Problem of Drying Out the Excessive Water From Gur Own Correspondent.
Harbin, Jan. 23.
Thanks tq the amount of rai during the past season, the pre ent bean crop whose quantity average contains more than mount of means that it risky thing to ship to Europe owing to the necessity of these exports traversing the tropics, As there is w demand for beans} abroad exporters are naw endea-youring to find a proper method for drying them before they are sent out cif the country, Sp cially constructed drying sheds: have' been erected at Harbin and iked beans collected along the railway line will he brought here for treatment. Exporters have successfully approached the rai way administration for special freight. tariff for these beans, which will, have to" be twice handled before they can be sent to. Vladivostok.
It in stated. that though home contracts require that bowes shall Ihave no more than 14 per cent. of water, these soaked beans have us much "as 24 per cent. which not only means they are likely to Sweat when arm. climate reached, but also that. they" will produce less ai.
Thanks to the and' bean-oil "from inquiries for! both beans The celebration of the silver aqunivorsnry'of Bf. and Bie, 8, en sri a unique event in the annals of Chinese social life in Nanking. Mr, Wen is known locally as the popular and efficient Commissioner of Foreign Affairs fud Superintendent of Custom widely known, in Cline ttroad because of his work ta the fri case of the. captives Eincheng afar, his connoxi with the Washigton" Conference trid. otter public services, The celebrations began with a religious service in tie, Hubugial Pror ian" Church, of which Mr ele, on Sunday' afte. oon, "After the preliminary vices snd-an address "on "the Christian Home," 'Me, Wen' with Stes Wen beside him stood before
copying a front seay, and gave the audience "he sider children interesting. ead. remarkable testimony to what Christianity had dons for his heme, He deser Bed how that, according. to. old Girinese'eustors, he wae" married his father, ¥ithout his will content, und fan unlettered country" tasses Ay' Wo "begun ily and travel and is vision aged ho found her increasing. thought of - resorting to. the ox:
untongenial and time and again
Podient of giving hot. tie sheend pnco"and faking another wife But after his conversion, which be described, he saw things ina mew Tight "Ho realized the possibilities of " home sweetened by Christian-and of the wife of his youth, Drought hiv addrons to. a climax, aretponded nobly and be by saying with'pride, Here now my bride." And ona. who 1ook-let, ade Ind, Maar, [ed upon: the stately,, aristooratio,
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