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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII TUESDAY MAY-21

U.S. MAIL LINES.

PACIFIC MAIL: S.$. CO.; 'OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL S.S. CO.,

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

TAKING CARGO-AND-PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE

"CHINA " "DORIC",

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG..

"NIPPON MARU".

"PERU"

*COPTIC"

"AMERICA MARU"............

...............SATURDAY, 31st May, at Noon. „SATURDAY, 7th June, at Noon. „TUESDAY, 17th June, at Noon.

.TUESDAY, 24th June, at Noon.

THURSDAY, 3rd July, at Noob. .SATURDAY, 12th July, at Noon.

Insura

TOLTH GERMAN TIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,

THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First: Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at

CURRENT RATES.

SIEMSSEN & Co

Hongkong, 28th May, 1895.

Intimations.

“HE CHINA & JAPAN TELEPHONE TAND ELECTRIC COMPANY,

LIMITED.

HONGKONG EXCHANGE, OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.

SUBSCRIPTIONS.

EXCHANGE LINES, $80 Per Annum.

PRIVATE LINES, $100 Per Annum.

· NO CHARGE FOR INSTALLATION.

TCISCO, via SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI KOBE, INLAND SEA, YOKOHAMA N.B-A special charge is made for lines ot THE 'P. M. Company's Steamship "CHINA," will be despatched for SAN FRAN. and HONOLULU, on SATURDAY, the 31st instant, at Noon, taking Freight for Japan, the United States, and Europe. Passengers are allowed to break their journey at any point

en route.

Through Passage Tickets granted to England, France and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Steamers, and to the principat eities of the United States or Canada.

Passengers holding through ORDERS TO EUROPE have the choice of the Overland Rail Routes from San Francisco, including the SOUTHERN PACIFIC,CENTRAL PACIFIC, UNION PACIFIC, DENVER and RIO GRANDE, and NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL- WAY; also the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY on payment of £4 in addition to the regular tariff rate.

Passengers holding Orders for OVERLAND CITIES in the United States have between SAN FRANCISCO and CHICAGO, the option of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC, CENTRAL PACIFIC, UNION PACIFIC, DENVER and RIO GRANDE and other direct connecting Railways, and from Chicage to destination the choice of direct lines,

Special rates (First-class only) to European Points, are granted to Missionaries, Members. of the Naval, Military, Diplomatic and Consular Services, and European Civil Service Officials located in Asia, and to European Officials in the Service of the Governments of China and Japan.

TO UNITED STATES and CANADIAN. POINTS, Special rates (first class only) are confined and will apply only to Missionaries, Members of the Naval and Military Services, and to Consular and Diplomatic Officials of the Governments of China and Japan.

Return Passage-Reduction will be made to passengers who do not hold return tickets, making the return journey between ports in the Orient and Honoluls or beyond, within twelve

months,

Throngh Bills of Lading issued for transportation to Yokohama and other Japan Ports, to San Franscisco, to Atlantic and Inland Cities of the United States, via Overland Railway, to Havana, Trinidad, and Demerara, and to ports in Mexico, Central and South America, by the Companies' and connecting Steamers.

Freight will be received on board until 4 P.M, the day previous to sailing, Parcel Packages will be received at the Office until 5 PM. same day;'all Parcel Packages should be marked to address in full; value of same is required. "

Consular Invoices to accompany each shipment of Carge or parcel (valued at $too. Guld or over) destined to Points, beyond San Francisco, in the United States, should be sent to the Companies' Office addressed to the Collector of Customs at San Francisco,

Merchant's Invoice will be sufficient for cargo or parcel (each shipment) when the value ris less than $100. U.S. Gold

For further information as to Passage and Freight, apply to the Agency of the Com panies, Queen's Building.

1902

Hongkong, 23rd May, 1902,

J. S. VAN BUREN, Agent.

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COY.'S ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE.

SAFETY,

SPEED.

PUNCTUALITY,

THE FAST ROUTE BETWEEN CHINA, JAPAN AND EUROPE, VIA CANADA AND.THE UNITED STATES.

1902

(CALLING AT SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & VICTORIA, B.C.) Twin Screw Steamships-6,000 Tons-10,000 Horse Power-Speed 19 Knots. PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG. R.M:S. EMPRESS OF CHINA...Comdr. R. Archibald, R.N.R.WEDNESDAY, 4th June,

TARTAR

Comdr. E. Beetham, R.N.R...SATURDAY, 21st June. EMPRESS OF INDIA....Comdr. O. P. Marshall, R.N.R.WEDNESDAY, 25th June. EMPRESS OF JAPAN.....Comdr. H. Pybus, R;N.R.......WEDNESDAY, 16th July. ATHENIAN.................Comdr. H. Mowatt.......SATURDAY, 26th July, THE magnificant Twis-screw Steamships of this Line pass through the famous INLAND TE JAPAN, and usually make the voyage YOKOHAMA TO VANCOUVER (B.C.) in 12 DAYS, saving THREE DAYS to a WEEK in the Trans-Pacific journey, and make connection at Vancouver with the PALATIAL OVERLAND TRAINS of the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY which leave daily, and cross the Continent FROM THE PACIFIC TO THE ATLANTIC WITHOUT CHANGE. Close connection is made at Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, New York and Boston with all Trans-Atlantic Lines, which passengers to Great Britain and the Continent are given choice of.

Passengers. Booked through to all, principal points and AROUND THE WORLD, Return tickets to various points at reduced rates, Good for 4, 6, 9 and 12 months.

SPECIAL RATES (First class only) granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval Military, Diplomatic and Civil Services and to European Officials in the Service of China and Japan Governments.

The attractive features of the Company's route embrace its PALATIAL STEAMSHIPS, (second to none in the World), the LUXURIANCE OF ITS TRANS-CONTINENTAL TRAINS (the Company having received the highest award for same at recent Chicago World's Exhibition), and the diversity of MANIFICENT MOUNTAIN AND LAKE SCENERY.. through which the Railway passes.

THE DINING CARS and MOUNTAIN HOTELS of this route are owned and operated by the Company, and their appointments and Cuisine are unexcelled..

For further information, Maps, Guide Books, Rates of Passage, &c., apply to

AD. E. BROWN, General Agent,

Pedders Street. [2- Hongkong, 22nd May, 1902.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA

LINIE.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. OSTASIATISCHER FRACHTDAMPFEN DIENST.

Taking Cargo at through Rates 15 “ANTWERP, AMSTERDAM, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, LISBON, OPORTO LONDON, LIVERPOOL GLASGOW TRIESTE, GENOA, PORTS IN TOX LEVANTE BLACK SEA and BALTIC PORTS; NORTH and SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS),

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION, ATAA

STEANERS.

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SUEV

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STRASSBUR

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SAMBIA

Schmidt SILESIA Bahla

DESTINATIONS.

HAVRE and HAMBURG

(Calling at SINGAPORE and COLOMBO).

AVRE and HAMBURG. (Calling at SINGAPORE and PENANG),, HAVRE and HAMBURG, (Calling by SINGAPORE and COLOMBO), MR HAVRE, and. HAMBURG.:

(Calling at SINGAPORE and PENANG). MAZHAVRE and HAMBURG

(Calling at SINGAPORE and COLOMBO Particulars, apply to

SAILING DATES.

4th June. Freight.

18th June. Freight.

1st July Freight

15th July.

Freight.

joth July,

HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE,

& HONGKONG OFFICE,

No. 1, Queen's Buildings,

more than average length.

CRIPTION IN STOCK.

INCLUDING

ELECTRIC SUPPLIES OF EVERY DES-

BATTERIES,

CH

HEMICALS,

ELECTRIC BELLS,

INSULATORS,

LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS, SWITCHES, TELEPHONES,

WIRE, &c. &c.

"PRICE LISTS ON APPLICATION.

ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS,

Erected and kept in order."

Estimates given for all kinds of Electricni work.

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Trained Mechaniciaus sent to Out-Ports to fi up Installations rļ required.

NOTE ADDRESS: Ice House Road.

THE OFFUM TRAFFIC WITH CHINA.

PETITION; TO LORD SALISBURY,

(Inštitute Exhibitión.. Piccadilly. His caRI

demy, picturas this year will include several characteristic subjects of the Zuyder Zee,

The

A short while ago Mr. Tom Browne and a A copy of a petition against the Indian friend made a tour from Paris to Gibraltar on- generally, opinm trafic with China, signed by the chief bicycles a glorious ride for artists-resting

when the fancy seized them, sketching, autdying kno officials of the Church of England, Church of Spaniards in places where they and their bioy Ireland, Church of Scotland, United Freecles were objects of popular amazement. Mr. Church of Scotland, the Congregational, Browne, not understanding Spanish, made his Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist Churches, pencil speak for him. He only falled once of the Society of Friends, and by other clergyWanting to make some soup, he sketched a men, peers, and laymen has been received.

The petition, which was recently forwarded by soup turcen,, and the hostess of the hostle the Archbishop of Canterbury to Lord Salis-fetched, with beaning smiles the biggest pull

in the village!

bury, was as follows:-

With great respect, we invite your attention to an appeal for decisive action by Imperial authority with regard to the Indian opium traffic with China

"We are convinced, by manifold and weighty evidence, of the correctness of the following positions

NAVIRELESS TELEGRAPHY;

-SOME POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS.

the

have been: {ainiost") ass

that

iring their?

long as the platet baš under telescopic observation. But it was not unt dark lines were noticed in the caps breaking up, and the phenomenon was not generally discussed until a dozen years later. Percival Lowell has been studying these trifts from his observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz and be contributes an account of his results to e- pular Astronomy, says Mr. Lowell,

same, it became clear that the character of the

If the rifts were fortuitous phenomena they required no particular explanation. Lack of local habitation meant that the cap rested upon practically level ground, and its melting An acquaintance of mine (temasked Profes in one spot rather than in another might be sor John Tewbridge recently), seeing a photo-due to local variations of climate from year to graph of Marconi's station, in Newfoundland, 1.That British action in respect of the immistook the guy ropes, or wires, which suser just as we have cold winters in America portation of opium into China has had disastrous tained the vertical mast of the sending and while they have warm ones in Europe, or zice worse. The moment it was-recognised that results—(a) in injury to other branches of Bri- Į receiving apparatus for parts of a complicated tish commerce in China; (b) in generating pro- electrical plant, and wondered at the marvel-he spot where disintegration advanced be found feelings of hostility to British subjects lous mind which could adjust these wires so yead that of its neighbours were always the and interests in the mind of the Chinese people that they could receive or transmit intelligence ground lay at the bottom of the transformation.

2. That the use of opium in China (to speak across the ocean of China only) is a vast national curse, and that assertions to the contrary can be met decisively by the public testimony of disinterested Chinese statesinen of to-day.

"3. That accordingly it is unworthy of a great Christian power to be commercially interested,

As a matter of fact, Marconi's apparatus in any degree, in the supply of opium to China. consists in its bare elements simply of a "As a fact, while the cultivation of opium apparatus for producing an electrical spark. in India is on a larger scale than ever, with

This spark jumps to a vertical wire and the exception of two years in the past, the re-disturbs the electrical equilibrium of the latter, venue accruing from its export has sunk to together with that of the surrounding ether of

millions.

space, and also modifies the electrical condition

"This, however, is, in our opinion, only an

incident of the position. Our affirmation is that it is the grave duty of the nation, as before the Supterne King and Governor, to purge itself anywise of connection with a great and public

wrong."

Lord Salisbury replied as follows:

;

These guy ropes merely served to hold a The rifts were places where the locale for some vertical mast upright, and had nothing to do reason or other favoured an with the electrical apparatus of wireless telegARLY DISAPPEARANCE OF SNOW. raphy, which is the most simple used, in such a state of things, and is it a matter of method of telegraphy. -

of the earth.

The surgings of electricity along the vertical wire can be partially pictured to one's self by the waves started in a tub of water by a sudden tipping of the tub, or a sudden niovement pro-

duced in the water by the to and fro motions of the band.

·

THE WONDERFUL ELECTRIC: SPARK, The electrical spark produces this to and fro disturbances in the surrounding ocean of space," of which the surface of the earth is a part, wire which has a little tube filed with fine The receiving apparatus is also a vertical metallic filings at its lower end.

The question then arose, what would favour

Physics and natural history. On earth a largo. body of water might account for it, or a lower tract of country. But bodies of water are ex-- cluded in the case of Mats: first, by the im possibility that bodies of water of sufficient shallowness to evaporate completely in summer should be solidly frozen during the long Mar-

tian winter, and, secondly, by the more obvious fact that long and slender lives, such as the

its showed themselves to be, can not, by virtue of their appearance, be oceans or seas. ground Thought turns, therefore, to for an explanation. Heie it stands, con- fronted by an equal difficulty. If a lower level, were responsible for the phenomenonjit would mean, in the case of Mara, a very con- siderable depression, much greater than it would mean on the earth. For to produce a difference,

I have the honour to acknowledge the re- ceipt of your Grace's letter, and of the memorial which you have forwarded to me with reference to the export of opium from India to China, în which your Grace and other signatories appeal for decisive action on the part of the Imperial authority to put an end to this trade.

"La reply, I have to say that I will lay the memorial before my colleagues in his Majesty's these metallic filings. Everything is quiescent the earth depends, other things being equal, on

Government."

TOM BROWNE THE CARICATURIST,

The terminals of a battery are immersed in

when no sparks are produced at the sending station.

A bell connected with the battery does Got sound, or a Morse telegraphic sounder does not tap.

Singularly enough no current can pass through the fine filings, although, they are

Show

Before they were disintegrated from the solid metal they instantly transmitted the electric current

When, however, a spark disturbs the ether of space, or the ether contained in the earth, minute sparks are formed among the metallic filings, and the electric current finds a passage by means of these sparks.

If only Mr. Tom Browne could sit to him- self, what would be the result of his quick, versatile pencil employed on such a very permetallic. * sonal subject? True, his features are sug- gested in one of his paintings of a young monke But then-Tom Browne the artist, under a caul! If one were in search of car catures there would not be far to seek, or only as far as Blackheath, where his house

Wollaton," stands. For his friends find bin a fit subject. There he is, in one sketch, gazing doubtfully at a prancing horse; Mr Browne rides when he has time. In another caricature he is evidently making a wonderful "break" at the billiard-table in his big.studio.apparatus S. J. GODWIN, in a third" Tom B." is represented as he may-

Acting Manager. be, to quote Mr. Gilbert, "in the coming. bye [zo and bye, They are all signed by well-known names, and were nearly all limned at the Sketch Club.

For full l'articulars, &c., &c,

Apply to

Hongkong, 29th January, 1902,

WILLIAM MACLEOD, D.D.Ś.,

DENTIST.

Beaconsfield Arcade, Nos. 11 and 12, 2nd Floor.

DROZ &

Co.,

WATCH MANUFACTURERS,

At least, this is the most plausible theory at present. Nothing in the world of practical electricty is simpler than Marconi's, electrical

WHENCE COMES THESE MESSAGES One person of the writer's acquaintance actually maintains that wireless telegraphy-pter vents collisions at sea in a fog. This certainly is not trues at present

Such collisions could be prevented, if one could ascertain the direction from which the witelesa message comes.

This is not possible at present, or at least ot, more feasible than by existing unperfect acoustical methods.

To give an impressionist sketch of the popular Tom Browne one should do it with a rapid touch-with perhaps a detail' here and there. He is only thirty and he does'nt look a day older, but already--to bark back to a point [77d caught by caricaturists-his shadow shows ap

inclination to grow less. The mouth and The wireless message is like a trumpet blast lower part of the clean-shaven face are more in the sky, reassurig perhaps in its announce characteristic of a comedian than of an artist,,ment of the contiguity of friends on an ocean the eyes are altogether humorous; he is far tool-of-space, but also terrifying on due reflection good and hard a workman to be spoilt by self-of the possibility of a collison. consciousness; far too real a "painter fellow. The approach of a steamer can be telegraph- to be self-absorbed. The Nottingham dialected through the air, but no definite information is heard in his pronunciation of a word now of her bearing can be given. and again,

Mr. Tom Browne was born in Nottingham, and commenced his schooling and his bread

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temperature of one degree a much greater, height is necessary there than here. So much follows at once from the less mass of that planet,

Warmth at varying altitudes on the surface of

the ARTS NIH DENSITY OF THE AIR. due to greater or less, height above sea-level. The air simply acts the part of a blanket, and the lower parts of the earth's surface being the most provided with clothes are the warmest A cooling which a mile of ascent would bring about on earth would take neatly, three miles of travel skyward to accomplish on Mars, and similarly downward, for warmth. If, then, the melting along the rifts was due to the initial depth of these depressions they must needs be immense, cams, liku. Vrangelikų klube affects. of our great cities are soon to become so they could hardly fail to accumulate here glaciers during the long Arctic winter thr Instead, therefore, of being the first places to meli, they would infallibly be the last, Dif ference of elevation, then viewed as an ex planation, breaks down when closely scanned. 1 pondered over this in the pass and fimlly gave the problem up as insoluble.

But in the spring of 1891 it was discovered that in the place of the rifts after the snow bad melted, appeared the curious Gouble line. generally known as canals. The identification Mr. Lowell tells us, has been made a number of times, although it is not a simple matter, by any means, owing to the "tilt" of the planet' poles, Says the author

***The fact, once seized, tells us something

MORE ABOUT THE RIFT

The rift has this, self-evident characteristć. that the snow melts offit before the like happens:

to the surrounding land. It also turns

be a canal in embryo. It therefore general characteristic of the canals the knowledge we have been able their behaviour about the constitu canals is that they are vege She may be coming directly on the starboard They are seasonal in. their bow, or she may be passing safely aster and disappear in the than

culty it is thought by some that there is a limit to flora would. The moment

Rby competent European experis at winning as about the same and Where be the site and strength of the electric sparks in this light,

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was only eleven he left school, and the future draughtsman of "Punch and the "Sketch Experis belive that he has not by any means who, was to exhibit season after season at exhausted the possibility of causing powerful Burlington House and become a member of surgings in the ether of space nor on the the Royal Institute, ran errands in the surface of the earth." Lace Market, and determined, having The present from of electrical apparatus: reached the mature age of fourteen, not to which are used to produce electrical "waste any more, of his youth," but to scan even now be supplanted by become an artist. He was accordingly ap| more. powerful ones. -prenticed-to-a-firm-of-lithographic printers, While the dynamo machine has steadil

years ago.

charges mensely

DISTURBING THE EARTH'S CONDITION We have mentioned in this brief passible effect of the earth in of wireless telegraphy s

the electric surginga pass entirely thr

vanishes a tion in the

the des

gin growing

'fhat:

from whom he received a thorough training increased in size and power the spark coils have every and a salary of a shilling a week, with an not exceeded the size of those employed thirt annual rise of one-and-sixpence, After serving bis apprenticeship of six years, Mr. Brawne SANG "MOWstudied at the School of Art, married, and left

· Kottingħani in '94 to try his fortune in London, The first drawing with the clear, square printed signature, "Tom Browno," in the corner, published in a London paper,, was sent from air? Nottingham when he was about sixteen, and More than one eminent authori found its home in the crowded pages of they do not, and, furfer, is con Scraps." It was just a little series of pictures long distances the surg showing an old gentleman's first attempt at the earth or water are hanging wall paper, and it proved the truth of words, that for long distanc the words. If you want a thing well done, necessary to disturb the don't do it yourself," Mr. Browne has worked for nearly every paper in London and on all sort of subjects. The five large books, filled with his black and white work, begining with the ha'penny paper drawings; gradually show his advance in method and wit, There is a laugh on every page. Mr. Browne is especially happy jorpaintings of Dutch life witness the delicious "Jealousy," in the Royal,

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