Prom @ar Owa Correspondent.
Kiungchow, Dee. #1 The year closes in Shansi with many disappointments. It opened with good hope of advance in railway construction, industrial devel-lopment, and in social reform: at the end of the year the record is practically "little attempted, nothing accomplished.
One notices the steady reversion in matters of government to the methods of the last dynasty. Edu. cation follows suit Commerce in all branches is impeded in ever; direction by lack of public spirit and discouragement on account of the long record of failures in al most every public scheme.
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