have been duly rewarded, This has been the usual thing from time immemorial and still it has to go on. The mouth of the river still gets more and more silted up and one can of course predict with certainty that any unusual strain. must result in hurst-out somewhere. The report_on_ the Yellow River by M, Armand Rouftart, which Isee still advertised in your columns, remains merely a dead letter, while politicians in Peking bark and bite, and land-grabbers of all nationalities growl and fight, or threaten to, over the pickings, and the syndicates, etc. Would that a combine were formed to' force home on the insensible nese mind the absolute necessity of ug something towards the adequate control of this terrible scourge of a long-suffering people.
ith December, 1899.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.