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The Traveller's Friend.

Many distinguished Travellers and Explorers have testified to the merits of LEMCO.

LEMCO is pure, highly concentrated fresh beef, containing the essence of more beef than any other kind. It never goes bad.

In cooking, LEMCO makes tinned. |

theats as nourishing as fresh,

and adds delicacy and

palatableness to plain

Jate. Makes

delicious

meat jellies.

la Sickness, LEMCO quickly restores invalida to perfect health and strength, and is invaluable in casen, of

exhaustion. Splendid in

fevers.

LEMCO

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↑ Libya's Avonka,

TO BE SURE-the Teeth

are so

important that it would be a pity to neglect them-especially when you can clean them so well and so easily with

Calvert's Tooth Powder

Your local dealer stocks and sells it. Makers: F. C. Calvert & Co., Manchester, England.

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1. Government and Municipal Guarantee for the ultimate repayment of principal, at least at par.

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They are high-glass and absolutely safe securities, payable to bearer, issued by the various Governments and Municipalition of Europe, they are redeemable at periodical drawings, either with Cash Premiums varying from £40 to £40,000, or at the very least, at their full nominal value.

EAST PAYMENTS.

We sell the bonds singly or in combinations of the most advantageous ones, piyable by convenient Monthly Instalments ranging from £1 to £20.

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LIFE WITHOUT HEALTH IS LIVING DEATH.

AND

VETARZONERVE FOOD

This remarkable compound, the latest discovery of modern times, is without equal in ii cutes of defective nerve and brain power, whether induced by worry, overwork, dissipation, or other La fuerices Sleeplessness, pipilation, defective circulation, nervous dyspepsia, the or peuralgia, low spirits, mental and bodily prostration, want of confidence, general debility, preuastare decay o defielery of the vital forces, loss of vitality, harassing dreams, restlessces that can stille to nothing, irritablity of temper, female complaints, bateria, backache, bearing down serations wasting diseases, consumptions, night sweats, muddy, high-coloured water, &c are all so many different phases of brain and serve wreckage and exhaustion, the cause of by far the greater portion of the misery, ill-health, ar despondency by which we are confronted en every hand, that can only be succesfully combated by the use of this wonderful and highly scientific perparation. Bracing up the system generally, it gives tone to the exhausted nerves, arrests all weakening wasting discharges, restores the falling energies, and imparts new life and vigour to those who had so recently seemed playezi out, used up and valueices." Bottles Price 20. $4.

WITHOUT PURE BLOOD HEALTH 18 IMPOSSIBLE.

VETARZO MEDICINE

Never before was there anything likelt, nor can its marvellous properties ever be equalled in all cases of poomess, impartty, or other imperfection of the blood from whatever cause arising. No sooner is it imbibed into the system than it permentes and penetrates to the minuteat capil- laries, overcoming and expelling disease, wheresoever and in whatsoever form met with removing all blutgles, aimplex, semf, nearvy, serofhilous and glandular welEnge, discolorais, roughness and unsightly patches, &c. Its effects are almost magical in the treatment of gost, theuzuations, sciatica lumbago, pains and swellings of the joints, discharges, blood poison, eczema, ispra porluris, ad lega, bad breasts, abscesses, alters, wounds, surts, goitre or Derbyshire neck, it improves the general Health, and quickly removes long-standing bronchitis, namin, and hacking. straint, spasinodic rough, too often the precursor of consumption. Bottles Price fx. 01.

Send stamped aditressed orivotope for free sockit, or 2.0.2/3 for trial bottle of either, remedy, to THE VETARZO REMEDIES CO, GOSPEL DAIS, LONDON Unprincipled Vendors may try to sell you something else for extra pront-do hat accept it, but insist on having 1036 VETARZO, Tha genuine has the words "YETARZO REMEDIES" on Goverment Stamp VETARZO REMEDIES ARK SOLD BY BOOT'S, CAsh ChemistS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 25TH, 1911

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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,

LING DORMANT MEMORY, Memory handed down through 30 generations MEASURING BEFLECTED BRIGHTNESS, is one of the porplexing facts of selence. The The Lumotor 5 an instrument designed heater 1 geislund along French rivers until by J. 8. Dow and H. Mackinacy. British kiled off for its fur, but is now known opticians, to measure the face brightness of only in about a dozen of its villages in the illumina ed objects, an lat gives a simple mens Rhes near Avignon. For three centuries of studying the distribution of lightin. The these village bare had no trees to cat illuwlunted object under that is viewed through down for dams. The animals were compelled au aperture in an illuminated screen, which is to adopt a new mode of life, and bare kept at uniform brightness by a suit bly-plased harrowed in the banka, shaping inud with their stall glow lamp. The relative brilliancy of the tails as usual Recoutly some of them were observed su face and the ser on can be adjusted faken by a Polish count to forests on his estates, until they appear equal, and a graduated scale. Very strangely, they roamed the habits dropped then indfestes the surface brightness of the three centuries before they were born, and at objcet under test as compared with the one began cutting traes and building dams. standard illuminated screen, Trials of the instru~. ment in class-rooms, work-roguia, eto, hure shown surprising variations in the lighting of interiors. In a technical college class room, 25 by 30 feet in size, with large windows on the street side the illumination of the best lighted": desk at 5 o'clock on a September day was 10 foot-candles, while that of the poorest coat was only 05 foot-camille, and the illumination of the black-board varied from 5 foot-candles at on end to 0.5 at the other. In ons of London's underground tubes, the horizontal illumination was 11 to 13-foot-candles-with the traiunt rest- falling to 0.7 to 0.9 foot, candle on entering the tunnel:

A FIREPROOP BOX.

A new French case for profecting money, Jewels and important papers from fire consists of two asbestos boxes of different size, one being placed within the other and prevented from touching by a number of asbestos blocks. The poorly conducting asbastos and the insulating air space-combine to keep the inner box quite oocl, while the outer one is strongly bested,

DAZZLING · LIGHTS HARMFUL

The glaro of artificial lights bas bien found by Prof. Gartel, of Paris, to be far more in. jurious to the eyes than their ultra-violet mys. He urges that the shades used should not only cut out the ultra-violet rays but should diffuse the light so that it will show no dazzling spots to the eye. *

TYTHOID AND FLOODS:

Typhoid fever and other opidamios prova to, be diminished by floods, instead of being increased, as has been supposed. The formar conclusion has been reached by Jacques Bertillon, a French investigator, after a

study of the effects of the great 1910 in undation of Paris and of serious floods in a number of other European alties. Aside from the cleansing netion of the water, how ever, it is probable that after disasters health officers give more thorough atten tion than ordinarily to disinfection and to isolating cases of disease, Comparing the flooded sections of Paris with those not reached by water, it was found that typhoid fever was rather more prevalent in the latter, and in 54 dooded areas there were 44 den ha in 13 weeks before the flooding and only 24 in the same number of weeks following. In 10 figoda in Dresdeu and 6 in Vienus no (vorease of typhoid resulted.

STAGE DAYLIGHT.

The stage lighting of Meriano Fertury of Venice le a reflection of are surp rays from strips of light and dark cloth. The light and dark can be varied, and the reflectors, on rollers, can be moved so as to give the best effects. An rching sky strengthens the illusion of diffused daylight,

THE TELEPHONE IN CHINA.

A member of the Chinese. Board of Com- munications, which controls the telephone system in China, has been expressing himself very enthusiastical"

American about the ex- tonsion of 12

communication in that country. He su to the interviewer that he believed that evors afty of sufficient magnitude facilities within a very few years, and the Ameri within the Empire would possess telephony can Consul-General in Tientsin, who reports the conversation, irgus American manufacturers not already in touch with the Board of Communion- Consul General, himself is strongly impressed tions to send representatives to Peking. The with the possibilities of the market for telephones. in North Chits, where the use of electricity is grently favoured, A trading company in take up antenoy for American manufacturers Tientsin has offered to the Consul-General to of electrical supplies.

INCREASED COST OF

LIVING.

about the increased cost of living. In England Nearly all over the world, people are grumbling. and France, in Australis, in the United States, and many other places, as well as in Eonth Africa, the ordinary housewife says she is finding it harder wook by week to make both oude moct.

We fear, alas, that in all too many homes the problem of making soda meet is only answered by some people going without their proper share of food, and everyone knows how dangerous. that is.

Good food is essential to health and strength, and we can well pity theas who have Loo little foed to eat, bntahould we not also pite those who, having food, cannot eat and digest it? In wither caso, it means weakness and subsequent ill-health, but with those who cannot digest their food, it means present suffering, for they serious complaint indigestion. You may have already have that most common and most

indigestion in different forms, hat you cannot mistake the symptoms: & disiaste for food, pains attacks, fits of torvous depression, constipation, after eating, a furred tongue, headaches, billona

dizziness, shortness of breath. palpitation, wind, sud a "fagged out" feeling due to a debilitated system.

The cause of these troubles is a disordered state of the stomach, liver and bowels, and the only ouro is to restore these organs to healthful working order. This you can do, surely and quickly by taking Mother Seigel's Syrup daily, After meals. The curative herbal extracts of which Mother Seigel's inade tous, up and strengthen the stomach as nothing else does, and they ragulate the notion of the liver and bowels gently yet thoroughly,

TUNNEL WALL LAID BY HOSE. Encasing a tonnel lining with grouting from a flexible hose has been successfully tried out Swiss railway. A mixture of 162 pounds of Portland cement to 9 pallons of water was used in a cylindrical vessel holding about £0 gallons, the ormont being kept stirred by a hand- revolved paddle, and compressed air at about 78 pounds per square inch was admitted to the cylinder through a pipa entering the top. The

Miss N. Smith. Smith's Avenue, Grahams lining being perforated with 7 to 9 holes, the town, says: "Two years ago I suffered con." water hack of it wasforend out by a strong blast aiderably from indigestion which became so of air. The cement mixture was then forced bad that I had to consult a doctor. I tried through the lore into the holes by the afe. The most troublesorte symptoms were loss of

many medicines, yet obtained no relish. pressure in the cylinder, and on hardening made the Hlaing quite watertight.

appetite, severe pains across the chest, and in tha pit of the stomach, though the former were especially encore after eating, violent headaches were almost of daily occurrence, and my sight become hapaired, objecta appearing in misty confusion. sometimes went for nights together without I could-not obtain proper rest, and getting a wink of sleep. In fact, storything seemed to go wrong, and I became both

INCREASING INTEREST IN ASTRONOMY. The astronomical observatories are found by British astronomer to have increased from 60 officially recognized in 1859 to 330 at the pre sent time. Of those now existing, the United States and the British mpire have 15, Gerdepressed and irritable. many, 31, Austria, 16, Itals, 16: Russia, 14 France, 12; and the reminder arb caltered in Belgium, Denmark, Gresce, Figlund, Holland, Japan, Mexico, Norway Poland, Portuga! Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the South American republics. The Northern Hemi apkere uns 12 times as many as the Southern

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PIERS SUNK LY PILE-DRIVER.

The novel plan of sioking concrete piers by means of the old pile-driver seems to have given eatisfaction to French Government eu- gineers and othere. It is called the Compressol": system, and is used for preparing solid founda tious in loose carth for bridings, bridges, eto, The ground around is consolidated as the sus taining piora sro sunk. A conical steel mess called the "perfotator," somewhat loss than 3 feet in diameter at the the base and rather more. than 2 toss in weight, is need in an ordinary pile-driver for making the pier well being repeatedly drawn up by the base and released until a hale in the ground sufficiently deep is formed. The soil immediately outside is solidly compacted. Timbering or sharing the s des of the excavation are unnecessary, and workmen are not exposed to danger from cave-ins or dele terions gasra, as in ordinary digging of deep pits, When the hole is completed, the “rammer" an noorn-shaped mass of metal 30 inches a diameter and weighing 2 tons-takes the placa of the perforator, This rains the bottom of the Lole until hard, and compresses the conerates each layer of about a foot is youred in forging the material laterally into the soil. The irregular co rrogated surface thys given the pier adds much to its supporting cap naity. The system is rapid as well as safe, and the compressed wella can be soak 4 or 5 feet an hour.

PIMPLES,

BOILS & BLOTCHES.

A person suffering from eruptions in the skin has much to It is not merely the discomfiture and irritation and painful sensation, but life is made miserable by depression, of spirits. The liver is torpid and the kidneys are partially inoper ative, and you feel languid and weak. The disease is in the blood, and when the system is not cleansed through the usual channels Nature asserts herself-

They are a perfect. Bood Purifier sind a positive and permanent | sire for Bilicusnean, In- digestion, Constipa, Handaghes, Know Complexion, Liver and Kutney Trouble«, Piles. Pimples, oils, and Blotches, and For Female Ailments....

and forces portions of the impurities through the skin in the form of Pimples, Boils and Biotches. External remedios... powders, ointments, lotions- only alleviate; they do got get at the cause. Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills get at the cause by removing the disease. from the Blood. They cleanse the system by stimulating the liver and strengthening the. kidneys, which filter the Blood

and drive out the impure matter through the bowels.

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Then I was alvised by one of my friends to take Mother Seigel's Syrup, and after the firet few doses I felt slightly better, so I continued faking it, until when I had taken three bottles, I was quite cured. Since that time I have never been troubled with indigestion nor any of Dissasid Cositions of the System, caused its symptome."-16/8/10.

If you have indigestion, or any kindred trouble, Mother Seigel's Syrup will ones you quickly and permanently, as it cured Miss Smith, Put it to the proof-to-day.

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he deficiency of tho Vital Forges,

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