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Show your l i f e , well Bad food, he and his ^ay live off your bounty the rest of their l i v e s ,; but if yea die while his hand i s upon you, your family s i l l be privileged to throe themselves on hia and his f s a l ly foreveraore. So you see i t ia a great risk! -./hen our men returned from the searah for the festive aula, they brought with thaa a te i :mo aaa BOt afraid of serfc for R price- Litters were lifted from their paraa, aai after s due amount of shouting our caravan was re^dy tor a aaa s t a r t . This time wa meekly retraeed our steps to the real ae had been advised to take. Instead of riling for awhile, ae preferred to wali, far I t .vas ae trick to keen up eitfl the steeds, .Later we reds again. Ail this Selay Bade us l a t e in arriving at the half-way pleee* the school-houae where aa had stopped for the; night in Suly. It aa nine o8clock before we could have food or r e s t . It in ail in a lifetime! In China aa gat SB used to the unogpeatad, ,k simply laugh aad count i t aaa mors thing te remember, You will ask why rt aero trying to cross irrigated fields any way. Oh, that ia the say to do. Your farm if sat fenced, and i f our drivers see a chance to saws a l i t t l e distance by crossing i t , that is Aiat they All d.o. • Do you mnizr that read a had to be SBjfcj!e before "autos" could function? The hsmp and the buckwheat (the l a t t e r ia h%*m) were luxuriant wYxev® we had ?&en the wheat ia July. Our drivers had had their w*$ that f i r s t day, ana X determined to have a l a s the hext! I decided that .Then *e crossed the Highway we should travel tne rest of the way to Taiku en i t . lay should we not have some goad of i t as as .Tare not in certs? And as sa .fere paying for tho sxpeiitiea, sa hsi i right to say That as -fished to g*. My use of th® Ctunese language aaa none too. proficient, and of Shansi sialeet less so, but the men indorswooi * A, t I s a i l , gmeh i* they ^eteaded set to. They leaked blank and assured me *».. J spiffs: • s is* Sisn'jsr; ::,:•;•"; ra;tt- 8"- - «the capital to vote on a aartaie . „ » „ " « A by a ° * , f « « « •••«•* in Hie workings inside a Chinose brain a r e T i n ^ A w n r u Z k k ' k e ar'd ~ w •"*« through mud instead of going on , ? . £ % < * « I t , ? ! T , ~Z ' " * • * F r e f e r ** >"•' road after a.rhile tc c r L ft (thong I Ts0 kn« t ^ t « h ^ T **** a 8 . " " " ^ * *** instead of to the ieft so they had i v o i a . , " « , " £ to t J , i » t ^ " ^ T " ' V * " ^ have croEeea i t , had re come d i r e c t , . " * , f tta *"• P1***1 *• •*§*« In our country "State Boais' and "Cent* l a i . « „ , ..... This rule „ « , to hold good also i n C h i " " % « " o i n ! I l 1 1 " ^ T * * +"° " ° i t y Pa™*«*«" »e pas3.,i through in one vi-iagc. ihTToP „?*'£ t % f * * ""UtS m i nlth* »»d hole, "One fay Road." It 1. • «,.»£ A 7 '' 5 "J 0 , l a r r 0 " t«r cart* to .ass. y»s . head and brace, bin 3i f t A n ^ A ^ t A ^ 4 A * ? " " » ' H« « • * • ^ *««£ - Then he s^ilea and r e n a a b ^ t h t t t h ^ i . A ^ U "" " " •Ttlea t h e * h « ^ ro0 Jn throu£h. Ri£ h t before 8Laber 01^ho,Hi£ 2^T, BUt tt' P° ! ' r ™U» h S ' e ^ L ( land , i t h bo,l„ »., «*or 3ticke, t , k „g t h e i r ^ f i n t h / ^ E < T t U n S ' M t h 8 y d 0 i n **•« Eoth.r, n , a h o i . b e f o r e }fle ^ ' M f l i i f 7 t - ,s w e e t * h s r s th«y c a n S ' ^ I P tn- Hie bnrt ran | 0 W . S , i t u t:ii aliy t J » J J * • ! • » • » ^ t i rn. going headfirst nfUr h S. "P- It «eaed to ffie the >oor brutB raAAA.T v*1*^ u n : i ' ' r iUal t u a * * eouii n.t »* ••uli be eztricnted. ' UtB roU" b r ' J , K « « » bo,ia 1„ 9 V a i y x h, h a d J^« fa,t |