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TWO SISTERS SAVED

BY MOTHER BEIGERS SYRUP, FROM THE MIKANIES OF finiGESTION AND PERHAPS FROM DEATH.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1er, 1:05.

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whether tael or dollar be left for furturadecision, giving it for international trade purpose frity of exchange with gold currencies, as has been have, however, discovered the secret of lifting WORTH READING IF YOU ARE AFFLICTED. done with the rupee in India, the silver dollarthemselves up by their boot-atraps, and by, their

A man's success in business as well as in at Singapore, the yen in Japan, and the peso in enormous recent issues of depreciated token

coinage, have mulded seriously to the financial social life depends upon his stomach. Maxico and the Philippines. This

the same time schema

difficulties of the Empire, and at

If the stomach be right the blood will be neesssary ingredient in any thorongosat is

or standardization; but, unless i have tapped what appears to them to to spare, the liver astive, the brain clear and the of uniformity is accompanied by a completo reform of the perennial source of income, When they have nody bealthy. whole Chinese system, this will only add another discovered a method of reform which involves no cost to the Government, what is likely to be to the alr dy sufficiently numerous currencies now existing. In the meanwhile, the Chinese their montal attitude towards any sound proposal anthorities have had in mind the no 1 for iro which mest iuvolve the immediate provision of

large anns as a reserve fund

warp her, that such a dusucial reform will cost ƒ A CURE FOR STOMACH TROUBLE.

The native statismon of Chins large sums.

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When Mrs. Katie Marais, who resides at No. 1. Stroud Street, West Bank, East London, C.C, declares that the lives of both herself and her sister were saved by the as of Mother Seigel's Syrup, the assertion becomes important to the whole & inmunity in which Mrs. Marnia She had been for four miserable years lictel with complicated machviding con

coinage for the wants of the people, and troubles, indinarily calot indigestion. When for carrying out or anticipating the obligation shis had grown tired of enduring her miseries. which rests upon them of establishing unifor and almost beyond the hope of ever steuring mity, and ne is invariably the case, when action railaf from them. her sister, Mrs Elizabela taken on insufficient and inexpert knowledge, Banwer, of No. 44, Builh Street, West Bank, have added further to the existing confusion. Bast London, alvisel her to try Mother Seigal's Bhongh has ben said of the subsidiary silver Syrup. Her sister hand frondy used it, and coins, exchanging sometimes at 9 por cent. knew of its wonderful curative power. So Mrs. sometimes at over 100 per cont. of their Marais gan using it with what results face value, and of the copper cents with an she tells you in this letter which follows, and intrinsic value of only 40 per cent, of their face lu, but which so far have be on readily taken which was dated January 4, 1905-

"For four yours," she says, "I salfor: front the people; the fact must not, bowerer. bilinaspeen constipation. and pains across the be lont sight of, that the enormous signage chest, which I am informed is ous of the profits accruing to the authorities controlling управова ef indigestion. I did not know what the provincial mints have nowhere been set aside

s to fol well during those long years; to form a rosorve lunch, and that without much was almost afraid 14 eat anything, as I knew it sorve fand there is always serious danger of ainuncial crisis should these coinsfover becoma would make my vomit and deh afterwards.

would lay dewa to rest, but there was depreciated. The danger does not exist fiffle or no rest for wearing the whole period in Western countries, because the national of

would always wake up after a credit supports the issues of the national minis; restless hour or two's sleng ausl wish for morning bat in China the mints issuing these coirs are arrive. No medicino seemed able to help me provincial, the Imperial credit is not plagel in the least. My towels abo garing a deal offer their issues, and the present incumbents in rouble; for days at a time I would be consti- offles may be no longer there to be held respon pated, and such severe headaches would fellow.

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"A systematin roform of the ceny, bahot upon the yuan, or silver dollar, and on that alone, is feasible; but in my former paper I showed that to any reform involving the establishment of cniformity there must be expected strong opposition from the arms of from the benkors and merchants, and from the tradesmitu and probeturint. It was exprated that some support might be given by the Govere bout as a corporate entity to any project which would sota limit to the amount in the currency of the country required to meet its vast foreign liabilities: it would now seezi that over this element of support will be wanting

CHINESE FESTIVALS AND THEIR

· HOLD ON THE PEOPLE.

BY THE CANTON CORRESPONDENT OF TUM

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Hongkong, 14th Angust,

It has been thought that the progress of civilisation and iut-llectual enlightenment would effectually undermine all superstition, after which the superaliucture would, on» fine morn. ing, fall in atoms of its own record. This

When you have stomach or liver disordera they lead to other troubles; everything appears to go wrong, you are erose, grumpled and dis. What is the use of being at odds with every- antished with yourself and with the world. body, why not so the pleasures of life be well as others. Why not be

overcoming frouble. that stomachis or that liver

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Mother Feigel's Syrup, and I may say the more detail the nów taci coin of the Wuchaudition plausiblo as it is, does ut appear to harnt are, as we know, supposed to be of use to,!

vaices timent with reference to its good qualities. It saved her life, and Itear Poly say that hat I not taken it in time I would not te here today to record then fasts of my cure. After using four bottles I was pat in thn right rad to regain my former good hulit, and all these unpleasant symptoms are now of the past, the result being due only to the Srativo puwers of Mother Suigel's Byrup. I A Furreaded it to several of my friends." Mrs. Marais was born in Bedford, Grahams town district, but has Heed in East Isoidn four

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Une coinage must, however, be mentioned in The Hukwang Viceroy, (Han-kan) mint.

the dwellers in the lands below. Now ordinary Chang Chih-tung, some months ago moral o wail-ground: d, and facts before our eyes

Que would souls are corect for by filial Camilies, and if all ved the Throne inopposition to Professor Jenks a militate against its acc-panee propis basing his arguments, not upon think, that if the contention wore well-foule did their duty there would be as festira! to write about. So thon this general conflagra- the omissions which might really lay theo tant in Hongkong after so many years of en.

tion of garments is arranged to meet the needs schame open to criticism, but on his ownightgued rule, and so much effected, more or less mccessfully, in the way of general edara-

of those shades who are supposed to be uncared misconceptions of economic truths, misconcep

tion, that the people would be less tiablo to for by heartless or pour relatives, and farther

But

those who have left no relatives halind to tions which have brought the Chinesa currency

beef. look after their welfare. The idea behind it. to its present condition. Saamned up bridly. walk in the ways of their fathers, and patra his xpressed fear of the danger the facts do not warraut such of entrusting to a foreigner the control of the During the present month-the event of the all is superabundant morey for those who Chinese year there have been two popular way be in need. And so it comes to finances of China, the Viceroy's acumeat was that it is dishonest to take a tar) weight off ivals kept, will all the hut and prodigality as thut in a great city like Canton the people of xpenditure so characteristic of the Chinese will let the beggars die in the streets and appear silver was declare it to be worth a tael am thons saama. That on the evening of the quite callous, yet, on the other hand, will spend in the fisteel where they live.

quarter, and that it is dangerous to encourage

lurge sums of money every year to supply their Mrs. Elizabeth Bouwer wrote as follows on thus the dishonest speculation of bankers and seroath, as some of your readers know, was January 5, 1995, om her home in South Strost, others which will inevitably follow; his argument almost exclusively the property of the matrous assumed words in the war opp! West Bank My life was despaired of some would cqually prove the unwisdom and and the maidens. Perhaps a daily newspaper

place like Canton, and even here in Hongkong. little time back. I had been very ill with yellow dishonesty of taking silver worth 191, coining cannot and room in our insy and matter-of-fact pressions on the water by night, which in a Jaundien and became so weak that I had to be it into a impre, and making it worth 1. 1. Hoage for an extensive reference to the poetry

nels of the derils who have been drowned. It Did through tales. The doctors did their best has had the courage of his convictions, and and legends of the Chinese and yet one, whosery attractive, are meant to minister to the for ane. but I became wars and wores, and all is mint is now coining a laol coin, which, if observe things befor their eyes, sometimes is said that the hiazo of Fight is used to atiruet hopes of saving my life were given up. A successful at Han-kau, is then to be introduced seek to ascertain the facts on which these the hungry shades, just as the Chiness fisherman uses his pine torches to attract the foolish fish biond who saw my dondition thought it was any in other provinces, I have not seen the coiu phenomena rest. The Breath evening of the

whichomes aptoinspect the strange shtand so weak stomach (which could not main food) and have no knowledge of it from official woreuth month in the suniversary of the meet-

receives the harpoon. So the watchful shades that aged my trouble, and that something sources, but a banker who has studied it statosing of the Spinning-Maiden and the Cow herd,

us Lyra anding the Bght and glitter will come forward should be used Hirst to strengthen my stomueb that it wongis 373 grammes and consists of two stars which are known bly friend's reasoning sarl my life; for 1,000 parts silver, 80 parts copper, and 60 parts Aquila. This celestial rommer forms the fre- and receive their rire which is throws into the

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water and the garments which are burnt. It Bother Feig's Syenp was given in small tin, in other words, is of silver 877 fine. It quert subject of Chinese and Japanese art. quantities from time to time during the day. is coll the Hapa Kuping (Treasury) tael, Spinning-Maiden was the daughter of the Sau-

world is not without a gleam of pity for he and very soon 1 commenced to feel very hungry and its exchango-equivalence has been fixed at god, who married his daughter to the Cow herd addo that even the god of the mother nerons the Silver River known to us as the Milky allows the doors of Hades to remain opou and we that 1. had new life given me 11,000 979442 Haikean tools. Now it a strong, healthy-looking prezos today, and characteristic of the obscurity which hangs over Way. After marriage, she became negligent during these fifteen days and nights for the f her loom, and the bride's father, in wrathful advantage of those who are in misery. We see deeply indebted to Mother dogol for curing everything nected with the indignation, banished the bridegroom across the off this going on here in Hongkong, and there

12 guastions that I am compelled to confess that, after many years' study of Chiness currenes, I

river, calling to his assistance swartas of magpies appears no sound reason for believing that am unable to verify this equivalence by the data by whos nid he formed a bridge. But the enlightenment or education or the application given; all I can say is that, with equivalence father's heart so far relented that he permitted of science will. in themselves, be found sufficient

he Fiven by Hk. Tls. 97842, a coin containing 373 wedded fair to west once each year, viz., on

to destroy toese superstitions to which the exchange for Hk. Tls. 98703, and one suspicions eccssion the Spinning-Maiden is anntaining 373 grammes of silver 8772 assumed to be in a happy frame of mind, and tice should exchange for Ik Tha 865-94 ready to be gracions to all who seek her assis thousand. In any case this only adds tanca. As stated above and we believe a

only matrous par one more to the currencies which will have to maidons join in the

happy and jelly time they have. The reception be abolished.

No tal coin can possibly sure: as the room is beautifully decorated with young rice- foundation for a currency system in which the shoots, and other regetables, and really artistic silver coins are to maintain a constant ratio bridges are soon on which the maiden is rep: with the gold currency of foreign nations and sonted as passing across the river to her waiting at the same time with the copper currency of spouse. Amidst rauch fun and laughter the the Chinese people, and no-encrency which ceremonies are performed. The speeint blessing does not meet these two requirements will sought after is that the worshipper may Lave satisfy at once the treaty obligation imposed by unique skill in the use of the needle, as well as foreign powers and the real currency reeds of in the art ofing artificial flowers, accou the people. The labit of treating silver as the plishments rated at a very high premiun among

of

That the Star-goddess is the Chinese. commodity bf batter, of the exchange

is so ingrained that all idea of pitions the Chinese worshipper belieres, witsa, for commodity

with a needle in one hand and the thread in the other, kneeling before the shrine, she can thread the needle behind her head, when of course she cannot see what is going on. This most dif- then by more accident. When a successful wor

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PROBLEMS OF CURRENCY REFORM IN CHINAS

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MORE SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, | Erammes of pure silver (1,000) fia") should the seventh of the eventh month. On this Chinese so fondly cling.

In continuation of the articles already reproduced by us, the Times correspondent at Shanghai saye

When we approach the cutroney question proper we como le a question fraught with the graveat diffeul. ties, in wattling which the Chinese Gay-cament will have to call up all its wisdom and its courage, and to receive all the support, and, it must be said frankly, the pressure that can be supplied by foreign Powers. A hindrad and twelve years ago the young American Republic establiekot & uniform exteroney, but it was many youre before ter poverty could provide No coinage forming that currency. Thirty-two years ago the young German Empire reformed Its coinage, but it was done at a time when it bad in hand the huge indemnity paid by France. Japan has revolutionized her currency, and, throwing overboard all her cbangs and Kobangs, her boos and tempos. has adopted

tright a foreign coin, called by her the which bringe Jer into the trails concert of Chinese must be allowed the means of getting oult task can only be occasionally successful and sations; establish cut on a gold basis was to think of a coin as a unit of value, and this fected, however, only in 1897, when the they will never do if their unit of coinage is at unit of weight; when the coin the same time Chinese indemnity had come to hand.

is a thing with a name of its own, then only will they do lits the rest of us, who have coins the weight of which can only be expressed by going into fractions of a grain.

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weight must be lost, otherwise the coin will not receive proper consideration as a distinct entity, but will remain ballion to the end. The

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nchiered this fent, it is regarded as appeakable ovistence that the goddess has bren pleased to oudów her with special skill. A Case in point is voorded in the Canton Times this morning, when the successful girl just sixteen years of age was inundated with offers of marriage from enthusiastic youths, through the offices of regalar go-betweens. In Hongkong the festival has been kept with all the eagerness and perhaps more expenditur, ihan is observ. able on the mainland, and no attement seems discernible in the devotion of the people to this pleasing bat foolish superstition.

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The silver dollar je well known to the Chinese; recotés support from nor absolutely gives it to any other unit in the vories. (See the previous they are sorastomed to its appearance, readily articles on this subject.) At the top is the atcept it as honest metal, and in the south la Toul (call it the "ounce," and it will be better some extent and in all transactions uss it as realized) in which payments are made in precisely true coin, passing by count and not by the same way that delivery is taken of a lot of weight. This coin, whether we call it silver silver bars Then comes the dular which, dellar, paistre de cougarco, peso, yea, or yuen, though a coin, is nowhere legal tender, aud of has Leon adopted by all the other important

The comparative quiet of the festival of the which the specimens from the Chinese uinis silver-using countries except Indis; its adoption are inserito, not dollar or "yes," but merely by China is the only effective way to bring her soventh evening is made up for by the noise aud 72 hundredths of a tast; though is inscrited, inte monotary communion with the outer show and excitement which characterise the dollars of silvor nowhere fized in world, and will fres her from the need of second festival. As a mottar of fact the first of fuels of silver, but are quoted at demonetizing the many millions of non-legal fifteen days and sights are eligible for the per- formance of the duties connected with the hour, tutes which vary from day to day according to yuen (dollars), 200 pieces, 100. pises and but as the fifteenth night draws nearer, the the demand and supply, fluctuating within s

Then coins and cents which are now in cirination,

will at the same time permit the whole worshippers become more enthusiastic and noisy. range of six or more per cent. but subject to a fluctuating rate of orchange of the copper cash. The coins all exist and "Festival of All 8-as," The Chiness, however, such that the dollar may this year change for used only to be given a legal ratio, while there is Ya Lan Pan The main only of the worshippers, sport ir. m the accident of seek. 110 cents and next your for only £5 cents in small must be absolute prohibition to express a oin. Next comes the copper cunt, inscribed Gorerament or commercial obligation la any ing enjoyment and recreation, and throwing cash to unkempt urchins, who are on the enger look- al the mists of some provinces as worth other currency. With the yuen at the top

ont for it, is to bura red candles and many- one-kundrelth of a dollar," and of others as being a piece of silver 900 fine, weighing 4125 worth ten cash," but never treated as corro grains (2875 grammes, 07128 of the now coloured paper garments for the use of the "Imperial" tseli. Chins will retain the sub-souls of the departed in the land of Hader. lated to the dollar, whether considered in ita relation to the dollar or to the cash; it is a token aldiary coinagga of decimal parts of this coin which The legend which gave rise la this strange 'cue- coin worth intrinsically less than half is she now has, but will of course give them a fixed tom, is very ancient and distinctly Buddhistic. nomical value. Last comes the copper cash, the ratio, to other coins, above and below; and at the Indoed nearly all the festivals of the Chinese currency of the people. Into this series of non- bass of the structure will be the common copper have their origin in some real or named ex- roisted surrencies, each unit of which is in a osh, to which also must be given a conventious perience of those who lived long ago. The state of unstable equilibrium, fixed neither in value of exactly can thousandth of a yuen story briefly runs thus: Among the disciples itself nor in relation to other unita, China is Much regulation and much legislation will be in bygone days was one who was famous for his now required to introduce system and uniformity required, much opposition ther will be to over-piety and self-denial: Bat as a very literary and to give a legal tender character to any osin come much ignorance to be combated and husband may be married to a very domesticated ox curteney which she may adopt, while the illura natad, and many diverse interests to inbera disposition of her people is to accept Professor Jenka lias shyn China, in a care. by the way, was unfortunate enough to have

fought or conciliated us may be found necessary.wile, so this disciple, med Muk Lim coin and no currency as legal tender, but to

except the lowly cash the subject folly-considered a smorandum, how the requisite e mother, who was a monster of wicked- muks them all of barter. Where shall she begin? Is she to fixed relation with the gold standard may be ness. When she died and went down to take her fandemental coin, the cash, with a maintained, and he, or some other of the few the nether world, Im Lo-wong, the informal prosant day valas of the ton thousandth part of politionl economists of his standing, can give to ruler, awarded her a hot corner, with little a pound starling, and build upon it! This the Chinese officials that guidance in the hope of escape or amelioration. Then her son sens the natural course to those who consider maintenance of the other fixed ratios which their went to her rescue. Just as in classical post-y in first the well-being of her patient industrious own recent acts show that they so badly need, the heroes of the Eneid and the Odyssey visited whose householders maintain their For many years the currency condition had their father and mother, raspeatively, so Muk families on sixpence a day, and through the boon so bad that with one accord the foreign seared for himself the privilege of succouring existance of this mite of a mite are enabled to powers have included in their latest treaties his mother in the depths of the ten-halled Hades. Without challenge he passed the grim guarde provision for uniformity; and latterly, Wit maintain them ja comfort. Or shell she con- within the two and a half years since the the subterranean warders, till at last he reached

first the roader interests of her interwithi national exchanges and of the powerful body of signature of the British commercial tresty, the the object of his affection and solicitation, bankers and merchants active in the distribution condition has become much worse and more and was allowed as a reward of his own place of rustfulness, difficult of amendment... Foreign natione, as we merit, to bear her up to a of goods through the Eqpirs ?

The answer toust that no piecemeal legis have seen in the case of Germany and Japan, beyond the retch of the terments of the tation will do, and that to ensure success every have, in reforming their currency, seized damned Such, as the story goes, is the origin legitimate interest must be considered, first and the opportunity when their access in war of this noisy and showy festival of All Sonis, foremost the people, and second only to thom the had given them the possession of fande merplaats. Professor Jenks has proposed to outside the ordinary budget; and the foreign :begin at the top and take the standard silver coin, advisers of China have warned her, and must'

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BOILERS; and also ELECTRICAL WORK

A LARGE-STOCK of MATERIAL is always kept on hand,

The COMPANY has the powerful steamer “OURA-MARU", "(712 tons, 700 LH.P. specially built for SALVAGE PURPOSES squipped with necessary gear, Always ready Short Notice.

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