Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-06-27
AROUND Hi WORLD
CANTON AND H0NGK0NG.
BY DOCTOR W. q. PALmoRE.

FIRST because it is difficult TO obtain
nrst class professors who nave a
Snowledge or the Chinese language.
Second. because it is desired to pro-
mote the study of English and to make
~ the predominant language in diplo-
macy ana in culture. as we'll as In the
commerce of the far east. Third, i'm
ORDER mat the tudents of western
hmo"ledse may be able to read the lit
eratufe OF England and America on the
subjects which they are studying.
FOURTH, because there is no common
spoken language i'm China. and students
from one province. on from different
parts OF the same province. would be
mnolN unable to understand Il lecture
delivered i'm any one dialect. whether
Mandarin or other. Nor Is the Chinese
al present capable of expressing the
technlcal terms of western knowledge.
1t VIII provide a means of higher edu-
cation to the hundreds of thousands Of
i.hgl1sh speaking Chinese i'm the Straits
settlement, the federated Malay states
and Australia.
The first chair established was that
or medicine, having already incorpor-
ated the Hong Kong College of Med
lclhe. which has for 20 years done such
eXcelicnt work. What an .immeasur-
able blessing his one department. will
be i'm preparing first class scientific doc
tors for China. h greatest curse to-
day to China is Tauism. TIN next
greatest curse is her native doctors.
The second chat or department is that
or applied science. What a blessing
his will be in preparing civil engi-
neers to build her railways. open her
coal. silver and gold mines. To survey
the rivers and confine them to their
channels so as to save so many thou
sand from starvation during the annual
overfiows. The benefactors OF the
American republic. as we'll as the
British empire, should give encourage
ment to this unique, laudable and far
reaching enterprise.
Hong Kong, when seen from the deck
of a ship at sea in the night. with it's
terraces of lights rising to an eleva-
ton of LOO feet, reminds us of Con-
stantinople or Lisbon.
The stone or rock, blown from the
mountain for the long winding and as
cehding terraces. has been used to fill
IN, or reclaim from the sea a space for
the greatest. longest and most impOr-
tant business streets. In the Chinese
part OF the city. the lofty, many-storied
tenement houses on the terraces. CON
tam about as many living souls above
the same spot of ground as in Naples,
Italy. In the latter the ladies i'm little
IRON balconies. projecting from their
high windows. dressed i'm white, and
chatting with their %neighbors in oppo-
site balconies, With thousands of flags
OF truce on clotheslines. stretched
across the streets. forms a pleasing
perspective, which fingers in memory
as y pleasant dream.
In the Hong Kong harbor may be
seen the flags and ships of the ma
lions of the civilized world. 1t is the
terminus of some of the longest steam
ship lines In the world. such AS tn.
Peninsular and Oriental Steamship
company from Southampton. England;
the Messageviee Maritimes from Mar
sailles. France: the Holt line from I.iv-
erpool. and the Pacific Mail Steamship
company from San Francisco.
The island of Hong Kong is about
40 miles in circumference, rising boldly
from the sea. with scarcely a level spot
anywhere. Its gray granite affording'
abundant and abiding building mate,
rial. 1t is the asst end of a strong
line of power. of which Gibraltar is
the west end. This chain is not likely
to be broken until the land of monu-
ments and memories. the land OF braid
ed light and gloom-lndia. shall master
the languages of her conquerers and
become a great republic.
Batavia Java Dutch. East Indies.