This accursed scheme for raising money seems now to be in full operation, and there is little doubt that pressure is being brought to bear on the well-to-do to purchase tickets. In the Kuangehi Hsien, of which this town is the trading centre, tickets \o the value of 6,000 strings ut cash have been placed with the Hsien Mandarin, The public ix informed that of the proceeds 3,000 strings will b divided Amongst the winning numbers, and 3,000 go to the State. But Iam told by one who ought to know, that the first. prize of 1,60 strings will also yo tu the State and in its button will be given to the winner, on earth will be the use of that button to the ordinary Chinese?
The coolest thing I lave heard in this connection 1s that a Mundavin in these parts has sent one of his secretaries to call on the local missionary and ask him whether he could help the State by telling the Christians tw purchase tickets! The teler is to pay extra customs duty in under to help to repay the indemnity to his own country, and now the missionary 1s to become lottery agent! hat secretary got sri exposition of the intimate relation between lotteries and gambling, and a clear statement of tue abhorrence in which such methods of raising money are held in England that must have started him, Is China Civilised Some books talk about the discovery of gunpowder and printing and the invention of banknotes as proofs that she is, but the everyday life of the people shows that she is not. Txke two cases that have come under notice this mouth. A nice, open young man caked on we at one of our chapels to see whether I could ind him in obtaining redress against his clan. His father hind been a sort of treasurer of the clan monies and had misapplied them. There had Leen " row and it had ended in the clan rowdies cutting off his toes, piercing his cheeks, digging out his eyes and finally stabbing him to death. Ihave had reliable proof that all this was done. Now his son is trying to get redress from tie clan, but he cannot manage it. It is a terrible case, ove that rouses all one's desire to right the wrong, bat our tute is fixed, and [had to tell him that such matters were not in the province of the Church.
The other was a case at Ch'ichou. It is the talk of the town and I do not think that I have an exaggerated account. The local agent of a steamer line is a notorious
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