The above are two straws that show which way the wind is blowing. The common people, driven to desperation by corrupt and avaricious officials, sottling their quarrels by the right of the strongest: and the educated classes breaking away from traditional costume and customs, socking to take on new ways and modern learning, Both of these movements will gather momentum all over the Empire until there is a new China, in tune with the universe."
The Bubonic Plague has raged here every summer for ton years. Undoubtedly hundreds of thousands have died. It las'made a very perceptible decrease in the population. Dr. Taylor, of the Church Missionary Society Hospital of this city, has successfully used serum obtained from India for three or four past years, He has jnooulsted from one to two thousand persons every year. He told me recently that of these thousands, he had lost- but one patient by the plague, and he was not treated until after the fever had begun. A number of those inoculated hed taken the plague, but all yielded readily to remedies, while very fow plague patients recover who have not been inoculated. It is slow and expensive to got the serum from India. When will the Chinese Government, or private philanthropy, establish a plant for making here in China this thoroughly tried and proved preventive for the dread scourge of China? It is reported that this serum is made in Shanghai under the authority of the Municipal Council, they will sell it at the ive price of one dollar a dose This is four times the cost of the Indian article after all expenses of transport and duty are pid. Cannot something done by the public-spirited men of our great metropolis to manufacture in large quantities and sell ut cost, this necessity for the saving of multitudes of lives
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