| Show THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA so 80 little suffices for the russian peas nt that a sum equivalent to TO 70 cents will vill sustain life for a month but when it becomes a question of a million lives 41 for which the government must care as aa in samara alone and when hen this suppo support A must be continued for a period p 4 of 10 months the cost coat rises to j As has been shown in the case of Z samara 1 mars the proportion of sufferers euffer ers relieved IL 1 1 ved by the is two thirds leaving one third wholly dependent depeu dent upon I 1 private benevolence and taking all the famine provi rees even this one third mounts up to the this appeal to personal philanthropy has bas brought out noble examples e xa amples of generosity and devotion the proprietary class clam have as a rule in this emergency ency i proved worthy of their S position and responsibilities there are single families taking care bf as aa any as af 1 2000 people the women 1 especially tally have come forward with it a ji consecration and self sacrifice which HT commands om mands admiration if it were not y invidious anvid ious or inI indelicate cate many bany oases cases aright ight be cited of comes oeana of ladies of gen t tle tie birth who have left their homes braved the dangers of disease faced the hardships of an unaccustomed and lifs and nd given gilven up tip weeks and months to the work of feeding the bun vy gry and an ministering to the sick kick with much that has been deplorable there have bave been also in this work many exhibitions of true nobility one i other thing ought in fairness to to tie said the emperor has been pub hushed as indifferent it is only just to remark merk that this particular kind of indifference has been manifested not merely in a vigorous direction of the latter governmental operations of relief even to the summary dismissal of inefficient agents but in gifts from bib hi private private purse puree which if the belief of ca st petersburg can be accepted amount amoun tto to 15 or 20 times all the contributions of all the world outside oi of russia runia borth avor ZV or Amer american ioan review |
