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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 6rx, 1909.

BREACH OF P PROMISE TO MARRY. expressed pitifully enough his genuine feelings, *****.**** And it does not really help yon tv kavə thơm” ****There are agreements prepared and settled" by read in ceart (Ex)

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF HONGKONG AND SHANGHAlsolicitors, elaborately worded and grimly in-

.....

INDIA, LIMITED.

AUTHORISED-CAPITAL ........

SUBSCRIBED

PAID-UP

...

RESERVE FUND

BAKKENS:

BANKING CORPORATION.

RESERVE FUNDS

PAID UP CAPITAL

£1,500,000 1.125.000

STERLING

562,000 250,000

LONDON JOINT STOCK BANE, Limited.

INTEREST allowed on Current Accounts at the rate of 2 per coat, per aunum on the Daily balance.

ON FIXED DEPOSITS:

$15,000,000

£1,500,000 at 2/-$15,000,000 SILVER

314,500,000

$29,500,000 Reserve LIABILITY OF PROP'TORE $15,000,000 COURT OF DIRECTORS

Hon. Mr. W. J. GRESSON-Chairman, H. E. TOMKINS, Exq-Deputy Chairman. J. W. Bandow, Esq. E. Shellim, Eag E. G. Barrett, Esq.

R. Shewan, Esq.

For 12 mouths...

4 per cent.

For 6

3 por cont.

For 3

2 per cent.

C. 8. Gabbay, Exq

H. A. Siets, Eng

EVAN ORMISTON,

W. Helms, Esq.

Manager.

C. R. Lenzman, Esq.

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Hongkong, 27th April, 1999.

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THE

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CAPITAL PAID-UP

RESENTE FUND

Yon 24,000,000 15,500,000

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BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.

Kobe

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New York

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Peking

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Lioyaug

Port Arthur Mukden

Chiang Chun

Antung

HONGKONGINTEREST ALLOWED.

On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cant per sunum on the daily balance.

On fixed deposits for 12 months 4 % per annum

6

23%

"TAKEO TAKAMICHI

Msanger.

Hongkong, 2nd July, 1909.

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

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THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA

THE

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1853, HEAD OPPICK-LONDON.

PAID-UP CAPITAL.

RESERVE FUND RESERVE LIABILITIES OF PROPRIE

£1,200.000 £1,575,000

£1,200,000.

INTEREST allowed on Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum on the Daily balances.

On Fixed Deposits for 12 months 4 per cent. for 6 for 3

WM. DICKSON, Manager.

Hongkong, 6th April, 1909.

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H. A. W. Slade, Esq.

CHIEF MANAGER: HongkongJ. R. M. SITE.

MANAGER: Almughal-H. E. R. HUNTER.

LONDON BANKERS-LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPANY, LIMITEE

PRESIDENT TAFT ON THE

AMERICAN ARMY,

groused, which men enter into deliberately and after careful consideration. There are agree ants warte by merchants and traders in the way of their business, sober matters of everyday experience, evidenced by letter or memorandum

Addressing a gathering on Décoration Day or the old-fashioned "market penny And at Jettysburg, President Taft made the following there is one agreement occurring

observatious with regard to the regular Arny :--- ae: rule bat

To the little army of 25,000 men that once in a lifetime, which is entered inte at a thoughtless. emotional surroundings contract which on

| sige, in an impulsire moment, amid arrived the Civil War we owe the opening up

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the entire Western country. The hardships one side is often a matter of surprise and un-

and the trials of frontier Indian campaigns, preparedness and on the other is brought to a

which made possible the construction of the point by music, moonlight, sequestered corner,nized by our people, and the bravery and courage Pacific railroads, have never been fully recog and such-like stimulating influences and sar soundings.

These are all contracts in the oyes of the law, and alike punishable in the breach thereof. Look at it another way

There are contracts wherein the law exacts of the parties what it calla uberrime Ado-the very atmost, candour and disclosure of material fuota. If you desire to insure your life and in response to the printed inquiries feel it uu- necessary to mention what your grandfather really died of, your widow may heronfter find she has grounds of complaint against you as well as against the insurance company.

So with the great majority of contracts, although there is the wholesomo rale" carat HONGKONG INTEREST ALLOWED. On Current Account at the rate of Twe per out the dry rot in your house or mention the captor," which means that you need not paint cent. per Aurum on the daily balance.

ON FIXED DEPOSITS,

capricious temper of the horse you are selling there are rules which help the buyer towards For 3 months 24 per cent. por Annu; For 6 months, 3 per cent. per Annum.

getting what he wants. The bulk must be equal For 12 meaths, 4 per cent, per Annum.

to the sample, for instance, and if goods are ordered for specified purpose, there is an implied J. R. M. SMITH, warranty that they are fit for that purpose.

Chief bisnager.

The contract for marriage stands alone in Hongkong, 2nd June, 1909.

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being exempt from any conditions of this sort. HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

No artifice or trap, scarcely any deception or misrepresentation, affords a defence to an action THE THE Business of the shove Bank

for breach of promise of marriage. It may conducted by the HONGKONG AND but it will not get you off. Consider it mors weigh with the jury and rednos the damages, SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA TION. Rules may be obtained on application.

closely. INTEREST on deposits is allowed at 34 per cent. per annum.

Depositors may transfer at their option balance $100 or more to the HoxerONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOST at 4 per cent. per annum.

I was excited. We sat in the conservatory, It was at a dance, I had had champagne,

her palmistry when her mother came up." there were violets in her hair, I was tasching AK an explanation, young man, that may be more than adequate, but as an excuse it will not avail For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI You. So long as you are twenty-one, no matter how green and musophisticated, it is a binding contract. If you care for postry you will find that Robert, Browning is expressed better than I can what will probably be your views on the

Take more serions Case:

BANKING CORPORATION..

J. R. M. SMITH, Hongkong, 12th January, 1907.-

Chief Minagar. T21 TEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE NEI

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"I find that her father has fits, and that she herself was for two years in a lunatic asylum."

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very un.

Or try another plea :-

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"I am old and ailing and ill-tempered. to heliore she loved me, and know now that it is squint and am bandy-legged. I was infatuated

my money she was after,"

It is legitimate to marry for money," the law will reply, and the fact that you are not loved will not enable you to wriggle out of your engagement.

There was a man once who pleaded that the excitement of matrimony might cause his death, lady any have wished to be your widow, replied judge, as he handed the question of damages the over to the jury,

EDERLANDSCHE HANDEL BRANCHES AND AGENTS all over the and that the doctors had told her so. "But the

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INTEREST ALLOWED.

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and does not enforce specific performance of an the law contents itself with awarding damages, Upon the whole, we must be thankful that

agreement to marry,

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CATS AND THE PLAGUE.

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"THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS"

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AND

honorable one.

The profession of arms has always been an requires years of experience and study to adapt pamphlet ou "Cata as Plague. Preventers" has warfare it has become a highly techuies! one and Under conditions of modera

remarkably readable and instructive the officers and men to its requirements. The just been published by Lieutenant-Colonel A general purpose of people, if one can say there is a plan or purpose Colonel Buchanan has long been known as an merican Buchanan, I.M.S. Civil Surgeon Amrnet). ongress and the to have such a nucleus as a regular Army, ie authority on the plagas uut he falls into line

may furnish a skeleton for rapid calarga. with other authorities upon the subject in as ment in times of war to a foren ten or twenty serting positively that plagao epidemies are times its size, and at the um time bs neatised by rats. From that he makes the logical appropriate Instrument for accomplishing the deduction that the ultimate way of preventing Purpose of the Government in cris likely to plague in India is by keeping eater, Colonel Buchanan's attention was drawn to the value of "At West Point we have been able to

prepare the cat by certain observations made at at Airis, H.R.H, THE PRINCE OF WALES. a body of professional soldiers, well trained to small village which lies on the road between ofleer an army, and anmerous enough at the Nagpur and Kalmeshwar, which are 13 miles opening of the Civil War to give able com apart. It appears that over 22, 00 persons had For Table Use and Mixing with manders to both sides of that internecinest rife. died from plague in Nagpur and nearly 2,000 On the isle of the North many of the officers at Kalmeshwar. When the plague appeared at

Wines and Spirits.. were drafted to command the volunteer troops Nagpur many fled to Kalmeshwar, and when it from the states, while the regular Army, appeared in the latter town they fled back to agregating about 10,003 at the opening of the Nagpur. Many of these would naturally pass was increased to about 25,030 during its first through Airls, but Airls aways escaped the your. More than half this army was engaged infection. This strange fact naturally interest in the battle of Gettysburg. Time does not ed the medical authorities. The headman of permit me to mention the names of the heroes the village was asked if he could account for historic field and whone sacrifices made the his village always escaped, and he replied that regaler Army whose blood stained this what seemed to be a very curious thing, that Union victory possible.

there were no rata. many cats and that the cats were numerous When asked why his village was free from rats, he explained that there were boosnes there were many buffaloes. Buffaloes aro usually kept for milk and whero milk is abundant cats are likely to collect."

of the

Colonel Buchanan

adds that hundreds of villagers have since drawa his attention to this point without having been directly asked.

Army, their high standard of daty, their efficiency Wath my intimate knowledge the regular as solliors, their high character as man, I have seized this opportunity to come here to testify to the pride which the Nation should have in its regular Army, and to dedicate this monument te the predecessors of the pressut regalar Army. perpetual gratitude from the Nation which they or a field on which they won undying glory end sorted,

The Government of India discovered by very had not the friends and neighbours of the voles-prevention which rame coautor to their religioas They had not the local associations, they the people to adopt any measure of plague sad experience that it is impossible to induce tear forces to see to it that their deeds of valeur or social prejudices. They object to isolation were properly recorded and the valour of their in plaguo hospitals because residence in the services suitably uuted in the offivial records by latter in likely to result in a loss of caste. They have now to depend upon the truth of history do not understand disinfection, and the arous ngislative and Congressional action, and they object to inoculation for similar reasons. They and in the cold, calm retrospect of the war as it tion of infected houses is naturally disliked by morial of the work in the saving of the country was to secure from Congress this suitable me

those who have opet peuple would abandon and believe in Fate. which they wrought here,

United States. Never in its history has it a "All honour to the regular Army of the stalu upon its escutcheon."

MENACE OF THE EAST.

LORD CUSZON'S WARNING ON INDIAN HEDITION.

Lord Curzon addressed a grave warning to the statesmen of Britain and Indian recently in a speech at the Royal Colonial Institute, where he presided at a lecture on "Indian Aspirations" given by Sir Bampfylde Failer, and Assam. the Best Lieutenant-Governor of Eastern Bongal

It was found that huts and temporary structures, they had the greatest objection to evacuating masonry houses. Hence the trouble that arose in big towns like Calentte, Bombay, and Poona. But to suggest the

employment of cats for rat destruction is to suggest a method of plague prevention that will offend neither the Hindus not the Mako- medans. Colonel Buchanan mentions a very interesting custom amongst the Hindus of certain castes, who, if they should happen to kill a cat are expected to have made a small goldan image of the anius! which they must either wear round the neck or present to B shrine at Benares or Hardwar. The Maho medan tradition about cate is well-known. It is related that upon one occasion when Mahomed was at prayer a cat came and lay the cat Mahomed cut off a portion of the down upon his coat, and rather than distarb

Do not think from what has been written that any condemnation of the right to bring an action for breach of promise is intended. True, there have been judges who advocated the abolition of the right, and there are other nations who sneer at the English idea of measuring lacerated affections and expressing thom in terms of cash, a matter of fact, there is a very prosaic and pecuniary side to this romantic business of courtship. Engage ments are neually more or less matters of im- were more deliberation there would be fewer pulse. It is not oraical to say that if there engagements. But from the community's point The speech dealt with the problems of Indias of view, so long as people do get married, the government; but most serious of all wore the actual pairing is a matter of indifference. Bert words with which Lord Curzon concluded garment." yourselves afterwards," as the clorymau said at Lord Rosebery in a recent speech referred the plural wedding when the couples before the to the great hash there is now over Europe. I altar got mixed. This very impulsiveness is a sometimes think I cas detect a similer hush in useful element in the State's welfare, and it India, and I only hope that behind that hash would not be right to allow it to be made an, there may not be hoard by any one of us the excuse for Beklenens.

rastling of the trees.

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The man usually puts it very delicately

I am no nicaraist, and I hope the develop when he breaks it off. I find I have mis-ments of which I speak may be in the distant laken my feelings towards you. Tis wrong future, but I think they are nearer than some to bestow the hand where the heart can never people imagine." be"--or words to that effect-in composition of which suggests the burning of earlier in his speed, "a party characterised by

letter, the There is in India" Lord Curzon declared, much midnight oil and the assistance of fidential malo friend, Aud after that he thinks rid of the English as soon as possible. What sedition and disloyalty whose desire it is to get that a girl of any no fooling should content form of government will be set up in India herself with a warian-like attitude, and, at when it is independent they do not stop to tell.

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are, therefore, fond of cuts, and are all the more likely to niske pots of them once they fully realise how valuable they are in pre- venting the moltiplication of rats which cause the plague, An exception must be made of the Jains; who ebject to cats because they kill rats, but the Jains are few in numbers comparatively, and their prejudices can hardly be considered where so terrible a disease as the plague has to be combatted.

Both Hindas and Mubomedans

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extermination by means of eats very viguranaly - Colonel Buchanan has taken up the ides of rat

shipment of two batahes of the small grey Indian and we believe that he was concerned in the cat to Tokyo to enable Professor Kitisato to make any rate, revolt from the idea of BANKING

dragging the ! With that part we can have no sympathy, Professor was

Rotne experiments in details of such a tender business into the bratal and when it turns to crime I hope it will be ore ter pleas with these cats. rat-killing. The Japanese atmosphere of the law court. Humph!

Just look at the prosaic aspect of the thing. recrudescence depends entirely on the attitude of to be the most exquisite kind of rat-catchers,

always mat with auswerving repression. Its kind enough to sand to

ten cate which you were were found Say the engagement began when the parties the Government of India. word twenty-five years of age, and is broken off at thirty An things go in this unequal world forces of disorder and crime will raise their multiplying this gond face in Japan, in If the Government of India is timid the vigorously. I am, therefore, thinking of They are all healthy and doing their work the man is ther, from almost any point of view, heads, but if it is strong and shown it is to be order to distribute thela song the infested The girlwell, to put it rather brutally" the more eligible than he was at the commencemont feared, they will lie low," bloom is off the rye." He has captured ker virginal fancy and monopolised her host

BEAUTY. BACILLUS. years. off other men, burning the gas in the

Once or twice a week for five EFFECT OF DOSE OF 130 MILLION GERMS. years he had been to BOD her, driving

refreshments at her father's expense, After all bad complexion may now call in the aid of the drawing-room and consuming quantities of says a London contemporary, the victim of a Instead of relying on ointments and lotions, BRANCHES and AGENTS all over the World.cient for him to say in effect, "I have mistaken inoculations for beautifying the complexion have of a small sun. Thero may be something load- of which some people think it should be sufficientific bacteriologist. For the past six months distribution would be made upon the payment my sentiments towards you. Kindly return the constituted a large part of the daily work at the ing itself to ridicule in the idea, unt, after all. ring, brooch, hatpius, teu service, and the helingenlation department at St. Mary's Hospital,amorists should not be permitted to upset ley and Kents which I gave you. I shall always think of you as a lady who would have been germs into the times of the shoulder or flank Calcutta Englishman.

How the injection of a few millions of disease every scheme full of possibilities of good.-- glad to try nose circumstance feeks that a normal, healthy skin was explained at the can transform a sluggish, blotsby complexion to If a lady in pecuniary damages would be a consolation to hospital yesterday. The best results are vb surely, she is entitled to hare the tained in the cases of muddy," sallow com Witial, however, it is often a sorry business. flexions, das

the sluggish action of the recently discovered germ named the acne

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and it koeran a pity it cannot be adjusted, upon

finor or more decorous Hines. There is a want glands. The disease here is caused by a

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of reticence about the practice. a tendency of bacillus." In other cases where the skin, is every one in court to import into the case a curt of ghastly humour.

Even the plaintiff is usually willing to go further than is really necessary. The letters for instance, Mariana, you enaber,

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tender and painful, another germ, the stephy treatment consists of injecting under the skin leocecas, is usually found as well. vaccines composed of one or both of those twe becilli, according to the symptoms of the case, The ordinary patient seeking treatment. for s about 125 millions of staphylococci, with, par- bad complexion will heps, five millions of the acus bacilli. The

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regions." Everyone in India koows that the small grey cat is a "most exquisite kind of rat catcher." It will also destroy cock- roaches and other vermin. It would be a gal pity in the circumstances if the scientific multi-

in which cats would be collected and from which suggests the formation in India of eat depots AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF be left to the Japanese alone. Colonel Buchanan plication and distribution of the grey cat should

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