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THE CHINESE COOLIE.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY NOVEMBER 7 1010

NEWS FROM THE NORTH,

'FOREIGN FOST OFFICES,

[Translated from the Native Prius).

the bands of the foreigners, The Victroy and Governors of the various provinces have sent a jafnt telegram to the Thrond asking that Par lament should be established at about the same period.

middle of 's length. But besides being awkward way of carrying big loads, the farther It is not till we we come to the Esst, where the point of support is from the load, the smal human life is cheap and plentiful, that we tenis: the load that can comfortably be. carried; man re lly taking the place of the beat of that is, the weight should be so near the shools burden, and the coolin class is everywhera re-der as is convenient. By carrying a load thar, girded as the lowest. But there is a good ride up of a big and a small part, it is possi. of the Board of Posts and Communications in It is reported from Peking that the President dual of morbid sentimentally wasted over the ble to carry a bravier weight than if the loads tends to bring under, Chinese control all the idea thai to fetch and carry, to do the work of were cquil at ci'hor and if the pole. Now suppost offices which have been establlibed in the a horse or^an^ox is ipso facts to degrade one pose, the pala stili being straight, that a small interior of China by loreign countries and far- self; after all it is only a matter of degree. No weight is placed at the front end and a blyther to take charge of the postal revenue from doubt the life of the coolie whose whole vitality weight, five times 'as great, is placed at the Is expanded la carrylog beavy weights certain bind end, then there must be five times the distances in more or less a degrading one, in the length of pole in front of the shoulder (which sease that his losellect is in abeyance whilst represents the centre of gravity or balancing ble animal naturë is brought sto prominence; point), that there is behind, so that a pole six and hance the objection to auch labour on fet long will balance on the 'shoulder a foot moral grounde, But by the same argument from the big waight at the hind end. 'Hwever it le hardly less degrading to make match this would prove a very clumsy thing to boxes aff one's life, or to make butto -holes, or manage, the front weight being so far in front hew coal, or do any of the thousand perfunctory as to be almost out of control. Moreover to (atks which aparatives do in Europe, la either this case the centre of gravity of the whole is case it is stereotyped labour, rod requires litle comparatively high in relation to both weights, argo intelligence for its performince. "Helm whereas it is always an advanta, e in carrying mere quibble to say that the coalie does the anything made up of seratal parts, to have the 'work of a mult, who is the miner or the common eg, at low diwa as possible. But poster who carries your bag does work which curving the front end of the pole upwards would an animal cannot conveniently perform; tiba bancici. In two ways. In the first place, entirely a question of principle. And who is the relafies weights of the two loads remaining to say that the sim-bred navvy is a more lathe same, it would bave the effect of throwing telligent creature than the

the common eg. nearer the back weight, so that CHINESE PEASANT

the front part of the pɔle may be made a forky

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Taking Carga on through Bills of Lading to Rangoon, Madras at ! Mauritius); THE Steamship

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SUNDAY, CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT,

13th November, 1910, from © P.W, 10 11 P.M. question of Constitutional Government has The Commission appointed to go into the bain cidered to take note of the memorial Souvenir on its presentation at the Ssuvenir Admission Ticket Sr, which is entitled to a which was sent la the other day by the newly. The public is respectfully invited to inspect appola ad Viceroy of the Two Kwang Potas varions stalis from 2 to 7 p.m. on the 13th

Pavilion on the Evening of the Fête only.

vinces, H. Chang Ming Kes, urging the of November, necessity for the formation of a Cablast. The Tea and Cakes will be served during the President of the Board of Finance has been l'afternoon, a ordered to consider and report on the proposal By kind permission of Major Ewens and

THE and farther to consider the suggestion offered Officers the Band of 13th Rajputs will play by the same official that Forolgs Capitals from P to T F

DRECONSHIRE": should be employed in the exploitation of the Mesars, Graca & Co. 17. Des Voeux Road and that all goods are being landed at their risk De hav'ng arrived from the above ports, Con mass of the Kwongsi provinces.

Tickets can be obtained from t-day at signees of cargo by her are hereby informed Roman Catholic Cathedral Compand on into the bazardous and/or extra hazardous Stoday, the 13th November from 9 a.m. to 7 Godowns of the Hongkong, asd Kowloon pim. and at the gate.

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RAILWATE IN CHINA,"

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RETURN OF NAVAL COMMISSIONER. missioners who recently visited Europe to Prince Shan Pui∙lap, ons of the Nay | Com-

study naval matters, was due in Peking on the 4th lost.

VOLUNIKAR CAMP,

coolie? It Is the nature of the case to a paradox so long as the pole samalossident of the Board of Posts and Communica

It was reported on the sat inst, that the Pre- fad min-labour in China; generally speak straight lathe second place, by lowering the tions was making arrangements with a view to log, there are no beasts. of burden in southern | eig. of the system fu'elation to both weights, buying up the Po-Chow Railway. The amount China, and even if there were, men can it enables the bearer to maintain a better equili offered by the Board is 70% of the expenditure and do go where lado a mules cannot travel briim and to carry beavier weights with equal of the lias. The offerts deemed obrisionable at all; moreover there ato od railways in the ease. For consider the curved up'sed of the by the President of the Railway. west, and the mountain rivers are mostly unpole as an are of a big circle and imagine the anvigable... Io a sense, competition bas drivenircle completed, so that, the straight portion the surplus males of the population to traps of the pole forme a tangent to the Imaginary part, but it is eqtally true that, wore the re circle. By shifting the position of the front Bu cas of the country more developed, there weight further round this circle, if may be would be no need for them to cuderiake such brought to lie right over the back weight in crude work; occupations would become more which case the eg. of the whole is on a straight specialized. It is the inevitable necessity as line draws through both weights, which con- things are, and to wax morbidly sentimetal sequently balance on the shoulder. But by over it is to ignore the true state of affaire shifting the small weight a short distance round amongst the lower working classes of Euro, the arc in front of the hind weight, a paltion pean cities. Truly one half of the world don may be fund where the pole balances just la not koow how the other half liter. However front if the latter, whilst the front weight, upio - it is not my intestigia to write a theris to de- the air, is comparatively near and by lowering fence of human transport, and draw compati the c.g. in reference to doth weights, lends stable sons between the suimal in man and beast, or lity to the whole. In practice we found that to bap on ethical problems touching the pro- the coolies usually 'canied a small load of walt siltation of man's intelligence to the level of weighing,twenty cattier 'perched up in front, more animal instincts-altogether a milkland“ and 'a big load wa'ghing four or five times as water bypothesis bared on socialistic contradic much behind; but the pole was by no means tions. In the following article merely pro- four timetar long in front of the shoulder as pose to say something about the coolie and it was behind. his work in various parts of

WESTERN CHINA

not as he might, or should not, be, but as he fs. The mountain chain striking off from the Tibetan pla cat in an easterly direction, in ap. proximately lat. 3)' N., knowa in the far west sithe Pe-ling, and farther east as the Sia-ling, range, forms the backbons of Chian and divides Olina isto northern and sonthun parts, not only geographically, but also as ene might say, politically. Manners, customs and people differ to some extent on either side, and the mode of Transport is a case in polot. North of the range burses and mules do all the transpost, and ceru ate in common it; south of the range carts ate unkobwa, males are very scarce, and all goods are carried on the backs of coolies. A soon as we lek the Hau river at Kin-isi-koan. and struck mor.hwards actors the Sin-ling sange in southern Skenei, we fail ja with coolis trains on regalar service. Males do come south afar'a Klá-is-kazo,' but they are no! numerous in that city, and wa had some difficulty in obtaining four moieover the salt transport busicoss was 19 thoroughly Ingrained in them that the muleteers found

themseiras quite also dieci siba lads had a rather different shape, and so

SLOW AND CLUNY were they that it meant 'an hour's work for them every morning to lasten our loads on tà the pack-saddles. The malateer of the north adepts himself to newconditions almost lastinct fly. On the southern slope of the in-ling range nearly all the transport was by coolies carying cotton baler, butts of varnish, or sacks of salt; males were rarely met with. North of the La-ha, howevar. colles almost entirely censed, and long male trains were met with daily. These were not going on southwards to the Han siver, in its direction from which we had come, but to Loʻnna-fu hi¿ber up the La Los 10 that here was quite a Conspicuous break from coolis transport south of the Lo-bo to the Hun river, and on lato Hopeh and Sio-chuan, to mu'e traffic on the other side of the Locho and so northwards.

Cotton is carried from place to place a good

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The sim, le device requires a' certato amount of mathematical ingenuity to work out, and there can be no doubt that the early civilization of Chlos.included some little skill in mathema- tics which has si ce lain dormant for some ceatu ies; for the simple machines found all over the late for are theme, one must appase as those la use several hundred years ago. They hava Devor beca improved upot, probably be cause th principle of the steam cogice was never made ose of in China, and there is a limit to the complexity which a simple machine can attsiu. Eut it is ver. noting that the mechanical skill of the Chinese, his inherent mathematical ability, bas never been lost, for the foreignitalned scholar makes a first class mathematicizo.-F. Kingdon Ward la National Reviuw,

BRITAIN'S NAVY.

THE NEED FOR NATIONAL DEFENCE.. We have received the following correspond. ence, dated the 3h September, 190, which. was addressed by the Imperial Maritime Losgua to the Prime Minister in connection with the efforts of the League to Increase Great Britain's

arm!menis

Sir, Webeg, with much respect, to submit to you an additional list of Officers of Flag and General Rank, who desire to give their public honour previously to send you, to obtais Pat adhesion to the Appeal, which we have had the tiamentary sanction to a loan of £100,000,000 for National Defence.

The number of such Officers who nego the accusity of this measure is now four hundred and one.

of other représputative man, who concur with To the same list are also appended the names those Officers in the belief that (as stated in the words of the Appeal) "national danger does meet it is urgent." threaten and that the need of special effort to

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Captain A. Stewart, will be despaiched for the above Ports, on. FRIDAY, the ith inst, at Daylight.

for Passengers, is installed throughout with This Steamer has Superior Accommodation Electric Light and carries a duly certified Doctor.

RETURN TOURS TO JAPAN (Occupylag zo days).

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Agoals, Hongkong, 7th November, 1910,

crowd of Volunteers assembled at Blake Pier "In spite of the unfavourable weather a large

on Saturday altercoon at 233pm.to make the journey to Customs Pass to open this year's Season. By the time tha med arrived at Cos- toms Pass they were drenched to the skin and no work could be done on that day. Later on in the day the man had a rough tlms putting up the Y.M.U.A. tent sgain, which was blown down by the strong wind. The tents were pit- ched up on exactly the same ilson as last year. Yesterday was the first day of work, which was by no means say. The bowber com- paafts, who were underthe instruction of Sergt. Carmon, put in excellent work. Sergt.Crmoo

an able instructor and some good fiding la ex-0. pected on gas practice days. The Volunteers will be losing a valuablo acquisition when he leaves for home. The Engineers have been working on the telephone lines in connection with the above companies. Nos. 3 and 4 Com pinlas were on the 295 gens and also did good The Infantry Company under Capt. Wdod ac work. They were in charge of Sergt. Moore.. camp'isbed a good'day's march to Jun. Bay, '

nerday and ibe next on Friday and Saterday, be first gan practice will be held on Wed-

Os Saturday night, from 5 pm to 8 pm, the Antillery will be engaged in night-firing with Star sbels, and later a. in the night the Comp will be attacked by the Scouts Company, The men of the latter company have bean sudying the hills for the last two wetki.

"606"

subscribers some details conceroing (ko, pro- Reuter recently forwarded to his Far Eastern pistles of a now medicinal preparation of Arsenic known to the profession, as " It seems that a German and a Japanese doctor are sintly responsible for the discovery of hydratdioxydiamidoɛmmobranal." Owing to "606, the proper name of which is "dichlor

the cambrousness of his word, the preparation bat become known among the profetilon an "Recipe Ehrlich-Hata No. 606," or, farther ab- breviated, "506. Dr, S. Hata is the, Japanese assistant to Professor Ehrlich in his laboratory discoverer with Professor Estlich of the now wark, and shares the honour of being the co

famous "6:6," Some time la Juos last the rofessor read a papar before a medical con›

You will be award that pomarous members of one or ather of the Houses of Parliament o Germany describing his researches for bave already accorded the Appeal their publicomedy for syphilis and stated that with the support.

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asilitance of Dr. Hata he had found a prepara. tion which he hoped would be found officacious as a cure for this dirette. He than give his discovery to the medical world to be test ed, and by the end of July it had been,

In our tut letter to'ýru(dated the 3'st utt.), we drew attention to the fact that Mr. Balfour, a Lea for of His Majuly's Opposlion, bad authorised as to state publicly his opinlas that deal in the interior because several of the pro. "no well-deformed person doubts that any 1 tried in a number of German, Austrian, azg vicces grow very lato, not sufficiens to supply thening the Navy would have the heady sop-Russian hospitals with remarkable success. scheme sdopted by the Government for strong tiele own seeds, whilst 'othere grow a surplus part of the Unionist Party," f.t export to other provinces. Ia Shousi we

The Director of a Berlin hospital applied a Since thers can be no doubt that the scheme met trains of coalies carrying big bales, one at now proposed would have, in fact, that desired

inbcutaneous injection of acé grammte to a elther and of a straight polo. The cotton being effect upon the Navy—li would wisa bars simi. child suffering from þereditary syphilis, and considerably compressed, these loads, though of: Criat delence the support of the Uniculas prued. The results so far obtained have ex lar effect upon the Army and upan' est means wishin ten days all sigur of the malady disap- quite bulky, are eyin heavier than they look Fany would seem to bs assu ed lo advance, carded the most optimistic expectations, und and usually loads of sixty to eigby, cattles (8 should your Government carry out this mea to 100 lib.) are carried forty to sixty li (ex. to 13 || auro.

from Realer's message it appaise that the pre- miles) a day. The varnish tres was cultivated palte both the great Parties in one endeavour trepic diseases like malaria, sleeping-sicktais, The adoption of the proposal would thus paratien is equally valuable in the treatment of exteseively all through these mountains, and to safeguard the shores of Kiritals and tbs fod and recurrent fever. If all that is claimed for Bidegs of coalier carrying carefully sealed casks of its people saw left open. to attack on vast this now preparation is fully endorsed Professer of varnish were met with dally There also unguarded spaces of (ke sea. were carried one at either end of a straight by Admiral Lord Cbarian Eerosford strongly attenting among the benefactors of smoking The public letters recently addressed to you Ehrlich and Dr. Hata will long be remembered pale and formed the hazyì s: feads we saw carried is these pario. The varnish buckets denger in which (uclass a great shipbuilding which has carried misery and suffering all over arge the seed of a Lan, and potbt out the by their discovery of a remedy for a disease though comparatively small, weighed aboni effort be at once instituted) the naval suprema minty cultius each, oreja ib, per man, and ware | cy of Brai'nin will be placed in the year1p19-14. || the world and in japon no less than other carled ten or twelve miles a day along thess of the Chancellor of the Fzch querite Im

From the reported expression of the views paits of tka globa.. mquatalo roads. The salt carrier kowever had a perial Maritime League infers with the atmost different arrangement, and 1 posled over shit satisfaction that the principle of a Loan for forsome time befors realising that their method | National Defence is already admitted into the of curglog loads ambodied a very subtle pria

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Ministers,...

SANITARY BOARD:

A meeting of the Santiary Board will be held ciple in elementary mechanici, The poles,

We world only add thef at that this princit 345 pm, to-morrow, Among the orders of lastead of ba'ng straight wore carved pin has been long, adopted and applied in the the day are the following sharply up towards the front end, kura'a, Cat# of the Gorman Empire-Wear, Sir

small load was balappad's

night for about half,

Your obedient Servants,

HAROLD FRAZER WYATT,

L GRAHAM H HORTON SUITE,

Jolat Founders and Monotary Sacratarina imperial Mánuma Kotagar (Here: follow a formidable list of arms.

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