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Show I HINDOO HOJtKO'RS. u Torriblo' Sufforiny Occasioned by tho Drought. A Ccyloncso In C'lilciiRo Tolls of tlio ... AllicrW'A c t!i Foor Itmltl!ilst Coiitui;lnu mill Starvation Aro lUfo. "The present drought in tncliu is one j J of -tliu jnost suvcro ever Known," miiil Mr. Vincent L. Tisseru recently' ' "I um from Cojlou (ind know what the horrors of u famine rustiltirjr froin drtjiiglit arc. Ten or J'J your p tho Ceylon esu "wore thto Vk-tiitui of u comparatively com-paratively mild water famine, but the t ( KiilTerlng' I witneHsud then wn.r;r my y heart and I cim boo ua plain rs llinii;!i I ''J -were in the country tho uffony o.' the I starving Hindoos.' Tho I'ritiKh'pnpcrN I have not given tho truth, in St.s pitiful I completeness, and even Uiuifgh f hey 'did' I all lit their ptSwtr trinllevijittrfliopre.'.- 1 j . out distress Jhoujfand.s must, dio of 1 Htarvntion. KuHsin'.s proffered aid wiw refused by the Krifflish. fcu-politioal rea- I fious. .loltn r.nli wants nothing done I that will. augment tlio lilndly ftvlitigs of theJliildoo for the Uiii?wianfl. There are 200,OG(),U0O people and nearly all of tliem arc vejretcritiw. Tliey beliuvo it a sin io kill an nn'.mul MHl the result is easily .soert. ' No vegetation on wJiielr they cauubsijt can ustenpu the drought, 4 and pathetically sinegre lu their belief II of tlfe teachings of TSuddha, the poor, 1 ignorant people will starve rather than prove unfaithful lo this time-honored tenet of their religion and eat the licit j , of auimul.s. ,. i "America, has sent millions of dol- r. lars in sending and maintaining tnis- , ' sionaries in India and 1, n.s a('hri-t a.i, ! am thankful for it. bu now i.s tht si- E-when the Americans, and tho (.Jmul.c . especially, win. hIiow that, the love .. charity they luive preached ho nia' y A t years to my country men are not merely i i subjects of discourse but. real condi- j tions. Aid from America would do more 1 -fbr the conversion of these people than J all the preaching that ha.s been done in II all the yenm .since mLssiona were first I' cstablislicd in India. Jt in a charity ! the ignorant could understand and I II lnow and CIckI knows how woefully they I! , are in iwed of it now. I "A ear .load of husks would be re- j ceived with the joy of u people who ' liavo lx;en living on rootn that thn Hi drought has Hpared. Millions of people j linvc no other food and knowing the I likely result of such diet they htill muHt eat. Leprosy is the outecunn lit many cases, but what will noi u nlu-r v-m v-m ' ingmaudoV Think of youi own arctic explorers who resorted. to eam.il'wlinj. m Jut leprosy, though the most dreaded It di.seaso and a, common one in India, is Si not the most prevalent or fatal of tho I! ills that come from root diet and iin-mL iin-mL . ure sater, A plague called in the H native tongue 'biirhontc' fever, ome-H ome-H thing like, yellow fever, carries off W thousands. I hear daily that it La. hc- . frxiix Hi) ravages to add t( the honor of m htarvation and poverty. One day S00 died of it, but it hn not begun to do its ft worst yet." K Mr. Tlsera is a Coylonese. At the time of the world's fair he "came to' V Amerlen in charge of tho agri6ultural B products of Ceylon. Obtaining h three M months' leave from the railway byvvhieh' K lie wa employed at.honie th.it ne nifght -visit further the country with whicl) he r" -was fast becoming improved he trav-flk trav-flk oled all over the "union. That decided L liim and he resolved to uiake- America 'K his liome. Ue i tliefuvfof his nalionr m ality to go into liusinchR in this elt. I Ees'ide his native tongue, he MpeaUn I' J'ortuguese. 3VmUltou,(iUSP? orn India, SpinislifiKnglWh and rTAow ma-sterhig the Oerman language. He m is not a reeiyit convert to ChrUstinnity. M, .Ms the religion has been handed dow 11 1 in B, the familjMfrom the tlfilP fflTfie first M inLssioiuiries, 100 jear ago.Mheithe K , forefather of the present Tiwicrn vat. W converted,-aqhk'agp N'W.s. $ ;' |