of Rain From Our Own Correspondent, Mienchow, Sze., Sept. 17.
For the last week we have learning how much we are in the power of the weather. n almost incessant rain is taking place and it seems to be very general over the Chengtu plain and up here in the Mienchow' district. I have no news from the more hilly regions of Tongan and Mowchow, but judging by the condition of our two rivers they are also having rain in' the higher reaches; not excessive rain. however, the rivers are hardly what we should call "in flood."
Observers up here have begun to notice what Charles Kingsley noted during the great cholera outbreak of his time in England, that floods of rain appear to abate its virulence. When the churches were all hidden by the authorities to pray for fine weather Kingsley depreciated it on the ground that he was sure that the decrease in deaths from cholera was due to the so-called excessive rains, and that we were in danger of. pleading with Providence to change decrees which were wiser than we knew, These do not appear to be the views of jection to the Yunnanese, Their presence in the city was copie, the question arises—How the farmer, however. It may be tate to make their usual display, last? nullify Pnsiness. No Serhant bh long will the present deliverance that intelligent observers among The shops, for example, where gold bab Dinars Bob hil any nnaaliciied the educated Chinese hold them, and silver ornaments dazzled the] interesting sequel to an hon ae cee Memo The passersby, were now occupied by|-arabian Night" story, took place (Of, salesman whose wares were not! oq Sunday evening, after Lit Ch'ao ce the Any but stop the rice will be ruined: the f this rain doesn't foreigners. Th in evidence. The other divisions was well out of the city. who had helped to bring about the ungathered rice will soon not be Last spring when the fighting be-Yunnanese ascendency, also claimed worth gathering, the gathered rice uwveen the Szechuanese and Yun-is beginning to sprout. because there u right to be represented in Chéngta, "This arrangement, made com: yeather alarming reports came 7 Sun to diy it nanese was in the—balance, it." plications for the men in power, and Fro, the north how! an ex-traitors of yesterday might ture yaonancse bandit named A Chinese Agricultural Investi traitors to-morrow. chuan was marching southward with gation Society has been formed with 5 considerable forea: how hig forces
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