Hangchow Sept. 12.
Hangchow has a reputation for tigers. In the environs of the West Lake, Vu Song's grave keeps green the memory of his tiger hunting ex-plaits. In another part of the prov-nee, Chen Kong, of historic note, was, famous for taming these fierce striped quadrupeds. Of Pienchuang Tsi, it is said he speared five of these beasts and Yangshang, a model of filial vir~ tue, gripped a tiger by the scruff of the neck and saved his father from a dreadful death. The magnetism of ome men, especially of a renowned doctor, was such, that It is said, caused the dragon, to submit and humbled the tiger." White tigers and Black tigers abound, 50 the people say, for these are figurative of sharp Business men who buy cheap and sell dear and are not averse to turning over a few dollars in any kind of nefarious deal.
Tt is the "Autumn Tiger," however, which ig bothering the people these @ays. This is a pictorial way of referring to a heat wave which often follows the summer when hot days fare supposed to be over. For the best part of a week the glass has registered well over 90, and to-day, the Mid-summer Festival, or "Quarter Day" when debts are collected and rents pald, the sun's fierce rays cut through the air and smite with terrifte heat. Everyone longs for the cooling showers to trangullze the What a contrast is the city to the wide spaces of mountain air and the infinite blue of Mohkanshan, The holidays are over and this" famous summer resort reports a thin season. The favourable exchange drew away a great many visitors to Japan and ce sequently many houses were not opened at all.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.