Page 6 THE CE NTRE DEMOO RAT, BE LLFFON'IQ 0 PA, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907. A ————— t,o, China’s Boycott of Opium. — WN T is recognized the world over that of the great moral reforms ever undertaken is the present gov- ernmental effort in China to close the opium dens, stop the using of opium by the peo ple and put an end to Its impor | tation and to the growing of the popp) plant, from which the injurious ar : is taken. By Imperial decree the opium throughout China must be closed. ready in several of the larger cities decree has resulted In the practical ex- | tinction of the dens, but under the | provisions of the edict nine years’ time will be allowed for the gradual extine tion of the traffic and the habit in the | empire. | The Chinese government recognizes | the impossibility of abruptly cutting off the entire of opium for | smoking purp firmed smokers, who probably woul y dead if they could not procure are to be | permitted to strictions, gradually t within a few years altogether. noral refor: one ost THE POPPY. dens Al 3 the | annnly 1ppiy wes, (Co use it apering eo fE:pe al r make a 4 nto the aln looked nese empl of humai campaign was forced and 1842 Gi upon sought with its teemh and importati upon the Chinese began a systematic n. The trade In 1539 eat Britain waged war China because that government to prevent British merchants fromm smuggling opium inte Chi ports A recent observer, writing from Shanghal, “Opium has eaten into the morals of Chinn's governing and literary and the result has been a corrupt gov ernment of the first order, and the thinking Chinese lay the biame at the feet Britain. Japan, on the other band, has long prohibited opium smoking, which is a crime punishable by ten years’ § and this is probably one Jn pan’s advancement half century. Now that China realizes fl effects of 1 she feels a bit unkindly toward Brit India, that country desiring to postpone the prohil of export of drug as long China feels, however, that 1 England will bear that the be cut off.” China now part of the vietima, to be gradually plantations In China the past. Many thousands of persons will be deprived of thelr means of livelihood by the closing of the dens and the re striction of poppy growing. The goy- ernment Is to provide for many of these people by teaching them trades. Societies have been formed with the of assisting the unfortunates toward other means of livelihood. nese says class, of Great penal servitude of the causes for during the the ev 3} the tie wmulble he home government in bring such pressure to Indian supply will soon vl large own produces a sed very by her op fum restricted until WILLIAM H. TAFT. Wife Thinks of Man, wary of MRS War Secretary's Woman the Complement wife of the se Is nnd with the young Mrs 1 of Cin W. Herron, 11 yer and w the » of President Hayes. The the future cabinet officer's White House was during cupancy. + which stands out vividly ection of that visit,’ sald recently, “was the nightly used to be spread in the The war the youngest It lon ol pin in ins in my reco Mrs, Taft supper which i One truth Is clear VIOLINIST MACMILLEN. Press Him Later. FRANCIS REA MAUMILI his IEE He is a n here father, S iH in newspaper a brilliant rec don, just bef to enjoy mount pine region The planting of the poppy Is | poppy | become things of | A Bechoolmaster's Rejoinder, A keen retort Is credited to the late Dr. Halg Brown, master of Charter house His brotherin-law, the master of Peterhouse, famous English school, wrote to him Inquiring his precise meaning In a certificate that a boy's character was “generally” good. “When 1 say generally, " he replied, “ mean not particularly.” Dr. Porter, nunothet ® | Gems In Verse OLD FAVORITES. WHATEVER IS blindness, weakness, h rf oN bestows on thee Bubmit In this or sphere st ns th the hand of one natal or the mortal hour All nature Is but art unknown to thee: All chi direction which thou canst not nee I8 RIGHT. point: This kind, this due degree heaven any other y be as ble u canst bear, disposing power, LN OH, All disc All parti And, ord, ul evil, unl of harmony not understood; versal good in erring reason's whatever Is Ia right. ~ Alexander Pope, THE WAY TO SHADOWTOWN, BYa AY to and fro In the twilight gray; his is the ferry for Bhadowtown, end of the day darkness closes round It sails away at the Just as the REST. ttle hand, on my shoulder—so; A sleepy kiss is the only fare world we go ting chair Drifting away from the Baby and I In the r and sr where the firele gn glow park, AN Glitter the lights of Bhadowland The raining drops on the window-hark, Are ripples lapping upon its strand. YEE, irror Is glancing dim ering and still; gE o'er brim HERE where a nv A lake lies sh Blossoms WAY Th RocX slow are se over there on HE For 4 : lig Was my sweet Highland Mary WT mony a vow Our parting was fu And, pledging aft to meet We tore oursels asun Put. oh Death's That nipped m Now green's the sod and ea That wraps my Highland and locked embrace, tender AEAIN ler intimely tall flower sae early! 1's the clay Mary! Oh, pale, pale now those rosy I aft ha'e kissed sae fondly And closed for aye the sparkling glance That dwalt on me sae kindly, And moldering now In silent dust That heart that lo'sd me dearly, But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary! Robert Puma, Hips TWO SHIPS. {f war met or had sal the sea rs brave and was shine. Put it w For a ol breeas« While the sun « They roared and swerved Each gave And the » They shel And then they sud Yet the sun on | led each ot} s shining And no one knew whi ship had won! And neither knew here the gone!’ Put the sun on high was ining Unidentified. TO A NEWBORN. HERE, on thy n A DOWDOMD ehila We saw thes weep while all around thes smiled. : | Bo lve that, weep, Thou stfil mayst smile while all around thee weep. «Bir Willlam Jones reas lag sinking In thy last long ALLAN M’LANE HAMILTON. LEGAL ADVERTISMENTS, Noted « XECUTOR'S NOTICY Alienist Who Mary Bake Examined Mrs. r G. Eddy. 1 of expert trials. There are medlienl experts and Allan Mcelane Hamilton alienlst ved witness Lou latest case murder I experts, and hus ser in service of Mrs Science, “next that of Hamilton pronounced the woman competent to several fi as an expert was in the Eddy, mother of Chris whose friends” unsound tian contended she wind. 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