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A story is told in a Canton paper of an aged tortoise kept as a pet by a rich merchan; of Fatshan. The exact age of the tortoise is unknown but the merchant says that it was

The advance of civilization has Shanghai. An innovation 1 Chinese funeral wending its way caught long before his grandfather alang Avenue Edward VII, was a fleet of about 90 yellow and blue Chinese tea table and the small was born. It is nearly as large as taxi-cabs carrying the mourners. A children of the family could ride brass band, caparisoned in purple on its back. The tortoise was known and yellow uniforms, played all over Fatshan and was said to Donna Mobile' in tune with the have magic powers of healing minor ailments. Many people brought their children and asked the merchant if the youngsters might touch its back and be made well. Cures of ill. kinda, is and About 130 famine sufferers have around Fatsban are said to have arrived in Shanghai from Houan been wrought by the tortoise. Much province and will be cared for by to the grief of the merchant the the Chinese philanthropic organizatortoise was recently lost. Some tions. According to the statements people my that it has run away but the Public Safety Bureau, a party made by them to the members of most people in Fatahan believe that it was a fairy in disguise and has cf 310 famine sufferers of that pro- now resumed bis true form. vince left Kaifeng a couple of rived here, the rest having been weeks ago, but only about 180 ar either employed by the Nanking Social Affairs Bureau for road con structions or having died of starva- tion.

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There aro abuses but they can be According to a statement made by

In the lively reminiscences which ameliorated! The stark truth is Dr. C. T. Wang to members of the claims Nationalist -sucesses in sho has just published, Frances Countess of Warwick tells that she Yesterday's weather report, fore that: the aritem is wrong and Press, the post of Commissioner of Henan province, the oth Brigades descended both from Cromwell cast and remarks, issued by the abuses are never ameliorated. In Foreign Affairs for Kiangau Pro- of the 3rd Division under General and Nell Gwyn. But this is only Royal Observatory at 430 p.m., the ZALO between abuses

and since will be abolished at the end of Chen Chih Cheng which was origin-part of a singular pedigree. She is descended also from Barbara stated:--

amoliorations the abuses win in a this year.`-

aily ordered by the National Gov-Villiers, another famous favourite The anticyclone has moved east-caater. It is easy to say that "mui

crament to take part in the Anti-of Charles I. Her mother, the vener ward and is central over Japanese are not ill-treated we get small fire broke out in a gin-Kouminchun campaign has been able Lady Rosslyn, is a FitzRoy. with a paternal descent from the the south-east coast of China and hardly any complaints, and no con ing room of the Sun Sun cotton ordered to remain in Shanghai for Duchess of Cleveland, and a mater

victions in the Courts" That is

Yangtzepoo Road,garrison purposes. These troops nal one, through a De Vere Beau- the "sert of plea found in important Shanghai. It was extinguished by will be placed under the command clerk marriage. from speeches, official reports, and "con- the automatic sprinkler system be- of the local Gendarmerie Com- Nellie." Lady Warwick is thus in the piquant position of being des sidered opinion given after year fore the fire brigado arrived.

cended twice over from Charles I.. as well as from the man who cut of careful study and obervation."

Col. Yuan Liang, Commissioner Work on the installation of a of Public Safety for Greater Shang tidote indeed, though which is which off his head. This is bane and an- The policeman on his beat and the magistrate on his Bench know powerful wireless station, capable bai, has issued an order forbidding must be left to individual prefor that it is all nonsense. But in of communication with all parts of his subordinates to arrest common ence. There cannot be many per- instance after instance the former the world and which will be known people without first obtaining his sons with so curious a pedigree. perional permission. This order Lady Warwick's Cromwellian blood cannot make & case of it," and AGCR, will begin at Chemia was issued because many inpocent appears to have come from the the latter cannot convict. The evi village, on the Shanghai-Nanking people were recently arrested by the Barnards, descendants of Frances, dence is vague and fragmentary; Railway, next summer and a huge members of the Public Safety the Protector's fourth daughter, clever solicitor for the defence receiving station will be erected at Bureau simply at the request of the who married Sir John Russell,

various public organizations and Liubong.

without Brst obtaining permission ratshan's Magic Tortoise. drives a coach and six through the

hom the commissioner. pitiable little story. The girl is a¦ The Central China Pose writer:- most unsatisfactory witness-nčarly Old Hankow residents who remem all children are untruthful, and ber the recent news of Mr. Ladded a new terror to death in Berger's death shortly after his . none can stand up to cross-examine arrival at home from Ichang will tion-the case is dismissed, or, more regret to learn that Mrs. Berger TO FREE THE MUI TSAI often is never brought into Courtsurvived him by a few months only It is a sad fact that a vast numbering passed away at Leipzig,

Germany, on September 16.. THERE could be so clearer proof of of very worthy persons are harab to those whom they have in their the falseness of that old aphorism power. In Victorian England ser- With a view to improving the con- about human nature never changing rants were ** supervised," paid,ditions of, and affording protection two-mile-na-bour gait at which long than the present attitude of the and fed in a manner that would to, the employees of the China haired ponies, foot passengers, bear British nation towards slavery has had the reaction of making ment of the company will shortlying.

be intolerable to-day, and which Merchants S. N. Co., the managers and motor-cars were progress Though declared illegal in England domestic service abhorreat to girls publish a series of regulations in the eighteenth century-not by in many parts of England. In governing the treatment of ita em- "charity schools the same story ployees, similar to those published Act of Parliament but the single, was told, not of legal cruelty, but by the Customs House and the Post unchallenged decision of an obscure of a standard of treatment for Office. King's Beach Judge the slave below that which children get in the average, home There is, un- trade went on, and slavery in the fortunately, no reason to suppose the Ministry of Railways is propos- The vernacular papers report that West Indies was a recognised in that most mui tenis are treated at ing to increase the mail transporta stitution. Though we liberated the all like daughters. The mut tention charges to meet the expenses of

is a alave, treated like a slaves of Jamaica a century ago and made to feel her place by the that the present charges are much slave the different railways. It is said a large proportion of Englishmen average ruler of a Chinese menage.lower than they should be and that were, in the days of the American It may be said that the only the Ministry receives only between possible change will be one of $500,000 and $600,000 annually for Civil War, by no means anxious name the mui tsai will be called carrying mails. to set the niggers free," and either an adopted daughter or A whole-heartedly backed the pictures maid servant but the system will

The Shanghai District Magie- remain. To some extent, that is que slave-owners against the "unco' true, but it is to meet this con- the properties of Tano Chim Hsu, trate has ordered the confiscation of guid" from the North.

tingency that registration,' for so Hong Kong's mui tani problem long urged by the Anti-Mui Ta former director of the Tsao Hong bound train at the Huangshante more probable that the Government

Society, is being at last enforced: Village administration office, on the Station on the Tientsin-Pukow Rail has gravely exercised public opinion Registration is the active and posi-around that the embezzled large sums way and fired several shots at the both here and at home. Mui tsai, tive assault on the system, and can from the public treasury and failed train. It passed at full speed with to make good his indebtedness al-out stopping. The same telegram or little sisters, as successive Gover-alone break it down. The laissez though he was given several oppor- says that the Jenchiao Station on

faire methods, as Lon! PARSFIELD tenities to do so. ners have laboriously explained to points out, have proved useless.

the same railway was visited by sceptical Colonial Secretaries, are The system has gone on with all its

bandits and after a fight laating Mr. J. D. Bush, vice-chairman of about two hours between the bandits not slaves. They are members of old evils. No doubt the bother of the Hong Kong Chinese Y.M.C.A. and railway police, the bandits fed

registration and the filing-up of the family that buya them; they forms will be as abhorrent to the and, secretary of the Hong Kong but the station master was thot dead have their rights, and at maturity Chinese population as income-tax visit to Shanghai. Mr. Bush, who

Agricultural Show, is away on is to an Englishman. They are in brother of Mr. E. D. Bush, the Portuguese Emigration. a marriage is arranged" It was both a nuisance; they pry into well-known billiard player, was The two great cancers affecting cow, might be selected, but Reuter... further pointed out that the law of personal afairs, they limit the formerly a resident of Shanghai, the Colony did not recognise mui liberty of the subject! All this is having been instructor in commer life in Portugal to-day are emigra now tells us that Sir Esmond Ovey tenie, and that the claim to a child admitted. But these very objections cial English and practice in the tion and the growth of cities at the has been appointed to the British

are things that strike at the root Y.M.C.A. schools. Later he went to by purchase was not upheld at law of the system, that will make the Peping na professor in the National Antunes Guimaraes, Minister of for more than a quarter of a cen- cost of the rural districts, Dr. Embassy in Moscow. Sir Esmond has been in the Diplomatic Service If a mui bad went back to her possession of a muỷ trai a bad and

University,

Commerce, told the United Press parents the purchaser had no red- troublesome proposition.

in an interview. Too much attentury, and has held posts in Stock- The Panchan Lama, the spiritual tion has been devoted to developing and Tcheran. His last post was "We confidently appeal for the

holm, Tangier, Paris, Washington, ICSEL The Colonial Office and

support of the Chinese community head of Tibet, is now on his way the cities, with the resultant neglect that of Minister to Mexico, but he British public opinion remained, in an admittedly drastic interfer from Mongolia to Makden. After of the provinces, ," Dr. "Guimaraes however, obdurate, and refused to ence with an age-old institution a brief stay in the northern c needs of Lisbon, and other cities, I having visited Moscow, the Can-

said: Without forgetting the

is not altogether new to Russia, revise their demand for abolition, more than we would expect to see Peping branch of the Commission Propose to try to fulfil the aspiring the service. Sir Esmand was

we make no apologies, any the Lama will visit Peping. The

casus, and the Crimes before join. or at least for drastic modification apologies demanded for the inter for Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs tions of the provincial people"

born in 1879, and married a daugh=" of the existing order of things ference which unbound the feet is busy making preparations for his He mentioned the need for more ter of Rear-Admiral Emory, of the

of China's womanhood-the great-reception. The Panchan Lama first roads, more schools, The policy of successive Governors, est reform so

adequate and their advisers, and accepted by by the Republic. China wishes to when he was royally entertained by information regarding crops and

far accomplished visited Pening in the spring of 199s clinics, and places where technical .S. Navy. Colonial Secretaries until Lord break the shackles of the past. The the Government, which was then farming conditions may be obtain PaseriELO (better known as SIDNEY Exai system is one of them. headed by Marshal Tuan Chi-jui. ed. Referring to emigration" he

Blavery, eren

"light domestic It is believed probably that he will said: "In its emigrants the nation WEBB) took charge, was to insist slavery," is inconsistent with go down touth to visit Nanking Joes a great and valuable element, upon the legal freedom of the mui modern civilisation and with that and Shanghai: .

which other countries benefit from. tai and her right to leave her er her own patriots and not less by the New China so anxiously awaited by

It is therefore necessary to guar The time-table of the Shanghai- antee the people at home the means ployers and return to her parents; remainder of the world, True Hankow air services has been slight to live and work, and it is for this to punish severely any person con- civilisation is based on the family, ly altered and aeroplanes will leave reason necessary to stimulate pro- as the unit, and the mui tai is a Shanghai at 8 am, daily. The duction in all its spheres of victed of cruelty to a mui tai; to cuckoo in the nest, a weakness in up" machine will arrive at Nan activity-agricultural, textile, min keep an eye on these children family life. The wealthiest, the king at 10.10 and leave 20 minutes ing and forestry." through the instrumentality of the most cultured, and most enlighten- later for Kiukiang, at which city it |

ed Chinese families in this Colony will arrive at 1.03 p... leaving 30 The Latest Lunacy. police, the B.C.A, and voluntary have abandoned the keeping of mini minutes later and arriving at Han workers of recognised societies.

But

ed..

A Hauchow telegram to the Sin bandits tried to hold up a south wenpao says that a number of

the outlaws.

Britain's Ambassador to Moscow.

There has been much speculation as to who would be appointed a Britain's first Ambassador to Mos- cow. The names of Lt. Commander Renworthy, Lord Olivier, Mr. Reden Buxton, aåd Colonel Malone

didates. Other prophets thought it Labour men considered likely can- were among the more prominent

would not go outside the Diplomatic Service in choosing its representa- ian rather than a diplomat was tive. The appointment of a politi- considered unlikely if for zo other reason than that such an unconven- tional choice would give Conserva tive opponents of Anglo-Russian rapprochement yet another cause for complaint. It was thought that Sir Robert Hodgson, formerly British Agent in Russia, and more recently Chargé d'Affaires at Mon-

Looking Back 26 Years,

We are informed by the Porte- guese Consul-General here, Senhor Conselheiro Romano, that he re- ceived a telegram On Saturday afternoon from the Portugueno Minister, Senhor Castello Branco, now in Shanghai, to the effect that the concession for the Canton- Macao Railway had been granted by Chinn to the Portuguese Govern- nicot The same telegram also con- veyed the news that a commercial to, and we appeal to those who kow at 3.15 pm. The "down" Cigarettes in tints to match her treaty between Portuguai and It was further hoped that the still fallow the older ways to give machine will leave Hankow at 6.45frocks is the latest vogue of fashion. Chins had been signed. This advancement of education, the proper trial to the front social ex- and leaving half an hour later. It cigarette holder, where one is used, niso the delimitation of the frontier fair great exam, arriving at Kiukiang at 10.25 able Miss London. Moreover the treaty, we understand, embodies grees of modern ideas and general ment has embarked. We appeal will arrive at Nasking at 1.30 p.m.

must also harmonize both with the ↑ of Macco, the vexed question which enlightenment would, gradually, see also to those members of the Chi-and leave for Shanghai at 1.50 p.m., cigarette and the frock. This is one has been engaging the attention of

of the discoveries of a "amoke" the custom fall into disfavour. It nese community who are regarded arriving here at 4 p.m.

the Portuguese Government for a as leaders of modern thought and.

survey of London, which also re long time.-long was alternatively argued, as learn progress to encourage their country-

Kong Daily The Hawkins, which towards the vealed: (1) the demand for pipes Press, November 14, 1904. ed counsel would say, that most men to cooperate with the author cad of last year was replaced as he dwindled per cent, in the Looking Back 50 Years.. mui tsni were well treated, and farities in making the new scheme not lagship on the China atation after last three years; (2) the demand for

There is a tradition that during only easy but effective in operation. decade spent in that role is to cigarettes has decreased by 80 per happier with comfortably off em Only by such united effort as he become flagship to the Becond cent. since 1020; (3) cigarette-emok the Han Dynasty, when the throne ployers than in squalid homes. In desired reform be speedily effect Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleeting among women has increased 100 was on one occasion in danger from fact, if left at home they would

when she comes ous of dockyard per cent. in the last three years; (4) neighbouring States making war, hands about three months, hence. the per capita consumption of ciga- lender in the army of, the Hans probably not survive at all! Final-

"For all-round utility and com- rettes in England is considerable made a kite with movable ringe and ly, the system was so deep-rooted

fort," says Truth; it is doubtful higher than it is in the United went out at night to dy it. As the that its elimination was an adminis

whether better design has been States. I think the rush and kite ascended the rings revolved and Hongtrative impossibility, and any at-

produced than that of this class of bustle of modern life has much to

made a whirring ndise which was truiser." Officers would not agree do with the victory of the cigarette said to represent the words Fu lion, of design, and certainly utility, the tobacconist in an interview describ people around, aroused by the about the comfort but, for beauty over the pips" said a West-End Assist Hon!" The camp and Hawkins was never surpassed."

ing the reasons for the increase in ysterious heavenly call, came to cigarette smoking. "Smoking in ether in great strength, and by THE FAR EAST AVIATION CO.,

The Commission for the Re business has increased enormously their timely aid the dynasty was 2ND FLOOR, ASIATIO BUILDING,

There will be & Concert at the organization of Shanghai Commer since the war, but men find that to again established. Hence, at the not have survived in their own Helen 3ay on Thursday Novemcial Organizations have granted clean, fill, and light a pipe takes present season of the year, there are QUEEN & BOAD,

Hore Kozo HONG KONG DAILY

PRESS, LTD., and the HONG homes, though, indeed, they are only ber 91 at 5.20 p.m. This is being Shanghai merchants a respite so far too much time. They have there kites with their rings flying about KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through sold after the most perilous years organited by Mr. Frederick Mason, the closing of their accounts in fore turned to the cigarette, which wherever the descendants of the [8603 their London Office, at 1, BRIDE of infancy are passed.

Tickets may be booked in advance. concerned. In an order, the Com-smoke of just about the right daza may observe that the "Han man

acordance with the new calendar is is cleaner, quicker, and provides a Han are found. By the way we LANE, FLEET STREET, E.O. 4, are pro For the rest of these contentions Tes must be booked, please ring mission says that, instead of closing tion. The coloured cigaretle of the in Amor is a Chinnman, whilst in pared to give Subscribers and Visitors advice regarding accom they are the stock arguments of all!

beir hooks on December 31, in ac same shade is the smoker's dress is Cantonese we call him a man modation available, motoring faci slave-owners, from the mista of

cordance with the Gregorian calen- the latest vogue. Women frequent of Tang (the Tang Dynasty.) itles, suitable shopping centres, antiquity to Virginia of

A Chinese youth of six years was der, and on the last day of the ly buy a hundred and occasionally Similarly a "Han child" means s the kidnapped on Boone Road, Shang-lunar calendar, the merchants will a thousand cigarettes at a time, Chinese child, then a child in If, when at home, they will call spacious fifties: "The slaves are hai, by two armed men who drove be given up to January 29 to do this in a variety of colours to match general, and is even used by Chinese or telephone to the above address well-treated, they do not desire as he was playing with some com- accustomed to the new calendar to led to the introduction of cigarettes eign masters children. An English lup in a motor-car and matched him song to enable farmers who are un- their different dresses. This has servante in speaking of their for they will receive the atmost assist their liberty, they would not know onions. The car had evidently have a chance to pay off their debts in red, pink, blue, yellow, green or American child will thus some- REce and the latest available infor how to use it, they need the protec. been stolen for the purpose as it After that date, the enforcement of black, and other colours, the paper times be designated that child of mation on all subjects of enquiry tion which their masters alone can was found deserted in the French the Gregorian calendar must be being dyed in non-injurious veget. Han."-Hong Kong Daily Press, will be placed at their di posal. »

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