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upon impulse. Mr Roosevelt's appeal is undoubtedly to the baser passions. It must be admitted that grave abuses have been earninitted by men who have
been duly ratified and the Grand Council The Anglo Chinese Tibetan trenty has
has decided to establish telegraph and postal adurimisteion as well as palice in
SATURDAY MAY 2, 1908.
LETTERS ON LIFE and not every child in it who is taught.
No. III.
THE HEATHEN.
Hoxusos, April, 1908. Dear Mon-It is a good thing that you are at one end of the world and I am at the other for I should never have 506 very far in my championship of that section of the community which you and others in the pride of your experior education call "the heathen," loud you been sitting in a long chair opposite to me here. can well inagine how you would have squashed fat any poor defence of the infidel I could
game of patience. Asitie you probably tunke, and then politely enggézted a
will not play the game of patience to the extent of reading this letter all, the
remember it will be walk over for me in the game.
our his father and his mother. Iain sure you will quite understand I do not dare to stxgest that we should' stop amusing ourselves in our own "wag--merely that we might sometimes talk kindly and understandingly about: the poor heathen. Perhaps too if the most admirable holy of clergy in our midst first tried to bring this lost white sheep back from the wilderness, the black sheep might follow after, of their own accord,
It is characteristic of our national
life and progress that reason and co- monsense advance very slowly and that prejudice and traditions die hand andeks. it will take centuries to convince the majority of people at home in Europe who so kindly send garments, oner and missionaries to the intives in foreign lands that their moung and the lives of the missionaries would be better spent in grappling with the problem of over the world, or else -founding a the white pagans, dwelling to cities alt: Sainty for the Propagation of Moral The coloured heathen will always have amongst Europeans in Foreign Parts.
Gecda per Della not cleared et 4 pm on assed great wealth in the United Tibet and has wired to Chao Erh-feng way through, though if you do not, a very peculiar fascination for the Euro
States. If the law does not enable these to tako steps to carry out the measures. men to be punished and is not capa- bable of preventing the perpetration of Goods per Frits, Sigismund undelivered thear wises, un dubtedly he lay
after tisie date anliject to rent. --
should be amended. Mr Roosevelt is SATURDAY, May B
Goeds per Nimon Maruandelivered after only doing his plan duty in calling the
noon" this dite subject to runt.
attention of Congress to the matter.
THURSDAY, May 14:--
5.15 p.Meeting of Hongkong Club But he is undoubtedly exceeting his duty when he adopts die wapon of the
at Club Home,
BATTEDAT, May 16:
steamc
pran who has never been out of Europe, To you remember the story of this vicar The Peking Board of Coinmunicatingas
of a rural parish who me Sunday hail has consulted with the acting Viceroy of
For a long time have been very wased eloquent in the interest of foreign Chibli about the pripat la by Viceroy puzzled as to what the term heathen missions? He entered the village shop Bay Shih-ebung despatels Chian Mer-inclures, flugh to explain why I must and was surprised to be greeted chants
during the week following his appo to Antung-hsien robegin by telling an anecdote which at marked coldness by the worthy dara conpoto with foreign stamens. The acting first may seem to have nothing to do who kept it. On seeking to know the Viceroy Yang Shi-hing has ordered the with the subject; but you will see the crown from a drawer and throwing it cause the good woman produced half a
the matter. bereau concerned so state its views un connection later. When I last went down before the vicar exclaimed:-"
| Lome on a visit to England I procured marked that half-crown" and put it mob oriter and descends to violent per-proposed to grant rewards to the profesors home as a present to my mother. The again-ja my shop. I knowed well ther The Peking Pearl of Education hus pair of Japanese cate which I took special in the plate at Sunday to go out to the heathen, and here it is back sunal abuse. Whatever his design, the and officials of the Peking University, little tail-less animals were regante! niggers never got the money." result of his violent denunciation will their tens of fis geare having capired and with great curiosity in the country place also to grant decorations to Jajantes pro- be to inflame the hatred of those who fessors of laws and political science of the where she lives. People came literally already have but little respect for the Paking Eniversity who have served a terms from miles to see them. Amongst A DEVELOPMENT IN PEKING, law. These men may possibly argue of five years; the proposals have been duly others there arrived one day a visitor, who, I think might best be described granted by the Throne, Zellern relatingty durinėsa akouid ir veldren that the "removed" of undesirables ed to Tux MaraCEZ,
such as Mr Roosevelt dechirea platocrats Communication relating to news should ta addressed to THE EDITOD,
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VERONICA.
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The cry of now lamps for old" has- taken on within the Forbidden City of
as a very good woman, She was one of Feking, signifience that approaches the
The Centenary in connection with the those people with whom religion, so-literal and which is at the same time to be, would be no crime, and they may Italian Convent commenced to-day, y acalled, is an accomplishment as well as marvellously suggestive of things Chinese act upon this belief. We are not sug-service et sémon in Chinese. A sera birthright, but she was inclined to from one end of the Empire to the other. and addresses with any communications adigesting for a moment that Mr Roosevelt will also be preached in Portuguese, to disbelief where the proverb, "Charity cuntly reported "accidents" that seni, to The Empress Dowager accing in the ro would wittingly incite to murder the on Monday. More is to be High Me fully leaving her own home and affairs vicinity of the Imperial Palace, and doubt." mavrow (Sunday,) and a third in English begins at home," is concerned. Trust-threaten conflagrations in the immediate suggestion is to absurd. Fat we do on Tuesday morning and in the evening in the hands of Providence she spent less also moved thereto by the persistent Bay that if any American plutocrat is the convent building is to be illuminatesi in
honour of this historic occasion,
Ler whole time in locking after and more of sinister intention on the part assassinated during the next tuonth it
reforming "others." She visited everytmers at the Capital, las caused an orday It is reported that another daily and Loree and cottage in this district, indist Le issued for the lighting of the Easperin will be impossible to acquit Mr Noose four additional weekly newspapers wil operiminately and without waiting to be city with electricity. This is a change froes should be part before, il est, ph the day after velt of all responsibility. His latest pear shortly in Shanghai. This tick of asked to call; she endeavoured-to-instil the primitive tu the advanced without any
Girders for extra copies of the "Cueva, Nati publication. After that hour the supply is utterance shows that he is losing his weekly publication will then be decidedly into the romig idea of the place a just of the usual intermediate stages or pro- Iimited. Cash 30 ein, Credit 20 cts, per self restraint and that it may not be crowded and it seems to become a question view of the claims of the Church of asses. It is, we believe, correst to attire.
Alerations anul acditions to Advertisements altogether a disadvantagedamerica if of these weekly papers will enter inte com
of the survival of the fittest. At least two England on the adherence of all and that from early time to the prosent the
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LOCAL AND GENERAL The Peking Bong of Agriculture, Works and Commerce has ordered pro- vincial govoruments to establish schools for mines and chemistry.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Lioué-Col. J. M. Reid has been appointed
The Bund respectively, the hier of pocket hankerchers, ale bad caused illuminated by oudlelight--keresone and which, following upon the recent change of to be sent to foreign and unenlightened other highly inflammable materials hare not been use gas has not boop in proprietorship, as shown a distinct in-lands for use along the natives-it was evidence--there has been no voles of do premeat and cut adrift from a doubt impossible to estimate their number.velopment from the simple to the complex. This worthy was deeply interested in from the primitive to the highly organista. fut past N... Daily Now?"
the Japanese cats and gathered from me It is in accordance with the fitness of all the information she could about things that candles used for lighting courte their morals, diet, etc. etc., and then should not be as were the castles in the put a final question with a slightly mud hut of the ancient peusot. From coufidential mauner,
mint clubsrate autistic creations in was to poor devices for shedding the glimmering may think soryes but to render "darkuest visible" there is scope for every possible ingentity of talent in construction-and-fur- vast variety. Yet candles are no doalt one of the curliest methods, if not the original primeval mode of affording artificial light. When the first fathers of the race discerned how to kindle five they probably found that fatty
H. M. S. Algerie is now fitting out a moriber of the Sanitary Bowd, in place | for n vaynige to. Esjuimalt, and later on to-of-Colonel H. Mumin, | Suno of this islands in the Pacific. This
"Are they clean, my dear?” "Beautifully clean," I assured her. voyage slimuki be an extroubly teresting granted Captain W. Nicholson, of the from head-to-tal
Loave of absence for one year has been "They wash themselves daily all over
Hongkong Volunteer Corp....
Lue.
For belyg drunk and assunting Chinese While on a ferry-bout. An Indian wul to pay a fire of at the Magistracy today. The alterativo was fourteen days imprisonment.
"Strange is it t," she said re- MrT. Funto, the Japanese Vice-Consul fiectively, because of course they ate Mr Tharn is appointed to Nanking, at Nanking, proceds to Hongkong, while really little heathens."
Well, you see, this little incident first set me thinking about the heathen and
In place of Mr. A. McKids who is what a comprehensive ter it is, if it lastsuces were equible of sustaining
A pawnbroker's employee was charged leaving the Colony for a holiday, Mr G. G. includes the whole animel world outside ignition and of being reality formed into Wood of Messrs. Leigh sa frange, has those three hundred millions of puuple anal cylindrical bodies on some kind of been unanimously elected hon, treasurer of who profes Christianity. the Corinthian Yacht Club.
at the Magistracy this morning before Mr Wood, with receiving stolen property and with making a false entry h his book. He as reli until Thursday, it being slowed in the sain of $390.
Fun will be generally felt that Mr Roosevelt is so losing his grip upon the sune portion of the American people that he has been compiled to appeal to the baser passions of the disreputable and discontented instead of to tire intelligence of the whole country. On previous occasions Mr Roosevelt shown a tendency to do things on the impulse of the moment. The dis bandment of a company of wegni troops-- au petion which brought upor the President fle humiliation of a public cense was a wid illustration of 3r Roosevelt's unfortunate proneness to net upon impulse rather than authorities. reflection. That the President of the United States is a splendid character is
wick so as to constítuta a postable light
From thinking generally, que natur-
for domestic use. China has been satisfied
even in legis places, with carfiles and
pan not oil until within the past few deales keroncus enimą šato vague,
A Tokyo wine, by the X.-C. D. News,ally concentrates one's study in course dated April 26 says: Major-General of time, and lately I have been busy A Khiking, dispateli vsports that the Broadwood arrival at Port Arthur considering this subject of the honthon
Nothing schuld. The more instructive than hussteuer Chi-an having on board some 30,000 yesterday, with a view to visiting tho as it concerts our Colony, bere in the
bit of world we have grubbed from the the rapid-displacement in the Souchem per cens bound front Anking, the battlefields in Macchuria. Capital of Anhui Province, to Rinkiang,
infidels and where we are supposed to provingus of the old lamps by the kerosene met with an accident half way between the After 15 years connection with the be exerting a civilizing and a Christian lamp. It would be an easy flow to find tru cities and sank in a few minutes. Docks at Kowloon Mr W. Hutcheson left influence. Of course the Chinese are of the ancient typo as to find mea honses in Kwanglang lighted with oil for Home to day. Before his departure ha the heather of all heathen. That has lighting these lamps, not with matches, Two persons were killed and twelve was presented with a gold keyless watch as been a well-known fast ever since the but with flint und steel and tinder uded in an affany which took place between the Rome polies and a funerid.mark of the esteem in which he was held. publication of a famous Them by Bret box. They still exist, but rarely and in out procession. The prosession, consisting of The presentation was made by Mr W. Harte in which he so ally decribes the of the way phces. In the now method 1500 wa kmen, sought to pass through the Stewart, and whys supported by speeches character of one canning Celestial, that there was an obvious ulyance and im Piazza di Venezia in defiance of the by others. Mr Huchesin spitably upon his description many gret been advantages were too striking and to
rosponded.
manifold to leave Yoom for doubt on the have brised their knowledge of the Chinese chemieter generally,
part of a pevctical jaindal people. To The Central Government has, it is ro M? A. McKindy,' of Quarry Bay and
fow of the chief caution of commerça und Do you wat remember for instance pected, decided to construct a line between Treasurer of the Corinthian Yacht Club that the world famous patriot. Mr Keir industry in the empire the electric light
Honan province. It is, however, stated suit, and trelling rug prior to his during bis visit here last year, that liste other vitres and to heridopted widely that the control of the proposal Ima is to be departure for Hems. He left on the whole previous information resecting thingbout the provinces. That it is in the hands of a French syndicate, which Devant to-day Mr Butt made the Tohu Chuman he had gathered from now to light the Forbidden City __of
bighly, East, night Ifr. McKindy and agreeably surprised to find there was tion apart altogether from the final Most imporset endowment of all-
The Makden correspondent of the number of friends doregathered at tho kinauything else to learn. judicial and although he is Pre-Osaka Mintchi" statos that the ice has Edward Hotel and Mr Mokindy. sident of a great democracy he bears disappeared from the Line River, and beans cordially sent th”
and pilcake are arriving at "Nowelusang by. himself as an autocrat. It is palpable
the river to the amount of between 5,000 that his policy is not determined by the and 10.000 koku per day. The Chinese advice of his Administration: it the Press, the maps, in jubilant in thinking that policy of Theodore Roosevelt simply anti
by isid of the tunsport facilities of the river it will be possible to avoid sending their solely. American under the Roosevelt goods by the South Manchurian Railway, regime, by contrast, shows the ex-
D. SHERRY heart dispate, but we doubt very much
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One fact that always strikes me as for its introduction. Can cities curious, and che might add lightly he in any suister use forbidden" that inconsistent, about our dealings with thun Hghted 1 Wo trow not Mach the natives here is this-we openly exclusiveness and many follics, a world of Harvic, of Quarry Bay, who leave for house it is a well known fact that there are others are debarred with all the attendant The departure of Messrs Blako and despise them for being infidels, nad yet stereotyper fiicntal privilogo from which after long cometion with the Taikoe very few European families in the sad consequent absurdities, trust repda Sugar works, was the occasion of an ox Colony who do not choose or oven insite vanish when the so entitia inventions and hitation of eleem by their many, friends on having heathen in preference to discoveries of the West are intruded in at Quarry Bay. An laminated address Christian servants to wait on them any form. Improved methods of lighting
Another curious thing is that though have always parked the progress of civilisa was presented to each, and the presentation we white people have been taught fromation and been typical of swalened minds, clace of our British Constitution recsired Ute: following telegram froin Manager of the Refinery, who spoke in than precept, not a day passes, but we spheres of the moral and the spiritun in The Jack Home Department as was alo by Mr W. Maray Scott, the our youth upward that exuplo a better lot is bops also of genial lively Tays gradually diffused throughout the higher invigorating Our gracious sovereign is not trannielled Niigata A disastrous fire cosirred highly complimentary strains of the reopenly break, at any rate, crack, on the whole usture is enlightened having iro
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