A LESSON FROM THE CHINESE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2179, 24 March 1891, Page 3

A LESSON FROM THE CHINESE.

In many respects the Chinese are a most rational and practical race. Here is a case in point. During a recent anti-foreign-devil riot at some place between Tongu-tu and Kaiping, the mob, by way of emphasising its patriotic sentiments, destroyed a good length of the railway that has recently been carried through the district. The local mandarin—a Chinese Euskinite apparently—instead of using the forces under his command to quell the disturbance, sent his soldiers to assist in the pious work. The embankment was levelled for some distance, and the rails thrown into the river, and an attempt was made to destroy the bridges. Mr Kinder, the head engineer, lai<? the state of the case before! the Toatoi of Tiensin, who is head director of the of the undertaking. Toatoi sent for the mandarin, and addressed him thus : " To please yourself and friends you have destroyed the railway track. To please me you will put it back just as it was before. If, one month from to-day, the grains are not running the same as before, you will lose your head, and your family will be disgraced. Mr Kinder estimates the damage and loss by nonrunning of trains at fifty thousand taels (about £2500), which sum you wili have to pay out of yoar ownfunds to the company. For labor, all your official, soldiers and the townsfolk will work as you direct them, receiving no money for their labor ; and all salaries are stopped till the repairs are coirplete; 1 shall appoint a board of punishment to return with you,

with power to torture or imprison any I one who makes the least disturbance [or trouble." The mandaria begged [ for mercy on the plea that, as the | country was under water, he could not possibly get mud and stones where--1 with to build the embankments. The Toatoi saw the force of this plea, and said he would give him a chance. He could pull down any of his forts he liked in order to provide material for the repair of the railway, and he would giro him three months after the railway was completed to rebuild his forts, at his (the Mandarin's) own expense. In rather under three weeks the trains were running again, and they are now rebuilding the forts. How long would it have taken to bring about the same result in England ? Truth. i

THE BABY ON A BATTLEFIELD,

On the night after the battle'of Waterloo, in the blood-stained mire of a ploughed field, 1 lay an English ofßoer dead where he fell. At hii side lay the body of his wife, who had followed him from England, and perhaps ar. rived in time to receive his last sigh. On hia breast was their baby, sound aileep, and smiling amid that dreadful scene as though angels were inspiring its dreams. Ah, God! what a thing is ohildhood—touching Heaven in its innocence and earth in its agony. While we have the ohildren how large the plaoes they fill' When we lose them how great the vacancies tbey jeave! Bead the story of an escape,, as told by a parent. My daughter Kate, now eleven years old, had always been delioate. She was pale and thin, and it seemed as though a breadth of oold air would destroy her. She was now better, now worse, but never well. In the summer 1885 she complained of a sense of weight in tho oheit and side. Her abdomen was distended as though she had overeaten, when in faot she ate soarcely more than a bird. She spoke of a bad taste in the mouth, and would always be holding her sides, or plaoing her hands against her temples, as if to relieve the presiure there. She a'so had pains between the shoulder?, ad 4 her breath was very offensive. She was always tired and languid, and, though naturally a bright, intelligent child, would lie for hours in a listless oondition. She grew weaker and weaker, until she oould soarcely stand. We thought her to be in a decline. Then oame a sign even more alarming—a short, dry, deep-sounding cough. My wife and I feared it was consumption. In our anxiety we consulted the doctors, who said, " Ybß, XOT/B DAUQHTEB HAS CONSUMPTION." What a sad prospect for ui! About Christmas, 1885, 1 removed my family from Huntingdon to Manchester. Poor Kate was too weak to take the journey with us; she remained with her grandmother at Thorp Farm, Norfolk. Still the dear ohild sank from week lo week. What was our surprise, some time afterwards, to reoeive a letter from grandmother reading like this ; "Kate is vbby mpoh betthb. Bhb is batino wbll, and thus boses abb oomiko into hbb thin OHBEKS." Whit oould have happened ? In another month we had the happiness of welcoming our daughter into our new home in Manchester. How great was our joy when saw the wonderful change whioh had taken place in her. She is now a fine, healthy ohild, and never ails anything more than any girl may. Now what wrought this change ? What gave up back our daughter, seemingly almost from the brink of the grave ? I will answer frankly, for there is nothing to conoeal:—• Seeing her deplorable state, and that none of the medecines she had taken proved appro* priate to her strange malady, her grandmother one day said to herself, " I think I will give Kate a dose out of my bottle of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup." Hor grandmother had received great benefit from this medicine herself for a complicated diaeas*. It was given to Kate, and the good effect was immediate. She at once rested more tranquilly and jhad something of an appetite, and a little later her grandmother was justified in writing to us as I have already stated. (Signed) Frederick Butoher, 6 Birch soad, Orumpsall, near Manchester, Mr and Mrs Hutahe? are people of the highest respectability, and well educated. For some years Mr Butoher was an assistant at the great shop of the Messrs Lewis, Mar. ket Street, Manchester, and an impartial acquaintance writes that Miss Kate Butoher is one of the brightest young git Is to be met with anywhere— and full of vivacity and wit. Speaking of the daughter's recovery, her mothes saysj "I do not care whan anyone may say, th>re it no medicine so good as Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup." The proprietors of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup desire to make no false impressions, The young girl did not consumption. She suffered from, indigestion and dyspepsia, and from poverty of her blood, like myriads of her se*. The hollow oougb, which sounded io consumptive, was one of the symptoms, not the disease. She needed life ana strength from her food, bnt) how oould she get it with her stomach torpid and dead P Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup corrected the ailment at its root, and recovery quiokly followed. We repeat onoe more the faot that is taught by this interesting case s When in doubt treat any and all complaints as symptoms of in* digestion and dyspepsia, and in nine instances . out of ten you will see jast sqah a wonder as narrated above. We wish long life and happy days to this young lady and her good parents and friends.