Rain is yadly needed all over the countryside, The canals are very ow, and, unless rain comes speedily, there will be a serious loss all round: The mission schools are doing splendidly in this part of the world, and are well supplying real need. Undoubtedly the people are more fully awakening to the importance having their children educated. Some of them know from bitter experience the drawback of being un-fable to read or write, and are determined to do their best to prevent their children finding themselves] Jater on in a like predicament.
An amusing story is told of an old pedagogue. For years he carried on this village schoo).and_instructed many generations of youths in the: noble art of reading. and writing Chinese characters. A Chinese inspector with new-fangied ideas on education came along, and, finding that the old fellow was not sufficient Jy learned to explain the meaning of the characters to his pupils, told] thun he must shut up his school. It was not sufficiently up to date. With wrathful and righteous indignation, the old gentleman told the inspector to shut up himself. He was not going to shut up at his age, after so many years of useful work, Even he could not explain the meaning,
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