The recent two weeks' dry weather thas assured tha careful gathering: in of the autumn harvest. Judging from the grain market prices it not an average but rather a scant harvest and following a poor whea harvest presents a hard outlook for the poor this coming winter. Black meal and corn meal is selling at a higher price than white flour was in the autumn of last a The Merchants Guild reports ear,
show that this year compared with tha same period of last year has! about 60 per cent. last year's total business turnover. The business men all complain of a tendency to! hoard both money, grain and other products in all classes, especially the rural and village people. Business is more depressed than in the, famine year—autumn of 1920 and) spring 1921.
Now, as never before, there is distinct desire for school education. The old type of education, viz., recitation of Chinese classics{
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