UNION IN THE AIR.
ESTABLISHMENT OF PUBLISHING HOUSES,
We have already had occasion to call atten- tion to the very gratifying and unexpected result of the Boxer basom of destruction, which swept over North China in 1950, viz, the movements towards union among the various Missions which the aforesaid besom had hoped. to sweep forever into the limbe of forgotten freaks. But the unquenchable vitality of the Christian faith is as yet an unknown fact to the' Chinese, who complacently comfort one an- other with the hope that if it is only left alone" it will of itself come to naught.- This life is ever seeking new forms of manifestation and one of the most delightful is the tendency towards coalition or union. That there has t all along been, an inward unity in all the societies which are secking to promote one cammon end, is one of the commonplaces of conversation among the friends of Missions, but this inward unity er was a further outward expression, and now we see that "union is in the air."
Thus the Northern and Southern Methodists of the United States have united on the establishment of a great publishing house in Shanghai. The building, which is now finished, stands on the corner of Wassung and Quinsan
· Roads, near the Anglo-Chinese College. When "it is in full running order it will help to relieve: the dearth of available premes in Shanghai for Chinese work. The burning of the Commercial · Press greatly aggravated the glut of work now being forced on the presses which do Chinese printing, in so much that such Societies as the Diffusion Society are compelled to send their work to Japan. It is hoped that the Methodist press will do something to mend the situation, But we refer to it now as an illustration of the unity among Methodists.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1902.
CHURCH ¿P: SCOTLAND-MISSION.
Ichang, Rev. Wm. Deans
Studley
RUSSIA'S FOREIGN TRADE.
AMERICAN DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH.
The total volume”of Russia's foreign trade Amoy, Rev, H. E.
across the European frontiers, by way of the Canadian Presbyterian Church, Rev. D. Black Sea and Caucasus, and with Finland, McGillivray,
during the five months ending with May, amounted to 482,274,000.roubles, as compared with a total of 468,440,000 during, the same Since 1900 the retums in
roubles are —
The first to urge the Presbyterians to unite was the late Dr. Happer who laboured many years in Canton. At his call a similar Com-period of 1901. mittee met in rago, but the time was not ripe and nothing more was done till last year when the Presbyterian Conference took it up afresh. The result is the present Committee, the result of whose deliberations will be awaited with interest-Shanghai Mercury.
Exporta. Importa. Total Exttin 1000 10,500,000 227,340,000 448,743,009 2,740,000 Import1 19078,983, 207,291,000 482,274,000 $5,692,000 igot...aga,kolam 215,637,000 408,440,000 37376,0m Exports
Compared with last year's returns, the ex- ports have risen by to'7 per cent, while the Limports have fallen off by 37 per cent. The increase in the exports is seen in the following
SHANGHAI SHIPPING FOR 1801 table:-
Article Raw
Manufactured
Total. Roubles. 219,500,000
of fox. material, Cattle. goode That the port of Shanghai is growing canais, 85,279,000 6,177,000 7,045,00
1901141,851,000 3,254,000 15,120,000 9.73,000 232,000,000 easily be seen by referring to the comparative
1992..190,701,000 1,535,000 8,gn,,0 1,650,000 78,983.000 table of the "Returns of Trade and Trade As is always the case, cereals form the chief Reports," published by the 1. M: Customs. item of exportation, with an increase in value Ten years ago, in 1892, 2,830 steamers entered of 23,898,000 roubles; the increase in wheat is the port, representing 3,163,370 tons. Besides 1977 per cent, in volume, and 1971 in value, but these steamers 378 sailing vessels entered, barley and eats have fallen off to`s and 5' and representing tl,84 tons, making in all 46% and 313 per cent., respectively. Butter 3.275,214 tons in enter the part in that year, and eggs show a great increase. Wrought iron Since then the tonnage has gradually increased, shows an increase from 6,000 tons, valite until in 1901, 3698 steamers entered the port, 209, roubles, to 21,700 tons, valise 585.000 whose tonnage totailed 5,277,381 tons, besides roubles. Sixty-two thousand nine hundred 484 sailing vessels of 118,544 1ons, making a horses, in value 6,037,000 rubles, were exported, total of 5.393 925 tons, or an increase in as against 30,oo hoise, value 2,728,020 roubles, ten years of 2,120,691 tons. This is an in roor. While the exports of hemp, meat, increase of about forty per cent, which speaks spirits, wool and woollen stuffs, and various well for the prospect of the port. Of the other goods have risen, those of sugar, linseed, 3.493 steamers that entered during last year, rape speed, jute, hides, oil, and cotton goods 1,982 were British, aggregating 2,824,329 tons, have fallen off. or over fifty per cent, of all other countries combined. To this must be added 115 sailing vessels of 33,865 tons Germany comes next with 533 sleamers of 851 622 tons, which shows a considerable increase on last year, partly owing to the transfer from the Chip nese flag of the fleet of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co. The next country on the list is Japan with 444, steamers, with a ton nage of 644,042, China comes next with 343
Again, wo 'hear that the Northern and Southern Baptists are uniting on a similar printing press established at Canton with á capital of 20,000 Mexican dollars. Canton seems far away from the centre of things Chinese, which of course we call Shanghai, but it has some claims on the denominationsteamers, entering the port, of 11,781 to which cannot be disregarded.
And the Presbyterians are not behind. of the several committees on union projects ap pointed by the Presbyterian Conference held last year, one at least has succeeded in launch- ing its scheme successfully, viz., that on the Union paper (a weekly) which we learn has now subscribers in all the eighteen provinces of China, Korea, New Zealand, Canada, and nearly everywhere the Chinese emigrant has gone, Then again this week another Committee on the general question of Presbyteri in Union- meets in Shanghai. The members are as follows:
AMERICAN PRESOYTERIAN CHURCH, NORTH,
Peking, Dr. J. L. Whiting.
E. Shantung, Rev. L. J. Davies,
W. Shantung, Rev. J. H. Laughlin. Central China and ¡lunan, Rev. J. C. Garritt, Canton and Hainan, Dr. H. V. Nayes, AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, “SOUTH.
N. Kiangsu, Rev. J. R. Graham. Mid-China, Rev. P. F. Price:-
ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Amoy, Dr. MacGregor.
Formosa, Rev. T. Barclay. Swatow, and Wukiangľu, Dr. J. C. Gibson.
UNITED FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.", Manchuria, Rev. Geo. Douglas.
IRISH PROSBYTERIAN CHURCH, Manchuria, Rev. W. H. Gillespie.
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SINGER
SEWING
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The principal takers. of Russian exports have beea :—
1001.
1902,
Rouble..
Roubles. Rule's $1,274,000.....4f.con...68,651,000 --47,741,000 41,80,000 36,915,000
Cienbany Great Britain.. Holland... France....
121,081,000........24,753,000...120,853,000 United States. 2,031,000... 1.394.000 984,000 China...
783,000 1,694,000... 954,000 With the exception of raw and half-worked
materials, whose importation rose only by 13 per cent., there is a decrease in importation of 133 per cent in articles al food, of 15'8 per cent in cattle, and of 134 in manufactured
and when we add to this 334 sailing vessels,
goods, while the, decrease in imported coal, 69,460 tons, it makes a total of 461,241 tons. America comes next with 158 steamers of coke, and iron is very striking, Cotton, silk, 193.719 tons, and twenty-nine sailing vessels oftion. Machinery, hardware, steel, and iron wool, and copper show an increased importa. 13,891 tons, making a total of 207,610 tons. have fallen off 227 per cent. in bulk and 3r The next on the list, so far as tonnage goes,
per cent. in value, as compared with their
1000
1931.
1001. Raubies. Roubles. Roubles .87,617.Don........81,315,000 75,847,000
+
Germany Great Britain France ******** 9,575,000, f. 9,834,000.......... 8,937,000 Austria-Hungary Holland 2,Bod,coo... 3.211,000 2,381,999
--11,695, 900, ....... 19, täz,000............... 8,gy1.co
China United States....30,728,000 17,667,000 20,736,000 .............. 5,411,000.... 7,599,000.... 7,054,000 The division of the roubles by ten will give almost their exact equivalent in English pounds sterling-Glo'..
is France with fifty-two steamers of 110,395 importation in toor. The imports from the tors. Norway comes next with seventy-chief countries were as follow:- six steamers of 86,223 tons. Russia follows with fifty-two steamers of 65,206 tons. The next on the list is Denmark with twenty-eight steamers of 35.985 tans. Austria follows with seventeen, steamers of 32,132 tons. Holland is next with nine steamers of 13,369 ton, Korea entered three steamers of 7,388 tons; and Belgium comes last with one steamer in ballast of 1,291 tons. This gives the chief details of the shipping which entered the port of Shanghai during 1901. These figures when compared with 1900, the previous record year, show an increase of 1,350,000 tons, which plainly demonstrates that Shanghai is not only increasing in size, but also inmportance as a shipping centre „Shanghat Mercury,
CARRIED IT THROUGH:- Never do things in a half-hearted manner must have
been the thought of an unemployed coolie who stole a clock from his foki, and pawned it under a false name He may be honest for another month.
letter states that the Minister of Foreign MINISTER TS'AI RESIGNS-A Peking Affairs has received a dispath from H,E. Tsai Chun, Chinese Minister to the Court of Tokio, asking permission to resign his post. The cause of this is rumoured to be due to a. reported intention on the part of the Empress Dowager to recall H.E. Tsai Chun owing to his recent trouble with the Chinese students
in Japan. There seems to be no doubt that these students have very powerful friends in Peking who have espoused their cause against Minister Ts'ai.
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use them, Iron and gold must first be got our of the ore. The same principle applies to cod liver oil. Its virtues are not in its fatty matters; much less in its sickening taste and smell. No consumptive, or sufferer from any other wasting disease, was ever greatly bene fited by the so called "plain" cod liver oil. The shock it gives to the nerves, the repulsion and disgust it excites in the stomach, the , outrages it commits upon the senses of smell and taste, are enough to spoit any medicinal potency that may be in it for the majority of people. This-10 say nothing about its being indigestible. Yet there his always been reason to believe that, among, the elements which form cod liver oil, there existed curative properties of the highest value. But it was necessary to separate them from the nauseating waste material with which they were com- bined. This was successfully accomplished in
"
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION and in this effective remedy, made palatable as honey, we have the very heart and soul of Pure Cod Liver Oil, combined with the Comp Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. These, constitute a tissue-builder, a blood purifier, a health renewer beyond comparison. Disease yields. in it with a completeness and rapidity which astonishes medical men quite as much as it delights their patients. In all wasting con. ditions, Scrofula and Blood Disorders, La Grippe, Chronic Bronchitis, Pulmonary Affections, etc, it never fails to relieve and cure. Dr. Louis W. Bishop says: "I take. pleasure in saying I have found it a most efficient preparation, embodying all of the medicinal properties of a pure cod liver oil in a most palatable form." It stands in the front rank in the march of medicine. No slow or doubtful action. Effective from the first dose "You cannot be disappointed in it." Sold by chemists here and everywhere and A. S. Watson Co., Limited.
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were society would be impossibile. Everybody even if David did say so in his haste. If they
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. it in hope of benefit and cure, we may expect Preparation" never deceives any who resort to to be believed. For this assurance is given on what it has done in the past in countless cases, on its record. It is only recom- mended to accomplish what it was made th Accomplish. Its action in Chlorosis, Anemia, La Grippe, General Debility, Throat and Lung It is palatable as honey and contains the nutri Troubles, Blood Impurities, etc. is convincing. 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 Malt and Wild Cherry. Dr. Austin D. Irvine, of Canada, says: "I have used it in cases where cod liver off was indicated but could not be taken by the NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP patient, and the results following. were very gratifying." It is effective from sensitive and nervous stomachs. It cannot deceive or dis-
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