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Evening Star, Issue 3357, 22 November 1873, Page 2

One of the best things out. — Out of debt. Correct. A Chinese official Provincial Treasurer of Hupei lias issued an edict forbidding the drowning of female children, which he says takes place to the number of 80 per cent. He regularly argues with his people, tells them that they can send their children to the I'oundling Hospital, assures them that their daughters will find husbands -which must be true enough, if this destruction goes ou - and at last threatehs the people with the vengeance of Heaven, in the form of repeated female births. Killing female bahics, he remarks sagaciously, does not make male babies come, and there is the child s wraith to be thought about, which may haunt the mother. The Treasurer is evidently very much in earnest, and threatens all people, and particularly all soldiers, with some monstrous calamity from Heaven, if they persevere, and VepjdepVitb puttipUmcpl afj wilful bvroiwka.