The country people are now bringing in their tribute rice to the official granaries. These granaries, in this section of country, have the two characters if! BR, "for the convenience of the people," and the people say "the officials are now collecting their accounts." The people seem to be as facetious as the officials. The people sometimes throw up to us the burning of the cotton mills in Shanghai, and. ask why the foreigners did not put out the fire. A few days ago, a man replied to a missionary by saying, You here are exhorting me to "repair the heart you had better repair that cotton mill in Shanghai."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.