regards the Relief Work in connection with the sufferers from the Yellow River Floods the sum now subscribed, about $24,000, is being gradually distributed amovgs the most needy in seven counties affected by the disaster of last year. Of course, now la the time when the pinch of poverty is most severe and will be increasingly so till the next harvest can be reaped which will be about the eud of May. One of the distributors has 700 men at work on the roads in his district and intends to uso all the money apportioned to him as wages in this way. Thus it is to be hoped some permanent and public good will result from some part at least of the funds supplied, While this relieves the men, however, the women and, children and helpless sufferers have to be considered and the other distributors are contenting themselves with simply enrolling sugh and relieving them so fur as our funds admit of,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.