The movement along the line of progress and reform is full of interest to every well-wisher of China, A number of schools have been opened in this city, and, from: all reports are doing a good work. One reform institution, taken over we believe from the Tientsin Provisional Goveruwent when the city was returned to Chinese control, is the indnstrial prison. The writer had the oppor. tunity of visiting and inspecting this institution, and was much pleased with what he saw. New and extensive buildigs are under construction outside the western suburb of the city. Alrondy 400 mon are housed and instructed in different lines of Inbour, and about 100 civilias are employed in connection with the instruction and other requirements of the place. A large kitchen, well equipped and in good order for supplying a plain but substantial Chinese diet, as we saw it in an unannounced visit, to the place, appears to meet all the require ments of such an institution. A sories of Manehuri:
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