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might hear of it. He said, "Who will know of I left and returned to my shop. On the 2th May I went to the Pun Au Kul and there aw the third defendant. He took me into a room. He said, "I have found a way for you to borrow $4,000. He said the lender would give me 40 per cent. of the money. I was afraid. He said "Who need know; besider, you need not spend it." I said 40 per cent. was very high | lent, I would give five per cent. He said, he would see the lender again. After this ho left the place and weat away. Second defendant said, "Do you want to barrow $7,000," because I can lend you at 40 per cent. He asked me how old I was. I said twenty-one. I wanted sixty per cent, He refused it. Third defendant pulled me into the verandah and said "Don't be a fool, take 40 per cent, you need never repay it." I said I was twenty-one when asked, because the third defendant told me to do so. He told me to go to Mr. Dennys and make out the paper. I did not go because was sleepy that day. The third defendant came to me and asked why I had not gone. I said I was afraid. On the 5th May I want to Mr. Dennys' office with the third defendant. Second, and fourth defendants were there. Mr. Dennys refused to have anything to do with the matter. Third defendant fald we would go to another solicitor. He 'told us to go to the Pun An Kai and await him there. He came afterwards and said ne would go to Mr. Rodyk's office. Mr. Rodyk's clerk said he would require $roo as fees. I did not see Mr. Radyk. I should not know Mr. Rodyk if I saw him now. In Mr. Rody's office were the three defendants and myself. I at and waited there for about an hour, Mr. Rodyk's clerk, Mr. Ng Mak Hei, made up two papers in English and told me to sign. I do bot understand English. The documents were not read over to me, but one I understood to be a promissory note, the other a registration paper I received the money in Mr. Redyk's office. The second defendant gave me $2,800. I do not think Ng Mak Hoi knew how much

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miarrable description. The only substantiat edifice is one building for the Chief, a very pleasant of gentleman who seems to have nothing else to do but chat with the Commis- sioner, drink biskies and sodas with French travellers, traders and others and, generally speaking, keep bis pecker up as well as circum- stances permit. The Siamese Commissioner, Pra Palat Banuraks, is the real ruler, and he is a most intelligent and able man. With refer ence to the townships in the interior and dotted about the mountain ranges on the disputed Franco-Slam territory: they scarcely have any existence at all, except in the elastic machina- tions of some lew obscure journalists. Thirty bamboo huts of the most miserable description constitute a village, in fact I have known as few as five hats clustered together spoken of as the muang of so-and-so. The French posts are said to be established all along the Eastern frontiers of Siam, while the Stamere, on the other band, have quite an army at Luang Phrabang.

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idleness a disgrace as well as a crime. To carry theory into practice, he compelled the people, nolens volens, by the inducement of the whip, the rod and the bastinado. His surcessor. Ismail Pacha, less regardless of the frelines of his subjects, nevertheless pursued same policy. Tewik Pacha, son of Ismail, the present incumbent, follows in his father's footsteps. He is, however, but the figure- head of Great Britain, which rules the land more absolutely that it does any city, ward or parish at home. The result of these changed conditions la visible at first sight. More land is under cultivation today than at any time in the past five centuries, and larger harvests are pro- duced per acre than ever before in that period, The bigger has been forced into the ranks of industry, and is not as numerous in the Nihilistic capital as in New York, Boston or Chicago. The food supply bas to increased that the cost of living has been seduced to very, low figures, while wages on the other hand bave held their own. The country flourishes, and its national debt is being liquidated gradually but certainly.

This is the bright side of the picture, but its reverse is not so agreeable. The policy of the present administration (which as stated in English) is to favor England at the expense of the Egyptian. While the country is admirably situated for manufactures, the authorities en impose taxes as to kill any existing industry and to prevent the formation of new ones. Thus the sugar-cone grows like a weed and might be the basis of great manufacture. Yet the political conditions imposed are such that it is proftable to expert raw sugar to France and England, to there refine it, to bring it back to the very town what the native sugar would cost under existing where it was grown and there sell it for less than

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which Christian bankers will go with modern debiors, A govemment rote for 6 months for £1,000 was sold for $400, and at maturity was taken up with a note for 6 months for £1,500, which was paid. In other words, at 375 per cent The mpicity of the money-lenders was SUT- passed by that of the foreign office-holders. A lot of flimsy, if not worthless locomotives were bought by a French agent of the Khedive, and daly examined and approved by another agent, an English engineer of high distinction. The price paid was £18,000 cash ($90,00"} Of this £1,000 (15,000) was paid to the engineer 3.000 (15,000 to the purchasing agent, and no one knows how much more to outside parties. When remonstrated with. the engineer said, "It's merely business. If refused to pass those engines and tekn the hush money, some other fellow would, and should lose my position, whose salary alone in 1,600 ($8,000) a year.!! In this case there was retribution. For shortly after accepting the tocomotives, one of them blew into atoms, ruin- ing for life a brother of the engineer. Another cause of expense to the people is the army of foreign office-holders who have been folsted upon them by military force. They are like the carpet baggers of the reconstruction days; no better and no worse.

It should be added that despite the evils recounted, the people are patient, polite, sober and moral. They sing as they work, or chant long quotations from the Koran. The children are round, bright-eyed, smiling and playful. All of them, old and young, are kind to one another, and equally kind to their dumb animals, the donkey, camel and horse, the buffsio, cow, goat hospitality are the rule everywhere. There is 5. and sheep, the cat and dog. Courtesy and

great future la store for ames which can endure so many hardships and still preserve intact the blgher attributes of humanity.-"E. S." in the Sociologic News.

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even supposing, for the sake of argument, that further $60 10 Ng Mak Hoi for tees. I did not there is marketable produce to be had there in see him pay any noney to Ng Mak Hol. I took large quantities, which is certainly not the case. Away $1,940. The second and fourth defendants So much, then, for "the richest and most both saw me pive this money to the third. Be fertile region of the Far East." Then, again. fore this day I had not received on account any- there is the question of "the vast mineral thing. All I got of the $7000 was $2,000... I wealth of the whole region." Up to the received this money between 1 and z p.m. I present time neither gold, coal, or fron have been went then to the club with the third defendant.

found there in paying quantities; but even were There I met Yung Ut Wo. He introduced the endless mountain ranges crammed full of himself. We both went for a walk. We went sapphires, rubles, emeralds, tons of gold, blacks in the Pun Sun-in and we gambled at fantan, I of silver, chunks of copper, and thousands of Jost $400. None of the defendants were there. miles of the best steam coal, the cost of transit Yung Ut Wo did not play and when he found I to and from the mines would take the gilt off the had lost $500 he took me away. On the same ginger-bread, to say nothing of the deadly day he took me to another gambling house to malarial fever which, seining every white man win back the $500. I lost $600 more. Yung that sets foot in these poisonous valleys and it We did not play." Helben took me to the jungler would be certain to kill European Kwai Fong brotbel in Lower Lascar Row and I engineers and miners wholesale. The people of spent the night there. That cost me $30. He the Mekong valley and Luang Prabang regions then said "You lost $1,100 last night, let us try are a fairly hardy, peaceable race. and win it, back." He took me to the Shen KaYes, M. Pavle is the Chief of the French gaming house, where 1 lost another $500. He Boundary Commission. He has done a lot of then took me to the Wu Yung Lan eating house, hard work; has left a good impression. on the where I ordered a foreign supper and sent for the minds of the Siamese officials (who speak well third and fourth defendants. The supper cost of him), and will probably turn up in Bangkok me $50 After supper there was some talk of before very long to effect a settlement of the my borrowing more money, Third defendant question of the Eastern boundaries of this king.

aid to Yung Ut Wothat I had lost all my money dom. and asked if he knew of any one who would lend me more. Yung Ut Wo said "Go to the Pun Au Kui, and when I have settled anything I will come there.. Three or four days after the supper I heard about the loan. On the asnd May the third defendant took me to second defendant and said he would lend me more modey. Tam Sau and Ng Mak Hoi were there. Ng Mak Hoi said the two papers signed with reference to the $7,000 loan would be returned and two fresh ones given as the first two could not be signed. That day I sgned a promissory note to Chan Tat for $5,000 and received $800, Ng Mak Hoi did not see this money paid over. I then went back to Chan An Kan. I did not spend the $6oo that day. On the 27th May Fung Ut Wo spoke to me about a loan for, $5,000. He took me to Mr. Ewen's office. Two of three days befors going to Mr. Ewens' office Yung Ut Wo told me he knew of a friend who would lend me $1750, if I would give him a promissory note for $3,000. $687,50 was to be. given to Chang. Chul as commission. After going to Mr. Ewens' office we went to Mr. Phillippo's office. At his office I executed a charge for 85.000 and received $3,750. U. Ping-charg The money. A promissory note gave me was also given mator $2.350 with my name as signatory. I had never made such a note. The note was stomped. U King-chung said the thing would look better if done before lawyer It was not a true néte and was, only done for the look of the thing, Mr. Phillippo, three defendants and Yung Ut Wo were present when the money was paid over. Chang Sui tore up the promissory note for $2,250. When I left Mr. Philippo's office I went to the club with Chung Sul and Tam San. On the way Chung Sui sald Yung Ming Chan was willing to lend me $13,000 I was to get back the promissory note for which I had received oo and I was also to receive $5,200 more. He sald. Let us go and sign at once. We went to Yeung Ming Shan's house. There I found three papers, the promissory note, the registra- tion paper and the declaration of age Paper These signed. received $500 in cash and got back my promissory note for $2,450. I beard nothing about this note for $15.000 before. I left fr. Phillippo's office. When I got these sums of money, on the 29th May, I was in the Po An Kan Club playing fantan, Tam San and Yung Ut Wo were there. I lost $2,345 them. I then went to a brothel with Yung Lt Wo. I know the Chun Kai gambling club and have played there, I have heard that Yeung Ming Shan was the matter. Yang Ut Wo told me so. I was tiffining at one time with Yung Ut Wo. He said let us go to the Chun Kai gambling house of which Yeung Ming Shan is the rich master. I went and won $300. I went again after dinner and lost $1,900, They returned me 850. Shortly after I got this money Yeang Ming Shan wrote to me asking me to take share In a gambling concern at Kowloon City, I have barnt the letter, I took a $700 share. I gave the money to Yong Ut Wo to give to Yeung Ming Shan, I got a second letter with relérance to this share from Yeung Ming Shan which has also been burnt. He told me that the whole of my share had been lost and that I still owed $70. This I paid.. Yung Ut Wo also naked me to take shares is a peripatetic gambling concern. I subscribed $300 and got back 24. My mother afterwards got hod of me and took me to a lawyer. By this time I had spent all my money. It was very late when she found me.

At this stage the further hearing of 'the case was adjourned until Friday (he 7th fast,

HOW A BRITUH EXPLORER FOUND IT. !! Magna jai veritas, it prevajalijų

A second Illustration of the present policy was afforded lately by the imposition of a tax of per cent, on home-made cotton-seed oil. The land produces thousands of tons of seed, which pre taken to Europe, there pressed and con- verted into oll, candles, soap, glycerine and oil. opportunity to increase local prosperity, and built a mill. This, with inexperienced hands prospered and was able to compete with the im- ported cotton seed products on equal terms. It had no more than displayed its ability to make money for both capitalist and laborer, when the tax referred to was suddenly enacted, and as was undoubtedly intended by the powers that be, the industry became a thing of the past. Upon even terms, Egypt could make cotton thread, cloth, and lace cheaper than any other country. This would lajure, if not ruin, English trade in the northern part of Africa, as well as in Asia Minor. For that reason every attempt to start cotton. mills in this land has been frowned at by the government,

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As a consequence Egypt is essentially an agricultural country, with every probability it will remain so, as long as England holds the reins of power. Yet even here, there has been a singular disregard of the principles of com- merce which are obeyed in every other country, When a land raises large trops, the first thing to be done is to move them to the mercantile centres, and to move them requires good roads, bridges, water-routes and railways. Of these Egypt can not boast Roads, there are none, There are camel paths and donkey paths. They are usually on the leva pr canal banks, and are irregular and dinous. The crops are transported on the backs of the two useful Slave-bunting Maranding! Oh, dear not animals named, hit the transportation is slow. Nothing of the kind. I neither beard nor saw

and expensive. If a famine broke out in anything of the sort. Had such evil practices Khartoum, or even Dongola, the people would be either been prevalent, or had any existence is dead and buried a month before a caravan fact, I could not have falled to know it. The could reach them from Jantch or Duhampoor, people appeared happy and contented with their and even were they alive, the cost of transporta lot, they never having known of a better condition. on would make flour of the value of silver. As to discourtesy, I may say that during the There are but few bridges, and they belong many years that I have travelled in the interior mainly to the railroads. Instead of bridges, of Siam I never heard an angry or harsh or

there are ferries numberless. They are all insulting word used towards myself, and have

of one type. A cumbrous flat boat, which found perfect security everywhere. Of courses pulled along a rope fastened from bank to one has to exercise tact and discretion when bank. The charge, small enough to an travelling, that is ali,

American, is large from a native stand- point; the delay is great, and when the river is App very high in the flood season, or low in the dry season, the boats are seldom usable. The water routes are the chief and the best means for carrying goods. But they involve a pitiful waste of time and energy. The boata, called dabableks, are flat bottomed, high prowed stoops with one lateen sail. With a very favorable wind, which occurs once in ten times, they make about five miles an hour; on most occasions they are drawn by a sinewy Arab, who manages to make both himself and boat cover space at about two miles an hour, The railway system of Egypt is a capital example of how not to do it." Though there are no serious engineering difficulties to surmount, and the cost of laboris ridiculously low, yet the fares and freight rates are almost prohibitively high. The aim of the management seems to be the devoting their lines to the soldier and pleasure- seeker, to the exclusion of everything else. Little or no regard is paid to the transfer of malls, to the upbuilding of a large commutation and local traffic, or to making connections with steamship lines. On the main line from Cairo to Alexandria, the retardation of the trains is from fifteen to thirty-five minutes per train; on the line from Catre to Suez it is anywhere from a half-hear to four hours. The freight traffic is not neglected; it is not considered.

ADDENDUM.

We are indebted to an old and distinguished resident for the following additional authentic historical facts respecting the foundation of the madem Kingdom of Slam by Phya Tak in 1768:--

Phya Tak was successful only through the instrumentality of two great generals known as Phya Chakraksi (z, the founder of the present dynasty, the present King's great grand-father) and the other bis brother Phys Sureveri (e. the Wangna or, as called by Europeans, the second King of the first reign of the present dynasty). Phya Tak founded only the west bank of Bangkok, as his capital.

The subjugation of the Shan States, Malay, Peninsula, Cambodia, and the whole valley of the Mekong was carried on personally by the the Mekong which, for the first time in the sald two great generals, especially the valley of history of Siam, was successfully brought under Siamese rale in A.D. 1779.

Phya Chakraks, who was then in Cambodia suppressing the revolt there, was compelled to cucceed Phya Tak 'owing to a revelation that broke out in the capital of Slam, through Phya Ták becoming insane and cruelly oppressing the people, and by Phya San, another officer of Phys Tak's who dethroned his master and usurped the sovereignity. The people then found no more suitable successor of Phya Tak then Phys Chakrakri, and so elected him Raler.

The good qualities of this great general, Phya Chakrakel, are fully and briefly recorded in Bur- mess records and in Sir Arthur P. Phayre's "History of the Burmese," in the following words (vide page 217) —

Under such auspices, the lot of the agriculturist is not a happy one. His rent and land-taxes are onerous enough, but they are further in creased by special taxes and a poll tax. When he takes his goods and crops to the nearest city he is stopped at the gates by the police and soldiery and compelled to pay an octrol upon all he brings. If, the year through, his facomo "Phya Ták had been succeeded on the throne averages af cents a day, he is very happy. He of Slam by Phya Chakrakri, the ancestor of the pays wages proportionate to these figures, To present King of that country. For greater security the day laborer he pays from 10 to 20 cents against Burmese attacks, he removed the inhabi day. So grinding is this unnatural poverty, that tants of Bangkok from the west to the cast bank the women and the children work the same as of the river. Being a man of ability and courage. the men, Little boys of three to six years lead he led the Siamese armies in many actions since the Egyptian buffaloes to their daily work and the fall of Ayothia in A.D. 1767, and had revived mount guard over them the day long, and girls the spirit of the people, which, after the conquest of the same age shell corn, pick beans, gather cow dong and fashion it into rude cakes for fuel, by Bureng Naung, (A.D. 1564), had been cowed under the superler force of the Burmese. The

or collect scraps of wood and pieces of bushes confidence thus infused into the Siamese was

and brambles. In every market town you can manifested by the vigorous attacks made on the

see groups of litle toddlers sorting grain with a invading «rmy,"

quickness and accuracy worthy of an adult. For this work they are paid from 2 to 5 cente. In many fields it is cheaper to use human labor than to use machinery. Of this, sorting beans or coffee are Ilustrations. In other fields the would-be-user has not the cash to buy the instrument or mechanism required and keeps on as his ancestors did in the days of the Pharoahs, A good pump that with two men would do the work of eight, costs about 830 in Egypt. The farmer to whom it would be a priceless boon, not having the $30, continues to employ the 8 men, and pays them chiefly in farmi producte and not in cath.

The foregoing will, we think, suffice to prove to our readers, from the evidence of an eminent eye-witness, that the resources, magnificence, productions, and brilliant prospect of the Mekong Valler and Luang Prabang regions exist only in the fickle minds of those who indulge in the mischievous pastime of telling and writing stories which are "with falsehood season'd."-Bangkok

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CARTES DE VISITE from $3 a dosen. LIFE SIZED BUSTS in Colour, or Black & Walte

·IVORY MINIATURES, &2, &C.

NEW VIEWS OF HONGKONG and the Const Ports are always ready,

¡Ponvirony, 24th September, 18001

NOTICE.

It Cures Old Sores,

Cures Ulcerated Sores on the Neck. Cures Ulcerated Sore Lega

Cures Blackheads, or Pimples on the Face, Cures Scurvy Sores.

Cures Cancerous Ulcers.

Cures Blood and Sidn Diseases. Cures Glandular Swellings,

Clears the Blood from all impure matter. From whatever cause arising.

Clarke's Blood Mixture is the only real Specific for Gout and Rheumatic pains, for it. F18 removes the cause from the blood and bones.

HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY,

LIMITED,

As this mixture is pleasant to the taste, and warranted free from anything injurious to the most delicate constitution of either sex, the Proprietors solicit sufferers to give it a trial to test its value.

THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS. Clarke's Bioők Mixture is sold in Bottles 25,. od. each, and in cases, containing six times the SHIPMASTERS AND ENGINEERS quantity 11 sufficient to effect a permanent are respectfully informed that, if upor care in the great majority of long standing cues, their arrival in this HARBOUR me of the by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Verdosa throughout the world. Proprietors, the Lincoln COMPANY'S FOREMEN should be at hand, and Midland Counties Drug Company, Lincoln, ORDERS FOR REPAIRS, if sent to the HEAR England. Trade Mark Blood Mixture," Drrick, No. 14. Praya Central, will receive prompt attention,

In the event of complaints being found necessary, communication with the Undersigned Captain Porter, will be despatched for the requested, when immediate steps will be taken

For Freight, apply to QUE

to rectify the cause of disfatisfaction. DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.

Agents. Hongkong, 6th August, 1893,

1979

FOR NEW YORK, VIA SUEZ CANAL.

HE Steamship

"MACDUFF*

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MEKONG all, in the development of a people, the recent Khedive, about which so much ado was made by

VALLEY.

history and present condition of the land of Europeat newspapers, was simply a drop in the the Pharoahs must be an inexplicable fact. bucket. He spent no more and probably not af Within the memory of this generation, the much as any of the predecessore. But he learned people were lazy to the last degree, the land | financial tricks they never knew, and obtained swarmed with beggars, and the soil, though the bis money from foreign_money-lenders, chiefly | richest in the world, produced scarcely more English, French and German. Excepting the than enough to supply the wants of the native Rothschilds, who were fair and upright la their | above port on the 38th instant. | population: Mohamed All, the great governor of | dealings, these bankers and speculaters as s Egypt, a man of remless energy and enterprise, | class proved harples. alongside of whom took the matter in hand and by a series of Bhylock' was a monument of generosity. A autocralio decreas made labor honorable; and i single caso will show the lengths to

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Then to the Importance attached to Luang Phrabang as “an important trade centre." It docan't begin to be one. The town consists of something over 1000 bimboy hats of the most

D. GILLIES Secretary Hongkong, 15th August, 188),

CAUTION.

Purchasers of Clarke's Blood Mixture should see that they get the genuine article. Worthless, Imitations are sometimes palmned off by unprin ciolod vendors. The words "Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Company, Lincoln, England," are engraved on the Goverment Stamp and Clarke's World-famed Blood Mixture, blown in the Battle, wilkoms which [L5 }NDAGRIÚ genuine.