are chronic sufferers froin malarialed in all contracts. Simple as this ex- the subject and in a scathing rebuke directed to produce on the nether regions of the buman fever. Like everything else connected with pedient appears, I believe it would be against those who indulge in the inhuman anatomy. It is not now deemed necessary to sport" of hare hunting in March, remarks: possess Falstaffin girth in order to maintain the phantom railway onthe peninsula it is prac of very great educative value by cone the Eton authorities sg devoid of the worthily the traditions of the Coifdhall, and tically impossible to obtain-data which would stantly keeping the matter before the show what proportion of the European work- engineer Dr. Wasson goes on to say that least grain of humour that they do not see there are even lean, scraggy, hungry-looking
the rank absurdity of thus, posing as the men have become subject to malarial fever the stamping out of malaria, or at least superiors of a highly-civilised nation, when speare-persons fit for treasons and suspect His Excellency the Governor has been pleased other is Rear-Admiral G. A. Callaghan, CD, since they began operations at the tunnel, but we should not be at ali surprised to learn that there is not a single member of the original staff of employe's now at work on the railway. Some have died, while many have
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reducing it to a minimum, is a much more hopeful affair than has hitherto been anticipated. The extreme complexity of the life-history of the parasite allows one to break the cycle at many points. The ex-
their own school stands Convicted of the most disgusting savagery at home? ́It would be far more pertinent that China should send a Mission to Bion, and we shall at least take care that the inhabitants of Chentu,
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On Wednesday, the ith olt, an auction was held at Sandakas of the late Panglima Hajicere allowed her to carry passengers only, Abdel Kadir. Amongst other articles for sale The defendant stated that what she carried was the passengers' luggage. The passengore:thum» were seven very fine brass cannon which were
relves were in another boat. A fine of Swat purchased by the China Borneo Co.
imposed. THE China Borneo Co. have just finished and launched a new lighter for the Few Loddon Borneo Tobacco Co., Ltd. Her dimensions are: length 45 teel, beam 15 feet and depth 2 feet inches. This new lighter has been called the
Ranau.
to appoint Mr. G. A. Woodcock to act as de- poty registrar and accountant, Supreme Court, during the absence on leave of Mr. J. W. Lee Jones or until further notice, with effect from the 12th instant.
THE impending daval changes include two officers well known on the Chips Station Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir A. G. Carray-Howe, CB. Inte second in command of the Chine Squid nn, who has been appointed Comman
der-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, The-
who, from the command of the Fifth Cruiser Squadmu, has been appointed the second in command of the Mediterranean Fitti. Resre Admiral Callaghan, whilst captain of the cruiser
Endymion la 1900, commanded" ibe: Naval
been sent home invalided, the malaria germ perience of Klang and Port-Swettenham, where the Mission is to be posted, are fully of countenance which are the fruits of high | to re-appoint, provisionally and subject to His Peking Legations, for which service having become so firmly established in their taken with the knowledge that malaria has system that it was impossible to retain licir died out in the Fen country of England informed as to the character of the sports in-
while anopheles still flourish in considerable numbers, all points in the same direction,
services langer, while others with no claim
dulged in by their instructors." It is at this on the benevolence of the contractors, have
stage that the Chinese humanitarias.comes charitably been told to go. It is highly He therefore urges upon the Government on the scene. The name of this reformer of probable, of course, that the violent attacks that to abolish malaria it is not necessary to English morals is Ching Ping, and he also of malaria experienced by the Europeans abolish mosquitoes completely, and that mea have been super-induced by recklessures intelligently directed at the disease may habits of living and in many instances at pace cost little and ba strikingly effective, he is no mere regenerator in thought; he by over-indulgence in strong drink. The In a lucid summing-up, with cannot be life of the workers at the tunnel is one long monotonous round of daily toil, relieved only by flying visits to the city where the pent-up feelings of weeks find expression In a carnival of dissipation. The worker se turns to his task perhaps less fit than ever to withstand the insidious disease and the
has addressed an epistle to the headmaster of Eton on the subject of hare-hunting. But believes in action and he intends to bring pleasing to engineers however true it may be the young hopefuls of the noble families of a Chinese Mission to Eton and to preach to Dr. Watson submits that: "Engineers do not yet realize the enormous influence for England on the subject of cruelty. The let good or evil which they possess: that the
ter is rather a curiosity in its way and manner in which they carry out the details may be published in extenso. It runs as of their work, while it may be of little con-
Honcured Sir, I have read with deep in-
follows:-
specimens of humanity-mentioned by Shake-
of evil designs who hire warmed their way into high civic places. But there are ex ceptions, because long before a man has ap proved himself of his fellows he has attained rotundity of figure and assumed a benignity
living and placid or vacant minds. Still as we have said, the ribaldry of the vu gar riff-raff who compare the ample calves of James the batter with the pagado-circles of his master's triple chies, and the bonorificability of the state coachman with longitudinality of the civic paunch, has affected many of His Majesty's loyalest subjects even to tears. With the of those who would look upon their feet once assistance of cur Americao cousins the with
again before they die may be gratified; all that is necessary is to have a couple of tucks taken le their stomachs-to ase a low but handy expression. -The "inventor” of, this method
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased Brigade in the advance to the relief of the hich be Majesty's pleasure, the Honourable Mr. We carried out with much ability, he was made a
Companion of the Bath, Yuk, CM, to be an unofficial member of the
years, with effect from the 1118 October, 1958, lug to a story told by Sir Alexander Hösin, Legislative Council for s'fanther period of six CHINESE Indies are very fond of jewels, accord. has been decided by the members of the the British Attaché at Peking, in his report Grand Council to establish a special department isined recently. "I was a passenger on a which will be charged with the control of the train between Peking and a young Chinese mercantile marine of the country. It is pro- couple joined the train. The gentleman paid bable that the new deparment will be put but to attention to his companion,” and; I under the superintendence of the Ministry of judged she was either his sister or his wife. Ha bought a number of native papers and at once commenced to read. Her thumb and the four THE Rules made by the Governor-in-Council" "fingers of each hand were simply cors
covered with on the 8th September, 1955, and as sub. gold rings encrusted with alpons of every sequently amended, as to the conduct of ex- description from diamond to tarquoise. She aminations for certificates of competency in semed oppressed by her adorament and held the Mercantile Marion have been fortber, her hands straight down, being so encased in
War.
CAPTAIN David Beatty, V.O., D.8.0,, who hay
On the evening of the 27th ultimy over 100 boon grated a paval aide-de-camp to the ca, Ibaragi prefecture, The damage is promoted to Flag sack, is a healthy Inchmen houses were destroyed by fire at the town of King in succession to Captain Eden Bradford, estimated at About Y30,000. The streets who has had a most distinguished car devastated were chittly inhabited by the proner The son of Captain D. L. Bea classes, and the condition of the people burnt county Wexford, he was born
strongest constitutions in time are under sequence from an engineering point of view, "terest; and,ão little surprise, your recent left of curtailing the natural ́exuberance of amended. The onw rules are published in the rings as to be unable to bend her fingers, often rained. But even if the men were plaster health in a tropical country. Of course, it an Eton Mission in my native town of Chento, Henry D, Heyes, whose address is 1734 Spruce
may be of vital importance to the public in The Times on the proposed establishment of healthy and wall-cared-for stomach is Dr. curreal' issue of the Gazette, saints in glass cases they could not claim is bad engineering to do work which requires for the purpose of giving to China "an oppor Street, Philadelphia, where all the dentists and immunity from the deadly fever which lusks costly alteration at a later date, when at the tunity of the best education and of learning, doctors of divinity come from. The patient along the low-lying ground in the New original cost the work could have been done Christianity." It may interest you no less to who has unwillingly become a second edition Territories. Europeans who are not given once and for all time. It will take years for hour that, with the aid of some fellow-citizens to excess in any marked degree fall as the sew ideas on malaria to tako a place who, like myself, are conversant with English of folly King Hat is treated, not for enlarged readily into the toils as those who believe in the consideration of the engineer when manners, I have determined to return the com: liver or generous spleen, but for ad allment
entered, the Navy at the, age o In "seeing life" at siated periods. And it designing or carrying out new plimbar by bringing a Chinese Mission to Eton, known as gastroposin, otherwise called dropped out is said to be thiserable in the extreme. ).
bravory In: the Bondeo he wa is not only the Europeans who are affected. In ploncer work in the tropics, where the lessons in the duty of humaneness to animals for most people. What are aldermen famous year continue to arrive. The latest to band well as the pad, decoration, and
Lin order to give the boys, some elementary stomach," The technical terms would sufice | ILLUSTRATED wall calendars for the coming, despatches, awarded the i but also the Indians and Chinese, about health officer and the engineer are so much would remind you of that ancient British for besides their corporeal protuberance? Is whom less is beard. The tunnel and its thrown together, it is desirable to removeamverb, "Charity begins at home." It belog
environs, in fact, from all we can gather, are veritable hotbed of the scourge, and the white and coloured, races are equally sus
able to the effects of the discato, which
all sources of friction, and it cannot be notorious, evan as far as Chonid, that one of denied that when a health officer continually the recognised amusements of Elon boys: 1 has the honour of Inviting the engineers the "blooding of bounds and the attention to a swamp which be has unwitting of bares practicer which would
of the most effervescent fort and the Arst syllable in the medical arid, which in coined to suit the complaints
and the
entary 3, the rank