But I come to present matters. In this remote province there is not a market town where the Hunan publications have not been circulated, and now the news of the murder of the foreigners, exaggerated into an enormous war of extermination, begins to bear fruit. Asa humble effort to solve two difficult problems T offered prizes for essays on worshipping God and on scientific research to the B.A's now in Hsianfu for the higher degree. It caused an immense fluttering in the breasts of these benignant men. In the twenty yaméns} in every club, and the colleges the matter was discussed
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