Says a writer in the _North China Herald_:
One of the facts that ineffaceably cut into my memory during my
first winter in New-chwang was the finding on one morning about
New Year’s time thirty-five masses of ice, each mass having been
a living man at 10 o’clock the preceding night. The thermometer
was a good bit below zero. The men had just left the opium dens,
where they had been enjoying themselves. The keen air sent them
to sleep, and they never wakened.
The freezing was only the external manifestation of a spiritual
benumbing that long before existed within. (Text.)
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=Death Swifter than Justice=--See JUSTICE DELAYED.