At the present time Mienchow is a sort of military drill ground. There are no high officials here, but considerable body of men is constantly at work drilling and the men are drafted on wherever they are needed.
A postcard written from the Christian University in Chengtu by a student to a boy here contains the following information "Last Saturday afternoon (Nov. 27) while many students were playing in the Park the soldiers who live there came, wishing to exercise in the playground. After a moment the soldiers caught the students and stroke them very hard; many of them were wounded, Then all the students of the city met together and went to see the Governor, Liu ''sen-hou, and asked him to punish them (the soldiers). He answered them with oil tongue. Therefore all the students of Chengtu stop their lessons for this. Our University agreed with them. Perhaps there will be no lectures this week from this afternoon."
A Dog Wirx a Bap Nang.
This is an indication of the sors of feeling that exists between the soldiers and the students. Wo shall probably all think it was silly of the students to strike. But the soldier is out-and-out a bully, and probably he realizes that having 10 reputation to preserve now it really doesn't matter what he does. Ho takes the woodwork of rice granaries to light his fire. He steals the householder's straw from the roof just as he is finishing his thatching. Ie takes the horse from the mill and leaves the miller to manage as best he can. He turns respectable citizens out of their houses; and stables his horses in their rooms, as may be seen any day on the street in Mienchow; and all this and much more equally disreputable in the sacred name of "The public welfare"
He is such a bully in fact, that even if for once he were in the right, probably no one would give him credit for it, And the pity of it is that there is no reason why he should be all these things. His relations are all of them poor folk who suffer from his extravagances; and he himself is a very ordinary person if you meet him as man to man and he happens to have no reason for thinking there is a necessity to assert himself for the public welfare: but once let him become impressed with that idea and there is no holding him. His Excellency Liu probably realized all these things when he answered with "oil Ir is announced that the Salva tion Army will start a campaign in Canton immediately under the leadership of Captain Ching Tien-kuan. bited without permission.
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