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SECRET OF TZU H81'8, POWER OVER CHIKA WIELDING AN INEXPLICABLE INFLUENCE. Odr Shanghai correspondent gives to-day ann Minutes of a meting held on January account, of the remarkable career of the late 19:9, at the Celebrities Club, Spookton, Sha-Dowager Empress of Chins, which, says the dowland,
Times of December 29, will furnish as interest Prescat:-.E. Lin Tre bi, p.cial Coming subject of speculation to such as lave missioner appolated in 1839 to suppress the psychological problems. opium traffic in Canton; Chinese Admiral, în command of the wat junks there at the same The Prince Regent has given directions time; Themas de Quincy, Author of the Con that the Imperial maysofea should be, com- fessions of an Oplum Eater," and one of Eng- pleted within three years. Their cost island's most brilliant writers Since Taylor Coleridge, Poet, Essayist, Philosopher, and Oplum. Eater Wrote the "Ancient Matiner," etc. etc.; Lard Shaftesbury, Professed Philan- thropist and Member of the A. O. League; Dr. Medhurst, A celebrated Medical Missionary, traveller, and Sinologue, with others.
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ALTERING THE STANDARD.
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Peking, 10th February. The idea of minting one-teel silver coins originated with Yuan Shih-kai.
The minutes of the previous meeting were
"takes as seco,"
Lord Shalesbury-fa the absence of the Emperor Kies Lung, I beg to propose that Ḥ-- E Lid taken the chair. (Carried nom.com.). -- H. E. Lin—Geptleman. We are here 10 day to add to the general considerations which occupied our attention yesterday a considera lion of those special and personal causes för the popularity of opium which exist amongst the peoples of the earth. 1, myself, am unable 10 enlighten you on this point, but ́ibero aro others present who cao. You will notice that they do not all come from the Flowery Land."
Chinese Admiral.—My acquaintance with
p'um began early. What is there for a Chinese Admiral to do but eat, drink, dally', gamble, and—moke?' 'I was Duke Trai, president of the Ministry of
of a crew-this was before I got my feather -commanded to do what we could to Finance, has memorialized the Throne pray-keep opium from getting ashore. We obeyed. ing for authority to have the standard weight of silver, of the coin changed to seven mace two candareens.--
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MENTS.
PROMOTION FOR HISI LIANG.
"By courtesy if the "Sheung Po"],
Peking, roth February," H.B. Hsu Shi-chang, Viceroy of the Three Eastern Provinces, has been appoint. ed. President of the Ministry of Posts and Communications foire Chan Pik dismissed).
H.E. Hsi Liang, Viceroy of Yunnan and Kwelchow Provinces, has been pronioted to the Viceroyalty of the Three-Eastern-Pro vinces.
Li King-hei has been given the appoint ment as Viceroy of the Yunkwei Provinces. (in succcasion to H.E. Hei Liang, promot ed).
Later.
we'amored oll ter possibly could abaári. Some nverdid it. I was wiser. My dose was kept below a mace a day for years, and so i got the "pleasure's of the drug without the paios. "
Lord Shaftesbury leasures? What were The Admiral-It eased a cough I had, and effectually cured a persistent tendency to loose
"bey?
LOSS.
De'Quincey.—Physical or moral?
The Admiral (with a gria.)—Physical Dr. Medhurst. But there were surely other effects, pleasurable effects, besides there. I have heard....
The Admiral.- yes, of course there were. made a great deal of money out of opium, Lord Shaftesbury-Money?
The Admiral-Yes, money; dollars usually; sometimes Mexican, but more often Carolus.
Lord Shaftesbury-Dear me Did you see
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Mr. William Edgar Geil, the well known, traveller and author who gave a series of ad dresses in the Town Hall, fire or six years ago, has just returned from a journey along the spent the past eight months in preparing ma- entire length of the Great Wall of China, baving A HOUSE la KNUTSFORD TERRAGE torials for his forthcoming book on this subject.
We (Shanghai Times) worn favoured with a. conversation with Mr. Geil, in the course of which be referred in the trip he has just con cloded.
did an-normous amount of mischief by her 17. Hay to far as westerns can discern public acts, and was guilty of the grossest cruelty to individuals. She appeart, even whea we try to be imparial, to have been a compound of shrewdness and superstition, of facile good "ature and of tigerish ferocity, of total ignorance of all that goes to the good government of a State, and of capacity to play upon the passions having upeat considerable time in making I left San Francisco on April 1, he said, after and weaknesses of those around her, with such effect that through a long period she relaided historical research in the United States on the almost abiglate power over the destinies of subject of the Great Wall of China, the greatest Chies. She seems, from the record of her thing of its kind is the world. From Shaphai. career, to have been ambitious, hypocritical,kwan I followed the wall for its entire length to Halyukwan and made a careful study of it. disloyal, sensual and utterly unscrupulous,
It is a wonderful piece of work, I have been
...... MORAL STANDARDS.
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Yet we read that throughout North Chinadeep in the heart of Africa and have seen the the always enjoyed extraordinary popularity dal pygmies, but I have never seen anything and was familiarly spoken of as the "Old of this kind, which will compare with the Great | Buddha"-3 term which, so fit as a Western
Wall: Evan as a boundary tinë it is anequil· may judge, implies a mixture of veneration and led, It is the longest and most distinct line affection. It was no doubt otherwise in South on the surface of the earth; op pation, has an China, whern ribald songs at her expensé
artificial geographical boundary of that extent, appear to have replaced the affectionate nick found hundreds of miles on one section of it I travelled through the most wonderful scenery, name. An apologist might point nút that it was the people of North China who knew her scenery which is uaequalled elsewhere. best and saw her most closely; and he might perhaps be tempted to add that they are a finer and more virile race in the north than in the routh. To which it might be rejoined that Manchu prejudica may account for her popiu.. farity in the north, and that the purer Chinese race in the south, though different, are not on that account inferior.
Moral standards vary so greatly, that we may conceive without much difficulty that those sc Lions of the Old-Buddbe" which seem to or the most reprehensible really appeared per fectly natural and proper to the mass of her people. To throw a favourite of au Emperor down a well, and afterwards to decree to her posthamois honours for having committed ulcide with patriotic, molives, may be entirely within the recognised limits of statecraft. It might not indeed be impossible to find even in the annals of Christian countries fairly close parallels to such an oct. If the posthumous hooours appear superfluously hypocritical, we have to remember the fine artistic seate of completeness and order. that distinguishes the Chinese. An example is found in the cancel lag of all the pro-Boxer decrees by Tau Hai
a uch of the dreadful-ding taken on aboset"in order to show historical accuracy-argas The Admiral never saw any of it, not a we might say, in order to conceal her tergiver the That's how I made my money, I looked sutions. The other way 1 · · ...
H. E. Lio-Gentlemen, as.I understand it what it is we want to know in the personal -rather-than-the-pocket effect of opium; Per
haps Mr. de Quincey-
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At the point where the wall from Ka'gan in the north, joins with the branch from the soulb, forming which I call the great "Y" which in 300 miles from the sea, the scenery is superb," The country round about is mountainous and for a whole day I travelled through canons of majestic-grandeur:" In my opinion the day is not far distant when the glories of the scenery of China will be exġolled, and travellers, in- stead of keeping to the beaten paths, willTHE Steamship journey into the interior of China,
have been greatly exaggerated," continued Mr. "The difficulties of travel in the Empire
Geil. "This is my second trip into the "heart of China, and I have received nothing but the greatest courtesy on-all-sidos. Os my first visit I was accompanied by a Mandaria and soldiers, but on this last trip. I had no protection of that kind and I did not have the slightest difficulty. it i wished to gain in
formation and had agy difficulty, I went to the officials of the district and the information was at once supplied. I bad such a delightful ex- perience on my first trip that I looked forward with keen anticipation to a scood journey, On the first occasion I went into the heart of the Yangtze Valley, the "Two Brothers" as they ate sometimes termied. The trip prayed,
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... PROF. HALIORI UN GHINA,
ADVISER ON EDUCATION AFFAIRY ON
In the West statesmes swallow their principicnally interesting and I found much to admise.. I discovered some valuable tablets ples and cast off solema engagements without and obtained lots of information regarding the such elaborate attempts to hide the breaches wall itself, as well as a great amount of folk of contiguity. So long as the Boxer move lore. in my investigations, I discovered that De Qulecey. With pleasure. How I came
ment seemed likely to be successful it enjoyed there were a couple of hundred miles of the to uke opium is well known, I suffered the sympathy and support of the Dowager Great Wall that do not appear in the prestol The appointments of H.. Hau Shi-changmaityrdom for weeks from combined facial Empress. But, when it became doub ful whe maps and this, will liave to be added to future as president of the Ministry of Posts and rheumatism and toothache. It was on a walther the hated foreigners would not "make.
-maps, Communications, and of Li King-hei to the and cheerless Sunday afternoon in London things decidedly unpleasant, Yung Lu received
LEFOTH OF THE WALL. Yunnan and Kweichow Provinces, have been agonies. I saw a druggist's shop. Au bourgues to blow down the walls of the Legations will be found to extend for, a5,000 miles in that had my first dose.' I' was suffering high commendation for refusing to lend heavy
Roughly estimated I think the Great Wall made on the recommendation of Grand after, Q heavens, what a revulsion What a
A liute later, when she had to make her escape Councillor Chang Chih-tung.
resurrection from its lowest depths of the inner from Peking in á commos cart disguised as a length, but this, mind, is only an estimate. spitit What a abyss of divine enjoyment woman of the people she ordered Prinz Tuxp, "VOLUNTEER" CORPS ORDERS. thur suddenly revealed! Happiness bought the organiser-of-the-discredited-movement; to for a penny, and carried in the vest pecke: be put to death. Fortunately for him, the peace of mind that could be sent by mail!
Foreign Ministers also demanded that he Lord Shaftesbury-How terrible!.
should be executed, and he was kept alive in De Quiscey. You are right, and I see ex-order that Chios abould "save her face." This actly what you mean. The deception you have conduct is far from admirable, yet the disavowal
baen fold in one thing; what I show is another. suffered is, indeed, terrible. What you have of agents who have not been lucky in their ventures is not opknown in the West. The The Admiral-Can any of you tell us whether principle is the same, but Chinese methods are,
It must be confessed, more thoroughgoing. anybody else in Ecgland-used opium.besides the last speaker?
The successful career of Tza Hai was really Coleridge-I did and more. Wilberforce, doe to something that defies analysis, and over Dean of Carlisle, Dean Milner, the first Lord rides laws, coocations, customs, and barriers Dress: Serge aaiform, helmet with badge, Erskine and numerous others whom I knew of every kind. Beyond all doubt, she pos- ropes. Such a wall, manned with efficient fellow-scholars
habitually used it. I took to it, as De Quincey ressed in remarkable perfection what is called did, to relieve pain. My experiences at first charm or personal ma,netism." Quasi-icica- excellent an anodyna it allayed all nervous were similar to his own. Besides being so tific terms are out of place in dealing with things tritato, ir stimulated the capacity for en-
bat do not admit of measurement by any scien- tific method. We do not kapw, what magne Jyment, and as times enabled long continued tism is, and it does not help as at all to call
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exertion to be borne without ill effects,
*.E. Lie-In your Chinese experience, Dr.
Medhurst, can you bear out these statements?
able of cl th's stated I have heard again from Dr. Medhurst-Every one. All the pleasus
Chinese smokers. But, of course, there is a sequel.
POWER OF CHARM,
CHINESE STUDENTS IN JAPAN, which will have to be verified when I go into the mass of material 1 have collected Of Prof, Hattori, who recently returned from course, all the wall is not in a state of preserva- China, where he had occupied for many years tion. In many parts it is broken down and the position of adviser on educational affairs to the bricks and stone veneering has disappeared the Chinese Government, expressed himself as but, the core remains, and this core is some follows on Chiness students in Japan. The fifteen feet in width at the top, while the towers Minister for Education in China is panicularly are 25 to 30 feet in height. In other places 1 anxious that Chinese students in Japan should found the wall entirely submerged by land, and be educated in common with Japanese stud some day I supporn it will be the interesting cats, and not at schools spécially sat apart for work of an enthusiast to dig the wall out of the them, and gleb a specially prepared curri seed. I have been id places where the wall is culum, for in that case there is no hecessity for 10,000 feet above sea level. In others, it is al-sending them across, as they lose the benefit most perpendicular and 1 bad to be hauled upon of the training in common with their Japanese soldiers and present day artillery, would be impregnable to an outalde attack, I was very mach surprised to see a large steel bridge at Lanchow, in the province of Kassy, which ad joins Thibet, and a tram line as well. Lanchow also bas its electric lights. There is a young
The reases put forward for this special treat ment accorded to Chinose students in that their educational acquirements are not on the same level with those of the Japanese, but if they have passed successfully through the prapara-" fory schools, there is no reason why they
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train from Henan to where the House-Kaifong them with means of their own are allowed to good work, for the area under poppy cultiva many Chinese students hive been sent lo tion is decreasing. On my way back, "Look Japanese technical schools, and those amongst in meats the Hankow line, and I must admit Frank as Government students. the road bed. The work seems to be excellent China proposes to establish technical schools that I was really struck by the excellence. of The Department of Communications.J || May bo had from"
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something else personal magnetism." Charm Cannot be defined or explained. It is a com. plex of human qualities, physical, moral, and
tional organisations. Physical beauty may not intellectual; the fine flower of certain excep
be present in any exceptional degree,- moral qualities may show but poorly as judged by H. E. Lin. Of course, of course: we know say accepted standard, and intelligence may that. But for the moment we are only search.be less conspicuous than in many persons who
farity to which "oplum so speedily attained, lag for explanations of the marvell us popu- bave no charm at zil
How long did you continue your practice, Mr. But the wholly inexplicable outcome of the De Quincey?
mysterious combination is charm, which wa Liept. J. A. T. Plummer is granted leave of
De Quincey-For many years, at first at in- all recognise by its effects though we know no- absence out of the Colony for 1 months with tervals later, daily. At one time my diureal thing of its nature. It is a dangerous posser- eff:ct from the 1st February.'
Captain T. Skinner is granted leave of ab- | sand dryps, in the form of landanum, of cours
doses rose to tight, ten, and even twelve thou-sian, jst because it does not necessarily con
note citber moral stability or intellectual forcé. sence out of the, Colony for 12 months with
It was not al at once, that I attained in the Those possessing it to an emiport degree have effect from the. March
formule, "A glass of lapdanam negus warm, usually been disturbers of the piace, of the Corpi A. W. J. Peake is granted leave of aband without sugar, please." After that I'came world and dissolventa ef society, With all re stace out of the Colony for y months with down to 300 drops a day... After years of use I spect to Marlowe, it was not the face of Helen still could while thus: ""Thou only givest these "that launched 'a thousand ships, And burned gifts to man; and thou hast the keys of Pata "the topless towers of Ilium." It was som diso, O juss, subtle, and mighty opium,”
thing that makes a more poignant, mors H.E. Lin-Probably some of the Opaque of lasting, and more universal appeal than the the Terra Obscura may be a little surprised at most vaimpeachable beauty of face and figure. this, ab, my lord?
Lord Shaftesbury.I think so. If there It was not Cleopatra's beauty that enslaved were nothing behind, I should be inclined Antony and made her the dominant factor in to think that my pet League is still engaged in an Impeilil contest. It was her charm. It what I should then describe as an Impropa was 'not by her beauty or her brains that Mary -ganda, But, the sequel, the sequel,
Stuart, or long as she lived, made Elizabeth 4 months' sight L/C, ................................119 7/16 | In, and this subject is at present left to the |_ H.8. Lin. We shall come to that in dus sit uneasy on her throne. She did that by her 6 months' sight L/C,
the Canton episode. Meanwhile, we cappot still procures for her passionate partleans, Tru time. At our next meeting I shall bring up charm, which three centuries after her death disguise from ourselves the fact that besides - Esi was in that order of succession. She social defects driving man to opiates of all sonic, wielded the inexplicable influence that outlasts 30 days sight Sydany & Melbourne... 1.9.17/26 say these institutions do not satisfy modem there are personal cravings, and temptation beauty of face, and grace of form, and defes : 4 months' aight Franca strong beyond meadore. I don't think, my the ravages of sixty years of tempestuous life. 6 months' sight: W
ord, sither you or I kad' sofficiently realized Charm at the secret of Tau Hal's power over this before.
4 months" right Germany; all around her, and their vague sense of that The meating then adfgurned-Ni C. D. Imperishable quality, was what the Chinese Bar Silver
populace expressed in the term-the "Old | Bank of England rate) (Continued on page 5)
Buddha”
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RESIG TED, Sargt R, Beodenon is permitted to resign on leaving the Colony with effect from the 3rd Instant,
Gooner H. Dewsbury is permitted to resign on leaving the Colony with affect from the 3rd Instant.
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