Early autumn finds the country round about. Huchow looking its best, Wherever one may travel, anong the hills or over the plains, ie would be impossible to imagine amore beautiful or & more pros peross-looking region. The grain fields are stil green and luxuriant, with only here and. there a {aint sign of ripening yellow; the freet ave at the height of a lush and Isty- attractiveness; and trees and waving grain, hills and sweeping plain, diversified by silvery canals, nil together make x scene of surpansable ch The farmers are in good spirits for the frst harvest was good, and there is now every prospect of the later harvest being equally good, oF better, 'The summer season has, fact, been most satisfactory to the general public. 'There has been no flood, no drought, no protracted. heat. Business and' transportation have been possible without inter ruption by adverse natural forces The bandit menace, so conspicuous and omnipresent during the last winter und spring, appears to have vanished; at least since June there has been no trouble reported from this source, and boats travel safely even at night, Beyond Tsang: hsing to Ube northwest there hits intely been & temporary scare be= cause of a band of disorganized and wandering soldiers, These, were quickly rounded up that all is once ies Can Be Forgotten Huchow polities is a subject now scarcely heard in ordinary. conversation, In tea shops, staurant, and wherever men gather the talk is of local affairs, Casket.
ing hole leading to the Empress The main hole lei into the grave of the Emperor Chien Lung. business, crops, and the thousand and one things that concern men in their struggle for existence sand persons who in three hours, killed themselves The heat and humidity has been blamed for this. Two of the victims were women and three men. The first threw himself in front of a train, about half an hour later, an overhead electric train snuffed out the lives of a man and a woman who obviously had made a death pact, The man was about 23 years of ayo and the girl but 18 In the girls sleeve was a note saying that, they were in love with—each other and did not expect their families to consent to their marriage, they had decided to dic. Some minutes later, the driver of a train, sensing that something was wrong, stopped his train and investigated. The engine and several carriages had run over the body of a woman who also complained, in a letter found on her, of the futility of present-day life and said she was glad to end it all. The last of the victims of this insensate self-destruction was 2 man who threw himself under the vheels of the Shimonoseki express us it was on the borders of Tokyo city.
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