The poorer class are still from the past years of famine. Th had hard times during the "winter and had to borrow money. The other @ay T passed the pawn shop, and wondered at the great crowl of people, and on asking, got the answer, "On they are' pawning all their winter beds and clothes to get money, to carry them over till the flee fs Int Poor China!" Then the money has to. be pald out again, ere they can be warm for the winter, There is a promise of a good rice harvest, "Just as the fields were in great need of water, "it came. in abundance and all hearts rejoiced, Barley and wheat is very poor, how: ever, on account of too much rain ind that makes it all the more difl-
Former opium addicts who are now free from the habit, have got a new lease of life, and they go about with 'a spring and a joy in life, May China foun be entirely free from the hated
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