Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-14
HOLD YOUR WHEAT.

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The newspapersof last Thursday were
full of dispatches speaking of the fam
inc in Russia. The following is from
the Kansas City Times, which contains
half column of scare heads. We do
not advocate Withholding grain from
those in need, but as higher prices are
in sight, we want the farmers to get the
advance. When the spectators get
control of the bulk of the crop. prices
will go up rapidly. Let the farmer
read and Judge for himself:
Fearful misery-Terrible reports
from misunderstanding people driven to
excuses by wretchedness-Thou
literally dying from the effects of want
The distress may do more than all
Nihilist efforts-Pleasure gives way to
charity in the Cars domain-All en-
tertainments to be given up during the
winter-Oficials and workmen decide
to give up proportion of their wages
COLLECTIONS to be taken up in churches.
Boston, Mass, Sept. 6.-Cable advices
from Russia received at the Jewish
colony in the north end are that entire
states are being deserted on account of
the famine. 1t is also asserted that a
new law has been made ferbidding the
sowing of seed this fall, so that the
acreage next year will not be sufficient
for the home supply, still less for ex-
port.
So great is the distress that people
have been driven to pillaging each 9TH
er, first setting fire to villages and then
robbing the inhabitants.
BY the united charities of the govern
ment and people a biscuit day is al
lowed every individual in the famine
district.
The distress is greater menace to
the government than all the efforts OF
the nihIlists. The famine may cause a
revolution which love of liberty has
failed to produce. Aid is being sent
in by the Holland Jews and nihilists of
America, the latter having sent 300.
The newspapers of st. Petersburg de-
nOunce the conduct of the merchants
and members of the nobility for seek
ing profit from their stores of corn
while the poor peasants are starving.
They make strong appeals to the gov
eminent to remove the edict prohibit
Ing the export of rye and substitute
therefor heavy tax on the expectation
of all cereals.
Reports from the Baku district and
elsewhere are to the effect that thous-
sands of persons are dying of starva-
ton. Petersburg, Oct. 6.-The Crash
DAMN announces that the officers of
the imperial guard have decided not to
drink champagne at any of the regi-
mental banQuets and to contribute the
money, which has been so spent, to
the peasants of the famine stricken
districts of Russia. ALI classes of citi-
zens here, following the example of the
car, who has decided that no court ball
will be given during the coming season
and that the money usually spent for
this purpose shall be devoted to the re-
lief of the sufferers by the famine in
OAlO udO ACOOlVOu W
all entertainments during the winter
and to contribute the money thus saved
to the fund for alleviating the distress
of the furnishing people.
Most of the public officials announce
their intention to devote a certain
percentage of their salaries TO the
same purpose; workmen have decided
to give proportion of their humble
wages, and even children will offer
their little savings. Collections are to
be taken up on every feast day in all
the churches.
The stream of relief is coming
through wide channels, but the system
of distribution, it Is claimed, is very
defective.
The destitute peasantry in the dis
trict of Skohino are subsisting almost
wholly upon bread made of stitchwort
and even that is beginning to fail.
In the province of Samaria, in the
eastern part of Russia, the government
relief for the starving people has been
restricted to pound and a half of
bread daily to each person."