Mr. Okada, " Japanese professor, engag. ed by the' Chinese to organise the agricultural college founded in this city three years age, recently left us on the expiration of t ent. The eny ment was not renewed by the Chinese, for being the state of the impression that they have obtained all that can be impart-of by Japan in agriculture, The people also feel that the lands of the two countries are materially different and what may be good for one i not necessarily suitable to the other's climate, Possibly the Chinese do not appreciate the purely scientific aspect of the matter and are in-inclined to lovk for immediate returns, They are more interested in the practical than the theoretical. They have good showrooms at the college, where the yearly advance in the various under the stronger, and bigger than the stalk of the first year. But it struck me that the specimen given of the first year's plant was rather feeble. Much superior specimens could be picked anywhere. And so the Chinese may be cowing to the conclusion that scientific theories give them no better results than the methods handed down from antiquity.
The'Secret Societies are again at work. Thousands of leaflets have been distributed over the province and posted on prominent places in town and village. One edition was posted towards the end of last year and more ro-cently several editions have followed in rapid succession. The wording is like the pre-Boxer literature, and the leaflet resembles those issued in Honan prior to the threatened trouble however, no trouble is antici there seems to be a strong anti-Catholic Li fooling abroad.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.