Show FAMINE AT WAKUYA JAPAN MISERY AND WANT HAVE RUN 1 RIOT IN JAPANESE TOWN 1 Pen Picture of the Sufferings of the I People by Murasakl Oyaml a i Japanese Correspondent Few places In tho northeastern provinces of Japan have suffered more from the famine than has tho town of Wakuya about 25 miles north of Sendal If the testimony of Murusakl Oyaml a Japanese correspondent an eyewitness of tho distress is considered consid-ered Ho writes that there tho want and misery have run riot One of tho distressing features ot the famine has been tho desertion of children by their parents hundreds of such cases having resulted as an irresistible Ir-resistible consequence of tho lack of food Among the efforts which have been put forth to succor these little waifs none is more touching than that of Mrs Narlta a poor but energetic ener-getic woman who has gathered a group of girls together and Is striving striv-ing to make them not only selfsup porting but capablo of rendering aid to their families For this purpose she Is teaching them to make Bat tonbcrg lace which finds ready sale In Toklo Then ns fast as It Is possible pos-sible she sends them on to the famous Okayama orphan asylum an Institution Institu-tion that has bravely set to work tar Ing for scores of these needy northern north-ern people u Mr Miura a Japanese pntiantnro plst at work at Wakuya Is busy giving giv-ing out the sympathy bags of rice to families most in need In one case he found a family where the father and grandfather were striving to keep tho dread wolf of hunger from tho door by bringing wood on their backs from the mountains Ilvo miles away and for which work they earn an equivalent of two pence a day little waif whoso mother died from tho sufferings she had to endure and whose father despairing of over boA bo-A ftA ft Mr Miura and his wife aro shown In our second llluntratton with a poor Ing ablo to rise above this famine calamity ca-lamity committed suicide Ono case illustrative of tho pride of tho people and their sensitiveness at their deplorable condition was that I I r Tj1 I41 Succoring a Waif of an old man of 87 years who when found was almost dead of starvation but who had strength enough loft to reply when food was offered him If my descendants should over know that I received public aid thoy would never hold up their beads It Is better to die This Is tho spirit found among so many of the old people whoso solf respect suffers la the receiving of charity |