- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIC, CHM HOVED | MORE SWIFTLY, IN HER MODERN REFORMS THAN . EVEN JAPAN EVER DID. { Greater Changes Wrought in the Past Ten Years Than in Thousands of Years in her Previous History--China Has an Ancient Civilization, However. : It 1 owly, proverbial that large bodies move but China, a nation ten times the size of Japan, has moved more swiftly in her mod- ern reforms than Japan cver did. Greater changes have been wrought in ten' years than m thousands of years of her previous history. But it must not be forgotten that China has an mide nsdinnis FEF RASGLLY. angient=civilization, and . truly | great achievements of which she may rightly boast. There is glory for a people whose na- tional existence has survived the mutations of thirty-seven centugies and of a legendary period farther back, no man knows how far, mto the haze of a hoary antiquity, who are 'frugal, patient, industrious and respectful to parents (as we are not) whose astronomers made. accurate recorded observations: two hundred. years before Abraham left Ur; who used firearms at the beginning of the Chris- tian era; who first grew tea, manufactured gunpowder, made pottery, glue and gelatine; who invented printing by movable types five hundred years before the art was known in} wv liurope; who discovered the principles of the mariner's compass without which oceans could not be crossed; conceived the idea' of artificial inland waterways and dug a canal six hundred mile 5 long; who made mountain roads which, 'when new, probably equalled in engin¥ering and construction anything of the kind ever built by Romans, and who ifivented the arch to which modern architecture is greatly in- "debted. . . When M s led the Israelites through the wilderness, Chinese law and. literature exceed- ed that of Egypt. A hundred years before the north wind rippled over the harp of David, Wung Wang, an Emperor of China, compos- vd which are committed to memory it this day by evemy advanced scholar of the empire. While Homer w composing singing the 'Iliad,' China's blind minstrels were celébrating her ancient heroes, whose tombs had already been with them through nearly thirteen centuries! Her literature was developed before" Engl#nd was invaded the Norman conquerors. The Chinese in- vented fir€diims-as carly as the reign of Eng- land's first Edward, and the art of printing five hundred years before Caxton was born. [hey made paper A.D. 150, and gunpowder about the commencement of the Christian era. A thousand years ago tlre forefathers of the present Chinese sold silks to the Romans, and ed in these fabrics when the inhabitants the British Isles wore coats of blue paint] and fished in willow canoes! Her great wall| was built two hundred and twenty years be- fore Christ was born at Bethlehem, and con tains material enough to 'build a wall five or feet high around the globe. Pekin is oldest capital in the world, and has a daily newspaper which is the oldest newspaper .in the werld. Thus China has led the van of ai 'on any important. lines, classics as fully by dres of SIX ancient = eivitization and it is hard to-blrme this people for lofey admiration for their immeasurable past. As a consequence of this, however, we find ingrained inth the nature of the Chinese that pirit of servatism, that slow, easy-going, self-conter that often has taken the form of proud, stubborn resistance of al that He It is natural for a Chinese to move It is in all his salutations. As you enter, says, 'Sit slowly'; as you eat, he s, 'LLat slowly' (good advice); as you leave, he 'Walk slowly. Never be in a hurry Never do to-day what you can put off till to- morrow. What a contrast to the spirit that the West! With us, speed is every- It is becoming so to a very ridiculous 'Move quickly," 'step lively," are what everywhere. The spirit of the age n every you enter- Push!" "A missionary spent most of lis life in the Toast said that to him the most rpadlul experience that drcolypd-had on HL (STWAtChing an express (ram pass Sih It 'something doing him that CO edness, is Ww. slowly he moves thing degree. vou hear 1s written on almost door who had s that Ie exper forty was it_ have to push; an ience it enjoyed for in the 1 been said that you cannot 'hus- the old Dragon sleep of centurie at last to move | had n¢ ist. It he tle', in the E that ycars Nevertheless, lept the go and Cl has S, 18 beginning like national thing m awakenin are Among 1nmerease n ina, something lively style. | movements tariffs foreign heavy Boxer in by Chinese the ers had been import extens cheaper ratey the construction of 2,000 mm of railroad and the projecting of an additional i methods in mining the in cand reform of the currency; of the banking system, great shipping, perhaps greatest) opium. aterial in to offset manutacture the 'n customs the on , partly the of foreigt | a' oul ge postal ons on ¢ 110W growth a and, ol on in suppression very significant women in China were] and not allowed to gol the daughters of officials, | go to public ¢ schools for educa- cougtr and hun- gone to ny to study in the pub- and there, that they may stmilar in their own prov- between Manchus and unrestricted, to make Anti-footbinding so- rnied by the natives in the hundred | lions of women crippled for life. Torture] being more and more} backward civilization assisting China in or- \ foreign police system, and in.drill- the best model. A cons as been promised; and preparations made in many provinces by t municipal government. In Governntent expressed itself with the lead nations of | utare rnational ity, which, ynfucianism and | the policy was | going in for in- army and al do in movements social respectable . arc Fofninerly kept abre lusion while now, own several ges schools iermarriage now of the hay been fi SO as two set tree one Vv proviuce,to I private revenge Ss, part advis ire ol a ers are troops atter being ractice a Wily LO une n ne placing the bs ule of rsé on recipt both ( after Iden r A But soon and now China militarism, witl own. What she rtal can yet tell an will widely oduced at \m the! ered the anthors { mimute | ing 'point for | tolled this | nL coi ans -- | LORD SELKIRK'S PIONEERS. The Amount 1s Large wma WE the Occasion an Exceedingly Great One. Towards an exhibition to commemorate the founding of the Sclkirk colony in. Manitoba the people of Winniped are asking a grant of $2,500,000 from the Fedsgal Parliament. The amount is large, but the occasion is gseat. The. Selkirk 'immigration was the first our west received. Prior that incoming of sturdy Scotchmen, the prairies' were occupied by Indians and fur traders. The first really important man to recognize the value of the west was Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, Baron Daer of Short- cleugh. 'He had the phitanthropic ses of moving the cottars of his native land t6 some British colony, where, freed from the diffi- culties which surrounded them at home, they to first venture was made in the carly days of the last century, when he found homes for large numbers of people in beautiful Prince Edwdrd Island. There a fine body of men and women took up farms and laid the foundations of that fruitful province. Satisfied with this venture, Lord Selkirk, who was governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, turned attention to the west, and undertook in 1811 the settle- ment of a large area--116,000 square miles-- in the neighborhood of the present city of Winnipeg. It was a hazardous expedition. Selectihg three ships, he sent them to the north of Scotland, and togk on board a body of emigrants..- The voyage of sixty dfys was made to York Factory, on Hudson Bay. Here the colonists spent an Arctic winter, a thrill- ing introduction to the new El Dorado. In the spring the emigrants journeyed south to he promised land. Theirs was not a hopeful sight. The settlement was unbroken prairie; the "ndians were not friendly; certain of the whites were decidedly hostile because of the struggle for supremacy between the Hudson's Bay and the North-West companie The | latter company, having headquarters at Mon- the rivalry treal, mvaded Hudson's Bay Company's territory, and ensued, Lord Selkirk"s settlers being under Hudson's Bay auspices, and were, of course, viewed as enemics by the opposing company. The lattér offered every rnd | Possible obstacle and are even said to have ' i persuaded the Indians to rise against them. The settlement was raided, and some of the colonists were induced to leave the country; others were forced to move away to the north in the hope of peace. Some came east, under settled in Ontario, The colonists who had escaped to the north returned a year later, under Governor Semple, to re-establish themselves Jut the North- West Company fitted out an expedition against the colony and made a direct attack upon it, killing the governor and twenty other persons. This was followed by a second dis- persal, and the razing to the ground of every | house the had owned. Lord Sel- | kirk, learning: the situation, engaged a small { force and made for the west. On his way he | came several victims and finally corn- | of, the trouble at Fort William. These persons he sent cast for trial. Then he journeyed to the scene of the war- fare, and bringing together what was left of the colony, re-established the settlers who were still in the~west:~ The farmers thus lo 'cated Decanie the frst 'perimanent white ac- cupant$ of the territories, The pionéer settle- ment was a great struggle. It imposed hard- ships by sca, hardships in cultivating the soil, and hardships in the fight against the oppos- ing company. It was not until the North. West Company. was merged into the Hudson's Bay Company hat peace was really assured. colonists Across The Newfoundland Cable. Visitors to Manhattan Beach, New York City, were recently interested by a line of men apparently dragging from the depths the black serpent which had said to wander up and down the coast, fright- ening fishermen and bathers the shore ret SOLS It was nothing more than the New York end of the new Atlantic cable from thé British provinces, its other end being securely fastened at St John's. --The-tabte- was taid- 1,307 miles down the Atlantic bythe EER Ee EERE be NT belonging to the Telegraph Construction Company, of London, England. Tt a wide outward sweep to avoid a large num- ber dangerous~shoals. For hundred and fifty miles it lies at a depth of . 3,000 fathoms, in 18,000 feet of It 1s six inches diameter shore ends, and sixteen tons to the mile. Farther sca 1t only an inch in diameter making the last messages were the steel New York to at the rate words per It worked the officials satisfied that it will prove a most im and serviceable link in the world's The cable steamer will to a point 270 miles cast of Newfoundland, where the transatlantic cable was tapped, to take in 0 miles of cable to Nova Scotia, no longer required, as Canso will not be used as a land- the cable company's lines z Literary Treasure House. The Book the Dead i remarkable literary relic of ancient Egypt, 'of uncertain date and origin, but known before the kings of the first dynasty. Probably the col- lected work of many minds in different ages, it was regarded as the of the god Thoth and therefore of divine autliority, dealing mainly with the dead and their future state Some of 'its, texts, prayers, hymns and ritual used by the predynastic priests, and parts of the book date from forty centuries before the Christian era. «Copies of it placed in the tombs, and texts from it inscribed on coffins to preserve the dead from dangers and to direct them to the boat of Ra on their way to the hall of Osiris, which was the goal desired. The oldest existing Papyrus copy of the book was written for "Nu, the son of the overseer of the house of the over seer of the Amenhetep and of the lady of the house and probably belongs to the early cighteenth dyuasty. great bell of St. Paul's, London, is only at the death and funeral of a | tiember of the royal family, the archbishop { of 'Canterbury, the bishop of London, the dean of St. Paul's and the lord mayor should | he dic during his mayoralty. Only the clapper and not the bell is moved when it is tolled, The New York summer tent campaign has had meetings per weck--for English, Italians, - Germans, Bohemians, Finns, Hun- garians, Poles, Jews and negroes--in fifteen | shops, five halls, and at seven places in the | open. Besides 'these there are rallies for f (dk Mor mothers near long, sea been t at Fast onia, was given of one or water in at the weighs over out After sent St. J] at 18 spli from fifty and ce wires ot well, over n's, were portant systems go of & well work were were were scal Scenseneb" part of the The muety Feontd-gradustipenepireindependenogm. bis. the auspices of the North-West Company, and | in CHURCH PEOPLE SMILE ALSO: At-Good Things Tald About Clergymen and | Their Members. An elder of a certain church thinks things are only half done or not well started in which He has no voices At a prayer meeting he bffered thanks, with proper dignity and in a loud voice: "O Lord, we thank thee for bringing our pastor safe home, and his dear wife, too 0 Lord, for Thou prescrvest man and beast," The "dear wife" has made a change in her visiting list. since then. The last chicken had gone to roost, /all was still in the barn and yard. The evening lamp wis burning; none too brightly in the sitting- room of the old farmhouse, Looking up from his magazine the farmer said vehemently 'to his wife: "Do you know what I'd have done pobdhade-boan. -Mapoleanii. a "Yes," he answered. "You'd have seitted | down in Corsica and spént your life grumb- ling about bad luck and hard times." SE -- t An Episcopal minister, who had recently moved to a small town, in the Pennsylvania coal regions, passed two youngsters on the street. p "Good morning, Father," misled by the clerical garb. : "Don't you know nutt'n?" said the other, contemptucusly, when the minister was past. "Dat guy ain't no father. Why, he's married an' gotxwo kids!" said one of them, Recipe for- raising baby, by .a Kansas editor who has done it: "The way to keep the jewel will be to keep it cool, well cared for in a room with plenty of fresh air and not handled and churned around as if you were trying to shake a nickle out of a savings box." a "Clergymen usually Jack the shrewd busi ness instinct. "1 shouM- say so. Look.at the: way they fight divoree, when it gives them a chance to double reds income by remarriages. Curate--Well, Mrs. Jones are you coming to the temperance meeting in the parish hall this evening? Mrs. Jones (suffering from afraid not, sir. 1 'as to do night to keep down my obscenity. Quite recently a young girl, aged ten, was told to write a short cssay on "A tainy-day." Her effort was: "A rainy day is very miser- able. It is like a long sermon in chapel, but It 1S necessary. o obesity)--1'm exercise every The Man--Why don't you go ta Sunday- school any more? The Boy--Aw! nic a'ready? didn't have dey're pic dey Sunday ol want to be an angel." louder, Bobby?" "I'm feel," explained Bobby was singing "I don't you sing as loud as 1 . class "Why singing sch The The Duty of Being Beautiful. Caleb Cobweb. Lots of people get so discouraged about their looks that they stop trying. We have TEN to contend with; -we- unhandsonie folks. Muddy complexions, Scardpaper- skins, grook- ed noses, fishy eyes, rope hair. Why, to talk to us about the duty of being beautiful seems the height of sarcasm. And yet everyone onght to be beautiful--not that every onc look as well as he or she can--that begs the question. Every ought to look lovely. I do not mean beauty of soul. 1 mean eye- beauty, the fascination that claims the ad- mirer. Tf you make a study of personal at traction--and every one should make that a study--you will find the secret within the reach of every one Soc rates had it, and he had the reverse of natural beauty. Spurgeon had it, though. nature quite passed him by when dealing out her features of comeliness. Some of the most famous belles of the world's history have begun with a very scanty supply of physical charms -- Grace of motion within the reach of alt -buteripptes--Askin--radiahi "with clean hpisagoy EEN d ibility =A form elo- quent with Tall mE lines of grace may be had by Jack Spratt as well as Apollo and by Susy Griggs as well as Venus.' Proper food properly eaten, lots of sleep and outdoor exercise, and soap and water sagely applied, will give red lips, pink- cheeks, and flashing eyes to almost \ great nt of the acquiescence in purc laziness or crass .ignor- one 1S and-white any homeliness one. ance But directly sound hody Conscience than that--soul acts upon "body A sound mine creates around it a body and a beautiful mind a beautiful Inner purity comes to shine outw ardly. is a genuine cosmetic and unsel- fish service a literal beauty parlor. You will believe it, if you investigate. Best of all, yon may prove it in yourself. more No Divorce For Bright Lives. T4ie object of the novelist is not necessarily to teach religion any more than it is the ob- ject of the writer on history or travel, says Rew J. Patterson Smyth, in the Canadian Magazine. His object is to interest and amuse, to hold the mirror up. to nature and picture the ordinary interesting throbbing life. of humanity. Interest and amusement and sympathetic watching of human life is not too low purpose for a religious man. In this world of tired, dull people it is part of God's will that we should be amused and refreshed. With the sympathetic nature God has given us it is only natural that we should be interested in the pictures of life as it lived. It God life ious a a great mistake to try to divorce from the many innocent things which make happier. It is a great mistake for relig people to deny that ordinary human nature strongly feels, that other things be sides morality and religion aré good and ac- cording to the will of God who made human To say this does not make less of Religion. iis like God's: sun in the heavens. It should shine on and irradiate all the good things of life and make them better But other good things too. The romping of merry children is a good thing. The eager anthition in business is good thing. Art and¥poetry and painting are good things. A splendid ¢xciting drama is a good thing. And stirring high-class novel is a good thing.. 1S nature religion gs these arc \ mts sarees. size than onc churches for its It has ca churches and besides Exeter has more other town in England. thirty-four Anglican Nonconformist churches, n Cathodic chape! any thedral, seventeen the Roma i$ SHER "narra izpihic J THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 10 09 ~ WORLD'S-OLDEST- REGIMENT. Garrison Duty. The oldest regiment, thé famous Royal Scots or. "Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard'--has returned to garrison duty in, Edinburgh, its hometown, after years of semvice in the far parts of the empire. This ogee iu § fight- ing force traces direct descent from those companies of bold and adventurous Scots in- fantry who went in 1590 to France to assist Henry VI in his wars with the Leaguers. Their services were retained by the Kings of France until thé various companies were in 1633 formed into a regiment and the command given to Sir Jot Hipbumn, a cadet of an old Lothian family & regiment was called Td Regiment d'Hebrom, the nearest French pro- nunciation of Hepburn. In 1635 was amalgamated with the corps [the remains of The WELKHOWn Green Drigade from the Swedish service, composed of Hep- burn's, MucKay's, Lumsden's and Stargate's regiments, which had served under the Lion of the North, Gustavus Adolphus. Colonel Robert Munro was appointed second in com- mand in the regiment, which consisted of 154 officers and 8,162 men. The King of France gave it precedence over all others in the service, and thus the sobriquet of Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard was acquired. The French regiments, cspecially that of Picardy, were jealous of this precedcuce, and while the point was in dispute, a Picardy officer remarked: "1 suppose you will next claim you have beén on duty at the crucifixion." "No, sir," replied an officer of Hepburn's, "for had we been on duty at the sepulchre the holy body would never had left it." This was a particularly sarcastic retort, for the sentinels of the Pi cardy regiment had committed the serious military offence of sleeping at their posts. The Hepburn regiment served dufing the campaign of 1635 with the French army in Germany, and its retreat was placed in the position of danger as rear guard, admip- ably acquitting itself by turning and inflicting a heavy defeat on the Imperialists near Metz. In 1636 at the Seige of Saverne, a town in Alsace, the regiment lost its first colonel; Volunteering to examine the breach after the third assault, Hepburn, with his usual tewer- ity, approached too close receiving a musket ball in the neck, and died, as he would have wished, amid the strife, among his trusted fellow-countrymen. The bdrial took place in the magnificent old cathedral at Touk in French Lourraine. Many years afterwards a noble monument was erected above the grave by Louis XIV, bearing an epitaph to the worth of one "who so deservedly Jus deempd the best soldier in Christendom {and conse quently in the world." Duriirg the English civil war the kept as far possible from lest Charles I should apply for its In 1652 it served under Turrene against rebel Conde, and took part in fighting in the streets of Paris move was to the Netherlands, in skirmish Colonel Lord lost his life and succeeded to the eley by his brother, Lord Geo, Douglas, creat- ed Earl of Dumbarton in 1673. Next the treaty between Louis and Cromwell caused the exiled Charles to side with Spain and Fthe-wily. Louis. removed the Douglas and the other Seots: carps to. remote garrisons: 1660-61 the restoration having taken place, Charles IT disbanded the old Commonwealth army, but owing to the rising of the Fifth Monarchy men. he sent to France for the Douglas regiment, which reqtiest the French monarchy, being at peace, was unable to re- fuse. Two hundred and twenty-three years have elapsed since thie Second Battalion first called its muster roll in Scotland, at Leith, 1686, and more than three hundred years singe. those companies of adventurous Scots sed. forth from their native land, in 1590, to seek fame and fortune on the Bittle fields of Europe. on regiment England return. the barricade Its next wliere, in 1655 James Douglas was as a was colon Old and New Japan. Rev. Arthur Lea A cartoon, called in Japanese Manga Potichi-e, (Punch picture) appeared in the Jiji Shipo, the leading Jail y "of Fekuion 1 2 . oskinja to Bukkyo Shinja" ee Boddtisgvabelicyery be- Of (Jesus De and they mats and they On the left of the picture is a preacher congregation of aged people sitting as have sat for thousand years, on the of the temple. Their attitude, clothing mode of their hair show that have remained uninfluenced during the cra of enlightenment. During the sérmon they sit passively (almost abjectly) unless some re- ference becomes the signal for the repetition of their formula Namu Amida Butsu (Save, O Eternal Buddha!) as they bow themselves down The picture expresses well the attitude of mund characteristic of Buddhism. The pic- ture on the right presents a striking contrast The congregation consists of young people who sit erect. They are smartly dressed in modern style and their attitude suggests ex- pectancy and hope. The preacher energy and conviction. The picture represents the general feeling of thinking men in Japan. The Buddhists have recognized the facts and have adopted en bloc the methods of the Christian Church Organizations have been established for young people, children and women; special missions are held; philanthropic work has been taken up zealously and even the sermons. have often a Christian ring. Shin-Bukkyo (New Buddh ism) is familiar word in Japan. Whether this activity will mean a new lease of life for Japanese Buddhism remains to be seen, but cartoon voices the: popular opinion that Buddhism will cease to be a force in the re- ligious life of Japan with the passtng of this generation While the Christian worker, a wearing w shows y cartoon gives satisfaction to the | with Christianity .appealing | 'to the rising generation in Japan, it portrays the chugch's characteristic weakness. Clhiris- tianity is not yet the religion of the family The congregations in Tokyo comsist almost | eutirely of young people, and this is more or | less characteristic of the churches throughout Japan. Many churches fail to become pro perly founded because the members are chiefly students who are cor ually moxing else where. © Evidently Christiay musg exert it- self to Yeach tlic heads of falnilies and mani- fest itself in the corporate life of the poe. 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