(FRom ovR on A new Society has sprung up here for the promotion of Benevolence and Righteousness. The means +0 this noble end are better roads and new bridges. Perhaps the results are negative—cessation of profanity on the part of the traveller. Whether the animus of the organisation is to offset the new railway from Tsingtao, or to emulate the missionaries in their efforts toward moral improvement I cannot say. The agents of the society are going out long distances soliciting, membership, and securing, promises to improve the highways, plant trees by the roadside for the refreshment of the weary, and such works of merit.
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