From Our un Correspondent.
Chenchow Dee. 30.
LOTTERY Activity, Among the things that I noted on my recent trip to the North River and down to Canton is the fact that the Canton lotteries are especially active these days in Southern Honan. Men, women and children are using all. their spare pennies to buy lottery tickets. There is some agitation against the Contin lotteries and the officials are actually starting lotteries in opposition. If they could he done away with altogether it would be a great blessing to all. ost a coal famine in Chenchow this anton. Coal has risen to almost double its former price. The reason given is that the heavy rains flooded the mines, so that it was impossible to dig. There were no means of getting rid of the water and mines have
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