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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY". 8. 1913.

TYPEWRITERS

NEW MODEL No 20.

VISIBLE WRITING

Standard Keyboard with Fractions up to 16ths.

suitable for

MERCHANTS,

ENGINEERS.

BROKERS.

BANKERS, ETC.

BRIEF MODEL

For Lawyers, Accountants, et, etc.

FRENCH MODEL

For Foreign Correspondence.

Special Monthly instalments if desired.

MAC EWEN FRICKEL & CO.

Have been appointed Sole Agents for the above for

South China

4, DES VŒUX ROAD, HONUKONG..

SHAMEEN, CANTON.

CAMPBELL, MOORE & CO. THE BEST BARBER SHOP IN THE COLONY! CHIROPODISTS, MANICURES AND

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THE

CHINA EXPRESS CO.

F.,

Have Connections with the principal Express and Forwarding Agencles throughout GREAT BRITAIN, THE COLONIES, AMERICA and the CONTINENT of BUROPE.

For the better security of parcels Lahreden's Patent Fasteners are "employed on all cases forwarded by us.

PACKING AND WAREHOUSING,

Teleptons No. 660.

BAGGAGE STORED or TRANSHIPPED.

CHINA EXPRESS CO. (ESTABLISHED 1814)

1. Duddell Street

Manager.

R. F. BARRATT,

J. ULLMANN & COMPANY.

We are the BEST Jewellers and also have the BEST Cut Glass, and Fancy Goods of all varieties. Queen's Road, (Corner of Flower Street).

Wotels

HONGKONG HOTEL

A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM.

Now Open.

Hongkong, 20th April, 1911.

J... TAGGART,

Manager. [25

GRAND HOTEL.

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. TEL. ADDRESS “COMFORT "

Central Position; Large Airy Rons; Hot, Cold and Shower Baths; Electric Light and Fans Throughout; Large Confortable Lounge; Private nd Public Bars Billiard Booms. HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Monthly Rates for Tiffin and Dinner. SPECIAL DINNERS AT SHORT NOTICE. CUISINE ENTIRELY UNDER EUROPEAN AUPERVISION, Special Rates For Married Families On Application To:-

F. REICHMANN, TEL. No. 197.

PROPRIETOR,

BOA VISTA HOTEL,

MACAO.

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. DON'T FORGET.

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- NEXT SUNDAY'S BOATS LEAVE HONGKONG AT 9 A.M. AND. 12.80 F.M. Tel. No. 48, MAÇÃO. Telegram "BOAVISTA." .

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WE BEG TO ANNOUNCE

that we can now manufacture on our premises tho now Kryptok Invisible bifocal Lens.

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The old style of cement bifocals with their disfiguring and annoying dividing line has been supplanted by a new lens with two fooij the upper portion of the glass for distance and the lower for reading, ground from one single piece of glass, //

You who wear two pairs of glasses may now use one pair instead. No one can toll that you wear bifocals. Nocement to blle ter; no thin segrienta to lose off.

Call and inspect this line. Kryptoks in regular or toris form.

We grind

WE LEAD, OTHERS FOLLOW.

ARK & Co

SCIENTIFIC

ORK BLOGS,

OPTICIANS

RD

CHATER

HONGKONG

MANILA

OFFICE

'78,BSCOLT

BREWER & CO.

Pedder Street (Adjoining Hongkong Hotel, main Butrance.) TELEPHONE No. 696.

NEW BOOKS

The Big Game of Central and Western China, by Harald Frank Wallace. F.R.G.£., F.Z.S. $12.00

The Flowery Republic, by Frederick McCormick $12 00 A Wayfarer In China, by Elizabeth Hendall $8 40 The Revolution In China, by Sinophilus 50 cents

China To-day, by Cosmos $100 Panama an 1 What It Means, by J. Foster Fraser $2,75 The "Bally Mail" Chart of the Paname Canal 80 cents Social Environment and Moral Progress, hy Alfred Russel Wallace $2.75

History of the Jews In China, by S. M. Perlmann $1.6) The Encyclopaedia of the Kennel, by Vero Shaw, Illust $4.00 The Truth of Christianity, by Lt.-Col W. H. Turton, D.8.0. $2.00 The Snark Summer Annual 80 cents.

AQUARIUS WATERS.

WHEN YOU DRINK Á MINERAL OR TONIC WATER, IT I

SI. GEORGE'S HOUSE. WORTH YOUR WHILE TO BE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD

"

MODERN HOTEL WITH EVERY COMFORT.

Tel. 115, KENNEDY ROAD.

THE TOKYO HOTEL.

LADIES HAIR DRESSERS. The BEST of Food HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDINGS.

ASTHMA'

ASAHI BEER

CAN Be Cured.

TH

"HEN. why be half suffocated,

OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE

SOLE AGENTS; MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA. Hongkong, June 11th, 1913.

and sit up all night cough-

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served in the BEST way! Not only cheap But GOOD! Try it and YOU will be satisfied.

- 88A CONNAUGHT E TEL. 978

THE CLUB HOTEL. УОКОНАМА.

D.

This favourite Hotel with its newly built annexe,

ONE.

AQUARIUS PRODUCTS ARE ALL PRE PARED FROM DISTILLED WATER ONLY: AND ARE GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE,

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Aquarius Tonic Water Aquarius Silent Water.

'INVALUABLE FOR THE HEALTH IN HOT WEATHER.

Sole Agents:

ing and gasping for breath when refurnished throughout with modern conveniences Caldbeck,

a SINGLE lose of

NOBBS' ASTHMA CURE

offers every comfort and facilities for Travellers.

"

TERMS MODERATE.

will give you certain, prompt CLUB HOTEL, Limited, relief and ensure a good night's

rest? This, the only genuine cure

for Asthma, discovered by Mr.

NOBBS, a qualified Chemist, and

No. 5, Bund, YOKOHAMA.

a sufferer for many years, will, if KING EDWARD

taken when necessary, effect a radical cure of this erstwhile in- curable malady..

Obtainable at Messrs. A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. and all Chomists and Patent Medicine endors.

Prica $2.50 per bottle.

GREEN ISLAND UEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

portland, ceMENT

In Casks of 375 lbs. net. " In Bage of 250 lbs. not,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managers.

Hongkong, 16th August, 1901

OUR BREAD

PERFECTION..

HOTEL

A FIRST CLASS HOTEL. Under European Management.

Electric Light and Lifts.......

Latest Improvements, Reasonabe Rates,

Telephone 878.

H. HAYNES,

Hongkong, Ist Aug., 1912.

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HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN.

CAKES AND PASTRY PLUNKET'S GA?

PAR EXCELLENCE

TIFFINS, DINNERS & REFRESHMENTS THE BEST.

it.

The Poak,

near the Tram Terminus

Tel. 56.

ALEXANDRA CAFE CO.

CAFE CO. For Terms apply to the

ANAGEHR

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Of

Cable Address 'CLUB HOTEL Telephone No. 466.

THE TAIWAN

RAILWAY HOTEL.

TAIPEH, FORMOSA. Under the Dirent Management of the Taiwan Railway Dept

EXCELLENT CUISINE AND GOOD SERVICE, RATES

8 TEN AND Ur,

OUR CONTEMPORANIES.

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South China Morning Poak,

Japan and Foreign Goods." The "Hoohi, like many other organs in the Land of the Ris ing Sun, dwells on the "evil idea" that foreign goods are superior in quality and Japanese products are inferior. It contends that some of Japan products are superior to those of Freiga origin, but still the practice of reverencing foreign gooda remains unabated." There may be some folk in Japan who accept this statement liter ally, but the outside. world will not be so ready to endorse the contention that Japan has improved on the quality of the creations of her masters and tea- chera,

The West, taught the Japanese how to manufacture and the whole policy in Japan is evidently to deory, foreign good for the sake of promoting local industry. This policy of ex- clusiveness synchronises with many other efforts made by the Japanese to build up a wall against the foreigner.

China Mat.

A

An Unobtrusive Statesman. At present when, in one way or nnother, Mr William Jennings Bryan, the Secretary of State in President Wilson's Cabinet, in very much to the fore, it is quite interesting and not little amusing to learn that the publi city which he has been receiving "mortifies and annoys him." The Praes of his country, departing, from its customary, well-known reticence, abandoning that almost norbid reserve which charac- tarises it, pays a vast amogut of attention to the proceedings of Mr. Bryan. He is the favourite "stant" just now of the reporter on the hustle. His lightest movemente frm the theme for cultivated pens, and his most casual remarks are laid, with anitable comments, before the panting millions of the greatest democratic commu- nity on earth. This perplexes The State Secretary Like Mr. Vincent Crammies he does not understand how these things get into the papers. Besides it is particularly, hard on one who has alwaye withdrawn himself with abrinking modeaty from the pub lis gaze. Bat a hard fate has: been dogging Mr. Bryan for years. Try as he may to avoid notoriety, ha is perpetually finding himself blastad by its distasteful raye.

Dolly Press.

The Chinese Clan System.

MacGregor & Co. As the unit of population in

(ESTABLISHED 1864.)

ONE REASON WHY

SAN MIGUEL

DRAFT BEER

IS

FIRST FAVOURITE

Chins is not the individual bat the family, it is apparent that the aggregation of families descended from a common ancestor and liv- ing on land inherited in common from the same source led uncon esiously to the formation of clans, the members of which bearing the same name recognised mutual interests. This clan feeling would' develop as it became necessary, to resist aggression or to take measures for the common weal, but undoubtedly the most potent factor in its development is the belief in and practice of ancestor wombip. This is the stronghold of the system. The

is because the excellent flavor is not spoiled by Salicilic Acid or Chinsman may give up the or-

any other preservatives whatever.

dinary worship of idols, but an- We supply it to all the Leading Hotels and 'Salona.

ceator worship is ingrained in Picnic Partios-For the benefit of Hongkong picnicers, we his nature, and it is a part of carry a stook of small 10 litre kegs of Pilsoner, a light beer specially himself. Therefore, if a man Uniformed hotel, porter mest all adapted for Picnic Parties; customers will be supplied free of charge were to be ejected from his clan, trains and stemmer, Luggage are with a special pump to draw the beer with conveniently. The Bear it is one of the greatest disgraces zanged for without any trouble to is kept in cold storage and in the specially constructed wooden kegs that can befall him. 17 36 bd guests.

will keep cold for long time without using ice. No pionic Hongkong, 1st Fab., 19 12. [182 party should leave without a keg or two of SAN MICHAEL ough to be expelled temporari. ly, but worse if it be for a genera- PILSENER.

tim, while the greatest panish- mert is for a branch of the family to be excluded from the clan' for- erer. That means that the int dividual and his family cannot worship at the subestral half, the Old Post Office Building, Pedder St. seriousness of which is apparent to

those who know Chinese 'beliefs. and practices.

MEE CHEUNG MICHAEL & CO.

ART

PHOTOGRAPHER

HONGKONG. TELEPHONE NO. 1013.

Developing, Printing & Bularging

augkong, let May, 1911,

Telephone 1463.

AGENTS.

HOWARD WATCHES. THE AMERICAN WATCH OF

FINEST QUALITY & HIGH PRECISION.

„THE SOLE AGENTS,

Write or send for Catalogus too

CHS. J. GAUPP

for a good solid meal Carte or Table D'Hote Buy Wines & Liqueureof the

CO, ALEXANDRADY