| Show THE FAMINE IN INDIA A J i IlI India la I ii once onoe moro mort U writhing In th the throe of famine Had nad England heeded the advice adloe ot of General Lord Roberts Robert who i inow now leading hr her troop In South Africa there might have been no starving mil Mona Ilona In the IndIan empire at the pros pres eat time Ten years olio 0 when Lord Ito lichens rt wag wa th the military administrator ot of the great reat Asiatic colony of gf Angland he foresaw the ever threatening danger of ofa a failure allure ot of the food sup supply ly among those thOM teeming millions million rf of blacks and suggested 1 a men means or of obviating or nt at least leut diminishing such uch n a danger The plan suggested was wal for forthe the government to establish tn Uh R a large number of f emergency hospital and food tood distributing depots The hospitals were called for tor because al always ways walked In the wake of famine Although Roberts w was at the time one or of the cabinet ad advisers vI to Lord Dufferin the viceroy III his suggestions were not Dot accepted an and the blacks black there re left to theIr late The latest latt dispatches from IndIa re report report port that millions na of natives ar are dye dy dylag lag In that country from starvation streams are dried up the crops hn have tailed failed utterly children have been abandoned aban donld mEn and women are lying about abOul too weak to walk alk starving In their pit table lable rep rags and there le II ever every reason to belle believe that this terrible condition will keep up until perM perhaps III even June when the annual monsoon bunt buret come and bring with It Us Ita usual deluge delugt ol of ofrain rein rain In this opulent count country or of ours It ft seems impossible to believe the heart heartrending rending stories of armlet ot Of emacIated n 1 c 1 c iY tt J A e 1 r r rl 1 lei 1 I Cp t a aI I ft arC I r i r wealth ruled by Vietoria over this land of r a t and oriental mystery the black shadow of ha hang per MIr Yet the soil lOll la is fertile More than CO kinds kind of grain art are grown r n then In fa fat t ner every crop In the world orld can an be raised In India But the vast ut over Op country is II subject lh tudes ot of climate From the snow OW of the as to the fertile dell ot of the south the entire nUra o country dt depends on rainfall There are over acres of wheat growing country In central In Indie lila die Ninety per tent cent of th entire pop II agricultural The land how however however ever is Ie not hell but la laMe ge tracts are Ant and cultivated by byth bythe th the government The man with th hot hoe In India owns nothing Those lIt lire nowhere or rather live anh They go 10 from place plaat to Platt place taking Possession of this hut hilt hutor or that as the spirit moves them The little tam farms art are usually only three or car tour four aeres In n extent andare and andare are I leased to the native for tor torone forone one Pinion Muon after whIch ire he hi tries hi him hand on a nw new farm It the season 1011 is II good the natives make enough to sup support support port their family which I is always alway a one pay y their taxes which are an annot not large and perhaps save a few tew an annas na nas nut But It If the rain oft they hate to face starvation Racing no and no hold upon the soil loll the first In of Ih these poor creature In a time of famine I le to descend on the lat large cities In tilt famines of 1174 u as In that of the following year tar and Ind that of 01 this was invariably the ease The line tOld road roadsides sides Idee warmed swarmed with emaciated icon and amI women and starving Although the English government ii I sued imperative ord order that all oases of I I 2 fAMILIAR SCeNe IN liE r M DI FAMILY AT t F Ft b a i t ta t 1 t III It a 1 u a I i i t 1 a I t t 1 1 1 f f 1 1 i t 1 1 I j I 1 et 14 a t I I ta Ili I i iI e 1 I i I i I t 1 I l 1 J ti y ID 1 J J r l j 1 p I I l S SI I t t Y I I I I STARVING ABANDONED AT It ll STATION people following after afler the graIn carts carte and fighting among themselves for the stray kernels that fall In the dust dUlt Over this ancient country of tabled destitution be reported t to the proper authorities and fixed flare upon IWI mayers Wi Wiand and councils permitting deaths b by at star ration allon In their districts the these methods t I of battling with Ih the h been About a ene ti n t I to Wh When t l th 10 I 4 l rf b because dUr bread to eat III she he said h j eat cake CUke V 11 j 1 The Thu ot this have haru h aill t 1 the th r r ri I nothing but wh I n th that t them Ulm It II ie the Ll old I and plague r t and want at p I Maple i II upon Pun I 10 Id u 1 are so 10 ly c It is i 1 I u II j over the plIna of irl I I 1 and Ind wh where r 11 in oti r I might III die fIr of want I here It roar be that r ti I tir n 1 ern n farming Imp h h t native In hits 1111 1 farming unit U tio i I and r nil I world is 1 not Britain if t all bluer t I tat at the P of a Uon tion t t h Ind of o two tae tine v tan can republic whose U A r wards warda ruled rule over I by th Ih dla die Ie fur for hick of t t c 1 are bI b y I people a t I t I i Inc without J wealthy rajah jah of It n fI r I II will 11 I 1 t ler ith p mothers 11 11 l UI palace walle walla The rh Ir I 1 I I j those walls wall but IlIk i up and accept its it sUl UI cI i ot of the tbt gods odI 0 I TIle The danger claner or of fur I 1 until 0 n r rire Irs ire u b r till dle for the husbanding hUlban of l U y of Gt that run FUll lint Bat this even lYen h tho ta rn iii 1 v such luch works were take many years r r |
