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BUSKID

SOZODONT

POWDER For Cleansing & Drouhijat TEETH

AVEGETABLE COMFOUND PREPARED FROM A COLLECTION OF THE PUREST & CHOICETT INGREDIENTS

83-3

Sozodont

Is a delicately fragrant mouth deodoriser and a tonic for the teeth. Its regular use preserves the teeth and prevents tartar deposits.

It makes the teeth white and strengthens, the guma. And it does not impair the faste

Use it to-day and everyday---it makes for good health.

Soodust le to three form powder, ligula, and pins auch ennally exfective.

Try the powder ret él, meats the requirements of mal jeople,

COLEMAN'S

WINCARNIS,

THE GREATEST TONIC

IN THE

WORLD.

WHAT IT has done for OTHERS it will DO FOR YOU

revelation Its refreshing and exhilarating effects are

to those who have never tried it befors: "WINCARNIS has a barm all its own, which you cannot fail to appreciate.

The combination of all that is most nouishing in Beef and Malt is prepared in Wincarnis gives s TWO-POWER STANDARD that cannot be equalled for giving Strength and Stamina, Vitality and Foreo to Men, Women and Children BUY IT TO-DAY

From any leading. Chemist.

MUSTARD & COMPANY

Wholesale Distributors for Chine and Rongkong.

No. 22. Museum Road, Corner of Shachow Road, Shanghai (402

Cutler Falmer &

the Wine Merchany of the East

INAPIER JOHNSTONES'

SQUARE BOTTLE"

WHISKY.

GTED FOR OVER

150 YEARS.

THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN

1745.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.-

SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.,

and from ALL WINE MERCHANTS,

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游水汽力士 THIS WONDERFUL SYPHON

Makes Mineral Water instantly at 90

coats a dozen Syphona. Anyone can do it.

Failure is impossible. And you can. Have

50 per cent. by making your own Mineral Waters at home with the

"PRANA"

SPARKLET] SYPHON,

which lasts a lifetime and can be purchased from any Chemist or Stores.

PRICE:-32 Each BULBS at 0 cents per box..

WHOLESALE PRICE -

SYPHONS per dos. $16.00 1.0.b. BCLs per doz. boies $8.00 f.o.b.

KWONG SANG HONG, LTD., WHOLESALE AOENTS,

246 & 248, Des Voeux Road, Central,

HONGKONG.

行發

司公限有行生廣港香

·⇓ SELF DÜRE NO FICTION 1.0 NO BUFFERER NEED NOW DESPAIR, THE NEW FRENOK REMEDY,

THERAPION No. 1

aa pemarkabƐy short time, often a few days only, Carerdischargesfeilber sexispermeding injections

THERAPION Nİ.2

Carat blood poianz, bad legs, ulcers, sores, palufal swelled join, &c. when mercurial treatment fails.

THERAPION NⱭ.3

Carm chronic weakness, lost viget and vital fores, Ether Number Therapion & all of treatmzans directions in sad, ofcheissa or post free 3/. from The LeClerc Medicine Co. Haverstock Ram stead, London, Eng. Try New Drages (Tantelexi) Term of Therapios,easy to take safe lasting cur Trade Marknd ward "TERAPION, "i es British Govt Stamp affixed to every genuinepacket.

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X THERAPION EX117

OURES TO STAY QURED,

When on the Sick-list

a man's usefulness and enjoyment of life are about-nil, Bo feels perhaps a burden to himself and s trouble to others. The cheerful- ness natural to him is sadly over. cast by the depression caused by continual indisposition. The sun el Good Health lies behind a black cloud, and before the warm rays oan again rejoice him, that cloud must be dispersed. If such is your experience you should

Take

eteps to ensure an immediats return of health and strength. This means that you should put your digestive organs in perfect order cleanse the liver-regulate the bowels and kidneys-purify the blood-tone up the nervous system. To effect this thoroughly and completely you should put yourself through à course of that medicina which has proved of such exceptional value in so many cases-namely

Beecham's Pills

Sold everywhere in boxes, price gåd. (16 pill, 1156 pill and s/p (169 pix).

APENTA

Natural Aperient Water

For use by

THE BILIOUS, THE GOUTY,

THE CONSTIPATED,

THE OBESE.

and

DOSE:A Wineglassful bafarë Breakfast.

CHAPOTEAUT'S

MORRHUOL

Superior to Emulsions or Cod Liver oil.

Each tiny Morthuel capsule re- presents the mèdicinal value of a teaspoonful of oil.

Recommanded at the Paris Aca- demy of Medicine, for loss of appetite and flesh, to patients with consumptive tendencies.

Sold in botiles of 100 Capsules.

sold by all Chemists.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, FRIDAY, JUNE 2ND, 1811.

PLAGUE IN SHANGHAI.

TWO DEATHS,

The NC. Daily News of Saturday lank saya-- Partionlars of three cases of plague discovered

WEATHER-WISDOM OF CHINESE

FARMERS."

RECORDS WORTH HEARING.

ROBINSON PIANO CO., LTD,”

Yankee Prince Selection Narcissus

The rules for foretelling the weather which Chinese farmers have framed and tested in the Love Light Waltzes by the douters at the Chinese Teolation Hospital course of centuries or rather thousands of years, Birens Waltz have been sent to the Municipal Health Olineare, says an exchange, in reality more effective

The family affected is that of a respectable Can- than many Goaldental prophecies of critical Gascades of Roses Waltz tonese named Gong. Until the 7th of the present days and the like: for they are based in great Yama Yama Medley mouth they lived at No. 40, Tie Bas Lee, in the part on clone observation of Nature, which was Haining Road Extensica, in Chinese territory, greatly stimulated by the old lunar calendar. Friedrichs Marchi On that day two doed rats were discovered It is true the influence of superstition also ię

marked enough in the formation of these The Charmer (Xylophone). moxins, and in these cases, of course, the pro-Irish Wit phecy does not so often come true. Chloeo farmer olings with unshakable faith to Boccaccio March Lis weather rates and goes by them anwaveringly

in the house, and,

the

house in Sung family moved to nothing infection, Ching Lee in the Bettlement. Later in the day one of the children, two years old, bo- came sick with fever, and died in the house on the 17th. Five days later another child, six, years old, foll sick, and died on Thursday. No algns of plague were detected in the first case but in the second the neck and groin were

wollen.

a

The

in soving and harvesting, and also in bis dametio Hornpipe Rag affair, betrothals, marriages, ato, not loss than in A Bunch of Nonsense his agricultural labours. But those weather-rules are by far the most important with regard to Please don't tell my wife the caltiration of the fields. Thus morning red Father was out

appearance

On Tuesday last the mother became ill, dovels held the prognostis of raiu, evening-red of

of the san in the Foolish Questions oping fever and other ayuptoms of plagas. fine weather. The

left the house on Thursday and went to morning gives a sign of the weather for the Hello! People She Chinese inn in the French Concassion. The six day. An early ann "looking like the moon

It the sun's Bombasto March year-old child had been taken to the Chinese indicates coll North wind.

dise becomes visible very early on Summer moru- Isolation Hospital and the doctors shore pro- scribed for it. It was treated only as an outings, rain is inevitable; if it comes later from Pansies Mean Thoughts patient, and the parents did not notify its death. the clouds then it will become so hot during, the Arrah Wanna

The It was on Wednesday night that Mr. Dong day that oven the crane will droop." reported the death of the second child and the direction of the wind is also, of course, Yaller Gal (Laughing Song)

South good weather-sigu.

wind in the illness of his wife, Special attention was at once given to the case, and an analysis of blood early part of the day indicates rain. If The Silly Cavalier (Merry Widow) taken from the patient was made at the Moni. the wind is steady at the beginning of Gay Gossoon (Banjo) cipal Health Department on Thursday. The Summor it will remain so for forty days. Winter diagnols was uncertain, but yesterday the ease An Autumn without cold wind brings a is said to have been confirmed as undoubtedly without snow, which is much feared by the farm- ers. A windy Spring forebodes a wet harvest, one of plague,

ruinons to crops. Clouds and rainbows are also consultor

The women is now undergoing treatment at the new hospital only formally opened on Sat- urday lost. She is suffering from the bubonic form of plague, but was lost evening reported gained at the Minkden Conference, the doctors to be doing fairly well. Acting upon experience are administering the curativo serum in rather large doses. The patient being of the better class Chinese, up difficulty has been experienced in dealing with the case. A bous to house inspection in the Chinese territory is to be made on Sunday by native doctora.

The health authorities in both the Foreign Settlement and French Concession adopt a more reserved view of the cases which have been noti fied, at the same time admitting fally the suspicious circumstances surrounding them.

HEAVY ANTICIPATORY EXPORTS TO JAPAN.

器

the

Weather signs are also derived from the actions of animals. If the ory of the heron is cloudy; if in the evening the morrow will lo heard in the morning, the weather will be basily running clear, Frogs quacking mud ants about indicate rain. If a dog anocres the day

Kossamer is will be misty. Abundance of sign of a fruitful autumn. Gossamer comes, zording to the peasant's notions, from Milky May, the groat while river of Henson. They are

broken tho the remains of feathers of birds which have flown to Seventh Heaven on the seventh day of the moon in order to form a bridge over the river of Heaton on which the beavenly weaver, the star Urga

can visit her husband, the star Aguilas, on this day alone of all the year. For the god of Heaven, Shang ti, placed the couple, one on each side of the Milky Way, because the wife

Roll

OB,

Silver Moon (Yodel)

will work separately abroad as they will in the States, or to what extent the Rising Sun Cora- any will have its own way in the Far Eastern ment ordering the Standard Oil Company to be disolved is expected to mark a new epoch in the market, it is impossible to predict, but the judg-

kerosene businesa in Japan-Japan Chronicle.

THE COST OF LIVING IN JAPAN,

JAPANESE PROPOSAL FOR REDUCTION.

The Jiji Shimpo, in a leading article, dis cusses the high price of Japanese avery-day food, and suggests the opening of special markets with a view to supplying the people with acces sitise at lower prices. It cannot be denied, writes our Tokyo contemporary, that the wealth of Japan is far below that of Western countries, yet the price of the necessaries of life is very

Ring o' Roses from (Dollar Princess) Down came the blind

I hear you calling me

Medley of Irish Jigs Mikado Selection Teddy Bear's Picnic Moon, Dear

Humouros Variations on German

Folk Song

Never introduce your bloke to

your lady friend Madame Butterfly Selection The Moon has his eyes on you "Balance Corners" Lancers Polka Fantastic. Selection, Serenade (Pierne) Selection

Take me up with you, dearie Dollar Princess, Medley

alone were mine (Two Step) you

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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

BARBER" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

The Steamship "SURUGA,”

FROM NEW YORK.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that el Goods are being landed at their risk into the downs of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained,

No Claims will bo admitted after the Goods

high in comparison with other countries. In- have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining The following is translated from a JapanÉES WAS HO much occupied with her husband that creased taxation, the adoption of monopolieandelivered after the Zil June will be subject

commerical journal-

Since the publication in England of the Japanese Tariff the market value of irons in England have been showing a gradual decline. A large amount of anticipatory exports of iron has sincs been effected, but excepting that of galvanised iron the anticipatory export of other trona bes resulted in failure. On the other hand, the export of rails largely exported in anticipation he proved a great success The rails which are to arrive at Nagasak by July 16th are computed to represent an enormous quantity. Besides the Railway Bureau, there are the Tokyo Electric Tramway નમ Company, the Nagoya Tramway Company, and other companies which have placed large orders for rails with the United States, England, ete. The rails to be used by the Railway Bureau are principally to be imported from the United States and England, while those used on the light railways come chiefly from Gormany.

she neglected her weaving,

the expansion of currency, and other similar When these rules fail, as they sometimes do,

chaser are no doubt responsible for forcing up the Chinese farmer meets the dificulty with the the prices of general commodities. The con- proverb: "When it ought to be cold or hot sequence is that the difficulty of obtain more in but is not, then a bad year is coming" For it ing a livelihood is mara and is not the weather rules that are st fault, but

creasing among the people. There is, the weather, which has failed to observo imme-wover, another factor that tends to intensify morial customs.

QUEEN MARY'S CORONATION

FLOWER.

"

The flower of the reason is not, after all, to be either the rose or the sweet reu, but the pink carnation; the Queen having devided that the bouquet which the Gardeners' Company is pre scnting at her Goronation shall consist of the last-nared flowers.

Carna-

the distress in the country. Not only is the production of daily necessaries in Japan con- dooted in a a primitive manner, but the producer and consusior are hopelessly separated by the intervention of too many middlemen. This it obviously disadvantageous both to the producer and consumer, sa the price of every commodity will become higher for every additional hand it passes through. If means could be devised to and consumer into closer bring the

touch by dispensing with middlemen, there is no doubt the former could get more money for cheaply than at

at present. is produce and the i-tter could buy mors

&

to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- souted to the Undersigned on or before the 26th June, or they will not be

recognized. All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 2nd June, at 3 pat.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & Co., LTD.,

Agents.

748

Hongkong, 26th May, 1911.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN- IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE

Steamship

The selection will be popular bath with horticulturists and the public, says M.AP for pink has been the fashionablo

In some foreign countries, continues the Jiji, system of cheapening the cost of daily noose tion se for many years past. All carnatius,

pink, $ indeed, descended from the ancient

In these countries open markets are held st native of Southern Europe, which the Rosaries has been tried and is still in existence. are said to have grown.. It was a favourite in fixed intervals for the sale by the producer of having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby the sixteenth-century gardens, but the pink of the most famous portraits by Van Dyok, shows that it was oven then no newly covered bloom.

"COBLENZ,"

will result in material advantage to German | held in the fagers of a Flemish citizen, in one graine, vegetables, meata, eggs, and other food informed that their Goods, with the exception of

As regards the anticipatory exportation of irens from Germany, since the negotis tinns concerning the Japan Garman bilateral tariff are still in progres, it is not as yet certain whether a great anticipatory exportation exporters. It is, however, quite obvious that the anticipatory export under the present Tar will more than repay the interest on capital invested and the obarges of the Customs accommodation which would be incurred; s that the German exports of rails must also be said to have made much gain in anticipatory exports. It is expected at several steamers loaded with mails are due at Nagasaki on and material the import of other iron manufactures bafers the 16th of July. Although of the same is said to be doomed to failure.

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obtain

No Clein will be admitted after the Goods

have left the Godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after the 6th June will be subjeo:

to rant.

to which only the direct consumer cen

and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or access. In Paris and Berlin this kind of market, Opium, Trosaure and Valuables, are being landed which was started long ago, le still in rogu, extra hazardeas Godowns of the Hongkong and mach to the benefit of the general consumer, a Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd. All the old Northorn painters loved the pink, he can get goods at these markete from 30 to 40 Witness the old cut pisks painted in a tali

per cent. cheaper than at the retailers. In Kowloon, and West Point Godowns, whende enico glass by Holbein in one of his master- nyepeat countries it is not unusual for middle delivery may be obtained. pieces. France cultivated the pink at least one class women to go to these markets to bay daily hundred and fifty years ago, but its advent in ossaries, quite contrary to Japanese women, England dates as recently as 1656, the year of who sit idly in their homes waiting for the dealers to come round with their goods. first brought across the Channel. Such is the Secial customs may have something the Crimes peace, when the tree carnation was dos history of the "Divine Flower," as it is called, do with this difference in habits, but the passive Lofore it reached its present twentieth-centary inactivity of Jaranese in this matter shonl primarily be attributed to the absence of institu JAPANESE PURCHASES OF FOREIGN perfection.

STEAMERS.

The Gardeners' Compaar, which is to makefiens similar to those in the Wost. It is true markets are this interesting presentation, is a very old City that in Tokyo, for instapes,

commodities, Now that the dato on which the new Customs Guild. It was incorporated in the City in 1605, hitemos for the sale of different tariff is to be put in force is close at hand the though "free gardeners" had previously existed at these are for the most part the organs of for and as as were allotted market-places in London.

on the part of private shipowners has greatly progressed, says a Japanese paper. Among those vessels which hava nirezly been contrasted for British slips occupy a conspicuous place, ROD 67,000. It is raid that most of them are obtained the surious privilege of presenting cow on their way to Japan. Each of them annually to the Lord Mayor "a basket contain carries more or less cargo, so that the arrival of ing specimens of flowers, vegetables and herbs the vessels show the commencement of the antici. grown in the six-mile radius. patory importation of goods. Most of the cargoes are of iron, woollan textiles, etc. As to the home Steamship Companies, such as the Nippon Tusen and Osaka Shosen, they are absorbed in negotiating the sale of vessels, which have become obsolete consequent on change of rente or other reasons, to such individual shipowners

Although possessed of limited funds, the dealers, and there is nothing that can bring the circumstance is a most important factor making Gardeners Company has done much by awarding producer and conanmer inte direct touch. This scholarships to

Recently the company saries, as is the case at present, and if markets such as those mentioned above be opened, they would materially contribute towards lowering the cost of living-Japon Chronicle.

aggregating 31 in number, with a tonnage of mystery of gardant the trade, craft, or for the enhancement of the price of daily neces

THE STANDARD OIL JUDGMENT.

EFFECT IN JAPAN,

In's telegram to the Gorerament Mr. Mirano. who are making haste to purchase the vessels Japanese Conant-General at New York, says that judgment was delivered in the US. ou nooount of the high rate of import duty on Supreme Court on the 16th instant against the ships ander the new Tariff. Judging from the Standard Oil Company in regard to the charge fact that some 29 vessels have already been cons of violation of the anti-Trust Law preferred tracted for, the total number of the vessels that

the

Bome

year services.

WAS

pablished

and the Consul General expres be disturbed

All hraken, chafed, and daranged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be ex

mined on the 6th June, at 9.3) ..

All Claims must reach us before the 10th

No Fire Insurance will be affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the undersigned.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & Co.,

General Agents. [5

June, or they will not be recognized.

Hongkong, 30th May, 1911.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

8.9. HONGKONG MARU."

AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF FROM SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU

LORDS AND HOUSE OF COMMONS

THORNE'S

OLD

VAT

No. 4.

This vat was started by the lale Robert Thorn of Greenock and has been sold as No. 48ince 1831,

AND JAPAN PORTS.

Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified to send in their Bill of Lading for countersignature, and to take imediato delivery: of Cargo from alongside.

THE above-named

Cargo remaining undelivered on FRIDAY, the 2nd Jane, at 5 P.M., will bo landed at Con- signees risk and expense and deliver must then be taken from Company's Godown,

No Fira Insurance whatever will be effected No Claims will be recognised after the Goods havo left the Steamer or Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered on TUESDAY, the 6th Jane, afternoon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.

will belong to individual shipowners by the date against the company. The judgment, which after the Stock Exchange had new Customs tariff is put in force will rouch

60 at least.

Bush being the situation, it been closed, will effect economic ciralos generally, the opinion may ha expected that from the autumn of this that the Stock Exchange would s

remarka there will be much nativity in the coasting

A Tokyo dispatch to the Osake Jiji that the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company will seriously affect the kerosene market in Japan, which was seriously disturbed last ant- ome. The control of the kerosene market in India, Chios and Japan was held for a long Many residents of Yokohams and Kobe, as time by the Standard Oil Company. The well as in other ports of Japan and is the Far East, the Japen Gazette says, will learn with Rising Sun Oil Company, Laving oil-fields in The South Sea Islands situated nearer, Japan, surprise and deep regrat of the death, as the China and India, was in a wore advantages SCOTCH WHISKY, recognised. result of an accident, of Mr. Jack Mollugh, position in regard to froight and transport Superintendent Steward in

facilities, and consequently

DEATH OF THE N.Y.Y. SUPER. INTENDENT STEWARD.

the service of

the Nippon Yasen Kaisha. Mr. McHugh its basiness in the. For Empted to extend }

.

The Standard

WES at the Grand Hotel on May 19th at Oil Company, with its immense financial in- about two o'clock, and while descending to the flaence, went to work to check the Rising Sun Iavatories in the basement slipped, his head Company, and a forco war ensued between the

the granite stap. Dr. Monre was called

two companies. The struggle saded in victory immediately, and Mr. McHagh, who was un-

for the Standard Oil Company, and the com- conscious, was removed at once to the General potition ceased for the time being, Hospital, where be passed away at about two o'clock next morning without regaining con

acion-ness.

SOLE AGENTS IN

HONGKONG, CHINA & MANILA

A. S. WATSON & Co., L

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All chafed and otherwise damaged Cargo to be left on board or Godown, und examination of same to be arranged..

All Claims must be filed on or before WEDNES- DAY, the 14th Juno, otherwise they will not be

· K. MATSDA,

Agent.

(777

Hongkong, 31st May, 1911.

ON SALE.

MAIL TABLES

FOR 1911.

The Rising Sun Oil Company, continue tho dispatch, is backed by the Great Asiafto Petro- leum Company, in which British, German and Mr. Mollugh, who was forty-eight years of age, had been in the service of the Nippon Yngan other European capitalists are interested. A PRINTING Kaisha asperintendent steward since 189 large interest is held by the Rothschild family, having previously been in the service of the that the company is on a very strong | Nothing crestes such good impression in ezpected arrival as well at their destinations, as

AG

kero

business as the uso of First Class Printing.

Elde Dempster Line, the Castle Line, and the foundation. It is, therefore, believed that the P&O Ca, aschief steward. He was sa Egish Rising Ban Oil Company, will not remain quiət, man, married, and leaves a wife and family in but will renew the competition before leag. The difference in cost between good and bea Now that the Btandard Oil Company has been

printing and material is generally ni the old country. Mr. McHugh was of a quiet ordered to be dissolved, says the the

Jiji, but very genial diaposition, and the news of his somewhat sudden death under such sad circam stances will come as a shock to many friends in Japan and in the coast ports in the Far East. where he was woll known.

sens market in the Far East may be monopolised THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS by the Rising Sun Company if an opportunity.

PRINTING WORKS presents itself for forming a huge oil trust. Whether the thirty-three oil companies in the turn out the Best Printing at Reasonable Price United States formerly in the Standard combine

Shows the dates of departure of the Mails to Europe and Americs, and the dates of their

the dates of return Maila

Mounted on Chrd

On Paper ...

L

30 Cents

20

27

On Sale at the Hongkong Daily Pros Office.

Hongkong, 6th February, 1911.