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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGU: T 12rn, 1901.

regarded like the lupus cry of the fable, understood that Nature 'adapta its creature, and denied with some heat. Dismissing the observations of those still living, who profess to have noticed the course of the deterioration, we are bound to attach great importance to evidences like the

in due course to its creatures' habite.. When man abandoned the practies of swing- ing himself from branch to branch, and with the weapons of his canning walked upon the ground, his arms grew shorter and

Reports from Johannesburg state that the Chinese coolies are promising well.

Paris is supplying a judicial adviser to the King of Siam,

Mr. N. Okura, a Japanese student at Cambridge, coxo his college boat at the last

A. S. WATSON & CO., Army statistica recently published, showing less strong. The broadsword and the haun Henley,

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MENT TO

HIS EXCELLENCY

THE GOVERNOR.

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Cuntes.

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The Secretary to the Admiralty considers the reports about H.M.S. Centurion's gun sights canggerated. She is, he told Mr. Gibson Bowles, quite fit to go into action.

TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

WALDECK-ROUSSEAU DEAD.

LONDON, 11th August, M. Pierre Marie Waldeck-Rousseau, the eminent French politician and lawyer, pre- sident of the Council and Ministry of the Interior, is dead.

THE WAR.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]

SIGNIFICANT RUSSIAN MOVE-

MENTS.

LONDON, 11th August.

It is reported that the Russian Government has issued orders for tho abandonment of Vladivostock, and for' Linevitch to remove with his forces

[M. Waldeck-Rousseau was born December 2nd, 1816, being thus 38 yours of age. He was about 33 when he entered politics and became a deputy. Exor siuce, his name has been in- to Moukden. timately associated with Governmental affaire. There was n Waldeck-Rousseau Ministry five years ago.

[REUTKE'S SERVICE.]

BALTIC FLEETS SAILING FIXED.

Losnos, 11th August.

Brig. Gon. Funston, the officer who organized and commanded the expedition which captured Aguinahlo, head of the Filipino insurrection, has been appointed to the command of the Atlantic Division of the United States ariny.

TIBETAN LAMA DISAPPEARS. In a remarkable article in the Quarterly

It is stated that the Baltic Flect, Review, a "high Russian official" declares that

LONDON, 9th August. since the Tsar was hypuotised by M, Pobiodo- notszeff he has looked upon himself as a Slav

including altogether sixty vessels, .. The British Mission is cumped close to Messiah," the centre of the world, the peacemaker the Dalai Lama's garden. Thassa city has will sail for the Far East on the 16th been declared out of bounds" for all instant. In the sixty are included The Sultan of Brunei hes already lost five ranks. The Dalni-Lama has either depart- colliers and tenders. sors as well as a grandson by the small-por

how the standards of stature required mer kopt them until recently fairly muscular,

have hal recruits

heal his chest fairly developed. By until

we mean until the univers repeatedly lowered. Granting the exis. recently" tence of a general deterioration, our next advent of machinery. It stands to reason move must be to ascertain its cause or that the man who spends his day running

Chih Chen Lofengluh, of Fouchow, who It must be premised that the round stuffy engine-shop with an oil-candied (aged 53 yours) intestate, left estats in average condition of the race must depend and a lump of cotton "waste," does not the United Kingdom of the gross value of 1.762 10s, including €2,695 11s. 104. in not upon the environmental influences brought need the physique of his grandfather; nor APPOINT- to bear upon the majority of its members. de his song beget him grandsons resembling personalty.

That is just where we find agreement with his ghrious forebears. The subject is Dr. CANTLIS, in his proposition that food too great for treatment in so short a And air are the predominating factors in space. That we have indexed, at any the development of the people, and where rate, the more praimble origins of degene we take leave of him to follow the conseration is, to us, not a matter of orgament. quent deductions ou other and ser lines. As for possible remedies, the temptation is Dr. CANTIAZ considers it important that to ery "Too late! Too late!" Our publi. English peopic should be nourished witheists, who have the subject at heart, my English products. So far as chemical be abl even now (we hope) to suggest THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, evidence helps us, it does not instter where food comes from, if it be good enough; aud we regard the medical gentleman's assevera- tion that no imported food can supplant the native products in efficiency" nonsense. Our own observations buvo con- vinced us that the diet of the majority. is not wholesome, but that is entirely the fault of the majority. Suitable fare is within their attainment, but they do not sleet to take it. Such luxuries as tea, sugar, coin- fectionery, nud tinued dainties are now con sued in such wholesale quantities is to be almost entitled to be called staple fools. Why is it? Our theory is so far original that it is bound to be cavilled at. This

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PERFUMERS.

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MERCHANTS

MANUFAC-habit of luxury came in contemporaneously with compulsory and State education; and

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modifications of the social scheme that, of mankind, and the torch-bearer of civilisation, without being too reactionary, may restore. at least some of the conditions that made

the British the nest folk in all the world. Such consummation we devoutly wish

to sce

Twofatal plagun cases were reported yester day.

Communications between

our forces in Lhassa and the end of the wire at Gyantso are being kept up by mounted infantry.

Major Pritchard, of the H.K.V... kindly notities us that another open air courert has been decided upon. Saturday, August 27th, is

the date fixed.

The marriage of the Hon. Gilbert Hollo with Margaret Freda Evelyn, younger daughter

Sir Matthew Nathan retains his position and seuierily as an officer of the corps of Roga! Enginers, in which he holds the rank of major, ou taking up his duties as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hongkong.

we say a noticeable shiftlessness ensued of Mr. R. C. Antrobus, of 14, Buckingham MER-upon the cramming of the working classes Palacegardens (formerly of China), will take

at the expense of their old-fashioned utili.place towards the end of August. tarian methods. The modern girl of that station, instead of learning to make porridge and bread, absorba at severe pains to herself the names of the rivers and mountains of South America, and (in inter educational times) scientific dress-cutting. The working- man's wife of less than a hundred years A. S. WATSON & CO. is an extinct animal. By a qusiut sort of

phylogenie process, a new species has ovolved which reads fashion papers and "society novelettes," and feeds its husband and children ou tea (bally prepared), tinned

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Mesra Aagaard, Thoresen, & Co. have just received a cable from the captain of the s.s. Hubli informing them that she has been re- floated As already reported, she went ashore

near Yokkaichi, Japan, on the 10th of last

month

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epidemic prevailing there. A telegram to thed or is secluding himself, and the officials Straits Times states that on the 2nd inst, it was are helpless in his absence, though seeming- estimated that about 1,000 persons had diod.ly friendly. The epidemic was reported to be spreading to Tutong and Balui.

A marriage has been arranged, and, says the | L, & C. Express of the 13th ult., will take place at an early date, hotween William Arthur Carruthers Cruickshank, of Hongkong, and Trailflatt. Dumfries, and Mary (May sie), older daughter the late Deputy Surg.-Gen. Jokn Cruickshank, Inspector General of Prisons, Bombay Presidency, and Mrs. Cruickshank Bracken House, Walton-on-Thames,

NO CARGOES FOR JAPAN.

LONDON, 3th August. Holts and the Ben steamers have ocased

booking cargo for Japan,

CORRESPONDENCE.

TREE FELLING: ANOTHER PROTEST.

[JAPANESE OFFICIAL TELEGRAM.)

NAVAL FIGHT AT PORT ARTHUR.

Toxro, Hith Angust, The various reports from Talienwan show that the Port Arthur squadron emerged on the morning of the 10th inst, and that a severe naval battle ensued till" sunset. In the night, our destroyer flotillas de to

have attacked the enemy's squadron.

At dawn yesterday (the 11th) the Retcisan and another battleship of the Fohiniła type appeared, retreating towards Port Arthur,

[REUTER'S SERVICE"] ·

ENGLAND STANDS FIRM.

LONDON, 9th August.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS," By kind permission of the Commander of Police, the String Band will play this pro-

SIR-I am very pleased to sna that you gramme of music at the Macao Hotel from 7.30 have brought this matter to the notice of the to 9,30 to-sorrow (Saturday) evening -

Public, and trust that one of our energetin March........ "Zacatecas

Q. Codina members on the Legislative Council · will Overtuna ..."Santation"......

C Koehler

endeavour to get this felling of trees stopped at Waltz......... "Jelly Fellows"

Vollstedt "Secret Wishes. G.

onco. I believe Mr. Duun has not yet started Lange Selection. Waltz In the Twilight” W. & Milton to fell the trees near Government House or in Intermezzo.. "Cavaleria Rusticava"...Mascagni the vicinity of the Peak Road, which is, I mp-

Mr. Balfour pointed out in the House of Schottische.." Kinky-Headed Coon"... S. Husfeld

S Hosfeld pose, the reason that more people have not Commons that the case of the Malreca was Galop Burly-Burly"

noticed it. Only those who ride or walk over

the first of the kind that had grisen since The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial the Wong-nsi-shoong Gap and down through the treaty of Paris. The settlement was of and Nethersole Hospitals bogs to acknowledge | Aberdeen village have an idea of what destruc- | the nature of a compromise. Since Russia with thanks donations of $15 from I On Insur-tion it cannot be called anything else) has slowed a desire to meet Great Britain his ance Co.. Li Wa Co., Hang On Co.. Yau On been going on. At Hame, at any rate in my object was to prevent the incident from. Insurance Co. Wang Ring. Tsai Hing. Wa part of old England, when a landlord starts to Hing, San Shing, Ching Wo Tong. Sincere fall his largest treas it always means that money & Co.. Lai Hop Un, Ma Pak Leung, and I Sun taust be raised. Let us hope that is not the Kat Cheung: Yan Cheung, Kwong Fak Hing. Co. Also of $10 from Tang Yik, Sam Wang, case in Hongkong-Yours, etc.,

ONLTcomunications relating to ika now, columns salmon, bought bread (selected for its white- Kent Regt. from Ceylon, to raplace the latud Yeung Lai Loi. Also of $5 from woug

should be addressed to The EdiTOR.

Correspondents must forverd their names and ot

nes) and bloater paste. MOREL, in a

dresses with communications addressed to the Edit,famous French book on Traits of Degeneracy, not for publication, but as evidence of good faith

All liters for publication should be written an one side of the paper only,

Na anonymously signed communications that have

other papers will be inserted. already appeared in

attributed the unhealthy deviations from a sound type to poisoning. Eu denouncing the widespread use of narcotics and stimu- nts, however, he did not forget to menti›n

Orders for extra copies of DAILY PRESS should be sent before 11 am on day of publication. After that hour the supply is limited. Only supplied for Cash.the food question. Food which does not Telegraphic Address: Pass, Coders A,H,C. 6th Ed.

Lieber' P.O. Boz, 99. Telephone No. 12

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properly serve its own end, that is not so nutritious, as it ought to be, is no better than if it were tainted, In the large towns, curiously enough, there is no scarcity of right food. There is a saying at Home that the best of everything goes to London. That there is no longer a marked difference

between the average physique of the

The reliefs for the British garrison Tientsin are to be composed of the 2nd West

Sherwood Foresters; and the 41st Degras and 47th Sikhs, from India, to replace the and 8th Punjabis.

21st

In the House of Lords on the 12th ult. in

reply to the Earl of Portsmouth, the Duke of Marlborough admitted that Six Ernest Blake, one of the Crown. Agents, was a company director. Hì had, however, placed himself in the hands of the Colonial Stereirry--The Colonial Secretary has since decided that Sir Firmat Blake must retire from the directorate of the company concerned.

Our new treaty with Germany arranges for than reference of disputes of a "juridical or dor" or such as relate to the interpretation of existing treaties" to The Hague tribunal in

the went of diplomacy failing to settle them salisbetorily. It has nothing to do with the most important causes of difference betwe on notics, those which involve the vital interests or the independence or hongar of the two con,

ly limited.

rating Powers," so that its scop is excerding-

The Royal approval is vnnounced of the foi - Inwing appointments :- Sir Clement Courtenay

to

Governor

CHIPS.

"AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,”

causing a great strain on the two countries. Mr. Balfour in nowiss regretted that we dil ́ our best to meet Russia, who had made no impracticable suggestions. We adhere to the opinion that the grounds advanced for sinking the Knight Commander, whether true or not, do not justify the net, and we have not abandoned our position in the smallest degree.

RUSSIA CLAIMS A BIG VICTORY.

LONDON, LATER,

Wo Gai Đa Ki, Alan Jn Wing. Eurg Cloug Min Shing, Long Shing, I Shong Fat, Tenne

Wing Fung. Ch'enng Shing, Wing. Cheung, Cheung Shing, Kwong Wo, Wa Lung, Tai

Hongkong, 10th August, Shing, Kwan Tai, Num Hing Long, Sam

SI-I hope you will allow me the medium Tick Co., Wing Bau, I Fung, Tan Li. Chan of your valuable columns to clear any mis- Laug, Tin Shing Ch'oung, U On Wo, Kwong conceptions which rasy arise from perusing the Yik Loong, Yuk Kee Chan, Sam Shing Wing details of the Blasting Case " which was heard Wing Hing Lung, Hop Shing Laug, Mis at the Magistracy yesterday. Two men wore

General Stoessel reports that the Japanese Cheng, Sui Wa Hin, Tmu T'ai, Hang Ousaid to have been killed through no covering attacks on the 27th July extended along Lai Wo, Shin Hang Trung, Hang Fa Restau- having been used during blasting, and that the the whole front and continued till 8 o'clock mant, and U Hing.

blasting was done on Crown had without a in the evoning, when they were everywhere permit. The facts of the case are as follows: repulsed with enormous losses. The enemy The deceased (and there was only one man numbered 70,000. killed) had no business there, and he was repeatedly warned, but parsisted, in spite of

By kind permission of Lt.Col smongor and offcors, the Band of the 93rd L ma Infantay will play this programme of music at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner tonight

(Friday):--

Dancus.... Relection Waltz.........

Lancers......

and

God Save the King."

FAIRPLAY

WAR ITEMS.

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P.M. KOREA" AND THE RUSSIANS. The Pacific Mail, sz. Korea arrived at Hong- kong from the Pacific Coast yesterday, at 1 p.m. The Vladivostock Squadron, it will be remember- ed, was waiting for her off the coast of Japan, but she got safely to Yokohamu

danger flags, gong-sounding, &c., in rashing uP ~~ | Low-mouse and country mouse we may

March......... The Bulle ↑ Boberuin" Ort Buns ¦ the bill as the blasts wont off, in order to guther DR. JAMES CASTLE, M.A.. M.B., D.P.H., explain by the theory that one gets the

Overture

..."Stradella

...... Flotow

the fragments of rock for selling as broken ... Leslie Stuart whom many will remember as a practitioner best air and the other the best food. For,

Selection... Flocadura"..

Nell Gwyn".......

Gernum stone for concreting purposes. He approached A Chinese Honeymoon .. Talbot as near as nino feet to the rock which killed in Hongkong, has written a long article in air is of no lesser importance than food.

A Greek Shiva' Sidney Jones him. The Naval or Military Authorities might "The Toreador"

Wilbans the London Daily Chronicle, entitled "Are That very doubtful blessing of compulsory

as well be charged if a man chose to commit notwithstanding, on the 29th inst., to the great we degenerating? The physical state of education which we have blamed for the

Mynu. Hors d'Guvres-Sliced Tomatoes, Cu-suicide by making a target of himself at the relief of all at that city. She was befogged "the English people and some remedies.".

deterioration in the diet of the rural masses

ambers, Beetroots, Raul Finh on Toast, Soup Rifle Butts. Then as to the permit side of the off the

two coast of Japan for

day > Call'a Foot Soup. Fish-Boiled and Shimp He broached the subject as long ago as 1835 is likewise responsible for the evercrowding Knollys, K.CM.G., at present Colonial Secre-Sauce Entrees, Looter 90 pie Joints acessary, but was told that none was required, Russian fleet was in Sagami Bay, off the eu- case. The contractor enquired if one was on the day before she entered Tokyo Bay, the Entrees-Pigeon Larded, Veal Cutlet in a lecture ou "Degeneration angst of the towns. Well may our conomists.tary of Trinidad and Tobago, to he Governor and Roast Beef and Yorshire Pudding, Boast Capon, as the land hal best aequired for the Segregatrance to Tokyo Bay. The war vessels must Londoners," and his latest comments are to and sociologists have raised the cry of Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of the Boiled York Han, Carry-Minced. Sald- tion Camp. I think you will agres with me have passed quite close to her. The Russians.

Germaine. Vegetables-Boiled Potaboca, the effect that the degeneracy then noticed

"Back to the land." The organic detritus Leeward Islands, in secession to Sir Geraldin

Strickland,

Chipped Potatoes, French aus, Stewed Turnips, that like a medal) there are always two sides to it is understood, believed there to be two sppointed has spread among the rural population. In constantly inhaled by the town mouse, the

Sweets-Preserved Ginger Padding, Dutter Ponud a question.--I remain, Yours, etc.,

submarines on board, besides foodstuffs. The of Tasmania. Sir Frederick M. Hodgson, Cakes, Coffee Ice Cream, Finger Cakes Dessert this article, Dr. CASTLIE confines himselfnering pervous excitement to which

K.CM.G., Governor of Barbados, to be Gover-

--Write in Season. Coffee, Tea.

Company's agents at Japan did all they could to physical deterioration, and mentions as he or she is subjected by town life, both

to have outgoing vessels warn the Kores, but as nor of British Guiaus. in succession to Sir the principal causes the quality of food and conspire to defeat Nature's aim of a

no message reached her she would not have James Alexander Swettenham, who has been

made any attempt to show the warships a clean air consumed by the majority of our strong and sturdy race. Brains are not of appouted Governor of Jampica. countrymen. Therein he has not goue far permanent value unless kept in a healthy

pair of heels had she must then she has power enough to do so. astray; but ho attaches, in our opinion, a casket. The well-meaning fuddists who false emphasis to the fact that so much of two or three generations ago clamoured for our national food is imported from abroad.

general nurturing of the British: brain did He also overestimates, we think, a fact that not foresee the consequences of the com is none the less true, that the "tied house pulsory method on the British body did system" applied to dairies (wilkmen con-

not realize, apparently, that the fitness of a tracting to send all their product to Town) nation ns a whole depends upon its main has maile good wilk harder to get for poor tenance of a healthy peasantry that devotes children in the country. On the question most of its attention to the cult of the body of fresh air, Dr. CANTLIE touches the inner Water is most valued when the woll runs dry. Hongkong statue of this late Governer Bix procured all the necessary papers for this wed-

secret of the trouble, if somewhat unphilo sophically. He was the gentleman who, in November, 1888, was ridiculed by Lunch for proposing that country air should be Introduced to the cities by pumping it through pipes.

In the present day, when our bewers of wood and tenders of cattle are all running, with Standard VII certificates in hand, after clerkships and other sedentary and clean-cuff

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RUSHIAN BEIZURES OF CARDIFF COAL CARGOES. The question of recent captures of merchant-

Most of the mail steamers from Entope, re- THE M.M.S. "POLYNESIEN."" marks the Straits Tiance, soom to carry their

After all, says the Straits Times, it would quota of brides to the East, and generally the In the statue of Sir Thomas Jacksoni, for blushing damsels succeed in reaching their

seet that the damage striped by the Hongkong, the completion of which we recently destination without mishap. But who shall say Messageries Maritimes steamer Polynesien way reported, Sir Thomas is represented in ordinary what ordeal the bride who came out on the not nearly se grave us had been represented. frock-coat alfire, standing in easy posture, and Polynesien passed through before she reached Naturally it was difficult while the vessel was at men by the Russian Vladivostock Squadron was • the representation generally, both as to face the arms of her lover here? The bridegroomi isen to make a thorough examination of the discussed by the Cardiff Shipowners' Association. and figure, is undoubtedly excellent. Th

a well-known banker in Hongkong, and his cracked shaft which was giving all the trouble, In the case of the steamship Altanton, which was, momment may be placed in the same locality of bride was coming out by the Prinz Heinrich. but since the Folgesion entered port it has seized notwithstanding that she was carrying Hongkong as that in which was erected the Well, there was the experience in the Red Sea been possible to ascertain the exact extent of coal to a neutral port, it was resolved that beatiful statue of Queen Victoria, with its and again the mishap at Colorabe. The banker, the injury to the shaft. It seems that there is representation he made to the Foreign Office fine temple-canopy, for both of which Mr. eager to meet his bride, came to Singapore, and a slanting crack on the bar (which describes on the ground that the principle involved Ragzi is responsible, as he also is for the noble

Arthur Kennedy, in military costume,

that he was to bo buried in s

wicker

a complete circle with avery revolution was of great importance to the shipping trade crack does of Great Britain, which might be seriously ding. He intended to proceed to Ping to of the machinery), brat the

the shaft. It affected if the seizure were allowed to pass must his fiancée, but when he learned it the not extend thronghout

unchallenged.

'It is understood that Mr. A Sath has been

appointed Registrar of the Supreme Court."

Over three inches of rain were recorded at

Au uctíon bus been raised in the Edinburgh German mail's passengers had been transferred will therefore be possible to cavigate the vessel Court of Session to reduce the will of Sheriff to the Polynesien, which like all French mail to Saigon, reasonable care being taken to prevent Thomas, who was Sheriff of Orkney and Steamers ignores the great and worthy Settle-breakdown. The Polynesien has a very large Shetland. In his will the lato Sherif ordered went in the North, he decided to remain in cargo consigned to Saigon, and consequently it jobs, we have begun to realize that the

Singapore. With that idea he made strange. has been thought better that she should proceed parent stock, the backbone of the Anglo- coffin and made extraordinary, bequests. In his ments for having the ceremony carried out here to the French port, where the passengers will Taitam during the last twenty four hours. All Having thus utilised the Doctor and his gayon an of brawn and beauty, is not lifetime he used to fine his servants for slight on fouday. But the fates were unpropitious, probably be transferred to another of the Co.'s the reservoire except Won ansicheong are oror-

offences. He also fined his cat if it disturbed and horo we have a disconsolate bridegroom in vessels lying there and repairs may be made flowing, and that is nearly teeming.

Mr. Lee, editor of our local contemporary the peace of the Louse, and fined himself if he Singapore and a loving bride somewhere in to the vessel. All those who were proceeding

t at the beyond Singapore by the Polynesien will, as Cheong Kok Po (The China) yesterday inform attention, we may drop both and consider which is never mentioned, but which to us broke the rules which he adopted for his

pirenal guidance. Another curious whim of Polynesier has broken down, and the licence all the result of this decision, continue their ad a Dotly Prese reporter that a correspondent had written to him from the interior saying the watter independently. First of all, it

appears an abeious forerunner of physical Sheriff Thomas was to keep a laughing waist. I ready for the marriage on Monday. Who can journey and no time will be lost here. It is that Kweilin was surrounded by Kwangsi must be asked: Is, British degeneration an degcueration. If we have assimilated coat with elastic sides, which he used to victors the scene which ensued when the believed that the vessel will run at a speed of rebels, but that they were quiet in consequence

something like 10 knots an hour,

of the visit of the Viceroy." actual fact? When first mooted, it was Darwin properly, we suppose it to be

Polynesien did at last arrive?

article to introduce the topic that is now forcing itself more than ever upon public

what it was.

There is also another probable cause,

wear at dinner.

mid-ocean when news" comes