Still another project is under way. Ithe road from this city to the Yang bank, a distance of about miles, rans on the top of @ dyke.
dimmeatt. to travel over tin wet weather. Mr. Wu, the agent for the [Standard Oil Yor. the district has generously donated $1,500 to oid in Surfacing the road. Long slabs of stone are now. lying along one the sides of the road, awaiting the Widening and raising of the cyke, fo\as to make the road wide enough fox"an automobile and, whesibarrows fo. pass. with ease, and igh enou Sssure that no. cods. will in the' near fulure go over it. The plan at resent is to put two rows of granite Slabs on each side of the road for fwheelborrover and to All inthe space] between. with broken. brick secured from rubble now blocking up. the Wwaste places and many of the roads Inv the city. "The. balance of the rubble will be Used in filing. in for widening as far az it goes. In this fay, two birds, will be killed by the' tone stone, as the elly is still anything but' a model ity for neatness and cleanliness. from Anking to fix. the city wall. Evidently the Governor, after making his tour of the Province, and seeing ]with his own eyes crop shortage in jso_many of the hsiens, became apprehensive that trouble from hordes Jot famine sufferers over-running, the province is almost inevitable. As the believes this to be so near, his orders for strengthening the ' city walls and whatever other fortifica~ ons there may be in the different hhslens are quite understandable. the worst comes, then Tet the country places bear the brunt, but save the ities. [If the workers on the city walls take time to think, and some them actually think," they will likely say.-among themselves the official and city gentry are getting lus to make them secure, while we, Hiving outside these walls, are left Jwithout protection to either life or Property." If, on the contrary, the city landowners are made to' pay for the work done, either in money fo rice, then there need be no com-Plaint, as the workers would be fed Wwhile'on the job. This, T think, is the plan outlined in the mind of the mayor.
Everything that can be done to! save expense in connection with the running of the government of the Hhsien, so as to have as much money jas possible for famine relief work, is being done. 'The latest is the gathering together under one root of the separate bureaux of Education, Finance, Reconstruction, and Police. Instead of four offices, only one now has to be looked after. 'True, the original object of the change' was Hfor efficiency, but by the change 30) per cent. of the former expense for Tunning these four bureaux is now Jsaved and will be available for helping to stem the tide of hungry hordes of human. beings.
Tu a previous article, mention wat made of a mob of over 1,000 men, women and children, members. of the families of over' 900 recorders whom Mr. Liu had discharged, gathering around the yamen and crying Jout "you have taken away our only means of support, what are you going to do to help' us?" At that time Me. Liu promised to do what he could. Tu the meantime he consulted this superiors and received the answer "Do nothing for them. They have been robbing the community for so tong that they should have saved enough for themselves" That mob has not returned. Likely the visit Jot the governor and his endorsement fof all that Mr. Liuhad done, will prevent their return. But if. they
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