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Show Mien will the hills be planted witb forests and proper channels for water be cleared to the seal Floods and famine and flooas again, every few years, and it has doubtless been thus for centuries* we can hardly bear to think of the suffering to come during the next months and the money and enerrw that must be sidetracked to relief work. GIFTS THAT COUNTED. In 1917 we had the last great floods. With some of the funds sent to us from America, we employed refugees and built dykes in Ting county, fifty miles south.-These- dykes we planted with willows all along the banks, These trees were protected by the county official, only braches of a certain size being allowed to be trimmed off* Last year, the willow branches frem the dyke in front of a single village sold for over §1,000, local currency. We have just ashed how this village, which was sorely stricken in 1017, fared during the present flood. "Not only was it protected, but the mud end debris which caught in the willow trees increased its widch and height by two feet.n This is the kind of relief that counts over and over again ap the years go by and we do all we can of it . 'Those who contributed to it in 1017 may have the satisfaction of knowing that they have already helped in two great, floods. But if they insist on sending money again, we will not refuse* Unfortunately' there is an almost unlimited amount of such work still to be done. a A ft a a ft y ft ft ft a ft ft Hi HI \. H? v t? y y T? s? W si5 d ' BETTER LICK This sounds more like a war cry than a pacific TILAa BE LICKED• announcement that Ellis Wells Hubbard, on his eighth birthday, is hereby promoted from the position of Officious Boy to that of official Stamp dicker. Inasmuch as we cannot afford at present to take on any more staff, we will endeavor to get along without an Officious Boy, . . The ITight Reporter is falling off in her night reporting, but makes up fee it early in the morning, when all kinds of reports come to the ears of the - at that time rather unrecoptive •- editors. The Printer's Devil works hard at his job and we sometimes think that he partly lives up to his title. But it5s lots of fun raisin: him. FITXIIT LISIIORIAb. In 1900,'there was hilled by the Soa.ers, a few feet 'from where we are writing, a young American mission* ary of great parts and promise, Horace Tracy Pitkin, In his memory, his classmate Sherwood Eddy has raised from friends of Pitkin §26,000 gold for a Pitkin demorial Building for the Paotingfu Y.i.I.C.A, The local officials have donated a fine acre-end-half lot in the city as a site. We are overjoyed to announce that, as we write, the walls of the new buildiu are going up and are will soon have a modern plant thru which to serve the young men of Paotingfu. JL JL JL JL J.L JL JL JL JL. JL JL JL j£ w 'if ir w w it w 7f. IT ft w ir w |