WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1917.
Hughes & Hough
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AUCTION.
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Chill of the hills, and innocenty It played untong, the glens. Hearing the curlew evening plaint
The only burden that it bore, The morning bleat of pens;
Blown petal of the whin,
only pasion but the roar
over six hundred applicants forty-sever boys were despatched to this country. Funder appaopriate escort, in 1909, and
were placed at„American academies and fa
It was proposed by the Manchu farallynical whole at high standing, such Sharo, Coal and General Produce the Public Works Department, by Orderat of Payi the little Emperor of Cina Phillips Acadarny, Andover: Williston
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THE. Undersigned have received in- structions from the Hongkong Government to sell by Public Auction,
on.
FRIDAY,
the 19th October, 1917, at 11am, at
Yau-run-ti,
The Steam Lighter
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HULL-Composite Teakwon, Plank-
ing with Steel Frames
Length over all
Beam Extrenie.....
fe, 0 in.
16 ft. 0 in.
Depth nobuklet! .....
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5 ft. 6 in..
Depth Hold
40 Tons Dead Weight Capacity ENGINES Compound Tandem non condensing.
BOILER-Pressure fio la
Including Ship's Gear comprising -- Anchors,"about to fashon, Cable, Fer- dera, various Lamps, Awnings, Tools, Deck Pump, &c. &c.pde.
Further Farticulars and Inspecting Orders may be had front the undersignd.
A Launch will leave Black Pier at 10.30 am. the day of sale to convey ntending purchasers.
On view from Monday the 16th Oct. Terms --Cash before delivery. "
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneer to the Government.. Hongkong, Oct. 11, 1917.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE Undersigned have recoived instruc
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tions to sell by Public Auction,
(FOR ACCOUNT, OF THE CONCERNKY),
on
SATURDAY,
the 20th October, 1917, at 10.45 3.23
at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, DIS VITI ROAD, Corner of Too Humse Street, MISCELLANEOUS GOODS, Comprising:-
Lady's Silk Sweaters, Silk Stockings"
a variety of Dress Materials including Blue and White Serge (good quality), | Prints, Holland, White Linea, Drill,
Flannel, Flasselette, &c, &c., Counter- pance, White Blankets, Handkerchiefs,
His Excellency the Governor, of One Lob of CROWN LAND at Nathan Hond, Kowloon, in the Coleay of Bengkong, for a. tarta of 15 years, with the option of give him an American education.
renewal aka Crown Rent to be fixed by the
'Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for una
further term of 75 years.
incality.
No. Hafe.
| Registry No.
Fat No. 121.
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The proposal" was not inappropriate when we consider the history of nearly sixty years. The in Chinaman to receive chucation in the United States w was the late Dr. Yung Wing. In 1830, Dr. Yung returned to China and tried to peranade the authorities there to send students to America Twele years were necessary
from 1 to 1914, again proclaimed Seminary. Easthampton Caching Ass manarch recently, but now in hiding) to demy, Ashburnhara Wesleyan Academy. Wilbraham, and Lawrence, Academy, Frem these schools the lads passed on into college, especially to Harvard. Fale, Cornell. Lehigh, Purdue, and the Mpson. ebusetts Institute of Technology The vord of the students at all the colleges was notable, especially at the Muse clasetts Tech," when they encountered particularly stiff course in engineering The mimes of others colleges are now to be added to this list, for the present policy is to distribute the students as widely as possible.
THE BOYS ABL DOOD STUDENTS,
to convinge even the broader-minded men of affairs, that the plan was desirable. Finally, however, they memorialised the authache. They obtained its approval, and published a request for the rates of boys |for whom a foreign education might be † The ecliool and college record of the desired. As most Chinese were aware Chinese students has already begu cirrozí. that there was 20y particular value in a died in the anuals of various institutions. foreign education, the mines came in For instance,take the Williston Seminary slowly. It took a year, to, colleet thirty bulletin. It shows that in one year, of boys."
ten at its Chinese students, five won first
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MASSAGE.
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MR. HONDA. Trained male Masseur. Ten years experience. Formerly of Tokyo Military Hospital.
WILL VISIT PATIENTS' RESIDENCES IF PREFEREED No. 218, Queen's Road East.
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In 1872 they were sent to Americs, and honours in scholarship and the other Ave in the following there years other hatches won secoui honours. One of then, who of thirty each were sent, But the
silent were kept under" strict "super.asp won highest prize at Lehigh, is now vistes, They were required always to
a Commmissioner of Agriculture in wear Chinese dress, to retain their quebes."}
Chinese province and director of a seños to oberry oncieutieistotns; to worship,'
of agriculture. Two are professors in the Confucius. Despite these injunctions, is University of Peking and the engineering was not long before 'soane were charged i
college at Sanking respectively, Another with forgetting their old tradition. is teaching in the Middle School at imitating American mousers, becoming ("
Shanghai. Another is on his way home.
Of cataract and linn.
Up rose a sudden wind that cried.
Implaring from the ses
Clyde hung at portals of the tide
And fels its witchery; Only one water clings upon
The circle of the world, The same that lieps to Lamin
Ou Labrador is burled,
Oegan and river, we are one Thou, fresh from mountain wells. Art but & part of floods that run
Through the cleft of the Dar
dudelles.
The salted seas are thine estate,
Wake from thy pastoral dreams: Bear us no more dead leaves for!
lenses for freight,
BeliCaptai: of the Streams!
Forget the linns among the whins,
Where the yellow troutlet leaped, Fools where to cleanse them from
their sins
Into the sunset," crimson-barred The star of evening steeped.
The wakened river"stole,
And in the dirt of dock and yard.
Found its immortal soul !
No more the bees from the linden,
trees
Huramed to the Clyde et forn: Day broke in tumalt on its quays
At the sound of the shipyard horn:
Bent o'er it as in prayer Oirder and gratry and building stage
Towered giddily in the air.
friendly to foreigners, and especially to to practice what he has learned in subNo more the sedge by the water edge | Ameriesa girls; above all, becoming marine and war ship designing, and, what, (believersing what the Chinese call the-is-most significant fully still another, Jesus faith." They were all ordored, who took the same course in America, is home. When they got there they were now in the Chinese Ministry of Marine. treated more like criminals then stulants. Several occupy positions of responsibility The Peking authorities would not employ in American chemical and oil concerns, any of them. The result of the fast with the intention of one day returning general Chinese lacational endeavor in to China to tenek, Amerign seemed a failure:
BOXER INDEMNITY AND EDUCATIS. - But the seed had been sown. It was 2154 not to die. Among the viceroys was the astate Chang Chistung. He realized the value of a foreign educaion. He went
Towels, Toilet Soap, Perfumery, White DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Lace Curtains, Sc
And
Suit Cases, Gent.'s Boots and Shoes, Mc., &c.
TERM:--Cash
HUGHES & BOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Oct. 15, 1017.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
2103:
HE Undersigned have received in stractions to sell by Public Auction, (JOB ACCOUNT OF THE CONCLENZO), FRIDAY.
the 19th October, 1917, at 2:30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Btreet,
A QUANTITY OF
น
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
(Removed to Sales Rooms for Convenience
1 Sale.) Including:
Lady's Carrying Chairs, Several Sets of Ivory Billiard Balls..
And
Two 19 Barr D.B. Hammerless Sport- ng Guns,
Termos :-Cash :
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Oct. 18, 1917.›." [$100
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Eleven hundred and seventy Chinese
students are now in American schools distributed throughout the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, who are sent Ace chosen after competitive exandnctions, and the enthusiasm in
some who fail of Government appoint meat are scat by their friends. The indemnity "fond supports three hundred and seventy students; the various Chinese provides governments support about twe
La book about it. Fle eren called it China is now evident from the fact that
China's Only Hope." He attacked the | problem by inserting the thin edge of the wedge, and that was by sanding some his young mer, not to far-off Occidental Americu, but to rear by Oriental Japan. The plan worked well, and by 1909 it hundred, and there are approximately six became possible, aguin to send stidents hundred private students.
convention in the East, another in the fiddle West, and another on the Pacific coast. They publish a magazine.
Petal o' whin, between the neups" No more went down its weirs, But every spring-tide launched its
ships
Never a port in all the earth For over a hundred years.
Where merchantman could ride, But spoke the name and knew the
wwworth
Of old, bold Captain Clyde
Came there a day when terror woke,
As in the Apocalypse:
The seventh seal of the Book was
broke..
And the sea-floor strewn with
*ships.
A moment mourned the engineers
The wrecked things of their craft, And then, at the taunt of the hue-
caneers
Turned to old Clyde and laughed! From their mountain groins they
plucked the pines,
And splintered them into spars On their furnace fires they poured
"their mimes, •
And quenched the night of stars.
more as men, but gods they
toiled,
to Ameries by accepting the proposal, The Chinese students in America have made by Jolas Hay, Secretary of State conventions every summer; indeed, they that the American Government should are zow numerous enough to have one temit half the ludemnity yearly paid by the Chinese Gaveromogut as a result of Janages due us because of the Boxar atrocities of 1000, the money to be devoted
About four hundred young men have to American education for Chinese boys.
returned to China from America, and, The total indemnity which China was because of their influence, the achonisNo to pay to the Powers was 1337,500,000.. It us to be paid in thirty-nine equal can-trained teachers that the Chinese no at home are now so manned with Aseri
annual installments on January of each)
longer need to send boys here for college year, with interests at four per cent preparation. They come nos chiefly for The largest amounts of claims for damages college courses, and for the most part suffered from the Boxer atrocities were choose them in the departments of A from Russia, Germany, France, Great techonology and Britain, and Japan; then came the United administration, and pedagogy. States and then the smaller claims of
Italy, Belgium, Austria, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Norway. Of u
science,business
John Hay's idea was farsighted and far-reaching in more than one way. In
such a burden on China was enormis, the first place, it waved Ching from bank- The amount of indemnity remitted by the ruptus. In the second place, it estab United States to Chino
·lished by: was" nearly
agreement a new use for Chinese $12,000,000.
funds to the benefit of Chinesa govern It was agreed that the Chinese Goverment and popular progress; in this sense ment should send out a bundted students China has indeed received the fund back every year for four years, and therenter again with increase. The same is true for twenty-ning years fifty students. The of the United States. The funds repaid boyx were to study seven years each in have gone to the support of Amer
America. This was after reduced from schools, it is true.. But what is this com- seven to six years, and has now been pared with the assured mutlook for the reduced to sve, on account of the lada future, with regard to the bond between increasingly better preparation.
America and China? For as long as the young Chinamen who have come to the United States are inuential in the educa tional commercial, and governmental
i affairs of their native land, so long will American influence be the ultimate sud dominating factor in Chinese history.
Thie has an especial significance at the present moment. Jaat now Japan bas jostibed leadership in Asia But this is But saying that this leadership is always: to renaus with Japan. Recent events Indicats that after all, Chine is not easy the rest lendership may China trained.
The Man Who Gets There
Is the man who has blood- zeal rich red blood with pleats of it--ft his body.
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Like magic wands their tools, They stretched out keels as though
uncoiled.
Like cotton törend from spool...
great cliffs pried from Scotland's
.side,
And rendered animate
Their new armadas caught the fide
In one enormous spate.
If they emptied of ships the ocean
main
And the very sea-pining dried,
By God, I could fill them both
again!!!!
Cried bold, old Captain Clyde. NEIL Musno in Gisano Herald.
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