The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-10
STAMFORD

Arthur Derby is in town on a ten days vacation from the U. s. Ship | Chester He arrived. yesterday morn ing He has been in Cuban waters, indulging in target practice.
 A Punch and Judy show in Red l Mems hall on Tuesday drew a large while older folks paid 10 cents. A large number of visitors were in town yesterday to attend the working of the 9th degree in Pomona Grange. Our Paradise Green florist. C.. D. Mills, has opened a store in Bridge port. East Main and Jane streets. William Stagg has the contract for two new houses on Ho1Hster Heights It is thought an auto will be pur- chased for the fire department of the center.
 Nothing has been done so far re- garding the extra two feet of macadam which the town wishes to have laid on Barnum avenue. One more week re- mains for the Se1ectmen to come to some conclusion, at the end of which if the railroad company will not agree to build 12 feet outside of the rails, another town meeting must be called, according to the resolutions adopted. The keel for one of the largest shiDs ever built in town. has recently been laid at Bede1Ps ship yard.
 The School Board and the special committee held a meeting last Tues day night and examined several plans submitted for the proposed Hol1ister Hei gfts schoolhouse. AS the spec:fi-
 
 times it is needless to repeat them.
 Supt. Andrews has recently been in Indiana polls to attend a meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association. There were 1.5o0 delegates present from everywhere.
 room last evening when the Ladies' Missionary Society held it's regular meeting. Thank offerings to the cause of Foreign Missions were receiv- amounting tO nearly S20 Pack ard presided and introduced MT. Chuan. Q. Chinaman from North China, whose father is a native Christian preacher. and whose grandmother was almost the first convert under Dr. Blodgett. who went to China in 1910. A son of this early missionary lives in four months in this country. and is a student at the acadenical department of Yale University. He is about thir- ty years of age-a small man with large head. He speaks English very well. having learned somewhat of the language in his own country. He spoke upon what China needs today more than anything else, and said, in substance, that it needs a change of mind from superstition and all that is bad to Christian knowledge and what is good He is of the opinion that China is really changing rapidly. and gave illustrations along the lines of education, commerce and manufac- lures and general improvements. The empire is soon to have a constitutional form of government. with two cham ber:s like England. He told of the changes in Pekin. which has been mod ernized until today it has electric lights, streets like those in America. trolley cars running in all directions, and the grandees have automobiles. He mentioned the numerous unfversi- ties which have been founded, and the man acturing plants, and said that now there are at least 40 stea nlsh ps in the coastwise trade manned entire ly and controlled by Chinese. He told of the four principal religions of China. and said the Chinese called the Mo- hanedans thieves and look upon Con- fusciusism as a kind of philosophy. He did not think any Of these reiig- ions would ever change the Chinese mind from bad to good. and gave it as his opinion that this can be done only by Christianity. He had a good word to say for the missionaries, but eX- plained that they have to face both the unconverted Chinese and the bad whites, or nominal Christians who live in China and set pernicious example. He thought they needed praying for as much as the Chinese.