The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-15
1he ADVERTISERS
 V HOME STUDY CIRCLE

But, although it is an English city. there are very few English In Victoria. In a population of 16G 900 there are only 5000 whites all told. The rest are of almost every race under heaven Parsees, Hindus. Malays. Burmese, Polynesians, Portuguese, negroes and, most of all, Chinese.
 The latter thrive and work in a heat which kills a white man. A coolie will gladly carry a heavy portmanteau two miles for four and half pence. A jinricksha man will drag you around by the hour at six-mjle trot. If you wish to go up the mountain you can hire four coolies for a trifie to take you up in a sedan chair with your portmanteau. It Is so hat that a white man can scarcely exist sitting still yet two of the cooiies will carry the pole of fhe chair on their bare shoulders. while one goes In front to pull and another behind to push. The feet by which they cling to the steep, rocky path are bare and the pole sinks into their shoulders cruelty, yet they ask for no rest except occasionally to change bearers.
 And so, by push and by pull. you reach the summit of your ambition Now a view spreads out in all direc- tions which has few equals in the world. To the south lies the China Sea. and to the north countless cities and towns, rivers and hills, like a mammoth physiographic map. Over all is poured the most dazzling sunlight from a cloudless sky of brilliant blue. while cool breezes fan the brow and make the killing heat of an hour ago seem like dream of Dante's Inferno"
 Victoria Is built mostly of wood, but there are 5000 buildings of brick and stone. The streets are laid out accord ing to European ideas. and are patroll- ed by $50 police. of whom only 120 are Europeans. The rest are Sikhs from India and Chinese. The former make fine and imposing appearance-tall. erect, powerful men, with dignified car riage and fierce countenance, their swarthy faces and piercing black eyes set off by the red turbans about their heads
 There is need of police in Victoria. though the need is rather different from that of most cities. The Chinese are an overwhelming majority of the inhabitants .the boat popula ton alone teing l60,000, yet a more orderly and submissive common people was never seen. Scarcely ever will a Chinaman in Hong Kong assert himself Under any circumstances against a white man. But not because he loves him. Let the Englishman beware how he exposes himself single-handed to either cupidi- ty or the hatred of the cowed China man. They are quick with the knife in the dark and they glory in treache- ". Accordingly Chinese are not allow%, ed on the strets after g D. m. without a permit.
 In one respect Victoria Is decidedly behind the times; 1t has n6 street raii. ways and no wheeled vehicles, except the jinricksha, a little two-wheeled cart drawn by T coolie. The rough nature of the ground, most of 1t up- hill, precludes any better mode of con veyanoe. Tn one of these jinrickshas 1t Is possible to take a very pleasant ride in the suburbs of Victoria and the neighbor4ng country. There are the botanical gardens to visit, which compel the grudging admiration of even self-satisfed Chinese: and the Protestant cemetery Is very beautiful But the inscriptions tell a sad tale of thousands of brave men who have died here far from home, their bones tbe Foundation stones of British empire in the east
 Over the entrance to the Roman Catholic cemetery Is this eloquent in- scription: Hodie Mini. Cras Tibi. (To- day for Me. Tomorrow for Thee.)
 Copyright. 1900