Things are going well in Shansi. This is cheering news for some places no doubt, for the well sown wheat, the abundant Autumn harvest and the crop of cotton, which seems to be almost a record, give cause for rejoicing. Labour is scarce, prices are high, but cash seems plentiful and every body, who. wants to be, fs busy.
Our motor bus service has been extended to Pingyangfu and the fares are being reduced. There are as yet few private motors on the road, and! one finds that would be car owners are deterred from purchasing by the recollection that this is a military road. From time immemorial carts and all other transport have been liable to be commandeered by troops on march. In the event of military movements in warfare or in peaceful manoeuvres would the Rolls-Royce or even the humbler Ford be exempt from compulsory military service on the Shansi military motor road? This is the query which is bulking large in the minds of those who are otherwise keen to avail themselves of the unquestionable benefits of this rapid travel now happily made possible by the rapidly improving system.
nother question on the lips of y to-day is, what is to be the future of our good Governor Yon? Ts any change contemplated which will mar or bring to an end the beneficent rule which Shansi has enjoyed and drag us down to the level of the other provinces gives the following strange ac-THE Hongkong Daily Press' count of a Chinese woman in the Colony who attempted to commit suicide in a most determined manner by cutting off her left hand and two of her toes:
To all appearance the woman died and her husband had the body removed to the Government mortuary in a dead box. There the caretaker—proceeded to remove the woman's clothing, when suddenly the woman rubbed her eyes, sat un and protested against the man's conduct. The caretaker was startled out of his wits and dived underneath a table where he shouted in a tremulous voice "Ghosts! Ghosts!"? Other attendants rushing into the mortuary also received a shock on seeing the apparently "dead"? woman sitting on the table. She was immediately—removed to the Government Civil Bos. pital where she is now progressing favourably. Up to the time of the removal of the woman to the mortuary, she had not been examined by a doctor and there is not. much fear that she would have been buried alive as the Medical Officer at the Mortuary would have examined the body before asking the Coroner to sign the order for burial,
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