We are informed that work is!
Mr, Wang was most earnest in preventing the planting of opium, so that it is safe to say that hardly any was planted in this county last year. The new magstrate has also issued his proclamations, prohibiting the planting of the drug, so that this county will be free of it for at least another year. However, those opposed to prohibition can use all they wish, for the sale is wide] open, though the opium dens still keep in back rooms. The use has again come very general and it is again good form to urge your guest to have a smoke. At Jost feasts, even among the women, there are usually. several couches ready with lamp and pipe, and few apologize for the return of the enslaving habit.
The official attitude -here anent. planting is in marked contrast to Jenshow: Sapie ets that in the adjoining county' of about to be commenced upon the new government middle school. In former letters I mentioned the site was involved in a lawsuit a gentleman who has built a house on a portion having illegally bought it from the priest of a public-owned temple who had no authority to sell. This summer, the case still being before the courts, or possibly forgotten by them, this gentleman Jattempted to do some more building. This aroused the ire of the gentry who took along some and tore down a portion of his compound wall. The former magistrate, knowing he was soon to vacate office and being a close friend of this gentleman left the matter over for his successor to deal with. Now, though the case has not been judged, the other side to the dispute are to.go ahead with their building.
The school, which is to accommodate 400 pupils, will be built
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