Thanks to our Taotai, the streets of the city are being repaired in ble sort of way. Ho has been to Shanghai, and the Model Settlement has done a educational work in the way of impr ing upon him the necessity of having a proper drainage to the street. He has, therefore, had the old stones taken up roads re-graded with a decided drains on either side. provement is very marked.
Anti-Footbinding, Another innovation is an anti-footbinding society. Thi with the Tien Tou Hui or the Cbristian Church. It has enrolled more than a hundred members, prominent representatives of the gentry. The members on joining pledge themselves not to bind the little girls and tou already bound, under tift To such, a silver medal being provided for out of the fees and private contribution the social reforms talked of China the present time, an their name is legion, there is none towards the relief of suffering and the! elevation of Chinese womanhood, than the anti-foot-binding movement. May it spread till every crushed and pain-rack-foot is given freedom to grow as a wire and loving Creator intended it should.
Unsatisfactory Bank Bill:
The uew provincial bank-bills which have recently been put into circulation not particularly popular here. They are known as Lung Pien Piao, It was intended that they should be current throughout he province, a most praise wor-by intention, but in this they fail, as those marked Tsingkiangpu, for instance, do not pass here at their face value. Que difficulty in the way seems to be that while the bills call fora thousand cash, each district has its own interpretation of what a thousand cash means. Hare it means nine hundred and eighty-eight and in every transaction, great or smal so.counted. In another place it wil be a few less and in ano!
The bill then "as a varying value and confusion is bound to be the result. An indispensable preliminary to securing their general use would seem to be the requirement by law of the use of a full thousand cash to the Tiso, and the!
8th October.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.