As ws approached Liichoufu we noted two features. One was the needle like peaks they build over many graves, some of them 15 to 20 feet high. The other were the many signs indicating our approach to the ancestral home of the family. Great buildings marked the site of graves belonging to their family. This makes it convenient for them to visit the graves and remama few days. Fourteen miles north-east of Liichoufu we saw the park, where a fortune-teller had indicat-€d the proper final resting-place of Li Hung-chang. This is built right across the main travelled road. The people have already begun worshipping him as a god. They expect his remains to reach' that city in about another month. It is report-lion dollars to have an Edict passed, ed that the Li family have spent one mil-making this man an object of worship.
At Luchoufu we found a very advanced city, as far as Chinese cities go. There were many Canton stores so that a foreigner could buy an endless variety of things he daily uses. The workmen are skilled and there are a number of large manufactories. We visited, the free dispensary established by the Li family under Dr. Liu. This man received his education under the Rev. G. Miler (Ningkuofu) of the C.L.M. and Drs. Stewart and Hart of the Methodist Mission. He is an active Christian, The Li family established the dispensary to "Go good deeds" for merit. About 95,000 cases are treated annually. They do no hospital or surgical work. All such is referred to Dr. Butchoid of the Christian Mission. The latter is now erecting fa fine large foreign hospital. He is well-established and much respected by the people. The free dispensary has not di-finished the size of an Mission has three chapels in the city so placed as to reach entirely separate groups of people. The Roman Catho-lies also have a station within the city walls.
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