Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 6, 1894, Page 17

PR o A A AR AN S PART 11 IABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871, T'"HE OMAHA SUNDAY B OMAHA, SU VDAY MOR\ ING, TMAY (i. 180! TWENTY PAGE A - 20 GLE COPY FIVE CEN BOSTON .A.lwa l DISABLEO STEAMER CAUSES THIS SAGRIFIGE for 40-inch wide ,,“GH sl it Dress Goods ana Silks RhBoiiod - suitings At 40 Per Cent. Less th:n Land:d Cost. . 1 lal Hen- The st “Ems” which left Southampton March 17th, broke her propeller when PN L threo diys out and was compe. led to sall south to the Azores for repalrs. Erom thence, riettas in all col- after w months’ detention her cargo was transferred to the stenuie ker™ which just arrlved In pore ors, worth 2ic, go at 10e yd. 10C e On this vessol was a larze shipment of high grade dress good aceount of the delay and DRESS GOODS, Beginning tomorrow and continuing all the week we will make our Dress Goods Department an over- powering magnet for any lady who reads or hears of advanced stage of the season woerd Worth 35¢ yd. for Boys' Knce Pants, sizes from 4 o 12 IOC PAIR] this. See these specials. for Ladies' pure ¥ Black stik Mitts| 1,000 Pieces. in all s 1OC PAIR for Men's Silk Invisible Pin Check Eifact. Suspenders, worth up to H0c. 1 7iC and 10c and 12 a yd for very tine embroideries in Hamburgs,Swiss', Jaconet: all widths, worth up to 50c. SC YARD] for Valenciennes Lace, worth 2ic. for all silk, Not top Bourdon Lace. worth d0c. 15¢, 19c and 25¢ for butter eolored lace in Point Ven- Deutelle, Or- ienale and Point d'Trlande, worth up to ble. ete, in Worth 50¢ BLACK Worth 50¢_un e und 89, CHINA'S BIG ARSENAL “Qarp” Visits the Government Gun Fac- tory at Shanghai, MAKING ARMS AND MUNITIONS OF WAR A Hundred Acres of Foundries and Their Two Thousand Workmen, WONDERFUL MECHANICAL SKILL DISPLAYED Celestials Make Great Shells and Steel Rails of Native Iron, - Glimpse of the Barracks and Typleal Uni- form of Soldiery —The Empire Well Prepared to Defend Its Institu- tions—An Interesting Letter. d 154 by Frank G. C: SHANGHAL China, April 1.- respondence of The Bee.)—One hundred acr: of factories for the making of and munitions of war! &Vast foundries for the sm®Mting and roll- ing of steel! Gun works turning ont cannon as big as the biggest now being made at the Washing- ton navy yard! Shops covering acres de- voted to the making of the latest of modern magazine rifles! An army of 2,000 Celestials in blue gowns, with their plg-t tightly wound about fheir half shaven heads, manipulating with stheir slender, yellow fingers the finest of the . modern world’s improved machinery, and do- ng successfully all kinds of factory work under Chinese foremen! 5 These are some of the wonders I saw at the great government arsenal near here today. Any one who thinks that Ohina Is asleep to what s golng on in the modern world has only to visit one of its great govern- ment gun factories and be convinced of his mistake. 1 have spent some time at the gun works of the Washington navy -yard, where are belng built the guns for our largest warships. We pride ourselves upon them as a nation and consider them among (Copyrigh arms the finest gun works of the world. Away out here In China there are similar foun dries doing even more wonderful work, and that te a large extent with natiy made machinery, and just now with Chi- nese iron and Chinese coal. Of the two thousand men employed in the Shanghal works only two are foreigners, and these are consulting enginoers, one of whom, Mr. N. B. Cornish, is an Englishman from Doevonshire, who was for years connected with the great Armstrong gun works in Buogland, and the other, Mr. Bunt, an Eng lishman who not only knows how to run all kinds of machinery, but has invented several engines, and who ,with Mr. Cqraish, is making many lmprovements in the Chi: nese munitions of war over those of other nations. It was through Mr. Cornish that 1 was able to go over the gun works, and with him 1 had chats with the Chinese managers, foremen and workmen, ' STREEY SCENES. , Leaving the Hotel Des Colonles, in the 40 in. all wool BRILLIANTINES 1 75c yd; go ut 43 (NCH iMPORTED Novelty €uitings Worth 81.50. New changeable broken check effects. | TAN WOOL SERGES and GRAY WOOL SERGES, worth 336 yara. 400 PIECES ular 5Uc goods, ZIG-ZAG 200 New Colors. All One Price, ——| CARDINAL HENRIETTAS 42 inches wide, wor h 39¢c. PLAIN BLACK GOODS All Wool French Ghallies '] A Light Ground, Small Floral I esign, Reg- Two tone mixtures worth 98¢, Storm Serge 54 Inches wide: worth $1.00 190 BOSTON STORE, - - and silks w sold to us at a serious = ich on tomorrow. Thes i rich silks loc MONDAY. 125 Pieces Black and Calored 'MOIRE in and \Illll inel 200 Pieces 25 in. wide, 5 g JAPANESE i;.!x\xl.: ll|§l ve, sold INDIA SILK all colors, worth up to $1.00, go at 25c, Omaha. fl“ | who buy on time. trated--by the SIILLIKS. Unquestionably worth 80c ya:d. Corner RICH BLAGK BRUGAI]EI] TAFFETAS, rich brocaded silksare in exquisite designs and many of them have seeded grounds. Magnificent quality. were imported to scll at gr. { For one day we will sell the at 6gc a yard. | silks wili be greatly worn this season for dresses and none will be so much sought after as these. They O, e Black and waists, 150 Pieces COLORED MOIRE FRANCAISE, 22 inches wide, worth $1.50, 49 425 Pleces Iulll,st Shades | JAPANESE WASH SILK 22 inches wide, \vuth 60c. B of French Sateen SURAH in dirk colorings { with dots and floral S“_K designs—the latest designs with efreu- worth $1 and $1.25. lur ruflls about the BUSTON STORE 15th and Dodge. Saxves Wou Momey on Ewreryrthine. CASEE IS KING Boston Store's ready money: reigns supremely, safely, surely, without a rival, without competition in buying cheap— | BOSTON STORE BUYS FOR CASH ONLY. | People who do not want to run the risks of credit—sell to Boston store—-and se!l to Boston Store ches aper than to those ‘wum:m and child at lower pricas than anvwhere else in the land Facts which were never more forcibly illus- many cash bargains which Boston Store offers derselling that LADIES’ 1,000 Ladles' Wrap- pors, the newest and most popular patterus, perfoct fitting, full width and size, In indigo blue, blacks and whites, £1 quality 500 Regular c LADIES’ PERCALE 98 WRAPPERS rufile about shoulders, the trimmed with broidered ing bra %39 BEST QUALITY French 8018t 50C worth up shoul 1 7 Slhoes, Jac! Furnishing Goods, and, in fact, everything worn by It is this continued, WRAPPERS LADIES’ SATEEN WAISTS {5th and EVERY BUSINESS DAY N THE YEAR| . BOSTON STORE SAVES YOU MONEY and sells you Dry Goods, ots, Capes, Millinery, man, wins for us the lion’s share of patronage, istent everyday, all-the-time un- our constant increase in business and Basement Bargains. QIL TURKEY- RH) Table Covers, Worth joc 220 3:C i, 4G Shirting G UU;&‘EI%N&,, 5(: odge, Omaha NEW : Cotton Challies, Worth 7ic LIGHT £ DARK Scolch Lawns, Worth up to 15¢ DRESS | ND. APRON Ginghams, Best G 0 L 1 K HOJRNING PRINTS, foreign quarter of Shanghal, I rode In a Jinriksha, pulled by two men, far out into the country. The day was cold, raw and rainy, but I decided to risk arrest by tak- ing my camera with me, and, wrapped in olled silk, it lay between my legs as wi dashed through the muddy sireets crowded with bare-legged coolies with hats as big as umbrellas and rain coats of a reddish brown jute, who were carrying heavy loads swung on poles from their shoulders. We passed many women in blue gowns of wad- ded cotton, who hobbled along on their little feet through the mud with a knock- knced gait, and met at every turn the 'rikshas and sedan chairs of swell Chi- namen, whose eyes were so shrouded by their big, black spectacles that they looked like Gargantuan brownies rather than scholarly Chinese. Many of these swells had on their winter bonnets of wadded silk and their clothes were of the brightest of reds, blues and greens. Their bonnets coy- ered’ the entire head and were fastened under the chin in a wadded cloth which protected the neck and throat. They were so made that only the front of the face was exposed to the weather, and they ex- tended out behind into a sort of a cape which fell to the walst and concealed their cues. The gowns of many of them were fur lined and the silk brocade of which they were made seemed more fit for a ball room than a rainy, muddy Chinese country ride. Beside these rich worked the poorest of the poor. We passed scores of sweating men pushing freight wheelbarrows, each contain- ing a load for a horse, and were jostled by the hundreds of other queer looking char- acters who fill the country roads of China with as many travelers as you will find on the roads approaching one of our little cities on a circus day. Just outside of the walls of the native city 1 passed a guard house fllled with Chinese soldiers. The sun came out at the moment, and 1-/attgmpted to photograph them. But when they saw the camera they scowled and went insfde of the guard house, Not far from this I came to a fortification which I afterward learned was the bar- racks of the troops Which the viceroy keeps here to guard the arsenal and to protect Shanghai. A white wall, perhaps twenty feet high, surrounded them, and I could only see the great flags of black net work embroldedred with red Chinese figures, twenty odd feet long, which floated from a pol above the tent of the commander. 1 saw many soldiers, however, and I photo- graphed a good natured one who evidently did not understund what my camera was These soldiers were dressed in all sorts of bright colors, and the uniform of many of them consisted of the brightest of blve cot- ton sacques, trimmed with black velvet and ornamented’ with red stripes. They wore wadded cotton pantaloons, which they ~tucked into black, short topped, wadded, cloth boots. and their heads were covered with stiff skull caps of silk. They look entlrely different from the people about this part of China and are much more muscular and are taller than the Chinamen we have in America, They come from the interlor, and the best fighters among them are from the rebellious province of Hunan, where the insurrection againgt the missionaries of a year or so originated. There are only a few thou of them in this barracks, and they are but a small part of the army of the viceroy of anking, who lives at his capital in the in- tertor. THE ARSENAL. Reaching the arsenal we stopped for a moment under the white wall, ou which was a gaudy painting of one of the heroes of Chinese mythology, who s supposed to give luck to the ofcers within, while one of these Ohi- nese soldiers took my card in to Mr. Cor- uish, and a moment later I was inside of these vast works and surrounded by the din of machinery. Practically the only differ- ence between these works and those of ‘any of the great gun factorigs of Christendom lies in the georgeous colors of red,’blue and green in which the Chinese delight and with which they paint ot only the interior wood- work of thelr shops, but some of their ma chines as well, and in the fact that all of the we entered was about the size of the biggest shop in the Washington navy vard, It covered, I judge, about an acre of space, and in it were being turned out some twelve- inch guns for the navy. You have seen pictures of such guns in the newspapers. They are the biggest made at our navy yard, and they are immense iron can- non, the barrels of which are thirty-five feet’ long, and which fire projectiles of steel h weigh 1,000 pounds. To make one of o guns costs in the neighborhood of 50,000, and the Chinese are now just finish- ing thelr fourth gun of this kind. Those completed have been tested and shown equal to anything made in Europe or America, and the projectiles for the guns are made here. The Chinese, however, like the other nations of the world, now believe that thesc immense guns are not so good for defense and warfare on the sea as the smaller vari- etles, and they will build no more of them at present. Near these I saw some twenty- five-ton guns, and then visited the shops, where about 300 Chinamen were at work making the latest improved patterns of Armstrong rapid firing guns. I looked at a 4.7-inch gun of this kind which had just been completed, and was shown its working. It moved so easily that a baby could have almost worked it, and the Chinese foreman in charge told me that they had just fin- ished o dozen of these weapons, and that they were now working on some which would fire 100-pound shot. China has no scruples as to patents, and she now gets all of the latest improve- ments in war machinery and coples them here. There is no doubt about the gieat mechanical ability of the Chinese. Here are 2,000 men, yho have been brought up on lines entirely "different .from ‘those upon which they are now working, and they make as expert workmen as our mechanics, who have had generations of hereditary descent and years of experlence. A great part of the machinery used here was made by China- men, and Mr. Cornish tells me that he found that parts which he had thought it impossible for a Chinaman to turn out, and which he had expected would have to be imported at great expense from Europe, had been made by these men from drawings. Some of them are so expert that only general directions and the knowledge of the results required need be be given them, and they will straightway make the designs and castings. I was shown one machine, I think it was for ihe rifiing of some of the guns, though I am not sure as to this—which contained a screw of only three inches in diameter and thirty-five feet long, which was designed and cut by a Chinaman, and I noticed a yellow-faced Chinaman, ~who makes the finest of the improved sights of the Arm- stroug guns. The work is as delicate and as beautiful as that of a watchmaker, and there Is an fmprovement on the original, which this man has added. The rifiing ma- chine for the big guns would have cost $15,000 to import. These Chinamen were shown the drawings and they made it for half that sum. It is so in nearly every variety of machinery, and among the things now actually being made in these works are all sorts of modern pro- jectiles, from the revolver bullet up to great shots of steel welghing 1,000 pounds. They make cartridges from those fitted for a revolver to the kind required for a six-inch- rifle, and I saw Chinamen drilling steel, cutting out grape shot and making brass cartridge cases from disks of metal and paid & visit to the warehouses where I was shown the 200 different kinds of shot and shrapnel which are made here They are now turning out about 30,000 pounds of shot a day, and they have made recent experiments with Chinese iron which demonstrates Its superiority in some respects over any other iron of the world, SUPERIOR NATIVE IRON No one knows much about the mineral re- sources of China. But coal and fron are said to exist in nearly every one. of the cighteen states or provinces of the empire, and there have been some iron mines which have been worked for years. Up to this time China has becn importing the raw material for her ar- senals, but she s now experimenting with work s done by Chinamen, The first rwn] her own supplies, and the manufacturing China of the future will probably be entirely independent of the rest of the world. The coal and Iron formations in the province of Chili are sald to be the latgest in'the world and the product is unsurpassed. The iron now used here comes from the province of Hunan, in about the center of China, and some idea of its character may be learned from a test which was regently made her:. A shot was cast of this iron for a three-inch rifle, and 1t was fired against a target with the same charge and the same gun in compe- tition with imported = shot' of ste:l. The target conslsted of three jron plates an Inch thick, interleaved with boards of wood. The steel ‘shot penetrated the, target, but none of them went through it. The Chincse cast iron shot passed clear through the target and were lost. The process of manufacture of the iron is not known at the arsenal, It comes _here in the shape of iron plates or slabs, from half an inch ta two inches thick, and I should say, at a guess, for I did not measure them, fifteen by twenty-five inches in size. I saw a great quantity of the ore lying outside of the foundry. It is of a red- dish brown color, and looks much like some which we get from the Lake Superior mines. The pigs or slabs are laid-down here at about $20 a ton, or $10 a tonin gold, thus costing about half a cent a pound. Mr. Cornish tells me that the Chinese make cast- ings of iron which would be consid- ered impossible in America. They will cast kettles as big as the largest American apple butter kettle, holding about as much fluid as an old-fashioned wash tub, and only a sixteenth of an inch. thick. Thise kettles are wonderfully strong, You would think they would snap like glass, but they are thrown about as though they were made of copper, and are very hard, to break. In the experiment above mentoned, Mr. Cornish told me that he had no idea that the shot would go through the target, and he was disappointed in not being able to Aind it. He says the iron is far superior to the averag European iron, and that he Is satisfied that it is made with charcoal. It does not melt casily, however, and the foundries do not like it. EXPERT MECHANICS. There are hundreds of steam engines of all kinds in these works, and they are all managed by the Chinese. I saw one of 400 horse power, which was in charge of a boy and a youth and 1 noticed that num- bers of the Chinese mechanics are under age. Some of them are old men, but it is hard to tell the age of a Chinaman, as they all shave, and have few gray hairs. I spent some time looking at the men putting up an engine of 2,000 horse power. It is of the most modern variety, and has cost a fortune The immense furnaces burn gas, and a look Into them would scare the religion out of any modern Shadrach, Meshach and Abed- nego, if the viceroy ¢ of Nanking cared 1o play the part of thejeruel Babylon‘an king of the scriptures. These furnaces are con- trolled by two easily moved levers, and a mistake would blow the whole into atoms. A Chinese engincer gbout 30 years old has entira charge of them. The steel works of this arsenal cover about four acres. The men,are now experimenting in making ingots fof armor plate, such as we turn out at Bethlchem, and they are put- ting in a steel furnace ‘which will smelt fif- teen tons of steel at one time. If it I8 a sucosss they will add others. They have made some small ingows, and I saw some steel rails for railroads, which they turned out the other day to Ehow the Chines authorlties that they couldmake them. Th do all sorts cf forging. . They are now put ting in a 700-ton steel prgss, which will exert a force of 2,000 tons on‘the ore beneath it 1 saw great stesl hammers forglng out im- mense lumps of steel, and I wis surprized at the wonderful way in awhieh these people handle all sorts of metad and machinery There is never a mistake and the men are on hand every time. What I saw today has removed from my mind all doubt as tosthe ability of the Chin 10 construet amd manage modern machinery, and I questioh much whether they have not the gemms of a creative abllity, which, under proper conditions, might produce as great inventious today as the Chinese mind has done In the past, The compass, gurpowder and priuting originated here, and we may have a Ohinese Fdison in the future. I asked questlons of Mr. Corn- ish concerning this, as we walked through the. works, and he told me that several of the | mechanics had improved upon the original | models which had been imported, and T saw a machine for cutting steel which a friend of Li Hung Chang had adapted to the making of candle wicks, and which, by his favor, he was running with the arsenal power. Said Mr. Cornish: “The lack of inventors in China may coma from there being no patent law. These men tell me they don't care to work at get ting up new things, because thelr neighbor. will steal their idess. Besides, you must remember that the Chinese mind has for years run in other directions. A mechanic is not of much account here, and the man who can write a three line poem or can quote Confucius would be thought more of than any inventor. Tupper, the poet, had he been born in China would have out- ranked an Edison, and the literati look down on such work as beneath them." COCOANUT POWDER. t 1 did not have time yesterday to visit the powder works where the Chinese are making all sorts ‘of powder from the brown cocoa- nuts, which are used for the heavy guns, to the small black grains, which are made for modern rifles, but I saw samples of the powder and Mr. Cornish says there is a chemist now on his way from Germany to China, who will teach them how to make the smokeless powder which has been re- cently invented. I asked as to the hours of work and the wages of the men. Mr. Cornish replicd “It 5 a curfous thing that we have an eight-hour law in existence in these works andl our employes work fewer hours perhaps than in any otMer native establishment in China. The men begin work at 7:30 a. m. and work until 11:30. Then they have hour for lunch and work on until 4:30, In case of necessity, howe r, of war or other- wise, we could work them almost twice that long and we could add to the force largely without mueh trouble. Our mechanics got from three to six Mexican dollars a weel, or from $1.50 to $3 a week In your currency The very best of the foremen receive high as $80 a month, and under foremen get about thirty-five Mexican dollars a month. Our possible supply of labor, is of course, unlimited. “By the way,” continued Mr. suppose the eight-hour rule fact that this establishment was originally organized by an American, who came A score or more of years ago and was ployed by the Chinese to run it. He ran it 50 well that he made a fortune out of it, and for $ reason it was taken out of his hands. The Chinese don't object to mon being made, provided they make it them- selves, and they saw that Mr. Falls was getting rich very fast. They now handle the thing themselves and if there are any fat contracts or sque es to be made It Is a Chinaman who has charge of them." Cornish, *1 came from the At this moment one of the officers of a Chinese naval vessel came in to see about getting two six-inch guns for his ship, which was lylng at the arsenal wharf, and with him we took a trip over a Chinese man-of-war. But of this I will write in another letter, el Enraptured Lover—At last, Minnle, at last after all these weary years of wailing and hoping, you have promised to be mine! And now, darling, it only remains to name the day!' Don't put it off too long, Min nle. Consider how long I have been trying to bring my courage up to the popping point, and be merciful! Please don't pro- | cras—, Minnie—Will tomorrow do, Gerald? £ Yl Raminds Rev. Dr. A. T. Plerson, whose namo was mentioned, as the successor of Dr. Spurgeon, 18 tobecome pastor of the gregational church of Wor Nixon Watern There used to be a smart young man who bosscd his old papa, 615 :s forgot to heed the wishes all his doings were 1 all shook their he couldn’t be controlled. erever he might go he seemed to cut a Of everything he ‘AIways claimed the chole- Jest; d to think he had a right to lord his wife, jghbors talked hbors sometime: brought down a peg or two. mysterious way its won- 'm This man_ w o couldn’t be controlled, this i thunderstorm, fe Lemon, a spiritualist of Ala- joined th She achie , one at a time. number was chief mourne Glasgow David , his fifth wife, -But why do you Insist that { @ vt “arms jould marry a man whom | Sawitlon army. You married for love, | “Iready $100,000, se—Yes; why I should let our daughter m ke the same such a delightful conversation W man you saw e that the emancipation of n his life work for ever so “Yes," > lawy v evenings ago, , a newly-married couple for that most delightful s the cooing was dove-like, attention of o turned to cor every berth was exposed o most striking feature of the mis Turkish slste as with the much to the women are matter of long | United States DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures ulcers. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures piles, 870 females, sons liviug in a state of more or less happy Worth 25 yard, STORE 10¢ an entire ss Patt wining 10 ) l) g con Boys' and Chevi WAISTS. zes 4 to 12, 10c For Ladic ey Bordered White Aprons, Worth [0)Cesen [Por Men's Outing Flannel Shirts; worth 39¢. 10C e For Ladie ALL SILK JERSEY MITTS Worth 25¢. For extra heavy, pure sills, jersey fitung, MITTS. Worth 50c. ey, For Ladies,’ Miss- es’ and Child's RIBBED VLESTS Worth 10c. 5¢c FOR LADIES! Colored V \\'m lh For Ladies’ Lon, Wai 5 % La trimmed and silk embroid- cred. Worth d0¢ 39¢ For Ladies’ Sum- mer Ventilating CORSETS. Worth T5e. was, males, 11,20f females, 1 or a liftle more than one man for n in Chieago Journal. every woman and noarly one woman for every man, while cnly 815 looking for No. fully 80 real impulsive edness, heads and said A bowed to him and States. the year in th! Vermont has with thirty-five alas! as wiv these churches are es sadly bossed around by this | faniities connected w about the pair, as | 1%:301—a gain of 351, do, The Missionary soc like to' see this man | Episcopal church March, $212,784, as March, 1803, The months have been Rev. T. De Witt Hmp as he ulu\l weary Iyn pa about Ausi lighted by electr ghostly throng | down to form omplished matrimonial d fame as the wife of Ly In 1 The un- | At present there tians and paper announced the | churches, Lincoln to Catherine | was 24,000, and continued: “‘He is | was @ _Dutch woman The rest werc The In t M5 being the to raise a sp cently left to onal use, but al fund, United but that is no reason e lady lecturer, “I have had 3 L4 1 with the gen- | Of 1589 over the bow to me. o8 we left the | bath school scholars a5 of 1,020, and b sald the ““that Is 0. r ever woman who He ha since I could re- increase of $11,000. ina:s. while running from There are about Protestants numby tives are still natu son, the oceupled loudless A berth in a and some and dis five, notably Cornwall, reduce the longer than widowers or favored by nature being reported. The The number cf per- 018 for the correspond: Taln; complete his twenty-fifth year in the Brook- torate, and it will be enthusiastically celebrated by his friends, The “gospel push cart” is making its- way lia. It chapsl dragged by a horse or three men and a platform and contains chairs and a small organ. 51 India had 91,000 Christian converts, © 260,000 Hindoo Chris- 1,000,000 adherents to number of ¢ General which he The total offering; ievolent purposes were $410,- missionary contributions showed an China proper is divided into nineteen But of widows there were 2,154,~ 37 widowers were hope- 2 or convivially-cele~ brating a return to the state of single blesse — 10US. There are 111,036 ministers in the United It s estimated that twelve new churches are dedicated on the average every day im country. 01 Congregational churches, installed pastors, 104 other es | pastors and twenty-nine lurches vacant, In members, The th these churches are ty of the M-thodist reporis as receipts for against total $169,049 for receipts for four as against $243,- i period of last year, ge will soon is a little portabls One side can be let the interior Christlan ris lust year n > last ten years there has en a gain of 140 per Jubilce Booth's Christian life an effort is belng madd fal fund of $330,000 for the Into this has been given the value of an cstato re- ent year of General Booth for put his own into the Presbyterfan church of Scote land has a membership of 188,66 previous year. , an Increase The Sab- are 141,545, an in- for mis: prov- Most Chinese are Buddhists and Con- fucianists at the same time; many of them psburg to Cincinnatl on the Kentueky | 4180 Tuoists, ‘The Mohamniedans in China +on frop | humber about 30,000,000, and are found rogions. They were just off | chiefly in the northeast’ and southwest. 1,000,000 Roman Catholles, 60,000, worshipers, at work In the Flowery Kingdom about sixty= Many of the na- Thers are iy thet winsoma beida: | slx:sael elghteen of which are British, to get a drink of water. | thirteen continental, and s:venteen Ameris K, stick your foot out of | ©an. and_ they support about 1,500 missions won't make & stake,” | arles. Native helpers number over 20,000 back every foot fn | ahd native churches 625 t year over 500,000 coples of the bible were distributed. fonary | Wesleyan Methodists in Great Britain haye is the education cf the | a pleasant surprise in store as regards the whose social position | bumerical returns of church membership. ore degraded than that or | A few days ago one of the ex-presidents s. With the native Ar- | stated that the increase, If any, would be Turks, fleshiness adds | small. Now it turns out that an increase of of a wite. The wife of a | between 5,000 and 6,000 will be reported at them an object both of | the annual conference, With one exception, and contempt. As she walks | ll the great centers of population contribute they will whisper to ¢ 10 this increase. London Methodism takes goes @ woman who knows | the lead with 1,600; then comes Shefield business, and who can | 648, Birmingham and Shrewsbury with 520, well as himselt,” This will | while Manchester and Liverpool close 1 in an undertone by the | upon 500 increase in each. Of the thirty- i, which means | five districts of British Methodism twenty- male devil.’ nine show an increase ot 6,110; the remain- Halifax and Bradford and figures to 6,636 This vity over married men | 1% tho largest annual increase which has been us statisties recently | reportéd for. the past eleven years. The 90, there were in the | junlor class returns are sa'd to be coming 850 male persons and | up by leaps and bounds, no less than 70,660 total membership is 433,236, with 83,169 on trial