YUNNANA BURMO-CHINEBE
RAILWAY,
In the Geographical Section of the British. Association on 12th ult. a paper was read on Yunnan, the author being Captain. C. H.D.,
Ryder, R.E.
He said that of the 18 provinces into which China proper was divided Yunnan, though one of the largest, was one of the least. populated. It was one mass of hills with small plains nestling among them, in which resided the Chinese, who left most of the hilly country and the deeper valleys to the original, inhabitants, such as Lotos,Shans, &c. There were some 70 walled cities, many of them cities only in name, each plain as a rule containing the city, the official centre of the district. From ʼn geogra phical point of view the most interesting feature was the extraordinary number of large rivers which nowed throught or rose within the province, affluents of the Inwadi, the Salwin, Mekong, Yangtze, West River, and Red River; the second, third and fourth of these as they entered the Yunnan all flowed in deep valleys side by side for many miles, barely zo miles one from another, with a large mountain range intervening. Further south these rivers separated, allowing room for the head waters of the Red and West Rivers, the centre of the province, the watershed between these various river systems thus forming an elevated plateau, the plains on which were mostly about 6,000 ft. in elevation. The climate varied according to the clevation from perpetual snow to perpetual heat, with every intervening stage.com. sequently the fauna and flora and the produce of the fields varied considembly. The seasons were well defined-rains, cold weather, and hot weather; the former the least pleasant, especially to travellers. Trade was nearly at a standstill owing to the shocking condition of the roads and the unhealthiness of the valleys, which were held in great awe by the Chinese merchants. The hills, except in the neighbourhood of the towns, were well wooded, and abounded in small game, though the larger wild animals were conspicuous by their absence. A large ̄quantity of minerals existed, "mines of copper and silver-some worked, others deserted- being constantly met with. Situated as it was in the south-west corner of the empire, with French territory on the south and English on the west, much attention had been drawn to Yunnan, and after various schemes had becð propounded for
TAPPING THE TRADE, the Yunnan Company fitted out an expedition under Major Davis, to which the author was attached by the Government of India to survey and report on Yunnan, with a view to deciding whether a line of railway was possible from Burmsh into China. This was successfully Bccomplished in two successive seasons; but Owing to the mountainous country and the poor prospects of traffic, it has been decided to abandon, any idea of a railway on these lines. In a short time a railway would be completed, but it would be from Tong-King and not from Burmah, Yunnan was, as regards scenery the flower of China, and most pleasant to travel in, always excepting a certain rudeness, which everyone must expect, from the Chinese. themselves.
The President, in thanking Captain Ryder for his paper, said that no country in the world illustrated better than that described in the paper the necessity for preliminary geographical survey before pushing forward commercial enterprise. All the scheme put forward for CONNECTING INDIA AND CHINA BY RAJLWAY were based on ignorance of the country, and they had to thank Captain Ryder, and his colleagues for showing what the nature of the country was:
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1902.
THE EMPIRE'S 'DESTINY.
A CELTIC PREDICTION. 44
August 8-Mr. J. A. Cameron supplies to the Dublin Freeman's Journal "An Australian View of Home Rule." As he writes from Wood Green, in Essex, it is not clear whether he is an Australian temporarily exiled or merely one of that great class of journalists who imagine that a brief trip to the Antipodes and a casual perusal of a few Australian newspapers qualifies them to reflect Australian opinion for the benefit of these who "only England know."
Mr. Cameron tells us that the recent "great Home Rule demonstration in Sydney is signi- ficant of changes going on in Australia and throughout the Empire which bode well for lie land, and that while England was engaged in conquering the Transvaal and Free State, the island-continent was drawing so far away from Imperial control as to practically achieve inde pendence. Her tariff and immigration laws, be avers, are "more hostile to English interest than ever were those of the Transvaal; she has her own army, and means to have her own navy; her policy in the Pacific is of her own design, and the adherence to it of England will be demanded as that of an ally and not of an overlord.".
The war, Mr. Cameron alleged, "induced
fature a constellation of stars of more or less. equal, magnitude; and in that constellation Ireland will be an honoured “and historic associate.
discovered by Mr. Camerom (one which Another development in favour of Ireland strides on its goal with seven-teagued boots")
is that
is giving place to the Anglo-Celt, whose centre "The Anglo-Saxon whose centre is England, is America. The nations that have sprung from these islands have two main racial elements, Celtic and Saxon and Ireland has in
one short decade achieved that which has
rendered Celt immortal. The Celtic-named Morgan, with a stroke of the pen,
the Celtic-named M'Kinley sets Cuba free; and ANNEXES ENGlish fleets aND MARKETS;
to-morrow, or the day after, it will be as easy for half-Celtic America to free Ireland as it was yesterday to free Cuba. For the children of the Larger Growth will not always bear to see their parents quarrelling, and will see sooner or later that their differences are ad- justed. There must be no divorce, for in their children they are indissolubly united."
But the fat, pursy predominance of the Cockney Englishman is to go. The after. dinner dream of the Caesarian Empire, with submissive Irelands and colonies, multicoloured vassals, and chilled barbarians, will not be realised, but there will arise a coterie of nations, ruled by the commonsense of the many,' in which the Celt and the Saxon shall work out on equal terms the larger destiny intended when, farback beyond the dim and bloody past, two races, so jarring and dissimilar, yet so fruitful in the blending, were thrown toge-
A ORATER TWO THOUSAND FEET DEEP.
A FEVERISH JINGDISM... born of ignorance and some platonic affection for the Old Country, but the reaction has set in, not suddenly, but with a gradual wholesome-ther in these islands." ness and sure perception of the issues at stake in the war. Leaving out the minority which opposed the sending of the contingents, think- ing Australia is beginning to realise that the defeat of the Roers was the defe it of nationality; that in striking so hard for Imperialism she struck herself. The sympathies of the young Antipodean nation for struggling nationalities are awakened as a natural consequence of her own new-born nationality, and this is to make the tie between Australia and Ireland vastly stronger and more formidable than heretofore."İ But this is not all. Mr. Cameron is certain that
"All through the Empire, the current is set ting towards nationalism, though this nation- alism is not necessarily opposed to a loose union in matters of common interest. New Zealand is strongly nationalist; nothing is further from her thoughts than vassalage; she offers a commercial bargain as between equals, and aspires to lead political activity in the Pacific. Touch her on her fors, and she will
look north-east 'as well as north-west. The Maltese have discovered that Malta is not merely a naval station, but a country, and kindred to Italy. The Cyprists are veeting after the Cretans towards Greece. Egypt is only patient for a season under a foreign gar rison because
THE PYRAMIDS TELL HER SHE IS ETERNAL. In India, every time a man dies of starvation a nationalist springs to life.
"The tendency of all this is favourable to Ireland. Everything that decentralises the Empire favours her cause. Every nationality that is horn or re-incarnated within the Empire realises a prenatal sympathy for Ireland. Her safety is in the many. Tacked on as a mere appendage of England she was doomed, but as one in an assembly of nations-Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, Afrikander, Egyptian, Indian-yes, and Scottish and Welsh, for the tendency is there too-her possibilities will be vastly more brilliant. Everything shows that while hitherio there has been one great star of surpassing magnitude, there will be in the
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The crater of an 'extinct volcano has been discovered on the summit of Mount Crown, a peak which lies opposite the city of Vancouver including W. T. Dilon, a well-known architect, across Burrard Inlet. Recently a party of four,
made the ascent after an arduous and dan gerous climb. The peak is 5,250 ft. high, all reason few have attempted to scale it. told, with very precipitous sides, and for that
WHOSE FAULT IS IT IS The world is full of disease and pain Whose fault is it? Everybody's therefore often the fault of the sufferers themselves. But the pressing question is, what to do, how to relieve, how to cure. What would become of vs If means were not found" to destroy disease? Why, then, of course, disease would destroy us and the world would be de populated. Until we learn how to prevent disease, we must be thankful for the means of adating and curing it after it has seized upon us, and stands, like a savage with uplifted,axs, ready to take our lives. Especially do ve need some sure and speedy from of treatment for those complaints which are universal,-- which arise in every country and climate, and ravage poor humanity at all seasons of the year. We allude to such ailments as Nervous and General Debility, Hysteria, Scroful, Chronic Diarrhoea, Asthma, Throat and Lung | Complaints. Blood Impurities, and the ills of women and children. For these
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W MPOLE'S PREPARATION 'comes as near to being an actual specific as any medicine yet discovered. It is palatable as honey and contains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. | KAGA MARU* You may almost say that it is life its lf em bodied in a single article made by human hands. Dr. J. L. Carrick says: "I have had remarkable success with it in the treatment of Consumption, Chronic Bronchitis, Catarrh and Scrofulous Affections. It is of special value int "nervaus prostration and depraved nutrition
It stimulates the appetite and the digestion, promotes assimilation, and enters directly into the circulation with the food. I consider it a marvellous success in medicine." Every
dose effecrive. "You cannot be disappointed in it." Sold by chemists here and throughout the world and A. S. Watson & Co., Limited.
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"The crater is ike in immense bowl," said Dalton. It is about 2,000 ft. deep and one- quarter of a mile across. The sides are so steep that a descent into the basin is almost impos sible, though on, one side. the wall. is partly... broken away. Even to climb to the top of the rim is dangerous in the extreme, as it is razorlike. Two of the party, after great effort, planted a Union Jack in a rift of the rock. managed to reach the topmost altitude, and They straddled the edge and a falze movement would have hurled them down 2,000 ft. on the inside, or 3,000ft, on the other. The sight is a very interesting one,"
A NEW ARMOR PLATE.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says: The Navy †epartment people hope to offset the recent development in high explosives and armor-piercing projec tiles by the army through a considerable improvement in the resisting power of the armor plating of a battleship Licutenant Cleland Davis, attached to the Naval Ordnance Bureau, has produced an armor pista which was recently tested at the proving grounds at Bethlehem, and the result encouraged the naval officials here to believe that the armor
place has again overtaken the gun in the plate is obiained by a novel process, carbon never-ending struggle for surpremacy. This being driven directly into the surface of the hot plate by immensely powerful currents of electricity, the result being a plate as hard as glass and of any thickness desirable, supported be cracked. The depth of the hardening, is by a tough back, which, it is declared, cannot ruled by the length the current plays upon the plate. It is sad that an average plate can be Moreover, the plate is declared to be a third completely treated electrically in five hours. lighter for the same resisting power, which means a great saving to constructors,""
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The men who do as they say; the things that prove to be what they were said to be,-how cheering it is to come upon them. We all hate to be deceived; especially when the decep. tion is intentional. But all men are not liars, even if David did say so in his haste. If they were society would be impossibile. Everybody knows that business is based on credit, on faith. Millions are bought daily on nothing more solid than the pledged promises of men, -not written, merely verbal. The Stock Ex- changes are often called nests of gamblers, yet nowhere is a promise held in greater honour. Therefore when we say that the tried and effective modern remedy called "Wampole's Preparation" never deceives any who resort to it in hope of benefit and cure, we may expect to be believed. For this assurance is given no what has done in the past in countless cases, on its record. It is only recom- mended to accomplish what it was made to accomplish. Its action in Chlorosis, Anemia, 1.a.Grippe, General Debility, Throat and Lung Troubles, Blood Impurities, etc. is convincing. It is palatable as honey and contains the nutris tive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Fxtracts of Mall and Wild Cherry. Dr. Austin D. Irvine, of Canada, says: 1 have used it in cases where cod liver oil was indicated but could not be taken by the gratifying" It is effective from sensitive and patient, and the results following were very
nervous stomachs. It cannot deceive or dis- appoint you, and comes to the rescue of those. who have received no benefit from any other treatment; It stands for the medical triumphs of the age. Sold by all chemists here.
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