Koupangtzu'is the station on the Chinese Imperial Railay nearest Rnangning. which districts; or'should be, supplied thiero'r was $0" supplied Guring fic Rus cceupstion:: There was sri attempt then, and likin was callecte: on even' British goods, Int our vigilant Consul, Mr. Hosie, had x word "6 sey and the likin passed away and left net x rack behind," Now there are Three Likin Stations flourishing in that one spot. and an gentleman without much means but a general desire ta improve hour is endearoaring to serve conn by inventing some good reason 7 another (and yet, Chinese are supposed to he de ficient in patriotism). The result is that the country is safe from goods being poured in by that line, and the railway is saved from too large dividends and when one railway is so. others needed cannot be made.
How then—what happens no, not so bad as that! the inter is cold, and some clothing must he worn, but we pretty well let foreign cloth alone, and wear home manufactures, but we are clever people, and we have found' "there are no ways like the old ways" even though they are long, and_ winding, and Tutty; so we use them. We are in dependent of railways now (as the railway returns may show), but our carts and sturdy coolies traverse the way between Kuangning and the distant port, and wi leave the' railway and likin people high and dry, for the likin is sometimes fourfold and always "double the charges for road cartage.° "At'a'stroke we thus so railway charges and half-1i then is'there for railways? "All hail the worthy executioners (by strangulation) of trade! All hail the likin colleeto:
"For men may come; and men But we go on for ever."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.