Where Half The World Is Waking Up / The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

by Clarence Hamilton Poe

FASHIONABLE CHINESE DINNER PARTY.

HOW LUMBER IS SAWED IN THE ORIENT--THERE ARE PRACTICALLY NO SAW MILLS.

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A QUOTATION FROM CONFUCIUS.

This is the upper part of a scroll kindly written for the author by Mr. Kung Hsiang Koh (or Alfred E. Kung as he signs himself in English). Mr. Kung is a descendant of Confucius (Kung Fut-zu) of the seventy-fifth generation, and the complete quotation of which the scroll is a reproduction in Chinese characters reads as follows: