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Life is pretty humdrum in Foochow as a rule and it takes a good deal to wake the residents of this sleepy hollow out of the lethargy and Jangour born of decay of trade. There is too much of the dangerous comfort of an old pair of slippers in a place which has become too large for its work. People expand too easily to shoot ahead. But Foochow has been agog for the last week or so at any rate. And not only the foreign, but the native element watched with considerable interest the rise of a skeletonian structure on the vacant space in front of the Club, surrounding a sort of Eiffel Tower in the middle. Rumour said there were to be decorations and fireworks and general junketings on the Jubilee Day. And rumour was right. The morning of the 22nd broke gloomy and threatening, and there was much shaking of heads among the weather wise, although the glass showed susing tendency. However, the rain held up all day and though the original programme had to be modified to suit certain local and temporal conditions yet the change was not great enough to seriously R. Cecil Phillippo Albert Croad. D.C. Campbell May A. Getley Nils Erie nol Kennard Datis john B. Sinn
Tohn Stenhouse. 'A. P. Clemens 2} interfere with anyone's enjoyment of what 13 turned out a very jolly day.
Early in the morning of Tuesday the 13.39 energetic sub-committee upon whom 10 devolved the decorations were hard at work putting up bunting in the Club 10] reading-room, hanging lanterns all round 10] the building, and' the structure raised 10) for them, "dressing the great poles and masts with greenery and flags, and in Rogers. fact doing the thousand-and-one odd Leveson things which committee-men do on such J.8. Bruce. occasions to make other people enjoy Josephine Patterson. themselves. By noon, and in fact before Alfred H. Harris 10.00 that, for the first. item in the day's pro-A.J. Jackson 10.00 gramme was fixed for twelve o'clock, all W. Lamond, Jo.
10.00 Was in tip-top order and the effect of' the S.R Gale A. MeKelvie H.C. Davis W. Whitfield, F. Larkins T. S. Morton.
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J. 8. Naze Crone aren ener orerenererororer "altogether " (pace Trilby) was really very fine. There was plenty of bunting, and anyone who knows Foochow knows there is no lack of greenery at this season of the year.
Twelve o'clock was the hour appointed to assemble by the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Carles, the British Consul and his wife, in their compound to witness the ceremonial planting of @ fine young cam: por tree, to be hereafter known asthe Ju-Chinese near the Club was almost impasse lee tree.—before noon the crowd of H. Kenneth able, but it wasan exceedingly well-behaved A. G. Merrilees. crowd, that opened a lane as quickly as Wilson possible to let any foreigner through. D. Macfarlane And here it may be well to mention that Marco Goldstein the dense mass of natives, estimated by Thomas Mitchell some at forty thousand, but certainly not J.C. late G. H.
Jess than ten thousand, behaved admirably W. B. Walter the whole day and night. Scarcely a. Leong C. shrub was damaged, though of course the grass was much trodden down, in fact had, 'T. Mellows 38 to a great extent, disappeared before the James Eveleigh. morning of the twenty-third in the more John Burtensha exposed spots.
C. H. Bourn noon all the foreign residents in the J. H. May. lace, including the Consuls for Russia, ledged in previous list. rance, and Germany, in uniform and decorations, and the Consul for the United States in his plain black frock coat,.and "For me Brooo is Tae Lire."—If the the Commissioner of Customs also in blood is laden with impurities it spreads uniform, had assembled in the Consulate disease as it circulates through the organs of compound. Many ladies were there too the human body—Lungs, Heart, Stomach, who had donned their pretty frocks in spite Kidneys. Brain. Clarke's World-famed of the dull lowering sky. Among the Blood Mixture is warranted to cleanse the guests were the captain of, and. several officers from, H.M.S. Archer, which sent up blood from all impurities from whatever cause a detachment of sailors who did yeoman arising. For Scrofula, Scurvy, Eczema, Bad service in keeping open roads, dressing Legs, Skin and Blood Diseases, Pimples, and masts with flags, and doing the hundred-Sores of all kinds its effects are marvellous. and-one little things that the sailor, and Thousands of wonderful cures have been only the sailor, knows how to do so well. The Archer's band also had been lent for the effected by it, Sold everywhere at 2s. 9d, day else had we had no music.
Beware of worthless imitations and sub-Just upon noon a move was made to the stitutes. spot where the tree was to be planted, a
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