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Shipping-Steamers,

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., ́LD.

AND

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1905.

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAV. CO., LD.

JOINT SERVICES.

FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS FOX LONDON- AND CONTINENT.

A MONTHLY SAILINGS FOR LIVERPOOL.

TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR ALL EUROPEAN, NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN, WEST AUSTRALIAN, JAVA AND SUMATRA PORTS.

EUROPEAN

FROM

GLASGOW and LIVERPUOL

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL

SERVICE.

OUTWARD,

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL .....

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL ............

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL.

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL

STEAMERS

Shipping

TRIPS TO CANTON AND MACAO.

THE Yuk Oo Company's Splendid Steamer

"YING KING,"

1,088 ton, Registered.

Steamers.

THE BRAIN MARKET.

** The special attention of young men about to start in life and, in particular, of their parents, should naturally be directed to the question where they can find the best market for their intelligence. There is little doubt that the career of clark in an office is about the worst, and this season why 10 many adopt a calling at the outset which they are afterwards unable to shandon la an Industrlat problem-ons might

Elsewhere his Investigations lead;shim të give the additional reason that; "As in the legal profession, the eminence of a small minority dazzles the eyes of a large number whose talents might perhaps have been more profitably directed elsewhere," But there in another fact, possibly more than any other,

HONGKONG-MACAO LINE.

S.S. "WING CHAI," Captain T. AUSTIN, R.M.R.

Captain E. T. Page, will leave Hongkong for Week Days, at 7.30 A.M. and as Sur-† almost say an industrial tragedy-which we consider balow, responsible for the growth of this mass of`·

HIS Steamer departs from Hongkong on Cantons every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY days at 8:30 AM. Departs from Macao on Week and FRIDAY EVENING, at 9.30 P.M., returning to Hongkong every TUESDAY, Days at 2.30 P.M. and on Sundays at 3.30 PM, THURSDAY and SATURDAY, about 5 PM.

if tide permits. On SUNDAYS she make an EXCURSION Cabin and servant, Single $31 Return Ticket, FARES-Wook Days, 1st Class, including 8.30 A.M., and returning from Macao about $51 and Class, $11 3rd Class, 50 cents. TRIP to MACAO, leaving Hongkong ›at

7.30 P.M.

The "YING KING" is especially fitted for these runt, is the newest, fastest and most luxuriously furnished steamer on the line and is lighted throughout with Electricity, also hot and cold water is supplied. FARES:

First Class single journey to Canton ...$3.00 Becond

11 ** 3.50 First class single journey with Cabin 2:00 to Macao 1.00

to Macao 3.00 {with Cabin 3.00. ............ 80 Cents. $1.50

" PATROCLUS "

"PAKLING".

DUE 5th July. .18;8 30

"ACHILLES "

...28tb

3rd August,

* retora

4th

5th

9th 9th

Second

Third

single

return

PANTENOR"

* MACHAON" 'ORESTES", "ULYSSESS* "QUPACK"

5.5. "Pakling" left Singapore at daylight on the 13th inst, and is due here on the 18th.

FOR

LONDON, AMSTERDAMZ ANTWERPHYSON".

HOMEWARD.

STEAMERS

TO RAIL

.8th July,

* GENOA, MARSEILLES & LPOOL TELEMACHUS "...........241. LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP. “ AJAX LONDON AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP IDOMENEUS"......... * GENOA, MARSEILLES & POOL "STENTOR " LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANT VERP "PAKLING...

产

... at August.

... 5th

..20th 28th

• Taking Cargo for Liverpool at London Rates..

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE.

OPERATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH

THE, NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

AND TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO ALU OVERLAND COMMON POINTS, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CANADA.

FOR

EASTWARD.

STEAMERS

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA, and) "KEEMUN",

All PACIFIC COAST PORTS," vid} NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA } "MACHAON”.

FROM

WESTWARD.

STEAMER

TACOMA, SEATTLE, VICTORIA andĮ "FELEMACHUS "

PACIFIC COAST

For Freight, apply to

TO SAIL 17th July,

7th August.

DUE

.15th July.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS,

Hongkong, 15th July, 195

CHINA NAVIGATION CO. L LIMITED.

FOR

SHANGHAL......

CHEFOO and NEWCHWANG

SILANKA

TO SAIL

'KWELLIN"..... 16th July,

"HUPEH"

17th

MANILA

"TAMING."

18th

and TIENTSIN

SWATOW, WEHALWEI, CHEFOO ORIHLI “

•

• 21st

ห

* The Attention of Passengers in dire ted in the Superior Accommodation offered by these steamers, which art fitted the tour with Élevizic - Light. Unrivalled table. A daly qualified Surgeon is carried.

Taking Cargo ou through Bills of Lading to all. Yanglaze and Northern China Ports,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hongkong, 15th July, 1905

single

return

11 miam 30 15 www... 50 1

Breakfast, Time or Dinner $1 each only, Wine and Spirit of the best brand are used.

The whart in Hongkong is at the West and of Wing Lok Street.

The wharf in Macao is the same as the S.5. Perseverance.

For further information, apply to the Office of

YUK ON S. S. Co., LD,

Every Sunday will be an Excursion, at the Ticket, $t; Return, 52; 3rd Class, Single, 30 following rates at and 2nd Class, Single canta, Retro, 50 cents teerage, to cents either on Board, or at the Macao Hotel, for Breakfast, Tiffin and Dinner can be supplied returning passengers only, at an extra charge of $2.

On Sundays, passengers desiring to have a Private Cabin which has accommodation for two or more passengers, wil be charged $3

extra.

First Class Passengers, who do not care to retnin on the Excursion Sunday, will be allowed to do so the following day (Monday) on pro duction of the Return Half Ticket. Should the Steamer not rut on the Monday, owing to by the Captain, and the Half Ticket will be the Boiler cleaning, doa notice will be given available for the following day.

The Steuner is lit throughout by Electricity, Western ced of Wing Lok Btreet.

The Steamer's wharf at Hongkong is at the

MING ON & Co., and Floor, No. 16, Victoria Street. Hanukone. 13th June, 1005.

Further articles by writers of the bigbest authorlay Joalles semi-skilled labor-namely, that clerkdom with other aspects of iba quilon wiit follow.

offers an easy outlet for boys who are pouring "An increase of inquiry for clarks generally out of our schools equipped with a better steady demand for young Faglishmen familiar having scant knowledge of the other equally during the month of January-a continued education than our fathers had, and who, with shorthand and possessing a fair knowledge "respectable" outlets, or insufficient means quiry for well-educated juniors"-those are the the clerks office. If that be so there is surely of foreign languages-a well maintained in-

to enter them, pass almost automatically into reports of the Employment Department of the something amiss with our industrial organisa London Chamber of Commerce. But the last tion. observation of the report that "avening study

MR. HALDANB, K.C., M.P. UPON NATIONAL and improvement would fit many of these for higher salaries" is significant enough, and

EDUCATION. largely serves to reconcile the facts that so many are looking for employment while yet employees are in such steady demand.

The tale of the average clark-which might well be compressed into the Grand Vizier's, torse history of the human race, "they were fully told by Charles Booth in his great work: born, they suffered, they died"--has been more on the Life and Labor of the People. The necessary qualifications to make a clerk are naither many nor difficult to attain. According to Mr. Booth, "a good appearance, unobtrusive dress, and-next-handwriting are the most essential"-to which must be added "a sound

Is there really less opening, than formerly there is something wrong with their training- for educated young men, or is it rather that

that education has not kept pace with the needs of the age?

Such questions inevitably arise in the mind, when one considers how many men in the business world-apart from the ranks of the work, while those who 416 even now working technically unemployed-are vainly seeking

are haunted by the dread that, with advancing years, they will find increasing difficulty in re- taining their positions. And the view which Mr. Haldane took of the question when he was

No. 216, Wing Lak Street, Hongkong. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION constitution," in order that he may stand the invited to express his 'visws to the reader of

or to

Mean. WENDT & Co., Canton Agents.

5. A. NORONHA, Macao Agent. Hongkong, 17th May, 1905.

COMPANY, LIMITED,

[523] FOR AMOY, STRAITS AND RANGOON,

THE Company's Steamship

STEAM TO CANTON. THE Now Twin Screw Steel Steamers

Toni Captain "KWONG CHOW”.....1,309...J. P. MARTIN. "KWONG TUNG"...1,238...H. W, WALKER. Leave Hongkong for Canton at 9 every evening (Saturday excepted).

"PUNDUA,"

Captain Swanson, will be despatched as above, TOMORROW, the 16th insiant, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 15th July, 1905.

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Leave Canton for Hongkong about 5.30 REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE

o'clock every evening (Sunday excepted).

These Fine New Steamers have unexcelled Accommodation for First Class Passengers and are lit throughout by Electricity. Electric Fans in First Class Cabins,

Passage Fare-Single Journey...54 Meals

The Company's Wharf is a short distance West of the Harbour Master's Office.

SHIU ON S.S. CO., LD., and YUEN ON S.S. CO., LD.

No. 8, Queen's Road West.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1905.

'17

TO NEW YORK,

VIA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL, (With Liberty to Call at Malabar Coast). PROPOSED SAilimus from Honorowa,

Steamship

About "STY HUGO"

again 4th August, 1955. "SHIMOSA".

For Freight and further Joformation, apply to

DON WELL & Co., LIMITED, A42011. Hongkong, 30th June. Font

constant strain of office life."

MEANS 'AND MANNERS.

"The Moming Leador" was, that educated- young men were rather more than less in de mand than ever.

But if the standard.of fitness is not high a mong commercial clerks, the pay in not magnifi-students who have ultimately had a training of "By educated young men," he said, "I mean

be given by day training alone. that higher class which in its latest stages can

cent.

Boys (Mr. Booth wriles), beginning at 55. or 6s. a week, may rise while still lads to 201, in a good employ. Young men earn from 105. to 255, and men of experience receive anything from 255. a week to Licco a year. It would what proportion of adult experienced men are need a very exhaustive research to indicate

to be found working at this or that rate be tween these very wide extremes. To hazard a guess, I should suppose that the proportion, excluding boys and quite young men, would increase from 258. up to 409., 45%, and then steadily decrease.

ELECTRICITY AND MINING.

general education, and also special training in "For the young expert who has got a good certain subjects, I believe that there are more world's history. openings than at any previous period of the

"To begin with, the enormously increased ule to which electricity is being put, and the still more increased usd to which it will be put in the future, are creating a demand for electri. cal engineers which certainly is not supplied by what we have to offer in this country. In

bers at high salaries must be comparatively

But, adds Mr. Booth significantly, "the num-deed, in this country there is very little chance

very small indeed,"

A junior clerk in a commercial house, start ing at 15, 16, or 17 years of age, according to Mr. Tooth earns less for his age than a van-boy.

for the young specialis: getting an adequate training. There is no great school of electrical traction. Good as the teaching given in our polytechnics and even our university colleges is, it is not the range of the opponunities effer,

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD. He may hope to beca ne manager or master ined to the would-be learner in the United States

(PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM Hongkong,-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION).

Steamship

For

On SGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA...LAISANG TUESDAY, 18th July, Noon. TIENTSIN

..... WOSANG .........TUESDAY, 18th July, 3 P.M. SHANGHAI...n

TAKSANG|......TUESDAY, 18th July, 3 P.M. SHANGHAI VIA NINGPOTUNGSHING†„FRIDAY, 21st July, 3 P.M. S'GAPORE, S'RABAYA & SAMARANG.CHUNSANG......FRIDAY, 21st July, 3 R.M. MANILA

YUENSANG* ...FRIDAY, z1st july, 4 P.M.

+ Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading to Chefon, Tientsin, Newchwang and Yangtare Parts. * These Steamers have superior accommodation for First-class Passengers, and are fitted throughout with Electric Light.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

SUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Hongkong, sib july, rgos,

AGENTS.

HONGKONG -MANILA.

Highest Class, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steamers between Hongkong and Manila.-Saloon amidships-Electric Light-Perfect Cuisine-Surgeon and Stewardess carried. -All the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Passengers.

CHINA AND MANILA

STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

For

Steamship.

Toni. Captain.

ZAFIRO

RUBI.

254 R. Rodger

MANILA

A. H Nailey.......

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hongkong. 15th Joy,

1005.

Sailing Dates.

SATURDAY, 22nd July,

at Noon. SATURDAY, 29th July,

at Noon.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

GENERAL MANAGERS.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

General Managers.

[460

his turn, and is thus content not only to work and in Germany. I mention electrical en. for a nominal wage for two or three years, but gineering; but a not less striking case is that for many years to earn no more than, if so of mining engineering. much as, an artisan.

"In the opportunities which, this country "Financially" (we read in words that are terrifers for the training of mining engineers wo rible in their blunthess) "the great mass of are inferior to the foreign schools. We have clerks are on a level with the great mass of nothing so good as our own Canada offers in artisans, £75 to £150 a year comparing with the new McGill University at Montreal. We 30%, 40% 50%, and 6os. a week."... do not compete with the program, which Har Yet, socially and economically, ton, they ate yard and Columbia Universities offer. This on an entirely different footing. From top to will, I hape, to a great extent be put sight; but bottom clerks associate with clerks and artisans whether it is put depends upon whether the with artisans, but comparatively seldom with people will take more interest in our deficien. each other.

cies in higher branches of education than they have hitherto done,

A clerk lives an entirely different life from an artisan-marries a different kind of wife-- has different aims and different ideas; different ›ponsibilities, and different limitations. A clerk | differs from an artisan in the claims each makes un society, no less than in the claims society makes on them.

The case of women clerka is notoriously still

་

PORTLAND & ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO. worse. According to the last census there were

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, vix SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,

под

PORTLAND, OREGON,

OPERATING IN CONNECTION WITH

THE OREGON RAILROAD AND NAVICATION COMPANY,

Steamship

"NUMANTIA". "ARABIA"

"ARAGONIA"..

Толь

'Captais

To Sail at Daylight on ----41370......................................, Feldtmann .......................July 22nd, 1905.

4483........ Metzentbin August rath,

....Schuld................September

" NICOMEDIA " ........................4.37Q...........................Wagemann...September 26th,.. The S.S. "Arabia " left Portland on the 2nd inst, and is expected to arrive here on August 3rd. Through Bill of Lading issued to Paciic Coast Points' and'ail Easteri.. Cazalian and United States Points. For through rates of Freight and further information, communicate with or apply to

ALLAN CAMERON, Teppoyi. Agnat

.2)

Hotel. OCCIDENTAL HOTEL.

HONGKONG-NEW YORK, EXCELLENT CUISINE.

AMERICAN ASIATIC

STEAMSHIP CO.

FOR NEW YORK vía PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL.

Steamship "INDRAWADI"

(With Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast),

For Freight and further information, apply to

Hongkong, 29th June, 1985,

BOO CHEONG,

昌

STATIONER AND PAPER MERCHANT, No, zo, Pottinger Street,

HAS

AS always on hand all varieties of Stationery, Printing and Note Papers,

Copying Presses, also Automatic Cyclostyle --and Ellams Duplicator

Hoogkong, z3rd February, 190f.

(64

About .................31st July,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Agents.

MODERATE PRICES.

ELECTRIC FANS

TO ORDER IN

EVERY ROOM,

EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT

Eloin Roap, KOWLOOM. Tiongkong, 10th May, 1904

JUST

UNPACKED.

A CONBIONMENT OF THE WELL-KNOWN

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I PLASMON BISCUITS. They contain

·TSANG FOO & CO., | COAL MERCHANTS AND STEVEDORES,

48, DES Vœux ROAD.

notice, and with all possible despatch. HIPS Coaled from alongside at the shortest Prices Moderate. Telephone No. 29. Hongkong, 1st October, 1904.

zo per cont. of Plasmon and are more easily digested and afford greater nourishment and sustenance than any other, Plasmon raises the actual flesh forming value of food to a high and trustworthy degree. They are made in

four varieties—

SWEET, PLAIN (UNSWEETENED), WHOLE. HEAL, AND CELERY.

H. RUTTONJEE, Hongkong and Kowloon.

Hongkong, 3rd July 1905.

Intimations.

TRADE

CURES

MARK

MEN & WOMEN

BIG pon.pl ORDUS remedy for any unnatural Falckerge and inCammation, tition er ulceration of |n9zistenbranes, Patulevi fisarateed at jo aizietura» Falcon-gla.

CELO BY GUEIGTE, Adresler munited en request.

HINTTUTE's lear

The Evans Chemical Co, M CINCINNATI, D. U.. A

AN APPEAL

close on 20,000 women in London, alone em played as "commercial or business clerks,” and Mr. Booth tells as that women clerk seldom carn more than from £50 to £60 per annum, and hardly ever rise to anything above £100.

SPICIALIBATION: "What about the appartenities of employ. ment?"

"The output of valuable metals particularly," said Mr. Haldane, "is enormously on the in- crease; and the bulk of it takes place in the Anglo-Saxon countries, where every English- man has his chance, if only he is qualified. For instance, the Anglo-Saxon countries bave an output in copper of 62 per cent of the world's production. Of gold their output is 78 -- por cont. of silver 43 per cent, of lead 43 per cent, and of tin 61 per cent. This represents "DROPPING UNDER."

A total output which has been calculated as of Still, the great tragedy of the clerk is really an annual value of something like „£90,000,000 to be found, not so much in the thought of his sterling. I need not say that the demand for social ambitions, struggling under a threadbare skilled mining engineers, with a training in frockcoat, as in the fact that as age jncreases electrical and chemical science, for the accom their value decreases till they are practically plishment of this huge task, is immense. Ever discarded as worn out. The number of malety year more and more science is required. commercial and business clerke in the County The ill-trained or stupid have little chanca lo if london, as stated in the last census, was the race; but to the boy of talent the world is B4,317. Of these 21,736 were between the ages offering more and more openings in this of 15 and 20, 19,999 between 20 and 25, and direction if only he can get the training, 21,547 between the ages of 25 and 35. But then as the years creep on there is a significant full- ing away. Only in,354 were between 35 and 45 years old, and only 5,865 between 45 and 55mploy more an! mo e Amerie in and German The figurer tell iboir own tale. "It very seldom happens," says Mr. Booth, "that an old oreven middleaged man is engaged (as a clerk) except for temporary work." And with grim brevity he adds that "thos, who drop out drop under"

Mr. Booth pursues the subject a little further: "Previous to middle life there is good deal of movement among these mjan, Many change their place to better themselves. Some businesses afford no scope for advancement, and as each clerk in turn reaches a certain point it is almost an under- stood thing that, while still a young man, he he moves out, making room for someone younger to step up. Others do not remain he. cause they do not suit. Others from sheer locapacity, sink inevitably to the most mechanical and worst paid kind of clerks' work. Others have bad health, and others, again

THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN drink or are unsteady in some way. Of nows as these last every charitable agency knows many.

'CONVENT, CATHE ROAD, Legs must respectfully to APPEAL t the Residents f Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kinil patronage and support, and derires to state thay. she will be pleased to receive orders for all kinds of NEEDLE WORK.

Gentlemen's Shirts unde to order, and Cuffs and Collars renewed on old ones.

Ladies and Children's Under-clothing, Col dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required.

The Superioress will also be most grateful (tik aus l'arts, or ald ENVELOPES to be made loto Bouks for the Children of the Poor Schools, who are taught by the Sisters, Hongkong, Trji Kor. 18)

"In a remarkable report published more than a year ago on British industries in South A ca. Mr. Birchenough pointed out that the force uf circumstances was loading people there: to

Xperts, simply because the level of British training was not high enough. The result, ac, in the making of machinery, apparatus, and all en ding to the report, was that much business. some of things required in the industries went outside Great Britain for the simple reason that the engineers preferred to buy in the countries. much there is that we might have in the way of from which they bad come. All this shows how vinployment for our skilled people if only w were more in earnest in training them,"

THE DEMAND FOR INTELLECT, "What do you then consider the decisive factor

In this, as in the world's competition for entry with goods into the neutral markets, it is quality that tells. Nothing can keep quality Gut will pay anything for brains, said I cannot get enough of what I am in search of millionaire employer to me the other day, and The best is always more in demand than the good.

is really true of every other. The truth is that "What is true of the engineering profession the standard is almost everywhere higher than

it was b 1 the npfessions and occupations which require ski are more open than they ever were to those who are capable of rendering THE LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE, Why, one may ask, is there this perpetual is increasing as the enterprise and wealth of real service in them; and the demand for skill, rush into the counting-house? Between the the world increase. People are apt to mistake censuses of 1891 and 1901 the male commercialeen competition for shortage in employment/ or business clerks in London increased from '71,387 to 84,317 and the females from 6,793 to 11,097 (a rise of no less than 181 per cent.) What is it that leads these whole army, corps of men and women to chain themselves to the desk for life?

"I am satisfied that there is no general short. ge in employment Just as the manufactures may find old-fashioned goods go out of demand, or that, whese what he manufactures is no better than what he made by the foreigner abroad,

riff is burting his trade, so it is with the skill, accupations. Chen there is no place for mn who has merely as much skill'mak

are in demand ever, where, and at no period

Mr. Booth attributes the phenomenon to thember of his neighbors; but the beat brains growing demand for such services, though it

strange that this demand does the world's history so much as today," an not lead to the exaction of better rewarde

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