among the missions in this province is at a standstill. The Téogchon College has called back its senior class only s0 to graduate them at the end of the year. The Anglo-Chinese school ut Chefoo has only about one-fourth its usual number of students, while, with rare exceptions, mission country schools are suspended. The only one, out of about twenty in connection with this mission, which continued without interruption, is a tale connected therewith for which the native evangelist is responsible. When the Boxer epidemic reached the village, certain "patriots" at once began to practise. Before long one of them began to act alittle queerly even for a Boxer, and in one of his queer spells was seen catching and eating a frog without stopping to ill and cook it. Shortlyafter he began hopping round as if he himself instead of the frog had suffered transmigration, Finally he astonished his friends and dis-usted the ' patriots" by committing a chinese hari-kari. Another was seized with n violent cough which was the speedy occasion of a funeral, As a result the villagers concluded that Boxerism was very unlucky (43) and the Christians, their school, and services were left undisturbed.
1st November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.