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PARIS, thân do the whiten, Yet such is the|THE SOUTH AMERICAN THE BIG KNIFE SOCIETY, BRITISH NAVAL ESTI-
clannishness of the blask man, and his deep-seated distrust of the white man's law, that negro criminals are frequently. aheltered, and saved from just punish- mont by the very communities they have injured. But these strictares and ocoumtions apply almost exclusively to the ignorant mass of the negro popula tion. There is satonishingly little crime among educated negroes skilled workmen, farmers, clerks, domestic ser vants, railway men, miners, traderen, erind the professional claspés."
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General Memeranda. THURSDAY, March 17
Noon-Auction of Valuable Leasehold Property, at Mr Geo, P. Lammert's Sales Rooms
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Somò chservers think, and Sir HARDT JOURSTON is among them; that better education will furnish an exit from the present difficulties, and so it will to a certain extent, if the principles Friday, March, 19 ;-----
11.m.-Fifteenth Half Yearly Drawing inculcated at Hampton and Tuskegee be
of Bixty-five Debentures of Hongkong followed. But if the Olabad Olab ·House, (^ Noon-Meeting of Chins Sugar Refining Co., Id., at Messrs Jardine, Matheson Co.'s Office. 18.30 p.m.-Meeting of Luzon Sugar Re- fining Co., Id., at Hesen Jardine, Matheson Co.'s Offics
(Wah The Tol Po'r Service,)
PERING, March 14 The rebels of the Big Knife Society | are reported to have mised a rebellion in Krochow and Obo Chow, in the Pro- vince of Shantung.
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Loxton, March 15.
Central America, despite the Washing- Owing to the continued arming in
ton peace pact, the United States bas
An Imperial Edict has been issued intimated that it wishes to have directing the Viceroy of Chihli and the a conference with Mexico. The lat-Governor of Sbuntung to send troops to ter has declared that it is ready to quell the uprising. intervode to preserve peace and to cooperate in any action which the United States may deem necessary. The United Statea is sending warshipe with tho consent of Mexico.
AFFLUENT CUBA
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Loumor, March 15, astonished at the childish ignorance, manifested both in the Pross and on Havana has agreed upon a suspension The House of Representatives at the platform, which characterized the of the export tax on cigars, cigarettes, Southern and Central States in all tobacco and sugar at the President's matters but those immediately co-discretion, owing to the affluence of the
| Treasury. cerning the borough or the plantation. "And it is," he says, "a self-satisfied Noongnorance, one that boasts, that, the
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affairs of Europe. Asia, Africa, and Oceania are of no importance to the citizens of America. It is this narrow, eminently provincial intellect (often) There wore 408 Eupes and 211 unhappily permeating State Govern-Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library, and 195 European and 2,83 Ühinese víai- ments, Federal Congress, and Senate) tom to the Museum daring the week that causes all the trouble and fended March 14th. asacerbation over the negro question.”
The re-trial of the casu brought against Mr RAY STANKARD BANER, a New York the Standard Oil Company has resulted in PRESIDENT TAFT in his inaugurel adjournalist, who was recently sent downversal of the formet judgment con- demning the Company to pay a line of dress looked forward to a new era of South to investigate, reported on his $29,000,000. The case was dismissed on the Balls by katod permission of Lt. Col. BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EX-political tolerance in the Southern return that he saw signs of a painfully account of lack of evidence.
States Yet, as a matter of fact, the Nagro Problem in the United States of North America appears to be no sarer solution to-day than it was twenty years age. Indeed, in some respects the branch between the whites and the blacks has widened with the passage of years. Many and persistent have bean the attempts made by politicians of the southern states of recent years against the attitude of the South to
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The Naval Estimates for thủ current Year amount to £36,142,709, comparend : with 32,319,500 last year. A sums of £8,885,194 is to be devoted to new con structions, as against £7,645,202,
The programme providian for the laying down of four Dreadnoughts, two in July and two in November, as well as eix | protected ortizari, twenty destṛngers and/ a number of submarines, costing half s million sterling. It also provides for the construction of an air-ship.
(Woh Em Yai Pa's Service.}.. PEKING, March 14.
The Right Hon. bfr
Reginald It is said that Sui Ching, the McKeans, First Lord of the Admiralty- Provincial treasurer of Kiangen, will adds that it may be found necessary in bo promoted to the Governorship of the course of the year to prepare for the Shantung and that Ymad Shit-tap, the rapid constraction of four more larga: present Governor, will be traumferred to armoured ships as the other Powers. another province.
GRAND COUNCILLOR'S REQUEST REFUSED.
(Wah Pm Yat Po's Service)
PEKING, March 14. Owing to his own illness and also the death of bis mother, Na Tung, one of the Grand Councillors, made a request to bs, allowed to temporarily retire from office, but the Prince Regent did not approve of the proposal,
AN OFFICIAL'S RE- LUCTANCE.
order armsments, etc., so as to enable than to be laid down on April 1st, 1910, and completed by March, 1912.
DEATH OF THE EARL OF HARDWICKE.
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LONDON, March 14. The death has occurred of the Earl of
Hardwicke.
and decessed was the seventh holder there-
Note The title was created in 1754
of He was formerly in the Nory but retired on snescoding to the Earldom. He served in the Baltic in 1858, being awarded the medal, and abse in the Crimean War, for which he received the medal and clasp. as well as the Tarkish medal.—Q.M.)
PRINCE REGENT EXASPE RUSSIAN COSSACKS OFF
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(Woh To You Fo's Service.)
PEKING, March 14. On receiving a further intimation from Chu Shib-ehang declining to accept slow but irregular progress among the
the post of President of the Board of A train on the New York-Chicago line Communications, the Prince Regent was botter class of pegroes in morals,uccessfully exchanged wirdas telegraphic greatly exasperated, and ordered the education, economic efficiency, wealth communications with Chicago from Buffalo. and political capacity. Like most other This is the first instance of the practice of reluctant official to come to Peking writers in America, however, Mr. BAE that this method of commarlestion will be wireless telegraph on a ratinay. It is held leaves the educated and efficient negro of value in avoiding collisions. where he finds him-on trial. before a changing and unsympathetic deacci
The Hou, Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs bu Grease have both raised their voices donations to the funds of the Host: als racy. President Tarr and Carchival acknowledge with thanks the owing
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wands its negro population, but in the Pringle Junr face of past experience we fear that their protests will have little efect, for A correspondent writs-"I have no the great mass of the white population wish to purtail the joys of childhood, but have evidently made up their minds for juvenile bicyclists and tricgliste to in- hardly think Battery Path is the place that their black brothren belong to adulge their passion for casting. Throe hopelessly inferior race and are there small boys and a high old into there on foro not entitled to an equal share of Cathedral after Moming Savice, and the Sunday just as people we learing the social and political rights under the alarm and annoyance which they caused American constitution,
may be mora casily imagined than describ- ed. Yet the lukung at the foot took no noties."
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LONDON, March 14. Reuter's Bangkok correspondent states that a mesting of Indian and Chinese British subjects has protested against the Anglo-Sianese Treaty,
PRINCE KUNI IN TURKEY.
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LONDON, March 14.
A Constantinople message states that
A CRITICAL SITUATION.
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LONDON, March 14, Reporta have reached London to the affect that Russia is sending a Sotnin
of Cossacks to Teheran.
The St Petersburg Nevage Frema urges the immediate despatch of strong detachment which, it says, can alone save the acking of Teheran where an insurrection is said to be imminent. There are only a handful of Russian officers there and the position ie critical.
MEDICAL TRAINING OF CHINESE.
APPEAL FOR £100,000.
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LONDON, March 13, The Chineas Emergency Committee, of which Sir Robert Hart is the Presi dent, appeala for £100,000 in order to develop the Medical College at Peking and also to provide for the establish ment of three mission medical schools elsewhere for the purpose of the medical training of the Chinese and other educational work.
A meeting is to be held at the
to deprive the Negro of the political rights conferred on him after slavery was abolished, and notwithstanding the protests of the leaders at Washing ton and the Northern States generally many of these attempts have prac tically succeeded. Although the pro jeet has never really got upon the statute book, by a side wind the Negro The following are highly re. has been shut out from the privilege commended:
of exercising his right to vote in the Ideal Perfume, Fleurs D'Amour,vast majority of cases, while the res- Bouquet des Amours, Indian trictions placed upon his personal Hay, 4711 Eau de Cologne, liberty are many and irksome, And, as the Now York Nation points out, the Farina's Original Genuine Eau
On Saturday Messrs. W. S. Bailey and significant thing about all this is, not Co., Ltd. launched from their Works in de Cologne. Peau d'Espagne, that it has happened, but that it has Trefle Incarnate, Azurea, Camia
been so generally soquiesced in. For Safrano, Vera Violetta, Coerr ten youre and more there has been de Jeannette, Mes Delices, Vio-growing a volume of literature which let Merville, Floramyl, &c., &c. either assumes, or affirme as a fact, the fundamental and eternal inferiority of the negro race, justifies the exolusion of members of that race from effective competition with whites, denies their fitness to vots or hold office, disparages their efforts to obtain an education.. and apologizes. for the brutal vengeance too often wreaked upon than for their real or fancied crimes. It is no longer fashionable to praise the virtues of the negro, savo as a menit, nor it entirely easy to be Uront suecase is attending the appearance friendly to him, save through the of Steve Adson and Jessie Thome at the Victoria Cinematograph and both artistes medium of an imperecnal organization.”“
are compelled to respond to enthusiastic Sir HARRY JOHNSON, the well known demands for encores. To-night they will British Colonial administrator who spent airs their inimitable Irish character skotch An interesting social annomtement from Mally Doclan's Troubles." Miss Cecilia Peking is that of the engagement of Mr C. so many years of his active life among Verard will also make her farewell appear. H. Tauru, of the LM.C., to Miss Brodon, the nature races of Africa, has been ance this evening, after which she will the only daughter of the Acting Inspector- Investigating this question
leave for Shanghai. The management so General, 1.M.C., Sis Robert Bredon and recently
nounce that they have pngaged two more Lady Bredon. Mr Laura is Acting da- Per Case 4 Dozen Quarts... and has contributed to The Times artistes who will be seen on the boards gant Secretary, I.G., Fellig. He is a
Pinta
The proteat recently wired to Peking by the shareholders in the Caton-Hankow the Sultan has received Prince Kuni of bailway against the appointment of Trotai Japan. Wang Ping-you as Superintendent of the
LONDON, March 14. Bailway has evidently had effect, for we
Prince Kani's visit to Constantinople learn from Canton that this official has has had the effect of reviving the Mansion House on March 16th been transferred to another post and the negotiations to establish diplomatic official Bureau of Superintendance has relations between Turkey and Jepan, been closed. This must be regarded as the latter having abandoned the triumph for the sharehole who one privilege of Capitulations. The Porte TRIS medicine is well known for Ite determined to build the line without is anxious that a Treaty shall commence official interference.
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