Show INDIAS FAMINE AND PLAGUES Tho pictures of distress which are flashed from India from time to time are so pitiable that one wonders how I It can be In these modern times that I no provisions can be made to ward off tho awful suffering The famine has I I been supplemented by a double contagion I I tagion and under It the people fireI dying so fast that the carrion birds I are gorged to satiety One would I think that generous nations would be I moved to go to tjio relief of the wretches I wretch-es lest the plague spread and all the world become Involved There are devoted de-voted men and women there by the thousands trying to stem the awful current money Is being poured out like I i water but like water turned upon the lire of n great city It avails nothing until the conflagration has run Its course for those fanatics will keep one I of their number who has died of the plague concealed In their homes though they know the presence of the dead only breeds more death for them Civilization flourished there long ago it except Its superstitions and vices has passed on and those who remain seem waiting only for death We were all inexpressibly shocked a few days ago when It was told us that two hundred hun-dred people had been suddenly killed In a coal mine disaster The whole State was stirred at tho mighty catastrophe ca-tastrophe and the sympathies of the whole people were enlisted to provide I relief for the families of the dead But in India fifteen times IOO are dying i dally this has been going on for I months and no one can approximate the time vhen the dreadful tragedy I will be over This is too In a world where swift ships traverse t the sea I I where food Is In some lands so plentiful I that it will scarcely pay for transportation transpor-tation to market The only I inference I is that tho wild beast Is not yet bred j out of human hearts and the original I selfishness of mankind still dominates I I the world q I |