1908-06-27 — Page 9

MAN V. RAT

Evidence Boaumplating from all parte of the world the the rat is to be exterminated rest and

Having been bonvicted, on overwhelm

viden, nearly every crime in the lendar The whole spooles has been sentanood to death, and execution le to take place wherever possible and by whatever snosis available, from the 'most modern weapon supplied by solence down to the 'dfashioned trap/or the convenient half-brick,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRIES, SATURDAY JUNE 27TH, 1908.

coosirence" happening just when it did that mind the doom of the rat in Denmark, and in directly gave a tremendous extermination of the

tremendouse | rats.

Education is not being aglated primary schools have been established in almost every district. In Frentang, kes me four sebols with 1,850 pupils, and sekools are being greeted as the most remote places. This fast, in the opinion of the Malasché correspondent, socornis for the large number of Japanese immigrants with their families who are sledily incresing

A BUNCH OF COTTON WASTE.

could have been a shelter to many, but the face of the wild was against me, and 1 ́am Warto." Hin fase Erded in its turn, and there eme another.

"I am a writer," he said "I tell the old tales, and I dress the old lies snow, and wet them before the people. Many now things might I have told them; many things good for them to know, but the face of the world was ngalust mind I am Waste, "

F

Close upon the publication of this horrible affair followed with dramatin udderness the news of the discovery by two Danish solendise of a microbe, that would slay all the rate over born to work their evil ways. The statements | in Manshuria. made by the discoverers, Noumann and Bur, that it produced among rate inoonlated with it

He west his way, and there came yet another. and only among rata case mortality of

In my thop I served the people," he mid, 100 po, was confirmed by the German Govern-

At-drst glance there is nothing in my jur. ** Never did I wrong to any, and my scales were ment who had subjected this ratin, seroundings to engget, howevormmotely, almich just and my word was true. Health might I In called, to

serien of severe tole of black, oily fibro. The sky is clear of clouds, have given to many, and justice and love and and the further claim that this microbe in the loaves of the cal are, as it were, ohooing peace, but the face of the world was against me practically indifferent to any changes of taim their dreme for the autumn, and the maand I am Waste.

Came then another, once more the face of a perstare was borne aut by a number of ex- periments made by Plagas Ofiers in India touches them with a bint of the gold that in

coming.

The bracken, heather, and the gore | TOMBE. the West Indies and Africa. According to they are all under the same tomb, but expedilly "Of the daughters of plesetre am I," she the Foreign Offloa report for 1807 (3862) this the broken. And the wind is whispering to said. Joy, light, and life night I have discovery altered the whole scope of the the tree which shelters me of datant, wonderful brought to the world, but my heart is fall of posed Danish Est law. Instead of spanding things. Hore, if anywhere, might one be happy, loathing, and my way is in the darkness, and the State Grant, as originally proposed, and wait, as all around is waiting, for the cam through the biasing of shamel lights. For premiums the Danish Government has noring of the gold and yet I can think of nothing the face of the world was against me, and I am allied itself definitely to this powerful microb; but softon waste, employing ratin with deadly success in all Go-

For I have had a vision. And the vision was Came then the face of one I had seen sitting vernment buildings, wharves, domains and

an angine of marvellous site and a senin many more; and each told a story, and #sob Danish Est war by means of the premius terrible beauty. Bwiftly, relentlessly, he worked, said the ame word, "I em Wante system and this terrible waspon of destruction and where bie banor of masts vont It je areated by nature herself make it abundantly gleaming steel where had been only dirt and clear that the days of the rat In Denmark av stains: All the gresso and alth had been absorbed and as the Governments of the by those patient ibres. And when he lad

It cannos be said that the rat has not had a fair trial. The deuse of the Danish Common- woal v. Bat, which sealed the doom of this criminal, lasted exactly four years. Before that six years were spent on ollecting evidence from soientists, manufacturers, shippers, plantera, farmers and traders in every part of the civilised world. The jars in the case were both Houses of the Danish Parliament; the chief counsel for the prosocation Zuschlag, the greatest sing anthority on avery phase of the Rat Problem; for the defense appeared counsel repressbling the." Arcient Assolation for Encouraging the Belief that Rate are Useful as Bearongers, and the United League for Maintaining the Balance of Nature and Making the Killing of Rate, in The results already sobieved in that of a man, a tall and splendid wan cleaning in high places, and another, and another, and

and Bugs a Penal Offence"; In

reserved for the public' and the solo sporter would say, at the whole civilised World listaning

with AZIZ0- evidence In the end given against the rat. returned a unanimous verdict of Guilty ou

Mine,

and

numbered

ment and horror to the the jars, other civilised pations are protting by the finished, he tossed it down on the 'ground, and drawing a to eventide, and all sround'is.

ar in other words the Danish Parliament

unanimouslys Law Ordering the Destrnotion/Joot lesson taught by Denmark, it, in safe to itamed to me that it quivered and writhed, a Bat from (he valley come the vibes of the hep

of rat inoculation

-prophecy that the doom of the rat is at hand.

"LIKEN" IN CHINA

HINDRANCH TO TRABÍ. The Shanghai Correspondent of the Standart wrote on May 2nd

though it lived and was in torment. Eo I went to the man and spoke to him.

"Who are you!" I naked.

I am the Efficient Man,” he replied," "though st times I am called the Man Who Gets The

* And this ?” I bontinued, pointing to the engine,

"It in Elfo” he said: “ it in the Bisto, ho Church, Art, Letters, Busines, Love it is Life."

The mass of fibres was near my foot, and again it seemed to me that it writhed an it lay, so I picked it up.

And what is this?" I asked..

of Rais within the Kingdon of Denmark, It provides funds for carrying ont a three years? campaign throughout the country chiefly with the view to getting experiences to the methods most conductive to wholsasie rate slaughter," The weapon employed by the Blate in a microbe, known as Menmann's bacillas, or ratins whilst raminiaipalities trust to the inducement of China has so repeatedly broken ter promises Podny premium for bringing about the exter- that it is not matter for surprise that many of mination of rate. At the end of the these the stipulations of the British Commercial Treaty of 1902 romain unfulfilled at the present years the war is to begin in real earnest and to be waged until the rat has become practically not under the frosty the Chinese Gore

ment undertook, amongst other things, to draw But though we are only in the initial stages up regulations for the protection of foreign tif this world's war of extermination against the trade marks; to promulgato just mining regula mat the osmpsign has already animed gigantic tions; to take stope to provide for uniform proportions. In Denmark the system of paying system of national coinage, and to abolish the mali premism for every rat killed and pro-system at levying likis and other dues on goods duced shown that during the first sine months as the places of production, in transit, and at of the campaign over one million rate have been visions has yet been carried out, and t

destination one of these important pro destroyed The German Gavemment I prose-contedly largely due to the nostalglment of mting the at war with the utmost, energy, the obligations that foreign, tesde is at relying chiely on ang the rats in ports present labouring under soute depression. with ratin, França and on ships by means of the Clayton Batisfactory trade fark regulations cannot be apparatus, Fund in the sewer of the big draws up until Japanese trade-mark lawn hars towns by means

um of electric live - wires. In been revised. Owing to the failure to issue just the countries within the plague belt berculsan mixing regulations, friga mining enterprise efforts are being made to reduce the number of a practically aros stand, the che besnge of rate, the Endian Government in particular pay. uniform currency is responsible for the greatest lag large sums on this head, and San Francisco, inconvenience la foreign commerce. Enis sillan against me, and I am Wants

He caned, and presently there came anchor in its terror of the plagas being brought by the romaries, and Instead of taking steps to abolish face, the face of a woman, mts coming on ships from plague suspected it, e flowernment la now allowing the

provin

"I am his wife," she said. "In all my days to fhurssss these irregolar duties te there pain and sorrow. In pain have I ports, even offering the parle passaporte la shillings per rat. In the rest of the

with world more

object

meeting the deflat that most brought forth children, and in surrow has I or lear determined efforts are mads towards the result from enforcement of the anti-opium put the grave-clothes upon them. A mother of extermination of the rates either because of the regulations. The revenue derived from native men might I have been, but the face of the damage done by them or because of the active and foreign opium exceeds £5,000,000 per nunuat, world was against me, and I an Waste,” role played by them in the spreading of disease; and it is evident that the abolition of this souro

Her face faded from my sight, and there one the present isolated efforts can be of vanus mast nécessitate the ersion of other another. and as soon joined together into a concerted international channels of income.

*** I am a priest,

at," he said “Each day I stand action there soczna little doubt that in the course

and lift my bands in prayer for the people still of time the rat will become is rare in civilised

my voice and my heart and my soul are weary. conatries as-is to-day the woll

and it avails nothing. In my youth I dreamt of strength for the feeble, haith for the ikk, joy for the ad. Kad my harde been free

In the treaty referred to, the Chine Govern- ment recognised that the skin "impodes the free circulation of commodities and in ares the interests of trade," and yet we find the Govora ont imposing this tax on freight carried on ove lines traffic is now confined to the carrying of Chinese presengers alone, and the railwaye which had been expected to do so much to assist the commercial development of the

wake. It is astonishing that anoh a conflict of country through which they pass have not brought any improvement of commeros in their Britain and Ireland is stimated to be not load and in the fact that in the provinces many of interests can exist, but the reason for it may be than tan mlion pound Sterling,

When the present writer drst made this exti-the native officials not as if their interests were mate known it was waived wide by many as in direct conflict with those of the Central "absurd " and raggersted." Since then a

Goremment. They ignore plodge given at good deal of attention has been devoted to this Feking, or, where they cannot do so, stultify inbjsot, and to-day this figure, enormons sa it

their foot by some of the means peculiar to may soon, is quoted by all serious students of Chins. It is quite certain that the likin is s the rat problem as the minimum estimate."

question which will not be settled mtisfactorily It weald, indeed, be impossible to prove the for many years to come.

The whole of Chinese offloislion is arrayed contrary, as the consideration of the following facts will show The figure obtained from against its abolition, for the collection of this various parts of the country relating to the tax affords extraordinary possibilities for gamber of rats killed in successive years by guze" Usually the collection is farmed Rat (and Sparrow) Clube and private persons out to the highest bidder and the man who enable is to ferm the estimate that sucoseds in obtaining the right to collect i there are at least so many este in Great Britain makes the most of his opportunities, regard and Ireland as there are human beings. Far-loss of the injury high likin may indiot upon ther, evidenos taken of the damage done by trade.

That fact menas for the British Empire slons that thousands of lives will be red from the plague every year because the rats will noita ova railways. The result has been that on longer be able to form the mess of location by which the plague fleas can get bent and transmit the plague, becline from the blood of the plague-stricken to the healtby; and, further, Joar from destruction by rate quantity of that according to Zuschlag it will save every

food and material which in the ouse of Great

THE JAPANESE IN MANCHURIA,

BÖKE INTERESTING FIGURER. The number of Japanions immigrants entering Manchuria steadily increases every month; i+ March last 24,037 Japanese arrivals

wert

ats in certain warehonass, shape, seed stores, kotals, ships, factories and on farms'nad large states proved that such damage on an average „worked out at 20), par your per head of the persons employed in, or inhabitants of, the places reported upon. Professor Simpson tal- culated the damage done by rats to be not loss than one penny per day. Feeding experiments made with zin in cages demonstrated the im-registered, of whom 22,684 were men and 1,359 pondbility of keeping two cats alive on a daily on The furos show an increase over. food allowance of one half-penny for each rat, the immigrants arriving in February of 1,897, no matter what diet was chosen in order to get for this country, a decrease of 195 as compared Daring March 5,921 Japanese leli Manchuris bulk. The stronger would invariably darone the wonker rat, // ́t must be noted here that there with the exodus in February, of the im cago experiments still left open the question as migrants arriving in March, 695 were described to the damage rats would do by goswing when as merchants, and 609 sa artisans; the occups at liberty), Zuschlag, in order to obtain an tions or professions of the remainder are not agreemont among his own countrymen na to the given by the correspondent of the Mainichi, minimum estimat, formulated the thesis: That who wade this information to Japan. The och rat ossos each day s lost, by the destrac- latest available offois! returns howing the

material d. However more representing at least Japanse population in some of the principal thi Agars may look towns are a fellows

Bon of food and

it means evertheless that the rats of Great Britain and Ireland eat up and destroy every year such gaartities of food and material sa would mean an additional £10,0 10,000 at the very lowest estimate is the pockets of the original owners of that food and waterial if them har nok let the rats have it.

Tairen (Dalny) Port Arthur Antang

Limoyang Maiden

17,229 6,194 4781

2,614

2,274

According to these returns, the total gumber of Japanese in Mansuris is given a 45.012, of

Wasit the Danish people were debating | whom-"toitus shame of this nation," says "the sg's problem off How to increase your correspondent referred to-16,524 ago womna

And the National prosperity and its mostly of immoral charseter.

By killing off the ratean

an socident It is also stated that there are about 20,000 and which shocked off the whals of Japanse kving in various parts of Manoharls avis. Awell known farmer of Balof beyond the official limits of set:l mute and con ben attacked by the rats und ́estan

According to Professor 8. Nile cessions, and these are not therefore included i who the figures above given. To the grand totu

ated this victim of the loathsowe and mint iso be added 2981 Japanese in the employ murder ina mt: had one afternoon cossion toget of the South Manoharian Railroy, so it i that there are betreen 66,000 on the top of a haystack standing in a faldentimited about 300 yards from his house. It transpired and 70,000 Japanese residante in the whole aftorwards that the haystack had been literally of Manchuria, erotusive of soldies, travellers, hollowed eat by rats and that the ete. A large number of the Japanese appear farmer must have broken through the to be raga, ed in the business of trace thin

upper layer and fallen into the port or forwarding agent, while dealers i interior-ul the stack. There his skviston "piece-goods and reelsarant and hotelkeeper was found eight daya lalar, by a search compert on the list.

arty, a member of which had noticed the hole Telephones have been introduced into South be top of the stack and insisted on the stack. ↑ Manchuris by the Japanese, and all the principal while long-distance

palled down, All that was left by the towis have local notion batean, the towns.

the watch and chain of the unfortunate i telegione form

FOR BEANed for shreds of cloth origins of may be obtained from glansing at the dgars

į Bome Ides of the smota:f businem tranmatei

8.8.8

akalston showed

right leg and of three rib showing the enaber of letters banded at the gination at the horror of the T Iren post-ollo, Doring the year endlag

noted this rat pift. A MED,

March 31st last. 4,050,000 letters fera zeoziva move, unable to defend himself, left and 4,800,000 dispatched. The number of 19- 2. gistarmi. Jetters and picketeroseived was 34,800,

-Fi losing battle withthe rats.

too much to say that it was this tangio while 60,700 were dispatched.

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“And stlast, because the vision was too beary for me to bear, and because my heart was more with the pain of it, I left it.

Them in on the oska and on bracken. It is релье.

pickers; away on the other side the bella of a grant esthedral are sending aty noten up to me as they cry to a world that boods thers rot to worship a God of Whom it known nothing ; ! away in the far distance is the ss, and men tre going to and fro upon their badróm ; and from If all come the unceasing throb of the Engine. And with it a small and pileous voice, « voleo hoarse with wooping, with newer one note of joy. The roles of the Waste with which the | Engins isolated.-- Westm natar Gazelle,

THE MANAGERIAL MANNER:

"That ?” he said. "Oh, that in Waste.” And because it was Waste, suit becane it seemed to me to writhe in my hand, I took it How is it done? That is what we want to away, out of sight of the than and his angie know. How ild it start, and by what shape and I sat down and looked at it. And as I did it rich is present state of perfection? looked, it took to itself the form of a face, and Wefer to the matiner of the surage manager began to speak.

**** | of a bank. It is not precisely a baughty manzor, toll, sining before the sun is up, seeling my nst. It is more that one realises that one is in the I am worker," he said. "All my day I One does not feel that one is disliked or desplied. long after he has gone on his way, follingon presence it supermaning of Saman nature without hope, without joy, dragged with dill potty temptations of slumber each night, by rosson of my wearings are mere nagies, "From the moment that we Hunger and thirt baya I known, and by enter the sanctum, and begin to unload our pleasures are those of the beats that periă, carefully shears è sposch : * Er-sh. T-er-in fact Fall of hope was my youth, fall of strength and called about that, so to spenis, overdraft which I skill were my hands, but the face of the world hoped-er-that yen, as it were, might possibly be able to ab-arrange, we fool that we are not talking to man such as Darnius. There is something about him, aje-ne-mais-quoi, He in pollie, Almost too polite. He treats ne with infialis

Tet somehow he contriren respant. to make feel that we are mere rubbish, oum- boring, the earth. We totter out to recuperate ata asighbouring hostelry. For the time being our joy in life and our salf-respect in dormant. What we want to know, we repeat, in How is it done? In his early stages that manager must have been's clerk, and a clerk he must have slang ledgir and steeped himalt in ink with the other decks. His manner then maat haro been humes, perban oves bumptions. At what point did it begin to change to the zusnisgezial manner-Globe.

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