As your correspondent is staying at Chikangshang at present it might interest some of your readers to hear a little from this delightful summer resort. This is, perhaps, one of the most conveniently located resorts in China, only about an hour's walk, or chair ride, up the mountain side from the Sintien railway station on the Chin-Han Line, and yet of sufficient altitude, 2,650 feet above the sea, to ensure fresh, bracing air, and comfortable nights. The temperature usually keeps ten degrees beloir that of the plain, There are between 130 and 150 foreigners on the biti this year. Several now houses wore comploted early in the summer, and many more are planned for next year. An agreement between Consular Body of Hankow and the ese authorities has finally been arrived at, making it lawful also for the merchant' people to build houses and reside there. The large southern valley has been allotted for their use, while the missionaries alle the northern valley. The have Intter founded an association to take care of our welfare on the hill. The anneal meeting of that body was held on the 4th instant. The constitation was revised and enlarged to meet all requirements and emergencies, and Council of nine members elected.
This again has elected three working connmittees, one on roads, one to provide safe and' sufficient public wells, and one on sanitation. The last one. at least, is sure to have its hands full for the great problem of all such resorts seems to be how to keep them sanitary. The practice generally preferred by people appears to be to dump all kinds of kitchen refuse wherever it pleases the cook. And yet people wonder how wells can become polluted in such healthy locality and where the fly the soup, and the strange kind of currant in the pudding, come from.
This is the fifth summer of the existence of the Chikungshan community, and it has been different from the others, chiefly because it is only since last summer that the question of foreigners being here has been fully settled with the Chinese officials. There now six factories turning out large quantities of artificial camphor in France, Germany and Belgium and the cheap grade has invaded the American markets, Consequently it is believed that the revenue of the Formosa Government will be seriously affected this year, although extensive virgin camphor fields alternative thus presented suggests a nice question: Are we to encourage memorials for the sake of sculptors, or sculptors for the sake of memorials? But probably the anajority of persons will agree that there could be no better claimant for a statue than Dickens: and if British sculpture profits by the has been rapid development of the place in every way and a fine cut-stone chapel, Inrige enough to seat more than two hundred has been built. A meeting of several days has just closed. Miss Francis Brook of England was here and did much toward the: interest of the meeting. The China Inland Mission hss
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