Famine relief is proceeding in about 20 hsiens, but the wonderful resources of the country are seen in the comparative absence of starved looking people. In one way and another people are keeping alive, although multitudes subsist on the poorest possible fare. On the other hand evidences, of wealth abound. The wheat harvest has not even realized the poor hopes expressed earlier in the year. Good showers have been general tha last few days and prospects are now encouraging. It is remarkable too, notwithstanding recent agitation against cotton growing on account of the diminution of reserve food stuffs, that this year much cotton has been sown and the officials encourage this. It was understood that recent cotton crops went chiefly to Japan, too.
We are certainly reminded of the increasing power claimed by the students. Recently the police man at the city gate remonstrate ed with the driver of a night soil cart, that it was forbidden to ply his calling in the city after 9 am. The policeman added mild force to support his words.
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