Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-03-21
4 True Story Of the Persian Famine.

As details of the Persian famine
in Persia accumulate in the paper.
from India, the inevitable romantic
incidents" OF that fearful national
disaster begin creeping into print
and 1t is made PLAIN once more thai
not even the heaviest calamti oi
mankind are without that ingredient
OF the iancltul which appeals more
to the imaginative ingenuilies OF the
mind than TO the merely sympathetic
common places OF the heart. Among
those who fled for their lives from
the iamisl,iny and pestilence stricken
town OF Yezd, relates the Bombay
Gazette, were poor family OF three
persons-husband wife and daughter
who, with their fellow ingitives,
ayailed themselves of the means Of
tered by the human reIiet fund OF
Bombay to journey to the latter city
Tor refuge from the direiu' Affections
OF their own country. The route O.
the refugees overland to port called
Bunder Abbas involved many severe
hardships, under which the already
weakened father and husband suffer
cd SO severely that he died within
sight Of the end OF the journey. OBJ
Iiged to leave the body by the way
side, YEARLY onward to the port,
where, after y sudden illness OF but
a few hours duration, the daughter
also, fine girl of sixteen years, per-
shed miserably upon the sands.
In a fight for lite like that, where
every moments delay was a. the
risk of pcstiience or starvation. there
was no time tor attention to even the
dearest dead, and the heart broken
mother was Obliged to hurry on
board the boat tor Bombay with
others, leaving her child unburied
nj alone on the shore. A few
pieces Of small money constituted
the sum OF her earthly possessions,
AMI these she gave to Persian re-
naming at Bunder, upon his prom
ise to entomb thu deserted dead.
So the chil,lless widow sailed away
with the poor hope that she had Sc
cured the sepul,ure OF her daughters
but scarcely was the vessel out OF
sight when ths treacnerous Persian
walked off with his money, leaving
The corpse to fad respect at other
hands. TO Bombay proceeded the
mother, and there found TODD, shelter
and harbor at kind of charity hos
pital outlandishly known AS the
Chowpatty Dhurmsallo. Life, in
deed; was saved to her, and the gen
erous humanity OF strangers kept her
from want but she broodcd contin-
ually over her bereavements beyond
all measure OF consolation, and told
the pi;itul story of her dear daughter
left dead upon the sands TO all whose
pity made them listeners. Present
~ the sorrowful tale found its place
with others in the English papers Of
India, and thus reached a cognizance
through which an ensuing apparent
miracle wrought.
One day, recently, the mat, ons OF
the Dhurmsallo informed the poor
widow OF Yezd tha: visitor await
ell her in The reception room OF the
institution, a, the same time warning
her to be nervei tor great and glad
surprise. Bewildered by such words,
the disuonsolate widow went to the
interview with mind perfectly
blank, and sllrieked at finding her
Self cia>ped to the heart OF her own
lost child. The scene had nearly
proved fatal to her, in her enieebled
condition, and it was long before the
girl from the grave could explain to
her mother the seeming miracle OF
her presence. Deserted il her sup
posed death upon the sand at Buns
der Abbas, tle young creature wa
finally revived from the mere nncon
sciousness into which she had sunk
from the heat OF the sun. Il new
party ot refugees from 1eza found
and helped her, and by them she was
carried onward to Bombay in q
convalescent state. b lieviny that
Ter mother had died, and preterring
service to charity, she gladly accept
ed the situation OF sevant III the
family ct a Parsee, living in the sub.
urds OF Colaba, and not until the
widows story was repeated to her
from print dill she realize how each
had been mistaken in supposirg the
other dead.