of the petitioners at the astounding push of the American missionary is highly amusing, for in no part of the Empire has the missionary more friends among the literary men than right here in Hsinghua. They are slightly off as to the actual doings of the missionaries, but this does not detract from the interest of the document.
We share in the general disquiet over the news from Peking.
Crops do not promise very well and prices are going up.
13th October.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.