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Show ! people have nothing whatever to j live upon during the winter. .A) dollar will keep a 'family from starving for a week, and all- who j give even this small amount will1 have the satisfaction of knowing that it perpetuates human lives. Famine Fund .; Is Growing. - Messrs. Andreas! ..-Peterson, Ivor Alme and Lars Pehrson, the committee appointed to collect col-lect funds for the starving people of Swedea, report a gratifying beginning, $10 havirig been received re-ceived last Monday. The committee com-mittee will forward all funds to A. W. Carlson Z. C. M. I. Salt Lake City, who will report direct to the duly constituted agents in Sweden It is intended to take up a collection in the Scandinavian Scandinav-ian meeting in this city next Sunday Sun-day and the com;nittec hope that the bishops of the county will do everything possible to obtain means for the fund. Mr. Alme of the committee states that the fanfine prevails in the northernmost part of Sweden. Swe-den. The country is a hard one to live in, and it is a constant struggle for them to gain a livli-hood- The land is rugged and sterile, and the inhabitants lead a rugged life. Last season the crops failed erf'r!y r.r t'.c |