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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-07-26

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-07-26

The "ni-beer" oasis will not be closed
today for the senatorial election. Nj
is notwithstanding and does not adj
die the voter
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Harris Council and Carl Ansley are
flirting with the SHY mermaids on
Coney's strand this week and enjoying
life in New York.
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ing Of all furs not of the white or mourn
ing color.
/ happen to be here at the time OF the
races. The chief stores and business Of
fees are all closed and the banks have
not been opened for three days. There is
no chance to get money on saints days.
race days or any other holidays. When
there is cricket or foot ball match
every financial institution shuts its doors,
and the clerks go out to play or look on
These BritiSherS of the far east are fond
of amusements, and they believe in the
college boys motto:
When fun and duty clash, let duty go
to smash"
They have their clubs at every port. |
found them in all the leading Japanese
cities. and also in Tientsin, Picking and
at the other places in China where for
eignerS stay. SHANGHAI is city of clubs.
and its British and German clubhouses
are among the finest of the far east The
races of that place are national events
which bring crowds from the country
about. They are participated In by gen
teman Jockeys who train their own
ponies.
Hongkong vies with Shanghai as club
center. 1t has a dozen or more or such
institutions. The Hongkong clubhouse is
situated down by the sea. 1t is a mag
niAcent building, which compares we'll
with similar houses II New York and Chi
cago. The Germans have a clhb here.
The Portuguese meet together in Shelley
street, and the Japanese Club has build
ing on the Ice House road. There are
number of recreation clubs One is made
up of the government clerks. another is
the Ladies' Tennis Club and others are
devoted to cricket. foot ball and golf.
Thee are chess clubs. polo clubs and
yacht clubs. the latter holding regattas
every December The jockey clubs have
their biggest races in February, and in
addition to these there are annual ath
letic meets between the residents and the
soldiers of the ga rison, as well as swim
ming matches and boat races. Hongkong
has a philharmonic society and an anna
teur dramatic club. 1t has also large
Chinese theaters wh:ch are open day and
night.
Eongkong is psychically alive. 1t has
English and Chinese dailies and weeklies.
1t has colleges and schools and churches
galore. There is an Episcopal cathedral
which was built I'm 1Sf2, a church known
as ST. Peters, erected long ago for the
seamen at West Point. and Protestant
and Roman Catholic churches and chap
els. The Catholics have also a cathe-
dral The Jews have a synagogue, the
Mohammedans have two mosques. and the
Sikhs a temple. where they worship their
gods There are also converts, orphan
ages and founding asylums, as well as
hospitals and othe~ charitable institutions
of various kinds. Altogether the town IL
alive. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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OUR NATIONAL GREATNESS,
Some of Our Records Not Things to
Be Proud Of.
From the New York Mail.

from the New YORK elaif.
Our national habit Of Boosting, while IL
has no more grievous result than to make
us appear ridiculous, amounts to a spe-
cies of self-deception which is both ludi-
crous and reproachful. To say that we
are the richest nation in the world is
merely stating a single fact. To say that
we are the most wasteful, is stating an
other truth which is equally important
even though 1t be less pleasing to the
national pride. We are wasteful-al
most criminally wasteful-not only Of
our great national resources such as tim
Der and coal, but of human life itself.
The record is more than a record-it 10
an Indictment.
Take the story % fire losses by way
of illustration. The census bureau In
report con- prning fire departments and fire
losses in 1913 leading American cities in
1907 states that the losses in those munic-
qualities amounted to more than $iSOO0.
600, on which there was S42.VU,OOO of In
Surance Mr.. William III. Tolman, direc-
tor of the New York museum of safety
appliances states that the Pc capita fire
loss of the United States in 1907 was 81. So.
which was twice as great as the average
among the great NATIONS or Europe. 1t
is estimated by recognized experts that
due care and the use of approved pre-
ventive measures would effect a yearly
saving of $3.50. OooOO worth Of property
in the United States.
Consider the cost Of protection from
fire in this C,ountry. The per capita av-
erage In the 1913 cities covered by the
census report was $1.65 in 1907. The per
capita in Berlin is 20 cents a year. In
London 1t is 10 cents and in Milan only
IL cents. In the 15S American cities
that had s4S,OOO.OO0 Of fire losses in 1907
the taxpaye were assessed S3S 900
for the maintenance of their fire depart
ments: The protection was costly and
it protected only in limited degree.
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knots harnessed 10 the chairs and car
riages.
This is good place to shop. The
travel is so great that curio dealers and
other merchants from all over the east
have opened stores here. and they offer
the most beautiful goods Of the orient
There many East Indians who sell
embroideries. silver and carpets. and Chi
neSe who display all the wealth of Can
ton. The silverware is beautiful and
cheap. 1t is made of coin silver and is
decorated with dragons and other eX-
quisite carvings. | bought a solid tea
set the other day the metal of which
alone weighed fifty dollars, that many
coins being placed in one bowl OF the
scales. while the pitcher. sugar bowl and
teapot were the other. The price of
the set was 500 in silver. the extra fifty
dollars representing the workmanship
Fifty dollars in silver is less than twenty
five dollars gold, and out OF that came
the profit of the dealer and the wages
of the artist who had spent a month or
more in the carving. The same tea set
would sell for twice as much in the
United States.
Among the other beautiful things sold
here are blackWood furniture richly
carved: ladies' dresses OF grass cloth. dec
Grated with the most exquisite embroid-
cry, CndlrS ana SOFAS OF wicker WOrk
covered with linen fiber. as well as rare
porcelains and bamboo ware. Table linens
are especially cheap, and embroidered
centerpieces and .doilies of grass cloth are
not at all costly. Much fine jewelry is
sold. including some set with pearls and
precious stones. Articles in jade are a
speciality Of China. and the best of them
bring high prices. All gold jeweIry is
made twenty-five or more carats fine. 1t
is so soft that it wears away easily. but
it is always worth its weight in gold.
Embroidered coats. like those used for
opera cioaks at home. are sold here: but
the best place to buy such things is in
Picking. and that from the palaces. The
supplies furnished free to the imperial
family and court are enormous, and the
eunuchs sell the surplus to merchants
and peddlers: so that one has chance
now and then to buy for a song cloak
which has been worn by a princess. Such
garments are brought in bales to the for
eign hotels of Picking and displayed there
for sale. Some of the coats may BE-
bit so.led, but many are new, and there
are chances for big bargains. The same
is true of furs Of all kinds, from sables
to squirrel, the prices in most cases
being far below those of the United
States. This is especially true at the
present time, on account of the deaths in
the imperial family. by which the off,
Gals have had to dispense with the wear
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bled since I last saw it. Toxic is now big
ger than Chicago, Osaka will rank with
Philadelphia and Shanghai is ahead of
Boston or St. Louis. Hongkong, away
down here at the southern end of China.
has now population of 100000 and it
promises to be one of the greatest cities
of the world. 1t belongs to the British.
1t had only two thousand Chinese fisher
men in it when they took hold of it sew
enty years ago. 1t is now one of the
great ports of the world and the people
here claim that it has more tonnage than
Liverpool or London
Within the past year a railroad has
been started at the suburb of Kowloon on
the mainland. This is being built to Can
ton, and 1t will give Hongkong rail con-
nections with that city and all interior
China. The road is known as the Can
ton-koWloon railway. At Canton 1t
Joins the trunk line running north to Han
kow, the concession for which was given
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SRFEEDER1cKD IUaARpG GOVERNOR OTHmRKona

ters of the China squadron. comprising
about sixty vessels in ali, and it has an
imperial garrison of $500 troops. 1t is
ruled by governor. appointed by the
King of England. and the man now in
charge is Sir Frederick D. Lugard. who
made himself famous as governor of Nj
gera. Sir Frederick receives a salary OF
$4,000 year. and has cabinet and a
legislative council to help him, two OF
whom are Chinese
But let us take a look at the human
side of the island. This little block of
land is surrounded by water. 1t is only
hill of basalt. schist and granite washed
by the sea. II giant could stand it on
end it might be whired around like top.
It's base is SO small that a railroad train
could run around it in less than an hour,
and it ends In a peak 1,SO0 feet high. The
island lies close to the mainland, and
with the peninsula of koWloon it has a
harbor of ten square miles. filled with
shipping and craft of all kinds. The b at
population numbers 1900, and you come
to the island through a swarm Of sam
pans. worked by women. who stand up
and scull their boats much like the gon-
babies fastened to their backs: and the
little ones bob up and down as their
mothers bend to their oars. The babies
are held on by squares of cloth tied on
by straps around the waists and necks OF
the mothers. The bare legs of the little
ones stick out in front.
Coming into Hongkong the mountainous
island towers high above you. the up
ward slopes covered with green. The
shores are lined with buildings five or
six stories high. with galleries running
along their fronts story above story.
These galleries are divided into sections.
and the shores seem to be walled with
white pigeon holes rising from the edge
of the water. At the foot are the ware
houses and exporting establishments.
which take care of the shipping. Above
them are the offices and mercantile parts
of the city. and still further back. climb
ing the HILL the many white, cream and
rose colored pigeon-holed structures which
form the residences. The buildings ex-
tend from the sea up the mountain for a
distance of thousand feet or more at an
angle of almost 40 degrees. Streets have
been cut out around the hill, making the
whole a series of terraces. and these are
bisected at right angles by other high
ways and by cog railroad which leads
to the hotels on the peak.
The business parts Of Hongkong would
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HELLO GIRLSARE FURA5IAl5

10 the Americans. but sold back to China.
The Chinese are now tNlding that road,
and when it is completed there will be
through freight and passenger service
from Picking to Hongkong and the whole
of the empire will be tributary to this
port. Canton itself has a population of
over two millions. Hankow and it's sister
cities are still larger. and that trunk road
will tap population fully as great as
that of the United States. Several other
railroad systems now building will con-
meet with it and this city will then be the
southern gateway to China b. rail, as
well as by sea
1t is question whether Hongkong
will not soon surpaSs the other ports of
the world in the amount of its shipping.
1t now handles about $500, 100000 worth
of freight year. and more than 1,OOO.
UD tons of goods come in and go out
Of its harbor every twelve months. This
freight is carried upon about 10000 off
ferent vessels The most of them are
Chinese. but there are also great steam
ers from Europe and the United States.
There are five different lines which con-
meet Hongkong with America, and more
than that which go to Japan. You can
get ship here any day for Europe by
way of the Suez canal, and there are
regular services to the Philippines, Aus
tralia, the Dutch East Indies. and almost
every point in the Pacific and Indian
oceans. The port is free and an enor
nous amount of freight is transshipped
to the other countries and Islands nearby.
The passenger service by way of Hong
kong is also important. By changing
boats YOU can reach almost any point
from this place There are vessels which
leave nightly for Canton and almost
every day for Shanghai. The fare to
Canton is IS and to Shanghai $50. It
costs $40 to Singapore. and the time is
five days A like amount will take you
to Bangkok, and for SO you may go to
Saigon in Cochn-Chna. 1t is only two
DAYS and $50 to Manila. while one may
have passage to Melbourne. Australia.
for $40. There are steamers once or
twice a week for the American continent.
The time is less than month, and the
cost is 1923 in gold The di lance to San
Francisco Is over 5000 mics, and to
Singapore about 1,J0O 1t is 500 miles
from here to Shanghai, 400 to Kobe.
less than Loco to Yokohama. and about
100 miles more to Vladivostok, at the
eastern end &C the Trans-Siberian rail-
road
Hongkong is a crown colony. 1t was
coded to Great Britain by China in 1s4l.
II has grown steadily since then. and II
is now a military and naval station OF
first-class Importance. 1t is the headquar-
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ious to work, and when ] raise my hand
three or four sets Of bearers come up on
the trot and fight for my custom.
| took a tramp about Hongkong last
night to see how the city looks after dark.
1t is not as wide-open as Chicago, New
York. Paris or London. although I am
told that all sorts of wickedness goes on
In the narrow alleys which climb up the
hills Last night everything was quiet
The great buildings were as dark as
pocket. and the p!geon-hole balconies APP
peared to be dead eyes in the rays of
the electric lamps. A gloom covered the
mountains back of the town. the green
woods turning to blue in the darkness
and the house lights shining like stars
below the clouds which enveloped the
peak.
walked along Queens road to the
CLOCK Tower and stopped there under
crowd as 1t passed. It was a cosmopol-
itan one such as you will see nowhere
except in Hongkong. There were red
turbaned. black-bearded Sikh policemen
guarding the traffic. British soldiers in
uniform who belong to the garrison and
sailors in the different dress of a half
dozen nations. The navies of the world
come to Hongkong and their cadets and
marines may be seen any night on the
streets. There were many East Indians
clad in their calicoes. brown skinned Ma
lays from the Philippines and Borneo
Japanese Just off the vessels and Euro
peans from all parts Of the west. Sampan
women in wide calico trousers and cotton
chemises moved along here and there on
bare feet. and rich Chinese merchants
took up the greater part of the sidewalk
with their silk gowns and cloth boots
The mid-streets were filled with coolies,
and over the roadway passed an endless
procession OF rickshas and chairs One
long line of the latter was filed with
ENGLISH young men and women going to
dance of the Centipede Club. This club
has fifty members: and hence one hundred
legs all of which delight to trip along In
the barn dance and waltzes Then there
were also Parsee girls with white shawls
over their faces. riding about with their
lovers, and black-skinned Killings half
clad in white cotton.
By and by it began to rain and the
water came down in sheets. The sailors
ran for shelter and the street policemen
put on raincoats and caps over their tur-
bans. The ricksha men and chair-bearers
dragged out coats Of palm leaves and
covered their heads with hats Of rattan
as big umbrellas. The latter were
painted bright blue. the palm leaves
looked like feathers, and as they trotted
along inside the shafts they seemed to
be acknowledged birds, with blue top
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be fine anywhere The Hongkong C'lur
cost S,5O.00O and the Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank has as fine offices as any
financial institution Of the United States
4 new post office is now going up, and
there are great buildings rising on that
part of the harbor which has been re-
claimed from the sea. The material is
granite and the mortar is carried to the
masons by women who are paid about
10 cents a day. Brick and stone and
all sorts of building materials are
freighted about in the same way Each
woman has on her shoulders a pole with
q basket fastened to either end of it,
and tho baskets are filled with bricks
or stones. good lusty girl will carry
100 pounds at one load, and bare-armed
and barc-legged She grunts as she tolls
her way up the hill. There are chill
dren carrying smaller burdens who do
similar work and who are still more
meanly paid
i
Indeed. everything is cheap in Hong
kong. The city is governed by the Brit
ish and public transportation is regulated
by law. The town Is so steep that 1t is
almost impossible to get about except
In chairs or jinrikishas. The jinrikishas
are baby carriages on wheels, with bare
legged bare-headed coolies as horses
They will carry you anywhere In Hong
kong for about cents of our money a
trip, and for 10 cents they will go on
the trot for an hour. You may hire one
a halliday for a quarter, and twelve
hours for dollar in silver, which means
about 10 cents gold. Some of the streets
are SO steep that the jinrikishas can
not 90 up them In such places sedan
chairs carried on the shoulders Of men
are for hire. The Hongkong chair Of
this kind is made of wicker. 1t is a box
with a chair inside it, and a soft wicker
back, against which one leans as he
rides, 1t has arms for the elbows. and
to these elastic poles about as big around
as your wrist and eighteen feet long are
fastened. Inside the poles, in front and
behind, stand the two bearers. bare
headed, yellow-skinned coolies with their
pigtails tied around their heads. They
rest the two poles on their shoulders
and trot along single file. The passengers
are often heavy Brtishers or fleshy Chi
nese, and the poles rub the skin off the
shoulders, or make 1t callouS SO that it
grows thick as your heel. The usual
rate for these chairs is about cents a
trip, and | can ride about all day in one
for 10 cents an hour. The men are anX-
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BUILDING THE EARTH.
No Room for Hero Worship in Les
sons of Geology.

From the Boston Transcript.
That the earth throughout geological
history has been much the same kind
of an earth, was the theme of the second
lecture of Prof. william Morris Davis
in his Lowell Institute course on THE
Greater Lessons Of Geology" AS far
back as the geological records go the
earth was rotating globe. revolving
about the SUM- with the same form, the
same size, much the same seasons with
their sunshine and rain, while the physi-
cal and chemical laws regulating affairs
in those far distant times were precisely
those Of today. In his brief resume of
the last lecture DR.. Davis noted that the
earth is very old, each of the geological
structures indicating work through very
long times. The present one aims to
show how biologists reason with refer
ence to the nature of geological processes.
These are essentially simple. the everlast-
ing repetition of things occurring about
us all the time. The forces that have
been tho effective ones are so common
and so simple and SO slow that they do
not attract attention. Civilized man lives
usually on the level places of the earth s
surface and so comes to regard the noun
tains sea depths, sand dunes, deserts,
etc. unusual things, but all of these
have their place in the geological story.
TIE speaker noted some of the opinions
of the past. showing how, not so long
ago, biologists turned to commissions and
upheavals. terrific earthquakes and vol
canic outbursts> or mountain ranges
thrown up with Suddenness. There have
been various ideas advanced to account
for the geological story. One was of a
cavernous earth Of which the crust fell
in. another accounts for the mountains by
sudden force. another accounted for the
distribution of boulders by a great con-
tinental flood. while still other ideas pro-
nounced the valleys to be suddenly de-
veloped gaps in the surface. while the
canons were more sudden exercises of
the same kind of rifting cataclysm. The
biologists of this later day. however.
have given up agencies of the nature of
catastropheS extending over great por-
tionS of the surface. but have accepted
in place thereof widespread, even. simple
processes, gradual erosion of large dis
tricts and the slow upbuildng of equally
large regions elsewhere.
If you do not use good English. rejoice
People will take you for practical man.
Puck.
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out with their orders on St. Valentines
day. But probably they figure on COM
ing out all right in the end. as from 50 to
SIS is not considered an extortionate price
for modest little St. Valentine nose
gay
Sometimes when young Romeo feels
particularly sure of his ground. he will
take chance on sending his flowers
without card, substituting in its place
q pretty valentine. But if his Juliet is
very modern Juliet, there are probably
several Romeos known to her balcony,
and it nearly always follows that the
wrong man gets the credit, which is both
disconcerting and discouraging. Not that
Juliet is to be blamed, however, for it Is
not an unusual thing for her to call up
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the florist on the telephone and by care
full maneuvering, try to get a detailed
description of the sender.
There are quite a number OF regular
customers, who never enter the flower
store. They always telephone in their
orders. rarely even asking the price; their
personal cards are always on hand at the
desk, and the orders are carefully filled
and charged. All the customers have TO
do is to pay the bill that is rendered
monthly. Some hostess giving ST
Valentine luncheon will call up and ask
that a centerpiece of roses be sent her,
accompanied by eight or twelve medium
sized corsage bouquets of violets, with
one rose In the middle. And the price
does not matter!
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ternaps he first orders a gay, Towering
plant sent out to his mother or some
elderly friend, then he turns his atten-
ton to looking over the allurng array OF
cut flowers. But If he is really, truly
Romeo. he knows at once which of the
three leading favorites in flowerdom his
lady love prefers, and accordingly leaves
instructions for a box of violets or or
chids or lilies Of the valley to be sent out
with his, card tucked in amidst the thin
paper wappings and gauzy ribbon. Some
pense to themselves, make up dainty lit
tie heart-shaped favors which they send
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st. Valentines day. he who belongs to
the former class strolls into one of the
big candy shops and leaves orders for
from two to five ponds of choice bon
bons to be sent out to Miss Bettina Bill
ingsley of newly acquired coronet braid
fame and Miss Sallie Singleton of spark
ling eyes and dimples. too. And to show
that he has the proper respect for st. VAL
entine himself. he sees to it that Miss Bet
tinas candy is packed in a heart-shaped
basket of dainty pink, and that Miss
Sallie will eat her chocolates also out of
an equally elaborate and significant
green one. Then. with the air Of a man