is stretching its root into many an outofthe way groove. We hear that at Suian, a city 20 miles south of this, a Cantonese has been engaged at a salary of $500 a year to teach English, and another, a local man, at a much lower rate to teach mathematics.
great future is opening for men of Western training. A. thirst for it is bein found amongst the literati in town an country, a thirst sedulously cultivated by tlssoniries in their travels, Ifthe officials were not so outrageously jealous woul find in the missionaries their most valuable allies, As itis they put every obstacle in the way of the progress of truth and enlightenment.
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