Here is an anecdote from the Chinese Press which reads almost like a fairy-tale. A rich old man had an only child, young, beautiful and the joy of his life. One day she fell ill and, in spite. of all that money could do, passed away. There is no need to dwell on the old man's sorrow. He ordered the child to be dressed in all her best, with all the beautiful and costly jewels that he had lavished on her. So she was buried in her father's garden. Now a certain robber heard of this; so on the night of the burial he entered the garden stealthily and forced open the, coffin, when, to his terror, the girl sat up and'asked why she was in the garden at that time of the night. The robber gave one loud yell and bolted for his life. Hearing the yell, the old father, followed by his servants, hastened to the grave, to find his daughter safe and sound. In his joy at her recovery, the father gave orders to his servants to find the robber and bring him back to be suitably rewarde as he had saved the life of the young girl. Whether or no the man has been found, is not stated. The moral of the story is a bad one for body-snatchers, but very human, Geserat Chiang Kuei-ti, Tartar General of Jehol, is one of the military authorities who have endorsed. the. proposal made General Lu Yunghsiang, Tuchun of Chekiang, respecting the abolition of the Tuchun system. General Chiang has despatched one of his staff officers to. Chekiang interview General La with a view to taking steps to put the reform into effect.
Rear-Apuirat E. B. Kiddle, cp. who was flag-captain to the Commander-in-Chief on the China Station in 1913, and who was: de" corated officer of the Legion of Honour for his services at the Battle of Jutland.. has been appointed Rear-Admiral in the Second Battle Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, in succession to Rear-Admiral L. Clinton Blaker, c-8., Was not Polonius slain behind the arras? He seems to have come to life again in a northern contemporary, who soliloquizes thus: "A trite saying. 'It takes all sorts of people to make a world' is a true one, and the fact a wise dispensation. Extremes meet. and blend, the optimist spurs on the less sanguine, while the hopeless or cautious restrains the exuberance of his more confident and enthusiastie comrade and the pessimist is one who has been obliged to live with an optimist. Thus arrives the happy blend which helps to avert extravagant action in families and Society." And Queen Ants, dead and you should never do to-diy what you can put off till to-morrow
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.