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Tatum, another Tar Heel, was at Tiffin with us. Saw different
divisions of the school, the little Chinese boys and girls
singing religious songs for me, some Chinese, one English.
The English was excellently rendered and pronounciation sur-
prisingly good. Went out on the farms awhile. Cotton ^here^ is sown
in "lands" like wheat and cultivated but little. Stalks small and
yields likewise. What surprised me greatly was the number of
coffins lying all about in the fields, dead Chinamen in them!
They would make excellent sentries for a Southern melon-patch.
My Chinese tailor brought my new suit. It cost me $31 ($20 of it
Peking bills liable to 5% discount) and would probably cost
nearly that much gold at home.

November 24th.
Spent the day rewriting my Manchurian article till 5:00 p. m.
when I went to Union Church and heard a most delightful Thanks-
giving address by Dr. Amos P. Wilder, the American Consul in
Shanghai. It was a gem. The audience cheered his defense of
Roosevelt--the only applause in the course of the address. Beau-
tiful Thanksgiving music.

November 25th.
My Manchurian article completed, I mailed it and my article on
Industrial Japan to Raleigh for typewriting and I feel greatly
relieved at having them off my hands at last. Next called on Dr.
Wilder, American Consul, then on Harry De Gray and then on
James A. Thomas of the British-American Tobacco Co. Then went
out to Southern Baptist mission to tiffin with Rev. and Mrs.
A. M. Provence. He then took me over the mission school and
church, and out to the North Gate where the girls school is