CORRESPONDENCE.
NORWAY: MORE INTERESTING INFORMATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESA.”
S15.- The Daily Press has been kind enough to open its valuable columns to a discussion about Scandinavian furs, and I want to
but also he failed us, and separation became inoritable.
In this manner uarrow-minded Swedish politicians contrived to dissolves Union, which by a litths compliance might have been proser ved for its chief purpose, that of defence.
We have lost nothing by it, as it marks the tormination of controversies, which to some
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 24TM¤, 1905
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Is not this a contradiction in terms? For. | PRESENT SITUATION IN CHINA. ) if by appealing to Chinese reason they expect to achieve something, their nature umst needa be a posterior! not insusceptible to the influence of argumout.
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LTOTURA BY DR. ARTHUR AMITH. On June 15th at Shanghai, Dr. Arthur Smith It was given under deliver on interesting feature on The Iro
WE bondle everything PHOTOGRAPHIC and PHOTOGRAPHIC only. Our store is sont Situation in China.
the only one in the Colony devoted exclusively (o this trade; our stock in the largest As to your assertion that an Oriental nature the auspices of the Chian Branch of the Royal Asistia Society, whose President, Sir Pelham cannot be relined. by argument, it is at bust Warren, K. C. M. G., was in the Chair. He
was suportal by Dr. Kasp. Senior Consul, and by far the most complete. The Amateur's work being the only work for cur dark room merely a matter of opinion; and if China would
Dir. J. N. Jameson, Chairmu of the morican would be no wonder if her sons, who by nature Chairman of the Chin Assoc at ou
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express my gratitude as well for this privilogy / extent baya disturbed both our political and but embraco all the touchings of the West; itastis Association, and Mr. R. W. Little, staff, they are therefore able to concentrāto their whole attoution to them, and turn out work of
leader of the 19th inst.
In
as for the many compliments paid to Norway and the Norwegians in year very interesting There are, however, still some points, which I take the liberty to comment upon reading your article it dawned upon me how woll nigh impossible it is for a foreigner to enter into the soutirats, which more tis entire Norwegias Bation, was and women, at the Present time. It was wrong on my part to class as "ignorance a divergence of opinion, which eyes the best books of reference fail to enlighten the noù- Scandinavian world upsu,
A nation worthy of the consideration shown by the Daily Press does not rise, ono und all, to sever its connection with another country with- out something being fundmentally wrong in the partnership. The Bill of Separation was passed unanimously in the Norwegian Parlia mont, backed by the entire people,
The Union had become a veritable gake, unbearable for a high-spirited and independent nation. For many years our best energies have been dissipated in is fruitines struggle for the Equality which, according to our constitution A continanon of the of 1814, should be ours. Union somed like a lasting nightmare, and we took the last step, that of Dission, prepared for a 'coutingencies.
I venture to doubt that the Union has been awis and bonificent measure." Economi- cally it has in any cases been highly deti inaintal to our interests, politically, wader the conditions which have pewvaïld, it war If Russia had commences an aggressive policy against the Scandinavian Peninsula, we would of necessity have fough together without a Caion. Under the strained relatious, sausul by the Union, such a corpor- tion would have been considerably impeded.
worse than useless
material progress
and
What does the Daily Prees was by "are tractable, should is, if not more, at least as Br. J. C, Forgason, Hon. Sea, of the China the best quality wly,
reflued is the Westerners, as tants are a great Bauch, number of facts to show that these Chinese who
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purely Norwegian flag" The wording must give ouo the impression that we did not fly flug of our own before 1898. We have never use the Swod.st; flag, and the Union Juck was removed from our Merchant flag to donate that
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had baren the follo wors of Western ideas seldom fístics," said:-It is always difficult to take the the real significanes of any event, Dospito! fell short of deing them justice--I am Sir, sure of one's own times, and tightly to gaug
this tenisu, there can ko no questions that has been a foremost geney in malocking Chin J. M. XAVIER.
within the past month: a new talium of un with luni.
ags. Henceforth the Vedental and Fox Fast Worship. In general, every mission station in history has boon travers de milo-stone of the to the world and to that trade which soms of us can never be touchther in exactly the inland China a dy diffusing light and anne relatings. It has boon said that the most fadiating heat. Look at sach a work as that of Dune Main in Hangchow, or of Dr. Wil son in Saiting in distint Szechuan, wattering. Three
other
blessings broadcast with impartial and unwearied puzzling question may be resolvat by anyworing
What is it?
hands There are scores of other antra of Why is
a liko kid but maller in their scale of operá-
ions
This criticism covers
We trust that, as community existed in commeres audshipping, while we retained it in our naval fg nWo plead guilty to every count of the indict indicative of the defensive union. Very plain, nent, and to a law more,
Chev. Volpicolli lus amisbly overlooked jour crimes against "the syllogistic art," his cham- it appears to G,
It was Sweyn of Denmark, who defented Olaf Ipion will not lease is under the bun of his in 1000, and Norway was not divided between displeasure.
stated by the Denmark and Swaden as
Daily Forss. Norway remained under Draak till 1915-for 15 yoors-when Olaf the Saint delivered the country from its foreign con- querors, Sweyn, it may be remembered, was Canute the Great's father, and later on commenced the conquest of England.
Norway was not compared by Sweden in 1914, as Synsk" declares, so his "accepted facts are rather weak-kneed,
Just look at his article, and atryone can find a great deal of that Swedish arrogance, which we Norwegians now prefer to dispense with. W accupted the Swedish King because our king, later on King of Denmark, had deserted, us, and we still were clinging to the Royal ides, Altkonghi snccessful in one battle, pace was proferable. Besides, the Unioa appeared at that time desirable to a great party In our Parliament. Our opposition saved us from becoming a province of Swedoo, as the Powers had willed it, and we joined & Unida founded on absolute equality. Sweden's later endeavours to usurp power dots not sabvert thai ugcroment, I havo failed to say that Norway is the weaker partner except numerically, and would be obliged to Lavo pointed out when and where we were defeated by Sweden.
Answer to H. 8. B.-The paragraph you inquire about was not extracted from a periodical." It was an original contribution to the Daily Press, by Mr. B. R. Chadbourn, whose address is Melrose, Mass., and who will tion if you write to him. We regard the probably be glad to send you further informa conclusiona" us quite hypothetical, however; and do not think you can hope for anything better than you will find in the text bonka.
THE COTTON BOOM.
STAPLE CHEAP YARN BEARER.
The chief factor that has brought about the present prosperous condition of the cottoa. spinning basiness is to be attributed, of coures, to the decline in the quotations of raw cotton. the price of raw cotton was exceedingly high, During 1902 and 133, suys the Jiji Shimps, American cotton bing quoted as more than 50 yen per pical and Indian cotten over 40 yen. declined. During last year, however, the price suddenly But not only be the cost of production affected by this of cotion Jark been
yarn has actually fact, but the price of risen owing to the increased demand Narth China where the purchasing power of the people has been considerably augmented. Do onht, as the result of the money apont by the contending armies thors. Moreover Chins had ben buying less yarn that nsual during the past
tity to make up for the shortage in g
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What then?
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What thon? Gentlemou of Shanghai, great What shall the West and the East do with anch merchants, great ülvestors, great promoters Please to roamber that beneath your contracts. greatest probem ever presented in modern times ofar? The Eust cannot get on with the West;
" ya would the West ornot get on without the Fast. Their your concessions, your operations, there is a past, relations have been full of menace to each simpla bat a shining principle: future the peace of the whole civilised world then fikowise. Race hatred is not a valuable | COTES...
assot is basin, sal in an Oriental country That world new fronts on other. There is danger that in the more distant that men should do to you, do ye ovon au tu may be involved. the Pacific Ocean rather than on the Atlantic, is most perilo. If you have amples, or 8r. EMILION
iu in your even what the chemists terna"trac
MARGAUX... A fifty years hene's this fact will be more
The possession, lusten to unload them into the obvious and more emphasised than now. World Powers will then to Pacific powers-will Huangpu The Chinese appreciate sympathy. ST, JULIEN... Let as extend it. Clina is in deep trouble: lat ST. ESTEPHE
Cos Sr. MICHL as help lor. We need no new ways; use the What i
at is it? The East was doing well enough they be pacific Powers?
ones already in existenc as it was a few centuries or raillenniums mora
CH. LEOVILLE... 13.00 CH. LAROSE or less made a difference to it. The discovery of America changed all that.
"In 1492
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As a basis, the Royal Asíalio Society should be raised from the dead. It should have new building, and a library which shall not be us now tharidicule of Asis, but which shall contain everything of iriance published on China and the Far East. Each | CALIFORNIA current work should be promptly secured. Then
is equipped to its reading-room would be a seat of learning, ZINFANDEL
e) The Diffusion Society and not as ni presunt a seat in a comstory. do a work which is important-essential. It more of them. But it most argont want is Why do you not give it twenty or has the ablest editors to be found, and it needs VALDEFENS... $475 money.
while. Already the names of Tinally Richard, thirty thonsa taois to set it on its feet? No investment would or could be better worth
Norway has lapinched upon a new era in her few years und is now evidently buying a larger like the rainbow bends toward the fat of Dr. W. A. J. Martin, Dr. Young J. Allen, and
history, which I hope will result in success and may he, that from the independent end separate
If Russia resumes her old policy." there will be no other choies than co-operatīna.
Whe but Dr. Svon Hedin (in his articles) think that Sweden can afford to sit quietly Norway will once emanate an agilation, which demand for cutton fabrics and yarn has greatly watching Norway fighting the "Muresvite Boar," when her own must vita! interests wil thereby, be most seriously jeopardized?
To quote the Rustem of Ronicgs: The fact is, the Swedes ure making use of the Russians, as a useful bogoy to scare the Norwegians into submission."
Do not believe that my brethren in Norway and I" are unaware of the fact that Union is strength, but without the slightest affinity al
cohesion is liable to be unnatural.
will fead to a United Scandinavia,
Most axantedly relations with Sweden will be better than ever when the first bitterness has subsided.
Again thanking you for your kindly feelings for Norway, I remain, Yours very faithfully,
"GLOBETROITER"
vious years.
Not only in China but in Japan Blas the. increased since about the time of the Mukdan battlo, resulting in the anomaly of the prica of yara boing freed up while that of raw cotton has gone down.
"Columbus crossed the ocena bine.
And life was never the same again." Observe the different caroors of different races. "Eugland was mals by her adventurers." From wild discovery she won tamed into actise altruism, and India, in Egypt, she afforded -on a large seals an example of
of government for the benefit of the governed. After fear What is the law? hundred years of a policy directly the opposito,
piu a lust every colay.
Western nations have invariably show their
gold." worst side to the Eastern uations and not the best. Trade is inherently so fish. Commerce Adam Smith defines mas as a trading animal;"
no two dogs" he says, "exelauge bones." Firearms and intricating liquors to the uncivilised races, opium and morphin to the civilised, have been a shirt of Nessus. Th West is not responsible for all the mischief of the curses, but we cannot escaps suck responsibility as we laye by ignoring, forget The fusion ting, or denying known facts. amalgam worse than either. We do not like to point of diverse civlisations often produces an face the facts which we know to to such, but whether we ince them or not, they remain, and Homer or latter will parse us with a Nemesis which is hat another name for the Frient fic Our own conduel-- truth of cine and elect that of men of our Orcidental races, has been and to tag is our own worst enemy. Yet on the with but an occasional explesion, to be followed whole, the West and the Ens have maddied on, by partial quiescence and apparent (bat never real) to por.
That is the comlition of China to-lay, rast, state of affairs will enstiune.
invertebrate, or if vertebrate disjointed. Chins As far as present appearances indicate, there nary included this sight and, was therefore
It would be well for the spin- helm. By the events of the past oghton monthe Jupan is more than over the redder something more than Norwegian, not parely is nothing that is likely to disturb the existing is an Empire without a head ship without a nere, however, to pay clous attention to the
of Asia." This ia, Torever, but a now and a Norwegian, just as the Union Jack" is not stale of things our phrase should have given anyone the condition of the raw cotton market, for it is
sartling application of our own sefertitie her purely English, but British. We do not think
that the fittest surtivo." Who so fit, measured impression that Norway flow Swedish fug rather enricus to note that the price of cotton prior to 1898. Sweden does not by a "purely and yarn is apparently not always ruled by the
standards, as Japan? Japan is about Paradoxical it by any Swedish naval Bag: the files the Union Bag relation of supply and demand.
it. before we knew it. She is at ones slow and As to the historical facts now called in question may seem, got it is true that the actuations in to take charge of Chiru-in fast she has done we can but assure" Globetrotter" Lose state-toe price of ons in most cases do not directly swift. She does over thing as she makes war,
The quotations of raw
After the siege of mals are such as the best English authorities affect that of the uther.
by prearrangement.” Norwegian historians may well differ, cotton are more regulated by the abundance in she red toward the grannies in givu.
which the Imperial ice was stored as came's She Inid Russian, American, and English historical or otherwise of the supply or crops than by accounts of identical events differ remarkably; their causes, though in the case of such a long- and evidently wedish and Norwegian students tinued high price as that which prevailed in the desert make for wo'ls
during the past few years it will undoubtedly bad on the Board of Resene with the have the effect of checking the demand for instinct of the panther for the jugular vein, cotton yarn and fabrics. Two-thirds of the Sto is the one who knows she is the one the c. Her emissaries aro ail over Eastern Asia ontpat of yarn and cotton goods in Japan are
Canton, June 21st, 1905.
Although jaru has considerably advanced in price as compared with the quotatious prevailing in the immediata past, it is by no means ad exceptional price, and consequently it can hardly be regarded as a temporary phenomena.
Apain, the present quotation for raw catton, which rules between YOU and Y:30, is a reason. able figure, and it is improbable the high prices of 1902-3 will occur again ander ordinary circonstances. Supposing the quotation of raw cotten and cotton yarn to be maintained, the espiani g present position and the future of the industry must be regarded as very promising
Ws congratulate "Globetrotter" on his second effort, which we would like to see future controversialists accept as a model. It gives information, and contradicts alleged misstate- tuents in a tone that is not loss effective bemuso inoffensive, Wint we meant by a purely winns the sign of peoplos. Sweden has a nobility; in Norway the Norwegian HOW 03-41 mara bastactorso it is not certain how long such
I again assert that ao comparison can be made between the national characters of the two
TE GRAPE SALcu i 172, now bad savyb
the only country which has forever done away with that old-fashioned institution. In Sweden you may will hear the peasantry address the landed proprietore as "gracious patrons," while in the farming districts of Norway now, as over, low and high are addressed "thou." The "ous chamber system." the extensive universal suff. raga right of roting for women in municipal our whole social life. will affairs, and
bring home to anyone, that in no country. not even America, has ths tras and healthy democracy a firmer root than in Norway.
Imperialism is a growing tendency in this age of great combinations and gigantic trusts. and no wonder that the world is astonished at seeing a country pulling in an opposite direction. I am a staunch Scandinavian myself, althouh primarily a Norwegian, but I perceiva ne means of promoting this great Scandinavian idea at prezent.
Tho National Scandinavian Society" has, however, dono some good, for. wherever repre- sentatives of two of the three nations are together at banquets, its ilen makes the subjcot of splendid toasts and is thas highly conducive to au sil-round congeniality..
The present crisis in the consular question forms one of the most striking instances of Swedish breaches of faith towards Norway, and I will briefly sum up the situation.
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receive different teaching about the events of
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Dr. Gibert Reid are known all over hins Thie is an excellent foundation on which to build, and to build high and strong after digging deep.
The Educational Society of China is quipped for a ciguate but distinct werk. It lacks articulstones. It lacks funds. It shoul have a paid secretary, sad many translatore. Linitats the wise business parcity of the Commercial Pross-a semi-J■janesi agency. You ought to rise the sum of twenty thousad taols and endow the Education society as our of the bust investments you can 10 ko to perpetuate the hold which Anglo-Saxu
fucation almady has in this Empire.
China
(1) Chinese Dapa-tinent, of the Y M.C.A. is a unique agency through which to gam tas the rising generation of those who are to ha sequaintance, the goodwill, and the respect of powerfal santrolling factors in the New Chius of railways and of manufacture The Associa- tion is about to put up a ver building. Sir Thos. Hanbury is made them an offer of a But it is now desirable site. large discount on Martyrs' Memorial Hall. Nothing is lacking but. the money. You ought to give twony thousand desired to incorporate with this the proposed
tuols to the Chinese Y.M.C.a. a token of your goodwill, and deop interest in the Now China. In the prosout war money from somewhore has been fong to sow thickly the China Sea with ex, lusion a million pounds derling of fixed deadly minos, perhaps destroying at one fell capital. la. it too much to ak Shanghai to contribute of its over-abundasen one hundred thousand tels to secure the pace of Asia-to hast n the day when
The war-drom throbs no longer and the battle flags aro inlod,
In the Parliament of Min, the Federation of this Word?"-N. C. Daily Neurs.
A CHINESE INFANT PRODIGY.
The N-C. Daily Nees translates the following strest bading to Black Magpis Bridge, Soonkow,
Wn, who interesting story from the Spao:-In the Tivos a taller by the name of
presses of a boy baby
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS")
for domestic consumption, and the spinners are in endless capaciti strapparent incapavitios), JUDICIAL TORTURE IN CHINA.
often thrown into great distress quite irrespec-sil-nt, unobtrusive as the white ant, but equally Hongkong, 21st June, 1905, tive of prices of raw cotton, so that the present effecious. On y their org s ara construc SIX-In your leader of Saturday last, the state of unexpected prosperity in the yarn trail fire, not destructive, bat, be it herred, they must have come to the spinners in the asturebuild not for the Sulting, but for the Rising 1111' This policy has been in progress for a 17th 'instant, you haus, at last, with laudable
of an agreeable sarprice. acknowledged Chevalier Volpicelli's
If the present thriving state of the business long me, but most of us have contented
selves with smiles, with frowns, with shruga, with un infaut prodigy in the per day this baby graco,
What then? It has been said that Sau abilities, although you were then not thus continues for a certain length of time, it is inelined, as evidenced by your comment at the probable that the number of spindles will ba plati udos about different-coloured "Perils."
increased by extension or the establishment of new wills, and thus the existing factories will Francisco, is 3,009 miles from New York, but foot of his correspondence appearing in your
be deprived of the monopoly of the profit the time may come when New York will be 3,000 you may live to sou Shanghai the largest city in Asia- esteemed paper sometime ago on the contro- versial point arising as to the true import of accruing from the business. But this will not miles from San Francisco. Some of
occur for some time to come, though it is likely is industrial and commercial capital. Half a mile of the Shanghai Band may represent the words, "Judicial tortura,” which, war mean
nxan as a means for extorting con- that the project of buying up the Ping an and Shanghai mills, which has been held in
Whatever five hundred thousand or by hinu to
abeyance, will be resnsainted. feesions and evidence by torture.
That you had got the botter in this argumen-projects may be cherished by some mills to dollars but when, es recently in Naaking, tative contention, and that Chevalier Volpicelli increase the number of spindles an extension bands and buildings gather slowly elide into en any large scale or new enterprises will not a waiting and a pawning Yangtzo, where then had failed to establish hiselain are quite obvious
taxe placo until the present prosperity has ben is your casted real estate Nothing more in that the term cau sith equal propriety bo maintained for some mon: hs. Even then the nest, and your securities might as well be
establishment of new mille by inexperienced styled insecurities. applied to torture" as a punishment for
men, as occurred after the Jupan-Chins War, crime.
Is not likely to be repeated, but the expansion per which enrich, but conformity to mal will be contred to the enlargement of business by existing undertakings.
thousand million
It is not bunds bunds, nor business which
nxactly two years old. The suddenly called out some written Chinew words which he saw, to the atmost astonishment near by. This news speedily getting abroad, of the family and those who happened to he pople fiva all round began to crowd into the tail r's house to see the infaut prodigy and test its knowledge. These visitors mado their tenta by writing a number of characters, or words. which when shown the prodigy it at once poated with clear voice and accent to the unbounded astonishment of every one. Of course, these whe came brought gifts with them for it in the shape of cakes, candies, and money. Naturally the fame of the child and about far and wide until it came to the ears of the chihhsion of hangtsons--the portion of Soochow eity, in which the parents of the child live, Mr. Su accordingly was for the prodigy and in his tura, was also profonally "The world knows nothing of its greatest
Commers has opened Chins by the sid astonished at the infant's knowledge. Mr. Su of cannon, but the real opening of China has gave the child's parents four dollars as a
cuasta" and told them to lake good care of it.. been done by me whose very names some of 15 do not know, Robert Morrison, the centenary of and that when the prodigy grew up he The curious whose arrival we mean to celebrate in 1997, a the magistrate, would make it a point to The Finucer bears from Persia that the scholar of wonderful patience, perseverance and help to inducate the child prestige which the Russians of every closenetration, who made the first Baglish Chine part of the thing seems to be that while once tangle them, this Soochow prodigy appears but also that Consular officers, traders, and
almost single-banded produced a literature for formerly a ajoyed the: has not only disappeared, Dictionary, first translated the whole Bible, and other infant prodigies remember everything to recognise Chinese characters without any Chim opened. Robert Milne, his co-labourer agents of various kinds are being subjected to insults and rough treatment that makes their burnt out befor this time with excess of seal previons tuition. Chines of the Balthist demonstrations at reshad and elsewhere some life far from pleasant. The anti-Russian Samuel Wells Williams, a printer, student of faith, however, bave an panation for this.
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The separation of consulates Ind been question in Norway for a number of years, when the Swedish government in 1902 was invited to ara-opening of ungotiations. A combined Con- anlar committes consisting of four men, two
Yot, fond as you were of treating your subjects Norwegiaus and two Swedes (one of whom was in a philosophicul manner, and even of display- Baron Bildt, Ambassador for Swollen and
the language of the schoolmen; it is surprising Norway in London) was appointed, anding of late the syllogistic art, and that, too, in submitted in July of the sam's year an unsuimons
to sse you commit, at the same breath, the same roport to their governments, a sammary of
order you were eager enough to refute, by way- which follows: "Partly for practical and partlying that few people nowadays care for proper also for formal reasons, the committee has words to express their thoughts. Is not this, started from the inference that the separate logically speaking, inousistant? And it is not arrangement is to be carried through in this the less surprising, also, to see yon tint lightly way, that either State obiains its separate of the quota ion by Chevalier Volpicalli From covenlor service, with separate Norwegian an ominaut Romau jurist who bad ontributed consuls subordiɑated orchusively to Norwegian | not a little to tho building up of the laws of weeks ago, would have resulted in bloodshed it everything Oriental, editor of the great Chinese In the doctrine of transmigration of souls. the Guide, the first modern dictionary of Chinese the "turn table" of the wheel of life (which authority and Swedish separate consuls subɔr-posterity, while in your writings, oftener than the thai's officials had not interfered with Repository, maker of the first Commercial i souls of persons on their way in Hados to
not, were to be found quotations fans standard nuussal promptitude; and eren in Teherauto whom all successors or a great, though relaunches these souls into its bodies of babies,
the lancet
Styx the (Chinese) work) have to cras
called the Neibochino. who opened Chira at the point of his
over which is a bridge authors amongst whew John Stuart Milliselt popular feeling has still to be
occur. Enders. in remote districts are said sad was equally skiltal in diplomy. Wou by the King, who encouraged the drafting of figured conspicuously. Yet this great writer, fully watched lest similar patbreaks should sometimes unacknowledged, doht. Peter Parker, or animals, just on the point of being born into at the head by an old og eiled Ming Po the final proposals. After this egroomont the whose view is in direct opposition to yours to have turned back to Hussin, as they dyfodhurst, a mass of equal aligenes and learning. Befers the souls mount the bridge they are step relations between the two countries were better afvely admitted, as is characteristic of the truly not consider it safe how to continue their Win Lockhart, also of Shanghai, and later of
pinneer medival missionary on which or Mother Meng," who, ladla in band, cumpels Mother his Forgetfulness” (called in Chinese
Tang"). Of canrae and were particularly the loss of Port Arthur: Wylie, whose tearing was equalled by looking forward to a satisfactory settlement
"pread of news regarding the War to Manchuja, Bussian agents Meshad
at
who left a compendium of all Chinese Mong's Soap-Mong mustesty, by The publication with great expectations. In the beginning of
that they passed through or had known in their the present year we were offered separate cun-
of fulse and misleading war telograms was literature. Our own William Mairbed, salonsall who drink of this water, er soup, forget
former life and thus on being reborn into the successful for a time, but as trustworthy news in all good work. Jos-ph Edkins, who had sulates, but the terras were so humiliating that
litered through from India this kind of bu iness forgotten more about thina than most of us collapsed. All Persia now knows that the war knew, John G. Nevins, the best all-round worldare us innocent and unknowing as ordinary has been one series of disasters for the Czar missionary it was over my privilege to know, babies usually are. The Soochow infaut pro- admirals and generals, and that Its effect win bond-rinded, mock-spirited, catholic, dear even digr's wonderful knowledge of written characters cripple Russia for a long time to come. ta the secular heart by reason of his pears and therefore proves that its sont when on i's way
mittel, raceatly omitted to taste a ladleful of Mother Meug's entrance to the Hongkong Hotel)
Hence its astonishing knowledge-so rapilly Hussian influence has declined, and how but one should not be
Hongkong, 51. 1905. eagerly the Persinus seek for confirmation of laid to rest in Chinking, Hudson Taylor, soup the view that it cau never be restored.
His great Sodely, ridiculed at its incep ion, says B÷ddhists.
dinated exclusively to Swedish authority.”
Tlus report received at the time fall ésaction
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than ever during the Union, and, we were great, that but for such great men as Aristotle operations. The caysỡʊt all this change is the Pie wrote his best book. Alexander each mu to drink a mouthful of the Water of
no independent State could accept them, the main objection being that our consuls were to be controlled by the Swedish Foreign Minister
and others he could not have given to the world some of his great works.
Again in your leader above referred to, to gnote words you said, "Mor, do we believe "that an Oriental nature can be refined, its "disposition softened by argument." And yet elsewhere: "The members of
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(always a Swade). We then insisted-upon Society, including Chevalier Volpicelli, know ish travellors have be namyzed to see how his apples. The would fail to naue oths, to pass the wheel of life somehow or other General Post Office and opposite to the side
immediate setion, passed the Bill about geparats consuls in our Parliament, and submitted the same to the King of Norway for sanotion,
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Chinese reason."