rist.

Brotherhood involves reciprocity of rights and duties, but
it means that we all need each other, are all debtors to
each other, and are all intended to be trustees of the
common assets, and that any man who cuts an underground
conduit between the common treasury and his own pocket is a
modern reproduction of the original Judas, who carried the
bag and drew from it to meet his personal expenses.

WHAT A CHINESE SAYS ABOUT CHINA'S FUTURE.

Waves of Progress Are Now Sweeping
Over the Long Somnolent Flowery
Kingdom, Says Kang Yu Wan.

That there is in China a growing reform movement directed by leaders of
the younger and more progressive generation is coming to be quite
generally known. Kang Yu Wan, the president of the reform association, has
been traveling through the United States on his way from Mexico to Europe.
In his flowered silk jacket and blue-and-pink cap he looks like a
veritable teacup politician. But it will not do to judge the Chinese by
their apparel. Mr. Kang is an active reformer, and he is leading an active
movement. In a New York interview he talked freely of the new spirit in
China, saying, in part:

China is no longer in the Dark Ages. She has already reached
the point where Japan was only twenty years ago.

We have now, for example, more than twenty thousand Chinese
students pursuing advanced modern courses of study. As to
common schools, some five thousand have been started in the
one province of Canton. There are now four million Chinese
who can speak English. Our courts are being remodeled after
the English system.

The number of books we have translated into
Chinese--text-books, technical works, and treatises,
mostly--indicate how extensively the progressive movement is
spreading. We have thus appropriated to our use over ten
thousand American, English, and European works.

China is no longer asleep. She is wide awake, and fully able
to care for her interests.

See what happened a few months ago. There were eight
thousand Chinese students in the schools of Japan, enjoying
equal terms with the Japanese. Japan imposed on these
students some humiliating and unfair conditions.

China Learning Her Resources.

The eight thousand students resigned immediately and left
Japan. Shortly afterward, the Japanese government, in fear
lest the general indignatio