Show I IN THE FAMINE COUNTRY Chicago News From the district In China a correspondent writes to the North China Daily Daly News The Tho north of our province is suffering from a ter terrible terrible terrible famine Camino The floods foods caused by the recent rains floods foods surpassing all al former from being on the wane are increasing daily daly It I is not the tidal We of or an rn hours duration passing over the desolate country but buta a continental for for the last lat three months and since the autumnal equi equinox equinox nox fox we have had seven seyen days of heavy he rains The ne system of dikes more mOl or less les parallel parale constructed to check chock the overflowing of the Hoang ho has turned tho the country countr Into so many basins as it were with wih no out outlet outlet outlet let which have become lakes The five fc broad roads which furrowed the thA plain in every ever direction have baye disappeared un under under under der water The car cr men are all al lag inS and arni the tho peasants are arc selling their oxen and mules to the Inhabitants of Chihli and the environs Empty Empt granaries fields felds under wa water water water ter houses in ruins ruins what is to be done Those These who vho have hao a little grain gin or money in reserve try to struggle on they re remain remain remain main and arni rebuild part pat of ot their hovels buoying up their hopes for a better spring Whether they the stay sty or whether they go It i all al comes to the same thing they are already alread too weak to resist rist the tortures of hunger The young and the thE strong gather their little all al and pile 1 It onto a n generally a straw mat a saucepan a basket and md anda a few rags rs Tho The father all al out of oC breath pushes the wheelbarrow the eldest son on emaciated and scarcely clothed pulls puls in front behind gomes comes omel the mother with wih a a in her arms and two or three thre other children dragging on en in tho the rear crying or amusing themselves as the case ca may maybe mayb maybe be b And It i is by b hundreds that I 1 meet such on the road of Among the workmen the masons and carpenters only can obtain work worl They Thc are wanted everywhere in town and In country for 50 per pr cent of ot the houses are in ruins The carpenters have become Villages sur surrounded surrounded rounded by water are turned into islands Island fields are arc now lakes and road roads are arc rivers therefore those wishing for communication are ordering boats boat big and nd small smal and ad of every de description description There Is no grain gin here and the neighboring provinces have sent out an m edict the exportation of ot corn corn However there are arc some few mandarins who are and kindly disposed and they are foreseeing trou troubles troubles bles blot of ot another kind Already Alread many armed ared bands are arc overrunning the country countr borrowing or taking whatever comes in their way from live Ue cattle eatto to old elthes Those natives who are well wel to do the tile country to settle setto in town but others other oller wHo w o cannot leave leve their farms seek seck pro protection protection from the magistrate against these the e wanderers wanderers and brigands For consolation the mandarins are selling seln old ohl guns gns of A D to the chief gen gentry gentry gentry try of the district district wherewith our peas peasants peasants peasants ants will wI carry cr out all al necessary ne es nary sary Sr arrangements for |