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THE CUSTOMS DUTIES.
TEADERS STOP SHIPMENTS.
Peking, April 20.-The following -report-of-the Chinese official observer
is dated Manchuli, April 5-— -
The question of the Customs duties on goods that are being shipped into the territory of the Far Eastern
not because it bristles with difficul- ties but simply because both the Russian and Chinese authorities, who have the matter in hand, are playing a game of shuttlecock and battledore. The sufferers, as usual, are the traders, who are now forced to hold all shipments until the matter bas been satisfactorily settled.
station.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE QUEST OF MOHAMMED'S SACRED SLIPPER SERIES.
VIA DISC OF LIGHT.
BY LAXE ROHMER.
(Continued from yesterday.)
(COPYRIGHT, 1917.)-
All the cmnning of the Hakhishin, the scheming of the sombrero man; and the shortness of Scotland Yard meet in prosais old Fleet street, where the thou- "Sande paas with no thought of the grim
tragedy being macted in their midst.
Bristol, ignoring the increasing pain in bis arths and wrists, turned his eyes upon the white-covered table and there saw a minute and clear-car picture, such as one sees in the focussing screen of a camera, of the interior of the manager's office of the London County and Provincial Bank!
bed.
RICHARD BURTON,
AN EXPLORERS CENTENARY.
2
ARAMIAN NIGHTS ECHO.
It may be a strprise to sume people to learn that at any time in the day
One hundred years ago, says The the door of a bank inguarded should be left open, when only a solitary Times, there was born in Hertfordshire messenger is within the promises, yet an Englishman who physically, moral- le a few minutes, at least, each evenly, and mentally was built on the
ing this happens-at more than one
city bank, where one of the duties of heroic scale. Those of his contem the resident messenger is to clean the pararies who have recorded their im- outer steps. Dexter had taken ad- pressions of him-though he does not vantage of the man's absence below
figure much in memoirs-agree-that in quest of scrubbing material, to emer the bank timbogh the open door, he was one of the greatest personali- Wanting, brenhless, and utterly ties of the age. He was Richard forgetful of his own position. Bristol Barton, tardily created Sir Richard, saw the messenger, all unconscious
of danger, come up the stairs carry-traveller, scholar, linguist, soldier, ing a pail and broom. As his head swordsman, poet, and four times reached the level of the railings the Consul, whose original and intrepid Sombrery Man neatly sand-bagged genius led him to explore in body him, rashed across to the outer door almost every quarter of the globe and closed it?
except the Far East and Australasia,
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EDUCATIONAL COMMIS SION,
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problem of Christian Education in
The commission will include Pro-
the close of this meeting the whole
Giver duplicate keys and the pri- and in spirit the speech, thought, and vate information which Dexter so inhabits of many and diverse races of not without detractors. He would geniously had obtained, there are mankind. many London banks vulnerable to He died in 1890, worn out, before him. He had a passion, even a scien- allow none to map out his course for similar attack. Certainly, bullion is he could qualify for a pension, for he tine recklessness, for the truth. Yet. Certainly the Fates were playing rarely kept in a branch strong room, was never rich, at Trieste, that place with us, for at a time very nearly or but the detective was well aware that of exile 'for literary servants of the strangely so for one who knew the say he was superstitious, responding with that when Bristol the keys of the case containing the Foreign Office, half Wapping, and East so well; at any rate, he bare Plans are being made for the cour found himself bound and helpless in slipper were kept in this particular half Holywell, Bank Chambers, I awoke to find safet
as his predecessor, patiently with the superstitions of ing to China of an Educational myself tied hand and loos to my own; · He was convinced, and count enter-Charles Lever, described it in the his wife, who was a great proselytizer Commission appointed by the Mission tain no shadowy doubt, that at ler Freser ce of his doctor who survives to and once managed to baptize him as Boards in worth America and Great Nothing but the haziest recollec- day to white to us, and of his adoring tions came to me at first; nothing but ed if it had ever hitherto fallen to the wife and biographer, whose devotion certainly was a great help to him, mission will be to consider the whole dim memories of the awful being who lot of a representative of the law thus never quite penetrated the secret of worshipping him, nursing him, copy, China in all grades of schools and had lured me there; for I perceived to be made an accessory to a daring his character. Her prophecy that ing for him. "Eghting for him, an colleges for both men and women, not from Bristol but from Hassan of now that all the messages proceeded. Felony!
Box maman endurance has well-shout him, every one different. has his earlier asperities seem to have been tion to education under Government reviewing his reviewers. Many of and the relation of Christian educa- Aleppo: Could I have known that defined limits. The fading light ren- not been fulfilled; posterity is left to softened by her; indeed, Justin lc and private auspices. almost within pistol shot of me the dered the ingenious picture dim and make the best of his own writings, Carthy, who knew him well, records inspector was trussed up as helpless more dim. The pain occasioned by which, though crowded with in-that there grew in time to be two fessor Ernest D. Burton, of the as 1, then indeed my situation must his position became agonizing; and formation, are not always easy and quite distinct Richard Burtons, the first University of Chicago as chairman; -PROTEST FROM THE CUSTOMS.....
have become unbearable since upo? uttering a stifled groan be ceased to ing her bock-she destroyed his the Rufian Dick of common fame. Professor Roxby, of Liverpool, and As the Chinese Customs returns I relied for my speedy release. ake an interest in the robbery of the diaries-and another by one of his and the second a much gentler knight. four other persons appointed in Am are being affected by this likin.
My ankles were firmly lashed to the London County and Provincial Bank. which results in the non-shipping of rails at the foot of my bed; each of
nieces, who sought to correct her. Latterly he raced against death and trica, together with not less than Someone was breaking in at the His handsome portrait, by Leigh-time and in-by-a-narrow-margin three Chinese members and three. goods by private frems or individuals. the Customs officers are protestingy wrists was tied back to a bedpost: soor of my dumbers.
ton, is in the National Gallery it is, but not before he had given his sub of the missionary body in China. I ached in every limb and my head I roused myself from a state of perhaps, a little idealized.
scribers their Arabian Nights," by the China Christian Educational As- nominated by the Joint Committee of against the present 'action of the focal Chinese authorities. This is burned leverishly, which latter symp come almost deathlike and listened to
He is alleged to have had a strain general consent his literary master sociation and the China Continuation .. was streaming of Eastern blood in his veins: he was piece... not suficient as far as merchants son I ascribed to the powerful drug the blows. The sun
Committee. living in the C. E. R. area are con- which had been expelled into my face in at my windows.
by Hassan of Aleppo. I reflected Republic is still not properly settled, cerned, for if the Russian and bitterly how, having transferred my broken. Then, a moment later, Shap. in Westmorland Irish, and hile the spark of life was still per arrive in Shanghai in September,.
His wife's last act of fanaticism.... A splintering crash told of a patel certainly a mixture English, from
The Commission is expected to Chinese Chamber of
French, perhaps even Bourbon. He haps in his body at Trieste, and the 1921. A meeting of the whole Com- Coquarters to the Astoria, I could not heard the grating of the lock, and learnt to rave and fight for himself as she made of his papers-it may mission, including all the members in and other public organisations do not take up the well hope for any visitor to my cham- rush or foorstep along the passage. matter at once, the Chita Govan-bers. A gag of the type which “Try the study cane a voice thar a child, for he was brought up mainly be she destroyed more than she knew China, will be convened immediately ment will frame a Customa Tarif, Dunas has described in Twenty sounded like Bristol's, save that it on the Continent; he sent himself.became subjects of discussion which after their arrival. Possibly a gum down from his Oxford college, posterity can ignore; but those to ber of educationalists will be invited which will be equal to the Chinese Years After," the poire d'angoisse, was strangely weak and shaky, Customs dues, plus the likin tax. was wedged firmly into my mouth so
that only by preserving the utmost for himself threw open the bedroom much underground as a young officer and the beroic side cannot but fear: Commission will study some parts of Almost simultaneously the Inspec- Trinity; he wandered and burrowed whom Burton appeals on the human to confer with them at this time. At composure could I breathe. So I lay, door and very pale and haggard in the East India Company's service, that no really adequate life of him the field in order that all its members listening to the familiar sounds with-eyed, stood there looking across at learning tongues, manners, and cus-will ever now be written. One there may clearly understand the principal out, and reflecting that it was quite me.
toms-preparation for his classic entry is, Dr. Grenfell Baker, his doctor, who questions to be answered and also possible so to is, undisturbed. and Mr: Cavanagh?" he said huskily later on into the Arabian boly of survives to speak from living memory agree upon the technique of their to die alone, my presence there wholly Mr. Cavanagh? unsuspected."
Thank God Lolies, and for his expedition into of his encyclopaedic learning. his work. They will then divide, so you're alive. But he turned Central Africa. With Speke he disfathomless kindness of heart, his old bably into three groups, and will This way, Marden!" he tried covered Tanganyika, and so opened fashioned courtesy, his fair dealing travel through different parts of Untie him quickly. I've got up speculations, not yet quite allayed, that tire, his intolerant of China, strength in my arms"
on ite geological origin, and with humbug, his Oriental susceptibility It is proposed that local confer Marden, Scotland Yard man. Speke he quarreled about what to sounds and colours, his philosophic ences will be held in eight or ten came running, and in a minute, or Russian duty shall not exceed the Chinese Customs duty, and therefore, So I Hay, whilst only a few hundred css, I was sitting up gaiping brandy. Speke saw beyond it, so much so that calm and his vein of cynicism, his centres. A thorough study will be
I've had the most awful experi when Speke, after his second and liking for a practical joke, and for forms of work.
made of typical institutions and being enacted. Bristol, a prisoner as ence of my life," said Bristol. greater triumph, died of a gunshot shocking the pompons, his loyalty, helpless as myself, watched the con- "You've fared badly enough, but I've at Bath, Burton wrote to a friend, self-sacrifice, and endurance; of the itineraries, the Commission will meet After having completed their cluding business of the day being been hanging by my wrists you know the late lir. Frank Wilson, in words English gentleman," straightforward, again as a whole in order to prepare conducted in the benk beneath him; Dexter's trick!-for close upon six which we are enabled by Mr. Wilson's fearless, frank, and honourable; a their report, which is to be ready The agreement is only a temporary watched the lift descend so the strong teen hours! I wasn't released until sou to give for the first time:
loyal and lovable friend, if a bitter for presentation to the General one, and will no doubt lapse as soon room the spying apparatus being Carter in office boy, came on the Nothing, will be known of Speke's fair-fighting foe." "And now," con- Missionary Conference in Shangbai as China enters into a full Com-slightly adjusted in some way; he saw scene this morning!"
death. I saw him at 1.30 pm, sad tinues Dr. Baker, in a letter to us, fa April or May, 1922.! mercial Treaty with the FER, when the clerks hastening to finish their Very feebly i modded, I could not fat puche was dest The charitable as probably the sole survivor of THE 1914 CUSTOMS TARIFF.
the former country will no donht work in the outer office, and, as he talk.
say that he shot himself, the unchari that always small band who were in- It appears that the F. E. R. has insist on reciprocal terms. In the watched, absorbed by the novelty of "The strong-room of your bank | table that I shot him.
timately associated with him through decided to revive this old 1914 Cus meantime, however, in order that the situation, he almost forgot the was rifled under my very eyes kest Meanwhile, he had dashed across a long period of time (I was his travell toms Tariff, because they are unable, traders may not be unduly handicap pain and discomfort which he suffered evening!" he continued, "and five North America to visit Brigham ing medical adviser, his confidential yet to ascertain the actual duties. ped, it is up to them to look after Tais little peep-show of ours has minutes after the Artiquarian museum Young and the Saints; his marriage, friend, and his daily companion during charged by the Chinese authorities, their own interests.
been very useful," Dexter confided as opened to the public this morning more the lady's romance than his, the last three-and-a-half years of his The Russian Customs control is
SHORTAGE OF COMÎn
out of the darkness. "I got an im- quite an unusual number of visitors and consequent circumstances, com life, and in my arms he died in Trieste), under the Ministry of Foodstuffs and Commerce, instead of under the With the opening of riverine na-Fression of the key of the strong room appeared..
pelled him almost immediately to go may I plead that some form of ade Ministry of Finance as is the igation, it is likely that the Chita door a week ago, and Carneta got: "I saw the bank manager the whither the climate forbade her to quate monument be erected to his general rule in all other countries, Ministry of Transport will devote its one of the keys of the safe only this moment he arrived, and learned, follow, to Fernando Eo, the white immortal memory, that shall be ap-in by a great many people. It is and this Ministry had documentary į attention to the shipping of goods morning, when she lodged her box piece of news that positively took my man's grave, on the West Coast; it proof, being itself at this moment by the water routes rather than by of jewellery with the bank! I was at breath away! I was at the museum
worthy of that Empire he did so much the biggest importer of goods into the railway. This is but natural, work on that key when you interrupt- seven minutes later and got another was his first Consulate, and he made propriate to his wondrous career and his mark alike on savage tribes and to enrich and to uphold, and in which slipper."
Then," I whispered "it hadn't to Brazil, where his wife at last could and all-absoroing patriotism that ancestors were particularly strong become her great man's partner. knew no party and was unaffected by Seeing effects only, and ignorant of "Wrong it had! This was a Again there was plenty of travelling: neglect, fear, or favour?
"causes and yet convinced that causes
For considerably over a month be fore the F. E. R. and Chinese frontier agreement was signed, goods from Manchuria were being shipped up to Chits from sub-station 86 and on these goods the F. E. R. charged no duty. After the signing of the agree meat, which stipulates that the
A NEW PROPOSITION......
Actually the Frontier Agreement has not yet been brought forward before the Constituent Assembly, and therefore is not yet ratified, and in the meantime the Chita Government arë contemplating bringing into force the Russian 1914 Customa Tariff, reduced three times. Though this, seeking me there; and eager as I was of course, will be a great reduction to give them substance, I found them on the present charges, it will not but airy and ultimately was forced reduce the Russian duty to equal the to admit them to be nil.
I weighed the chances of Bristol's
Chinese, a few carloads of goods got in the interests of the facilitating of yards from me a singular scene was
up to Chita without paying duty but of trade, the commercial community are now held there, owing to the should use all efforts to insist that authorities demanding the Russian the terms of the Agreement are duties that were in force in 1914, strictly abided by. which are exceedingly high, and which the Chinese shippers refuse
to pay.
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SUPERSTITIONS.
STIRRING WITH A KNIFE.
"Stir with a knife; stir up strife." This rhyming piece of old-time. superstition is still firmly believed
districts of New England zt specially prevalent in the rural least and is of ancient des. cent. The superstition has its root
the F. E. R. territory, that the seeing that the Chita Railway will ed me, and as by means of this use shock! There in the case was the red places. Thence he was transferred he so thoroughly believed with a sane in imitative magic in which "our
Chinese are charging on all goods, in require a good deal of repairing as ful apparatus I have learned the com- addition to the ordinary Chizese, soon as the thaws set in, and the timation, you ought to see some fun Customs duty, a likin or contump necessary materials are lacking to in the next few hours."
being levied by undertake the work. In addition to tion tax, which
The bank staff felt the premises the local Tax Office under the District Magistrate.
THE LIKIN TAX.
this the railway is suffering from a
ير
been stolen?"
stir
scatter,"
In these days a man's knife was.. Do what thy manhood bids thee pot a table implement it was his weapon for strife with wild beast and do,
with his fellow man. from none but self expect applause: Teutonic dialects the word
To the old He noblest lives and noblest dies has, besides its present meaning, that
who.
of to destroy," makes and keeps his self-made disturb." In the depths of that
-laws.
-rast and: gloomy forest which All other life is living death, a world once covered Europe from the where none but phantoms dwell; shores of the Mediterranean to the A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a shores of the Baltic a savage ancestor of yours stirred up something with tinkling of the camel-bell.
his knife in imitation of what he was about to do with that same knife to his enemies, upon whom this stirring
"/
one by one until only a solitary clerk duplicate as Mostyn the curator saw and the translation of Camoens, a A few lines from one of Burton's must exist, they adopted the home- shortage of coal for all the Chinese worked on at a back desk. His task at a glance! Some of the early visi-superb work in the eres of those who best-known poems The kasidah opathic doctrine of "like produces labourers who were employed in the completed, he, too, took his departors they were Easterners had knew the original took shape.seem to me to embody some of his like," imitating what they desired to coalmines have gone away, owing to ture, and the bank, messenger com- quite surrounded the case. They Damascus was the next promotion, most salient personal characteris produce. The likin appears to be not only the non-payment of their wages, menced his nightly duty of sweeping were watched, of course, but any with even better prospects ahead, tes high but also variable, and so far whilst the Russians themselves are the offices. It was then that excite number of Orientals come to see the until suddenly the abrupt recall, the the Russian authorities have been nawilling to work under the present mert like an anesthetic dulled the thing; and, short of smashing the dashing of hopes, for reasons never unable to learn the actual charges conditions; nor can they be blamed detective's pain-indeed, he forgot his glass, which would immediately at fully explained, the famous message on all specific goods. Now, though Lastly, the friction and want of coaching body and became merely a tract attention, the authorities were of Am superseded: pay, pack, and the levy of any likin by local authori- operation which, exist between the watchful intelligence.
unprepared, of course, for any at-1 ties on any goods being shipped CE. R. and the Chita Railway dis
So intent had be become upon the tempt: Anyway, they were tricked. away by the railway is actually illegal, courages the officials of the latter part betre lint that he had nee Somebody opered the case. The real the Russian authorities, rather line. Seeing that their position, is
2 formal protest anything but a healthy one and noticed the fact that he was alone in slipper of the Propher is gone!" against this present, procedere, makes them feel at the same time the office of the Congo Fabre Com- pany. Now he realized it from the wish to know the actual taxation that it is only waste of time trying absolute silence about him and from being made, for wher they to co-ordinate. get 20 .official statement The C, E. R. management will find on the same, they will be able, by that, as the warm weather progresses, focussed, and on the screen beneath The spying apparatus had been left virtue of their Frontier Agreement, this natural feeder the Chita Rail his eyes, bending low behind the desks to levy a Russian Customs duty, plus | way--will become a smaller factor this likin, thus deriving a greater re-than it has been in the past, and that and creeping, Indian-like, around to venue than they are actually entitled therefore, it will be necessary for the ward the head the stair which odmí to. This will adversely affect Man C. E. R. to adopt a change of attitude municated with the strong room and chuli merchants, for goods, coming in order that there shall be an in- from Harbin and other points castcrease in freights and faras on its of Manchuli, and being immediately western section. Reuter.
than
make
another circumstance.
follow," to the lady, and henceforth, after a summer in Iceland, exile, com- parative disfavour, failing health, and hard writing at Trieste until the end, They told you at the beak-----" "That you had withdrawn thei
But by no means continuous con- keys! If Dexter had known that "finement in an Adriatic sesport. Hassan of Aleppo took them from Alone or with his wife he made fre
thin have triumpfied!” me last night. At last the hashi- quent expeditions, to the Gold Coast sgain this time prospecting-to Bristol sank into the armchair.
India again, to Midian, again prospect| "Every port is watched," he said.ing, to the southern shores of the SERVES THE WHOLE FAMILY. up ought to have a homeopathic But":
Mediterranean, to many European HE fame of Chamberlain's Cough effect. So today it is a harking back resorts. The Consul, it must be for the deep seated cough of the adult makes us say, Stir with a knife: Bemedy is world wide. It is good to a belief in imitative magic which or the creep and whooping cough of the stir up strife! chidren. The same bottle serves the whole family. For sale by all Chemists life of a superstition
That's a few thousand years in the and Storekeeperz
the apartment used by the messen (The next story in this series will be admitted, often left his duties, hence ger, came the alert figure of Ear! "The Pool of Death.”) perhaps an unappreciative F. O. Dexter.
If he had admiring friends he was
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