People up this way are thinking that a plain in these deliverance of the several governments respecting our rights of residence in the interior would be in order. Just now we hear of more trouble near Kiukiang on this score. Some Consuls take the view that we have no rights what. ever to live outside the ports. A c"py of the Chinese treaty with foreign countries which the writer possesses (published by the Shéipao office) is as clear ax day li on the subject, and the must skilful of words can put no double entendre into the otatement that we can go everywhere and rent houses. Perhaps this copy was written by Bacon and not by Shakespeare. Nevertheless the fact remains that the Catholic and Protestant churches have so understood the matter, and hun thousands of dollars have been property jo the ports on this claw:
Just now when there is so much outery against the "Geary Act" it would be well to examine that law and ascertain whether we are not bound by stricter laws in China. The policy of this government now seems to be to prevent those of us who live here from securing xny land in the interior, and whenever a man sells houses or land toa foreigner: without consent from the local mandarin, he is to be at i punished for it, The Geary Act allows teachers, students, merchants or travellers from curiosity together with their servants the same rights as other foreigners." The law applies only to labourers, Between We have the best authority for saying that people become like that which they worship. Extending the thought, it, hus often occurred to us that the dogs of China in some respects become very like the Chinese themselves.
On the main road just out of the Concession at this port, there is a dog which will illustrate what' we mean. We do not need further to specify the residence of this dog—for Chinkiangites, at any rate there is probably hardly a foreigner here who has not been annoyed by its fierce barking and attempts at biting. Go when you will, at morning, noon or night, that dog is there, and judging by its uniform contempt for foreigners, British and Scandinavian, American, French, German, and Dutch alike—it has, like some one or something else we recently read about—** pierced the foreign doll, and found it only bran." Many are the sticks and stones which have been hurled at that dog's head, many the futile rushes that have been made at it, but discreet retreat hus so far saved it from anything serious. The writer once managed to ricochet a piece of crockery on the dog's back, but this was ineffectual. A few weeks ago, being specially annoyed with the brute, we chased it clean into the house, and through to, the back, only eventually to lose dog-and "face."
Not long ago, four of us—one American, two English, and one German—were passing, when the usual prolonged howl was set up, for that dog doesn't. a bit mind making itself most uncomfortable in order
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