| Show ahk a c eau bt 0 we tha tamine famine ili in persia which C nue to arrive in greater detail bid fair to treat the world to the tho spectacle of a ca calamity amily the like ilke of which hat haa has nok not been witnessed I 1 t in historic times at least the sudden u d den extinction ofa of a nation by want of food thisba thib this has really been baen tile the fate of the great states which filled the valley of the euphrates and it t is a fate which has for centuries been threatening ening gning some bome modern states spain bof instance nau mau hanhan hns has stripped 04 the trees jbf the absence of trees has brought drough droughts te draughts ave aloway diminished th the prod productive active powers of the ground ard and finally destroyed them the population in the numbers and vitality spain had forty milli millions one of eople people in the tinie time of the romans and sud an flowed with milk and honey it is now an hn arid arld arl ari d region only halo half of it under cultivation cultis at ion fon with only sixteen millions 0 tj and if modern science h had not come to its aid ald would probably go got the way of Baby babylon iob lob persia persis was one of the most moat powerful po Kerful states of antiquity and even in the fourteenth century was able to support the army of mamer Vamer tamerlane lanei lanel who marched without commissariat or baggage during iiga a bloody contest it is now almost a wilderness with a population pf af two millions mil mii liong about halt half of them thi em nomads which la is rapidly rapid ly perishing from famine brought on by three thred years drought the worst of it is in that th hv owing to the absence of either common roads or railroads it seems to be impossible for the charity of the keslof rest iest i of the world to reach the sufferers eum euf ferera so ao that there Is really a strong prospect odthe of the total toti depopulation of the country the moral monal of this horrible story satorv is look after your trees new A forn fort ha hir LIKES trat THAT 9 the san francisco chronicle Chronic c fe irreverently bays says state printers are usually allowed to charge three regular prices for fon composition in spanish A sacramento paper evidently posted on the situation c charges lar oar that deacon fitch now of the bulletin charged three prices for fon press presa work haying baying already charged three prices for the com composition position ion lon the deacon deny the phat jm lim peach ment 11 |
