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ELEPHANTS ARE STRONG ADVOCATES OF SHORT HOURS 



In Ceylon the beasts of labor are worked only during the morning. By noon they are 

 lying in the water of some palm-fringed stream, having their hides softened with plenty 

 of water and coconut husks, briskly applied. Pachyderms do not have tender skins, but 

 care has to be taken to see that thev don't crack. 



AN OPIUM POPPY FIEED IN FUKIEN PROVINCE 



In the spring of 1919, when this picture was taken, the Chinese burned millions of dollars' 

 worth of foreign opium in specially built furnaces at Shanghai ; but the Chinese war lords 

 of North and South induced the peasants in the region occupied by their mercenary armies 

 to plant opium poppy in order to afford quick revenue. 



