is already being felt throughout the province, Propositions by local officials in two fu cities have already been made to miesionaries residing there, looking toward the establishment of prefectural high schools, Te must be borne in mind though, that while Governors and other provincial officers may exert themselves tu t se utmost, yet, without Tmperial sanction, all these endeavours may, in the course of a few years, come to naught, That such sanction will be given, con amore, by the same authority, which less than two years ago, issued strict injunction to all the provinces to adhere to the farmer methods, and see that no rout of reform should spring up to trouble her, seems about as probable as the old conun-Grum of the Ethiopian and his skin or the leopard and its spots.
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