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A throbbing, continuous note, like the minor kay of an organ blown unceasingly, soimad to come from a flock of pigeons that circled shore. our house at scima i yesterday evening, look ed thinking to see some Chinese kite of huge proportioga fluttering vary lów, yet how could kite fly to the deathly still air that hung over the city? Then I thought that perhaps my Western e 1 were not attuned to Oriental sounds, that among the peculins wars things. have in this peculiar land found here was rot | Bke a vestriloquial quality," But I could see no supposed to contain the bride's trousseau and cod liver oil into a pleasant palatable medicine, siriola-Nyau
creature piping with ceaseless breath within my rangé of vision on the earth, ⠀⠀
I hailed an Waliad friend who has been in China as many years as I bare days, and asked
where the long note camo from.......
From the pigeons," he replied, lifting his
bend.
"From the pigeoas!' I exclaimed. It seemed impossible, for they were well up in the air, and no bird sound 'could be so loud, so con- stant and unvarying.
“It is not a natural sound," my friend replied in broken English; "the Chinese do it. They take quills, cut off the ends, which they split making tiny pipes, and fasten under the hird's. wings,
"It means a storm," he continued, "At this season, of the year it will be a dust storm, Thay are sear out to warn the people,"
THE DUST STORM.
canit what he can do till he trian When a thing ought to be done the modern The band passss out of sight and sound pint mores us to keep working away at it Then, two, walking along the curb-stone on until it is done in the face of this ides the either side of the road, come weird old men there's away. If we could but robs cod liver impossible vanishes. Where there's, a will, and boys, some hardly large enough to bar oil of its sickening taste and smell and then the fall poles they carry, all dressed alike in cloaks supplied them by the undertaker who combine it with wo or three other ingredients caters to show goods and hired men for either should possess the best remedy in the world fanerals or weddings, The people who carry incurable. So said à famous English physi- for certain diseases that are now practically The lanterns, banners, umbrellas, spear, shields clan twenty-five years ago. Bat i will never and great gilded cases of paper on the wood be done," he added. You can no more turn dowry, are the idlers and the unemployed of the Chicose capital; and, I tell you, it is a startling experience to stand between the mile long files of the two-by-two and scan the faces of these most miserable people of the great Celestial city wrapped for an hour is cloaks of gaudy hue and wearing ridiculous hats like black pie plates with a red plame stuck in the
centre of each.
A PREHTORIC. PREP.-
It is a bride that follows the long parado ao this duty, and she is of a wealthy family, for bar rich red silk and many tassels is bores by as many as eight lean porters, gorgeously attired. The curtains are Ril drawn tightly, and the stran- ger who does not know that this is the custom might think that the purpose is to keep the dust from the maiden's bridal dress and her paloted face. This is the carriage of the bride who is content, as a Westers giri would never be, to In her show go on with her anseeing and This morning the.air was still calm. 'Ï rose
unseen. But the parents decree that this shall early and, having forgotten the warning, wool be, and in China the patents! will is law, for son with a friend for a morning stroll to the outer and daughter alike whom they pledge in walls, which we climbed. To the cast the sunnatrimony to suit themselves. Frederick shone brillisctly from a pale blue sky, but to Moore in Morning Leader, the west a yellow bank appeared obscuring everything beyond is, It was fascinating to watch the approach of this cloud of dost·lades kie which would soon envelop us. Gradually (it cloaked from our vision orchards and farme houses and the little stream that passed loss than a'quatter of a mile away.
The storm was upon us when we climbed down to the gates withio which the rickabaw
nep bave their sand. Shopkeepers were taking in their canvas sigus and awnings and closing their doors, and people of the class that posreis handkerchiefs weté covering their mouths and cases.
The rickshawmes welcomed us and the Blor for they knew that they would receive double fares for pushing through it to our re
sidence. We passed a party of American tourists likewise in rickshaws, the lad os entire ly veiled, so that we could not see their faces, cae of the men, hiding oven, bls eyes under a large silk handkerchief, letting the coolies lake hem where they would. Some wealthier Chinamen in Pekin' carts drawn by mules were provided with molar-goggles.
We saw a small boy with his pigtail done up ia a kaot like, wumin's vigorously dusting a huge, red-canopied coffia set out in front of. the low house in which the dead had lived." It was so large that in sheltered the house from the storm. Two mas bringing a spotind paper horse and cart for the use of the deceased to the future world, had difficulty, in keeping the flimsy animal from buckling at the middle,``
ABARHARIC AGE,
Hot water tank away the cakes that bad, accumulated round our eyes and mouths and in our ears; and we changed clothes, banding the dust covered ones over to our "boys" to be beaten like carpets. Then, pitying the poor follows who of necessity went about their work in the broad roadway before our window, we sat and watched our first dust storm in 'Pekin. At 'moments clouds abreased the vision through the windows; and when the atmosphere was clearest the sun shone only like a lantern -one of those pale round Chinese lanters to be seen in Chinese paintings, perfectly round and white, like a shield of peat in a huge kare of yellow.
But why pily the Chinese for living in this country? Do they not laugh at us? Is theirs not the world to live in, our the And of the outer barbarians? They are philosophers; these pigtailed per plo. Life is hard, but they do not worry over it, Indeed, they could hardly exist if they did. They know that every man must eat his peck of dirt and die. We "hatbarians trouble ourselves (mach to avoid or pecks, yet they come to win one way or another, chiefly through our kitchen door, John Chinsman troubles Dol..
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ALLEGED Rubber hoRRORS.
SAID TO BE WORSE THAN THE CONGO,
than you can turn the Codfish itself into a Bird of Paradise Yet he lived to admit that in the impossible had been accomplished. If WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION DESI spalatable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites, Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. This remedy is freed from the bad peculiarities Dr. Frothingbam so detested, and it is precisely the splendid medicine he wished for. Use it freely and confidently for Anemia, Hysteria, Waiting Complaints, Blood Impuri ties, Asthma, and Throat and Lung Troubles, Dr. W. H. B-Aikins, F. R C. P., London, M. D. C. M., Victoria University, H. B. Toronto University,Consulting Physician to Home, for, Incurables, Physician to Toronto General Hospital, says. I am inuch pleased to state that the results from using. Wampole's Preparation of Cod Liver Oil have been uniformly satisfactory it appealed to me as being prepared according to correct scien- tific principles." It increases the appetite and influences the digestion of food; it is delicious. to take, will not disappoint you and is effective from the first dosa. "It represents the dawn of progress." At chemists everywhere..
The serious allegations published some FRENCH STORE.
months ago in the Morning Leader as to the conditions under which rabbar has been col- fected in the Putumayo Valley, on the frontlar of Port and Columbia, are being considered jointly by the British and United States Gov. ornmeal. The following letter, dated Foreign Office, 19 May, bas biện received by the Anti- Stavery Bad Aborigines Protection Society:
Sir,i am directed by Secretary Sex E. Grey
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
11th lust, and 10 intain you, in reply, that the question of the alleged ill-treatment of fodians
NOTICE.
We beg to inform our numerous customers and the public in general
that we have been appointed Agent
in the rutumayo Valley is engaging the most for the "CREME SIMON " serious attention of his Majesty's Government,
and
who are incommunicaion with the Uited States all Simon's Produces for Tollst Government with regard to the best course to pursue is the matter.
No Cousolar reports have been received
'o this subject' which can be made public.
·COMPANY'S DENIAL.
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Sir Edward Grey's leitor was in reply to one sept by mr, Travere Daxton on bobalf of the committee of the Aborigines Protection Society on sa May ürging that certain features abould be emphasised, " particularly in view of the at- titude now assumed by the company, which is an absolute refusal to attach any credence to: ibe public charges mada against its agents."
The committee states that the documents la the possesso of the socioty "pot only baar upon them, so its opinion, the stamp of truth, but are replete with minute details. Many of these grave allegations as so the methods used
Requisites, Perfumery, Powder, Soap, etc.
-INSPECTION SOLICITED. Hauekong, 2181 faunary, igro.
NEW SHOP!
JUST OPENED!!
in the collection of rubber to the territories of DO NOT MISS LOOKING AT the company and the gross outrages which have been aystematically committed on the native labourers by its employed havo'been reproduced to the Butish Fress in a manner so definite and explicit that had the syndicate in question ben
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», comed-Ham Ngan Li Hoid Ngau Tan Heart-Ngau Sami
a Hamp Salt. Nghi Kin
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m:Tripé (undressed)---Ngàu Tomin Galvas Head and Feet-Ngau-cha
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Gapons, Large, Small-Sin Kal.... Dacks-Ap
Dover Pan Kau sen Iggs, Han-Kal' Tanusi Fowls, Cloton-Kal
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Halaso-Hol Nam Kal Gaess-Ngo.ovanaemaini
Gasia, Wild Shanghal-Sheung Hol Ya
Mark Deer-Wong Keng, Hare-Tu Chal.......
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Almond-Hang Yân Apples, (Ualiforala).
(Cheloo)---Tia:
Коменны Small-Hol To
Chirland---Fan Lal „fragrant, Canton
Heang Chha.....
→ (bridas), Macao-Sas Hau Chestnuts." "Oklasse-Toong Garambola-Yanng; Cocoanuts-Yeh Ta
Grapes-Sis Tal Lamons, China-Ning
Lichens, Small Stoneim čal
Früli, Zial Chi
$1.00 Limes, (Saigon)--5al ~ Kung
Ben Moon
Mango, Munila-Lu! Sung Mon Mango, Salgon-Sat Kang Moor 20 Mangosteens, San Chuk Tas per dos.
Oranges, Tim: Okang *****
Small--Tai Kut. Mandarin-Tim Kate Olivas-Pak Lam
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25 Passion Frut
15 Pears, (American)--Kam San Shut Li D
(Canton), Cooking-Sa LI
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Peanuts, Fa Sang menin Persimmons, Large,--Hung Okle sankar Pins-applan," ist quality-Shoung Peon Ti Paw-law MERCH "and cooking-Chung-tang FAW-law
Piatalos-Tal Ohio
Plamá, Swalow-Hong Li ............10 Teral Sha Ohm Lộ Yui Walants, Rop Tou mu
Grown-Sang Hop Tou
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VEGETABLES, &c. Artichokes, Shanghal,—Sheung Hol Ah
Chi Chatil MEINDERA Beans, (French) Macao-01 Moon Pin
Boans, (Franch), Shanghal-Shen
Beans, Spront-Ab Chol Beans, Long-Tau Kok .....
PIE T
Best Root-Hung Chol Tasmin ORC Briojala, Graso--Chung Yuan Ker sommer 32 | Brinfals, Rai--Hang Kar ...............
Bamboo Shoota---Chook Skan
24 Babbage, Gaiasse, com,—Kal Choy, 38 Cabbage, Red-Kal Lan Tan-
Dabbage, (Shanghai)--Yeh 025 Osus Shoots, banch-Kad Skun.... Daulldower, Large size—Tal Yah Chol
| Cauliflower, Medium, alia-Chuang Yah Ghol-faktori Cach Daulinower, Small slas—Sal Yah Ukof-fs- Carrots-Kam Skan. mitong Dalary, Oklasse-Tong Kas Galery, Engilah-Young Km 36 Celery, Wilie-Pak Yeung Kan
Skillles, Dried-Don Lat Dis
Partridge-Ohs k00 ......................... Phaists)--Shan Kalimisesse pale Pigsons, Canton-Pak Kop simi sach
Holhow-Holhow Pak Kop
Quail--Um-Ohan
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arge danties would certainly Court RARE JEWELS, Rice Wo F& Chack..... large danes would certainly have book
awarded.
"WORSE THAN THE CONGO,”.
It has beza, stated that the condition of affairs in the 'utumayo Valley is identical with Congo State administration. The society has those prevailing at the worst period of the
for several years giyen much of its time to that question, and, therefore, feels competent to compare the two questions.
"It has come to the conclusion that in many of its features the system of enforced rubber collection closely resembles that of the Congo State; moreover, my committee does not hostalo to say that nothing reported from the Congo has equalled is horror some of the acis
&c., &o., &c.
MOHIDEEN & CO.
Dealers in
Salpe-Sa Ohu!
Turkeys, Dock---Fo Ka! Kung ... por
Hi-
Wild Docks, Shangħil, Sul-ap Toal, Shanghal, Sul Ap Chal.............. Wild Ducks Canton-Sung Shlog Sul
Ap..
Par pair
FISH.
Barbel-Ka Ye Dum Bream-Bin Yo
Danton Fresh Water Fish-Hol Bin Ya
How his hungry tongue relishes the dust in detail against this rubber syndicales@ged DBYLON PREOIOUS | Gasp÷L) Yn A
covered pasilen kasaded by hands that stop from time to time to pet a pariah dog or even,
The nature at the evidence is indeed to revolting to parmic of tull publicity, but the
STONES, &c.,
Gatish-Chik Yn: Bodish-Mun Grabe-Hal Battle Fish-Mak Ya
I may be so plain, to hunt for vermin How documents are at the disposal of his Majesty's 38 & 40, QUEEN'S ROAD Dab Sa Ming Yo he gulps down the dust-laden ten poured from Governmens, should they desire to examins
the great copper kettle at the sialf on the corner | them,“ beneath our window. He has schooled tim self to tako water only when it is boiled, and|| now he does not care for it cold later the cholera germ is dead!
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In view of the fact that this syndicate in a British company, and that several of its direc. tors and principal shareholders are British subjects, the society urges the Government ta How would the Chinaman live wore he got to request the Paruvina Gavamo at to permit the
CUPBOARDS, &c, géle-upos life as he finds it? Is it not well that presence of the British Consul during the pro.
he is a philosopher?
MARRIAGES AND FUNERALS. "A train of twenty Gabi dromedarios gass by laden with yellow tiles for a now parition or PARTICULARS ON APPLICATION, temple in the "Forbidden City," that inner
WM. POWELL,
LTD.
HONGKONG
most enclosure of the several cities, composing Pakin. Yellow is the Imperial color, and glazed tiles are the best roofing to withstand the-sorrential rains of wisier and the petera ting dust of the dry seis:n. The two humped, loog-necked, cushion-fanted dromedariesshould. be fordly busitu, but they are SİLVAK Mango), who has long since despaired ing dit.
CENTRAL
Hongkong, 13rd May, 1910
KWONG FUNG YUEN,
posed laquiry, in order that a fall report may || HEAD OFFICE—No, 8s, Das Vœux Road West be made to the British Government,
TIMBER YARDS--Kennedy Town,
TIMBER MERCHANTS
In forwarding the corespondence ferpublica tion, the society appeals to public opinion for support, by resolution and otheruits, Df its forts to secure alleviation for suffering ustives.
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