Szechuan seems, sometimes, too far away from the rest of China yo be kept in touch with. However, its wealth and the increasing ease with which it is being reached by steam navigation, demands attenvian. The strange fact is that. even at its distance, it has always demanded attention. During the Taiping rebellion, Szechuan alone of all the Yangtze provinces remained loyal to the court, created new waxes, and furnished the court with funds with which to suppress the rebellion. And at that time the official of Szechuan was a Cantonese who double-crossed the Cantonese, Hung Ssu-chuan, who led the rebellion. Now Szechuan is more in the limelight than ever before. Hsiong Keh-wu seems well-known, too, all over China. Wherever T have heard him mentioned, it has always been with the greatest appreciation of his intellect, his foresight, his simplicity and frankness, Ovr story of the lady who was nearly attacked by a water snake in the swimming pool at Mokanshan has drawn forth the following message from the Railway -Hotel manager -at Mokanshan:—"Please contradict report re snake in hotel swimming pool. Dead snake about 7 feet long seen on road dead near Association swimming pool. The Association swimming pool is about one mile away from the Railway Hotel." Well, we shall have sce our informant again, who was ungetatable yesterday. Meanwhile this for the allaying of unrest,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.