On Last Train Cut of Peking

Rev Dr Frank Hayner, a Methodist missionary who haa spent the last seven years working araong the Chinese, ca_e out of beleagured Pe king on the last train that left the city. From the car windows he and those with him could see the smoke from the conflagration that had been started by the Boxers,

" We had all gone np to Peking in the latter part of May to the annual conference," he tells. " Troub'e _« in the air, but wa did not think it would come so soo-i. On Jun« 4 matters looked ug'y and we decided thit it would be best to leave for Tientsin. Then the row broke out and the trouble was well on when our train pulled away from the city. JNo train has come out since."

On the transport with Dr Hayner were hia wife and little ones. They war© all inside Tientsin during the bombardment and their tale is much like that of the othera

"I placed my wife and the children in the cellar," said Dr Hayner, •' anrt 1 went out to take in the fight. Shells were dropping everywhere. Oar house was struck nine times and you could pick up spent Mauser bullets by the hatful.

'Much creditis due Admiral Kemp! for the stand be took when the trouble opened. He declined flatly to sign the pint demand for the surrender of the Taku forts on the ground that it wonld be tantamount to a dtclaration of war, and I want to say right here in this connection that not one shot was fired at Admiral Seymour by the Chinese until the Taku forts had been fired upon by the allied forces

' The Russians are wonderful fighters but have been guilty of most awful atrocities. Far instance, when the Chinese ommander of the Taku forts cime out with his staff to offer his surrender he was received by the Czu's men with a volley that Uid him and all of hia attendants low. Not one of them wrg left H'ivr>. These same Russians herded women and children into the river and those who were not drowned they shot. They swept through tho towns and gave the bayo net to coiubitant* and again the women and little ones were their particular prey. They burned and pillaged and brought dawn upon themselves dis grace that not centuries of civilisation will remove. In bloodthirstiness the little Japs were second, although they co'ufiued themselves to combatants and effered protection to the weaker one?. Tho little fellows took no prisoners, and when their hospital corps c-une in from the field it brought no wounded enemy—there was none

iS The Americans, not only the so'diers, but tha civilians and diplo matic corps, won the love and thaukE giving of every foreigner, Tho Ameri can policy was first humane, then military. No sooner had the war gong sounded than Consul Fowl»r of Chefoo impressed two Japanese bo its and sent them up into the heart of th^ Yellow river country and rescued hundreds of missionaries and their fimilies, who to day would have beers do>d but for his p:ompt action. Wherever there was good to be done tha Americans d d it, and in many c-ises the British subjects sought protection and Euccour at the Am ric.n consulates in preference t<; their own."

"The way in which tho Americans, British and Japs stood in and worked together was a pleasure to see. It was many a time male evident that, there had been a secret prearrangement among their commanders and some of the imrceivres they contrived in com bination were marvellous in their accomplishment and results. There was one day when 400 of the Japs askfd permission to ga to a suburb lying between the foreign concession and the native city to clean out some Chinese " sniperc." It was given th< m and they started oxxK They drove the Chinese from the houses into the streets and finally got them all huddled into one street by themselves. That one street opened toward the British camp and suddenly from behind an angle in the embankment I heard the ripping of a gatling. It did not take a minute to „ 1 that one street with dead ' snipers,' and when I got round to see who was doing the shooting I found that a crowd of British and American boys had trained a rapid fire gun on the crowd and relieved their Japanese comrades of further trouble. The Japs were assisted also by the British-drilled Chinese soldiers, who make excellent warriors and who displays peculiar relish for killing off their countrymen as often and in as large numbers as possible."—San Fran J cisco Chronicle

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A Poor Man—A bankrupt Btated in the Westport District o>urt recently that he had w< ra the clothes he stood up in for three yt_s—rxoept the trousers, and they belotfged to a man who had gone to South Afric&i '! hh Emperor and The Colonel —An amusing story ia going the rounds of tbe G irman P/ess concerning the Emperor Wil. Ham. His Majesty one morning arrived unexpectedly at the quarters of the Ist Royal Dragoons outside Berlin. Tho squadrons were only waiting for the colonel, who was half an hour late for the parade. When h? appeared acd saw the Emperor patiently Waiting in the middle of the barrack yard, he endeavoured to make hia excuses, but the former, without a word, i-igned to him to take hia place at the head of the regiment and to pub the squadrons through iheir marujivree, The Kaiser watched them without a word, and to Berlin, leaving the colonel a prey to the moat lively fears as to the rtault of hia unpunctuality. The same day, a little before dinner, a Royal courier arrived at the b»rracka and handed the officer a small packet. Trembling from head to font;, the colonel opened the mysterious parcel from the Kaiser, and die* covered—an alarm clock. When doctors disagree, aaya the adage, who shall decide 1 It is difficult very often, even without the difference of opinion among the faculty, to decide as to the merit of the various medicinal preparations which are upon the markdt A safe, general rule ia to believe that a preparation which proftsiea to care everything wi 1 cure nothing Having thus weeded our nine tenths of the claimants, it ia comparatively easy to 6nd reliable evidence of personal use concerning the remainder. Mr E O Lane, of Qam-\ru, is in the fortunate position not only of having no medical difference regarding the value of hiß Creasotsd Emulsion, Lut also in having direct professional approval of it. He has la his possession a letter written by a member of the facu ty stating that be treated a case of consumption with Lane's Creasoted Kmub-ior, aud was glad to say that after a nourse ot treatment the patient hi,d improved greatly. The sputum had diminished, the cough was less, tha night aweating hid almosG stopped, and the weight of rhc paueut had increased seven or eight pounds. _-——_ -— f_l!S csuioke £<iw Yeous



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