The rice crop (the second one this year) is an exceedingly good one, and the fields present an animated appearance. All who can carry sheaf are sharing the joys of harvest, and the weather delightful and health-giving that the very aged, together with the sickly, sit on the edge of the fields looking wistfally on the labours they would fain share, but which declining health forbids. No sooner is the rice removed than the field is raised in high ridges to answer the purpose of "dry" field, and immediately vegetables are planted. There is no rest for the land. Will land anywhere on the globe stand '80 much of this treatment as in China? Certainly nowhere could land stand more. of coolies is an emergency and temporary step taken at order of, Marshal Sun
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