Sympathy, if not, positive admiration, for the urchins of Hankow will be aroused in the breast of the man who recalls the days when he smoked odd bits of a cane chair or tea leaves. A meeting of some anti-cigarette league had been summoned for the other day, and by the time the members had assembled in conclave word reached the authorities that the youth of the city had prepared a raid upon the meeting premises. Hastily the forces of law and order were apprised, and" before the raiders could~come into action strong bodies of police were posted at all strategic points. So! the antis were able to hold their meeting, and the raid frustrated. One touch of nature does undoubtedly still make the whole world kin, and it is not too great a stretch of imagination to see a bond of union between.the bad boys of Hankow and the students of London—the same who chaired "Pussyfoot"? Johnson through the stress of the metropolis. They are all very wrong and misguided, but somehow the sinner in most of us will pervert ideas of righteousness, and compel a sneaking fondness for such lawbreakers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.