preached to-day by
who desire to see work of the earth that it seemed "coming well," as the Sconleft
phrases i to go and have a tall with semible, clear-headed master of a London workhouse Hais, moreover, kindly, with the people. Few Perhaps, realize how much resolusjon, tact, and
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MAY 20 1899.
NI
The ofter.
with guides. The food is varied skilly is reserved, for the able bodied. We have between sevenly and eighty | Tkilled nurses for the sick. Each person has. a good clean bed, often for the first time in his of her life. It is obligatory to have a bath once a fortnight, although, this is not regard,
courage are required to refiin; one's kindly as an unmixed blessing.... Then, we have, 'a
papers, and so forth.
whic
tions
↑ Tittle difference, “appeal with peculiar, force. hout – countingather and honoury, parentheless idle or the bike, weigha; wholly Inas nda be an onial was nything about a bicycle, after the morning I had spent, but could not help wondering how any one was going to ride & machine without a saddle, except in a circus, In the hope of recovering my shattered senses I asked Phyllis's husband what he thought about chainless bicycles. “I don't think any
they never slacken, you see, like a chain
of them at all, was his prompt reply
does; you just have to go on without my effort,
men of loyalty
they are liöver Mending
The
and weak, twa
broke the anima's (when With win
fired at it: ¿gene
has been alled on have been
issionary
the rally faro together claims of
legiance to him with t the Church herself, and the high obligation of one of the Tantal's servanti self-respect are compromised when that limit as we went out, saying The dirt has enterad is over-passed,
and the dirt has gone hence, but it leaves a t
nasty stain behind. We went back and remonstrated with the Taomi, who gupted some ancient mixin to his followers concerning the
whom had to apply for an escort into Kiei.
The negotiations between the British and
etiquarie of hospitality. It was this official to
by Dr. H. C Day
ANOTHER
ART SUPPLEMENA
UASE
• DISPUTED ADVERTISMENT.
feelings when working among the poor, and yes, the fam sounds very well. But it is of your own, whereas a chain machine keeps) Question were proceeding when the last mail chow and Yunnan. He did everything possible:) #At the Small Causes Court, on Tuesday
.Ir
among prisoners. Only the sentimental and ignorant are unaware of the fact that, speaking a big slice to spread over. Do you think that generally, the poor in our workhouses, asylums, more outdoor relief can be administered with and
similar institutions, are a class by them out increasing pauperism. saives. They are for the most part place a good number of sensible women to visit the 1 incline to that view. We ought to have degenerate, and with physical degeneracy there fin is a moral taint of some kind, most commonly out-reliefs, and see that the money is properly
spent. Old a lack of appreciation of the truth,
people are often not fit to look
could have"ror.
geney, Judging by past experience, would soon
to pick our inmates out of the gutter and begin "once more.”—Puth Mall Gasefte.
LA REINE EST MORTE;"
[BY E. 5.]
in and sometimes both.GENERA after themselves. They are dirty, illfed, and Now will you tell me what proportion of spend the money on drink. Sometimes when the inmates of this house own their presence I feel desperate, I wish that every pauper here to their badly ordered lives?}"
"Of course 1 do not speak with scientific devices. But or weekly and be left to his own course this is absurd: It would precision," said the master, but I should put add to the problem of housing the poor; the the figure down at 75 per cent. Drink and money, judging by past experience, would soon other excesses liave brought a very large num- ber here, and when opportunity offers they take to it again. You don't know the work house charactor as 1 do, and you would be surprised, 1 imagine, at the lowness of the moral tone. The sense of truth isn't in these people; they lid out of long habit when there is to be gained by lying, and they pilfer wing t
they can.” Truthfulness is a very uncommon virtue among all classes in my experience, and of f course, one would not look for it among the submerged. But you do not trust them far?
No not in the house, but there arise op portunities when they leave. Situations are found for people, and clothes to go to them. But soon the old story is written once more. Do what you will, you cannot supply the lack of character, of reliability, and the people you have helped are landed on you hands once more. There is a lack of power to govern the life ariglal, and it is this lack that brings most of our inmites here."
Poor Marguerite My complaint of her has been long and lord; her complaint of me, in the many miles aho bore me with creak and groan, has been langer and louder... Yet, now that her dainty successor stands beside her in the ball, now that I see them both in undigni- fied contrast, I cannot help feeling a bit of a traitor.
7
will
to Peking.
to dissuade me from making, the joumey April 25th, Mr. M. Cursetji, Third Judge, frightening me with the disturbed state of the procceiled with the further hearing of the quit countrysWhen his efforts to frighten kad | filed by the proprietors of the Times of India, been exhausted he began to plead on his own against Mr. Archibald A. Crawford, for, the behalf, his responsibility. for anything that recovery of Rs. 300, being the amount said to... might happen on my journey. I was however, be due by the defendant for an advertisement inexorable, and pressed for an efficient escort published by plaintifs in the month of May, falling, which I would in any case, and 1898, in their Art Supplement. telegraphed to Peking, fund to London what 1. had done,
leaving the whole responsibility for consequences on him. The result is that I am to have six picked, armed men to Kweiyang, those I take from Chungking to be changed on the
Very
Mr. Dunlop, of Messrs Crawford, Brown & Co, appeared for the plaintiff and Mr... Hemming appeared for the defendant.
Mr. Hemming said last night, when Mr. Manekji Morenas was called, he forgot to ask him about an allowance of Rs, (so made by liq
the, to induce him to pay the full amount of the Art Supplement" advenisement shares. At that time he had not the proper instructions, but if Mr. Coleman would admit that he would not call Mr. Maneki!!
Mr. Coleman said that he had not given any allowance to Mr. Munekji on his other adver
His Honour,allowed Mr. Hemming to recall
Mr. Manckji, who was not present in court.
should like to know," he said with Their projects, however, are scarcely up to date; | foreigners, the say, fe dangerous situation. as sonte parts of it were brought in prominence..
Mr. Zeberbullier, agent of the Society Mer”. cantile Generaleele Pars, was next called as a witness. In answer to questions from Mr Heisuning, witness said that Mr. Wellesly: Parker came to him and induced him to give him the advertisement for the "Art Supple ment" on the representation that it would be a permanent thing and would be done in the best style. It was arranged to pay Rs. 350 for the advertisement, but he had cause to complain more than required, while the other part relating to machinery was not brought fanb in pro- minence. He had paid Rs. 250 to the Times of India. Witness would not have paid Rs. 350 for a temporary advertisement. Some fifty- copies were scht to him, but they were lying somewhere in the office, as he was dissatisfied with the production which, if it had been good, he intended to send to his people in Switzer land. Mr. Parker had further undertaken to submit proofs for approval and correction, but the same were not sent to him.
THE SITUATION. IN CHINA.
Russian Governments regarding the Chinese
you back.". No doubt” Phyllis's husband is, heftan-Russia folds Unt Ching' is hot yet a quite sane, but if any one could explain to me second Africa to ba niacked out intu spheres of why it is an advantage to have a bicycle that influence, political, commercial, or otherwise, keeps you back I should be glad,
The "integrity and inviolability of the Chinese It was quite a relief to arrive at the Jonathan | Empire," however, much the phrase may seem shop. There was a serenity about the Jona to be contradicted by recent facts, is a maxim than man that composed my reeling brain, which Russia adheres to for her own sake, for, Take it or leave it, he seemed to say, as he as the immediate land neighbour of China, she placed the Jonathan bicycle before us with the. is now more than ever interested in maintain indifference that comes from an assured supe-ing the status quo in the Celestial Empires
Oficint ne
al negotiations between Italy and China nority. He did not dream of saying a word in ita recommendation. Every adjective in the on the subject of the lease of Sanmun Bay are English and American languages having been being carried on uninterruptedly through the recidy poth the cat for high to appt wear the at Peking. Although the Chinese Governitrent understanding that Mr. Litton is now on used up in catalogue, supposed there of the British Chargé d'Affaires first in the market, that was all; and anybody persists in its 'declaration that it cannot con-
his way back from Kweiyang, and I hope in who could not see that, without being told, was sent to the cession of Sanmun Bay, the Italian
have the luck to meet him on the road. Every unworthy of its possession. I am quite sure, Goverment is confident that its attitude will one in Chungking agrees that he has discharged in any
case, that the Jonathan man did not soon be modified.
his mission splendidly in Kweiyang. No man think was worthy of the Jonathan bicycle; In Russian political circles we are told Li is so looked up to by the scattered British com but still, Between Phyllis's husband and the Jo-Hung-chang's return to Peking is hailed with munities of Missionary and others in the West nathan man,I speedily consented to become a great satisfication, as. Li is corridored an out of China as Mh. Litton. They say he is keen, purchaser, And I have had an uncomfortable and out partisan of Russia's aggressive policy strong, thoroughly self-reliant and fearless, and nensation ever since that, in spite of my inten-in Eastern Asin. It is reported that Prince one not to be put on with plausible words. Hetement. tion to buy the bicycle I wanted to buy, I have til somekid west manth on is special mission, by his own resolution, and saw the guilty
who is a close friend of the Czar stayed at Kweiyang without any support:
but ended in buying the bicycle I was told to buy, which is not a nice reflection for any woman to
oficials punished. A few such men in the make.
The Vienna Politische Correspoșudens refers, interior of China, property supported, would re- Sa that is why Marguerite has had to in guarded language, to reports about a secret awaken hope of the conservation of both British abdicate. I had a sentimental inclination, at alliance, between Japan and China against all and Chinese Interests, [We have since heard It had to come to this. It was a question of first, to give her an honourable position in the the European Powers. As a consequence of of the removal of this meritorious officer to Marguerite's life or mine, not to say of both hall for the rest of her days; but, unfortunately, this understanding, all European instructors subordinate post in the Consulate at Canton. and Marguerite, had to go. In point of fact there is no sentiment about Lionel, and the will shortly be dismissed from the Chinese Bishop Cassels, Dr. Hudson Taylor, and the she has not gone yet, for she still leans her hall is Lionel's hall as well as my hall. It was Army" It is well known that Li flung-chang Protestant Missionaries gathered here at pre- battered old frame against the wall, while her certainly unfortunate that he should have supports the plan of an alliance with Japan, sent, as well as the Roman Catholic Fathers, magnificent rival sits up alof on the bicycle tumbled over Marguerile's pedal in the dark, and that a strong party in the latter country consider Sauchuen and Hupeh and the country stand and looks down upon her. I wonder the other evening. Marguerite always had an
advocates an alliance with China with the object generally to be in a Is there a large proportion of them vicious whether this pretty stranger would have unlucky faculty for putting her foot in it! of excluding all Europeans for Eastern Asia. The Empire, they
partitioned by Very considerable: I should say from a submitted to my early inexperienced efforts
entral Government has no third to a half. A fair number have been in with the devation of a Marguerite For exaggerated calmness, "how much longer this for the influence and, if need be, the armed
power, while the authority of the Chinese offi prison, and you will easily understand that the moment. I Am weak enough to be hall has got to o be turned into a bicycle shop." strength of European Powers can no longer be cials is being everywhere weakened, and there présence of such demands severer discipline buried in the past-in Marguerite's past. " rather thought of keeping Marguerite for a
excluded. The report: comes from St. Peters is universal unrest and discontent. Only the than might otherwise be necessary. Of course. It is only for a moment, however. Mangue while," 1 ventured weakly. Lionel started.burg, and may be a ballen fessui, with the trading and well-to-do classes are in favour of classification comes in to lessen the disadvante rite's present is always sufficiently obvious to "But you've got a new one?" he exclaimed. object of finding out whether Japan has already order, all others sympathise with Yu Mantise age, but classification is very expensive, since obliterate Marguerite's past, and it is a relief Just then Dorcas lighted the gas; and an entered into binding engagements with one or and are ready to follow him or any other man it works out to a, demand for more room and to tum from her to my slender and beautiful answering gleam shone not from Marguerite, more European Powers to oppose Russian pro-who may rise to lend the attack against law more buildings, and that means money-in-Jonathan, as it sits, puffed up with air and. but from the nickelled features of her successor gress in China. creased rates. Already there are workhouses pride, on the stand that was once Marguerite's. It was very base of me, but I could not help in London whose yearly bill must be reckoned It,is impossible to say, so early in our acquain-turning my back on Marguerite at last. in hundreds of thousands of pounds."
tance, whether Jonathan is going to be a person "La Reine est morte: Vive la Reine!" or only a bicycle. After my experiences with I said. Muguerite, I cannot help hoping, If it does turn outto be a person, that it will keep its per sonality under control. Indeed, on the whole, I could not put the figure as high as that; I am inclined to think that bicycles are best it can't be nearly that do not-much-like without personalities; and it was in search-of-a- these proportions
on any w
way; it is so difficult to bicycle that was only a bicycle that I started be correct. What I can be more positive about out the other day to make a tour of the shops is that we are still taken in by certain people; Now, there are various ways of buying a their appearance is so respectable and their new bicyle. One way is to go to the shop manners so agreeable 1. Now there was the across bicycle that lies nearest, the one you Duchess, as we called her to whom my wife have started at mechanically for months and was quite attached, and who served her for nonths. This no doubt, is the way that any A situation was obtained for the body who is not proudemight buy a bicycle. Duchess a lady found her clothes and new The Professor bought his bicycle that way, anly boots. She left one day, but was brought back the other day. He happened to look at the same night, dead drunk to the very bench clock, at the end of a hard morning's work, outalde this workhouse. She bad pawned the saw there were just five minutes to spare be clothes
sold and the boots.. I could not tell forg lunch, and went across the road to buy a how many times we have been deceived. To bicycle. The Professor is not at all a proud this prevents your knowing people well, You' bought ;-but perhaps it would be difficult to be are several.Nhân như us -pruudi ukens mestilayere coned a Kay of Sun. sec one side there at one you know." light," or some such name as that. Why "Whenever I look over a workhouse, I think. did you get it in such a hurry?" I asked him, of one word; degenerate. Are they not so ?? curiously. Why not?" said the Professor, 1
"There very few people here who are sought about for a reason,
,and suggested that physically sound. Even amongst the so called he might have got a better one somewhere able-bodied there is almost always a physical else."Oh, no," said the Professor in his course many in this house are old gentle, superior way: bicycles are all alike, defect. people whose working days are over!
really, and everybody knows they are alike, Would it be a feasible thing to
and everybody goes on pretending they aren't. the workhouse, to distribute, these, people-at It's much better to acknowledge that they are, least, to some extent?"
and then you can buy the first one you see. Saves no end of trouble," The Professor always silences me; he has such an amazing way of making a perfectly wild stateingat sound plausible that I never can think of any thing to say until it is too late. On this occa sign I could only refer to the enormous weight of the
"Ray of Sunlight," but that did not fuffle the Professor at all. Yes, it's heavy, he observed indifferently; "but the only thing I ever really like about a bicycle is its weight." Sometimes I cannot help thinking that the Professor is trying to pose.
"You said that 75 per cent of the Inmates are here by their own fault. Now shall we find that the remaining 25 percent, have simply been unfortunate, and are decent people?
years.
the
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CRISIS.
The Bishop of Gibraltar_in_the_course of a. lengthy letter to the Timer says
Baron von Heyking, the German Minister in Peking, who has taken sick leave on account of his throat complaint, and who will be unfit for active service for a long time to come, has been replaced by Baron-von Ketteler, the
· German Minister in Mexico. Baron von Ket- telar has a considerable. experience of Chinese affairs, as he was Interpreter from 1873 10 1874, and Secretary.from. 1884 10,1890 to thu-German- Legation in Peking. His previous experience should therefore, prove valuable to his country in bis now post.
further attacks.
and order.
THE TONGAN ISLANDS,
A rumour has reached. England to the effect that H.M.S. Tantranga called at the Tongan islands and formally annexed them in the name with respect to these islands a correspondent of Great Britain. Writing to the London Globe
says
live at nil hero we nitzi live under rule, and person, not even about the. bicyle he has effect, it is vasily outweighed by the evil. Thiey J.be protected "chsanzeiger Wanted Jan. 15 nermitted the French to forestall us in New the central picture would be a work of art and":
Are
breal
up
Often when I feel the weight of my cares I wish the house could be done away with. There is much to be said against aggregating great numbers of people of a low type, lacking in self-respect and many of the virtues. But do you understand how even here the mass of poor is broken up?" I shook my head..
So many people forget that a house like this, vast as it is, is only one of our activities, and contains but a third of the people under. the care of our Board of Guardians. We have a home for hundreds of old people, a few miles away: we pay for pauper lunatics in asylums we have boys in training ships, children in poor-law schools; we have a large infirmary at, full to overdowing we have children boarded out in the country and in a convales cent home; some hundreds in hospitals; much more than offe thousand receive out-relief. The fact is, that people who cry out for the breaking up of the workhouse, don't realize,
are operations am the
Scattered are
The defendant was next called: Examined by Mr. Hemming, witness sald he received about fifty sheets, but he was 60 dissatisfied with the production that he sent them back to Witness complained that he was not given the the office with the man who had brought them,
size and space-according to the order he had We must be very sanguine and optimistic
**11 is quite certain that, if we do not annex" given. Witness had complained that his ad- if, after reading the manifesto, which was sent
the islands Cemmany will, sooner or latter,
vertisement had been broken in three parts, forth a few days ago from the office of the Lu Hai-hwan, the Chinese Minister in Berlin, establish herself in what, from their proximity and the effect was that the side portions ap English Church Union, and of which I have has forwarded, to the German Foreign Office
to New Zealand and Fiji, are virtually out-peared not to belong to his advertisement, hutz just received a copy, we suppose that any an explanatory note from the Peking Govern. paste of our Australasian dominions.
Hence, to other advertisements, If he had seen his decisions which the two metropolitans may meal relative to the attacks on German officials
if they must be filched from their native own advertisement broken up he would not have; deliver on disputed points of ritual, or any and missionaries in South Shantung,
cro, England in her own interests should be given the order. Since his letter of the 20th of. reform of the Ecclesiastical ourts which our every assistangs to the German anthonties in the chief. The island of Vavau possesses the June, 1898, he had not represented to the plains tiffs that he was going to compromise the rulers may agree to make, will quiet the trouble suppressing the threatened rising. The note finest natural harbour in the South Seas a ed waters and restore
tore discipline, peace,
and adds that the town of 1-Chow-fu has been land-locked and hill-encircled deep-water port claim and winess could not account for the concord to our Church, sa long as party organi- garrisoned by Chinese troops, the Emperor where all the navies of the world might long delay. When the space was arranged Mr. Parker did not represent to him that the ride together in absolute security, and if we zations continus to be maintained. Whatever having expressed his wish that the foreign mis. may be the good which these organizations sionaries and mining engineers, there should allow this mnganificent naval base to pass into space would be reduced for making room for the mailed hands of a jealous and aggressive borders. He would not have paid Rs. 150 rival we shall be as short-sighted as we were
for his advertisement in a ordinary coloured exasperate and crabitter controversy. They The official
publishes the widden, divisions. They blind men to the comparative and signed by Admiral Tirpitz on March 31: Caledonia. The German plea for disturbing the whole would be a highly artistic work.
and deepen, perpetuate our unhappy harbour regulations for Tsintau,
when, to the disgust of the Australiane, we picture. He was given to understand that-
of things. They create an imperium in im Paragraph shows that the harbour is divided perio, weakening and even superseding right into an outer and inner part, the inner having holds water in view of the fact that for one given the order for the advertisement. The the status quo in the Friendly Islands scarcely Mr. Veillon was present when Mr. Parker was ful authority. They issue mois d'ordre regard for its northern limit a line from Woman's less of the directions of our properly constituted Island to the north point of Chiposan. The debt owed by the natives to the German firm suggestion that witness dishonestly attempted rulers: They disintegrate the Church, and other paragraphs show that the harbour is open
there are probably three due to English traders. 10 avade the payment was not true, NME lead to disruption. This is no overdrawn to all ships, which must hoist their flag on
Disastrous hurricanes and bad seasong bave picture of the havoc which the English Church arrival and departure, the captain being required
combined to reduce the Tongane to great Union is at present working. In the "Mema to hand to the authorities. his bill of lading. but trust, duly temporary poverty; and, randum" which the society has issued this Two and a-half cents are to be levied per ton
∙as many of them have been unable to months, it states that "at present the whole dis- Opium must be imported in the original pay the Government taxes, a default which cipline of the Church is in ruins." If such be the boxes, and the import of small quantities entails the risk of imprisonment, I can under case who created the ruins? Not the great body of is forbidden. Any contravention of this stand that the traders may also bave had a bad our clergy. They are obedient to their Bishop, regulation will entail forfeiture of the opium,
time of late. But as these gentlemen persist, loyal to the principles of the Prayer-hank, and a one of at least $500. The import of in giving credit to the natives, well knowing faithful to their ordination vows. The ruins, so arms, ammunition, explosives, and material to they have no business to do anything of the fat as they exist, are the work of those members be used for the production of explosives, is sort, much pity for their misfortunes would be of the Church Union who refuse to bow to the placed under official control. Ships carrying
misplaced. The Friendly Islanders trade law of their Church and country, And it petroleum or explosives must anchor in a cer. chiefly with Australia and New Zealand, mainly appears from their recent manifesto that unless tain roadstead, and have to show a red flagship Company of New Zealand. A few years by means of the steamers of the Union Steam- they are allowed to have their way they at the foremast. The remaining regulations intend that our Church's discipline shall concern cases of sickness on board, the treat ago the North German Lloyd Company placed remain in ruins; for while they professment of deserters, &c.
an experimental steamer, the Lucbeck, on the that "it is hateful even to seem to be in oppo- With regard to the rumours published abroad route, but she ran a disastrous loss, and was. sition to their Bishops," and admit that if a concerning the political designs of Denmark soon withdrawn, leaving the Union Com Bishop requires one of his clergy to justify his in East Asia, it is semi-oficially announced
present undisturbed P to its practice. before the metropolitan lie is acting that the despatch of a cruiser to the at a Tonga are of British nationality. The half- moropoly great majority of the white inhabitants of on a sound principle, they make no promise is solely for the purpose of strengthening Den- of obeying the metropolitan's decision. On the mark's commercial position in Siam and China, castes mostly call themselves British,
speak the English language. The Tongans contrary, they show clearly that they will accept and that it has no political object. no decision with which they disagree. "No decisions," they say, " of Bishop or metropoli Austria ought not to stand apart from other converted them, mught, clothed, and doctored The Vienna papers continue to urge that are all devout Christians. Our missionaries tan can be assented to explicitly beforehand-first-class Powers, and demand nothing from them. They sing our hymns and anthems, merchant pioneer, Herr Fischer, who had just Queen Once they were, peilians, the most Vienna Geographical Society, recommended are gentle, lovable, helpless, harmless, returned from China, in. a lecture before the dreaded warriors of the Pacific. Now they that that country should appropriate the rich purposeless people. We have converted them province of Fukien, the only one on the coast,
into sheep, and having done so we have for a he said, to which nobody has, so far, iaid claim, long time shepherded them. It now becomes This last assertion, it may be noted, is inaccurs.
our duty to see that no strange dog shall worry ate, as Japan, the mistress of Forinesa, has them." already an assurance from China that Fukien, which lies just opposite the island, shall not fall into any other hands than her own.
and
probably never heard in their lives of how So I began by visiting all the principal makers,bedience to them must depend upon what China; and only a few days ago an Austrian and their brass bands murder "God Save the
I have often noticed that the aggravating statements of aggravating people have an aggravating way of coming true. Directly I tried my way of buying a bicycle, I found that the Professor was quite right-that bicycles were all alike. My way, of course, was not at all the same as the Professor's way. A woman who has been buying new hats for years could not be expected to buy a bicycle stright off, under the impression that I was going to com can plead guilty. w the lave pare their machines and make a deliberate But you say you pay for hundreds of people in choice in the end. Coming straight as I did asylums. Why, then, do you have continuously from Marguerite, it was only natural that the so many people in Imbecils wards in this work first machine I saw should leave me breathless house
with admiration. Any bleycle, that had all its Because all the asylume in England avail-spokes and did not wear its heart on its sleeve, able for paupers are filled to overflowing the in the shape of its ball-bearings outside its workhouses are filled, wij hundreds beyond pedals, would have done that. It's the first their certified numbers. Let me see, said then the market," said the man confidently: un master, running his
finger up and down a great equalled for speed, endurance, and lightness. book, yes, we are to-day 300 above our Hill Climbing Why, If walks up them. No proper strength, During the years I have been wasted energy, you see. All the nickel parts here we gradually approach the doubling of our are thickly coated with copper, first; best staff. To return to what I was nying, the chamelling throughout only tasted materials asylums can't and won't take bed ridden old employed, Oh yes, we may have one left next paupers who are pretty quiet with other forms weekender of insanity it is different: Even then, we often are kept waiting for room,
Then you have an Infirmar
they are."
been addressed to The Timer that there are It appears from letters which have lately members of the Church Union who disagree with the policy of the dominant section expressed in the recent "Statement" and "Memoran dum," but had no opportunity given them of expressing the disagreement, it is much to he wished that such persons would combine with the great body of English Churchmen who belong to no party organization, and that their combined strength should be exerted in defence of our Church doctrine, worship, and discipline, and the support of duly constituted authority."
AN EXCITING ENCOUNTER
WITH A LEOPARDESS.
and
Cross-examined by Mr. Dunlop, witness said that in order to avoid loss of time and annoys ke ance he had asked for, a reduction. At the time s he wrote the letter to the Times of India has did not think of repudiating the contract bur to get the reduction. His notice was published in the paper in question; and he bad. raken the benefit of it, but he knew of the notice some time? after, Witness was shown the photochrome picture at the time the order was solicited,
lie had not complained to the plaintiffs about the misrepresentation,
His Honour said that the case was not ons suggested that some mutual friend should inter- worth the while to fight to the bitter end; het cede and settle the sialter,
The case was then adjourned to, Fiday, April 5.28th next”
AN ADMIRABLE SWINDLER
AN AUSTRIAN'S, CAREER) Rudolph Cavedoni has fugt
just been tried at the Vienna Criminal Court for extensive His astonishing skill in extracting da goods from credulous duped by e probable stories, bays the
Daily correspondent, almost merits admirati son of a
clerk in the Austrain' Fin
ance Department, and as Under Secretary to Junfor war damily, he had acEV
the Austrain Embassy at the Vatican, from which latter post he was dismissed for insub ordination. Leaving his wife destitute in Rome, he returned to Vienna, where the Financs Department dispensed with bla services, After obtaining a divorce fro
from wift, who had taken refuge in A Saidpur correspondent writes to an convent, he commenced life as a avindler, Indian paper on the 15th April This after. His elegant appearance, fascinating address; noor, a young man, Mr. Maurice Allen by and linguistic knowledge were all in hit favour Locomotive Workshop, was severely mauled pretended invention to prevent railway colle name, employed as an Apprentice in the in his new career. He patented at Bológus -- by a leopardes, measuring feet which, tions. He asserted that every engine should be after an exciting encounter, was killed, but provided with a second set of crooked falls. A not before it had fatally injured one of the sudden impact with another anginosi would, hes natives and slightly hurt a durean, in the rer-fated, foren up these railt into the air car vice of Mr. Terence Dowling. After their day's englas presumably with hs train-of-cam work, three young man, Mesars, Allen, J. C. ages, uninjured over the the opponite waggons Baptiste, and Waters, sallied forth in quest of and land it safely back again проп same, and were quite unprepared for the extrack: The consequences
pon, the mat to the train, beneath eitement that followed. Having goue some four during this aeronautic bound he did not ok uddur that some leopards were quite close directors of the Austrian Southern Railway for have miles, accompanied by their dogs they got plain. He had the boldness to petition the
ment. Upon the strengths of this supposed Invention he obtained large sums from several gullible persons,
London, smoke, and whenever they can, they energy, and all the nickel parts thickly coated tions of no sort of importance lordship isbably it was always a matter of calculation by and yere further informed there had to the loan of two trains with which to exper
The Special Correspondent of the forning Post, writing from Chungking, Jan, 30, states: It has often been remarked that wherever the Viceroy of a Chinese province was resolved to The Rev. H. Hensley Henson says was strongly inclined to buy the first
keep the peace with foreigers, orders were bicycle I saw, but tore myself away and went fidence which must deepen the profound with the Catholic Missions or their converts, Lord Halifax adopts a tone of arrogant con given to subordinate officials to avoid quarrels into another shop, just to assure myself of the suspicion which his recent action has caused and when quarrels did break out the orders why have hundreds of sick
For the same reason, people here?" inferiority of all other machines. I felt a little in many minds by no means naturally disposed were to patch them up immediately, anders downcast when the second "man" wheeled for. to think evil of so earnest, high-minded, and ceda ovorything that was required to prevent elled to the bursting pains. We bought land ward a machine, to all appearances exactly like unselfish a man. The English Church Union, the missionaries from making a claim through there, but enough? extension, and
now the one had just seen. It soomed hardly he positively asserts, stands committed to the their Consuls. The rule was partly followed and we can't get i at any price.
credible that the world could contain two such All sick people should be in the cou
fatuous declaration recently set forward. He partly disregarded in the provinces, and this country,” beautiful
try machines, and it was a litle discon- sweeps aside with something like contempt the has been capacially the case in Szechuen, They are not of that opinor arall I facerting. "Eiras on the road, first everywhere," notion that any considerable proportion of the where sometimes the higher authorites have in of the suburbs that they are so far from wouldn't know they were there? No wasted" In one or the old people whom wo house the man was saying clinibs: hills so as you Unionists disapprove of the statements there winked at, if not encouraged, the attacks on advanced. With perhaps one or two excep. Christians, while at other times they have coma bere
the union is repressed these attacks with severity, Pro- Perhaps you will recite, for the benefit of
- said to be unanimous. Í believe
misinformed. Within the last fortnight no as to which course would entail the least loss of cattle almost daily, and what was worse, my readers, what are the
of lifede fed from shop to shop, only to be told the same the workhouse he advantages
(2 thing over and over
less than four senior members of the union inconvenience on the high officials them that two or three men had been killed. Mr. have expressed to me their emphatic disap selves. This seems to be fairly well illustrated Allen tried to persuade some of the men, who that those who think it desirable to coddle the ring perfection and not a single mark of dis-
passessed an uner proval of the policy adopted by the executive, in the history of the particular case of Yu Mants were porched on trees, to frighten the brute out inmates land those who hold that labour, tinction Once, I nearly sank as to fix upon
and assured me that they were anxiously con against the Szechuan Missions. This man had of its lair, but to no purpose. Finding all his discipline, and restraint should outweigh the one merely because
whether or not they ought to continue been at one time arrested by the authorities an attempts, futile, he cauilously approached the it had an ingenious device bodily comforts they enjoy. Those who behave fordkeeping the oil cas in the handle bar. It possessed any real influence. They told me Roman Catholics, and he was imprisoned, suddenly rushing at the bruto, caused if to members in a society in which they no longer account of a quarrel which he had with the bamboo tope, followed by the dogs, which well, and can go out to friends do so every would, at least, be something by which to day the know my bicycle from everybody else's bicycle.
further that many others were in the same probably with little regard to his guilt or in leave its hiding place, Bir. Allen, who was not following week Sunday from 2 to 4 pm
position. In response to my earest connséi nacence. A mob rose attacked the prison,far away, fired after, it had killed one of the up my way of buying a bicycle that they should at once dissociate themselves and released him. The official concerned, dogs, but in this excitement of the moment he "visiting day, and large numbers friends and want round to consult Phyllie's husband.
come to see the inmates. Wher
from the union, they all'in various phrases made either under compulsion or by connivance with missed the brute which, springing furiously at Juan 16'over sixiy he gets an ounce o Then respectable inmates have Many oft
better class of the old home l'ipoke of the subur bener classification
After that
felt sure I was in a dream,
@ We have to steer a middle course, between packed with bicus again the world was
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Later on he assumed the title of Marqu and among his victins were many scretio women besides, hotel keepers, Jewellers, of 20,com florins. From one Jeweller alon trades petrie whom he cheated alon
week on Sunday one week and anotherAntiFinally, I gave ||
obtained goods to the amount of seve sands of forins for his supposed presented himself to several lead Vicons, offering for the modest Phyllis & husband isshathing if fuot enthuat the same reply, that the union had done good the moh, went through the form of a trial- and him, bit him severely on the left shoulder, lear and a hal million forins to eekly astie had not been with him five minutes
before 1, wassap certain, as he was that the in the past that they could not lightly surren“ | Acqunted the prisoner, So far the popular ing deep; ugly scratches on his legsgil Flothing
into dropping from his haud,, owing to the sudden intimate jerms, a Bull against der membership, consecrated by many year a side with the higher authorities, was obliged nesa of the attack, Mr. Allen hit the brute threatening them with apa which had never even duration, that they had a great personal regard trouble v
for me The for Lord Halifax, that they shrank from retiring to retire from the public service and is a terrible blow on his back, knocking him off were made with the Jewis
lightness," doning the crisis, that they hoped by remaining belleved to have committed suicide. The his body. In the meanwhile, the durmandree days that during "are you walked, round to the members to restrain the worst excesses of the whole Incident, of course, really, enfianced the came up with his gunj; but, he too, was victims appeared against mek I was so Becouncil I can understand th rengths of prestira č “Manger, who set olféctie é attacked, and injured olightly; s«Mr. Ceal] found him
statement moro | such considerations, ranka i know
lug" and then wen open: "Baptiste,chowtrey took a steady aim and toi
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