Telegrams.
[Routers]
Prince Kumi in Madrid.
London, 16th March.
Prince Kum! has handed the Queen of Spain the Order of the Crown, on behalf of the Empress of Japan."
Illness of the Emperor of Austria. The Emperor of Austria is with a bad cold, and all audiences have been cancelled.
Loss of a Cape Liner, - The Liner Newark Castle has been totally wrecked off Zululand.",
The wife of Major Boys and two of the crew were drowned, the rest, including Major-General «Dalton, and a detachment of troops for Mauritius were saved.,,
Later.
Reign of Terror in Hayti.
A reign of terror exists in Porte-au-Prince. Twelve of the leading citizens, who are alleged to be concerned in a conspiracy, were dragged from their beds and summarily
executed.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1908.
A Day in Canton.
ITS PEOPLE AND ITS INDUSTRIES.
OROWA LIVE HIVE OF HUMAN, BERE,
(kadnakigausted as their hills Soon rail-
Advertisements.
rumble awake the gnomes of the Jas; mlilloesofanindies in milli farther north will be sun (with Chinese coal; farmara of the Soulh will send cartloads of rice, bundreds of ~ HONGKONG REGATTA. miles in the time thatit now ikinato go a few li. Then will the days of flourishing return se in INTENDING COMPETITORS are re- Leminded that antrian clase "at; Noon, an the time of You and Shun. Young man from
SUNDAY," azad inst, to the Hon. Secret are being scattered overare, Hongkong Regatta, at the Hongkong foreign polversities are
Clan. - Entrance fees should accompany the entries, and can conveniently be sout, through the Secretaries of Rowing and Yacht Clubs to whom forms have been sent
Hongkong, 16th March, 1908,
Intimat
the flowers, butterflies, or dragons for an ear log of about twenty cents, a day burnt bales that one finds now and midst on a beautiful embroidered piece for a dress for some wealthy, foreiga way have been made through the carelessness of a bot they may rather mark the smoker No one should spend as long as one your in Hongkong without ever having visited Canight toll of the poor woman. If you have ton, the great metropolis of South China. They money left after visiting this place hunt trip is inexpensive and easy-easy il one takes out the boat lacquer shop. The one I have in the Empire with the seeds of learning, that are a night boat, but delightful if it is made by day mind is in A very narrow and out of the way to spring up and grow a new people with roots through the blue waters and mountaincon is street even for Canton, The outside is very to the old civilization and bearing the fruits of lands of the Pacific and then between the prepossessing, but when you enter, the old-alw. No one who enters the class rooms of wonderfully green shares of the Pearl River head of the firm, about the same as the head the schools of Canton and sess the surjons of the family, and his good tempered son, and | faces of the young students will doubt that the some fifty miles up to the city.
all his water will make you forget the street, Chinese are already, a' rejuvenant" people, in the examining of his quaint and beautiful May the education given to them be of that boxes, tea poys, frames, and other things that sound kind which conserves the best of the old Mwas to ga our Fist Fur Procura ROBINSON PIANO are lacquered in this same little shop, as be will let you see, ma
One may see silk being woven by hand looms, and the dexterity with which the oper ator handles the purtling tangle of threads whereby he controls the woof as it goes in is marvellous. The beautiful brocades are build. ed out before you in this dirty, narrow, cramp td little den where you can scarcely pass back and forth between the four looms, Why, in ever thing in China not spoiled with dirt in the making?
Before we even fund there is displayed for us in miniature a picture of the teeming toil: delven population of China, in the jam of "shnab tenge," clamsy boats with turtles. back tools of bamboo-each the home" of poor family that swarm around the steamer, clutching at her sides with their long iron-booked bamboo poles and yelling for pas tengers to be ferried ashore. A striking con izast prosents itself in Shameen's line of beautiful banyans, cement walks, flower gardens, and handsome housesion one side of a narrow canal, with the native city stretching a mile down river on the other side, while Across the dirty river lies Honam, also com- bulldisys encroaching on the muddy water.' monplace, dingy, and monotonous, with its
The most entertaining thing to see, i have But one must not be hasty in judging the people old man cuts out the dezen or more concen saved for the last. Find out the dea where the from the decks a steamer. We need to make tric spheres of Ivory. His place is just like ali closer inspection. Like a student taking his first rapid survey of the whole field of a com.the other gray brick buildings, low to the ground. Enter and pass through the disgy front part of the house and into his workshop, if you can, humour and wheedle this old man with the bright eye and the place of human
An ultimatum has been sent by the Frenchplex science, we might well begin with a ride and German Ministers, demanding the eur render of tefugees,
Mr. Asquith has announced that the Cressy and the Indefatigable have been despatched to the Island, and French and German war- ships are also proceeding.
in a chair through the streets. Do not take guide if you are so fortunate as to have friend, who knows the city. A guide will eq- able you to see
THE ACCUSTOYED HISTORIC PLACES, but Canton is by no means great in these things. It is not an ancient ruin, but a very live hive of human bees. The shops are the
It is announced in Berlin that the French centres of interest for those who know the city and Germans are acting together.
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FIRE AT THE OHMENT WORKS
STAVE DRVING ROOM ADLAZI
Shortly after one o'clock this afternoon fire broke out in the cement works. at Hok Un, and up to the time of writing (4,30 o'clock) the firemen were still battling with the flames. The fire was discovered in the stave drying: room by one of the workmen, who instantly notified the Yau-moti and Hunghom police, who made for the scene with all base with their fire-fighting apparatus. A little later assistance from Hongkong was requisitioned No further particulars could be, obtained this afternoon as to the damage done by the blaze. The origin of the outbreak is also not known,
ELEPHANT CHARGES TRAIN,
EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF TREMENDOUS
INFACT.
An extraordinary story comes from Lopburi, Slam, but unlike the majority of travellers' tales, has the saving grace of truth.
The other day, when ite myrning train from *Bangkok was near Bah Klap, ten kilometres on the Bangkok side of Lopburi, an elephant appeared from the jungle ahead, and walked
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at least for the writer-not the Temple of the Five Hundred Genli, the Temple of Hor cars, the Temple of Medicine, the City of the Dead, the Water Clock, the Five-storey Pagoda, Take an open chair in order to see everything. The three. strong coolies. bear, you swiftly along through exceedingly narrow streets, thronged with a multitude of yellow faces, and formed by two continuous fines of shop front "wide open to the street. -You-can-gel-as-you-
go at least a glimpse of the 'Chinese in
feet.
IVORY CARVING.
CTI R FPERDID STREETS
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as well as introduces only the best of the new,
„O. D. W.
ROMANGH AND AGONY.
PORTICAL LOVE MAKING BY NEWSPAPER.
A long drawn-out tale of "Agony "is appear‹ ing in that column of the Londes "Morning. Lot. It is a full of emotional interest ar the "Shy Lady” romanca which thrilled the feaders of "Agony advertisements a couple of years ago. The cast is made up as follows:
MORTALS,
N. (antleman),
- M. (a lady with grey syes, dark hair, and.
little chin).
INMORTAL
FATE,
Like all good romances, there is no unrequit ted affection about this į N. addresses his ladý love in poetry so far back as 25 Nov, 1907. In a sort of proĵogue, be solijoguines:
"
She is coming, my love, my sweet, # My heart would hear her and beat;
Hadi lain a century dead
My heart would hear her and beat, "And blossom ia purple and red.
RESORTED TO PROSE.
The lady was either irresponsive or didn't see the advertisement, for two days later the ardent one followed up the attack with this ap
of the city are the blackwood furniture, street, the fur clothing street, the curio and jade stone. street. No more enchanting little shops can be found than the many little curio shops on Great New Street. The ancient art is,mucb: finer in delicacy of colouring and drawing than any being produced now, and it is hard to leave these places without armfuls of old bronzes, porcelains and other ancient Chinese things. The jade stone shops are places of wealthy merchandise. Hulf a dozen keen, fat salespeal in prose: men sit behind the one counter about twenty feet long, knowing every valuable piece under the show cases, and able to give reason at once for a difference of hundred per cent in the price of two pieces that to the usin. formed look about the same. It makes no difference whether you buy a necklace for some hundreds of dollars or a flydullar ornament, or a-hit for a ring setting, or nothing, the salesmen will bid you good byc with the same grave kindliness with which they welcomed you. It is not the thing for a high grade Chinese merchant in press his wares upon the
THEIR EVERYDAY BUSINESS. And begio to see what sorts of men make up the Chinese world. Of all the thousands, by far the majority are these who earn to-day to ext tomorrow. The right of way belongs to the carriers of loads. There is a ceaseless clamour of cries as the coolies swing along through the crowded Barrow, slippery ways bearing on shoulder | buyer. potes all sorts of loads ranging from Mandarins alive and in official dress down to swine dead ‚and-dressed for maskët, Your chair escapos a collision with A heavy bale of merchandise, only to be met by a long timber borne on the shoulder of a coolie. Aimed straight for your hear like the spear of Milton's Satan, it swing slowly just in time to miss you, else were your skull no better than a crushed egg shell. Pairs of coolies bear enormous loids between them cry.
ing in a sort of sing song, Stand aside! Yes! Yes." "Stand aside P" "Yer Yes!" Then you pass a long file of carriers cach with a shoulder load of boxes, bales, biskets, or buckets of
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS.'
All along this same street you will find- various sozis of fan-making establishmenti, or father, many establishments about the same in appearance that make the various sorts of fans. All summer long it is no more likely that Chinese gentleman will forget his fan at home than it is that a gentlemanly fan will forget its Chinaman. For a few dollars, you can get a whole collecting of feather fans, folding paper, fans, picture fans, and other inds. One can peep around by the hour in those tiny little niches, the curio shops, and it is hard to leave
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NOTICE VE
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`R. WALTER OTTO, having left China.
rion from this date.
M
ME PAUL HELL' Hap this day. been uthorized to Sign our. Firm's name per Procuration.
KRUSE & CO.
Hongkong, 18th March, 1908.
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In the Matter of Ordinance No. of
1892,
AND.
the "Matter of the Petition of TOM HEFFERNAN, Author, of Countlands, 148 Holland, Road, Kensington in the County of London, England, for Leitors Patent for the exclusive use within the Colony of Hongkong of an 'Invention for" Improvements in Capi sules to prevent bottles from being fraudulently refilled."" /
TOTICE is hereby given that the Petition, Declaration and Specification required
by the above cited Ordinance have been duly filed in the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong and that it is the intention of the said Tom HEFFERNAN by MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS his Solicitor and Agent to apply for Letters Patent for the exclusive use, within the Colony of Hongkong of the suid Invention, at a sitting of the Executive Council to be held at the Council Chamber at the Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, on Monday, the, ayrd day of March, 71908,
230 P.M.
Dated the thirteenth day of March, 1958.,
|| MATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS,
Solicitor for the Applicant
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THE
CO.,
LD.
AGENTS
FOR THE
FAMOUS
VICTOR
TALKING
MACHINES.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFAC A comprehensive stock
TURING CO. LTD.
THE TWENTY-FOURTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE-"
M.-Dearest 1 want you to believe that all these years have been yours, and yours only, and shall be to the end. You kour --how-l-cared Inr-you-l-care-still-more--HOLDERS in the above Company will be MACHINES & RECORDS.
now.-N."
There is internal evidence in this "Agony that the loves of this man and woman are not a thing of yesterday. It is not a romance originating in a few hurried, frightened words exchanged at the door of ke pera box and continued in the papers. Anyhow, this lady with the gray eyes was lored to response, and, allowing a decent iqterval of three days to elapse, she replies:
N-1 was dreaming-put of the silent past saw your face, heard your voice. At
lawoke-doubting if it were true That I, when dreaming, bad dreamed of
you.-MIDEN
A very pleasing little message for a lower to find staring at him when he opened his mora. ing piper.
a
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on to the track. The stain was tavalling over muddy river water, the dripping of which keeps the best larquer shop without having spent too noticed that HE, spoke through the Agency with Electric Light and carries a duly certified
thirty miles an hour, and there was no time in which the diiter could have brought it to, a stand still, for the elephant acted in a most extraordinary manner, On bearing the whistle' of the engine, it trumpeted loudly, and then, lowering its head, charged the on-coming train. | The impact was tremendous. Such was the impetus of the great pachy ferm that the engine was partially dersined, the front of the smoke bnx, shatiered as far as the tubes, the cow catcher crushed into a shapeless piece, of iron, and other damages of minor importance were sustained.
wete
Fortunately, none of the coaches derailed and no one was injured, although passengers were flung from one side of their carriages to the other by the force, of the impact, ft must be remembered that a large elephant weighs about 'five or six lous and prissesses enormous strength, and some idea of the shock can be imagined when it is known that the engine and leader alone weighed 40 or 6 tons. To this must, ha addi ed the weight of the coaches and the fet taken
into account that the speed attained was 34
miles an hour, Of course the elephant was
kiled by the shock, its head being completely smished, As a result of the collisior, the Permanent way; was torn up for many metres and considerable repans were requisite before the traffic could be resumed.
the granite-pared alleys always wet and sloppy
Each of these bu den-bearers; grunting as he histries along, is thinking intently of his day's work and his day's earnings."-
THE THRONG
THE CHINESE LADY. -
'much money! › As for the linen shop and the
places to, bay Chinese silks, ladies who really
Fate, however, seems to have intervened in most unfortunate mannor, judging from the the drear month of December. It is to be only message the lady sent her lover during
advertisement thran times in her one!
M.-So is my spirit, es flesh with sin
Filled full, eaten out and io, With the face of her, the eyet of her, The lips, the little chin, the play Of shadows round her mouth.-N.
C M. (replying passionately);
I love you, I loved you then, and for ever more, darling, Fate stands between us; ́ ́clever and determined though you' are, you canno fight Fate; leave things as theyare -M,
love their husbands avoid them. Looking over the stock of Min Hing Cheung on Thirteenth | Street, you will experience 'somewhat the same sensations you feel in an art exhibition avoid the thrust of the heavy loads as floating corkscrews of humour and cunning at the car- leaves avoid the note of a boat. Any one hasners'of his mouth, and finally offer him a cam- tening faster than the crowd must advance by a auw of twenty cents, he will at last take out of jerky series of hurryings forward, stoppings his drawer several balls already begun, and short, dedgings around slower, walkers in front placing one in his lathe of ancient form, he and so on. No one can hasten straight ahead, will deftly turn it and tap it till the hole already As your chair passer another chair, the bearers started in one side is truly centred, and then GIVES REIN TO HIS DELIGHT, of the two cry," Each to the right!"
applying a crude home-made chisel with a About this jime the loves were apparently turned edge, hegin. to shape the next inner meeting for N, asks M. not to make the dis sphere. It is a fine example of what can be tance too far, "as in Norfolk," and he gives done with crude appliances, and a fine speci-rein to his delight a week befire Christmas in men of Chinose ability. You will be just as these gleeful lines t much entertained whether you believe every word of the story or not while the old man tells you that there are only two other such work shops in Canton, and cone anywhere else is the whole of the Middle Kingdom, and that he and his brother inherited the art from his ancestors. From the workshop you may go to product. Entering through an empty outer a salesroom near by and see,the fiuished
two or three bright, brisk young men who take room you find yourself being entertained. by pride and pleasure in their art of making they will beguile you into spending more for beautiful things of the elephant's, tosk, and
picture frames, cane handies, capkin rings, caskets, or the wonderful nests of spheres than your conscience will justify;
Now and again we pass a demure Chinese lady. She scarcely glances at you as the chairs swiftly glide past each other, and her mapaer so perfectly decorous and her expression so, uncommunicative that nothing hints to you of a home with husband and children. Rather she is a quaint picture from some matique book...
THE GENTLEMEN,
The monotonous blue and black of the crowd is relieved here and there by handsome mes chapts in long silk "shaami," straight and scant, who are by their walk and air "lords of wealth" an every inhabitant of the Middle Kingdom prays the gods he himself n ay be. Or you ses finely dressed young men, soos of merchants of officials, whose coloured vests There was a humourous af ermath. With the outsia their long coats brighten up the dim shock of the collision, the elephan's tusks alleys, Cine pa ses scholars not in office, most wern amapped off, but when search was made of them too poor to dress gayly; some with fios for them shortly after the hccident, they were faces, but some dull for lack of hope and amhl not to be found, Some cool person with antion. There are Scribes and 3 harisees of China. eye to the main chance bad evidently taken The brighter of them quote from Confucius advantage of the confusion, and had walked off and other sages of the golden age as medieval with his ca:ful fied. It is, Indeed, an ill wind "clerks from their Aristotle, or as good old that blows no one any good. The elephant fashioned Bible readers of Western lands from was a rogue, in other words one which had the Scriptures. Just behind the scholars who been separated from the herd, either by his own have not attained comes the man who has: with, or by the conceited action of the leaders four coolies pant and roar like automobile Such animals are generally more ill-tempered horns to clear the way, for they bear a Man than a member of a herd, and, indeed, it is bedario with globe creat of crystal or coloured lieved that this particular togus had been rat-
stone on his bat. He leans slightly forward in ponsible for considerable damage to villages the dark chair, or wits perfectly erect with the in the vicinity of Lopbari,
diguity and reserve shooled into him by many generations of the Confucian books, full of forms and ceremony.
A number of houses bawn been pulled down recently and liavoc wrought in other ways, and that there is a possibility: that, the euging may have 180/AN" Unconscious: Instrument
CHINESE EMBROIDERY,
the city of Cantos; in fact, the things 1.have There are many other things to be seen in
told you of may not even be recognized by some of the tourists who have most lately "done" the city, while they may look u valn in this description for the temples and pagodas. These things you would do well to see in order to avoid the abspplaess of thinking you have Bot visited, what a good tourist is expected to have visited. But do not speed the much time in temples and such places. It is of far mors immediate interest to see the people making and buying and selling. Your desire to know and understand the people will be aroused by the very humanness of their business, and you will be prepared to meet "them in still more human relation
These Cantones
(as well as a past
The same things that sell at home for many lollars may bo aren bere and bought vary | forests and look.
All this exquisite Embroidery is done they too appear
men, in their homes: 73 hry, tako modern
stamped saz ibu dilf or lint
work ont the tedious lintez-
M.-I and my dearest, side by side,
Will be together, breathe and ride,
So one week more and I deified.—N, }^^ The New Year opened cloudly. The; ardent lover was driven to prose to express his disap paintment
M.-Not a glimpse of a sign or a look the 10 Believer it is magic fare to live on:-N. last evening or in the morning. Am I still
on the part of her lover: The lady, replying usxt day, hints at a coolness
N-Don't be cross with me, dearest darling. I thought you did not care any more. I want to tell you so much, yet cannot say anything. All I have said is tros.-M. After this little tiff, sil, went well through January, but on the last day of the month N.
stericus M.; gave the world this pen picture of the my
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Worth how woll, those dear grey eyes, +
That hair on dark and dear, how wonb That a man should strive and agonise,
And taste a variest holl on earth
This is N.'e last word. For a fortnight the
For the hope of such a prizat pe
agony columos bave kupwn him no more. Twice the lady has seni strange messages to her lover yet not a word from him. The first one appeared on a Fabia brzo
NHow can I bellave? Puzzled ; what dis-
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