These showers have been so extensive that from all directions there comes the same report of a fine wheat crop which is just now ripening for the sickle. The other cereals have also got a good start and there is every indication of a fine autumn harvest if it is not spoiled by the summer. rains or floods. It is two years since the people of this great plain had a good harvest, and many of them have been reduced almost to a state of absolute beggary and to living on the most meagre and meanest allowance. It will be a pleasure to any who go about the country to see signs of plenty again among the villages and hear the merry laughter of the children once more.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.