The rice has now been harvested all through the district and both as to quali tity. One man remarked. ' There is not the least fault about it." But, unfortunate this is not the case in every North-east from here in the Cheng-yang bsieo, for instance, the millet and other grains have been drowned out almost entirely. And this is their third bad year now. It takes a great amount of patience for the poor people to be content. The immense plain which stretches 1,500 ¥ all the way to Peking, broken only by the Yellow
pescrdaalae It pet Rta bre] halves, begins half a day' Joataey River which divides it into two great
perhaps, most ly _popal plain in the world, Being level as a Dakota prairie with all the main outlets for superflaons water silted mp, it consequently takes bat a few days' pouring rain to flood it. Just now rain has again set in and roads are impassable, all through this profectare at least, With a few practical men with their minds set on real bossiness what could not the government, central or provincial, or even local officials, do to alleviate the sufferings and hardships of these wretched people? And in many 1d] instances it would not require mach work.
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