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developed a special aptitude for making mattocks. He made several of these, and thus became the first capitalist His neigh bours, who had been too busy otherwise to provide themselves, hired one of these necessary agricultural tools from him, and paid for the use of it in kind. The produce

WATSON & CO., to handed over to bin was the first dividend

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in the world, the first instance of interest ou capital, which the communists of to-day declare to be an iniquitous tax on industry He made so many mattocks that he left to KRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS bie son quite a respectable income, more than he could eat, but the sou, of such a eire naturally did not enjoy being idle. His hobby was but-building, which he did quite well. When his neighbours saw what a handy builder and repairer, he was, they invited him to exercise his profession on their lots, while they went over into the next valley to inculcate their superior notions of

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The Lusitano Club was nrowded agup lart↑ night when the Portuguess Liliputimas gave their third performance of The Belle of New Fork." The young people seemed much more at home on the stags and their work was very creditable Indeed.

The business of forming a new ministry

Gunner C. W. Ward is permitted to ruilga TELEGRAMS. from the Volunteer Corps with effect from the 18th April, and Corporal B. C. Witchell transferred to the Infantry Company.

The Signalling Class in connection with the HK. V. Carpa will commence at Headquarters at 5:30 p.m., on Wednesday, the 29th instant. occupied the attention of the Y.M.C.A. Farlin-There are still some more names required to

complete the class.

ment last night. Messrs. Lowry, Fuller, Durnett and Dale were nassimously elected to the respective positions of Premier, Leader of the Opposition; Speaker and Clark of the House. The remainder of the sitting was devoted to

impromptu speeches on subjects drawn by lot and proved very interesting,

One of Mr. Hearst's newspapers uzges the permanent retention of the fleet on the Pacifio ecast, on-the-ground that-the-Oriental situation demands-its-presence, Auation ambitions in progress," says the New York American, and no relentless in parpons as Japan sonid be restrained from aggressive effort to conquer advantages which Amerios now holds only by

of our country to defend them."

GINGER ethics with the help of their clubs. They the visible oridenes of the prompt prepareduses

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and

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Christian nations of Asía in the hinckest colourna,

silenced the obdurato males, and converted the females, whose labours in the sphere to

In Heathenism Under the Searchlight * which they were removed helped to pay the reward to the home-staying builder of huts, missionary, W. R. Hunt, paints the non- who thus drew the first rents in history. His searchlight is lurid indeed. Heathenism These rents in some dizes were not always | is the night of Asia.—Goodness and truth are fortheoroing, owing to the careless handling its absent qualities, despair its resultan! condi- by the tenant of his club, which had perhaps tipa, and death its total fact." "Methinks the The heathen do

CHAMPAGNE casually lessened the earning power of the lady doth protest too much.

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ot die out, but have contrived to live and multiply for thousands of your. The optimists who see with the eye of love through the miororcupe of sympathy find more of the truth than the pessimists, who can discover nothing but the blue sness of darkness in every faith but

their own:

Easy, writes M. Joan Finot, in La Revis has been in all ages the most-dutestable factor in the march of human affairs, and it has wrought more harm than misery. Disastrous

new breadwinner. The landlord was not quito satisfied, but might not have known what to do if it had not been for a citizen who neither made mocks nor built huls, This man spent his time thinking and de. reloping his intellect. He went to the capitalist and painted out that the citizen who had not paid his rent ought not to be allowed to occupy the hut. Et wasn't fair to those who did pay, and these latter might be relied upon to see fairplay if the individual happiness, it is more disastrous to the happiness of the community, sesing that it capitalist insisted on his rightful claims.

engenders hatred, which in ita tura era perates Thus aross the first lawyer, and the honest and paralyses the will. Most of our defecta areTM tenants who evicted the nou-payer and born of envy. Essentially base in its asšanca, installed the lawyer were the first polies valgar souls like to use envy around them, men. They got a rebate for their services. Very few are able to resist it: The State The lawyer by using his braius more and orders and titles, and a special press exists to. creates and sustains it by the distribution of more assisted evolution, and in the course of write about the laxaries of the rich. Mean generatings the British nation ultimately while envy's elder sist, hatrui, grows space. arrived at the beautifully complex and in To bo free from enry in simont to be assured of

A. S. WATSON & CO., all ways just system in which its con-happiness,

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stituents now very properly rejoice. Thus,

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Are mere reactionaries, who desire to start the inevitable process all over again.

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The Centery Magazine for March published story of bow an American engine-driver, who at thongs of sixty years, wont back to the land, bought a farm of que, acre in Washington territory, and has been living upon it comfort Four more plague caces posterday have ably aver since -Ho-pud Entrtson-hundred brought the total to date to 87.

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An accord between Japan and Spain fa, says an Exchange Faris telegram, stated to be imminent. It is anderstood that the Japanese Prince is at present or a visit to the Spanish capital with this object in vlow.

Mr-Kemp, First Magistrate before whom the ease was heard in which the occupant of 23 Lyndhurst Terrace was summoned for disturb.

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Mathilda Gorlano, a girl who took poison at Bologns, left a letter explaining that she had been driven to despair-by-her-swcotheart's confession that his early hair was not natural, butthat he used ourling tonga every morning, a

Among the passagers by the Prius Waldomar," which left yesterday for Australia, was Mr. Donoso Clark, one of the partners of Messrs, Line, Crawford & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Clark and son are going on holiday to England

via Australia and South Afrien.

dollare for the land and improvements," and.

former owner's son for clearing away the rab an additional two dollars and a half to the bish heap. From that day he has paid not another cent, for hired labour, "I am my own horse and plough and farm-hund, a d ́erən my own rainmaker. I tell you," he said earastly, "with irrigation and exceful sapervision, there's nothing in the way of a prof· producer that cag. but the small form." He sore curries 17 fowls, one fourth of it is devoted to on acabar and the grond is irrigated by a small, stronca Bis wife makes preserves of the fruit, and bis. vegetables yield almost as much proft-a-his poultry.

The Schlesische Stung" of Brest announces that a German merchant bas sue, corded in obtaining from the Negus Menelik. a number of trading expansion, which over the whole of Abysmuis. Thus it is said, that the enterprising Gorgau tas received per.. mission to establish motor our services for passenger and goods traff, to build roads and bridges required for such traffis, and to lovy tells for the use of the raids and bridges; At the same time permission has been granted for the establishment of trading settlements, and. the German bas received the monopoly for the erection of wireless-telegraphy appratne, and

HONGKONG, APRIL 24TH, 1908.

The ensuing notes are not taken from the Tower Book Club's Historians' History of the World,” in twenty-five volumes weigh- ing over four pounds each, with solid onk

"Yes," said the Texas editor, eyeing without bookcase thrown in for fourpence a day for affection the coudnator of the rival paper, who eighteen months; but possibly somewhere had just called at his office, it is true that I in that compendious work their equivalents described you in my leader yesterday as a bald might be found by the industrious and beaded snipe whose miserable caresss is a foulaise for introducing postal intercourse between intelligent student. Two thousand years insult to the earth it fatteni on. I suppose Addis Abeba and Dire Dawa. It may be ngo there was no Book Club for the nation; you have had complaints from the snipe-world | mentioned that these are the concessions which each citizen carried his own club. While and wish me to apologise to them for comparing have been sought by British and French

An early issue."

Members of Right Half No. 2 Company H.K.V.C., are reminded that the next monthly

Tai Haug Range on Sunday next. The 200 shoot for the anbaoription Cups will take place

yards range will be closed as soon as possible. after 9.30a.m.

Volunteer orders show that the order of merit for the Effeciency Cup for the past sonson is as follows:-

Left No: 2 Company ... 1969 points, H.K. Vainatser Troop ... 1832 Right † No. 1 Comprny · 1777 Engineer Company

1774 Left No. 1. Company ... 1708 Right No.2 Company... 1716 '

It may safely be affirmed that, notwithstand" ing the Burns superstition, the Seolah disteet -will be dead as 1003 às that of Laneshire or Yorkshire. Such is the dictum of Pilgrim in the "Gianger Herald," Is proceeds: In the course of a decade or two Burns and other patriotic associations will exparience a diffoulty in adegastely rendering-Auld-Ivog-Syne 'i. unless with the aid of gramophone records. Sootemen will soon be unable to recite with any facility an extract or a verse from their chroniclers, barbarons or otherwins, whether these be in the line of Virgil, Danbar, Douglas, or the still more barbarous tongue whose lineage

is from Adam and Eve through. Ossian.

CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY.

abareholders in the Chins Traders IcsarBACO. The forty-second ordinary meeting of the

Company Lid took place yesterday at the Company's offices ander the chairmanship of

MEGLUSIVE SDEVICE.]

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STEAMER EXPLOSIONS.

SINGAPORE, April 23rd. There was an explosion last night on the Dutch oil steamer Tancarville, lying in the Keppel Drydock, which seriously damaged the vessel, and

the crew were ashore. The resultant injured several coolies. Fortunately

fire was extinguished the local Brigade. The explosion scattered de, bris-over-an-area-

au-aren measuring hundreds of yards.

At Belawan Sumatra, the Dutch stearner Pahud was damaged by a boiler explosion, and nineteen Chinese were killed.

BANKS CLOSED.

SINGAPORE, April 23rd. The International Bank is closing all its branches in the Straits.

BAUTER'S SERVICE.). RUSSIA " IN "ASIA.

LONDON, April 21st, A telegram received at Tiflis from the Officer commanding at Belia Suver, states that an immense lorde of Nomails is advancing, and that the position is serious and strong re-inforcements are required.

LATER, Strong Russian reinforcements have started for Belia Suver. ¦

ITALY AND TURKEY:

Lonnor, April 21st, Turkey has promised a satisfactory settle

Mr. a. W. Slado. There were also presentment of the Tripoli coasting question, and Messrs. W. Helms, Ormiston, J. A. the sunction of the Sultan is alone waited for

Plummer,. E.. G. Barrett, J. W. C. Bonuar (directors), C. Montague Ede (Secretary, E. C. Lane, A. B. Rovna, H. Hunter, H. M. Carvalho, B. M. C. da Cunha, V. L. dos Remedios, A. E. 8. Alves, J. F. A. Barrós, J. Gurdzor and A. R. Lowe.

·TRÅDE DEPRESSION IN THE

NORTH.

Commenting on the stagnstion in trade in North China, Mesars, Ebert & Co. of Shaoghai in their latest piecs-goods circular soy :- The SECRETARY having read the notice It is difficult to give. soy satisfactory convening the meeting.

-explanation of the depression, but if it were possible to account for it, perhaps it would be infances, of which the following are the most found to be the patooms of many different

important:

Tho

The

Chatian : said-Gentlemen, report barfag been issued for a sufficient time to enable you to study it astefully I will now. with your permission take it as read. It is not possible to cumpare the years 1916 and 1:06 from the published reports as during the former your the ligates for the last eight months only were shown separately, but I have taken out the items from our books for the first four months

twelve months working in sash year. ensbling me to make a fair comparison of I find in

Restriction of credit by the Chinese Banks, brought about by fear of losses in dealing with customers who have lost money, owing to bad trade and other causes,

Withdrawal of capital from the north caused by purest and insecurity regarding the future.

both political and financial. For example: New disecant owing to absence of hard money.. chang exchange on Shanghai is 25 per cent. instead of 5 per cent, premium in ordinary years.

Heary likin charges on cargo transported by rail, the likin in some ass amounting to considerably more than the freight.

Depreciation of copper cash, which has reach- ed a climax; depreciation of subsidiary silver coinage, the bulk of which is at a discount of over 15 per cent. na compared with Mexican dollare,

General fear that a further decline in prices may be impending the fail in cotton and forced sales at auction contributing to increase distrust in the future,

1906 an increase in takings of $454,000 while the losses only exopeded those of the previous twelve months by $86, 0). We bave paid en 1908 acepunt & bonus of 20 per cent to oɔntributors against 15 per cent for the previous year. In 19057 ### were obliged to trench on our reserve. fund wherein for 1906 we are able to inaugurate a sterling reserve fund adding (beroto $5,000, We are also able to.. strengthen the reinsurance fund by £10,000 and further to carry forward the sum of $12,000 to underwriting suspenas acount to cover

It would mom impossible to look for any improvement in the near future under these outstanding loss. Altogether, gentlemen, conditions, but China is a country in which we can congratulate ourasives upon the art surprising changed are rapidly brought about full year's working sine the amalgamation of restriction of credit will cure itself, when large car interests with those of the Union Insuraveable. The ourrency and likin questions are

accumulations of ospital become too anprofit Society of Canton, Limited. We recommend with us slways, and a reaction in the cotton the payment of a final dividend of $1.50 per market is not improbable when it is brought shers which with the interim dividend of $3 per 2,000,000 bates short of last year's. The humo to congamers that this year's crop is abont share paid lest April should it prove satisfactory stoppage of looms in England and Amerios and to you. The outtara for 1907 promises to the gradual reduction of stocks all over the compare favourshly with that of 1906, and we East, are favourable influences, while it often therefore recommend the payment of an interim happens that fears about the fatore are disidend of $3 per share and a bonus to con

overdone.

tributors of 20 per cent, carrying forward the balance.

There boing no questions,

:

HEARN ON OBSCURE POETRY,

From B previously unpublished letter of The CHAIRMAN: proposed, and Mr. EDB Lafcadio Hearn, which appeared recently in the Albany, may be taken this criticism of two poels

his wife harvested the garden patch, and if them with you. I will do so with pleasure in syndicator, and that the German Government, seconded, the adoption of the report, which was

he felt that he might as well be doing same- thing, the citizen laboured at the fashioning of a spare club, to stand in a corner of the

Mr. William Williams, of Rhiw, Carnarvon, shire, who has d'ed at the age of 101, was in-fall

satisfied itself some months ago as to thesarried, "private character of the undertakings referred to."

On the motion of Mr. Fire, seconded by Mr. Rouse, the appointment of Mesara W. Helms

As for Browning and Meredith, I regard the bulk of the work of both as doomed to vanish because of its obscurity. I revere Browning, B. A. W. Mlade J. WC. Bonnar and E. G. even though obroure. I have been lesturing

was confirmed,

hut till wanted. This was the beginning possession of his faculties ap.10 the leat, and Radium" was given by Mr. Frank Brown Barrett, and J..A. Piammer to the directorate upon him. I revera Meredith still more; and of the excessive burden of armaments. A never had a day's illasse. Rstring from the sea half a century ago, he devoted his time to now, peace was then assured by constant angling in the trout streams of Lleyn peoin ala. preparation for war. The alien inmigra-He fished almost daily, from early in the season tion question was no less acute then than to the close, and only last weak was preparing now, for the people in the next valley would his fishing tackle. persist in coming over to help the harvester,

Avery interesting and instructive lecture on

F1.C., under the auspices of the "Old Volumes Society" at the City Hall yesterday afternoon. Sir Henry Berkeleg presided. The lecturer was wall aequainted with his subject and after dealing with the bistory of its

nounced that he was fortunateerough to possess dieocvery and subsequent investigations an-Mr. BUNTER

a specimen of this mysterious elemeuf, and after

SUPREME COURT.

Thursday, 23rd-April,

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

..

BAFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE

(8m F. PIGGOTT).

THE FLORIDA WATER CASM.

Leung Chak ‹ han, Fang Tak Tim, and Lan Shan Ting, of the Kwong Sang shop, 45 Des Your Road Central were charged with " applying to 1652 bottles of liquid square labels a breach of the Trade Marks Orduanes by

and Kemp, of New York, who are mand with design closely resembling the trade mark registered by the complainants, Messrs. Lanman

facturers of Florida water. The second count charged them with exposing goods so marked and the third count charged theus with passing off those gods as those of Lanman and Kemp

The Attorney-General said he had been asked- that the defendants should not go into the dook. They were only charged with a misdemeanour.

His Lordship consented. ~~:

Mr. W. Slade, instructed by Mr. Denoon of Monars. Descon Looker and Dasoon conducted the -prosention; and Sir Houry. Berkeley, instructed by Mr. G. K. Holmos, appeared for the defendante, who pleaded not

guilty.

The following jury was empanelled Mesure, W. C. Logan, F. G. Cauayat, H. J. Stevens G. Hanter, E. J. Rymond, J. Lomn, and B. Pentooj

Mr. Slade, in oponing, said that the casa which the prosecution hoped to make out was that the three defendants who traded under the name of the Kwong Sang In Des Vaux Road had deliberately tried to sell botiles of sont in frand-of Lanman and Kemp, prosecutors. The fraud alleged, against them was first of all in selling bottles of sent bearing a trade mark which so closely resembled the trade mark of the prosecutors that it was calculated to deceive anwary par ahseare into believing that they wore buying. the genuine Florida water. The defendant made soont which they called, Florida water and they put on a trade mark which closely, rem bled that of the prosecutors. They were ohary. ed with applying labels to those bottles of agent and they were farther charged with selling these bottles of sosnt bearing the trade mark which was calculated to deceive. The second charge was known technically as a false trasie description as deined by the Marchandise Marks Act or in other words they had endeav oured by the general getup of their bottles to pass them off as coataluing genuine Florida water manufactured, and sold by Lammin and | Kemp, The jury could understand how, with- out a single uitrus word on the labels the get up of the bottles could be such as to deceive

wary purchase into believing that they were

undoubtedly was a name invented by Messrs. proenring the genuino article, Florida water

Lanman and Komp many years ago, yet for Purpose of that prossoution the jury might assume that anybody could use that name.

Sir Henry observed that the prosecution. aimed at the Magistracy to have the axolisiva right to use the same.

Mr. Slade replied that they did not, although one of the wituessas did. Proceding, he dealt with the similarity between the two labels and “ said that the defendants were trying to benefit. from the reputation, which the promontors had obtained. The get up of the Inia bottle was calculated to deceive.

Sir Henry There is no false bottle. Mr. Blade-It is falso.

bg Chief Justice-It is alleged to be false, Mr. Slade maintained that he was justified in alling it Elsa and went on to explain that the prosecutors asked the defendants in December last to desist from using the trade mark in question but they declined and the prosecutors, who had tried from 1901 to get their trade mark registered, only succeeded in doing so this year, after which they instituted these

1639 bottles in possession of the defendante. proceedings and a seizure was made of

Sergt. Watt gars evidence na to the seizure and was cross-examined by Sir Henry a to whether he was aware that other firms'in Hong- kong as well as defendants manufactured Flórida. water, to which questions he replied that he had po knowledge,

Mr. Lamperski, the Hongkong agent for Messrs. Lauman and Kemp, haring given evidence, the ossa for the prosocution alosed, and the bearing was adjourned.

CORRESPONDENCE.

NOTA BENE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " DAILY PRESS."]

Italian Convont,...

Hongkong, 23rd April, 910,-By your courtesy we were given space

I have lectured upoo bins as the greatest philc- Mr. EDx moved, and Mr. E. LAN seconded phar-pot of the nineteenth century for is be the re-election of the retiring directors Messrs.athical aonception of the evolutional philosophy not the caly one who has embodied a complete Slado and Ormiston. Carried

in poetry Bat how much greater would both in your columna for an appeal for funds towarda posts have been if they had written as clearly as

the reconstruction of the dilapidated buildings Rossetti or Tennyson?

There was a party of French artists who for the Home for the Poor" in St. Francis made what they called coffee-pictures-a wondor-Street, Wanchai, ful album, Every one of these artists emplied

The response to our appeal barely supplies the dregs of his caffee upon a sheet of soft third of the amount of the estimated cost of paper after dinner, and according to the suggestions of the shapes of the stains, piolares were inspired. I think that the obscurities of

Measra, Jeffries and Lows were re-elected auditora on the motion of Mr. EDR, seconded by

This concluded the business.

THE JUNK BAY FLOUR MILLS.

new buildings. (

The Typhoon sessop will soon be upon us, and the urgency of replacing the old by a new

May-we again trespass on your kindness for the sympathetic support you have invariably. extended to me by directing the attention of your numerous readers?

Yours faithfully

TEODORA LUCIAN.

SUPERIORESS,

General. Sir Neville. Lytteltou, speaking at whom they sometimes harvested. When the annual winter of the Institute of Civil this incident occurred, it was awkward for Engineers, said that the Japanese army of to some demonstrations he would band it round the citizen, who, deprived of the assistance day owed its success to British taition. Forty for inspection. In propseling Mr. Browne said of his suffragette, had to work as well as years ago he was in Yokohama, and the com- that the experiments could be better condgoted in

Browzing and Meredith like these coffee maintain adequate defences. This led to mandor of a Japanese rogimen, armed with

bows and arrows, asked his superior officer to total darkness and after asking the indulgence of We learn that a movement is on foot in lo stains for the mystic-minded. They suggest structure is pressing daily...

pictures insable; but they are developed only agitations of the Unemployables, who, how teach him the Englishman's method of using the audience, the doors were closed and the lights Chinese business, circles for the formation of a secording to the imaginative and artistic ever, aroused leas and simpler argament the rifle. That was the beginning of Japan's extinguished. The rays were plain y visible syndicate with a view to acquiring, if possible, capacity of the reader." then than now... In those days there were success in warfarei

through screens of wood, glus, icon and thin the big four milis at Jank Bay established by small holdings, and no wide reveries for

copper. Experiments made with crystals were the Hongkong Milling Co, which has now gone game preserves or deer forests, exclusively Government intends to send a number of the by emitting a green phosphorescent glow. The speculations in the wheat market.

The Figaro" snaounces that the French equally successful, willemite bring conspisaons into liquidation, as a result of disastrous held by dog-in the manger aristocrats vhis of the northern squadron to Portsmouth specimen of radium which was hired from, It is believed that Chinese ownership would Agricultural depression was not aggravated during the visit of President Filières to Eng home by the Society for the special purpose of ensure for the mills large and profitable by exorbitant traffic charges, for the crops and in the summer. The aquadron will probably the lecture, represented, but a grain of the were consumed at home. An early citizen of he composed of the craisers Amiral, Aub substance and its value was at least £200. industrious babits had a lot of spare time Thouars. Le journal condrias the statement calculated to last two hundred and fifty years, Mareliaine, Leon Gambetta, ind. Dupetit Although throwing off millions of rays it was after his agricultural work was done, or that M. Fishon, Minister for Foreign Affairs, The Hon. Capt. Basil Taylor briefly moved while the weaker sex did it for him, and he | will'secompany President Pallières.

Toto of thanks.

The first number for 1908 of "Seiones Progress in the Twentieth Century has an appreciation and a portrait of the late Lord is maintained, and though the articles may not Kalvin, The high standard of the publication appeal to the casual reader, there is much LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS, business connection, and the view is also that the thoughtful will sajoy. Work ander expressed that the milling of wheat grown in prasure and in grast heat is a discussion of The H.A.L. st. Fibería left Shanghai on the

appeal to Chinese North China and Kores would particularly the hygienic problems which arise through 23rd inst., and may be expected here on the

economic and industrial changes and another 26th inst, pim. consumers who regard important contribution is that of Mr. F. H. A. Korean four as nnrivalled by any four Marshall, M.A., D.Sc., on "The effects of here on Friday, the 27th ult. st. 5. p.m., arrived. The I.G.M. str. Prinz Ludwig which left imported from Amerion of Australia.

environment and nutrition on fertility.”-

at Genon on the 22nd inst, at 4 pm..