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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

In deference to a protast raised

THE HONGKONG "TELEGRAPH.

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by the lord of the manor of Esth-The Modern Young Gentleman. waita one of the latest batch of Deers has abandoned the title

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INTERVENTION OF THE

CONSULAR CORPS.

Sares Chungking from Appalling Bloodshed.

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A report from Hankow dated Aug. 20 states--The protest of Baron Esthwaite of Hawkshead, Sir-No doubt many of your the Consular Body of Chungking under which the peerage was readers in Kowloon heard the noise that fighting should be kept as gazetted, and will be known as of a farewell dinner and sing-400g | least 30 li away from the Chung-| Baron Borwick of Hawkshead. which took place is one of the new king port prevented what other Apparently the new peer, when Humphreys dats on Friday night.wise would have been terrible making his first choice, ignored and it would be interesting to know bloodshed in Chungking in the one of the rules which regulate the names of the modern yours recent sieges by coalition the choice of territorial titles. If gentlemen who sang filthy sungs to mingtang forces from Cheng-tu, such title be chosen some ihe tone of Mille. from Armen according to details of the eva- reason must be shown for the ticresTM and the "Two Black Cats custion of Chungking received choice. Ownership of the place by a Fireside Sal," etc. As an old by one of the foreign shipping, is sufficient if it be not the name soldier tam hardened, busing heard companies from their agent of a manor, in which case owner-these songs scores of times in at Chungking. When the be ship of the manor itself is requirfears, barracks, und in the liesiegers were heading toward a ed. The fact that the manor of but when ladies and children are decided collision which would Thetford belongs to Mr. W. D. angected to such inlecenes, have made the treaty port of Mackenzie, who made the neces-they were on this occasion. Chungking the battlefield at pro- sary protest, prevented the late line that some drastic action were vincial fghting in Szechuen the Lord Fisher from becoming Baron taken to put a stop to it.

Consuls representing five "Thetford, as it was originally an-i

There is a time and plove for nationalities in Szechuen decided nounced would be the case. A

everything, aula singsong, part-to take action, and fortunately similar protest was raised when starts in a residential quarter. can this step on their part saved Sir Harber: Stern was given be enjoyable without shouting, at hundreds of death of soldiers of peerage and appeared in the the top of one's voice, songs that both sides. "London Gazeta 23 Baron are printable.Yours, etc. Michelham of Hellingly. The millionaire banker got over the difficulty by paying a fancy price. for the manor and manorial rights, of Michelbam,

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BESIDEST.

Konlum. Poi, Sept. 1.

Through the warning of the Consuls that no fighting would be allowed within 30 li of Chung- king. General Yang Sen. who saw his chances of keeping Chungking waning hopelessly in the face of overwhelming troops

I read with horror twrites a ROGUES AND ROMANCE."of his besieger, General Lia correspondent) that suggestions

are being male, in Liverpool and elsewhere, that the Town Clerk. ship should be abolished and that

be

In Sunny Spain.

and

of

Cheng-shun, grasped the excuse to yield on a compromise basis which is virtually a voluntary and unconditional evacuation of Chungking. Yang Sen's troops were allowed to retreat, and bare now scattered over the Wanhsien) territory. General Yang Sen. siang, has just taken a boat whose colleague. General Lia

from Hankow for Shanghai, bas tired to lebang, where he is urging the despatch of reinforce- ments from Hupeb by Ganera! Sun Chuen-fang.

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the functions of the office should Nothing less in the way of be performed by a general mans"atmosphere" than the picturesque ger and a legal deputy. It is very scenery of Sunny Spain much to be hoped that everyone itself would suit the producer who cares for the sanctity of ef" Rogues and Romances, the musicpal tradition will help to new picture which comes to the defeat so revolutionary pro Coronet to-day. He took his entice posal. There may be differences company across to Algeciras and of opinion as to what degree of from there they worked through clerkship throws the greatest the provinces of Cadiz lustre on that honourable ward. Malaga. Seville and Grenada, There may be some who would gathering local colour for the prefer the Spacious sounding Elm. dignity of the Lord Justice Clerk ia Scotland: others in ay attracted by the title of Clerk of manufactured sceners.

of this effort to do away with movements, and the volume of Parliaments or Clerk of the the sunlit mountains

Among troops which it is planned to send

and he shall be the village Council or Clark of the Peace: peninsuls where hearts are true. supplies

of the up fram Hupeh scd the ample

chief. The present village elder bat the balance of pinion must and skies are blue." love guides a route to Szebuen are sufficient of ammunitions now

shall be this judge for the rs: combine surely in honour of the charming young American girl to to keep the Yangtze Gorges in

year or two, after which the peo- Town Clerk. Town Clerks are the lair of a rascal revolutionary.turmoil for several months to Shansi Governor Plans Small to elect the judge of the village. pls are to hold a special election no more immortal than other men te pictures himself raking in a come. (though one suspects that their handsome addition to the party's godfathering

General Wa Pei-fi is

Town Rule. average of longevity is high), but war chest by way of ransom. but a schemes to regain Szechuer from General 10 9

General Yen Hsi-sban, Gor- they change only occasionally breezy young millionaire, the bero the and, in the cffice as in the in- of the story, happens along to men, whose occupation of Chung very interesting plan whereby hands of Kuomingtaux fernor of Shansi, has worked out dividual, there is something rescue the girl and assert his prioring threatens General Wu Pei-he Lopes to make the villages of

Under the present system law dignified, so solid, so self-respect claim to her affections.

suits are very expensive and ac. ing as to enshrine all the tradi- passionate secoriza. "the Base of

fu's power on the middle Yangtze. the province the unit in govern- tions of English local government Cadiz." puts a lot of "pep

To avoid the responsibility of men. The villages in Shansi complish little excepting to stir families enmity between the picture.

intervening in Szecbuen's intern-even before this have been rather up al squabbles. General Sun Chuen-models in their village govern-which lasts down through gener- The governor thinks has now is a big step forward.

For the purpose of getting this disputes in the village and keep- ing, there will be less clan dis- bas picked out thirteen of the

enities in the in the putes and most important hsiens

villages. province, to which he expects to go in person and help the villagers get started.

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who will be reis biet of the village.

LAW SUITS PROVE GREAT DETRIMENT.

fang has announced at Ichangent but the plan the governor ations.

that with this method of settling

Thus a writer in a Homepaper: Opponents of the Darwinian

that he is despatching troops to theory of the evolution of man given by the votes of 165 mem-Szechuen border with no other sometimes base their case aa the bars for the destruction of the purpose than to maintain the self-government established, being outside people from interfer alleged absence, in the monkey hereditary principle. There were, status quo" on the Hupek Sze

or olber lower animal. of 202 members against any change. chaen border region. sympathy (as distinct from mere but the proportion in favour of hard protection) in cases of an elected House showed a great suffering. Personally I am of increase on the 1854 vote. The

opinion that such syropathy is greatest protector of the House is THE TEST OF THE STAIRS. often shown to some extent, but probably the fascination it exerts I have never seen "the mind to even over its enemies.

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Each village is to have a Re- form Bureau, which is to carry out the reforms that the province

has been trying to put into effect. The ten reforms that are insisted upon by the province are the pre bibition of the traffic in narcotic drugs: of the use of narcotics: of

VILLAGE MUST PASS ON ITS RULES.

act and the heart to feel ex-I have turned out Sir Robert Do they Leave you Breathless emplified as it has been just Walpole." said Pultenes. "I will

Many people, otherwise in ap- recently at Belle Vue Gardens. retire to that hospital for in-parently good bealth, find them Among the new arrivals were valids, the House of Pears." Not selves "out of breath" after slight several sphinx baboons and a long after, Pulteney entered the Lexertion. To them it seems cherry-crowned sooty mangabey, "hospital" as the Earl of Bath. long journey to reach the top of a prostitution: of gambling: of a much smaller animal of By the resolutions now before flight of stairs, for they must rest thiering; of quarrelling and fight totally different race. One of the Parliament. the reconstituted on the way. This breathless con- ing between the families and sphinx baboons fell ill. It was House of Lords is to consist ap-dition, when accompanied by pale clans in the village: of idleness deserted by ita fellows, and the proximately of 350 members. It cheeks and lips. is a characteristic of cruelty in the home: of dis- little mangaber went to help. is difficult to compare the num symptom of anaemia, and is caused obedience of children to parents; supporting the sufferer to the bars with those who sat in the by the lack of red corpuscles in and of children staying out of best of its small ability. Unable to original House, because records the blood.

schools without satisfactory hold itpermanently, themangabey were not accurately kept in thei When the blood lacka-red cor-

reasons. left it for a moment, and collected remote and nebulous times when puscles it is a scientific fact that three or four pieces of cement Lords and Commons were mingi course of Dr. Williams' piuk about four inches square and ed. But the roll has been steadily pills will cause them to increase. Each village is to have ite half an inch thick. These it piled growing, especially in the last This can be proved by a micros-jowa constitution. The constitu- on one another close to a wall two or three centuries. Thirty copic examination, or anyone can tion and rules for self-govern On the top of this hard-pillow-teare-ago-the-total number of detect the difference by looking to ment must be passed upon by the placed a little watercress and Lords was 568. Of these 193 were a mirror, for an increase of red village. Then they are to be re- straw. Then, pulling and pushing, holders of hereditary peerages, and corpuscles shows quickly in the ported to the county magistrate it gradually brought the sufferer outcumbered the others by seven cheeks, and especially in the lin- and he sends them on to the and laid his head on the pillow to one. By 1906, according to ing of the eye-lids.

governor. The governor has sug- and cuddled close up to keep him Mr. Erskine May, the number had

When a girl's colour fades, when geated a number of sections of warm. And there it remained all grown to 613. There are cow her cheeks and lips grow pale, and these by-laws, most of which night and was so found in the over 700.

she soon gate short of breath, and cover his reform measures. her heart palpitates after slight addition to these, there is one exertion, or under the least ex-zale preventing the destruction According to the latest reports citement, it means that she is of these, the later part I saw myself. The the Prince of Wales is shortly to suffering from thin blood, other) Another one makes the stirring be seen as a yachtsman as keen wise anaemia. Headache and up of quarrels between villagers markable that it deserves a perfor racing as his father. It is even backache often accompany this with the idea of starting & law- manent record.

propbesied that he may take over condition, and one of his Majesty's yachts and frequently present.

is suit a serious offence. This is something that is very common appear as a competitor at Cowes.) The remedy is to build up the in the villages in China and if Lord Rosebery's thoughts on In this he would be emulating not blood, and for this purpose Dr. this rule can be put into force, it the present discontents concern-only bis father, but his grand- Williams' pink pills are unequall-will be a great blessing to the ing the House of Lords should he father, King Edward, both of ed. They restore the blood, bring people. Foot-binding is of some interest, for he has long whom could always be counted brightness to the eyes and put forbidden by Isw. brooded over the problem of how upon as devotees of the sea sport, colour in the cheeks and lips. The pasturing of animals in to make the House more efficient, and both of whom secured many Thirty-eight years ago be tried triumphs in ownership of the williams' Medicine Co., 96 Sze-ed animals to cross the fields are Now is the time to begin Dr. the fields and allowing the herd- to persuade the Lords to appoint famous cutter, Britannia. Before chuen Road, Shanghai, $1.50 per also forbidden. To these rules a Belect Committee to report upon the Price is entitled to rank as a bottle or $8.00 for 6 bottles. The the villagers are to add what themselves, but the Lords would member of the Royal Yacht price includes postage. have none of it. Nor did Mr. Squadron at Cowes he must, of Labouchere in the Commons in course, own and race a yacht, and the same year, have much better it may be that this rule may be the success. Two years later, bow-controlling factor in inducing him ever, evidence that the flowing to take up a sport with which the tide was with the persevering Royal House has been so long and member for Northampton, was so closely identified.

morning, when the sick animal. was removed. The earlier action was seen by a careful observer.

whole occurrence

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The chief of the village has the right to recruit villagers to serve as policemen. These police. men are to preserve order and peace in the village. Along with the duties of the village police ara: stated duties of the people them. selves. Everybody ought to ba prepared for self-defence. by baving drills in boxing, and so on. All the good people in the village should combine together to make a strong body to combat evil. The able-bodied men in the village should volunteer for service in the militia Governor Yen's plan for the militia is that the young men should come out to the camps established around through the province, study military tactics and drill for three months, and at the end of this time they are to return home again and go about their regular, occupation. Those mea. of course, will be a great asset to the village police in time of need and in drilling the villagers in methods

of self-

defense.

There will be an inspection of the villages in the hsien after they have had time to put in force these new rules. They have worked out a system of grading which will show the provincial officials just how well the villages are carrying out the govenor's programme. The villages that are more than 60 per cent. effective lar enforcing the rules and reforms. will be considered satisfactory, but thore which are graded under 60 per cent. will be reprim- anded and later punished in case no improvement is made.

ADMIRAL OF THE MEDWAY. A quaint ceremony took place at Rochester last month, when the rules they want and need for the Mayor, Councillor Price, who proper regulation of village life under an ancient charter, is Ad- and affairs."

miral of the Medway, held the Each village will have a village annual court on the river. The court which will have power to ceremony included a present- settle all disputes in the village.ment" by a jury of free fisher- The judge of this court' is to be men of the city regarding the elected by the people of the village oyster and other fisheries.

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