Show STARVING TO DEATH te russian famine relief committee has sent out au an appeal for ad ail in which tho the horrors of the famine are set forth the famine is said to extend over twenty one provinces embracing an area 1500 miles long and ani 1000 miles wide or halt half the area of tho united states within this territory Is a population of 30 practically all helpless until the next harvest the famine is the greatest and most moist dreadful in the history of russia in the famine of 1891 2 persons perished in P single brov province ince this year unless speedy assistance is rendered the death hat list in that one province will reach at least two hundred thousand in the faasfe iii district strict agrical agriculture ture is tho the anly occupation when the crops tail fall therele there is nothing to which the inhabitants can turn to gain a livelihood in ma many ny pray provinces luces there was no bar har vest whatever last year even the seed put into tho the ground was lost the peasants have sold their hofses and cows and have used the proceeds to buy bread broad they have bave consumed the grain held for seed thus plus they have mortgaged their future by sacrificing the means of future tillage in order t to maintain life at present and now they have exhausted these slender re rc sources decayed grain and even the seeds of noxious weeds have been used in the attempt to preserve life resulting in disease from these there poisonous products even where help Is now being given the peasants are forced to live on one fifteenth of ot the average ration families have been brought to ach sufferings that parents have sold their daughters into slavery and degraba degrada tion in the harems hares and brothels of turkey la in order to maintain life in the remaining members of the family in many places lacu of fuel has limas add cd ed danger of death from cold to that of death from hunger launger tn many villages part of the houses havo have been lorn torn down to provide fuel for or tho the inhabitants hu huddled Idled to bother in tho homos conics still standing this appeal might meet with ready response buflo are sonie somewhat what doubtful for tho the american people in their prosperity are unable to f fully realize what famine means tho anguish tho the agony the despair tho the pain could they look down on tho unfortunate people from a point ar 0 van vantage tage and appreciate ampre clato the horrors horror of the scene the response to tho cries of hunger would be food for or every one one of the noblest missions the people of a country can perform Is to succor tho the starving of a less fortunate country |