DEATH TO THE FLIES. dated with anti-lly literature.
A Crusade on the Little Abomination which, Hongkong Might Copy.
In an illustrated article which appears in
tho
work..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1912.
RUBBER SLAVERY,
Not Conflued to the Congo
but also in England.
to
hands of the workers swell up, as A BANKER'S REQUIRE- if soalded,, to 'twice their normal
MENTS.
eize, and when they can swell no moro the skin burats, and the blood sportsforth. Women work A Chiongo banker, according away
at this horrible task with to a Paris contemporary, is in the blood pouring from their search of a paragon in the way of hands; the throat is also affected, a servant. She must wait at in some cases very seriously table ideally, and road from their at a fraction over threepence per She must never show ill-temper, For this task the pay comes out oyes: what the invited requiro. bottle, which takes considerably nor wear any expression of lovity, Further, she suust be a good cook
vor an hour to complete. and make her own costumes; sho
Hotels,
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Now Open.
Hongkong, 20th April, 1911.
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Telephone 197,
MANAGEMENT & QUIDINE UNDER BUROPEAN MANAGEMENT
F. REICHMANN, Propriet r.
The girls and women can earn
must have no acquaintances, never gossip, be corroot in all her 621 week at full pressure, but to get from eight to ten shillings in a this they have to go on at full dealings and keep her place. spoed, ignoring such incidents as qualifications will have to roninin The Indy possessing all theso being overcome by the sickening
In Worcester (Mass) a boy of twelve won $100 for destroying Jono and a quarter million flies; in Cleveland lantern lectures on the habits of the crentures were given;
The special commissioner of in Minneapolis and San Antonio generous prizes were offered and the "Watch Dog" has been point well-won; and oven the Socioly ing out to all and sundry that "World's for the Prevention of Cruelty to rubber slavery is by no means Work" (American) for April, Animals gave up the fly as being confined to the Congo, but is to Mr. Frank Stockbridge deals at redemption. Finally, over lengthily with solutions of the thousand cinematograph-be mot within Christian England, shows have boon provided with of all places. Ho writes: "Noar- house-fly difficulty-a subject of films which reveal the great | Casential interest to the dweller disease harbinger at his deadly every boily to-day riles bioyclo, and not a few are able in Hongkong, and the East gen-
In conclusion Mr. Stockbridge afford the greator luxury of a erally. Evidently the United shows indisputably that the fly motor car. I wonder how many States pobple as a whole have de-kills more than the bullet and riders recognise the fact thatnaphtha gas," vomiting, blood with the banker during his life. clared war without quarter, combide us train our children to promise or armistice on an insect which we were taught as children to regard as harmless; and so the
Worse than the Congo. American youngster is spared
The winding of the cores of the moral lecturos on the
golf balls is so underpaid that wickedness of fly-killing with
nobody will do it at all unless I will deal with the inner tube starving. Lot a golf player look which well-intentioned mothers
industry first. This work is por at the inside of a ball, and reckon and nurses fretted and bored our own childish existonco. Of course,
formed by girls, and the tubos how he would like to do that as Mr. Stockbridge paints unt, it
come to them in the desired winding at three-halfponce per dozon, with a fine for all that did lengths for joining up, for put not pass inspection. It is not a is but quite recently that the ly has been regarded seriously as ment on style or taste, we reprinting on an extra piece for strongili- very long ago that the country FROM this date nad during my ab- vehicle of discaso; and it was not the following from the "National toning at the valve, ote. The was up in arms about the rubber till last year that the American Review" of April 20. Doubt method adopted in the work is to atrocities of the Congo. It would 2OUSE will act as Secretary of tho
well repay thn agitators i, they Company. less the "poor beggars in Ilong- make a mixture of chlorido of would look about at home a bit, By Order of the Board, public started on its campaign against the common eneiny. But kong" will begin to indulge in a sulphur and bi-sulphido of ear-and try and got things put right.
ld sulf-pity after perusing it- That houry and cobweb-bon, which produces à volatile
road the little abomination as when they handle either tubes or they would the rattle-muke, tyres they hold in their hands the Hongkong might do worse than product of the most horrible follow America's load in this very sweating and arduous work in necessary crusade.
existence.
CONCERNING THE POST
OFFICE.
"Thank Heaven we do not live
in Hongkong.
Without youturing any com
Intoxicated by Naphths Gas.
drenched hands, and sore throats, time, and at his death she will Such things aro, all in line with receive a hundred thousand dol- Iars, or £20,000. The question the revolting work, at which any suggests itself, if such n help can decent conviot would mutiny..
bo found, is it likely that sho will survive tlie banker?-"Straits Echo.""
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NOTICE.
Russian Count on New China
what is known as naphtha gas student of philosophy, from the Count Hermann Koyserlieg, a The effect of this gas on the workers in somewhat peculiar. It Balkan Province of Russia, 18 RO
FROM this date and du ingay a
ne fmm the Colony Mr. A. B.
gerins of typhoid and other fovora | suci a week ago tells us that tho does not seein to matter muchmaking au extended tour through ROUSE will not as Secretary of the
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A state of coma rapidly follows, the workers collapse monning on the finns, and any reque or
other workers to the outer air, where they are left until they re- cover sufliciently to return to work.
the Far East.
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condition of the country I have of wgkong that they bare to-day "On account of the unsettled Mad Mrs. SCPIESS beg to inform the ladica and gentlemen not been able to ascertain the teken over in their own name the bi- HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN. exact montal status of the Chinese pore of the Paris Toilet Company, Lid,, people because everybody's mind so long carried on under their manage
as been so upset for the time by ment and that they will continue the PLUNKET'S GAP
the revolution.
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behold, during that one year, about a billion flies were ayaton-iddon insitution, the British Post liquid known in the trade as the AN INTERESTING VIEW tically slain in the States wid even better still-thousands of lico, las succeeded in distin-cold cure," their breeding places wore clean-guishing itself again by means of
The tubes are joined up, aud an exhibition of that species of the patches pat on with the liquid sed and purifiod.
insanity that has been traced by which, as it evaporates, forma Words of Warning, - medical experts to a too exclusive The crusade was started by the diet of red tape and seating wax.) doctors, one proving that the & semi-ullicial ausencement is lurked on the feet and bodies of roundab sut pröévoding laid down the insects; another that these for, the posting of letters by non-
whother the girls affected by it In a recent interview with a
By Order of the Board. are al all other times of good bo-
O, MONTAGUE RDE, profer for their breeding-grounds box-bolders is "the only, way, haviour and speech, but no sooner "I was curious to know whether Hoagk ng, 1st May, 1912.
"China Prosa" reporter ho said: |
Secretary. and nurseries the most pestilen-there is no alteruntive,"
(817 do they come under the naphtha tial spots available, Another
We are told that it is working influenon than they are over the Barae truths as we of the wost these peoples of the cost identified issued a poster containing nearly a thousand words of solom war excellently in Hongkong. Well, powo.ed by a kind of intoxication and the only difference was in Hongkong cannot help itself. It to such an extent tint a torrent ring and embellished with an
the way of expressing them, or only has one post office, and of abuse and blasphemy pours whether they were seeking some- illustratof border which depicts,wever inoflicient it may be from their lips, and, for some un-thing entirely different. among ethor things, a putrifying Hongkong has to put up with it known ronson, is usually expend dog, a muck-heap and a consumo Shanghai it is diflorent, for weed against any man or men who tive'sspittoon-all hall baried by swarms of flies, which proceeds, abroad most people use the neighbourhood..
dozen. For posting happen to be in their immediate in duo order, from salubrious haunis to our cream-jugs, our German or the Russian posts, as they afford facilities which the babies' bottles and our din British Post Office doos ust tablos, bearing divors dinoases in their train. The puster appealed appreciate.
If the Briton in Shanghai to the boy seals of Weir (Kanaus}{ who not only spread it broadcast desires to use his own Post Office
ho must, in addition to postage,} bat presently undertook to open the actual war which has been pay for a box at the Ollico, a wagod naceasingly singo then. Saratoga trunk in which to send his letters to the Office, a chit
in texan I inquired if he had Mw WORCESTER has this day 1 ten Not only did they clean up every book in which to state that he is
thought out how these theories admitted a partner in our Firm, which plague-spot in the town, but they manufactured and distributed sending the Saratoga trunk, and
were best to be applied in China will continue to carry on the busines
"swatters" for the summary | smashing of flies, and traps for send a note to the Post Office
he said he had never given thoir of Share and General Brokere as here practical application a thought, toforo under the style of “Moxon & Omoists to say that he is "velly
This sort of thing is China's Taylor.".
BLOXON & TAYLOR. Solly" to have to trouble them so The work has to be done a greatest danger in tho presont tagkong. lit May, 1919 A Fine Record,
ertsin, much by sending letters to them lightning spood to secure éven Washington followed suit, one to be posted. Or he may dispense baro existence; but the firms do returned students and men who of its newspapers offering prizes, with the box at the Office and not put the same value on the have been abroad just long en- from $25 downwards, for the pay an extra clerk to write out on work when viewed from their ough to absorb some of the wes largest number of fly-carcasen little weeny slips of paper the side. If a valve patch is wrong torn ideas which they themselves seat in all means of slaying address of evory lettor he posts,and sized or is put on in a wrong only half understand and if they being permissible save sticky on each of these slips he must place, the workers are muloted undertake to move the four hun- paper. A thirteen-year-old boy put one pieces one-coat-stamp. in the sum of one ponpy for each dred million people of China on won the first prize, with a handThe difference between the sum mistake; and if a tube has to be to this false basis hastily chaos of 343,800 (N.B. the corpses total of these expenditures and rejected on secount of a twist in can hardly be averted. To in- not counted individually the postage charged in other Post it, threepenco is the amount of sure continued stability they but measured, ut 1600 to the Offices is negligible, and most fine imposed.
must take tho now with the old, gill.) Grocers, butchers, fruiter-people will be well advised to It does not want a very big Will Confucianism, ba ers, etc., readily placed their pro uso other Offices. When posting effort to arrive at the fact that
Discarded?
Just zéseivel, a fresh consignment of mises at the disposal of the letters for. China the alternative, one twist and three wrong patches
"Confucianism is the only basis.C. Wilks, M L.Mech.,.A.M.NA.; hunters traps-baited with su- which the sapient officials of the wipe out the work of over a hun-
Consulting Engineer and Surveyor for upon which to base their new construction, Valuer and Assessor for gared water, paste, or dead crabs British Post Office say does not drod tubes completed. The firm life. Confucianism has been the purchase, or sals, of Steamships of were also pressed into the service, exist, is to use the Chinese. Post makes no allowance for the fact bred in the race for centuries. Launches and so seven million flies were dis- Office, which does not charge that the tubes are not spoiled. posed of in no time. This sounds anything spart from actual pos- They can be made right again in The people follow it, not only as
catching the unswatted.
were
an extra chit book in which to
A Strong Indictment. A fair average of such deplora- being in day. And what is the remunera tion for work such as this? The gnificent Ruin of 5.3-4d. for one hundred tubes joined and Gnishol.outright!
A Radical Socialist. "I met one Chinese who was a radioal socialist and I have no doubt that he sincerely believed in the extreme socialistic theories,
во There are
many
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A large number, but Dt. Howard Lage, for the privilege of posting.a very few seconds, but the an- a matter of form, but in spirit. Sat Mar 1917- the entomologist asserts that the
Without the spirit no mere form onn endure for long. There is danger that Confucianism may be discarded in the mad roshn adopt wostera ways and thero i nothing suited to the Chinese nature to take its place. Buddhism has no hold on the Chinese and
For ourselves, we always use fortunate worker has to pay all total possible progeny of a single the Chinose Post Office, and even the same, fly is 1,090,181,249,310,720,000,- throughout the Revolution we The rubber, canvas, and wire 000,000,000 and that twelve found it absolutely reliable. This edges are supplied already cat to generations of liss would measure experience is confirmed by enquiry size, and the worker has to make considerably more than the total from others. In one case, a gentle them into the unished article at mase of the earth,
man had, during the past six the rate of sixpence a dozen. In Then the Boat Women's months, despatched over a thou the case of beaded edge tyres the I don't think that the spirit of Longus took a hand in the game, sand letters mostly to places price is sevenpence halfpenny Christianity will ever penetrate *by the issue of a very pertinent where there was a British Post dozen.
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Wilmington came next, preaching letters wors lost. Or the letters guerdon of, fourpence per hour / "China is a mont. damocratic) 2,3-4 hours. :- wholesale massacre, and under forwarded by Chinese Post Office with an added bonus of a half country. There are no titles or THREE PATENT SLIPWAYS
nobility here. The Chinese people taking vessels up to 8,000 tons bidirection literally every notone was lost, and of course they penny per hour if their work does have been free and equal in displacement, providing conditions for inch of the town was washed went at a cheaper rate than by not contain too many.. rojects." with pyroligneous sold the British Post Office. In future he
result being an immediate and will use the Chinese Post Office
1
a large measure, for centuries, painting ships with most efficient result Diabolical Torturas. They are imbued with the de 100-Tox ELECTRIC CRANE OF QUAY very marked depresse of typhoid. only. That alternative is open to In the manufacture of indiarab-mocratic spirit and no doubt ELECTRIC OVERHEAD CRANES THROUGHOUT Apropos of fly-poisons it should every body in Shanghai, though ber hot water bottles and such socialism would be a successful TOPS RANGING UP TO 100 TONE be added that another American of course the poor beggars in like goods there is used a mix experiment in this country if its Estimates giran for Docking, Repels to Hull and Mechinery, solentist, Dr. Bolttons had already Hongkong have got to put up ture of solution and naphtha gradual development were, one recommended the use of a 5 per with any sort of silly nonsense which goes under the name conraged but they must worK JANSENSE'IND ABILI sant solation of formalin,
alutary onslaught
"Buhools, hotels, otoz being
that an obfuscated Postal Intel- of caphine, . This ju- the most Town followed town in this ligence likes to invent. Thenk diabolical stuff over invented
Heaven we do not live in Hong-| and it effects cannot be guard-
løð@aminst im any way,
Constructional Work.
from the old Into the BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
the former as the basis,
has sustained them for
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