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QUIDING CHINA'S FUTURE.
THE NEW DAWN IN THE EAST.
THE DECISION AGAINST THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY.
The Times New York correspondent
baya: The United States Circuit Court for the Eastern BY MES. ARCHIBALD LITTLE] District of Missouri on November 20th decided A few years ago there was one newspaper in that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey China; there are now over 200, ten in Peking constitutes a combination fa restraint of trade alone, one even edited by a woman for women-such as the Sherman Anti-trust Act forbids. Of course an appeal will be made to the and not a fashion in it!
Supreme Court; nevertheless, the unanimous opinion of the four judges sitting on the case is of the highest importance.
There are now over 2,000 post-offices; there was not one. A letter can travel for a halfpenny sorose Chits. Summarily, by an Imperial In Ediet in 1905 the thousand-year-old methods of education, and those competitivo examinations all the nations of Evrope have copied, were done away with, and everyons ordered to study Western learning,
All over China they are proparing for a Parliamenta Parliament in China the last absolute Empire. All students in Government colleges are to have votez.
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This is, according to the Attorney-General, one of the most important decisions ever. If it is confirmzéd, retidered in this country. of its formation in 1899 owned the majority of the company whose stockholders at the timo the stock in 19 other companies, which similarly controlled many others must be dissolved. tions, which conduct 30 per cent, of the pro- Then it would seem that these 70 odd corpora And yet people stil talk in England as dination of crude oil, and over 75 per cent, of if China were not ayake yet, only awaken the basinose of purchasing, refining, trans- porting, and selling patroleum and its products The cultivation of opium has been forbidden.in this country, must return to their original Yannon, which drew all her wealth-poor independent status. poverty-stricken province her wealth seemed rather to consist in lying in hed til bleven, and poppylees.
then sitting about in clothing all ragged patches
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In Shanghai some of the richest merchants have brought out their beautifal opium pipes and elegant accessorios, trays and all, and publicly barnt them. In many cities young wen hare banded themselves together and gone through the towns calling on everyone to bring out their cpiam pipes and burn them,
SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS.
China has virtually done sway with foot. binding, that mutilation of their women that had prevailed for over 1,000 years to make them pleasing in the eyes of men, tottering like lilies blown by the wind; not stopping ont boldly in masonline fashin. And yet we wonder if Chins is awake-we, who have hardly begun to rub our оти буен
Foreign babies accustomed to be carried by Chinese nurses have been known to start violently and eling as for their lives on being carried downstairs, so tottering and insecure rere the feet of Chinese women. They are stepping out like men now, as the Chinese
say.
The Chinese are very much awake, but they cannot by an imperial odlet, ss by a magician's wand, raise an army of teachers; so many schools have had to be closed, whilst in others we lear of a Chinese man teaching English in a Govern msat school at a good salary, he himself having only begun to learn English three weeks before, and of a Chinese lady teaching singing, she herself only able to play an octave with one hand.
The demand for teachers is great for just about one-quarter of the whole human race, for if all peoples that on earth do dwell stood up together more than one in every four would be a Chinese.
But the supply of teachers qualified to teach Western learning in China is as yet very short There has been an outery for Normal Colleges to train the teachers. But who is to teach in the Normal Colleges?
And in all that great continent who is to bind up the wounds, to bring healing to the suffer ing? We have doctors, surgeons, conliste, dentists, midwives, trained nurses, air beds, anesthetics. With all this burden of blessing we yet enffer. And the Chinese man has none of all these things. Chinese think it as indecent for a man to study sustomy sa our people in England think it for a woman to do so. Thne they can have no surgeons.
A HUGE FILL.
Lady Florence Cecil ralates in one of her recent travels to China fading a baby dying with a large roand pill just administered by a Chinese doctor stuck in its throat and choking
it
Soap made of snakes' skins, tigers' bones re- duced to powder, and the like are favourite Chinese remedies. No one who travels there
can help trying a little doctoring, if it be no more than castor oil, and quinine, the delight of the Chinese, and an oye wash, together with a few bandages.
It has been left to the China Emergency Appeal. Committee to try to raise a fund, and make an organised attempt to promote the eftofency of medical training colleges to train- Chinees to doctor themselves, and to train teach- ers to train other Chinese to teach..
They have not started & snowball, and yet their fand has this resemblance to it, that in rolling along it must increase, for in all probability for every pound an Englishman gives to it some Chinees will give two.
CHINESE ARROGANCE.
Chinese are very liberal and most desirous of foreign justruction now-it was not evor so. In old days even the very man who took your pay for teaching you to learn Chinese would not daign to recognise yon if he met you in the street in Peking, so great was Chinese arrogance and hate then. high
But now all is changed, though the arrogance remains probably; do not we even think on solres the finest race under the sun, our usages the best, one opinions the right ones? So do Chinese, just so! But they see they do not. understand selence and applied mathematics and fo mere things like that, among them surgery.
Nor let anyone object that say money collect. ed for this purpose is being used for foreigners. The Chinese will probably give the sites and the buildings necessary. And all that will need to be paid will be the salaries of the teachers, English men and women of good attainments and good character; also the equipments of the schools.
THE PRESENT OPPORTUNITY. Centuries ago, when the Roman Catholic priests first got to their own country, begging them to return with a little company of about twenty men of great learning to instruct China. Two only started for China, and of these two one felt afraid and wont back. Another time the Chinese had heard some beautiful new doctrine was being taught in the West. They gent messengers to find out what it was, Home- how they wandered south-west, and brought back not Christianity, but Baddhism.
And now again there is the opportunity. If we will we can go far with the rising tide to set Chineso starting on the road of Progress in the right direction. If we do not help it seems as if one man in erary four in the whole world were likely to be given over to mere materialism. Fer Bulduism has crumblod, Confucianism lost its hold, China is changed,, although we may not know it.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The P- & O. str. Syria left Bingapore for this port on the 13th instant, and is dus here
on the 19th instant, at about 4 p.m.
The MM. tr. Oceanien, with the French
The chief significance of the dosision, in the opinion of Mr. Ellis, Assistant Attorney-
General, is that it means that a combination
based on one company's holdings in the stock of others infringes the Anti-trust Law-that corporate stock ownership may constitute sa agreement or contract in restraint of trade. The mere technical readjustment of the finzine- ing and management of the Standard Oil Com pay would probably he made impracticable. The decision, anlike the famous, but abortive, one of 1907, which imposed a fiue of £5,800,000 for the acceptance of rebates, attacks the very foundations of the Standard Oil Trust, which controls a total capital of £65,600,000. More- over, it affects all combinations where wheels turn within wheels to the confusion of the unlearned and the destruction of competition,"
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:--
On the 14th at 12.05 px-The barometer has fallen rapidly over NE. Japan owing to a depression which is moving Eastwards over Hokkaido.
The barometer has risen considerably over S.W. Japan and the Loochops, while it is inclined to fall over China,
The high pressure area remains over the Yangtze valley, and pressure is relatively low over the 8. part of the China Sen.
Strong NE. winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel, and monsoon gales over the N. part of the China Sea.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 0.00 inches.
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The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows:---
Hongkong & Neighbourhood Formosa Channel
South coast of China between Hongkong and Lamocks.. South coast of China between
N.E. winds, Latrong fine,
Hongkong and Hainan... }
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Mail of the 21st ultimo, and mails from London B WEEKLY PRESS. January to June DOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG
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