Scotland may claim a.consideraple interest in Adelphi Terrace, London, which is threatened with de-volition, for not only were its architects, the famous brothers; Adam, Scotsmen, but Scottish labour contributed largely to its erection. The Adams took south a big contingent of masons and} labourers, partly because they thought Scotsmen better workers) and also, it is to be feared, because they thought to content them -Wwith less than the London rates of wages. To inspire their labours, they engaged also half-a-dozen Highland pipers, who marched up and down playing vigorously all day long. All went well until the men found that London builders were in receipt of -higher pay, when, despite the pipes, they went on strike, and, being refused their demands, returned home. The Adams replaced them with Irishmen, THE FUTURE OF OHINA, The missionary campaign is going strongly in Scotland, Dundee being {the present field lof action. An address by the Rey. John Stewart, 4, has attracted a good deal of eet in Manchuria since attention.
The important people in China to-day, he said, were the young people under 38 years of age. They represented per cent. of the 400,000,000 people who could read er write. They were the only people who could read the newspapers, and the remaining 95 per cent. had to depend upon their influence in thought. These young Chinese were fully conscious of their power, and realized that upon them fell the task of shaping China's future. They were the people that stood behind the Republic and resisted the attempt of the first President to re-establish the Monarchy, with himself at the head. The vision of a new civilization had been conceive ed_by these young Chinese—a civilization that was to cull the best of the Western and retain the advantages of chind them was the force of race, that had preserved its distinct charac. teristics in authentic history for 3,000 years, and for 2,000 years according to a blend of history and mythology. Behind them was the consciousness of 9 population with the strength of one-quarter of the world's total population. Behind them was a practical people, not unlike the Scots in scientific and industrial efficiency, which bore no resemblance to the fantastic Chinese villains of the stage or the cinema. Behind them was a country richer in mineral resources, it was said, than the rest of the world put together. Behind them was a social system unequalled in democratic qualities by even America. The social order of the Chinese from time immemorial exalted not the Dukes and the Marguises. although -they undoubtedly existed. but started at the top with the scholar and continued with
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