How Treasure Is Transported In China

Wg have heard niuch of the diverting of public t reasure to private gain by Chinese officials of all ranks, and the evidence of it. in the failore of the Chinese arruy and navy to be ready for the inevitable struggle with Japan is too cent and eouvinciug to be disputad, bnt I on the othrr band we can only wonder at the power of this law of ; ity whioh, in such a land, enables the j remotést provinee to tiausporl its dues fo Peking in solid siiver, b_y the shnplest rneaiis, without loss by tiie way aud without the protection of a single soldier. Nothing impresses one more with the absolnteuess of this power as applieci to transportan on than to meet a liue of pack nuiles, horses, or camela, loadedwith silvev bullion. The siiver is usnally conflned in róngb logs of .wood' that have been split, hollowed out, and tihen bound together, md eaoh load is markcd with a bttle fiag of imperial yellow, stating the amount and destination. That is all the protecriou there is except the ordinary drivers, who carry rio weapons, and are attended by no guard. In vfhnt other land on the face of the globe could the same be done? - Professor C. M. Cady iu Century.