is the case also with the automobile industry, and even more so with the building industry, the figures for the latter are quite remarkable, perhaps aggregating last February. The situation in agriculture is the chief factor in the change of sentiment which has occurred since the first of the year has been the nuts in 161 cities. February in the Chinese Girl Takes Up Mechanical Training. Mrs. Winnie C. Chan of Shanghai, daughter of Ah Sing Chan, wealthy Chinese coal dealer, and the wife of M. C. Chan, a graduate of New York university and now a cotton mill owner in the Orient, has joined the New Bedford Textile school, where she is following her hobby—that of getting a mechanical education. Mrs. Chan hopes to return to her home in a brief time and help her husband as an efficiency engineer. Mrs. Chan would rather learn how to set an automobile engine together than lazily reclining in her millionaire father's sedan chair. In the above photo, she is seen operating a knitting machine. DOPE TEST FOR OFFICIALS Governor of Shansi Province Orders They Be Examined. In order to suppress the opium evil in the province of Shansi, China, Gov. Yen Hsi-shan has established an opium-smoking examination office.  In Taiwan for the examination of all military and civil officials of the province. They must present themselves for a medical examination at least once a week as to whether or not they are using opium or morphine. After four successive examinations, if all is well, the officials will be given by the examining doctors certificates showing that they are not addicts. 