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toll by their forefathers, are for the greater part neglected and well-nigh ruined by the erosive and torrential seasonal rains.

The mountain-slopes, whilst they have been terraced to a certain ex- tent, and rendered amenable to the plough, are yet better adapted for the pasturage of numerous water- buffaloes

und humped Brahinan cattle, of which almost every house- possesses one or more, These

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farmors than the Chinese; for although the great cities of the land boast immense populations, yet the majority of the Sons of Han are, as they have been for more than forty centuries, con- tented and self-suflicing tillers of the past, when the inhabitants telt beneath the heavenly well. Here the soil. The cities on the other less forcibly the restraining hand of may be found the chung-hom, or are the special charge of the younger hund, especially those of the so. the military, they were wont to make stone rice-huller (a kind of mortar lads, who regularly lead these plod- occasional nocturnal raids upon the with its pestle mounted upon a long ding, ring-nosed beasts out to pus- called Open Ports pullulate with vinges of rival clans with the intent plank, set in a frame, and so designed ture in the morning, and bring them should all the concomitant incongruities of pillage, slaughter and enslavement that it may be operated by pressure back at nightfall, lest they of quasi-Occidentalism and can of the foe. Indeed, even at the pre- of the foot), and during the long fall prey to either thieves of a

bccasional tiger. The bucolie sim- scarcely be reconciled with the sent day there may be found amongst afternoons, and often, too, by candle- oftast on this life tha

the light, the womenfolk busily engage of the

poetic charm in certain the inhabitants delectable prospects of the placid southernmost districts of the province themselves with the arduous task of about it, which has the strongest ap- countryside... presenting as it of Kwongtung a condition of helolism hulling the garnered sheaves of South Peal to every Son of Han: and no for he may have does multitudinous vistas of or serfdom, such as once existed in China's staff of life. The t'eng, how matter how

and these Europe,

helots or ever, in the euse of the wealthier advanced in the world, be he suc emerald paddy-fields and quaint flat-tot us usey are designated in

famed Inhabitants

warrior, often elaborately cessful merchant,

learned scholar or astute old-world

diplomat. villages enshrined rustic patols, are said to be the off- furnished, and many well-chosen pic-

and calligraphie scrolls

that he holds most dear to amongst verdant, tomb-dotted spring of those prisoners of war, who lures

his heart Is usually the little hamlet. hills. Moveover, onc. finds in were captured during the cruel and hung upon the walls, and the room

vin- where he born, and where he the rural portions of the country Although, these unfortunate victimna tricately carved blackwood furniture childhood hours as a herd-boy, perch-

bloody clan struggles of former years. filled with a profusion of heavy,

furniture, perchance spent 50 many happy Stubbs Rd. an almost nirvannie calm and of internecine strife have been legal. The t'eng also contains the ancestral ed upon the broad back of a patient.

peace, and the thought dawns ly free since the establishment of the shrine, resplendent in crimson, and upon one that after all, the bust- Repubile in 1912, yet most of them glit, and is the centre of the assiduously ambling water-ox and wandering

household; for still remain

respective vil- devotions of the remain in their ling port cities with their quays. Inges, apparently obvious of their the Lures and Donates of the like so carefree over the verdant hillsides. warehouses, sheds and shops are emancipation; and their position is one Romans, the

spirits

f singularly charming merely the prosnic, conterminous of benign slavery, being agricultural ancestors are ever solicitous of the IN such

countryside, there yet lurks an sure LEONG. In loving memory of dear and ancillary adjuncts-yea, the serfs bound to the village, which they welfare of their descendants, and are

assist in the cultivation of the Belds,

(so It is believed) to requite unmistakable sense of Insecurity and Reggie, who passed away on 4th ugly and grotesque totality of an and in the preparation and serving such loyal attentions with bountiful unrest; for in almost every South

harvests and manifold prosperity for China hamlet loom encrouching West-the sordid of the periodic communal feasts. "Ile lives with us in memory still, and venal excrescences

the family.

balticmented towers. These militant of an Not just to-day, but always will, alien civilisation. Furthermore,

sentinels are invariably

in square The Sweetest imemory, fond and

form, strongly constructed of rein- LMOST every. village is surround- forced concrete, with walls of a foot true, the countryside is the veritable PRACTICALLY all Chinese villages are of a monotonous uniformity in Will ever remain, dear Reggle, centre of Chinese national life, appearance, and seem to be nothinged by groves of splendid conifers, or more in thickness, which are

with loopholes stately banyans and graceful bam- pierced Inserted by Mum, Dad, Alber, and, too, has been a most potent more than a solid block at dem boos, which tower in verdant majesty brasures; and the solitary entrances

factor in developing the much which, however, ure separated from

the hane above clustering thickets of ure fitted with massive doors of iron. each other by an interval of perhaps criticised and grossly mis-under three or four feet. The dwellings are guavas and pumelos, the tiny kum- In addition, many of these walch-

quats and stood national viewpoint of the in the majority of cases windowless to-foo-lak

wild raspberries, the towers are provided with acetylene or tiger thorns' (Poly-

scarchlights, whose rays may be Chinese people; for they, as a structures of greyish brick, surmount- whole, do not think in terms of ed by roots of hyacinth-coloured tiles, gonum perfoliatum) and a rank host projected into the inmost recesses of through the village and out into the circum- which on account of their soft, porous whose tangled depths

spinigerous brumbles, the nation at large, but of family, nature and the inherent dampness of ubiq

the jacent boskage.

These fortallces have been erected clan, province and above all the South China's climate, are variegated ubiquitous swine, engaged in the lel-

i a defence against bandits, natal village.

with the velutinous verdure of moss, surely task of delving for pannage. not only as a

Within this encircling boskage are but also as a preparatory mensure the upon All are built directly ground, and the absence of a founda- the paddy-flelds, periodically meta- against the ever-recurrent clan feuds morphosing from shallow pools of to which we have alluded, and do INDEED, every village, contrary to tion renders them inauntry unnoticed binck oozy mire to virent carpets of not serve as habitations except in

the usual practice of other lands, a fact which is apparently Is the abode of a single clan, or rare by the Inmates; but as such has been growing grain, which soon change times of impending danger.. Upon ly of two, who are both more or less the prevailing mode of domiciliary into a state of golden splendour, and such occasions, the towers are hastily then if tired of allusion, revert to provisioned, and the inhabitants pre- Great Britain keeps step with closely united by ties of kindred, and architecture for the past two thousut patches of starkly staring, denuded pare to pass the night in them; for

the inhabitants have no doubt the world in most things, and who thus perforce abide together fod become inured to such trivial matters stubble. The entire life of the vil- both bandit and clan raids are always is generally a pace or two ahead the sake of mutual ald, security and Billy Cotton's Orch.lof the crowd. There was a time Protection. Thus we find that the in- as etnom and dampness and Ill-ven. lake revolves around the world of conducted under the protecting vell habitants are consanguineous in re- illation. None of the dwelling ex- its rice-fields, which are apportioned of darkness. Formerly, these nuc when, like Sam the Soldier, lationship und theoretically, at least, ceeds a single storey in height, unless out in narrow strips, so that each tural forays were attended with the difice, household has sufficient space to raise village and burnton on tant dels Britain was the only one in step. of a common ancestral origin, which we mention a rare two-storey edifice, grain for its own use. There is, pro- village, with the concomitant

tends to generate like Joe Peterson. But that was long ago, when anhacity of outlook, so much so that grant, who, defying tradition and the perly speaking, noʻcommunal owner- slaughter of many of the inhabitants;

an the residence of some returned emi- Interests and on the

system: for every but, nowadays, however, clan skir- idealistic Government sought to those who reside in another hamlet, influence of geomancy, hus planned ship nor tenant

Occur, are lead the world in disarmament if they happen to be members of u his house in a more exotic style, and Inhabitant owns and tills the soil in mishes when they do

of eye-like herited from his fathers, which is usually evinced by n seasonal ex- and scrapped thousands of tons different clan, are often viewed with boasts of a collocation Ask for a complote list of Rex Records

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a sacred change of gun-fire between distrust; and unfortunately,

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in windows, which staro vacantly down looked

charge; and rarely

will a of fighting craft of glorious re- some parts of southern China in the upon the roofs of the neighbouring cats

pea- hostile villages, and the sullen dis- dispose habitations.

of his cord, and much against the will province of Kwangtung, clan feuds

Blender like of

of one another and an unwilling- holding. The interior of such dwellings is hole unless compelled to do so ness to co-operate in the develop- of people who realised that frequently occur, which are always pence was not yet permanent.

accompanied by disturbance and occas unusually plain, and would be accord by the unforeseen exigencies of Fule. ment of their portion of the Province, sionally by bloodshed.

ing to western standards-damp, Such an event, however, is justly which often manifests itself in bullies To-day, however, it is fair to

Tonally by bloodshed.

as a dire calamity; for a stationing themselves in the highway, These local feuds bear some and comfortless. Light ad- say that Britain not only keeps relation to those for scotland durims, mitted through on aperture in the family without land speedily goes to and preventing the produce of rival

Is erelong reduced to beg- step, sets the pace, or what you the several centuries before the Union roof, and this skylight or tin-tseng pot will, but keeps the open mind of the Crown; but there is little ro- (heavenly well) is furnished with a gary. Somewhat remote from the clans from being brought to market. mance about vendettas of South sort of sliding frame in which a rice-elds, but still within the pre- in matters pertaining to de- China, as the dashing chivalry of the mosaic of translucent oyster-shells is elnets of the village, are the garden-F food, the Inhabitants of southern women-folk Krow China have a great variety; for fence, which are after all wild Caledonian Border, which has atted, and so designed that by a pull patches, where the amongst the most vital con- been immortalised by Sir Walter of a rope, it may be made to slide vegetables for the family table, and their fields, in addition to providing siderations of the time. The Scott, is entirely lacking. Of course, over the opening, thus effectively for sale in the hui or market-town the omnipresent rice, supply them

nowadays the Provincial Government providing against the emergency of tinual productivity of the fields and their groves yield In season

community. Naturally, the with an abundance of vegetables: changes in the Imperial General put down any enmity between the the frequent is found the domestic is a serious drain upon fertility: but wealth of succulent tropical fruits Staff prove the Government's disaffected clans which seems pre-

this opening Is progressiveness, and the at-cursory of general bloodshed; but in well, which like the hearth in the the Chinese farmer has long since plantains, tehis, long-ans, mangoer

to offset any country cottages of England and the learned

detrimental the frugiferous plenitude of a titude of the famous soldiers,

Continent, is the centre around which effects by the constant, liberal and Chinese orchard. The herds [the veterans, who have willingly

moves the dally life

of the family, unstinted application of natural swine and flocks of fowls provide The doors of the house are

fertiliser which is assiduously collect them with flesh, which may are usually made way for younger men in cognised. The senior officer of thrown open during the day in order ed and stored in recking vats of varied by the slaughter of one of the places of chief responsibili- any unit was not necessarily the to provide both ventilation and an cement, where, it is blended with their water-buffaloes or yellow oxcE,

and excreta ty, speaks volumes for the oldest man in it, any more than increased

volumo of light; and ammoniacal

wood yet this is seldom done, unless altered spirit of the Army. he was the strongest physically, through the open portals saunter un- ashes, and allowed to ferment until animal be too old for labour in the

obtrusively the family chantie

chanticleer

felda (for did not Confucius say to Gone is the old, hide-bound, iron-And so the old order altered.

and it is ready for use. his feathered scraglio. The freedom There is, moreover, at some dis- spare the creature that draws the fast system whereby seniority It took some of Britain's of

however, to the outlying fields, largely sterile, from teem with fish, which may be caught won to command. To-day merit soldiers and sailors a long time fowls is denied, is granted to the fance from the village, a number of plough?) The rivers of the region pig, and should the latter which some Impecunious peasant by all who care to take the trouble; and ability are the first con- to recognise the potentialities in in the course of its indefatigable per- occasionally endeavours to coax a but as the Chinese are past masters siderations where promotion is the tank and the aeroplane.anibuistions poke an inquisliive snout stand of rice; but the labour of carry of the art of piseleulture, the village concerned. That is as it should But finally the prejudices were within the sacred precincts, the good ing out the buckets of necessary fer- fish-pond is well-stocked with deni- be.

overcome, and to-day the Army matron is immediately up in arms, tiliser, is, in itself, a sufficient de-'zens of the finny tribe, so that the and with many a choo-hee and oo-yo- terrent to most of the country-folk, family, who, perchance, may tire of There will be some who re-is being mechanised, tanks are

the usual pork and

vegetable member how, during the early superseding cavalry, aeroplanes - bids the unlucky Intruder to Bealdes, as in many districts a large

deport.

of proportion the male population adjuncts Its boiled rice, may on

to stages of the Great War, performing the functions of the Every house contains a parlour or has gone to the elties in search of occasion add such Lenten entremets,

plainly employment, the cultivation of the "regular" soldiers scoffed at the cruiser squadrons, to some. ex-two, and a suite of dark,

of the as would invite the gustatory appro idea of amateurs" ever dis- tent. That was another step. furnished rooms, which are employ land is left largely to the efforts of bation of an epicure. Moreover, the ed as the sleeping quarters of the the women and girls; consequently, proximity of the villages to various tinguishing themselves except The Government has even re-inmates. The parlour, or feng, as it only those fields which are the most market-towns of the countryside, in obeying orders and carrying cognised the necessity of alter-called, is alike the living room and accessible and fertile are tilled, and affords the wealthier inhabitants an out some enterprise which ing the status of the Territorials, domestic workship of the household, the terraced mountain-slopes, which opportunity to augment their larders the old Army directed. and their officers can now reach as it is the best lighted, being directly were carved out with such infinite with imported dellencies, so that on There was even some doubt the highest ranks. The Direc- whether the "undisciplined" and tor-General of the Territorial free-and-casy troops from the Army has been nominated a Dominions would stand up un-member of the Army Council. der fire. Those misconceptions Closer collaboration of all de-f Boon vanished in the bloody fence forces, Territorials, Naval welter of the Somme, the Marne,Reserve, volunteers who pursue Festubert, Passchendaele, Vimy, their own vocations and are Loos, Gallipoli, and a hundred only amateurs' in the service, is other fights where the Great the basis of the new British

Shanghai It's all very well to say that Untried, from London's East defence policy. It is sound. End and French-Canadian tim-And it will be especially appre- gossip-writer, some fair refueverything will be alright in the ber camps, from Sydney's water-ciated by the officers and men gees have had quite a birthday long run; but how long is the front and the farms of Africa, who, ns amatour soldiers and in Hongkong. We wish them long run? did as much as the Guards could sailors have endeavoured to many happy' returns. do. It was in the Great War make themselves proficient in that British generals, and the the arts of war without rc-

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that the opening of mines has been frowned upon; and thus, the inhabitants have had to depend upon the spatso fnel obtained from their denuded hiilsides, and the dries straw remaining after the ric

rice has been threshed. Yet in spite of this Should life insurance be re-defect, the people are obviously con Two burglars entered a local forred to as professional or com-ent, and as in the case of certain dis-

the continu? mercial? asks a render. We funds from Hongkong and abroad, Infiltration of British" Government, learned muneration and, all too often hotel. It is understood that thinks it's just a business. that by merit alone are battles without

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enables almost every household to enjoy a degree of luxury not possible won. Seniority has nothing to hour has struck, and they have thing.

to the peasantry of the northeni por- do with it, though there is no had a chance to show their

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