No little stir was created in Ch'angshu last week by the visit of De. W. H. Parke, in the interest of the College ta be estab: lished in Soochow by the M. E. Church, South, Mission, The Doctor hal. beet 1 quite successful in raising subscriptions among the Chinese in Nanzing and Soo-}ehow, and had high hi pes of this place, and as the sequel shows he was not disappointed. The day of his arrival we called on one of the wealthy men of the city and received what we bad hoped for, an invitation (which meant a subscription) to dinner the next day at noon.: The dinner was delicious, and while we were showing our appreciation of it in an elegant dining-room upstairs, the bookkeeper was evidently busy in the accountant's room below; for when the feast was about half over he appeared and stepping up behind niaster's chair, with a smile in our direc-j tion, handed him a slip of per and started back as noiselessly as he had come. This was foo much for the curiosity of one of the Doctor's medical students, who had accompanied him, so he quietly followed the bookkeeper and had a short conference with him, then going behind the Doctor's
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