As an instance of the reverence and con-idence entertained by the masses around Nanking for H. E. Viceroy Lin K'un-yi, to whom they now lonk up as the saviour of che Yangtze Valley and the strong prorector of their homes, it may be stated that the local authorities of Nanking and other cities in the vicinity had been praying for rain, fasting, and prohibiting the slaughter of live stock in order to propitiate the god of rain for several weeks past already, bub all to no purpose. Tt was then that, at ther solicitations of the local authori and literati, H.E. the Viceroy to pray personally at the rain altars for the much desired beneficent showers, the farmers also pleading that such a' patriotic Viceroy and powerful friend of the people was surely a persona grata with the gods, who would be sure to listen to H.E.'s prayers on behalf of the Iand he has protected so well. This belief is now all the stronger in North Kiangsu, for on the very same day that the Viceroy visited the rain altars the refreshing rains noted above fell, and
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