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NAPIER JOHNSTONES. “SQUARE BOTTLE"

WHISKY.

BEWARE OF

IN 1745.

UNVARIED FOE

THE SAME TO-DAY AS ́

150 YEARS.

IMITATIONS.

TROPICAL DEBILITY.

HOW TO FIGHT `IT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 1910.

Of all the evils which the inhabitant of the torrid zone is called upon to endure, the greatest are, perhaps, the deadly dability and nervous depression which are the forerunners of the more serious illa so rife in warmer latitudes. Physical fitness should be the constant watchword; healthy nerva force must be the subject of the mort earnest consideration. Happiness, may life itself, hange in the balance.

THE SUEZ CANAL'S FUTURE.

For so many years the Suez Canal has been the important link in the chain of communica tion between European ports and the Far East and South that the public has somewhat forgotten (says Benedict Ginsburg in the Manchester Guardian) tho fieres rivalries and bitter straggles which surrounded its inception. Ita securities, too, have become so respected in the international markets-being looked on as one cthehighest and most progressive securities in the market that people generally may be rather surprised to learn that its rights and privileges are limited in time.

per cont. in the earlier year to 12 per cent, in the fatter will be given to the Government beyond 16 per cent, originally provided. The Govern mont is further to have three sonts on the Board, and is to have the benefit of an ex penditure of £90,000 of the Company's money to aid in the work of deepening the channel in Suez Road, on which it is now engagi

When exhausted Nature fails readily to respond to the extraordinary demands made upon the system by the exigencies of climate, Science once more comes forward with precisely the mooded remear. Saratogen, the tonio food, is the moans discovered · whereby impaired | s in Paris with a capital of £8,000,000 sterling great that it will be averse to the scheme for

it

Those are the important heads of thesuggest- al arrangement between the two important interests concerned, but it is by no means settled that this convontion will go through. The Mahometan Press in Egypt is very much oppos. el to any arrangement for the prolongation of the concession. The Cairo correspondent of the belief that M. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the great French Frankfurter Zeitung expresser engineer, obtained his first concession for the England is thwarting the proposed arrangement the control construction of the Canal across the Isthmus of in order to retain in her own hand

This, of course, is entirely Buez from Said Pasha of Egypt on the 30th of the Canal. Movember, 1854. On the 5th January 1895, almaginary, but it is probable that the con. second concession was obtained, and in Decem cession be granted on the terms now undor

consideration the of the ber, 1858, the Suez Canal Company was register avsning in the existing Cansl will be so Egyptian

in 400,000 shares of £20 each. Of these 400,000 shares 176.602 were subscribed for by the Khediro, the making of a second and competitive canal, na has been proposed. On the other hand, the and it may be remarked in passing that it was these shares (whose coupons for many years had confirmation of the present Company in the been disposed of by the then ruler of Egypt) possession of its property will put it in a

a posi. which were purchased by the late Lord Beacons.tion to afford every reasonable convenience to fald for the account of England-a purchase Egypt, with her financial stake in the Canal, its customers. With England's interest in which lus pored so

immensely remunerative an investment. For not only have wa male and with the custom which her own ships bring Fry larga monetary profit out of the transno to the waterway, it would be absurd to supposo tion, but we have as a nation obtained a large that anything but the good of the Canal could share of the control of the Canal This is, of actuate her policy in the matter. At the pre- course, important to us in view of the immense sont moment, however, the matter seems to be preponderance of British tonnage using the standing still. Canal, Bat at the same time-in view of the ridicule which we threw upon the project in the early days and the opposition which we put for ward to resist M. de Lesseps throughout his. work-our position is good beyond our desserts.

In spite of British opposition the Canal was A HEATED AMERICAN REFLY TO opened for traffic on the 17th November, 1869,

DR. ELIZABETH SLOAN CHESSER. about ter years and a half after the cutting of the first sod. In the forty years which have lapsed since the actual opening of the Caual an enormous amount of work liss boon carried

Not enough open windows in England!" oat in order to increase the facilities which it. affords for shipping and to suit it for coping This is the statement recently made by an with the vastly increased dimensions of modern English medical woman. She complains that for example, its depth was but 26ft, 3in. and its that the English people are sitting these ships. During the first six years of its existence, open windows are not "fashionable" enough; bot mos but then it airs December days in airtight licuses, churches,

vitality may be safely and rapidly restored.

Sanatogen hus a singular effectivenes. It is not as a tonic only that it stands unrivalled is, besides, a perfect food, extremely rich in just those properties necessary to the perfect nourish ment of the depleted system. The basis of Sanatogen is the casein or curl," the nitro- genous principle of milk. Nitrogenious foods are our body-building ones. They are demanded constantly by the body for the formation, and for the repair of its tissues. Laitod with the casein, we find glycero-phosphoric acid, which is an all-important constituent of the brain and nervous system. This is the reason, then, why and from ALL WINE MERCHANTS (46 Baustogen Ime obtained its high reputation. It

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writes:--

ATTACK ON THE "OPEN WINDOW."

[BY MÁKY MORTIMER MAXWELL.] (Author of "Au Englishwoman in New York".)

the

Doctors in tropical climates have not been slow to see the wonderful advantages in the nas of autogen much their patients, and a great many of them have written setting out the success that has attended the use of this pre-length. The Canal has not, of course, conveni- theatres, railway trains that mise little English paration. They have used it with the greatest ences for the meeting of largo ships throughout boys and girls are horribly stupid at their success in Malaria, Dysentery, Enteric Fever, its entire length, but opportunity for meeting lessons because the Windows are all shut in the cases of Plague and Cholera, as well as amongst are called "gares," where vessels can tie uptions with Americans in England, and during

is offered at intervals by the provision of what school-rooms.

During my visits to America, my conversa those who are suffering from ailments due to while others pass them. At that time the disordered liver, sploon or digestive system. gares were each about 1,100 yards long and long years' residence in England myself I have One or two of their opinions are worth con.

were about 6 miles apart. By 1888 the depth heard many complaints brought against the had been increased by 20 inches, though this Eng

English, but I have never before heard theut sidering.

desire nge, increased depth did not extend to so great a accused of being lacking in the

Oh, the Seven years later this depth determination!--to have fresh air. width as before. was provided over a width of 108ft., and the dinoforte, the rheumatics, the chills down foger, Curvan were considerably improved. The in- the spinal column, the nurah hands and troduction of the electric light at the same checks and the red nose I suffer most con I have much pleasure in cortifying to the enabling time increased the capacity of the tauously in the winter-all because my English value of Sanstogen in cases of Alularia, Canol by vessels to navigate it at night. Enteric Foyer, Dysentery, and other We need not go into details as to the date of friends are fresh-air fiends! They have no exhausting diseases, I have used it, which the various improvements were carried regard for the fact that coming back from vat, but we may simply say that on the 1st Americs, the land of steam kent and hot air regularly now in my practice for the past January, 1908, a depth of 28 feet was reached, faraaces, my present condition of chilliness in two years, and in no single instauce kare I whilst mot only have gares larger than those driving me into an early grave. been disappointed with its results. I can originally provided bean constructed but the honestly affirm that many of my worst cases intervals between them are being reduced to about three miles instead of the original six owed their recovery to Sanatogen. I could: A great deal of work is still in progrées and quote numerous cases where the administra- under contemplation. it being the intention to tion of Sanatogen was fellowed by immediate deopen farther the Canal, to ingresss the width and marked amelioration of the symptoms.te 123 feet, and still further to modify the I cannot speak too highly of its value, and I certainly consider it the best of artificial foods."

LEUWIAN

OUTTAB, All this work is being done cat of the earnings of the undertaking, and they are obviously developments which not only improve its facilities for dealing with the largely its permanent ralne. Yel the Suez present trafe but slob Canal Company's interest in its own possessions "It was through my influence that your is very limited, and at the present time it excellent medium of nutrition-Sanalogen Board feel that they are in danger of spending ;--was introduced into South India, and I

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Is there a window in London that doom't rattle? Is there one which, even when closed with the brass fasteners, does not let in a hurricans that sweeps the draperies bank aud increase of divident or to the repayment of neck, and makes the grate fire almost a useless, doing so, for I consider that I have thereby capital, on the improvement of a property conferred a benefit upon entering bumanity which may within not so very long a time be extravagant affair? Why, there is enough fresla "I have found it unequalled by any other food altogether taken from them. For the keep the rugs all twirled up at the corners, air coming down London's chimneys aloue to when the internal arrangements of the body cession nader which the Caual was originally (whether in children or adults) are in want constructed were not for all time. They indeed sostter ashow about with wondrons awiftness; and

gave the Company only about a contury in which to roap its reward for the skill and fore sight and daring of M. de Lesseps and those who hacked him with their capital. What con- idence those who entered on such an undertak ing as this in the early fiftles must have had can hardly to appreciated by those who have regard ad the Suez Canal pretty much as though it were provided by the hand of nature.

have reason to be proud of my success in 1y, which might be devoted either to the forth, strikes a sensitive spot in the back of my

f a stimulating nutrient. When milk, diluted to any degree cannot be digested, Sanatogen will be greedily assimilated. In many almost hopeless cases of plague, where heart failure has been threatening, I have found Sanategen helpful in getting the patient to turn the critical corner, and it has admirably aided my treatment of this fell disease.

sease. I have no hesitation in stating that by the discovery of Saustoges you have added a most powerful weapon to those already in the possession of every physician." And Dr. R. F. BOWERS, Bhaptishi, F.O. Bengal and N. W. Railway, N. Bhagalpore,, India, writes:-

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Why are after dinner speakers in England so glow-witted, dull, and listless? Why is there no enthusiasm at the English political mestings? Thus questions the medical lady. She says it is cause there is not enfficient air in the public dining-rooms and halls, and that "vitiated sir and dead-alive speechos are asunciated inevitably together." My own experience is that after- dinner speaking is dull in England (and

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£19,121,310, the large cracks under my doors I have bought a half-dozen of these horrors-turkey red oalico filled with sand or sawdust. The colour fairly E. screaming in protest against the rest of my furnishings, I have covered them with modent- tinted silk. I don't like them even now, but still they are my best protection against the illy-fitted doors and windows of an average-built London house.-Daily Mat

In Manchester indeed things are different Many people remember the force opposition with which the progress of the Manchester Ship Canal Bilis were contested in the Committee rooms of the House of Commons. know how the landowners and the railways and every possible interest which could be marshalled against the promotors eslled out for their pound of flesh if their opposition was to.

Why is it that everybody agrees that the be stopped. They will therefore have some idea

most witty and brilliant after dinner speaking. of the position of the promoters of this far in the world is orer in the United States, and earlier Waterway. And now, under the existing that this brilliancy is most especially noticeable arrangements, the concession of the Suez Canal will expire on the 27th Nossanber, 1968, w during times of blizzards? It is because people are feeling comfortable. The rising sparkle of in the absence of a Convention the whole their thoughts is not chilled and cut off in the properties will revert to the Egyptian Governmiddle by cold biasts from open windows at ment. It is the object of the management of the Canal to enter into now arrangements with their backs, threatening lumbago, sciatica, and the Egyptian Government whereby their

Why ja it, I should like to know, that interests shall ha prolonged for another half century, so that they may have some security Englishwomen, whe, during the months of May, Jane, July, August, and September, look for the farther expenditure which they absolutely fetching and dangerons in their low propose to make. They are, in fact, very much gowns, showing graceful necks, well-moulded, in the position of a lesseholder on one of the white arms, and such wonderful complexions, grant Jucal estates in London. They have become absolutely different beings daring,

the obtained the foundation of a property an very winter months? Observe the bleness of their easy forms. By the expenditure of their own

to their capital they hava turned the concession into an lips, the awkwardness of their hands, the lack AB

of swing sudlat-go-s-tiveness immensely lucrative undertaking, and they wish bodies. Note the carelessness with which they to obtain a repowal of their interest in good time have dressed the crookedness of belts, the in order that the farther expanditure of that occasional batten or hook all unfastened to their capital may not be used as a lever to put on the bodices in the winter-time. price of an extension against them. Whilst

There is nothing the matter with them. loing this, of course, they recognise that the

except that they are cold. They have dressed Egyptian Government is entitled to a consider in cold rooms, and hence have hurried over the able share of the profits of the undertaking, 802 | rite which should be sacred one to all women, PABET (American) BEER, in barrels o 120 bottles. In view of the Arrival of the new Convention has been drafted. It containe and now, seated at the dinner table, they are eleven articles, the first of which provides that American Flost in a few days, please order the concession is to be prolonged to the 3 chilled to the bone. Two years ago this winter

I accompanied an English woman risiting December, 20 8. The second explains that New York to a small dinner in a steam-hosted early, as our stock is limited.

to daring the period of the extension, in years houses, Ir. Louder I had never happened when the not profiis do not amount to one seo her at dinner parties except in the winter, hundred million francs, the Company is to take and I confess I had always considered her vory fifty million france, and the Egyptian Govom plain and a bit stupid and atterly unattractive ront the surplus the whole of the profes Should the net earnings fall

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