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SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES If you suffer from any disso doe to an impers state of the Blood, noci wHATEVEN CAUSE ABIBING, you should test the valas of Clarke's Blood Mixtare, the world-famod Blood Purifer and Heatorar. This medicine has 40 years' reputation, and is to-day morn popular than ever, the reason of this being undoubted ly because this wonderful remixly does what it Professes to do-Ir cuaca AKIN AND BLOOD DISEASE PERMANENTST.

13 THE FINEST BLOOD PURIFIER EVER DISCOVERED,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8in, 1906.

THE TRUTH" TROUSER CLUB.

"Let us imagine a situation such as the Times bas created arising in scmoother trade. We will taka breeches, which havo bean associated before rew with books. My tailer chargee me two guipeas for a pair of those indispensable

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pretenss that he makes moms to aggravate whatever was previously open to objection in his proceediage, I am sorry to see the leading Hem in my own line of business drift into so invidious and ignominious a position und as its example must have an influence on my trads and others, i hapo that the result, ia this caso may not be such us to encourage imitation."

JOINT STOCK SHARES.

Messrs Varnon & Smyth any in their wookly share report datori Hongkong 7th Ducombor, 16-A fair basinosa s boan traumolest, during the week, but it has been confined to a soy appreciable extent. Exchange on Londen flow stocks, and rates have not alterai to,

closes at 2.2, and on Shanghai at 721.

garmenta. I have long thought it too much, and probably many. of my renders think the same in their own cano, There is evidence morever, ‚ that the articles

recheuply.

Having the highest example in can be produced mueir journalism before me, suppose that I decide to start a Truth Trouser

her Club.

I offer to all anual subscribes to Truth on the usual tarins the follow ug privilegns, in addition to the delivery of rapor weekly. (1) Tin use of a pair of two-

[two-guinea trousers free; (2) the right to change their trousers as often as they lite at this offee, or to have a troch pair delivered at their doors once a work; (3) the bytian of purchasing club treners at reduced pries in Class A, B, C, or I),

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of repair that the arooding to garments Bra in after the other mothers bare inst a fum at them. In Class. A the trousers in will be undistinguishable from Class D they

will

at abit bapey the knees, but still thoroughly serviconble. thonsa sul. Having booked. It us say, a

besin

BANKS-Hongkong and Shanghais have been placed at 880, in emit lote, kad elus struly at that rate. Nationals and still bo ploood at 817, but no shares are changing bands.

MARINE INSURANCES. Unions have found buyers at $7625, and close will farther buy at that. Cantons have been placed at 8300, with more shres avilable at the rate. Chin Traders remain unchanged with layers at $95. Yangatzes have fallen to 3169, with sales in the North and probab'o further sollers. North quotation, but somewhat larger parels are obtainable.

FINE INSURANCE. We have no business to repoct ander this healing, while mates remain uchanged.

• go to Savile row unit that di friet and Chiums are wanted in small lata ut

for the club of various firms of bigh Blanding & a thousand pairs of trousers of all bus nod size, just to begin with. As I to such a goed custator shut of courss exp of a biggish disequat, and I shall mal fail to slipulate for a intos of trouser advertisments in Truth. The tailorg af first think it rather good busin As for the members of the club, they oujg themsels unspeakaby. They estouisa their friends at their other clade by coming out in a different pair of trousers every day, and they fill tlusr cupboards and shelves to

in with bursting seuraents of the best West-end style at Hounds ditel

pricon

The Truth-Trousers Club cutishes It is recognised that I here coaferred, ontirely free of charge, a priceless bonu the traxer-wearing publia. To meet the rush of subscribers, and to provide for chenging transgre, to the neo-ssary faci siting

to tako palatisipro mises in a leading thoroughfare, 1 inagurates them with a mammoth sale of brand-new trousers

4.

SPP-Hongkong, Canton and Macaos har ruled weaker, and sellers at $273, failing to

ut with

Day response, The rate fell to $27, at which shares are obtainable at the close Indos ro also cased at a little, and after further siles at $80. the market declined to $70, at which litter rate for shares changed hands, the marke closing at 8704 Shells baru ruled weaker, and sellers at Bos. Od have met with no response, We have nothing else to report. luster this healing.

REFINERIES China Sagare bave been placed

dhering the week at $140.

MINING-We have nothing to report under this heading.

DOCKS, WHARVES, AND GODOWN.-Hong-

at low prices, buying up for the purpose flour Whampon Docks continue. naglected |

stock of half the clep-shops in the Kingdom, As the result of all this, advertised regardless of expense, the oirculation of Truth goes up by leaps and bounds. The Club wat its public spiritel fender are in the sireuth heaven, But the doril

rilisaniong

the tailors. The demand for new trousers from private customers, is found to banishing, and the beat enstomers; Loud men who used to have a new pair once er trico a mouth, have disappeared entirety. The Club custean is no camponestions for thes losses. At the end of a your cas firm, from whom the Clubbins taken 2 pairs, Buds that it has lost fifty customers who used to be good for 5, and we on all down Serile row and the adjacent thoroughfares. It is easy to say that the Chub movempt will not stop at Trousers, Coats and waistcoats are bound to follow. B

nent,

widont any business, sellors ruling the market $15. Kowloon Wharges have been in demand without finding way sellors, and b youd a ail sale at $90 in the early part! of the week we liave at bastuose to report. The market closus firm at $1, and for small lots of shares 582 would probably be paid. New Amoy Deks contimno unchanged and without busi Bess. Shanghai Dnks delined during the week to Tis. 10, but recovered later, and clasa stosty at The 16.

LANDS, HOTELS, AND BUILDINGS.-Hong- kong Tands bare found several email buyers at $100, and the rearket elus study at that rats with probable buyers. Other stocks under this handing roidala auchauged and without business.

COTTON MIS.With the exception of Ewes, which have declined to Tis. 75 and Soy- Chess, which har advanced to Tis. 335, we

sides, other papers will join in the movwill have nothing to replet,

The Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph soon be going into the second-haul clothes trade, MISCELLANEOUS-China Providents have and by virtue of the'r oolossal circulation, with tako millions of customers from the tailors' shops. The tailors

than (stors and the slop-shops to rain before mind legitimate competition in their own trade, but they object to be under- sold by a Trouser Club which is run at a loss in order that a high-priced newspaper way be sold at a profit Evidently they must take

found buyers at 89.15 & $9.25, closing with hoyers at the formae rate. Green Islands have

been negotiated at $101, and later at $6,0 market closing with bayern at the latter rate, with an upward trudonoy. Steam Waterbeats bare en placed at the improved rate of $74, and Wats us have slightly improved to $11.75 or dis. We have nothing else to report

WEATHER REPOET,

t selling sewspapers at a lose in order to sell | under this heading trousers at profit, or else they must stup the journalist from giring away wouses. Choosing the second and easier cours, he tailors decide not to supply the Truth Trousers Clab unless it undertakes not to sell off its stock below cost price until it is visibly

the works for wear,

The long ag Observatory yesterday issued the following report:-

On the rt at 11.40 a.m.-The barometer has fallen considerably over E. Japan owing to the depression which, continuing to move Best~ wards, has reached the De ghbourhood Hakodate.

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The barometer has risen over W, Japso and the Lochons, but a fresh fall has eat in over N. China, probably owing to the approach of Loother depression from the Westward. The

Then I go on the war-path. I show by adding up the cost of cloth, cotton, and buttons, that a pair of two gaines trousers can be pro- ducen for a 3d. I advertise on all the hoardings that an unscrupulous trade is making 800 per cent preft out of its helpless customers, I danounce the indecent

grew of the mono- polfats who would rather kill the

the Truth Trouser highest_ Club, and leave its members to refuge in kilts or blankets, than abits a job of its profits. gwear that this thing shall not be. Truth has promised the world

trousers, sad Truth will

Hoe that the world gets them.

Hongkong miafall for the 24 hours ending In the name of publicat 10a.m. to-day, 0.00 inches. 1 appeal to all the to aid me by filling up the

decaucy

public

attached

tae Lower sure is shown to the South of the Fresh to moderata monsoon is indicated in the Formosa Channel and the N. part of the China ees.

of annual subscription to Trath, I publish letters from X 99, 1999, and Z 9,999, members

the club, testifying to to the merits of the Truth LrQUEST! and exhorting me as the champion of It in warranted to cleanse the blood from a cheap clothing to stick to my impurities, from whatever cana arising.

SCR:OFULA,

SCURVY,

ECZEMA,

BLOOD POISON,

BAD LEGS,

BLOTCHES,

s convince

and smash

For Savile-row. Though hill

Protectionist, I pat up an anonymous "Free Trader to write letters to Truth, proving by means of his ancient shibboleths that twa

guinco trousors etend for all that is most

pornicious ic the propaganda of the Tariff Reform Leagne. And this is only the opening of the campaign. Whatever steps I may in fatare be compelled to take in defending the Trouser Club and the public' (I quote mutatis mutandia from last Saturday's Times must be left for the present to the imagination.

SPOTS. DLACKBEADS, ULCERS,

PIMPLES, SKIN AND BLOOD

and DISEASES, BORES OF ALL KINDS It is a safe and Permanent Komedy.

It is the only real specific for Gont and Rhumatic Pains, for it rinnovee the enaso from the Blood and

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NOTE. This mixture is pleasant to the taste

by it.

and warrante! tree from anything injurious to the most delicate constitution of either sux, from infungy to vid age, and the Proprietors solidit sufferers to give it a trial to test its vaĴUS.

Thousands of wonderful exres have been effectet TRIED MANY THINGS WITHOUT BENEFIT UNTIL I TOOK CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE.

Mr. P. E. Lowie, 49 Bridge Strent Row, Chentor writes: Just a line in favour of Clarke's Blood Mixture. I had coronus for sovm months, and tried

roany things without bwofit, until I took your remedy. After the eighth bottle I was quite well again.

"The Trouser Club is as close aŭ imitation of the Book Club as the circumstances of two different trades will allow. The position precisely parallel. It might have boon suppose of the newspapers in the two cases is

until last Saturday that there was a slight element of difference, but now the Times has informed the world that it originated, owns, and directs the Book Club, and i is in every responsible for it. My relation to the Tronstr Clab therefore exactly corresponds to that of the propriators of the Times towards the Book What is the position, stripped of

Please Locopt this letter as a token of gralitate Club. your wonderful 'Clarke's Blood Misturo.”—June |

31,

all tho sophistry, misrepresentation, ozil faleo

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CHARLES DAY & CO., LONDON,

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tkuowa to himsel}, prinos his goods at three times their market. CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE value, and, fludiug Lis sales diminish in

Lo 'anul baware of worthless imitations and substitutas consequenos, decide

'give away no. other clogs of gooda by way of gaining customers for his own

OWN price. It is a practice well ku own in the lowest walks of exmmercial life, but hitherto costined to them. Adopted for the first time by a firm world-wide reputation, and supported by a heavy expenditure of money and uns:inted advertisement, itacbiovos a considerable succs68. Bat with what result? Tant another trade is to defend itself. Finding himself in a difficulty, the i loper pœtus as a public benefactor, and endour ours to obtain support in the dispute he has provoked and to bring more grist to his own mill by advertising himself in that character. Is he a publie kaufstor? Obviously not, becange the whole object of operations is to sell his own goods above the market price. The hypocritical

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