I do not know how hard other branches of the at one time much talked of Tien T'sw Hui may be working, but our local branch seems very busy at present plotting out its winter's campaign. A very representative Conference was held the other afternoon at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Wigham, Mr. Wilson of the London Mission presiding, and opening the meeting with a really eloquent adi He spoke of the appeal Tately issued by six Chinese chijén of Suifu and that neighbourhood as "epoch-making," and the local Committee have decided to reprint it here with " further endorsement by some literati of Chungking, and to bute it to the 10,000 or so students coming up about the middle of October for examination. They have also decided to hold five meetings, the winter. one leading up to the others, as also to offer prizes for the best shoes Chinese women can devise for unbound feet, pretty shoes being as they wisely pronounce absolutely necessary for success, It is clear they mean to succeed, and people who do ko, generally, do succeed in the long run, Have you in Shanghai seen a photograph of a Chinese lady's bound foot taken under the Réntgen rays? One has arrived here taken in Edinburgh. It is painful to look at the dislocated, twisted bones! But one cannot but be lost in admiration of the science that can enable such a photograph to be taken. That Chinese women should be able to get about even as well as they do seems the more wonderful after this revelation of Réntgen's, AN OUTRAGE, Taotai Lai arriveely esterday; the Chinese are hoping he may be better than the last Taotai. One of the Lyons Mission, M. Duclos an engineer, has had a disagreeable encounter with soldier in the escort of 2 mandarin repairing to Tibet. The soldier rushed at him, and waved a drawn sword above his head. Happily the Frenchman kept quite cool. The authorities have since asked the French Consul here whether he wants the soldier's head, or his nose, as atonement for such an unprovoked attack, In the end it has been settled he is to be bambooed, but M. Haas insists that the fact of the soldier's punishment is to be placarded about the country for the greater safety of subsequent travellers. The members of the Lyons Mission were to leave Chengtu on Monday, and we hear to our great regret
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