CHI&BSH ISHMAKLISM,
'The virtues of't' e sed v dual, ice.carspl to be lost in tho na l'as characteristics. Frend- ly and good-humoured oş ba is singly, col Icc ively, however small the unit, he shows {
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY DECEMBER 20 1010
LEADER OF PÒRTUGUESE A&VOLUTION WAS ALSO
FATHER OF BRAZIL REVOLT.
"The most interesting mab in Portugal at the present moment is the new premier, Sanber Braga," says Renter, who may be said with out exaggeration, to be the father not only of this revelation, but of that of Brazil, having by his teaching as professor of history and philo.
ELECTRICITY: OR OILI
While this may seep ad idle question to those who have always roguided electricity na An expetisive loxury, yet a good case for an amative answer is made out by Populer Blasticity by calculating the cost on a basis ci candle-power and taking into account effective distalbu ion. Says this paper
tsadency to bicime ani shmati, his band against every man's. The most striking exipple of this trail is given in the national dislike of the foreigner. Whatever grievances may now be adduced as the result of the presence of the foreigner in Chins, the fact remains that these phy prepared the graded for both movements.'s cheaper! There was reaton for it, coming. Emplowed
AN INSTIMET. VÈ DISLIKE
"He is a quiet pleasant, and ex remely modast grey-haired man of sixty-seven, whate 19 him on ble first appearance and by in coupaisuming manners may be inferred from the s'stantly unfriendly disposition has falled to fact that last night, after being slected the first der vs many of the benefits that it might bara presi tent of the. Portuguese republic, he re- gaine fum facigo ja ercourse This is a point turced home as canal fa a second-class com that is feq rently overlocked by the well-meru paitment to the unpretentious little house which ing altruist, who preaches conciliation is the be occupies in the suburbs, qu'ely receiving Far Rest through the midium of in latemperate the congratulations of his richest in i humblast altack on all foreigners who have deal ngs frends, and deprecatingly acknowledging the with China: fa a recent publication of the frantic ovations of his fellow pastorgers. Am2rican Association for lets national Cen- cilation, the Rev. Dr. J. H. de Foros who la vinge of thirty-six years' residence in Japie must be supped to have littls - hand inswledge of Cains, advocates the
"Do you rematous grandmetbor's kindly dicium? Better Whabe oil lamp, deas. It
in the bygote geats when everything electrical was much dearer than 'now "and when even rough figuring showed that lighting by oll lamps was cheaper than by incandescents, Bince that time the
COST CY CURRENT HAS STEADILY DECREASED,
but thanks to the Standard Oil Company the price of oil has also gone down, so how do the two compare now?
in grandmother's day the comparison was merely as to the amount of light obtained at the lamp at the same cost for the use of re acting and diffalog mediums was then prac tically na nowa. To-day all logical comparis sons must be mi,
the, effective lighting on tables, compters, desks, or in show-windows; In other words, what comparativa illumin silan can be obtained from each illuminant for the same money?
"Theoretically, according to ara çf our lead.
"Discussing him with a distinguished For tuguese gentlemas, who sat on the same beach with Braga in their college days, I remarked. izsto is quite a poor min is he pot? Brega, was the reply, lives in na intellectual atmos ADOLITION OF EXTRATORRITORIALITY phere. He has no wants, and, therefore, in the on the ground, amongst other ressens, that it richest of men. l'o ces is better fitted to oc i, the cause of "a growing dislike and droid of 'cupy the post on he now kajds for his well- foreigners." We do not-truit osselves to rcíc in awo probity commands universalco filence." In greater defail to an article that has been an equally charming glimpse of the preing su borites on lamination, Dr. Louis Bell, characterized by an eminent authority in the sident's wifs is afforded by the Maile-Lidban missionary world as "misleading and infl.m corres ident
a gallon of the bighest grade of kero eas bain matory;" but for our present purposes it is
"I called," he says, "at the county house in the most improved type of lamp will give sufficient to, show that "anti-fareigalım" is not of Senhor Theophilo Braga, the new president
ICO CANDLE HOURS, a recent development in China and in-all pro- long, one storey building on a cliff'ov.r. bability has decreased rather than grown is looking the Tagas di Cruz Qeb ada, seyen recent years. That it should be more promiles west of Lisbon, Seabr Braga had set Gounced to day than formerly is due to the fact cut for the capital, but his wifi-a frail, sweeting 25 watts) for the 40 bougould that the real Chiqa is only now becomingficed old lady, with white bar-advanced and articula'è, and we are joining frat hat may hase scip:d the notice of somi, because the nation has hitherto lacked the means to veice them more or less ubiquitonly.
Whether "anti-foreignism is growing or decreasing must remain
A MATTER OF OPINION,
insisted that I should enter. She fel me by the hand is mothery lah on to a long, low room, ncr than modestly furnished, the win dows of which over'oaked the wide expanse of blue se:cas waters but arely s:ething and söking under shot and shelf
Proad, she exclain.c I, smiling doubtfully, perhaps, but, above all, I regret the inter ruption of forty-three years. I peaceful domestic happi ess."
"She expressed her regret at her husband's which will vary as much as the reports on absence,, and said that he was delighted to roppy growing in this remarkabto country.speak to English people. I congratulated her But for those who like to thisk that it is in on her husband's new dignity, adding that she resi y on the wine, with the growth of inter-cught to feel very proud. course between foreigners and Chiou, it is som>_consolation to reflect upon the fact that this characteristic of the nation is subjective rather than objective. Even the sense of national solidarity has not at ogether eliminat- ed provincial antipathies, for there are still ply overcome, far the most part, in the face a common "enemy." No less striking in segard to iu spirit of antagonism is the de. ..lopment of constitutionalism in the country. People and officials would seem to be now ranged everywhere in opposing camps, whether tas proceedings of the former in council are marked by the quiet dignity of the Chengru Astumbly or by iba more
: ·OUTSPOKEN HOSTILITY
:
"Io the conversation that susued she ad many things of an adorable s malicity, from which 1 choosi but a few :
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which means that it w.upply a 20 candle power lamp for 45 hours. To obtain the same, to candle-power lo a tusgaten lamp (requir
take to times 25 watt-hours, or just a kilowatt hour. Therefore a gallon of the best kerosene can give theoretically as much liga as a kilówat:-hour of current. In practice the common grades of oil fall from to to 30 per cent, shy of the best grads, so that it will take aboni 14 gallons of oli to equal a kilowatt hour <f currant in the light obtained it the lamp,"
But when it comes to efficlive light at the place where it is needed, the writer goes on to say, a 20-caudio oil lamp is by no means equal to à ao candle-power incandescent. The large oil reservoir and chimaty ata.
ALWAYS IN THE WAY,
and interfera with the effective use cf reflectors, usad in any position, and by reflectors the use On the other hand tungsten fimps may be fal Riu nfdations may pasily be twice that from
farther: oll lampe of the same candle power. We road
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"We married for lave. We have always been poor and always hippy with 'one ac other, except for our great sorrow that we which is becw the grade on which Dr. Bell "Allowing for the commercial kerosene, are nox chidless, for wo are ever mourning tased his figuris, this means that it will take the loss of ourson and daughter twenty you anywhers from 2 to 5 gallons of oil to give. go. My girl wou'd have beso fly sow, and the same illumination as a kilowatt-hour of I should have bad grown-up grandchildren
current. Thus at Chicago, where kerasono arazed me, she added, with eyes full of feais.etails at 13 cents (gold) per gallon, villamps
But we found comfort-my husband in his of the National Assembly in Peking. The boks and I in my household work hear i im," would be effectively as charp as the incaudas same national trait that prevented China from "I have told Throphilo that I will never cc-ophtaling with foreigners to her own polti. Jeave my little home and pretty geries, where I cal and material advantage is going to prevent have lived for twenty years. If we are freed teple and officials from making matual use of to have a larger house for meetings and recop. ens acother, In the work of the country's toss, we will keep our little hems to live in regineration. Uncompromising antagonism is always. We have had jist sunugh to live on. elerdy the keynote in the National Assimb'y; My husband has always been persecuted br. and although it will bring that body into discause of his opinions. bat, although by cannot
ccate if the current · fær different classes of
indoor lighting costs from 32 10.65 cents per kilowatt-hour, or an average of perhaps 40 cools. As a matter of fact it
COSTS LESS THAN A THIRD”. of this rate, so that even the much less efficient carbon filament lamps figure out cheaper in service than ketolca,
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The NC. Daily News, in the course of an article on "Tas Evils of Anti-Opiumism," points out that reform and not the suppression of opium should take first place in the national progressire movement of the day. Our con- temporary remarks that a sense of propotilas would not allow the ciavol-bended:reformer to exhaust the coupery's reserva of energy in only ope direction, and feast of ali in regard to what can only be term;d abyconeary telɔım. "Givau the completo abolition of opium this year, next year or seven years hence, the country, io the absence of other reforms bida fair to be as ill-guv:roed as it was ten years ago, its re- sources equally squandered, it people as poverty-sicken and equally exposed to floxas, lamine and riots. teformed huraapcracy, on the other hand, 'would not only seal the fate of opiam smoking, but would mean la due course a prosperons China." The Shanghal
sense of humour does not seem to be among
While the fortiity of Malaya is proverbial, a journal also criticises the recent memorial to the British Government from the World the products coltivated there. I bave before Missionary Conference. "A large num-] me a report of the proceedings at a recent
bar of the memorialists have nothing meating of the Planters Association to protest
to do with India, China or the Britian against the raising of the railway rate on rub. Empire. Not one, we venture to think, ber. Ons of thespiakers zolemaly compliized | had, the leas; seose, of administrat.va - res- that rubber is now in the same category as
1. Wino, works of art, silk and walking sticks,
. Drugs, boots and boongis,
ROUGH ON RÜBBER,
A writer in the Financ.er empties his soul in the following strain;—
3. Ammunition and sezlıkın jackets, - · 14. Pianos, rikishap and perambulators. 5. Glassware, firearms and feathers.. 6. Bewing machines, stationery, pickles and Chinese bair wash,
7. Statues of eminent persons and Ohinese lanterns...
B. Umbrellas, tomtoms and tombstones; /
BOME' CONSILATION.
repato, it must be recognized that the weaixers forget, he is incapablu now of seeking to avenge | instadily turned on and off, thus saving waste- and fog signals. On what basis was the scale
is laborent in the country and has led to existing himself on his premios!" conditions under which the main purpose of the official class in to batten on the public. It the officials are to suff.r, they will have brought thefills upon themselves—N C.D. Nesos,
FROM PERSIA TO PRANCS ON HORSEBACK.
Mr. J. H. Bill, British Cousul at Shins who bas arrived in England, bas accomplished a remarkable ride from Pärsia to France.
The voyage, which was made chied for the pa 'pose of studying the working of the Ferslan and Turkish Constitutions in the remoter parts of those countries, lasted nearly seven months, and except over one small stretch by s'eamer and rail through França the Consul covered the whole distance of 2,500 miles on bors:back.
M. B. had some
SHANCHAL FINANCIAL
SITUATION..
possibility in signing the document. They gaze the fact that the British Govern Lept is committed to the suppression of the opium trade, and only suppiates such margin at timo es is consonant with the latorasts of many thousands who are dependent on the trade-antil receady regarded as honest and legitimate. Taoir out concern is that opium- smoking should co.se, and they do not pretend to give any thought to practical details in connection with the suppression."
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ful times of burning, and they do not have the fixed, on waight or baik? If on bulk, why other annoying eatares of the kerosene lamp: charge a higher rate than for cakes, toys, rags the labour of cleaning and filing lamps, the and road rollers, seaweed, sanff, sponges and difficulty of keep ng them from smoking if ex: dried ducks, pillows, joss sticks and stuffed The dismissal of the President of the Cham-posed to dialls, the fire risk in lighting them, cats? A pig occupies nearly as much floor ter of Commerco, Tastaj Chow Tain-pino, at the vitiation of the air both by the smell or space as a ton of rabber and pays only 1-25th the instance of the oard of Commerce in fumer find by consuming axgger, or the much part of charge. Hatuffed, he pays one cost for icking, still farther complicates a situation greater radiat.os of heat (for what is the oidig-pical per mille. A ton of rubber in charged which was aheady full of dificulis. The dis any oil stove bul as overgrown kerascać lamp?) rather more than one-half the freight on a misal was brough, about as the result of-in-thel-ghting costs were equal, there objections corpse-provided cald corpss is contained, in a quities made by the cochow Governor, H. X. would connt tertopsly against the kerosene coffio," Chen is erniexion with the Rancial trans. lamp, but with our modera high efficiency lo actibes of the former Shangbai Total Tsai candescent we have so far who was degrated a couple of min hi ago. It OUTSTRIPPED THIR OIL IN ECONOMY will be remembe.el that, as the time of the of ope.ation that we can simply disregard its failure of three local Eaoks which were asbaodicnps and lock upon it merely as an ini sociated with Chiu Yoe, the Shanghal Tactai, teresting but now outgrown factor in the Tail, together with the President of the Chin-historical development of illuminants," ess Chamber of Commercs, Chow, praceated
to Nanking tớʻinurview Viceroy Chang, who alter a conference with them, siked for
EXCITING EXPERIENCES with bilganda in Persia, two of his escon being
lad, but in Kurdistan and Aibinia he travel
IMPERI; L AUTHORITY, led with perfect safety over ronies which wa e through the Grand Council, to asga:iato a loan regel as highly dangerous before the grant-with the foreign Banks of Shanghai, foribe zum ing of the Turkish Constlimited. Ferfect tran of thr;e and a hill million tarls. This loan was quillity prevalled, and ka passed through Turkey, with only one soldier as escort.
The most dangerous part of the rord wis after leaving the Persian town of Shulgirtin, Robbers began to snips the caravan, which now contit d of twelve Basgel Lancers, with a native officer, and fiva Persian.Cossack-a' together twanly guns. The robbers did not succeed la their intention of
CHINese actors "IN ENGLAN
Miss Gertrude Kingston has arranged for a Chinese company to appear at the Little Theatre, says t.e Daily News of Novembar 18. "Just to Get Marned" will be temporarily withdrawo over the Christmas holiday, and the tua resumed in the New Year.
Madam Cbusg and her compasy of celebrated Its place will be taksu on December 6, by
players cirect from Peking, whom Miss Kinge- LoD will present for the first time in Europe. Madain Chung, who has been likened to the
made for the purpose of strengthening the mar set and les oring confidence in Chinese Bank orders, all of whi'c's threatened to be engulfed in the discrasi. brought upon the erders of the three insolvent Fanks. Nearly one ad a half millions of this loan were used fir the payment of Bank orders in the hands of the foreign' Banka ned foreign films, and the famous Japanese actress, Madam Sada Yacco, balance of the loin was pat on deposit ia Cbl-wilt appear in a characteristic study entitled DRAWING THE CARAVAN'S FIRE,
mese registered Ban a. It was to connexion "The Dragon of Wrah" founded on on an. but a halt was called near the entrance to a with the manner of depra't og this balance el cient Chinese legend. sido valley in order to ascertain whit were the two milostasis that accusations ware brought robbers' intentions, for the Istlar were seen at against the former 8.anghai Tsotai, Tasi, and ́a distance of about a mile, and it was observed as a result of the char es, bli degradation that an advance party was riding along the bills was cccomplished, ha Provincial Assembly Ashiroid became more enclosed, stiping at Nanking bassoogly opposed the action of recommenced, and it was considered advisable | Viceroy ɩ5abg in the master, and it has
FOUND VIGOROUS SUPPORT
in Governor Chen, whole investigation of the
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ample scope for a delineation of Ch nes lifa
Albough a tragedy lo miniature, it gives
wrestling in the combat for the hind of the Princess, Far Eastern music and singing in the betrothat I suvitice, and asme quaint dances by slave girls probably never yet seen outside
Events Coming.
Thunday, 29th December, Bijou Bconic Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
Friday, 30th December, -Kowloon Dock Ball.
Geo. P. Lammett, Property sale, coin,
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Saturday, 31st December.
Concert at Club Germania, Club Lusitano Ball, at Club house.
Monday, 2nd January,
Bank Holiday.
Children's Sports at Kowloon Cricket Club Ground.
Saturday, 7th Jasuny. Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Races,
Saturday, 14th January, United Services Club Dance at Kowloon School, 9 pm.
shortly after ten o'clock fast night at No, io FIFTEEN men were murated by Sergt. Eater
Nallah Lane in a gambllog raid. The men appeased before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magir- tracy this morning, Evidenco was called and his Worshipi ordered the first and second de-
a Peking place, The second act terminates the | feudacts to pay á flas of Sjo each and the
Kr. Bill's.parly were sent on shord, the matter bis bua this furtherefcc:ot.emoving Mr. ttagecy with a forceful display of her art by temaio der $; aplece.
sible,
to attack the briganda. Accordi: gly half of
mainder beleg so disposed us to cut off, if pos-Chow from the ribacy of the fecal Chamber Medim Chung, why dies in the arms of her
of Commerce. It is understood that he recom- husband, while her would ba betrayer, the dis THE RODMERS' RETREAT,
mondatos of Governor Chen has been to the loyal Prices, is killed by the Dagin of Wrath, It was now seen that the main body of the effact that the former Shaoghal Tootai, Tia, vandits numbered some sixty men..
should be held personally responsible for ite
The programme wil include two short coe. repayment of the loan of three and a half milact pisces by European authors... Hons. Tais Memorial of Lovernor Chen bus,
At this polat some of Mr. Blll's escort rode up to a couple of robbers who had come to a star dstill owing to their horses being fatigued, One of the sowars was instantly shot dead and
in the fighting which followed a second of the British Consol's sowatu was killed. The com.
be: "gotified" to the Board of Finance,"60"|| AN agréement signed in London with British, that the final issue of the matter is that the French, Grimas and American fiancial Central Government of Peking his at one time commendation of Viceroy Charg, and at anticipation in regard to the Chase loan. *pproved the making of this fan on the groups provides for the co-operation and par-
of Governor Chen is the ellect that ex-Tactal for the 5 par ceat equal participation, but for. other time bas approved the recommendation Moreover, this agreement provides not only
fascial operations in Chios. Oblea does not c'rrency reform and future international
regud with favour an American - Financial Adrien
TSAL SHOULD BE HELD KZSPONSIBLE *.
batinis came to close quarters and the Lative officer killed one of the brigands with his sword
Aft 7ih's encounter the main body of the for its repayment. That matters cannot ramkia rabbers cimo op, but Atropeared after firing in this position will be andant tu kli, and futura at long range, Afterwards the caravan was developments will be awaited' with much in: namolgitad-Dally Aspidity
trait--Shanghai Zinck ́
THE FESTIVE SEASON.
Me at the BRITISH-AMERICAN CANDY- STORES, No, 15, Pottinger Sirce). CANDIES of evely description, XMAS CRACKERS and STUCKINGS can by bad at very season- able prices.
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