10th November.
Ir is one of the penalties of journalism that the material to be chronicled from any distance consista so largely of things going wrong, and that things going right do not always afford much opportunity for more than a passing remark. Yet there are occasions when much may be suggested by a short paragraph, The present one has to do with twenty years' met work of a missionary in the south of the Anhui province, as witnessed to by two graceful d cements "f appreciation drawn up, on his re: itru home, by the prefectural and country mandarins of the neighbourhood where he resided. The prefectural mandarin has written of him: During the past few yenrs, whenever I have interviewed the gentry and scholars, the merchants and the people generally, in the country around, fley all without exception have spoken of his goodness in most spontaneous fashion, Those worn with age
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.