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MR. S. J. SOLOMON'S STARTLING THEORIES.

In the current number of the

Telephone 29.

OPIUM SMOKING.

1.

THE CHINA MAIL

CHINA OF TO-DAY.

INTERVIEW WITH SIE JOEN JORDAN.

A MILITARY CASTE'S RISE.

TRADE OPENINGS AND RELATIONS WITH THE BRITISH.

WHISKY BY TORPEDO.

MAGIC IN LONDON.

HERBALISTS' STRANGE

ODRES.

Incantations and spells are often woven within-sound of the rumble of London's motor-omnibuses

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

· FROZEN SMOKED FISH

The scene is a little shop of the New shipment ex S.S. "Cardiganshire

NEW SMUGGLING DEVICE.

Information received by the New York police shows that electrically operated torpedoes with whisky, ure being sent daily scross the river from the Canadian to the American shore. There are three torpedoes in use of ten, fiftech, and twenty-five gallon capacity. They are of copper con- Times.. Sir John Jordan, P.C. K.CBstruction, with a propeller at the nose child, whose leg has been scalded by KCMG., CM.G. accorded the actuated by electric storage batteries. "Evening Standard the following They submerge 100 feet, and require interview on his arrival in England. about five minutes to cross the river, Chia today is beset by a new After being caught and emptied on problem.

the American side, the torpedoes are ballasted with water and sent back.

It lies in the effort that is being made in certain quarters to convert it into a military nation.

Sixty-five per cent, of the revenue is now being spent on militarism, and that is disquieting, "for many reasons. The Chinese are peace- loving people, who do not want to concern themselves with war. Their administration has always been of a civil character, in harmony with the needs of a population that relies mainly on agriculture. A typical Chinese is the contented small-holder, who lives with his family on the ancestral farm and rarely travels 20 miles away from it. He is hardly The condition of ecstasy and sub-able to read or write, and he has no interest in politics, but he is satisfied liminal, exaltation to

The mercantile classes. better habitual opium smoker aspires by the educated, have equally good points. generous, happy, and good humoured.

which

the

the telephone, wireless, and even aeroplanes."

THE ATTITUDE TO FOREIGNERS.

balist in the East End, says the A mother brings her

boiling water spouting from a kettle. The herbalist an old man with a white beard-hlows his breath three times on the blisters of the scald, and saya

"Here come I to cure a burnt

gore.

If the dead knew what the living endure

The burnt sore would burn no more."

In the 'seventies we had no access The next visitor may be a young at Peking to the Government of girl, who wants a charm to bring The Emperor lived back and retain the wandering the country. in absolute seclusion in his palace, affections of her lover. She is told and only once, in 1872, had there that she could not do better than to give him secretly in a cup of tea been an audience with him.

potion brewed from the roots of There was only one newspaper in the tormentilis a little yellow Sower of the grasslands. The her the whole of China, and that was halist is a bit of a wag. He cautions

the girl to be careful not to adminis ter the potion by mistake to the cat, as the poor animal would die of her unrequited affections.

In-a-cosmopolitan city like London most of the superstitious survivals of

World's Work Mr. Solomon J. Solo inhalation of his narcotic fumes has They can be relied upon; they are aries. Hostility has been succeeded the world are to be found. Super-

In

been the theme of more novelists than one, when their stories have intre- duced the dope " or opium den element. Scientific enquiry into the exact constitution of the smoke-of

They have not the sad look that one sees on the faces of most Eastern peoples.

WHAT THE PEOPLE DESIRE.

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HR. A. G. GORDON.

DEATH AT BOMBAY,

was trained as 20 Engineer on the

foreign one; now there are news

A LINK WITH THE PAST. Just as great has been the change

It is with deep regret that we have papers all over the country. in the attitude of the people towards

to announce the death at Bombay foreigners a change particularly

on June 21, of Mr... Alexander Grant pronounced with regard to mission

Gordon, one of the oldest European The stocks and ducking-stools for residents of Hongkong. The tele. by a friendliness that results in mon. R.A., writes on The Secret

missionaries acquiring very consider stitions were certainly revived dur. those who fail in respect to their graphic news of his death came ing the war. There was a remark marriage vows or who have not a as a painful shock to his many of German Camouflage," and arrives

able influence.

One of China's greatest achieve able vogue in fortune telling and proper sense of duty in regard to the relative and friends here yesterday. at some startling conclusions.

ments, I think, was the suppression a demand for charms and amulets relations of the sexes is suggested by The late Mr. Gordon, had been particular he attributes the success of the German offensive of March, 1918,

These people desire nothing more of opium. The whole country was which brought good luck or pre- Lady Beecham, Secretary of the very ill for many weeks, and having served the wearer from danger. Mariage Defence Council I do recovered sufficiently, left the Colony to the superiority of the enemy's opium has been made from time to than to live in peace, but as a result practically cleared of it. Unfortun this way, what are called the lower feel" she said to a representative of by the ss." Novara" on May 24, camouflage, and he asserts that we had me, and the results obtained show of the revolution and the war with ately in the last few years there has

Et one of the the Germans in the hollow of our in' percentage from the various volatile Germany a military caste has arisen, been a relapse, but I think the and uneducated classes stretch the Globe, "that the breach of the bound for Home to undergo a covISC get into touch with the supernatural punishable by law. I say this because English watering places, hile took ar hands at that moment but for official bodies which, when inhaled collective-which is trying to impose its will or Chinese in the end will suppress it cut their hands gropingly to try to Seventh Commandment should be of treatment obstruction and apathy in the marterly, produce the pleasureable sensa-the rest of the nation, with results altogether.

"A great deal of harm is being just as the better and more in such conduct is condoned by the turn for the worse on the voyage, of camouflage. Mr. Solomon initiated ions which make the opium smoking that are alien to the Chinese spirit. A great depresent time through telligent ranks of society availed provisions of the Ell which Lord and had to leave the ship at Bombay,

It will have a

themselves of the spiritualistic Bockmaster is bringing before" the where he entered a hospital. He Camouflage in the British Army, but addict so unwilling to break away from and traditions

“mediums” for the purpose. es he remarks he was only for a short his deleterious habit

House of Lords, and because I hold passed away a few days later. He Mr. Frank tremendously important effect on the the smuggling into North China of

that to extend the reasons for divorce was accompanied by Mrs. Gordon, rime in contact with actual war con Browne, who was for a long time world if a peaceable country of more morphia. This is used for the doping

and the opportunities for divorced and Miss J. Gordon, to whom the ditions. During his stay in France analyist in the Government labora than 400,000,000 peaceable inhabit of Chinese, who visit little huts, place their arms through an opening, and

The herbalist does a large trade in persons to remarry is an iniquity deepest sympathy will be extended. grass threaded fishing net was devised tories, Hongkong, gave in a recent ants becomes militarist.

China to-day may be said to be a receive an injection after paying a

The demise of Mr. Gordon, for covering guns and positions, and article in the Pharmaceutical journal,

country without a head. The few cents for the purpose. This may cures for various diseases. For cuts I maintain that much of the wrong this net, he states became the resume of his detailed estimation of President has excellent qualities, but be one of the results of prohibiting and bruises he has an ointment made doing in this world is the fault of who at the time of his death was universal camouflage with us and the the smoke of dross opium extract his power is limited, and the Govern the use of opium, and it is exceedingly of the leaves of the elder the free those who do not realise that it is head of Messrs Gordon & Co, of apon which, legend has it. Judas wrong. That facilities for laxity | St. George's Building, and geperal French." The reference is clearly to preparation in chief use by opium ment in effect is decentralized. It is harraful. the raffia threaded net, which so far smokers in the East. It was found conducted through the provinces,

The belief is commonly held in harged himself. He has decoctions should be deliberately provided by manager of the Hongkong Steel from becoming the universsi camion that the constituents of the smoke of each one of which is of very much China, although I do not know with of the nettle for chest complaints the law of the country is nothing Foundry Co. Ltd, revers 4 link with fage was definitely scrapped by the this dross, oplum extract (which was larger area than our country-

what authority, that this morphia is and of the blood. Much of this short of a scandal. All this legisis the early history of Be Colony, Born British after the battle of Messines prepared for smoking by a Chinese The provinces are in charge of exported from our country and sent branch of his business has little or tion in secret for those who have no in 1852, and educated at Glasgow, be

no relation to superstition. The re sense of duty and no self-control because it was found that the raffia conversant with the method) are pyri military men with their armed forces, through America and Japan.

medies he provides are to some ex is anworthy of the English people Clyde, and came out to Hongkong 43 bleached after a short exposure to the dine, morphine ammonia, and hydro- and until this military policy is

TRUSTFUL RELATIONS.

tent, derived from folklore, and have and alien to the English' spirit.

years ago. He had been intimately con The "trustful relations that exist the recommendation of success. .ts sun and thus became easy of dercocyanic acid. The amount of morphine abandoned the position is unsatis

"We hear far too much from the nected with the life at the Colony tion. Its place was raken by a net present in the smoke was found to be factory. threaded with strips of canvas.

The transitory stage is one of between England and Chinese busi well as of age, behind them. Of Divorce Law Reform Union and since. He joined the no 0016 per cent. and that of hydrocyanit Mr. Solomon's main contention. acid 00103 per cent.. both calculated utmost importance, not only to China, es men would probably surprise quite a different class is the necklace kindred organisations about unhappy defunct China and a 55. Co however, is that the enemy covered on the original camract used for the but to the rest of the world, and some commercial people in this of blue beads which is said to ward couples' who wish to be free of one here as apperintendent and in this whole fields with camouflage material experiment compared with the mor- everything depends on the course try. The Chinese bave a great off bronchitis. The depth of human another. What we do not hear so capacity had to deal with the ther sense of honour, and big transactions credulity is still more exhibited by much about is the wrongfulness of well known passenger carriers, the *****Pera," etc. About thus providing concealment for at least phine strength of the original dross that developments take. half a million men. He states that pium extract (which is 7.35 per cent.)

The patriarchal system is changing are carried through in many cases the stone having a natural hole sulting the convenience of these Distñarité,"

What the divorce re: Home to superintend the building The compradore (Chinese manager)-unpleasant things in themselves posterity. were found to be the morphine present in the smoke is very fast now. The conditions un-without any resert to documents through it, which averts bad dreams unhappy couples' at the expense of twenty-three years later wen

*Zafiro under the cover of the German ver very smalt indeed so that as Mr. der which an edict of the Empress will often have thousands of pounds and forecasts of evils to come. The formers want, and what they are of the Company's sion of our fishing net. To this state Browne remarks the pleasurable ser- Dowager went all over the country paid over to him by the English more gruesome an object is the more getting in the Buckmaster Bill, is "Rubies which were also

have disappeared completely. ment an officer who was a practical sation experienced by the smoker must The situation is one in which there head of a firm without any receipt efficacious it appears to be. There is simply the abolition of the well known here. Mr. Gordon was principle. They also connected with the Brick and Tile camoufeur throughout the war replied be due to the inhalation of the pare immense possibilities that neither being asked for, or expected," there is hardly anything that a coffin rings monogamic

never got out of a grave will not accom are trying deliberately to upset Works at Deep, Water Bay, as com an implicit trust which is by a monosyllable question. "Where?" dine, ammonia: and hydrocyanic

we nor China can afford to ignore.

shaken.

plish; and next to that in efficacy is the moral foundations of British sizing enginem, and held variou BRITISH TRADERS.

Including, that Of course, modern conditions a stone which has been bitten by a character. In days like these when other appointments,"

Britain stands before the world for of surveyor of the Marine Board of So far as our trade is concerned have bad their effect in some cases, mad dog.

The belief in particular charms all that is solid and good in the moral Underwriters of Philadelphia : and British residents in China often com- the temptations to dishonesty being plain of the lack of interest shown in fapt to be too great in some of the rises and wanes, according to cir-progress of humanity the discredit San Francisco,, which his qualifica their work by the people at home, smaller companies with compradores cumstances. At one time nearly all ing of British family life is nu mere ticus il a member of the Institute o who, it is felt, do not appreciate ade who do not possess the old standard seafarers regarded a child's caul as national affair but the concern of the Navy Architects and of the institut a sure protection from drowning. whole world. Other approaches are of Marine Engineers enabled him to quately the magnitude of car inter- of honour.

One of China's greatest needs is Then it fell entirely out of fashion made to religiously minded people undertake with ability. Under the ests in that great country..

As one who has spent 44 years in improved communications. MuchDuring the German submarine who are told that we must not bave Hongkong Government, te held the to Mr. Solomon's interpretation of the Herbert Chatley, D.Sc., London, photographs, the Germans had covered says: The scientific world some time the Far East, I can certainly bear has been done, but instead of the menace as much as £5 would be the details of divorce cases published post of surveyor of boilers of privat big areas. and it is inconceivable that back was much excited at the alleged testimony to the splendid work that present six thousand miles of rail- given for one in the East end. Now in the Press and that divorce should steamships under sixty tons the enemy should have been able to confirmation of Einstein's relativity is being done by the British com- ways there should be thirty or forty that the safety of the ocean highways be made secret. Secret divorce was also a Justice of the Peace in the conceal or destroy ali vestiges of such theory which gives a new aspect to the unity and the immense potential thousand miles. We have 16 million has been restored it would be hard means easy divorce and the begin. Colony. In fact, there was hardl pounds invested in Chinese railways, to find a sailor who would accept aning of that is the beginning of one of the many earlier institution subject of gravitation, Prof. Mar- China is a very wealthy country, and concessions waiting to be deve present of a child's caul There are various reasons for which jorana of Turin University has new huge in extent and of great resources loped to the extent of 25 million the practical camoufleur declares such partially demonstrated with a beauti-The British people out there are pounds. camouflage an impossibility. On the ful piece of apparates a new idea extremely enterprising, and are doing one hand it is beyond belief that work which is of almost equal consequence, vary.good work.

enormous areas

AN EXPERT ENQUIRY. Alter the armistice a special enquiry was made by experts into Mr. Solo- mon's theory Not a trace of these vast carsouflage areas, the very exist- ence of which depends solely on de- ductions from aerial photographs, could be found.. Investigations were made at three points where, according

important erections.

acid.

CAN MATTER HIDE ITSELF?

ties that exist.

ABUNDANT OPENINGS. * -

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destruction. Even if you ask me in Hongkong with which Mr. Gortio whether I would not have a man or was not connected in some way o a woman given facility to be free of other. He was the founder of thi an insane wife or husband my present frim of Messrs. Gordon, and answer would be no.

Co., and had been senior premer 0

An insane brother or sister is the firm since 1890. It was als still a brother or a sister, and there largely due to him, that the Ster you have a relationship which is less Works at Shaukiwan were origina intimate than that which subsista fed

of the St. Andrew L. Sondy's 'wa, Tefforts. Amongst those who wa most regret Mr. Gordon's death an the members of the Institute: o Engineers and Shipbuilders, of whic be was a keen meraber unit te hod was it is believed, one of t originators.

To improve communications in the WHISKY BY. PARACHUTE of so extended a character could have c.g., that matter slightly screens the Through chambers of commerce been carried on at a short distance action of gravity. As is well known they have accomplished great things. country will benefit trade enormously, behind the lines without detection. gravitation acts through matter as it and are holding their own well and a recent contract for two million Thousands of men must have been it were not there. The weight of against competitors. A large share pounds worth of aeroplanes is very

between husband and, wife. Surely In local society, Mr. Gordon w engaged, and many tons of uprights wel of sycee is the same whether it of the trade formerly carried on by enterprising. The machines are to

discovered such misfortune is only a reason for one of the leading figures, and z Prohibition agents and material brought up into the neigh rests on an open wire net or a solid Germany has been secured, and I be used for commercial purposes, bourhood of the front. It would have table, Marjorana claims to have have no fear at all for our trade and the Chinese who eventually are

to fly them are said to make very whisky being smuggled by aeroplane making the band closer and the Tor Crest," his home on the Peak across the Canadian border to Man-responsibility more binding and he was a very generous host. Th been the work of months or years, and shown that this is not quite correct there. secrecy could scarcely have been pre-end that the more massive a thing is

The lament is often heard, how good pilots.

Incidentally Chinese women are tana, and then landed by parachutes complete. Thackeray, whose wife be parent of St. Andrew's Society and served.

the less effective is the unit of mass ever, that we cannot get goods quick. LUDENDORFF ADMISSION.

to attract others. Thus two pounds of 17 enough from England, and in very interested in dying, which is There is also evidence of cases being came insane shortly after their smarritone of its earlier presidents, he we

extent to sent across the Niagara River by age, devoted his whole life to her and the sole survivor in the Colony

Unto their two little children. He never the Caledonian Society. Immediatel improvised aerial bridges. On the other hand anyone who has sycée would weigh, i.c. be attracted consequence orders have been sent one indication of the tried to camouflage a field knows that by the earth, slightly less than twice to America A little expediting in which their habits are changing doubtedly considerable quantities asked for freedom, but shouldered before his departure for Home, Mis

delivery of the goods from home The conditions of the

great Englishman he was Why Cronies Club During the wa there is no material except wire net one pound and consequemly, the real would be beneficial, for the Chinese women are improving, considerably; have been landed on the coast of his responsibilities and duties like the Gordon was a keen promoter of th ting which will not eventually sag be mass of a very large body may be are always eager to take our goods.

they are travelling abroad now, and Marine by swift motor-boats. tween the uprights, and that so, appreciably greater than its apparent

they are being better educated. Foot New York a big restaurant where should not the same be demanded Mr. Gordon did much toward shadow is produced which betrays the mass.

binding is on the decrease, and in whisky was sold openly at a dollar a from lesser men and women? In the Red Cross and othe For example, the sun is re- camouflage on the photographic plate.puted to have a density about one-and-There is a great deal of co-opera various ways the women are obtain small glass was raided by the America we see the evil effect upon funds, being one of the com The task of covering a field with wire a-half times that of water but, if Mar- tive effort between the British and ing an altered status. There are police, and many of the patrons the nation of easy divorce. We resers of the Heather Day and St women's rights" in China now and arrested. There seems little public cannot afford to fall into the same Andrew's Fair, the most successtu netting in such conditions is so diffi-joram is correct, it might have a den- the Chinese traders, and this form of cult that it is hardly worth considera- say even ten times as great as that development offers great promise for advanced representatives of the sex, support for the police in enforcing edition bere“ tion. In point of fact the enemy had of water, the difference being masked the future. The Chamber of Come just as there are in other countries. prohibition, and the threatened raids far more interest in concealing his by the fact that the outer parts of the merce lays great stress upon it. Women have not yet entered busi-on private houses where the cellars are devoted to making dider, material preparations from our eyes, sun obstruct the attraction of the inner Anglo-Chinese effort has resultedness, but there are some women

beer and inferior spirits would

A WIRELESS TORPEDO. than the movement of his troops be

in very, amicable relations, and there doctors.

be bitterly resented: There is cause such preparations: betray his

WHEELBARROWS AND MOTORS, no real demand - for a return If this be true, it will serve to ex-are abundant openings for extension.

Coincident with the modern to the sin palace and poor ale bars, designs long before troops are moved, plain the well known discrepancy as The mining wealth of China, for

NEW FRENCH INVENTION, and actually the best authorities are to the loss of the sun's heat and may instance is almost untouched. Coal amenities of places like Peking and now happily abolished, but probably agreed that when he surprised us it also be invoked to explain the produc might be developed very much more Shanghai, however, are the customs the majority of Americans desire was due not to camouflage but to tion of heat itself in the sun and stars than it is at present. Two great of another age. The heavy Peking either local option or:Government A wireless torpedo, invented by a coal enterprises the Kailan Admini-cart, is box-shaped and covered in, permission to buy bears and light French engineer will completely rapidity of movement,

by the, quasi-disappearance of mass Ludendorff himself in army orders when collected in immense quantities.stration in the North and the Fuchung travels side by side with the train wines. It is realised that, America is change the character of naval war- admitted the remarkable efficiency of Marjorana is making some new fully by the British and Chinese and the rich and the pack animal; age of labour unless a big influx of Daily MailIt consists of what the in Honan--are being rim very success and the motor-car competes with going to suffer acutely from a short fare if its claims are fulfilled, says the our camouflage, and those who studied experiments on a larger scale which they give great promise for any while in the north the favourite Italians arrives this year, and it is inventor calls an electric safety a good waite German camouflage on the spot after should be decisive on this question. future extension of the same co vehicle of transport is still the questioned if the Tallans will be con lock. The mechanism to direct the dom for par the armisnice are convinced that so

operative principles in other direc whedibarrow.

tent with sarsaparilla and sodawater, emirse" of "I torpedő and secure its to: his work his Was It carries both people and mer

A explosion against an enemy warship Sing Sin CROUP.

Since I first went to China 44chandise, and goes breaking along

can be worked not only by wireless Th contented himself with following the example of the British, and French in apia is development that by many important changes. The thinks the noise is the best part of it. THIS disease is so dangerous and so years ago, the country has seen with an awful noise The Chinese

FOR A LAME BACK.

graves of the right length, but also sentence, by a proper sequence of Morse signals. this matter.

mother of young children abonid be cable had reached Shanghai only a Noise plays a great part in the Chin HEW you have pains or lameness in Any error in the right sequence of prepared for it. It is very risky to wait year or two previously, and there ese life. In a motor car he delights in b? the check bathe the parts with dots and dishes would the until the stack of clump apposes, and

rpedo Narmless. then send for medicine and for the child and no postal arrangements as we sounding the horns to an extent that Cumbed it's Pain, Belardo, y me hicim down to zero again, and matty offer until it sa le obtained him as we would gravely imperil his popularity managing with the palm of the hand rendelh

for five minutes at each application. berlain's Cough Remedy is prompt and understand them now,

Each torpedo launched would buye in this country. At the theatre, too. Then damped a piece of fannel slightly effectual sari bur saves, boer known to Those conditions have given way he is just as fond of noise, and cymrish this laiment and bind i am are its own key pequence of dots and

*Alwayş bava s bottle to -- modern: enterprise that has bals make an irresistible appeal to the seat of pain. For tale by all dašira, in the home. For me by all Chemiste brought with it in some quarters! m

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