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THE HONGKONG TEL

SEPTEMBER 3 1910

Intimation.

Wm. Powell,

LD.,

GENTLEMEN'S

OUTFITTERS

NEW GOODS

SOFT DRESS-

SHIRTS

LIFE WITHOUT WANTS,

Civilisation may be defined as the multiplica

to tion of the aanecessary. If you derh 11'e in its simplest form you need not travel the ends of the earth. "All you need do is to spend an hour among the Haley &fnos at the White City, I do not know why they are called halty for they are not more hairy than we are Frobably they seem hairy in Japan, for the Japanese ara a bairless race,sta ng that they gow moustacher with d'ficulty, and full beards is Nippon are very rare. But the Ainos ought really to be called the Happy Alnos, for they appear to be the happiest folk in the Exbibi• tlon

The Alno family is indeed a radiantly boppy; family. There is not a furrow or a wrisklo on the trow ofthe baudsome father, Hols a very woodriful specimen of a dying race, and I doubt whether the long process of evolution? can produce a mora bazavolest or mere agreeable - type of man. If a printer were to paint hit porr it as a king of a ster or a philosopher we shou'd accept him as a perfect representatien of mobility and wisdom and genția benignity. e might sit for the portrait of Mahomet si Baddha of Harons al Raschider Omar Khayyam, Coleridge would hava gladly hailed bli as a representation of Kuba Khan. This primitive "being, indeed, might stand for any bera is the andals of humidity. He might belong to any race or any age, pist, present, or to come. He might ba Adem in the Garden of Eden, he in'ght be the King of Erswhor, or he might be

the Man of the Future:

'A TRIMITIVA COUPLERS

He is of middle stature, beautifully symme trical in build, straight as an arrow, exceeding ly lishe and supply. Pe hat an disy command. over his ilmbar be is praceful in every action ard is every postra

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Beginner in the the image and incarantion of things, but not la bu the wire man grown perfect tion arg often profi Virtuous man growo parfect yet detect in visti

the grod man grown perfect la good comes the news. He is not at war with lifa or draib, Hebert and safest way

time. Thus you mako friends that in entered into the state of peace. The bum

and a reputation tha alway of the earth and the plane's does got vek bis ears. The dance of the suns for him his no totrors. He is a tiny world of rest in the heart of

What thoughts are ble? Nobidy can tell. Perhaps to infice from thonght. What are ha desires? No oss kucws, Toibapa ka kus do desires, Zeus' on Olympus could not be more aloof from the fevers of men. Outside his tiny empire the binds play, qud the tired hedonists weary their bones with s'ranţa plea. suice. -"hera is b'a shadowy kingdom Ibe vocerable Alno sits in solitary peace, and it may be in soverei a contemp. It may be the peace of stagnation and the contemp of siapi dity, but whatever it may be, it is a thing that makes one wonder whether we are as wils we thick w sie-James Dooglia in A'orning Lendir

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CONSULTING THE ORACLE.

so long as concealed" certain sooner or later then nk-up'und'the

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on this basis that, the world.

POLE'S FREPARATION

people have discovered that this exactly what it is said to be, and Bal

what we have always declared

do Ita nature also has been frankly:

is paintable as honey and contains dtritive and corative properties.

octracted by us from fresh cou liver combined with the Compound Syrup Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Mall and Wild Cherry combination of supreme excellence and medicinal menit. Nothing has bech to successful in Anemia, Scrofula Bros- clitic influent, Lons of Flesh and Wasting Discates, Weaknask and Low Neredus, Tond, and all-complsinis caused by Impure Blood. Dr Aurtia De Irvine, of Canada," sayı"'" have used it in cases where cad liver all was indicated but could not be taken by the patient, and the results following wete Very gratifying. It is effective from the first does and agrees with the most sensitive and nervous stomachs. It cannot deceive or disappolot you, and comes to the rescan of those who have it stands for the medicinal triumphs of the age. received no benefit from any other treatment.

"Watch carefully against imitations." Sold by

It is interesting to know that there are atlitin are certain temples in Singapore and Peng where the Chiasse, both in and femle to confult the oracles in all kinds of subjects at d ffirent times of the year. The most apted templs in Singapore is at Telok Ayer Street, and There is a sea templa myat St. Jobs's Island at ajang in Pix Strant and Tanjong Tokong: where the Chinese ladica go once a year, either Physical ease and to return thanks to the oracle of the temple chemiste throughout the world."

for past favours or to ask for furth se favoues, Women go mistly to ask about sheingolvat or about their chi'dren. Ou the 15'5. of the first- mean of the Chioran, the Straitsboro: {udins lo Sing pare go to the templa la Telok Ayer Biesel to malara thanks to the Gid of Sickass

VERY LIGHT WEIGHT PERFECT FITTING.cency are bis cb racteristics. His head is

NEW

CELLNETT UNDERWEAR

COOL

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well set on his skulders, and be carsles it with. unconcicts dignity. His hair is con-black very fi.b in lex ure, glossy like-slik, and fall of vitality. It is reither stright ( ar curly, bat na-

dulating. His mustache and hard to offer "crisp, andˇibey grow luxuriantly, without being rigged or largled is instares are delicately: fised, and yet they are not effimiɔate. They aie so finely poportioned that one has the impression that the face lu an ideallied product of the imagination, like the faces we res in sculptures or in pistings. The skin la'ex- quisitely c'air, indicating the parity of the blood and the beakchiness of the organs. It is Deither white nor swarthy, but a curious old ivory tint. The eyes are large and desk, al've wi h expression, very frank and feitless, vary calm and meditative. They are the eyes of a being at eaan ard at peace with itself and with its cavironment. They are curiously fran from craft or surpicion. They have straight direct

for not baring viti ef them during the year, and there they buta sacrificial pipers in front of the Joss table or alter. The ladies on these visito are always arrayad in their best and wear the most costly diamonds and other precious stones. No mab, except the priest, is allowed

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE.

OR the purpose a' renew the Service of Cars will be SUSPENDEU from 8.00 P.M. on SATURDAY, toth ines, tili 8.00 .M. QU MONDAY, 12th instan

*the machinery

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

Leneral Managers a

[578 Hongkong, 1st Septembr, 1910, THE HONGKONG CIVIL SERVICE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, LTD.

INSIDE THE TEMPLE while the women are there. The oracle is consulted with regard to fixing the proper day for weddings and funerals. The priest hands found a ben 10 bax contaiolog a number of is hereby unlifted that Mr D. B. VIN- CENT apricios, MANAGER of the bimboo Hicks marked with Chinese hierogly. phics. The women shake the box till one olatore Srcinly's State from this data in place the sticks, drops out on the floor, when it is of M. H. 5. MARKUAM.

A. CHAPMAN, Chairman of Directors. picked up and handed to the priest, who reads.

Hongkong, 27th August, 1910. the characters on it and from a printed paper explains the interpretation to ike women. Chi- Watch this man swing word. He does n'ten traders also, bufare going in for a deal er

look,

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DURABLE. kneel on the little log. He stands up bonds

BATH ROBES

LARGE ASSORTMENT.

NECKWEAR

heavy speculation will go is the temple and

consult the cracļa by paying the priest small bis spice, boids the log firmly with bis foot on, fep. The priest will at the bamboo box in which he wears a kind of stocking), and saws without apparent e flort, although his body is the same way as for the womeo, with this difference, that he will keep on shaking the bo dan boat bli deimtaic wick withers be on till the third stick drops on to the flust. The goes without ber’ow. ing more than a glance at his visitors. Berend then hands them to the pics who givas question, he is leading a contented and blissful him two pieces of wood, crescent shaped, ft it on ons sida and with a bevelled edgero the other. life. Yet he has nothing but his wife and his

These he will throw up in the air, in front. two chidien and his simple die I think he

of the jy's table, and afterwards watch their. exiss without 'n eat, tobacco, or alcohol. A

position as they fall. If the fat side is upper parfect creature |

most of one and underneath in the case of the other, it means naliber yas norimp. He throws the sticks up three times in i if both pieces fall with the flat sides to the floor li masos Yes, and if both are the reveris No. The Priest then takes up some papers which he explains conta's certain

Exclusive Designs

Specially Selected,

ART SHADES

THE SLEEPING CHILD.

His wife is a serene, smiling little 1.dy with long silk, hair, suf', ispocent, dark dyes, slep der hands, and a graceful gain. On her rather thick lips there is a smudge of color like pala red ick which looks like a moustache. Sha, has bespilful while leak, and when she smiles abe looks the pictare of inaccence and guileless

amiability. Her voice when she chatters to oc'é of the other women is very sweet, and musical and it is a pleasure to listen to the strange, gick vocablen she pours out as sw{fily (as' un' Italian girl. the. is a charming little mother, for ber face is transfi pored avsho watches her seven-year-old by, a nīraight-limbad. fit Is fellow with sparkling eyes and a captivating smile. To see this radiant Aino ghi with bar laughing littla 'son is to sea life at its best. With all our subtleties we cinnot get beyond this.consummatetbitg the Airo family, father mother, and son noited in a triplo mystery:

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MYSTICAL CHARACTERS AND HIEROGLYPHICS, the meaning of which is only known to Buddst pries's. The Frict has no knowledgn of what the mundesires to know so that the performe auce would reem to contain much that is geonist. The man after hearing their fate go way, and it would defy the cleverest 10 tell by the expression on the faces whether their fore tube astold was food er þid. But the practice is not conficed to, the Chinelo is the Straits Settlements. It has been the custom in Chine, for thousands of years. That the custom originated in Chins, is not at all certain, for Graeca and Egypt both had thair oracular temples. Tha Temple of Apollo, one of the most interesting of 'a^ciest buildings, recopled a large space, isla And then, in the thatched but, there is, an which mar y steels opened. „Th; first discovery o'h'r idyll- a sleeping child. Can human in which led to the extraordinary vengaliba la genúlty invent any bing foreller than a little which the oracle at Delph! was bold, and the jot at slumbering pescefully, with the faiber niches accumulated is the Temple, is said to IRISH POPLIN, ETC. | sawing wood outside and the mother, washing | have been occasioted by a goal berd, Coretes

cabbage in a bowl at the flowing water from a who observed that when his gosis, which were. tep? There is the e'eroal element in life, and feeding on Mount Parnassus, went near a deep everything else is only a superfinous compliand large cavern, they feisked and leapt ab cation of it. There are many civilised homes in an unaccountable master. Corelas had where that perfect harmony it wanting. The his curlocity aroused and on Albo family have con'estment with" ibaly din- investigations, foued that on spprorching the mer of beib, and it would be well if we all had cavern he was seized with a like St | as much, abokat

CREPE DE OUINE

EVERYTHING

*FOR

GENT'S WEAR.

WM. POWELL,

LTD.

28. Queen's Road.

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Auction.

PUBLIC AUCTION

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VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, THE Underaged Will Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, OE

* THURSDAY;.

the Bib September, 1919, at 12 o'clock (Neon), at bis Salas Rooms, Duddell Street

*** IN ONE LOT,

at

Tam Ngan Yal

-Log--Yeang:

Shoulder-Yeun;

Pigs Callings-Chi

Brains---Chi Kai

-Fry-Ok} Okak

Huad-Chi Tad Heart-Chi Sam, Kidneys-Chi "Liver—Ohi ̈Ken'

Pork, Chop-Chi Pal Kwat

Corned--Ham Chu' Yok

· Lag-Cha Pal- g), Fat-or-Lard-Chu Yau Sheep's Head and Fast-Yeung Tau

Kook and ang sunosi Hoart-Yeung Samputách Kidusys-Young Yia Liver-Yeung Con...............

Sacking Pigs, To Ortar-Cha Chal see me Suet Back-Sang Ngan Yan ***

Matton-Sang Yeung Yan Veal-Ngau Chaļ Yuk..........

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• Summsges-Ngau Chal Yak Tong,

POULTRY,

Chicken-Kal Chal ......

Dapons, Large, Small-Sio Kal.; Duck—ā? Dova-Paa Kad,

FIEL HK Tas

Fowls, Onston-Kal

Hainan Hot Nam Kai Gose--Ngo

Grase, Wild Shanghai-Sheung Hoi Ye

Kgo

All the Pieces or Parcels of Ground situate Kowloon Print and registered in the Land Office respec ively as THE REMAINING (Musk Deer-Wong Kong ......... PORTION OF SECTION "A" CF KOW: || Hars-Tu Chali LOON INLAND LOT NO. 44, and HE

8" KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 411 Phasiani-Skas Kal. REMAINING FORTION or SECTION Partridge-Cha Káco with the European Dwelling House thereon known as GEENTHORNE, Kimberley Road

The Property is held for the residue of the created by the Crown Lease of Kowloon Inland term of 75 years from the 24th:: June, #1888, Lot No. 4

Total Arca 18,^38 rqqnid feet.

Total Dual Crown Reet Staß'ai, and inspection of plans, apply to

For further paniculars, Conditions of Sale

GEO, É. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 25th August, 2010)

For Sate.

FOR SALE

GRACA & 00

[555)

ay. Des Vœux ROAD.

ABLATIC POSTAGE STAMPS

VIEW POST CARDS, ~ Stamps in Sets, Packais, Bags and Single. „Assönment, of Stamps "and" Post/Cart

Pomare Steps Catalogues for 1010. Albums

shock Book Daplicais Pocket Books, 10. makarkosparent Hovalopes

Wind and commenced skipplag, and dancing"

They say that civilisation is destroying the talking strange tongue family. If that be.ro, then these Aino land.

Th

-A REMARKABLE 'SIMILARE

cente & e superior to us in their conduct of life in this to the case of a Chinaman in the They Seva reti ing that we have except a mat

big: Pitt Birmat Templa : Penin

101 Lob, a rock to keep out the occidental mai celebrating the Great Chinge vegetables 10 mat, water to drink. They have

the bare necessities, and no more, Yet they toms yours 9gs, wis adfected are happy, for they lead a life without wan's.

4 bey do not even beg for pence. They do boj avas bell picture postcarda, are content to be without all, the things we atsiva for, In ons of the cleas thatched Ente, a woman kits ard weave When the coloured

Fold breaky the man.. her side helps her broken

be the

Nothin

wly, din:log zad was unintelligib believed that the had entere teken roc

T worsens Magnifying Glasses, Perioration

Novels, Books, for parfour and hou Hoa, Tay Books for Children, 25)

Prayer Booki, Rafigions Pictori Medalt, Statmetler, Flower Sands

Raliel Straps Bad Scrap Albums.

MANILA CIGAR AN

CIGARET

Tospettiam invitéd

LEE

Pignons, Cantos-Fak Kuş

Holkow--Hollow Pak Kupu

Quall-Do-Cha

Rice Birds-Wo Ya Chank ................ Solpe-Sa Chuli anima

Turkeys, Cock-Fo Kal Kang ... per à

Wild Ducks, Shanghal, Sulap impair Tual, Shanghai, Suļ Ap Câi

Wild Ducks Canton-Sang Shing" Sul patr

∙FISH,

-Lui Sung

Maogo „Mango, Salgon-Sat

Mangostse Sin Cha Oranges Tim Chang

Small-Tal

Mandarin...

Olives-Pak Lám Passion Fruit Pears, (American)***

(Canton), Cooking Peannis-Fa Sang... Persimmons, Large-H

·Pins-apples, 1st quali

Ti Pawław

ind.cooking-

Plazafzi-Tal Călu .......

•| Piumas, Swatow-ilung Lai

Pamelo, Slam--Ohlm Lo Yan Walnuts, Hop To¤ mimomu

Gresa-Sang Hop Tou

6

14

9 | Shanghai. La Kwai.

VEGETABLES, &c.

Artichokes, Shanghal-Skaung Hoi An sando Cal Chank

40 | Beans, (French) Macao-0 Moon Pla

Beins,(French), Shanghal-!

Fin Taz im H

Beans, Spront Až Chol.....

·Beans Long-Tau Kok".

30

Beet Root-Hang Chal

32 Brinjali, Green--Chang

3) Briajals, Bad-Hang Ke Bamboo Shoot-Chook Ocbbage, Chinese, com/ Cabbage, Bod-Kal. Las Cabbage, (Shanghai)-——

3o | Cana Khoots, banch--Kan Shur

$3 Cauillower, Large size-Tal,

Hal

Caulifowar, Medium alia-Chess] Yak

: Chol-fa conne Caulidower, Smali sise---Sal Yak. "Casrats-Kam Shnau

Galary, Chlonso---Tony Es Galery, English-Young Ki Calory, White-Pak Yaung Kan Chillies, Dried-Con Lat

Rad-Hung Fa Graez-Chang Lat Chiu' Garry Stall, English-Ka Lea Chol 25′′ | Cacombers-Chang Kwi

60

Bitter Equash----F¤·X! Garlic-Sven Tau,

Ginger, young→→

Horse Radiah, Shan Tädian Cera-Sak Lettuce-Yeang Sas

Watni Chas