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Show NORTH CHINA MISSION New times are upon us, railroads thrive, (some lines are building even iu war-time), newspapers multiply, the public OPENING t r a v e l s - F o r t u e first time> foreign agents have m r N A penetrated to TECHOW, and even PANG-KIACHWANG, life insurance included. The last named find that the Chinese take out short term endowment policies only. They want to spend their own life insurance, and few take policies pay-ableat death. The doc. tor at TAIKUHSIEN has treated the toothache for an agent for " Williams Pink Pills" and furnished homemade bread to a Hebrew pearl merchant from Paris. From FENCHOW is reported the passing the oil fields of Shensi. These men are connected with the Standard Oil Company, the majority of them college and university graduates. The Company has a year to decide what oil fields in China it will develop. When this is determined, a company with a capital of a hundred million dollars is to be formed. S5'/o 0 I the stock is to be turned over to the Company, 37^2% is to be presented outright to the Chinese Government, and the remaining 7 T J % the Government may provide if they are willing and able to do so. This enterprise, if carried out, cannot fail to bring about enormous economic benefits to the people. Within the Mission, all things considered, the most significant event, aside from the reorganization, is the beginning of the transfer of the mission station of Pangkiachwang to PATVrK'TA Techow. As though picking their eyes out one rHWANr T O 'jyo l l e>theiiuinerousbuildingsatPangkiachwang TFCHOW have melted away, the timbers and tiles being carted to Techow, where the well-remembered labors of past years are continued iu many cases under literally the same roofs as of yore. Such a moving inevitably brings its problems, and almost RS inevitably has its humorous side. On the Yellow River Trail through of some eighty Americans to |