as a devoted and successful missionary. Ho, his wife and five children successfully passed through the fiery trial of the Peking Sieye last summer, and it is pathetic to think that 60 sida fate has overcome the husband and father in relatively happier and safer times. Mrs. Stonehouse and children are at hoi after the event there are many criticisms on the heinousness of allowing Europeans to join dangerous districts alone, but it is really all but impossible to say whut places are safe and what unsafe in the presence of so ubiquitous jan enemy, Personally, Tam surprised that there have been so few of these tragedies and troubles during the winter now past, THE RAILWaY crusts was rendered less acute a few day the common sense of the Comm: Chief who requested bot parties to with draw their guards and to Jet the matter entirely alone, while the subject of the "title" to the disputed land is referred t" a competent authority, This may not have been the solution best pleasing to the Jingves of both nationalities who, as usual, were all for blood and thunder. If it be' a mero matter of title and each be willing to give up if proved to be wrong, any other solution would in the present condition of Christendom versus China be a crime. Each side in the meantime maintaii2s that its title is indisputable.
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