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simultaneously with the dearth in
India, a famine is raging in the north of
China but while the care and energy of
the Indian government reduces the dis
tress in the former case to a minimum,
people are dying by thousands in China
of sheer starvation. The scenes of the
chief distress are in the north and east,
in the extreme north of kiangsu, in
Shantung, in Pechili, and in Shanse
and from S%hantung especially the ac>
counts are heartrenderipg. The whole
tract of country suffered last summer
from severe drouth, which nearly de-
stroyed the crops and the peasantry,
having eaten what little grain they had
in store, or were able to gather, are re-
duced to the last stage of want. The
people are eating grain husks, potato
stalks, and elm bark, buckwheat stalks,
turnip leaves, and grass seeds, which
they gather up in the fields. After
these are exhausted they pull down their
houses and sell the timber, and many
eat the rotten sorghum stalks from the
roof. They sell their clothes and chill
dren. Having no clothing left to pros
tect them from the cold, many take
refuge in pits underground to keep them
selves warm by the fetid breath of the
crowd. In the east surbubs of Chinge>
how city there are four such pits. One>
third of the number (240) originally put
into them are now dead within six
weeks, and no ooner is a corpse carried
out than a crowd are struggling for the
place. Villages of 500 families report
800 dead of starvation villages of 300
report 100 dead.
Almost the whole province of Shan>
tung is suffering but the suffering of
eight hien districts is said to beyond de-
scription, and as each contains an
average of 1000 villages, the thousands
who have already persisted may be too
readily conceived.
The government are doing next to
nothing to relieve the distress. They
have allotted only $4,000 for the whole
of these eight districts-a mere pittance
for such a calamity.-L0ndoR Times.
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horse nfei " D W. opened with pftfer
boo 10 will not be in mY days. W y0uff
either young maH People ~ ~ the
fafc Turks and boy pools On The hUfaes,
in order ~ paftate ~ The excitement ~
Che faces The poJl4sellefs Iay she rec
ing associations large sums i0f The PRIV
lege " selling pools. and Che money en-
abies the association ~ oler large purses
and stakes ~ be c%0ntended ior. The
large stakes induce the owners 0f the
finest horses to enter and run for them
and this tt IL that makes fine racing, and
makes the race track attractive and pop
ulaf. Take sway the privilege Of selling
poOls, and the associations, thus deprived,
will be compelled to eurtail The size Of
their stakes and purses This will pre-
vent the owners Of the best horses from
entering them for competition, for II 10
costs tour, five or six hundred dollars 70
train ahorse for racing, you are not going
to enter him for a stake Of halt, or even
the whole. Of that amount. lftirst.Class
horses do not contend for the prizes, the
public will not patroBize the course,
racing will fall into decrepitude and the
consequence will be that it will no longer
be profitable to breed the finest kind of
horses, for their price will decline so that
it will materially interfere with the in
come OF stock raisers all over the country
This is my opinion at present, but the
result may be to build up racing to an
u~nthought of extent outside of the state
of New York, and may induce the own
ers of the best stock to run it more in
the west and south" "What effect will
the passage of the bill have upon Mr..
Chamberlin's fortune ~ said |. "Why
it will be his salvation" was the response.
OF course all the New York meetings
will be run as advertised and announced
this year; next year is when the pinch
will begin; but | would not be surprised
if the meeting at Long Branch was one of
the most brilliant OF any eve held in
the country, for the New Workers will
bet on their t~avorite horses, and this
meeting will afford them the nearest
chance to do SOL Cincinnati Enquirer.
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scientific Interest fbf mlieet iielHa
FH iio relations between maf1fi1 vel.
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Table tIngl1ms in mo- ioHef Forms ~
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flfH. Vleia believes wll ho '0uHd w ihc
AaeaLLal Aaaa a "eaLlnlat d~aaellnment 10
nI4at Iife. where che anImal ahd vfgr't
ila are almost identical. passing In sumo
Instances if1m me mo kingdom iht0 Che
other with tho facility NJ a nero change
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IN DE ascendibg plle NJ fbe great line
NJ demafmtiOu which hflt develops T.
aeli, it the aii important feet that the
refuse ~ tire ono ia The life " The other,
This led him 10 infer that somewhere in
this border line between these two great
kingdoms ~ nature there must b. a just
equilibrium " the normal elements ~
vitality. the destruction Of which may
be- the true cause Of most Of tho evils
which have been entailtd upon our
existence. In great cities he said, the
surroundings u nature are removed and
the equilibrium Of the natural forces Il
destroyed by the preponderance Of
animal life.
Malaria, he said, signifies bad air,
while miasma has been more sharply
defined as infection floating in air but
no definition, however full OF precise,
can give anything like an adequate con
ception of the wonderful potentially and
universal presence of the morbihc prin-
ciple which is known Ms malaria. Mas
matte or malarial diseases include all
those specific disorders which are
contagiously or which may become cpl
demic, and to these are due nearly three
ffths of all the deaths which take place
throughout the world. After referring
to the fact that the physical health OF
all human beings improves in the
atmosphere of the country where vegeta-
ton fourishes, Gen. Niele spoke of Prof.
yndaI'sdemonstration that even minute
particles of the air are vital organism
developed under favoring circumstances
into actual living creatures. In this one
simple experiment, he said, is the whole
secret of cOntagiOn.
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Themselves being obliged after . time To-
construct iutrnchments 30 Withstand
fbe counter attacks directed against
them. Unable 70 drive back the invad.
ing force the Russians desisted from any
further active measures against 1t, but,
bringing a strong h0tilla Of gunb0ats up
the Danube, to prevent supplies being
carried across the river into the Turkish
camp on the left bank, they quietly
awaited events The provision Of the
Turkish force, thus completely isolated,
unable 10 advance because Of the Russian
force in front Of IL, unable to retreat be
cause of the hotilla which e%iIectuallY
prevented any bridge being thrown
across the river. soon began to run short.
The weather became cold but there
was no fuel with which to kndle fires.
Under these circumstances the sufierings
Of the men we're very great. For some
time there was horsehesh, but it had to
be eaten raw, as even the tent poles had
been cut up and burned. Hundreds
died daily, and their comrades had not
strength to bury them. Disease was
consequently soon added to famine, 50
that when finally, on the Sth of Deem
Der, peace was concluded, but four
thousand men, who are described as be-
ing but living skeletons with scarce sut-
fcient strength to stand upright, were
left out of the thirty thousand who
three months before had crossed the
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X .r.aH large farming busiuf aud
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n fbs rear. ADD III ~ tho urine would
#, n, the back part Here left an
.afqg into che manufe she'd and mad
w,f,r tieht floor descending from both
~ IN, the centre IN the centre, and
sIsr thfs hoor1 placed q tight trough
, mntvipg into the cistefn. Upon this
Ill, M manure was thrown every day
~, tLe stables. The liquid in the els.
ten was pumped over the manure two
\, three times q week, and all tbesurplus
,.birb was not absorbed by the manure,
mn hack into the Cistem. When the
, otcr was exhausted, an additional
Quantity was supplied. BY this method,
,1t the animal excrements, both SOLID U
liauid. we're preserved.
The effect of this mode Of procedure is
H. nreserye the whole of the manure
without exposure to the sun or the rains,
I.nd thus evaporation and washing away
Eore both prevented, and, consequently, a
large saving of the most valuable parts
.of the manure. The direct effect OF this
salt and lime mixture upon the manure
is to hasten decomposition, while all the
'properties of the manure are preserved,
10 destroy the terminating power of foul
seeds, which usually are such a terror to
the farmer, and to reduce the whole mass,
coarse or fine, to such a condition as will
enable the workingmen to handle and
use it as they would ground gypsum, or
any other fine fertilizer. Whenever the
mass becomes warm, and likely to "fre-
fang" set the pumps to work. and a qui-
etus will be placed on it at once. have
generally kept in the stable a barrel of
ground gypsum, which | have sprinkled
around the stalls two or three times a
week, which prevents the rising of the
carbonate of ammonia from the decom-
posing excrements, in the stable, which
is 50 destructive to the eyes and lungs of
horses. By this process, an almost I'M
limited amount of the very best manure
may be made on the farm in a year.
And the beauty of the operation is, that
you know of what it is composed, and
ton DOR ton, is worth more than any arti-
fetal fertilizer which you can buy at
from $50 to SO per tom. ]. M0Dcs.
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Evils of GOssip.

| have known a country society which
withered away to nothing under the dry
rot of gossip only. Friendships, once as
firm as granite, dissolved to jelly, and
then ran away to water only because of
this; love that promised a future as en-
during and as stable as truth, evaporated
into a morning mist that turned to a
days long tears, only because of this; a
father and a son were set foot to foot
with the fiery breath of an anger that
would never cool again between them !;
and a husband and a young wife, each
straining at the hated lash which in the
beginning had been the promise of a
God blessed love, sat mournfully by the
side of the grave where all their love and
all their Joy lay buried, and all because
Of this. i have seen faith transformed
to mean doubt, joy give place to grim
despair, and charity take on itself the
features of black malevolence, all be-
cause of the fell words of scandal, and
the magic mutterings of gossip. Great
crimes work great wrong, and the deeper
tragedies of human life spring from the
larger passions; but woeful and most
mournful the shipwreck often made of
noble natures and lovely lives by the
bitter winds and dead salt waters of
SANDER. So easy to say, yet so hard to
disprove-throwing on the innocent all
the burden and the strain of demonstra-
ting their innocence, and furnishing them
as guilty if unable to pluck out the
stings they never see, and to silence
words they never ~hear-gossip and
SANDER are the deadliest and cruelest
weapons man has ever forged for his
brothers. heart.--AH The Year Round.
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How Ewes Grow.

Few products of nature are more in
tercsting than a sound, fully developed
eye. By the aid of a good microscope it
is easy to see and count some seven thou
sand lenses, admirably set to receive light
from all directions, in the eye of a COM
mon house fly. Until quite recently,
and after the facts of evolution had been
carefully studied, it was believed hat an
eye not only suggested, but revealed the
handy work of an architect quite as
clearly as a watch or a steam engine.
Now, men of science have little doubt
that the beautiful and wonderful mechan-
ism of the eye in all its varieties, grows
like a hundred thousand species of plants,
and a much greater number of animals,
from an inherent, active force in matter.
This change of method does not detract
from the creative energy of the great
first cause. The origin of life is still a
mystery, but not the origin of eyes, ears
and the organs of sense. Democritus,
two thousand three hundred years ago,
recognized the existence of a general
sense of touch from which all the senses
are slowly developed. In this idea we
see the germ evolution.
Fish have been found in the
dark Mammoth cave of Kentucky
with no eyes. They had no use
for eyes, and they ceased to grow.
If light produces eyes, as it does green
leaves on trees and grass, the question is,
how? Tyndall, who has stabbed the
properties of light more closely than
most scientists, says: The action of
light, in the first instance, appears to be
a mere disturbance of the chemical pro.
cesses in the animal organism, similar to
that which occurs in the leaves OF plants.
By degrees the action becomes localized
in a few fgment-cells, more sensitive to
the light than the surrounding tissue.
The eye is here incipient. AT first it is
capable of revealing differences of light
and shade produced by the bodies close
at hand. Followed as the interception
of the light is in almost all cases by the
contact of the closely adjacent opaque
body, sight in this condition becomes a
kind of anticipatory touch The adj
iustment continues, a slight bullying out
of the eperdermis over the fgment
~granules supervenes.
"A iP0et 10 liC1piChOi III NHhCeSh 'AS
onerstion of infinite adjustments, at
length reaches the perfection that it dis
plays in the hawk and the eagle. 50 OF
the other senses; they are special differ
entiations of a tissue which was origin
ally vaguely sensitive all over"
Eyes are very suggestive. They prompt
the inquiry whether that vitality which
has done 80 much TO give remarkable
wings, bones and lungs, as well as keen
vision to the eagle; which imparts fin:
and tail to the fish for swimming; and
enables man by his electric batteries aud
wires to talk understandingly with hii
brothers of the glebe may not continue
TO grow, ana do infinitely more lor ex
allied manhood ON earth, in the infinite
future I? There is unmistakable evldenc,
that life has been progressive on TIM
planet millions OF years; and all know
that the end is not yet, and may mo-
come for millions of years.
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A duty assigned to the police was to
watch all strangers that came into the
city, and white every suspicious person
out of town. This whiting process was
peculiar. Some ten or fifteen Mormons
would get around the man they wanted
to drive away, each with a keen ground
butcher knife, and a piece of soft wood
in his hand. They would crowd close up
to him and commence whiting, all cut
ting toward him, but no one apparently
paying the least attention to the stranger
surrounded and threatened thus, the
poor man was compelled to retreat from
the town. On his retreat he was sur
rounded by whittlers whiting, whit
Ting, some of them make skittish lunges
toward his breast and arms, If he took
his escort quietly, very well. If he was
foolish enough to resist or threaten, he
was very likely to be put out of the way
From Supplemental Confession Of Jhn
ID Ire.
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Heads that ache. stomachs that infict dys.
t0fments, muscles and joints racked
with the rheumatism, are infallibly restored
to health by the celebrated elixir, Hostetters
Stomach Bitters. a medicine prescribed by
physicians possessing infinite purity and
which no one takes IN vain who - afflicted
with any Of the numerous complaints to
which IL il adapted. II frequently happens
that so.called remedies fail TO produce a
permanent effect. This is because they are
merely ~palliatiyes, and therefore do not re-
move The cause Of the maladies, whose symP-
toms they after n time cease to amelliOrate.
This is notably the case with opiates and
sedative drugs. 1t is not 50, however, with
Hostetter's Bitters, which are a searching
specific that conquers the disease as well as
banishes its itdicia.
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WILHoFT's Tone is not a Panacea-is
a cure for everything, but is a catholicon
for malarious diseases, and day by day adds
fresh laurels to its crown of glorious success.
Engorged Livers and Spleens, alongthe shady
banks Of our lakes and river, are restored to
their healthy and normal secretions. Health
and vigor follow its use and Chills have taken
their departure from every household where
Wilhoft's Anti-Periodic is kept and taken,
Don't fail to try it. G. r. FINLAY Il Co,
Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY Il DRUGGISTS.
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AFTER an experience OF over twenty
FIVE years, many leading physicians acknowl.
edge that the Graefet6erg MdrshdtPs Uterine
Caihofcion is the only known certain remedy
Tor diseases to which women are subject. The
Grdefen6erg Fegadble PBs, the most popular
remedy of the day for b~iliousness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases of Indigestion. Sold
bv all druggists. Send for almanacs. Graefen'
berg Co, New York.
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DURANG's RHEUMATIC REMEDY mas been
before the public three years, and has never
failed in a single case of rheumatism, no
matter how aggravated the case. Write to
any person in Washington city, where it is
manufactured, and you will learn that this is
true in every respect. 1t is taken internally.
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TIE increasing popularity of HOME
STOMACH BITTERS is strong evidence in IA
vor of It's medicinal virtues and those who
are suffering from malarial effects are ear.
nestly requested to try them. Prepared by
the Home 3itters Co., st. Louis, Mo.
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You SHALL HAVE TT.-If your grocer
or s~torekeeper does not keep, and will not
get. DooLEY's YEAST POWDER for You, send
zoe. for quarter pound, S5c. for half pound, or
COO for one pound can, direct TO DooLEN q
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a TERRIBLE famine is raging in the
Chilli and Shangtung districts Of China.
In a village visited by Europeans the in
haJitants were putting an end to their
sutierings by suicide, and in one family
the father and mother buried their chill.
dren alive, that they might not witness
their agonies. The people have devoured
the grass and the foliage of the trees, and
the efforts o. the government and the
priests have been insufficient TO meet
the needs OF the furnishing multitudes.
China is so densely populated, and the
facilities for internal traffic so inadequate,
that a failure of crops in any large sec
ton Of the empire is sure to cause awful
distress.
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IsELL more of Hatch's Universal Cough
Syrup than of all other similar preparations.
| have sold it for about six years, and my
customers would certainly not continue to
buy it if it were not q valuable remedy.
{, c. HIGGINS, Friendship, All. Co.,N NY.
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TO TIE OF.

Statistics show that more of TUFTS Pills are used
in Europe than of all other manufacturers COM
bined. As Americans we are proud of the superb
GRITTY of our productions. These pills have a world
wide reputation.
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A New BEDFORD school boy, to ex-
plain the difference between dear" and
Hdeer," said that one is a biped and the
other a quadruped.
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