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Au jti A SCANDINAVIAN NEWS by Drought MO COMPULSION peasant classes constitutional committee de peace conference by the Nor WHEN CENTRAL GAVE UP THE AMERICAN CORN KITCHEN AT THE ARIS EXPOSITION In i i sensitive lowers if she That's Why about 17300 hundred of 1 4 1 '4 Tommy Pop what is a bigamist? Papa Henpeck A tfooL SU Louis Globe Democrat Smith Say Jones I hear your wife makes you the dishes? Jones Oh no a mistake I do it of my own free will! N' Journal t1 Dolly Hello! Hello! GivemeHeav en! I want to say my Scraps He heard a soft voice in the air Which told him he must where? It led him to her and Io! She entertained another beau Indianapolis Journal The Story at Lore Love is an old old story But was a mortal who Hath not at some time told it And thought it was something new Times Herald Their Name Is Legion Hr Singer You know the mosquito sings while he bores Miss Ringer Well there are others who bore while they Yonkers Statesman Before and After woman I notice always her voice to ask a and raises her voice get Tit Bits tude bestowed by an approving con science Probably the inclination to aid never suggests itself they are so hedged in by religious regulations which viewed in a certain light are certainly monstrous There are some among us who prefer the teachings of Buddha to those of Christ butifthey would for a time leave the contempla tion of some of the finer points of the Aindoo religion and study the details as they affect the people more there would certainly be a diminished num ber of followers in the wake of some not overly clean looking East Indians who have secured for themselves no toriety in our large cities during the last few years i While wealthy Hin doos are comfortably following the dictates of their morally famine stricken consciences and refusing the help they could so easily render to the poor of their own land Christian mis sionaries are doing all within their power to alleviate the suffering By the aid of native preachers they gather in all the famishing children possible and care for them The English gov ernment is doing its utmost but the people often refuse to be placed on the relief list until too weak to recover STARVING PARIAH WOMAN AND AMILY intriguers the din of more or less disreputable warfare the cry of starving India' increasing inyolume from day to day sq demands for itself a hearing that it can no longer be dis regarded How much longer the lives of white men in the outlying districts will 'be safe while the natives are ex periencing death in its most ghastly forms is a question which is beginning to agitate that portion of the public mind which is personally interested in the fate of that unhappy country White men are already regarded by the ignorant classes as responsible for a great amount of the suffering but while there may be grounds for com plaint it is certain that no nation would have accomplished more than has England while laboring at such a disadvantage Of course mistakes have been made In the distant past conditions to a certain extent righted themselves During years of drought followed by the population was so decimated that in the succeed ing years pf plenty there was an abundance for aU But as it was noted that the drought usually affected but one or two provinces at a the government caused the poorer people to be moved around from place to place thus preserving life until at present in a territory but lit tie over half as large as the United States there is a population of 300000000 of people During the last two years the drought has become general and now 130000000 are suffering from the famine which" with slow' insistence seems likely jto desolate the entire country In tita wake follow bubonic plague cholera and smallpox The germs of ail these diseases find the best Members of the cabinets of Sweden Norway and Denmark were invited to a banquet May first at Grand Hotel Stockholm The object of the meet ing of respresentatives from the three independent Scandinavian govern ments was to take the first steps to wards harmonizing the insurance and possibly other laws of the countries represented One of the speakers maintained with considerable empha sis that the present "desire for assim ilating the laws of the Scandinavian "countries is a practical result of the movement of the mid dle of the nineteenth century Cause and Effect After signing the temperance pledge He laid aside his pen And to his credit be it He never again Daily News' 1 Kot a Square Deal we want to hold a meeting of the Octagon club at your house this be glad to oblige you Brown but we are not in shape for Chicago Tribune Honest Confeealon said the careful fa ther "if I consent to you marrying my daughter you will furnish her the luxuries to which she is said the young man is more that likelythat I be buy ing her as many theater admissions ns I have been doing for the past year Indianapolis Journal The Usual Way Lady It seems to me these berries are rather small Pedler sure they have got their full growth ma am Lady Well sure your quart boxes got theirs Chicago Daily News Evidently 1 daughter is in love with an im possible young man and Tm taking her to Europe to cure her! said Mrs Sterlingworth 1 the absent treatment' replied Mrs Wilberforce Detroit ree Press Subscription toward (the Indebted ness of a church is held in irst Meth odist Episcopal church versus Donnell (Iowa) 46 A to be within the statutory exception in a Sunday law respecting work of necessity or charity Competency of a mortgagee to be one of the two witnesses to chattel mort gage required by statute is denied in Donovan versus St Anthony Ele vated company (N D) 46 A 721 The competency of persons to testify for themselves was not regarded as a reason why they should be allowed to witness their own instruments Removal by the owner of a life estate of a large dwelling house which was expensive when erected but which by reason of railroads and factories around it has beepme absolutely unde sirable as a' residence and incapable of any use as business property is held in Melms versus Pabst Brewing com pany (Wis) 46 A 478 not to con stitute actionable waste as against the reversioner when no contractual re lations exist with him and the removal of the4 building largely enhances the value of the property for business pur poses In determining whether reasonable time in which to bring suit on an exist ing cause of action is given by a statute shortening the period of limitationit is held in Osborne versus Lindstrom (N D) 66 A 715 in conflict with Gilbert versus Ackerman (N Y) 45 A 118 that time between the date of the passage of the act and the date on which it takes effect will be consid ered It is also held that the limita tion fixed may depend on thehappening of a subsequent event provided that cannot possibly happen until the ex piration of a reasonable time for suit Behind Ma's Back said little Harry ma hit her thumb with the hammer to day she says she suffered untold ag ony for ten my exclaimed the father never cease That's the first time she ever let any thing go untold that Chicago Times Herald Not an Anarchist can take down all those fellows that call themselves great he boldly asserted He was not the boy orsftor eager for a political debate He was not a pro fessional anarchist He was a stenographer Town Top ics Jilted Lover Why why do you give me up Marguerite? Do Ji not carry out your slightest wish? I would give up my last penny for you my crust of bread I would run my very ieet off to do your bidding Marguerite just it I can not bring myself to marry a man who is so easily World have you been all evening George? What has kept you out so remind me of an hour you pass away the the it gets the less sand you seem to Chicago Chron icle 1 i Interesting Notes rom Across the Ocean Special Correspondence) BOVE the noise of everyday Though love may make the world go round Our duty 'tis to speak It repeat the miracle With ten per week Puck Part of tbe Joy What makes you wear shoes that hurt your feet? She Dear me! If they hurt me I remember that they were new Chicago Record The Corn Kitchen and Other eatures Are Attracting Much Attention from Visitors Brutal Man wife has a very clinging Well rather more like what you might call Chicago Record The viceroy recently declared that con ditions are steadily growing worse The plague is spreading alarmingly and Another drought is theratened He announces his intention to spend all the money in the treasury for the relief of the sufferers Outside con tributions have been made but avail able funds are inadequate to meet de mands A full grown man at the relief works may only receive four cents per day However five cents daily will keep a Hindoo alive indefinitely for in his land the supporting of life on a mini mum of cheapest food has been reduced to an art A few grains of rice sup plemented with roots and grass seed will furnish him a fir meal When the garrison of the British fort at the siege of Lucknow were reduced to daily rations of four ounces of corn made into gruel some off the Hindoo auxiliaries offered to live for a week on the water in which the Corn was boiled If the whole civilized world would unite in the work of assisting people who are satisfied with so little the worst features of this faminerthe details of which are too horrible to de scribe or read would be alleviated To their abstemiousness the Eng lish are largely indebted for the loyal ty of the native soldiers Each man knows that when his time of usefulness has expired the government guarari tee of a pension sufficient to purchase a yearly suit of and rice for his daily meals is assurance of a sufficient provision for his old age The religion of the country prohibits the use of animal foodJ As available funds of the relief committee are only sufficient to reach about 15 per cent of the sufferers it is feared that wan dering groups may resolve themselves into armies of bandits who having disposed of their homes through want will for years constitute a menace to the safety of the more fortunate in of India Crowds of dis tressed human beings are daily stream ing into the cities and even in Bom bay people without means of obtain ing food starve in the streets amine prices prevail Owing to financial de pression mills are closed down and in many the wages of those still employed have been reduced What sufficed perhaps for mere existence in prosperous times means now slow Principal Events That Have Occurred in the OU Countries Abont the North Sea Within a Week or So Jnst Past Poetry and Prose just a poem I said And I was right you see I knew the way she tossed her head She was averse to me Press Direful Results of the amine Now Prevailing in India Taylor I believe in calling a spade a spade So do no use in saying you hare five clubs when one of them is a spade Puck why mother I was coming home and I met a lotof the boys They kaid there was going to be a lec ture at'the the hall you know and after the'lecture was over I missed the street why I am so sighed the gray haired matron excuses are not nearly as good as your father used to Chicago Tribune starvation covering a period of weeks or even months Those dying in cities are buried in ditches! if Jn the open country they lie where they fall Near some of the relief works men are con stantly engaged in burning bodies often large numbers of them together It is a fearful sight but seems the only way of protecting the living The suffering seems be1 largely among the classes of which 80 per cent of the population of India is composed Large sections ol the arable lands depend entirely for their productiveness upon irrigation the source of which is in rivers and streams which are supplied by rains Every recorded Indian famine may be traced to failure of rainfall A number of years ago the Indian forester an nounced his theory that the responsi bility for droughts might be'placed upon tbe great herds of goatsi (some times 15000 or 20000)f always appar ently starving which attafck the shoots of every young tree in the course ol their depredations Thus when old trees die off there are no young ones to take their places Rains which de pend so largely upon the existence of forests fall short then famine and plague follow The early rains come in June are known as the southwest monsoons and originate in vapors drawn from the Indian ocean and the Arabic sea Breaking on the Malabar coast for three months they may be expected to flood India the average fall of water being about 100 inches At such times crops are abundant But when these rains fail as was the case last year 'famine is the result The rains or northeast mon soons arrive in November and Decem ber from the Bay of Bengal These also failed last year Insufficient rainfall may be expected at intervals of fromfive to twenty five years Existing con ditions are the worst recorded The present drought following so closely that of 1897 has rendered the ground so dry that there is a scarcity of wa ter even for drinking purposes here tofore unknown EDWARD JULIAN i It is expected that this exposition will prove of inestimable value to the farming interests of America because of the demand that our exhibits will produce orAmeri can grown products With this idea in view everything pos sible has been done to show the ex cellenee of American wheat corn rye atid other cereal products while equl attention has been given to display ing the best of our apples pears and other fruits) It is believed that the Paris exposition presents a splendid opportunity to make all Europe well acquainted with the possibilities 'of this country as a grain and fruit pro ducer The agricultural department has gone into tbe present exhibition with the idea of helping the farm ing and export interests and it is be lieved that as a result of this exhi bition a large foreign demand will our goods which are now kept entirely at home Commissioner General Peck assured me that thepreliminary work of' se lecting specimens for Paris was be gun nearly si year ago The depart ment designated certain farmers in various parts of the country to fur nish samples for Paris These men were selected on account of their rep utations as expert growers and pro irst Boarder What do you call this I wonder natural milk or natural water? Second Boarder Both Yonkers Herald ducers of fine fruits and grains this way the department was assured of the very best specimens that could be "and in many instances the fruits were grown with the spe cial idea in view of having them ex hibited at Paris The agricultural de partment has had charge of the in stallation of 1400 collective exhibits at Paris These goods have been fur nished by the 1 various agricultural men throughout the country and have been arranged in the various buildings as 1 our commissioners thought best Commissioner Peck al lotted space to 400 individual exhibit ors who shipped and installed at their own expense displays of fine ag ricultural products and various types of farming implements The exhibit in charge of the govern ment officials is very extensive and in cludes wheat and corn in all stages of growth as well as' large quantities of the ripened grain samples of which are furnished for personal inspection There is also a comprehensive exhibit of all varieties of vegetable food prod ucts including tye barley rice mil let beans peas beets The dairy in terests are also fully represented and there are samples of American cheese bntter and preserved milk The ined ible agricultural products include cot ton fla hemp fats oils etc BERNHARD BRISTOL is it always said that a rich man has barrels of got so many gooc Yonkers Herald Dore Larik the manager of the Second has been compelled to make an assignment Bia liabilities are large About 70 persons will be thrown out of employ ment for some time to come Kirkaas a Kristiania bfHWlng contractor has failed His liabilities are $16000 and his assets less than 10 per cent of this amount The finest coast steamer in Norway has been launched at thp Trondhjem Mechanical Works John Engh the oldest missionary in the service of the Norwegian mis sion society is dead A few months ago he returned from Madagascar where he had spent 30 years among the heathen Some of the Swedish pa pets speak very highly of the recent maneuvers of the militia in southeastern Norway and suggest that similar maneuvers be arranged for in Sweden The Swedes however do not like the re fusal of the Norwegians to invite Swedish officers as guests on the occa sion 1 Some "home made carpels in the Norwegian department at the Paris exposition have attracted general at tention and several parties have of fered good prices for them But they cannot be sold until the Norwegian government has made "an The wood pulp manufacturers already sold 100000 tons of pulp to be delivered next year The prices are stiff and very little remains unsold of this manufacture" The colonization enterprise of Cap tain Lerner a German explorer is not booming to say the least He settled on Bear Island in i the Arctic ocean and began to mine coal and make improvements But he exhausted his resources before the receipts were forthcoming and a few days ago it "was announced that his Bear Island kingdom would be sold at public auc tion in Hamburg But there was a debt of $10000 attached to the prop erty anL no bids were made Capt Lerner himself is' furious because he thinks the which ad vanced the money and which is try ing to dispose of the property has not treated him fair The Norwegians are naturally interested in these pro ceedings because they think Bear Island might as well belongjto Nor way The mands that the endorsement of the Hague wegian government be made not by a common ratification for Norway and Sweden but by a special ratification for Norway The Norwegian govern ment with Premier Steen at its head however does not favor a special rati fication for Norway The appropriations made by the storthing for the current year arfe so large that many far seeing business men have sopnded a note of alarm to the powers that be Kristiania has 402 manufacturing establishments are subject to public inspection and partial control The whole number of employes at these establishments is four thousand seven whom are women She Chanced Her Mind Parke I thought your wife was go ing to the mountains Lane She was but changed her mind She found she could spend more money at the Town Tppics Millions of Men Women and Children Are'Drlnc by Jnchen in City and No nn for the Parse you gojto the college benefit supper major? little say it was a circus major' it little gal If it had only been a cireus I could have bought a bag of rancid peanuts for a nickel instead of paying 50 cents1 for a ball of burnt Chicago Daily a vv Ss Mrs Brooks John do you think Mr Joblotz is going to marry our daugh ter? Mr Brooks Yes if he look Puck Women employed on Japanese tea farms work 12 hours and are paid 15 cents a day His Opportunity Miss Elderly very sorry Mr Woodby but I can never be anything more to you than a Woodby (interrupting) Yes just my beastly luck and got two grandmothers already Chicago Daily News DENMARK Several buildings belonging to the yen glass works near Odense 'were destroyed by fire The loss was $40 000 A new church building has been dedicated in Copenhagen The king and members of the cabinet were in attendance The building has a seating capacity of 1000 It sounds like a legend says a Co penhagen daily but it is true that a few days ago an order was issued to the recruits that when they are fol lowed by civil persons on the street they must see that the latter salute when the recruits pay their respects to their superiors A new torpedo boat was launched May 5 at Karlskrona I The university of Lund has con ferred the degree of doctor of philoso phy upon Premier Bost rom President Blix of the university Prof Hagerup ex premier of Norway Prof Steenstrup of Copenhagen and Water Runeberg a Swedish sculp tor Johan Karl Kristian Brosboll (his nom de plume was Carit Etlar) a very productive Danish novel writer is dead at the age of 84 years His most noted novels are The Son of the and Chief of the He also wrote several dramas His best novels will doubt less be read for centuries to come jProf Ussing and a young scientist named Boggild are on their way to Greenland where they propose to study the geological formations and the minerals of the country SOME LATE LEGAL DECISIONS In Confidence Old You should always take your wife into your confidence Wom en appreciate that sort of thing De Broker Oh I do that that is in part Old riend You tell her of £our gains ana losses 1 presume De Broker I always tell her of my losses Weekly! SWEDEN I In 1899 the Ska ne Sugar refining company cleared ten per cent on the capital invested The lumber companies that buy large tracts of land in the mountain districts for the purpose of cutting the timber often find it difficult to rent out the farms after the timber been destroyed But to leave the farms and farm houses uninhabited even for a short period means wreck and ruin and such homes may occa sionally be used without the payment of any or taxes In some stances the owners are not only offer ing the use of the property free of charge but they are willing to fur nish seed of all kinds free of charge for one or two seasons The Neptune Wrecking Company saved 70 vessels in 1S99 and the re ceipts of the company were almost one million five hundred thousand dollars The total receipts up to date exceed $31000000 The attempt to raise the Russian ironclad Gangut failed and the loss of the company on that account was almost $100000 Rajsa Kristina Olofsdotter of An undsjo starved to death because she could not swallow food Though 91 years old she was 'so strong that she lived 41 days without food The question of fortifying Boden has become very important since Rus sia entered upon the policy of sup pressing the liberty and the political rights of inland The riksdag in obedience to the sentiment of the Swedish people is going to visit' Boden in a body sometime in June to inspect the grounds where the new forts are to be built The Halland pomological society has bought the Brostovp property iu Veinge parish for $3500 Tine aim of the society is to establish a sort of co operative colony for raising fruit A crew of 250 men are engaged in laying the mains of the waterworks of Malmo from Bulltofta'to the The pumps have already been put up at" Bulltofta They have a capacity of 15000 cubic meters a day The Gellivare Mining Company shippedjbut almost one million tons of iron ore in 1899 The company cleared about $50000 that year and $40000 of this amount has just been set aside for a pension fund The real estate owned by the Stora Kopporberg Mining Company is val ued at almost $3000000 The Swedish cabinet came out of its recent trouble unscathed The ultra conservatives exerted themselves most strenuously to make political capital out of the appointment of Thor von Ditten a Norwegian to the highest position in the foreign department A majority of the constitutional com mittee of the riksdag carried the question to the point of proposing impeachment proceedings against the cabinet But the riksdag aftera hot debate resolved to spread the report of the constitutional committee on the minutes The second chamber also went on record as oppospd to the proposition The total re ceipts of the Store Kopparberg Min ing and Manufacturing Company for 1S99 were about $4000000 The net profit was $645000 or 25 per cent on the capital invested Only 14 per cent was distributed as dividends $270000was set aside for improvements and $11000 for the aid fund Mrs Eleonore Dickson of Gothen borg has bequeathed $11000 to Or gryte parish $3000 to a pension fund for all servants $5 "000 to the Gothen burg Association $4000 to the Gothenburg cooking school and smaller amounts to a great number of friends and servants The riksdag has passed a bill cur tailing the rights of great landowners at local elections The limits fixed by the bill are very plain no single man shall cast more than one tenth of the whole vote of the commune! and no single man shall cast more than 5000 votes in all As stated some time ago in these columns there are at least sixty precincts in Sweden where one man is entitled to cast a majority of all ata local election The bill cannot be called radical but in the first chamber of the riksdag there were only 62 votes in favor of it and 60 against it The king will no doubt ratify the bill NORWAY Bjornson in bis latest assault upon the Norwegian Norwegian language speaks of Norwegian cave dwell er philosophy which holds that we oe come fat by sucking our own paw (many people believe that the bear his during winter) and fatter the more deeply we suck with out any foreign seasoning not even About 4000 persona participated in the of demonstration in Kristiania Seventy four societies were represented by banners in the pdrade The central committee of the con servative clubs in Kristiania has de cided that the flag ought to be used by private parties as well as in public buildings 1 Kristiania imported 225000 live fish pf different kinds during the first Week of May I All In One Dae There was a young woman named Or rather she spelled It that wae But her "pa she called And her ma she called And In other "ways was such a jae! Indianapolis Press Twn Ever Thus i If you earn a thousand nearly You think two thousand yearly Would be just the proper figure to make your happiness complete But your Income when it doubles Only multiplies your troubles or the outgo then Increases and the ends they still don't meet Chicago Dally News is your idea of success in said the inquisitive naan I answered Senator Sorghum reflectively should say anything over Washington Star Will they not put forth greater efforts to reach a land where such products as we are displaying at this great ex position is possible? Of all agricultural exhibits none? is proving more popular than the corn kitchen It is located On the third floor of the agricultural build ing and is in charge of one of the most expert cooks that could be found Here is a reproduction of an Ameri can New England kifchemall sorts of foods made from corn are prepared and served free Corn cakes muffins I puddings and a host pf other goods made from this grain are cooked and baked the idex being to show the many attractive dishes that can be made from corn In appearance this corn kitchen is a building within itself and as I have looked at it I thought how well it would hare appeared on the outside of the oig building in which it is situ ated but it is serving its purpose quite well as" it is When the great fair is over I should like to know just how many people have been fed at this kitchen' how many bushels of corn have been consumed for as yet no one has been turned away without some of the dainty morsels' prepared from onr American corn andshouldwe keep up this record the numbers fed will run well into the millions be "i fore the fair is over Aside from the impression our ar ricultural exhibits are making on the few of the peasant classes who have visited the exposition our agricultural products are attractingattentionfrom i the importers of the old world These men who buy for Europe are investi Pgating carefully our agricultural re sources and comparing onr products itwith those of other selling nations much to our advantage I believe and it is to be expected that our exhibitswill be the means of increasing our exports of agricultural products The Parisians are above all thingsjudges of wine and fashions and if uthey approve of our vineyard prod ucts we should feel highly gratified at the success we hive achieved This exhibit is the feature of the govern ment agricultural exhibit and into it certain people are invited for the pur pose of sampling the products of our wine presses Great discretion is ex ercised in selecting visitors to sample these wines and only such as are apt to prove Importers and buyers the beverages are" asked to taste them But to fco back to the more strictly Egriculturnl interests of the country Serene This servant Question is a great nuisance it? Todd Awful! But out of it My cook has been with us so long that she is just like one of the fam ib Detroit ree Press A Conference Prof Hymen I object to this state ment that 90 per cent of all marriages are unhappy Prof Cupid say Em sure never bother about results! Puck Mean He I always take pains to deny the statement that women throw straight That is noble of ypu my dear i He Ye I have to remember with what accurate and effective aim you threw yourself at me Chicago Rec ord I Good Reason for Askin Seedy you give me a penny sir? Corpulent Gent A penny! "Why de you ask me for a penny? Seedy Because I think give it me unless I asked for Stray Stories Our Agricultural Interests at the Paris Exposition Human Nature He vows with all the arts And says he is But for the circus straight he starts When the band begins to play Star ROM HIS POINT VIEW 'A HAPPENIXGS II THE ATHERLAND Leto Her Light Shine observed a friend of the family very superior wom an She can converse intelligently I believe on a thousand different top ics sighed Mr Gabbe aks Tit Bits STARVING TO DEATH VERY visitor to the Paris expo sition comments the elaborate displays made bv the United Slates in every department And well they may for there no other foreign nation represehl ed inside the gates that has prepared such an elaborate exhibit as America There is probably as much or more interest taken in the agricultural ex hibits from America as the exhibits in other departments of the fair This interest is shown by every class of visitor unless one excepts the society people of Paris As yet there has been but a small attendance of the peasant classes from the nations of Europe but the few that 1 have seen withinthe grounds have turned to the Amer ican agricultural exhibit and exam ined it with care To these 'people America is still the land of plentv of glorious possibilities of free homes be create for mapy of xne Jmno wnien relatives or irrenas have gone and prospered To them the agricultural exhibits are directly in their lice of thought and they view with wonder the productsbf the soil A I hare watched them and wondered if this exhibit would not tend to in crease the immigration to our shores of these European Curiosities of Scholarship At advanced education he tolls with a will And the wondering neighbors draw near Both Latin and Greek he can read with much skill i But in English his spelling Is queer Star EAR PARENTAL URY jia I mi I JIJU I Rural Cordiality hope I see you he said flu ently Jto the old farmer leaning on hishoe hope you was the unexpected answer if you see me well young man put on specs they're a wonderful help to poor Tit Bits 3 "A Starter ond Mother You saj'IMr Willing objects to my presence In the parlor when he calls? Daughter Yes mamma ond Mother I wonder why? sure I unless he loves me for myself alone Chicago Daily News A STARVING HINDOO AMILY IN RAJPUTANA I of soil for development in the feverish impoverished bodies of the "starving people And now the water supply has become' so short that with the limited means of transportation it is difficult to send a sufficient supply ipto the lo calities where it is entirely exhausted to enable each inhabitant to receive even a few drops daily Early in the history of the famine masses of thej people traded all their worldly possessions for bread Next many of them sold their girls to the Mohammedans receiving in return in some instances but 35 cents The boys are Rot marketable and are tjirnel adrift and may be seen in great home less groups sometimes 50 together literally starving to death They "eag erly lick up the sweepings of the grain houses nnd are so emaciated as to be hardly recognizable as human beings The natives may blame rthemselves largely for existing conditions Their religion demands that they follow old customs and they refuse to adopt mod ern methods of farming Again while most animals are to them sacred and must be provided for to the best of their ability the high class Hindoos not only fail (to aid those of lower caste in any way but are rewarded for their inhumanity by the sense of recti a xS xC Wet Too 1 I I Sgggia i llKJ USA 1 1 BW WWMi WwfWHW ill rut 4 is 1 4 A fa i II A a Jia 4 Z1 'fTl I i K7 '3 j' 1 i i 1 4 4 1 1 ii ria di 7 i SnlKfl i I I i "ft 3 1 jfe i i a' 7 'd Li Hri7 rntr 1 wfl Ah a yJll IMW in.