On the initiative of the Missions Boards in New York, it was decided to place the greater part of the unexpend@d balance of the angina famine funds at the disposal of the Univerkity of Nanking and the Peking University for a period of ten years, in order that, by trains ing young men in agriculture and in other ways, famine might in future be averted. Without dis puting the worthiness of the plan. its formulators appear to hava overlooked the potent adage, "while the grass grows, the cow starves," Not only are 246 children, of whom 117 are 18 years old, reported to be still in need of care, but those who acted s0 generously to relieve orphans at the time of the famine are still to be reimbursed, Doubtless Merely Misunderstanding Acconing to the report of the sub-committee appointed by the Peking Central Committee to. quire Into the justice of the elaimn for reimbursement, the total ap: propriation required to cover me stitutional and, individual claims 1M.$67,074.84, approximately equivalcent to G.§20,023.88, Not a for" midable sum, when all is considered, and one that will do more immediate ood than instruction in Western farming method to retrace its steps, reminding it of the anth they hud taken, Very soon the alarmed people saw this wild animal, obeying the boy's command, disappear among the hills, The father recognized his wonderful son and gave him his rightful place in the home. This, howeve was too smell for auch an me: tion. With such a command and influence over the brute world, ha quickly rose to eminence in the land of the lamas. History records three gods before him who exercised this peculiar power, namely, Jin-reh-ze0, Cha-na-dorje, and Jam-bob-yang.
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