Anking, July 27.
During July and August the local: ¥. M. C. A. is conducting a free dispensary. The special funds for the purpose were secured by selling tickets to a series of popular entertainments, including folk-dancing givin by girls from Mission and Goverament schools, Chinese boxing (a reviving art in this city), and motion pictures. The American Church Hospital_supplies medicine, bottles, etc.® at cost, "while the eight foreign-trained doctors which the city boasts (all Chinese except one) give their services trea.
This clinic is open daily, except Sunday, from 8.30 to 10.30 for the benefit of r people only, and the steadily increasing number of patients, now between 50 and 60 new ones daily, attests to the fact that not only is this service genuinely appreciated, but that superstition, which is such a powerful influence, is being broken down.
The mint which has been shut down for more that three months on account of a deficit of some $500,000, is now being reopened. The new manager, Mr. Chou, has assumed the deficit and, as soon as a supply of silver can be obtained, will begin to turn out' dollars and 20- cent pieces. It is to be. hoped that the latter may be full weight, for the local merchants are still refusing to accept those minted under the former management.
During the past month of rainy weather, tennis, the usual means of recreation here, has been out of the question, there fore a five-hole golf course has been laid out on St. Paul's High School grounds which has provided both recreation and amusement for that part of the foreign community which has not already gone away for the summer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.