It has been very dry, and the people have been fearful for the wheat, but a yood rain has come to-day and in plenty of tim During this dry time, the offici ned people have use many devices to show tu the dragon god that they re vewery much in earnest in their prayers for rain, The slaughter of pork was forbidd-: n, of course, and for some deys we wer yelled to be vegetarians. Pieces of ps with prayers for rain were hung up under the eaves of all the stores, For six days the two suu'hern sates of the city have been kept fas closed with the desire of rejecting the southern dry influences and courting the rains from the north, Isth April.
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