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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 1994.

CHINESE CUSTOMS.

A UNIQUE SERVICE,

ROBERT hart's autoCRACY.

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FORETOLD HIS DEATH.

MAN WHO TOLD DISEASE

FROM BLOOD.

He foretold the date of his own death, almost to the day.

Dr. Abrams, a San Francisco Officially bilingual, English and; Chinese, the Service originated in physician, claimed that he had in- the decision of two English-speak-vented an instrument capable of ing officials and a Frenchman to do detecting a vibration given out by for China what she could not do blood. The normal vibration rate for herself. That was in 1854. was altered by disease and each when the Taiping rebels, held disease was characterised by a Shanghai and the 5 per cent, im-specific vibration. Thus by deter port duties agreed upon 12 years mining the vibration rate of a blood store could not be collected be from the other side of the world, sample, which might have come cause there

no Chinese officials to do the work. So the Dr. Abrams was able, he believed, British, American, and French to diagnose with perfect accuracy Consuls arranged with the Chinese the bodily condition of the patient. magistrate to appoint three foreign- ers to do it for them.

were

According to his own accounts, on determining this he was able to restore the vibration rate of normal; ity by prescribing appropriate

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The famous "Zera," or unknown, The draft report of the Parlia-transiting station of Paris, which imentary Bolling Taxation Com-gave the French authorities some consideration owing to the dissolu was eventually identified as one be rate, which did not receive full thing to worry about for a long time, lion of Parliament, expresses the longing to an American resident of opinion that botting is ingrained in the French capital, Reginald Gour- the Anglo-Saxon character: and that and. to prohibit it is impracticable.

The story of the mysterious Zerb The Stato would not be giving its station of Paris came to light when approval by senikation and lax the young American, bis expe tion of betting, mys the report. On mental work completed, surren the contrary, taxation would a gred the miktary authorities. His in diminishing many of the evilingenity and bour (the latter

of the practice.

broadcast from his station) 'biased

Some important disokmres ns to Dr. Albert Abrams, who The Chinese Customs Service is United States three years 250

startled medical men in the Austrian and German secret plans in the wit are made by Field. Marshal (brad von Hoetzendorff (says a writer in the London Times with the assertion that he could the new volume of his memoirs of December 7) In many ways one determine the parentage of a of the most interesting in the child by the electrical vibration of which has just been published in Austria (Ans Meiner Dienstzeit," world. It is anomalous and in

a drop of blood in a machine of Band IV., Bikoa Verlaz, Vienna, some respects unique. There is no his own invention has died of 284). Cennul was Chief of Staff in other flog quite so bizarre as the pneumonis, leaving an estate of the Austrian Aring from 1996 to one under which it operates. Both £500,000, He made his fortune 1911 and from 1912 to February by origin and constituilon the

out of his machine. He used a 1917. and in those years was in a Service is the symbol of cosmo human subject to get the vibra-position of great authority. The old politanism in China. Until Chinatory rate he required to diagnose Enior Francis Joseph said of him joined the Allies in 1917 when an illness, and he claimed to be once to a friend: Conrad is clever NOT Germans and Austrians were turn able to fix the date of a person's but he has no judgment;" and ed out of the Service, its ranks death by appraising the condition Conrad makes no concealment of represented most of the Powers,

of fatigue that he found in the the fet that he "pressed violently great and small, and its Shanghat blood.

for wer with results which ware: office, which is its largest, could

fatal to his country. Ho was, in have produced fluent masters of

fact, one of the ohiof canses of the most modern languages.

volume great catastropho, The opens with a full recount of the thin Archduke assassination of Fruis Ferdinand and his morgan tie wife, the Princess of Flohenberg; at Semico, on June 28, 1014. contains details which have never before been printed in England.

When the fatal attack was made: At least three pistol shots won hard one of the bullets food hit tlas Princess in the lower part of the body, and another hit the

A tax of 24 per cert, would probe- Prance for months, whilst the on- Archduke in the neck. The bly produce £5,000,000 a year, porthorities were frantically endeavour- Princess at the first shot fell un- tion. of which might be used to en-ing to locate him. Gourd went to conscious with her head leaning courage horse-breeding. Totalimators France to join the American am- upon the Archduke's shoulder, and pari-mutuels should be legalisbulance unit during the war and re- mained after the declaration of while the Arcliduke remained) ed on race courses. conscions för sotee minutes, Emphasising that the street book-pende. He began experimenting in though almost immediately maker must be eliminated, the com- winelem with a spark-set and crystal stream of blood poured from his mittee declares that the strcals in detector and about a year ago he de- mcgili.

towns are infected by bookmakersveloped -set for both transmitting Ten minutes Inter, about 11arents, which lends to continual and receiving.

French law prohibits en alien The breaking of the law, the demoralis. ... death came over him. strangely Intl 11 (for the waring of chameter, and the weakening from owning and operating a radio net. but that did not trouble Gour- ended at the 11th hour of the of respect for the law. 11h they of the 11th month of The industrial districts are per-and. One night he determined to 1018) marked this trendful event mented with illegal betting houses, talle to the world at large, despite which was to let loose moh says the report. These are main the law. He tuned to the Eiffel passion, and, after slaying right mained under the guise of small busi-Tower wave-length, and after listen million human beings, to leave nesses, such as hairdressera, tobae-ing to a concert, suddenly broke in

conists' @wrack.

nawe agents and confec-with, "Hello, hello:" Listeners-in then heard some perfectly good Eng- tioners' shops.

Bookmakers have established aloolish, followed by a jazz phonograph a system of canvassing artisan programme. The same sort of households during the husband's ab- thing happened the next night, and for a long time the listeners-in, the sence, and inducing women to bet. This mys the report, is most perni-spapers and the police were on the look-out for The cious, because it can be done only with housekeeping money and by mysterious station in ita

ducions operator Eventually sending of children surreptitiously to curry, botting slips. This leads to Ground surrendered the the children betting on their own ae-authorities, but was released upon Berchtold: In Bohemia.

count, and is a great moral danger promising that he would never again

violate the French radio lawn. Conrad-Don't let yourself be to the rising generation. persuaded of any such thing. Street bookmakers have perfected Berchtold I propose a difa aystem, giving practically immun- Sarant coures. We shall call ity under the existing law,

120331 Serbia to dissolve her the police are equipped with men- Joagues to ilismiss her Police tality necessary for the detection of TAN HAY ON REVOLUTION IN

ENGLISH MANNERS.. Minister, and other things of the botting, and they ate the work, as kind.

they betted themselves when off Commo persuaded him that duty.

To-day the service

numbers

over 1,000 foreigners recruited from Europe, America, and Japan, distributed between 50 Treaty parts, and all appointed and con trolled by a Briton, Sic, Francis Aglen.

electrical vibrations, and so to effect a cure.

WAS

Among the deductions from this supposed principle was that a father's vibrations were reproduced in his child Dr. Abrams called in some American courts to give expert evidence in cases of disputed legitimacy.

He rules the Service from Peking, his house set in a large, walled garden in the middle of the Legation Quarter which ever since

It is said that Dr. Abrams was the Boker rising has resembled an led to make his researches through ald-fashioned fort, for it is all the deaths of three of his wives grey walls and guarded gateways.from cancer, a disease to which he The servant of a Republican Gov-therefore devoted much study. A ernment, the Inspector-General, Sydney man who, suffered from a as he is called, is one of the most malignant growth in the arm, made powerful autocrats in the East.

a special voyage to consult Dr. Abrams. He reported on his re- turn that the result convinced him of the efficacy of the Abrams method.

THE PERSONNEL.

Dr. Abrams regarded most of the ills that flesh is heir to as due to an ancient syphilitic infection of the human race.

And he is served by a body of men of the most heterogeneous kind, a body that includes all sorts and conditions; varying from the public school and university type to the hard-bitten campaigner of many lands. They are divided into two classes-in-door-and-out Sir James Barr, the eminent door. the former recruited in English physician, who is a vice- London, the latter mostly locally president of the British Medical in China. The former do the Association, in an article in the clerical work; the latter deal direct Medical Press, of October 4, stated with ships and cargo, supervise that he had made successful ex- China's harbours, and look after periments in telling the age, sex, all her coast lights. They have and nationality, and in diagnosing unseen patients' Chinese employees to help them, disease, from some 5,000 or more.

"

SKELETON FOUND..

who gave the Service its present farm, dividing its ranks into Commissioners, Deputy-Commis- MAN sioners, and Assistants; ruling them all with a rod of iron; Inspiring them with a

WHO STARVED TO

DEATH.

· KAISER'S BVANION,

The first inclinations of the Ans- trian Governoems were not for war. Conrad demanded immedinte mobi-, lisation and action against Serbia, when this conversation took place with -Berchtold, the Austrian Foreign Minister:

Berchtold: Don't you think has evolution would break out?

Conrad Where?

•

Few of

A DAZZLING SIGHT.

PERSIAN CROWN TREASURES TO BE SOLD.

handwriting, by the methods of Austrin must take some forcible Botting, said the report, is increas. Accident put the Service under Dr. Abrams. "There is no trickery sten. A curious interview with the ing amongst women, notably do British control the fact that of the or sleight-of-hand," he said. "The old Emperor Fancis Joseph follow-mestics and textile workers. There three men who began it in 1854 analysis is based on physics. Ina, in which Conmd insisted that is hardly a works in the country em- only the Englishman could speak writing, energy passes from the there must be wor

The Emperor: Chinese, and when in the follow-finger-tips to the paner, and the

"That is all ing year he was calld to Peking it individual's personality is trans- very well, but do you want war was natural that his successorsferred to the paper."

when everybody would fall upon us, and Russin'in particular first should be British. Thus the post

of all ?" came to the late Sir Robert Hart,

Conrad: "Aren't we secured br Germany against such attack 2**

The Emperor looked at me in- The Persian Government has de- quiringly and said: "Are you cided to sell a part of the Crower at Germany?" He had jewels and other precious articles to comunissioned the. Archduke raise money for the construction of Fineis Ferdinand to find out at railways. Kongnischt where the Archduke Persin badly needs railways. But had his last interview with the if these are as good as the jewels for German Kaiser whether we which they are to be exchanged, could" in future count upon the then indeed they will be magnif- unconditional support of Ger cunt. For the Persian royal trea TINY. The German Kaiser had sury contains among others : evaded the question and given no Darya-i-Noor (Ocean of Light), one of the world's famous diamonde, weighing 186 camis. "Mountain of Light" diamond,

commion The execution of Carpom! Dearnley, who said, "I had to to laugh" when he heard of his grandmother's unsuccessful attempt to obtain his reprieve by petition, has been postponed.

purpose and point of view, and welding them Into a body whose esprit de corps transcends all the dissimilarities of national origin, temperament, and outlook..

Deamely was convicted of the murder of Drummer Ellis, whose

sore

answer.

*1

Aldershot. Dearnley said that he and Ellis were" playing at." Red So that, if Germany had said Indians." He tied Ellis up and "No." decided to leave him until the war and no 8.000.000 dead. But there would have been no morning, because he had insulted Conrad was the incendiary, and this his sweetheart. He found no though he admitted at a council of opportunity of releasing him, and Austrian Ministers that, in the never held himself responsible for event of a war against Russia, the murder.

Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro, the chances for us were unfavour 'able."

He did this through the medium of circular letters, which now run into lengthy series and form abound skeleton WAL found at body of Customs practice and law. Some of Sir. Robert's letters are worth quoting. Here is an example of the disciplinary class: written just before one of his few absences on furlongh. It runs "During my absence from China no Commissioner is to leave his port, neither is leave of absence to be granted to any clerk, linguist, or tidesurveyor, no matter for how short a time, save under circum-

The Home Secretary announces stances of extreme necessity.that Dearnley has given fresh You will have the goodness to in information, which must be con- form the clerks in your office that on sidered. my return from Europe, I shall by

·personal examination inform my- self of the acquaintance possessed by each of them with Customs business generally."

Dearnley's mother is in an asylum.

A CLASSIC.

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complains and it would

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Rainian Crown, surmounted by a tain hall enter into a solemn coven- Trezett, Mr E R. Crow, MM 7 M. seein not without good reason-that ruby na large as a hen's egy. ant to refuse to give any girl more Bears B. Heincken, W. J. Hutchinson, Tntyre, Mr T Wasom, Dr. A. Neslag. he was let down by Moltke, the Kainian Belt, a foot deep and one than one cocktail on any ocenion, Genran Chief of Staff, after this

mass of pearls, diamonds, emer- and "cease taking them to clubs or and H. John: two had arranged, for war: Moltke alda, and rubies.

maria-halis where liquor is served. had promised to station 13 or 14 Costume covered with pearls. divisions of German troops on the Traye heaped high with pearls and

expphires. stern front and had agreed to a Here is another example of this Sir Robert Hart's Service philoso- cooperate with the Austrians. But

plan by which they were to Lambskin caps ornamented with class: Same employees who

priceless aigretter of diamonds. have barely earned their pay and phy, the one which has made the when the war began, Conrad, to his Gorgeous jewelled carpets. who have not been advanced so Service a faithful instrument of the rapidly as others, have displayed Chinese, ta the following:-"We tense disgust, found that only 8 Diamond studded epaulettes.

£7,000,000. a tendency to take things easily, are working for a people with division had been left, and that

these, so far from trombling about According to Bishop, the traveller supposing that length of service whom we can hardly be said to giving aid to the Austrians, were who saw this dazzling sight, the will be accepted as an excuse for have anything in comiona Increasing shortcomings, and that people whose ideas of supremacy entirely concerned in protecting royal irenstre-chamber is strewn

Best Prussia.

with a lavish profusion of precious their position as old hands is too contrast strangely with national

One disclosure consome the in-stones of every description, of secure to he unsettled. I think it weakness, and whose intellectual ended seizure by the Germans of shields scabbarde, and award-hilts is well that those referred to should pride is as much beyond available the Taroe Islands & Danish poeren blazing with diamonds, vessels of wake up a little. It must not be knowledge, but who, If they have gion in the Atlantic, north of gold, ruby-studded armour, prine

not national strength, have Scotland. The Austrian thought that because the Customs curious hold on national life, and; | ntinohé at Berlin reported to "I counted," he says, "nearly 1001

naval less chains and enamels and crowns. is a Government Department once if poor in respect of what the Vienna: "In it is to be always in it."

Other circulars defined the West styles knowledge, are position of the service in the indubitably rich the possessión Chinese administrative system. of thrift, Industry, contentment, In one Sir Robert wrote: It is and commonplace wisdom. The not the aim of the Inspectorate opinion of those we live among and understand so little bag very Chinese and not #foreign Service to oust the officials the generally been that all foreigners Chinese Government appoints, and are beneath notice and that we, of it is its duty to work with them this Service, are simply so mady amicably and loyally, Do not individuals who may be utilised alight orignore the native authority. In their deallugs with our country Remember that, although coll-men; but, whatever liking they eagues, and meeting on a footing may have for us as belag their of equality, the foreigner is, after assistants, they do not by any all, only the temporary guest, while means intend that the position should be reversed and that we the native is the standing and should dictate to them while we Jocally responsible official. draw their pay."

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