: THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ( | One of the smaller and yet quite significant points in the Treaty of Peace was the disposition of the Ger- man interests or rights in China. On ore than one occasion the German mpire had used a trival matter asa pretext to extort from China some territorial or commercial concession. hen the Great War broke out Ja- sided with the Entente, and pro- ded to capture what the Germans essed on the mainland of the Binese Empire. In the settlement of many conflicting Interests and de- mands, Japan was given the German Boldings in the Province of Shan- tung, with all the rights and privile- #98 which that nation had ceded to Germany. -------- i Birthplace Of Confiicius. At the foot of the imposing Tai, in Western Shantung, the thrice blessed hanes of Confucius have rested these r thousand years. Westward from its mountain retreat the spirit of the he to the mind of the de- vout Ohinese far distant from the lowed spot--has viewed the wide- Spread land which after many years the Chinese were compelled to give Wp. Dut mot many miles from the ernal hills, wild but peaceful in 8ir solitude, comes the echo and Babel of international strife. This been ever since Germany exacted thik "a discipline of consequence" for thé livés of the two German mission- aties who were killed by a Boxer mob iff 1897. No martyrs were ever more terly avenged, for there close by sacred spot where the head of Chinese religion rests, the Ger- built a great city, and its Teu- pu inhabitants took good care to in- it the natives. At Kisochau, the Germans spared 8 eipense, but saw to it that every- ifing used was 'made in Germany." § Tsingtau they made a great naval SANA | Ee batteries Moltke and Bismark guard- ed the harbor. Three thousands of German marines were always kept there, and in summer many battle- ships. The Chinese are the oldest living nation in the world; and of all the human family her people have the longest story. They have probably in- vented and originated more than any other people whose history we have read. The people called Chinese are a composite race formed of a hund- red tribes and nobody knows whence or how the first settler came to 'China. They are at present a frugal, tem- perate, laborious people, who are in- variably honest, Rich Province. Shantung is one of the richest and most beautiful provinces of the Chi- nese Empire, a portion of which con- Bists of a mountainous promontory one hundred miles wide which pro- jects eastward into the Yellow Sea for nearly two hundred miles. The province has an area of 55,970square miles and a population of over 32, i 0 LAH 1 IN i commercial port, and the grand To After 30 years 4 TWIND © va \ > Na PAN ) 000,000. Owing to the fact that it was the birthplace of both Confucius and Mencius it has played an import- ant part in the history of the country. Neither the Christian religion nor our system of education has made very much progress in Shantung. One missionary of the Christian religion declared that a Chinaman and an ele- phant were alike. They would do what you wanted them to do when they fully understood it. "Now," he said, "there are some things in the Christian religion that one cannot ex- plain, and it must be taken on faith. Here is where the difficulty with the Chinaman comes in. Hé wants to know." : Besides the Christian religion in- troduced by the Jesuits in the Sixth Century, and by missionaries many years later, thay have Confucianism, Buddhism, Taolsm and Mohamme- danism. Confucianism has enjoyed state pa~ tronage and protection for more than 2,100 years, and is perhaps the most popular. Enormous numbers of the adult population cannot read orwrite. The reform in education is just now occupying the minds of the educated if ine university. people of the nation. Hundreds of men and women have beén sent to different parts of the world to receive finishing courses, and Peking has a Shantung has a few schools, mainly those taught by mis. sionaries, so life goes on there much in the old-fashioned Chinese way, al- though all parts of China are waking up, and those who saw China twenty years ago and see it today find a dif- ferent China. Ancestor Worship. Ancestor worship still exists and as Haere he ee resp TCH" Timor die this is one of the teachings of Con- fuctus, Shantung so near his grave is perhaps one of the places to see it at its best. Every Chinese house- hold has within its doors an ances tral hall, a shrine in which are de- posited the tablets. of the deceased ancestors. Every clan has also an ancestral temple which forms a rally- ing point for {ts members who come to join in the ritual as new shrines are to he set up. = These tablets are slips of wood about ome foot high and three inches wide, placed up- right on a pedestal, and having in- scribed on each side the name, rank, date of birth and death. They re- mind one of a tombstone kept in a home instead of being placed at a grave, After the consecration of the tablet a dinner is spread for the dead. Then money and clothing are set out . 'These are left on the table for several days. The eldest son is compelled to go through an elaborate ceremony in carrying food Just One Application and the Hairs Vanish (Modes of Today) A harmless, -yét very effective, treatment is hére given for the guick removal of hairy growth¥: Mix en- ough powdered delatone and water to cover the undesirable hairs, apply paste and after 2 or 3 minutes re- move, wash the skin and the hairs have vanished. One application us- ually is sufficient, but to be certain of results, buy the delatone in an original package, SHRNT{NG and wine to the burial place for sev- eral days, and to say prayers before the tablet when he returns home. For Kents reason the Chinese are anxious to have a son. If there is no son and no one to perform the ceremony, the ghost, hungry and ill-clothed, is destined to wander about the earth. They are especially particular in the obseryince of ceremony and ha 8 set etignette. For instance, the first thing one man does upon meet- ing another is to ask what each mem- ber of the family is doing, his age, his full name, and if he is married, his wife's name, and whether they have any sons (for it seems that girls do not count). After that they talk about anything they like. Flower Lovers, They love flowers-and eNory Chi- nese gardem is filled with flower beds and the women always wear flowers In their hair. All along the Grand Canal, which runs through the whole province of Shantung, there are raws of flowers. Agriculture flourishes there, as cotton, wheat, in- digo, maize, fruits and vegetables of all kinds are raised Silk is the most important product of the pro- vince, and pongee and brocaded silk are shipped in large quantities. The care of the silk worms is left to the women, who take the best care of them, cultivating the mulberry trees and feeding them the white, delicate Teaves. Shantung is especialy rich in min- erals, such as fron and copper, and there are four great coal fields. These minerals are of special use to Japan when she wishes to increase her ar- mament The waters teem with fish, and the fishing junks are a particularly in- teresting sight at sundown as they lay out in the waters. The fauna include small animals such .as badg- Jlreeldoere ers, wolves, foxes and several species of poisonous snakes. Among the birds are the queer Manchmen Cranes, wild ducks and turkeys. 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Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. out our entire stock of ' has not felt its duty to aid. There are many beautiful pagodas' in Shantung towns and efttes, bufit to perpetuate the memory of some distinguished man or woman. They are usually octagon fn shape, eight stories high, each story being nearly thirty feet, and surmounted by a8 glided ball fixed to the top with an fron bar. Besides pagodas there a¥e great temples wholly unlike those found in Japan, but quite as beauti- ful. When one becomes thoroughly ac- quainted with the Chinese people, one finds that they have some excel. lent qualities and seem ready to fal- low the Golden Rule. % We have been told that the COhi- nese have no national feeling, no pa- triotism. This may have heen true once, but it is no longer true. The Chinese to-day are fervid patriots, = -------- Recently the campers at Hillerest serenaded Mr. and Mrs. F. Rixon, Trenton, it being the fifteenth anni- versary of their marriage, and pre- sented them with two camp chairs and a camp lamp. Capt. Brooks of Toronto made the address. A pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr, and Mrs, Herbert Hop~ kins, Smith's Falls, on Wednesday when their only daughter, Mae, was united in marriage to Charles Ernest Trueman, Smith's Falls. John B. McDonald, former resident of Bancroft died Thursday fn Thur. low, He was a native of Murray town- ship and was a carpenter by oceupa- tion. Miss Helena G. Raitt, who recent. ly resigned her position as teacher of moderns in the Armprior high school, has acc, ted a similar posi- tion on the staff of the Perth collegi- ate institute. . Sweeping vH%aneys {i a business that soots any man. business in Kingston we are closing