In this vicinity the people seem to live somehow. Those who are wealthy do not choose to live in Honan, but reside in Tientsin or elsewhere. Last week the writer was in the city where two former presidents of China have their homes-—but none of the members of these families dare to live there.
This place is still infested with soldiers, who make themselves a general nuisance in many ways, chiefly by commandeering carts, as far as we are concerned, As one goes about one feels a general uneasiness and suspicion toward the foreigner in the large places, but in the remote country districts there seems to be the usual friendly attitude.
In nearly all the country districts there is great activity among the members of the Hung Chiang Hui, or Red Spear Society. This is not by any means a new organization, in fact it may be just the modern dition-of the Boxers, but there is tthe present time great activity among them, and just what it all means, healdes the putting down of bandits, we would very much like know. 1
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