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Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor. Tels. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkong. Under the Fersonal Supervision and Management of
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ROOSEVELTS IN OF ASIA
Since Marco
VHF
rom
THE RIVER
Making Ugliness Beautiful.
Per.. серг Now York via ports on Sept. 28- Those who can recall the mud- Mr and Mrs. J. M.
Mdy creek which goosby the name Mun L. Ell, Mr John H. Geldart, of the Singapore -Rivar vill Mr. P. Moolchand Mr. Lim Kim appreciate the following, from a
paper 64 chi Rov. O C3 Crisler, Mr. CP Singand :thơ
Peking September 22-After more than two months travel by pony onravan Roosevelt Expedition has reached the heart of Asia, a region visited by few travellera since the voyage. of Marco Fold In the thirteenth century
Latest United Press dispatches indicate that the Roosevelts are in the neighborhood of Kashgar, the chief city of Kashgar, which probably is the most isolated region in the civilized world The city of Kashgar is almost directly north of Delhi, India, and duo east of Baku on the Cuspain Bea
There are only two routes by which Kashgar may bo reached, one from Peking which requires five months travel and the shorter by Srinagar, India and Leh, which involves only two or three months. The latter was the route taken by the Roosevelt expedition. It left Srinagar early in May and passed Yarkand about August 1.
Cruz Mr. A. Buchanan, Dr. HawFoots, writers, artists and musi- thorne Darby, Miss E. Dawson, clans, have always associated beauty with rivers. The musical Miss Marguerite Decker, Mr. Vin- ton S. Giles, Mrs. V. Golden, Miss gurgling of the little brook and the majestic flow of mightier Barera Golden, Miss Betty Golden, Prof. Frederick Griggs, Miss roams have inspired many a Geneva Harwich, Mrs., 1. C. Har song and poem. tigan, Mr. and Mrs. 8. C. Harland.Let us therefore, paues to con- Mrs. Bertha Kyburz, Miss Lucie in wonder on the acene before sider our river. The tourist gazes Kyburz, Mr. Jack Kyburz,Mr. him as he stands on either of the Jack Kybur, Mr. C. Loren, Mra town bridges. He fumbles eager G, D, Mahon, Miss W E. Mann, ly for his camera, not because Mrs. Geo. McJannett, Mr. and Mrs. the picture he wishes to R. W. Miller, Mrs. E. Mulheron, record holds any of the Mrs. M. E. Murphy, Mrs. L E. pootle beauty we have read Musszall, Mrs. A. Schick, Master about, but because it is purely an Harold Schick, Mrs. L.A. Sweet, interesting sight. One has to ad- Miss Arabella Sweet, Mrs. H.-J. mit this. Even to the long Scholtes, Mr. John Summersott, resident in Singapore the soone Master John Summeraett, Master to which we have grOWN-50 GC- Robert Summersett, Miss Virginia customed holds some intorest Summersett, Master William Sum- which we feel, perhaps, uncon mersett, Miss Geneva Summersett, sciously Mrs, Thec, H. Wintrs, Mr. A.'T. Ennis, Mr. T. L. Gaulstin,, Mr. Another indication of the E. S. Maury, Mr. and Mrs. Wnt. D. Arthur Hill, Mr. T. F. Lee, Mrs. isplation of Kashgar is that until recently it required two months Wisell, Mr. D. J. Carmichael, Mr. for a telegram to roach Kashgar and Mrs. H. G. Weisbecker, Mias from Poking. A foot messenger
Joan Weisbecker, Mr. and Mrs. carried the telegram the last few Benjamin Bazata, Miss Elizabeth hundred miles of its journey and Bazata, Miss Ruth Bell, Rev. O. M. sometimes it did not. There is a Buck, Mrs. O. 11. Buck, Miss Jean wireless station in the city but it M. Buck, Miss Sarah L Buck, Mr. seldom works because the Chin- CHfford Manshardt, Mr. and Mrs, ese government failed to pay for. E. Drewett, Mr. Herbert A. its erection and the natives have Goetz, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mount, little interest in it.
Mr. Joseph B. Mount, Com. T. P. Riddle, Mrs. T. P. Riddle, Mrs. A., Klingen, Mr. Schenne Peb, Miss F. Mussett, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wermich, Mr. and Mrs. S. 5. Wright, Mrs. Bernetta Ziegler. Miss Gladys West, Miss Katharine Benade, Mrs., O. A Craft, Miss Irene Schmitt, Mr. Marvin Crews.
The region where the expedi- tion has just arrived is known to the Chinese as Sin-Kiang, or New Province" because they conquered it only 2,000 years ago. The administrative capital at Urumchi is two months travol away. Occasionally there is a revolt and some. yoars ago the Chinese sent an army from China to put down an uprising. It took the army four years,to reach Kashgar. United Press,
BLACKING.
How It Lost Favour. Moralists might find many texts in the winding up of the firm of Day and Martin, whose nants was at one time probably better known than that of any other
British manufacturing concern. The decline of the busi ness of the famous makers of blacking is widely attributed to the conviction of the directors that they might with safety cease to advertise, in which caso the epitaph might well be. It buys to advertise" the title of a recently popular play.
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The thousands of closely pack- ed lighters, the endless toll of Quays, the shouts and the hoarse coolies as they labour along the cries of the boatmen as they mingle with those of the bullock cort drivers' on the quay, are tints which give the picture only harshness-this is not beautiful, wo say
No, but the score is a vastly different one when the river is studied under the softening glow of the evening, when all is quiet- nese. No longer are the grim Stone quays crowded with voci ferating coolies. The twakows, covered and huddled ** close
together for the night, sway gent- ly in one undulating mass.as they move with the swell of the rising tide..?
of the buildings in the back- The orientally designed roofs
ground are silhouetted against an orange tinted sky, for sunset.
Fer 8.8. President Polk for New Darkness comes on, not to shut York via Ports on September 29th. out the sceno but to lend another -Mr. Lim Kim-chi, Rev. C, G-setting to the picture. Countless Crisier, Ar, C. P. Cruz, Mr. A little lights flicker: from the Buchanan, Dr. Hawthorne Darby, twakows and from the windows Mise E Dawson, Miss Marguerits of the houses on the far side and Decker, Mr. Vinton S. Giles, Mrs, are reflected in the dark waters V. Golden, Miss Barbara Golden, as straggling lines of gold which Miss Betty Golden, Prof. Frederick dance fantastically as the surface Griggs, Miss Geneva Harwich, is rippled by the slow passage of Mrs. L. C. Hartigan, MË. and Mrs, a solitary twakow wending its SC. Harland, Mrs. Bertha Kyburz, weary way to its mooring place. Mr. Jack Kyburz, Lir. C. Loren. On shore all is not stillness. A Mrs. G. D. Mahon, Miss W. E brighter flare of lights in some Mana, Mrs. Geo, MeJannett. Mr. corner reveals a wayang. Borne and Mrs. R. W. Miller, Mrs. E. Cross the waters is the algab of Mulheron, Alra. M. E. Murphy, cymbals and the shrill voice of an Mrs. L E. Muzzall; Mrs, A. Schick,
actor then comes quietness Master Harduld Schick, Mrs. L. A. again. There is beauty then, Sweet, Miss Arabella Sweet, Mraling and always overcrowded H. J. Scholtes. Mr. and Mrs. John Summersett, Master John Sum mersait, Master Robert Summer-
even in our sometimes' evil smel-
river.
sett, Miss Virginia Summersett, and Mrs. S. S. Wright, Mrs. Ber- Manter William. Summersett, Missnetta Ziegler, Miss Gladys West, There ware other factors. Thero Geneva Summersett, Mrs. Then, II Miss Katharine Benade, Mrs. O. A. has been a vast change of national Winters, Mr. A. T. Ennis, Mr. T. 1. Craft, Miss Irene Schmitt, Mr. hábit. Blacking of the old -kind Gauletin, Mr. has been superseded by wax T, F. Lee, Mrs. E. S. Maury, Mr. Mrs. Frank White, Miss Doris Arthur Hill, Mr. Marvin Crews, Dr. Frank White, polishes and perhaps, the firm, and Mrs. Wm. D. Wisell, Mr. D. J. was relucant to admit that a Carmichael, Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
White, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Banney, Mr. Frank. Hambly, Mr. James supremacy of over a hundred Weisbecker, Mlies Jean Weisbecker, years could be challenged. By the time they were in the field Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bazata, a.m.with the modern polishes other Miss Elizabeth Bazata, Miss Ruth competitors, who did believe in Bell, Rev. O, AI. Buck, Mrs.-O. M. advertising had captured. the Buck, Miss Jean M. Buck, Miss Sarah L Buck, Mr. find Mrs. brought about by thoroughly effective advertising combined J. E. Drewett, Mr. Herbert A. with the American spirit. So we Goetz, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mount hear of the winding up of a firm Mr. Joseph B. Mount, Com, T. P. whose name was once lispod by Riddle, Mrs. A. T. Klingen, Mr. every child and whose fame was Schenpe Peh, Miss F. Mussett, celebrated in enduring literature. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wermich, Mr.
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