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Show The iamlne in China seems accompanied with all the old horrors. The Chinese will not permit the building of railways, lest the rumble of trains distui b their dead and the result is that when any district loses a crop there is no way to get sufficient tood to the people and they starve. They, however, would rather die than give up their superstitions, just as one who reads and believes the Lord's organ in this city would rather rath-er have smallpox than be vaccinated. If it were not tor the danger that would come to the outside world, it would be a mercy to partition that distressed dis-tressed Empire of China and introduce mpdern Improvements, ' |