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In the November number of Blackwood's Magasine the place of honour is given to an article on "Saigon," by Sir Hugh Clifford, Colonial Secretary of Ceylon. Wo quote two

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LES FONCTIONNAIRES.

Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things" The Lotos-Enters. There were roads, beautiful French roads, as good as any in the world, in and about Baigon. If their length equalled their quality they would form at any rate the beginning of a magnificent rond system. As it is, most of them fade away into nothing at a discreet distance from the town. They enable one to take the air; they do not materially assist one to take a journey. They are quite pretty to look at.

beggars," grunted the Discontant............... ed Englishman,Stop game of tannia, to shake hands with every new arrival at the Club ---not strangers, minil you, but ordinary playing members! Dripping wet their hands are, too, Ugh! I offered a prise for a lawn tennis tournament-thought it would back 'em up a bit. Devil a bit! No entries. Afraid of being beaten. What can you do with men like that P

His indignation found expression in abrupt, granting outbursts of very colloquial English. **Football, too. Soooor. Thirty men who play out of a population of Heaven knows how many, and every Jack one of them plays for his ad hand. No notion of playing for the side not a notion of it. And the morale of the place!"

Words failed him,

It is an axiom among Englishmen that these' who have no love for healthy and regalar. exercise have no use for the Decalogne, except to use it as pie crust.

"Road Les Civilisóz '!".

There is, at angrates the begining of a rail. way system, but in a country which has been ocoupled for sixty years by a Europeau nation,

I followed his advies. I cannot recommend and where the engineering difficulties are, any render of Magn to make a like experi reduced to a minimum by the flatness of the ment. I believe the picture there drawn of wide areas to be traversed, the progress made life in and about Saigon to be vilely and is not impressive. L'Administration, it would malicionely exaggerated, yet at the back of appear, blossoms out chiefly in the direction of it, as men on the spot xpluctantly admit, there ils personnel. In Kambodia, for instance.rks some modioum, of odious truth. The where there is a scattered population of one and

Lonk could usver `hays been" written of a half million sonis, no less than two haudrad lishmen in any colony or dominion. So much European fonctionnairesare considered necessary at least is certain. There is a proverb about for its government, British India, with its moke and fire, but here, I am convinced, the three hundred millions, claims the services of wreaths of stifling, filthy vapour that smudge less than five hundred offcials of similar position. all the sky rise from far worse bonfires than

But the Indian Civil Service, like all our have ever been lighted, oven in Saigon. services, is notoriously short-handed. Our cadets nowadays are set to work upon active administrative duties long before their official education lies been satisfactorily completed. This, at anyrate, it would seam, need not be

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The Secretary of the British Legation at Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Chootham, in a report on trade of Brazil in 1998, says that the crop year 1908-09 will undoubtedly a very large output of Amazon rubber, and at anch high prices during the latter months of the season as should cause the year 1909 to be the most favourable that those regions have experienced since the begin- ning of the rubber expert trade. The rubber. trade of the Amazon Valley is in many respects one of the most remarkable commercial moveCALLING AT NAPLES GENOA, ALGIERS; GIBRALTAR AND SOUTHAMPTON

ments in existenes. If the value of the product put on the world's markets, be compared with onergy the trifling expenditure of human involved in its collection, the contrast in an extraordinary one, The whole of this the first valuable trade is gathered in place by a handful of illiterate, untrained men who, taking their lives in their bands, qator the past uncultivated wilderness of the upper Amazon forests and on behalf of distant aviadores and nominal forest-ownera,

case in French Indo-Chine, where there can hardly be enough work to go round. The French Civil Servant should surely have that which our people "to-day most notoriously

learn; lock-time, time to

Unfortunately, however, unless my informants-all themselves Frenshmen of experience-aro at fault, the notion that there is aught to learn is one which does not readily present itself to the young official newly imported from France, Being posted to an appointment in the Colo nial Civil Service his country appears to be. regarded by him at the end, rather than as the beginning, of his life's work. To secara employment as a Civil Servant in Indo-China no examination, competitive or otherwise beyond the taking of an ordinary degree, is demanded of him. The reat is a question of influence the winning of a nomination from the Minister of the day, Appointments in the Colonies are not things for which Frenchinen scramble with any agerness; the family "master" is the person on whogo account, for the most part, the nooossary Influence is exerted, He will be returned to France and mercifully re-transported once every three years at the expense of Government. the rest, he is provided for for life is ortop the trees and smoke the rubber that later an figures as the second asset-in-Brazilian cont immediate pre-occupation is to create in the land moroial and financial prosperity. Deprived of of lus exile ae close an

an approximation sa adverse her rubber output, Brazil would lose almost one- sironmstance will admit to the France from third of her purchasing capacity. Yet, although which he has been banished. The country in the source of so large a part of her national which he finds himself is hopelessly, incurably

income. Brazil as a whole does nothing for her Orinatal, Te werk in it any notable transforma. rubber producers, and these in equal disregard for Lion

would be a herculean task. He has no of great responsibilities, do little or nothing liking for tasks, even when their proportions their rubber trees. The whole of the vast wealth are zot magnificent. He contents himself with of the Amazon rubber outpat is drawn from the the creation of a Rae Catinat. It is not over virgin wealth of uncultivated forest products. difficult, it adds to his material comfort, the which is his chief care, and it helps ever so little to disguise

the banishment to which he is condemned.

For, be it remembered, he is always in banish mont, always a kind of offcial remittance man, your French fonctionnaire in Indo-China always there because he cannot help it, never because he likes it. The East Rounds no call for him, but the alluring voice of France is for ever making mocking music in his ears. He is "patting in time," like any other deported criminal, and only in very rare instances locs be learn to love his chaina.

The output of rubber has more than doubled since 1897, but the methods of pradabtion show no advance, while the cost of prodnation must have greatly increased. That Fata rabber, as it is today exploited, can continue success- fally to compete whan once the East Indian plantations have attained a large area of develop- ment seams highly improbable. The cost of the bare necessities of life, to say nothing of the comforts of existence, has greatly increased, and the absence of these things renders the weary lot of the Amazon rabber sztroctor ons of the most depressing in azistance Half submerged in a swampy forest, he has few or no companiona These are facts which seem to be recog and no social life at all. A stranger from far nised by the Administration. The attitude away, he makes no home, but squats where of Government toward its Civil Servante je le can best tap the surrounding troos. The largely one of compassion-of pity. It is owner of the estate neither resides on it nor hard enough for these poor devils to be here pays an absentee tax. His ownership restricts at all, it seems to say. It would be wicked to itself to taking out papers of registration before mako things harder for them by expecting them someone else has obtained them, and then to be useful. Accordingly, though the inability lansing the right to find and tap what rubber

this "estut of the French Civil Servant to speak the trees the undefined vagueness vernacular la universally admitted and almost may afford the hardy Ceara or Maranhao ex- as universally deplorel, successive Governors-plorer who acts as his tenant. General have drawn book dismayed from the proposal to make such studies compulsory and promotion dependent on proficiency Such it is thought, would be a crusity, a lity, the adoption of methods of barbarism. continues and One does not wantonly strike the man who is down; and if a man were not down, how, in the name of common-sense, would he ever be Civil Servant of France in Indo-China P

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Thoro is little likelihood of Amazon rubber boing exhausted. The area is so vart, the supply of trees so constantly self-renewing, that it is most improbable that while demand 1 profitable prices are obtained the supply from this region will fall off. The real danger to the Amazon industry lies in the com petition of cultivated rubber. If this can be shortly produced on a large scale and the demand We English, we, too, to-day, are suffering in does not keep equal pase prices must fall. The Asis from the fact that leas and lass do our Amazon forests on the present lines of Brazilian people who work for England in the East taxation and expenditure can only be worked if regard the scene of their labours as the one the price of rubber remains high. The ex- place that matters, "Home" in all saver penses are so great, the taxes imposed so onerous, the name alone. Aforetime this was the rale; that any permanent fall in the price of rubber now it is the exception. Facility of communi would mean not alone the cessation of Amazon cation with Europe has loosened many arabber production, but a very serious financial fonadation-etono of our Oriental Empire. But problem for the whole of Brazil to meet. Rab- that Empire had been apresred, vast, solid, ber cultivation in Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, and four-square, ers over Progress, with its and no doubt elsewhere, can be profitably and by annually improving offspring, Mechanical Contrivance, bad begun carried out, to work the ruin which so many of us new. the methods at a rate of expenditure that the watch with such despairing eyes. To Henry would be wholly insufficient to tap Lawrence, who, tried to do his duty"; to wild forest trees of the Amazon basin, Con grim John, who wrought through sheer siderations such as these should not be lost strength mightily, as his brother wrought sight of by those who may be disposed to invest Nicholson, through tenderness, sympathy, and love to money in the purchase and exploitation of so- the Quixots of our race, who called rubber estates on the Amazon. The fought with no imaginary foo-Indis, their excessive import duties and the heavy oxport India, was to them the whole world. What to taxes mast never be lost sight of, for they affect PENINSULAR them did Europe matter, or the criticisms or the every aspect of commercial, industrial, and plaudite of the folk who did not know? India dividual life in Brazil, While it may be held claimed from thom their sole allegiance. At as unquestionable that Amazon rubber is a wild her feel they laid their love, their labour, and product obtained by the least expenditure of their lives. We, who to day maintain with little labour necessary to its erade production, and. ease that which they wrested from rufu, know with no resort to cultivation, there is a growing in our hearts that we are daily becoming more export from other parts of Brazil of inferior and more depolarised. Our lodestar now islands of rubber which may in the near future Europe, not the East.

attain large proportions. This rubber, moreover,

Bat our race produced that breed of giants whose work we havo inherited produced the men whose names will live in story long after the Raj for which they toiled lis tottered to

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