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band, whom she soon brought GAMBLERS' WATCHDOGS. RUSSIA AND THE BOXER disorganisation of the country, much space to the discussion of Britain that the Central Gavera-
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SHORT STORY, (Continued from page 3).
That he was the worst type With the reading of each letter of that half-breed which comes his mother's heart grow lighter and from a worthless white man who more hopeful. Then there came is too lazy or too dishonest to one that, before she drew it ner- live among his own people, and vously from its envelope, she knew who sinks bolow the peop' of his would tell her what she dreaded wife, I aawit a glance. He came to learn. It bore an unknown lounging toward me, with his postmark the name of one of shifting, cunning eyes glancing thoso unpainted settlements which me over to see what he could are strung along the line of rail-make out of mo, I knew that
way.
It was a closely writton sheet, every line showing the tense ax citement of the writer.
"I have found the child," it began. "And how can I ever for give myself forgot having come years ago to look for him!
Sergt. Adlington charged nine men before Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Court with gambling at 28, Belcher's Streat. The police raid- ed the premises, which are used as a soy factory and found the defendants playing ngau pt.
Inspector Dymond explained that the place was difficult to raid on account of watch dogs.
His Worship Are they licen sed?
Inspector Dymond.-Yes, your Worship. They are entitled to bark at the police if they are licensed. (laughter)
The men were ordered to pay $5 or go to prison för 14 days. THE PRESIDENT AND. GENERAL LI
CLAIMS.
The
havo
interrupted the smooth the opium question, recently sent ment in Peking is paralysed, a course of Chinese finance, and a circular letter to a number of discovery which can only do harm neither the interest nor the missionaries, asking for reports to Yuan Shih-kai and his Min- The Story of the Indemnity.
capital instalments have been ou the cultivation, trade, and ister. India must be aware that The news that Russin has re-paid daring 1012. This has smoking of opium in their neigh her lack of foresight in spending fued to agree to China's request produced an accumulation of ar- bourhood, Le quotes a number her recent surpluses is about to to defer payment under the Boxer reara which, after allowing for the of these reports showing that embarrass her finances very Indemmity, is likely to cause surplus of Customs revenue opium is being grown and con- greatly. The Anti-Opium League embarrassment to China in the available on December 31, 1912, sumed to a largely inorening has the melancholy satisfaction of nine or ten learning, that its efforts have China. date to about £2,500,000. On provinces in
Many mainly assisted.in replacing In- present state of her financen, was estimated to amount on that extent in some Bays A Home paper.
January 1of the present year the folters donlared the neighbour-dian opium by the far more del- Boxer. Indemnity, as its name Government had to pay over un-hood from which they came eterious indigenous produol. The showe, arose out of the formidable money would do anything with him, so I cut short his story of
disturbances created in China other instalment of its debt free, and reported stringent only consolation is that the British the expense and care that the
by the revolutionary and anti-charge, and being unable to meet repressive measures. Even some Empire will asou be rid of a tra- bay had been to him by telling
foreign movement of 1900, led by it, requested the Powers to carry of the letters quoted expressed fic which had become obnoxious; the secret society known as the over the arreara for another year, the conviction. that there would but somebody will have to pay.
A Missionary View. him to name the sum tint he and
Commenting on the latest his wild would want in order to
Boxers. For several months the pending the payment of the be improvement in the near country was swept by the move balance of the Crisp loan and the future. But there were no letters renounce all further claim to the
ment as if by a storm, and many completion of the negotiations from those parts of Hunan where phase of the opium question in child. He tried to pave the way
native and foreign Christians going on with the six-Power it is known that a considerable Chino, the organ of the China In- "As I write bola sitting close for hig, demand by telling me
tinolading the German Minister, yndicate for the conclusion of a smount of cultivation took place laudl Mission romarks that if the beside me, watching me with the what a care the boy had been, haunting eyes, which have been how cowardly and lazy he was, Upon the receipt of a congrata-Baron von Ketteler) were killed, can of £25,000,000. No reply, this spring, while no replies had British agreement with China Powers to this request, and which is reported to be covered mitted by the "Times and as following me for months; and and how he had worked for and latory telegram from Vice-Presid-the property of individual foreign however, was vouchsafed by the been received from Yunnan, was bad statesmanship, as ad- now and again he silently puts supported him te if he had been ent Li Yuan-hung on the anniver-ers and foreign companies was Ruesia, it is reported, has now with poppy. Other newspapers they themselves believe, then out a slim, shapely hand-au In-is own, until I lost patience and dian's hand and lays it so light-hurried him to the end. I pay day of the establishment of pillaged and destroyed, and the handed in a Note demanding the constantly report cultivation, surely it would be worse states-
the Union Government in Peking, Legations in Peking were besieged. ly on my knee that I hardly feel him unquestioningly what ho E. Yuan Shil kui sent the Vice Ultimately an international force payment of all arrears ander pain while the Legation files are full manship to continue to enforce its touch; and when I look at him a-ked.
President a letter in reply, in was landed, Peking was captured, of declaring China bankrupt and of Consular reports, indicating a bad agreement, to thereby last- growth and smuggling at many ingly gain the ill will of a timid, happy smile fits across
"The boy had stood by in which the difficulties and dangers and a treaty was imposed upon seizing Manchurin es s pledge.
points. The correspondent con- Chian, to cripple
efforts. to stamp out tinues:- bis face. Except for his hands meek silence, listening to the he had encountered during the the Chinese Government providing
gigantic evil-when by a more and tall, slim figure, there is character given him, as if too ac- past year were recounted in detail, for heavy punishment of those THE OPIUM QUESTION. -little of the Indian about him.
customed to it to be moved. And and a wish to retire from his ex- implicated in the rebellion and Growth of Consumption in China.
believe the British Government when I finally took his hand to alted position was expressed. for a thorough expiation of tho
generous policy, in which they The following appeared in was
would be supported by the nation, lead him away, he seemed per-
The "China Times. " of Shang-crime.
she could solve the whole problem foutly willing to come with me.hni, reports that general Li seat a
Among other things, Article first edition on Saturday:
In a second letter on tho opiam here was no tearful leave-taking telegram on February 10 to Presi-0 of the so-called Peace Protocol, between him and his mother. I dont Yuan, asking how the Re- which was signed on January 14, question, the Peking correspon
by taking back the deleterious merchants at the price she re- teks now in the hands of the
"I know you will want to know how and where I found him. I had said to myself, when I wrote my laat letter to you, that I would
give two days more to the search,
at the end of the second day I
watched him away.
description of the one I was look-hint.
hurried after her.
"He iscontented and peacefully
came scurrying toward me, so in-ponsive than had expeolod him
(
was doing his best not to shed ofthe shame that make it burn."
"Maclure's."
SANITARY BOARD. The following are the orders for the meeting of the Sanitary Board tomorrow :---
1. Mr. F. B. L. Bowley pur suant to notice will as k
As
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The Question.
It may well be asked, with Dr. Arthur Smith, whether China is able to suppress opium. Doubt less she can in time, but before success is attained the establish-
article.
China's
Obina to buy over these BC. whereas, enye the writer, the real in lies at the door of the British Government in being unwilling terminate the trade at "an erlier date, and clinging instead to the gradual reduction policy which continues the evil for ten years.
YACHTING
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Position.
The course was Hongkong Is- land (starboard), sailingmeasured distance 27 miles.
and if at the end of that time fancy the poor thing was glad to public, being only recently creat- 1901, imposed upon the Chinese dent of the " "Times" discusses the ment of a Central Government would not look further. And just hut relief on her fuco as shehe at present enjoys without the indemnity for the damage done and facts, which should do some out the country is essential, This who would endeavour to compel had coine upon no trace of him seo in go for there was nothinged,could have reached the position Government the payment of an Rubject in the cold light of reason able to enforce its will throngbceived for thein. There are those
service of his Excelleney, who posto privato and public interests thing to discount the exaggerative essential, however, must inevi found him I had learned that "She did not know my name, sesses extraordinary ability and of thirteen States Great Britain, and misleading utterances in-
day, probably some years, so fur In the an Indian girl, answering to the nor whore or to what I was taking godlike courags, governing with Germany, Russia, France, the dulged in by a certain section offbly be lacking for many a longcumulated slocks of poison;
as certain provinces are concern a firm hand and a far-sighted Voited States, Austria Hangary, the London Press. ing for, had married a half-breed "And now, dear mother, I am policy. As in the days to come Italy, Japan, Spain, Portugal, course of his communication the ad. In the meantime, what is the principal incentive to the really eight or ning years ago, bringing him to you. I know further exertion on Yuan's part is Sweden and Norway, Belgium, correspondent say's
The evil effects of the abuso of serious efforts which are being and had gone will her husband you will see little George in him, still essential, he hopes that Yuan and Holland. The total amount far from her former home. So I just as I did, and that you will will, in the interests of the nation, of the indemnity was fixed at oplam are well known, and while made by many of the older and view is held in Great Britain and literate opium? It can hardly As a litter railroad town Inver him and love him for The General swears that he is was divided by tlie Powers among America of the harm done inChin be moral, for, if so, there would take him in your arms and cry accept the formal appointment. 450,000,000. Hai-kuan taele, and it is the one that an exaggerated most of the nsw officials to ob- got a horse, and rode all day across George's sake. My heart quite earnest in his utterance as themselves in proportion to their
bropium, iris unquestionably the be sadeavours to mitigate the the prairie, and at last came in is full of remorse as I think he always had been from the be respective claims. The biggest foot that cpiam in the past is other equally crying evile in sign of the settlement where what he must have endured ginning. He warns him not to share, nearly 30 per cent. was
Corinthian Yacht Club Race. -had been told" I would find her. through these lonely, boyish Finess the senseless vanity of allocated to Russia. Germany been used in China by certain China. Many sober Chinese are It had the characteristic features years-ao different from mine, wing off one's self-diffidence, came next with slightly over 20 classes and in particular regions ashamed that their people should
old many of
vice, and desire to see the country. The "absentee's" cups for the I had learned to know. On its and happy. He is a sensitive, the nation in extinction. of discomfort and thriftlessness with your love to make them rich while he may, in so doing, involve per cont; then followed France with disastrous results. Youngbo addicted to so degrading a
with more then 11 per cent. and China, declare that opium is free from it. But one is constrained cruiser class and racing class with 15.7 per cent. Groat Britain Chinese, "and outskirts graze a few sullen-look- gentle creature, and must have
responsible for point out that jealousy of the yachts wore sailed for yesterday. ing ponios, and the usual surly Bullared keenly from his onviron.
so forth down to Sweden and largely
the degeneration of their foreign right to import and sell na moderate northerly breeze. Norway, whose share in the in dogs raised their voices at my apment. Poor little fellow He is
country If thy showed on the foreign product does more The cruiser class got off to a fine demnity was fixed at: 0.01 per equal desi o to deal with other than anything else to maintain start at 10a.m., Scotengdon being proach. From a thicket of low just osin of the many desolate, be- bushos half a dozen boys rushed wildered children cast upon the
eint. of the total.
social.cvilsey albo mire the opium agitation and to stim- the first bout to cross the line. out in puranit of one who ran world, who can not understand
The Arrangements for Payment readily ereditoith desiringate perseverance with the sup- She held the lead to Channel abend. As I watched, they over themselves, or why or whence
The indemnity was to conto eliminate opium on moral pression measures. Few seriously Rocks when Dorothy IT and took him and renewo the bad they have come.
Is malarial fever prevalent institute a debt, bearing 4 per cent grouaris. At least they wish.tocquainted with the subject are maintained her position until gering from which he was evident- ly trying to 830.pe. They all happy with me, and is more res- tho Wong nei chung Valley ?.interest, to be discharged in thirlyba rid of it for expediency's confident that the denunciation Police Pier, was reached, when nine annual instalments payable sake, and no one will deny of the Agreement of 1911 and the Bho again fell into fourth place Have mosquito larvae been
thel, 0.742 dollars, and so on. At for the time being, is slutade would accelerate the eradic tent upon their victim that they ia bo to my affectionate advance. [found in any accumulations of gold at the rate of one Hai-kunt that as a boily Young China, immediate stoppage of the foreign on the windward work, Result paid no attention to me until I find my heart going out strangly water in the Valley ?
If yes, aro sach larvae the far- this rate, then, the indemnity cerely and wi ole heartedly ation of the evil. Rather they fear chouted at them. Then they hal- to the shy little fellow as I take
amounted to £67,500,000, of which ted, and the boy they were tor-him in my arms and press my voe of anopheles morquitoes?"
What steps (if any) have been £7,593,000 was to be the Briti-anxious to abolish opium smoking the elimination of the foreign Dorothy 11... 4 39 15.3 31 45
and all other forms of using the product would result in a decline Evade...... menting stambled to withina fow cheek against his weather-beaten
sken to prevent the breading of bare. The interest, which began drug. In their enthusiasm Chiness of interest in the general policy Mist yards of me, and looked up. fuce.
on July 1, 1001, was to be paid reformers are prepared to trample of suppression, and only lead to a Scotengden 5 07 372.52.37 "I knew him instantly.
Once, when I held Him so, he mosquitoes in the Valley?
on their own people as well as "Iis poor little face was try-row away from me and laid his
Does the Medical Officer of twice a year, beginning with July
1. Scótengden. we learn that persons have been
There is a great deal of opposi- 2. Dorothy II. ing not to show and his eyes hand against my face, and told Health consider that any, and if 1, 1002, while the repayment of
3. Evadne. were hall blinded by the tears homeit was hot. He did not dream so, what, further steps should he capital wes calculatou as from "on foreign right, and when prolonged use of the native taken to prevent such breeding? January 1, 1902, and was to be beheaded for smoking opium, orion to the policy of the Govern
4. Mist. effected in annual instalments for trading in it in contravention 2. Correspondence relative to according to a table annexed to of local regulations, our quarrel opium is actually growing. There ment in the provinces where As he lifted his face to me I coul.1.
Cemeteries at Kowloon. think of but one person my
is also among sober Chinero in 3. Application for permission the Protocol, beginning with with them for Cusing
1, January little brother Coorg, who died CURE FOR PHTHISIS.
1903, and end financial loss is eclipsed. Peking email belief in the value to erect oDo water closet, one so long ag. It was the samo sen.
It is unquestionly the case that of any results achieve by such
Racing Class. ing January 1, 1041. It is usually the fate of great trough closet and two urinals at
The racing class got away to a sitivo, sunburned fico, and the
scientific men-men worthy to be Queen's Road Central, security for the debt certain the most ruthless measures have violent methods. Qgi porsever- same dark brown eyes.
were plodged, and bean takin in many places to dece with the original policy of straggling start. The heavy soa "I jumped off borse and scitquoted as patterns-that they Marine Lot No. 103, section A tered the young ruffins, who should be ignored. Nevertheless and to alter position of three their proceeds were to be paid crush opium ring, trading,
over monthly to a special inter- and earing. It that were the suppression, covering a period of and weather favoured the Hay- years, is regarded as far more ward Hays class throughout the toward the the newspapers are now altrac other closets. run whooping of
Application for permission national commission sitting at universal alliale taken up in likely to be eff ctive in the end. roo, which resulted in a win for houses, and the boy and I were ing our attention to one of
to orect one trough closet at A. Shanghai. These revenues were China opious woullabeady have Violoat excision of a malignant the Bat. left alone together, staring at theso; we speak of Professor each other. He studied my face Cuiseppe Bandiera of Palerm exandra Buildings, Marine Lot (and still are: (1) the surplus died a natural lath, and Indian revenue of the Imporial Maritime opium would no more be a pro His discovery, to which notices No. 7 and 2 ̊C. as if trying to recall one halí
rise to the grozili are still pre- 5. Application for permission Customs, after payment of problem in the total absence of
La Linda 1 33 57 1 33 57 remembered, for le stro'ched out being attracted, is based on the
1 25 37 1 22 22 his hands slowly ani gropingly instantaneous action of powerful to erect five water closets in three vious charge which were increased demand for it..
Lily Times" View," The But when I tried to chemical producte. The medicins
now houses to be erected on In- by an additional 5 per cent of the
duties in force on the import of Unfortunately, the ability of toward me. But for, he started in itself is a sweet salve to the land Lat Nos. 1929 and 1627, cartain articles; (2) the revente of the reformers is limited, and their
Commenting on the nb ve, the Dorothea 52 42 1 44 02 back timidly and turned to run repiratory organs. Distinguished May Road.
Halcyon Then I spoke to him. luctore have already experiment. Report from the Government native Customs on transit goods; policy of eradication is off-civo Times" in the course of a lead- Violet The revelations regarding the Rolla Think, mother, of a father with the Potion Antiseptique Analyst on the public water sup and (3) the revenues of the Sultanly in a limited degree. They ing article remarks:-- speaking to his ten-year-old son and they say that the most severe plies for the the month of Febra Monopoly, after the payment of are defented by the widespread.
previous charges. This security desire to smoke, by the number riso in the consumption of native White Rose catarrhal affections, which have
7. Mortality return from Macao was regarded as to safe and less merchants who wish to trade opium are deplorable, and they Sirius
France, at adequate I questioned him no quietly obstinately resisted every other
in orium, legitimately or illegiti-convey an impression that Great Lysheth and no carefully as 1. could, in remaly, are cured by it within 60 for the weeks ending 3rd, 10thand the end of 1901, capita mtely, by the agriculturists who Britain has been tricked, but they at order not to frighten him; for days at most. We believe that, 17th February, 1913.
lised her share of the indemnity make profit out of the growing cannot govern the decision which Asthore he seemed like some timid, alort in time, everyone will appreciate 8. Mortality return for the mon by issuing a 3 per cent loan to apof it, by the innumerable smug-must now be made. II China Thecla
But the power of the new method.
the ending 31st December, 1912, | little wild woods creature.
Meanwhile it is good to know and 31st January, and for the amount equal to it (265,000,000 glers who go between the growers la passonco more into a general was Joan bativeen my agitation and his limited understanding of English that its use in medical science has weeks ending 25th January, let, francs), and was followed a few and the consumers. The truth of opium that is her own off ir: Beatrice
months later by Russia, who is that the reforme a are trying We have adopted a definire policy, Dawn I learned litilo. He finally been followed by happy results. A 8th and 15th February, 1913.
9. Limewashing return for the issued a 4 per cent loan for a to oust the foreign product, which we cannot now depart therefrom, beckoned me to follow him to the physician writes to the inventor:
A patient under my care who fortnight ending 4th February,
sum (nearly 182,000,000 roubles) on easily be controlled, while and wi must make the bret of it cluster of houses. There were
even exceeding her share of the they cannot extinguish the native We are unable to force Indian plenty of ourious ones, waiting was in the last stage of phthidis, 1013. ue there, for the boy I had put to improved after having taken your 10. Rat return for the weeks indemnity by two million roubles, trade because of the demand for opium upon China, avon
On the other hand, tho Govern- the drug. In some provinces the suance of our treaty rights. The coming. And ornng them I had expectoration was reduced by
cognising the weight of this stop the opiuca traffic, in others would forbid vigorous action, and no great difficulty in recognizing half; his appetite is good and
The late M: F. Guchkoff. ⠀ burden upon China in her dis there is no attempt whatever to rightly forbid it. It is still the mother of my boy. She had his strength is returning."
M. F. Gachkoff, Mayor of organised state, remitted the stop cultivation, while in all there possible to urge the Chinese to are officiala mostly of the old permit the sale of Indian opium changed greatly from the grnes, Consequently he who wishes to fal, vivid girl of those other boured should employ solely this Moscow, brother of the ex-presid-greater portion of her claim.
China's Recent Difficulties. school, but some of the new, who in provinces open to it under the days, nad stood looking at me specifio, which, on account of its ent of the State Duma, and the
Nevertheless, China has hither-connive at the trade becanes they Agreement, and that course is be dally, with two or three heady antiseptic properties, should be director of the newspaper "Voice oyed children peeping from be preferred before all other treat of Moscow," died suddenly on 24th to paid her instalments with the are bribed. Even where opposi-ingfollowed; but we are tolerably
15. Dorothea. hind her. When I spoko to her, mont. Woknow that Dr. Bandiera alt. in his bed, of heart disease. utmost regularity, so that by the sition is most active there are certain that local opposition, con
Other competitora did not finish she said she remembered me, and sends his remedy immediately to He was educated for the army, end of 1911 her total capital lia underlings who look the other pled with the weakness of the all srch representations of litile
The motor boat race for the I at last succeode 1 in gotting her all who write for it. We recomand fought in the ranks of General bility under the head of Boxer way when it is made worth their Central Government, will render
absents a' cup will be sailed apart from the others I told her mend all sufferers to write in Renoskampf's forco in Man-Indemnity had been reduced to waile
of the latest agreemont has done why I had come, and asked her mediately to 89/91 Rue Cavour, churia at the time of the Boxer 421,489,994 taals, or, taking the Missionaries Report Increased avail. The wholesale violation
The correspondent states that a more than anything else to con- next Sunday. The course will if she was willing to give me the Palermo. Orders should be sant rising. He also managed the Rod tael as equal to 33, to slightly Orogs dotaobment at the front over £83,000,000. The revolu- boy. She said she was willing in French or German
during the Russo-Japanese war. tion, however, and the consequent local newspaper which devates vines public opinion in Greaf be —Hauwen (atarhard and wont in search of her bus
away.
for the first time!
ary,
1913. ...
די
revabaes
that
Obstacles to Reform
4
growth cannot be of permanent bencfit when the en-es that give
sent in the systeın.
"
The times werÓ :---
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1.- Bul. 2. Dawn. 3. Theola.
4. Rolia. 5. Joan. 6. White Rose, 7. Asthore,
flight had evidently repeated my remedy. The cough diminished, ending 8th and 15th February›ment of the United States, re-officials exort all their power to publia conscience of this country|
Translation :
1913
Ben S Cultivation.
8. Lysbeth 9. Beatrice 10. Lily 11. Hsloyon. 12. La Linda. 13. Sirius. 14. Violet.