The past ten days of winter weather have caused "a "great deal "of, damage. to. the. forests the higher altitudes of northern. Kwangsi and southern Kwel-chow. The storm. started with 'a drizzling rain, followed by a lower temperature, which soon enveloped the mountains in a glistening mantle of tee and grace and 1 have already referred. to the dangerous condition of trade. The fas the ice thickend on their' bran-local banks now are beginning to ches, the ice in some instances being g, reveal this, for choy are all short four' inches thick, and it became 30 of money." The capital of rome is heavy that trees' were uprooted, branches were torn down said to be reduced by half, and by hundreds and mountain, the were P more than half, and some of the so obstructed that travellers had to loomiev yamour-makers are predict-Secure the services of tribesmen to ing & series of failures, [go ahead of them, axe in hand, and A Flogging Diseiplinarias feat a way through before the party The city" of Wenchow. has ex-could continue their journey. perienced an effective, if rough, method of administering diseipli Changing Customs The late chief of the local military A proclamation has, been bureau believed in the efficiency of aPuStten slong the Borders corporal punishment for—wrong. etngat' ands Keatow, eri doers, and he inflicted it without tact Rbespeoplo. "to alec thet stint or merey, and with an admizable ignoring of class distinctions. garb in favour of Chinese dress, in Sede i pea hey san He argued that fines are heavy on absorbed by the Chinese people and the poor man, and let the rich off ease to BS a separate, Face The
merely' degrading to the prisone: lightly, while, Chinese, prisons are fermtory 'x "ucition io popula Jargely" by, "Various tribes thus it has been that twice at lo aborigines, chief among whom are Thave met in the streets a troop of the Miao,' Yao, and Tung races. soldiers marching before them For the most part, the malo mem through the. public thoroughfares berg of these tribes wear' black Jeondemned man, with a paper apparel, to a great extent at least, torbass, bt, the remainder of fon his head bearing the details writing of his misdeeds, his han resembles. the old Chinese costume [chained together, and a soldier walk-fand diers. ile from the Chinese ing behind him ith a leather whip, peasant deen of the present time. The women of these races wear tormenting an already. raw ani Dleeding. back. Sometimes flogging Jo. garb peculiar to their tribe, Their }was inflicted outside the city walls. garment, a half-length coat, meets inthe front with a sailor Once wz least, in the case of a foliar effect, andy besides Short priest accused of misconduct, the reac The skirt Severity of the punishment all but fended fatally. Another, a comnion Fnumber® of pleats ranges. from thief, was executed as an example to.others, Rede, "according "tothe social position' of the. wearer, or the tain correction mount of cloth on had a, the time misbehaviour, including inveterable the garment. wae th eddie smiling and opium-smoking. All Uon, large -ailver "earrings "and jinds of public' behaviour at all heck-rings, laces, or chains, some-suggestive of impropriety or illega~ times to" "the extent "of ten, are Jity, even, "supposed indecency in women's clothing, met with a warn-'These tribesmen are considered ing, and, if repeated, the lash.
Chinese offelals are wot fattered the Chinese as inferior races and
Shen appointed to "these, districts.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.