Tayeh has not distinguished itself by anything unusual. That perhaps is a great distinction in these times. The schools here scarcely showed themselves aware of a, "student movement' and such ripple hhere when waves and storms were passing over other seats of education soon subsided. No bandits have hitherto thought us worth thei attention. We lie far from the routes of marching armies. The crops here have been rather bad but spare favourably with many away.
The ironworks down by the Yang.. tze have had a hard struggle—a run of bad luck one might say. At last what was feared hus come to pass: the shortage of-coal has caused the furnace to be closed. It is now banked and smoldering only and producing no ore. To let the fire' go quite out would entail a still greater loss. This has thrown hundreds out of work. It is said that robberies occur almost nightly and respectable people are apprehensive of worse things when winter comes.
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