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Show LUMBAGO IS EASY TO GET AND JUST AS EASY TO 1 CURE IF YOU USE St. Jacobs Oil x PORTO IM CANS STARVE PEOPLE IN THE INTERIOR IN GREAT DISTRESS. One Hundred Thousand Feople Who Have 'elther Hread Nor Meat Condition Due Largely to the Short Coffee Crop. Washington, April 9. lirigadier-General lirigadier-General Ray Stone, who has just returned re-turned from Porto Rico, where he took a ten days' journey through the interior, inte-rior, declares there is much distress and actual starvation in Porto Rico. The general was attached to the department de-partment of agriculture before the war, and during hostilities he was in Porto Rico as a member of General Mile's staff. This last trip was made with a party of capitalists and railroad men. He was also invited by Major-General Henry to give advice concerning the construction of roads through the islands. "People are dying of starvation all through the interior, " said General Stone. "In the district of Aguas Uanas there were many deaths. The judge in the district of Comerio showed me a book in which he had recorded the names of many who died from lack of food. General Grant reported thirty-nine thirty-nine deaths from starvation in one district. dis-trict. I saw hundreds of natives emaciated ema-ciated and weak. When I left Porto Rico there were 100,000 persons there who had neither bread nor meat for two weeks. "The state of affairs is largely due to the short coffee crop and the ruinous competition of Brazil. 'Yet, with all their sufferings, the Porto Ricans speak with pride as belonging be-longing to the United States. They do not expect; Porto Rico to become a state. "Rorto Rico is the home of the orange, or-ange, yet oranges are rotting on the trees. They are sold at 50 cents a barrel. bar-rel. I bought them five for one cent. They are as good as the Indian river oranges." |