Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
Miscellany.
Famine Scenes In udia.

From the voluminous contributions
to the London Daily News by its Tir-
hoot Undia) correspondent we extract
the following: Visiting the police
station, we found collected around it a
number of beggars in a very miserable
condition. One lay extended on the
ground to all appearance slowly dying
Two native doctors were calmly look
ing on, as were lots of policemen and
other petty officials, but no one took
any notice of the poor miserable
wretch. MacdOnald's relief house is
not yet finished; but he had arranged
10 use house as a temporary hospital,
and thither he ordered that all the dis
eased beggars should at once be taken,
and have food distributed to them.
The PROSTATE beggar, with assistance,
slowly got on his legs, and as he stood
/ never saw leaner mortal with life in
him. He could not walk; but with
much moaning he shuffied along, no
body rendering him supporting arm.
A short time after, we visited the place
to which they had been taken, for we
were full of misgivings that the relief
had not been prompt. In straw shed
We found the unfortunate squatted on
the ground, all save the man of whom
/ have spoken, who had sunk down
and seemed in extremls, while the
native doctor calmly stood outside the
door enjoying the evening air. Has
anything been done to get food for
them T / asked. Nothing. By order
of my companion the police inspector
handed a rupee to the native doctor
and babe him at once send into the ba-
zaar for food. The native doctor
calmly did so, and then, strolling up to
the living skeleton, gave him push
and told him it would be all right by
and by.
1.-The food came at once, species of
parched pulse which required to be
cooked. This was distributed, and
among the recipients was the living
skeleton. That Is to say as he lay
moaning a couple of handfulls Were
emptied out on the corner of his ragged
cloth, and general satisfaction ap-
peared to reign at this achievement.
WHY, they might as well have put a
reaping hook into his hands and bade
him go find his food in the fields: He
painfully raised himself on his elbow,
looked with CLASSY eyes at the stun,
tried in vain to mastlcate pinch OF IL,
and then sunk back with 4 groan OF
despair Native functionaries looked
calmly on. 1t seemed to me that 1T was
uOl Ntll DoSsEbic ihC . iiAN
could be saved, yet it was not pleasant
to me that he should be allowed to die
without even an effort to avert the fate.
1t was with some passion that L de-
manded cooked food should at once he
sought, offering to pay the price OF 1t.
The people around stared and then
began to stir themselves. Presently a
man came running with some cooked
rice, moistened with oil, on a plantain
leaf. We raised up the sufferer, and
let him see and smell the food. The
skinny arm went out feebly towards
it. He gathered up some in his fingers
and it in his mouth. The first mouth
full came nigh choking him, and
thought he was going to die IN ouI
hands with food in his mouth, but he
made good the swallow, and went on
eating. The food perceptbly revived
him. He licked the leaf after he had
eaten the rice off it, and then picked up
the single grains that had fallen as he
ate. Having eaten, he tried TO raise to
his lips the water jar, but was toe
weak. | quite lost my temper when
saw the native doctor looking down on
his efforts as if they were an expert
ment of which he was an amateur
spectator. He got his drink and then
lay down, his chance of life, though
still extremely precarious, materially
improved. Meanwhile, the other un-
fortunates had gone away to cook theil
food, and they will starve no more"