tary rule in quite strict as to the soldier if he takes his gun along with him. The penalty is death by: shooting, administered by the military and not by the civil off ial as when bandits are executed.
This has not the stigma of disgrace that adheres to decapitation. One recently deserted the ranks, a young, tall, striking looking fellow, who was fool-hardy enough to offer his gun for sale in the country. Te is contrary to law for a civilian to possess a gun without oficial permission, so the country folk feared to purchase a fire-arm, and_someone informed on him and he was captured by the soldiers. He was not killed in the west, at the regular execution grounds but was taken to the north, followed by a company of soldiers and lered of spectators. The body wi immediately interred.
'The kaoliang ix now in its! primes, the" time is ripe for adits. 'They conceal themselves in the millet' and" prey upon the pesters by, though not many pass for all know the danger. M law-abiding become bandits in kaoliang time.
What the bamboo is to the south this millet, in some measure, is to! Shantung and north Riangsu. The Stalks grow from to 8 toil ft. in eight and while not so strong as! the; bamboo it has strength enough {fo be used for partitions between the rooms in the houses; as an under support to the thatched roofs; for protection as around small gardens; as "springs" for beds, and other wes, also for There is an effort here at Tenghsien to introduce the dwarf Kafr corn from the U.S.A. and some has this more grain but the stalk is hardly. two feet in height. This will make the farmer slow to accept the sub: talks for fuel, fas wood is searce and coal expensive and difficult to handle.
Of, all species of the vegetable kingdom we entire to' affirm without the fear of contradiction that the sweet potato heads the list for growth, The sweet potato is grown ips, and not from the root ish potato. The slips are by sprouting to potato in'
rebared places, and then cutting these sprouts into short Slips—sometimes no more than one eat being left.
'These are stuck into small' mounds of earth dwell. watered at the time of Janting. Then it is there will be a rain, but rot those slips grow as if by' magic inthe brightest sunshine, and in about three months time the [Potatoes are harvested.
Tt seems impossible for them to resist the burning sun but they do. Tt any other plant will do this ye, tt Tenghsien would like to The sweet potato is raised in quantities but {x not considered one the best foods, short in calories, recording to the' Chine And no invited guest is ever: given sweet potatoes. tended to—so, long as the ternal ame is kept burning here—so long, will Japan endure.
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