April 16, 1906.]
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CHINA ÓVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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is confirmatory of their ideas. They say that if I ventured to express the wish that there were; for the formation of individual oharacter, the the river leaves its bed by a breach in the left a little more sociability and friendliness between control of families and national government. bank east of the Grand Canal, it will take up a the missionaries of the Catholic and Protestant | This is the desire and intention of the Court in course parallel to the present one and not far Churches in China. I noticed in the same issue encouraging education and it must be fulfilled. from it, i,s., somewhere about the T'u-haie-ho. of the N.-C. Herald, which contained that The President and vice-President of the Board This is practically certain, as this is a neigh-lefter, that some correspondent signing himself must set an example to their subordinates and bourhood where a slope towards the ses exists "Y. Z." spoke of those who advocated such of about 1 foot in a mile. They further sy
must act in accordance with their professions social intercourse, as engaged in describing a that if the river leaves its bed by a breach in circular triangle. Really, Mr. Editor, my be given and a strict supervision of education aud instructions. Proper encouragement must the right bank in Honan, it will usurp the experience of the Catholic Church and her must be made. They must take into serious course of the Huai-ho, and pour into the ses priests in China must be very, very different to consideration the critical condition of the as before 1852: also that there is no danger to that of other missionaries. And one wonders country, and this is our sincere hops, and let all the Yangtare, notwithstanding that a consider when in China we are going to secure two other points be as proposed." able volume entered that river as a result of the things-First, when will these awful massacres 1887 breach. This seems plain enough, as also of missionaries be finally repressed by the that if the right bank in Shangtung breaks Chinese Government? and secondly (sad of west of the Grand Canal, the water will flow equal importance almost), when shall "all men south parallel to the Canal and flad its exit know that ye are My disciples, when ye have also at the 1852 mouth. They further say that love one to another?" One wonders how we if the left bank breaks west of the Grand Canal, are going to manage when we get to Heaven the flood waters will go to Tientsin. But why (those of us who manage to get there); for of a more now than in 1852 ? In that year the flood surety we shall have to meet some of our waters broke through the Grand Canal, and, Catholic friends in "that blast abode." To be once having done that, found the Ta-oh'ing-bo's | sociable with men who belong to another section bed ready prepared to conduct them to the sea, of the One church is to talk of "a circular It may be that in 1852 the Grand Canal, where| triangle!" I wonder if our friend " Y.Z." the flood struck it, was but little elevated above has ever been on terms of sociability with men the plain and offered but small resistance to who make no profession of religion at all. the flood, guided thither perhaps by an ancient and if so, why should he debar those who wish it "high." Moreover, we know that immediately from being on good terms with other foreigners on the other side of the Canal was a flood (most of them real, genuinely pious men, who opening to the Ta-ching-ho. Anyhow, it is happen to live and work in the same city or certain that with the rise of the bed of the town of "the heathen Chinee?" I am serious Yellow River the bed and banks of the Grand in this matter, Mr. Elitor, for I am persuaded Canal in the immediate neighbourhood must that the lack of social intercourse, the “ stand have similarly been raised, and therefore the offishness "that maay Protestant missionaries
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Canal offers now a much greater resistance to a flow of waters from the west than it did 50 years ago. As to ancient beds, it seems certain, too, that none of these are as high as the banks of the Canal, and that therefore, as the Chinese say, the only course for the waters will be northward. In its flow northward it would find the more or less elevated bed of the Wei-ho in its way, and it would then become a question whether it would break through the Wei-ho or throngh the Grand Canal, or both. If it broke through the Grand Canal at Lin-obʻing-chou, there is the possibility, or even probability, that the water would run east-north-east to the sea, taking the water of the Wei-ho as well. If, on the other hand, the waters crossed the Wei-ho, there is nothing to prevent their northward flow until they reach Tientsin and escape to the sea by
the Peiho.
CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA.
BIBLES TOO CHEAP:
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PROTESTANT MISSION- ABIES TOO STAND-OFFISH."
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A missionary correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News at Yungp'ingfu, Chibli, writes:- The new ten-cash pieces which are now the common ourrency of this part of Chihli, have proved a source of temptation to some of the business houses, and I venture here to mention it that missionaries in other districts who are interested in the sale of the Holy Scriptures may be put on their guard. I found a week or two ago that our copies of the Scriptures were being surreptitiously bought from oolporteurs on the streets, and then used to wrap up the copper coins, much in the same way that dollars are wrapped up in the foreign banks. The reason for this is, that Scriptures are sold much too cheaply; cheaper indeed than the commonest paper that can be purchased in Chins, and it seems that the Bible Societies should agree together to raise the price somewhat. Better smaller sales than wilful destruction of the Book. On discovering that one firm wBS so using our books, your correspondent was preparing to report the case 10 Tientsin, but on receiving a written apology and an undertaking not to repeat the offence the matter was closed. In addition the firm concerned, as an evidence of contrition, them selves contributed the sum of $40 to the Government Boys' School recently started by the officials in the city. In the settlement of this se, it is a pleasure to add that we are indebted great measure to the Roman Catholic bishop. hom the offending business house appealed. da me to hark back to my last N-0, Daily News. In that
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consider the right thing in this land, is at the back of most of the trouble between Catholic and Protestant churches, and that it is this “which gives occasion for the enemy to blaspheme."
PEKING VIEW OF FOREIGN .
EDUCATION.
happen to concern foreign relations, are often Chinese Imperial Edicts, especially when they involved and subtle. Careful reading of the subjoined translation of an edict issued on backhanded slap at "foreign learning" and March 25th is needed to show that it is really a foreign religions. It will be understood quite
well by those for whom it is intended.
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"We have received a memorial from the Board of Education requesting that the prin- ciples of education may be made known to the empire. In olden times schools of all grades were to instruct the people to understand the tive relationships, and virtue, the arts, good government and doctrines of life are all from education. Both in the West and East education is esteemed as one of the main essentials of life, and study is universally prosecuted; this is a and West alike. The Court is deeply interested principle which lays a moral obligation on Est
extension education, and a special Board the encouragement and established for this purpose.
has been The principle must be taught to understand the aim of must therefore be made known, and the people education, so that all may be induced to follow the same course and observe the five principles of loyalty to the Throne, honour to Confucius, integrity, militarism, and the actual execution of duty. In general the ruler and the one and love people must be united as their country. The right education, which is the study of essential and not things, must give support to the religion which must strengthen and support the empire. If everyone is actuated by the same spirit, then the results will be manifested, and if everyone has the true military spirit the country can become powerful. Should attention be paid to agriculture and commerce nothing will be wasted in the land and everything will be turned to account, and all those things should be done for the good of the country and the people, so that the natural customs of the people may become upright, when there are no need to feel anxiety at the country's lack of many talented men being trained there will be advancement, Let the Board issue all the points they suggest both to the students and teachers of the shools in the pro- vinces. They must establish good prin- ciples and make clear the source of education and that education is not merely a step to self- advancement. Education must be made the rule
useless
burned out at Shanghai on April 4th. It was A row of Chinese shops and a theatre were
for some time. one of the most destructive fires experienced
Information reached Hongkong on April 11 that the steamer M. Struve, for which Mosers, Si masen and Co. are the local agenta, which struck on a rock near Ooksen Island, betwean Amoy and Foochow, has become a total wreck.
The German steamer Decima, wrecked off Hioan Island, was on the 11th April offered for sil by Mr. G. P. Lammert, auctioneer, at down to Mr. Sui Hing for $225, who slao the sale rooms, Daddell Street, and was knooked purchased the 1,000 tons of coal in her for $25.
the Chinese community of Singapore was held A meeting of a large and influential section of at the Tung Chỉ I Yuen (Chinese "Hospital) on March 31st and a resolution was unanimously
adopted to form a Chinese Chamber of Com- its members the benefits of such an institution. merce a Singapore with the object of affording
It is stated that H.E. Shông Kung-pao. has propose a scheme to the Chinese Throne in which it is suggested that a large loan, or several loans from foreign countries, be made, and the proceeds be devoted entirely to the redemption of railways now under control, or pledged to foreigners. The proposal, we understand, has been turned over to H.E. Tang Shao-yi, Vise- President of the Waiwapa, for decision.
It is stated in Shanghái "mandarin circles · that a large Naval Academy is'to be established BOOD at Woosung, as a training school for cadets of the combined Peiyang and Nanyang squadrons. As to the organising of a sea-going era 'sers, commensurate in number to the dignity fleet composed of battleships and armoured of the Empire, the question has had to be deferred for the time being owing to the want
of adequate funds.
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A public library, known as the Teikoku Zushokwan, has been opened in Tokyo. --This- library was first designed to memorial of Japan's victories in the war with China, remarks the Japan Mail, but its con- to-day that it can be opened and even now it is struction has proceeded so slowly that it is only
by no means complete. The main building is four stories high and the building set apart for the storing of books nine stories high. The sost of Nippon says the Library will now serve an a the structure is stated to be $20,000 yen. Tha memorial of two great wars. Compared with the magnificent libraries of the West, it seems to the Nippon very insignificant, but Japan is only just beginning to feel the value of auch institutions as publio libraries.
The Hankow Daily News of March Slat reports: What threatened to be a serious, ziat took place in the British concession yesterday when the tea factory ocolies belonging to Messrs. Molobauoff, Pechatnoff & Co. and these engaged in the factories situated in the Russian concession had a hand-to-hand tight in the Fau Cheong road. The difference of opinion seems to have been a question of waren "The British concession coolies had arranged/and settled an agreement in regard to their pay and were going on with their work, but the others had not. The mob marched from the Busin concession to the British and demanded th Messrs. Molchanoff's men should come out However, there was more noise and obin-wags strike. As they refused, the, row than actual fighting until some Europos crowd. a Sikh policeman intacfared and dispers
The policeman, we believe some cuts about the head. nothing serious.. As far on the Russian resumed work
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