Daily British Whig (1850), 4 Nov 1905, p. 9

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RS at 7:30 MONDAY ived 'from one of the Fur manufacturers in ALASKA ABLE RUFFS about one-third off regu- \ as follows :. ffs, regular $15 qualities. to-night and Mon- wmversere $10.50 Ruffs, regular $16.75 ce to-night and Mon- i, . $12.50 Ruffs, regular $18.75 ial price to-night and BEAR DIN i Sr just now come and sce ie or 'more placed asile C ALS! 0-Night, Good Black Cashmere less feet, an exceptionally regularly. To-night at 18c¢. Pair ol Combination Suits, ; oc. and 95¢c. Your choice hi - 390, Each 601 English-Made Un- ts, sizes for young girls se were imported to sell ed this small stock balance a great bargain. Yours 25c. Each eraaes qreseanens 37 LAWGSON 7 lt Boots et Wear ther fored - - ( L- Price $1 25 ers, leather fored 1.25 ers, leather fored 1.50 on Gaiters - - 1.00 rs - = - - = 1.00 ers = = = 5 and all well able shapes. OE STOR $14.25 - SECTION. iLY BRITIS KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4%, 1905. John Chinaman is a pec ilies tremeide n: a rate, old individual. Repre ne as he does, almost one-third th whol world's family, and ue adedly the glder brother, he is enti od to much consideration and no lit: the respect. The halp of antiquity, ra- diates above his piilioso} hy; the long lifey of his grace gs practh cate Aevasit. 10 8 ; Launts and marts of his native divalges his ideas as to religion, pleasure and business. his religion superstitic n hy, and the philosophy pre His home is a bl ning of and common haunds be and his atest mer stamps hives i he shrines, homes, a land do mesticity To an ) an admixture of seems American . and | common. sense, His nature lominates speak his love of arts mark him as' the chant in the world. He is the shrewd of all, for the reason money. He chant in the bargamner with him time is not goes on whether ert that reasons thusly: Time men buy or sell, or do neither; but gain comes only at intervals Such in tervals mark John Chinaman's time of doing business, A Chinese banker of 7 v. The Hone Kong will spend numerous hours bare « wos t shifting stream of humanit and walk many blocks, if necessary, 1.00 Fo 0G Ta they glide and slip o he will pay for his hoy s trous- over the century-worn stor Yeadin ere {i ents more than he knows Or the. ancient. home of the monks them to be worth. a Many are bareheaded, are clad ini the | To juded China and old Chinaman fimeiost of filmy fabrics, and wear no | by | répresentatives in VA merica ks. but a pair of light rubber | wi he like iudging the United x _ Ti 2 sensible. We are | States and Uncle Sam by the person- | Shphers, Th ar, Fo re hooks of wel of a "Wild West" show in Europe. | sweltering, TLC 007 Hise us to ship Most of the Chine in America are |. OU te Bi + beginn ws on roller laundrymen, cor mw + their money in apd n 'i "8 tones re smooth stors patronized and sustained hy | SK & ale faundy a. And the funny part of it and slippery 1 { ' is ther no. Juundries tu China. 0 As we dew near the DEARSETY Baer hody knows how to wash in drome begin ' lon ake Het rears § o China. nnd everybody knows how ta] is the drin bana np, cook. All families of anv consequence, | "8¢ h Wa ia ee 0 oh i maintain servants who per iT made hy a multi these duties . : y Chin: o% Wha 'come "fo Amoriey tude of Chin when eng go in any Are almost all trom one meetion-of the kind of . business Jol no SI Erich Besunies the: relative] voice tones vini=the Fan roma position and space of Florida in the teral grunt to. stac 30 Svik 3 LB United States. And all the Chinese in | spoken exchange of thought sinh come Mmerica con w droped down into A ild he drom n in wing th of Canton without the in crease being noticeable. -A greater minher than all the Chinese in Ameri 12 not ea live an the riverin Canton alone. temiloe tel wee their grounds as a loafing place. He sunro the monks His Religion. by. contributions paid collectors, and Acrors the river from Canton is the | Jets the women pray before the fidols Aoi Tong Monastery" of Wo-Nam. | He considers hix duty completed with There are several names for the Can- | the erection of\the temp and doesn't ton river, but the Cantonese usually | hother about keeping it in repair «all it the - Peart: - Thousands upon | "When it is gone," he figures, tot thousands: of sampan ferry boats ply} same other fillow put up another day and¢ night h#tween Canton and | one' Ho Nam: and, though the-river isnot As we poss. un'ér the strangely mor n a third of a mile across, a Hot Tong S¢ at ix the jam of river eraft that the mons nt en takes an hour to thread a] has at anch side [Their © chief eldim Passage from ide 6 side through | {, attention is, that sitting, thevare them cach: twenty-three: feet high. Had we Safely arrived on the Ho-Nam side. | coon them frst we would hate "mar one sampan draws into a litte shipa | volled greatly hut Pmddhas are so or blind canal, with steps leading | common in China one ceases to mar down do it. Here are to be-seen bath: | vel. More interesting is the sight ing hays, mothers washing miniature | tha greets our eves in the great Smirming images of themselves and | open court beyond. Here are groups the kind of buffaloes one sees in mag: | of hundreds "and hundre to say Rrines of Manila. The water buffaloes ie nose deen in the shimv slip of wat- * of five er. Thev. are ridding + themselves of - it be so nats and flies, as the fox rids him. ! ticed beg self of fleas. Murine the noon hour Wo-Nam di Torts itself. Porters lav aside thei Shoulder poles and 0s hogging, and multitudes hetake and . for go slow vokes, begoars caude themselves to the Hoi Tong Monns- | thing. Ove ued, from Hoi Tong's multitude by John Chinaman for religious argument nothing of kng The 1 me ar what and | Hers ara.iwvo 1 checkers in the is a whole bunch, 'apparently doing no story-teller, monotonous murmur ite "of hade there iw religions discussion doesn't go in much He puts up his ten and blocks a pdivital is rare, unless sleeping coolie or unno What are they all here re th doing ? Let's Clear FOE TERD QY THE FIER + ea i." A tween," whom both sides pay, to se- cure g bride for his hopeful. heir; though sometimes it is = arranged through the parents. The boy and girl do not see each other before mar- riage. On the eve of marriage the father sends make-believe slaves, hired for the occasion, to kidnap ths bride. It is usually a good-natured capture, as the bride is, by custom, waiting the loom in her father's house. She is arrayed in her best, and, by her fa- ther's instructions, the *'slaves'" find her -demurely passive. She makes na outery when seized. The marriage feast continues never ess then two days. They give money for the wedding present in Cheung Sah. They don't send it in advance. They wait and see, calculate almost to a nicety how much of an outlay the groom's father has made--and then each man, according to his' menns does his part towards reimbursement, The money is wrapped in red paper, the amount is not marked, there are no cards attached; and. the bride, wha receives it at the door, mixes it in with all the others, and once there, shuffled, its donor might be anybody. Isn't that common sense ? A By-and-by the veung groom gets into business. He is successful. He goes to Canton or some other city, If the wife that was" picked for him = proves congenial he may learn to love her. When such is the case John Chinaman seldom marries the second time. But if she turn out an invalid, or shrew, he is at liberty to choose one or more succeeding wives. 'The first wife, however, remains boss of all = his children. With theln her word is law. The only one to whom _she is ever Galled upon to be submis#ive is nach n playing Chines» thi ile above the sjuar an 5 Er taking up collections n beneath, The howl oil | hathal in roe, > greofd the gus. ln AL t Here we ave. Hercris some- | oven were deviad to Tre Yan dll Bt arde md that strangely thing. just like America. Here's a Hons - re. i oe in sna | dw wd tree, grafted and grown into fellow making a speech. By fhe sound TE heir remembrance of how | the perfect shape of a fan, whose dot of his voice and the veheinence of his | FO Cel +h vs ted designs a mate up of the tinv i the monks fed the poor that tinue : gestures he might be pardonably : + dar nbabit f Con. | green leaves of the aged pigmy itself. taken fi some fellow who had is: } the pre \ i bo ial th to | thers also are str and rare flow about how to run the gov | lon an > am. Wh » : ers and plant trained © into shapes But such is not - the cuss, | the suppobs © ols wldhia, with Piddha's carven and or totic orators in China eschew { who yl inget inted + siirfmounting | each. lamgerous - topics, and this fellow is | fAepnrt Ph Seammy ponds of stagnant water are proably lecturing on the wisdom of | nt ot. . edd hy nn profuston of waterlily Confucius or the best way to fly | r MMaRy 13 ind snake like willows dangle Kites { and Deir Rlols are mer k yb their brilliant blooms "The Hoi Tong monaswry of Ho- | a reverud" Christian mis | har the edge Nath, with all its connected-up build » 'made the: Chinve to | Three hundread vears ago the Monas ings, spreads over alpost a quarter v of their formes { tery of Hoi Tong was founded, but it ection (of ground: ts dourts seem t Torms of ido ¥ , Lie a safe prodiction that in less time countless, ite Buddhas plentiful, and | 0056 (hat few temples m | th wm that it will be given over to an Américan without a guide would | (0 {1 China. And a hundred tem- 47 ilrond vards, for they p dispossess be irretrievably lost in trying to bles to Buddha have ome to deeay | ing the fdgwer-boat people over in} thread the mazes of its corridors and | fv overy church 'built to Chri { | Canton to make "made ground' for galleries. Ht is centures old----much Yi the gardens hevond 'the walls of | that gpurpose. There are no tin eans older than the' cieht feet in diameter | Hoi. Tong monster are the | OF Dettlé in Canton's "made ground." east iron rice bowl of which it honsts bs 3 the fret Munk pn {hia im. | Tin cane and bottles are not--in fact, any part of the Orient rat CLUB (GA telling stories. The story-teller is as fsciiow: somi-spherical p flat, which brick oven of an institution in China as in He lives by | The rice bowl is only a little over a ind is cast im one solid, kc tAT EMG ing but through of the last roy a turning past damp cells, long mstitu the last pices, with around the to} rituoun four-inch flare suppotts at Or vision of peaceful loveliness, nothing ~ is thrown away in China wlinte associates in the-founding of % i : i ) faediate ! dom Everything is utilized to its fullest ex- IEC HANT WIFE AND JQ @ ar FAN FEOFLE | common concensus of opinion the max- 4 be old: John, himself. Having become & successful city mers chant the former young men. of Che ung Sah aspires to a country seat on villa. Then is where the argument of 1 ; A ore front door, or gate, in the villa's en- compassing wall. All household establishments in China are practically forts, and there is only one main entrance. Next comes the main door of the hsuse proper, which almost invariably leads iffto a vestibule opening uptn a court. There must. be an exclusive room for old sz Gh TEE AChE HEX CIRIVe room for his first wife, The oldest son is entitled to the same privilege, In these three instances the exclusive rooms open onto the caurt and lead hack into suites. Each succeeding son i " must have an exclusive room, and may not tap at his father's - door though always free to seek his mother. The younger brother, half or full, may always approach the door of the oldest son. The great court is the common meeting place for all, The plural wives and necessary house servants go to render the 105 doors (Continued on Page 10.) . a 43 tent. There are no 'burnt offerings before the altars of China; they are all excollently cooked and eventaally eaten. The only offering John China man really burns are paper. and punk Outside the front door of every busi ness house and store in China, and bo: fore manv-dwelling-houses, is built a low, small shrine for the burning of THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL. Few People Know How Useful it is in Preserving Health and Beauty. * incense and. paper prayers. It is a Nearly everybody knows that char handy arrangement, and saves old | coal ig the safest and most efficient John the bother and worry, to Sav | disinfectant and purifier in nature, hut nothing of the time of going 10} joy realize its value when taken into church the human system for the same cleans, ing purpose, Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of it the 'Letter; it is not a drug at all, but simply absorbs the gases and impurities always present n the stomach and intestines and car- ries them out of the system. Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, drinking or after eatin, - icns, and other odorous sry Chareoal effectually clears and im- proves the complexion, it whitens the teeth and. further acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic, It absorbs the injurious gases which collect. in the stomach and bowels; it disinfects the mouth and throat from he ison of eatarrh. vA His Home Life. A favorite subject for argument all Chinese is: "How many <hould a house have *"" Many are the answers, and all regulated upon the means of the householder. By among doors imum number of doors a house should have is placed at 105, though some; pleading for exi ey of twins, contend for 108, the point in disputation being whether or not twins "are intitled to priviéy. : : Privacy is the rarest thing in Chir. There are too many people there. Pri vacy is the goal of the rich; and rich. «8, wherewith to procure privacy, are iggists sell charcoal in one ever sought after. It is next to im: feo, or\ another, but probably the possible to be aloné for an appreciable best charvpal and the most for the length of time in China. Earth there teems with inhabitants. = There is al- wavs somebody waiting for the place in which yo hire. Only to the rich is insured whything like privacy. It is eigier to stir up a crowd. in an ap- parently deserted rice field in China on short notice than to collect the rabhle around a police patrol box in America hy the arrest of a>well-dressed woman for' drunkenness, The reason for the 105 doors is that old John Chinaman believes that a fumily requiring more than that num- ber to: a house is too big a family. There aught to He two houses, Sure- lv by that time lthe eldest son should selizsupporting. And there is a limit * to progeny, however many wives 'old John may take. % China is the one ecommtry in: the world where education, suck as it is, money is in\ Stuart's Charcoal Lozengs es; they are composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal, and other harmless antiseptics in tablet form or rather in the form of large, pleasant tasting lozenges, the charcoal being mixed with honey. . The daily use of these. lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condi= tion of the general health, better coms plexion, sweeter bréath and purer blood, and the beauty of it is, that no possible harm can result from their continued use, but on the contrary great. benefit, 2 A A Buffalo physicianiin speaking of the benefits of charcoal says: "I ade vise Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to patients guffering from gas in stom. and bowels, and to clear the complex ion and purify the breath, mouth and throat; 1 also believe the liver &a 'eounts: or, in lieu of education, na- ap- greittly benefited by "the dailv use of them; they cost but twenty-five cents a box at drug stores, and although jin -some sense a patent preparati yet I believe T get more bet charcoal in Stuart's Charcoa¥ Bozengs es than in any of the ordinary coal tablets," ' tural intelligence systematically plied. Let us, .then; suppose a hypo- thetical case. A man, living in the village of Cheung Sah, in the province of Kwapgtung, has a son Or mar- riageable age. The father enlists the services of a comprador, 'or '"'gohe-

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