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CHINAMEN THE "FITTEST"?"

In the "Pavião Era" Mr. Michael J. Des claims that if the fittent is to survive we should seriously consider the claims of Joba Chinaman NE ROOM in Prince's Baldings, Top to be regarded as a claimant for the prond title of fittest." Though much of the article is more likely to amuas than instruct, a portion of the article is worth studying. Mr. Des mys

Á emplonous factor in the battle of life is omnivorousness, or diversity of feeding That animal which has bat a single plaat, for in- stance, which it can use for good may be anni LENWOOD" CARE ROAD, sallable

hilated by a frost or grub or any other cause for Bearding house or Club. Con- of ant for a single taining 28 Beoma.

season. That which feeds indiscriminately on all plants will find abradent sustenance nuder more adverse circumstances, That whose stomach receives vegetable or animal food with equal favor has a still better chance of surviving and that which can catch the most various sorb of prey is more apt to have prey always at its command then that whose powers in the chans, whose courage or whose strength can overtake or ovarsome only t

the most slow-moving or woskest animals. Mas, the most perfect of animals, and the one who in the pressat condi- tion of the earth could surtive all others, uns attained to his position of mastery largely because he is, of all noimals, the most ombivorous.

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quietion of the opium trade in the Far East spins with a despatel dated October 17, 1906, from Bir Edward Grey to Bir Mortimer. Darand stating that this suggestion had been made to him by the American Ambassador in London. On November 22, 1906, Bir Edward Grey informed Mr. Whitelar Beid that his Majesty's Govarn- antwan willing to take part in such an inquiry if the other Powers named ware willing to partisipate, After some further correspondence the American Ambasside was able in a despatch to Sir Edward Gray, dated October 30, 1907, to transmit the replies of the afber oreramente, all of whom accepted the proposal in principle

On November 27, 1907, Bir Jordan forwarded to Sir Edward Greys report on the results obtained during the first year in which the Decree had been in operation. We publish the following extracts:

Though it is too early to expect any very defnite result, the amount of success (and is la appreciable) which has hitherto been obtainol produess the impression that the task which the Government has undertaken can be fulfilled, and shows conclusively that the Chinese people in general consider opium smoking a vion, frôm which they wonid willingly free themselves, inspired by what a missionary has aptly des pribed as an ill-defined moral and patriotic motion.

The steps to be taken towards a gonoral suppression of opinn smo ing practically only commence in August last, and as the poppy in most places & winter crop, sad is usually

in the late autama, no reduction in the area under cultivation could be made last year in obedience to the Decree, while, as the seod is only now being awn, it is too early to judge how far the Regulations are being carried out, in this respect.

Of all the varieties of man the Asiatic, and especially the Chinsman, is most divers in his food. All is meat to him-scimal er vegetable, in the air, on the earth or in the waters under the earth. He own george himself with joy od the abundant meat diet of the Englishman, he can dine comfortably and happily up on a bracs of mice, or eke out life for weeks upon a few ́handfuls of rice. And all the time he can work without ceasing. He can pack more of his kind проп Bore of ground than any New York tenement life can show, and live there in what he regards as tolerable comfort. In this he has precisely the same advantage over the white man as the European hed over the original inhabitants of this country and as the English.The Exchequer. In the provinous, however, the man bed over the natives of Australia.

It le really, therefore, those characteristics of the Asiatic which we most despise and which we regarded as constitating his inforiority to ourivas his miserable little figure, his pinched and wretched way of living, lavish and tireless industry, bis indifference to high and asstly pleasures which our habit of genera- tions almost makes necessities, his espacity to live in swarma in wretched dens where the white men would rot if he did not suffocate--all these make him a most formidable rival for ultimate survival as the fittest not only in America but wherever he may gain a foothold.

Our ancestors emerged from the broad and roomy environment of pastoral and savage life only a few centuries ago, and our life-sustaining faculties represent what has been stored up by heredity it the period which has since elapsed The astern Asiatic emerged from those con- ditions at a period so remote that no buman record os tradition can be found so old as to refer to a fime when China and Ladia mara not too populous for the conditions of savage life. The accumulated experience of countless agan is therefore stored up in the Asistio's food getting and food saving capacity, and those ages ODOWN No. 8 NEW PRAY K properly and fairly represent his superiority

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Another advantage in the battle of life which the Chinaman enjoys, although it is one with which the pathologist rather than the political, somomist should be familiar, is bja immanity from disease which prey upon the Western races. Hie civiliastion is so old that he has probably eliminated a thousand varieties of his own race which were susceptible to these diseases and has at last developed a type mora or less immune. He can apparently live in tolerable health and comfort in the midst of filth which would breed a desolating pestilence among Western people. He has had time to undergo every experience of which the human

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THE OPIUM TRADE.

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The Foreign Office has issued a Parliamentary paper [Cd.3881] entitled Chias No. 1, and con• tafning Correspondenco esposting the opium quation i

Lia China. The correspondence begins with a despatah dated September 20, 1906, from ir J. Jordan, British Minister in Peking. ioforming Sir Edward Grey of the issue of the Desree prohibiting the cultivation and consump tion of opium, and gives the egotiations which oasued between the Foreign Office and the Chinese Gererament, and in which the India Offos took part, concerning the gradual restric tion of the export of Indian opium to bins, and those between the British and American fiorarn mente on the proposal of the latter that a joint commission should be held to investigate the question of the opiom trade in the Far Linst,

The

opens with a telegram, dated Beries September 20, 19 6, from Bie J. Jordan, the British Minister in Peking, informing Sir Edward Grey of the publication of the Deeran prohibiting the cultivation and consumption of opium. In a despatch, dated ten days later, in which he forwards a translation of the text of the Decree. Bir J. Jordan sya.

The prospective loss of revenue it a matter sem to have caused much an- which would not xiety to the Central Coverament, and, as far as can be seooriained, ne concrete proposals hare yet been mads to replace the eventual loss to

progress of the movament has been greatly ampered by the revente diffulty and the prospect of dislocated finances.

The reper inolades a survey of the results obtained it the different provincas, which vary gratly with regard to the severity and moves, with which the regulations are enforced.

CONFESSION OF FAITH.

REV. E. CAMPBELL'S VIEWÁ. Preaching at the City Temple, the Rer, B. J. Campbell said: "This morning there appeare in the Press a manifesto, signed by the chair- man and a number of distinguished ex-shairmen of the Congregational Voion of England and Wales, and also heads of theɔlogical colleger. The arowed object of this pronouncement le to allay the present theological murest' in the churches. In this respect it was the counterpart of the Papal Encyclycal recently issued against the Moderniste, and will prove equally futils.

The morament against which it is directed cannot be crushed by any such ex cathedra utterance. Esine of the gentlemen who have signed this manifesto bave previously tried, after the most approved methods of the Church of Rome, whit violent personal abuse could do; they are even now trying what practical excommunication can do. But they cannot allay the unrest they deplore, for it is of God. It is a shaking of the dry bones in the valley of dasth It in the resurgence of faith. It is the revival of Christianity, Great is truth, and it sunil prevail.'

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