have no such sympathy for helpless animal life as we possess. This afternoon we visited the Central park, a pleasure part near the Forbidden City. Here are kept a paddock of papi's deer & stags but all the B's were hornless having had the horny sawed off when in the wild for sale as medicine a profit &c. affix for the park authorities. Somebody says the deer are farmed for this purpose in some localities. In the park are tea houses, cakes, flower beds, juniper pine, eta, & many better than Chinese men I can see here. It was sad to note the absence of lovers in the shaded walks. The big ropes were never seen together like women walking in pairs or trios of the men