One of the city officials has recently committed suicide. For more than twenty years he has held the position of prefectural officer of instruction in this city, and was more than seventy years of age. His wife died s few years ago and, when on her deathbed, he promised her that he would help to support their daughter who had married into a family that had come to erty. The old man had been in the it of sending gifts of money from time to time to this daughter. This called forth Temonstrances from his daughters-in-law, and from his sons through their wives, who objected in Chinese fashion to the money going into another family. A few days they again showed their displeasure and since the old man sent more money and jo him unhappy. They succeeded too well for he hanged himself in his garden and was not found till he was quite dead.
25th March,
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