For some days bust, the troops left in Shantung by Yuan SI ai have been woving "westward in companies several hundred strong. Their destination is Tsangchow, in Chihli Province. Their equipment, both as to uniforms and armament, contrasts favourably with that of the ordinary Chinese soldiery, though the influence of the recent Governor's ideas of military service is manifest in the improved appearance of the present Governor's troops as compared with that of a few years ago.
Railway Transportation for imported gonds at Weihsien is becoming quite the thing, now that the daily train delivers freight at Nanlin, fifty li from the city. In spite of the fact that it costs quite as much to haul merchandise by cart over this intervening distance as to transport it from Tsingtao to Nanlin, the local bonys are realising the economy of railway rates, and it is a daily sight to see long trains of carts entering the city from the present terminus, Ist June is set as the date for opening the railway to Weihsien, and I predict that after that time Chefoo must bestir herself, or she will lose some of the interior trade to her rival Tsingtao. Meanwhile The Building Operations at the Am-rican Mission here are being handicapped by a general advance in the cost of materials, labour and local cottage, but this is the inevitable result of the new regime, and_we must expect to pay the price of Western enterprise, which is always expensive in its initial stage. It "Wor Curr, Mare?" may be a rough form of salutation, but the kindliness of its intention cannot be questioned; therefore it may not be out of place to adopt it here those who may be suffering from bad health can be speedily relieved from their misery byt he aid of Holloway's Pills and Ointment. They are equally ood for the old, yourly, or middle-aged. For weakness; lassitude, fever, diarrhea, dysentery, measles, croup and similar complaints, these medicines cannot be equalled; whilst for skin dise.ses, sores, ulcers, scrofula and old wounds, they have effected cures in cases declared hopeless eminent medical~- men: "Full direction the use of these remarkable rer wi are given to purchasers. will require some time for values to re-adjust themselves to the new conditions, but the inexorable law of supply and demand will, in the end, regulate the commercial and monetary balance,
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