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Show SELL THEIR CHILDREN IN ORDER TO GET FOOD Sufferers From Famine In China Get $1.50 Apiece for Boys, but Find No Market for Girls. Spokane, Wnsh., Fob. 25. "Chinese boys arc being sold In tho provinces south or the rnmlno district for )1.M apiece," sayB Alfred II. llowmnn, who has Just reached Spokane from the orient. "I left I.uchowfu, Anbul, China, on January 10. Hundreds and thousands thou-sands of refugees rrom the famlno dls trlrt were swarming Into Annul. Tho gntoways ot I.uchowfu were filled with starving people. "A Chinese boy five years of age will bring tho equivalent or $1.50 In American money, or sufficient to feed a man until another crop grows. "Chinese families that have only girl children nre In a bad way, as glrU can not bo sold at as low a figure fig-ure as twenty-five cents apiece." |