The foreigner is prevented from initiating many simple-reforms because of the omnis: cient fungshni. Wo are being credited with the power of preventing tan by shaking our umbrellas and so dispersing the clouds! Some days ago I inspected the watershed of two rivers in order to discover the pos sibility of uniting two streams for irrigation purposes. After returning from the journey one of the rivers rose to a flood unknown for years, At once the foreigner was proclaimed to have '*opened the fountains." Barometric readings were described as charming the Lrg -((fii)
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