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“There is almost no limit to the classes 
of goods now sold in regard to which care 
must be taken. For example, silk goods 
are being adulterated to an extent and in 
a way never before followed, and quanti- 
ties of Japanese and Chinese goods sup- 
posed to be made from the native-worked 
Japanese or Chinese silks are partly Ameri- 
can cotton. Silk hosiery is sold which is 
not only not all silk, but is undersized 
and otherwise unwearable. 
“There will be found a real grade and 
an “export” grade of porcelains like the 
beautiful Satsuma porcelains of Japan. 
Imitation cloisonné ware is on the market 
in great quantities. Japanese carved 
“cherry” wood furniture made for sale not 
only in Japan but in other parts of the Far 
East and sold generally in Hongkong and 
even made for direct export to the United 
States and Europe, is now generally made 
in white soft wood stained and varnished. 
Much of the Japanese silver for sale in all 
these ports is pewter or silver of so low a 
grade as to lose all merit as such. Chinese 
blackwood furniture in some cases is white 
wood stained, but this is not so prevalent 
now as it was, for the reason that the 
Chinese guild concerned has stopped the 
practice of imitating the expensive heavy 
“black” wood. 
“Another feature of trade in such goods 
may be indicated by the fact that recently 
a large order was placed in Hongkong for 
“Siamese” brass, and most of the brass 
workers of this port at present are busily 
engaged in beating out beautiful brass trays 
with the usual Siamese engraved decoration 
and characteristics, to be sold in Siam as 
Siamese—beautiful work, but not what it 
is sold as being. Considerable modern Chi- 
nese brass is made in Japan and some even 
in Europe. 
“Some of these goods are sold as imita- 
tion or second or third class goods, but 
there are many dealers who are not very 
scrupulous about calling the attention of 
their customers to the fact that such goods 
are imitation, and actual misrepresentation 
is common. Many of the more patent de- 
ceptions have long been understood by 
casual travelers in the Far East, but there 
are very modern and up-to-date imitations 
of old or other meritorious goods which 
deceive even more experienced travelers. 
It seems needless to add that travelers in 
the Far East should not only buy antiques, 
curiosities, and the like with the greatest 
care, but should also give particular atten- 
tion to the actual composition, standard 
quality, and real merits of modern goods 
purchased. Against prevailing conditions 
reputable business men in all eastern coun- 
tries have long been contending, but the 
present system is profitable and so long as 
people will buy them such goods will be 
sold, and the only adequate protection for 
the purchaser is his own wariness. 
SULPHUR AS A FERTILIZER 
XPERIMENTS by M. Boulanger have 
determined that sulphur (in the form 
of the familiar “flowers of sulphur”) is a 
valuable fertilizer of soil, tending to ma- 
terially increase the harvest. Its action is 
not direct, as in the case of other mineral 
fertilizers, however. It operates as a modi- 
fier of the bacterial flora contained in or- 
dinary soil. It acts as a destroyer of nox- 
ious microbes on the one hand, while on 
the other it is favorable to the useful bac- 
terial flora. This is proved by the circum- 
stance that its influence is exerted only on 
normal earth. When the soil has been 
sterilized by heat the sulphur becomes in- 
operative. 
