It was with no little pleasure your cor: respondent read your leader of the 8th instant, criticising the promiscuous cursing, of foreigners. Let me give you a piece history that will fully confirm your position that this practice can be stopped. To 1895, when a mission station was opened here, this place was as bad for this promiscuous cursing as Wusieb, and Wisich remains' probably the worst place. in this part of China. Nothing could be done with the matter here until after we had our riot in 1896. So completely was the foreigner, exonerated that it was ought a good time to tackle this question. The mugistrata was spoken to on the matter, but did nothing. The cursing grew worse. Then the old riot magistrate was changed. 'The new magistrate was spoken to on the matter and put out a fairly good proclamation, Immediately there was a cessation—especially by halégrown boys and young men. In'a few months the permanent magis. trate arrived. He was' spoken to on the matter in a friendly way. A proclamation followed, and the magistrate requested that individual cases should be reported to him, at the same time saying he would punish: any culprits. Tt was not long before the father of a family "was reported; his sons hid been constwnt.oftenders. He was punished by the magistrate and made to come to the: mission anid apologise in Chinese style. From that day to this it has been the exception to hear, the common expression (yang-kuei-tze), The"
ition taken by the missionary was that he could not be a tencher to or hope in any way to reach a people who felt that they were free to revile him'vid libitum.
Since the cessation of this general cursing the feeling of friendliness and mutual sympathy a stony grown. At present there is no place in the province where the relations of the foreigner and the natives are more friendly than here at Kiangyin.. The sxme result may be {attained wherever the matter is taken up with discretion, and pushed with firmness with the officials, "Tf He is Living." of cholera i his disteot more thin the There is nothing thst proves the ravages hesitating manner in which the natives speak of former acquaintances being alive or not.. Ifan acquaintance has not been seen or, communicated with since summer, everyone in speaking of such acquaintance always says, " If he is living."
The Rice Crop now being rapidly harvested is fully average crop. In many places the mostlier was so dry in the spring that the rice could not be planted out, but where it was lanted the crop is good. The cotton is however Very Poor.
Chang Eh h-tung Acceptable.
So far as heard from, the natives are much lead that Chang Chitung is to go to tanking. They say: " Wemay now expect our ateamer landing at Kiangyin."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.