Entimation.
Powell's
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY MAY 28 1910
THE RUBBER TRÅDE:
111.-"THE GREEN HELL,
BY., M. TOMLINSON,
Intimations
FOUNDED IN HONOUR.
HONGKONG AVERAGE, MARKET PRICES.
BUTCHER MEATË
said he could not understand why the methods of but one rubber company of that region' wore signalled out for exposure. (Readers of the "Moming Leider" will recall the scandal ho (referred to,) He told me of a practice of
No doubt you have seen to the such papers rounding up the Indians for work on the rubber
announcements as this concerning some Corrected 27th May zgło, 200ʻcts, You may purchase at Para or Mendosa book ostatos. And of other matters, details, shock.medicine or other If, on trial, you write that called "The Green Hell, The book is by a lug enough, which I had no means of verifying, this medicina has done you no good we will Brazilian, and it is his country be refers to to and so will not report. But you may take li
refund your moany."-Now, we have never had that delicate manner. The book deals with the that the cost of rubber is more than you know,
reason to speak in that way concerning the rubber industry of Amazonas, and it bears upon The great forest owners and rubbar mastersmedy samed in this article. In a trade its cover the, symbolical figure of an Indianato vastly went by men, at a cruel cost to the extending throughout the world, nobody has woman whose life is draining isto littletin cups land from which usually they are absentees, ever complained that our medicine has failed,
extracted the wealth.--Leader Morning.
public never grumbles at honestly and skillfully. maile bread, or at a medicine which really and actually does what it was made to do. The foundations of
28, QUEEN'S ROAD. placed under wounds on her body, just as the and at the expouse; as usual, of those who or asked for the retum of his money. The
GENT'S
HELMETS
FINE QUALITY
INDIAN PITH
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collectors placed such cups ander the incisions on the rubber tres,
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Writing of the rubber industry, Baron de Santa Anon Nery, in his "Land of the Amazing," says, "We fear that, if it continues
A GHOST STORY.
..WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION An extraordinary story concerning the lay are laid in sincerity and honour, the knowledge n be carried on, as it is cow, to the exclusioning, of a ghost mest Kebe has been com of which on the part of the people explains its af all others, it will become at length a cause municated to the Japan Chronicis by a corres popularity and success. There is nothing to af moral retrogression for the country, and a source of disappointment to those who have pondent, who astuces our contemporary that disguise or conceal. It was not dreamed out, the fac's are authentic. Some days ago a little
or discovered by accident'; it was studied out, given themselves up to it". When Baron Nery girl atteading one of the schoole in the Kobe on the solid principles of applied medical writes thus of his owa country, as those who district told her teacher that she did not want science. It is palatable as hosay and contains have read his book will agree, then something to go home, as there was a ghost in the boute.all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure must be very seriously wrong there. You may The teacher naturally ridiculed the idea, but Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cad And broad hints of a similar kind in the the child persisted that a ghost came to the livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of diplomatic and coasulur reports published by house every night, and not only bad she seen Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and it, but the shadowy visitant bad even flicked Wild Cherry: This remedy is praised by all her with a towel. Several other times the who have employed it in any of the diseases it child bagged not to be seat home, ualil at last is recommended to relieve and cure, and is The teacher informed the polica. It was then effective from the first dose. In Anemia, arranged that the teacher, accompanied by a Scrofula, Nervous and General Debility, In- policama, should be in hiding, and as son as fluenza, La Grippe, and Throat and Lung the child saw the "ghost" she was to call out Troubles, it is a specific. It is precisely what to the men. Consequently, when the "ghost" it is said to be, and has won the confidence of appeared, the child cried out and the police the public on that basis. You may resort to it
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AFTER THE "BOOM."" -
The valley of the Amazons is as broad as #all Europe; glowing, luscious, and fecundant. Life there is visibly expansive under filming sun and warm torrints: one is in difficulty for ́a means to sense, the great generative power of that tropical valley to northerness who know but a world where lafs is cold and rigid for balf
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Turbot-Cho How Yuume
Turtles, small,fresh water-Kook Yu...
White Ball-Ngan Yu Chal
FRUITS.
Almond-Hong Yan.......
Apples, (Califomla)-Kam San Fing
KO........nisa
(Cheloo)-Tia Chan-Plng"
Small-Hol Tong
Costard-Fan Lal Chanch Bananas, fragent, Canton-Sang Sheng Henny Chla, cazaizhamanəti (brider), Macao-San Heung Chiu' 18 Chestnuts, Chlause-Foong Lut.....
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Covered English Felt car care and encouragemen. The ground was found to be the ante los " boat," which with a faith and hope that arise from the history Piga Chitings-Chi cheong
constant the step-mother of the child.
in White and Grey.
FEATHER-
WEIGHT.
THE
SINGAPORE"
made of Rubber, cover-
ed white affords splen- did protection.
THE
SHIKAR
moves under your feet in Amazonas. The idea should be given thus extravagiotly. And in ihar lustrous and coloured paradise, where the unconscious and successful effort of the for. anitous seed vessels in the sun carries a broad Lint to the least observant traveller there, though, he read on the sun, the Brazilian is blind to the bin.
la that land, all its potentia! wealth, able to feed, clothe, and shelter the population of a .coptiuent, is discarded for-elastic gum. There is little cultivation, there are no manufactures, there are no fisheries (though the waters ara utive), and they clear ao ground; but where the least bit of soli there, though scurvily attended, would grow almost any food material necessary fur care and comfort of life, they import, dried up rubber in return. What will happen to "them when we don't want their rubber at present prices it is not difficult to foresee; they buy with rubber all they used.”
LIVES OF MEN.
For the worst of it is, only the preient high prices make the production of rubber profitable evens on the Amaz208, where it grows wild, The cost of living there is so great bebind à high tanff wall, the sevenue extracted from rubber for its export is so high, as are freights for bringing it from the best grounds to the shipping cantren, that when prices drop there will be mixery unbelievable for the poor wrot ches who get the rubber, at the risk of their lives, but as they get it for others, the nominal forest owners, they have not the fruits of their, enterprise to pay at ap artificially high rate for the means to BXĪKL.
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It appears that the woman had a rooted dislike to the two step-children, and had apparently resolved to frighted them away from bana, She therefore blackened her face and bands, wrapped homself in a shent, and with a piece of sugar in her mouth with. lighted spirit on it naturally presented a startling appearance to the youngsters. Our informant adds that the police, in order to reassure the youngsters in the neighbourhood on the folly of believing 'in ghosts, are taking this woman round to the various schools in the neighbourhood, so that the children can see her blackened face and bands, and so become somewhat sceptical of abadowy visitants who try to faighten children.
NEW ALPINK STAME
AW.DE-AWAKE GOVERNMENT.
of what has done for others. Dr. Thos. Kuu- Stucky says: "The continued use of it in my practice convinces me that it is the most palatable, least nauseating, and best prepara tien now on the market," Oas bottle proves its intrinsic valus, You cannot be dis- appointed in it." Sold by chemists throughout the world,
FRENCH STORE.
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Coconuts-Yek Tack Grapes-Sin Tal Tit................. Lemans, Obida-Ning Moang..........
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Joyful news for the philatelist comes from Switzerland: A new, kind of stamp is to be issued, which constitutes a very considerable revenua tu. the states, representing a tax, or surcharge, on pistat packets, of which millions all Simon's Produces for Toilet ale dopually rwarded on from all over the
Requisites, Perfumery, Powder, Soap, etc.
world to the countless visitors für whom Switzer land forme a suit of Europa centre.
These tax-Mamps, which clearly indicate the amount of the surcharge for insufficient postage ara adhesive, and though possibly annoying to the recipient, are of great consideration to the revenue, and will be bailed with delight, by collectors.
Ig most other Continental countries tha amount of the surcharge on an insufficiently- 'As far as I was able to ascertain, the rubberfranked letter, postcard, or other postal packet business of Amazonas is based on a sort ofis pencilled in blue in bold figures on the front slave labour. I don't mean that the rubber across the address, and the postman simply hunter; goes about in chains; but that, never collects the amount due. This process, how. theless, be in just as securely, fastened to his ever, was not sufficiently complicated for use master by well-calculated and deliberately | 0 Switzerland, where separate surcharge weighted debts. I make no claim for discover stamps bayabeen in uso for the past thirty years.
INSPECTION SOLICITED,
Hongkong, 21st January, 1910,
POULTRY..
Chicken-Kai Oha! ..."
VEGETABLES,; &0.*** Artichokes, Shanghai,—Sheung Hol Ah
Chi Chank .....
10 Boans, (French) Macao-Oh Moon Pia
Beans,(French), Shanghai-Sheung Hol
Beans, Sprout-Ah Chol........................SEDIAM Beans, Long-Tau Kok ................................................! ; Beet Root-Hang Obol Teu...................... dach Erlafals, Gram-Chang Yuan Ker' 32 | Brinjals, Rod-Hung Ker
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Capons, Large, Small-Sin Kel...ost, 35° Ducks--Apgung beber
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147 Daves-Pan Kan........................RCH | Eggs, Hoo-Kal Tazmumummipör dos.
F.. BLACKHEAD & Co., Fowls, Canton-Kal
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·SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS,
COAL AND PROVISION MER- CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS
APU GENERAL COMMISSON
AGENTS, GROUND FLOOR,
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG,
Cork and Gossommer in og something sensational. You may refer to These, plate squares of paper showing nothing SOAP AND SUDA MANUFACTURERS,
white with puggaree.
A SMART AND USEFUL
HAT.
'PIGSTICKER"
en Khaki Sille Alpaca.
A reliable holme
those continually posed to the sun,
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BEST QUALITY
aur own "Contuls' reports, numbers 4,358 and 2,140, published by our Foreign Office. I did nut know of thosa raporis till my return, but am glad they do, in a measure, confirm what I found on the Amazın.
THE RUBBER-HUNTER.
but bold figüros, hava now been condemned as insufficiently artistic, and the new stamp, which comes into use next month, it is highly ornate design, show ng the Federal coat of arms sur- rounded by a wrath of cyclamen, with a view of a range of saw capped, mountains in the distance.
In order not to disappoint those visitors whore postal packets from home are adequate.
arranged," with a keen eye to business, that these stamps are to be on sale at all post-offices where the purchaser who wants them for collecting purposes can have them defaced with the proper official date-stamp.
For the benefit of absentee farest owners, who usually have a manager in charge, the rubber-hunter, on some distant beginning of the Amazon system, far from the protection oily franked, the Swiss postal authorities have bir Government, cui off from the outer world as widely as if he were in the moon, lives his shon span is the gloom of great forests which are flooded for months of the year, and usually malarial to a find that could be bright and wholesome enough bread and productive en ough for you to get through'existence with one hand in your pocket, be lives hard, nad gets just what happens to be dark and lethal there. His is about the most unsocial and dismal oc- cupation that I know. Usually he is a native of
ceara, in Southern, Brazil, and is imported into
the Upper Amazon. Woe to him if, foolish and waloformed, he brings his wife and children
with him-though often he does, because the
Uppai Amazon is an unknowa world to him, as it is to Europe.
There, as securely cut off from all be knows as though he were on a desert Island-the forest is as impassable as the sea to the wrecked ha la put into debt for his clothes, his food, and all be requiren. He is to work off the debt by getting rubber, He has been imported into The country at great expense to his master.
You may judge how long it takes him to work GOODS ONLY. off that debt. Beyond that, however, I believe
W. POWELL,
LTD.
28, Queen's Road.
↑ Hongkong, 9th May,
he is fairly treated,
UNDER THE HELL,
A similar system obtains in Bolivia and Peru though I learned from men who are in timate with thosn, countries that the position
Intimation.
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CASUM,
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"The prices neces
of the pean there is much worse than in Brazil. LACE and EMBROIDERIES a speciality, Forniture, &c, supplied. Travellers who have come to Brazilian territory from the Andes, by the Bani and Mamoré rivers, told me he whip is the common ex- korter and porgander, and that bodies can, be transferred for cash, like other goods. Deht is the origiani bond'; and as only the master is possessed of the means of life, and 6xes it æt any price he likes, he takes care the bond is never loosed. *--
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HOUSEHOLD LINENS
Samples on application. Const
to our Dispensary and gavs us every satis« faction."
(54) A. S. WATION & DO, 25th May, 1891, Port Orders carefully CHARGES moderata. *
CORDERS – punctually - aitandad-to, and
Augļher traveller I met on the Amazon, who also had come over the Andes, bat down the Ucayali river, via Iquitos (Pazarian territory) ...... Hongkong, 4th September, 1909,
VRFECTION INVITED.
Pomfret, Black-Hoh Chang wanciscine Pomfret, White-Pak Chang
↑ Prawmand Missglaz
|| Ray--Fel; Pa‚55
Rock Fish-Sekc
3a and the Sänftary Boi
İstalih older
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