Governor Yen is at' present afield in the province on a tour of investigation and lecturing. He visited this district two weeks ago. His immediate purpose seems to be two-fold, namely to exhort the people on the subject of smoking opium (or "chin tan'') and to encourage the villages in the line of self-government. As to the first purpose, it must be regretfully acknowledged that there is still a wide-spread use of foreign smoke," principally in the form of the "golden pill? (chin tan.) The severely repressive measures of a few years ago, which filled all the local gaols with grumbling smokers, have been succeeded by the method of exhortation, agitation in the newspapers and a general effort to
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