Chaokiang, Oct. 16.
The autumn harvests have not been good. Maize, buckwheat and oats are far below the average, Rice, which is one of the minor crops, promics well except in places where floods have destroyed the crops. The destruction that emall rivers make in a year of abnormal rain is terrible and there is a great work to be done in the fature i bringing these rivers under proper control. so persuaded me that I tried Cuticura Ointment, four boxes, and four cakes of Cuticura Soap, which proved to be the bet things for me and com-They cured me in sil uy mani jetely cured me. dtter Bee long St In severs! places the people are trying to force the hands of the officials in the matter of opium growing. The price of the drag is so high that it ie a great temptation to the farmers to cultivate it. Unless the officers show more energy than they are now showing there will be a grest set back in Yunnan to the cause of opium reform, It would be s great blessing for the whole China' men would earnestly tarn their attention to the rooting out of the cause
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