A tecoption at thehomeof the Rev. T. A. Hearn was held on Central Heights dur-jing the afternoon, in honour of the Hon. and Mre.G. L. Dobson. After refreshments von the terrace, and a. musical programme rendered by Mr. Jo Evans, Mrs. Kennedy, and Miss Mitchell, everybody enjoyed Mr. Sweet's Speech of welcome in which he recounted the Consul's past services to Iowa and presented him as a type of the.new civic servant of the Roosevelt model. He welcomed him to Chekiang, the soil of archaic YN, and to Hangchow, the city of diffuse literature. He exhorted him to prosont abetter pattern of official than those found in the average Chinese yamen, who reminded him of the man who was surprised by a big Fat Turkey on his table. negro cook by way of explanation said: "Dat bird he done bin roosting on our back fence more dan a month, 80 I took do turkey for de rent of de rail." So the "fat of the land of China is token for the rent of the soil" by the Mandarin servants of His Imperial Majesty.
The Control of Missionaries is very much like the ease of the anxious parent, "What isthe matter my boy what is the matter?" Out of his sobs came: "I want—I want—I want something I ant got."
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