To China: cloths. ai flour. 1903...12,485,826 1,076,264 268,319 1904... 3,260,169 4,011,181 249,414 To Hongkong 1903... 36,464 1,399,267 4,217,690 1904 44,019 1,839,491 4,545,469, The following shows the value in gold dollars of the imp-rts of tea and silk into the U.S. in the same ten months 1902, 1903, and 1904
1902. 1903. 1904. 8,770,473 14,427,436 17,279,232 50,863 44,483,388 36,449
Ashort note on "Chines2 Study at Colum! hows that there were ten students in the second year which has just close?, in the Chinese Department of Colum! University, under Professor Birth. The Chinese Library at. Columbia is increasing very fast by purchase and beneixe ions, and the great eneyclopietia presented by the Chinese Government has beer. neatly bound in 1,672 leather-backed_ volumes, We note that " Dr. Birth is anxious to impress his students with the idea that the Chinese are good people at heart, and therefore makes it a point to draw attention to their charitable. disposition, a subject upon. which very little is known' among Europeans."
'The report of the dinner, at which 162 members and guests..were presen*, takes up eleven' pages of the Journal; a micro condensed account of it will be found in another column, Next is is noted that a' considerable number of prominent firms at. San Francisco have joined the A. A.A; and then comes 'a very, interesting article by Mr. Thomas A. Phelan,. President of the National. 'Tea Association of the U.S, A; entitled, "Some Seerets of ea. Why it is Becoming the Leading Beverage' of. the World. Its Marvellous Varieties' and Properiies Unknown 10 Const sumers." And yet, curiously enough,, tea is not mentioned among thet beverages' supplied at the annual dinner of the A. A. A. Mr. Phelan sums up his discourse on' the blessings of tea with the following statement of " points worth remembering"
irst—Tea is the only beverage whose purity and quality are guaranteed by the United States Government.
Second—Tea is the only manufactured beverage which can be taken for a lifetime without some detriment to the human system provided the leaves: are never permitted to boil nor to draw over ten minutes, under which circumstances tannin is developed which'may affect the nerves of delicate constitutions:
'Third—Ten is beneficial' "both': as 'a Aelightful- medium: of carrying water through the system, and as a harmless tonic for wearied brain and muscle.
Fourth—Tea is the cheapest beverage known, cesting only 1 cent for four to six cups at the price per pound of 50 cents, as there are from 200 to 300 cups of tea-to the pound.- Therefore, the higher grades only should be used.
Then comes a reprint of ar speech recently delivered by Mr. Foord: in: response to the toast of " Ameri-'. can Interests in the Orient" at the dinner of the Founders and Patriots of America, the: concluding sentence of which is: "The true peril.to be apprehended in the fature of this great Pacific area, in which' the influence of the U. S.'ought: to be a dominating factor, is the, peril of the military ambition of the white races, and not that of the yellow men who are accepting our culture, and straggling for the right to enjoy that equality, before the law which was gained for the people of this Republic by the Founders and' Patriots of America." The other. contents -of this issue are a useful article. on American 'I'rdde in Manchuria," by U.S. Consul Miller, Newchwargy a note on "Tea from Formosa;"'a short, article on" American 'Trade at Hongkong," by U. S. Consul-General E, 8. Bragg; and an article. from: the "New York Journal of Commerce" on the American-China Development Ca, which' has already appeared iti our calamus,: pete
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