[story showing the great generosity of the Chinese, especially where their countrymen in a strange land fare concerned. Canadian Pacific Railway officials announced that the necessary $115 to embalm the body of Ssu Gi, who died on a west-bourd train in Ontario, was subscribed within five minutes Winnipeg station, by his Chinese fellow travellers,' although Ssu Gi was a perfect stranger to them Ssu Gi, it turns out, was taken ill at Havana, Cuba, with consumption, while working on the plantations. He decided, therefore, to go home to China to die, and was bonded through to Hongkong vig Vanjeouver, His, sudden death on the train made it imperative that his body should be embalmed and taken to Hongkong in order that the bond might be cancelled at that port. On this matter being explained to the 29 Chinese labourers, who had relled in the same train, they at subscribed
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