The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
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Era of Prosperity and Reform Predict
 ed for the Country.

Era of Prosperity and Reform Predict
 ed for the Country
 China's geography, commerce, prod
 ucts, international relations, and re-
 cent changes were the subject of an
 address before the mems class of the | Asylum Hill Congregational church,
 Hartford, Sunday, by the Rev James
 H. Roberts, who was for years a anis- 1 sionary at Kalgan, China, and who is
 now living on Willard street, Hart ford.
 The Rev. MT Roberts, in summing up, said that the people of China are homogeneous, physically vigorous,
 mentally capable and destined to rise among the nations of the world. The government is doing what it can to bring about reforms; 1t is protesting against the binding of the feet of women, and Is taking a stand against the use of opium. The leaders of the reform movements are of the wealthy and educated classes and in ten years, the speaker predicted, these abuses will be much less common than now.
 Mir Roberts said that China stands along side of Russia and the eUnited States in the matter of large quantity of good arable land. With the best methods of cultivation, and more vir- tuouos living on the part of the people. China would support three times as many people as now live in the coun- try. China's two great rivers, the ,Ir l. are of great value to the nation. Among the minerals of the country are zinc, lead, excellent earth for DOT celain, also silver, gold, copper and the two great minerals needed in building up all nations, coal and iron. There are coal lands, covering 100000 square miles, containing enough coal to sup ply the worlds needs for 1000 years. The forests contain the oak, poplar, firm, elm, bamboo mulberry tree. which feeds the silk worm, and the fruit trees commonly found in this country. Oats, millet and rice are are raised in enormous quantities, the last being the principal article of food Tn the country, and also one of it's chief exports. Potatoes, cotton and popies, from which opium is made, are proftably raised.
 Tigers, leopards, elephants, camels, | bears, wolves, rhinoceroses and small CT animals live in China. Chinese eat | mice or rats only when compelled to | by starvation The large tail sheep | serve many purposes, among them be- | ing the use of the sheep's tail for ob- taining tallow A kind of moss found on portions of the Pacific coast makes birds nest soup, which resembles jelly and is a dainty article of food.
 Transportation facilities are poor. and the wagon roads are seldom re- paired. The antipathy to locomotive engines is fast disappearing, the as- of the parts of an engine be- fore the eyes of the natives having convinced them that there is no witch craft about the smoking, steamlng The country has 14.OOO miles of telegraph wires Great Brit lin has 69 per cent. of the foreign -rade, and the United States 10 per ,ent. American imports into China consists chiefly of Oregon pine. canned soods, rails, bridges, locomotives. and locks. There is a great demand for he teaching of the English language. IS a result of a widespread desire to -dopt the western civilization, and the notto of the nation appears to be Initiate Japan"