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Show A CHINESE CRUIKSHANK. Ills Fascinating; Cartoons Attacking the Opium Trade. The Society for tho Suppression of tho Opium Trade has republished In fao simile amostcurloussct of Chinese tartoons on tho national vice, which has ait almost cinct parallel In tho famous Crolkshanlc ries, known ns "Tho llotle," fcaya tho London News. Tho nntivo Cruikshank begins with a plcturo of n happy homo, nt any rate of n happy summer home. Tho nntivo debauchco Is taking his llfht whiff. He reclines on a couch of ubony, inlaid with marble, nnd nil his surroundings nro elegant nnd luxurious. This Is No. 1 of tho scries. No. 3 represents p-tvntal o- postulattons the youth on hla knucs beforo his father and promising never to do It again; No. 3, relapse, aud No. -I, tho wifa painting scrolls for a livelihood In tho inlserablo homo. In No. & tho smoker Is nt It again, whllo tho wife and chtldreu, with n reckless indlffer-cuco indlffer-cuco to perspective! whloh Is In itself suggestive of despair, weep by tho sldo of tlio besotted father's couch, and tho old mother doos tho work of n domestic domes-tic drudge. In No. 0 tho wifo losen her temper nnd dashes tho (.molting gear lo tho ground, whllo the Infuriated debauchco tries to beat her with n bamboo. In No. 7 ho Is again sucking at tho recov-tred recov-tred plpo, whllo compasslonato friends vainly offer lilin tho food for which ho has lost nil appetite. In No. 8 wlfo and child regard him with horror, but ho does not seem to mind. In No. 0 ho has boon bold up and IiIh lodging Is on tho cold ground. In No. 10 tho dogs aro after him u ho crawls through tho villages. No n Is tV imf as No. 10, "only more eo." In No. 13 we sco him, or ruther tho wretched skeleton of him, crawling Into n holo In tho rocks, In a wintry landscape, to die still hugging the pipe that has brought him to ruin, |