It is my sad lot to write of an incident which has filled all our hearts with sortow. Mr, Arnell, one of the new arrivals, fell sick during the houseboat journey up from Hankow, and when he arrived here on the 2nd of October was in the advanced stages of typhoid, "He expired on the 7th. It feels indescribably sad to think of a bright young man of twenty-one, who has been of great service in his home church, and therefore singled out for the foreign field, coming out with auch fervour and ardour us was his, to be taken away before he saw the place he was destined for. He was brought to Fanchéng for burial on the 8th. How his parents, relatives and church in Tacoma must have felt when the sad cable reached them! Mr. Arnell's only brother is Secretary to the Opium Commission in Manila, and in that capacity has travelled much in the Far East and India.
The Enlistment of Soldiers. for the provincial capital has been going on. 4,000 men were taken from here.
10th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.