Show will titie witie till FAMINE IX IN PERSIA frightful and mortality th the 0 details of the famine in persia are frightful mr shedd a person well ac qua with the coli country through his missionary labors there thore kays says says bays the population or of persia has hag been boen variously estimated the lowest estimate est imite being about and aud the highest As there la is no census the exact truth cannot be known let us take the lowest figure as a basis from personal knowledge of the country and from all accounts of the famine I 1 judge that a third of the population that is mot moat of the pro vinces of azerbaijan Azer beijan on the northeast and ghilan and Manzau manzan deran on orl the caspian have harvested as usual or nearly so the present season another third of bf the population in parts of the above provinces and in arak and ardelan are in severe sevene but not noi unmitigated famine they have a limited supply of food but some of them must die unless supplies are sent them before next harvest the remainder of the country lying east and south and covering more than half its area is now in danger of being de populated so at the lowest estimate between two and three thre 0 i millions of our follow fellow beings are in the crisis of misery and want tha the re relon region ion lon of starvation begins in the province or of arak near hamadan IIa lla madan madau the cap capital of ancient media and extends eastward for seven or eight hundred miles aud southward to the persian guif gull two successive years of drouth havo have brought the population en masae masse into a state falate of destitution for the same reason tho the area of famine is grea greater now than it was a year ag the dist distress rosa roba has extended northward so that multitudes inTa breez ana grid tho the surrounding country are in need aha abd other multitudes are starving to the westward in the valley of the euphrates and lind tigris in turkey in the relon region of bus bora sora bagdad and the famine region covers the seat of ancient empire with the tombs of cyrus darius larlus daniel and esther and nud abounds in the most wonderful anti antl and rock Inscription inscriptions 9 in lra the east no language can exceed tho the truth in teheran the royal residence the resources of the government and the efforts of the foreign residents baad have prevented the extreme of summering suffering tp to which other places ter have bave ave been reduced in Is the number of deaths by famine up to august last was stated officially at fourteen thousand the actual number was wag wa doubtless far greater in shiraz Shira and zand vicinity whole farn families ittes died off and lay unburied and dusome in some instances the corpses were devoured by the survivors further east throughout the great provinces of kerman and Kho rho khorasan Kh orsan isan this farning tamine has bas been increasing creasing iu for three successive years and in many places half the population has perished the capital of the last named province is meshed a very vory celebrated city and shrine with or inhabitants prom erom all accounts two thirds of this population have perished the past summer hunger bunger or disease it have fled in gome some bome localities as in tho the vicinity of hp Is ahans there was last season a partial harvest arvest which alleviated tho the distress for a time but the short shore store of provisions is by this time consumed so that the go verity severity of suffering has returned and must increase fur for some months to come even if the grain sown this season brings a harvest thousands more in the towns and villages must enst die unless relieved from abroad but outside the nixed axed population are the tho eel eai or pastoral tribes numbering in the famine region more than a million of souls among thereat the seat the present time the direst miseries bli bil serles series are ald experienced the famine tamine is hot only one of cereals ant rut lut but of forage also these tribes have been e fighting for two years past the drouth and a as the pastures have dried up the flocks and herds have perished their dependence for far food is gone there are at this time tens of thousands of the of persig persia with their horses dead their cattle and sheep largely so and with no place where bread bidad could be bought if they had bad the means to buy there Is little left for thom them but to sit down in the mohammedan resigns nation af pf fatalism and live on allowance of roots and similar food till elther oither either geller gelfer orleath shall come the grass may revive with the spring but it will be three years before the flocks and herds can be renewed and one year before there can bo be a harvest to supply them with bread ex A SKULL SHULL MAN the cracking of skulls is a matter of common occurrence but it Is rare that the victim ever recovers from a cracking as a mr cress of lA lewiston wIston lately received or enjoys the novel sensation of carrying about bits of skull as h curiosity as does mr 0 about two months ago argo a four pound hammer fell open mr cress head from a hight bight of ninety feet inflicting a terrible frack frae i ture and it was thought impossible for him m to recover he was a tough subject however and instead of succumbing to the frightful blow as most men would have done persisted in getting well I 1 and only a day or two ago astol astonished shed the editor of the lewiston journal by walkin walking into his office and displaying a little box full fuli of fragments of his bis own skull removed by trepanning shortly after the accident when mien W hen mr C removed his hat he exhibited an ugly evidence of the blow inflicted by the hammer an juteau integument has formed over the brain at tile tiie point lacking the skull bone and it one ono could see a man think he might almost watch the beating of the brain I 1 Len uen eath cath its frail windowpane window pane for some 0 days after the accident lie had severe bevere headaches subsequently he lie had difficulty in remembering events and co could uld with difficulty keep up a connected line of thought this trouble since he became convalescent has gradually disappeared and once more apparently his head is level he apparently s steeps E beeps well wel 1 has a good appetite and seemingly gets along comfortably with a part of his cranium in his pocket Ir idiana lalana polis ind jhc evening hwi swi |