The death of an old pensioner of this Company, Ah Yew, occurred! on Wednesday. Ah Yew was indent tured under a former editor of the "North-China Herald," Mr. R. S. Gundry, to learn the art and craft) of printing in June, 1877. He was} then 19 years of age. From 1877 till 1918, for more than 40 years, Ah Yew set type in this office. Editors came and went like ships} silently passing in the night, for the old compositor was as deaf as a post, most of them a poor lot in the wyes of Ah Yew, who judged; them entirely by the legibility of] their copy. Linotype machines: came and displaced most of the! hand compositor, but it was not until four years ago that the} patriarch of the office emptied his "stick" for the last time and retire-1 ed to a Shanghai suburb for the rest of his brief span on a well-earned pension. Like most of the old school he was a foreigner in Shanghai, but it will not be long before, according to time-honoured custom, his bones will make their Jast journey to the land of his birth.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.