102 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



AT EVENTIDE. 



By M. A. Maitland. 



The day's declining, yet how short it seems 



Since morn awoke amid the misty hills — 



Since pleasant ways were mine by woods and rills, 



Ere Youth had awakened from her blissful dreams 



To scale the rocks and breast the turgid streams, 



And all the turmoil was so far away 



That measures out man's weary little day — 



Brief day, that yet with mighty import teems ! 



Still past our shortened sight the sun shines on 



And other valleys with his radiance fills, 



So gloaming here may be for us the dawn 



Of glory on the Everlasting Hills. 



Take cheer, dear heart, nor yield thee to repining, 



Let Faith shine brighter as the day's declining! 



CHINA AGAIN ABOLISHES OPIUM. 



China has again decreed the abolition of the culture of the opium 

 poppy and the use of opium or its products in any of its forms, save 

 medicinal. This action, which comes in the shape of an imperial edict, 

 was the direct result of the report of the Chinese commission appointed 

 to visit this country and Europe, and the edict is signed by the heads 

 of both civil and military afifairs. This is not the first attempt of China 

 to free herself from the effects of the opium trade. The first effort was 

 made in 1839. That result led to a war with Great Britain, which 

 profited by the export of opium to China, and as a result of the war the 

 edict was recalled and China had to pay an indemnity of about $6,- 

 000,000. The Chinese commission which visited England last year 

 found public sentiment far different from what it was three-quarters 

 of a century ago. Hence the issue of this second edict, the abolition 

 of the opium trade, both in the way of home products and imports. — 

 Consular Reports. 



Two is Company. — Aunt : "Tommy ! How cruel ! Why did you cut 

 that poor worm in two?" 



Tommy: "He seemed so lonely." — Punch. 



