Science or Superstition for Silk:
Gangs of Burglars: Everything Taxed From Oun Owx Connesronoewr, Kashing, Che., May 1.
The month of April has passed with the least rain-fall for many Canals are so: low that are finding difficulty in reaching the market towns without dividing cargo. With good spring, crops of vegetables the country people are now busy in preparation for silk worm Instead of scientific selection and culture, at Sinchang ten miles northwest the population for miles round libeld a great idol procession to get the good will of the gods supposed to be in charge.
At Yeh-zah on the railway, however, some eggs have been imported which they say are French tested from Italian sources, but, more likely, Japanese.
'As opium is expensive, more wine and liquors are being sold than' ever before observed. Drunken men are seen more frequent!
Local orators had great scope for eloquence in memorial services for Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Excepting among agitators, very. little -anti-foreign feeling is manifest.
Raw recruits in. soldiers' camps drill incessantly, they are_ getting ready for something—no one actually know just when the next war will start.
Our city fathers have cleaned out jour main canal and are trying to raise money for a new bridge to the east gate railway station.
The Southern Presbyterian Thirty Year Anniversary celebration begi on May 3.
'A gang of very clever burglar: operating. Their work seems indicate that they have had Shang. The police say that boats are used to transport stolen goods. The railway is too strict for an easy escape. Recently, one of the gentry and a contractor remarked that the people were getting restless against authority any sort, taxes now being excess sive and extending to practically everything. Wall posters and even handbills are assessed for a licence fee.
Our two city daily newspapers are competing for public favour.
Electric lights are so popular that the power plant has had to be enlarged.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.