THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBUROPA.
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THE FAMINE IN INDIA.
BY JUSTIN E. ABBOTT OF BOMBAY.
EIGHTEEN YEARS RESIDENT IN INDIA.
A famine the niont wtdesprpnd and hpvctp of tills rentury now darken
tbe whole of western and rontral India, 1111 nren equal to Now Knglnnd, Now
York, Now Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, IndlnnH. Illinois. Michigan nnd Wis
onsln. Sixty million people are Involved, of whom probably 10.0d0.000 will
perish unless aided. The living skeleton Is the Indisputable evidence that
the resources of the people nre eshuusted. Along the highways, In lonely
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SKELETONIZED HY FAMINE,
passes, by stream bods that give no hope of water, weak and emaciated bu
Ban beings are falling and dying by hundreds dally. Jreat numbers who
reach relief camps are past help, and the very food they ravenously eat kills
tnem. Children, orphaned or deserted, are picked up by scores as they wan
der. Terrible tales are told by eyewitnesses of these helpless little ones be
ing devoured by dogs and Jackals.
The cause of the famine Is the failure of the monsoon rains from June to
October last year. The farmers, who
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tFajnfne girl not too tar gone y save.
In spite of all that can be done by the government there Is a vast field for
the private charity now being so splendidly supplied by America. Britain and
her colonies and various European countries. Doubtless the most efficient
gency for distribution of this private benevolence Is the body of several hun
dred American and European missionaries located In the famine districts,
whoRe experienced services are freely given to this work of humanity.
Missionaries supplement official efforts by assisting as many as possible to
reach relief camps. Those too weak for the Journey, unprotected young wo
men, mothers with children and deserted orphans, are given refuge and tender
tiOYEKNMENT ItEI.IEF WORK-MAKING A RESEHVOIR.
care. Weavers and other petty artisans ure supplied with work which pre
vents the breaking up of their homes. Industrial schools are maintained
which In a few months give boys a training that makes them self supporting.
It Is the duty and privilege of every one to have some share in this sacred
work of humanity. Money may be sent to Brown Bros. & Co., r'. Wall street,
New York, treasurers of the committee of one hundred, William E. Dodge,
chairman, and Dr. I.eander T. Chamberlain, executive director, by whom It
will be cabled promptly to the responsible and representative Amcrico-Indlan
relief committee, under the chairman-.
ship of United States Consul William!
H. Fee, at Bombay, with the veteran
missionary, Bubert A. Hume, as execu
tive secretary. This committee aids
. and co-operates with our heroic fellow
citizens of all denominations In the
famine districts.
The New lork committee of one
hundred on Indian famine relict co
operates with committees of the same
name In Boston. New Haven, Baltimore.
Washington, Indianapolis and other!
titles, each of which has charge of the
work In Its own section. The commit
tee announces that, thanks to the
hearty assistance of the press of the
United States and the express compn-
ules, which forward gifts without
rharge. It has received contributions
imountlng to $100,000. On receipt of
i postal addressed "Committee of One
Hundred, 73 Bible House, New York,
supplies of IlliiNt rated literature are
ent without charge and expressage
free. The help of Individuals, clubs,
lodges, labor unions, employers, pro-
prtetors of hotels, churches, Sunday
schools, young people's societies. King's
Daughters, etc.. Is sought in dlstrlbut- K "API,Y ,0THKB BElro"E TnB FAM,NK
'jig this literature and organizing relief movements. Two cents a day will save
&fe, and $2 will provide work for a furnished person uutil the next harvest.
. i llii I i 'I'tiW'
number 80 per cent of the population,
were already Impoverished by the fam
ine of IS',17. Expenditure of every kind
was stopped; hence the laboring class
and artisans huve hud no work. The
British government Is relieving the sit
uation by gratuitously feeding the In
firm, the aged, the emaciated and the
children. The ablebodied are employ
ed on cash wages In building reser
voirs and Irrigation works, railway em
bankments, roads, etc., which will
greatly mitigate future famines. About
(i,(ii)0.0i)0 ure now In dally receipt of of
ficial relief. Connected with the camps
are hospitals where those In the ex
tremes of emaciation are nursed back
to strength. The death rate is by far
the greatest In the native states where
government control Is least. Here,
however, the government Is assisting
by loans of money and of the services
of experienced officers. Already the
authorities have spent J47.0O0.OO0.
With the failure of crops Id the fam
ine area there began a flow of grain
from other parts of India and other
countries. From Burma alone there
was Imported In ten months 427.000
tons of rice, worth $70,000,000. Mer
chants have carried grain everywhere,
and the price has remained fairly uni
form at a cost only twice that of ordi
nary years. There are millions of peo
ple, however, who have no money and
bo work. It Is these moneyless mil
lions for whom help or death is the
only alternative.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of tlie tVeelc Briefly
nnd Tersely Told.
Heavy rnlns fell In northern Kansas
and saved the corn crop.
John Pelninite of Niagara Fulls com
mitted iulcide by leaping into the rapids.
A $135,0K) (told brick arrived at thn
New York branch of the Bank of Mon
treal from Cntiadn.
Three dcnths have occurred at Nome
from smallpox, which Is snid to have
been taken there on the steamer Oregon.
A revised estimate placed the loos by
Saturday's fire st Proscntt, A. T., at
more tlmn $l.(MHt.(MM), with insurance ol
less thHii $2iH,00.
Japanese and Chinese laborers at
Stevenson. B. C, become engaged In a
street tight over the war In China, and
the latter were beaten.
It was stated at the treasury depart
aiont in Washington that no furthei
withdrawals of deposits from the na
tional banks were probable.
It was announced in Ottawa thnt an
agreement has been reached as to terms
of arbitration of clnlnis ariitig out of
Seizure of American and British miilinn
Vessels by UuhsIhii cruisers in IN!I2.
Tnesilnr Jnl- 17.
Yrstcrdny was the hottest of the season
In London.
The Mexican government has inau
gurated an active campaign against the
Muya Indians.
Three parties sent out by the United
Ftates ecological survey are now at work
in the Cape Nome district ot Alaska.
Ten thousand Boers, according to a
Cape Town dispatch, will emigrate to
the United States after tho wnr ig over.
An unsuccessful attempt was mode to
wreck and probably to rob the Union Pa
cific flier about four miles from Manhat
tan, Kun.
A Union line car on the Lee avenue
division of the St. Louis Transit com
pany was blown up by dynamite. Two
passengers were badly injured.
Curtis Guild of Boston, who was
tendered the appointment as first assist
ant postmaster general to succeed Terry
S. Heath, has declined to occept the of
fice. Monday, .Inly 10.
Fire in o car of a South Side elevated
train in Chicago put the passengers in
great peril of their lives.
C V. Eskridge, editor of the Emporia
(Kan.) Republican and former lieutenant
governor of Kansas, died from self in
flicted wounds.
At New Custle, Col., fire destroyed all
the fruit warehouses and principal busi
ness houses of the town. The loss will
exceed $100,000.
In Baltimore Louis Eicon, a shoemak
er, killed himself, his wife and 13-month-old
bribe and wounded almost unto death
his 8Vj-year-old son.
Judge W. II. Washington of Philadel
phia, a diract descendant of Augustine
Washington, father of George Wash
ington, died at Castle Creek, A. T.
Saturday, July 14.
Another victim of the oil tank car ex
plosion at Somerville, Mass., died.
Vatrick Welsh, n North Pelham (N. Y.)
farmer, was gored to death by h's bull.
The rail reducing mill of the Illinoit
Steel company at Milwaukee has resumed
operation.
The recently quarantined Chinese ol
San Francisco hove prepared suits fol
damages against the city.
Superintendent Kilburn addressed the
state bankers' convention at Saratoga on
the requisites of a good banker.
A collection of rare coins, valued be
tween $3,000 and $10,000, has been stolen
from the Milwaukee public museum.
J. G. Schmidlupp has offered $100,000
to build a wing to the Cincinnati Art
museum as a memorial to his wife and
daughter.
Cuttle were reported dyiug by thou
sands in the drought stricken counties ol
Pima, Pinal, Sauta Crua, Yuma, Cochise
and Maricopa in Arizona.
The doors of the Dime Savings Institu
tion of Newark, N. J., were not opened
owing to the alleged stealing of its fund
by Charles H. Westervelt, secretary and
treasurer.
Friday, July 13.
The Indians at Ited Lake, Minn., were
reported holding wur dances.
Fifteen persons were badly injured in a
trolley car accideut at Springfield, O.
Exceptionally hot weather caused nu
merous sunstrokes and prostrations in
London.
Disastrous forest fires were reported
near El Dorado, in Colorado, and Pres
cott. in Arizona.
Ex-President uud Mrs. Hurrisou left
Indianapolis for their summer home in
the Adirondaeks.
Bandits robbed n freight train at Santa
Fulalia, a station near Chihuahua, on
the Mexican Central.
Immense subterranean streams of port
wuter have been discovered from 1,."00
to 2.000 feet above sea level on the Is
land of Hawaii.
Thursday, Jnly 12.
Two young women were saved from
drowning ut Patehogue, N. Y.
Fire, started by a tire balloon, destroy
ed thousands of acres of California tim
ber. The work' of removing shag rock from
San Francisco harbor has been com
pleted. The colouiul cruber Fiona went ashort
near Codroy, on the southwest coast ot
Newfoundland.
Chicago promoters hove arranged a
$;0,00O,(lO0 deal to Insure a perujuueut
pure water supply for St. Louis.
Eighteen buildings, comprising ovei
half of tho business port of Walnut, Ills.,
were burned, with a loss of $U2,(XK.
Serious trouble was reported threatened
between the Mojuve Indians at Fort Mo
jave, Colo., and the agency authorities.
The Baltimore and Ohio express from
Washington for New York was wrecked
near Philadelphia. It had $3,000,000 iu
gold on board. The switch had been tam
pered with.
Saloon Keepers Sentenced,
CAMDEN. N. J.. July lH.-Flve well
known saloon keepers of this city liuv
been sentenced to one year in the Trenton
penitentiary nnd six others to the county
jail for six months, with varying hues ot
from !r0 to $150 each, for selling tiquoi
on Sunday.
Can You Tki.l Why you have constant
headaches, nre nervous and sleepless at
night and feel tired in the morning ? Your
blooj isn't carrying the right materials to
your nerves and other organs, licgin taking
Hood's Sarsapanlla, the great blood en
richer, and you will soon realize a change.
You will (eel better and stronger, will relish
your food and enjoy refreshing sleep.
Nausea, indigestion ure cured by Hood's
rills.
WAR AGA1 JtST RUSSIA
China Said to Have Made a
Declaration.
SERIOUS TROUBLE IS MA5C1I0RIA.
Ilnsstan Trnnsnort Seised nnd I'.scorl
Killed Siberian Town Destroyed.
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Mission to PeklnK.
LONDON, July IS.-The news of the
Manchuria disturbances Is not regarded
as justifying the serious view attributed
by The Daily Mail's advices. Amur Is
boundary territory between eastern Si
beria nnd Manchuria. The district has
been the scene of local disturbances for
a long time owing to the provocative eon
duct of the Cossacks toward the 2.1.000
Chinese employed In the construction of
the Itusso-Mnnchurion railway.
The Doily Mail publishes a sensational
dispatch from St. Petersburg, dutod
Monday, which asserts thnt there Is no
doubt thnt China has declared wur
against Kussia.
"The ltussian press," snys the corre
spondent, "is restricted to the publica
tion of official detnils, nnd the publica
tion of many dispatches from the front
hns been prohibited. I hear, however,
from a reliable source thnt the Chinese
troops and the Boxers seized a ltussian
transport vessel laden with munitions
near Aigmi, on the Amur river, about IS
miles from the ltussian frontier, killfcig
almost the entire ltussian escort.
"They nxt suddenly attacked nnd
bombarded the town of Blagovecheusk,
capital of the Amur government, on the
Amur river. The garrison held out
bravely, but was finally overwhelmed.
Nearlv all perished, and the town was
burned."
The Moscow correspondent of The
Daily Mail soya:
"Leading firms here have learned that
their tea aivd silk warehouses at Kalg.in.
in the province of Chili, near the great
wall, have been plundered and burned
by Chinese rioters anil troops, goods
worth 70,000,000 taels having been de
stroyed." The Dally Telecisiph has the follow
ing from Cnnton, dated July 10:
"In an Interview with the foreign con
suls todny LI Hung Chang Bnid that his
mission to Peking was twofold to snve
the lives of the foreign ministers and to
arrange the best possible terms of peace
with the allied powers. The American
and French consuls, while congratulating
him upon these commendable purposes,
reminded him of his pledges to protect
foreigners nnd to preserve pence in
southern and central China.
"Earl Li replied that he must obey the
summons to Peking, but that he had
taken all necessary precautious. He add
ed that he hnd received important ca
bles from Lord Salisbury nnd M. Del
cosse. demanding protection for the for
eign ndnisters in Peking and threatening
to take life for life of the high officials
responsible If the ministers were murder
ed. He told the consul thut he was the
only man in China whn dared transmit
such messages to the empress, but that he
had seut them verbatim and that he did
not doubt they had exerted n powerful
influence In saving the ministers lives.
"He went on to say thnt. ns the doyen
of the viceroys, he had also induced all
the other viceroys, except two, to join
in a lengthy memorial to the throne, ask
ing security for the foreigners, suppres
sion of the Boxers and full reparation
for all damages."
According to a dispatch from Shanghai
to the Duily Mall, doted yesterday, a
massacre occurred on July 0 at Tai-Yuen
Fu, capital of the province of Shousi,
40 foreigners and 100 native couverta
being killed.
Esoaped From Tlen-tnln.
DENYEIt, July 18. George Yan Nor
man MctJee, professor of civil engineer-
lag in the Imperiul university of China
nt Tlen-tsin, yesterday cabled his father
here that he barely escaped In one of
Admiral Kempff's launches and has
reached Nagasaki. The party, wus fired
upon by the mob nil the way down the
river to the foreign concession.
Marines For China.
NEW YOUK, July 18. One hundred
marines were culled upon for active serv
ice in China at the Brooklyn navy yard
yesterday. To a man they expressed a
willingness to go aud a desire to avenge
their comrades. These marines, with
detachment from Boston, Washington
and Norfolk, will leave here for Sun
Francisco on July "tt.
F.nfclneera For Chlnn.
FISIIKILL LANDING, N. Y., July
IS. Companies l; and L of the engi
neer corps arrived at West Point from
diets Point yesterday. I hey received
orders to leave for China together with
nil eugineers at West Point. They leave
next Monday. J hey are under com
maud ot Lieutenant Jewey and numbei
150.
Itoosevelt In St. I'anl.
ST. PAl'L, July IS. Governor Theo
dore Roosevelt of New York addressed a
most enthusiastic crowd in the Audito
rium in this city last night. Thousands
of people besieged the doors of the hall
l two hours before they were opened.
When, at 7 o'clock, the crowd wus liually
given a chance to get iuside, every inch
of space was filled In a few minutes.
Thousands of persons surged uliout the
streets unable to gain entrance. The
day's session of the National ltepublieun
League Clubs' convention was a tame
affair to that presented when the Empire
' Stute governor arrived before the build
ing, just before 0:110 p. in. He was com
pelled to reply to the repented culls for a
j speech. Governor Roosevelt concluded
his peroration at exuetly l):0, when the
oiidieuce arose en mnsse, nnd over (i.lHHI
voices shook the air for about live min
utes. A carriage was waiting at the
door. The governor entered at once, was
driven to the station, and ut ll:2.ri he
wus Hying enstwurd on his journey home.
Emtiuasador Drnper Home,
WORCESTER, Mass., July 18. Em
bassador William F. Draper has arrived
home on a short leave of ubsence from
his post in Italy. He will spend severui
weeks here. General Draper says the
powers have tuken the correct diplomatic
attitude iu deciding they are uot technic
ally at war with China.
Consul Hay Cuiuinir Home.
CAPE TOWN, July 13.-t'nited Stutoi
Consul Adelbeit S. Hay of Pretoriu it
about to return to the United States
Butches of prisoners nre arriving her
daily from the front. One lot contained
88 English uud Irish names.
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The "New Lipp'ncott" for August brings I
out William I.e (Juex's latest novel COM- I
l'LETE IN THIS NUMBER. "The Sign !
of the Seven Sins" is a story of love and '
mystery in high life on the Trench Riviera, i
The "Palace of Delight" at Monte Carlo, 1
that spot of irresistible fascination, is con- i
spicuous in the earlier pages. The strong '
plot compels intense interest until the clear- I
inc up of mysteries at Paris. Altogether
tiie tale is so exhilarating that it is sure to
find favor with summer readers everywhere.
Among the rcmaikably good short stories
of the month, of which there nre four,
Seumas MacManus has contributed a jolley
Irish sketch which is a guaranteed cure for
the "blues." It is called "Two Cockneys
and a Conspirator."
"The Way Penny Looked at It," by Re
ginald Panficld Chase, a new writer of
marked originality, is n story of a woman's
love for her husband which in its unselfish
ness is idyllic.
"l'emme Dispose," by E. F. Benson, the
author of "Dodo," is a most ingenious char
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which is interrupted by the death of the
young man's father and followed by an un
expected denouement, n akes a story well
worm reading.
"2620 Oxlurd Place," by Katharine 11.
Prown, another newly "arrived" author, is a
lively little romance connected with divorce,
but in so hopeful a way thai it is singularly
refreshing. The scene is in Washington.
"A Swede's Campaign in Germany," by
Stephen Crane, was written very shortly be
fore his death, proofs which had been cor
rected y himself having been received a few
days after Mr. Crane's funeral. This paper
deals with the battle Leipzig in a manner
that throws much light on South Africa.
Continuing the series on "American
Belles," Virginia Tatnall Peacock has a de
lightful paper about "Theodosia Burr."
There is a fine portrait of this handsome
woman, who, with nil the world against her
father, could yet say she was "proud to be
tho daughter of Aaron Burr."
Contributions of verse nre "August
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Midsummer," by Sara C. V. HaUowell;
"Omar Khayyam," by Mbert Charlton An
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Arthur Ketchuni.
"The Walnus and Wine" department has
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Caroline Lockliart, E. IIovcy-King. Erancis
Churchill Williams, Reginald Wright Kaulf
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