I was recently visited by a military B.A, History was he had been over ascare of years waiting for an appointment in Peking, but his private income was now used up and he was forced to ask help from his fellow mandarins and other friends to obtain more money to keep him till he was appointed. When once appointed fo office he would remember the favour given and repay it care of our church and by money increasd a hundred fold. He evidently: thought we ought to keep him, and was disappointed that he did not receive Tls. 5, the sum he said was the least we should give a man who had impoverished himself in the service of his country. I must confess I was surprised that' a mandarin in full dress and on horseback, with a small retinue of followers, should come on such business. His story was a pitiful one, but his brogue was wholly inconsistent with his assertion that he had been in Peking over twenty years.
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