when I say that some sort of measures must be put in practice to get rid of the cholera scare. other than the infernal din the Chinese are permitted to make in their chin-chinning proces sions. I am not a reformeer by any means, and pity the well-intentioned perhaps, but certainly deluded, people who are attempting to, prevent things that have already taken place. or to stop all efforts to use remedial measures far.existing evils because they cannot preven! them, yet in such cases as cholera and other like evils there is nothing comical in attempting to anticipate them by sanitation. And it is not n comical idea that the exercise of a little physical fpice, to rouse up the snoozers on the side walks on the part of the Sikh and other constables, and the application of the "move on" principle. that all who know the home customs have, no thiübt, a very distinct recollection of, would be an inexpensive and forcible method of stopping the incubation of cholera microbes. But
time and labour wasted,. But-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1888.
whh salt, and having on board of them a number of soldiers with their uniforms and military flags. The soldiers on being sent before a court fa examination unanimously testified that they belonged to the crew the above-mentiones native gunsboat, that the salt and been bought by the Lieutenant in Yau-ma-ti; and after tran shipping it he had sent them to take it to Ching tang for sale. The Vicuray considers that the conduct of the Lieutenant is particularly repre- hensible at the present moment, when great pains are being taken to put the art revenue into proper order; and he begs that the offender may be cashiered and deprived of the decoration of the feather which he wears Approved by Rescript.
REMITTANCES FROM CANTON,
In accordance with orders transmitted by the Board of Revenue, the Viceroy-nt-Canton is forwarding to licking Tis. too,oso forthe expenses of the Emperor's wedding, the said amount being taken from a sum of Ils. 200,000 due by Canton Governraent under the head of repay Account of the ment of foreign moneys on Western campaign (apparently one of Tso Tsung-tang's loans from the Hongkong and Shanghai Blank). He has also begu ordered to furnish this year from the land tax and salt revenue a subsidy of Tis. 7.000.poo for the for the Central Government and T$50,000 Imperial Household, ander which heads he w forwards an instalment by bills on substanti
The bills will be taken to native banks. Peking by an officer, who will cash them there and deliver the money to the proper partics.
vanishing. Be the protection of the god which was thus man fiskalo them, they were freed from the enemy and the tengibrance of their preservation sull dwells in the hearts, of the grateful people. This district of Chin-hua is a tract of poor land lying along the course of a mountain scam, liable to be either parched or flooded whenever the rainfall be in any degree enher scanty as excessive. On such occasions the officials and people proceed together to the temple of the god, who never fails to respond to their prayers. At the beginning of last summer there was a long The dry earth cracked and rainless petind gaped, the streams were diy, the pumps could not be worked, nor the rice simots be planted
nt. A procession to the temple waslorganised, and the same night the needed showers began felt. The corn was plastel, the harvest Assured, and the gratitude of the people knew nhounds. In accordance with the desire expressed by them, the Governor penys the Emperor 10 grant the temple a title al honour' together with a tables bearing an inscription. Decree issued separately.
THE MODERN WOMAN!
of in the carriage, exhibits a vulgarity and shiness, a hunger for notoriety, and a ver for excentricity, such as the Park has seldoin geen this century-certainly not since the com 'mencement, of the Victorian ern.
By in at the opera, at the the tre, or nt concerts, women of als
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What respect can men have for women who It isn't at all comical to read the effusions in
proclaim their nakedness and advertise their the same paper which denied the existence of
immodesty ? How is chivalry consonant with a cholera, in regard to other and very necessary
woman who reserves nothing for the imagination; schemes for the well-being and future benefit of
who holds back no gift for one more favoured the Colony. It is not to be wondered at though;
than the rest who flants her charmis-such as that this should be the case when we find
They are on the public gaze'; with the mothers the funny contributor so hard up for matter
who make the stalls a rendezvous for their illicit: that he has to give two columns (lended) on
The close observer of modern manners and the love; with the daughters who exchange hand- ladies lustles. It is a pity though, that the
ster censor of the deplorable conduct of the squeezings with their "mashte," as they osten. ladies of the Crown Colony should permit such
average society woman of to-day will be preparetatiously call them, in an atmosphere of pearl irreverence in handling and uncovering of things feminine which masculine humanity are by law
by this time to view her as the perpetrator of powder. white rose, and the sensuous scent at
r gardenin bloom? any extravagance. the heroine of any scandal, the tuber supposed to be ignorant of. They ought most
the pioneer of any social movement that is But should there be any doubt on the subject, emphatically to do with the sacrilegious wretch
opposed to refinement, distinguished from good lean back in your stall and catch the scraps of just
what they do with their bustles, put him
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conversation that fall from these andern mothers breeding, and divor el from what was once and sit down on him. It would be Behind then
June 26th.-The Guverner of Kuei-chowkowe as god tasty When wanien, once
and froin most modern girls. Is there one topic very comica indeed, however, If they could carry
that they do not discuss without a blush on out the analogy to a fuller extent, and do with reports the suppression of an insurrectum in the chuvalier is honed for their patural tender-
d line, feeling, push and scramble heir faces? Is there one form of social depra. but as with the bustle, change it into an im-district of Cheng Chou on the Skecher
vity with which they are unfamiliar? is there prover, but as this is an utter, impossibility, it frontier. It appears that a number of persons of the lowest prices or the mest
one scandal that does not 'start to their dips? would be best to let it alone, for it would only be bad character assembled tearther in the above crowdydalls of justice to gaze an
mentioned district, fortified a camp and pes poqtorious cronal, preferaldy of their non sex ;- is there one subject debated confistentially their tags, in open defiance of the law. FL when, without a bhis or tremor,, they raise between the inan and woman of today with sly outbreak having been reportet, a borly of regula
anges of oven arsi w men trenbing at the been tolerated amongst decent-minded pep in any sucking-room, or mess anteroom, úr över me meat of the sea feuce' of death; when wonen; young and old, appiently innocent and to any known club-fire twenty, or even a duren, tatiously opekkid, ate humiliar with the details of years ago? every grass divorce scandal, and do not hesitate to aunt themselves in their fine feathers in pro. ver
ent positions when counsel and julges are to fir dégust discussing subjects and sifting sails to make decent mies almost sick with same; when we hear of young girls listening ginaalde atwestes from depraved men, andtunitar with crime su revolting and human finties su appalling that, not twenty years ago, they were he d to be univentionable; even in the society of the lensest men; when we have in Tovusheen, the eyjaloveset abominable bookskaus wich bark parlous where wonen of all ages assemble to fomdianze themselves with the grossest form of French literature, translated and in the ougal, and to cast an admiring gaze on So a teleta igal jantaneo; when the familarities practised a middle-class dances nowadays and in so called respectable society are said on mustworthy evidence to be so sharneless as to dis rust the mind'depraved men ; when daughters discuss their mothers failly, and in thers wink at their daughters' centiniusness, the question naturally arises how far the advance of high civilization, or culture, or whatever it may be called, differs from the classic times when women. feasted on the nevolting scenes in the Roman arena, and when the soft and caressing success of hyper-sensitive sensuality received its crack of doom in the destruction of Pompeii and
taken up with dissertations on bustles, serial troops and local militin were despatched to her operand sixes ta igło it on the livid counten?", hum, innuendy, and suggestion that will hay productions cual no R var pa any Subsiptio:
It isn't at all conical that the columns of the papers (omitting the . T. of course) should be novels that can be bought whole for the cost of out issue of the paper, and other like matters, for this seems to be the nature of the animals. the tires libblers is taken up with listening But it would be really comical, it when all the to what "Fingrant waters murmur" they could become acquainted with the wants and needs of a common humanity in a civilized sense. If the
fragrant waters could only "murmur decent band stand in a place that would meet the wants of the colony in this respect, or mur- mur a few more things that would benefit more than the upper ten" they would murmur to some purpose. But as they would by doing this lose their fragrancy, it must be taken for granted, that they will have to retain all their non-comical characteristics till they cease to murmur any more. The Flagrant nuisances show many, too many, serious inatters of import, that it would be "ton comical for anything" if the "Fragrant Waters" did not get mixed up with them to some extent. A visit to the Police Cuarts would show up some of them, perhaps,
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It isn't at all comical that, with all the lawyers whose names are in the Hong list as residents, the Colony should have to depend upon the Civil list for administrators and adjudicators of the law These is indeed nothing at all comical in vine of the decisions given lately in cases of noriety. The extreme from the wisdom of Solomon to that of Sancho Panza has been gone through, and both these notable personages have had their decisions put to the blush in Hongkong. It may be possible, however, that fill all the there, are not enough lawyers here to positions, and therefore laymen have to be utilized. But it does seem comical that this state of affairs should have come into existence in so short a time as has elapsed since it was reputed that one of the fraternity had fairly starved in death for want of work. It will be a wonderful revelation to many to find that such rapid changes can take place in Hongkong. If such is to be the case in the future we may hope to see the full realization of the Praya Reclama tion scheme. But that and her matters must be left for fuller development on some future occasion by
10 restore order. The rebes, whe had occupied a strong position in the mountaing opened fire on the approach of the trops, Thes
them being slain in the assault and twenty more were dislodged by a spirited attack, thing of in their light, and among the number ofaluose killed were several of their leaders l'eace and tranquility were thus re-establishet, fut the principal chief and one of his lieutenants had escaped, and it was absolutely necessary that they should be secured. Therefte, as the local Magistrate was known to be somewhat wanting in energy' he was made to exchange posts with another officer, and the latter soou reported the arrest of the two bels. The locality was far from the provincial capit, and a was thougha better not to send the prisoners in for triol, Rest some accident should happen by the way. A special officer was therefore despatched to super intend proceedings on the spot, and the men's guilt having been, clearly demonstrated, they were punished by immediate decapitation. In conclusion the Memorialist begs to be allowed to recommend for promotion a limited number of officers who have distinguished themsetres in connection with the affair-Approved.
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A scene the other night in the House of Commons will well illustrate the state of things at which we have arrived by slow and certain degrées, will acquit the regretful pessimist of undue exaggeration, and, it may be hoped, will fill with shine the possessors of that once chivalrously honoured and honasrable name of woman.. There was to be a debate on a parti culnily revolting subject, a debate absolutely necessary in the interest of the community at large, and of the Queen's subjects in India; a subject that men must face, and that women should shun; the kind of topic that a judge who respected his position would elect to try in camerd. The Speaker of the House of Commons, informed of the facts, with excellent courtesy and good taste (being ucable to order a debate with closed doors),
MURDER OF A MOTHER AND SON. Is the neighbourhood of Sheu Chou, in Chihti, there were two distant cousi The former was
Shunn-chu and Sung Shu-yan. The married, but the latter had neither wife or home, and therefore went to live in his cousin's house, giving in return his labour and the produce of two mn of land that he owned. One day last winter, when Sung Shuan-chu was gone away in search of temporary employment, the lodger objected to the bad quality of the food Mrs. Sung gave him, and said that he would not work unless he was properly fed. Mrs. Sung replied by abusing him for greediness and laziness, and wanted to turn him out of the house. One night soon afterwards, the lodger came back from a wine-shop where he had been, drinking; the woman again met him with abuse and reproaches, and told him to take his things and clear out that very night. Losing his temper on account of her violent language he took a hoe and knocked her down; and, as she continued to revile him, his anger completely overmastered hlm, and he attacked her again and killed her outright. Her son, who was asleep when the ABSTRACT OF PEKING GAZETTES. quarrel commence was awakened by the noise, and caught hold of the mah and would not let go. The latter, in order to free himself, struck the boy with the hoe and injured him, so that Jan 23rd. The Governor-General Yi-lahe died some time, afterwards. For these two reports that the General-in-Chief for Hupei is murders, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang has sen- desirous of, sending an officer to procure two tenced the criminal to be branded on the check, hundred horses in the country outside. Kaigan. and decapitated without delay. Referred to The Horses are required for the use of the Hupci the Board of Punishments. army. The Memorialist has written to the
Speaker's kindly waming. They treated Govenor of the Chahar country and to the high
with hunting insolence and with impuderi authorities of the provinces along the line of
contempt, Brushing past the attendants they `June 27th.-Two years ago, when great dis-scrumbled to their seats, and the most brazen roule. He further prays that a permit may be issued allowing the animals to pass the customstress was caused by widely spread foods in the amongst them seemed only to regret the existence station at Kalgan without being charged duty, province of Chibli, the Viceroy Li Hong-chang of the golden grille that panly concealed their Approved by Rescript.
presented a Memorial asking that rewards might shameless features and their greedy eyes. But be conferred on-the officials of other provinces this was not all. One would have thought that adhesion to the tenets of the shrieking sister.
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instincter the attendanta to warn all ladies who
presented themselves for admission to the Gallery, that a subject was to be discussed of so delicate a nature that it might accidentally annoy and slieck those who were not prepared for an evening necessarily occupied with revolt- ing details. Not a tenth part of the women who presenteft themselves took any notice of the
although their morbid conscientiousness, or their
or whatever cause it was, placarded their
What is the kind of medern woman that the Sechstitute? Is if the woman with the alluring keensighted man of is supp to respect coqueary and smothered sofiness of the soiled dove," and the wiles of the practised adventuress? Is it the woman, who, with treachery well veited, utakes for herself a paw of velvet like a sleek cat, but when thwarted suddenly strikes out her claws and scratches? Isitthermally huntress who marks down some wealthy fool for her prey, and when she has lured him to the pitch of compromise, emplies, his pockets of his bank-notes with hendish grin? Is it the dangerous creature with the soft eyes and tender expression whose armour is sentiment, and who twines herself Found some trusting man like a Vivien, only 10- make the hollow of society ceha with the laughter over her miserable trick? Is it the woman who rushes into extravagance to cut her friends or to attract her lovers, and weeps crocodile tears over the confiding shoulder of some deceived idiot, neither friend nor laver, who pays the Is it the woman of binh and money? breeding who turns her back drawing-room into bonnetshop, and touts for custom over her cold. asparagus, during the intervals of a dance or between the nets of a society play ? Is it the female agent who is sent out into society on a commission to get customers for the millinery trade from frisky matrons who have a secret banking account to draw upon, or who on a similar commission secures scat-holders for
success has been guaranteed by society? Are concerts and entertainments whose financial these the women that we are to love and to cherish till death us do pait? "You cannot think," says Ruskin, that the buckling on of the knight's armour' by his lady's hand was a mere caprice of romantic fashion. It is the type of an eternal truth: that the soul's armour is never well sel to the heart unless a woman's hand has braced it, and it is only when she braces it loosely that the honour of manhood fails."
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who should exert themselves in collecting sub scriptions for the relief of the sufferers The Viceroy now reports that he has received from Vie Province of Hupch no less than, Tis. 34.000, immodesty before the asembice legislators, it a magnificent gift, which has preserved from would at least have suggested that they should starvation a large number of unfortunate people, hear all this pastiucas in silence, and hesitate and which is all the more creditable to the to oltrude themselves on public notice. Not a donore, because they had not long beforbit of it. At the conclusion of one of the speeches contributed to the famine fund for Shantung and inseparable fight such an occasion, these nasty. the adjacent regions. He begs that the Board minded women actually, in violation of all rules of Civil Office may be directed to choose anme of the House, began applauding with their fans ABLATIONAL GRADUATES IN SZECHUAN. substantiat_mark of the Emperor's approbation, on the grating in front of them-a proceeding so The Viceroy of Szechuen represents that to be conferred on the Grand Treasurer of grossly irregular and indecent as to compel a whenever the people of a province subscribe or Hupeh, and he proposes rewards for the Prefect stets cry of Order 1 Order 1 from the Speaker, contribute as much as Tls. 300,300 to any public of Wuchang and certain other officials whom he and a significam hond wave from the Leader of undertaking or needs. at the capital or in the names.-Approved,
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that it remained for the modern woman to one military graduate shall be added to the
•an her contempt for common decency, and established number at the following provincial
The Governor of Shantung represents that in examinations. This regulation applies to mia-Chi-mo Hafen there is a temple in honour of estentntiously to boast her lower proclivities. cellaneous collections, and exclusive of large the Dragon Spirit, which has always been n The modern treatment of woman by man is donations for which a special reward has granted to the giver. Between the years 1870. shrine of wonderful vittue. In 1876, during a 30metimes wondered at. We are told that the 1883 the people of Szechuan have subscribed as time of drought, a bronze table was brought old days courtesy and chivalry are dead. The from the temple to the provincial capital, and dignity of age, the beauty of maturity, the inno contributed in small sums to various funds at arrival was followed by showers of fertilision Cence of youth, are alike ignored; but it is i fere requests that at the next provincial examina. Last summer again There was a drout sometimes forgotten in the case of the modern from H.M. Naval Store-keep`r to Sell by tions in Szechuan twenty additional graduate in both Chi-mo Holen. and Laf-chou Fu. how maturity gauden its beauty to be soiled with Public Auction, on
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one place and then to the other, and cach case rain fell and the corn grew and ripened IFT OF BOOKS TO THE KWO-TZU CHJEN. for the harvest, Alto, in Chang-ching Hsien "June" 24th,-It has been reported to the there is a temple of the Five Dragon Spirits, to Emperor that Lu Hsin-yuan, formerly Tactal of which the Magistrate repaired last summer when Kao.chou and Lien-cheu in Kuan-tung, has the country was suffering from dryness, and in presented 150 books, comprising 2,400 volumes, immediate response to his earnest prayer, the to the Kuotzü Chien, or Imperial Academy of earth was gladdened by fertilising showers, In Learning at Peking. In addition to these, each of these cases the people of the district which were old works contained in his library, unanimously pray that the Emperor will confer he has given 300 new volumes, which he has on their temple an honorific title and bestow on find printed himself. The Emperor is much it a tablet as an Imperial gift. pleased with this act of generosity on the part of a retired public servant, and directs that his two sons, one of whom, is an ordinary licentiate
total of Tis 6008,678. The Memorialist there-
APPLICATION ON BEHALF OF A TEMPLE IN CHEKIANG.
woman how age has been robbed of its dignity;
Innocence the very instant it comes in contact. powder and paint; and how youth' sneers at with the world of fashion. It is urged that men are selfish and dissolute, and that, they care, no more for women's society; but men's Censors forget to state that woman, the good ceased to exercise her influence over man, hos woman, the pure woman, the noble woman has abandoned her sway, has ceased to rule, and essented to be led has given up her dignified after the car of pleasure as a helot or a slave, queenly attribute, and lated to be dragged
In what does the modern woman inspire the confidence, the respect, or the regard, of her natural companion man, when she is seen by day or by night in public places?
By day she is not ashamed to be seen printed an inch thick." The old women chatuelled and aping the antics of youth; the mature women faked up to the utmost verge of
June 28th-The Governor of Chekiany makes fu shang) and the other a salaried licentiate an application on behalf of the teniple of the (lin theng) be given the honorary rank of City Walls in the town of Chin-hús. During the Director of Studies at the Imperial Academy. SMUGLLING BY A CHINESE OFFICER AT CANTON, 1881, the Commperor valen. Feng. In the year
the country was overrun by the long-haired meretriciousness; the girls powdered and well June 25th. According to a Memorial pre rebels, and the people were reduced to sore dis-skilled in the "wicked lightning of the eyes that sented by the Viceroy at Canton, an Acling tress. Stiently they prayed for help, till in the formerly in the Park used to be the property of Naval Lieutenant, Wang Te-chin by name, was year 1863. the Imperial armies advanced la "Anonymas," who, in the altered state of fashion, fintioned at Chang Chop island (a little west of within, the walls saw faintly displayed in in nu desty and propriety..hanks to reports Hongkong) to prevent-smuggling. One-day the vacant expanse of the north-west sky in papers and the fishy reclame of the recently a steam vessel engaged in the same a supernatural appearance of lamps and modern milliner, the diess, as it is seen duly captured two boats near Chang Chouladen fage, which continued many days withput to-day In the Park, whether on the promenade
THE Undersigned has received instructions
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WEDNESDAY,
the 25th July, 1888, at Noon, at H.M. Naval Yard, SUNDRY NAVAL AND VICTUALLING CONDEMNED STORES, comprising:- BRASS
OLD IRON, PAPER-STAFF, HOSES, BOILER TUBES, BISCUITS, CHOCOLATE, COOK'S FAT, IRON HOOPS, IMPLEMENTS,
a
&c &c., TERMS OF SALE-As Customary.
J. M. ARMSTRONG, Gov. Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 18th July, 1288.:
£714
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2.00
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50
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ROBT. LOVE,
General Agent,
"Hongkong, 18th July, 1888
TO BE LET.
FURNISHED, OR UNFURNISHED,
OR
A FOUR ROOMED HOUSE
A SIX ROOMED HOUSE, IN-RICHMOND TERRACE.
1707 BOTH HOUSES have convenient out offices
JANTED for 2 months at the Peak, or at
W Kowloon, A SMALL UNFURNISHED
•HOUSE.
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ALSO,
AND
A First-class London made DOG-CAKT
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CAPITAL TAELS 600,00p,)
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in summer,
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"MA. JOHN WILLMOTT,
Hongkong Dispensary? Hongkong, and July, 1888.
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Granda. Excellent water supply, and Servants quarters attached. . Rent very moderato.
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A. A. DE MELLO & Co,
Macao Macao, 3rd April, 1888.
1268.
HONGKONG STEAM LAUNDRY COM. PANY (LIMITED).
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A O'D. GOURDIN,:
Manager [879 Hongkong, 7th July, 18889,
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