Show Z nARROWING TALE TAft OF oi MISERY AND AD F fAMINE IN WASHINGTON W Feb 25 Harrow Harrowing Harrow Harrow- log ing in tales tale's of or the misery and distress of the famine lamine victims in China reach the state state d department with every incoming in comin coming oriental mail One letter just at hand from the Rev W V. D D. D Bostick a missionary in tho the stricken province of abounds in d details tail of tho the terrible plight of the people copl Three minutes minutes' walk from his door he found a n young man crouched h by the tho roadside with not a single eingle thread of clothing on him w while the e esnow snow was ts pelting upon him nim and the tho wind was whizzing past him Another workman was seen with one foot havin having a pretense of a n shoe on it whilo while the other font was WIlS Jj in inthe tho the snow with nothing on it These TheM were bc beggars ars though h at nt one time workers and aDd what the they received ved was wasa a debased coin good for or nothing except to give ive to beggars bc IC When the tho be beggar ar gets it Ui says Bays Dr Dr- Bostick H it It it is 19 gOOd for nothing noshing except to sell and get Jet back to those who want to go 10 through b the pretense of helping helpin the poor Thirty hirt pieces feces of ot this so called so-called called money arc are offered of offered of of- for one ton ten cash piece A straw stuck in a or a piece piE of furniture is a sign that the article is for for sale esle Dr Bostick says There Thero are children to bo be seen with the same gamet sign n attached to them I saw a child in to its parents parent's arms with witha a straw stuck upon it and one following following follow follow- jn ing with the same sarno si sign n attached Two nights a ago o a child was buried to its neck in a wn wagon on load Joad of manure next morning it was sold for one cattle I or one ono pound and a n third of bread The Tho missionary missionary was waa disbursing a small relief fun fund b by employing able able- bodied laborers at 00 cash per day not quite enough to buy two catties of rice rice |