Show Famine and Intcmporruco A St Petersburg dispatch to the Mail and Express says The governors of the provinces in which famine is crushing out the life of tho people have been ordered to send in accurate reports of the number of the hungerstricken people as tho returns hitherto have been very hastily compiled in tho usual careless and untruthful manner of Russian officials Several governors who have responded to this now command havo concurred in the estimate that GO percent per-cent of the entire population is in the most extreme and pitiful want The Moscow Gazette Ga-zette states that the distilleries in the Ria zom province are unable to meet tho increased in-creased demand for vodkl the cheap and greatly intoxicating liquor which is the delight de-light and the bano of the moujlks This enhanced call for the deadly stuff has been noticeable since the first distribution of relief re-lief money Whole villages say tho governors gov-ernors including adults and children have been drunk at once and this universal drunkenness has been followed by sweep ng mortality Private advices from Moscow discredit the reports of a pervading spirit of revolt which is alleged to bo spreading rapidly in the provinces The discontent referred to in tho public dispatches as having mani fested itself is confined to the populous centres the towns and cities The rural precincts are too brutally ignorant to dream of revolt and would rot and die in silence No chance of rebellion exists in their sodden sod-den lives A largo number of tho Germans who formed colonies in tho country along the Volga river have become discontented with the conditions prevailing in Russia and have determined to give up their holdln sand s-and leave tho country Many attracted by tho accounts they have heard of the United States are starting for that country The emigrants aro thrifty and industrious and a majority of them are fairly welltodo Fearful stories arc reported from southern south-ern Russia of the ravages of the virulent influenza now raging there Tho people are so weakened by famine that they fall easy victims to the disease and in some of the country districts whore starvation is most general the wretched peasantry court infection and death In the villages the dead lio in many houses unburied and with no one to bury them until some official comes along on a belated tour of discovery I and has tho corpses thrown into a common trench Even the priests aro shunning pestilence and many persons die without religious miniatrationa |